skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From one of your references...There was a moment when Fujitsu was suing the UK government and at the same time still getting contracts!
The reason is more often than not it just cannot be fixed. Only way to fix it is to fundamentally start fresh.
Paula Vennells should be in a prison cell. A thoroughly nasty piece of work she is.
> GPT-4 is crazy slow to use with API

Only somebody clueless to just how powerful it is when used correctly would say anything like this. Not to mention GPT-4 Turbo is not "crazy slow" in any sense of the word
You do not understand why people are pressing the "this is correct" button even while you recognize that the comment is stating the obvious?

Perhaps you don't understand why anyone would take time out their day to press any button that doesn't do anything? I suppose that's fair. One of life's mysteries.
It’s the “nobody builds used cars” problem.

The people who have the money want high end big houses to be built, so that’s the supply being added.

It’s not being added fast enough to fee up enough “used” smaller houses.
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This response seems misleading, the "fix your code" reply isn't from the author of sqlite.

He considers it a bug (in an EARLIER version of having unspecified behavior, not a later version, but there's no difference in practice):

That you could use a BLOB as the left-hand side argument to -> in 3.44.0 is a previously unreported bug in 3.44.0.

This bug in prior versions of SQLite was unknown to the developers. If I had known about it, I would have done something about it. I probably would have tried to preserve the buggy behavior - to maintain "bug compatibility". But I didn't know.

So there is a bug -- which is fine, all software has bugs -- but it's not a USER error, which you're implying.
I think it's because Datomic is most devs' only exposure to anything in the Prolog family, and rules (and especially recursion) aren't emphasized. Which is a shame, because Prolog, ASP and Datalog are phenomenally useful.
You can learn the politics and choose not to play it. It’s still useful to understand why people act the way they do and never be surprised by things that affect you.
Ah, I thought that novel was called "Reality" and had ten billion authors.
99.9% of species that ever lived have gone extinct.
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but without a self sustaining reaction you're going to be putting in more energy to cause the reactions than you're getting out of it.
Substack has some great writers, for sure. But unfortunately something about the marketing and business model seems to induce a large portion of Substack users to treat it as a kind of pyramid scheme. People cannibalize each other's subscribers, subscribe to each other as a favor or for strategic reasons, and of course there's the barrage of self-interested comments on every new celebrity Substack post. Further, Substack themselves pepper everything with sales pitches, and even remove comments that might appear to question their claims. There's a bad smell there, and I ended up leaving.
No but it would be misleading to say your solar clock hasn't been wound in 150 years.
The only drug I’m on is the maple cruller from the shop next to our office. This is not universal.
That’s not what it sounds like even at a trivial level. It has been obvious (since like 2009, in public journalism) that Fujitsu’s impact is more than just incompetence.
I think most folks use FSD for what it was intended for, L2 driving. It's a horrible name but it's not crazy to think maybe they'll get their shit together and figure out how to get to L4.

They might just learn they need to add back modalities they neglected previously, or explore some new ones.
The UK does not jail Anglican priests... :-)
Fossils Are Neither Plant nor Animal, but a 'Weird Fusion' of Life
Linguistic fluency vs. linguistic competency of LLMs – Communications of the ACM
Interesting. I once came across an image of GW on the wall on the way to the loo in a pub in London. My jaw dropped and I stood there pondering it until nature called louder until I gave in.
That's orthogonal to the module system. OCaml for example has `.ml` and `.mli` files for the same purpose, but `.mli` can be automatically generated from `.ml` if you want. And that's absolutely nothing to do with OCaml's great module system.
You're going to have to spell it out for me. I asked ChatGPT 4 about a random song and it gave me a decent description.

https://chat.openai.com/share/71d438d7-d1f5-4f0f-9b63-8b5dd6...
It’s quite easy to do the math (you can find a spreadsheet or setup your own) and it will give you an exact date for when one option passes the other(s).

We had a worst-case scenario where a highish fixed rate was underwater for quite awhile, but when it finally wasn’t the payoff time for a refinance at a lower rate was in the matter of one or two months (the monthly payment got cut in half or so).
Renaissance Technologies only hires quants with notable publications. You have to be pretty smart to make noteable STEM publications.
Ah yes, I see now. Yeah makes no sense to offer a REST response for each request.

On that note, what would the processing entail? Processing the get request and packaging the entire dataset into a REST object right? Or is it a more complex API that lets you run queries against the dataset? For that matter wouldn’t downloading a CSV also have to be packaged into a REST object?
Numeric operations on value objects in Ruby
You're arguing in favor of making consumers require an account at a company that's already centralized too much of the web.

That's fundamentally a lot worse than the government paying hosting costs to one particular vendor for a commodity service.
> They should choose a solution that makes the customers pay for accessing the data.

They are.

The NPS's customers are the American public, and they are paying for the data via taxes (approximately; government finance is more complex than that, and taxes don't really pay for spending that's a model that really is only true when working with commodity and not fiat currency, but, its reasonable enough for this purpose.)

What you want isn't for the current customers to pay for the data, but for the consumers of data to be viewed as customers and then charged for the data. but that potentially makes things more expensive for the NPS's customers, for instance, if one of the significant consumers turns out to be other public agencies, who then are paying a direct cost which pays for both the access to the data and the additional costs of billing and account management that a consumer-pays model imposes, and paying the overhead for the payer-side costs associated with payments, as well as the actual amount of the payments, then you end up ultimately with largely the same customers paying, but paying a whole lot of additional overhead.
Do you need anything other than a web browser to access it? Medium is just the server that it’s hosted on.
Hydrogen is probably just fine for uncrewed balloons. Like everyone has a gas furnace or grill; flammability hazards can be managed.
You're right that Fujitsu shouldn't be made fall guy - although they should face massive fines, the Post Office management actually knew the software was buggy and witness statements from Fujitsu developers admitting to the bugs existing were altered by Post Office lawyers to remove references to those bugs (!). That is scandalous and people really need to go to jail over such a miscarriage of justice.

It wasn't so much a matter of "not counting cash" though - it was counted frequently, and the problem was that when it was counted, bugs in the accounting system had accumulated to make it look like there was cash missing. These errors added up to a lot of money that never existed seemingly being missing.

The crazy thing to me is how so many people (nine hundred!) could be prosecuted for exactly the same thing, with none of them having any seemingly unexplained wealth, suspicious transactions, money trail, or anything like that at all... I mean, sure, for the first few you might just think they were smart in hiding it, but even before they knew about the bugs and covered that up (and fraudulently kept prosecuting people), after a while surely alarm bells should have been going off somewhere. These were large sums of money, somebody should have stopped and asked "is the most likely scenario for this that we keep employing dozens and dozens of masterful money laundering thieves as postmasters and sub-postmasters, or is something else going wrong"!
Interesting. Further divides to the Chinese and worldwide market.
80% is the limit for what can easily be resold to Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae - government programs that buy conforming loans and guarantee and resell them as bonds.

You can go above 80% but costs rise sharply.
When I call Visible (Verizon's own MVNO) for support, I don't get Verizon, I get someone in the Philippines that works for some company there, pretending to be Verizon. Same with Amazon or really any other major company these days.

The weird thing here is that you dealt directly with SADA and knew that it was a third party. I actually see that as a good thing as it is more transparent.
Noting that most historians hate counterfactuals, many people have wondered over the years what the world would be like if the tax thing had been settled amicably with suitable representation.

Aside from Baron Baltimore being less an anomoly and more a sign of landed gentry in the USA, I suspect it's very likely the confederation of north america would have become the logical heartland of a british empire/co-dominium and that at least two major wars of the 20th century would have taken different shape, if only because the need for a Pearl Harbour event to bring the US into the war would have not been present. Canada would be provinces of a unified (or not!) landmass.

I hesitate to say the slaughter of indigenous would not have happened, frankly the British are simply better at hiding their iniquity, I have little doubt they would have pushed tribes aside to occupy the land, every bit as much as the US states did. Only New Zealand stands as a treaty outcome (Hawaii was superceded by circumstances beyond their control) and it's far from perfect.

On the other hand since Australia exists in part, to solve the overflowing prison hulk system, a function of loss of ability to send people to America, my home would either not exist, or be french territory. Quelle Suprise!

German land holdings would have looked very different too, and Belgian. The white man's burden would have taken a very different shape if the British state was confident in the American landscape. India I suspect would have worked out exactly the same: the east india company had to be pushed aside well after the US thing, that wasn't going to change much.

I suspect the British would not have been able to resist taking up land across the Bering Straights. So what we think of as the "German problem" might in fact, have been "the Russian problem" re-written. There isn't much the Tsars could do if Vladivostok turned out to be Georgetown.

Perhaps not such a bad outcome?

George Bernard Shaw had a crack at the US coming back into the fold in "upset the apple cart" which is at least entertaining.
Hard work and/or luck. Usually both, but not always.

Occasionally you hear of someone (Rodriguez in Searching for Sugar Man) who makes it big despite doing nothing at all to promote himself.

And hard working folks who go nowhere.

I'm watching a documentary right now about Jonathan Ramie, who plays Jesus in The Chosen. He struggled for 20 years, not even having health insurance.
I've never worked in the medical industry but I know many people who have, who basically told me HIPAA violations are extremely common and only enforced for a fraction of violations that actually occur. My ex used to work in medical insurance (for a very, very big company) and estimated that maybe 3% of HIPAA violations are actually enforced. I used to think HIPAA was a huge deal until she told me story after story of violations that were ignored.

I think HIPAA is the sort of thing where if you hear about it then it's taken seriously, but the overwhelming number of violations are just ignored and you never hear about them. I'd like to be wrong but unfortunately that's the information I've been fed by people more knowledgeable than me.
Here's an old album of the style meter I use [1]. I recommend a soothing blue & green for hobbies, I use red for client work. 20 Hours is the allocation for all skill learning. The tokens are part of a much larger whole as I've unified fun, skills, work, mental health and financial planning into a single system. I have programs that do most of it, but keeping it as a marker/paper UI is critical if you struggle with mental health or motivation, so that you can easily bootstrap yourself.

I extended the 20 hour practice idea from Josh Kaufman [2]

I highly recommend Sam Harris (Waking Up), Alan Watts, Laozi for mindfulness / meditation, as well as Iain McGilchrist (The Master & His Emissary), Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (Flow) and David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) for metaphorical inspiration. Learning to play at life in any moment helps to eliminate tedium & boredom from your vocabulary.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/pMudls5
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY
Why would anyone trust an ai bot about a candidates views. Using your location and potentially other login information it’ll know your political leanings and say anything to get your vote, true or not.

Individually targeted political advertising where content is tailored should be banned. With individualized ads there is no chance for a broader discussion on the ads veracity, the ads can exploit individual fears and concerns, and they can give opposing messages to different groups on niche issues that do not enter the public debate.
I agree people hold foundational beliefs, but they don’t seem to be things like materialism which then impose some logical consequences.

Instead it’s stuff like the fundamental nature of specific organizations/ideas. You can far more easily find an agnostic Catholic than one who believes the Catholic Church is irredeemably evil.

I’d call it tribalism rather than herd behavior because animal herds don’t attack other herds. Meanwhile football fans will fight each other over effectively arbitrary teams.
do you still have the contact? I have a proof of concept i'd like to share with them.
> The only thing that fixes this is for a critical mass of people to find the courage to stand up to rotten individuals who are powerful or likely to obtain power soon.

Or you know, competition from new companies that will replace them. So companies can't rot too much, they have to continue to provide at least a bit of value or get replaced.
You buy less house and you can get squeezed. It’s closer to renting.
What happens to the shares owned by those firms? If I remember correctly I think the business can buyback or they can be resold to other shareholders?
every rest api implementation is bespoke. what does "battle tested" mean in this sense ?

Sure the concept of rest APIs is mature, the but each implementation is untested.
I think only allowing DRM xor copyright would result in the most interesting outcome—not necessarily ideal, but certainly interesting.
both sites are owned by the original author "spite"
Wouldn't the traditional publisher model somewhat modified be reasonable solution? They have been around for decades and they know the industry, have the connections and so on. Just have to leverage it right way.

Real issue with VC money in games is that returns most of the time just aren't big enough. And picking the winners is very hard.
We should put it in childrens party balloons and let it all fly up into the atmosphere. That is definitely the best use of it.
If there's one universal truth about whales, it's that there's always a bigger fish. Every time I've heard about a real-life whale, I've been out by multiple orders of magnitude from my wildest guess.

And yes I know whales are mammals but facts don't get in the way of puns.
The base concept of CoD is the same each time though. If you liked the last one, you'll likely like the next one. It's predictable which means you can pour a lot more money in to it since you know there is a customer base for it.
The taxpayers are the patrons not the customers.
Yes, I agree. OpenAI is wise to take this course, and the campaign won't be wrong to work around it by using an open model (in my opinion).
The difference between white & yellow light in fog is minimal. What really makes fog lights effective is being under 18 inches off the ground so they shine under the fog.
I don't know if it's common in the UK, I would guess not, but we have had thousands of kilometers of 25kV lines in France for half a century now, and I have never heard of people being electrocuted because their balloons had touched the catenaries.
Dean Philips sux
You can't afford to put 0% into understanding or playing "the game," but that doesn't mean it should be the majority or a significant part of your work.

It needs to be enough that your boss/boss' boss can recall a positive association between you/your work and what they care about. Some of this is your manager/boss' job, but at least try to make it easier for them to do.

This is also a decent self sanity check on figuring out if what you're doing is important to do (with regard to the business, etc)
No, I don't think it would be. The last four digits of a CC purchase at a pharmacy won't contain PHI. It will just say "pharmacy." But if you have some data to back that claim up, I'd love to read about it.
> So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend?

I will make that trade every day of the week if it means access continues to be through a standard protocol (HTTP) and not beholden to any particular vendor.
you're correct, this was a basic error on my part - it's #5 all time (https://steamdb.info/charts/?sort=peak). apologies / thanks for the catch, and i've fixed the text
the rest API provides parameters for filtering & pagination. all of that is unnecessary. it's a few hundred MB tops . CSV , Bigquery , anything is better than running REST on EC2
Then she has probably also told you that it's normal for scientists to publish these initial findings so the rest of the world can build on them. "This is not a viable drug and may never become one" doesn't need to be restated every time something gets reported. We know.
12 sounds a lot, but it is actually not that many. Considering Steam had 14516 games last year. So that would be less than 1 in thousand. And you will also have self funded and games from traditional publishers.
“Given the lifespan of venture funds, we expect to continue this work for at least the next decade,” he wrote. “Our work continues to energize us, and we are as committed as ever to the mission of Foundry"

Weird article. The firm is not "shuttering" it's just publicly announcing that it's not planning to raise another fund.

For people who don't know, venture "firms" are a collection of funds, with different lifetimes, LPs, terms, etc. Sometimes there is one "management company" at the heart, but not always. It's a different structure than a normal corporation.

Each fund eventually reaches its EOL and follows a predefined protocol for what to do with the remaining assets.
It’s interesting for people who live at sea level but do a lot of mountain activities on weekends.

High elevation seems to have a big effect on blood oxygen but does vary person to person. It’s interesting to see one’s own response. I get why my sleep is shitty the first couple days at altitude after seeing the numbers.
I want search engines to operate similar to this. Instead of using googles monolithic index, you can subscribe to different trusted sources for lists of sites that are curated and maintained. Then your personal search engines queries them all at once.

I think if you could balance the incentives right it would put the onus on the curators to make sure that their indexes were full of high quality sites. And if one starts giving you rubbish, just remove their index from your search engine.
He's a software engineer not a electrical engineer/electrician. Before I worked in building services I would never have imagined the astronomical price some contractors charge for labour.
Have you never assumed anything in your whole life?
3D printed and assembled dozens of these for a conference a few years back, and handed them out instead of business cards: https://forum.formlabs.com/t/babyform2-3d-print-your-3d-prin...
Thrussh: Updated for the SSH Terrapin Attack
To be explicitly clear, I think you could strip out the environment variable loading stuff. Really just want there to be a standardized database url format parser. Does a lot to encourage not keeping database configuration in settings.py if there is a guided path to loading the secret.
Back in an office after 10 years remote including my own startup.
I cannot believe how important real, face to face and coexisting is. As someone actively trying to get stuff done, it’s a super power. The ability to cut through organizational inertia is amazing!!
> Canada's current private copying levies are as follows: $0.29 per unit for CD-R, CD-RW, CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio disks [0]

The Canadian government does not. You likely haven't paid the tax in the last decade, if ever.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
> [...] productivity measurement [...] analytics [...] workers estimate their contribution [...] automate evaluation [...]

Won't this inevitably lead to the same familiar BS?

We already know that current tech workers start focusing on corporate BS metrics (e.g., FAANG interviews) while still in school.

Even getting into the college was its own gauntlet of BS of resource-intensive hoop-jumping, questionable metrics, artifice, and self-promotion.

CS students have already been told how to strategically pick their first job, how to work promotions, when to job-hop, to have no loyalty to project and team, to network, to self-promote, etc.

By the time tech workers hit their first job, they've practically been engineered and filtered to be corporate BS machines.

Part of the trick might be to un-train that. And to filter for people who can be un-trained.
We Indonesian use: wkwkwk.
the more barbaric among us often use aowkoawk.
Rent control is a huge pain the ass because it's simultaneously supported by fatcats who know exactly what it does (i.e. raise overall housing costs) and naive idealists who think they're sticking it to the fatcats.

The cake is a lie.
I've succesfully read a few pet microchips with it.

Of course, it wasn't useful to do, but hey it worked!
I wouldn’t take them seriously, except that SpaceX has a full decade of very reliable launch services at a fraction of the cost. You might ask how they did that, and SpaceX says “here are some examples”. It’s not just reusing rockets.
An alternative to earplugs for people who are sensitive to having things in their ears is a good old white noise generator. Preferably a non-electronic one, like the original Marpac DOHM.
I got:

Access Denied - GoDaddy Website Firewall

Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.

from Australia.

I wonder why they'd block an entire country...
Can you fill us in on the differences?

I doubt this has anything to do with generative AI, unless it was written by GPT3 and if so it did a great job. GPT4 would be released over a year after this was released.
That's not what I mean. I'm saying that if someone makes a program that uses custom extensions, they might label it as "RISC-V" but it doesn't actually work on my machine. Of course other ISAs also have extensions, but they are standard and programs typically check for them before using them. Does RISC-V have a way of looking for which extensions are available? Especially if there are a lot of entities that can implement them?