skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The societal impact and problems from centralized social networks are documented in many places...

But hold up now, is a decentralized social network dependent on a decentralized currency/token/Blockchain? Mastodon for example is a robust decentralized social network has absolutely nothing to do with whatever web2+n you're touting. The idea that you need to rebuild currency in order to build a new kind of social network reminds me of the common gamedev trap of writing a game engine in order to write a game (and shipping neither.)

> I guess you like having public forums being privately owned by tiny groups of people

When you said centralization I didn't think you meant social networks specifically since generally crypto talks about disrupting banks and governments and I think (with some obvious exceptions) I prefer those to, what would you call it... the anarcho-kleptocracy represented by the Crypto space.
Likely will never use again

* two async models present: task (C#) & async (f#)

* horrible async performance: perhaps fixed by native task & FSM transformation

* two error handling models: Result (monadic but without do notation) & C# style Exceptions

* not rich in community libraries, like a desert & abandonware
Which one ?

King Hubbert's prediction was true.

Campbell and Laherrère's prediction was also true.

(You can say that they failed to predict the tight oil and bituminous sands boom, focusing instead on the (thankfully still completely uneconomical) oil shale potential, but the gist of them being extremely dirty and expensive also fits.)
I feel like this article is dead on. It's old but the principles still hold true.

> Because C# is really, really good.

The first language I learned was VB.net because I thought "Visual Basic" sounded easy. I quickly moved to C# because it was more popular. I've always been curious about F# but never invested the time to learn it exactly because C# never caused me enough pain.
Reluctantly agreeing with you. So.. you can’t trust a small shop because an MBA corp dev team at some enterprise shop is always lurking around the corner. But if you go to the behemoth instead, you can get equally screwed because you don’t mean anything to their bottom line (see exhibit Google). The commercial software “service” industry is really fucked. I don’t want another tech bust, but we sure as hell deserve one.
Some people aren't cut out for this kind of work, exhibit A. It's offensive for you to offer this kind of negative advice with not even ten years under your belt, you know nothing about industry arcs and what makes a sustainable long career. Treating 29 (or 30) as an age cutoff for serious professional effort as an IC screams immaturity and total unawareness of the breadth and depth of the field. With your background, you could only have scratched the surface by that age. Selfishly I'd like you to continue dispensing this kind of advice because attrition reduces competition, but I have to wonder, why are you even here commenting? Shouldn't you be walking your son or something worthy of the gravitas of three whole decades' life experience?
> Sometimes the cat will trill

Might be at maximum "P," especially if it was darting toward you immediately preceding this.

Next time try hanging some spinning pieces of catnip from your rafters to see if your cat can temporarily levitate in order to collect them.
> When did junkies start dying? With the supply of oxy dried up

Citation needed.
Attorney-client privilege applies to communication for the purpose of obtaining legal advice and it typically excludes anything already disclosed to a third party, like the bank in this case.
> Dropping straight through a clean solar-mass boson star, though, would be uneventful.

If you find being crushed into degenerate matter uneventful.
I don't think this "PRNG" vs. "RNG" distinction is doing us much good. There's no meaningful difference in the mechanics of how urandom and random serve unpredictable bits. There is also no such thing as "running out of entropy".
Unless I misunderstood, the fingernail sized object was just a prototype and the important thing isn't the size of the "cell" but the number of 100nm holes in the material.

I wonder if the kind of lithography used for semiconductor manufactur would be a useful way to produce this material?
^ This sometimes occurs with international volunteering programs ("voluntourism").

Lots of pitfalls and sad stories in that space. Most of the other comments here are discussing helping out with small local orgs which might not be what carlosjobim had in mind.
That doesn't exactly support the idea of "you should have used this other already-taken phrase". So I still don't understand the 'correction' here at all.
The 'work' in masonry refers to the ritual. There is some ritual involved just in opening and closing a regular meeting. However, there is a lot of ritual involved in the degrees. When the ritual for a degree is executed flawlessly, it's quite beautiful to behold. On the other hand, when those involved with the ritual aren't very good at it, it's quite painful to watch.

Edited - fix typo
Fastmail is a business expense for me, so I don't bat an eye at those numbers compared to my other software charges.

But honestly, I think even if I didn't expense - I'd still pay for it. It's a great product; everything is top-notch.
My cat does this too! There is a "got it" flavored affirmative trill, and also a "come on!" flavored frustrated trill.
I met an artist not too long ago who showed me a time lapse of a painting he worked on. I commented that it looked an awful lot like what you get with stable diffusion if you view it step by step. Turned out he was really into the AI art stuff and his thought was that while SD is missing a kind of creative leap step, it does look like its taking a process quite similar to a human artist, or at least to the way he assembles work. He was also interested in the weird hands AI makes and was painting up a big cavas with weird hands, I thought that was pretty cool.
Because you people won't just do http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and be happy. It might be a joke but I am serious.
It was already clear at least 15 years ago that the answer was going to be : both.
Disingenuous post. OP was making things that are normally regulated, at least in some places.

https://ftt.roto-frank.com/int-en/company/press/press-releas...

https://www.en-standard.eu/din-en-13126-5-building-hardware-...
SMTP and IMAP are a solved problem.

They are problematic for only one kind of entity: someone who has delusions of becoming the next gmail.

Everyone else can just set up an open source SMTP and IMAP setup using existing programs that work, without writing a single line of parsing code.

I don't trust this "open standard" bullshit. When the only thing running JMAP is Fastmail, it's a Fastmail-specific protocol.

If you want developers to interface with it, you can't hide it: you have to document what the requests and responses look like. The "open standard" rhetoric has good optics; even more so with the IETF rubber stamp.

The underlying idea behind JMAP is that the future consists of only large mail operators who somehow forward mail among themselves. Routing to SMTP servers is gone, and so is self-hosting, mostly.

If you want your own mail domain, you can do that, but to operate it, your instance must connect over some web protocol to an e-mail monopolist.

The IETF may have signed off on this, but I look forward to what the EFF have to say.
IKR!
It should give some hesitancy. However, not every lodge is desperate for new members (really!).
I'm not sure that proponents of RISC-V realize how smug and insufferable it is to keep spouting "RISC-V is inevitable."
Does the readme's last example have sections of one code embedded in the empty space between another code's sections? That's pretty cool.
IMO

Non-competes should be a contract for a 'lengthy' severance pay period. It keeps the former employee out of the market, so the duration of the NC contract should be paid for at or above the normal rate of compensation + benefits. Depending on how it's booked for taxes / etc, E.G. if it's "You have to 'work' for us, and no one else, but on mandatory vacation, for X months, we'll pay you in full like that; and also do federal taxes etc."

Otherwise they clearly only provide damage to the employee and 'value' in extortion of that damage to the 'employer'.
dumbest waste of materials. for what? just to waste more battery when i travel with it without a charger?
Exactly.

I worked for an (unnamed) company once. For some reason I needed to update the gender of a user on the production server with two million users on it. (There was no interface to change gender I expect)

I accidentally forgot the WHERE clause on the SQL UPDATE and made everyone male.

A fellow developer was watching over my shoulder and we decided to just use the Title column (e.g. Mr/Ms/Mrs) to repopulate the Gender of all users without letting anyone know.

I want to apologize to all the female Drs. in that database.
Those F# candidates would have been be better to use C# to do the adhoc data wrangling and F# for algorithmic part of the program.
> it's a social group that spends all its time espousing the idea that all men are created equal

I'm thankful that this is the case for my church, but unfortunately, that's not the case in a lot of churches.
I do not know sorry.
FYI it was taken from this source (French podcast), if you want to dig further (and somehow you find a way to translate it ;) )

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/moteur-...
I think people should read at least slightly reputable ML papers instead of AI papers by crazy autodidactic AI experts who are making up all of their terms and won't stop telling you it's going to take over the world because of some math they did once.
... or units of measure
I thought one complication over garden leave is that the payout is set on base compensation where finance may be heavily skewed towards bonuses/equity.
> Can you elaborate on "what I saw then" that made you think it was indicative of the entire idea of volunteer work?

Yes, I was looking to do international volunteer work and used the internet to search for opportunities, since I knew nobody with experience. Fully willing to pay for my own travels of course. All I could find was programs where you had to pay thousands of dollars, your own food and your own board in order to volunteer. For a few weeks.

That is sadly as far as I got before dismissing the concept as a scam.

I decided to do another similar search right now, more than a decade later. Still seems like the same thing and this is what I get from opening all the search results from the first page:

"Volunteer Shark Conservation in Fiji for Teenagers
Price: $4,470 USD for 2 weeks"

"Volunteer with Children in Fiji
Price: $2,470 USD for 1 week"

"Volunteer Community Work in Fiji for Teenagers
Price: $3,045 USD for 2 weeks"

"Childcare & Community Volunteer Work in Peru for Teenagers
Price: $3,645 USD for 2 weeks"

"Affordable fees from $525 for 1 week"

"Volunteer in Africa with Agape
completely affordable for our volunteers.
Programmes from £675"

"Teach English abroad - Costa Rica
USD 339 - That’s just USD 48 per day*..."

"Volunteer to assist in improving physical and mental health for women, girls and communities in Ghana, West Africa.
Special offer!
Get up to 25% off
1 week £ 1,645"

"Help children and families overcome severe poverty
Inspire and guide youth to productive futures as a volunteer in Peru.
1 week $2956"

Honestly, I don't care for these grifters and scammers. Good luck to them.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of eager and able-bodied youths every year who would have loved to volunteer and help their fellow man (or animal), but could only find these scams and decided against doing such a thing. Better just get drunk in the hostel, at least that won't set them back thousands of dollars. Consider the loss.

I took a look at the United Nations. They offer two spots for youth volunteering: have to be 18-26 years old and with a bachelors degree and relevant experience. The volunteering spots are both in Mogadishu in Somalia. The description doesn't have any details about cost, so I guess these are actually free.
> that an earthquake would happen in 25 years and 50 years later not so much as the tiniest tremor ever occurring.

First, we are already seeing early effects of climate change https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/04/1135852

Second, is your argument that "if climate change was going to be very bad, it would've happened by now?" I'm not aware (tho please correct me if I'm wrong!) of analyses saying that sea levels should have significantly risen by 2023, or the more catastrophic effects that models are currently showing.

> There is no scientific “consensus” that there is a climate “crisis”. Just a small minority of loud fear mongers with political motivation.

The data doesn't support that it's a minority of scientists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climat... dives into the data, but surveys of scientists (who have published in peer-reviewed journals) consistently show that over 97% of scientists believe in human-caused global warming (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveys_of_scientists%27_views...).

I also want to push back on the "political motivation" portion. As the OP notes, scientists have been warning about climate change for decades. Carl Sagan testified before congress about it in 1985. This is older than the current left-right political divide in America. George Bush gave a speech in 2001 in which he says that we need to stop emitting greenhouse gases to stop climate change https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/20...

> There are literally hundreds of other pressing issues that are real crises that deserve attention way before climate.

I agree that we should be combating other issues, too!
lol, I signed up and was banned after just a couple hours. No explanation, no idea why I was banned, I don't think I'd even put a product up, just started making the shop (selling clocks/clock designs - maybe they got confused).

I appealed, and a week later the very same user dismissed the appeal and perma-banned me without recourse, blah, blah. I think I found another complaint email addr, and eventually got re-instated with an apology. But honestly, the experience put me off completely - if I'd been relying on it for my livelihood I'd have been screwed.
It's really annoying they dropped macOS guest support from ESXi 8 though.

After all, Apple is still bringing out new versions for intel.
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Heroku failed in the middle of a deploy and the dashboard is not loading now. This was happening earlier today, but was fixed a few hours ago.
Was that actual loss or unrealized/theoretical?

As in you lost a bunch of Beanie babies that someone would for sure have paid $250K for?

Or, yikes, you lost a bunch of Beanie babies that you paid $250K for?

What actually happened in terms of the loss; are you saying that many of those packages didn't make it?
I did just this a few days ago, it's incredible how many people will come up and ask to pet your dog. Some will keep moving quickly, others will talk about their own animals, and some will drop little hints about themselves to further a conversation. Aside from everything fun about a companion, it's really is a fantastic feeling to be able to see someones eyes light up, you're brightening up their day!
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Did Arthur Booth turn his life around after Judge Mindy's revelation?
White balance adjustments to camera raws don't generally use ICC profiles, they do whatever the combination of camera format and raw processor want.

Which can involve local adjustments, since you may want to process people differently from skies. So object recognition/segmentation models can definitely be involved, or what's essentially an upscaling model for better demosaicing. (That wouldn't be trained on public images though, unless they were the right format of camera raw.)
We have apparently hit a reply depth limit, so I'm "replying to myself".

There's a recognized carveout for business sales, and I think a couple of other things that don't implicate the ability to ply your trade. You might be able to stretch some of those to some restrictions on employees in some rare case. And I think that at some points the intimidation got bad enough that even some lawyers had lost track of reality, so I wouldn't be surprised if some people had settled some cases they shouldn't have settled, or even gone to court and failed to raise arguments they should have raised.

But the basic thrust of the law is refreshingly clear, and it's statute, not just customary law.
Per page 399 'Although Chicago is well beyond the 100-mile limit for CBP activity, the entire city (and 100 miles southward into Illinois) are all subject to extended Border Patrol enforcement authority and the “border search exception” because Chicago is adjacent to Lake Michigan, which is considered an “external boundary.”'

I don't think the ACLU is claiming the 100 mile zone exists de jure but rather that CBP and successive executive branches rely on a specious claim, it's extremely hard to sue them, and so the 100 mile zone is a de facto reality. You can of course tell a CBP agent to get bent and that you'll fight it in court, but (assuming you're driving) you'll probably stop if waved down.

I agree with your legal analysis, but absent a court or executive order explicitly stating the CBP has no such authority, they act as if they do. It is this reality which the ACLU is describing, howbeit shallowly.
There was no technical barrier. ESXi until version 8 simply would recognise if it was running on a Mac and would offer macOS guest support automatically and officially. The hacks (like donk's unlocker) were only needed if you wanted to run on non-Mac hardware.

I still run some Macs at work with ESXi on it for this purpose. With version 7 because VMWare stopped supporting Mac with ESXi 8. Sadly, because Apple hasn't even stopped yet making intel versions, it's a bit early IMO.
Interesting. So is actually executing the script, server, or API call without errors part of the interview? Is that what makes them "practical" or is it because the data structures and algorithms are related to your business domain?

Not trying to nitpick, your comment just piqued my curiosity because you made the point of distinguishing your exercises from leetcode and also stated that those who chose F# were generally poor performers.
>...never had any effect other than to intimidate the stupid

I do not care for that characterization. Most people are not familiar with the intricacies of employment law. It is unfair to expect the average person to know that this magical spell in their employment contract is invalid, unlike the other magical spells in that thick document, because a magical spell at the state capital says otherwise.
Why has the term grokking been formalized like this? Honest question. Why can't we stick with normal words like "learning" or "understanding"? It just seems like a slow creep of needless semantic complexity in an already esoteric and niche space.
It doesn't help that C# has a much, much better name for the purposes of appealing to Pragmatists (in the article's terminology). Every Pragmatist knows that C is a trusted and proven language. So, something that is an improvement or iteration on C is probably fine, too. But what is F? No one knows.
Friendly cats often look sort of sleepy to me, maybe because they do this slow blink sequence when I look at them?
Worth checking once implemented in Mutt and Thunderbird.
What of it? It exists in some cases, so the mens rea requirement is not universal.
Please see my reply to user mptest above (or below).
He didn't manage to make it look like the ligature though :( There is probably a way to do that with unicode.
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The problem I see is that Jira encourages "management by looking at Jira" - effectively Jira becomes a second source of truth that is unconnected and unconstrained by the actual truth (the code). Jira acquires state that has to be carefully maintained as a separate operation by the developers to keep Jira's state in sync with the actual state of the project. Since most of the organisation are looking at Jira, the effective source of truth becomes Jira's current state, and the developers end up running to try and keep the actual project in sync with Jira. Or they become disconnected and Jira's state becomes completely independent of the actual project state (tickets being marked as "done" that aren't complete, or sometimes even started, because it doesn't matter because everyone is looking at Jira and not at the code).

I would love to see Jira state somehow derived from the state of the codebase. Tickets get marked complete when they are actually complete in the code, with tests and documentation and everything, because the ticket state is derived from the code state.
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Beanie Babies, man; research it.

If you've never heard of the late 1990's Beanie Baby craze, you will be amazed.

But what happened to Beanie Babies could never happen to Vancouver real estate.

Your one bedroom condo will be worth $40 million by 2050, honest to god, no shit!
You would think that such a "prestigious" institution would be a community with a standard for free expression that was at least as tolerant as the constitutional minimum, but hothouse academia in the US is it's own thing.
Before I lived in California, I probably would have agreed with you. However, ballot propositions in CA have been a mess.

Maybe California is too large of a community, but (as a general rule) larger entities will devour smaller entities when allowed to do so.
The DGX A100 was $200k at launch. I found a DGX H100 in the mid $300k area. And those are 8 GPU systems. So you need 32 of those, and each one will definitely cost more plus networking. Super low estimate would be $500k each for $16M total. But considering its moving from 98GB to 480GB RAM per GPU. Might be more like $1.5M per 8, round it to say $50M.

And at 1/8th the power per GB, you have 700 Watts / 96GB / 8 * 480GB come to around 450 Watts per. And 115kw for the 256.
Wouldn't modelling the human brain mean we'd be using less power? We're using brute force to try get similar results to what the brain does.
I've seen the opposite, and have seen some pretty big fast large professional systems being built in it. Admittedly most of them are closed source, and the community contribution allowed to be made is small. Most of the developers using it normally just market themselves as C# developers when they change job because of some of the above opinions they see online. Have seen speed comparisons compared to other similar tiered languages internally where F# shines with less code as well particuarly around math (C# is just starting to catch up here). Even seen dynamic problems solved in it to your point in a professional setting to speed up very often run calculations to a large customer base.

However technical capability and efficiency of the tool isn't the only concern picking up the comments in this thread so far. The herd effect sadly can make people nervous creating a barrier for people to try it especially if career is in it. What other people think of it, and their preconceived notion can matter.