skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been on both side of press like this “immediately” means a couple of hours at most. Sometimes it means “I spoke to someone, they said they’d come back to me, but I didn’t want to wait”.

I’ve seen cases where emails are sent outside of work hours on a Friday/Weekend so the journalist can claim that the subject “did not respond to repeated requests for comment” on Monday morning.

Journalists often have a story they want to tell. They intentionally arrange things to support their story.
Socialized healthcare still has a "profit motive" unless everyone involved is paid unrelated to any performance metrics. Which would be a weird way to do it.

(And most hospitals in the US are nonprofits, which certainly doesn't stop them from being way too expensive.)
It's the old "Is a falling tree creates a sound if no one hears it".

The simple answer is NO, because there is no "compatible ear" that interprets those "sound"-waves, as sound.

The reality is, it always creates waves but not sound.
50k in Bogota probably and 60-75k in Paris.
Memento mori.

Steer towards how you want to be living, while you can.
I'm not an economist, but I don't believe that's always true. Let's say I can buy replacement server at my own pace for £100, or in a panic when it's urgent for £200 (obviously made up numbers to make the maths easier for me). I can do the former at any time up until the server breaks, when I can only do the latter.

If I invest that £100 instead in another part of the business, that returns £150 a year on average. After two years, that's already £225 - enough to pay for the crisis and still have made £25 profit. If I can get a third year without the server breaking, I'm closer to £140 profit, and after four years I can already afford to have two crises off the back of my initial £100 crisis-avoidance money.

Obviously this is a very simple example, and there are lots of examples where this wouldn't work out. If my rate of return was only 10%, then it would take eight years before I'd have made back enough money to pay for the crisis situation. And sometimes gambles don't pay off and the crisis happens sooner than you expect, and other times people are just consistently bad at estimating these sorts of odds. But the point is that, even if it's cheaper to do something now then later, if you can find something more useful for that money to be doing right now, it might still be more profitable to take the expensive option.

(That said, there's also obviously the human cost - if your team is constantly operating in crisis mode because everything's been used until the last possible moment, then it's unlikely to be an effective team for very long. But then that's kind of the point here: this is all a matter of tradeoffs, and trying to predict the future as best as possible with limited data.)
Quite possibly not. It is reasonably safe only if infrastructure allows it. Biking on a major road where a bunch of teenagers drives the car is neither healthy nor safe.
Nowhere in the article have I found the words "correlation with a matched filter":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched_filter
> about the uniform nature of causality across time and space, for example.

Nothing can exist without causality as we know it, i.e. a thing happens which is the cause of another thing that happens.

That does not mean the order of events is as perceived, or that there is even an order of events. The order of events is the way observers perceive the events, and is independent of the cause and effect.

For example, everything that happens in the universe may already have happened, at the instance the universe was born. But we, as members of the universe, perceive it as happening one thing at a time, like watching a movie already created.
You don't bypass an iPhone lockscreen with your mum's sewing needle.

If Apple cares enough about locking something, no average person bypasses it easily
> Facebook will be gone as soon as the boomer generation will fall like dominoes.

Mr. Soapbox, freaking Yahoo isn't dead and you think Facebook will be gone :-) Heck, Borland IDEs are still around.

Facebook (the social media network) will be around in some form or another long after my kids are gone.

You don't go from having several billion users to 0 in anything less than a lifetime, because you know what, that network is probably profitable even with 10-50 million people and if Meta doesn't want it, someone will ask them to spin it off and sell it to them.

Successful software rarely dies, successful networked dies even harder and slower.
Ok, so here I go... No, this was NOT "very well played", because the pranker, when he was confronted by the pranked, resorted to a flat-out lie: "but it’s not me", basically shutting down the only avenue leading to truth, short of accusing a roommate and friend of being a liar. AFAIAC, that lie transformed the prank into deception. He should be happy the roommate took it so easy.

Also why do we see two different versions of the final ad?
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This is a trolley problem, the train is on the track to genocide and oppression of 40 million people with the other track being uncertain and you're standing here arguing that we should not touch the lever and that this position is somehow radically distinct from some other guy who is arguing that we shouldn't flip the lever.

It might work for your conscience but if we put either of you in charge the outcome for those 40 million people is functionally the same. Distinct maybe, different no.
That's specific to Australia. In the US "trades" can be very well paying if you're self-employed, but it's low class and hard to get into, something that'd have to run into your family.

And we actually pay tech workers well.
Its sleep everyone needs. Lack of sleep which is culturally forced onto a group of people with things like school hours, college hours, office hours, shift work, is the fastest most consistently subtle way to ruin people's health and keep them in check.

You'd be surprised at how many people lose weight just by sleeping better.

When was the last time you jumped out of bed with a spring in your step?

There is also such a thing as diet induced obesity.

In North America, due to its vastness, everyone has drive somewhere, how on earth can people get their exercise if they are driving everywhere? Europe, is compact enough so that people can walk and get stuff, but the food legislation will play its part in creating obesity.
I think there's basically two explanations:

1) Most startup people are just evil

2) HN is heavily controlled by Russia

The latter is pretty obvious (we're talking English discussion platform where you can create account in ten seconds with no verification and I'm not sure if there's any anti-bot measures).

The former ... most programmers are rich and they are convinced they are rich because they are awesome instead of lucky. Most programmers aren't very social or have emotional intelligence. Most programmers think they are better than others and are prone to "fuck you, got mine" thinking. And look how many startups are based on doing extremely exploitative and illegal things - Uber with illegal cabs, Airbnb with illegal hotels, and so on. Of course those people don't give a shit about suffering.
Patreon Inc and Open Collective Inc (non-profit) are both US companies. You can let them worry about any potential sanctions.

He gave you three options: https://opencollective.com/core-js https://www.patreon.com/zloirock or Bitcoin bc1qlea7544qtsmj2rayg0lthvza9fau63ux0fstcz

Or are you just posturing?
It's easier to compile the linux kernel from scratch than it is to build a debian package from scratch.

It's mind-blowing how complicated it is; at the end of the day it's just an archive. I hate having to do it.
Whalebone? Doesn't sound like an official EU domain.
The tournament thing is kinda fun, but deep down I think we know which we like best.

For me, it's serif fonts

1. Triplicate A Code

2. NSimSun

3. Courier Prime

Sans serif fonts certainly have their own appeal

1. The Sans Mono (the O'Reilly book font) / Fira

2. APL385 Unicode (this font's got maybe the best numbers)

3. Mononoki

Pixel fonts, classics (but maybe best on low DPI)

1. Fixedsys Excelsior 3.01

2. 6x13
I didn't know that was included. Thanks for explaining.
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i live in a "poor" country by american standards.

i am 28. a guy. virgin.

I am still studying because "no one will marry their daughter off to me unless i have either a family business or a good degree" so i am "waiting" for one.

It is normal for 35-40 year olds to 'start' looking for a match because they've had to spend these years either earning their ass off to build some sort of "fund" or to keep their family from poverty.

physical contact is seen as "child making recipe", why would you need anything else? devil perhaps?

The society is also a problem. Dare to have a relationship unless you are married. You will be shunned from the society the same as criminals. Forget if you had sex. Then all bets are off. This one time a kid ran away with a girl, he was returned a week later but everyone knew "he is done. No good family will marry their daughter to him".

The guys are expected to care for their parents meaning not all the children get to move. If there are two or more sons, well someone has to stay behind. if you are just one, Well tough luck. Your wife is supposed to care for her "inlaws" so unless the couple cuts off their relationship with the parents, you HAVE to stay and care for them. This means for the most part, careers take a hit.
A larger version of Kilopower is probably what you want. And that probably enough for now.

But I also think a machine that mass produces enough solar panels and batteries on the moon wouldn't be that light.

Kilopower is pretty mature, all it needs it to be actually tested in space.

> public too scared of the nuclear boogeyman

We can not be hostage to a uninformed public opinion. NASA can go ahead with these things just fine. The public doesn't know the difference between a nuclear battery that are often used and a small reactor. The public doesn't start a revolution everytime nuclear is mentioned.

NASA and DoD are literally going to test a nuclear thermal rocket, if they can do that, a tiny nuclear reactor shouldn't be an issue.
I just finished reading the article, I can't find where in the article you got this impression from.
what happened to n-gate by the way??
I hope you fought back on that. That is a personal attack and nothing more.
> But also understandable, once you start giving in, you're giving Russia an incentive to do it all over again and capture now territory.

Not just Russia. If Russia succeeds, China is invading Taiwan next, and the whole global economy is grinding to a halt because like 80 % of world semiconductor industry is there.

Saving Ukraine means saving the world.
NASA already has the Kilopower reactor. Starting with that and then building larger version of it is probably what you want to do. They already have a team that is working on that stuff, all they need is more funding and an actual mission.
If you own the browser, you can just nuke the `mode` option of `attachShadow` method before page itself runs. And bang, you can access to whatever you want now. So it isn't really a big deal if you are scraping or doing UI testing. Because the one runs first has the power to do whatever you want in js (Except for some primitive specifically protected in browser).
Microsoft explicitly considers C legacy, and offer a C++ compiler instead.
I'd take a 10x sales or marketer over a 10x programmer any time.
Yes. Zoom executives directly working for china to disrupt users calls that were anti-china. They later formally added Chinese-gov related takedowns in their TOS.

Before the pandemic, apple had to remove their Mac app because it was basically a virus.

Google and Amazon aren't perfect, but you can use their video calls without worrying that an executive will dislike the content of your call and mess with you. And they don't use anti-patterns to try and route you from the web app to installing a virus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/technology/zoom-tiananmen...

https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-bug-webcam-hackers/
https://lifehacker.com/remove-zoom-from-your-mac-right-now-1...
I feel this. People often want to stick with React, despite it being overly complicated, because of the 'huge variety of third party components'.

Most of those components are written by people who don't seem to understand HTML and CSS.

I worked on an app where a third party component was used to show a box, with some initials in it, and a background color. It was five divs.
> Whom you’re mirroring to argue Japan should submit to Beijing.

I don't think China would mirror France's policies against Guinea, it has never done so in, what? 1000+ years?. Saying otherwise is preposterous. But, hey, whatever gets the Western war machine going, I guess. Also, you're ignoring the part about de Gaulle being right about NATO and about its real meaning (US direct control over Western Europe).
This resonates. Microsoft does this with a lot (not all) of their products. Its also my experience here in the Netherlands, especially how Microsoft does sales. Its always management who forces everybody to use these products against their will, especially as they come for free in their 365 package. Nevermind that is a pale imitation of an MVP version of their competitor.

For the decision makers, it doesn't really matter that the consequence is loss of work satisfaction and productivity. That is _their_ problem.

My regret is not finding out about this earlier in my career, in the future tooling will be an important consideration when choosing jobs, and I'll avoid orgs who are in an iron grip by Microsoft like the plague.
Ask HN: What are your tricks/infra working with embeddings?
I'm trying to design my infra for creating, storing, and retrieving embeddings in my AI applications and was wondering what are the different paths for it. I'm especially interested in NLP, but vision/multimodal could be interesting too.

Whether it's related to performance, scalability, or something else entirely, I'd love to hear your experiences and insights. Looking forward to your responses!
Sounds like you don't get enough fiber or water.

https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/constipation/

I eat mostly veggies and whole grains. I barely have time to post a comment on HN before I'm done.
> Chaplin wasn't alone in calling out the dangers,

A very honourable mention to Alexander Korda.

Particularly 'Things To Come', his 1936 film warning of the rise of fascism in Europe, global war and the dangers of air bombardment (thereby bringing mechanised warfare to civilian populations for the first time).

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

And yes, it is based on the HG Wells story.
Most people commenting here haven’t lived in a pre-globalized world.

The reaction is basically “things are not ideal. Therefore the problem must be globalization. Or late stage capitalism. Or wokeness”. Depending on what they’ve watched on TV or read on their social media of choice. Never mind that they can’t even define what some of those things mean.
I use what comes with the operating system, e.g., the Bourne shell (builtin printf) and GCC (to compile original netcat). Not sure I understand the magnet and needle meme.
That's nameplate capacity; what about production?
I slept through most of high school because of the long commute, but vaguely remember a counselor coming around with a computerized career recommender at our magnet school, which told me to become a telecom linesmen because I liked computers.
True, but it's always about the amount of pain you can endure.

The West in general can't endure much because it's no longer used to it, <<unless>>, and this is super important, that pain comes from a clear, mortal threat. In which case democracies are at least as resilient, probably more resilient than dictatorships because the decision making is spread around more and more individuals decide it's bad for them if the other side wins[1].

With Russia at least several countries (Eastern and Northern Europe) decided that Russia is a clear, mortal threat and they're lobbying the bigger and less decided actors (US, Western Europe) to hold the line.

With China, in case of a conflict, alarm bells would go off around the world, much more than for Russia. The US population is quite apprehensive of the PRC regime, already. In Europe a similar thing is happening.

I hope nothing happens, but I think people will be shocked how quickly the hostility ramps up if we get to it, even from people they wouldn't expect.

[1] It's basically A) "someone tells you should be afraid of something" versus B) "I've figured out on my own I should be afraid of it". B) is a much stronger and more enduring learning process.
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>You can’t really do science without having certain metaphysical beliefs

You can do science without holding any beliefs just like birds can fly without a theory of aviation. Metaphysics just provide interpretations of scientific results beyond what's observable.

In fact outside of physics we don't really posit uniformity in any science, because what you study changes all the time anyway, in fact the scientific method itself changes. Science itself is a dynamic, evolving process. Certainly looking back 500 years science was pretty different, and it probably will be in another 500.
are you me?

My notion configuration is so complex now, api posts, conditional formatting and quirky ui features...but I'm still a human blob.
You are overestimating the political aspects.

If NASA decides to do it, not much can stop them. We use nuclear generators all the time on things like Curiosity. And lets be real the public doesn't know the difference between a tiny nuclear reactor and that.

Unless people physically show up and try to jump in front of the rocket, they can't do much.

Also, NASA and DoD are planing to test nuclear thermal rockets, and those are way scarier then small nuclear reactors.

NASA just has to move forward with a good plan with confidence and it will work just fine.
The better answer is to agree on how 'sound' should be defined, which would dissolve the question.

“Do you think that 'sound' should be defined to require both acoustic vibrations (pressure waves in air) and also auditory experiences (someone to listen to the sound), or should 'sound' be defined as meaning only acoustic vibrations, or only auditory experience?”

From: Disputing Definitions — https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-...
> Or maybe the current subject matter expert that’s been pouring thousands of hours into this project should be funded by the billion dollar companies that rely on him

Ideally yes, but as we've seen time after time, charity as a business model doesn't work with corporations. I think the coreJS maintainer would be fully justified to take another job, and then work on coreJS as a hobby as much or as little as he likes. Nobody needs to martyr themselves so that a bunch of billion dollar advertising companies can save a buck.

Maybe in the future we decide to finance core open source projects as public infrastructure through taxes, or those billion dollar corps set up some kind of foundation to fund them, but for now the whole situation is highly dysfunctional and one cannot blame maintainers who put the financial interests of themselves and their family ahead of producing open source.
Also, Russia repeatedly invaded Poland with two other allies (Prussia, Austria) and divided it three times and the polish didn't get their country back by being nice. (I didn't even talk about ww2).
sorry for my ignorance, but what is the point of discussing this? i just see it as a company trying to unify communication within its subsidiaries.
I'm stick to Windows and WSL - I'm not looking into Linux On Desktop land (not in FreeBSD on Desktop as well of course), I have enough Linux on servers at work and doing sysadmin job at home is not appealing to me. I like the robust, reliable and solid system Windows provides me. I have close to 0 issues, not having problems with updates, basically every case and every tool I _may_ need works, making me confident about Windows as tool to solve my tasks.
It's certainly one perspective. For some types of software it may make sense.

I generally release software under the BSD license. My goal is to allow the widest possible use with as few legal restrictions as possible. I have no moral objection to companies using my code, building on it and not contributing back, if that is what they want to do. I like seeing my stuff used and benefiting the maximum number of people.

So far, everyone who had used my code has contributed back. Most people don't want to maintain forks and their own patches.

My stuff isn't that strategic I guess. Just useful.
I don't think these issues are linked to be honest. China has a very different strategy. More plotting and long-term scheming, less brute force like Russia.

They'll sneak their way in just like they're rapidly expanding their influence in Africa, buying European ports and airports etc. Their tactics are completely different and our response must be as well. Of course long-term planning is the biggest weakness of democracies and the CCP's strength. So I doubt we'll be able to prevent it.
I think that might be hard even if there was a specific target that was "People who work at surfing schools" because people don't really keep their FB job description up to date.

I would just target "Surfboard (sporting goods)", "Surfing (water sport)" and similar and then let the FB algorithm do it's magic. I.e. create a very broad targeting for your ad and then let the ad run for a while and get results, and those results will let FB automatically fine tune the targeting for you. It costs some money but it will probably be better in the end. Unofficial rumours says you need around 50 conversion events on ad for the ad to be fully "trained", which can mean a couple of hundred dollars.

Remember the targets you add have a OR function between them, unless you use the "Narrow audience" button in the targeting.

If you really want to narrow down you could do "Surfing (water sport)" and narrow the audience and find some interest that is AND <insert teaching-related interest targeting>. People that work as surf school teachers could possibly have been identified by FB with some kind of teaching-interest.
Also fun fact, Metropolis is in the public domain as of this year.
Missing the point much?
It was a pretty awesome (and creepy) prank, but I do agree that once he was accused, he should have come clean.
And billions makes possible to buy big offices, and suits to appear way more competent than you are :)

I shared room with people probably a bit less skilled at working than min wage clerks I worked with a few years ago. But they got a Java cert so they think spending hours in meeting is work, and efficient.

We should have mandatory non IT work to make people see what it is to work lean and fast.
It isn't actually.

First of all flying things into the sun is incredibly power intensive and expensive. You are comparing truck loads of 'toxic waste' to a tiny amount of nuclear fuel.

What if the flight explodes in the atmosphere, basically nothing. The reactor is enclosed in steel and will fall into the ocean. At that point in time the reactor is not active.

The reactor is basically just a few pallets of U-235 and U-238, those falling into the ocean isn't a big deal.
GPT-J is the open source equivalent of GPT-3, and Pygmalion is the open source equivalent for Chatbot.

As a non-liberal living in the third world, I vastly prefer it to unjailbroken ChatGPT. Hopefully the people at open-assistant.io finish their version soon.