skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily true, most of the petty transactions cater the inelastic demands (like groceries, daily medication etc. ).
Yes, there's an NPM package called (-.-)/env and some others like it
QBittorrent Web UI Exploited to Mine Cryptocurrency
I just read the abstract so could be way off, but sounds more like one of those papers that connect seemingly different mathematical formalisms and show their equivalence (often under some restrictions). Typically they don’t give us much immediate benefit in terms of implementation, but they add to the intuitive understanding of what we’re doing, and sometimes helps others make more practical progress.
I understand this is for US-based engineers only?
I used to be a strong proponent of this, but I tend to use dataclasses more and more with time. Still use a lot of dicts, lists, and sets, but mostly as collections, rarely to hold one single element data.

It came naturally, not out of some design, but I guess having better and better typing support everywhere makes it more and more convenient.
> "hash flooding"

I did not know this was a thing. What a massive amount of engineering effort is being wasted on protecting against outlandish attacks!
No shit. We need faster legislators. We need faster legal precedence. This shit needs to be prioritised in the courts.
Then switch from these services while they are still only a few. Revenue is a language they understand. I never understood why anyone would even want a banking app though; there is nothing int can do that a website can't.
The browser war can at least still be won or settled; mainstream apps are a lost cause outside the legal arena.

Edit: and by switching i don't mean going to some tinfoil grayweb nonsense. Go to their direct competitor.
Except that people didn't complain that Goyal didn't port calibre to python 3 but that he refused for it to be ported and preferred backport librairies to python 3, which proved a very bad idea (obviously)
I also think that is why they ended up with stripe over all the other candidates.
Bforartists 3 – Version 3.6.2 Officially Released
I have a story which predates WordPad, but concerns OLE support in it's predecessor Write:

At my secondary school, a long time ago now, they used PCs from educational vendor Research Machines (RM). These ran a locked down version of the Windows 3.11 Program Manager which didn't allow you to start any unapproved programs. I discovered you could embed EXEs from a floppy disk as OLE objects in a Write document and then start them from within Write by double clicking. In this manner, I could bring my LibertyBasic programs in from home and run them on the school's machines :-).
You have to log in to delete your account, so you need to fix that problem first.
Universal approximation theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...

NAND is a universal logic gate; from which all classical functions can be approximated.

CCNOT and Hadamard are universal logic gates with which all (?) quantum functions/transforms can be approximated.
Why would anyone upload canary credentials to PyPI?
Finding a mentor is a good idea and as it involves loss of face on getting derailed, it keeps you motivated to remain disciplined- or at least keep working. I get that.

Also, something that I want to do has to align well with someone else's career path. I can think of 2-3 people like that. I will consider getting in touch with them and ask them to mentor me.
> LLMs are pretty stupid, but very good at speech. They are good at writing code because that's very similar, but fall apart in things that need some actual abstract thinking, like math.

Isn't that more of a training method issue? Try teaching a caveman to count by making him memorize the sticks and words pairs like LLM does, and you will get similar results, as he won't know about the stateful counting algorithm.

Humans get the powerful reasoning ability through gradual learning of new abstractions, and won't be able to extract anything useful from a textbook on quantum physics until they learned the basics first.
Super affordable smartphones and cheap and fast 4G data, great apps like GPay and PhonePe with lots of gamification and cashbacks and ubiquitous merchant acceptance through apps like PayTM, PhonePe and GPay were key drivers for this.

Then, demonetization and covid were accelerants to achieve critical mass. Post 2022, its been unstoppable.
Using OpenMP is often enough "to really exploit their potential" "to deliver adequate efficiency."

Which is what "average engineer" would use.
depending where you live you can request the deletion from the emailaccount you are registered with. In the EU the GDPR allows this. But it only works if you life in the EU or have the citizenship there. I think Great britain still has some of the rules in their law and california has also some rules that can be used.
which jargon here is "just for show"?
A simple CPU test for Llama.cpp
You mean sigmoid activation function?
This is probably not what you’re looking for: You need to first lower your expectations. The reality is most “work” is fundamentally unchallenging, and with the exception of some smaller, early stage companies, the day-to-day will generally feel closer to high school than college in terms of complexity.

You might be expected to get something done in a week that’ll take you 2 days. As a smart person, you are probably used to procrastinating. Use that to “pace yourself” and learn to keep up appearances. And get used to BS, because you’re going to see a lot of it.
Ideological(ish) movements don't succeed by converting everyone absolutely, they do it by changing the narrative in their direction. Stallman has absolutely done that.
These systems work with several modes, UEN (Unique entity number, Phone number, National Id Number and QR)
Really? I have a lot of 2 year stints, as well as some clients I worked with for 5+ years that always invariably turned into occasional month here and there.

Often the long-term guys I met are the shit guys who are coasting, still writing code as if it were 2005.

Worse still is when their language knowledge has coalesced around an old language version and they're not using any of the new stuff, as I've seen code bases that are entirely incompatible with new libraries.

Like all new libraries generally depend on DI, but all the code is written in static methods and classes so nothing can be easily injected and you get all sorts of threading issues when you try.
My main grip with calibre is that I can't use my already defined folder structure, so I'm not using it. Unfortunately there is no alternative for managing metadata including automatic download and batch edition, even as a command line. I sometimes toy with the idea to develop one, but I realise that I don't have the competence or the dedication to do it
> The 700P was accurate to +/- 1 second per day, way beyond the reach of any mechanical calibre without electronic assistance.

That’s true, except for Zenith Defy Lab. It is purely mechanical and has a +/- 0.3s per day.
I want to be able to use the Os I want on the computer I want, with the browser I want to be able to connect to my bank and my government websites.

As banks and governments move critical parts of their working online, it becomes harder to not use their online tools. If I'm not free to use the tools I want to do so, my freedoms were infringed.
I can focus uninterruptedly in something for long hours. I don't have the urge to check email and social media that is so common nowadays. Some years ago, I read Deep Work and implemented as much as I could and those have served me really well.

With coffee, I can focus on the hardest things for ~2 hours.

I also mediatate almost every day.

In the last year, I have also fixed my sleep (was messed up for ~9 years)

As to your third point, I am familiar with my own patterns and can get things done. Just long term discipline-requiring tasks seem unachievable.
If that road side vendor doesn't have access to a phone, how does she know the payment was made?
The banking system does not care.

The banks don't need your money.
Whether you heard them or not, they have been saying it on loud repeat and most of us did hear them. For example:

"So it’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science." -- Fauci

or

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-antiscience-m...

"[Antiscience] targets prominent scientists and attempts to discredit them. The destructive potential of antiscience was fully realized in the U.S.S.R. under Joseph Stalin." - Dr Peter Hotez

And please don't play No True Scotsman games, Fauci was employed due to his scientific credentials and was therefore very much a working scientist. Moreover, one who controlled most of the others, as has been seen in the various virology related leaks. Hotez is a professor of molecular virology, has testified in front of governments and frequently appeared on TV to make false or blatantly illogical/incoherent claims [1] like "this two dose vaccine has always needed three doses".

Hotez isn't some fringe lunatic disowned by other scientists, far from it. Here's the editor of a journal literally called Science claiming that asking Hotez to engage in debate is a "classic anti-science setup":

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/scientists-shouldn...

Last weekend, Twitter and later the mainstream media exploded with a controversy surrounding an invitation to prominent vaccine scientist Peter Hotez to debate anti-vax charlatan and spoiler presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr on the podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. There was an immediate rally around Hotez by scientists and celebrities on Twitter and lots of discussion about why this invitation is a classic anti-science setup.

The picture you're projecting of what scientists do is a pleasant daydream, not the nightmarish reality. Scientists constantly attack anyone who doubts their proclamations even when the criticism is scientifically based, and frequently call for outright censorship of anyone who disagrees with them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj6-QDVYbv8
I think the original point was misunderstood/twisted over time.

TL;DR Inexperienced != Bad

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

What Pike meant is that a company (e.g. google) cannot hire only people who have deep understanding in subtleties of advanced programming language theory and had the time to go through a long learning curve to actually reap the benefits of these advanced programming languages.

These young engineers are not bad, quite the opposite they are usually bright and brilliant young engineers

The problem with that kind of people is that they will use their cleverness to build complicated and beautiful stuff, but when combined with a lack of true and deep experience due to them being still young, this can become counterproductive.
https://pastebin.com/VPypiitk This is a very small experiment i did to learn the metaprogramming features. its an ECS library using the same model as entt (https://github.com/skypjack/entt). In 200 lines or so it does the equivalent of a few thousand lines of template heavy Cpp while compiling instantly and generating good debug code.

Some walkthrough:

Line 8 declares a SparseSet type as a fairly typical template. its just a struct with arrays of type T inside. Next lines implement getters/setters for this data structure.
Note how std::vector style dynamic array is just a part of the lang, with the [..] syntax to declare a dynamically sized array.

Line 46 Base_Registry things get interesting. This is a struct that holds a bunch of SparseSet of different types, and providers getters/setters for them by type. It uses code generation to do this. The initial #insert at the start of the class injects codegen that creates structure members from the type list the struct gets on its declaration. Note also how type-lists are a native structure in the lang, no need for variadics.

Line 99 i decide to do variadic style tail templates anyway for fun. I implement a function that takes a typelist and returns the tail, and the struct is created through recursion as one would do in cpp. Getters and setters for the View struct are also implemented through recursion

Line 143 has the for expansion. This is how you overload the for loop functionality to create custom iterators.

The rest of the code is just some basic test code that runs the thing.

Last line does #import basic to essentially do #import stl type thing. Jai doesnt care about the order of any declarations, so having the includes at the bottom is fairly common.
I was back there 2 months ago. That facility was not available and I was from one of the 20 countries that are allowed (you can specify a US/Can phone number). I downloaded PhonePe and PayTm. You at least needed a NRE (rupee) account. What seemed to work always was tap. But I think the tap amount was always < us 200.

If you have guidance on how to setup Google Pay/other with UPI it would be appreciated. I even tried updating my Google Pay software to get the Indian version in the hope it would work.

UPI is great and I hope it becomes worldwide. I think they started in France recently. If you are an Indian citizen/OCI holder encourage your foreign banks to get involved. I do not have much hope for Canadian oligopoly banks but if a bank in the US got it I would move some of my money there.
Scifi isn't a particularly big seller (biggest genre fiction by a huge factor is romance and thrillers). Frankly the top entries do suggest a disproportionate amount of old S.F fans.
SVMs are randomly initialized (with arbitrary priors) and then are deterministic.

From "What Is the Random Seed on SVM Sklearn, and Why Does It Produce Different Results?" https://saturncloud.io/blog/what-is-the-random-seed-on-svm-s... :

> When you train an SVM model in sklearn, the algorithm uses a random initialization of the model parameters. This is necessary to avoid getting stuck in a local minimum during the optimization process.

> The random initialization is controlled by a parameter called the random seed. The random seed is a number that is used to initialize the random number generator. This ensures that the random initialization of the model parameters is consistent across different runs of the code

From "Random Initialization For Neural Networks : A Thing Of The Past" (2018)
https://towardsdatascience.com/random-initialization-for-neu... :

> Lets look at three ways to initialize the weights between the layers before we start the forward, backward propagation to find the optimum weights.

> 1: zero initialization

> 2: random initialization

> 3: he-et-al initialization

Deep learning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning

SVM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine

Is it guaranteed that SVMs converge upon a solution regardless of random seed?
But if you do change your seats on a tractor to more comfortable ones, you might further exacerbate the hazards of an already potentially dangerous piece of machinery, to the extent that the manufacturer wants to avoid such liability.

But even so, as long as the customers aren’t legally obligated to use a particular manufacturer’s equipment, any competitor should be able to win them over by avoiding a particularly unpopular practice.
Verily, Tolkien doth merit my discerning gaze, yet alas, a mere imitator of middling skill, I hath proven to be.
It's an urban myth that the frog will stay in the water to be boiled, it actually jumps out. Unless of course there's a lid on the pot.

Humans have a lot to learn from the frog. And it's not about putting lids on pots.
> SV elites today are like NYC/NJ/Philly elites of the 1960s.

As someone not from US, I understand NYC, but what was it about NJ and Philly in the 60s?
you're supposed to learn the mechanics of vim and then configure it in a way which you find intuitive. i find that much more natural than software which tries to anticipate (and indirectly reinforce) some arbitrary "common sense".

nnoremap <silent> k gk
nnoremap <silent> j gj
nnoremap <silent> 0 g0
nnoremap <silent> $ g$
Crystal Lang – Fibers
"A Fiber is much more lightweight than a thread: even though it's assigned 8MB, it starts with a small stack of 4KB.

On a 64-bit machine it lets us spawn millions and millions of fibers.

In a 32-bit machine we can only spawn 512 fibers, which is not a lot. But because 32-bit machines are starting to become obsolete, we'll bet on the future and focus more on 64-bit machines."
The planking records are outdated - I remembered an article about an ex-marine who beat the record, and when I looked that up I found his had been beat again: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2021/9/longest-pla...
> If all your neighbors play extreme sports or drive drunk all the time, would you like to pay the same premium as they do in the same insurance pool?

Yes, because choosing otherwise opens the door to discrimination based on many factors, many of which can be completely out of our control.

What if you're working a job with a non-insignificant risk of danger - should your premiums be higher? After all, you chose to work in that profession and to put the last 20 years of your life specializing in it. You should've just chosen differently...

What if you're living in a neighborhood with a high crime rate - should your premiums be higher? After all, you chose to inherit the house and live there and put the last 20 years of your life building a home and a social network there. You should've just chosen differently...

What if you're shortsighted which makes you more of a danger in traffic - should your premiums be higher? Maybe you didn't choose to be shortsighted, but you could change it with a laser surgery or whatever, and afterall, we're just following the model...

What if you're black - should your premiums be higher? Maybe you didn't choose to be black, but statistics show that black people are significantly more at risk of being victims of violent crime. And after all, we're not being racist, we're just follow the model...

Et cetera.

If you allow insurance companies to discriminate, eventually, everyone who isn't following the "safe path" will be discriminated against. At that point, the insurance stops being merely an amortization of unpredictable cost, and becomes a tool to control the population.
They accept credit cards in most well to do stores. However street side shops probably do not. Most business avoid it due to the fee. UPI has them hooked with no-fee right now but fees are expected in the future. But right now, they have a no-fee option which is better than mc/visa/amex.
What about Safari too?
Really? Which airports? I was there 2 months ago.
Woah… this is horrible but also super “evil genius” innovative at the same time. These are people struggling to support themselves and their family
You can fit it in your pocket. But you can do this with MeLE and LattePanda ones as well.

So I'm guessing the advantage here is just a bit of price competition.
Affiliate links for the authors would be a start... Probably wouldn't be huge money, but links would be actually helpful and I doubt anyone would mind you making money of those links.
Then spell it out as "10-meter". Having a clear and understandable headline is better than saving a few characters.
There's a huge burden on individuals to prove that another organization is using data to persecute them and the definitions or persecution. Before GDPR did you know how vast the network of 3rd parties handling your data was? I didn't!

Without this, the next best thing is anonymity which is simpler to enforce and covers future eventualities.

>The solution is what it is in real offline life. A regulated legal framework that allows most and limits little, a open dynamic culture that accepts diversity and constant change.

The real offline life where people can be punished in the US for aiding abortions? Or where homosexuality is illegal in many countries? Or where people conflate a mental disorder (paedophilia) with a criminal act (child sex abuse) (intentionally edgy example to highlight the edge of what's acceptable).

>and the solutions are still the same - democracy, voting, making a noise, agitating our neighbours.

This is good advice for the Belarusians with bloodied faces and no change. Or the million people who marched against the Invasion of Iraq.
Obviously everything that's in the future is not a fact - or "wildly speculative and hypothetical" as the article itself puts it. See it as a call to action to ensure that it remains fiction.
The vast majority of businesses in Costa Rica are required by law to accept cards, Amex included.
> instead you decide that you’re somehow entitled to more of his lifetime

Goyal has stated that he would not merge the feature even if other people did the work.
The Linux Kernel.

But answering the “it failed”. Not really. It exists and is a choice on most license dropdowns and is a famous one.

People should really default to GPL rather than more permissive licenses and hot take… should also default to closed source. And make open source or non GPL a conscious choice.

The reason is GPL gives you more ability to commercialise since it gives you the copyright holder more of an edge over let’s say Amazon Inc who has decided to accept your license to bundle it with a cloud service and extend it. They are obliged to release their source code to their customers.

That Ballmer called it a cancer is a great accolade.

Close source as a default because it is a one way door publishing the code on the open web. So you are protecting your own interests. You owe the “open source community” nothing and should exploit your IP as much as anyone else, and use GPL to allow people to “fix the printer” if they need to.
I don’t think it ever did, you’re probably confusing it with one of the many such apps. I remember I was using one with 10.4 already because Windows Vista had it natively (if I remember correctly)
I want to not have to worry about a government 30 years from now being able to quickly and quietly make unmonitored person-to-person communication illegal. There should be a whole bunch of difficult and complicated steps involved if they don't want to just shut down half their IT.
It says SIP supports instant messaging. Never knew that. I wonder why it is not a popular protocol for all these "instant messengers" out there (especially since it also support P2P)? How does it compare to Matrix?
I am sorry, but you basically say that we need more altruistic capitalists. Won't happen.

> These philosophical ethical standards should also be ingrained into VC culture & corporate culture.

Won't happen. Money always wins and exploiting people on the side of selling (or giving for free) them some stuff is always going to bring in more cash than respecting their privacy.
This would be a really really interesting project to do with this data.

You could maybe parse the files and run a similarity function of some kind on class and method bodies, ignoring identifier names.
I was thinking more of Han Unification, which we now realize was a bad idea, and to this day makes it difficult if not impossible to correctly render a block of text that contains characters in more than one CJK language.
I don't use an IDE these days. Normally use nvim. But recently have been taking advantage of tabs in micro some.
I did, i use firefox for example, but with mobile phones, what's the alternative? Apple and its walled garden? And when filing my taxes only works via chrome, how do i switch countries easily? Move because of a browser limitation and leave everything behind?
Amiga OS had preemptive multitasking in 1985, in 256k of RAM. No memory protection though. I’d consider Amiga tasks light enough to be threads, since they shared memory.