skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is a shit-ton of hacker cons outside of the US, the most famous one being the CCC (Chaos Computer Club Convention) in Leizpieg/Hamburg, Germany just before new year's eve.

You mention Dmitry Sklyarov but more recently Marcus Hutchins (MalwareTech) has been also arrested by the FBI following its appearance at Blackhat or Defcon
excuse me but what is third shift welding? is this the security lvl of the welding job?thank you
It's monopolistic extortion.
Wikipedia tells me "with help from hotel bellmen, he brought five suitcases to his room on September 25, seven on the 26th, two on the 28th, six on the 30th, and two on October 1."

I'm sure someone could perform a mass shooting without twenty suitcases.

But I can see how it would be embarrassing, from the hotel's point of view, that this guy set up the attack right under the noses of security, with bellhops taking twenty suitcases of guns and ammo up to his hotel room.
unfortunately it looks like my comment happens to be one of the few that OP hasn't replied to, so my only hope is that they saw it and might consider it.
If you sign up for new service via the app, it does in-app purchasing.

After that you can maintain your account via the web.
Does this make the downstream packagers’ jobs harder — they must now presumably have Perl, Bison, Flex and DocBook installed on the packaging machines?
To be more specific, previously they prohibited telling about any other ways to buy elsewhere:

"Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other thanuse in-app purchase, except as set forth ...",

And that includes sending promotional emails if said emails were gathered via app.
The fanboyism, in this thread, for such a mediocre language is disappointing to say the least.
I think they had a skunkworks spin-off out in a Connecticut suburb working on hyper-feminine, hyper-realistic androids at some point.
> The one that sometimes comes between two spaces is I

A convenient theory but not a fact.
i read that that actually a led screen that basically is synced to the camera so it appears as a 2d banner when in actuallity its a 1d banner that changes over time which when displayed like it is looks like a 2d banner. kinda neat. In a weird way similar to the the adverts painted on the pitch or trackside that look like 2d on screen dogs but only look that way from a certain camera angle
The trouble is some of us have bad eyes, so reading on eInk screens where the text is scalable is always preferred...and we will pay for that. I wish more small bloggers and authors would take these kinds of accessibility options into consideration. I can't really have my eyes on a standard OLED screen for more than 40 minutes of so without experiencing ocular fatigue, so reading books on a browser is definitely a no-go for me. Shame, because it sounds like I'd enjoy them.

I've used Calibre to convert some html publications to eBooks to side load to my Nook in the past, but the results are not terrific and it's rare that I get the font to resize properly. If anyone has recommendations, I am all ears (or eyes, as the case may be)
I have had one. Just one over several years though.

In the UK. The law requires notice.
Wars don't have to be waged with rubber and lead; actually, fighting a war is about the worst possible way to wage one.

No, China is waging a war against the entire world in the smartest way imaginable, and most of us don't even realize it: They have their financial tendrils in all of our economies, down to the core elements and throughout the peripheries. Nearly everything has at least some degree of Chinese monies and thus influence now.

It's really only a matter of time until Pax Americana comes crashing down because we are all far too busy complaining about our navels. Be prepared, because Pax Sino isn't going to be kind to most of us.
Apple's mobile Safari has enough capabilities to serve a mobile-like simple app for managing a subscription service.
Imagine the family gatherings. "How's our little distinguished Taco Bell professor?"

Jokes aside, one does not get to pick their academic sponsors or reject funding, and no offence intended to the guy's obvious expertise.

It reminds me of the 100 Thieves Totino's Fortnite training room.
The Taco Bell professorship is an endowed chair, not something you apply for. It’s paid for by Taco Bell as a gift to the university, then the university awards it as part of a recruitment (or retention) process for senior professors. It means the professor gets a nice salary and research stipend that is independent from the rest of the school, and can live the life of research and thinking.
I think AWS should buy it. Given they just deprecated CodeCommit.
Aren’t fossil fuels from plants and good for plant life ? I mean plants breath in co2 and out o2. Higher co2 levels could probably turn deserts green.
Well, what I had in mind by “certain” is probably really “not me”. I’m fully aware how easy it is to fall foul of the ad-friendly guidelines, and have had more than one video demonetised for “reasons” myself. I’m also very aware that tying one’s entire revenue to a single platform isn’t a good strategy in _any_ business, it’s not limited to YouTube (but I can see an argument for it being worse there specifically).

I really do recognise the issue, being in it myself. I do have patreon (and others) for other projects and it’s another revenue stream, which is great. But for my YouTube main channel I believe the content itself has value, and having to pour time and resources into building a value-add package devalues it - both in the immediate (since I would now have less time to devote to content creation) and longer term (since it makes it essentially a leader for my value add packages).

(Some larger creators I know do manage to carve out some revenue on patreon etc without any “perk package” but I think for that to work it becomes even more of a numbers game, and won’t help small creators just getting started. I’m also putting aside the recent announcements ref. The App Store etc since they’re not directly relevant here).
Coca-Cola Professor of Marketing seems fitting though - Coca-Cola is probably one of the most capable marketing organizations the planet has ever seen.
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Some pretty bizzare things happen at UK airport security.

Our government is currently trying to use the recent riots as an excuse for even more surveillance and censorship.

The arguments include "the rioters used social media". That is one reason its going to be easy to catch them. They themselves were posting photos and videos - self-surveillance.
Jobhunters flood recruiters with AI-generated CVS
Not that I recall.
Exactly, it doesn't need native access to every bit of hardware to fulfill the needs of a simple app. If needed, Mobile Safari can do push notifications.[0]

0. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
They looked at 4 licenses (Apache, Business Source License, AGPL, Elastic License) representing different categories.

I think the Mozilla Public License represents another category and should always be evaluated as well. (or the Eclipse Public License or CDDL are similar)

They are less permissive than Apache in that they require contributing back (as in open sourcing changes under same license), but more permissive than AGPL in that you can statically link an MPL licensed library into your project without having to open source your project.
Maybe my intuition is unusual or wrong, but it seems like a race that's this tight could have been won by anyone. Is being a thousand of a second ahead at a certain point really showing that you are a better or faster runner?

At some point this seems about as fair as a coin toss to me. :)

Edit: I missed that this point had already been made https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41230449
didnt read the article but I am assuming it is the material they are working on. copper and iron are easy to handle but aluminum is a bit harder and then there is stuff like titanium which recuire very high skills… and all those cases with titanium with steel or whatever. they need to know what they are doing. …. got my information from my ex roommate who welded bikes with titanium and he was a highly skilled enthusiast.

https://www.cwbgroup.org/association/how-it-works/how-it-wor...
My usual test for choosing a new programming language, is to see how easy or difficult it is to read documentation without having to open a web browser.

For languages/tools/frameworks/whatever that I'm already using, the main way I compare between them is looking at the ratio of "problems I was able to solve from their official documentation" vs "problems where I needed to use random blog posts (or worse, Stack Overflow) to find the solution".

Makes it a lot easier for me to choose tech for my hobby projects, where I sometimes don't even touch projects for several years because stuff just runs smoothly.
"We've seen how Starship destroys a launch pad with ill-conceived flame diversion. How is it going to land on unprepared regolith without toppling in its own crater or destroying the engines with rebounding shrapnel?"

Starship has fewer engines than Super Heavy, it likely won't be landing at full throttle either, and lunar lander Starship could have landing legs as well. The lower gravity on the Moon means that you can carry more hardware with you. Maneuvering in 0.16 g is nowhere near as fuel intensive as in 1 g.
IIRC Sqlite can exist as flat file and can be backed up. Will this work the same? And will it allow multiple writers?
Warehouse 13 is closer to a goofy comedy though. SCP is very much horror based.

W13 had so much to love, but something was missing to make it stick.
I’ve been trying to figure this out. Just guessing since I have limited Patreon usage.

They don’t want to just be a payment middleman for creators, they want to be “sticky” like Facebook.

So they might add things like chat, media playback (with DRM), creators being able to post with notifications. Maybe you can sign up for additional private streams or even 1-on-1 sessions (like a gamer offering tutorials).

But by having an app to consume digital services, Apple says you have to provide a way to pay for services in the app (because that’s apple’s revenue model, a portion of software sales and resulting digital goods and services off of the App Store)
Yeh agree. Seems like someone's been drinking ivory tower soda-pop too long!

FWIW, I tend to think of it like this: Antifragility is a property of something that benefits from a bit of hammering. Like young tree saplings tend to do better in older life when they've been whipped around by the wind a bit. It's basically "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
While this is how this story is regularly retold it's not quite accurate. Polling around the Moon program tells that while there was a large minority of people vehemently in support of it, the overall response was mixed, and NASA was generally seen as a good target to cut funding from. [1]

I think there are lots of parallels between the Moon landings in the 60s and the idea of colonizing Mars today. In particular, most people don't think it's possible, and so they think it's a waste of money. The Apollo program only received majority approval once we landed on the Moon. People also tend to dramatically overestimate the cost of achieving great things in space. Polling suggested people thought the Moon missions were taking up about 22% of the budget. In modern times it's down to less than 0.5%, and that's with NASA blowing tens of billions of dollars of pork projects like the SLS.

Overall support for the Moon program only began to steadily rise in the years after human spaceflight was defacto completely cancelled by Nixon, and people were able to coolly reflect on what a ridiculous and important achievement that was.

[1] - https://www.space.com/10601-apollo-moon-program-public-suppo...
Do you have any open source examples (either your own or others) of simple Ruby + Sequel that are particularly elegant + productive that you could point to? Would love to see this.

I agree Ruby is the most elegant and enjoyable language to develop in.
Correct me if im wrong, this is just a question originating from my own curiosity, but could you not apply the same or similar techniques to classical NN architectures? I dont see exactly how the differentiability of the architecture matters? I.e. in between epochs randomly perturb weight values (similar effect I understand to introducing scheduled noise or non-isomorphic transforms on the features), implement a scheduled causal drop in/out scheme etc? I know of people that train models these ways as a form of regularisation and they claim better fits too.

Enjoy your adventures in the Dark Forest.
And it's very easy to break this by randomising keyboard layout every time someone enters their password. And that is already used in many systems.
It should be included in taxes on the vehicles themselves which then gets priced into the product (just like fuel is currently).

One major difference between the US and EU for example is road taxes just for owning a car. The US kind of has that with registration, but the costs are too low for all vehicle classes.

In the Netherlands, I pay €22/month for my economy car in a road tax that is separate from fuel taxes. If I drive more, then I'll obviously contribute more in fuel taxes. If I had a bigger car, the cost might be €50 or €100/month for a large box truck that causes considerably more wear and tear, even if it doesn't drive as far as I do on my daily commute in the economy car. Registration is included in this cost. If I deregister my vehicle, I stop paying the tax.

I feel this is a better/fairer arrangement for all parties.
Wouldn't the best punishment be "just no longer give them any public money, until they show in the private sector that they improved their quality of work"?

That is way less brutal than Hammurabi or Stalin, and still gets the point home.
As a scientist in academic research, I can only see this as a bad thing. The #1 valued thing in science is trust. At the end of the day (until things change in how we handle research data, code etc...) all papers are based on the reviewers trust in the authors that their data is what they say it is, and the code they submit does what it says it does.

Allowing an AI agent to automate code, data or analysis, necessitates that a human must thoroughly check it for errors. As anyone who has ever written code or a paper knows, this takes as long or longer than the initial creation itself, and only takes longer if you were not the one to write it.

Perhaps I am naive and missing something. I see the paper writing aspect as quite valuable as a draft system (as an assistive tool), but the code/data/analysis part I am heavily sceptical of.

Furthermore this seems like it will merely encourage academic spam, which already wastes valuable time for the volunteer (unpaid) reviewers, editors and chairs time.
Also, there should be no reserve price. If just one person bids, then rent it to them for a dollar.

Then the outcome becomes effectively the same as the current "just ask nicely" system, whilst there aren't many people wanting to use the bandwidth.
Also anything that requires interop/FFI, syscalls, and lower level stuff. It's extremely hard to record your screen on Go, for example. On Rust this is much more doable and there even are crates for it

It's not impossible with Go, though. There's an amazing windows impl here: https://github.com/kirides/go-d3d

...but if you look at the code, it's clear that you have to work against the language in some capacity
In philosophy there's a well defined capital-M modernity, that breaks away from scholastic philosophy following the antique Aristotelian tradition, and attempts to re-invent philosophy starting in the late medieval period.

Modern philosophers are thus found from the renaissance up until the period that is referred by non-philosophers as modernity. This is because they themselves used the term modern.
That's really a solved problem. As an example, Google manages to have a web version of Youtube that works on iOS mobile Safari adequately. (It's not perfect but it works.)

There doesn't seem to be anything snowflake special the Patreon iOS app needs to do that a web app cannot handle.
Wholly agree with you. I’ve been using both professionally for years in parallel and have seen the evolution.

Totally agree on CI being superior. The config syntax is a bit of a pain and is aching for some higher level abstraction. But it’s very powerful, e.g. easily supporting cross project dependencies and build status across project in one neat interface.

I also agree that GitLab was optimized for enterprise and that’s where the major feature disparity is. If you are using it only for small hobby projects you will feel that it’s nothing special. I’ve used a self hosted version at a fortune 100 and it was a huge boon to productivity there over GH EE.
Recruiters flood Linkedin with AI-generated job offers
DROP INDEX [ CONCURRENTLY ] [ IF EXISTS ] :)

In general, it's not something that happens. But that is how we've resolved it in the past.
Everything but docbook seems pretty standard.
> This measurement, known as "Core CPI," is widely used by economists because food and energy have very volatile prices.

Translation: The Core Consumer Price Index has little to do with actual citizens, and instead reflects some theoretical group of people who don't eat and don't go anywhere.

In addition, politicians recite the CCPI and The Media parrot them. Both knowing - or should know - it's deceptive and doesn't actually reflect reality.

What could go wrong?
what’s the alternative? treat the use of social media to create a country-wide fascist mob as a normal occurrence?
Hmm, where's the rendered html doc for this?

I don't see it on https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/cgo
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It applies if you want to be connected to the grid for backup power for any reason. If you're connected to the grid, then the grid gets to dictate the terms of that connection.

A workaround is to go fully off grid. A larger workaround is to get a small electrical box hookup on your property for emergency power (thus paying the monthly connection fee), but your home can run off-grid. In the event of a situation where you need the grid power, you can run an extension cord and hopefully plug in the few items you require. For convenience, most people obviously don't go this route and instead abide by the terms of the power company.
It is somewhat disingenuous to say that Taiwan claims those regions. China has made it clear that any abdication of those claims would be seen as a move towards independence and result in invasion.

Similar to the Chinese claims that the British never brought democracy to HongKong while China threatened invasion if any such thing had happened.
I decided to fork over the money and follow the Dutch mathematics B certification. It's a high school certification that seems to be at the level of AP AB in the US. I think they offer it in English as well [1]. They focus on exercises and you can ask questions in the forums.

Now I know that I know enough to start learning linear algebra and whatever calculus course they offer at uni.

I'm a bit odd though as I have some stats knowledge and did a college level course in graph theory. Also, I understood most of the math in information retrieval. So for me, I know that I need to simply fill up some basics.

[1] https://kdvi.uva.nl/education/mathematics-deficiency-courses...
I doubt they would be replaced with anything better. Either you get something entirely covered in glass. Or then something similar with something fake aesthetic bolted on the top.
I believe people over-estimate the benefit of properly learning a language.

3-12 months seems to be sufficient for the specialisation benefits to outweigh the small hit to language competency.

My strategy is to be a generalist superficially learning specialized languages.
I use it to open/edit large SQL export files and retain highlighting. It works great :)

VS Code has a "text only" mode now that it will try to use for files over a certain MB filesize, but it can still be quite slow for a file with millions of lines.
I went once and it was very fun. It's about time I tried to arrange a group to go again.
> Why would water be able to get through your roof with spray foam making anything worse?

Because your roof _will_ fail, they all do, once it does the water will collect between the roof and the foam, because while it's not air tight there will be nowhere near enough ventilation do get rid of it

> Water damage means you have to replace things anyway.

Yes, but if your entire wooden structure rots for 5 years because you didn't detected the leak since it's hidden behind 20cm of foam you are utterly fucked.

It's well documented, feel free to google it if you don't believe me.

https://sprayfoamreclaim.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PHOT...
I can reliably reproduce pairing issues between fairly modern devices (e.g. both bought in 2020).
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It's better in Swift or Rust. Go channels are the worst thing about the language, even trivial use cases are difficult to get right.
that’s quite the obsession for the word anal, isn't it?
I feel mostly the same as the author. The Go ecosystem is so simple, logical and smooth that it is hard to reach out for something else. I do use other languages for one-off programs of course, be it bash, perl or javascript, depending on the task.

On bigger projects, the first pain point to appear for me is dependency management. It feels so antiquated in most other ecosystems, with loose compatibility contracts that add mental overhead. Go let’s you focus on the problem you are trying to solve, and you get so used to that luxury that using anything else quickly becomes painful.
A cool toolkit for GitHub repo maintainer
i'm curious about the chunk splitting approach you mentioned. how do you determine the optimal chunk size for processing? seems like there could be a tradeoff between context preservation and processing efficiency. have you experimented with different chunk sizes and their impact on the quality of the final output? this could be really important for handling things like long-range dependencies in the text.
The presentation I linked talks about transpiling C++ to safe Rust.
Kids now will never know the salad days of "discovery" being reading the "What's New" page at NCSA.

https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/50000487...
Yeah we are aware of statement_timeout. But it's not something we want to actively promote.

Most people copy and paste a previous migration and then amend it to their previous needs. So if the previous migration set the statement timeout to 1h, and the new migration is doing something we want to stop/prohibit like ADD COLUMN DEFAULT (which takes a lock) or SET NOT NULL on a huge table (which again can cause a lock). We want to prevent locking and prefer the migration to fail earlier and hit the default statement timeout. At which point a conversation occurs how best to do the DDL without effecting prod.

In terms of DDL DML users; we have it split into three-

DDL (Migrations)
DML (Data only, e.g. correcting data)
AppTier user (which is DML + a few more things)
This is a pretty good explanation. I never thought about it like that. But the short term benefit of aggressive executive action is in tune with short term stock increase. It is not the market but the shareholder that decides. And short term the shareholder and the market are antagonists.