skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everything should be made to bounded, is there no max that could have been set?

I'd expect that you'd reach the maximum once your card is rejected. :)

But truthfully many platforms out there will let you set up spending alerts, but not outright set limits because then you get into a bunch of difficult questions - should further data just be redirected and piped to /dev/null? Should you as the service provider instead limit IOPS in some way, or allow slower network connectivity if allowed egress amount of data is exceeded? What about managed databases, slow it down or throw it out altogether?

I've talked about those in detail with some of the people here ages ago and there are actually companies that take the "graceful degradation" approach, like Time4VPS who host almost all of my cloud VPSes for now: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 (affiliate link, feel free to remove affid if you'd prefer not to have it)

What happens if I run out of bandwidth?
We reduce your VPS server’s port speed 10 times until the new month starts. No worries, we won’t charge any extra fees or suspend your services.

Honestly, that's a really cool idea for handling resources, though one has to also understand that storage is a bit different and if you've built your entire platform around the concept of scalability and dynamically allotting more resources, you might make the choice of having the occasional story of large bills (some of which you'll probably forgive for good PR), as opposed to more frequent stories about things going down because the people forgot to pay you, as well as many enraged individuals complaining about their data being deleted, though it's supposedly your fault.

So in a way it's also a business choice to be made, though one can feasibly imagine hard spend limits being feasible to implement.

> Not using an expandable storage in test risks deviations from prod (and then you get the prid only bugs that are difficult to keep fixed).

I concede that this is an excellent point, you also should be able to test automatic scaling when necessary etc.

Though the difference is probably in being able to test it but not leave it without (more conservative) limits when you're not looking at it.
A lazy way to solve differential equations
All he has to do is revisit them in the past and change the context and meaning of a few key lines and scenes, and given they occupy space in the minds of hundreds of millions of people, he may be able to repair our present timeline by altering the foundations of their ideas of meaning. Keanu is not our only hope, but he has one of the best shots we have.

I don't know if he's ready, and maybe someone from within the system could offer him a choice, but one from which there is no going back, and he cannot even hesitate or slow down once he has made it, but if he succeeds at being completely committed to the moment, he will self-actualize as an existential hero, become free, and in turn, free us all.

Julia Roberts' role in Oceans 13 may have unleashed something when she broke the fourth wall, like opening a box that cannot be closed, and the world will not be the same. If Keanu can find Bill Murray, I think he will have some answers. Of course, nobody actually finds Bill Murray, Bill Murray finds you.

Bill, if you are out there, the world needs you more than ever.
> If you ... look at questions surrounding the core principles of Rust—e.g. ... ‘why does Rust’s async implementation require boxing so often?’—you’ll soon find that a lot of these restrictions are a natural consequences of the design of the language

I do find that satisfying, that "There is a reason for these restrictions" feeling.

But, I can't remember the last time I boxed an async future. Maybe because I almost never use recursion.

I'd like to see some of the author's code to see where boxing is used.
So you're just locked into a slowly decaying town by social norms and guilt? Sounds like the well intentioned by arguably antagonistic group of adults in a coming of age young adult movie. The decline of rural towns has been a long term thing.
What are you trying to prove? that Apple is the exception, that Apple really cares about you?

Apple is not a person, it is a large corporation without any of it's original founders, it has no principles, it's a machine that operates on one metric: it's bottom line. All of it's behaviour is merely a result of profit seeking, public perception and legal limitation. Apple will play the "privacy" marketing tool for as long as it helps their bottom line, but not when it doesn't. Which is demonstrably true by their behaviour in China - they do not care. They also take billions of dollars from Google each year due to their control over the iOS browser... so they are quite happy to support privacy invasion.
He says repeatedly "You don't need math", and stuff like that.

This is not insulting. That man is my hero, and I deeply respect him.

But his 2019/20 course was riddled with such statements. He repeatedly said that one doesn't need math, and showed tools like drawing math symbols on a website to learn their names and ride on that. No further math needed.

It's like you can wing it in Deep Learning without learning Math. His behavior throughout the course reinforced this attitude. It is harmful for new learners.

But I am fortunate that I didn't learn from that, but learned from some successful alumni example that Howard gave. One woman who was also a musician ('19/'20), she made it big, but Howard mentioned that she did the Ng course, and also read the Goodfellow book.

So, I took the cue, and did DL the proper way. Anybody I know in DL made it because they know the Math.

There are some influencer types in fastai community who has 10ks of followers and shills stuff and do media stuff. Other than that 1-2 people, everyone who made it in DL, did it because they knew the math.

So, I think that people might get the wrong idea hearing from Howard that "you don't need math".

This is one fault I find. It's not like I dislike him. I like the rest of him. I love his attitude on almost all other things. I love Jeremy Howard, and he is my hero.
> Can we somehow effectively, assuredly, in a way that citizens can trust, limit the surveillance activities to legitimate national security and lifesaving actions?

How about, giving the public access to the data as well? You want to see my messages and pictures? OK, then I want to see the politicians' and the police ones too.
But also the general development of the world
Skills required for a CTO – be transformational
Did anyone ever have any faith in algorithmic decision making?

"Wow, I wish that bureaucracy was controlled by computer programs rather than people. That would fix everything "
The basic form of the rational actor model assumes nothing more than that the prediction errors an actor makes should be assumed to be unsystematic [unless proven otherwise] for the purpose of modelling. (And by extension, that some empirically observed group-level systematic deviations from theoretically optimal behaviour might be better explained by constraints on ability to act than on inability to anticipate)

Which is a pretty good null hypothesis, actually.

That's entirely consistent with people frequently optimising for ease of decision making, it's just not consistent with slavish adherence to a particular specified decision making function an economist has designed policy around exploiting. The canonical example in macroeconomics being that if a government announced its intention to increase inflation, it would be unreasonable to assume that people weren't rational enough to consider asking for a pay rise.

Epicycles were abandoned because we had a more parsimonious default model, not because we wanted to have a more complex idea of reality and handwaved about maybe being more multidisciplinary.
Get a couple water fountains. There may be something very specific about the bath water/faucet to them that you will want to try to match. Maybe the sheer volume of flow is interesting, which would be hard to match with a fountain. Some fountains also don't "drop down" the water in the way a faucet does, so may need to look around. If your child likes to play with the valves and influence the flow, that can be tricky too.

My cat (before he passed) loved running water, he wanted me to have the sink running 24/7 or he would yell at me. Fountains helped there.
I came up with a clever one recently. So, I had a stream of records of fixed size where I will receive exactly one per second. I needed to keep approximately two weeks of this data. I would also need to be able to query the records by time. Anyway, the idea is: use modulus on the file creation time to calculate a write position. Use the location of the current write position to locate query starts and stops. The file then has zero space overhead. Is this something known or did I actually invent something here? If this is my invention I'm open to hearing suggestions for a cool name!
President Biden tests positive for Covid-19, has mild symptoms
Twitter data breach exposes emails and phone numbers on sale for $30K
How would you even ban encrypted communication in practice? It takes only one expert cryptographer who is willing to build a communication platform that encrypts its traffic and hides it as part of legitimate traffic to counter any such law.

Yes, initially you might be able to catch a few bad guys who don't switch to the new service quick enough, but soon enough, all that is left is the ability for police & co. to read private messages of a population that is mostly innocent.
I really love your idea, but... Here's my use case. Tried PT a few times and just couldn't. Here's why: 1) most of my computers are slow and while browser/js-based programs are a blessing for some, for me it's a nightmare, 2) most of the time my internet is slow and limited (paid traffic). So, while I can somehow download youtube vids at low resolutions, there's no way I could upload stream simultaneously. :( Anyway, good luck.
This post highlights why laziness can sometimes be a good thing. We talk a lot about space leaks and strange performance characteristics, but this post would not have been possible without infinite streams. Pretty cool stuff.
Pavel Kroupa: Dark Matter Does Not Exist
htmx supports a few different ways to take complete page responses and wire them in to an existing page:

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-select/

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-select-oob/

https://htmx.org/extensions/morphdom-swap/
> Why should we stop inventing and discovering things? Just because you want immediate gratification?

Doesn't have to be immediate, but there has to be gratification in very practical terms. Taxpayers deserve it. LIGO and James Webb telescope won't yield anything for them. Same goes for the ISS. The ITER fusion project is a different animal, it has low odds but huge upside in very practical terms. Same for the money spent on nuclear fission in the 20th century.

> And I will do so, by applying for grants, and taking YOUR MONEY to do it.

Thank god for the existence of the Cayman Islands and BVI and Bermuda and UAE I guess.

> We can solve more than one problem at once. We are not one person.

Sure but there is a reason why BioNtech, Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca can knock at capital markets door 24/7/365 and publicly, while theoretical physicists only have POTUS, or EU Commission President door. People who have arrived at the pinnacle of the human experience, don't have to worry about anything so they can afford to sign off expensive projects (with money which is not theirs to begin with) and done solely for intellectual curiosity which don't yield any benefit.

> Do you think that physicists are misanthropic

No, but the lack of awareness and not collectively stopping to ask questions about ROI and quality of life returns for projects is a bit off. It's one of the only fields where stuff gets routinely written off as a loss (of time and money), and we are at a stage where the rare wins only produce brain juices and prizes for the ones who solve the murder mystery do jour...
The DoJ isn't prosecuting them for `Insider Trading`. It's prosecuting them for Wire Fraud against Coinbase. Wire Fraud doesn't require there be a security involved at all.
"While a particular dry season isn't indicative of climate"

You could have stopped there.

The highlight of the article is that droughts happened around the state even thousands of years ago.
Not super obscure, but also not well known... LinkedHashMap. You get the O(1) lookups and ordered iteration.
This implementation and associated paper improve the cache locality to make the algorithm more competitive https://github.com/dmalhotra/pvfmm

They compare solving toy problems with different methods here https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.6497.pdf

But as you mention, this is just fiddling with constants, and it still may be too costly for your problem
Sweden had the exact same prioritization in the health care system, with a very similar patient backlog from non-covid cases. The work-at-home mandate was similar to other nations, with a similar reduction in seasonal respiratory illnesses.

Sweden had different approaches mostly in terms of no mask mandates, they did not close down schools, and early in the pandemic there were not as strong border lockdowns (not that it mattered much when all the neighboring countries locked their borders). In term of traffic congestion there seems to have been similar reductions during covid as in other countries, through by default Swedish roads are not as congested more populated countries.
It says a lot that Ontario was my first guess when you started listing your complaints.

Not Amtrak, not some third-world country with a corrupt government... Ontario.
> An oil major probably makes $20MM in profit every few minutes or at most in an hour.

ExxonMobil made $23 billion in profit in 2021; that works out to just over three days and three hours to get to $20 million.

Shell made $20.6 billion in profit in 2021; it would take them even longer.

The other majors made even less.

A project which wastes over three days of profits is hugely expensive.
Very true, and important to note that ‘rubber hose cryptography’ doesn’t have to mean violence—it can take the form of ‘open your phone and let us dump your data or you don’t get to enter/leave the country’.
AWS DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, Managed NoSQL Database (2022)
Also worth noting that incidences of other infectious disease also went down, which has to be included in the math here.
How is that any different from a list?
Yea, I have to agree, I look at GN videos that pop up in my timeline and have to decide if I am in the mood for that kind of negativity. It's like trying to decide if you're going to put the evening news on and face all the pain and suffering that's going on in the world.
One example is connected component analyis on images. In one linear scan of an image (2d or 3d) you can find all connected blobs in an image.
> Also ML can predict that, BTW. Facebook knows you are connected to your parents. If the pillow seller tells Facebook that your parents bought the pillow, then Facebook knows and may choose to show you an ad for that pillow.

I think you're letting your imagination run away, and I think you're trying to exceed the limits of the kind of information that you can collect and act upon.

What you're trying to do is mind reading, and computers physically cannot do that. (Nor can people)
You think this is uncommon?

Gitlab had the same issue just a few months ago.
Pay a co2 dividend, market it as taking away free co2 pollution rights from the rich and corporations and giving them back to the people.
Next smart lock could ditch the battery by harvesting energy from the phone
You're being downvoted and I agree that this is kind of overblown, but there is something here. This particular issue had nothing to do with readability specifically, but it had to do with the fact that the unpronounceable symbols ^ and $ had a specific meaning that was not what the devs expected. If we were using a more verbose pattern-matching DSL, we would probably have operators with names like "line_end" and "string_end", which don't require you to carefully cross-check the documentation in order to understand.

Personally I love regex, but only because I'm good at it and I generally have a good memory for obscure trivia.
It sounds like AWS gives almost a 10x credit for the quick cases and a 6x credit for the not quick cases.

Business interruption insurance should be covering the actual downtime cost.
Properly funding police and having a functioning court and probation service?

Social services having the resources to actually to their jobs?
Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine block Google search engine
The problem isn't markets. The problem is growth dependence.
I’m not sure the age of your child but have you tried one of those toy sinks that continuously pump water? There’s plenty on Amazon under $30.

My neurotypical 2yo would play with it for hours at a time.
Everything can be measured, you just need to try harder to measure it. And make more spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are awesome. The problem is never "too many spreadsheets" the problem is always "not enough spreadsheets" and "spreadsheets not good enough".
I was indeed treating as synonymous. There was no requirement to provide statements or any evidence of compliance with the policy. I assume it was assumed that the remedies available for breach of contract would be sufficient.
As said a million times before, you can't. These laws are written and enacted by people who don't understand this stuff.
The other option here is to do a "WIP" (work in progress) commit. Which you can undo (moving the files back into the staging area) with `git reset HEAD^` once you switch back to the branch. Annoying that this is necessary - it would be great if git stash was as robust - but this won't lose your work.
Elfeed Tube - Youtube on your terms
Good point, the statement was too absolute. Perhaps I should instead say that for a lot of use cases C solved enough of the problems that assembly previously solved.
Oh no, I know PWAs are not really all that capable. But there are an astounding number of apps which are apps only because they need push notifications. All of these could become PWAs.
The irony is that this circles back to the early days of Java Application Servers and the idea that all that that the EAR depends on (besides configuration resources) should live on the data layers, configured via JNDI.

Indeed Jurassic Cloud.
In the same spirit there is also Circllhist from Circonus. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06561

There was a good discussion on approaches to store histogram here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31379383
Yeah, working out which stash contains your work can be quite tricky though! As they are not named by default.
Loading assets in a simple, naive way is indeed solved. If you want "next-gen graphics", you need to push against the limit of your system, much as always. That is always tricky, new techniques are being developed every day, game studios have departments dedicated to finding new and better ways to stream data to-and-fro as needed.
Andy Grove talks about this in his excellent book “High Output Management”…

Having a KPI show that you doubled your manufacturing throughout is only one side of the story. You may have also doubled your product failure rate, but aren’t measuring the latter.
Why are fewer people using it now than EOY 2017? [1]

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_transactions_per_day
Researchers Identify Resilient Trait of Deepfakes, Could Aid Long-Term Detection
I believe this is why the author referred to it as "executive wisdom". As in, executives often believe or were taught this mentality as wisdom. The way its used, it reads as a bit of a euphemism.
A breach of contract liability. Once they had the money they will have to show something in court to justify keeping it -- if you were to dispute that requested work was not completed.
CxO / CXO is just a way to say C-Level Officer and has been that way for at least a decade or two.
I speak with my significant other about any large purchases -- > $50, really, except for food/gas.

Huge purchases, I agonize over and research for months anyway.

Food, drink, snacks, etc -- I just try to limit eating out to 2-3 nights a week, and I don't go any place especially fancy.

It helps that most of my hobbies involve some up-front one-time investment, like a bike, but I can take on most of the maintenance tasks myself and basically never spend a penny unless I catch upgraditis.
This essay speaks to my soul! And none of this will ever be measurable by a MBA in a spreadsheet. :(
Fair, but my read of GPs post wasn't limited to a Corona vaccines but also flu vaccines.
These tools are training aids and you can still squat without them.
If you don't have them you just don't use them. You don't have to squat large percentages every session.
See the reply to that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191173

>At some point, the little pieces need to be assembled, reviewed and finally rendered. Why wouldn't you do that with the DCC application rather than with specialized, limited tools?
The Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin
My standpoint is that banning encryption or adding backdoors to it is not a feasible way of attacking this problem. Encryption methods don't stop to exist just because the government declares them illegal. Programs to encrypt messages will stay around and will continue to be used. Even if police set out to find anyone using encryption by spying on their traffic, the traffic could just be hidden as part of legitimate traffic.

But perhaps I'm underestimating the stupidity of criminals - perhaps they'd just stick to unencrypted communication. However, if the usage of Tor for illicit activities is any hint, I'd say that is unlikely.
What are you going to do? Abolish structural privileges we granted to land owners?
“The goal of a salary negotiation”

You’ve failed at the first hurdle then. This is to remove all negotiation and give candidates some advance assurance of their remuneration.
It really depends on what you mean by "enough". If the native audio stack does the real heavy lifting, and the plugins are compiled to WASM, it'd probably be more than enough for most use cases. People were mixing digitally decades ago on much much slower machines than yours.
I only do squats with a safety squat bar and elevated heels. The SSB helps prevent injuries and the elevated heels allows me to sink very low into the squat. Because of the reduced risk of injury, I could squat confidently far more often with more weight and see much better gains in strength and size. After a certain age, learning to do exercises while minimizing risk of injuries becomes a much higher priority if you plan to continue working out for a long time. Seen too many people mess up their backs with barbell squats.
CDAWGs. Compressed Directed Acyclic Word Graphs.

They are like tries but share prefixes and suffixes of a word corpus, can be built in linear time, and since they are graphs, one can define an inner product between two CDAWGs and use them for kernel-based machine learning algorithms.

https://hal-upec-upem.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00620006/docu...
Observations:

- among many thoughtful comments, a search for "fun" yields mostly comments about functions and expressivity; I think this is a key aspect that isn't as apparent to many experienced people here. The fond recollections of ZX80/81's captures some of that idea, though.

- Scratch is blessedly non-commercial and immensely approachable. It's educational mission is not top-down, but bottom-up.

- The mix of 3GL expressivity with enough constraint to get a person started is great. Kind of reminds me of the generativity I see in kids playing Minecraft.

- The pure old-schoolness of it all keeps you from being mugged in a dark semantic alley by a gang of monad-botherers.