skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good catch and my bad: I should have added that my Heroku app ran on a free ClearDB MySQL instance. I pulled that into an SQLite db for simplicity. The app is in a parked state where it's not doing any write ops at this point, so apart from no FTS support, this went well.
Will any downvoters comment? I think democracy is the best option we have, but ignoring its weaknesses and checkered history isn't constructive.

The current democracy-worship afoot in the US ignores the fact that almost every progressive aspect of the US state sprang from a counter-majoritarian institution: Roe and Brown, plus the administrative implementation of civil rights law.
A class AMG or any of the premium lines?
But damn, "getting fired coz most of your coworkers wanted you gone" gonna hurt more than getting fired by some manager.
It's not just the only choice, but a phenomenon that eventually gets a mind of its own. There is a point in almost every war where both sides regret the escalation, but are powerless to stop the war as the time tables have been set, the troops mobilised, the ultimatums issued. And the belligerents, deeply invested in the outcome, cannot stop the war before the cataclysmic defeat of one side.

The inevitability of war beyond a certain point is a terrifying prospect.
True, though I'm thinking more along the lines of "build me a railroad between these cities" and "I own this list of politicians".
One would think they would try googling it beforehand.
I agree.

However, in practice, the housing problems as well as alternatives to it, like public transport, are very much "political issues" in that they require politicians to do something.

Which is an issue because there's a clear imbalance in political power between "the poor" and "the rich". The former absolutely "demand" better housing and public transport, at least in my neck of the woods, but there's hardly any actual progress.
US military is a force for good no doubt in as far as US is a force for good. That is not the question. The question is are there some simple ways which could make it better?

Based on the article(s) it would seem there is a very simple way to make them better: Teach them accounting and require them to implement accounting controls.
sooo how being cooperative would get more money out of investors ? It looks like in that situation it wouldn't help
Not syntactically.

It's slot-based, vaguely like Python, and has reference-counting GC, like Python. That's how I understand it.
Couldn't people just add expect_* tests to their examples? What's the benefit of adding all this new notation and magic?

Disclaimer: I'm an R programmer but not deeply familiar with authoring packages.
My senior year in college, I interned at a government contractor. I joined a project which was already 15 months behind schedule, and was expected to take another 12 months to complete. Everyone on the project seemed fine with these slips. I asked why the government didn’t cancel the project and award it to another company - “they could, but it would take just as long to complete as we have left, so they won’t save anything.”

I was disgusted by this attitude and swore I wouldn’t work for that company upon graduation.

Jump forward to the career fair at college, and I spoke with a recruiter from another large defense contractor. Told him that same story, and asked if I’d find a similar attitude at his company. He quickly pulled me aside and told me that I should never repeat that story. I took that as a “yes”, and I enjoy repeating that story as loudly and as often as possible.

I decided to never work for a government contractor. Not because I disagreed with the work, but because I realized that working in a company with such an attitude was going to change me. I was worried that in 15 years, if there was a layoff, I’d have a hard time finding a new job, and if I did, I wouldn’t be a world class engineer.

I see a system where excellence isn’t rewarded, and instead, gaming the system, is the most profitable.

I’ve thought quite a bit about this problem, and one thing which might improve it, is a bidding system, where historical project “on time, under budget” is a weighted factor in contact awards. Maybe that’s how it works today?
What makes this an interesting question is that it seems genuine and
reasonable to ask; What do the seagulls think about the trawler's
decline in fishing? Not realising - that the trawler-men, according to
old seafaring folklore are following the seagulls.

CEOs, advertisers and Google have always been in a symbiotic
relationship. One could say that the decline in search results is
caused by SEOs "over-fishing" and Googles fight to prefer it own
(advertisers) view of "search reality". Simultaneously, the pickings
for SEOs have declined concomitant with Google's descent.

There is not enough enough diversity in the ecosystem. It's the
obvious outcome of letting a too-powerful monopoly run amok.
Talking of ducks, some think that the spline weight 'ducks' could be the origin of the expression 'have your ducks in a row'.
like bidirectional signalr!
Transpiling the language changes the operational domain.

Reimplimenting/supporting the library in language means, have to do that for each OS operational domain that the gawk interpreter runs in (aka each relevant OS & OS version for mac, unix, windows, non-pc OS's, plus mobile versions).

Modifying language also means that anything that relies on lanuage will have to be re-evaluated to assess potential language change issues/implications.

Transpiling to change the operational domain means can just focus on task at hand, as long as not tied to specifics outside the operational domain of webassembly. aka file paths

Avoids the need to assess potential language change issues/implications.

Changing the operation domain in this case means can leverage the operational environments orthononality to 'express awk-style commands in a propper data structures' that awk doesn't provide without modifiying the language. (or writing the feature in awk)

Changing the operation environment also means no required new retooling. Changing the language may force/require retooling.

Case study context example:

Long term 10-40 year studies where same code written at start of study needs to be runnable / usable / understandable at the end of the study without being rewritten.

Note: Hardware and/or OS used at start may be entirely different than that used at end of study.

Fairly simple to get 10,000+ awk scripts running under IBM/DEC/Mac/Windows/Unix/BeOS to run under any of the other OS domains using webassembly by transpiling awk.
Fairly trivial to leverage browser to permit a user customizable GUI usable under any of the aformentioned OS domains without having to modify/recertify the awk scripts.

Finding / recompiling / supporting awk for each of those OS domains (OS & verions variants, GUI libs) bit more time consuming (short term & long term).
I know Java and Erlang ecosystems have been big on this at times (Hazelcast, mnesia). When are these the appropriate architectural choice, if ever?

Definitely fun/cool tech, I just don't understand how pragmatic it is.
No one has said that anything is a hoax. Please tone it down.

> How would you know that if I hadn't published papers on the relevant topics

No, that not the question. You don't get to assume that people are incompetent until they've presented incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. You're the one making ad hominem arguments, the burden of proof is on you.
It's not a public square when the opposite ideology is pushed aside and the rules applied arbitrarily, both left or right.

It's never been a public square, it's just being polarized in the opposite direction.
> Even if a book’s content had been in the training data by chance (say, from a crawl of archive.org), the model would, I believe, not know where the book starts and where it ends.

Yeah, you are probably right. LLM summarization capabilities of such probably comes from reading the actual book reviews on the web.

> I have yet to see someone build this.

It is the area I am interested in. Check this:
https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1596855728735916033
The people who WANT to go off-grid are often willing to be far from town - but it's perfectly possible to go off-grid and still be quite close to a town with reasonable healthcare; it just costs more and it's probably not worth going completely off-grid at that point.

It does help tremendously if you have more than one person, even a family will have two or more adults, and these people often have a smallish group.
We can't remove mediocrity because it by definition is what is in the middle.

We can remove corruption if we just have the political will. Assuming the politicians themselves are not part of the corruption.
Isn't anything functional (i.e. its computation only depends on its known inputs/input state) inherently trivially cacheable by hashing the input state?
Why 20 feet? Golf carts are much shorter/narrower than that:

https://jsgolfcarts.com/blog/golf-cart-dimensions/

You could comfortably fit three of them on two lanes, and believe me people will do it. Italians generally drive smaller cars than other Europeans and that's what happens there on intersections.

Actually, considering the dimensions, a fully packed four-seater has a smaller footprint than the equivalent bicycles - even Dutch ones.

If you put everyone in two-seaters riding alone, then indeed you'll have 1/3 the density of bicycles, but that's the lower boundary!

Personally I don't see the point of maximizing it any further than what golf carts achieve. Especially that they provide appropriate comfort and stability.
Embrace, extend, extinguish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
References of the Signal Protocol inside Twitter’s iOS app
If your main page is put together by running a bunch of queries it’s just a waste of resources to run these for every bot hit.
Those vehicles were implicit in the “laptop class” expression that I used, they’re some of the few who can afford them.
Goofed that one up...

Accepting
Okay but coop also doesn't automatically mean your happiness in work will grew.

Some people will be perfectly happy working in a team with manager shielding them from most of the office politics vs pretty much having to take part in politics in coop
but i hate summer and love winter (but NorHemi FTW whooooo000000!!!)
Do you have streaming server ? ,Or just want encoder suggestions
He definitely takes joy in pointing out incongruencies. Troll is an offensive term.
>it is almost axiomatic to the intelligence/security world that a machine that could break much known encryption in human relevant timeframes would obviously be being developed under a shroud of secrecy at the bleeding edge

I'm unconvinced of this. Any government agency (say the NSA) is a tiny subset of the whole world, and can't be expected to outdo it.

Especially if they have some disadvantages like, say, not being able to hire people who've ever smoked pot.

>It is far too important to be able to manage the implications of any significant breakthroughs

But that's what keeping breakthrough tech secret would do - prevent managing the implications. Keeping it secret means not sharing it with allies. That means if someone else discovers the same thing or steals it via espionage, now your adversary has it and your allies don't.
Pretty tough, altho I'm not sure if it's because of macroeconomic conditions or because I'm applying to a lot of hedge funds and I'm not amazing at leetcode.
Could you explain? How does not studying CS relate to being able to build a CPU/compiler/ray tracer? You don't need advanced CS to do so. Obviously the people who developed the main methods/algorithms knew their shit, academically speaking, but you can basically just engineer your way through all of this.

Source: I also don't have a CS degree.
Yes it has been noticed. And by Google too of course. The latest Helpful Content Update was designed to tackle the worst, and that update is still underway.

The SEO industry response is to double down on long form 'evergreen' content of 1000 words or so, along with more topical news stuff for domain authority.

It's an ongoing war. And in the middle - we poor users.
I care and I don't see what this has to do with 'small devices' whatever that is supposed to mean.
Expressions like "huge deal", should perhaps be left alone. Either that, or replace both with "significant" or "important". But that too seems silly.
Cooperatives aren't nonprofit entities – they can be, sure, but many of them are profit-driven.

The claim that cooperatives act irrationally (and the implication that they're less efficient) requires some factual data to back that claim up, otherwise it's just that – an anecdotal claim. Here's academic data to dismiss those claims:

> Labor-managed firms are as productive as conventional firms, or more productive, in all industries, and use their inputs efficiently; but in several industries conventional firms would produce more with their current input levels if they organized production like labor-managed firms. On average overall, firms would produce more using the labor-managed firms’ industry-specific technologies. Labor-managed firms do not produce at inefficiently low scales

Source: Fakhfakh, F., Pérotin, V., & Gago, Mó. (2012). Productivity, Capital, and Labor in Labor-Managed and Conventional Firms: An Investigation on French Data. ILR Review, 65(4), 847–879. doi:10.1177/001979391206500404

Similar results were also found to hold in an older study by Craig and Pencavel in 1995.
Unreal is the platform for the metaverse
You probably want limited liability if you're selling edible(/quaffable) goods though. At least in the UK, it seems to be common for markets to require it of stall applicants, along with business insurance in excess of £x (looked into it a while ago on a fanciful whim).
> Why aren’t Europeans producing competitive software?

They absolutely do;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamViewer_(company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Systems

Just 4 examples from Germany. There are countless software companies in Europe, and not just western...eastern Europe is going big in IT in some areas as well. The ability is certainly there.

As to why that didn't (yet) result in good EU-centric alternatives to some of the big US providers in certain areas of IT...good question. I think the correct answer will be a mix of startup culture, government appreciation for the topics importance, convenience of existing solutions, marketing, and several other topics. Certainly not an easy question to give an answer to.
Fujifilm Warns Its 35mm Films in Short Supply ‘For the Time Being’
Let's be real for a minute. A couple of hobbyists have named their pet project "rune". Should the name be then forsaken for all eternity?
Lalal.ai Extract vocals and instruments using AI
I just opened up Twitter, and it is shoving some inane Musk tweet in my face. I certainly don't follow Elon, but some of the people I follow do, and that's good enough for Twitter (actually, it goes a bit further; it will on occasion show you things from people who none of your followers follow either, if they're 'trending').
>Take Wordpress as an example. There really should not be a need to cache a Wordpress site. But some of the most popular plugins are those that cache. To be fair, I suppose, their legacy non-optimal database design access pattern and code is responsible for this.

To anyone reading this, do not assume that you don't need to cache your Wordpress site! I remember running a test on my site once (basic WooCommerce site running on a DigitalOcean VPS), and simply turning on the free version of WP Fastest Cache was the difference between serving 30 users/min and crashing vs. serving 1000. Drastically lowered page load times too.
>there's a clear imbalance in political power between "the poor" and "the rich"

I don't buy that. The UK is a proper democracy and everyone has about the same political power - which is a single vote. Sure, the rich can influence how those choose to vote but its not an absolute power at all. Mislabelling IT workers as elites and demanding clunkers when you can't find a house with reasonable transport options are not unfixable.
Or check out esops or employee owned companies - they don’t have same egalitarian approach - but often run more like a business
It's always been there, but it definitely does seem worse now. I've also noticed quite a lot more cryptospam.
I remember that era quite well, especially as I naturally gravitated towards Linux and open source. It was a genuine concern at the time.

Seeing as that was over 25 years ago I have to wonder how much it holds true today. Looking at MS moves over the past decade (the .NET ecosystem, Mono, VS Code, Github, Azure, etc) I’m not that concerned.
WW2 as a just war is only true to an extent. To an Indian, an Arab or an African, it was not a war of liberation.

Let's not forget that Britain worried about the loss of its colonies, that the Soviet Union started and ended the war as an invader, that France was as worried about the socialists at home as they were about the Nazis at the border, that Paris was liberated by colonial troops, but it's the Europeans who got a parade on the Champs Elysées, that everyone bombed civilians, that victors made immoral concessions in preparation for the next war, that the faith of entire nations was decided on a napkin in Potsdam.

War is messy. Geopolitics are rarely a history of good guys and bad guys.
There are many at fault for that. Educators, parents, scientists, politicians... It's a complex web of blame.

But the layman's belief that a YouTube video is sufficient background to reject the work of scientists... that's on them. They should know that a video, or even several videos, is not enough. We should all be able to recognize Mount Stupid.
Ask HN: Layered Design or Flat Design?
I am writing a web app with the intention of evolving the app as and when the requirements evolve.

While writing the code I am faced with the dilemma of whether to just provide mechanisms at the lower level and push the policy handling at the higher levels, or just flatten the design and handle both mechanism and policies at the same level.

There are pros and cons of both approaches.

So how does one overcome this dilemma when dealing with evolving requirements?
Seems like a great tool with a smart approach… can’t wait to try… thanks for creating it!

Does it search edn files too, like deps.edn?
Interesting - so in your view Elon as the top person in Twitter hierarchy will not be able to change Twitter except very slowly ?
With tests, sometimes you want to embed test data, as a here-document
so that tests don't get separated from minimal datasets needed. In
perl it was customary to use <<"EOF";...EOF and """ triple quotes """
serve similar utility in Python. What's the deal in R? Just make a vector
in the test?
> exist only on a secure element

Do non-technical users know how to operate a secure element? Is that an encrypted home drive on a laptop protected by a weak password?

I appreciate your input, but I still think 2FA is the most secure and usable method for non-technical people. Of course, no SMS (at least outside the US).
I need to give up my woodworking hobby first — it needs a lot of (garage) space.
That's one of them for me. A few others are:

-visible banding, especially in skies, in some games, which is very possible even with 24 bit color in this types of gradients, sometimes the monitor itself can cause it too. Dithering should fix this (24-bit color dithering should be almost unnoticeable), since banding looks so ugly this would be a great fix.

-textures that repeat themselves. Even in some modern games like Cyberpunk 2077, you'll e.g. see a repeated pattern of reflective rain water on road surfaces. Imho, have 2-4 varitions of the same texture and use a pseudorandom pattern to tile them, that completely eliminates this. Even if it's 4x lower resolution to have 4 variations in the same amount of memory it'd look better.

-round things (barrels, round tables, a goblet, ...) that look like a blocky polygon instead of a circle, in games with otherwise incredible amounts of details. Either use more triangles, or, I wish these were a thing, quadratic surfaces. In games that are low detail in general this matters less, in those it fits the style.

Fix those things, and several immersion breakers would be gone!
I don't see that there's anything wrong with that approach. Sometimes progress is a slow and steady refining of existing models, sometimes it is wild new perspectives that come out of left field and change everything.

And generally speaking we have good reason to believe the universe operates on a simplistic rule set that evolves in complex ways because finding a simple equation at the heart of complex interactions is pretty much the history of physics.
So you’re saying this scenario is like time travel? To be rich as Rockefeller in his time but still have your current brain?
The discussion was regarding periodic updates. I think you are mis-reading it. I am pointing out periodic execution logic does not need to be in your request handling or app logic, you are well advised to leave it as a separate task and schedule it. cron is the traditional way. You can do it another way. But you know, use a small piece of code with no dependencies and a clearly defined scope and purpose. Use the filesystem. Use a file. Dates come free. Readable in all environments. Very manageable. Simple is best. Maybe you haven't had that epiphany yet? It's a good one.
while it is not the best, I do regularly code audit OpenSSH.

For sane default, you can generate your working but sane ssh_config and sshd_config based on my inner code knowledge and network security and as an IDS/IPS architect.

Each and every known OpenSSL (v8.4; v9.0 is underway) settings in the config files have annotations and details and many have additional links detailing why. I also note where each and every config settings are found in the source code by nesting, what protocol state, control state, authentication stage, and lockings (makes code review so much easier for me) also in its comment section of each config setting.

Even has a bash script to let you create these config files (defaults to your subdirectory for pretesting, but can also as an option update /etc/ssh, which I confidently do) into something that would pass an SSH audit for ssh-audit (I’m a contributor), CISecurity and often better.

Also these scripts generates a script containing proper file permission settings based on top generic Linux File System variants (basic variants like APT, pacman, Portage, DNF/RPM) ).

I also offer SSH bastion setup (adjacent to my URL given below) as well.

I also enjoy using certificate-by-user as an authentication mechanism for maximum ease of sysadmin use when it comes to emergency mass-blocking or occasional employee departures.

https://github.com/egberts/easy-admin/tree/b74765baa450593be...
> Why would Microsoft (or Google, or anyone) continue to operate in Europe in that model

Because the european single market has a GDP of about 16.3 TRILLION dollars (2020 estimate, source; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_single_market)

By GDP, it's the third biggest market in the world, directly behind the US and China.
Every other utility scales that way - more efficient to run power lines, roads, internet, water and sewage to single buildings that house multiple people than single houses kilometers from each other.
> What are the incentives for Twitter’s best to stay?

Money maybe? If the employee count is half and they have more lax firing due to non performance, theoretically it could allow them to better reward top performers. Not sure if that is practically what is happening, but Musk seems to have good enough track record previously in building teams of productive people.

Also lot of best people like to work in productive teams, and don't like teammates that slack off without repercussion.