skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What makes this kind of thing effective is multiple slush funds, not always on the same page, having worked for a long time to build a community and a methodolody. Part of the methodology is to have lots of "grassroots organizations". Every two-bit activist in the space seems to run a "group", and be on at least the "advisory board" of a couple of others. There are also some larger groups, more what you'd think of as "real" organizations, that can help coordinate.

Wealthy people also like forming organizations that can employ a few dozen people on their boards with $250K salaries and expense accounts to be able to provide jobs for their kids for several generations hence. So they pick a cause, any cause, and start an organization. Ones who don't actually have to feed the hungry, but just provide "awareness" are the most lucrative because they can funnel all the tax-free money to friends and family "consultants"
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Good! It's been 5-10 years away since at least 1985. How long will it be 1 year away?
The problem is that the reason it is random is to mislead. If it were a static number then it would be obvious it was faked. The value is designed to look like it is pulled from a fund whose balance is determined by market conditions. But viewing the code, there is no fund to get the balance from, only a call out to random().

It’s like putting pillows under your blanket so someone thinks you’re in bed. Once they find the pillows you aren’t going to get away with “oh I thought I was allowed to be out all night.”
It's always weird when people try to give advice on how to commit crimes here, but it's even weirder when the advice is horrible.
There are some sweet spots to be found in software development productivity.

Finding them is an art/craft, and very sensitive to the project/company context, the people you have available, how the work will be distributed, etc. It includes making process lightweight by default, and having a good sense of when to use something non-lightweight.

In the right circumstances, a few top "programmers" with great team software engineering sense, and someone representing product sense, unencumbered by BS, can usually wipe the floor with most contemporary much-larger teams.

But starting off a startup by saying "We'll do Leetcode rituals so we know we'll hire aspiring techbros who spent their spare time at Stanford memorizing those, and we'll (pretend to) use this fashionable branded lifecycle process designed for companies that have no idea what they're doing but have a lot of warm bodies to fumble blindly through it, and ignore unfashionable process tools that we were confidently told don't work by students with zero experience based on what a professor with zero experience told them, and this huge list of popular tech we heard of and will never understand will be our stack, and then we can show promise to get to the next funding round and hire even more warm bodies..." is one way to make the road to finding effective expertise much longer. :)
> Well, by definition it is.

If given only mean and standard deviation, the normal distribution is the maximum entropy distribution i.e. maximally random distribution.
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But I do own all these MKVs I bought 100% legit pinky swear, yarr-harr-harr.
There are ample examples of people who are supported similar, if even better (privilege) by society and do not reach that level of success. So I guess if there were a regression model, you would find his own hard work elevated him above the others.
I can’t help but admire Mechner’s 1990s. After an enormous commercial success as a young man (“Prince of Persia”), he travelled the world collecting experiences, then spent his entire fortune on this single work of impeccable artistic integrity and daring experimentation despite it taking several years and a large team.

It flopped, but he got up and took another shot at “Prince of Persia” and made it all back several times over. Bravo. The world is richer for these long shots that got taken and missed.
Yes, and adjustable here means that they are learned from the training data. They start as random values and get repeatedly adjusted during the training process until the model exhibits useful behaviour.
Yes ever since the M1 chip it’s just annoying to work on the M1. Day to day it doesn’t matter much but it wastes days of times the few times i ran into an issue. I wish companies would stop defaulting to macs for development
I always imagine large scale financial fraud as something requiring a great amount of financial expertise. Seeing this code snippet is surreal.
>key 1.5C warming mark

The title suggests if the 1.5C mark is broken something bad will happen, but is that really the case? Or is it purely symbolic?
More precisely, the slide shows, for an advertiser who is bidding on the keywords “+kids +clothing” and has this sort of broad match enabled, three columns of examples of searches that would also match:

1. (because of [kids → children]) ads with keywords “+kids +clothing” would also match searches like “clothing for young child” and “newborn children's clothing”

2. (because of [kids clothing → kidswear]) ads with keywords “+kids +clothing” would also match searches like ”nikolai kidswear” and “kidswear outlet”

3. (because of [clothing → apparel / outlet]) ads with keywords “+kids +clothing” would also match searches like “creative apparel for kids” and “kids outfits”

That is what the slide's title (“Advertisers benefit via closing recall gaps”) refers to: the gaps in recall (matching) are being closed, by being broader.

The WIRED article misunderstood the slide, and was entirely based on the premise that if you searched for “children’s clothing” you'd get results for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear” which is not true (and would indeed have been “startling”, not to mention obvious, if it were true). In fact, the organic (non-ads) part of the search results in Google are always completely independent of anything in ads, something that the Search team in Google have maintained for several decades as a fundamental principle.
It looks neat. But the goals sound very similar to venerable old Lua. I wonder what Berry has to set it apart from Lua, besides a few of Lua's idiosyncratic language decisions that come from its age.
It's actually my job so kinda

But please enlighten us :)

What actions would you want to run from a tool like that: network actions (dns ? port inspection ?), bash / Makefile script linting ?
>"at least until they get to power" 2016-2020 was when the left ramped up their censorship efforts, not the right. So how do you square that sentence with what actually happened?

During the Trump years the leftist controlled only the social media, most of traditional media, cultural institutions, academia, almost any big institution became "woke" and the civil service. And whomever has watched Yes minister knows who actually rules a country. And the censorship machine was well oiled for the 2020 election. We had literal pleas to pharma giants to postpone the covid vaccine after the election.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/twitter-elon-and-the-indigo-blo...
AKA "How can I squeeze employees even harder rather than paying someone to do the work?"
I think about this very often. It's also so strange that these proto-AIs feel so organic and flawed in their operation. I've always thought that computers would be perfect, but limited in their increasing capabilities, it's so weird to see them have such flaws as "hallucinations" or "confabulations".
I imagine if starlink uses local IP address range, it would be bound by local ISP rules. All sorts of censorship and filtering.

And avoiding local ISPs may be major reason to use Starlink!
Usually they use a big pool of IP addresses, but that doesn't make fail2ban completely useless since they do reuse IPs.
They said "So when a journalist notices a bug in their article and has to "retract a release", how is that not what we do every single day?"

And they themselves were responding to someone criticizing media for using "editorial standards" as an excuse when they "retract a release".

And I explained how we are the same and supposedly strive to not release bad content/software, we just don't get to magically absolve fault with an excuse that "it doesn't meet our QA standards" as an analogy to "editorial standards".

Anywho, the whole thing breaks down when we have to beat it with a stick. It's a discussion, assume a charitable interpretation.
Interesting. Asking for natural responses seems to help to some extent. I have noticed that I can improve my prompts by appending “then re-write it so it sounds like a Korean native speaker”.
This was flagged not because it was an intresting, relevant review contrasting two books, but because zealots here don't like Bari Weiss, publisher of very mainstream "The Free Press."
Avon, Amway, Vector, Mary Kay, etc have been fleecing suckers WAY longer than Bitcoin has existed. I don’t know where they your “MLM’s go to zero” idea is coming from. Sure, many MLMs go to zero. But so do many cryptocurrencies.
How do you know what to improve? Meaning, there’s so many options! How do you choose?
I'm really trying to read that comment as you have interpreted it but all I'm seeing is a mutual exclusion being drawn between "entitled bitch" and "hacker" and all I'm saying is they're not mutually exclusive.
Funny enough, I saw my first ad for Alexa's LLM chatbot functionality only just this morning and my first thought was how long it would take before that feature blows up in Amazon's face.
In Kotlin, asSequence gives you lazy behaviour (i.e. chains of map, filter, etc. are merged the way it's automatically done in Haskell), but if you don't care about the performance penalty, you can just call map, filter etc. on eager collections too. I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't prematurely optimise, for small enough data, it often doesn't matter much.

And checked exceptions are widely seen as an anti-feature - I don't think any other language has them, with the possible exception of Swift (see below), and for good reason. Other languages encode errors (more or less ergonomically) in the type system (e.g. Rust, Haskell, and to an extent it's what Kotlin advocates as well), and that has the advantage of playing well together with other language mechanisms - e.g. no extra allowances need to be made so that map works with them.

But for the sake of the argument: Swift also has something similar to checked exceptions, but only in the sense that functions can either throw or not throw. However, Swift also at least has constructs like "rethrows", which lets you say that a function such as map should throw iff the higher order function it wraps throws.

Java simply decided that it doesn't need to deal with this problem at all (for whatever reason - they simply could have added something like "rethrows") and now it's up to callers to deal with the incredible awkwardness that is using FP with Java library code that makes heavy use of checked exceptions.
Today I learned: don't call type introspection type inference if you do not want your HN popularity to decrease.
Steam ignores the "Later" button on client updates
However, what I think is a mis-feature is that you can downvote the comments of that user in that view.
Why do you think it's sarcasm?
SBF did what he did outside the system because that's the only way he could have committed fraud like this.

He ran a literal ponzi scheme, something the SEC was created to combat and that Bernie madoff ramped protects against up to 11. He could not have pulled of this scheme without unregulated securities, that was the point.

Say what you will about finance, but the fact is you get a ton of information and protection when you go through the system. Bypass it at your own peril.
The Milwaukee protocol is not particularly good. It has a low survival rate.

However considering the normal survival rate is zero... It's a lot better

I mean.. you can't say it doesn't work if it led to the first ever documented case of rabies survival. That's amazing.
Ah a fellow rum drinking parrot afficionado!

I bought a movie once and the seller stole it back. So I stole another copy. Still got it. Checkmate fuckers.
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It was certainly not inevitable in the sense that nobody ever had a choice to do anything other than send spam. It was (and is) always a choice, and the choice of "Don't harass countless others for a chance at your own personal gain" was always on the table.

It was only inevitable in the sense that given enough time some percentage of parasitic assholes will exist who will be willing to do anything to benefit themselves no matter what the consequences of their actions are for others.

There's a world of difference between "this was always going to happen" because of the natural laws of the universe and "this was always going to happen" because some people actively choose to be dicks, and I think people like Laurence Canter believe their actions are somewhat excused because of the "inevitability" of what was always just their own selfish choices.
Could argue ChatGPT can already do a lot of this
This is obviously just speculation, but there probably wasn't a whole lot of thought put into it by the coder. The goal was "produce a fluctuating number based on daily trading volume so that it looks like we have a real insurance fund". The randomness is simply there to help make the fraudulent representation less obvious. The fact that the number can (very rarely) go negative is just another example of the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants thinking pervasive at FTX.
I was disappointed (not that I'm picking on them) to learn Hashicorp's terraform didn't do exactly the sort of abstraction you're talking about. You can cobble together layers of automation, but I share your disappointment that there's not a single solution. Although I will say rackn's digital rebar gets a lot of the way there. You can deploy workloads in a pretty technology-agnostic fashion for the things it does support, and it can be integrated/extended with ansible, terraform and other scripting tools (including plain old bash) or other languages as needed.
I also realized that giving media as gifts is dead as well. Hardly anyone that I know uses CD/DVD/Blu-Ray players any more.
I disagree. Banks take my money and lend it out to others, like businesses who are losing money, not profitable, and want venture debt. They take MY money, and give it to unprofitable businesses, with the hope that they'll be some day profitable.

"But that's how banks work", you say. Only because you drunk the Kool-Aid. Only because banks are so damn good at managing risk that we haven't questioned the practice. But at the end of the day, it's my money, and they shouldn't have the right to lend it against my will.

"But you could store money under your mattress", you say. If taxpayer money can provide me with the necessary security guards for that, sure. If not, I don't consider it an option.

SBF was just worse than Bank of America at managing the risk, and got into deep shit. SVB got into deep shit but because the law allows them to legally commit the same fraud of lending out money they don't own, the law protected them with FDIC funds. Bank of America is equally in the wrong, though, it's a messed up system that we just accept because everyone around you accepts it.
It's not about attacker control, it's about correctness of your code. Without VLAs then static analysis of the call graph (and absence of recursion) is sufficient to prove maximum stack depth; with VLAs then much deeper analysis is needed, if it's possible at all.
you can install gnu utils on a mac if you’d rather use them.
newtypes are strictly better. Basically 100% of the time a type alias leaks some API that's inappropriate for the intended usage of the type, and you can derive newtype methods if you actually want to do that.
Imho it's just that method signatures are enough work to write and maintain that inheritance is needed for simple code reuse sometimes.

A language with good constructs for convenient call-signature reuse and redirection at the function level could probably skip implementation inheritance.
> in general server centers can profite enormously from economy at scale

That's plain false.
C11 threads are now available in VS preview, so there is still hope, though one can't be sure for anything in these times (it's still funny that tcc has support for VMTs and MSVC doesn't). As for the fat pointer discussion, it would be a net positive in the standard (even better if there was an easy way to get access to the length, without using `sizeof`+division). Also, thank you for your contributions to the standard, I'm looking forward to see what people will cook with N3003 once compiler support lands!

Edit: Typo
Wow. Guess I’m out of my league here.
stop mixing together actions meaning done (or doable) deeds, and statements such as speech

an extreme example would be to ban all fictional writing because of the actions some reader may possibly take due to reading a about some terrible awful action.
I don't know python, but what is the "or" here?

For me it looks like this value is used only when there was no data?

Basically else part of monad
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This is very true. Everyone always asks me to get them Netflix vouchers and stuff like that now. I'll give them the cash and they can make their own poor decisions.
Is the code a mess? From the notes it looks like the code is a mess, but don't want to assume.
It's been a year or two but last time I tried networking tools like nmap in WSL I would get all kinds of errors.
Have any researchers anticipated such a rapid and dramatic heating? Were they just not heard or are we hoping that this year is an extreme outlier?
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It's so weird! Even weirder is the bit where you kind of have to beg the model to do what you want, and then cross your fingers that someone else won't trick it into doing something else instead.
Regardless, the Wired piece had no evidence and didn't make a claim on the same basis as what you're suggesting. The opinion author mistook this feature by thinking it applied to organic results: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10286719?hl=en
`brew install nmap`
Oh, I thought it wasn't possible to announce multiple isolated networks on the same ASN without interconnecting them, since ASNs are the routing granularity of BGP?
> for them to explain what they're doing and why, in the name of transparency. Google could do that. They won't, but they could.

Isn't their entire slide deck doing just that? Explaining what happens and why?

Sounds like they didn't give the answer you are looking for, so you choose to ignore it.
A wonderful story, though the concept was clearly heavily borrowed from Ken Thompson's classic On Trusting Trust: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
Man why do people keep saying this. The normal parts that are replaced by a casting are LITERALLY WELDED TOGETHER. If there is an impact strong enough to bend that piece cast aluminum or welded steel then the car is most likely a right-off. And if not, you can in theory repair both, its just hard for both cases. Naturally the technology used to repair steel welded frames is much more common as its 80 year old technology. Body shops would need different tooling and methods to repair aluminum frames.

And in fact, the aluminum casting is actually more stable. With cast aluminum you can get it into the perfect shape and you can even cast rips and things like that in it. The final piece is a much more optimal shape then you could ever get from welded steel. Companies try to minimize the amount of welds in a design because its costly and increases the size of your body shop.

See here: https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/04/Tesla...

An just because this articles doesn't make this clear, Tesla still have crushcans integrated in the design and those are perfectly replaceable, just as they are now. So this really only matters when you have front impact so strong that it goes threw the crushcan and damages the massively strong casting.

In such a case, you should be happy for the extra stiffness provided by the casting, because it might make the difference between live and death.

At the end of the day this is a no brainer. You are replacing literally 100s of robots, lots of production time, lots more chance for error and it ends up costing far less. The waste majority of cars, never do repairs on their welded together body structure, this is the extreme minority of cases. Seems to me it makes a whole lot more sense to optimize for the majority of cases, not the vast minority.

For those that want to see the process in operations, this is a nice video: https://youtu.be/BwoiFC-HwPE?si=R9sRMEDkgDJqBMew&t=306
I used DipTraxe. There is absolutely zero comparison. DipTrace had some fair ideas but is 20 years behind the leading edge.

Dump it.

Inlaid out an 8-layer board with diptrace… ABSOLUTELY NEVER AGAIN.
I'm looking for a suitable document management system for a while. There is one feature I would like to have, I didn't find anywhere except maybe in $$$ enterprise systems:

I want to add custom metadata to documents by categories/tags/folders, for example like this:

Invoice {issued: date, invoiceNumber: string, amount: number, due: date}
Contract { validFrom: date, renewsAt: date, autoRenew: boolean}

When adding a tag like this, it should either automatically fetch this information from the content document (probably very hard) or give you a manual workflow to type it into a form, while showing the document next to it. Maybe just by selecting the text from the PDF.

In the folder list and in the search you would be able to add those meta data information as columns, sort them by value or do queries (tag:invoice AND invoice.amount > 1000)

Edit: this feature seems to be one of most upvoted feature requests for paperless https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/discussions/1...