skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software hasn’t eaten the entire world! There’s so much more than the craze du jour. Crazes follow a hype cycle, made famous by Gartner.

Basics always serve you. Many things in life are easy to start and difficult to master. You can’t skip basics and getting experience. People think they can.

My example is a degree in applied physics, which opens the door to almost everything. Since I got it in 1970, there were 4 years in the service, but I started out thereafter in aerospace, mixing electronics and optics through several jobs, until computing took over, whether coding, I.T. support or even sales engineering. I got so interested in the sales process, what worked and what didn’t, that I got one of those unofficial “personal MBA” degrees. I was obviously a generalist.

I couldn’t have coded without knowledge of the problem spaces, whether that involved data management as a department sysadmin, knocking out scientific problem solvers, reducing data, compiling open source to run on Solaris, “coding” SNMP system monitoring packages [1] and so on.

But I didn’t get that first entry-level engineer job until I was 27.

[1] Funny thing, the system monitoring used perl as an extension language. I recall that it was a descendant of netlabs software, which Larry Wall worked on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetLabs
War is hell but it's not to be avoided at all costs. It's preferable to oppression.
It seems like you found all the reasons you wanted to give up before even trying.
> 0000fuck.you.get.signal.fb.me

Are these coming from some user-generated content? Sounds like someone’s joke Messenger group name
Consequences involve being kicked off the service with no refund for the (significant) fees.
I wonder if books try to present tree structures as in abstract space partitionning, instead of describing the final result first.
Capitol Hill.
The point that we shouldn’t speculate too much about the implications of Neanderthal brain size is well taken.

But IMHO it applies just as well when trying to show that Neanderthal’s language was super different from ours. We know virtually nothing about the evolution of language in our own species, let alone another species.

They were different for sure, but the fact that we regularly mated with and formed families with Neanderthals and their first few generation generations means to me that the difference wasn’t that much. I’d go so far as to that absent any reason to believe otherwise, the default presumption should be that we’d be close to equals with them in these matters.
> The software isn't really doing anything. It's simply the means of communication by which the prices are fixed amongst the suppliers.

The software literally includes the algorithm that says "this week, you will set the rate for this apartment at $X" based on its data. And if you want to deviate from that, without being kicked off, and losing your substantial fee payment, you will do that rate (and they will check), or you can "request an override" from RealPage, that they may allow or deny at their discretion (and RP agents are formally trained that override approvals may not exceed 5% of requests).
I mean, yah, it makes sense the one they admitted was pertinent to the case? I don’t see how that context is meaningful.

I actually strongly disagree with you — the context doesn’t matter. We have a private quasi-law enforcement entity installing thousands of surveillance devices in American cities without any external oversight or knowledge of where they are installed. These surveillance devices that were pitched as tools to locate gun crimes all of a sudden record audio? And this quasi-law enforcement company with no oversight is storing that data and then furnishing it to the police?

We have no idea what’s recorded, we have no idea where these devices are, we have no idea who is listening to the recordings, we have no idea what access LEOs have to these recordings, we don’t know how they are stored, and we don’t know how long they are stored for. You’re seriously okay with a non-government entity operating like this?
Nobody diagnosed anything. It's a perfectly reasonable thing for a person to suggest that another person might be depressed, especially in this context where it is clearly intended to be supportive.
Factfulness: A Paradigm Shift in Perceiving the World
It's just a normal reaction of a ungovernable nation to a state that tries to regulate everything. They are already at the fifth republic, after guillotining their king. On the plus side they also love privacy, there's the right to one's image in France, employers are not allowed to disturb their employees with calls after work hours or during holidays and many other privacy and work related legal safeguards.
Never have fiction on a controversial topic happen within your lifetime.
Every nation does this? When I lived in a universal healthcare system I had to show my healthcare card to get medicine. Prescriptions were transmitted electronically.

None of this is unique to the US.
I should re-phrase that, because like its aerosol military usage[1], yes, the right formulation passes skin tissue.

Transdermals take hours or days, and the formulation is geared specifically so that it's carried fluid-to-fluid via fats in the skin layers. Fentanyl wholesale is never anywhere near pure form, and it's locked in crystal structures of other substances. When it's added to other crap, the concentration goes down even more.

Should you roll around in giant piles of street grade fentanyl? No. Should you lick your fingers after arresting junkies? Ew, and also, no.

Do you get chain overdosed from helping someone to an ambulance or being in the same room as a herd of junkies? Hard nope, but also, check your wallet.

[1] Which sucks as "knockout gas", by the way. Real good at "killing the whole elementary school" though.
I'd amend the definition of a graph to be something like, a graph is a set of nodes and a set of their relationships called edges. A tree is a special case of a graph where every node has exactly one relationship with its parent. Essentially, now that we know about N-aray trees where any node can have N many children, what about a datastructure where any node can have N many parents?

This avoids confusion with some non-optimal representations, like a list of trees and a list of edges between those trees. While that's useful for some algorithms (for example, what's called a least-single-common-ancestor (LSCA) tree and auxiliary list of edges, which can be used for efficiently finding the least common ancestor of two or more nodes), it's really bad for most.

The logical build up from linked lists to trees to graphs is useful for practical applications.

It's also useful to know that this is an abstraction and you can store everything in faster data structures like hashmaps and arrays to efficiently lookup tree or graph relationships.
> OldNews is also slightly more expensive than the basic Newspapers.com subscription.

newpapers.com is $150/yr or $20/mo for unlocked content - and $90/yr or $8/mo for partially unlocked content.

Or you can pay $360/yr for Ancestry and get newspapers.com for $150/yr for unlocked - $90/yr for partially unlocked.

Or you can pay $600/yr for Ancestry and get newspapers.com at no extra charge.
Set a precedent for the rest of the world as well. Similar protests in my country were also suppressed, in direct reference to the US ones.
The most costly form of theft — by far — is not burglary or robbery but wage theft. That is a crime overwhelmingly committed by rich professionals and rarely enforced. So if we really want to get serious about stopping theft, we should allocate much more resources to investigating businesses than putting beat cops on the street.

There’s not actually a well known link between poverty and crime in the way you imply. We’ve just decided that we only care about some people committing some crime some of the time.
Can I ask why you’re concerned about the legitimacy of the kids reasoning for setting off fireworks? Like, if he was shot and killed on a holiday, it’s not his fault, but it’s perfectly reasonable to be shot and killed by a police officer when a opaque surveillance system reports gunshots on non-holidays?
This has been his "problem" for almost a decade. He's trying to build something that's midi-tight. As a musician, somehow he forgets that real musicians also lost the beat now and then, and it makes the music more interesting.

The number of times he's postulated that some design would fix these problems is too damn high.
There are two kinds of security.

Nearly all of corporate America practices security by checklist and certification. This is not real security, it’s just CYA for careerists and legal challenges.

Actual security is hard and almost no one does it. The people capable of it are rare and expensive. They’re probably not jumping at the opportunity to work at Optum for $80,000.
Some crimes, like shoplifting, are hard to measure because it often goes unreported because the defunded police don't respond to them. But the murder rate is easy to measure.

When people put bars on their windows on the ground floor, it is not the police causing them to be willing to spend the money on that.

Crime can also cause poverty. For example, if the family breadwinner goes to jail, the family slips into poverty.
That’s ridiculous because in a single per system the government stands in front anyways.

There are plenty of drugs in Europe doctor might want to prescribe but the government says “nope, not going to pay for it”
If the war is so bad, Ukraine could stop it right now. All it has to do is surrender and then do whatever Russia wants. No one wants to resign themselves to that brutally oppressive fate though. Looks like they'd rather send all their men to their deaths than do that.

Sometimes there's no diplomacy and only violence gets your enemy to stop.
The tone of your article makes me honestly, really angry. You know damn well that the reason the sensors are in those neighborhoods are because that's where people are getting shot.

You even talk about how a school where some little kid got shot has a sensor, as if it's some sort of punishment for the lower income people there. Perhaps it's because the police and the city government want to deter or solve murders that happen. The way your article is framed, the main concern is that low income or minority perpetrators of shootings might get caught and put in jail. The fact that minority or low income victims of major violent crime might have their assailants deterred or at least brought to justice does not even factor into your calculus.
Minor nitpick: The title is confusing. The first word should be substituted with "Machine-Learning" or "Statistical-Learning". Ideally, the author of the piece should do that at some point.
my guess is: scam sites acquired by meta to stop the scam
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Should be illegal
Employees still have to follow their politically appointed bosses at the top or risk being fired.
So are you from a MENA country or not?
> A tree is a special case of a graph where every node has exactly one relationship with its parent.

Is a triangle a tree, a graph where every node has one parent and one child then?
Given how poorly our defense spending effects literally anything related to our security, I'd rather not discover what havoc our government might wreak on the internet.
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Responsibilities

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Requirements

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We’ll offer a competitive European market rate salary for your experience level as well as stock options.
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Kinda sounds like gpt prompting
All store owners should be jailed, then, since the presence of inventory on their shelves is proof of a scheme to generate excess profit by charging higher than market-clearing prices - or it would have sold already.
I did it with custom parsing[0] and treated the numbers as 16 bit integers, the representation in the file is not a constant number of bytes which complicates the table approach. If you end up computing a hash I think it might be slower than just doing the equivalent parsing I do and a four byte constant table will be very large and mostly empty. Maybe a a trie would be good.

0: https://github.com/k0nserv/brc/blob/main/src/main.rs#L279
I have done something like this for embedding Easter eggs in websites where a user can just "view source" to see the code. I want someone who looks to know there is an Easter egg, but not know what it does or how to activate it...

Code is AES-GCM encrypted, and the encrypted blob is stored on the web server. The "cheat code" to activate the Easter egg is the decryption key (the passphrase used with a key derivation function, to be precise). Entering the cheat code triggers an attempt to decrypt the blob. If the password is correct and the code decrypts successfully, the decrypted code is run with eval. If the passphrase is incorrect, nothing happens.

Thus, nobody inspecting the code can know what the cheat code is or what it does without breaking the crypto. But someone who knows it can enter it and trigger the magical cheat behavior.

Note that it's important to use authenticated encryption so that the user's browser doesn't try to execute garbled text when decryption fails.
Indeed, by that metric he's doing quite well.
Ok but "overmurder" isn't a thing, so how is murder relevant?
See my experience and suggestions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39290661
But isn’t the Java version unrolling loops? This seems like some effort on the Java side.
This is a slippery slope towards nihilism. When we expect less and less of our fellow humans, where do we wind up?
Well it doesn't use softwood
The companies dominating the hardware side that enables it being most valuable companies in the world is not far fetched, if you believe that AI is the next big thing after the internet. And it seems many investors believe so.
Yeah, the point is the situation in the US is lightyears away from being that bad.
> There's no way we have enough doctors to get all the long-term prescriptions correctly and quickly re-issued on paper when the need arises.

In the US, prescriptions with refills have a label on the bottle indicating how many refills left. I imagine in a recognized crisis, you would be able to get those refilled with little trouble, maybe even if it said zero refills as long as it was a drug typically used long term and not a drug commonly abused.
> KSA has Dubai Envy - it always aims to do what Dubai is doing now, but with about a 20-year time lag, and it often fails. For example, the Riyadh Financial District (KAFD) is largely empty, except for companies forced to go there by threats from the government.

All it takes is for Saudi government regulation to mandate setting up in Saudi Freezones, and one will see Dubai's spigot drying up. Saudi's inefficiencies were the reason for Dubai's gains, and with that going away at a very rapid pace under MBS, I don't know what future Dubai has, except as a tax Haven.

But for that, the Saudis have an uphill battle trying to get Jeddah and Dammam ports on par with Dubai's Jebel Ali freezone. The holdover time for cargo in JAFZA is 3 days on average, compared to Jeddah's 45 days.
More proof that the JVM is space-age future technology.
Having to show identity documentation doesn't rely on a payment processor. Prescriptions in the UK (and other places - Germany for example) are electronic by default but can be made out on paper and verified without a computer.
"rent is up nearly 20% since 2020" but is that taking into account the change in the value of the dollar and changes in the consumer price index?

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2020?amount=1

$1 in 2020 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1.19 today, an increase of $0.19 over 4 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 4.48% per year between 2020 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 19.17%.

This means that today's prices are 1.19 times as high as average prices since 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index. A dollar today only buys 84.034% of what it could buy back then.

gas was $3.22 in 2020 but is 42.17% higher in 2024, so by that metric rent is proportionally lower (than the 20% increase in rent)

Things changed rather dramatically, theoretically,because of different presidential puppet-string-pulling in terms of the FTC: https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2021/06/lina-k...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55738746

After less than 24 hours in office Biden signed 15 executive orders whereas Trump had signed 8 after two weeks (Obama had signed 9 after two weeks).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55738746

information that comes from government agencies is almost always data that has been arranged in such a way as to make those in power look like they're the good guys.
I always wonder if having unlimited money is all it takes. There's only so many excavators in the world, and hiring every single one would probably tank someone's economy
>using dumb hardware terminals, VT100 style

Those VT-100 terminals actually have Z80 CPUs in them, but even so, they connected to VAX or other computer systems, which are generally networked.
Many of them have been valid for years. I was surprised things like lit and af were considered gen z. The vocabulary is not moving that fast fortunately.
Stop Using Public WiFi Because of These Dangers
Look I don't disagree, but i thought we were discussing Corporate LLMs—chatbots made in service of private equity and capital.
I've been to Israel before, and I have visited KSA recently, no worries.

Things have changed a lot - there used to be a time when the same people wouldn't be allowed in Dubai, and now we have Israeli porn sites shooting videos of naked models on Dubai balconies.
Just think about it. If relativistic mass (a term that indeed tends to be avoided by actual physicists for good reasons, because it confuses concepts of mass and energy which are clearly defined in relativity) was the explanation, then the shape of the planet's orbit itself would influence the anomalous precession component from General Relativity. And you would see no relativistic effect at all for perfectly circular orbits with zero eccentricity. That is simply not the case.
Where does it say that? If it's something on the contract, you'd think that the FTC would open with that rather than vaguely imply this this happening.
Antennas couple the same both ways.
This comment is off-topic in this thread - it doesn't belong here and I don't see why you'd quote-tweet a different thread to me from months ago in an unrelated place. It is tantamount to stalking.

If you truly want me to answer, and you're only posting here because you can't reply to old threads, let me know and I'll send you my personal email and we can engage there.
The fast Java version is using all the same optimizations as this Go version and then some. It's significantly more complicated.
Life isn't a race, you're on your own journey.

FAANG job isn't end-all (speaking as someone who's worked 2-3 of those).

If you can pay your bills and keep your mental health from being completely ruined, that's a solid win.

Crypto/NFT/etc kids aren't the epitome of intelligence. Some get lucky gambling, most don't. And scamming others isn't anything to be proud of or want.

ChatGPT won't put you out of work. It's great for experimenting. But specifying precisely what you want to get out of it is equivalent to coding, and programming languages are made precisely to make that job as simple as it gets.

The fact that it isn't simple at all means that there's going to be work for you going forward.

The world is constantly crashing on us, and with War World III already going on (Ukraine and Gaza is just the start), things are only going to get wilder.

So, to answer your question: investment in therapy will pay off 10x.

Focus on preserving yourself through it all.
are you really comparing reunification of ireland with brexit?
It even supports WiFi, so you can have automatic backups every night while the phone is charging. Also the protocol has been reverse engineered, it’s possible to use a Linux server instead of having to use iTunes on windows or buying a Mac..

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/...
That you put Rust among those languages says it all. Do some basic research.
Column-Oriented DMBS
Selection bias is at play with the other stuff, you don't hear about the 10000+ coins which have collapsed, you only hear about 3 of the coins.

You don't hear about any NFT that hasn't collapsed.

Everyone is trying to guess how many investors are more and less stupid then they are and in turn when to run away before everything collapses. Not a healthy system.

Amortized, blackjack at a casino has better odds.

Almost any experience will beat college experience.

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The timing isn't great, right now. Everyone is investing into R&D about how AI can help their business. However things might just as easily find out that AI isn't actually that useful for given tasks, and immediately back-track .

And additionally, there needs to be people who can review what AI produces. I still haven't gotten anything to correctly break a cycle in a graph structure, which is a very simple task in its context.

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Another option is to look into additional training, e.g. Being able to handle medical events with first aid training, or etc, are a great value add. Understanding multiple languages is another great value add if a company ever deals with companies from other countries.
Right, equitable access to medicine means everyone pays a zero, or trivially affordable price, that's the same regardless of who they are and regardless of what the medicine is. In the UK that is £9 maximum - free for many.

P.S. vouched your gp comment back to life.
Stories are the ultimate carriers for rewriting history and manufacturing consent/shitstorms. Large language models are the key to doing this programmatically. some hiccups during the beta phase are to be expected

Thank you for writing the follow up training material.
I think it just needs to reverse to old and tried all-paper, hard copy, no-electronics approach of yesteryear. There is no way institutions that are filled with non-technical people can prevent this if the entire system is electronic and networked.
They do take abuse very seriously. If die Polizei asks for your info, because you've been operating an illegal torrent tracker, they could hand it over, having verified it with your id.