skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking on debt loads with the expectation that future generations of your city will pay it off is not, in my opinion, ‘competent local government’.

Again, I wish them the best of luck, but philosophically I am an old line conservative. The fiscal kind, not the Jesus freak kind. I’ve seen this end badly before, and have seen no evidence to indicate this time will end any differently. But again, I’m happy to be proven wrong and hope they pull through. (Or rather, I guess I hope their children pull through.)
There are arrays - https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/array.html

Just not used across the language
I don't know this Ozempic. If people take it for at most a few years, then yes, it may do what I described. On the other end, if people are supposed to take it for life, then it does surely not!
JFrog Acquires Qwak
> There's no reason that governments can't receive donations like non-profits and charities do.

They do, it’s called taxes.

If a government starts having a donation culture, it’ll just end up becoming a legal way to pay for government favours and exacerbate rise in corruption. (Corruption has been rising more and more now that local journalism is declining, which previously used to bust out local events, embezzling tax payer money by municipalities, etc).

Look at what has happened to colleges which have donations as a major chunk of their income, or colleges which subsidises local students education with international students.

Colleges have easier admissions for children of donators, local students are neglected for international student programmes (happening a ton in Canada right now, a lot of their previously reputed colleges are becoming blacklisted by employers as diploma mills, e.g Conestoga College, Ontario)

When you’re not the payer/customer,
YOU. DONT. MATTER.

Corporate lobbying is making votes ineffective, politicians are listening to lobbyists and their donations to campaign funds, than the voter who gets out to cast their votes.

Donations are bad, and should be discouraged for powerful organisations like Gov, College, etc which have a lot of power.

You’re local orphanage would benefit from donations and there’s not much power in their hands over majority of society.

But when you introduce donation culture in more critical places, it becomes a method of corruption.
I thought the same. Not sure if this is correct or not.
"While the cave beneath the Castle has long thought to be the Lair of 'Wogan', the Castle's Dragon, recent archaeological evidence suggests it was in fact used to host the Lord's War Mammoths and Rhinos"
HN. Very free market. Except Apple. The cognitive dissonance, and entitlement is crazy.

Even funnier after years of "Apple knows best". God forbid anyone buy an Android phone. No, apparently folks would rather force their abuser to be slightly nicer and then stay in that toxic relationship.
Steam Superheater: Fix old and broken Steam games with a couple of clicks
That's really interesting & cool - I'm gonna look into this for sure!

I'd like to mention the Meteor.js framework (https://www.meteor.com/) too, which is in a bit of a transitioning phase right now to Meteor version 3, but is a really amazing full-stack app building solution I and many others have been working with for ~10 years.

It has a lot of batteries included, build system, pluggable frontend frameworks, lots of libraries, based on node.js, meaning it's pretty much compatible with the Node.js environment.

It's based on a really pretty simple syncing strategy for years:

It's original client side data provisioning layer is based on having

a) MongoDB on the Server and
b) a javascript-native implementation of a subset of MongoDB in the Client.

Using a publish / subscribe mechanism the client can subscribe to the subset of data relevant to his current view, eg. dependent on the current user & view.

Updating is theoretically possible by using a syncing mechanism via writes into the client database and an elaborate allow/deny mechanism, but in practice most people use the following simple workflow:

Meteor also provides a method-call-mechanism by which a client can call the server to do (or fetch) stuff. So that's basically RPC in a very simple but powerful format.

These methods also allow for "client side simulations", optimistic updates to the client side database, with the changes getting rolled back / updated once the server part of the method has done it's updating of the database.

So the workflow for working & updating data in the DB looks like this:

- Data is "canonical" on the server DB

- Client subscribes for the necessary data for its client side cache

- When the user triggers an action, the client calls a method on the server, eg: "likePost(post_id)"

- The client side simulation can actually increase the like count on the "Post" document in the local minimongo database

- The server then executes the method & increments the like count in its database, if the request is valid

- The client syncs its database after the method has completed to make sure its optimistic update lead to the same results as the server call did on the server.

- The client updates its UI always reactively as soon as the data in its local db has changed.

All of this is very performant as long as you keep it cool and subscribe only what's actually needed for the current view,

Oh, and all of this has fine grained reactivity, on the client. The whole solution is really powerful, while deceptively simple.

Having the same API on both client and server allows for "isometric" code, meaning code which runs on both the client and the server, so you don't have to have two different versions of helper code, which is really cool too.

Meteor.js is pretty much a bit like "the old PHP experience" to me: As a full Stack developer I can write powerful apps with only one codebase which is shared in parts between client and server.

Link to Pub/Sub docs: https://docs.meteor.com/api/pubsub
Link to the Method docs: https://docs.meteor.com/api/methods
> there are many possible ways to set it up.

And all of them require competent government.
Hong Kong used to be pretty good. Government services were quite efficient. Business friendly. Excellent healthcare. Low taxes. Low crime rate. All of Singapore's positives minus the negatives. Not sure how it is these days.
The R3 looks much more like a Range Rover than a small and nimble 90s VW Golf.
Get a PhD in ML from a top school. If you can't, get a MS CS/DS with ML emphasis from a top school, AI grad cert from Stanford at a minimum so that you can understand the latest arxiv papers. If you can't, YOLO and sift through a lot of low-quality articles on the Internet, find the gold nuggets and learn to apply them rapidly and then hope somebody will notice you and hire you. Competition is brutal right now as AI is the only area that is still hiring like crazy. I still think you are 5-10 years too late to start right now. If you can do DevOps, you can likely learn MLOps quickly but it's the same horrible job as regular DevOps. Also, data engineering is not ML but those jobs are easier to find.

EDIT: For downvoters, that's how I did it. I was a very successful SWEng (some of my work was among top posts on HN under different nicks) but saw the ball rolling towards ML in 2012 so I reskilled.
Intolerable pricks tend to make stressed friendships untolerable
And a big win for fraudsters. Who do you think ends up paying for the fraud in the end?
Yeah. Me too. Does it mean, they just gentrified the entire town and only rich people live there? Or is it more like they created enough opportunities and incentives that poorly paid jobs became better paid jobs?

I can see how the latter is “not invest in poverty”. But I have doubts that the trickle down effect can be that effective. Maybe it works well in a small population?
I hate pulling out my phone to look at my grocery list, so now you're telling me I can put my grocery list in ReDecibel and it will play it on repeat while I walk through the store?!! Very neat.
Pulsed laser deposition at wafer level is a game changer
The question was whether it's "Linux friendly."

It is.
The Calyx Institute: Privacy by Design for Everyone
> What percentage is the same?

Don't ask me, ask VW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Volkswagen_Group_platf...

A lot, I guess, otherwise VW wouldn't have become the #1 manufacturer in the world back in 2016 and wouldn't remain #2 even now.

> Also, even if VW has a platform they still sell 10x less cars than Tesla.

Be careful with that Reality Distortion Field, it's powerful stuff. No.

VW sold 5x more <<cars>> than Tesla (2023 data).

VW sold 60% fewer <<BEV cars>> than Tesla. VW sold ~800k, Tesla sold around 1.8m (also 2023 data).

The facts say:

1. VW has been using platforms for decades, they're good at it, they think they're preferable to having 1-2-3 models.

2. Their sales numbers for vehicles based on platforms seem to back up their thinking.

3. VW is slowly ramping up regarding BEV sales, but growing quite fast (~40% per year; about the same growth rate as Tesla).

4. Long term VW almost for sure will bridge the gap, they will be a major player for BEVs. Time will tell which position, exactly.
The JavaScript Set methods are now part of Baseline
Deriving mammalian DNA methylation predictors for maximum life span and age
Nice write-up, though I wish you had expanded a bit more on this:

"We can show that using the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory we cannot prove the product of an infinite collection of non-empty sets to be non-empty. That seems daft..."

Indeed, and it's exactly the sort of thing that you should not simply proclaim to be true with no explanation or reference.

BTW, you might find this interesting:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2023/01/an-intuitive-counterexam...
As mentioned in the article, you can declare a binding named `undefined` and assign a value to it. This shadows the base `undefined` binding (since it's NOT a keyword).

`void 0` ensures that you get the `undefined` value regardless of any shadowing that may be happening with the `undefined` binding.
Not available in macOS `ls` unfortunately.
Singapore cannot be a benchmark for a city in the US.
The tradeoffs are not worth it.
> Prove it out first

Carmel has proven it.

Now neighboring cities are following suit with same results see Zionsville, Westfield, Noblesville and Fishers for other examples with results that are tracking right along with Carmel (although 10-15 years behind).
> Need a peak detection algorithm

I think thats all you need. ;)

In realiity, trading is hard because it requires 2 points where you have to get the timing right.

First you have buy the position at a time when it is favorable. Then you have to exit the position when you get profit. Sounds easy, but the hard part is that this profit also has to cover any past losses. where you failed timing the entry into the position.

Its easy when the stock goes up 800% and then falls 50% to 400% your original position, that you should have sold when it was at its "peak". But along the way to 800% you had so many times to sell for 500%, 600%, 700%, etc. and along the way the stock had fluctuations with many peaks.

If you sell to early you can't get enough profit to cover past and future losses. If you sell to late same story. So you have to nail the exit position also and that is where most models that rely on past data fail. People just walk through the parameters until the entry and exit positions on their test data line up to make a profit, but then can't replicate when going "live".

Another way to look at investing is everyday you are in the market, it is almost the same logically as selling and choosing to reinvest every day. So if you hold AAPL for 5 years, that is about 1000 days where the algo is choosing to invest (i.e. keep invested) in AAPL. Its pretty tough to have that many decisions points because even 0.1% noise would cause you to sell.
Visualizing 3D matrix multiplications, and getting comfortable with it. Then there's basic calculus in understanding gradient descent. Can't think of any other advanced math that was necessary to grok the innermost workings of most models today.

Source: I won a silver medal in a kaggle competition after 6 months of ML self-learning.
Denmark planning a levy on farms in first agricultural carbon tax
Safik2211
The Coming Great Conflict
Basic income could solve global poverty and stop environmental destruction
is it hosted somewhere so I can use it over an API call? or any suggestions for people without access to a gpu and want to do just a few calls a month?
Building a Platform Team at a 153-Year-Old Company
> Both posts makes me appreciate the joy of working on my own stuff for fun.

There was once a programmer who worked upon microprocessors. “Look at how well off I am here,” he said to a mainframe programmer who came to visit, “I have my own operating system and file storage device. I do not have to share my resources with anyone. The software is self‐consistent and easy‐to‐use. Why do you not quit your present job and join me here?”

The mainframe programmer then began to describe his system to his friend, saying: “The mainframe sits like an ancient sage meditating in the midst of the data center. Its disk drives lie end‐to‐end like a great ocean of machinery. The software is as multifaceted as a diamond, and as convoluted as a primeval jungle.

The programs, each unique, move through the system like a swift‐flowing river. That is why I am happy where I am.”

The microprocessor programmer, upon hearing this, fell silent. But the two programmers remained friends until the end of their days.

— The Tao of Programming, Geoffrey James
Apparently, they don't need benefactors, they can just take on more debt!

I’m not sure how this ends well.
> There is more money to be made by stakeholders treating health problems than there is in preventing them

This is not in line with economic theory. According to it, actors would simply price the treatment and an npv of the potential future cash flow. It would actually be more beneficial to treat people completely, as it reduces the risk of the cash-cow suddenly being hit by a car, for example.
Will we ever get fusion power?
> The billion dollars mistake is not having nulls, you need some concept of null.
> The mistake was allowing nulls to be a valid value for all pointers/reference at the type level.

Hence I call it "implicit nulls" in my post. I know `null` as a concept is important, even if you have it as `Unit`, `Void` or `Nothing`.

You are totally right thought that in languages that do not force you to specify types it is basically needed as you cannot hint a type to begin with.
Less/No attempts to get local/state/federal money for low-income housing developments.
> In general it's a good problem for a beginner to think about performance and how to approach optimization as the general logic is almost trivial.

If they haven't heard of ray tracing, sure ;)
Having to dispute transactions or beg my bank to please let through a given payment, yes it’s really me (because they only have antiquated and often very insecure ways of establishing my identity) isn’t thrilling either.

3DS on every transaction would definitely be frustrating (and not even EU banks/merchants do it); 3DS on no transaction just shifts the friction elsewhere.
that is indeed more truthful than what i had interpreted you to be saying, and i apologize for doubting your good faith
FWIW, I have been working on a variation that is supposed to be eventually on a similar topic, but it is confined to a specific terminal - https://github.com/ayourtch/prompter

For the time being it doesn’t do much other than intercepting the input/output, and is a bit buggy at that - so, no LLM there :)

But posting anyhow in case it can be useful for someone to avoid reinventing the plumbing.
He does not want to be a AI/ML researcher, but a ML engineer.
What's the alternative of long-term bond investments? Republican-style tax cuts? If I understand the article correctly, Carmel's Republican mayor Jim Brainard broke off from his party's motto.

> The prevailing model of austerity, low taxes, and limited government in many Republican-led states and cities has often failed to improve the quality of life. Meanwhile, Democratic-led cities struggle to effectively address issues like homelessness, housing affordability, and public safety despite greater willingness to invest, just not in actual services and infrastructure.
I'm running a 500 node cluster, 3 private ones and 5 in an opensource context.

I see this primarily from a business/ops perspective and i do not install helm charts manually through the cli besides for testing.

We provide kubeapps as the packagemanager / interface for providing helm charts and cirumventing package manager features of helm.

For smaller use, we use ArgoCD for IaC and the helm charts are only there for having a package to reference. Again no usage of helm as package manager
EU should do this the following way:

Too big company must announce what it tries to do, then EU replies:

- You are too big, you glutton. We don't allow this. Slim yourself down, now gtfo.
Ask HN: Getting into a offensive cybersecurity role with limited experience?
As the title suggests, is it feasible to gain a role in offensive cybersecurity (such as pentesting, redteaming, etc) with limited background experience?

I've seen a few ads offering courses to train for cybersecurity but they all seem to be scams.

I'm aware, given said resources, i could upskill myself but I'm additionally curious in regards to whether any mentorships exist within this industry, apprenticeships do but they require qualifications.

I'm new here so i hope this is ok to ask.

Thankyou, Loki.
That is the curse of guest languages, either they have to deal with leaky abstractions, or have to create their own, slower, implementation on top of platform primitives.

Also why with time, I learned to stay with platform languages, even if they aren't as shinny, or have warts that in hindsight could have been done better.
If you use https://dexie.org/ on top of IndexDB, you can turn it into a fairly useful document store with secondary indices, an improved query building interface, and reactive queries. It's doing exactly what you would expect on top of IndexDB if you did it yourself, but saves a ton of boilerplate. They have a sync service to go with it, but in my usage I managed that myself.
Companies are picky. FAANG don't need puzzle solvers but want them anyway.
Can’t speak for parent but we’ve been using it for our standard red ball use cases.

The physics can seem a bit floaty, particularly with space or moonscape wallpapers, but overall it’s good.
if you become a premium member you get an unlimited t-mobile hot spot. Great for travelers and van dwellers.
Personally I dont understand why they went with Jaguars. I wish they had gone with Hondas and struck a deal with them to integrate their level 3 Autonomous tech as it is the most advanced in the industry.
Sure. But just because that's true of some industries doesn't make it true of all industries. Your comment comes across like rejecting hx8's practice because it could not be universal.

Even your use of 'martyring' is bizarre. My avoidance of Windows for the last 20 years is a mild discomfort, not martyrdom.

There is a long history of using one's privilege to help those with less privilege. If hx8 "entitlement" changes the workplace to allow Ubuntu as an alternative to MS Windows, then those with less privilege may be able to follow.

By rejecting hx8's practice, you close off that pathway.
Keep AI Weird
> Carmel did not invest in poverty. Carmel pushed it out of town. Now it is extremely wealthy per-capita.

I suspect this doesn't mean that everyone working there is paid handsomely. The city instead focused on being the rich neighbourhood of a larger urban area. So, basically, it's easier to be competent when money is not an issue.
It is a miracle (both in that it exists and in that it actually still works :), but it does not cost 3% to run.

Much of that goes back to cardholders in the form of cash backs. That is evidently friction not necessary to run the system.
> Zurich, Geneva

It's easy to govern a town in a competent-looking fashion when you have plenty of money to spend, and it's easy to have plenty of money to spend when you decide to close your eyes to the source of the cash flowing into your vaults.
Notice how I didn’t say that the US can’t be evil.

US certainly can be, but, why stop there? Why not mention other evil powers while you’re at it?

Why focus on the US while Russia is going for textbook land grab à la Hitler?

Invading a country is very concerning, annexing it should considered unacceptable. Russia is doing the later.
> People laugh at the sheer number of roundabouts […]

Road Guy Rob has recently done two videos on this:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZUZA76L09M

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV0x2hNRYnU
They have the ID platform but it is too expensive for making the ID.2 and a potential Renault tieup with their cheap EV Zoe/Dacia platform fell through.

They also have a tie-up with Xpeng in China for a China only EV platform.

Why have another iron in the fire with Rivian if they only make a US only truck and compact SUV ???.

VW is flailing about.
So you combine helm with kustomize patching?

that just solves a subset of issues helm and kustomize have right now.
I am 1 person. I live in a city of 100,000.

Why do I deserve the outcome of 50,000 people's choices? (and if you say, 'just get involved in politics')

Okay, lets scale this, I'm 1 person, 100,000,000 people will be voting in November, why do I deserve the outcome?

(btw, I'm currently leaning less on democracy due to fear of populist demagogues, I want a republic where educated people have disproportional power to those who are less educated and produce less value)
I'm looking into learning more about ML and how I can create my own models.
I enjoy math, but when I read research papers the formulas sound like gibberish.
I also like the idea of Kaggle competitions, do you think I need to have research-level math understanding of ML models to do well on Kaggle?
Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout
I live near there. Carmel is now a very nice place to live, easily the nicest place to live in the State. It has very impressive walkable areas, tons of new restaurants and shops, the best schools in the state. It has become easily the most desirable place to live in the region, and good jobs have followed that.
> The frontend/backend split of Pidgin/libpurple makes this tricky, and we still don't have voice and video in a Windows release

Is that specifically for Teams, or is it a general limitation of libpurple?
The tradeoffs are plenty worth for people who enjoy living in a clean, peaceful and prosperous environment
> What exactly does that mean

Carmel did not invest in anything that anchors poverty into the community. They were very careful not to overbuild section 8 housing, they aggressively police blight (i.e. people not taking care of their property), and also required homes to be made with more expensive finishes (i.e. brick instead of plastic siding), so cheap housing was simply not possible to build.

The negative side: police tail old poorly maintained cars, are very quick to move homeless out, and generally make being poor in Carmel a bad experience. The local joke is "you got pulled over for being poor in Carmel".
I'm not cherry picking anything. The point I am making is that people see things differently. I was aware you obviously know there are plenty of people that have less than fond views of the USSR, and there are plenty which have extremely fond views of it. This is the nature of humanity, which is the point.

And tolerating these different preferences, desires, views, systems, values, and so on is the only possible way we might ever achieve something resembling a more stable and desirable world order. The right of emigration does not mean countries are forced to accept people. Accepting migrants would be up to the nation people are seeking to move to.