skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Root of the problem with inflation in this nation is out of control government spending and printing of money.

Eh, not entirely. There's also a war going on, which has had serious impacts on the food an energy markets. Plus the supply chain is still all out of whack due to COVID. Neither of those is due to "out of control government spending and printing of money."

The people who reflexively complain about "out of control government spending and printing of money" have predicted 12 of the last 1 bouts of inflation.
In my experience, scaling RoR is totally doable, but very tricky, as the both language and associated frameworks are very terse, opaque and by default seem to do the thing that does _not_ scale well. Because of all this magic, you have to be somewhat of an expert to avoid all the foot guns.

As a new shop, without a known depth of knowledge and talent, I'd probably avoid Rails if scaling is a concern, but if I'm Gitlab or Shopify or some place with world class Ruby engineers, I'm staying the course.
back to first principles. We have wishes and desires. If we can't get everything we want in quantities we want then we prioritise. I want good food, some mobility and a lot entertaiment. Oil is needed for mobility. Take the average over priorities of the population and you know the price for oil. Markets are just there to determine desires/priorities of the population.
Just stop pretending it's not a problem. Stop pretending that it's not easier than ever before the be active in nefarious activities as it is right now but I guess there is nothing useful to expect from someone labeling one of the most horrific abuses as "kiddie porn".
Math & logic are rarely the bottleneck over memory & allocation bottlenecks, right? Does Godbolt assume x86? Does the answer change depending on whether you’re using an AMD or NVIDIA GPU, or an Apple, ARM or Intel processor? Does it depend on which instruction pipelines are full or stalled from the surrounding code, e.g., logic vs math? Hard to say if one of these will always be better. There are also other alternatives, e.g. bitmasking, that might generate fewer instructions… maybe “abs(num) > x” will beat both of those examples?
50% of the homeless have been in foster care.
It could just be the right kind of inputs. And I don't mean just education and such, but literally every perception Newton ever had over the course of his life, plus any genetic factors.
Yes, for a while IE was the best browser for Mac, not just in terms of stability. But before that time, we had to make do with Netscape, as there wasn't really any worthwhile competition.
Also, does not attract ants.
Unfortunately, us bottom guys don't generally get to pick whether or not the org is bottom up or top down.

Guess switching jobs is always an option, but what I've gone through is basically watching as an org grows it getting switched from being a bottom up to top down org because the C level guys want more control over everything.
I used Mklinux on a powermac 8100 for 5 years has my home distant ssh and cli box.
1. Engineer costs - A PaaS at the high baseline will likely implement 300+ controls. It's been a while since I looked at an IaaS CSP's FedRAMP package, but they typically implement roughly 100 fully implemented controls. The rest is on the customer to fully implement or engineer completely. Likely 300K-500K worth of engineering costs.

2. Assessment - 3PAO assessor will likely be 100K-200K. Most first time CSP's may require more than 1 assessment as the process is usually (1) Assess (2) Submit to FedRAMP PMO (3) they provide feedback (4) limited time to implement. If you cannot implement in sufficient time, you'll have to reassess. Note, unless you are AWS, Azure, Google, FedRAMP PMO may not prioritize you without sufficient customer support. As a result, your contract with your 3PAO may be expired. You'll need to bring them in again.

3. Documentation experts – There’s an art to generating the FedRAMP package. Engineers typically aren’t good at it, and it often requires one level of abstraction above internal technical documentation. Having technical writing experts that know how to communicate the security implementation without diverging too much is a skill set. You share the bear minimum to get compliance. As there’s business risk from sharing too much (sharing implementation details with a competitor or untrusted source). Also, the more technical details there are, the more audit questions often arise.

4. Control Implementation SME’s – Often time your engineers don’t know how to implement a required security control or don’t know what the compliance people really want. Many CSP’s hire a 3PAO assessor to advice you how to implement. This cannot be the same 3PAO assessor that audits you.

5. Conflict between product/feature value versus control implementation - Sometimes a value or feature of your product directly conflicts with a control requirement. A good example is a CMS PaaS (WP as a service or Drupal as a Service). Those CMS's often support user code or user code to spawn processes. The high baseline requires process whitelisting. Solving this problem while not destroying that feature can be difficult or expensive.
in the same vein, I always loved this Radiohead Nude remix https://vimeo.com/1109226
That lockdown happened for a brief period of time, and was not something the BPT community wanted in the first place.
They seem to cherry-pick the conversations that are impressive from these chatbots. It's going to take more than 3 sentences for me to believe a chatbot is becoming advanced.

If they release reams of data and output from this chatbot or open-source it, then I'll be interested. Until then, there is zero credibility to an of these short snippets that appear on twitter.
After my wife convinced me to get chickens, I went from being ignorant and dismissive of chickens to loving having them in our backyard. It's impressive how distinctive their personalities are given the approx. 50 neurons they're working with in life.

It's like having toddler dinosaurs bumbling around and having little adventures for your entertainment.
You are advocating for increasing consumption of Russian oil despite it being used to fund genocide because you value temporary economic prosperity over cutting WW3 short before we ruin the world?
Yeah, it's not funny, it's hilarious.
I don't see what that has to do with the current shortage as the main bottleneck is with refining oil, not extracting/transporting it
The elephant in the room is that the Fed had been juicing the economy with QE and low interest rates since the 2008 crisis, and did not stop after that crisis ended despite having a decade to do so.
Fine. But seeing as how SWAT teams have at least police-grade tactical equipment and training, and are expected to burst through doors, and this town had a SWAT team, you would think this was their moment to act.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdwgn/uvalde-swat-team-brag...
Smoking is safe.

Leaded fuel is safe.

There’s no such thing as global warming.
If you ask journalists everything is mono-causal all the time. There are several factors that all play a significant role imho. FED not raising rates when the economy was already in full recovery is one. Then excessive fiscal spending during Corona while the economy was partially shut down. And then of course the war in Ukraine. Another factor China's ridiculous No-Covid strategy (if it's even about Covid).
Good point, agree.
I'd guess they're purposely inflated to cut down on people asking to buy them
I dabbled with doing that. XTEA is a 64-bit block cipher, which suits 64-bit IDs pretty well, and well you can't really ask for much more without using larger IDs. I use z-base-32 to stringify -- I considered base58, but I think case-sensitive URLs are not nice.

Looks like

user=1 doc=1
-> /users/a7e34gz71r4ig/documents/xs69f1c878rzq

user=42 doc=13
-> /users/am8hng8rnoopg/documents/9othzs4tgujrw

I have the code in Go (it's near-trivial), but ended up doing something else for that project.

Also, I hate that Postgres doesn't actually have unsigned integers.
I think this cuts both ways. I have a friend who's a recently-retired partner in an ophthalmology practice, and it was very difficult for him to find someone who wanted to buy into the partnership to take his spot. He said that many docs these days just want to go to work, do their job, and go home, without dealing with all of the additional burdens that come with owning a business. He thinks that's a big contributing factor to the corporatization of medical practice.
Rust Async Cancellation: A Case Study
> The Fed tells people what they would like the market to be… not what it is.

Fundamentally, you can try to control expectations by feeding biased projections, but you have to maintain a certain signal-to-noise ratio in doing so, or else the market will learn to ignore you. You can feed the market inaccurate projections only by spending down your accumulated credibility, which has to be bought back later with accurate projections.

(This applies in real life, too. It takes trust to be believed, and it costs trust to mislead).

"If a new inflation target is too ambitious, and the central bank fails to attain it, the central bank may lose its credibility, which may render less effective any other policies it pursues."
[https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/rais...]

If the market has learned to ignore the Fed, then it becomes very costly for the Fed to achieve accurate projections and earn back its credibility, because it can't rely solely on influencing expectations to achieve its results. It is left only with backing up its bark with a real bite.
Your article seems reasonably persuasive. The thing about the OP is that it's about what the Roman knew - but just any sort of pre-scientific knowledge of poisons tends to neglect questions around long term exposure.
Or equivalently, tax rich people more.

Interest rates should be returned to their norm, around 5%, for sound resource allocation (i.e. the time value of money is priced correctly).

Fiscal policy, specifically wealth taxes, should be used to cushion low and middle incomes from this painful readjustment.
And the US doesn't have to isolate China or send warships to the SCS. The US didn't have to give Tsingdao to the Japanese, which directly triggered protests that led to the birth of the CPC. The KMT didn't have to be so corrupt that the majority population sided with CPC which led to KMT fleeing to Taiwan.

And yet, those ships have sailed. We aren't in this mess just because China is supposedly a bad guy, there are real relevant historical reasons why things are the way they are, and they can't be swept under a rug.
You don’t think that the supply chain issues are related to our Covid strategy of “Stay the Fuck Home” via massive printing of money to support ridiculous unemployment benefits and bridge loans to businesses? You can argue that it was necessary to prevent an economic recession, but that argument is a bit hard to take seriously as our economy currently enters recession territory.
First Impressions of Web5
It's true that refined sugar has been very clearly proven to be associated with terrible consequences to your health. But most of the sugar substitutes used in "diet" products simply don't have those warnings because they're just newer and less studied. But there's been a lot of recent research showing just how bad these artificial sweeteners can be even in small amounts. Some studies have even shown long-lasting and intergenerational effects on the gut microbiome[0] and increased cancer risks.[1] The impacts on the gut microbiome[2] are particularly worrying to me. Many of these sweeteners love to sit in your gut for a while and can lead to really weird microbiome makeups and possibly even be a risk factor for diabetes and/or metabolic syndromes

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.79584...

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25231862/

More reading:

- https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/artificial-sweeteners-su...

- https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
well good because I dont eather.
What do you mean by un-clean reopening? Do you think policies ostensibly meant for favorable public health health outcomes should have been partially or selectively maintained for purely economic reasons? The former motivation was suspect in the extreme, while the latter is entirely inhumane.
Yeah; I do that because I like to make sure I'm 100% transparent about the fact that I didn't go to the store and buy the device that's in the video.

A lot of content creators don't include any disclaimers if they were provided anything besides cash for a review :(
Comprehensive Software Protection – .NET Obfuscator
Trump was the one who tried his hardest to screw China. Trump got his Congress to pass unneeded tax cuts. I agree Dems went along w COVID stimulus. Trump wanted on more stimulus, Congress deferred, then Biden got one. Biden didn't cause the war in Ukraine, if anything Trump encouraged it by talking about getting the US out of NATO.
Likewise, I think most people remember the taste of crayons. Yet, when was the last time you actually tasted one?
HN is not a free speech platform, nobody, not the users or the moderators, is obligated to give stories exposure.
If you already know that something has to be fast, then it's not really premature optimization.
I've always wondered about this. It seems like it would be quite common that someone would throw away a Li-ion battery. In garbage trucks that compact garbage (all of them?), it would be easy to damage the battery and cause a fire. On the other hand, there might not be a lot of oxygen in the compressed garbage to sustain the fire.
> should not have committed the middle finger cursor.

> should not have approved the code change

Disagree.

> impact the company's reputation

In a bad way?

> A bug report was filed, but whoever triaged the bug report didn't escalate the issue before the beta release.

Yeah probably a problem.

> Finally, the engineering manager probably should not have rehired the intern as a full-time employee.

Jesus, learn to handle a joke.
I guess it's more of a philosophical query. Who took the photo, the chicken or the human ;)
Right, the mechanism the Fed has available isn’t perfect, but it is a good tool.

In general, lowering demand for goods will decrease upward price pressure.

Unfortunately, rapid rate increases are needed. The downside will be painful. The crying, screaming, bargaining and delusion we are seeing is normal as money gets expensive, asset values drop and times get harder.
I had chickens and also had deer constantly destroying anything I was trying to grow, I hate those bastards with a passion.

I was always hoping the chickens would chase the deer but they just ignored them.
> What is it we call intelligent?

> Intelligence is a kind of rapid adaption and coping to environmental change.

Who's the "we", there ? I have absolutely never heard anything remotely close to the definition of intelligence given there
That experience is irrelevant to my point. LaMDA doesn't have anything similar to a desire, a goal, not in some emotional sense of longing - it doesn't have even the kind of goal-driven behavior of an amoeba or a slime mold. Or, at best, you can say that it's desire is to mimic human text - but in that case, it's obviously not communicating about that, it's just generating human-like text directly.
Honestly, you probably have nearly that number enter your home every month. They just don't find places to hide, breed, eat, or drink. A house that is kept clean with proper food storage will stay free of cockroaches fairly easily. It's when you have food left out, water leaks, and piles of junk laying around that it starts to get bad fast.
It's tricky when it gets to the point that you need specific tasks to clean things up.

But lots of developers think any amount of cleanup needs to be scheduled. No, it does not. When you build on a feature, you modify the feature so that you can actually build on it in a reasonable fashion.

Lots of developers will, instead of doing that, shove round pegs into square holes. There's nothing about a task that says you have to do it in the sloppiest, shittiest way possible. It's like the plumbers that cut through your floor joists because that's the easiest way to get their drain in.
Dealing with large companies is often better than small businesses or family businesses, which in many industries are incompetent or run by tyrants. Landlords being the classic example.
I can understand not requiring it but if someone wants to provide free parking they should be allowed to.
Moreover, when some operation gets sped up by a orders of magnitude, it can be used for new things that you’d never consider when it was relatively more expensive.

Something that used to be precomputed offline can be done in real time. Something that used to work on a small samples can be applied to the whole data set. Something that used to be coarsely approximated can be computed precisely. Something that used to require large clusters of machines can be handled on customers’ client devices. Something that used to be only an end in itself can be used as a building block for a higher-level computation. Etc.
People say gold is a good store or value because it has relatively inelastic (hard to ramp up) supply and relatively modest and stable demand (jewelry, industrial uses etc).

The cost of chicken has actually plummeted over the last century, even adjusting for inflation, because we can battery farm them now and they produce way more meat than they used to due to selective breeding etc.
Great to see other Germans working on ASR and TTS :)

I'm looking forward to having an offline and private voice assistant one day...

In case you're not a member yet, take a look at LEAM.AI for potential partners and/or government funding.
> Rails is memorization-heavy and doesn't have static types to aid in navigation & reading.

Except of course that now it does.

So worst case if you inherit a codebase without static types added you can use gradual type as you get to know it.
yes, i get what you are saying.

what matters is that we need to look at time in the context of what should be adjusted to how people want to live their lives

to answer that question we need to look at what is taking up the biggest chunk in our life because that is where a change will have the most effect. if the biggest chunk is supposed to be "not work" then we end up with hundreds of little things that are different for every person that we could improve (many of which in fact are being improved) while we are ignoring the one chunk that affects most people a large part of their time, which is work.

it is interesting to note that one of the things that is happening slowly is the reduction of work hours (4day week, etc) which puts a larger focus on the "not work" parts of our lives. less work means we need more options for people to spend their free time.
Are they really not "good open-source citizens" ? Keeping backwards compatibility doesn't mean a project is healthy, far from it.

Volunteering to maintain backward compat. It can be very damaging in an open-source project. So let's admit you become the "redis 3.x" guy for Sidekiq. Now, every time the sidekiq project moves or tries to moves forward, they have to see with you to maintain compatibility ? Do they know you ? Are you already a contributor ?

Also, who really needs to stay on Redis 3 there ? Are we blaming Sidekiq for killing RedisToGo, A RackSpace company, because they didn't "have the time" to upgrade to redis 4 ? Sounds like business needs. Business needs are rarely good open-source citizens.
Undefined behavior doesn't mean there is no way to reason about what the program does according to ISO C++. It means that the way to reason about it is outside of ISO C++, in specific ways, like that it may be a documented extension in the implementation or numerous other possibilities; you have to research those possibilities before concluding that there remains no way to reason about it.
A less extreme option might be to stop giving larger vehicles a break on fuel economy standards. If car makers don't have to meet as strict a standard as long as the average car they sell is big, it's not hard to guess what kind of cars they'll try their best to sell.
Interesting stuff. I just leave this comment to point you and others to a GPT-3 prompt-response I personally found particularly telling on the ability of these models to do advanced pattern inference beyond the scope of their corpus - see the example on Roish under the section "Why is GPT-3 interesting?'

[0]
https://dailynous.com/2020/07/30/philosophers-gpt-3/
I went to the about page and was not disappointed. Stompers is a great name for a rooster.
My guess is that nobody becomes a dentist because they love teeth. They do it to have a stable business. Conversely, people become vets because they love animals, and people often become doctors for the prestige or the ability to help people.
I read this somewhere. Quoting from memory, so it may not be exactly accurate. And it should be attributed to someone, but I don't know who:

"The point of advertising is to make the person you are envy the person you could be with their product. In other words, they are attempting to steal your satisfaction and then offering to sell it back to you."
Very difficult to directly attribute low inflation of the 90s to Gov spending. 90s also had a record surge in economic productivity partially brought on by the integration of computers.
They were wonderful computers for graphic software like Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop and QuarkXpress, video editing or music recording.
> So often any of these single causal theories forget to look at timespan. Which was either decades or centuries...

I don't think anyone is (was?) suggesting that someone replaced the pipes overnight and they were all dead the next morning, but rather that it was an extremely gradual process that after centuries of extending its implantation managed to reduce cognitive capabilities by a couple points, etc.

The simple counterargument "lead use didn't increase" manages to kill such a theory, though.
It's more akin to butt dialing.
Yeah, what I find works pretty well with Amazon reviews is to look at the bad reviews and see what they're complaining about.

Often it's garbage (this won't do X--hey, if you had paid attention you would know they never claimed it would do X!) or irrelevant (it's not the fault of the product if it was late, damaged in shipping etc) and sometimes it's just a tread-with-caution (I've seen a lot of that on Amazon--customers burned by combined-inventory or bogus stuff). If it's legitimate gripes you've found something to avoid.
If "self" is really a system of multiple separate but cooperating components, the illusion - or rather, the mental abstraction - could be there for it to operate in a way that is beneficial for its survival as a whole.

Simply put, if you stop believing that you're sentient, you stop existing as a single entity that has a "self". Your existence and your belief aren't cause and effect, though - they're literally the same thing, just expressed in different words.
US Stocks Sell-Off Accelerates
Republicans in the Ohio House vote to put Canada on a federal watch list
Are you saying that capitalism means completely open, zero regulation, zero licensure markets? Because it absolutely does not. It means (among other things) a competitive market with minimal information asymmetries between producer and consumer. Regulation can at time help this, e.g. requiring information disclosure, or preventing monopolistic practices.

Just because a lot of regulations are bad (or enforced poorly) and some licenses are onerous does not mean "regulation === bad" or "licensure === bad."
If it’s just for Java that’s not really a problem. They might be able to run the applet directly with appletviewer, or repackage it for Java Web Start. Otherwise, CheerpJ has a solution for continuing to run the applet in the browser by converting it to WASM.