skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sure it would be very fast at booting and fast at crashing as well. However, on the Android side it’s probably what’s needed to compete with Apple hardware and software.
“Mi hermano está enfermo pero mis pantalones son rojos.”

This was my favorite bombastic phrase in Spanish—for the same purpose: to be “viewed as an insane native, and treated with dignity and respect”
1) US military programs are a domestic jobs program / political pork barrelling exercise more than anything. Because of course support for the military is one of the only things left everyone can actually agree on.

2) US needs to build weapons for the future not the present. And as such the amount of cutting-edge R&D as a percentage of the total program spend will always be significantly higher than for most other countries.
> The most fascinating thing to me about OF is how it's practically normalized having one.

I don’t know any personal acquaintance or any celebrity that has one. Perhaps I do but I’m not aware; my point is, it’s not that normalized, at least in my circle.
The MAGA wing of the party is anti-war in general, much like the liberals of the early 2000s. At some point these positions flipped. It's not that these Republicans are "anti-Ukraine," or "pro-Russia" or even "not anti-Russia." It's that they don't want to send hundreds of billions of unaudited dollars to weapons manufacturers and highly corrupt foreign governments, especially given the glaring contrast with the lack of spending on problems much closer to home. From a geopolitical perspective, the position is simple: war is bad, we are prolonging the war in Ukraine by funding it, therefore funding it is bad. And further, it's a misdirection of resources when the real foreign threat is China, not Russia, and that's before considering the many domestic problems going unaddressed while the gang of neocons and neolibs ("the uniparty") redirects our tax dollars into the coffers of the Ukrainian military and Raytheon stockholders.
I once worked in the sector, and left once I realised that the scam is that sellers of offsets characterise a complex system as a simple system.
> So the easiest way to solve this is: Declare everything you need as keyword argument, but then only give *kwargs in your function signature to allow your __init__() to handle any set of arguments your children or siblings may throw at you. Then remove all of "your" arguments via kwargs.pop('argname') before calling super().__init__() in case your parent or uncle does not use this kwargs trick and would complain about unknown arguments. Only then pass on the cleaned kwargs to your MRO foster parent.

The easiest way is to not put your arguments into kwargs in the first place. If you put them as regular function arguments (probably give them a default value so they look like they're related to kwargs), then the python runtime separates them from the rest when it generates kwargs and you don't have to do the ".pop()" part at all.
"my current project" type problems are where Python is great. Types remain "nice to have" (if you like them) and aren't really essential compared to the ease of prototyping new ideas and building a PoC. You're choosing Python because the benefit of libraries outweighs your personal preference for types.

Most of my work is in machine learning/numeric computing, so I'm very familiar with the benefits of Python's ecosystem. Basically all of AI/ML work is about prototyping ideas rapidly, where access to libraries and iterating fast greatly trumps the need for type safety.

At nearly every place I've worked, Python is the tool for building models quickly but shipping them to production and integrating them with the core product almost always involves another language, typically with types, better suited for large engineering teams working on a large code base where you really want some sort of type checking in place. Most of the companies I know that do serious ML in production typically take models from python and then implement them in either C++ or Scala for the actual production serving.

It's worth pointing out that the vast majority of those libraries you use were initially developed without any consideration, or need, for types. Great, reliable, software can be written without types. Dynamic typing is a great language choice, and there's no need to fight the language itself by trying to bolt types on.

Where types are important is where you have a complex, rapidly changing code base with a large number of developers of differing skill levels releasing frequently. If that's the environment you're in, I would strongly recommend against using Python in prod, even if it means you have to implement the features of some libraries internally.
> If the social order is racist, then these laws will be used to preserve racism

That's a very convenient "if". I just declare social order is racist, so the laws no longer apply to me and any lawless action I take instead of being a crime becomes struggle against racism. Nice deal. Except the society that allows such deals can not survive. Of course, if you want to destroy the society - either because you genuinely think it's "racist" or because you just don't care - then you don't have a valid base for complaint when the society tries to defend itself and arrests you. You are literally destroying it, what else should it do?
They're irrelevant until you find a hospital cutting IT funding and the devs don't know what they're doing.
Wasn't the big problem for many porn sites to get paid? The main payment service providers didn't want to deal with them (for many reasons including chargebacks) so they had to use shady providers that charged 15-20% of revenue.
The kind of know-how they are building up there is making them a force to be reckoned with, it is one of those if-it-doesn't-kill-you-it-will-make-you-stronger things.

Obviously Russia can do anything that Ukraine can do but Ukraine has a very large and wealthy contingent of the world behind them and they are motivated far beyond the Russians. I really hope they will be able to force some kind of breakthrough to the point that even Putin realizes that giving up is the better outcome.
Just to add, even if you do not change anything at all, you will spend many hours just getting the build environment up to snuff if it hasn't been touched in over a year. Gradle, the plugins (android, crashlytics, etc), the build.gradle DSL, dependencies ... its quick bit rot.
My disappointment in my education is how much these rules were emphasized over content.

The hard part of writing is content--not syntax.

Just like programming is about logic, and syntax is a minor nitpick one needs to know.

But I think the real reason these rules were emphasized so much is that they are easy to grade and explain.
Yeah actually, stay tuned! :D
It's relevant because long-term investors may not have believed that $54 is the max value of the stock. If it was at $77 before, then why not again in the future?
> It's already audited at several levels so it was voted down because it was a case of the Republicans wanting to add another layer.

Can you provide a source, because everything I've seen says otherwise.

Even Democrat-friendly media, has been essentially forced to reluctantly report that indeed, the US government has no idea where billions of dollars of weapons and aid are ending up[1]. And there is always a delay with these things, so we can only assume the amount is exponentially larger and will never be truly known.

Clearly, if the material and monetary aid is already being audited, it's not being done well or correctly, so an actual auditor was more than warranted.

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[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/14/us-ukraine-aid-cabl... and https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/27/...
You might find The Secrets of Hillsong on Hulu interesting. The first episode spend a lot of time in an NYC megachurch.
Unions have these things that you might of heard of... elections, where you can elect your leadership. How much democracy is for employees in a corporation?
> Not because they don't have computers and internet at home, but because they don't have overpowered gaming computers at home, and to socialize.

I used to frequent one of these in Boston. The target market was primarily Asian students attending American universities, who didn't have powerful gaming PCs or who left theirs at home. I went there to try out some of the more popular games like Overwatch and League of Legends, because I didn't want to gum up my PC with whatever spyware/copy-protection malware the gaming companies saw fit to install.
Stephen King Isn't Afraid of AI–His Books Have Trained It
Fukushima: Japan asks China to stop citizens making abusive calls
yeah, this struck me as strange too. the ongoing maintenance on long-lasting industrially-manufactured drones might well cost more than rebuilding a cardboard one every few weeks.
There is also typing.ParamSpec when the purpose is to write a generic wrapper:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.ParamSp...
This kid has plenty of time to dive into other languages. C is a great choice.
Literary wordiness is conscious use of language for poetic effect. It's fine in certain kinds of fiction if you can make it work. (Harder than it looks.)

Outside of literature, wordiness is usually an attempt to appear formal, archaic, and authoritative. It tries to introduces a difference in distance and status, and often comes across as pompous.

Simple examples: "utilise" for "use" "refrain from [doing the thing]" for "not [do the thing]", "I am minded to" for "I will/might."

A lot of business writing, some tech writing, and many scientific papers are unnecessarily wordy.

"Whether adults with obesity can achieve weight loss with once-weekly semaglutide at a dose of 2.4 mg as an adjunct to lifestyle intervention has not been confirmed."

Which really just says "We gave our volunteers this dose of this drug but nothing much happened."

That's a little exaggerated, and papers without the wordiness probably wouldn't pass peer review.

But still.
Do not think about the future;

A variant of this technique I'm using since age ten, is to project myself in aspirational situations, tipically what I want to be when I grow up. So I'll be a cosmonaut or a famous writer planning projects and interacting with people
I have absolutely no information on the viability of the Chinese military. However, I will observe that the US military a) has people with combat experience at pretty much every level b) publishes documents detailing its fuck-ups. We’re not comparing apples and oranges here.
I'm not sure what the best "proffesional" advice is, but, I'll say I have really enjoyed working with Flutter.

It's a pretty cohesive ecosystem, all the build tooling, the package manager, etc comes with the project.

There's relatively little learning of "best practices" because there is mostly one way to do stuff.

People might disagree with me but I find dart a very nice language, feels like more sleek simpler modern Java. Also there is no awkward language conversion with Typescript / Javascript.

Lastly the "Reactive UI" philosophy is pretty similar across the front end frameworks you mentioned.

I haven't used Flutter professionally yet, but, I very much enjoy using it for my personal projects.
With only minor collusion with the bartender, you can just arrange to be given a glass made of sugar-glass.

https://www.makeyourownmolds.com/how-to-sugar-glass-mold/
Sure, but the Russians can move them into the war zone through their supply route almost as easy as the Ukrainians can, that isn't a huge advantage. What is an advantage is that the Russian supply lines are somewhat vulnerable and that Ukrainians don't have to work around any sanctions.

Let's be happy the Germans didn't have access to any of this tech in the middle of WWII, their V weapons were bad enough as it was.
Both the Freemasonry and the Elks require a belief in god to join, or at least heavily encourage it.
A subset of the members of my former UU congregation are some of the nastiest people in my social media network. The way they talk about their conservative neighbors is horrendous and at the end of the day it’s just trading one set of religious precepts for another.
Canada isn't the united states, hyperpartisan "conservative governments" nonsense is just ignorant. Our political parties are exactly the same, both support our third world healthcare system as is because it favors entrenched interests and it's politically popular. But don't let that get in the way of playing American and blaming "conservatives".
Speaking of the content, it's nearly completely hollow. If we were to apply a 2D DFT to all the images, then find a "porn" basis in which the images are represented in the most compact form, we'd find out that an average image has only a few bits of novel information.
Not many on OF actually become millionaires either. The chance of that is just as rare as in regular life.
That's just one application.

One of the worst problems of LLMs at this point in time is keeping them updated.

For instance ChatGPT should be able to talk about the Superbowl in 1984 when the Chicago Bears trounced the New England Patriots (I remember it well because I grew up in New England!) but I couldn't expect it to have anything to say about the (other kind of football) game I saw yesterday where West Ham beat Brighton because nothing about the later game is in the training set.

This problem just gets worse as time passes and the world continues to change. Bing's chatbot works around this for my soccer example by running a conventional query and then having the LLM summarize it which gave a pretty good summary of the game but when I asked it pointed questions about this particular game such "Who had the most possession?" which was relevant because it was really lopsided in the direction of the losing team, it fell down, it seemed to be working off structured statistics that didn't have this data as opposed to media reports of the game which surely would have noticed that.

With current technology they will need to rebuild the whole thing one day which will (1) be crazy expensive and (2) will break all the document vectors that people have saved from the model which will be a big problem for anybody using systems like LangChain or doing embedding-based similarity search.

There's a lot of need for some ability to update an LLM incrementally and not wreck it's performance and this kind of research points to one path to that.
Awesome. I remember this from the early internet. I think from everything2. An older code, but it checks out.
It’s interesting to observe. Historically, churches were many, small, and deeply rooted in particular neighborhoods. The more traditional churches heavily emphasized service within the church itself and the surrounding neighborhood.

Many churches still operate this way, but mega churches do not. They work on economy of scale: the typical visitor or member is much less involved than in a small church, but lots and lots of small donations still add up to a large budget, so the mega churches can have a paid staff to take care of all the things that would be volunteer in a normal church. This results in a more “polished” experience where people don’t have to do anything other than show up on Sunday and occasionally chip in a few bucks.

This is bad, spiritually, as the entire Christian teaching emphasizes service and community so much. But it fits the trends in an increasingly consumerist America where most people (a) live in indistinguishable commodity suburban subdivisions they don’t care about, (b) mostly judge their quality of life by their hobbies and how much stuff they acquire, and (c) are used to commuting to regional facilities for everything they do anyway. It lets people feel like they’re still part of a “Christian culture” even though they’ve reduced it from a deep life commitment to a spectator social club.

Unsurprisingly the mega-churches are very controversial within more traditional Christian communities — they are seen as “not real churches,” and many question whether their attendees are sincere in their faith.
This is an urban legend that is not true.

Vines with sticky pad cause no damage at all if you just leave them there.

The ones with wrapping tendrils can try to penetrate into the brick, so don't plant those, but the sticky type causes zero damage.

In fact cleaning them off would be worse because then the sticky pad might remove some loose material! If you do need to remove the plant kill it, and let it sit for a few months and then it will come off without removing even lose material.
Well then the content creators can just set up their own site, register a domain, set up a video stream service, payment processor, etc. After all, it's not much.
Kolibri OS was written entirely in Assembly. I think the performance was pretty poor compared to C operating systems. Much easier to write optimized algorithms in high level languages.
https://kolibrios.org/en/
I agree with your point, but there's a nit I like to pick when the statistics of airline safety comes up.

Comparing safety by deaths/injuries per distance travelled between different modes of transport does not make sense to me.

To prove the point imagine some hypothetical mode of travel that can take us to the nearest star - alpha centauri. Now imagine that 50% of people that travel via this mode of transport die, thats obviously not a risk anybody would be willing to take right? But if you use the same statistics as we use for aircraft safety it looks amazing, better than anything else by far.

Am I saying that aircraft are unsafe? Not at all - they're still very safe relative to other modes of transport, but the statistics that we commonly calculate to compare them seem totally meaningless to me. Comparing deaths per distance travelled only makes any sense when comparing modes of travel that actually go similar distances.

I also acknowledge that this is somewhat of a regional nitpick - it makes a lot more sense to compare aircraft with e.g. cars in the United States because taking an aircraft vs taking a car to travel between different states is actually a choice that many people are making. Whereas I live in a small country where there's very little overlap between aircraft trips and car trips.
> If he wins the next elections, which seems more and more probable, Ukraine is going to lose all western support overnight with corresponding results for war.

I'd bet that it will not. Because America can not afford to be dragged into the much larger war that will follow if that were the case. Ukraine is - cynically - the cheap option.
Do you just inject stem cells into the affected area?
Hmmm, let's demonstrate wordiness :)

> I wish I understood what "wordiness" means. Perhaps it's restating the same simple point three times in as many loose sentences.

Does wordiness mean restating the same simple point three times in as many loose sentences?

> People who harp on this point usually point to the writing of Hemingway and similar writers (Carver comes to mind). All of these men are better writers than I am, but I still prefer to read Nabokov. Could Nabokov have "made his point" in fewer words? Almost certainly, but I wouldn't have enjoyed them any more.

People who complain about wordiness point to Hemingway and Carver. I personally find it a joy to read Nabokov despite his wordiness, and I do not think my reading enjoyment is related to being wordy.

* Sorry about this, thought I will have some fun. This is not chatGPT, just my own effort, and both your para and my para does not call out whether Hemingway is wordy or concise !!
It's also important to consider that the US, prior to the modern era, was a "melting pot" of a somewhat select group of immigrants. We routinely turned away handicapped, poor, sick, mentally deficient, or otherwise "unfit" potential citizens.

The "New Colossus" that adorns the Statue of Liberty is a fun little poem, but it does not in any way reflect the actual policies of the United States for much of its early and middle existence. We were a country that was happy to import wealthy people, scientists, conscientious hard workers, etc, while keeping the riffraff out.
I have some Boston ivy completely covering 2 walls of my house. It's wonderful! In the summer it completely blocks the sun from the walls, keeping my house much cooler.

And in the winter it falls off letting the sun in to help with heating.

The side of the house that isn't covered (yet) is noticeably warmer.

The only maintenance is opening windows and pushing away any vines that want to cover the windows, and once a year making sure no vines got in the gutters. (A tip: Don't cut the vines by the window, but rather pull them off and let them hang loose - this signals to the plant that it's at an "edge" and it won't try to grow more in that direction.)
Should be called The 6 Deadly Sins and a Myriad of Minor Mistakes.
> My favorite classic piece of all time is Dvorak's 9th Symphony, the 4th movement

Ah yes, I always thought the opening of that movement was the inspiration for the Jaws theme. Me, I’m a sucker for the second movement of the Dvorak 9. Anything to give the cor anglais a little time in the spotlight.
As in: drop spent batteries? That would require another mechanism that can fail.
You have an excellent point.

There needs to be some kind of fix for the amount of energy wasted on zero-sum and negative-sum games.
In principle, this amounts to giving a gift to society: the programmer spends more time on their work so that society as a whole consumes fewer resources.
Often, the opposite happens: the programmer transfers their productivity gain into an additional cost for society (usually by contributing to e-waste and added resource requirements).

It's easy to extrapolate this to other domains. Imagine that in order to enhance their productivity, aerospace engineers started buying off-the-shelf generic components and get them assembled as quickly as possible without seeking optimization. The airplanes will consume a lot more fuel, have a worse safety record and require constant upgrades and maintenance, but it doesn't matter much as the manufacturer can now hire fewer engineers, and it's other people's fuel you're wasting anyway.

I understand that seeking immediate profit is the norm, but I'm always a little disillusioned when I see selfless initiatives ridiculed.
Germany's innovation issues stem from its ingrained love for growing bureaucracies more so than unions IMO
I can answer this as one of the mitmproxy devs: We're doing this for 10+ years as FOSS, we're a relatively well-known project (so lots of eyes hopefully), our software has absolutely zero telemetry / phone home functionality, and we're developing under our real names. We also have relevant backgrounds in either the security industry and academia, and absolutely no plans to monetize mitmproxy.

Does that make it guaranteed to be safe? Not really. I'd personally trust our TLS stack over most IoT TLS implementations, but Chrome/Firefox/Safari will do a better job at e.g. revocation checking. That being said, I'd argue that this is unlikely to be the weakest link in your threat model.
Running WASI binaries from your HTML using Web Components
> You’re welcome to go work at a software union shop, like Boeing.

> Writing low quality software that kills people, great job security even if you are at fault for peanut pay. I’ll take my non union job any day.

Boeing primarily manufactures and designs airplanes. The odds of dying while being a passenger on an airplane is about 1 in 200,000.
Compare that to being a cyclist, which is 1 in 3,500. Or a pedestrian which is 1 in 485.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-safe-is-flying-heres...

Putting your stupendously bad comparison aside, I'd say most software devs/programmers don't really need to unionise, aside from video game devs. 80+ hour work weeks, constant burn out, consistently underpaid compared to most other devs who just program boring line of business apps; they just get treated very poorly.
Internet trolls work hard and they deserve to be paid for their work.