skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. India also has a government that is borderline fascist, promotes ethnic and religious hatred, and doesn't seem to believe in internet freedom (they keep shutting it down). And it's not the lack of skilled programmers that makes Western governments wary of cooperating with China and Russia. China and Russia have totalitarian governments that are terrified of the internet, and would like it to go away. I wouldn't want to include them in a project to make the internet work better.
What about the hire to fire, and crazy amount of pips they do? How are they going to fix that part of the culture? These two are the biggest reason why I turn down amazon recruiters.
AI's critics merely muddy the waters
I'm not convinced that the changes to Twitch's Partner programs have anything to do with this gambling ban. I think the two events just happened to coincide.

The real question is "why did it take Twitch so long to ban non-US gambling?" Like you mentioned, the controversy from these gambling streams is not new. Did Twitch decide that the controversy finally outweighed the revenue they generate from these streams? Did Twitch fear that they faced potential liability for hosting these streams? Or did someone at Twitch leadership suddenly develop a conscience?
There were many steps in the right direction in the past years:

- Semantic versioning

- The concept of LTS (long term support) versions (e.g. node.js)

- Github simplifies forking, submitting patches, or sending issues.

- Tests + CI announce when changes break things.

Semver is sometimes unreliable, and LTSs are sometimes too short-lived for certain projects... but it's not for lack of motivation from the authors. It's an ongoing process and I expect things to improve. The development of a culture and practices makes it easier for everyone to do the right thing with less effort.
Tech stack versus what a company's looking for in an interviewee.

For instance:

- On our frontend we use: React, TypeScript, NextJS, and React Native

- Feel free to apply if you have experience with: Angular, Vue, or other frontend frameworks
Spotify works perfectly on my iPhone -- what you do is hit the icon to open the app, then hit the play button. Pretty slick integration, if you ask me.
New Zealand tries to banish jargon.  If only it were that simple
The type of gambling Slicker was engaged in was regulated sports betting. So, the ban on unregulated gambling doesn't even cover the Slicker situation.

Twitch has several large contracts with sports gambling on their site as wll.

Makes you really wonder about the true motivations of the selectivity of the ban.
3p packages...Python...
> Watching someone spin 1k slots knowing they are making millions from advertising is very different from watching someone spin 5 dollar slots of their own money

It's not just where the money is coming from but whether the odds are different from regular players. The gambling sites who sponsor this can very well adjust the odds per user so that the streamer gets consistent wins where as real players get the real odds which favor the house.

I've seen such gambling "ads" on YouTube, obviously they're not presented as ads nor even as gambling, rather they're presented as a way of making money, a loophole in the game, all the way to saying that there used to be an old version of this game but they closed it down due to many people winning, but this new game also has a loophole (how convenient!). In the "ad", they were consistently winning, in such a way where there's basically no way to lose even if you tried it on purpose. I very much doubt the video was falsified, rather the gambling platform was able to change the odds per-use so that their affiliates can get consistent wins so they can promote the platforms without requiring video trickery.
And like I said at the time, that would excuse failure on some edge case. It wouldn't excuse the thing I was actually criticizing, that "the calls for common functions require you to specify low-level implementation details that don't matter to you". That's the kind of thing the typical software dev gets right when designing the function, because abstraction was very well understood in 2016.

It's not something they would only figure out after fixing the thousandth bug.
This one too, without signing up being required:
https://replicate.com/tommoore515/material_stable_diffusion
Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russian men aged 18 to 65:

https://www.airlive.net/breaking-russian-airlines-ordered-to...

The query "how to break an arm" has become a new trend in Russian Google.

https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1572504177292767232
How so? If they aren't around, they're not going to be living, laughing, or loving.
Are these still in the context of safety though? Or just your general business trip advice. The latter would make more sense.
The A6000s have become very popular for ML engineering, especially in the NLP space since those models are enormous. 48GB VRAM and 2x faster training time is tempting for those applications!
No. No it doesn't.
Usually you can stick anything that has the correct form into that slot. Even thin cardboard :)
This is true even on later PDP-11 models with memory caches.
Adjacently: I want a day time breath monitor.

To nudge me when I hold my breath. I have chronic pain. I do all the usual pain therapy stuff (breathing, meditating, pacing myself, etc).

However, I unconsciously hold my breath (and tense up) when my pain spikes. Noticing sooner, and nudging me, would be great.

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This Power Breathe looks awesome. Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely learn more about it. I've done some respiratory therapy stuff in the past. So I know this kind of thing can be really beneficial.
RegretsReporter extension – crowdsourced YouTube recommendation filtering
Its only 12m since 2006. If you were born in 1980 like the poor soul linked above you served 24 months.

The article I linked about LPR/DPR showed how it was supposed to look like, vk link shows how reality looks like on the ground - Z painted busses with mercenaries roam the streets and kidnap people. Comments under the that clip are from wife of a brand new soldier. I give it a 1-2 months for same thing to start occurring in ru proper.

The reality is nobody knows what is happening other than putin. His whims are being realized ad hoc with no one sane at the wheel. Everyone is lying about everything. Two days ago russia was being invaded by NATO, Yesterday NATO weapons were all of a sudden formidable, 3 months ago russia was about to nuke Britain with supersonic ballistic missiles, Snake Island was a good will gesture retreat and the crashed ru heli with corpses were totally Ukrainina commando, Kherson was regrouping, and we have no plans for mobilization https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1569646984918614016
Also... the growing movement to sexualize other people's children.
Presumably so that other people, using VPN's, would then visit those same gambling sites.

So the logical fix is not to do anything about the streamers, but to catch the sites offering services to US people via VPN's.
There's some context for this in an Atlantic article on Fischer:

<https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/12/bobby-f...>
Parallel Economy: Censor-Resistant Payment Processing
I said the problem was that the function calls didn't obey well-understood practices for abstraction.[1]

Responses defend it on the grounds that it was a long time ago, i.e. 2016.

Where's the straw man?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109093
How memory design optimizes system performance
While I'm generally sympathetic to the points made in the article, I think one statement it makes is misguided:

"[R]emember and really deeply internalise the fact that you can stop working on any open source project at any time. Open source maintenance is a job and, like a job, when it stops working for you and you have better options, you can go elsewhere. You should not feel bad about this; instead, you should feel good about the fact that every contribution you continue to make or made in the past were good deeds given freely to others. When your life or the project means it no longer feels good to work on it anymore — stop."

Actually, the fact that you can just stop working on any open source project at any time, regardless of how many users it has, means that an open source project is not a job. In an actual job, you cannot just walk away whenever you feel like it, because someone is paying you to do the work, and you have some kind of actual agreement with whoever is paying you that you can't just break if you feel like it. If nobody is paying you for your open source software, it's not a job.

I emphasize that I am not saying that working on your own open source project in your own free time should be a job where you can't just stop when you feel like it. As long as the situation is made clear to your users, then it's on them to deal with it. But that very fact means that you should not be describing it as a job, because it's not. Your relationship with your users is not the same as it would be if the software were your actual job and you were being paid for it.
If something bugged me enough I really wanted to provide feedback, I don't think I have ever not found a way to send it. There is normally some way to do it but definitely can be tricky. GitHub issues, feedback forms, or even just the contact us page on their website. Not guaranteed to get a response, but at least an attempt was made. And it certainly can take a level of dedication and technical knowledge not everyone might have.
Don't ask them, tell them.

Do your research, narrow it down to a small set of models and trim levels, know what the best deals available are, and set your numbers a bit lower. Ring several dealers and say "I'm looking for X.Y.Z at price $NNN, what can you do for me?". Some will not even respond, and do NOT get pulled into the "we can only talk when you are here" - cross those off the list. I found one that would come very close to what I needed, and did the whole deal via email, only actually physically meeting him when I actually went to trade-in and get the new vehicle.

And guess who got the next sale a year later when my wife's lease ran out? And who will get the next one?

On top of that, my experience at that dealer overall has been FAR better than many others. It's worth the long search and semi-log drive to find the right one.
At the moment, the general impression I get from people working at Amazon is "Join for the experience, get it on your CV, move on after a year". This is even across departments and countries. The wife of a very good friend who lives in China is working there since nine months in some kind of operations role, and made up her mind months ago that she wouldn't take it any longer than a year. Here in Berlin, I just recently talked to a dev who left exactly a year after he started. He said it was interesting seeing the whole AWS machinery from the inside, and there was quite a lot to learn in terms of process and management, but shoving around legacy Java was just not worth it.
I really don't think he is facing any kind of true rivalry here. Read up a bit (ie [1] is fantastic since its from 2018 but still 100% valid) on the structures of power and ingrained potential (and limits) of corruption that he gives to those under him. Its not like there is any democracy, other hawks/oligarchs with big ego need to shut up and follow within their constraints or they are murdered or imprisoned, usually pretty visibly, sometimes with whole families.

He did it in very smart way, I leave him that (plenty of KGB experience to learn from). Hitler and other dictators were proper amateurs compared to how Russia is run today. Nobody on their own has enough power to stand against him. He has a separate branch of paramilitary forces (on top of Wagner, GRU and KGB forces) that answer only to him and is there only to protect him.

What it would require is massive conspiracy and cooperation of literally all of his underlings to topple him down, which is unrealistic to ever happen. Lone shooter/poison deliverer from his closest circle may have the best chance, but I presume he has multiple safeguards there too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9KretXqJw
is it censorship if its illegal in the country where your company is based?

do you not follow the laws of the country where your company is located?
I'm in my late 30s and no. I enjoy working with early stage companies and starting my own companies, and being a generalist is essentially necessary in those situations. If you do this as a specialist, you'll end up wearing many hats anyway just out of resource constraints.

Being a generalist also, IMO, makes you a more effective manager for crossfunctional teams, and gives you empathetic understanding on how the sausage gets made across the board, instead of just in a single domain.

But as others have stated, you can be both a skills/technology generalist while also framing yourself as a specialist. As I alluded to with my personal history, I consider and frame myself to be a startup specialist due to my broader base of skills.
For about half of the year I possible could. It's dangerous around my area as it is not really designed for bikes, but it is doable. Near and during winter it is not even remotely possible. The roads are too dangerous and the bike path is covered in multiple feet of snow and ice. The bike path also ends where the town begins and sidewalks are not cleared of snow. The highway also gets a bit of ice and is surrounded by a wall of snow leaving nowhere to evade motorists and people here do not slow down for snow and ice. The people passing through are unaware they need to slow down in snow squalls. I've had to install high powered emergency lights on my vehicle to avoid being rear-ended.

I will eventually sell my old mountain bike and get an e-bike. There are endless mountain trails here to use it on when the snow is gone. I've been holding out for battery tech and the motors to improve and for more e-bike manufacturers to gain good reputation but I think that time is almost near based on the hundreds of e-bike videos I have watched.
With that logic you must be okay with handing over all of your data to anyone since your name is public here?
This was the pushback against CoC's when they first started cropping up, but everyone pushing back was told they just want to abuse people.

There were a lot of well-meaning people on the other side of that discussion, but lets be clear that this is what they WANTED.
Enabling Data for Web3: Announcing Chia DataLayer
growing movement to portray same-sex marriage to ages 4-7 repeatedly
Same here in Belgium: https://edri.org/our-work/new-belgian-data-retention-law-a-e...

After DataRet was stroke down by the Constitutional Court, our Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne pushed for a new data retention that only targets 100% of the surface of the country:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/targeted-data-retention-onl...
So freedom, except for books some people don't like?
Simple: Gambling is illegal by law in many countries outside of very strict regulations. Running a forum like Kiwifarms (sadly) is not.
Really neat project! Any interest in open sourcing the dataset? We'd be happy to host it & would love to feature it under our collection of pest control computer vision datasets[1].

[1] https://universe.roboflow.com/browse/pest-control
YouTube's search has never been as good as Google's for finding videos because Google search knows about the video and also an entire crawled web of links and references.
Maintainers complaining about entitled user behavior implies a business opportunity for an enterprise version of the software.
As much as I detested Bush, this isn't exactly accurate as it relates to the election being stolen. First, the suing parties only wanted to count ballots in the 4 counties they had the biggest advantage in, so it would have only generated more confusion and delays than recounting the entire state. Second, full recounts were later performed and in every recount he ended up with more votes than Gore.

You can't keep counting forever or you end up with nobody as president since Clinton was term-limited, and ultimately the decision turned out to be correct. So the people saying that election was stolen are just as much election deniers as the J6 crowd.
Hannah Arendt on arresting our ‘flight from reality’
> Now granted many people at these places are salaried…

This shouldn’t make a difference because in theory they would be doing 2x more work which is essentially cutting their salary in half. I realize that the dev team being twice as efficient doesn’t necessarily double the unit’s revenue but it’s some multiple.
You have to have more people in poor countries before they can even have a chance to develop into first-world standards of living. We can't declare poverty to be solved after all poor people have died off.
4 hours counts as close, in the grand scheme of things. I live a 20 hour flight away, which is also around $2000 round trip.
Towards a social media ecosystem that prioritizes user control
I agree that this is the problem that we are effectively trying to solve. The problem with the feather analogy is that there's an initial condition problem that is basically unresolvable. Replicating them in such a way that the result of physically dropping the feather is identical between runs of this computer is far beyond intractable, much less representing them in such a way that you can compare the output of a classical computer in this regard.

The NMR results from factoring 15 [1] are incredibly fascinating. Here the quantum computer is just a molecule, and using NMR we can get a precise view of the initial conditions and the time evolution. We're just asking the molecule to molecule itself and measuring the outcome. This unfortunately does not appear to scale, so it's impossible to say if we are demonstrating quantum supremacy, but the experimental design blows my mind.

[1] https://cryptome.org/shor-nature.pdf
This "democracies vs dictatorships" spin is just that, a nice story for the public. But this is not how countries operate and they have no values when it comes to international relations, only interests. You'll also notice that it's only some authoritarian countries that are 'problematic' otherwise are 'good friends'...

China is becoming powerful, so it is a threat to the established, Western, order and especially the supremacy of the US. That's the real issue. If tomorrow China became a democracy it wouldn't be any less of a threat, and in fact it might become a more formidable threat.
Color Meanings – The Power and Symbolism of Colors
That was decades ago.
I hear some babies spend 100% of their lives around same-sex married couples
Yup. They started this transition away from NVLINK in the same generation in which they introduced their tensor cores.

It's part of their ML profit strategy.

There's really nothing you can do outside of soldering on higher capacity RAM chips onto a 4090. There are some 20GB 3080 cards floating around out there.
Lucky ducks. Development at my org largely consists of going around to every different possible "partner" to get buy in to have a meeting, to discuss approval of permissions to do something. I think the new metric used to asses an organization is PPS (Powerpoint Slides) to LOC ratio.
I learned CHIP-8 asm and Gameboy asm before ever touching C
It also makes comparisons to rival products (AMD in this case) more confusing.
NFL is the national football league. They play a game called football even though they seem to be carrying the ball with their hands, most of the time. Seems important in the US…

Maybe you're thinking of NFV?
The key factor here too is - will anyone care. If it’s some random alphanumeric symbols of no significance because no one cares or recognizes the connection to what anyone cares, you’re going to have more impact on humanity literally etching a bunch of random memes here and there.

At least one of them might be a Rosetta Stone for some future Society that way.
There _already_ is and has ben censorship of books in schools for decades upon decades....adult sex novels are not included in the average school library and for good reason, and thats exactly what this is about as well, as you point out.
Shudder in horror....
"Booking.com uses the Perl programming language heavily across its entire technical infrastructure." - https://medium.com/booking-com-development/a-faster-perl-run...
A human (https://www.instagram.com/sagansagansagans/) used AI-powered image generation tools, and the result is awesome.

But let's be clear: there is a huge amount of human artistry in the prompting, coaxing, blending, and editing, in order to make something that works as a video for a song.
I'm also flabbergasted by that. This movement to ban books is just the pendulum swinging in the other direction, because it was moved too far up to the other side.
> If a page requires jumping through hoops to enter, rank it poorly.

Oh, how I wish that search engines would simply give up on encountering a paywall/cookiewall, and refuse to index the page.
Great simple tool for dabbling in the AI generated content! Going to pass it to my writer friend. That's the target demography for you - non geeky content creators.

One bug though: After I wrote my prompt I discovered that there are some 'Advance options', clicked on the button, more advanced options unraveled, but I lost my prompt.
Are you currently hiring? I've just hit 30 as a generalist and the job markets are a mess... Would be happy to connect in case you need a hand with any projects.
People still use antivirus in 2022?? I think it's well-understood that antivirus has somehow managed to be worse than not having it, as antivirus programs themselves often have vulnerabilities that make full system compromise easier.

Note that your antivirus is also performing worse than even the average antivirus, which is already pretty bad. The EICAR test file is only meant to be detected if the file size is less than or equal to 128 bytes long.
Geez, the scale is the last 7 days, so if the graph's projection is correct, these are from the civilians with military training who now have been mobilized.

I do feel sorry for the average Russian, now they're about to be fucked because of one nutjob's Covid-isolation insanity.
Where does anyone insist that "2016 was an era before programmers were aware of the concepts of abstraction and separation of concerns"?
The A11Y Collective – Web Accessibility Courses and Training
The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq56o0YH3mE

The subtle inaccuracies that are often present in AI-generated images really work for the creepy/trippy vibe here. Pretty awesome stuff.
The WSJ 's take:

https://archive.ph/CRO95
You believe that it is illegal to merely accept money from someone you believe to be a sanctions violator? Could you expand on that theory?

It is not illegal to sell a house to a known drug dealer, and neither is it illegal to accept a donation from a drug dealer. Why do you think this situation would be different?
I think you a word:

But I still see far too businesses adopting...

Should that be too few businesses?
If you're paranoid enough to think about the coordinator getting hijacked, you can also have each of the clients send up their logs to your splunk or whatever server, and correlate them together (double entry logging, anything that doesn't have a match is probably wrong). Should be able to do the same for DNS: anything that's not a ts.net domain getting queried against the tailscale coordinator server isn't right, etc.
The other commentor makes a good point about taxes being a bother. You can get around it, but scaling that is similarly (or more) bothersome.