skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am ok with code "ownership" but if someone other than me can just outright reject pull merge requests without explaining why then I should not have to read this code or make changes. If you own it, you fix it. What needs to fix? Figure it out. Don't ask me. You are the owner.
It's not that simple...

How do you know how long to hold?

I bought a bunch of bitcoin for under $100 each and sold them for ~$1000 each at one point.

Should I have held them longer? Sure, but how could anyone really know that? How do you resist the urge to realize the >10x gain in a short term?

After it went up to ~1200 it crashed down to 200-300 for years before it recovered and skyrocketed to new heights.

If you had bought bitcoin for something low like say $100, are you telling me you would really have resisted selling it when it hit $1000? or $2000? How about when it hit $10,000 or $25,000 or even $50,000? Knowing that it could come crashing down at any second as well.

The peak was nearly 70K, and now it's only about half that.

So simply holding isn't a complete strategy.
I never got confirmation that it was related to 3G sunsetting, but I had this issue when I stopped driving my 2017 Outback regularly at the beginning of the pandemic. The first trip to the dealership resulted in a "software update" that didn't seem to do anything. On the next visit, with photos I'd taken of my voltmeter showing parasitic drain, they replaced the DCM. I think they charged around $800 for that and a new battery since the original was toast from too many total discharges.

I reached out to Subaru of America and as a one-time "goodwill gesture," they refunded me for the cost of the DCM.
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Comparing Email Address Validating Regular Expressions
I agree with that sentiment because not knowing where your firearm is, is a very bad thing. Because if you don't know where your firearm is you cannot be confident of its status if it is loaded or not. That being said, I still don't think the actions of Hong Kong were proportionate in this regard. That's a total opinion people are free to disagree on but if the goal is to reduce problems then having a honest mistake that was reported as soon as possible receive a high punishment does not encourage people to rectify their mistakes as soon as possible. It actively encourages the opposite to conceal the mistakes or to dispose of it on the plane before he left. The concealing of the mistakes will always result in worst outcomes for everyone.
See this is exactly the extreme war hungry rhetoric i'm frightened by.

Looking at historical context, calling for thinking before acting, looking at both sides, is not being a "useful" idiot.

Especially when Israel has killed a hundredfold more palestinians over the span of decades and Israel itself helped create Hamas through these extremely violent hardliner measures:

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-c...

I say we stop blood dripping revenge, we've already stuffed a million people into a concentration camp and effectively carpet bombed them for years, with lots of civilian casualties besides the Hamas that we can all agree to condemn.
They blocked this now on the free version of colab sadly.
would any country?
> Highly educated immigrants who speak the language

The latter isn't really a requirement, at least when working in tech. I barely speak any German at all in my job, and I'm a German dude working at a German company. All companies I worked for since 2010 had English as "company language", and immigrants were in the majority (mostly from other European countries, but also US and Canada).
I believe that we are pretty sure that serotonin has nothing to do with how SSRIs alleviate depression, despite the name.
While I'm still trying to get my head around things in Germany, I'd argue that those are symptoms of deeper cultural issues related to deeply-embedded conversatism and over-respect for hierarchy (e.g. status, age, seniority) in leadership, risk-taking, and decision-making throughout the private and public sectors.
AI Shows What Ancient Languages Sounded Like
My ideas are great. The problem I have is followup. Write an article on how to fix that.

Or better yet. What do I do next? I have an idea, I code an mvp, ????
OLAF disagrees with ypur feelings:

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/10/14/eu-border-agen...

https://www.politico.eu/article/olaf-opens-investigation-on-...
Yeah, but ~51.5% of millennials own a house: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-19/half-of-m...

Good luck hoping for them to vote on tanking house prices.
The "long Covid" or long term health effects are missing from that narrative. And these can be unrelated to respiratory issues, like the heart issues. And the set who suffer from "long Covid" does not seem to be correlated with those with respiratory pre-existing conditions.
Not in a few months, I should spend more time with that
Weird, I've been using Ubuntu for quite a few years now, both in my work laptop and personal desktop, and have never even heard the terms "Ubuntu Pro" or "Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications."
I don't think its that mind boggling. Everyone pays -in some way- for value.

Pirated streams may not cost $$, but they cost time, labor, and its risky to set up (virii, installing bloatware, etc). So there's a cost to them.

A hybrid model that is low cost and low labor, simply approximates the real value to the consumer.

If someone is not paying Sky 30 EUR per month, but is paying a random reseller the equivalent of 3 EUR/mo, then the question is, why doesn't the content provider sell that value to the end user?
> Qualcomm's proposal smells strongly like they're doing the minimum to strap a RISC-V decoder to the front of these cores.

Hmm.. At about the same time as the proposal to drop C from RVA, Qualcomm also proposed an instruction-set extension [1] that smells very much of ARM's ISA (at least to my nose). It also has several issues to criticise, IMHO.

[1] https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/332/0/cod...
I heard about it 2009/2010 and didn't buy it then because it just seemed like some scammy way to make money. When I learned more about its use and effects as a currency, I became interested and bought some, but its use as a legitimate currency just won't happen. In practice, it's just a scammy way to make money, always has been. The most useful thing about crypto was that you could convert it to USD for a profit, but the days of ez money have passed.
I think you can reduce (abstract?) the number of role further:

- Builders. This would be software developers in the I.T. world.

- Users. Regardless of what their specific domain expertise (or lack) is in, those who utilise the system.

- Maintainers. Those who fix what's broken. "Repair techs" from the world of complex machinery, "software maintenance" in I.T.

Possibly also: sales & marketing, who describe and position the products, management, who oversee general operations, and logistics and/or operations, who fit the pieces together and support them outside general maintenance (an I.T. analogue might be DevOps or systems admins roles).

Each of these has their own perspective, goals, relationship, and set of concerns with the system. And whilst there may well be levels of expertise within each role, there's a larger set of uniform and consistent concerns and relationships each addresses as well.

In complex physical kit, you'll generally see such roles expressed as engineering, manufacturing, marketing, (customer) operators, logistics, maintenance (on-site repair and adjustments), and sales & marketing, or terms to that effect. The roles typically exist within software and information products as well, though of course not all physical analogues map directly. Within a complex product, you'll have the user interface, a maintenance or technician's interface, component-level design (which may or may not be designed for field maintenance), demo modes and marketing collateral (for sales/marketing), and considerations for the actual construction, packaging, and logistics supply- and delivery-chain support for the devices, etc.

Each of these is effectively a level of abstraction onto the end product.
You could install Linux on a PS3 - it is still a game console, because that's its primary purpose.
For a lot of reasons, and they do great in deed!
DITA or GTFO
I use a DNS (over HTTPS) that allows me to spoof my geolocation for specific services.
I think one exciting side-effect of that is that investment in autonomy would go insane. We're talking countries devoting large portions of their GDP to eliminating menial labor. As of now autonomy has to compete with human labor which is still relatively cheap (down to minimum wage for certain tasks), but once human labor becomes extremely scarce, a lot of autonomy investment becomes profitable. Also, less population is the goal after all, as it helps with sustainability. The human race needs millions, not billions, to safely continue with a healthy genetic diversity.
Agreed. Its memorized knowledge generally seems to be better than its interpretation of a few web search results, often significantly so.

Analyzing and interpreting new information is harder than regurgitating what one already knows, so perhaps this isn’t surprising.

Even gpt-4, as amazing as it is, has quite limited analyzing, reasoning, and interpretation capabilities, compared to skilled humans.

Of course, the fact that we have to even ask this question is kind of unbelievable…
>the McKinsey framework only measures effort or output, not outcomes and impact, which misses half of the software developer lifecycle.

>“The McKinsey framework will most likely do far more harm than good to organizations – and to the engineering culture at companies. Such damage could take years to undo,” Orosz and Beck argue.

I would go further and say it will likely damage user experience too. Cranking out features to game productivity scores and ignoring outcomes is a good way to get bloat, bugs, cluttered and overly complex UI, and an overall degraded user experience.
If taking into account the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) in isolation, variable renewables are more competitive.

If taking into account the System LCOE (sum of generation, integration and storage costs to reach equivalent stable supply), then nuclear wins - and that doesn't even account for the VRE's huge land use.
Is it reasonable for Stefan Thomas to get half of the total?

What does game theory say is the optimum split between two parties like this, who individually have nothing, but can work together to unlock a vast fortune?
It's absolutely true. The ratio has been >60% since 1970: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
All of it? Specifically, the 'kind-of' - most Christians beleive Jesus was fully human/mortal. 'with no loss'- most Christians beleive Jesus gave the ultimate sacrifice, not only his mortal life, bit also profound and incomphrensible suffering (don't forget the events in Gethsemane, not just at the hands of the Sanhedrin and the Romans). Also his sacrifice went far beyond forgiving sins of beleivers. It included the promise of eventual resurection for for everyone, not just beleivers. (Details can vary among sects as well as individual persons as to the full impact of Christs sacrifice and resurection on unbeleivers, but the vast majority do beleive that there are effects for everyone, regardless of belief in this life or the next).

Christianity and its doctines are much deeper and richer on these topics than this characature would imply.
So, banks do actually do a lot of this. They hire people who are not really programmers by background and then teach them what they call robotic automation.

This has nothing to do with actual robots, which can make it confusing if you come across this without having the right context. What they mean by this is they have a commercial tool that implements a very simple scripting language, often in a structured way so you can edit it without using an editor. The tool has lots of commands for automating GUI actions like "find this window by title", "click that button", "load this web page", "find text that looks like this", "loop" and so on.

The idea here is that a lot of processes involve moving data from one app or window to another in a repetitive manner, so if you have a programming language optimized for that and designed for beginners, you can automate a lot of stuff. It's not a scripting language like Python, it's totally focused on driving GUIs. And it works! Robotic automation is a huge deal in some companies.

I helped an ex-girlfriend learn this stuff at one point. She sort of bluffed her way through the interview, they were looking for people with more computing experience but she was a woman so the hiring was more or less automatic despite her knowing nothing about computers at all (woke companies ...) Despite the tool being designed for such people she still found it really really hard though! Some people just really struggle with structured thinking of any kind. Writing down instructions in a formal way was just totally alien to her. The tool tried its best to help users avoid mistakes but fundamentally you still have to be able to think in terms of loops, lists, multi-step processes and so on. I think she did eventually get there but it took a long time and she failed the internal exams the first time.
That's new to me. I own several Samsung phones of different generations (Android app development does that to people) and while the update pop-ups are annoying, I could always put off the installation indefinitely.
I don't think it really does matter much to the majority of people, no.
All engineers in my company are immigrants, and the official work language is english. Located in Hamburg, serving nearly exclusively German customers.
Distilling Python Functions into an LLM Finetune
> thought that that was the understanding from the get go

There were many get go’s, and one for each variant. I know a healthy person who got the original and then delta variant, the latter which attacked his pancreas and left him with type 1 diabetes.

> for most people or was fine but that it was dangerous for certain people with pre-existibg respiratory issues

For most people, it’s asymptomatic in the short term. We’ve known it would have novel systemic effects from the “get go,” because it hits a nasty receptor. With the flu, a cytokine storm and non-respiratory cellular damage is a fluke. With Covid, every infection—even the asymptomatic ones—damage the gut, testes, gallbladder and heart (ACE2).

We don’t know how that damage manifests in the long run, there hasn’t been a long run. But we know there is damage being accumulated. We just don’t know if it’s benign. (You can’t generally look at a body and tell how many times it’s had the flu. You can with Covid.)
Get behind me, hellweaver! For it is written: Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

(For those following along, this is a cute and fun example of Scripture being used to rebuke attempts to shake the foundation. The forces that be typically aren't so overt.)
Even with a whole week I fear 1.5 is far too old to catch up.

It's too early for this but when he's old enough for videogames get him Kerbal and/or Factorio. Not math per se but technical thinking games (and if he gets obsessed enough with Kerbal he'll have to break out the math).
So this is when GhatGPT becomes racist?
Scott Garrabrant wrote a nice series on Less Wrong which explains/derives the Kelly Criterion, and relates it to other areas (Nash bargaining, Thompson sampling, Bayesian updating), and how they all follow the same underlying logic (optimising the geometric mean) https://www.lesswrong.com/s/4hmf7rdfuXDJkxhfg
I have some bad news for your friends. Cities are becoming more expensive everywhere regardless of immigration. Private equity is buying up houses/apartments en masse and "maximizing profit". Inflation is very real. Immigration will certainly be an issue in some cities, but it's not all roses everywhere else.
Hmm, if only it supported RST (Restructured Text) like Readthedocs uses. Currently it does not mention it so I assume it has no support. Messing with Sphinx just to update docs can be a pain.
I suppose we should treat jaywalking with the same hard line approach. The justification for both only benefits those who can push such laws.
Look around, it's actively happening. Many jurisdictions have instituted deadlines, past which ICE vehicles won't be allowed. Where I live, I won't be able to register an ICE car manufactured after 2030.
An even simpler solution would be: “hi there’s a pilot in the restroom currently, can I please have you sit down until they are finished”

The stress in this situation was caused by the flight attendant escalating the situation.
From Oct 10
Asking ChatGPT about its own capabilities rarely returns useful results.

Its training data predates its creation, and the model doesn't get updated every time they ship a new feature for it.

See also: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/22/dont-trust-ai-to-talk-...
>>> Even if I were to justify the price (it’s exactly the same price as my season pass), it’s not guaranteed that they show the match.

This drove me away from their service. It seemed insane to me. I also ran into this issue with some foreign channels where they would show infomercials instead of the actual, early AM game. That drove me nuts.

So now we use an alternative, and very happy with the result.
Compare the ratios of the exponents in your example and in mine.

I see another consideration, an implication of the other response - the domain of the exponents. For example, consider 10^101 and 10^102:

* The ratio of exponents is 102:101; not much apparent difference.

* But that doesn't specify a domain, so maybe we implicitly assume the domain is (0, 1, 2, ... >= 102). However, if the domain is (100, 101, 102) then the difference between 10^101 and 10^102 seems more likely to be as significant as the difference between 10^1 and 10^2.
I found Big Cookie. I mean seriously sitting in-front of you is a proposal that’s objectively better than session tokens in a cookie jar, where the nonce portion could be entirely optional at the expense of allowing replay attacks, and you call it a non starter. You’re just looking for reasons to not be secure at this point.
> At least there exists a reason to prefer nuclear power plants from being farther away from you.

Not at the distances this short. If anything happens to any of the nuclear plants in France the pollution will reach Germany within 24 hours.

I've actually seen this used as an argument FOR building nuclear power plants in Poland: we already have like 10 such plants within 200 miles from our borders, so we already have all of the risks, but none of the benefits.
Yes, but you can strip "UK" away from that. People habitually and casually abuse their power in almost any instance they have it. If this sounds outlandish to you, that's really nice and you probably shouldn't take that naivete away from yourself. It won't improve your life to know otherwise.
I'm mostly curious, because I've not run into limits with Ruby that'd make me look elsewhere.

I've used over a dozen languages professionally over the years, so when I have a reason to I pick another one, but Elixir has never felt compelling to me - I just don't see it offering enough new/different stuff to be worthwhile.

I've built large-scale distributed systems, and so on one hand the features of the Erlang VM are appealing and I've enjoyed reading papers on it. On the other hand I know how to - and have - built similar concurrency, restart and auto-updating/hotswapping functionality in other languages (including Ruby, where it's fairly easy) and it doesn't require enough code to compel me to pick a language based on that.
(belated), but thanks for the `rtx` recommendation, I checked it out and it seems like "the right thing". Also keep an eye on the `pixi` tool which got some visibility here recently: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
NextDNS with either their app to set an DoH profile on devices or DHCP giving out their specific IPs for my config.
Another article missing the more fundamental point:

You can't measure any productivity that has any cognitive component.

Devs think it's ok when sales productivity is measured like this, and then they don't understand that this is the reason sales are selling features that don't exist. We need to all stand against this madness. This goes for teachers, sales people, programmers, doctors, everything.
I was stopped from boarding plane because I was a male! We really need a framework for suing for discrimination like that!
Said adversaries could just use take images of the VMs (which they probably do anyway for backups) and extract the cert from them.

Unfortunately, it seems this topic has attracted the attention of many who keep insisting that it must be Let's Encrypt at fault here.
Yes, people in Germany love complaining about their trains. It makes sense, a decade ago they were way better. For everybody else that's experienced the train systems of other countries, it's still incredibly good.
What is the difference to the exodus from Kuwait in 1990? Jews, perhaps? Although this expulsion could even make sense given that some local muftis tried to ally with Hitler for a holocaust in the middle east.

In Kuwait they "just" allied with Saddam and were expelled in return. I think what how some suppressed the Jews was quite a bit more serious. They fought for their independence. That this isn't well liked by any party is another story.
Okular is my go-to document reader across operating systems. In addition to PDF, it can open EPub, DjVU, JPEG, PNG, GIF, Tiff, WebP, CBR, CBZ, DVI, XPS, ODT and other formats.
Why we don’t generate elliptic curves every day
>We do often use Docker’s build tools in the process of building Sandstorm packages, simply because they provide a structured and reproducible way to gather an app and its dependencies into a chroot environment, which we can then package up.

It sounds like "we do use OCI-compatible images, but we wrap them in our own filetype". Which I suppose is fine.
I finally plowed through the computer parts of this interview.

This tells you so much about how Microsoft works they probably will want it removed from the internet. Not directly but implicitly between the lines.

My conclusion is that what built our winners today is just infinite amounts of energy and random selection until something stuck to the wall.

Complete bat shit ranges of bit sizes and competing infrastructure (you cannot compete with infrastructure because uniformity is the main driver)!!!

This is not a technique we will have the luxury of using from now on.
I think you're wildly overestimating how useful that is compared to the complexity of the solution in the linked article. Mistyping a "," for a "." is as likely of a typo as typing "gnail" instead of "gmail". My personal email is over 20 characters long, and statistically nearly every typo I can make is something you simply can't check for.

To put another way, as anecdotal experience I've encountered many forms online that won't accept my email address or phone or whathaveyou because of buggy validation. I can't recall when I mistyped my email, but surely it's possible I've done it at some point, however the difference is in the price I pay. If I mistype my email and don't get a confirmation email or w/e I can always try signing up again. However if I can't use the form because the validation is bugged there is no straightforward recourse I can take as a user.