skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I bet many good authors started by writing a few dozen formulaic stories first

I don't think this is true based on authors I know. The ones I know that started with dozen formulaic stories wrote formulaic stories whole their lives. They might have been good formulaic stories, but still.

The ones who did not wrote formulaic, were going outside formulaic from the beginning.

> Humans learn through mimicry, and I don't think storytelling is any different.

Mimicry of formulaic story is exactly same formulaic story. Yes, you will learn how to wrote that one formula if you go this way.

> The best way to learn is through mistakes, but you can choose to learn from others' mistakes, so you don't need to make them yourself.

That does not imply you should write few dozen formulaic stories before attempting to create something else. You can study other writers without writing formulaic stories.
Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland
Most iCloud data is end-to-end encrypted; Apple doesn't have direct access to your data. In the end they do own the OS and could potentially backdoor your device, but if you're worried about that... well, Lockdown Mode is moot at that point.

Worth noting Apple previously refused an FBI order to do just that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
> They resolved the issue

I don't see anything in OP about there being a trash issue or about any trash issue being successfully resolved by this heavyhanded regulation.
Low resource in this context means that there are few resources available to train a neural network with, not that there are few speakers. Although many low resource languages have relatively few speakers, there are also ones with tens of millions of speakers.

The reason for emphasis is in my opinion twofold: 1) Allowing these people to use the fancy language technology in their own language is good in and of itself. 2) Training neural networks on fewer resources is more difficult than using more resources and therefore a fun and interesting challenge.
Twitter may not be representative imho because of the short text. It should first come to a problem of reliable language detection, and Twitter is quite often wrong there
>>"...a "giving up" on complete security against nation-states...

DEFINE:

State Actors: [0]

As one who is acting on "behalf" of a government.........

What if said government was actually an arm of the corporate entities as the state ACTING at their behest?

Crazy, I know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_actor
If they have excess inventory that they are losing money storing, why not dramatically lower the prices? I'm afraid I know the answer to this...
Your comment reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQTg4Y0YT0
It's still fun and weird, but it's in the dark corners of Twitter where you find these communities, Milady.
> I have a hard time believing that anyone would enable this Lockdown Mode _prior_ to being owned though

I can imagine many use cases where they would e.g.

journalist enabling this before working on an article that was critical of a foreign government. Or any government contractor, NGO, embassy worker etc.
Exactly. I was on a meeting a couple of years ago and the co-worker who was presenting his desktop received a personal iMessage that flashed for everyone to see.
I see. So "the people" which is taken as an individual right when mentioned in the first and fourth amendment, magically becomes the militia and not the people in the second amendment (even though they could have said right of the militia instead and did not.)

Then a militia can't be specified by US code, because that wasn't there during ratification of the bill of rights. No they were talking only of the modern National Guard which did not come until 1903, which they envisioned as the militia while magically excluding militia in the US Code. Nevermind that the militias in the late 1700s were often closely related to the body noted in the US Code, which was basically every able bodied youngish man (and possibly also some others.)

>This was the belief enshrined in the Supreme Court until 2008

"Enshrined" is not a good word for it. For instance, as far back as the shameful period of slavery in the US, the supreme court in Dred Scott made the shameful but telling statement that argued blacks can't be considered citizens in part because that would give these black individuals the right of citizens such as the ability to keep and carry arms.
Smart Contracts with Private Keys
Un-paywalled: https://archive.ph/ZssM6
I am a blind user using an extension to my screen reader which (under the covers) uses the Windows 10 built-in OCR. Your sample document gives me:

INTRODUCTION
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is committed to leading the response to
cybersecurity incidents and vulnerabilities to safeguard the nation's critical assets. Section 6 of
Executive Order 14028 directed DHS, via CISA, to "develop a standard set of operational procedures
(playbook) to be used in planning and conducting cybersecurity vulnerability and incident response
activity respecting Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) Information Systems." I
Overview
This document presents two playbooks: one for incident response and one for vulnerability response.
These playbooks provide FCEB agencies with a standard set of procedures to identify, coordinate,
remediate, recover, and track successful mitigations from incidents and vulnerabilities affecting FCEB
systems, data, and networks. In addition, future iterations of these playbooks may be useful for
organizations outside of the FCEB to standardize incident response practices. Working together across
all federal government organizations has proven to be an effective model for addressing vulnerabilities
and incidents. Building on lessons learned from previous incidents and incorporating industry best
practices, CISA intends for these playbooks to evolve the federal government's practices for
cybersecurity response through standardizing shared practices that bring together the best people and
processes to drive coordinated actions.

Pretty sure this doesn't actually work.
> This is such a cop out.

It's not. Most people in America, especially young voters in city centers, are incredibly inept regarding guns, gun laws, and gun culture. If you can't see the propaganda campaign, I don't know what to tell you.
> use Trainline instead

Yeah this was already the wisdom in the days of voyage-sncf.com. Some things never change.
For me it removed that icy feeling.
Is there ever a good reason to change from monolith to microservices unless you have already solved the factoring problem in the monolith? The factoring problem doesn't get easier because you add network calls into the mix, but being well factored first makes adding the network calls a lot easier. If you're lucky your framework or platform already has that part figured out.

Maybe one exception is if you absolutely must change the programming language at the same time, but even then I would suggest doing the rewrite as a monolith first for the same reason, so you again don't have to deal with network calls at the same time as solving an already insanely hard problem.

There's the argument that microservices lets you gradually replace the old monolith piece by piece, but there's nothing special about microservices for that, you can do that with two monoliths and a reverse proxy.

And at the end of either you might find that you didn't need microservices in the first place, you just needed to factor the application better.
This is a common response to critiques of capitalism: "well, why don't you tweak some of the parameters of capitalism so it results in the system you want instead" forgetting that maybe capitalism is incapable of producing something better according to the critics, and they are convinced we need to get rid of it entirely!
Was really surprised I had to scroll down so far to see Carcassone mentioned.

Some of the things I love about it include pretty much guaranteed gameplay time: amenable to beginners and experts; easy to explain; multiple strategies available; good blend of luck and strategy; interesting expansions; and more that will likely think of later.

Mom was in her 80s when I introduced her to Carcassone and she got good quick.

Leaving it with my ex was one of my few regrets about the divorce. :-)
At this point, we are talking about spacebar heating (https://xkcd.com/1172/)
They also still haven’t fixed the file picker.
Because, despite the fact that Wayland originally underestimated the size of the problem, it is in theory a better technical solution to our modern graphics problems than X11. It is designed in a more secure way (there is more isolation between the apps, which is both a blessing and a curse), every frame is indeed perfect, and it provides a sane solution to the 'compositing' problem.

It's just a shame it was made into something that is even more fragmented than X11 due to it being even less than what X11 tries to be. So much got undefined by the protocol and left as something to be solved by the Compositor, and we don't have an universal compositor.

And it's not like companies are throwing money at X11 either: progress is not happening there.
Senior FE is high demand, low supply position. In a similar boat for hiring, but I think it helps when you are able to present your company as one that values FE (a good website for starters).
I never really understood what incentive a government had to recognize bitcoin as legal tender. There are no real benefits over something like UPI in terms of user UX. It takes things out of the government's hands, as it's harder to print money.
Google's product forums are just users supporting other users. "Community moderators" and "product experts" are just users who have farmed enough upvotes to get a badge. Not sure what else is in it for them, but Internet points are hard to come by these days...
GTA 5 would never drop support for DirectX 11.
Are high-tech toothbrushes better than the dentist office freebies?
GNOME doesn't care if wayland is at feature parity. They can require it for GNOME by fiat. They also don't need to care about supporting multiple compositors; they can require all GNOME users to use theirs.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-shopify-com...
USA cloud services are not GDPR compliant:

https://nextcloud.com/blog/the-new-transatlantic-data-privac...
My _opinion_ is that whatever really replaces / evolves existing commonly used communications protocols already has an uphill battle. Further, as Gchat / XMPP based chats showed (opinion observations): federation without a sufficiently rich baseline to ensure a basic user experience leads to fragmentation, silo-ing, and eventual death.

It has to fulfill the need of a common space for public discourse.

The specification must be open and free for all to use. There should be no artificial restrictions on who is able to develop tools including servers, clients, intermediary or subsystems, or provide a service to host any of them. Federation also introduces a higher risk of spam and bad actors; it's part of the price of freedom so the protocol should have an intended use pattern that addresses that type of issue; ideally without forcing the association of a 'real identity' to all use of the system. That won't solve all of the problems, and it adds a bunch of other problems. However a system of the commons may see users such as government organizations or heavily regulated industries where endpoints agree to use such an identity in some way.
I've been tinkering with the idea of switching to FE, preferably, full stack second.
> If you go on IRC now every channel is idle, no chat, just joins quits and parts, boring, dead.

Not my experience at all. The channels I'm in have had a fairly stable number of users for at least the last decade. These are channels with hundreds or even thousands of users. There is lots of discussion in these channels every day. Sometimes so much I can't keep up with it if I'm there participating. I'm in mostly tech related channels, though.
No, evacuating costs a few minutes and has negligible cost. Verifying some essentially random object is not a bomb takes time as well. The cost/benefit ratio is very clearly - evacuate while you identify the random object.

And yeah police aren't the necessarily the brightest, but I'd love to know how I look at a device and google that "device that looks like two rolls of tape joined by metal and electronics" gave me many many results, none of which were any kind of belt tensioner.
What is perfectly fine if them you can talk to the engineers better than the customers can.
At the application level for Lora, meshtastic looks nice, especially coupled with an android phone and ATAK. I haven't bought hardware for it yet. I assume the approach in the OP would need drivers.
https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/community/community-ata...
Jeff Wang here with my fellow Meta AI colleague Angela Fan from No Languages left Behind, seeing the comments flowing through. If you want to ask us anything, go for it!
They believe that the current nogil approach can allow the vast majority of c-extension packages to adapt with a re-compile, or at worst relatively minor code changes (they thought it would be ~15 lines for numpy for example).

Since c-extension wheels are basically built for single python versions anyways, this is potentially manageable.
While I agree more or less, we are talking about people who have a totally different system of values who are historically put upon so I’m not quick to judge them. Scientists who have approached tribes differently have had better luck.

Sometimes pluralism means accepting that other people have values you don’t think are good and valid.
While true, I think the point is more about how minuscule 21 MW is when considered in isolation — 0.001 percent of global electricity usage.
OK, this has to be intentional at this point. Bye, HAND.
Should compare with DasBetterC too!

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
There has been work done is creating GM S. mutans that don't produce biofilms, and that would replace your native S. mutans. It could be done by just brushing your teeth with a toothbrush treated with the bacteria so it would cost pennies per treatment.
I'm sure Wayland works in general, but every 6 months I try Wayland/KDE and I have yet to successfully start up the desktop.
EU deciding for me that I can't smoke cherry flavored cigarettes is in the best case socialism and in the worst case dictatorship. All in the name of protecting teenagers from the dangers of smoking if I'm not mistaking, similar to this GDPR crap for websites.

Also how about bank accounts for everyone including the poor? Is this socialist enough for you?
That just makes you sound like a stirrer.
according to this article, 22% of el salvadorians knew about this app and didn't download it. Considering the following incentives:

1) free conversion from btc to usd
2) large discounts for purchases of gasoline using btc
3) no bank account or a credit card needed

This blows my mind. The reasons stated were:

'Among the one in five Salvadorans who knew about Chivo but did not download it, the top reason was a preference for using cash. Others said they did not trust the system or bitcoin, they did not own a phone with internet, or the technology was complicated.'

I was just in El Cuco, a small town in southern El Salvador. This town has no bank and no ATM but they do have one of these Bitcoin ATMs. I asked the hotel owner about it and ZERO PEOPLE HAD USED IT. We are talking about free money here. My gut is telling me it's mostly older folks who think it's too complicated to figure out.

When freshly made tortillas are less than 5 us cents, and the cost of gas is near $5/a gallon, I would have assumed everyone would run for the free $30 in btc. Color me impressed.
I qualify as a senior FE engineer but the last time I was looking finding open positions for that exact title was difficult. I don't really mind full stack (I guess it would depend on the backend) so I normally take those jobs as I'm more flexible to the company that hires me. Also I prefer smaller companies <100 overall and <10 developer so finding overlap with a small company that also wants someone only focused on the frontend is hard. But, like I said, I don't mind full stack so it's worked out well for me and I get a good amount of frontend work (a lot of it greenfield).

Also if you aren't posting a salary you might be losing people who gloss over the posting since FE isn't always respected/paid well. I think that factors into my gravitating to full stack work, I absolutely love FE work but finding a company that will let me do that and pays well AND is small has been... challenging.

It's hard to give more advice without seeing something like a job posting. I will say, don't limit yourself by framework (but DO say what you use, if it's not greenfield). I prefer Vue but I've built sites/apps in Angular and I have no doubt I could pick up React if I needed to. A "real" senior FE developer isn't going to balk at any of the big 3 frameworks (or minor ones but be ready to explain why you picked something other than Angular/React/Vue).
Trying to figure out the most expedient way to set it up and test it. Anyone have any ideas?
It's more cost effective to have one person do it all.

... until that person can't do it all and you have to replace them or can't grow more.
I don’t think they’re that bad, but I think the bar has (fortunately) become higher.
I tried to return a $4 allen key and they told me to just keep it. Couldn't have weighed more than 100 grams.
You.com has a similar code search specific product. What do you plan to offer that they don't?
And yet we got TOR because it was required for National Security.
Blame this on the low bar to entry. HTML, CSS & JS are relatively easy to learn. So you have everyone applying for these jobs and we’ve reached peak front end candidates.

The real trick is to find those who use that tech in new and interesting ways. Those who push the envelope.
Is there any intuitive explanation for why the mean minimizes the squared error? I know it IS true - this property is used for linear regressions etc - but I couldn’t actually explain it.

It seems like whatever minimizes a squared error should itself have some squares in it.
This comment right here is an example of thinking like a good designer. No amount of sleek surfaces and cool lighting can beat this.
The fact that you're talking about "management" as some separate evil entity and not you coworkers who just want to help you and live their lives happily ever after, in the same way as you do, tells me a lot.
I AM THE HOST COMMUNITY.

Born in Montreal, fully bilingual, lived here for majority of my life - came back 8 or so years ago to a peaceful situation that was broken apart because nationalist extremists freaked out when greeted with "Bonjour, Hi!".

Now I have a government openly saying other cultures don't matter:

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-thwarted-by-multicultural...
My questions are:

* why Bitcoin, versus a cryptocurrency with low latency?

* why not a stablecoin?
But how secure are iDevices peripherals, and RAM? I guess it's a start of a journey, but I don't see this does anything yet.
The Libertarians would argue that the government not being able to print money is the feature and can build trust in the currency
> Here, it looks like you are the product.

I dunno. It looks a lot like somebody is trying to push the OP into a senior role, but he is not ready yet.
Well there must be at least 3 of us, because I'm another one. I've used the US layout ever since you could save something like 28 KBytes from not loading the UK layout, and I used this with UK keyboards for years. (Very useful having a backslash key for every hand.) Then at some point I acquired an actual US keyboard, and I was an immediate convert. I just really liked the fat Return key.

When I bought my first MBP, I wasn't completely wedded to the idea of getting a Mac necessarily - but when I noticed you could order one with a US keyboard, it tipped the balance in favour.

(For any serious work, I use a USB keyboard and mouse, so in a sense it doesn't really matter. But I use the built-in keyboard often enough that I'd be annoyed being stuck with that tiny Return key...)

(This reminded me: if you go to get a battery replacement, make sure the staff member notes that it's got a US keyboard. I took mine to a UK Apple store for a battery replacement a couple of years ago, and when I went to pick it up a few days later, it had had its keyboard replaced with a UK one! The staff member was very apologetic - perhaps they correctly read my expression of speechless shock after opening it - and it got fixed, but it took a couple more days. So in the end I was without my laptop for over a week.)
It's part of the reason that Privacy Shield collapsed and why the US isn't considered to offer adequate protection to EU residents. It's currently being both litigated (as more and more EU country data protection agencies make individual rulings that specific instances of transfers of personal data to US companies are unlawful) and the subject of intense political negotiation between the EU and US.

Most companies affected are currently awaiting the results of these processes, because following the current precedent to it's logical conclusion, it appears unlawful to transfer any personal data of an EU resident to a US-based company (even if that data remains physically in the EU or another adequate country). That would obviously have catastrophic consequences for the current status quo, so it's hard to believe that a compromise won't be found to avoid it.

However, it's also hard to see a compromise unless the United States exempts EU data subjects from the CLOUD Act, which seem unlikely. Hard to know where it'll go.
I wonder if ikea furniture also has value for parts. Often times a single piece of the furniture will break, but if the item or color is discontinued you can’t replace it.
Apple also started alerting people being targeted by state actors last year [1].

[1]: “About Apple threat notifications and protecting against state-sponsored attacks” https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212960
> I'm puzzled with what the market for these kinds of languages are.

There's a significant number of C programmers who want something slightly more modern and convenient but don't want to write C++ due to a number of reasons.

I think Zig, D are examples of this niche but syntax wise they don't completely look like C.
Are all the 200x200 translations going directly or is English (or another language) used as an intermediate for some of them?
Presumably he could write his own code- and data-munging tools in Smalltalk and invoke them straight from the running image -- kinda like what you can do with Emacs Lisp.
> who wants to believe in a benevolent God

What would be a benevolent God, in the context of our history and present? (wars, torture, floods, famine, ...)

(I am myself an atheist, curious of what drives people to believe in a deity)
> and some where you can just drag some image/file and will upload it to some file/image host and then just send the url in the chat.

The Lounge can do that also.

https://thelounge.chat/docs/configuration#fileupload
No, a balanced keto diet might be moderately better than a normal diet in terms of plaque, but even wild cats living on a nearly 100% meat diet still get dental plaque.
I remember getting an offer for a bouncer for $1 for life. I presume the company shut down and my bouncer doesn't exist anymore, but at the time I was like "WHAT A FUCKING DEAL".

(Yeah people would usually buy a bouncer, or perhaps several ones)
I wish this was enforced in meeting systems across corporations unless all participants elect not to have one (appreciate certain sensitive or perhaps social meetings might not need this)