skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prolog also has constraints! You need to import a library called CLP(FD) / CLP(Z) (depending on the Prolog system) and instead of =, <, =<, etc. you need to use #=, #<, #=<, etc.

:- use_module(library(clpfd)).

min(Min, Y, Min) :- Min #=< Y, !.
min(X, Min, Min) :- Min #=< X.

find_min_and_subtract_([], [], Min, Min).
find_min_and_subtract_([H|T], [R|Rs], TempMin, Min) :-
min(TempMin, H, NewTempMin),
R #= H - Min,
find_min_and_subtract_(T, Rs, NewTempMin, Min).

find_min_and_subtract([H|Hs], Rs, Min) :-
find_min_and_subtract_([H|Hs], Rs, H, Min).

With that (and an additional variable for the temporary minimum) it works for me:

?- find_min_and_subtract([9,2,4,12], Rs, Min).
Min = 2,
Rs = [7, 0, 2, 10]

https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/qgchfMfB.pl
How do you explain other countries where education is basically free?
And didn’t appear on the front page of the orange site.
Hosting a large number of top universities which conduct research attracts the best and brightest minds from around the world, many of whom stay in the US after doing their PhD, and is a significant factor in what makes the US the biggest economy in the world.

Even if you subscribe to an America First policy, tearing down university research labs (which is the knock-on effect of cuts at the NIH, NSF, etc.) is one of the worst things you could do.

Want to actually cut gov spending? Look no further than the military budget (which the GOP Congress is proposing to _increase_, not decrease).

(That being said, yes, there is waste at universities. I'm all for some reform, but this is not reform, it's destruction.)
AI disruption – code editors are up for grabs
False equivalency, comparing the aggressor Russia with a country that's in a literal fight for its survival. Straight up Kremlin talking points. Not food for thought.
Ah ok, I didn't realize that 19 billion was since 2011. Thanks
I mean since they started marketing themselves as a cloud vendor and selling cloud instances, instead of just a dedicated server vendor.
If you look at other countries/regions that impose high tariffs, their companies continue to buy and use American technologies and absorb the cost (to their local customers' detriment).

I'd certainly enjoy the case studies of European enterprises jumping from full-scale Azure and AWS deployments to OVHcloud or Hetzner, though. That'd make for some interesting reading.
How can iPhone have a monopoly if android exists without redefining the term monopoly? Serious question.
Canadian military now accepting recruits with asthma, ADHD and other conditions
There were probably hundreds of thousands saved in even in what at the time were considered very low risk demos. It may be over 1 million (if you mutliply infection fatality rate times number of people in the 0-49 age demo, you get just over a million). And, perhaps more relevant, the vaccine probably prevented a numer of long covid cases that is a multiple of that and many times higher than the reaction this article is writing about.

It was in no way reckless. All interventions have risk. If a vacccine saves a life/prevents long term illness for 10x as many people as it hurts, it's a highly positive intervention, and the numbers for these were probably much better than 10x.
It's also worth pointing out in crowded cities like San Francisco that large numbers of single people band together as roommates and rent family sized units in order to afford rent, and due to a general shortage overall.

When those single individuals are able to move out into a smaller apartment, it starts freeing up the shared family size units.

Banning single units is extremely counterproductive and overall raises prices for families in situations like these.
European cloud providers can only exist in niches at the moment:
- cheap but unreliable -> hetzner
- integrated into the DFN -> gwdg
- and so on

The market is captured by us companies. I doubt that this will change.

The reason is simply that the the number of clients that care for the problems described is small compared to the total market. If you run a company that caters to these clients, you will cater to a small market with special requirements.

Companies like that tend to be pricy and hence won’t take market share from Americans.
Cool, encrypt everything before uploading. Keep the key client-side

See, parent is right? Safe/not safe dichotomy helps nobody
Like "Long COVID", "post covid vaccine syndrome" is probably psychosomatic.
Thank you for letting us know. Have you tried to submit something for the front page?

If you knew John, then my condolences. We're all using the things he built, every day.
I told the last one that his confessed difficulties with documenting his code probably come not from a failure of literary skill but a failure to write code that can be explained.
We have one and have had one for years. It uses the OS's default design, which is familiar to users. Instead, we have had decades of people hacking together whatever is the trend of the day into a custom designed select-box, often providing poor accessibility and usability. The absolute worst offender of these has to be on mobile where iOS has its native control and many designs implement custom select's which don't trigger that.
I don’t want to discourage anyone but AI art is for whatever reason always a big turnoff for me.
If a fair offer, but it’s not open source compatible.
Multiple local copies, a cloud copy, and an archive copy on a different provider.
Recent data ( https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.33... ) suggests that any lives saved may only have been saved in the medium term;

"In the medium-term post-COVID period, the risk of death was reduced by 8% for those who had been vaccinated while in the long-term post-COVID period, the risk of death almost doubled for those who had been vaccinated. While in the medium term, there was a reduction in mortality risk for those who took two or three doses, in the long term the risk of death was greater for those who took one or two doses."
> a chicken-and-egg problem of finding people to calibrate the tests on

Aren't we supposed to calibrate the tests on (random selection of) the entire population?
Working for a company that knowingly harms children (especially young women and girls) to get paid “fat bank” is up there on my list of reasons to say they’re bad people.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/facebook-instagram-dangerou...
Ha, I didn’t in primary school but people still thought it was nerdy. I had a Palm Tungsten T5 I used throughout high school. Mobile calendars and reminders were a lifesaver for me. I couldn’t organize myself on paper if my life depended on it.
"cloud instances"; like a VPS?
Glad you like it!
And yes I'm not saying Timescale is better than Clickhouse generally. But it does avoid having to host a second database, you keep ACID compliance, your application code doesn't have to change...
There is more to analytics than raw speed, and even in raw speed we're slowly catching up. For some types of queries TS actually performs better than Clickhouse afaik, but I'm not a benchmarking expert so take it with a grain of salt.

Always choose the right tool for the right job, Clickhouse is amazing software. I just wanted to mention that if someone currently runs analytics queries via postgres and runs into performance issues, trying out timescale doesn't really hurt and might be a simpler solution than migrating to Clickhouse.
> The Democratic Party needs to accept that 6-7 million voters either switched sides or stayed home; and if they want to win again, they must change tactics accordingly

This is true, but it doesn't invalidate grandparent's idea either. Maybe Dems should run a reality show star.
> Deployments? Manual SSH into the server, copy the build, and pray

I know people who would kill to be in your shoes. grass is greener and all that.
When I get in front of a classroom and my tech isn't working, I call a number and they dispatch campus IT immediately to my location to fix it within 5 minutes. This kind of rapid response and support isn't possible for a department to fund, especially if it's a department like History.

Face it - students have higher expectations now, professors also have higher expectations. This requires administrative staff to run. Back in the day school budgets were lower, but even when I went to college in 2005 they didn't have campus-wide wifi in every classroom. We had one professor who taught with powerpoint. Today, every student has a laptop in class.

Maintaining a modern campus takes a big IT department and centralizing it is the least wasteful way to do things.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

Alright so get a magical amulet.
> I guess "Make America Great" may spawn a big Cloud Industry in Europe.

Have you tried using OVH? It's... not ready for prime time. Don't get me wrong, I love it for cheap EU servers, but man is it a pain in the ass to deal with.
Maybe in future, but for now these companies are not liked in MAGA-land, and simply attending the inauguration of a president hasn’t really changed anything.
would you invade your neighbor if it meant they would nuke you capital and largest population centers. its called mutually assured destruction and its what got us through the cold war alive neither side would face the other head on as they both would be turned to molten slag a few minutes latter you just make clear you have low bar to initiate the Samson option.

as long a they believe you would nuke them for taking a single town they wont do it, so you won't have to.
What happens if enough countries implement a progressive tax?

Billionaires make money off control of land, labor, and money. If they don't pay enough taxes back into the system that sustains their game, and if they don't colonize Mars (etc) quickly enough, the jig's up.

I and most (all?) other "poors" don't need power/resources/money concentrated under a small percentage of individuals. They need us, though, to support the pyramid.
Locally (in my country) managed virtual machines, or managed hosting services (1990-2000s variant of "git push" (ftp) your PHP app somewhere and have the website running, that US companies re-invented as "git push" to deploy, while somehow managing to invert the "app" hosting vs VM cost relationship at the same time, making managed hosting more expensive).

At work we rely on "big" clouds offered by major telecom companies. AWS is seen as ridiculously expensive "religious requirement" to gain trust, if we'd ever decide to market our product to US customers, but little else.

Big benefit of smaller countries and local apps. We can more easily fit apps on one to a few computers and don't need your hyperscaling clouds to serve the entire world, because our world is 10 mil. people.
> Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things
> the “King of America” keeps saying,

When attempting to formulate a persuasive argument, this isn't a great place to start in my opinion. It's perfectly acceptable to dislike Trump and his policies. If you do, then go ahead and state your reasons. He was elected by the people of his country and he'll be done in four years' time. That's not how kings generally function. Perhaps I'm throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but I don't find myself too interested in reading the article after the inflammatory introductory TLDR.
As someone who been using US clouds for over 10 years now, I was looking in the state of EU clouds recently.

It's like going back in time 15 years.

OVH co-mingling postgres customers on the same underlying server with no noisy-neighbour protections!
AWS RDS is obsolete tech these days and they can't even match that!
> Like "Long COVID", "post covid vaccine syndrome" is probably psychosomatic.

Evidence?
> The field propagates at close to the speed of light in vacuum (circa 300,000 km/s); individual electrons in a copper wire typically slither at speeds measured in centimeters per hour or less.

It would be worth mentioning why it happens as it's quite interesting.
Reminded me of a few similar articles I have read that reveal how divers’ real-world needs drive equipment evolution, transforming a basic human function into a catalyst for safer, more inclusive cold-water diving.

[1] "Why Do I Need to Pee Every Time I Dive?" (DIVER Magazine), and

[2] "Drysuit Diving Myths, Busted" (Scuba Diving)
one of these things is not like the others
> Just how useful would they be in practical terms compared to 'traditional' surveillance techniques?

> they can track your location, track everything you do with an electronic device with very little investment for anyone but the most paranoid people with impeccable opsec.

You've answered your own question. The stories told by people who claim to have been in these government programs are much more about singluar events than continuous surveillance of some individual. The US discusses highly-classified subject inside of SCIFs, where no one is allowed to bring in electronics and which are frequently checked for surveillance. Imagine you had a psychic asset who could tell you everything that was discussed inside any particular SCIF when you learn through conventional means that certain people have (or are likely to have) gone inside one for a meeting.
But what if they outright ban it, as the US was going to do with TikTok (for national security reasons)? This it the tech services version of Nord Stream.
Isn't this just kind of willfully ignorant to the way the government cloud works?

GovCloud claims that it's used to "manage sensitive data and controlled unclassified information (CUI)."

I don't think the US government is dumping classified info onto corporate cloud environments judging by this description from GovCloud. But there's plenty of info that's sensitive but unclassified and the government does need to function in a lot of ways that doesn't involve state secrets.

https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/ for more of a description of what GovCloud actually is.
Yes, they are VPSs

But the more important point was that they started branding themselves as a cloud vendor 4 years ago, and investing in new offerings around that pitch, but it’s taking them far too long to release basic parts of the offering, and they’re falling behind.
Consistently scoring 175 on tests that have a maximum of 140 is no small feat. If that is not a sign of superior intelligence, I don't know what is.
“Secrets” is a broad term that covers everything from payroll information to the history of CIA clandestine operations. Only some kinds of these are stored in the cloud.
I'd argue that there are actually no EU cloud providers. There are only EU hosting providers.
Surely. But starting a streaming video site that gains traction and scales is easier now than when Twitch did it, I am sure.
All of this is about actual oversight verification and oversight performed in 2024 and earlier.

This is pre-doge, so of course none of their garbage lies show up. Only the actual oversight by regulators that doge is fking up.
Tuenti?
I believe fuel cells with ubiquity of electricity is just beating the dead horse.
Like, what are cons and pros?

EVs:

+ Much simpler design
+ Literally zero maintenance required
+ Centralized power production is extremely efficient
+ Power production can be 100% carbon free in 10 years, if there's will with nuclear and other 'renewables'
+ Can be charged literally everywhere where's sun in theory, but in every home with outlet in practice
+ Batteries are crucial to every part of our tech today so they will become better
- Heavy (low energy density compared to fuel, which isn't great for planes etc)

Fuel Cells:

+ high energy density
+ less dirty than gasoline
+ allow oil producers to stay in business
+ keeps mechanics in business
- requires mechanics and expensive maintenance
- complex designs for combustion engines + gearboxes + drive trains
- requires immense infrastructure change to adopt

Unless I miss something. What is the point of fuel cells/combustion engines for consumer use? I understand there are applications where energy density is necessary, like cargo ships, rockets or airplanes. Otherwise, seems like a welfare program for industries built around resource extraction and complicated machinery.

But for consumers, what is the point of fuel cells? This is honest question.

If I missed some con/pro let me know I'll add it.
Is the UK still considered "European"?
Scientists played the game given to them and pasted in some sentences and then had their research reviewed based on the science and funded.

Now we’ve got full blown McCarthyism vilifying them because someone did a ctrl + f.
> Would that advantage manifest as playing into the system - looking for opportunities for signaling? Or discounting - finding good education with less signaling value.

Good question! I think that can play out both ways, ultimately based on how wealthy the parents are. If money is no object, play the prestige game. If you are middle class and know the rules of the game, maximize value.

For example, I am acquainted with parents who are teachers at a prestigious private school. Their child attended said school because of subsidized tuition, and then attended college in an honors program at a state university in the middle of the country. He was paid to attend! The parents are fully abreast of all the studies on the effects of education, both being teachers and being in the middle of the college admissions frenzy that goes on in these schools. So they know how the game works, and they are playing it to the max for value.

On the other hand, at this school are children from generational wealth who play obscure sports from an early age to give them an edge in admissions. The children never need to actually earn a living, and the target school admission is seen as a defense of a family legacy and bragging rights for the parents - pure prestige.
I don't think there would be jobs manually doing many things that software currently does.
Most IQ tests are fake, especially all online tests. You often get IQ 120 just by answering randomly.
Depends in which country.
That is very optimistic.

Given that for today's election here in Germany actual problems barely played a role. Not just that, over the last two decades very little was done. For example, we have skyrocketing rents due to a general lack of housing, which leads to all kinds of problems apart from affordability. For example worker mobility. Who dares to move to another job and city when it's so hard to find a flat?

That's par for the course for almost all big problems.

I think the probability is high that the new German government is going to try to sit this one out. After all, they survived Trump the last time, and it's only four years, right? Worse, they would have to do many things that will be very unpopular with one or the other interest group.

Unless somebody puts a gun to the heads of all those in government they will procrastinate rather than make any big changes.

I see little chance that they will cancel the order for US military hardware. They might actually buy a lot more, to appease Trump. After all, not getting the F-35 would have repercussions for the nuclear sharing agreement with the US. They need the F-35 to have a certified platform for nuclear bombs they are supposed to get from the US, stored in Germany for that purpose.

That would mean they would need a European approach to nuclear weapon sharing and weapons. The German government regularly has trouble even just to work together with only France, due to wildly different philosophies and interests.

Europe is far too divided, and the German government sees its role in doing as little as possible when it comes to radical change.

I think part of it is that the leadership of all our big parties mostly consists of politicians whose whole life is just that. They don't have anything else. Even if they get a job at a company it's for their political connections. They won't risk this, and they barely have any strong opinions! They look at polls and change what they stand for accordingly and easily. I'm not saying this to sound mean, I think that this is a mostly accurate description.

Opposing the US would take spine! It's a lot of trouble and uncertainty. They will try to avoid that if at all possible.

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By the way, it's not just F-35. Germany also ordered the Israeli-American Arrow 3 long-range missile defense system, sixty CH-47 Chinook, and 380 other contracts worth 23 billion just from the "Sondervermögen" (special fund) of 100 billion. Surely that will just become more, given that Germany continues to need to purchase things like Patriot missiles.

The strategy was - to the chagrin of the French if I understood the news articles written at the time right - to rather buy something proven and quickly available from the Americans rather than start a lengthy inter-European development process.
When was housing not an investment? This isn't new. Land has always been an investment ever since it was enclosed.

Reasoning as if financialization is a new phenomenon seems destined to come to the wrong conclusion.
It has demonstrated those companies willingness to comply. I don't agree that "it hasn't changed anything".
Which we export across the world. When we open up a widget factory in your non-US town it seeps in and takes hold.
What audits?
Funnily enough, at the only coding interview I ever had, they specifically told me they won't ask leetcode questions, and they had me write some very simple React code. I think the companies that do those leetcode-style interviews are mostly just those big ones, where it's HR who decides how to interview. I would suggest looking for companies that are small enough to actually care.
> From participants’ blood samples, the researchers looked for immune features that were different between the two groups. They found several differences in immune cell populations; those with PVS had lower levels of effector CD4+ T cells and higher levels of TNF-alpha+ CD8 T cells — both are types of white blood cells — among other differences.

TNF is one of the suspected accomplices in a lot of autoimmune conditions, and the target of a class of drugs called TNF inhibitors. (Not everyone responds to them equally well, so TNF might not play an equal role in all patients; other people respond better to drugs that target various interleukins or integrins). These aren't the cheapest drugs ever, so it would be hard to experiment with off-label use, but if TNF plays a role in long COVID/immunization reactions, I'd be very curious whether TNF inhibitors could help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNF_inhibitor
Three of them (AGA) had tech bosses at prime seats at the inauguration. MAGA might hate them, but the Musk, Thiel, etc. crowd that seem to be in control of the While House are big tech. MAGA was only for the MAGA electorate to get into power. Sadly poor/angry voters will happily vote against their own interests if you can make them hate (immigrants, liberals, DEI, woke, whatever does the job).
Well, I'm all for the return of the classic forum experience!

The UK's largest "social" sites are pretty much forums (e.g. Mumsnet, The Student Room, DigitalSpy, MoneySavingExpert) and while they're good for their respective topics, they don't cover the Reddit/Facebook/Instagram use cases (they could be arguably considered on a par with individual sub-reddits).
Censoring Games
It's been awhile since I was in that world, but I have to imagine that if you have a site whose traffic is growing at a good rate, you don't need to pitch that many investors. Some seed funding could get you enough runway to pay the AWS bills.

You very rarely hear of the startup who ran out of money because they had too much traffic.
War room. In the trenches. War stories. Pasty programmers and plump PMs using such terminology is a bit silly.

Fixing a printer that sometimes does something unexpected is not even a sailor's yarn, let alone a war story.