skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either feds take over this obligation, or Illinois will go bankrupt, legally disolve, and the land will be absorbed by neighboring States.
This is why I expect a federal UBI.
It was hypothesized that querySelector was not available, not that the entire DOM API was not available. However, if we suppose that the entire DOM API was not available, there would no way to access the HTML nodes so no algorithm is going to save you anyway.
I’m not against stopping crime, but most proposed solutions to crime usually boil down to “more cops”. Even data-driven ideas like you’re suggesting seem to end up as convoluted ways of saying “send more cops here instead of there”. Crimes of poverty can’t be solved with policing, and any attempt to reduce crime without first acknowledging that is very likely to do more harm than good.
Funny how the women's rights situation in Iran became bad enough to prompt large scale protests within two weeks of Iran joining SCO. Not two months earlier. Not two months later. Just within weeks.
> It seems perfectly fair to expect Microsoft to throw resources at heavily used apps.

yes it does seem perfectly fair, doesn’t it? it isn’t. the amount of work that needs to be done always outscales the ability to do the work, forcing prioritization. the Windows Terminal team is not large, and just throwing people at the team will not make it faster.

> "They don't have the experience to make it good" is pretty chickenshit.

you’re very unpleasant already. second sentence, calling me chickenshit. classy.

how many people do you know who are capable of writing what Casey wrote in two weekends who also DON’T work on games full-time?

i don’t know any people like that. so, where do you think those people go to work? on Windows Terminal? like that’s a common career path for someone like Casey? i would be absolutely flabbergasted if there were someone on the Windows Terminal team who knew how to do what Casey did before he did it. “Hey, come work on the command prompt” does not attract people who understand how to dynamically generate a texture atlas of code points and use that atlas to render a texture representing the console window contents 60/120/144/240 frames per second. the people that know how to do that are already spoken for.
Surely no one thinks that "when searching a directory, specify the full path of the directory you want to search" is premature optimization...?

Isn't that just... doing the thing you intended to do, in the most straightforward way possible?

Who says "it's too much trouble getting the files in the directory I want, I'd rather search the entire computer and filter that list down to the files in that directory"?

This is like saying "it's too much effort to drive to San Francisco, so I'm going to drive to cities in California until I happen to arrive in San Francisco".
The SF of the 40s and 50s was gone when I was a teenager in the 60s. By the same token the SF I knew from the 70s is long gone.

RIP Mabuhay Gardens...
My boss told me at one point that he showed up to work that day to chew bubble gum and kick ass but because of the supply chain shortages he was unable to procure bubble gum. By the power of logic I was able to conclude the only viable option was that he was going to kick ass and since most people were WFH except mean he might kick my ass. Scary stuff.
I’m in awe. Is this type of thing likely to solve complex robotic agility tasks like folding laundry or making eggs?
The sympathy just pours off you - weren't you lamenting the putting of profits for people before? Ronnie's was selling coffee far above the temperature one should expect because it served their profit margin better.

I don't expect you to necessarily follow the link but you could've read the quote before replying.
Please just call it a selection effect.
Lured and forced can be very similar though. Especially if poverty, mental illness or similar are involved. Plus the fact that many people aren't really 'adults' when they turn 18.
I have almost 15 year old CPU with 2 GB RAM and Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It has Windows 7 installed. I recently opened it again and was amazed to see that it actually works and it is also very snappy by current standards.
There are countless ways to improve living conditions while reducing emissions.

Free sustainable transport would stop the least privileged from having to fork over a third of their paycheck to auto and fossil fuel companies while freeing up billions spent on roads.

Making landlords accountable for energy wasting housing design would reduce energy bills.

Not invading countries for their gas and mineral reserves is pretty good for the people that live there.

A direct carbon tarriff distributed evenly by population would lift living standards for the underprivileged and give them the resources to make a choice for lower emissions options.

Right to repair, accountability for forced obsolescence or design faults and consumer rights decrease waste and benefit the poor immensely.
It’s fun, but I can think of a lot more fun and interesting ways to spend $2000-3000. Also all the sessions end up free on YouTube.
Funny - I thought the Cameron government was extremely ideological. Osborne wasn't thick, he must have realised the damage that austerity would do in a recession. Debt was extremely manageable going into the 08 recession. Interest rates were nearly zero.

I always viewed it as a cynical way to weaken labour.
> Casey is experienced and his code is valuable. MS should pay him if they want to look at his code! He said as much in his tweets… I mean, why should he be doing charity for MS by fixing their products for them?

so difficult that he wrote it so he could demonstrate how easy it is.

he gladly showed the rest of us how to do it, and he intentionally took action which prevented anything he did from being used within Microsoft. Microsoft is so shitty because they don’t know [thing] so i’m going to show everyone but them how to do [thing].

he could have chosen to help. he chose to not help. he chose to complain and ridicule while intentionally avoiding doing anything to change the situation he was unhappy with.
It doesn't have to be a huge tech company this is pretty universal even at mid-sized companies.
Certainly impossible to implement with current hardware. You'd need a robust physical model that could withstand significant stress from any random permutation of desired motion. Biped robots aren't really ragdolls.

Besides, BD is doing fine with classical optimal control theory for Atlas' locomotion.
Stadia was dead in the water since day one, because you had to buy the games on stadia, even if you already had a copy in another platform.

Compare that to GeForce now, which can stream (some of) your existing library, and it's obvious Stadia had no chance.

You had to pay the monthly subscription, plus buy the games, and if you stop paying the subscription, you lose the games! That's a terrible deal and many in the gaming community predicted the demise of Stadia exactly because of this.

If nvidia can make it so GeForce Now can stream your existing library, surely Google could too? It's baffling that Stadia management didn't see this.
The stability is for the person who receives the pension and has a contract that guarantees them payments.
It's amazing to me that the top comment on a post that has very little to do with indexing -- basically waves at the topic in passing -- is about indexing, AND that when it's pointed out that this is not a very scintillating topic of conversation in this day and age, all of the responses to that comment are just more pedantry about indexing. How does this trivial topic hold such fascination for people?
Welp. I don't even understand why anyone would ever trust Google at this point.
Don't worry you'll be vilified for disliking features by the tech community because they can't not have social features everywhere.
You give a prompt and it makes the thing.
Most insurance companies are highly regulated so they will pay claims.
Yet the SNR is getting abysmal day by day.
Not sure about England but in the US there are programs like "Backpack for Kids" that allow kids to sign up to receive a backpack for the weekends. They also do lunches during the summer.

It's not the best food but it's calories with some nutrition & easy for kids to make.

During my time volunteering I learned that the challenges are not getting enough funding or food but getting the food to the people who need it. From elderly to babies.
I am saying that if they cut the bullsh_t back in March 2021, when all the excesses from crypto, meme stocks and SPACs were blatant, we would not be here today. They made a very public choice to let that play out. Heck, even China was hitting the breaks at that point. A 200-250 hike cycle would have more than sufficed. This is gross negligence. The worst monetary policy decision that they are now compounding.
No one is saying that. The idea that discourse is forbidden is a strawman.

You are saying it's unreasonable to check in with a member of a culture you are about to publish something negative about.
Certainly of the past. Without the brain, there would be no war.
No, this explanation is not correct. These pensions were generally not trying to juice yield by buying gilts with leverage (they would not be able to borrow cheaply enough to make this work, and leverage would be better used to buy stocks).

The margin calls are coming from interest rate swaps they did to mitigate accounting risk on their long term liabilities.

When rates fall, pensions take huge paper losses because the present value of liabilities moves inversely with interest rates. To hedge this risk, you enter into a swap with a bank to essentially pay current floating interest rates (in return for receiving a fixed rate). This swap's value moves in the opposite direction of the liabilities.

Unfortunately because rates moved up so quickly, these swap trades are deep in the red. Even so, the funds should not be going bankrupt from these trades, because the losses net against enormous accounting gains from their liabilities being worth less.

Anyway, this is a complicated and technical story about the interaction between bond math, accounting, and liquidity risk. There is a lot to criticize, but the moralizing version of 'greedy pension fund managers borrowed to juice yields' is not quite accurate, and Matt Levine's article is a good source (although he doesn't get into the nitty gritty of interest rate swaps).
I agree 100% with Bill.

You need to incentivize more efficient consumption. Whether through technological advances or through policy that “nudges” people to consume more efficiently (e.g. carbon taxes).

But the challenges remains. Severs governments were cutting taxes and handing out cash when gas prices jumped. That’s the exact opposite of what you want to do.
lol, surely.
Back in the 80's, I remember that people were protesting without internet and mobile phones, with very successful results. They bought down the iron curtain after all. The most sophisticated technology they used was the printing press, for printing and distributing fliers, newspapers and censored books. Underground groups were organized in cells too, without phones, email or apps.

Right now, it seems like those who use the internet and phones are at a disadvantage. Phones are always tracked, and the internet is a giant surveillance tool. If the government controls the network, then it is always at a great advantage, no matter if VPN or Tor is used.
we're talking about the default text editor on an OS that supports endless alternatives. yes, it's an embarrassment, but (approximately) no one is dying because notepad is janky.
The best screen in the world isn't worth a tinker's damn if it's full of ads.
> on or about August 24, 2022, the OCE deposited
approximately 0.64053413 units of the requested cryptocurrency, worth approximately $99.90
USD

Monero was worth $154 on August 24th, is a privacy crypto and .64 of that would be $99
Is he the same guy as the one who keeps repeating that nowadays java is actually faster than C++?
It isn’t an open problem for text editors or terminals, which is the point Casey made in his videos.
It was actually funny to read the comments in the FT from people who work in the sector...everyone was doing it, this was a perfectly sound strategy, you have to hedge (the irony of losing £60bn in four days from hedging apparently not correlated to whether the hedges worked)...there was a guy who is CEO of a clothing company who actually wrote to the BoE about these strategies, the response was not just anger that he was right, it was rage (it also didn't help that this CEO was a big supporter of leaving the EU).

Either way, this is something that has been warned about since QE started, the BoE repeatedly denied this was an issue, it was obvious, multiple books have mentioned this, I have heard it a million times from market participants, I talked about this with other people...and the BoE are trying to shift the blame feverishly.

The chances that this doesn't happen in other countries is close to zero. The buildup in risk due to QE has been massive, and DB pension funds are patient zero.
And in schools, eating establishments, etc.
This is interesting, I wonder if he quit or got fired. Bit of a red flag to work for the NSA and quit after a few weeks lol
Oof. I feel your pain on the indexing arguments. Thanks for the post, I found it informative.
Clojure being a lisp on the JVM is was what first drew me to try it out. Clojure being immutable-first, data-oriented, and having a core library based largely on the seq abstraction was what hooked me.

The lisp REPL benefits are wonderful, and I miss them all the time in other languages, but I also miss the overall design philosophy equally as much. Value-based data structures with atomic updates where necessary is something that ought to be the default for our industry. Give it another 40 years to settle, I guess.
yes, sounds about right
Most of this is pretty obvious and yet people act differently. That’s the whole point. It’s not a realistic solution.
Self-Driving Laboratories Do Research on Autopilot
>Besides, it's always the private jets of Al Gore and Bill Gates that are in question. People never ask about the private jets of BP execs.

Because the BP execs aren't being hypocrites and telling all the commoners to lower their living standards..
> Biowulf (the HPC cluster used by the US National Institutes of Health, a pun on "biology" and "Beowulf")

Sorry to be satanic[0], but "Biowulf"[1] is not a pun. Thieves often make this mistake because they take things literally.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
I think people are quite open to many practices that involve reduced consumption, they just don't like the vague idea of reducing consumption because it suggests austerity.
Chinese car companies will likely take the lead in the electric car era. They're skipping the combustion era entirely which is an advantage.

I'm guessing that most of the world will be driving Chinese electric cars in the next 10-20 years.
Well if Ukraine did not have the American made weapons, they would have folded in less than a month. The United States has spent close to 100B in aid for Ukraine in the last 6 months and other amounts of money by the EU as aid. All told it is about 5-10x Russia’s yearly military budget.

All in all, Russia is a very weak country with less than 1.5T GDP. As a result, any infusion of huge sum on money by external actors will tilt the balance in the favor of the party that gets the money .
regarding V2Ray VMess and ShadowSocks, I believe you could directly create issues or contact their maintainers for help, they are willing to help since we have been fighting against THE FIREWALL for many years, there are lots of active communities.
I agree. I'm claiming that most customers and/or decision makers do not. We should recognize that and focus on a solution instead of blaming engineers and local technical decision making. A first step is to avoid slow products, or influence those that buy products for us.
Really? So every company that has a free tier is “dumping”?

CloudFlare is not s monopoly even by HN commenters weird definition.

But if you define “dumping” as “selling a product below what it takes to turn a profit”, every unprofitable company funded by YC is doing something illegal.
SCO? The country code for Scotland? The Santa Cruz Operation? What's SCO in this context? My (30 seconds of) searching turned up nothing plausible.
I used GitHub Copilot to translate a few small programs, from Javascript to Python.

Results:

- single lines went over well, and even became idiomatic in the destination language

- snippets translated well

- for two snippets translated separately, the 2nd snippet didn't understand the original context and got confused. Lesson: translate a whole file at once, or you'll have to fix cross-function references/names.

One test I thought didn't work. My 100 lines of (admittedly crappy) Javascript got cut off. Actually... it worked! It translated 100 lines of JS into 50 lines of idiomatic Python! I was extremely surprised.

More results

- original had a driver function and a worker function. The translated code just inlined everything. I'd have preferred the multiple functions be preserved, but it's okay.

- idiomatic Javascript was translated to idiomatic Python

- it used modules I'd never heard of. I thought the AI had just made things up, but the modules were actually real! Very happy with this.

- it also used old modules. I had to rewrite several lines and retarget the code to use a modern module, vs the original which was deprecated.

Bottom line: at least the AI I tried (Copilot), is effing magic! We saved our client probably $1000 in just one usage of this tool.

I'm going to continue paying for this out of my own pocket, to use for learning new languages, modules, and for translating the occasional small program.

Huge caveat: talk to your Dir Eng or CTO about sending their proprietary code to some random service on the internet. They probably will NOT like it. Thus, AI can only be used in occasional "I'm starting from scratch and learning this" type situations. You can NOT use AI on business code without company consent, which dramatically limits its usefulness for the moment.
hi folks, ben p from the dreamfusion paper here. happy to answer qs for the next ~hour!
The engineers shouldn't feel that they've wasted years of their life, if they built quality tech. They should be proud of what they achieved. Not their fault that management was useless.
Fully homomorphic encryption is a toolset, it's not a specific configuration.

Your scenario has these parties, 1) a patient whose data we're discussing, 2) the hospital they shared it with, and 3) a pharma company looking to use the data. The hospital wants to promote this use without leaking any PII.

You're right that the hospital has no idea about the queries ("the code") but they control the server and which messages it will send in response.

As you point out, the hospital wouldn't run a FHE database capable of full-text extraction specifically because that would amount to simply sending all the data to the pharma company.

Instead they'd run a specialized FHE-DB server which would, for instance, return only row counts. The pharma company would run secret queries and if the hospital had one or more patients who matched the query the pharma company would know to the contact the hospital and then once paperwork is signed they could rerun the query with a signed token from the hospital and finally the query would return the actual PII.
200ms?? it's really frustrating in my experience for every game (I had 180ms when Xbox Cloud Gaming connects server over pacific ocean for unknown reason).
Do you have an actual complaint here, or just buzzwords? Calling something an “anti-pattern” or “undesired” doesn’t mean anything.

Your comment contains no substance that couldn’t have been conveyed by saying “I hate it”. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. That’s what I do. Is there an actual reason that the mere existence of social networking features is harmful to those of us who choose not to bother with them?
In this hypothetical, the same person who is a “failure as a software engineer”, according to a parent commenter.
> Why can't the government walk back these changes?

Largely because they've only just got into power (about a month) after the last prime minister was forced out, and as their first major act, having to walk it back would cause an unacceptable loss of face.

If they are forced to roll it back somehow, which may or may not happen, they get to look like they stuck by their 'principles' and it was other people who lacked faith in the plan.

They can't be ousted easily, party rules give her a year without the possibility of another leadership challenge, but she could start facing open rebellion in the ranks, which might lead the whole thing to collapse, requiring a general election. And right now she'd lose one of those by a country mile.
with regards to 1991 referendum in crimea, i pretty sure that according to local laws it was kind of unlawful. same applies to 2014 (in which you don't even know what was the turnout and people who were against were disappearing to be found dead later).

you can kinda say that crimea 1991 referendum maybe had a chance on been kinda legal because it was autonomous republic inside Ukraine, but what happens in Donbas is similar to this https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/nationworld/more-or... . You just need to add an armored company from Idaho taking over counties/sheriff department and then holding a votes to see absurdity of the situation
This is the sixth occurrence of major protests in Iran in in five years.
This reminds me of The Bet, by Chekhov - https://www.shortstoryguide.com/read-bet-anton-chekhov/
I'm an individual who's opinions on unfettered anonymous speech have changed over the years, so I'll give my take.

I was a "free speech absolutist" in the early 00s, which was the "default" on places like Slashdot, and later on places like Reddit and HN. The reason I changed my opinion is that I was generally surprised by the amount of real harm that can be caused by the way technology can amplify false or harmful content. Specific examples:

1. I was actually surprised by the amount of glee people would take in online harassment, things like r/jailbait and fatpeoplehate. I believe that the social norms that would have prevented the proliferation of this content "in the real world" were ineffective in the anonymous, online world.

2. I was surprised by the amount of laughable BS that got real, widespread traction, stuff like QAnon.

3. Regardless of your politics, interference from foreign powers in democratic governments is now a much more realistic and effective attack scenario.

So I guess the short of it is that some "axioms" that I used to believe about free speech (e.g. "the truth will always bubble to the top in open debate") I no longer believe to be true in the way that technology can "hack" people's emotions. I definitely don't know what the right solution is, but I think that unfettered anonymous free speech on the Internet will lead to a type of society that scares me.
Why, in fact, did Google shutter Stadia? Does Google just shut down things that aren't absolutely huge for them? If so, does that mean they thought Stadia would be huge for them, but were wrong? I don't get how HugeCos think, can someone enlighten me?
Processed foods, lack of exercise, Starbucks with a lot of sugar in them.
Apologies for assuming you were talking of the US. You gotta understand that as an American, I'm used to having many of my compatriots worried about a dictatorship to come while blind to the mechanisms of democratic power. Which naturally includes a complete disregard for non-citizen.

That said, the US is still one example of how surveillance doesn't have to lead overt despotism. Really, I think surveillance is essentially the reflex of every modern today, even those which now have a better reputation than the States - Canada or Northern Europe say.