skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rclone is garbage if you need performance or just copy between two points you control.

it shines when you need to sprinkle your data over many "clouds"
It has autoplay, just like normal YouTube.
> Who is "we"?

I'm confused why this was focused on so much. I guess "people that use DEI for hiring". Or when I was speaking of heuristics generally that could be "hiring managers in general".

> So if "we" can't be bothered to use very common-sensical criteria on what actually being "diverse" means then the DEI initiatives will keep being hijacked by opportunistic individuals (as it currently seems to be the case).

It's not controversial to say that women have largely different life experience/background than men. It's not controversial to say those of different races/cultures have largely different life experiences/background than a young white suburban software engineer (which has historically been the majority of the industry).

There are an infinite number of factors that go into a person and there will always be something missed with whatever way we slice it. "common-sensical" criteria in that world will end up as a wishy washy "we hire those with diverse opinions and backgrounds". But really that means I'm just going to hire the person I get along with best that answers the questions I happen to have, biases included.

Does it feel good that I am not focused on in DEI as a young white man? No, it sucks to be reduced to something I can't change. But I'm not arrogant enough to pretend that I'm not commonly represented at all levels of tech.

> I'd like to see exhaustive and irrefutable numerical proof if you choose to double down on this flawed assertion.

Asking for an "irrefutable numerical proof" isn't an invitation for debate or speaking from curiosity. It can be lobbed at literally any position one takes.

> It's extremely easy in tech in fact. After being an interviewer and an interviewee for 22 years, I have seen this shake out dozens of times: a round of interviews establishes with 80-90% certainty that (a) the candidate is capable and (b) matches the company's culture.

You're blowing by that I was responding to

"Some people just like to worth with really intelligent, hard working people and don't care anything else about the person"

If we're talking about company culture now, then we're talking about something different.

> Not sure why you and others are constantly trying to shift goal posts to other areas when the original article clearly qualifies its statement with the word "tech".

The comment I was responding to spoke generally so I spoke generally. I applied it to both tech and nontech with examples though.
What I remember from this course is that the first few homeworks can be done in a few hours in one evening, and then you suddenly spend your weekend building a compiler.
I think it's because it's relatively simple to make an note taking app or system, and everyone has an opinion on how to take notes, so you end up with a proliferation of note apps, and a bunch of fake innovation.

Also, software developers are naturally biased against Microsoft Office. For no good reason.
> The original route

What "original route"? The route is quite literally encoded into the state law, passed by plebiscite. The route is required to serve Fresno, Bakersfield, and Palmdale. The fact that SNCF thought it would be easier to build a TGV in a depopulated colony is immaterial.

Seriously look at the cover of the 2005 EIR that was published before Prop. 1A was passed. This is the original route! There was never another one!

https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/docs/programs/eir-eis/...

> It was clearly hijacked as a way to steal funds earmarked for transit

More ignorance here. It's the opposite. Prop 1A funds are funding local transit projects, in the billions of dollars. HSR funds paid to electrify Caltrain.

Look, it's perfectly obvious that you do not have a factual grounding for your beliefs. Instead of posting, why don't you research?
Machine Learning Infrastructure: The Bridge Between Software Engineering and AI
I provision servers for a living and usually the only times they get physically touched are when we rack them and the 2nd and last time is when we unrack them. Occasionally, one will have a hardware replacement. But for the most part a server runs continuously for 3-5 years. Even a memory upgrade involves unbundling so much cable (power, network, storage, KVM) that it's easier to rack a new one with more memory.

I'm not surprised your team leader, if of a certain age, hasn't seen the inside of a modern server. We push our datacenters further and further out into the countryside. My annual trip to our DC was a 4 hour drive and even then it was just to do annual inventory.
Of course it would, but since when has the lack of use friendliness ever stopped anyone? (though some editors do hide markup in markdown)
I thought interest was hudud? [0] /s

Tbf, Erdogan's Islam excuse was bullshit. He kept interest rates low because his family has a controlling interest in construction companies in Turkiye.

The company that built Istanbul Airport and runs IGA are run by relatives for example [1] and instigated their conflict with the UAE after Emaar "stole" the Bucharest (edit: Belgrade) Waterfront redevelopment from them [2]

Turkiye has so much potential. If only the political class wasn't so shit. It can actually become a first world country in 10-15 years if an IMF regime is forced on them.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-19/turkey-s-...

[1] - https://mapa.group/our-projects/

[2] - Met a businessperson working on that tender at IST. Good conversation. I'll never say no to an excuse to expense Yeni Raki (edit: Tekirdag Gold).
>The people putting it together don't need to be very skilled; they're working with off-the-shelf commodity parts, manufactured to a minimum specification, with specific dimensions and attributes, which loosely couple in many configurations with identical parts from different vendors all over the world.

Isn't this in some ephemeral way exactly what most of us do? Sure, there are people in the world doing real Computer Science(TM) but most of us are assembling apps from existing parts. Sure there's glue and there are domain specific bits, but there's a lot under the hood in both paid and open source forms aren't significantly different from going to a parts bin and pulling the right SKUs.
>Cationic polymers are a promising class of bioactive agents, which trigger bacterial cell death through physical disruption of their membranes.

It sounds like it would be equivalent to humans evolving bulletproof skin. (quote is from their original paper which is linked in the article)
this doesn't scale – what happens when you want to add another piece of information? how do you change the schema for all the names?
Yeah, I looked at Tauri in the beginning of the project. What made me go with Electron was the maturity and large user base. And it has actually been a bliss to work with Electron (my expectations after having worked with other cross-platform tools for mobile were extremely low), so I haven't regretted my choice. I've dealt with very few bugs. I love that there is a large ecosystem, and that it was easy to automate building (as well as auto-updating) for multiple platforms.
Apple prices are comparable to the competition for comparable gear. If you don't want to spend much money, PC vendors will happily sell you garbage -- Apple won't.
While the first mover advantage exists, I don't think it's a sufficient moat in the long term.

OpenAI's moat is the high cost of training as you mentioned but this might be obsolete in a few papers down the road.

They themselves realized this by trying to turn it into a platform but I don't think it's enough.
Does someone have experience with AppSumo launches?
On January 9th, we will be launching on Appsumo. Does anyone have experience with these types of launches and can give me some advice for my followr.ai SaaS?
Any other kind of advice regarding Appsumo will also be very helpful

Thank you very much!
I think the real problem is ownership of player registrations if a team leaves. International recognition is tied to FIFA also. Soccer is a bigger challenge than all other sports to break up.
"because reasons" isn't actually a good justification for a system that's broken and corrupted beyond all repair
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A Big missing part is the wave function and superposition principle that Classical Physics cannot emulate.

I am not a physicist, but doesn't the Schrödinger equation decribe the wave function?
TL;DR this is a complex topic - however at the edge, you can always raise interest rates to the point there is a recession/depression. People will stop buying homes, businesses will stop investing, companies will go bankrupt. Once this process continues for long enough and with sufficient magnitude, inflation will stop - this is effectively what happened in the early 80s in the US. There is always a prevailing interest rate which achieves the goal of stopping inflation.

The little understood con of interest rate based management of the economy is how much the economy adapts to the interest rate cycle. There are businesses that are less sensitive to interest rates - and there are businesses which can leverage parts of the cycle to benefit from policy depressed rates. It's not necessarily a good thing for the economy to be structured around a policy tool.

Note: Just an interested observer of economics - not a trained economist.
The elephant in the room is the ad-driven world we live. People need to be manipulated into constantly buying things in order to create an illusion of progress and doing work that matters. If facebook, spotify, youtube etc... did not exist, nothing of value would be lost. Even without the megacorps, the technology was already available for people to connect, create and share. In such a world, discoverability is not a problem. Communities would have been small and fragmented. There would be no winner takes all dynamic, sucking up the creative air from other people. The early decades of Internet held a promise of such a world. But then the smartphone came along and lead to market consolidation and created the discoverability problem.
Same here. I downloaded some ~100Gb files, and everytime the connection broke, after relaunching, the shasum never matched. Even when the file size was exactly the same that the server reported.
I'd like to see them evolve isopropyl alcohol resistance. Or bleach resistance. Things that the prokaryotic biology is outright incompatible with.

Obviously not the best for human application, but it'll work in the lab.
I agree! This would (will hopefully) be an improvement.
Afaik, the intent of raising central bank interest rates is to shrink the effective money supply (forget which M* this is).

It does this by raising the interest rate charged on newly originated loans (why loan at less than the central rate you could get for depositing?), which results in fewer loans (low-return opportunities no longer feasible to finance), which decreases the effective money multiple (due to fractional reserves, availableToLoan:deposited ratio).

On the one hand, this supports the value per currency unit, as less currency chasing same number of goods.

On the other hand, it can decrease net economic activity and blunt its own intent, as you note.

At the end of the day though... it's extremely difficult to run a functioning economy with persistently high inflation. See also: Argentina. So, paraphrasing the new Argentinian president's words, 'This needs measures that will make things worse before it gets better.'
If only tech was at the point where it would be as reliable as your local supermarket or your house.

When i'll leave for family home later, i'll take my laptop with me. My family is big, so the chances are high that i'll need to run some ADB or photorec on a SD card. I hate it[1]. There is some knowledge/reliability deficit with computers that houses/heatings/food aquisition dont have.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HvtEhxINvQ
We don't call China "中国," so why are we calling Turkey "Turkiye"?
$300M seized, 3500 people, that's only $80K each. There's a lesson here kids: cybercrime doesn't pay unless you're top of the teepee. For the real money, you want to be classified as 'fintech' or 'white collar', instead.
But this is just a matter of how thinly one chooses to partition the axis of time. You cannot have as many eras as points in time. Therefore, eras are intervals of time. So today and the 1940s can well belong to the same era, esp. given that human history extends thousands of years to the past.
>very few people

i know it's relatively few people compared to the number of people with state charges, but the reporting on this says it's thousands of people. which, in absolute terms, is a lot of people.
From the article: “The new polymers we synthesized could help fight antibiotic resistance in the future by providing antibacterial molecules that operate through a mechanism against which bacteria do not seem to develop resistance.”

The word “seem” is doing a lot of work there. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the long term / extensive tests show.
Says two poor journalists who are going to be replaced in the next few years by some API calls
Again, electric vehicles only work as storage if people can charge their cars at work, drive home, and then tap that storage over night.

Many vehicles aren't being used for commuting, they're used for work or running errands. They're going to be used during the day and charged at night. People aren't just going to become nocturnal in order to charge their cars. Someone who drives to work in the morning, goes shopping during the day, and picks kids up in the evening isn't going to be able to do all these chores at night.

What happens if someone's car is discharged over night right before a trip to Grandma's and now they don't have enough range? They're going to be pissed and stop letting the grid tap into their car.

> If your grid has 40GW of nuclear and 60GW average of solar (which generates 120GW during daylight) then the 120GW drops to 30GW and you have 70GW of generation

If you've got 50GW deficit over a week of cloud cover you need 4,200 GWh of storage to offset that. Consider that in many parts of the world, cloud cover can be present for a month or longer.

These are absolutely massive storage figures. The latter is about ten times the annual global battery output. And energy demand is much higher than 120 GW. US electricity demand is 500 GW. Global electricity demand is 3,300 GW.

> Suppose you have enough nuclear to meet the demand at midnight, which is enough to meet half of the demand at 8PM.

It's enough to satisfy 70% of the demand at 8PM. And since nuclear is just as cheap to run at 100% capacity all day long, it's better to scrap the bulk of your renewables because the nuclear plants make them redundant.

> But there is more wind in the winter, and at night, when there is more demand for heating.

This depends on geography. On the west coast, it's the opposite: wind produces the least energy during winter.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=20112
There was some person years ago on reddit attempting to get redditors to build a commune in Detroit by buying up distrought neighborhoods/land where lots were cheap and such.

She mentioned some model on how it would work, and had it such where she had it all figured out, so she would be the central manager of the scheme.

I don't recall exact numbers, but I took her scheme and built a simple model and did all the inputs and looked up the land values she was talking about and it was some horrid pyramid where she wound up with a large amount of the money (as if the plan wasnt to just outright steal all the money in the first place)

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Its really fun too look into the finances of organizations/schemers/whatever.

I dove into the finances of the Salvation Army of California after they did a filing - and HOLY SMOKES that is an outright grift of epic proportions on the down low...

The other, not criminal - just eye-opening, was I went through the budget for San Francisco Public Health, specifically what services they were providing to the homeless population. What was eye-opening, was that basically the budget worked out to $25,000 per year all-in per homeless person.

I would really like to do some of these discoveries again using gpt to ask the questions I was manually extracting previously...
Yep

https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/AgonLight2/o...

for a while I thought this was pretty cool

https://www.commanderx16.com/

but then I saw the Agon stuff which I think is miles better not to mention more affordable.
"bacteria do not seem to develop resistance" - Dr. Quentin Michaudel

The press release is (predictably) more cavalier in its claim!

All this release says is that the polymers "[disrupt] the membrane of these microorganisms". At that level of detail, penicillin works similarly, and is vulnerable to resistance.

I'd love to know more detail about how this is a different kind of disruption.
EasyPark Data Breach
Yeah it's kind of sad that the media has framed EVs as fire risks even though they are 20 to 80 times less likely to be on fire than an ICE.
KnightOS – a Unix like OS for z80 calculators
Exactly the same thing with trains. I live in Switzerland, and they are adapting the capacity of the trains route by route, and to the time of the day.

The train I take every day to work has 12 cars in rush hour, and 4 cars off-peak, sometime 6 cars in the middle of the day, or 10 cars just after rush hour. They put extra trains in rush hour, have trains in standby is case of a breakdown of other trains, and they even introduce special trains dedicated for events (football games, big concerts, sports event). How is this "not flexible" ?

The only valid point is that the US forgot how to efficiently build huge infrastructure projects. But it is not an impossible thing to solve. Sent some experts to France, Spain and ask them how to manage high-speed project within reasonable costs. France is building the Grand Paris Express (a lot of tunneling, more than 200km of tracks) for a reasonable cost, and is now reusing tunnel boring machines to build another project in Toulouse.
I believe that's that he's saying. thats why we needed the s equation.
Another layperson here. Yes, higher unemployment is certainly a possibility. But with higher interest rates, it’s not just businesses that are affected. It’s anyone who needs credit for any purpose (buying a home appliance, buying a home, buying a vehicle, wanting to study at a university that one cannot pay for immediately, etc.).

At a fundamental level, the target is consumption and the aim is to reduce it. Inflation is when there’s more money but lesser availability of goods and services that people want. So you either have to increase the production of (or import of) goods and services or reduce the amount of money in circulation. Central banks can only do the latter. The former is the responsibility of the executive and legislature to do with policy measures (short term, medium term, long term) on local and well as the international trade fronts.

Coming back to unemployment, it will likely rise. It will have a spiraling effect on other things (people going broke, loans being defaulted, etc.).

If you’ve read about all the developed countries targeting high inflation, and in particular what the U.S. Fed has been doing, there’s been a lot of talk about a “smooth landing”, which implies that the interest rate hikes will gradually bring down inflation without causing a big decline in GDP growth and related effects. This is mostly a fantasy because in reality nobody has figured out how to get other people, i.e., an entire population, to do something in unison.

While interest rates control ease of access to money, central banks can control the amount of money available through various mechanisms (liquidity control in banks, reserve requirements, etc.). Interest rate increases require time to show up in their effects (several months or quarters). Other measures can have a quicker impact. Businesses, especially larger ones, will have access to bind their effective interest rate to lower values for longer. So these changes won’t show up uniformly everywhere.

All said and done, central banks are typically (IMO) powerless in handling inflation or deflation. Without other policy decisions and policy actions (local and international) by the government, there’s not a lot that central banks can do without inflicting too much damage and getting into a whiplash reaction when things spike out of control.
Looks pretty amazing! Can't wait to try it myself
Gatech, UPenn, U Colorado Boulder all have great CompE programs at both undergrad and graduate levels.
> So then you get inflation that’s still high + high unemployment: not a great recipe. Does anyone with a background in economics have more insight into this?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation

It was not 'supposed' to happen in (original/early) Keynesianism, but it occurred in the 1970s in the US, which led some folks to declare Keynesism dead/invalid. People thought about it and analyzed it some, and by the end of the 1970s models were updated with a better understanding of the mechanisms, and every text since about 1980 goes over the details.
The point is, recycled EV batteries are not effective for grid storage and don't present a solution to the scaling issues for grid storage batteries.
And the 13th amendment, kinda.

It goes against the spirit of it but not the word of it.
The 2 isolation levels we need:

SERIALIZABLE is the correct isolation for write transactions.

SNAPSHOT is best for read only transactions.

There will be anomalies otherwise, whether you deem them serious or not.
Marktext provides that if you wish. For me, though, writing with a few simple codes makes the whole process easier. And then there's the fact that Markdown can be easily converted to whatever format you want with pandoc.
Thanks for this, I'll give it a go.

I can see how having the environment be at least cosmetically different might help though. I feel like there must be a good enough solution to that, I'll have a poke around
This title wasn't editorializing, it wasn't an opinion, it is just more specific.
DEA is not controlled by the house.
How else was the government to continue to systemically hold down minorities in this country post-Civil Rights Act, while simultaneously enriching the Military Industrial Complex by flooding local law enforcement with military equipment paid for by US taxpayers?
L.L Bean delivers suprise opposition to Maine privacy regulations
I work with an org that has 10's of thousands of users on keycloak, so there must be a way around the problem. I'm not administering the instance for this project, so I have no direct insight into how they deal with it.
But only for convictions by Federal, not state, courts. That's one of the reasons the Georgia case against Trump is interesting.
I've read your comment a couple of times, and I think (maybe) I finally understand it.

I don't think hucksh (or any shell) could provide an automatic way to undo some series of arbitrary commands. If nothing else, "/bin/rm" is forever, generally speaking.

What it could do is let you select individual commands and then automatically combine them all into a single command that you can save or copy&paste to someone else. Right now, the UI shows the command ID, which is a database key, so you could do something similar yourself, something along the lines of

hucksh sql "select command
from command_history
where id in (101, 103, 105, 107, 109)
order by id"

where the "101, 103, 105, ..." are the IDs of the commands you entered and want to reify into a single "one-liner". Noting them and entering them by hand would be a drag, but it'd work.

Hope this helps. If I've misunderstood you in some way, let me know. Thanks for your comment, regardless. :)
Sounds good. Newpipe can stream audio only too.
This is one of those "wont believe until I see it"