skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venezuela is emptying their prisons and sending the released convicts to the U.S. as "migrants." Those same criminals are now doing things like impersonating delivery drivers and performing home invasions.

Too little governing.

Has nothing to do with whether the intelligence community publicizes its results, which I agree, they shouldn't. They should be stopping these kind of things, though.

They should actually prosecute those "protesters" that assaulted police on camera the other day. They released them instead.

Too little governing.

Meanwhile, we get press tours saying how awesome and kind and empathetic their policies are. Look how inclusive we are! Look how many check-boxes we've checked on the fashionable political stance list! You know that thing high muckety-muck said? They never said that. You remember that wrong. There must be something wrong with your recall. You must be racist or insane to think that. Interest rates? Those aren't a problem, what are you talking about?

Too much politics, optics, and gaslighting.

And those are just the local examples. It's happening in Britain, it's been happening in France and the rest of Europe, and when people complain, they're told to shut up and stop being so selfish.

Why wouldn't we see the operational failures of law enforcement to keep citizens and infrastructure in the West safe as an outgrowth of the other outrageous failures of leadership we keep seeing day after day?
I don't think it's this simple: someone could do significant damage to the US's economy by sabotaging a small number of bridges that transit or cross I-95. Meanwhile, Ukraine appears to be operating military railways with relative success, given that it's currently engaged in the largest European land war in 80 years.
Both for good and bad. For a leg to heal properly you need to put the right amount of strain on it. Not too little and not too much.
Haha yeah of course, the click a button thing is super convenient.

I recently had to rebuild my box because I left a postgres instance open on 5432 with admin:admin credentials, and without default firewalls in place it got owned immediately.

That would have been less painful on DO for sure.
On the other hand, was engineer Page's second tenure as CEO better than businessman's Schmidt's?
Zappa did do his homework. There's some anecdote about him conducting an orchestra in the studio, and one of his musicians asked, "How did you learn to do that?"

He said, "I went to the library."
Those who have thought about it for more than five seconds understand that there is more going on inside of a normal car cigarette lighter than "electricity makes wires hot."
Most people lack even a basic understanding of electricity. It's pretty tragic honestly
See also: the International Docking Standard. The specification is surprisingly readable: https://internationaldockingstandard.com/
And if you really want to impress, you reach into your pack and pull out the pens you carry just in case you run into dry pens at a critical moment.
I've never understood the notion that US based companies have it easier. They still to pay applicable tax in every country/state that their customers reside.

If anything, EU companies have it slightly easier because they can file all of their EU-based taxes using One Stop Shop.
Education in the abstract is good, but East Asia is probably not the model to emulate. IMO East Asia has Goodharted "education" to the point of being acutely destructive to society. South Korea treats education so seriously that the endless death march of cram school is widely cited as a primary cause of their cratering birth rate. China recently realized the zero-sum rat race of private school tutoring was causing a similar effect and is trying to ban it. There are fixes to be applied to US education but East Asia isn't where to look to.
This project won't be complete until it supports the elusive "indeterminate" state of the checkbox.
Or, just be the CEO, apologize profusely one time, then watch as the disaster doesn't even affect your stock price for more than a week or two. Because, hey, sometimes a catastrophe is just the cost of doing business.

You could also say you didn't have "good product market fit", and then get another round of funding. Remember: it's not fraud if you sincerely believe in your business idea!
To be fair, I think a lot of the benefits of public transit go to people who aren't even using it. When you make it easier to go somewhere, more people will go there which is good for business at that somewhere. There are also the benefits of reduced traffic for those who do end up driving.
"Dual Flush Toilet Button Design" authority here, so back the fuck up, I guess
At some point, adding mechanics like that turns people off from the game. Those things are good for games that have limited shelf life and want to get people to dump money into it while the game is popular, but things like leaderboards actually get people to quit playing once they realize that they can't get ever get on it because too many other people are willing to pay more. miHoYo games are intended to get people playing for a long time rather than trying to milk a group of players for a month or two and then moving on.
A company that thinks leet code is a good way to evaluate potential hires is not a company that is worth my time.
While photographing I was trying to get an image perfectly aligned, but couldn't get it done. A friend, who was with me, said his best image was unaligned intended, because it would look just not aligned, even when it was. Since then I don't care anymore if the image is not perfectly aligned, but looks like it is, to the eye.

Thank you for bringing back this memory with your comment!
CodiLime was the actual company, CodiSec was "brand" for various security related activities, starting with CTF competitions where we used the name first, then it was used as brand for the team that worked on Veles (we continued to take part in CTFs)

None of the CodiSec members were among the management/founders/etc of CodiLime - we were AFAIK plain employees, though one of us was in fact mber of DragonSector which is partly how CodiSec started.
Thank you!

FWIW I certainly hit storage space in some boring ways - I didn't have a good logrotate setup so I almost ran out of disk, and I sent my box-check logs to Redis and had to set something up to offload old logs to disk to not break Redis. But neither of those were very big deals - pretty interesting to have a problem like this where storage just wasn't a meaningful problem! That's a new one for me.

And yeah, thinking about bandwidth was such a headache. I was on edge for like 2 days, constantly checking outbound bytes on my nic and redoing the math - not having a hard cap is just really scary. And that's with Digital Ocean, which has pretty sane pricing! I haven't used the popular serverless stuff at all, but my understanding is that you get really gouged on bandwidth there.

(also yes, lua-in-redis is really incredible and lets you skip sooo many hard/racey problems as long as you're ok with a little performance hit, it was a joy to work with)
I'm glad we've come upon this groundbreaking discovery in crime prevention.
"I don't recall."
Sorry, that was what was current LTS when I setup CI builds
"I think you're free to take your money and buy the entertainment you prefer" doesn't really jive with "I guess this is progress, better get with the times" or "Scarlett Johansson should've been able to play a fictional Japanese cyborg in Ghost in the Shell without idiots complaining about it"
I'm a little sceptical of your claims. Care to share the kernel you wrote?
I will never understand why mass transit is held to profit-making standards but roads are not.
There's a dedicated transfer facility with a siding and crane on the ECML about 1.5km west of the power station.
> "ggc utility"

Does anybody know what this is? Google won't help.
the thing is that Maps is a much stickier platform for cross-platform solutions than most other kinds of native apps, and so Apple is starting with the disadvantage here.

Technically you can access notes via iCloud.com. Maps has just been totally inaccessible to Windows users until today.
Where have temps ever reached a point close to ignition points? Quick search says hottest temp ever on Earth was 135°F/56.7°C in Death Valley. Another quick search doesn't show specific grass/leaf ignition points, and I've spent more time on it already that I probably should have, but not 0 effort.
Ok I agree with that. Attention intrusion is a bad thing. It’s the worst form of advertising I’d argue.
Can you comment on if LS marketplace is still happening?
Oh no that's absolutely fine. I wasn't thorough. As commented by the author, that probably gets you very far.

However... You'd need to persist those booleans somewhere eventually, of course, if you want the state to survive a process restart. And if you want multiple concurrent connections from the same box, you have to somehow allow multiple writers to the same object. And if you want multiple boxes (for redundancy, load spreading, geo distribution...), you need a way to do the writing and reading from several different boxes...

By this time you're basically building redis.
Blast it, you are quite correct. Thank you.
It's because practicioners of one says that the other camp is wrong and question each other's methodologies. And in academia, questioning one's methodology is akin to saying one is dumb.

To understand both camps I summarize like this.

Frequentist statistics has very sound theory but is misapplied by using many heuristics, rule of thumbs and prepared tables. It's very easy to use any method and hack the p-value away to get statistically significant results.

Bayesian statistics has an interesting premise and inference methods, but until recently with the advancements of computing power, it was near impossible to do simulations to validate the complex distributions used, the goodness of fit and so on. And even in the current year, some bayesian statisticians don't question the priors and iterate on their research.

I recommend using methods both whenever it's convenient and fits the problem at hand.
There's a number of alternative business models that have been employed by organizations large and small for decades. More information can be readily found online which will be better than I could provide.
Good luck with that, Article 7 of the Swiss Federal Act on International Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters states that Swiss citizens may not be extradited to a foreign country without their written consent. This protection of citizens from extradition is a longstanding tradition in Swiss law.
Please be careful with fire around that strawman. He'll go up in flames very quickly
What's the problem of killing two Russian soldiers who participating in the war?
I don’t have many of those either. Rather than coming up with, and working on, personal projects, I just worked more hours at my job. Most of my ideas have been in the context of the job. I spent the better part of the 10 years before the pandemic working 12-16 hour days. There wasn’t really time for anything else. Even when I was learning stuff on my own for my own reasons, ideas from work would jump into my head, and I’d apply what I learned to that, then show up Monday with something to show the team. Even on vacation, I would rarely work on anything for myself, and would usually return with a big list of ideas I had while away… all work related.

I have a couple small things I made, because I needed/wanted them, but nothing i think would be worth showing an employer.

Making projects just show potential employers doesn’t interest me. If I end up unemployed at some point, I guess I can cross that bridge when I get there and have the time. I have little interest in using up all my free time building projects I don’t care about for a reason that may never materialize.
The area I was thinking of builds multistory residential with wood...
Why would Russia attack Hungary oblast?
Trout Mask Replica is the ultimate "it grows on you" record. A masterpiece.
If you decide to submit a click-bait article, you should at least like it. Otherwise, what's the point?
This is actually a bit of a political debate, there are those who believe that letting the undergrowth burn will be better long term for forest health and reducing the severity of wildfires.

https://www.kqed.org/science/1134217/let-it-burn-the-forest-...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/opinion/sunda...
"Bought a new set of tires within a week of each serial killing" is a thing that's easily datamine-able. Make it challenging by using different tire vendors each time and limiting your crimes to traditional seasonal tire changeover times.

Allegedly.
Also dramatized/fictionalized in Season 2 of For All Mankind.
Yeah! I mean, sure, someone dumped gasoline everywhere, and continues to do so and then deny it's a problem, and millions of people keep voting to dump gasoline everywhere because otherwise they'd be slightly inconvenienced, and companies are spending billions to convince them to keep voting that way and also silencing scientists who are sounding the alarm...

...but a human threw the match!
Frequentist and Bayesian are correct if both have scientific rigor in their research and methodology. Both can be wrong if the research is whack or sloppy.
I am mostly questioning the assertion that it is obscure and overlooked. Major Boomer critics fawned over this record non-stop for fifty years.
You should also assume Russia would very much prefer the USA to keep to themselves so Putin et al. can steal the rest of the world.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yuli...

If memory serves last time they went with “gay couple” because “no way is a gay couple Russian spies”
Prior:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280760

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40453822
JavaScript Haikus by Frank Force [video]
Is there a path forward for compilers to eek out these optimization gains eventually? Is there even a path?

550x gains with some C ++ / mixed gnarly low level assembly vs standard C++ is pretty shocking to me.
Non-programmer here. I’ve long desired to program Arduino microcontrollers but haven’t had the ability and/or the patience to learn programming. I’m a very visual person and get confused if I have to keep more than a few lines of code in my head. Even if I understand how I want a signal to be processed into an action, when the flow chart in my head needs to be translated into text I get overwhelmed.

A solution arrived for me in the form of a number of visual arduino IDEs. Flprog, Outseal, and Open PLC. They all allow programming in ladder logic, and Flprog and Open PLC allows for function block programming. Ladder logic is useful for many tasks involving discrete I/O (Ex. A button latches a contact which turns on a relay which turns off a light and turns on a motor.) Function block programming has enabled me to perform more complicated functions like creating an HMI using a menu system displayed on an LCD connected via I2C. These are tasks that I wouldn’t have a chance of accomplishing without the complex arduino code being contained in graphical functions blocks which I can wire together and configure with a gui.

Prior to compilation, Flprog displays the raw arduino code in the arduino IDE, which gives me a chance to exam the actual code produced by my function block program. I find it to be very educational.

As a non-programmer, I have no idea if this embedded programming use case can be generalized to more complex programming tasks, but for my limited use case it’s been transformational.
When the story input parameters are too close or similar to an existing work, you'll receive output containing training artifacts. For example if the parameters for a story included topics such as a castle in Norway featuring a princess with powers. While the overall story will be its own thing, you'll definitely get names of characters and story elements from Disney's Frozen. The main ways to avoid this is to increase the top_p and temperature of the LLM requests, as well as add additional specifics to the story prompt. Are there any other techniques out there that would help in this?
I don't believe that we are closing in on general intelligence, and I have some ideas as to why.

The universe is a chaotic system, the only thing in it that might be deterministic is the universe in totality, but even then we have relativity and everything in it is happening in it's own universe with respect to time. It's like a giant real time distributed system with a speed of light latency. Human made computers are designed to isolate as well as possible determinism, built using the chaotic substrate, the material of the universe which is the universe itself. It's not perfect because you can't entirely isolate any system, so you get bit flips that are caused by the chaos of the universe, but they do pretty good. The brain is evolved, it doesn't care if it's deterministic or not, it only emerged to work properly, whatever that means. Digital computers are designed with a goal in mind, to isolate from the chaos and deliver determinism for practical use. Nothing else in the universe works this way, not brains, not gas giants, nothing is constructed to isolate a deterministic space.

I believe that this chaos is where intelligence and consciousness come from, or at the very least that it is a core component of what they are. With deep learning and tensor models and the like, we are attempting to emulate the chaotic nature of a brain on aachine isolated from it's chaotic substrate. Even if you can get something that kind of resembles a mind, you've got massive unnecessary overhead due to this emulation. It's legacy architecture all the way down. And I believe this isolation has it's own impact, an emulated chaotic mind on a digital computer, prevents it from interacting with the world around it fully on the bare metal of the universe, low latency via the API that is direct interaction. Until we decide to scrap the emulation and build a physical architecture specifically for the purpose of generating thought I don't think we will make much headway on general intelligence. Such an architecture in my view can have no abstraction or emulation in it's design, it will have to be entirely analog, less than analog even, like a car cigarette lighter.
> Crews would go to a house, perform their required task (using material that had been pre-delivered), then move on to the next house. Within the crew, work was further specialized: on the washing machine installation crew, William Levitt noted that “one man did nothing but fix bolts into the floor, another followed to attach the machine,” and so on. By breaking down the process into repetitive, well-defined steps, workers didn’t have to spend time figuring out what they should do

Having worked over the years on multiple tract-home projects doing labor, framing, stacking (installing the prefab truss packages), and layout (snapping lines on slabs marking out where everything goes) I can affirm that this IS how its done with variance per-project and usually with several floorplans to scratch that "novelty" itch for buyers. The homes go up fast with each crew sweeping through a few units at a time doing their respective parts. It's efficient that way.

> keeping construction on track meant a steady, uninterrupted stream of material that arrived at the jobsite exactly when needed.

A lot of the materials (especially lumber) are queued up ahead of each project starting to ensure that daily flow happens. On jobs I worked on as labor my job was to hand deliver any lumber resupply requests that were below some efficiency threshold for using the heavy off road forklift -- if memory serves me correctly, 20 pieces.

The windows and trusses were all pre-fabricated and delivered in bundled packages for each floorplan.
Anthropic accused of 'egregious' data scraping
Every new thing adds complexity to your stack. So yes, docker adds complexity. The question you should be asking is "Do I have a problem that docker can solve and do the benefits outweigh the overhead of docker in my specific situation?". The answer can be both yes or No depending on your situation/context.
Need a proper preprocessor to take a code file and make it OCR-safe by substituting for dangerously glyphs.
Hadn't heard of CachyOS before, looks very nice! Was looking to move to Arch from KDE Neon, but this might be a much better fit.
I think the distaste Americans have to frequentists has much more to do with history of science. The Eugenics movement had a massive influence on science in America a and they used frequentist methods to justify (or rather validate) their scientific racism. Authors like Gould brought this up in the 1980s, particularly in relation to factor analysis and intelligence testing, and was kind of proven right when Hernstein and Murray published The Bell Curve in 1994.

The p-hacking exposures of the 1990s only fermented the notion that it is very easy to get away with junk science using frequentest methods to unjustly validate your claims.

That said, frequentists are still the default statistics in social sciences, which ironically is where the damage was the worst.
I have found that the only way to live a sane life these days is to just ignore all the culture warriors who show up and start the same tired fight every day. "XYZ should/shouldn't be black/white/asian/gay/straight/trans/irish/accented/disabled/male/female/young/old/tall..."

I don't care. If the movie looks interesting to me I'll buy a ticket. You should do the same. Regular people spend way too much time and energy jumping into the pointless debates for no reason thinking they will fix everything, but only amplify the idiocy by giving it attention.
Just ordered, thanks

I haven't read a book in at least 3 years
If you ever want to turn your hair grey prematurely consider an attacker that infiltrates Tesla's Full Self Driving development and adds a "crash into the nearest X at maximum acceleration" hidden subroutine that can be triggered via an over-the-air signal. Millions of Teslas suddenly deciding to point at the nearest power pole or transformer and flooring the accelerator in the hopes of crashing hard enough to start a battery fire.

A mere decade ago this was pure science fiction, but over the past few years it has become a possibility.
Following your line of argument, it is arguably way more "brazen" (quite the word choice btw) to cast a woman as Lady Macbeth.
I've been working on translating and summarizing some of Grothendieck's esoteric writing from his later years. It's...pretty bananas. But some fascinating stuff--clearly brilliant and a little crazy.

https://github.com/superb-owl/grothendieck
And I want to be clear that I am not suggesting that alternatives are superior, nor that Google, et al, are obligated to use them. Just that they exist and have been widely and long used. So just to counter the idea that the advertising-supporting model is the only route.
"TV/film studios produce content in ways they think will make the most money" isn't always true. Sometimes a movie really has a purpose. And when it doesn't, it's a very inexact business (unless maybe it's Nostalgia Avengers part 99), so personal interests can creep in. Like how Microsoft built up DEI departments only to fire them recently.

Even if Hollywood were a well-oiled machine, what would you say if they estimate they're losing sales from diversity casting, due to upsetting part of their audience, and decides to undo that?
Contaminant-tolerant catalyst could capture carbon directly from smokestacks
Not as impressive as Don Bradman, mind you.
Death fans already don't particularly care about life. What makes you think they care about making a mistake?
They're basically hazardous waste. Even if they have plenty of tread and a possible long life ahead of them, no shop wants the hassle or comeback risk that comes with installing parts that don't have a fresh warranty.