skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're saying no while explaining my reasoning.

What index to start with only strongly matters when the indexes have semantics. Otherwise you should just treat it as an opaque index, i.e. eachindex(), keys(), etc. In math when there are semantics, the indices usually include 0. When not (vector components, matrix indices, etc), they usually (but not uniformly) don't.

The one nice side-benefit of Julia's mistake in adopting 1-based indexing is that it provided an extra impetus to build machinery to handle arbitrary indexing, though too much code still doesn't work correctly, and code still gets written to only handle 1-based arrays.
the zero covid policy won't change until hte "elections" are over. To change the policy would admit being wrong in the first place and the authorities are not going to do that. So you'll continue to get hard lockdowns no matter the suffering until the "elections" are over at the very earliest.
90 days ago any given Eurovision A-lister would have parroted the Putin's "nazi" narrative on Azov. Today we must save the remnants of Azov in Mariupol "Now!!1"
I agree with you. I also thought we were screwed in the West precisely because we couldn't do the kind of strict lockdowns China initially did, which worked so well for them.

Things have changed. I would say because countries don't exist in a vacuum, it's not tenable to have a covid zero policy. You'll always get reinfected from outside. This is only more apparent as covid had become more infectious. Combined with effective vaccines and a less dangerous variant - the optimal strategy seems to be just getting on with life and adding restrictions only as needed to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed.
The broader question in my mind is whether this is truly a painful problem for a large enough population of consumers.
Not everyone in the world lives in a city, and for some folks, cars are a necessity.

Sure, for some folks in the city, moving towards a car-less world may be ideal, but it’s not practical for every single person on the planet.
+1 for lenses. A FP concept.
Propaganda is often based on perception of facts, you can cross-reference those and come up with a somewhat objective picture.

This of course assumes that you don't blindly consume every idea that some random journalist tries to shove into you, but this should go without saying in any other case anyway.
Pfizer Covid Vaccine Protection Against Omicron Fades Quickly After Boosters
One slightly problematic aspect of their methodology is that 'Casey ... [found] 8,555 to have an overlap of features highly correlated with fake/spam accounts'.

Which features were they? How reliable are those features? What method was used to overlap the features? What thresholds within that method were used to classify the overlap(s) as spam, or not spam?

Unfortunately this research, while compelling, fails the falsifiability test.
> 'this is good for bitcoin'

A total ponzi scam coin crashed. This IS good for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not Luna nor is it one of the thousands of other garbage scam coins. The faster those coins are proven scams the better.

Too many people falsely equate "Bitcoin === Crypto".. or "a fan of bitcoin is a fan of all crypto".

So I'd bounce this back to you: How is Luna's Ponzi crash NOT good for bitcoin?
Miners are also large holders of Bitcoin in addition to mining and those bitcoins are likely leverage then to buy equipment.

As the bitcoin price drops , they will have more margin calls and new coins are not that profitable. You can expect lot of mining sales to happen and orders get fullfilled as selling the equipment becomes more attractive.

Some of the smaller/more leveraged ones will definitely fail at long term prices of say 20k or less .
I personally know a high-end residential architect (who has worked on several billionaire FAANG homes) if you would like their contact (There are several high-end architecture companies that focus specifically on home tech (yeah, but to a level that one isn't typically familiar with)
The high charges are almost never storage costs, its almost always processing or bandwidth.

And storage costs are simple to predict -- as soon as you see the cap would be exceeded, stop accepting new data.
I didn’t watch. But from what a coworker tells me, China has an unemployment problem and in order to control unrest caused by it they are forcing everyone to stay inside.
Aren't you allowed to keep separate books for "what we think our book value should effectively be regarded as" vs "what we're required by tax law to say it is"?
I agree with your ethos, but I don't share your optimism. If the state wants to enforce networking firewalls along national boundaries, no technological solution will save us in general. As a resourceful techie with the right know-how you may be able to sneak your packets through, just like people in Cuba receive a literal packet of data via sneakernet, but if the state doesn't want widespread meshnets circumventing their firewall, they will imprison you for emitting pirate radio signals, they will penalize any electronics manufacturer that makes non-compliant hardware, and rest assured that companies will go right along. Liberty requires more than technical solutions.

I'm saying this as someone who once wrote a decentralized P2P mesh for instant messaging[1]. I was inspired by the HK protests going on ~2014 after hearing that they were using Bluetooth chat apps. Luckily Matrix, Telegram, Signal, etc. mostly solved the problem. Still, I don't think any amount of mesh networking would turn back the tide of Hong Kong now.

[1]: https://github.com/zacstewart/comm/
It's just unintuitive that the package that provides the "ansible" binary isn't ansible. And then it gets even more confusing with the title of this post. It should really be "ansible-core 2.13".
Oh I'll definitely try them out, I'm on DO and not very excited about them, those Hetzner prices look great!

I'm a bit sad they don't have anything closer to the UK: I'll miss the 4ms ping to my DO VPS.

EDIT: holy shit, I looked into Contabo mentioned below and it's even cheaper! €5 for 4 cores and 8 GB RAM, what's the catch?
> the bottom 80% have a very slow rising tide.

Obviously "rising tide" has many meanings, but:

In the US, the poverty rate has remained fairly consistent since about 1970. Purchasing power has remained stagnant since about the same time.
I just ordered an electric from Aliexpress for this purpose
I remember trying to get an .an domain, but it was never possible. I think you needed an address there or something like that. (I was going for fabi.an)
Well, that's certainly true for the majority of modern software, but the operating systems of yore and the software that ran on them was designed to handle old slow LCDs and restricted color environments quite well.

Mac OS up through System 7.5.5 works excellently on such displays, because it had to run on several models of PowerBook with black and white or grayscale passive matrix displays, which were notoriously slow. While not as good, black and white support remains decent all the way through the end of Classic Mac OS, with version 9.2.1.

For this reason, when imagining an e-ink semi-unitasker laptop such as this I imagine it being built with extremely low power hardware and running old operating systems, such as the aforementioned Classic Mac OS. I'm sure DOS/Win3.1/WinNT could stand in here too, probably more easily since 486/586/Pentium-compatible x86 CPUs are still being manufactured. One wouldn't be able to run Google Docs on such a machine, but there's a veritable cornucopia of abandonware readily available for such platforms at places like Macintosh Garden[0], and given highly specific use case of such a machine I think most people could find something that suits their needs.

[0]: https://macintoshgarden.org
I tried to create an account and got the following error message:
Invalid characters, allowed are: A-Z a-z 0-9 ä ö ü ß Ä Ö Ü ^ ! $ % / ( ) = ? + # - . , ; : ~ * @ [ ] { } _ ° §
What year is it, that we cannot use &?
Yep. Did it this weekend. Moved main blog over to a different subdomain, added basic auth to stop it being crawled, added Simply Static, pressed button and a few minutes later the main site was updated.

Some perf tweaks I made were to point the main site’s wp-content/uploads at the WP htdocs via a nginx path mapping, and to tell SS to never export anything in uploads. Reduces the site generation to just the html, css, and JS.
> Not everyone in the world lives in a city, and for some folks, cars are a necessity.

Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. Cars have been around for a little over 100. It's not a necessity, it's nice to have.
Props to Oil for the least Googleable project name I've ever seen, btw. Go ahead, try searching for "shell oil" and see if you ever find the open source project. lol
"Names" are just our arbitrary label for "a voice, forming a certain sound"
That would get you banned from 95% of Reddit subs. (Kidding, mostly..)
This is the solution. Google and DuckDuckGo should be doing this too (and make exceptions if they need to so that they don't collapse). We have to incentivize the good behavior and create an environment where people actually compete on the properties we want and not horseshit.
Huh. I was hoping this might talk about the UI/UX, but instead it's about data structures. Looks like they used ropes and had a pretty decent design.
I don't doubt some deaths are underreported, but if they had seen anything close to the death rate & spread & hospital influx as in the US, it would have been obvious from outbound traveler antibody tests as well as just social media reports.

The Economist "model" your article relies on is seriously, seriously flawed. It is laughable to see it reported on as if it is ground truth. I highly encourage you to look into the details of how they get the numbers your article is citing.
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Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin
“I’m running a sale on Shopify for my supporters, check the latest Patreon post for the discount code!”

Patreon makes it pretty easy to give your subscribers early access to stuff, too. No blockchain involved. A lot of it happens over email.
Personally, I think configuration languages should only accept strings. I still haven't met a data parser that didn't create more problems than it solves.

The application knows exactly the schema of its data, let it do the parsing.

But yeah, the YAML one is crazy.
This was this 10 of May 2022

https://www.ft.com/content/50d2861e-fdeb-487c-b052-f2021558e...
The title of Stefan's talk is great: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch. He gives a nice example of composability: how you can throw a new type into an existing algorithm and it just works.
Amazon promos and firings are based a lot around the amount of lines of code you write, the number of code reviews you do (and the percentage of the time you review when asked), the number of merge requests you have, and the number of iterations per review. If you average more than 2 iterations per MR, you're on the chopping block as it means you're "sloppy".

Its ridiculously dumb. I've heard those numbers matter less as you gain tenure and seniority. But for the new grads and lower level engineers, all the savvy ones were gaming these metrics. It sucked to work in that environment and was a big reason why I left.
Yeah plugins' abilities to issue arbitrary sql queries are a bit of an Achille's Heel for any database reworking within Wordpress -- there's no telling what quirks a plugin might be using. I don't know if there's a neat way around this... maybe something that can intercept a soft parse and have a one-to-one conversion to a different syntax. I don't think there's a non-brittle solution here.
Personally, I think these used car batteries will go straight to the dump and will be just another investigative journalism story about how we're damaging the local ecology. Batteries can be recycled but it's fairly expensive, so someone would have to engineer a process that optimizes for time, cost, and life of the battery. As far as I know, nothing exists in mass production like this today.

What I think is more feasible is us finding a way to store energy outside the means of a typical lithium battery. I could very well be idealistic in this sense though.
The relation between Finland and Sweden is such that if Finland would be invaded Sweden would send troops to help. The idea that Finland, Norway and Denmark could be invaded again like in ww2 and Sweden just standing neutral has both ideologically and practically been abandoned.
Don't let me misunderstood you, but you say that if I add some sugar or bread to my meal then I will feel hunger sooner. Seems like totally unreproduceble setup for an experiment, every my food intake tells me that the higher the calorage the more fuel.
IMHO teams works best when they choose their own key performance indicators, and match these up with the real-world success of the team's users, customers, and stakeholders.

These kinds of metrics can involve people (e.g. add a feature to increase customer satisfaction by X points), performance (e.g. optimize a path to increases throughput by Y%), processes (e.g. fix a bug so security continues to match commitment Z), etc.
> Many apps offer you your data if you want it.

but it is still locked into the walled garden. if 5% of Twitter users want to escape the platform when a billionaire buys it and reinstates Trump, their only option is to use an entirely new protocol (Mastodon).

if 5% of OpenSea users want to escape the platform, they can and already are doing so because OpenSea never owned the tokens and media on its platform to begin with. see: LooksRare, Zora, Rarible.
So spammers have latched onto your search engine because they are getting useful results. They are able to systematically discover websites built on certain platforms that allow users to post content containing links, which they can target for link spam. It is very difficult to fight this on a technical level because there is an entire industry built around blackhat SEO, with all kinds of softwares and services dedicated to thwarting your defensive efforts. Even Google struggles to keep up with this.

However, they are also systematically feeding you their footprint lists. I imagine you could put together a footprint blacklist pretty quickly, and just stop returning results for any obvious spam queries like those containing "powered by wordpress".

It's not a very elegant solution I'll admit. It won't stop the bots from trying, and you may have to circle back periodically to add new footprints as they surface. But it's a potentially quick and easy way to stop rewarding their efforts, and the blackhat world is pretty used to burning out their resources so hopefully they will figure out it's a dead end and move on.
https://github.com/itamae-kitchen/itamae or its statically-linked, mruby-based counterpart https://github.com/itamae-kitchen/mitamae
If we return to where the war started, how did Ukraine first provoke Russia - by hoping to join EU, by existing? Ukraine could have been another non-allied country, but Russia escalated.

Regarding the role of the US and NATO in the conflict: "The interim Yatseniuk Government which came to power initially said, with reference to the country's non-aligned status, that it had no plans to join NATO. However, following the Russian military invasion in Ukraine and parliamentary elections in October 2014, the new government made joining NATO a priority." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations
No, that's absolutely incomparable. Cuba is a shithole from hell comparable only to places such as North Korea, Bolivia or Venezuela (coincidentally also socialist states, huh), none of the other places are.
For Tech Startups, the Party Is Over
Twitter CEO: “Let’s talk about spam, with the benefit of data, facts, context”
I ate it every day for around 9 months or so. I lost weight. It’s just about as unhealthy as any other 700-ish calorie lunch, and if it’s your biggest meal of the day and you don’t otherwise overeat, what’s the problem?
Minor nit but Terra isn't a protocol on Ethereum, Terra is its own L1 that competes directly with Ethereum.
> it would become a "McDonald's country", and will not be interested in fighting wars anymore

Remind me, which country has its army continually trained and upgraded by entering one war after another for the past twenty if not forty years.
I think the Dead Internet Theory bit is just a bait to get more comments. It's a bit of a stretch to conclude that the internet is mostly robots just because one website sees mostly robots. This extrapolation would be convincing if that one website is a high ranking website that sees a lot of traffic, but searchmysite.net does not appear to be one of the top websites.
One idea I have been considering - use SQLite as my JSON parser in Lua. Lua has solid SQLite bindings, but there are several JSON libraries, with varying performance characteristics. If I create a :memory: database, I could shunt JSON in/out of SQLite and use their performant implementations to extract fields from APIs.

Admittedly, not a standard use case, but something I intend to try in the near future.
if masks work so well, why didn't they work? how did omicron get around the world in like two weeks flat when everyone was wearing masks on planes? at what point does covid making an utter mockery of our mitigation efforts start to dent your faith in them?
In my experience it's much harder to write Python that won't crash than C/C++ that won't crash. With Python, rarely taken code paths can have very dumb errors in them (e.g. accidentally introducing a new variable with a different name than the variable you wanted or typoing a method name, or passing arguments with the wrong type) that would get caught by a C/C++ compiler but won't be caught in Python until the crash happens some months later. Typically in "reliable" code you're not going to do much dynamic allocation anyway, at least past the initialization stage (because memory fragmentation!) so memory errors aren't that common anyway.

Yes, probably Rust and Ada provide even more guarantees...
Should users care?
Nordstream passes Swedish economic zone, for one.
This seems confusing to me (although I am just an engineer so it isn't surprising if I've missed something). The photon is basically a packet energy. It bounces out of the box, I guess reducing the energy in the box (right?), which is just normal photons-bouncing-out-of-box behavior.

In this case, they've managed to come up with a configuration, via superoscillation, that results in an unusually large packet of energy. But is this a conservation of energy issue? I don't see how this is any "worse" for conservation of energy than bouncing out multiple red photons.

Is the inability of a red box to release higher energy photons actually a deep physical principle, or just a general trend because configurations that can generate superocillations are rare? I guess I don't see the link between "photon is too big" and "conservation of energy" -- probably it is an obvious link for the physicists here, though.
Sure. But if I'm looking to purchase Twitter, I think I'd be much more interested in and concerned about this "white" lie than you are as a general consumer.
Heh yeah, they'll just rename autopilot to "Fully Self-Driving", then act all confused when people think its fully self driving.
That exactly my take as well. It was like, this has to be parody.
> Skype started out as a p2p thing. But ultimately, video calls became a commodity where orchestrating them centrally proved to be good enough.

It's my understanding that "phone" without the ability to tap is illegal in the US.

IIRC, the "must be able to let the govt listen" requirement occurred at the same time as Skpye switched models and the requirement was given as the reason for said switch.
You're getting downvoted because you are making a strong contrary claim with no evidence whatsoever. It's the equivalent of two kids going:

"Yes it is!"

"No it's not!"

"Yeahuh it is!"
Title slightly editorialized to include that it's the Twitter CEO as it's contextually relevant and would make the title confusing if not present. (particularly as this is a direct rebuttal to Elon Musk's claims about bots on the platform)

Elon Musk has responded: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526246899606601730

> [poop emoji]
It's the thing that nobody really talks about and conveniently ignores because if you do it means Tesla (and other AV companies) will go out of business.

From my experience - if you don't have well maintained roads you're going to have problems with FSD.

Raining? Water running over the camera/sensors will warp the image. Snowing? Can't see the road lines.

Tesla can't even guarantee that their cars won't barrel directly into a fire truck that's stopped on a freeway trying to address an existing accident.

In Canada, there's a federal mandate that forbids the use of oil-based roadmarkers - provinces instead use water-based roadpaint... you can literally see each year how that works out. Worn down/invisible road lines make it difficult for even experienced drivers to work out how many lanes a road has - good luck getting a computer to work out what lane it's in without any exterior help.

Without some kind of guidance inside the road itself - RFID/Wireless tracking "beacons" of sorts to help keep the vehicles in their lanes - we're not going to see true FSD any time soon globally - probably just in nice climate countries/states like California, Texas, etc where the weather 99% of the time never changes from "clear and sunny".

There's just too many variables for FSD to account for - especially with Tesla choosing to not use other tech like LiDAR, like others have mentioned.

FSD isn't going to be around in any major capacity globally for at least another 15-20 years at least. Too many factors involved in making sure your multi-ton autonomous spontaneous death machine picks the right option when it sees the equivalent of the trolley problem with potentially only a few seconds to make the decisions.
Thanks for wiby.me. I have seen QHub coming up in the scraping footprints, but my assumption has been that the footprint query is looking for Question and Answers sites powered by QHub containing their targeted terms, e.g. because there's a known vulnerability with QHub that their scripts can exploit to auto-post backlinks or whatever it is they do. There are lots of other hosting tools, other than QHub, that come up in the footprints as well. I found some lists of footprints by doing an internet search for one of them: "Designed by Mitre Design and SWOOP".
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Good luck actually buying a Pi right now
Why do you think it's fundamentally fragile? The soviet union lasted for about 70 years. China has had a unique party for around 70 years (and no signs of ot changing anytime soon). What other types of government are less fragile? I think democracy is more fragile for sure.
Sure, it's unsurprising that it produces unexpected results, but there are actually semantics that should be expected. The problem is that implementing those semantics correctly for all cases is hard, because aliasing. Same issue that e.g. memcpy() vs memmove() have.
What are your thoughts on plugin backward compatibility? That could create a lot of issues. (To be clear, I /love/ the idea of sqlite being the default; I just genuinely can't figure out a way around the plugin headache.)
The "Here" app loaded with a country has all the McDonalds, which are guaranteed (almost always) to have a restroom and wifi. Can be worth it's weight in gold.

(I don't notice a ton of difference between USA McDonald's and other ones, though the taste can be slightly different, and I don't usually frequent McDonalds in dense urban areas in the USA.)