skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I believe it was the US in command. There were likely others involved, but the other commenter is right— it doesn’t really matter exactly which NATO partner pulled the trigger. The point is that NATO attacked one of its own and that the idea of Russian involvement is ludicrous.
https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/16307
the tech is so bad still
Alas, essentially 100% of accidents happen with a human behind the wheel. Humans vastly overestimate their ability to avoid accidents when in control
Fundamentally unsuited because of how they train it using "fill in the blank."

Training a large model to guess when it doesn't know the answer results in fiction. They need to do something else to get nonfiction.

By contrast, for Go the model was trained not to make illegal moves, because checking for that as part of the training is easy and cheap.
the transitions are so off an irregular that you're gonna get hit or rear ended
Redox, Fuchsia, Genode, Helios/Ares, are some more recent examples.
Funny thing though, he was talking about NS2 which was left partly intact.
What is the opportunity here -- writing new algorithms, implementing them accurately, optimizing them for special execution architectures, or just building more usable tools?

I remember Manolis Kellis sprinkled some pretty interesting genomic questions into his Algorithm class's problem sets. There were a number of cool problems about optimally aligning strings, searching within text, etc.

This was like 15 years ago and I haven't kept up with the discipline at all. But is there still algorithmic low hanging fruit?

I do keep reading about an ongoing series of problems with Microsoft Excel distorting analysis in the scientific literature (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02211-4) and wondering if the tooling is having trouble..?
Since the invasion he has made multiple diplomatically problematic misstatements that the state department had to walk back. Banking on American presidents’ “tough talk” will bankrupt you quickly. Given his cognitive state we can’t know, but why would he disclose this if it were actually on the todo list? It just doesn’t work that way.

But really, the question isn’t if we could or would, but if we did. Those are majorly different questions.
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
Not even close. You are very much limited by what each chain's VM allows. The bitcoin VM is extremely limited. The EVM lifts most of those limitations. All of the VMs have a fee you pay based on the complexity of your program, too.

You are also limited in what cryptography you can do because all of the data involved has to be public - so no private keys can be involved in that computation if you want them to stay private.

Take the example of transaction fees on sale of NFTs. A lot of NFT creators wanted to be able to take X% of the sale price of NFTs as an ongoing royalty. Here's how that might have to happen if you did it algorithmically:

1. You initiate an NFT transfer that requires the creator's signature to be processed

2. You pay a fee to the creator and provide proof of the purchase price to get them to sign the transaction

3. The creator signs your transaction, completing it

This step involves trusting the creator to do (3). You cannot automatically do (3) without the creator's private key being on-chain.

Note that if it were a flat fee, there would be no problem - the transfer transaction would be able to auto-deduct the ETH from your account and move it to the creator's, but the variable fee creates problems.
> They are alleging that this was installed on a million phones,

This allegation is based up the number reported by Google that is available to the public.

> I'm sure doing some straightforward technical forensics would make it clearly apparent what was going on.

Why? Why spend the money to hire a forensics analyst or a team, when through discovery you can learn that information straight from the source. In my opinion it would be worth it to wait to see if the lawsuit actually progresses and is not immediately slapped down by a judge. If immediately slapped down then you just wasted money, by waiting to ensure it’s approved to move forward you can save some money.

I will admit I have not read completely the actual filing, which probably will shed more light on it than an article.
Twitter isn't dead so I feel this title doesn't make sense. Twitter is more than the engineers that built it.
There might me an opportunity for a company to enter this space, but then again maybe not.

When everything is a mess of ad hoc Perl, Python and R scripts to solve unique one-off problems, you might well find that there isn't a sufficiently common subset of functionality that people are prepared to pay money for. That is, while the need may be there, the business case may not be. It might be that most of the field are quite content with the status quo.

It's easier and cheaper to get some poorly-trained PhD students to wrangle badly-written and poorly-maintainable scripts than it is to pay a company to provide a robust and well-written solution instead. The "indentured labour" also distorts the supporting ecosystem. [I say this after having done a PhD in biomedical science.]

I remember one of my colleagues asking me to help him getting some special software from a particular group working [for DNA methylation analysis]. They wanted paying $10K for it IIRC. It was a complete mess, wouldn't work, had not documentation, and I didn't trust it was genuinely functional it was just such a state. For a one-off, maybe $10K was worth it, but if you only have 2-3 customers worldwide who will pay, it's not a viable business if the product works perfectly, let alone if it's a fragile disaster that barely works at all.
I’m afraid I don’t really agree - I didn’t write my suggestion or critique any of the other suggestions with Google or money in mind.

I also disagree that downloadable HTML files are a good solution here.

Downloading html files and then opening then isn’t really feasible for anyone outside the tech bubble we are in.
Are you trying to launch an intel or m1 Mac?
I think the Supreme Court strikes this down. I think this is similar to Kyllo which rules against thermal imaging of homes.

The majority opinion was written by
Scalia, joined by Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer.

With Dissent by Stevens, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy

Thomas is still on the court. I think Gorsuch is even more protective of due process than Scalia. I think the 3 liberals would vote to strike it down. That is 5. Robert’s, Kavanaugh, and Barret could go either way.
Market cap of pre-acquisition twitter is why the company is drowning in so much debt. Had he timed his acquisition better perhaps it would have been more sustainable. Its market value collapsed a few months after he made his acquisition offer. Ergo less debt.
If Google is involved and allows random apps like this, then yes
Unelected bureaus of experts imposing their own enlightened social vision on a captive citizenry. Doesn’t get much more authoritarian than that.
I have a friend who works as a "make this mess a product we can show in conferences" engineer in a research center and it is literally what you described.

The only reason he told me for still working there, is that:

1- the workload is fairly low

2- he has a lot of autonomy

3- he shows up every day around noon and leaves at 5PM
Waymo has demonstrated capability (in a limited sense) with full self-driving so I'm excited for this to take off.

What concerns me are the screens. They are going to play ads on a loop. Phone ads to car ads to house ads. We'll get the no billboard demands because your screens are the boards!
Indeed. The ghost of the puritan christianity still seems to be plaguing the American society: 'Hard work' is still valued like how puritens valued it, and those who do not 'work hard' are seen as worthless. Which means that the poor, the homeless etc are all sinners and can be ignored. The religious behavior set continues in public discourse as well, with religious mentality of Christianity which teaches that Christians can do no wrong and all those who are not from their own flock are evil. Which is applied to their society and its affairs: The US is 'great' or at the worst, 'okay' even as the society crumbles, and all the targeted enemies of the US are 'horrible evildoers'. When the US does something, its 'okay', but when others do the same thing, its an 'atrocity' etc.

In short, its likely the ghost of puriten christianity and its practice of exceptionalism that elevates itself whereas demeans, smears and makes enemies of all others by projecting all the evils to them.
An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs
I'm sure the drama will eclipse the minor scandal of Elon Musk buying Twitter for 44 billion dollars.
Last mile I can walk/cycle.

Just get rid of traffic jams and 9 lane highways, and diesel emissions.

Trains would actually sort a great deal if the network is wide enough and frequent enough.
You're saying it isn't a "working person's problem" and that it's not a problem at all, but these are two different things.
I believe the protocol was specifically designed to prohibit identifying individuals, but then someone found a flaw in it.

Don't remember what happened then, I guess Google+apple updated the protocol or killed the app.
Precisely. (Well competitors that can coexist.) There's a page on their site making a comparison: https://c9x.me/compile/doc/llvm.html.
“nothing but time”

Time is expensive though…
“Hmm how should I get to work tomorrow? Normally I’d take the car, but after adopting a stance of distractive pedantism I realized that a car isn’t an acceptable solution to my transportation problem.”

Like please explain what definition of solved you are using. It’s not one most people would be familiar with.
Charlie Stross is not anti-white – unsurprisingly, since he’s white by most standards[1] - and his actual statement is different from yours in a very telling way: he opposes white supremacy, as you’d expect both because he’s generally decent but also because he’s a Scot of Jewish descent whose family tree was brutalized by an earlier batch of white supremacists.

If opposition to white supremacy makes you uncomfortable that’s a great time to reconsider who you identify as peers and whether that’s really the side you want to be on.

1. Look at the picture on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross
While the pipeline is technically owned by some Swiss holding company, Russia still invested billions in its construction and will now lose billions more in lost revenue, not to mention German strategic dependence on Russia. The idea that there’s no real harm to Russia is patently absurd.
State Capitalism.
are you a robot or real person? i'm jc . when you're merging into a right lane from a left lane for example on a two lane road the av cannot tell if the person is gonna let you in. humans are supreior because we can communicate with eachother and you can predict what the other car will do because you can see a persons eyeballs, body lang, etc and communicate with them without words which we all do as we drive. hand waves, pointing, head nods, etc. a computer has no fucking idea. and unitl they're all networked or something it's gonna be hard.
I think it's to perform some economic activity so you can 1 pay taxes on it, and 2 buy shit. Did I miss anything?
All the ice isn't /exactly/ at the poles, but well down the side as well. Also, ice is less dense than water.
This is a very naive take in Russia. It’s effectively a dictatorship and there’s no reason to think that one of their main goals is rational economic expansion
Super efficient but ugly af
Fair enough, I intentionally was a little hyperbolic to see what the strongest evidence against my position was.

>but there was still a lot of content that wasn't "on message".

I do not, however, think this is true in the case of the Iraq War. Once we get into quantity rather than mere existence, we have to consider positioning in the case of the print paper. It may as well not have existed given the positioning and delay. The editorial team buried their reporters' work when it didn't agree with their slant
Here's the source for the OpenSparc:

https://www.oracle.com/servers/technologies/opensparc.html
It’s on my list to try one day, and see if it’s as good as the hype.

It’s one of my life’s entertaining side-missions to try as many types as possible, ever since I found out that “the (cavendish) banana” is not the end of the story.

I’ve ticked off Cavendish (of course), dwarf cavendish, lady finger, apple banana, Pisang Awak, red Dacca, Fe’i and various plantains so far. Many more to go!
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Top tier engineers who get things done are always, always welcome at any tech firm. Assuming they have enough recognition of course.

See the Twitter Android engineer / accessibility team guy who got fired publicly on Twitter last week, instantly got a bunch of job offers.
My nonprofit Invest it! which has helped 1000+ people so far.
> There is a significant gap between how software is currently developed in this space versus how it should be developed

I appreciate the authors honesty. Been there, take it easy bud.
Any spying that has the intention of determining the contents of a home/property should be illegal under the fourth. Watching everything that goes in and out of a property is equivalent to searching the property.
Somebody on LinkedIn working in data science opined that they should do away with DST. I commented that yeah maybe they ought to, and then bring it back in 5 years, rinse / lather / repeat as a stress test. Got a number of likes.
If you bootstrap from nothing, go from coworkers. Some of your coworkers will have some groups of doing something (skiing, hiking, music playing, etc.). Show you interest and get invited. There will be new people there.

There are also other events where you naturally meet people. I’m just throwing out some ideas, if case they are helpful.

For instance, taking group classes. My girlfriend made quite a few friends in her Muay Thai class.

Dog walking. My college friend recently adopted a dog, and has since known a lot of other dog keepers.

You can meet other computer people at conferences, too.

I myself is quite introverted, too. But being introverted doesn’t mean you are left with scraps. There are still occasions where interacting with other people is both necessary and natural. If you put yourself in those situations from time to time, you’ll find a few who fit your rhythm.

Another thing is to offer a helping hand to people. Owing each other favors is the most effective bonding agent in my experience. I have a personal rule of “always be helpful”, and I think that has earned me quite a few very earnest friendships, despite my being not very chatty at all.
I have to admit I was really doubtful we'd have fully self driving cars within the next 50 years in any major city, but here we are. I guess I watched too many Tesla fail videos. Bravo Waymo!
I don't think anyone falls for that, everyone knows they cannot buy a truffle for $5. They buy it for the taste, wherever it comes from (e.g. crude oil) and that's ok.
I'm not sure if the article title and general tone is consistent with the actual interpretation of the data within the article. For instance: see this point within.

> To get the point, consider that if someone has mental needs, there will be 100% correlation between performance and IQ tests. But the performance doesn’t correlate as well at higher levels, though, unaware of the effect of the nonlinearity, the psychologists will think it does.(The statistical spin, as a marketing argument, is that a person with an IQ of 70 cannot prove theorems, which is obvious for a measure of unintelligence — but they fail to reveal how many IQs of 150 are doing menial jobs. So “vey low IQ” may provide information, while “very high IQ” may convey nothing better than random — it is not even a necessary condition.).

At the very least, even the author seems to be saying that IQ is a useful metric for understanding the world on the low end.
And they specify it must be on Apple hardware.

They don’t enforce that though I don’t think, but I wonder if anyone has been caught or sued?
This number includes level 2/step-down ICUs inclusive of regional/community hospital.

This is not the bed count of units capable of having cardiac support or prolonged ventilation.

I can’t readily find the OECD figure but if you look at ventilator capable beds in Canada the number drops to ~9.7, again inclusive of community/regional hospitals mostly staffed by non-ICU trained physicians which are only equipped for short term ventilation.

Which center in Canada have you trained at where there isn’t constant pressure to offload ICU patients to the ward due to a lack of beds?
If you have a software background and can get some basic domain knowledge, there's lots of open source projects that could use your contribution.

Doing fundamental reseach is a taller order. But lots of software, tools, pipelines etc need maintainers, optimizations...
I must have riled the vegans with this one.
Writers will get paid just like internet influencers are getting funded by fans and sponsorships. I agree it's an emerging business model, but worth giving more thought.
Isn’t it amazing how you get downvoted for bringing up obvious facts? The other striking thing about Biden’s declaration that the US would end Nordstream is that the German head of state was standing right next to him when he said it. Tells you everything you need to know about the relationship and sadly, the subservience of the German government.
Maybe it’s obvious from the blog post, but I just want to point out that Tiddlywiki saver works out of the box if it is served via WebDAV.

All you have to do is: install Nginx, enable WebDAV module, place the wiki.html file in the WebDAV directory.
If we can improve things during that timeframe, great (perhaps phrased better as “In the long run, we’re all dead anyway”). And by the time we reach the end of that timeframe, the context will be different.
Apologies brother for jumping onto your comment. I'm unable to reply to parent story:

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I have ~1 year experience working as a software engineer. I've shipped voice features in React, implemented & maintained servers in Python and experimented with Large-Language-Models

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For me, I had already reduced my Twitter usage specifically because of the awful experience, but I'd still occasionally check up on a handful of software developers (notably the Asahi Linux team) on there.

I moved to Mastodon about a week ago mostly because the developers I was following did the same. No clue if everyone's leaving, I doubt it.

As for what's actually changed:

- Twitter Blue Verified was basically a satirists' wet dream and Musk wants to try it again

- A number of high profile Twitter CxOs jumped ship, including their information security officer

- Elon had every SWE in the company print out their code(?!) and physically deliver it to Musk, including an explanation of how much they wrote (presumably to try the old manager trick of rating projects on SLoC written)

- Elon publicly blasted his own developers on Twitter for the performance of the Android app. When the head developer replied and explained what was actually wrong and how to fix it, he was fired by tweet.

- Elon Musk issued a "Twitter 2.0" ultimatum to the remaining Twitter staff which were rejected by 75% of the company immediately resigning.

I can boil these down further into two reasons why any software should jump ship immediately:

1. Data security & stability. Twitter is basically running on autopilot now since a large amount of people left or were fired. Expect basically all of your data on Twitter to get breached.

2. Solidarity. The Twitter 2.0 ultimatum is basically a demand for constant crunch time. This is very harmful to both Twitter and it's employees. Even if you don't work at Twitter and don't give a shit about the word "solidarity", you should still make an example out of the company anyway purely so that other boneheaded PHBs don't try the same trick.
I think gp is referring to the number of screens on the inside of the vehicle, and how basically everything we do now revolves around a touch screen.

Besides, I don't see how this will ever be cheaper than a 2010 prius being driven by some guy. The equipment in this machine will easily cost six figures, and the software will be a constant engineering expense, whereas the traditional taxi is just $50k for the vehicle, another $10-20k for the license (more in large cities), and then you just get a guy to drive it. Maybe economies of scale will drive the price down, but the guy driving the cab has never been the cost center.
It is extortion, though there's no real way around it in dealings with Russia as they have very peculiar red lines, and they are very determined to defend them.

It probably would have been smarter for the EU to just pay up instead of paying 2x or 3x more for less than nothing, since all the money spent instead on military equipment, soldiers, ammunition, etc., is just turned into scrap and body bags on the battlefield. Which the EU will likely have to pay to clean up and restore in the future.
I did it today and… sigh. Just once I want FOSS to not feel like FOSS when it comes to UX.

A lot of people have done a lot of hard work and free is free. That’s all wonderful and credit is deserved. But that’s not an aegis against criticism. Here’s some of what I experienced in the first hour:

- the app lists a bunch of servers and I tried five before I found one that’s accepting new accounts.

- I get a broken English note about the server not accepting new accounts

- two servers kept timing out when I tried to make an account

- I had to “request desktop site” to see a modal explaining why the “create account” button was redirecting me to a list of servers and not the one I was looking at.

- That list was not searchable. I began googling “popular mastodon servers”

- finally made an account but nothing would load. I couldn’t subscribe to a friend.

- deleted account (made me log in again, then complained that I can’t log in without enabling cookies, which are enabled, then on refresh showed me as logged in)

- made a new account on what I hoped was a better server, creation seemed fine. Email confirm went to spam (haven’t had that in forever, it gave me some nostalgia)

- am not able to see the followers of my friends on different servers, so I guess it does matter to pick a popular one

- posting was easy

- a server admin is the first person to interact with my toot, re-tooting it. That felt cozy and early Web.

- I like that the feed seems to be a literal timeline of everything in my sphere. No junk added in by algorithm.

- I kinda like not having 5000 followers anymore. This is more chill. I plan on keeping it chill.

- I don’t see any American politics being fed to my timeline. Thank the Maker.

I think Mastodon is okay. It suffers from the classic FOSS issue where the first half of dev is fun and technically challenging, but nobody wants to do the second half because it’s tedious and unsexy. Kinda makes me better appreciate why QA and Product are so tedious at the companies I’ve worked at.

I’m patient and motivated and am likely to work through all this just like I do with Ubuntu and QGIS and GIMP, etc. But I no-longer feel I can ever suggest Mastodon to anyone who is non-technical.
Yes, well, I’ve been around way before the series of tubes were a thing
Suspect how?
We're only starting to see the age of genomics accelerated by GPUs. I think it's still early if you have the technical background.