skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed SV rich guys never use citations (Sam Altman is another that comes to mind), probably because of the uncritical fawning they receive regardless. Why bother backing up what you say with evidence when the audience doesn't demand it.
The front page posts? May be. The comments section? Not really.
How does this deal with docker in docker? Or does it not?
good point, maybe they learn with their parents
Rather than replacing your Makefile with GH Actions, replace your GH Actions with a Makefile, and make your GH Actions run `make` in a script task.

Do you really need that GH Action for pulling Docker images / installing $language_compiler / creating cloud resources ? A `docker` / `curl` / `sudo apt-get install` invocation in a Makefile / script needs to be written once and is the same in CI as on your dev machines. The Action is GH-specific, requires you to look it up, requires you to learn the DSL for invoking it, requires you to keep it up-to-date, requires you to worry about it getting hacked and stealing your secrets, ...

A Makefile already supports dependencies between targets. A shell script is a simple DSL for executing processes, piping the output of one to another, and detecting and acting on failure of subcommands. How much YAML spaghetti do you need to write to do those same things in a workflow file?
Git also has built in support for automated stuff (git hooks). By default it is only local to each machine, but it is possible to set it up to distribute the hooks too.
A great photograph can take just a few minutes to get right, it's still great art.

There used to be a debate whether photography really was an art form, but that was long ago. Pretty much everyone now agrees that photography is a tool, and a great artist can produce great art with it. There is nothing about text-to-image learning models trained on huge corpuses that makes it fundamentally different from that.

Art is constantly evolving. That's what makes contemporary art relevant. The judges, who one may expect to have seen a lot of highs and lows, seem to find the tool used here less controversial than some of the commentators.
The lead engineer, Gerald Bull, sounds like a real piece of work. He just really really wanted to make big guns!
This!

Going the non-rigorous, fun way you get results faster, but you're foundation will be weak.
That Python coding engineer - he will be limited in what he will be able to do. Fast, production level code more often is written in C, C++, Go etc. than Python.

Why do people in the west always think everything needs to be "fun" from the beginning? It can become fun at some point, but it doesn't need to be from the start.
How deep can I define?
"more successful" how? Because Elon said so? If it's just about raw page impressions/activity, then perhaps for while since most of the western press is reporting and often directly linking to Twitter right now but what will happen once the media and their audience is bored of the drama and jumps to the next fad?

Do you really believe Twitter will become more profitable under Musk than before when even the new CEO already prepped the workers for a possible bankruptcy, a fat pending debt repayment date coming closer and advertisers running away?
What most people don't get is that Michael Scott was a Genius.
There is this attempt at a batteries included web framework: https://github.com/jfilby/nexus
And how many time do you need to realize we are discussing SBF and not whole FTX. FTX was a child-like run cult that did what it wanted and every single individual had their agenda. When we are discussing Salame and FTX, bring this point up.

The premise still stands that SBF was biggest personal contributor.
It's hard to take this author seriously when he makes a big error in the first sentence (non-Muslims are allowed to enter Medina). Additionally, the population of Saudi is not anywhere near 100% Muslim.
Honestly, it doesn’t look good to me. The weather widget is a ui disaster: elements stick to window borders, tiny wind value on the left is unaligned with tiny temperature on the right, rain is almost invisible on a plexiglas background. Which night is which is also unclear. If that’s a Saturday/Night down there, then why it’s sunny? When you open a weather widget you want to see bold “now” details and then future dynamics summary. Why should a user click on that details “tab”?
> US debt is extremely toxic, which isn't an obvious fact if you look at the surface only.

Is it? Why do you think so?

I’d say it’s the safest asset in the world. Sure, if you buy a 10y US bond you risk having some of the value eaten by inflation. But that’s a relatively “soft” risk in that hyperinflation is unlikely. Default I think is extremely unlikely.
> this horrible abstract algebraic kabbala that's at once disgusting and pointless.

Spoken like a true engineer :D

Discusting? Maybe.

Pointless? Gröbner basis!
the division between the more geometrical or "physical" perception of mathematics and the "pure" or abstract and more algebraic runs very deep. I remember reading somewhere about a 19th(?) century mathematician bragging there was no figure in their book.

most likely the debate reflects two distinct modes our brain is handling mathematical notions, and different people being more adept in one or the other

anybody who went through V.I.Arnold's mathematical methods of classical mechanics has no doubt which way his brain works :-)
Quite some alternative:
- Khadas Edge 2 -> https://www.khadas.com/edge2
It's alright when it doesn't crash. But it frequently crashes. Tooling is definitely a weakness of Nim (although it's improving).

More specifically: right now auto completion is excellent, implicit type annotations are excellent, error tooltips on save work, broader rename/refactor support is limited/nonexistent, formatting on save is fine, auto imports don't exist (and probably shouldn't given that it's typical to use unqualified namespaces).
Maybe for trail running, where you foot are constantly under water and the Gtx keeps the water inside. But for the daily walker in the rain, Gtx shoes are the best thing you can wear (eg the beat a well greased non Gtx Panamas), at least in my experience. Guess I'm at the height of stupidity.
Also how much males vs females. I think it is one of the countrys with the most man per women.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Saudi_Arabia
> Also if it ever goes to 4K, iTunes will upgrade it.

And if, as Sony elegantly put it, license term "evolving" happens[0], iTunes will remove it and you won't ever have access to movies you bought.

At this point I don't trust anyone to keep digital purchases. It's either on my harddrive and backup DRM free or I don't actually own it.

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/817070/your-digital-movies-will-no...
> For that to work, there has to be, somewhere, a clear understanding of how the units all work together to achieve the higher-level goals without violating the higher-level constraints which, in practice, increase in number and scope the higher up the pyramid of abstraction you go.

Oh, that's an implementation detail. The market will sort it out.
FCC bans import of new Huawei and ZTC devices to the USA
All civilizations from Ancient Egypt to Western Europe were built on slave labour. Ever heard of colonialism? Where do you think your Nike shoes and Apple iPhones and Starbucks coffee are produced? You think Westerners don't live off the labours of Asians and Africans on dirt poor wages?
Musk is so laser focused that he is turning into a bolide
Where exactly did you pull that number out of?
There are some things related to the size and timing of packets that you can use to infer the likeliness of a given handshake inside the TLS stream. The great firewall does similar things to detect Tor. (Not related to the IP-over-HTTP presented above however.)
> ...an aging wealthy populace that has no interest in sharing the pie.

If they were young, I'd understand. If they are aging... what's in it for them? A hope that cryogenics will come good?
Is the source available anywhere?
Arnol'd is just one opinion at the end of day - and I'm not even sure if he was as distinguished as a teacher as he was a researcher.
Isn't it spelled "embedded" not "embeded" in the sub-title? Or is this an American spelling I'm unaware of.
With actions you can run multiple tasks in parallel, restart failed portions without retrying the whole CI, run certain sections with conditions like which branch you are on (different tasks when commit to master vs feature branch)
Wow 1962 seems ridiculously late, for abolishing slavery. But it checks out.
I'm not decided on that. On the one hand, sure, blockchain should be involved! But the single thing per company requirement would mean that the company could do nothing else but a blockchain with nothing on it.

But it does sound enticingly pure, a conglomerate of blockchain companies without further function.
I think you are conflating enthusiasm with motivation.

We should not try to motivate students, we should try to not kill students enthusiasm. And for this the very early classes are essential.

If you kill a persons enthusiasm in a subject or in learning itself, you will afterwards toil years trying to motivate them.
The article and even the source article are like reading a research paper about beehives written for bee dancers.

Meters? Space per inhabitant? Irrelevant to your next hive where water should only be .5 seconds of beeswagger dance away!
Make a BASH script that does everything on specific version of linux. And then you only have 1 line in the CI server
IMO Rust is what you'd get if you took a functional lang designer and forced them at gunpoint to create a procedural systems lang. It's not functional, but you can tell it was largely inspired by ideas from the paradigm -- immutable by default, expression-centric to an extent, features like Option<T> and Result<T> available, etc.

It's certainly a language that encourages programming in a functional flavor, even if the lang itself isn't functional.
If you feel that taxes are punishments then we can't really have much of a discussion. Taxes are meant for wealth redistribution. They are what prevent kings and lords.

Second homes and vacation homes should be unaffordable. They are a luxury.
> Every single competent tech CEO does that everyday, Elon is not a special case

Not a special case, but different in the matter of degree. Every person (and CEO) is unique, but I think Elon stands out on a few dimensions, 1. raw tenacity, this guy just does not quit, 2. first principles thinking, 3. great at finding the right talent. I don't think any other CEO could make SpaceX work. Definitely not as a part time CEO/founder while also building Tesla. Bezos tried half heartedly and had very limited success. Zuck has yet to prove he can succeed outside of Facebook, Gates perhaps if he had the interest. Jobs seems to share many qualities but not the technical/engineering chops (although I think he knew more than people give him credit for). That said he's not a superman hero, but we can still marvel at he's done.

> We also need to draw a clear line between the reality and his narrative as well as recently developed anti-Elon rhetoric.

Agreed
Are foreigners free to leave their "sponsor"?
> Manual depressurization is messy

It releases steam. Aside from not having the valve close to a wall, not sure why this is a big deal.
How to Be Good
>With actions you can run multiple tasks in parallel,

If you mean "I want to run one build with the foo feature and one build with the bar feature. Actions lets me run those in parallel", then that is the "strategy" part of the workflow, not the "tasks" part. My comment was about the latter. ("and make your GH Actions run `make` in a script task.")

If you mean "I want to run two steps of a job in parallel and then run the rest of the job after they're complete", then shell is a much simpler DSL for that. Running things in parallel is literally a single `&` character.

>restart failed portions without retrying the whole CI, run certain sections with conditions like which branch you are on (different tasks when commit to master vs feature branch)

So can a shell script.
The permission to use SWIFT, which has been recently revoked for Russia. And contagious sanctions designed to make it difficult to trade with non-sanctioned companies and countries.
How do I discover people and follow
on https://branle.netlify.app/ ? I can’t figure it out
You notice this if you wear Gore Tex lined gloves on a motorcycle with heated grips in rain. Your hands get steamed, effectively, and the inside of the glove ends up wet through.
Those are not shallow blogspam. Those are actually good articles derived from the man experience.
> in that the specifications and different functional units are glued together using lawyers.

Exactly! And it all runs on the invisible hand of the free market.
Here is what I will say about Saudi Arabia as I lived there for 18 years from my birth as a non-Saudi:

Most non-Saudis have a job at a company. Most of my friends' fathers had large businesses of various types. And almost all the people who have jobs have fair wages.

I felt so safe living there, going out to the beach with my family at 2 am is no worry at all.

Most of the people in Saudi Arabia are very friendly.

I know I'll get downvoted, but as a Muslim, this is the best place to live. Muslims want the Sharia law and all the other Islamic stuffs including hijab, prayers and what not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYWf3bD7OlM (excerpt from the documentary MISSILE by Fredrick Wiseman according to the description) was also in this theme

(part of launch sequence, viewpoint in the control room)

I need to track down the full documentary.
This is OT and has probably been covered elsewhere, but why does PG not use https on his site? Also, why does it not trigger showing the 'Toggle Reader View (F9)' button in the Firefox addressbar, if anyone knows?
I never understood the pearl clutching going on when people hear that Rust has different constructs for handling errors and control flow and if/else stuff is kinda an antipattern.

Same kind of people that would hold dear GOTO statements in my opinion.
This could've been very useful to me when setting up some cross compiler targets in a Rust project. I burned through my almost all of my 3000 actions minutes in no time at all. Had to put my project on a hiatus until the next billing period starts. It's very easy to set up a nice matrix of CPU architectures and operating systems, but phew does it churn through a lot of CPU time fast.

I did not like configuring the GH Actions YAML files at all, but in the end it works quite nicely. The ability to do MSVC Windows (x86_64-pc-windows-msvc) and MacOS builds (for "free") is kinda nice.
Programming at the REPL: Data Visualization
That’s like saying “cryptocurrency trades 7 zillion dollars of value per day but only $3M per day of actual business occurs, so actual business considerations can’t possibly affect the price of cryptocurrency”.

There is a whole lot of money moving around via forex transactions, but that doesn’t control the value of the dollar.
Yeah but that's let useful if you're trying to round floats.
EDITOR=true is clever!
Git has --no-edit as well, btw
It’s an idealistic choice and not a pragmatic one. In Portuguese it’s passable, but still off (I understand most Southern European languages and a smattering of German, and it feels like a poor choice in any of them).
I have a pair of motorcycle boots with Gore Tex liner for about 10 years and they're still good for hours of rain. I also have no complaints about my Ecco shoes, but they only last a few years of wear.
Since most of us associate mp4 with moving images, what exactly is usually wrapped in the mp4 container, and is there a good introduction on the topic available?
If one learns to write by reading, one would learn to 'upload' by 'downloading'.
The method of knowing is not dependent on the medium. I can present the steps in knowing to demonstrate it, but I have already made my point.
My personal experience cuts it more along the lines of what the other materials in the shoe are. My main hiking shoes are leather Meindl Islands (on my second pair now since something like a decade - the first would probably have worked if it wasn't for an unfortunate accident). They have a decent leather upper and if You keep maintaining it, the leather alone is probably doing most of the job.

On the other hand, I think I went through by now about 3-4 pairs of various running/hiking lighter plastic shoes (Merrell, Reichle, Salomon) and in those the membrane is the only thing keeping the water out. Unfortunately, it's generally sewn deep into some plastic mesh, so no way to tell / maintain it even if You'd like to. And one tear in the membrane means that all the water that seeps into the surrounding mesh "will" always find the way into the failed part of the membrane. Unfortunately, the rest of the membrane then tends to still do its part in slowing the moisture on its way out. So it drains / dries much slower than shoes with no membrane.
They basically can’t start as a one or two person on the side initiative and then grow the way other technologies like introducing version control and CI can.

They absolutely can. Find a spare host or create a VM. Write a shell script to run docker, or much better, use "docker compose" to create the setup. Have it run on the quiet for a while and get familiar with it, a little more every day, before using it in production. It's crucial that you are confident about using it, so that when you come to sell it to anyone else, your confidence transfers to them. (Sales, in large part, is about the transfer of feeling.) Once you have got the deployment and backup/restore, and tool-specific critical procedures clear in your mind, you're ready.

It's not a five-minute job; it's about demonstrating your strategic value to management by getting out of the toil loop. But, to be clear, if you feel you don't have the backing of anyone about such things, you certainly have my sympathy. The best way I have found out of the mire is to work on a workflow (create/destroy, backup/restore, LDAP integration) a little a day, until it's there, and then suddenly, your work put in over the days and weeks will be an overnight success.

Good luck!
Which part of Scuttlebutt do you find not sane?
I may be thick as pigshit. But can someone explain to me how the West can decide what price Russian oil sells for?

I know they can pledge amongst themselves to not buy Russian oil for more than $XX a barrel. But how does that stop Russia from saying 'OK then. We'll sell it to someone else who WILL pay what we want'. It's not like there aren't plenty of other markets for oil, outside of EU/USA.

I know the article mentions that the shipping & insurance companies, which are mostly based in Europe, could refuse to ship or insure cargos of Russian oil, unless it was being sold at below a western imposed cap. But, again, it seems a bit odd that there aren't lots of other shipping & insurance companies outside of EU/USA which would be more than happy to scoop up some nice fat juicy contracts or insurance premiums for shipping & insuring cargoes of Russian oil.
> When there aren't clear skies to see stars, what other sort of non-GPS calibration could be done at sea?

It is speculated that you could keep navigational errors bounded with gravimetric measurements. Essentially if you have a detailed pre-surveyed map of the underwater landscape, and high precision gravity measurements you can match your measurements to the undulations of the expected gravity field. Somewhat similar, at least on the math level, to how TERCOM works with cruise missiles.
I might be wrong but, from his most recent posts, I get the feeling that PG is growing increasingly laconic. Makes sense?
They "lost money" because they moved their profits to their subsidiaries abroad, where it is either not taxed, or taxed at much lower rates.
BPaste – Pastebin
While I agree that hydrogen for electricity generation/storage doesn't really make sense, there are some industries that either can use or must use large amounts of hydrogen for chemical purposes. For example, the production of ammonia for fertiliser needs hydrogen, and refining metals from ore can use hydrogen.
I wonder if the core idea here is limited to reading books, or if it extends seamlessly to articles, blogs and other quality content.
Double telescope study of zone where Wow signal originated comes up empty
To leave the country, you need an exit visa which requires the consent of your employer or sponsor.

So, no.

Personally I would never take the risk of taking employment in an autocratic country that requires an exit visa. They could pay me annual seven figures, but it makes no difference because they'd be able to extract whatever they want from me as a condition of departure. Imagine being held in a cell at the Riyadh airport until you wire them all the money in your foreign bank accounts. Nothing at all stops them from doing that.

If you don't believe this could happen to Western expats, read this story about KPMG employees in Saudi Arabia:

https://www.ft.com/content/45f2eda8-9219-4aa5-9434-277d74ea1...

'Several former employees suspected they were under some form of surveillance by KPMG Saudi Arabia while working in the kingdom. One says he was followed by a car whenever he left his compound while exit negotiations were ongoing. He says he had safety concerns “every day” during this period “and any time I stepped out of the security of the compound”.

'Another former employee only agreed to speak to the FT from a hotel landline while travelling in Europe in case their mobile phone was being monitored. “As you know we are being watched in Saudi,” the person said.

'A third former employee says that when he finally left Saudi Arabia for good, he deliberately took a circuitous route via Bahrain so as to avoid being tracked or blocked from leaving by the firm or its government contacts. He compared the behaviour of KPMG Saudi Arabia’s leadership and the fear it instils in employees to the John Grisham novel The Firm, a thriller in which a lawyer becomes entangled in a corporate plot. “I was in fear for my own safety,” he says. “I would not have taken my young family to the Middle East had I known. [That fear] just should not exist today.”
no they take away your passport.
It's really hard to discern societal trends for this reason, when every individual and observer goes through constant change themselves.
> I wanted to go to Mecca and Medina, but as a non-Muslim, it’s haram.

No, it's not. You can even go inside any mosque if you wear the proper clothes, as how Muslims pray.
Banker's rounding is "round to even", because it limits the amount of bias introduced by the rounding.

> But I know the regulator will expect round(0.5) = 1, not 0.

That's not necessarily the most helpful, as there's at least two tie-breakings which provide that, but differ in their treatment of negative numbers (round up or round to +∞, and round away from zero or round to ∞).
You can also very easily start runners yourself, perhaps some unused hardware or a linode can get you there cheaper?
Yeah, I commented on it below. Goretex (well, any membrane in general) is kinda crap in mechanical stress. If You can put it under some mechanical reinforcement (generally the case in motorcycle boots where You got some hard panels for protection) or don't mind some extra weight when You laminate it to some decent rub-resistant fabric, it lasts decades. None of that is unfortunately done in regular plastic running/light hiking shoes
> Most of my friends' fathers had large businesses of various types. And almost all the people who have jobs have fair wages

I don't think you grew up in reality that the majority of population face. Your experience is vastly different from the common folk.

> Muslims want the Sharia law and all the other Islamic stuffs including hijab

It's a shame you don't respect women's choices about that (ask Iranians living under Islamic regime) and generally support oppressive system but I guess this is in everyone's conscience.