skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does earning money from selling a book hurt your incentives to do a good job as a politician? It seems to me it makes them better: there's less temptation to take money from industries you were involved in regulating, and your book will sell better if people think you did good work in office.
If 2-3 Ryzen machines is all you need, you should just go for a Xeon/Epyc server. You can build a decent Epyc workstation/server with 64 cores for as little as $2k USD when using 2nd gen Epyc processors.
Sorry for this blatant self-promotion. If you're looking for managed Kubernetes I'm building https://symbiosis.host which is a service built on top of Hetzner, with support for terraform, load balancers, storage, etc.
after, before, or between-office bribe. Yellem is in office now and was before.
There definitely is a kickback aspect, but another one is that they are paying these speakers for the cachet of their "presence". If you spend time in and around some of these events (thinktanks, management consulting, and Wall Street, are especially brutal for this) they are really about signaling competence. It's the same reason that they hire fresh undergrads from almost exclusively ivy leagues regardless of that fresh graduate's major -- the "name brand" of the degree is the signaling for competence. Whether the talks are actually of any substance at all is beside the point (and attendants will actually whine if the talk is too technical). Just getting them in the room and sending out the PR blasts is worth it for the longtail influence on the perception of the org.
Pressures of extreme polygamy may be driving southern elephant seals to death
> I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that someone can be a software developer for 5, 10, 20 years and bomb in interviews

i cant remember who said it but many people with 10 years experience really have 1 year of experience and 9 years performing tasks doing the same thing over and over.
The problem is it just means money == political power, which purportedly democracies try to not have.
I run traefik in docker, and then I run various other random shit including my stepdaugher's Minecraft server in docker.

Every couple of months I remember to pay the bill, then start browsing the auction page, then think "hey that thing isn't much more than I'm paying now, maybe I should upgrade...", but mostly I just stick with things as they are.
You can't not `try` or `catch`. So if you made a separate function you'd just be doing all of those `try`-es line by line in that other function.

const std = @import("std");

fn thing(a: std.mem.Allocator) !void {
std.fmt.allocPrint(a, "", .{});
}

pub fn main() !void {
var arena = std.heap.ArenaAllocator.init(std.heap.page_allocator);
defer arena.deinit();

const allocator = arena.allocator();
try thing(allocator);
}

Running `zig build-exe test.zig`:

test.zig:4:23: error: error is ignored
std.fmt.allocPrint(a, "", .{});
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~
test.zig:4:23: note: consider using 'try', 'catch', or 'if'
referenced by:
main: test.zig:12:9
callMain: /home/phil/vendor/zig-linux-x86_64-0.11.0-dev.2213+515e1c93e/lib/std/start.zig:617:32
remaining reference traces hidden; use '-freference-trace' to see all reference traces

I'll add this to the post.
Why do you disagree with the premise that there is no legal basis? That's exactly the situation we find ourselves in right now.

The fact of the mater is that there is no law to address what you perceive as a problem. Until it exists, people and corporations are free to do as they please.

As for legal complaints, there would be no legal basis to sue third parties. I doubt they would go far enough to get a judgment let alone set a legal precident.
>tech-ridden abomination.
Ok I'll bite, what was this abomination? Did it require logging into an app to start?
Asking a question, not starting an argument.

Is Trump the only President that didn't land in a pool full of cash when he left office and actually "lost" money / wealth while in office ?
>Petroleum products were terrible for the climate...

What are you talking about. It's not being burned.

Certainly better than genociding the oceans. The article overall is very ambivalent to the anglo horror that was industrial whaling.
Always found it suspicious how Al Gore became worth $100 million within two short years of leaving office. Clinton too.
First up, I do not have any particular insights what happened behind the doors and how government planning _really_ works. But if business / engineering management is in any way similar, there would have been a huge amount of uncertainty at the moment the hand was forced.

One would hope that there were some specialists at hand that know parts of the system, laws, implications on the overall economy etc.

There are likely a couple of plans available how to deal with this kind of situation. But likely not for this exact situation. Plans that exist but have not been implemented as policy likely are too rough around the edges or have significant opposition for different reasons.

On top of this, at this level of complexity and abstraction everything is kind of an opinion until tested and proven (but no time for that). Because no one truly understands all details and system connections.

On top of this in government you never know 100% what the motivations behind all these suggestions and plans is. What is factual, and what is politically tainted.

So all of the sudden things turn from certain to probabilistic. The leader has to figure out how to weigh the opinions and how to make a coherent enough decision (remember this is a system, and individually good decisions can be bad when taken together) to be net positive until the structured decision making can catch up.

Hopefully this is what is happening now and a general policy is decided on based on structured analysis. And hopefully it is quick enough to be ready before the next crisis hits.
> Is that test any better than phrenology or palmistry in practice?

As a rule of thumb, if it involves psychology, the answer is always no. Humans do not have the ability to do valid experiments to verify claims, so it is all BS.
Exactly. I was speaking with my attorney about this the other day because he also advises numerous banks. He explained to me that balancing short and long term investments to handle withdrawals is a basic aspect of modern banking, and SVB should not be viewed as a signal of a more widespread bank collapse.
I am not sure what level of abstraction and automation you are aiming for but there is a pretty neat project for setting up a kubernetes cluster including automatic updates in hetzner [1]. Even if it exceeds your requirements you can scrape it to answer many of your questions.

[1] https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne...
If it's just for fun and learning purposes you can build a RaspberryPi cluster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9fSMGkjtug
Treasuries (without further qualification) are not cash equivalents. (And it’s not because of liquidity concerns.)

Treasury bills may be cash equivalents. They present (almost) no interest risk.

Long-term treasury notes/bonds is what was being discussed. There is interest risk in that case and neither your broker nor anyone else would consider them cash equivalents (unless they are already close to maturity).
Aside from where the bank is chartered...

I would suggest a read of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_Suisse#Controversies and consider that each time that happened they lost money and trust.

At this point, they have neither.
It's also why it make sense to collect Game Boy games - they'll be playable for basically ever :D
Using something like Weaviate, which can be started in Docker with a one-liner, will give the ability to move away or toward dense vectors by concept. While doing dot product with manual code is fairly easy, using Weaviate to do the lifting (for embeddings as well) makes things super simple.

https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/slothbot/blob/slothbot-work...
Nonetheless, the goal post to pass is the scientific process and journal article review. It’s not “someone made a mistake in a study once before so all science is ruled out” as this would tend toward. We’re not doing ourselves any good carrying around old bad behavior.
Probation periods seem to be a thing in some countries but they’re not universal. I have never had a job with one.

Also, even with a probation period, a bad hire can damage morale and waste a lot of the team’s time.
Have a look at "Investing in Stocks, How to Win Big! Strategizing, Positioning, and Leveraging for Success" by Kishore Mishra. It's self-pub on Amazon. The title is truly horrendous, the text would benefit from an editor, the layout would benefit from professional typesetting, etc. But it's written by an EE. I started reading it a while ago and liked how he approached the explanation from the ground up. It spoke to my engineering mind. Unfortunately I had to set it aside and it's been on my shelf for a while. But I'm thinking of picking it up again.

I had discovered this author by reading another book he wrote entitled "Advanced Chip Design, Practical Examples in Verilog". Also self-pub and also suffering from lots of self-pub issues. But the essentials were more-or-less there.
No I wasn't. Will continue the discussion there.
> 3 times more leads and conversions...

...Says the sales text on the website with zero data to back it up.
Thanks! Haha, you're right. There's already a kind of rule for that in the original prompt I'm using, but the "competitive" thing somehow still slips through. Will fix it in the next version.
Contrast this with raising a pull request for an open source project.

There's no interview, just turn up, fix something, hope it gets accepted.
Ask HN: I'm looking for USB-C powered earbuds with ANC, suggestions?
Hi folks.

I spend most of my day working on my laptop. I'm looking for earbuds with ANC (Active Noise Cancelling) that are wired, so that I don't have to recharge them every X hours.

I'm not too worried about sound quality (I'm by no means an audiophile). As long as the sounds isn't terrible. But good ANC is a must.

Thanks! ^_^
This seems like just another tool to add to my tool box. Maybe it helps someone
You can't possibly be this naive. The people giving them money have access to power. Even a former president has plenty of contacts within the government as well as the public stage. They can be enormously persuasive on issues with the attention they get.
Related: https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/funny-interviews/
Nvidia is selling its GPUs to help speed up the process of making GPUs
How is Mozilla != Firefox when that's the only product keeping them relevant?
If you're into embedded stuff, some friends of mine are working on an STM32-based guitar processor: https://github.com/RATsynthesizers/FXcursion

It's not ready for random contributions just yet I believe (needs a lot of refactoring, plus the hardware isn't finalized yet) but we're open for suggestions!
Good on him:

> Mel was, at the time, a 78 year old developer who had recently retired after forty years of service at CitiBank. Mel discovered Twilio and Python in retirement, and his primary hobby ever since has been building chatbots. His pride and joy is named Hal 9000, an homage, of course, to 2001: A Space Oddessy. Hal used Python and regular expressions to implement Eliza, a natural language processing program developed by Joseph Weizenbaum in the mid 1960s
That's not peak nepotism. Peak nepotism would be family members on the Cabinet or the Supreme Court.

Like, say, John F. Kennedy's brother.
> Thirty years ago, what would've been the "consumer price" of a modern smartphone? Millions, easily.

Sure, but how many of them were there? Zero. Volume has to be accounted for.
I took a look at their page, and they say that they "finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications". However, their blogs/progress reports are 4 years old. Do you know how far along their support for graphical apps is? Running GUI apps is what's going to make this useful, and is what nobody else (AFAIK) was ever able to do.
Hungary official takes on German MEP in AI 'rap battle'
If the creation (natural synthesis) of an organic molecule requires extraordinary conditions (some cosmic very rare & special place), AND, such stupendously rare precursors are catalysts of generation of more complex organic molecules (like RNA) in more common conditions (rare but equally distributed planets like Earth), then an ancient chance event somewhere out there is possibly the source of all potential DNA based life-forms via astroid seeding. The entire issue with DNA/RNA is how did these complex molecules naturally arise.
Nice work. A filter against job title would be helpful.
Study finds mass shooters have distinct patterns of buying guns
Yeah, I love the product. I’ve been using it a few years in a fairly complicated internal tool used by a dozen people, and it’s been amazing. But I’m pretty discouraged by what I see as its future.
How to use Google Bard for business workflows with lots of examples
> Among the resources that have been plundered by modern technology, the ruins of our attention have commanded a lot of attention. We can’t focus anymore. Getting any “deep work” done requires formidable willpower or a broken modem. Reading has degenerated into skimming and scrolling. The only real way out is to adopt a meditation practice and cultivate a monkish existence.

> But in actual historical fact, a life of prayer and seclusion has never meant a life without distraction.

I don't think anyone serious claims "distraction" is a new phenomena that didn't exist before "screens." The actual claim is more like the magnitude of distraction is higher now.

To give a slightly different example: complaining that your memory is poor because you can only memorize 100 poems is very different than complaining your memory is poor because you can't memorize 10 lines, even though they're both "complaints about memory." Unfortunately, a lot of people engage with these comparisons without looking at the actual details and differences, so they say useless things (often with the effect of denying a problem).
How much better would fine tuning be vs few shot learning over own corpus of text?
I've found that this PL/pgSQL implementation also works well when you don't need maximum performance:

https://github.com/gavinwahl/postgres-json-schema
if you want people to engage with you seriously, perhaps avoid such a condescending tone. ditching the sarcastic italics could be a good place to start

the way it currently reads is less like curiosity and more like “how dare you question the judgment of scientists”, as if questioning results isn’t the absolute bedrock of science in the first place
Firefox started out in the position it is in today, back when Internet Explorer had Chrome's current market share. They carved out a market share because they sucked less than IE.

But now we're back to square one, with a big corporate entity running dominant browser, and a host of lazy developers that only develop for that one browser.

We really need Firefox to step up to the challenge again to keep chrome honest. Sadly Mozilla flounders at every step, and somehow manage to make their browser even more user-hostile than Chrome.
- Deploy using docker swarm, CI ssh into machine, pull repo and run

- don't remember the last time I updated lol

- traefik + worker nodes on docker swarm

- again docker swarm

- I have a cronjob that makes backup using postgres, then uploads it to a digitalocean spaces, you can just use S3 as well

- I'm using cloudflare in front of server, but I also use inbuilt firewall as I host a postgres server with hetzner(only allow traffic from the web server worker nodes)
Did Trump lose money? Seems almost impossible to fully account for all of his assets before and after his presidency.
While we are probably really good programmers, surprisingly enough these “scientists” seem to know how to do their job without our guidance:

https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.118...
Then you will like the recovery of sounds from ancient pottery.
So, you have the ssh port (22? custom one?) open to the public on the same machine in which you have your web server/nginx? May I ask why? I had one similar very simple service on Digitalocean once, and my setup was:

- bastion host: custom port for ssh open to the public

- virtual private cloud (vpc): inside I put my web-server and my db server. These servers are not accessible to the public, but the bastion host has access to the vpc

- another server for my nginx. This is public and it redirects requests to my web-server in the vpc

I know it sounds overkill! But somehow it gives me the (illusion?) of being more secure. Am I right with this setup or I'm just wasting my time (and money)? I know perhaps that a VPN could be better... but somehow I found the idea of bastion+vpc quite simple and effective.
It was all over the place in terms of interview practices last year when I was looking -- which I found odd given that that was kind of the height of demand; start of last year people were complaining about not being able to find people, but then the interviews would often be quite crazy.

But I think it's only going to get worse now that the market is getting flooded with people coming from rounds of lay-offs, and the VC market tightening, etc.
> Time for a revolution maybe.

Just a heads up you're running a fine line with comments like that... don't be surprised if the alphabet boys label you a "domestic terrorist".
Have you ever written low level code? There's constant hardcoded addresses you have to deal with which are in the spec. You can't really do BIOS, UEFI, Bootloder, Systems programming, ... without it. You wouldn't do a "magic number" and would make it a macro. But *SCREENBUFFER = 0;
I have a couple similar machines in my homelab, running in ASRock X300 boxes w/Ryzen APUs (cpu+gpu), in a similar role (k3s).

The reason I have two is I started with a 3400g (4c/8t) due to supply limitations, then upgraded to a 4750g (8c/16t) when it became feasible. Over time I upgraded memory and storage, so eventually I had everything but the case for a second “half-power” machine.

Having multiple medium-power machines can be useful for rolling upgrades (and for learning purposes), but otherwise it’s very uneconomical.

If your goal is to maximize cores/$ then a single beefy machine will do best.
To be fair, Rust also comes with some specific `if` constructs to deal with error management and has the equivalent of zig's `try` with `?`.

I also like that their Result object has many methods to express how you want to specifically handle error case (all the variations of unwrap, unwrap_or, or, etc...).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_window
Agree with this article - those little Prodesks are available very cheap and with some impressive configurations for power vs. strength.

I have an i3-8100T version which includes on-cpu video encoding, ideal for Plex. Runs unRAID. Replaced a much larger system which took much more power.
I understand, I didn't know she still works there, so she is in an interest conflict and handling sensitive information.
Mozilla are not a startup or a public corporation. If an organization does not have a path to pursue their core objective, they should just fold.

Mozilla exists for Firefox, not for itself.
People like you are exactly the reason why we can't have competent politicians. Who apart from crazy ideologues, the crooked and those that can't hack it as anything else than demagogues do you expect to sign up for a job where you are a public punching ball on terrible pay and with limited ability to diverge from whatever party line or other contingencies dictate?
> the alternative is ads that are completely irrelevant to you, ads that treat you like some anonymous user in which case you'll get endlessly irrelevant ads for mainstream stuff like ICE cars, plastic garbage, big screen tvs, fast food, etc

Genuinely curious: Do you feel that adverts you recieve are well tailored towards things you want to buy? Literally all of things you listed are regularly advertised to me by google on youtube & adwords, including car parts and tyres (I dont have a car), things for babies and young children (I dont have children), even fast food services that are not available in my country. Google also consistently and regularly serves me content in languages it knows I do not speak, and then google chrome helpfully offers to translate them
Please do - Consider Phlebas is good in its own way, but it's a lot different from the rest of the series.

Player of Games is a great entry point, but I think Surface Detail might be my favorite. It might be my favorite sci-fi book I've ever read, in fact.
I know that you didn't ask, but my $0.02 is that yes, RasPi's are unreliable. If you use one for as an unattended remote server, it will do you well to include a hardware watchdog that power cycles the device after it hangs. But modern NUCs seem to take MINUTES to boot the BIOS.

I had been using various BeagleBones and found them more reliable than RasPi's and faster to boot than the NUCs in the office.

But depending on the availability of a TI part is the road to perdition, so maybe I'm just using the wrong NUC models.
Whatsapp gives the option to store backups on my google's drive account which has a free max. of 15 GB compare that to the limitless storage on Telegram and whatsapp offers the encryption of the backup optionally. https://i.imgur.com/R3j0a3h.jpg

Facebook and Whatsapp compare the interlinked contacts aggressively, have done so in the past https://blog.f-secure.com/why-does-facebook-want-my-phone-nu... and will continue to do so. It's false to believe Meta is not milking our data.

EDIT: I'm not saying you believed that, I'm just stating that at least at Telegram I've limitless storage for a decade now AND they don't pretend to lose my contacts.
If your workload is able to be split up and run efficiently on different machines, just buy as many cheap (or free) 1-to-10 year old used computers as you can, and run HTCondor on them for scheduling the jobs.
Now that Go has generics (finally), this analogy seems a tad too harsh.
Where "brief" was about 10 years, which at the time was about 25% of all time that networks were common.
It's very difficult to pull off though. Especially outside the US. My advice is:

- Don't aim too big (there will be way more competition if you're trying to build a world-changing product).

- Don't go into any sector where big tech corporations are already offering products (no matter how bad those products are, you will not be able to compete on marketing; nobody will find out that your product exists).

- Find a niche. The more boring and tedious the niche, the more likely you are to succeed.

Basically, base your entire strategy around minimizing competition at all costs. Do not underestimate competition. Do not underestimate the power of a great big pile of capital in the hands of your competitors; no matter how terrible they are.

This is not capitalism. This is crony-capitalism. NEVER FORGET THAT. As you rise up the ranks, prepare for less ass kicking and more ass kissing.
The takeaway from this is that in communities open to everyone there is an overwhelming input from people with zero experience struggling to get on the ladder.
Shame :(

Given that interface is trivial, you could also just define it in your codebase. I've done that a few times for shimming small bits of log4j and Spring that some library uses, when i would rather not have those as a dependency.