skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking about "close to home" I wonder how close do you have to get for compasses to go haywire
We actually do have a video demo. But ig we should have included it in the website itself too. Thank you for the feedback. :)
Good for everyone except maybe advertisers, because these talents will maybe serve something useful instead.
I have to say, as a current dvd subscriber, that I feel more abandonment than pivot.
It's a drop in authentication system. You would need it to have users and logins for your app. Or you have to write and maintain your own. They say billing is coming so I guess it crosses the line into subscription management. I'm using auth.js with extra code for the same thing. That's been a revolution compared to wiring it all from scratch. Without subscription revenue (i.e. Just using this for accounts and auth) I couldn't justify the $75/mo needed for active directory SSO. But watching the demo video, I'd love to have a project with the financials to justify using Kinde
US urges NATO vigilance for signs Russia could use nuclear weapon in Ukraine
The Reddit user agreement is written based on US law and would be laughed out of any court in half the world. I literally _cannot_ waive my moral rights, and any company doing that is breaking the law in my country.
Depends on the time of day and the weather.
> The hard part is knowing what "stupidly inefficient things" are.

There are things that are quite obvious non-critical in terms of performance.

One time I had a junior engineer insisting in a PR that we should use a few low-level performance tricks in a code because it was fast, and the code was to open a dialog box.

Also, in general performance bottlenecks are caused by architectural and algorithmic choices, not readability choices. If we're in a domain where, say, inheritance is an unacceptable performance bottleneck and we need to unroll loops and we can't extract functions because the cost of pushing the call stack is prohibitive... We are in an extremely performance-sensitive part of the code.

But most of the time we're far from any of that.
Prolog has many issues; for instance the lack of types and mode declarations, and backtracking almost never being what you want. This was addressed in Mercury [1] but much of the baby was thrown out with the bathwater. (IMHO Mercury ultimately landed closer to the MLs than to Prolog.) The academic literature suggests classic Prolog got fast enough in the late 1980s / early 1990s on stock hardware [2]; see also Peter Van Roy's intriguing book [3] for what happened next.

IMHO it's worth learning about Prolog as a way of looking at the world -- for instance Isabelle and Lambda Prolog are essentially logic programming engines, albeit with more sophisticated terms and unification algorithms.

[1] https://mercurylang.org/

[2] https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/PRL-RR-36.pdf

[3] https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html
If you were to go about changing copyright law, I have to imagine you’d only be able to change it for your nation’s works while still respecting the duration from other countries. In that case, copyright reform wouldn’t have helped this guy.

I’m all for copyright reform though. 70 + life is absurd. Even worse, you penalize people for dying early like MLK.
I understand what you’re saying and I agree that dismissing it out of hand is obviously the wrong approach - but this does feel like it meets the bar to be a “conspiracy theory”, in that people theorise that the dominant answer for something is wrong, and the true answer is being covered up by powerful groups of people.
Yes, and good luck if you're ever unfortunate enough to be physically harmed.

Even rape victims are demanded to hand over their phone before a case can proceed. Because of course the alleged perpetrator (rightly) refuses to, delete even unrelated stuff before handing over? Case dropped anyways.
"Prediction is hard -- especially predicting the future". (don't remember origin of this sentence).

Very little is actually known about what RenTec is doing. They claim to use "the simplest tools in a smart way" in interviews, with linear regression/prediction being the most useful - but I take that to be disinformation.

No one who has a working predictive model for the market will disclose it - doing that guarantees they will stop making money shortly. But making any money consistently means you have a useful prediction of the future, even if those are not the terms you use to describe it. Cover & Thomas ("Elements of Information Theory") has a chapter or two proving the equivalence between being able to profit and having "more information about the future" than other market participants, in a well defined, quantified way.
I got by first job in software just when the first big software bubble started popping and companies started falling left and right.

I still stuck with it and I'm still here. You start seeing the signs of downfall when you're made redundant for the 3rd or 4th time. =)

If I could do it all over again, I'd get an actual degree in a trade. Electrician, plumbing, carpentry. Both as a backup job (that I would never really do) and as something I can do with my hands and make actual physical things.

Oh, and get a job in retail, even for a month or so over summer. It'll give you a new respect for anyone who can do it for over a year without murdering anyone.

--

As for education in general I'll leave you with a Donald Rumsfeld quote[0]:

"...as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."

Getting any kind of education lowers the number of unknown unknowns in your life and gives you some known-knowns and a ton of known unknowns.

Known unknowns are the things you know exist, but don't know how to do or solve. But because you know they exist and are a solved problem, you can study them further if you need to.

If you have a ton of unknown unknowns you might spend a long time reinventing something that has already been solved. Your solution might be better because you didn't know it couldn't/shouldn't be done a certain way, but in 99.99% of cases it's not. You've just wasted time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns
The “bug” is that the algorithm now boosts content that is good for Musk regardless of how irrelevant it is to the user.
Because those said countries that would welcome such a person have their own jackals that dont want to get mixed up with someone elses shit and potentially have their own dirty laundry get aired.

If only there was a magical benevolent government that always does the right thing and is ready to welcome do-gooder patriots.
I'm curious where your certainty comes from. I happen to be a (former) lawyer, and my perspective is that it's quite possible that there are loopholes here. If there is a settlement agreement that refers to "income" then it would likely be defined in terms of taxable income, which is a generally agreed upon standard.

You refer to a court considering gifted money to be available to repay the debt. But do we know if there was a private settlement, or something that is being administered by a court? If it's a private settlement, then the court would not be able to step outside the agreement and loop in other property. They would say that Nintendo is a sophisticated party and it should have negotiated a more airtight agreement. But like I said, I don't know if this is a private settlement or something that a court is administering.

If you have access to other facts, or more nuanced reasoning, please do share!
> Just like the "close door" button in elevators doesn't make the doors close any sooner than they normally would.

I had never thought about this. In Thailand they definitely do close the door sooner, or straight away, and everybody does it all the time.
As a speaker of a Right-To-Left language, I see this all the time in software. Some software change the UI direction when switching to Hebrew, some don't. And culturally, it seems that Arabic users _do_ prefer the UI to be switched, but Hebrew users do not.
I personally think the entire dev industry earns strangely well. I’d expect wages to be like the rest of humanity: 2x to 4x minimum wage, up to 5x or 6x when you manage a department of hundreds of people after a career on coffee and antidepressants, chaining all-nighters at work and risking a stroke by 45.

Maybe Microsoft is the un-inflated wage expectancy.
It is very easy and cheap to scale. 1$ for 1000 captchas solved, 10$ for 1000 proxies. Then you have 1000 users, and these are kinda impossible to distinguish from your typical common users if you cared to randomize the digital fingerprints for each client to some extent. Paid APIs for publicly accessible data are not something that makes sense or works well in this world.
I can't say I've seen any evidence for it here (Vietnam) or with my Chinese colleagues. The slack channels are still active very late at night sometimes (e.g. midnight), and I'd classify most people in the workforce as 'hungry for opportunity' rather than 'looking to coast by'.

That being said, there's a surprising segment of the population that is not really part of the workforce. They're not 'rich' in terms of the amount of liquid capital they have onhand, but their family owns the home they live in, and they'd rather do odd jobs from home than go and build a career. They seem happy with their lives and I don't consider them foolish for making this choice! I think as the cost of living in the city slowly rises, this lifestyle will become unsustainable with time, and maybe quiet quitting may become a thing then.
Netflix Will End Its DVD-by-Mail Service After 25 Years
The average monthly wage in India is about $300.

I just checked and MRI scans in Ireland are about 300eur, while the average monthly wage is about 3300eur.

I know average monthly wage isn't the most robust of measures, but still, looks to me like MRIs are pretty expensive in India relative to people's ability to pay for them.
This. I don't understand how Microsoft is able to get away with paying so much less than faang and co.
DataGrip: Many Databases, One Tool
Also I'd like to highlight that DVD rental laws are different than streaming laws. If I have a DVD rental, I think that no company can get exclusive rights to rent their DVDs in my country. However I am not sure, since this is simple observation that this exclusivity is a new thing.
The UK has never really had much in the way of clear civil liberties. And there is a clear pattern now of demanding unfetted access to electronic equipment from victim, alleged perpetrators and anyone they want.

But why is the UK suddenly overzealously engaging with any EU process it can? It's insecurity given Brexit.

Importantly France could have nabbed him on exit or entry. Or requested extradition it did not.
I can only find one source on this that isn't extremely recent[1]. It seems like it would only brick the device if you pirated and used an illegitimate copy of the custom firmware.

[1]: https://wololo.net/2018/06/25/nintendo-switch-team-xecuters-...
> as that is a part of the core semantics for BEAM languages.

It's a part of the semantics of the runtime:

- an actor is all but guaranteed to not bring down the runtime

- an actor is all but guaranteed to never affect other actors

- runtime knows how put processes to sleep until the message they listen to arrives. This means all functions are re-entrant. Well, any process is put to sleep after a cretain number of reductions so that no process takes away time from other processes.

- runtime all but guarantees that process errors are a) isolated and b) propagated. That is when a process dies all other processes that monitor it are guaranteed to receive a notification. That's why supervision hierarchies in Erlang are possible
Tao of (Not Only) Go
"BNF was created by Naur," and "the guy who invented FORTRAN"
Thanks! That's a perfect explanation. Exactly right with the subscription management on the way, similar to linking up Auth0 with Chargebee in one product.
Right, I have generalized a bit. It doesn't necessarily have to be Prolog, but I'm referring to logic-programming in general.

There is even a new language that allows to embed logic programming inside of "regular" (imperative/functional) programming code. Forgot the name though.
https://oimo.io/works/ on mobile, for me, only works properly in portrait.
Contrary to the point made somewhere here about how "Oceania is an outmoded espression", it is actually the newer concept: The word "Australia" has meant something about that part of the world for longer than has "Oceania". (At a guess, the Olympic rings symbol was designed and acquired the description of what it stands for before "Oceania" came into widespread use.)

The whole probelm here is that the English word "continent" actually means two different but closely related things, namely the older cultural-geographical concept "part of the world" (cf Ger. "Erdteil", lit. "part of the Earth") on the one hand, and the more narrowly geological idea of continental shelves &c. "Hello, so which part of the world are you from?" is a much older question than the idea of tectonic plates, so Europe and Asia being different things has been thoroughly cemented into the public conciousness although geologically, they're one and the same. Contrariwise, the Americas both got the same name even though they're (apparently, AFAIK) actually two different things. So, it would help immensely to keep these two different categorisations separate. "Erdteil" is often called "region" in English, but that word is also already overloaded with quite enough meanings, so this usage probably doesn't exactly bring any increased clarity on the whole.

Unfortunately, contemporary colloquial English uses the word "continent" for both concepts, so confusion like yours is only all too common. To come back to your specific points:

* The ring represents Oceania and not Australia

In modern politically correct parlance it represents a part of the world ("Erdteil"), not a single geological entity. Saying it represents only the actual continent of Australia would leave New Zealanders and Micronesians without any representation at all, so that would be rather un-PC. My guess is that back when the rings symbol was adopted, PC details like this just weren't on the agenda, so they simply said "Australia".

* and this makes Australia an island in Oceania.

No it doesn't. It makes Australia a geological-continent in the region-of-the-world Oceania; or, if you will: It makes Australia a continent-1 in continent-2 Oceania. (See how using the same word for different things kinda sucks?)
Why not simply "counterclockwise"?
can he declare bankrupcy or is debt slavery back on the table?
>Roundabouts are much simpler, aren't they? They don't even have any moving parts.

With traffic signals, much of the cognitive load is offloaded from the driver. The driver only needs to pay attention to the signal and whether there are any hazards in his planned direction of travel. A four-way stop signed intersection can produce similarly simpler results compared to roundabouts.

With roundabouts the driver needs to count or be thoroughly aware of his planned exit, maintain an appropriate speed and curving direction of travel throughout the roundabout, yield or not yield according to traffic at any given moment, and obviously whether any hazards are ahead or near him. That is not simple.
Off topic: "high net-worth" is word "rich" not politically correct anymore or what is the thinking behind using three words instead of one? This reminded me of "George Carlin on soft language"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY
I'd say visitors are likely treated worse because they expect some rights!

They have the audacity to expect justice so really bring in the government abuse themselves /s
> If, say, ChatGPT is superintelligent, the only way it can hurt you is through insult or persuasion.

if the singularity happens, the worst won't come thru direct violence. A superintelligent entity will be able to persuade everyone to act against humanity interests (because over time people will be less able to think on their own and won't have anymore the ability to evaluate others' ideas, especially if coming from something more intelligent). People will defer almost all high-level thinking to the machine. And this is not the only negative consequence.
Are the accounts tied together though? Facebook still knows behind the scenes those are related accounts and that bothers me.
I've heard it referred to as "Audience Left" and "Audience Right", though I'm not in the industry.
I love astronomy but I'd personally screw over every observatory on Earth if it meant I could actually go to space in my lifetime.

Honestly, do you just want to learn, or do you want to go?
Plenty of countries have 50+life currently and they don't respect the longer time in the US.
Bunch can be used to automate opening and closing applications when changing tasks.

https://bunchapp.co/
> It is being built by large capital-rich firms with the explicit goal of automating away the middle class, after they've finished automating away the poor

Any executive imagining that their AI will enrich them is being very optimistic. AIs are going to be better at knowledge work, management and information processing then any human...all jobs which normally are fulfilled by those executives.

The race to the bottom will mean the first company to ditch the C-suite and then the middle managers will be out next. And worker-collectives with AI management will outmaneuver any company which is paying inefficient human ownership: after all, if you have spare cash, that means you can either hire more workers, pay workers more while that increases productivity, or cut prices on your products.

Every dollar spent on management or ownership is dollars not optimizing economic success.

AI is going to wipe out the management class first, and the executive class next. Blue-collar workers are going to be fine for a very long time.
> In geography left and right banks of a river are always in the direction of the flow

Isn't there some river where the flow goes either way depending on tide? I'm thinking it might be in Alaska, but there might be more than one.
Nope, you get the pleasure of implementing dpi support yourself.

https://building.enlyze.com/posts/writing-win32-apps-like-it...
Ask HN: How often do you alter your online behaviour because of “algorithms”?
The US laws against self-incriminating aren't unique, and many countries go much further. In Norway, you can't be convicted for lying to police and court at all, if it concerns accusations against you or your closest ones (I think that means your spouse and kids/parents in practice), or if it would cause considerable loss of social reputation or welfare of other kinds.
I've always preferred using notebooks (Jupyter Labs) for data. It preserves history and I can bounce around and execute arbitrarily complex scripts.
Well, someone or a group of people at Apple decided to give untrusted input to NSKeyedUnArchiver(a known exploitable API) in an OS-level service and it seems like no one stopped them or was there to review that code. That seems like a systemic failure to me.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to check in buggy code, but it's possible to have processes to prevent this type of bug nowadays and Apple should have had these 10 years ago.
Nutrient content of coffee depends on how you brew it (2020)
> To do that the team needs experience with performance, and most of internet programmer culture is just to lecture people about how programmers are cheaper than hardware if anyone asks or talks about performance.

But this is an absolute truth, isn't it?

I mean, what's more important to your business: avoid the need to launch an EC2 instance, or implement that user flow in one day instead of one week? Do you care if it takes 50ms to show your dialog box instead of 40ms? Do you really care if you pass all your objects by value, with a few deep copies, instead of passing everything by reference?

The truth of the matter is that in general all performance bottlenecks are caused by software architecture and algorithms, not "clean code" implementations.
Ethics are worth pursuing in the same way that mathematical models of the universe are worth pursuing. They can never be complete (and some are comically incomplete), but they can model certain parts of reality with sufficient accuracy to be useful as a tool (but not as an ironclad framework to live by). The Good Place [1] had a lot of fun playing with a light overview of these concepts and is a cute show as a result.

Our laws are modeled after certain ethical frameworks, but with the tacit understanding that they cannot completely capture morality and justice, and that morality (and thus our ideas of valid ethics and justice) is temporal (i.e. it will naturally drift over time). That's why laws can be challenged and amended (with certain ethical and moral principles that we are pretty confident will never change codified into a constitution).

It's fascinating to watch the moral evolution of humanity over time, seeing which ideas falter and which ones endure. Culture is the one living thing that evolves without dying (well, except in the case of genocide).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Place
And Africa is another, slightly smaller; Sinai has two peninsulas off of it.
This is the result of single payer or nationalised systems where private healthcare is not allowed.

So in systems like the UK, you can walk into a clinic for an MRI, you just have to pay privately for that access, usually covered if you have additional medical insurance. If you want the procedure though nationalised healthcare (NHS), there is a wait.

Health insurance is relatively cheap in the UK compared to the US. A lot of frontline care is done via the NHS contracts with the GPs and the A&E service at the NHS hospitals.
Yes. But if there's a stabbing, a detective comes round knocking on doors and handing out business cards with a mobile number on, I think it's reasonable to have the belief that the call to the mobile is not recorded.
bow, boom, tack, hitch, tiller, helm, etc :)
I think money becomes an addiction to some people. They can't fathom the amount of money they have and keep penny-pinching, nickle&diming and tax-avoiding like they were common millionaires.

The dude is 92, he could spend a million dollars every day for the rest of his life and still not run out of money.

Even if he wanted to leave a "legacy" for his kids, he could reduce that to a measly $500k/day and still every one of his kids would be a billionaire.
> But in my org, I know I won't get anything for reporting it

Are you empowered to fix it instead of just reporting it? How much effort to fix it? Sometimes the effort to do the fix is smaller than the work of selling the problem and jockeying for priority in the issue reporting process. Especially if going through those processes won't lead to anything meaningful getting done besides extra bureaucratic work.

Or if you have skip-level meetings with your manager's manager, get their opinion. Or even finance's opinion. It may be unclear how to reallocate that savings to other projects or budgets. Or if people are penalized for unplanned savings by having to over-explain it, there may be misaligned incentives that someone higher up might want to improve. For example if 10, 100, or however many other employees each find 50k savings that turns into real money quickly.
My emacs setup is pretty much eye candy free. I remove scrollbars and menus because I never use the mouse and mode-line linenumber and % of file is usually fine.

Zone seems like fun, but I would never activate it.
And here I sit dreaming of how doing business in the US would be so much nicer than in Germany, where you pay multiple taxes on every Euro I make. Apparently not. I appreciate this thread very much!