skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the need to be careful but when you have widespread reports of execution and rape of civilians in all the areas being invaded by Russia (i.e. all 3 fronts) it seems to be more of a pattern than an exception.
When Julia was first released, I tried it out and decided I'd write a syntax highlighter for it, so I asked for a grammar. There wasn't one. I was told to refer to the parser source code, which was written in a custom dialect of LISP. That was a red flag for me and I never returned.
I imagine in a competition about the perception of sound you would do much better than I would, given your experience, so I'll take your word on it. You and Benn Jordan can hash it out!
The conclusion isn't that there's nobody out there, but that the billion-odd people who use search engines every day have no idea what searchmysite.net is. They use Google, often without even knowing it because they just type some words into their browser and take what they get.
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Shouldn't they be saying the number is decreasing vs staying at ~5% for years then?
I’ll add another one: code coverage. Coverage is, at best, a proxy metric for how easy it is to test your code. If you make it easy to write tests, coverage generally takes care of itself.
I often make it a sliding scale as well. If a client has only a few hours here and there for me I charge more. If they have a longer length project and can guarantee a certain number of hours a week, for a certain length, with a retainer or deposit then I'll be willing to charge less.
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I think it would go to far to say all vulnerable people have died.

Having the required two shots and a booster (mixed or otherwise) seems to not only reduce the likelihood of getting COVID but also reduces how severely you are affected if you do catch it.
Who's counted as "engaged"? The people reading, or only the people writing? More to the point, if Twitter moved to a subscription model, would zero lurkers buy in?
Or maybe Musk took the billions set aside for funding to short the stock to get the rest of the funding. We don't know what's going on behind closed doors. I would assume he knows more about investing than you are giving him credit for.
> Jade remains enigmatic and skeptical: that seems to be her nature.

Its been shown in the past (not got the links to hand, and cba to google right now, but I'm sure they wont be hard to find) that cats know their name, its just often they don't give a shit when you call them. Which pretty much any cat servant will understand. Wouldn't be surprised that also applies to other words/commands.

EDIT: My own cat knows her name, but will ignore me unless she wants attension, sleep or bird watching is far too important to go and see what I want.

EDIT2: Fucking Typos!!!
I don't think there's any clean way to stop that at a language level (some languages prevent this by disallowing random access to arrays, but that's a non-starter for a performance-oriented language), and also it would be a massively breaking change.
Back in 2005-6 I was working on autonomous off-road vehicles for the US Army, part of the far outer fringes of the [Future Combat System] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems). In our tests we found that MMWR had major speed limitations even with a leader-follower system (where the manned leader built terrain models as it was manually driven and shipped them to the followers which then tried to terrain-match the leader's MMWR images). We figured based on sensor range versus safe-stopping acceleration rates it was limited to about 30kph.

We also had tremendous problems with dust etc. up in the air causing the radar to think it was a wall and panic stop. And further problems, since we were off-road, the radar LOVED puddles and any sort of standing water- it looked perfectly flat and so wanted to go there every time. Various attempts were made to compensate (some people tried sensor fusion with visual and IR cameras, which doing in real time is hugely hard, our team tried to do it by focusing on human-robot collaboration, but we never found a good way to adjudicate differences between human and robot, and if the human is always having to intervene anyway, the robot's not giving you much help). None of them were working when FCS was cancelled and our project focus shifted.
More people should be listening to Fiona Hill on this issue...she knows Putin better than any other outsider. And she has been saying the same thing for years: that if he doesn't get what he wants, he'll start using nukes. He wants to be seen as someone who restored the glory of the Russian empire, and he will use any tool at his disposal to get it. His lack of use of nukes up until this point doesn't really mean that he is bluffing, it is about timing and situational prudence; now is just not the right time. Also, she keeps saying that World War 3 has already started, we just haven't acknowledged it yet.

Those are positive, not normative analyses. The real question is what do we do about it. And I can't help but think that if it is more or less inevitable that he will use nukes before losing the war, and the only reason he hasn't used them yet is because of situational timing, then the approach that stands out to me is that we're in a better position to attack him now than we would be when he thinks the timing is right to blow up the world.
What absolutely messed me up - and I seriously mean, significant trigger warning if you look this up - was a Reddit video I saw of the collective screams and moans all the trapped people in the high rises…it’s seriously haunting, harrowing; and terrifying.

I’ve had COVID; and it was certainly a significantly less hellish experience than what these poor folks are going through. :(
>Terra Luna rallied 500x (50,000%) off the lows.

The patient is alive! There may no longer be a head attached to the body; but - look! - the little finger is twitching.
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Ok, but answering questions like "what time is it?" doesn't subtract from the usefulness of a search engine. Seems like you're saying it makes your search engine better somehow because it can't do the above.
Unfortunately my cat thinks his name is "Cat" which leads to some obvious confusion :-D
This is a nice fantasy, but it's a fantasy. The tech stack and network we have is too dense a forest to be replaced by clean slate designs. But maybe some of the problems could be improved with some new platforms and APIs. Mind you, ML is making so much progress so quickly that what happened over the last thirty years is at best a partial model of the problem we have to solve now, and the tools we have to do it with...
Our minds generally don't work well on repetitive tasks requiring high concentration with low interactivity. Yet, we're so irrational we can't see the obvious.

Take a "self driving car". Except... you can't really crawl into the back seat and eat lunch. No. Are you kidding me? You have to pay attention! You have to be ready to grab the wheel! A walrus could be napping on the freeway! Just because it's self driving doesn't mean you don't have to pay attention! Good god, what's wrong with you?

What's wrong with us, collectively, is we don't immediately recognize the absurdity of what they're saying. There's really something very very wrong with that person.
It's not a charity. Spoilers your company is making money hand over fist. Many company's boast a $600,000 or more revenue per employee figure. In many cases you are there just for insurance. I employ more people than I need on purpose because someone might up and leave at any moment and I have to keep operations going
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Facebook's press email box is full, no longer accepting email from journalists
Found some candidates, still not sure if they are the best sources.

> Every Unix Command Becomes a Startup

-- https://matt-rickard.com/every-unix-command-becomes-a-startu... [2022-04-09]

> Every Unix command eventually become an internet service. Grep->Google, rsync->Dropbox, man->stack overflow, cron->ifttt ... etc

-- https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/505118160811728896 [2014-08-28]
The biggest problem with these kinds of job description is that they artificially filter out candidates that don't know it's perfectly okay to not check 100% of the boxes before applying. I've never worked or interviewed anywhere that expected a candidate to meet the entire checklist. If you check some of them then you should apply. The worst that will happen is that no one calls you back. The best that might happen is that you get the job because you really clicked with the interviewers.
This seems easily gamed by just producing lots of lines of code.

Adding inline documentation would improve this metric.

This does explain some absolute dogshit products IBM made as maybe they were optimizing for this metric by having 1000 lines when one would do. I’m bitter from having to decompile and debug websphere in the 90s and 00s.

I think this runs into a problem is that programmers are good at minmaxing. So any rote metrics will end up being gamed pretty quickly.
First you'll have to explain to me why you would give somebody your bitcoin and allow them to give it to somebody else!
Same here, +1 for this.

As someone who is freelancing (and using Hetzner-cloud + dedicated) and also working as a cloud-ops (using AWS and mainly Azure as cloud providers), I can say that going with a cloud provider like Azure is simpler.

Saving cost is definitely important, however, seeing that there are multiple dev/salaried, I doubt it's really a big concern (you also don't seem to have that many resources).

Most of the time, with resources from Azure, you would get features already completed and existing (I am looking directly at Application Insights for example) - with resources like App services, Web apps and Function apps you get ease of debugging (yes, there is a cost associated, however, in the long term when you scale, you definitely see the advantage).

I've personally suggested my colleagues to try out a dedicated server from either Hetzner or OVH (that specific one needed at least 128GB RAM) so going with Azure would of been quite expensive (and probably less than $200 per month from either OVH or Hetzner) - but they've decided to stay with Azure and I can confirm that they are not paying less than $900 per month.

It seems like cost isn't always the main factor, but rather ease the time it would take to prepare/set up everything.
What a dull life it must be to presume your understanding is complete.
A server is not a managed database
This may have sprung from this thread, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395379
~$3000/month for a view of picket fence and ... a 10' wide strip of grass next to your driveway.

You know I love you, LA, but there were reasons we just couldn't make it work.
Perhaps FSD is actually a recursive GNU style acronym - "FSD Self Driving" - an easter egg for those in the know.
Julia allows you to specify the type of a datum if you feel the need (not unlike Common Lisp). Is any of the bugs the author mentioned related to the type system?
Not a fan of Bitcoin, but you’re confusing Robinhood synthetic IOUs with Bitcoin. They are not the same thing.
In two decades of images, citizen scientists identify new asteroids
Have you tried headhunters?
Other than that: web portals like freelancermap, gulp, ...
That sounds like a feature actually, being honest about no hits.
Tesla only lets people with a safety score[1] of 98 or higher into the FSD beta. They've been slowly lowering the threshold since the initial 2020 rollout. I think around 60,000 Teslas have FSD beta right now, or about 3% of the fleet.

1. https://www.tesla.com/support/safety-score
pre-importing OSM data could be counter productive. OSM data is not generally populated with start_date tags, most mappers are not concerned with this issue. the result would be that all of the modern map (with rare exceptions) would project back through history irrespective of the actual start date. the result would be a staggering task to make OHM useful.
Is that really the case? I just ran the CLI version of speedtest.net and I got way more than the 4Gbps that oracle advertises. Though I only ran the test on ARM, and I know AMD VMs get much less bandwidth. I also wouldn't be surprised if my results aren't representative of real world sustained usage.
Of course it won't. Who's making the tools that let people make things without programming?
> the bottom 80% have a very slow rising tide

This was true until the 1980s in the US. I remember a very popular national politician showing that it wasn't true that the poor were getting poorer, they were just getting richer at a much slower rate.

Then, in his eight years in office, he oversaw a shift so that now the poor are actually getting poorer, while the rich are getting richer at a far faster rate than they were.

Also, nobody mentioned communism but you. The subject under discussion was socialism.
What i don't understand is how the Chinese authorities can lock down whole cities indefinitely, but can't force a few geriatrics to have an injection.
Radar gives false positives. Pretend you are a computer for a second. You get told by radar that right in front of you there is an obstacle. You are five feet from crashing. The only option to avoid it would be to slam on your breaks. Meanwhile the vision system tells you that you are on a freeway, there is a car directly behind you, and there is a bridge ahead of you.

Do you a) slam on the breaks or b) drive under the underpass that was producing the false senor reading?

You've already declared your answer. You choose option a, because you think radar is amazing and you think people who think otherwise are naive morons. What happens next is that you slam on the brakes, surprising the person behind you. They slam into your vehicle. Their child wasn't wearing his seat belt. He flies forward, slamming through the window. His brains splatter the pavement. His body rolls without his brains into another lane. A horrified person to your left swerves to avoid hitting the kids body as they drive by, plowing into another car.

Congratulations. You are a genius. Everyone else is naive. Thank you for playing murder innocent people.

Of course, this isn't what actually happens. What actually happens is that your decision results in a sudden break, but the person at the wheel recognizes this is a mistake and presses down on the pedal. Your decision making ability is taken away, because you are a moron. They do so, because they trusted their vision system more than they trusted your stupid radar based decision. So the error correction mechanism that stopped your murder attempt? Vision.

Thank God for that, but the person in the vehicle is annoyed. They report the issue, not liking that bridges consistently produce that behavior. Tesla investigates. They realize that the radar sensor is producing false positives. After empirically validating that removing radar is better at driving in this edge case they roll out the improvement. Tesla removes your ability to decide to kill people because you are too obsessed with radar.

Later, even as the empirical results show that self driving is now better than human driving in terms of safety, partly of course due to it being human+computer driving now computer alone, a person names knodi123 goes online and calls people naive for thinking that vision is preferable to radar.

He gets asked this question. If you were the driver of that car, which would you rather trust? The car's decision made on the basis of radar? Or your own decision made on the basis of vision?
I'm saying, if you're making a US dollar backed stablecoin, you could do it with minimal risk and still profit handsomely by just holding US treasuries.

Instead, we have stablecoins backed by all sorts of things like commercial paper in cryptocurrency exchanges.
Honestly I would guess higher than 20%
From the article, in rebuttal to the "use daemon mode" argument:

> Fast things feel nicer.

Daemon mode is fast. Mine takes less than a second to open a new frame with a fully-loaded Spacemacs setup, and while my startup time is 20-30 seconds, it runs in the background upon login, and I don't care about that gap.

> When customizing Emacs, you sometimes get into weird states that can be hard to recover from without restarting. For example, if you add a slow lambda function to your post-command-hook, it’s tough to remove it.

> Restarting Emacs helps verify that customization will persist between sessions.

These only matter if your primary use-case for Emacs is...customizing Emacs. Which is a thing that some people do, I guess, but I'm more interested in using Emacs as a tool. Sure, I'm going to spend dozens of hours tweaking it, but I'll spend thousands of hours using it - and rewriting my init.el (especially from its current Spacemacs state) is also going to take dozens of hours, which will definitely wipe out any gains that I would have gotten from having a slightly faster iteration time during the elisp development loop.

That said, I still think that the information presented in the article is useful! It's always good to know why software is slow and how to make it faster, and some people just don't want to use daemon mode.
Not how I understand it. That just means you're willing to tolerate a higher P/E for that stock. You still expect earnings will eventually cover the price.

When you have 401(k) plans which essentially say, "Put your money in the 'market' and it will go up to beat inflation," or you outright say (as many do) that "the market will always go up over time," that's growth investing, and it's straight up a Ponzi scheme. You don't care about the earnings, you just expect to sell for a higher amount than you bought.
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You said what happened to Luna can't happen to BTC because the BTC supply is capped. It's not. The inability to mine new BTC doesn't actually matter. The pseudobanks we call exchanges are still able to introduce numberless BTC into circulation through loans. The result is inflation and possibly market crashes in case of defaults. Really no different from what Tether and every other bank is doing.

I've written more detailed posts about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31375366
Before we jump to unfounded theories, can I lay down some solid observations:

1)Humans are really bad at responding to highly-unlikely events. Like: is it safer to drive or fly? And knowing which one, how would you change your travel plans? You would probably over react, or not react at all - and both would be a reflection of our inability respond to highly-unlikely events

2) Humans hate uncertainty. You ask someone a question... and then wait for an answer, we want to interject "facts" to get an answer faster. We have a vague threat, we want to protect ourselves - even if that means bringing something even worse on us.

In the US, I've seen both sides of the political aisle respond poorly to uncertainty. On the left, I see "lock everything down". On the right I see "all freedoms for everyone all of the time". Personally, I have been on both sides of those decisions

My theory: China is responding to to the uncertainty with something they are comfortable with: wide spread conformity. That's not a bad thing - is it simply how they find comfort
I believe the above commenter was referring to Elon’s insistence that LIDAR not be used, while many in rest of the are using it.
Seems very similar to 2020 Europe (at least Spain)
The terminal was made for e-ink displays ;)
Looks scary for sure. But the driver had the time to say "woa woa woa" before even starting to intervene, he knew the system was exhibiting erratic behavior. Had he acted appropriately this would never have been an issue. The system makes mistakes, plenty of mistakes. Absolutely nobody is claiming that it is safe yet. It's supposed to go with a human supervisor ready to intervene at all times. And so far it has worked, as there hasn't been a single confirmed accident aside a Youtuber driving into a bollard resulting in some paint damage (again, letting the system go longer than necessary in order to see what would happen), and this despite 60k+, approaching 100k drivers using it. It sure looks scary, but I expect HN to be smarter than that and actually look at the statistics.
Plenty of people have come. Gödel was one, JVN was one, Terry Tao is likely one.

But it's also worth remembering that some of the smartest people in our society are optimizing ad serving.
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Even if nobody is bullish on the fundamentals there will still be short sellers looking to cover short positions which can drive markets up.

One of the benefits of allowing shorting of stocks is that it provides liquidity even in the worst of times.
I assume there is also a need to backup and deployment for web server configuration too?
Show HN: Open-source tool to deploy infrastructure in any cloud
We have been working on multy.dev, an open-source cloud agnostic API that makes it easy to deploy the same infrastructure to any cloud provider using native managed services.

The motivation was the realisation that, even when using Terraform, migrating infrastructure code requires an end-to-end re-write. Even though most core resources are the same in any major cloud, developers need to learn a new provider to deploy the same infrastructure when moving providers.

We are still in early days of development and currently support the core services from AWS and Azure:

- Networking (virtual_network, subnet, route_table, security_group, network_interface, public_ip)

- Compute (virtual_machine, managed kubernetes)

- Database (managed MySQL databases)

- Vault (managed secrets)

- Storage (managed storage)

- Abstraction of cloud differences (Azure VM public vs AWS EC2 private by default)

- Deployment through Terraform

We’re looking for feedback from other developers about our approach. Let us know your thoughts!

GitHub: https://github.com/multycloud/multy
My comment doesn't imply I support bigotry, but is religion on topic? On a tech forum that would likely be a stretch. I think downvoting wouldn't reflect intolerance rather a clash of mentalities: strict rationalism versus whatever religion falls under.
Have you ever ridden a horse? They "breakdown" quite often. As soon as mass production of cars started, they were practically superior to horses in almost every way.
I was affected by that fire (lost a VPS), but everything was up again a few hours later. All I had to do was to order a new VPS and restore my (very regular) backups.

The key is to be ready to recover from failure. OVH had a fire, but disks, backups, network, power, etc, can (and do) fail on premium providers. While this may say something about OVH, the effect on you as a customer is essentially the same: downtime, data loss, etc.

My experience with OVH until that point was good. 4 years without problems. I had another VPS and one dedicated server - different datacenters to avoid the "all eggs in the same basket" problem - and they were fine. The dedi, for example, I kept it from early 2017 until 6 months ago when I moved to Hetzner (better hardware, same price) and never had any issues.

I understand that not everyone can or wants to do things this way, but sometimes the savings are huge and that allows you to have more redundancy or to save money. For example, one of my websites uses a bit of bandwidth... last time I checked, it would cost around 2k/mo to run it on AWS, but only ~90 euros/mo on OVH/Hetzner. I can have another 2 replicas/servers ready to go in case of a problem and still save money.

And it's not only servers. For example, I was using S3 to store backups. Now I backup to providers like Backblaze B2, Wasabi, etc, at the same time and still save money. When I had to restore the VPS lost in the fire, I did it from my Wasabi backups because they don't charge for egress (fair use). Overall I still pay less, have more copies in different datacenters and providers, and don't have to worry about the costs of restoring backups (at least not as much).