skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-11/russian-r...

The Ruble is the world's top growing currency this year. The analysts seem to believe that it won't stay on top but that's certainly a positive note for Russia.
For some of these polynomials such as Fourier polynomials, it is natural to think about negative subscripts from a pure mathematical perspective. While these can mapped into non-negative integers, it is often intuitive to use the "negative subscripts" as indexes necessitating methods such as `fftshift`. For many of these polynomials the concept of where they "start" is arbitrary.
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What I find amusing in the Twitter bubble I inhabit, people tend to talk about Ethereum blockspace and layers as a public good, a collectivized shared resource, y'know, left wing commie stuff. (Cynically, as a cover for profiteering?)

Whereas the Bitcoin's vibe seems more about scarcity and tribalism, "bitcoin is all you need" maximalism, and so on.
A much better article than average for this guy. Instead of promoting other people's grievances he talks about his own.
NATO has no provisions for evicting a member. It would need to form a separate alliance and all the others would join that one and leave NATO. And about the only reason that would conceivably ever happen is if a member grossly violated the values of all the others. Turkey despite being mostly non-democratic isn’t even close I’d imagine.
I find 'ido-use-virtual-buffers' a much more lightweight way of achieving this, FWIW. I'm sure similar features are available for Ido alternatives.
Nice work ABA. Jacobson does not apply if subject is not fit for vaccination. Fast forward to our expansive view on individuals autonomy, many people who would be subject to these mandates are truly unfit to receive them except voluntarily.
https://www.thelocal.se/20220516/swedish-pm-and-opposition-l...
> Of course you could. Just carrying your identity (even an anon one) between applications alone can be useful. How can I follow the same people on Twitter and Reddit and Discord and Playstation Network? Currently all this is difficult, awkward, etc with the current fragmentation in the market.

An email address? Why do we need to complicate this with blockchain tomfoolery?
I mean it's not going back up to $60k. The bubble is over, but it's only the start of a longer bear market, so yeah, it can go much lower.
Interest rate is already back to 14%[1]. Russian economy recovered super fast. Ruble is already stronger than before war (around 64 RUB for USD). Basically sanctions are a joke made for Biden to shout once before American public attention shifts to Amber Heard trial or some other spectacle of the day.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russian-central-ban...
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> it's also the case that a very common failure mode that programmers at the leaves of org charts do not understand what is driving the value of the business they're working in

If that's common and not being addressed, it must not be important. If it's not important, why mention it? Seems like victim-blaming.
Then it makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. Was worried that skipped bounds checks was something more intricate than simply explicitly annotating a statement to say "trust me, I know what I'm doing!".
I had an Onkyo receiver that suddenly stopped working. I always attributed it to a nearby lightning strike frying it (and only it), but now your comment makes me wonder if it was just straight up defective.
Federal plus State plus local is well over 40%
This repository is a bit misleading.

It's really just a Wordpress install with this plugin preconfigured: https://github.com/aaemnnosttv/wp-sqlite-db

That plugin is where the interesting stuff happens.
The Economist's model is complete nonsense when it comes to China.

The Economist trained a black box machine learning algorithm on data from a bunch of countries that let the virus rip, and then blindly applied the resulting model to China. Garbage in, garbage out.

From April 2020 through the end of 2021, people in China were out and about, living their lives almost as normal. Nobody knew anyone who was getting sick, much less dying. The hospitals weren't overflowing. Almost nowhere was under lockdown. During this time, the Economist's model spits out a death toll of over a million.

As I said, total nonsense. Anyone who works with ML models and statistics can tell you that when you train a black box and it produces silly output, your model is junk. You don't use your model's output to make crazy claims like, "1.7 million Chinese people died, but nobody (including nobody in China) noticed."

One final thing: When it comes to China, a lot of people in the West are living in absolute fantasy land. Disbelief/denial that cases in China have been essentially zero for most of the last two years or claims that a million Chinese people have died are examples of this. As someone who actually knows what's happening in the country, it's quite frustrating.
Having a vision in a dream about Bitcoin last night really doesn't give it any more authority today than it had yesterday.
I acknowledge that analogies fail at a certain remove. I wasn’t particularly trying to make a comparison to the housing market, it was just the example that sprang to mind. Any market should operate similarly, no? Buyers and sellers negotiating over what they consider acceptable terms of exchange?

Regarding the “things... [which] pressure lower prices,” how do you account for the record high pay in the US tech sector [1], or pay increases being greater than the overall US average over the past several years [2]?

I suppose I’m just wondering how much of this is real examples of corporate malfeasance / runaway capitalism / extortionate price extraction and how much of it is standard side-effects of the way markets operate.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/tech-salaries-just-...

[2] https://www.hrdive.com/news/high-performing-tech-workers-see...
It isn't "so we won't investigate any further", it is "we don't think it is the best use of our resources to investigate this" and in my view it also implies "but if you have a good idea for how to investigate it empirically, please feel free to do so".

I don't think "that group" is self-reinforcing at all. Essentially everyone who comes in with no experience comes in thinking "meetings are crap, communication is crap, we just need to write code". Most of those people (but not all!) slowly but surely change their minds as they gain experience. But every one of those people is an opportunity for the thesis to be disproven. Similarly, nearly every new organization is an opportunity to try something new. Google didn't start out with lots of meetings and engineering committees and design review processes. They started out just wanting to write tons of code. They didn't hire management (or "agile") consultants or bring in outside managers as they grew to come tell them how to behave like a big company is supposed to. The people who started out writing all that code and ridiculing bureaucracy are the same people who eventually accrued processes to manage meteoric growth.

I really don't think people are as narrow-minded and closed off to this as you seem to believe. People are hungry for a better way to manage organization growth, it's just a high bar because people have seen lots of these kinds of efforts, and frankly just get kind of bored of chasing "one weird trick to make everyone way more productive" again and again.
An agent that sells dud employees to employers will have zero clients much, much faster. An agent with a high placement and retention rate, well, people will be lined up around the block to become their clients. So ;-) right back 'atchya, sport.

As for houses, they can be visually be examined by the seller's agent. They are not going to take the seller's word for it that it has four bedrooms when they can see it only has two and are certainly not going to try to sell it as if it had four.
you make it sound so easy...

why not just waltz into Russia, tell Putin and pals to leave and replace them with kind, competent, generous leaders?
Putin has been writing and speaking about this for years. He really thinks Russia should control other Slavic people, and former territories of Russia and Soviet Union etc. And it's not only Putin. Most of the other high ranking officials must have been supporting the attack into Ukraine, otherwise it would not have happened. If it was him alone against everyone else, Putin would simply have been replaced. A large portion of the Russian population also supports the attack.

It is no fluke. You can't pin it on one "madman". It's as if the majority Russian people in Russia genuinely think they should control the land and people that is Ukraine. It's not all people. There are anti-war protests, millions of people have left Russia, and there are dissidents.

To somehow recover from this, it would require some deep reflection on what Russia really is, and what is its role in humanity. I'm afraid it will take some drastic events before people are able to question themselves to that level. It would begin with the philosophers and poets.
I am strongly opposed to this for SARS-CoV2, but for something like Ebola, it might the best possible response.
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Of course they didn't admit to throwing things at the tiger. That would be admitting to a misdemeanor crime and lowering their compensation in the lawsuit as they would have provoked the animal's response.
Yeah, I mean the bubble is over, it's not going to $60k. It still can drop a lot further.

Am I using the word bubble wrong? Another responded in the same way.

I mean it's now definitely a bear market, and going down, not up.
If you have not tweeted.. you are excluded from this analysis.

A spam account is gonna spam right? But some real users of twitter may only tweet once a year. This study just doesn't include you. It isn't saying you are spam, just not including you in the count.
There was no problem having diplomatic relations with Germany after WW2. Relations were poor with nazi Germany and they are poor with Putin’s Russia.
> So Putin has quite literally achieved nothing.

If he achieved "nothing" that would infact be preferable for Russia to the state they are in now. What he did is an equivalent of the manager of your team pulling a couple of all nighters over the weekend to do a "hero-refactor" on your codebase for "improvements" and then deploying it into production only for everyone to discover that the "improved" code has massive performance regressions, worse user experience and is harder to maintain... worse it can't be rolled back easily and the process of rolling it back will be slow and annoying, that is if the manager who made those changes even admits that it should be rolled back in the first place.
Who knows? The whole point of decentralization is for there to be so many nodes in the network they can't possibly take them all down so that it's pointless to even try. What if all smartphones formed a mesh network? There aren't enough prisons in my country for all those criminals.
science is great...love it....got a degree in it...but i never pretend that we are anything but children when it comes to understanding the universe...we got a loooooonnnnnggg way to go...
Just to help with future understanding of how threads go off the rails: eatonphil added a comment about using static files instead of dynamic, then your reply was “and caching”, meaning “in addition to static files, also use caching”. At this point in the conversation, we’re talking about only static files with caching, so it doesn’t really follow that you’re bringing up “database connections” again, since that’s already been excluded in this thread.
We tested their VPS in Virginia/USA - poor networkwork uptime.
That doesn't matter. The json_extract function returns a string, so json_extract('[{"foo": "x"}]', '$.foo') is NULL and json_extract('[{"foo": "x"}]', '$[0].foo') is 'x' and it doesn't matter if this is destined to go into a generated column or an index.

[append] And SQLite's json_extract doesn't have anything like '$[*].foo' or any mapping functions. You could use json_each to do that, but the process is very different from creating an index.
I don't think you'll convince anyone that McDonalds is healthy :)
I grew up in a house of at least a dozen cats. All had names. Our very first one, Lightning (who was seemingly very intelligent and lived to his late teens), did not know his name as Lightning. For all he knew, his name was Puss-Puss, because he had been called that a lot when he was younger, and responded extremely well to it throughout his life.
However, I have no single idea what is FizzBuzz, and if someone asks me to do it an interview, I would fail miserably.

A fellow commenter here has already addressed this point, but let me reiterate: you wouldn't be told "do FizzBuzz" with the expectation that you already know what FizzBuzz is. The problem definition would be explained, and it is a very trivial problem. That's why it's often used as a low level filter for programming interviews.

At a former employer we used to do just about everything we could to make the process as easy for the candidates as we could. We'd give them a laptop with an IDE running, the skeleton of the test app already in place (eg, main method, and any "plumbing" dictated by the language. We supported using Java and Python) and comments basically saying "flesh in the required logic here." We would give them, IIRC, 5 such "skeletons" and ask them to pick any one (or more) they wanted to implement and gave them approximately 30 minutes. Besides FizzBuzz the other ones were "reverse a string" and other problems of similar difficulty. And yes, you could use any standard library API that you wanted. And frankly, if somebody had said "I know how to do this, but I'd need to download library $FOO" we probably would have arranged to get them library $FOO ('net access on the test machine was disabled, as we really didn't want to test their ability to go find the answer somewhere else and copy & paste).

And despite all that, it was sad to find that very many candidates, even those with documented years of experience and/or advanced degrees, could not manage to complete a very simple programming assignment. Well... I say "sad" but there is another way of looking at this: it could be that FizzBuzz, "reverse a string", etc., just don't have any particular relevance and that this whole exercise is useless. I mean, if you have a person who's been gainfully employed as a developer for 10 years, and they can't do this, what does that tell you? Maybe it's the test that's wrong. Even though intuitively, I think most developers would believe that anybody who can't do this sort of thing doesn't really know how to program.

Anyway, back to the original point directed at the OP: being self-taught isn't really that big a deal, IF you can demonstrate some fundamental level of competency.
Microsoft bought it, removed the encryption and decentralization, and started piping conversations directly to the NSA.
> China has done an awful job vaccinating their population - this is the real story that is being undercovered by the media

According to [0] they've got 1,287,195,000 fully vaccinated, how is that an awful job?

AIUI their failing is more along the lines of not using the mrna vaccines, but despite having a huge population they seem to have put jabs in most arms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_mainla...
I mean it "worked" in the sense that Putin got the bare minimal of support so there was at least a few separatist figureheads. :/
> member gets booted out because of ideological differences, no matter the circumstances, other members will necessarily fear the same

Ejection is a serious thing. Even its deliberation will have the effect you describe.

But anyone pretending NATO is immortal or immutable or above political alignment is naïve. If a member behaves radically differently from the others, will it be politically feasible to send one’s soldiers to their aid in a time of need? If the answer to that question isn’t predictably an unambiguous yes, the treaty should be modified. Leaving Russia to guess whether Estonia is a Britain member or a Hungary member undermines the alliance's deterrence.

These treaties were forged by our parents and grandparents. They’re stronger as living documents than relics.
Lurkers are probably anywhere between 8-12:1. People actually posting stuff on the internet are in the vast, vast minority, creates a sort of echo chamber.

I am technically "logged into" twitter so I can click through and read the postage stamp-sized charts linked to through various articles and blogs, or watch a video about a riot in some far flung part of the planet. Once a year I tweet at airlines when they lose my luggage or whatever but otherwise don't tweet. Twitter isn't a good social media service, it just happens to be the image/video sharing platform of choice for journalists to promote themselves.
Yeah the article has a few big issues, yours is definitely at the top.
I tried Julia but the compilation time for interactive use was just too insane.

I ended up paying £125 for MATLAB. Nothing else really remotely compares to MATLAB's plotting facilities.
Anything other than units? I'd be curious to know. Unitful.jl is something which I think is completely the wrong architecture (it violates many standard assumptions about arrays when used in arrays) so that's a somewhat special case (and I plan to create a new units library to completely remove uses of Unitful).
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The very fact that you can write an article like this without fear of consequences shows that the media is not "under siege", as the author claims. Sure, there are incidents of government overreach (like when Maharashtra govt jailed the popular owner/anchor Arnab Goswami of Republic TV), but as a whole the Indian media usually just says any old thing.

IMO one problem is India doesn't have the concept of absolute freedom of speech. While freedom of speech is enshrined in the constitution, there are several laws that curtail it, like laws against blasphemy, defamation, etc., which are often (ab)used by the rich and powerful to silence their critics. And it's not only the govt which does it - (allegedly) fraudulent educational institutions like IIPM [1] and WhiteHat Jr [2] have done it too.

1. https://scroll.in/article/817592/how-iipm-and-arindam-chaudh...

2. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/whitehat-jr-founder-fi...
>I do not at all see how putting quotes around that word invalidates the argument

When the argument is:

[0] is very, very much is [natural for indexes]

and as an example for that points to something that's not an index -- and the person making the argument knows it is not an index, so they have to put index in quotes:

Polynomials all start at a zero "index"

...then pointing this out, does invalidate the argument. It might not prove that the opposite is true, but it sure does invalidate the argument.

Notice also how there's no ad-hominen in my response (this or the previous one) as you claim. I argue against the case and the choice of example, not against who wrote it.
Interesting, it's the error messages themselves that it's good for, rather than the boilerplate; I assumed you just meant the boilerplate around the error message. That kind of surprises me, but I guess I shouldn't be shocked that people are handling the same errors with the same messages over and over again without any way to encapsulate the pattern. Not shocked I guess, but that is disappointing.
I wish it was only half... It's nearly impossible to get a clean IP at Hetzner.
I don't see anything problematic in what Viral said here; I think it would be fair to say your initial take ("Julia has been the future of machine learning for 10 years and will stay as the future of machine learning for the next 10 years") is likely to be perceived as at least somewhat inflammatory, a defensive response is natural enough in that context.
Many are minted with OpenSea (of course).

In any case across the 70 million or so NFTs I have indexed HTTP is definitely the majority.
Given how all other tech stocks are fareing right now, he definitely wants to renegotiate. It will be interesting to see what the boards does. Right now Musk is the only thing holding up their stock price. And if they hold him to paying the billion, he's just going to carp from the sidelines. Maybe they should let him out of deal, but close his account?
You don't to look under the covers until your offer is accepted.
> The "general" Internet is not dead.

For some things it is. Good luck getting a non-sponsored/SEO-gamed review of a kitchen appliance or particular vacation mode such as a cruise. It's flabbergasting.

Most times I just stick "inurl:reddit.com" in my search and try to get discussion threads about the thing I'm researching, but even that's getting filled up with shills.
> You really can't step into the same river twice.

I love the maxim and philosophy of eternal refreshment.

Seems like the problem is more akin to having nuclear waste dumped
into our rivers though.
Standard marketing 101. Can't fault them for doing what every other company on the face of the earth does.
Volume of ads is irrelevant. An additional tweet to attach an ad to does not generate revenue if there is nobody looking at it. On the other hand, though, an additional set of eyeballs on an existing monetized tweet does generate additional revenue.

As an extreme example, a single monetized tweet with a billion viewers generates money. A billion monetized tweet with one viewer obviously does not..
We'll be providing these kinds of stats in real time when we launch!
That's a good point. I didn't really define what I meant by 'best'. In some cases the code was used, updated, etc... for many many years by people I knew. If people were too afraid to touch it when a bug was found, then definitely not good. But, if people had no need to touch it b/c it works, that's a good spot to be also.
yeah this one was really bad
Sounds oddly specific :D
> The short version though is that Cloudflare is going to participate in the research and development of the core infrastructure that helps keep Ethereum secure, fast, as well as energy efficient for everyone.

very interested to hear more on how cloudflare are participating in r&d (is it just running validators? or developing clients? or more technical things to do with scale)

also curious if cloudflare are planning to tap into the infura/alchemy market?

anyway cool to see!
I get stuck at the point where I’m supposed to store the key material for my highly secure, persistent, web3-wide identity in … a browser extension? To which I then allow every web3 site I visit to access? I understand that it helps adoption, but there’s an enormous impedance mismatch there. Why isn’t there offline identify verification front and center?