skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better article, scroll down to the "From the Archives - Interview with Pippa from 2009" -

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/63516307/pippas-astonishing...

"Germany was far more advanced with their DF (direction finding or radio detecting apparatus) than the Allies. They were about an hour and a half behind me each time I transmitted. Each message might take me about half an hour so I didn't have much time. It was an awful problem for me so I had to ask for one of the three DF near me to be taken out. They threw a grenade at it.

A German woman and two small children died. I knew I was responsible for their deaths. It was a horrible feeling."

Leo Marks - "Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945" -

"Clearly disappointed that he couldn't see a problem, he said that silk codes could easily be camouflaged in toothpaste tubes with special compartments, in shoelaces with soft tubes inside, and in an infinite number of conventional objects which would certainly stand up to random street searches, and might even be safe under close examination"
Probably depends on the ISP and what sort of ONT we're talking. My ISP gives me a separate ONT with an ethernet connection for the router. In OpenWRT I set up a PPPoE interface on top of a tagged VLAN with the appropriate credentials and it works pretty well, I can get a public IP or an entire IPv6 prefix depending on cretendials.

I honestly don't know why they bother with this PPPoE + VLAN setup on top of a modern fiber network, but it is what it is.

You could probably get an ONT in an SFP package, if you want to eliminate a separate box. The problem there is that ISPs tend to have an allowlist of permitted ONTs on the network. Some ONTs allow you to change the serial number so that may work in place of the ISP box.
That's pretty cool if it helps, more for the (already impossibly gigantic) analysis tools pile.

It's too bad that prediction is functionally overrated in trading anyway, and the overrating is even worse when it's being done by beginners.

Everybody wants an edge on the future, but few can hold a really solid trading plan together over a significant amount of time. Especially when they've already even blown up an account, etc.

You can make a pretty good argument that things like emotional dynamics and emotional leverage at a personal level are at least as important as prediction, but maybe more if you consider that you can find a reasonable predictive model built on something as valid as mean regression after a minute's searching around.

The experiences shared in the _Wizards_ books are pretty remarkable in this way.
Diversity is good.
Cities subsidizing maker spaces would solve the wood/metal workign part of this well, and I live in a pretty dense part of the city that has a community garden down the street.
It's a lttile mroe colmceptiad tahn taht toguhh. Yes, iuiivadndl ltteres do metatr, but good rdreeas aern't mtenally snidunog out eervy wrod tehy raed. Raehtr, thier eeys tkae in eevry leettr at ocne and teihr brinas intntalsy renzgioce the wrod. Taht's why you can prlaboby slitl raed tihs ppaaagrrh eevn thgouh the mdidle leetrts in ervey wrod are scerbmald.

(It's a little more complicated than that though. Yes, individual letters do matter, but good readers aren't mentally sounding out every word they read. Rather, their eyes take in every letter at once and their brains instantly recognize the word. That's why you can probably still read this paragraph even though the middle letters in every word are scrambled.)

Phonics is important for being able to read words your brain isn't already familiar with, which is especially critical during the learning process when "words your brain isn't already familiar with" is like 95% of words. Context clues can help there too, but those aren't nearly as easy or accurate as just sounding out the word.

Fun anecdote: I recently had a chance to re-experience that learning process myself after listening to a long fantasy book series on Audible with lots of made-up terms (names, cities, magic items, etc), then going on a fan forum later and seeing those same words spelled out for the first time ever. Phonics was invaluable to me in puzzling out which words corresponded to which terms I was familiar with from listening to the series.
i dunno. that's a little steep. i'd go as high as $2.49
More money to be made from government contract bidding.
I'm not sure of the exact qualifications, but some senior business owner typically needs to be included. I believe there is a headcount requirement as well, but no requirements on what that headcount does. Most large companies have zero issues meeting the requirements. For a small business/startup it's likely not worth it.
Within in the next ~100 years we will advance to a state where nuclear weapons taking out one planet won't kill our civilization outright anymore, and within the next 200-500 years we might reach a point where even war across an entire solar system won't be enough.

There's the risk that we will develop stronger weapons to match our increasing resilience, but on the other hand in the last 100 years we've made good progress on either outlawing many weapons of mass destruction or at least making their development much harder, so there's hope.
I've been looking for a new small car in the US. There really aren't any options any more. Even the 'small' cars are all 4 doors and I only want 2. All I can come up with is:

Mini and MX-5

I'd love to go electric but the Mini-E range is terrible (~100 miles). They are supposed to be coming out with a new version that doubles the range though, so at least that is good.
I guess its becoming less hip but I love my UniFi setup. Rock solid, amazing performance. It’s lacking some features I’d like to tinker with but ultimately it’s the best WiFi setup I’ve ever had.
I have a high-end blender with two toggles and a dial. No keys, no screen.
Correct, AI has always been a catch-all for many different algorithms and models for statistical analysis. One definition from the 50's is "the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without explicitly being programmed.”
There are a lot of small towns like that in western massachusetts, which are in proximity to the five colleges, but aren't in them. Places like Montague or Shelburne Falls have areas of density in town that you can walk around in and get to things, and then you can drive 20-30 minutes into Amherst or Northampton or another larger town, closer to the universities.

I went to school out there and have friends from the surrounding areas, it's nice if you're wanting something more rural but still near things. The key to it is a lot of the towns were built 100-200 or so years ago, when it actually was necessary to build close to each other in community.
I have a post / talk on mental models and techniques for debugging (as well as specific advice for debugging JS):

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/06/presentations-debu...

I also recently did an episode of the Learn with Jason show where we talked about a lot of these concepts:

- https://www.learnwithjason.dev/travel-through-time-to-debug-...
There’s also a prison museum in Deer Lodge Montana that my partner and I went to to kill a little time before the Vonnie Louise had our room available.
> Many of those delays are political rather than technical.

You're not wrong, but that also applies to, for example, an international collaboration to build a global HVDC power grid that can shift enough power from antipodes that we could do a pure PV electricity supply without any storage.

Would only take, like, a decade of global metal production, making it faster than that specific reactor.

But hey, politics.

> But of course no renewables proponent will ever mention this as a black swan event.

That's a misuse of the term, black swans are the unknown-unknowns, not predictable bad things.

Also, at current rates, more like 10 years. Electric cars use so many batteries that having the capability to make all-electric road transport necessarily also makes grid storage trivial.
I love this!! :) How much does 24 real cores + 126GB ram cost on the cloud? A million dollars?
AO3 has many, many decisions around tagging that are quirky, at best.
This got a lot of attention this week. I guess it's novel.

But the song sucked, as did the supposed AI contribution. I couldn't quite figure out why everyone used this as the example of how it's all over and AI will take over the world of music.
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Ten years before that, I rented a cheap dedicated server and learned to use Webmin and Virtualmin. And it wasn't particularly complicated, Virtualmin gave you everything you needed with minimal configuration and you could find plenty of help online for the rest.

And it gave you a certain idea of how it worked, instead of operating on a black box.
Sounds a bit like Japan's Furusato Nozei. This "hometown tax" allows taxpayers to choose where to send a portion of their tax payment, in order to benefit small regional towns that might otherwise be struggling with a shrinking tax base.

In order to thank and attract people to pay their Furusato Nozei to a particular town, the towns provide gifts as kickbacks, competing with each other by offering the best gifts. Usually it's something associated with the local area to which the tax is paid. But in order to prevent the gifts from getting too out of control, by law the gifts are limited to 30% of the value of the tax paid...
Retail investors will still lose.
StackOverflow still just runs on a pair of (beefy) SQL servers. Modern web engineering is a joke.
The local disk option when self hosted is what I was looking for. Couldn’t see that mentioned in any of the docs.

This looks great! Thank you
I'll definitely take a look at this.

What I have in mind isn't really a "proxy" but more of a login/redirection server.

A "proxy" is middleware which directs all communication through a single server which adds to latency.

What I have in mind will run logins through a single server. But once the login is complete, any further communication is redirected to the proper work server to continue without any proxy middleware involved.

This won't entirely eliminate downtime issues but it does limit the effects to a reasonable level while offering increased efficiency and decreased latency.
It is legitimate.

As far as the other post goes, there's nothing conspiratory about it. Politicians and bureaucrats use excuses or disingenuous arguments to lobby their ideas all the time. Maybe some of them geniunely believe it.
I have a hard time understanding why this so bad and the article does nothing to explain it. As I understand it companies only pay taxes on their profits, which generally speaking is what's left after expenses, including salaries, are subtracted. If that's the case then why would higher taxes on profits force a company out of business or to layoff staff. If anything layoffs would tend to have the short term effect of increasing profits, which would only further increase taxes.

I can understand how a sudden unexpected change to the tax code could catch people off guard and cause short term problems but overall I don't see why this particular change should be so devastating once any transient effects have been absorbed.
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I have honestly never heard (or made) a critique of him as a person. In fact the little I have heard about him as a person has generally been positive.
I believe a big reason this song blew up on social media was that it was misleadingly hyped as an "AI-generated song". I expect many people thought that AI composed and recorded the (reasonably idiomatic) music and lyrics.

For the record, here's my understanding of how this "AI-generated song" was made:

1. A human wrote the lyrics

2. A human recorded the beat

3. A human recorded themselves rapping

4. An "AI voice filter" made the recorded voice sound like Drake / the Weeknd.

IMO, the real tragedy here is not some threat to Drake (he’ll be fine) but that some dude who wrote an original song had to pretend it was written by AI to get it heard.
there is a wall, water and a reflection. not sure what the problem is.
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Use the TPM as an additional layer of protection. In combination with other things as well, heck even the encryption built into an SSD. So if any one fails, it's still better than nothing. All with separate, uncorrelated passphrases.
Maybe it’s just me but I quite like the community that’s built up around most makerspaces. People helping each other out, giving classes, showing off their projects. Seems absolutely worth the occasional misplaced tool.
Is this another acronym I'm going to have to learn for interviews?
"It isn’t difficult to imagine these sorts of agreements giving rise to bidding wars between municipalities, each vying to offer the most generous kickbacks in exchange for a large corporation allocating its state sales to that locale."

Do we need to imagine? Hasn't this been common for decades?
That would only be a true analogy if I rented a car for 10+ years. At that point, it would likely make more sense to buy. In fact, it often makes more sense to buy corporate real estate as well, however because these commercial landlords already own it and refuse to sell (or only will sell at a price far beyond the actual legitimate value of the property), businesses must either /build/ new real estate or lease, and building is far more expensive than buying due to the regulatory capture of zoning and permitting. It's a mere coincidence that major commercial landlords are good buddies with everyone at the zoning and planning office in $metro.

If you want to be honest, the service commercial landlords provide is managing zoning/permitting with the city by proxy, which is mostly a corrupt institution, so it's corruption management by proxy.
Another example

https://youtube.com/shorts/9SZY_QEozWw?feature=share
because the average investor isn't aware of that simple fact, or they think they really can keep consistently breaking the market
There's a dozen resources you can use to learn the language and Duolingo is possibly the worst. Learning a language takes a lot of effort, especially if you're not in a country where it's spoken. Being efficient and persistent is the only way to get anywhere. Otherwise you run the risk of wasting all that time. I have to imagine the portion of people who have spend 1000+ hours learning to end up without the ability to communicate is pretty high.

I don't mean to be so dismissive but even as a supplemental resource, it's just at the bottom of the barrel.
This smells a lot like pork barrel spending.
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The Falcon 9 second stage uses highly refined jet fuel and liquid oxygen. But it is an absolute trivial amount. The airline industry emits more GHG in a minutes.

The reason it is visually spectacular is not because it is burning but because the fume is reflecting sunlight. Rockets that only emit water vapor have caused similar spirals.
No? Any linux-running machine with sufficient network interfaces does.
I thought the song was pretty catchy. As a first example of what AI can do in this space, I'm excited at the possibilities -- especially as someone who writes music but can't sing like the Weeknd or rap like Drake. I look at it less as something that's going to replace songwriting and more as another tool.
I belive hackernews itself is a couple of servers too.
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That's just how the music industry has become. As an indie musician myself, it's incredible hard to get heard. So while I don't agree with what was done in this case, I can understand why.
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Thank you! <3

P2C is really cool, but it would have meant having to talk about load balancers with incomplete information. This felt like slightly too much to add to an already-quite-long post. It also would have added an extra layer of complexity to my already-quite-complex simulation code :sweat_smile:
He also joined the volunteer forces fighting for Finland against the Soviet invasion in the winter war of 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_support_of_Finland_in_...
Yes, but it's sifting through data in the background and making the decision for you whether you ought to be able to see certain things. Traditional search engine do that sort of but not to the extent AI does. AI will make the decision for you on whether something meets the criteria of being a "good source".
It's a delayed vestige of the "stranger danger" panic of the 80's and 90's. Being in a park without kids is considered suspicious in some places now. Fortunately, not where I live.
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>The agreement outlines that 35% of that local portion that is returned to Cupertino is handed by the city to Apple—to the tune of $107.7 million since 1998. California took notice and launched an audit.

So $4m a year?

>The Adopted Budget is budgeted at $130,587,325 and is funded by $130,244,157 in revenue.

So taxpayers are “missing out” on 3% of their budget in exchange for 65% of 1% of Apple’s online sales in California. How much does the city get in return for this deal? And, wouldn’t Apple just choose somewhere else to direct the funds otherwise?

Apple has to choose where to allocate the tax funds. That’s the law. That Cupertino offered the best deal for them is a quirk of the law, not a shady deal by Apple. As well: their headquarters are located there. It’s not like they shopped around for the best kickback deal by allocating it to some little town on the coast.

> Cupertino is facing a 73% reduction in local tax revenue. California is taking issue with the agreement and examining the extent to which the California purchases attributed to Cupertino are proper.

Err, what? There’s some math here there doesn’t add up. Did the article mean to say that Apple has contributed $107m per year since 1998 — so $2.6b? If so, Cupertino is facing a 96% reduction not 73%.

I must be missing something here. Could someone point me in the direction of the right math?
I didn't want to bog HN down in doing my tech support for me, but since you ask it's a TP-Link AC1200 (https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/wifi-router/arche...). I'm not doing anything meaty with it most of the time.
Not my kind of music either, but your opinion is subjective and completely misses the point of the story here.
So what happens when we can predict stock market with much more confidence? What kind of effects would this have on the market. Corporations having much better predictions but also the average person.
> Anyone know why these ideas persist despite mounting evidence?

Your comment is a bit too abstract for me to reply concretely to, but my guess is a combination of the evidence being less compelling than you think it is, and confirmation bias on the part of company leaders.
I’m assuming this is a tongue in cheek question so the following isn’t really necessary, but for the people who aren’t convinced:

Good leaders = happy and motivated employees.

Happy and motivated employees = more productivity.

More productivity = more profit.

The current school of popular management is ridiculous in that it treats employees as “resources” that are expendable, seeking to work employees to the bone and extract maximum profit from their labour for as little possible in return. The alternative and better approach is to see employees as investments/assets who the company can help grow and nurture in a symbiotic relationship that benefits both parties. It is ridiculous that companies think the money and time wasted on recruitment, spying, micromanagement, pizza parties and the like is better value for money than just paying people reasonable salaries, investing in training, and fostering a high trust work environment where employees actually want to stick around. In my opinion, the former is indicative of a company where the higher levels of management have been infiltrated by people with sociopathic or psychopathic tendencies, as these are the people who can’t comprehend why anyone would make decisions that aren’t wholly motivated by self interest. The result is they manage their employees with zero trust and treat them like machines rather than people.
I doubt anyone would be foolish enough to claim that the site NEEDS 'cloud infra' to run.
Literally why I stopped writing Go. I was going crazy repeating myself so much. If err != nil also never felt nice to use.
The irony is priceless. Consider your long-winded comments as your running your mouth and meanwhile you have refused to listen to three different people explaining what marketing actuall is.

Priceless.
I don't recommend buying a "router".

I recommend buying a miniPC that has at least 2 network ports and install OpenWRT on there. You can do it on ARM-based PCs or even x86_64 based PCs.

Then connect this miniPC to a cheap 8-port switch, and get some WiFi APs and connect those also to the switch.

This way you will get a much more powerful and reliable "router" that can't ever "brick". Better WiFi quality with good Prosumer / small business APs, and the ability to upgrade your WiFi independently of your router as needed.

Something like this for example:

https://liliputing.com/linkstar-h68k-is-a-pocket-sized-route...
I appreciate the perspective, and I certainly don't hold anything against the folks who have prioritized other things in their life. The difficulty I've found is often when there used to be some activity or hobby you did with someone, which then becomes harder to continue doing without them. If your usual tennis partner moves away to start a family, it's not just trying to find a new friend, it's trying to find a new friend you enjoy playing tennis with, or upending your schedule to now play less tennis, or stop playing tennis at all.
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It’s a typo.
It's almost certainly expected.

These models are argued to contain hidden models of the data they represent, and can pick up on patterns with one-shot or few-shot samples

Let's recall that Bob Mercer, Jim Simons made their billions off of trading options with NLP based hidden markov models, beating everyone on Wall St for the last two decades.

ChatGPT is an easy entry to this
I had often gotten frustrated trying to parse the code at a bunch of different layers of abstraction just to make one change to a model or just see one detail of the implementation. On top of that, matching pre-trained weights to those edited models was pretty hard for me.

Agrippa consists first of a Python package that takes model architectures written in XML syntax and compiles them to ONNX, a general neural network format. That file can then be imported into PyTorch using the package and trained. Afterward, the model can be published to the zoo on the website. Other users can import entire models or parts of a model into their project. On the zoo, the XML makes it really easy to visualize the models down to every operation.

Overall the markup ideally forces people to make their code more local, so that all of the details for any part of the model are readily accessible. The details are also more explicit - things like initialization and weight sharing. All of the parameters are explicit and named as well.
> The goal of lifelogging: to record and archive all information in one’s life. This includes all text, all visual information, all audio, all media activity, as well as all biological data from sensors on one’s body. The information would be archived for the benefit of the lifelogger, and shared with others in various degrees as controlled by him/her.

Some things are best left forgotten to time. Reminds me, I need to write in my journal.