skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Focus on the problem, not the solution.

If the problem is that our civilization is using too much energy, the solution may not be fusion power. It might be redesigning suburbs (a design problem) or making people adaptable enough to live with one another in close quarters (a social problem) or making it easier to switch houses and move close to where they work (an economic problem).

The best spur to innovation is when you are getting results. Redefining the problem you solve is one way to get that.
Some from Raku (formerly Perl 6) that I really like:

* sub MAIN:

sub MAIN(Int $x, :$verbose) { }

generates a command line parser that expects an Integer plus an optional named switch --verbose

* It has named params (as seen above), and there are abbreviations: instead of thing => $thing you can write :$thing to avoid duplicating the name (:thing also exists, though it create a pair "thing" => True, so ruby lovers need to be careful :D )

* junctions for quick conditionals/validation: 0 <= all($x, $y, $z) <= 2 * pi

* this is a probably debatable, but: if you use a * as a term, it will create a lambda for you, so *+2 is similar to sub ($x) { $x + 2 }
In your analogy it would be more like paying someone to mow your lawn because your neighbour got it done for $10, then being charged $100 because your house number is even.

It might be in the terms and conditions, but it’s bad faith to not give any warnings or controls before the services are rendered.
You only eat protein bars?
But you need to search for both hex and dec codes for that
Even C these days, although they chose ' instead of _ :-(
This is a really difficult situation, I can't imagine how stressful this must be. However, from your comments on suicide, I feel you are depressed, and forming a false narrative about the situation, as depression tends to do. Realize that these stories in your head about how hopeless everything is are total bullshit- there is a way out of this, and your life will get good again.

If you have no money, all of those obligations disappear legally (assuming you are in the USA)- they cannot make someone without money pay. Your responsibility is to deal with your own mental health first so you can get the strength back to deal with your responsibilities later.

Here is a general approach I would recommend:

1) Make a list of all of your financial obligations, and research each for at least one hour online, to figure out how to get out of it based on zero income. You should consider filing for bankruptcy.

2) File all of those things properly yourself, e.g. using NOLO books from the library.

3) Drop your house, car, etc. and find a low stress way to survive that requires a lot of hard physical labor outdoors, suitable for your own skills and abilities. For example, if this were me I would get a free derelict sailboat and live with subsistence diving and fishing and sea foraging. Other people might do farm labor for cash, etc. Look for anything that is incredibly physically hard, pays poorly but supports survival, and gives you introspective solitude.

4) Work on your inner self with daily practice. Any method is suitable: qi gong, wim hof, stoicism, buddhism, etc.

5) Once you have rebuilt yourself internally, and become conformable living on nothing, work on a plan to re-enter the world, and execute it. Be open to many options. Consider for example companies that emphasize hiring ex-criminals, founding your own company, or switching fields entirely. Possibly also look for some ways to (legally) obscure your negative reputation online: go by a nickname, etc. or simply embrace it and be upfront about it. Let employers know the real story, and that they are getting a skilled person at a bargain because of your background. I mean, reading this story, my first thoughts were around if I would be able to make you a job offer.
Sure, and when you invest millions into developing the financial models (or GPT-like models) - you are welcome to release them into the public domain if you wish.

However you don't get to dictate what the people who have actually invested the resources get to do with them, including what conditions they attach to who can be exposed to it (a la the non-compete). As an adult, I retain the option to not take the job with the non-compete.
youtube-dl basically became unusuable for a while now. It gets only tens of KB/s on my 1gbps connection. yt-dlp is a more maintained alternative, I think. It seems to get great speeds the last time I checked.
Can you give some examples of other tools that you've found to be slow?

I am also curious how you'd rank the performance of something like "https://w00dn.github.io/papergrapher/"
What is your point exactly?

They chose to settle after sufficient pressure and wild accusations were brought to bear publicly no?

If the lawsuit was kept confidential and not turned into a high profile socio-political football being used to target them, then I think you might have a point, as the case could be about matters of law and fact.

But it wasn’t, was it?

One would call that ‘forced’ in most contexts. If it wasn’t in the context of an active lawsuit, perhaps even extortion. But lawyers get a pass for this, of course.
It seems to me that you are trying to solve too many problems at once and becoming understandably overwhelmed as a result.

It’s silly, but when I start feeling this way, I think of the song “The Next Right Thing” from Frozen II. Yes, the Disney movie … I admitted it was silly! But there is wisdom in identifying the first problem that you need to solve and solving it before moving on to a second (or third, or fourth) problem.

So, in your case, the first problem to solve might be to get enough income coming in to provide housing for yourself. Forget about everything else and just solve that one problem.

Things are not as bad as they seem. You sound like a smart and caring person who will figure this out. Take a breath and get focused on one thing.

Regardless of what happens, you can be an asset to your kids regardless of whether you ever give them another dime. I miss my dad every day, and it has been decades since he provided any financial support to me.

Best of luck to you.
> Is it? It's just plain old avarice. When someone comes to you and says, "give me a coffer full of money, I'll bring you ten coffers back, don't ask too many questions", you know you're gambling, don't need to be a genius to see that.

That's not the situation however. The situation was "My relative that I trust and love, that has a successful career doing tech stuff, says this all is a good idea. Also I see people on all the big tv channels and major papers, including the WSJ, saying similar sounding things.

Consider that someone in that age bracket might have entirely not selfish reasons, like wanting to leave the best inheritance possible. How are they supposed to know all these crypto folks are different from a simple diversified portfolio, when apparently the same experts are hawking both?

You people still do not seem to understand the fundamental point: you see things from a vantage other people cannot, and it's insane to demand that every random member of society have this degree of sophistication about tech meets securities fraud, doubly so when major media outlets have been hyping this stuff for years uncritically.
Could you try enabling advanced protection (if you are comfortable)? When I made that change I was forcefully logged out everywhere. (Disclaimer: used to work at Google, don't anymore, didn't work on accounts)
Well I think she deserves praise for her actions around the refugee crisis around 2015 which took some guts on her side.

But along with her erratic nuclear policies she left highly crusted public authorities, a failed energiewende towards renewables, a strategic disaster in terms of russian gas and a dysfunctional army among many other things.
She always presented opportunism as a legit style of doing politics ("Politik der kleinen Schritte") oftentimes leading to absurd compromises and systematic short-sightedness.

Her conservative party started copying US Republican tactics which harms the German system even more because it is much relying on compromises between political camps.

For me the only remarkable attribute about her is her willingness to do anything to stay in power. I'd bet she didn't even know what for.
I'm incapable of retaining the ad-hoc specifics. Most of the shit they want me to learn I use once and then it's on to other shit. I'll never improve like that.
Not that I know of.

You can "flag" irrelevant links and they disappear from the front page after enough flags have been accumulated.
Who knows. On the one hand there have been attempts to get rid of the "manipulates bits" people forever, GUI/Drag and Drop code editors, outsourcing etc. and it always comes back to the edge cases never working and every projecting having tons of edge cases. Maybe this will finally be the time or maybe the AI still can't handle the edge cases. Seeing as how the market is slowly walking away from self driving promises(probably due to the edge cases) maybe we aren't there yet.
Fortune and Butts favor the bold!
It’s probably important for us to raise the alarm that machines cannot be sentient.
How long until we see 100% custom generated online ads? For $29B valuation, that should be a WordPress plug-in.
There are already electric skateboards, scooters, one-wheels, bikes, etc. I see nothing wrong with electric skates (although range would probably be terrible without a separate battery pack)
there are plenty use cases where those shoes help, e.g. vast offices. In Germany, manual scooters are not allowed for safety reasons.
Unless these have independent suspension per wheel, they're going to suffer the same problem. Best way to increase pebble-stop resistance is to increase wheel diameter and compliance; ala scooter.
This is what a contractor does when he doesn't want the job because it's basically too small and would be more of an annoyance than anything worth doing. Bid an outrageous amount and then if the client says "yes" at least you're making some money.

He's probably got a backlog of large jobs he can make more money on. So if he's going to come out and do outlet installation on one house, he's going to bid an amount that is worth delaying other work.

For small/simple household jobs, you should call a handyman not a trade contractor.
False. They can also write code.

Why publish such an obviously wrong headline? We should not indulge this kind of clickbait.
Speed walking looks like "I need to find a restroom, pronto" walking
Much easier to exit than standard vim!
Quantum computers may soon breach blockchain cryptography
Which seems like a super easy fix for Twilio to implement. Don't allow SMS to premium rate numbers.

If they can identify the premium numbers for billing, they should be able to identify them for blocking.
That is often considered undesirable because it makes code less clear and compilation errors inscrutable.

For instance the rust developers consciously decided to remove that from the language, named functions must be fully typed.
/r/unclebens for dead simple process with no special equipment.

Technically you can’t get spores delivered to CA. Shipping to a friend in another state is not super hard.
> On the other hand, I'd rather know who made the decision about an outcome involving me, rather than getting canned e-mail replies churned out by corporate machinery.

This is a great point.
It's an amusing insight. You've got me nervously laughing about it too.

How do the machines know what tastywheat really tasted like? My guess is they read the script for The Matrix and learned that accurately mimicking the tastes of foods would be necessary to get the mind to accept the illusion.
Is this more of a US issue? I'm ex tradesman and know a lot of tradespeople in my part of the world and they're often some of the best off and fittest people I know. Being on your feet all day and moving around seems to be good for the human body rather than sitting behind a desk for 8 hours which we now is incredibly bad for you.
"One in three-to-four girls, and one in five-to-seven boys, are sexually abused before they turn 18, an overwhelming incidence of which happens within the family. These statistics are well known among industry professionals, who are often quick to add, “and this is a notoriously underreported crime.”"
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any beginner friendly tutorials.

The way I learned it was just by experimenting with various GitHub repositories (e.g. https://github.com/fatchord/WaveRNN or the one I linked earlier) but it takes a lot of trial and error. Might do a writeup at some point if I have time.
Sorry to hear about your situation.

1. Are there any non profits for the homeless/former convicts near you? Even if you’re not homeless they may still be able to put you in touch with the right organisations. Objective- getting you a job, a place to stay perhaps, most importantly pausing your payments.
1.1 Google for NGO/pro bono lawyers in <your area>. This will help pause your payment situation. Objective- pausing the payments
1.2 Failing that, you could try to represent yourself in court. Not sure if it’s a smart strategy but it’s a strategy.

2. Are there food banks, or religious institutions nearby that provide food? You might also benefit from asking around homeless people if they know any decent resources in your area.

3. Hit up the job search thoroughly. I would expect LinkedIn to be good. I would also recommend finding remote companies from eg Canada/UK (if you’re US based), I suspect they wouldn’t do a background check. But be honest if asked (if it doesn’t cost you your health/life).

Also if you need to take a loan if I’m not mistaken bank loans are far lower interest % than credit cards. Be careful with credit. Best of luck!
By normal sentence construction it would be all wild places. It’s a good test as you say, the author is having fun with grammar to give you the idea that it’s a subset of places rather than “wild places”, so I would expect it to be written with a link between places and wild, “all places-wild.”
I see Mathematica as a shell for math. You can write long programs or modules in it, sure, but very often you're simply typing up a couple of lines to check some computation or visualize an expression which you won't even save, in which case readability is secondary.
I spent a lot of time working on this exact problem at a "Big Tech Retailer". 6 different teams had worked on it before we did, and all had given up. This is actually a very difficult problem that is at the intersection of two other very big and familiar problems... spam phone calls and bots on the internet.

Spam phone calls... the global phone system is a network of relays. No telecom provider connects everyone on the planet together. To call our grandmother in Russia, we may have to go through Verizon, Deutsche Telecom, MTS, and ~five different smaller, regional telecom providers. The first telecom provider will request the second to complete the call, will trust they do this, and will accept the price they charge upon which they'll add their own costs. This occurs recursively until the phone call has been connected and completed. This implicit trust enables fraudulent actors to get into the circle of trust. Verizon may trust Deutsche, Deutsche may trust MTS, and MTS may trust a smaller telecom provider who in turn trusts a spam caller. This enables you to get spam calls. Telecom providers themselves don't know all the callers on the global telecom network and don't really know how much people will be charged. There is no global government to legislate across all telecoms.

Bots on the internet... the internet as a whole doesn't have a firm sense of identity. It's just a network protocol routing packets to ip addresses. In the past, these ip addresses were mostly human beings. In the current time, the majority of the participants on the internet are bots/computer programs. A website like "Big Tech Retailer" has >90% of all traffic from computer programs. Elon Musk was probably right that Twitter is full of bots, because the entire internet is swimming with bots. They can be incredibly difficult to detect because AI blurs humans with bots.

This toll fraud problem is that bots we struggle to detect place phone messages to phone numbers we struggle to identify. This ends up costing a huge and growing amount of money. You cannot truly solve the problem without solving the two underlying problems of bots on the internet and spam calls. Solutions to those problems may require rethinking and rebuilding the entire communication system we've built our lives around.

Nonetheless, we can greatly reduce the effect of this problem. At "Big Tech Retailer", myself and two others we were able to reduce the cost to a small percentage of what it was. After that point, the business sort of stopped caring because the fraud cost less than the staff. There were perhaps five techniques that were most helpful, all of which were contemporary fraud fighting/bot fighting/security techniques.

If you're a startup facing this problem, I can help give you some guidance. Twilio will probably see this post and start working on a solution, but that may take a long time. There are easy things you can do to mitigate the problem right now. You can contact me at manrajt@gmail.com.
You have to prove your age, just like with any other age restricted activity. And why are you putting protect the children in scare quotes? It’s exactly what the law is doing. And if you think pornographic sex is natural then you are deeply confused.
My wife was a waitress for years (but not in the last decade or so). A four hour shift at Sizzler (yes, the stake house that everyone loves to hate) would get her about $25/hr on average easily. A decade ago. In a small town in the Inland Empire of SoCal, amongst the lowest cost of living in California.
I remember back when I was 17 in 2004, I applied for an apprenticeship to work at Jaguar-Land Rover as an Electrical Engineering Technician. I turned up to the interview to be told that there were 2 welding apprenticeships left and those would be filled from the 150+ candidates that turned up.

Without an apprenticeship you couldn't study a trade at college. You couldn't get an apprenticeship unless you knew someone that worked at the company or were highly qualified; enough to get into university. That's what I ended up doing. Studying CS.

Even if you were lucky enough to get one, they could legally pay you far less than the National Min Wage which wasn't enough to live for most people and is still the case today [0].

[0] - https://www.acas.org.uk/national-minimum-wage-entitlement
I would rather die than not provide for my children. My one and only purpose in life is to be their father. So I will provide for them or die trying.

What I need is help on figuring out how to find a job that makes me $50/hour and doesn't kill me.

And for everyone here, I am not suicidal. I am just really, really tired of life.
You'd just need to have a mutex lock on the values. That could be slow, but you probably don't want to have a config flag in a hot loop anyways. :)

In Nim you can do compile flags which let you set constants so you avoid the problem:

const myLibraryVersion {.intdefine.} = 3
We were trying to avoid the use of a captcha; originally believing that our API infrastructure was the target. A captcha did end up being the solution, but is not particularly user friendly, and I was also trying to avoid pulling developers out of bed on Christmas to implement - but we're protected now!
We were defrauded by Twilio as well: https://bill.harding.blog/2019/08/13/twilios-incentives-to-a...

Maybe a class action possibility here?
A Deep Dive into PoweRAT: A Newly Discovered Stealer/Rat Combo Polluting PyPI
commercial sites are supposed to be good; I know a commercial electrician and he'd talk about the many tech company headquarters and new buildings he and his team would wire up and do all the equipment for. This includes outlets, infrastructure like AC and any special equipment like fire alarms smoke detectors, any everything in between. He'd say working for government jobs were too slow, they took forever to complete, it was always more lucrative to go for private industry large construction sites like new malls, big buildings with large square feet footprints. Basically commercial real estate stuff.
Reminds me of Paul Graham's essay about why the Segway failed. http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html

Same principle here. People don't look cool wearing strange robot sandal shoes.
Wow, very smooth to use! Would be extra neat if this could support plugins as well.

We're building out a free AI code completion tool, Codeium that will support Neovim as an IDE and would love to hook into this as well.
1 in 4 also seems really high. In my sphere, I know a few dozen people who have gotten COVID. Yet, I know of maybe 3 people who have had symptoms exceed a few weeks, all of which lasted many months.

Though, the 3 I know of because they have/had the obvious lack of taste. Maybe more don't notice that also have other issues.
Microsoft Cloud Products increases prices in some European countries
if it works on literals only, so a[x] doesnt work if x is negative, then ok.

otherwise seems like an errors that are hard to spot.
The fact that you are equating pornography with natural sex is evidence that your mind has been completely warped by porn.
Craving != acting on craving, is my point. That's what willpower can be used for.
Large Covid autopsy study finds SARS-CoV-2 all over the human body
The latter is the exact problem in Germany as well. You work full time in your apprenticeship, sometimes earning less than 700€ a month.
If you had bad grades or your parents thought you didn't have a lot of potential, you probably got the "any degree would do" talk over "go into this hard STEM degree"
> The 10x engineer theory is alive and well.

> due to management being unwilling to cannabalize their own jobs

Sounds like a 0.5x engineer could still have produced the desired output if the alternative is a manager that resisted change. Was it incredible engineers, or bad managers? Both?
Most likely Helium hotspots
On an adjacent note, I'm really tired of the "underwater basket weaving" short hand being used. There's either a real degree you think is useless (which the above thread notes doesn't look nearly so useless by statistics) or there's not.

There's a fairly long history of people inventing what they think is taught at colleges as a straw man to then criticize them in some way and it doesn't contribute to anything for the usual reasons a fallacy doesn't.
Generations isnt even real. People change year on year little by little not once in 20 years. It's a gradual shift not some shift that happens new years eve one year.
Slightly OT, but I remember doing the Santa FE Institute's online courses on Complexity and finding them to be very solid on the topic https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses
So what's your point exactly? First OpenAI has 10x engineers that Google doesn't, now Google has the 10x engineers, as you acknowledged you know OpenAI used Google Brain's trsnsformer architecture, but it just isn't productising fast enough for you? You do realize OpenAI hasn't made a dime yet, right? So your so called 10x dream is just time to market? Not inovation, or releasing a real product?
Exactly.

I will be surprised if even GPT-3 (with training data), not to mention GPT-4-5-6 or 7, is made available to the masses. There's too much potential for disruption.

Also, I'd love to be surprised.
Could this stop every random company from asking for my phone number to send me SMS? I hope so.

Email works fine, is more reliable, latency is fine, and it works across devices and on desktops.

Deduplicate your accounts some other way. Owning a bunch of phone numbers is (clearly, from the article) not a hurdle for attackers.
Like running redbean on someone else's computer?

redbean embeds Lua, SQLite, and MbedTLS into a fork() driven application server that benchmarks at 1.1 million qps on a personal computer.

https://redbean.dev/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTRb-2DZGs