skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was part of their defense (and there is no sarcasm intended in this comment). It was a true defense in depth, from mining the tunnels and arming the citizenry to diplomatic efforts to make themselves not worth invading (or conversely, worth leaving alone).

Similar strategies are adopted in nature, both by animals and plants.
Yeah, as far as country subs go that is one of the most toxic ones.

I tried to use it for some travel advice but what I noticed was just sheer negativity and an echo chamber where any contrarian opinion is suppressed. I wonder if the irony of doing this and then complaining about suppression of dissent by the current establishment is lost on them.
That makes no sense and is similar to saying, "more people can fit into a truck compared to how many can sit on a motorcycle, therefore show your ID to get into a truck."

A person can kill hundreds or thousands of others, regardless of there being any transportation - thats MORE people than can be killed on a plane.
Thanks, founder of Stackbit here. We currently support NextJS, Gatsby, Hugo and Jekyll with many more coming soon (e.g. Eleventy). One of our goals is being tech agnostic as we want to empower developers to pick the best tool for the job.
So instead of paying third parties they could just outright acquire them - like MS did with Bungie? At least independent game makers have the option of creating some games that are cross platform.

On the other hand, if the game maker needs funding and the platform owner is willing to fund them, shouldn’t the platform owner get something?

Another example, Apple funding independent game makers for Apple Arcade means that games can come to iOS that don’t depend on loot boxes, selling consumables or ads. That also means Apple takes on the risk.
unused variable is the warning that causes me the most pain

it happens so often that I want to test or debug something, disable some code, or replace some value by "5" or what not as a placeholder, and then get the unused variable warning

sure, it can be fixed with (void) casts, but sometimes there are multiple unused variables due to commenting out part of code, then you have to hunt all of them

and sure it can be fixed with a flag to disable this warning, but that may require a recompile of everything if the build system considers this a change of compiler flags

and sure you could disable it always, or only for certain modes, but the warning also has its merits
There are a lot of teams on this subject. And it's deemed newsworthy as well.
This point of view is not especially Chinese. It's very common for all cultures.

Chinese, Indian and European art traditions used to flavor integration. You learn to copy the masters. After you master the earlier techniques you are ready to contribute something new to the whole.

Originality for the sake of originality is very modern concept. Modern art takes this into extreme. Artists are trashing around desperately and are doing random things to be original. We end up with works that generate momentary 'heh' moments when the artist is especially clever.
Put it in the contract. Don't apply your rules to every marriage by default.
I think you have that backwards--you have to take expansion into account for the "observable" universe to be that large, since the age of the universe is only 13.7 billion years.
Norway in August – Over 70% EV Market Share and Heading Higher
If a nation A attacks B, and nation B fights back for its cause, would would call the response of B to be 'nationalism'? Or just protecting sovereignty?
It's most likely inspired by XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra) - same creator(s).
Google is also investing some developer time on Bluespec since it was opensourced (https://github.com/B-Lang-org/bsc). I wonder if these projects make part of a bigger plan at Google.
I don't know for certain they're not lizard aliens in skin suits trying to frame the Russians to cause chaos on Earth before they come harvest us.

Barring substantial evidence for the silly/unlikely explanations, I'm quite comfortable with the sensible one.

There's plenty of evidence for me to conclude the Skripal poisonings were carried out by Russia.
Tons of researchers and companies use the GeForce line for ML. It’s the reason for the infamous “no use in data centers” addition to the EULA, and potentially part of the reason for the switch from blowers, which made it feasible to stuff 4-16 1080Ti’s in a single case.
China bans stuff from all over the world, they are just starting to get taste of their own game. ;)
I'm posting this link not to show off my "awesome JS library" (TM pending), but rather to invite people to check out the lessons and - if they have time - offer me feedback on how useful they are.

I find it difficult to judge how much information in a lesson is "too much" or "not enough". Because I've lived with the code for so long information that seems obvious to me, and thus not worthy of mentioning in the lesson, may be vital information to other people. Similarly it's possible that the stuff I'm trying to hammer home (especially in the first lesson) will bore potential users who just want to know how to do X/Y/Z with minimal fuss.

Pointers to excellent lessons/tutorials that people have come across when learning (any sort of) new software would also be very welcome!
Public School is bad for kids. The question is how do we fix the problem.

...Worth noting there were no school shootings for the first time in decades in March (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-first-march-without...)
For VIM users:

%!python -m json.tool
I have had courses in this style before, known as "flipped learning". It works reasonably well in my experience, although it's much easier to fall behind if you have other obligations outside of school, and having to note down questions and hold on to them until the next class is awkward.
Children in China locked up for as long as 10 days at internet addiction camp
Here are Lampson's brief descriptions of many many hardware and software systems he has worked on, starting in the 1960s and continuing into the 21st century.

http://bwlampson.site/Systems.htm
Did someone achieve a picture with the sun as camera?

I would guess it may be blurry?
Pour One Out
Unprotected MongoDB with committed writes turned off
That is the express reason with which Thomas Bulfinch wrote his "Mythologies", because his pupils were having trouble understanding English poems because they couldn't figure out allusions to mythology. Reading that small book could "unlock" a lot of English literature for one.
How to Run One Million Requests on Google Cloud Run for $0.01
Running AI and computer vision APIs is typically expensive and relatively harder to scale. In this blog post Trueface (https://trueface.ai/) Developer Adel Boussaken demonstrates how you can deploy extremely efficient ML APIs that employ serverless and stateless architectures to run very deep models as containerized work loads on Google Cloud Run.

How to Run Serverless Trueface: One Million Requests for $0.01:
https://social.trueface.ai/blog-serverlesstrueface
I wish you could hide stories by keyword or by domain.
There will never be a power vacuum in world politics. If it’s not going to be US, it’s going to be China and/or Russia. I have been thinking quite a lot how will that world look. Will it be better or worse?
They manufacture iPhones in India, they don't design them there.
Are there any laws in India that would allow a banned company to sue the government?
Can you explain how having a CPU limit set (at any level) has a negative effect on latency? That's an important factor to understand.

The arguments for allowing containers to burst makes plenty of sense to me. I do it on most of my services!

thockin's reddit post for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/all1vg/on_kuber...

Another interesting bit of context describing some of the non-intuitive impacts of CPU limits: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/51135

Edit: added links
Maybe it thinks such a lawsuit has a chance in the US but not in India.
Come on, who did it?!

Edit: ok, you finally said it in an edit.
> Ask the Vietnamese how guns saved them from the American imperialism .

And ask the Sioux how guns didn't save them.
Yes, the HP voltmeter used two 74LS181 ALU chips so it could do error and scaling calculations.

The ALU was accessed through four I/O ports: two for the arguments, one for the operation and carry-in, and one to read the result. It wasn't memory-mapped, but I/O mapped since the Nanoprocessor didn't have memory operations (except reading instructions from ROM).

Instead of memory-mapped I/O, the Nanoprocessor had I/O-mapped memory. The real time clock module had 256 bytes of RAM that were accessed through I/O ports.
Pimping my favorite translator of the Illiad, EV Rieu, though I guess I need to try Emily Wilson. I have his version of the Odyssey but haven't read it yet.

The Literature and History podcast has great coverage of the Illiad and Odyssey, and reads from Wilson in addition to Fagles, Rieu, and others. The podcast itself is exceptionally good if you are into the history behind the writing.

https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episodes/all-epis...
What we are hitting is a continuous backlash of conservatives unhappy with progress... no matter if it's abortion, LGBT rights, PoC/non-white rights, or anti-discriminatory language.

These paleo-conservatives are who elected Trump and they are correct in exactly one thing: there is a cultural war against their outdated views.
China’s battle to keep internet addiction in check (2019)
It's pretty easy for anyone who can get on the tracks though.
Thanks for your input. We've put character efficiency at the very top of our priorities for this reason. We can fit a lot of structured data in ~450 bytes (to stay under original 512 limit) if the record uses a module.
> 1. Russian leadership would not be able to order that if it will be shot dead.

If the political leadership of a nation gets assassinated, I do not think it's reasonable to expect the military leadership to sit on their hands forever, waiting for orders from the dead.

And if you want to get down to brass tacks, both NATO and Russia have the military capability to literally exterminate the bulk of each other's populations, and I beleive Russia is known to have automated fail-deadly retaliation systems.

> 2. NATO towers over Russia for when it comes to size, and quality of elite infantry forces.

Honestly, I would think surprise is more important than anything with such an operation as you propose, because success would mainly depend on attacking a target with military-level force that's completely unprepared for that.

> 3. The loyalty of Russian military is do low, that the collapse of the military leadership will be near immediate upon news of heads rolling in the Kremlin. Absolutely nobody wants to die for those guys.

Maybe not for those people themselves, but they might be willing to die for the nation that those people lead. I'm sure a scheme to assassinate the entire political leadership of a country might evoke some nationalist feelings.
Bases are easy to rebuild.
Dan Luu has a nice curated list: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
This one was also infamously censored by social media this year.
I can't find details either, but I think they just used R for the post-processing, and there's a lot of computation behind this sentence:

> RNA-Seq analysis was performed using the latest version of the human transcriptome

I found this article discussing read mapping for RNA sequence analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833417/

> In particular, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technology,1 which provides a comprehensive profile of a transcriptome, is increasingly replacing conventional expression microarrays.2 Primary data processing in RNA-seq (as well as in other massive sequencing experiments, including genome resequencing) involves mapping reads onto a reference genome. This step constitutes a computationally expensive process in which, in addition, sensitivity is a serious concern
The topic is more generalized to TSA as a whole and not exclusive to covid TSA. The argument in the article I linked is about how growing security measures is pushing people away from air travel by both privacy and cost to support the new security theater. A continuation of such growth does not dismiss the claims, in fact it reinforces them.
I think it’s helpful to people who might not have otherwise considered the possibility. The idea that there may be propagandists in the comments presumably changes the way a person consumes the thread.
Though it remains a question of which Russians in particular. Especially with Navalny it seems a bit crude for Putin to have ordered it.
Why does this feel like a movie where there's a possibility of a digital cold war?
Up to 50% of Reddit advertising clicks are fraudulent
You know what would be useful? Take all those events and ask the children to put them in a time-line. Let them search any book they need in the process.

You know what is completely useless? Telling the date each happened on their respective classes, and that this knowledge will be tested.
This is a really interesting theory, and explains to some degree why those with darker complexions (lower vitamin-D levels) and obesity (increased rates of hypertension) have higher mortality rates. Would it explain why younger people are much less effected though?
Search Suggestions. You typed "h", maybe you want to search for "harpoons". "ht" might suggest "htaccess". "http" might be a search for "httpie". etc.
Bin Laden’s Al Qaida was very unusual in its long term planning. Most terrorist attacks by other groups have been unsophisticated.
Well the argument for that at the time was that the only people who really received any halfway decent education were wealthy white landowning men. The idea being that education's important for comparing policy and making a good decision re: representation, or more generally that an educated populace is important for a functioning democracy.

And in that I kinda agree; an educated population is Important for a functioning democracy. While the mindset/culture/resource limitations of the time resulted in that being both discriminatory and classist, it's different today since we have universal standards of education.

Whether our current standards are good enough is a different argument
You know, that might actually be a reasonable explanation.
You aren't required to go to work at a place where that is the case. School is a legal requirement for minors of a certain age in the US.
It just takes one nudge here and there. I think the work can be quite subtle and effective even on HN.
Creativity in the Times of Data
At a meta level, Category Theory requires some comfort with abstraction, which really only comes with a mathematical education. So while it may stand apart from much math, it relies on your strong mathematical foundations.
You seem to be implying that owning whatever guns and ammo it is you own will enable you, or the populace to resist the modern American military? I'm not sure as your answer was vague and abstract.

The weapons shop was written in 1942, that statement may have been true back then. I'm also not sure the Vietnam war was fought with civilian purchased firearms and munitions... there may have been a state actor on the other side of that one.

Is this genuinely something you believe to be a benefit of owning and purchasing firearms in modern day America? I'm not trying to change your mind, I just want to know if that's really what you believe.
Games being "Nintendo hard"[0] would actually be a benefit for that, haha.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_hard
> However there is no way to simulate the price

Compared to other real world problem domains which are far less computerised it seems relatively simple to get fresh data for a trading system: let the system execute actual trades and measure the actual response.

It might be difficult to do this without having a budget to burn in running experiments, both in terms of money that is going to be lost while the system makes poor trades, setting up controls to ensure that not too much money can be lost in any experiment, and subscribing to data feeds that give a richer view of how the market responds (e.g. order book info).

In contrast, consider trying to get fresh data in materials science etc where you may need to manufacture small batches of materials and then test them. It might cost $10k in materials and weeks of work with expensive machinery and skilled technicians to generate a dozen or so fresh data points.
We had three lunches per day, mostly overlapping with other classes. As in, you were either on A, B, or C lunch while the other kids were in class. Often, A lunch wasn't prepared yet and C lunch didn't have enough by the end of it. This was a chronic condition in a few CA schools when I attended.

My SO was a teacher for a few years too. Despite Free and Reduced Lunch (FRL) being offered and encouraged, many kids' parents still could not be bothered to sign their kids up until late in the year. My SO kept food in the drawers of the desk for these kids. In addition, FRL did not cover the weekends, so many kids would come in on Monday having not eaten for that weekend. Though not common, it was again chronic with these kids.

Food scarcity in the US is still very much a 'thing', unfortunately.
While losing the animals would probably be pretty beneficial, the crops are also not without sin; they use a huge amount of land and are vulnerable to climate change. "Most/all food is produced in, effectively, chemical factories" is an interesting vision of the future; it would potentially do great things for food security and allow the rewilding of much of the planet.
Congratulations on being added to a bunch of government databases! ;-)
That Redmi has 8 cores (cpu released in 2020) compared to the Samsung with 4 cores (released in 2017).

On Antutu benchmark, the Redmi is almost 5x higher [0]. So I don't think they can be considered "similar".

[0]: https://gadgetversus.com/processor/mediatek-mt6739-vs-mediat...
The province of New Brunswick announced their plans for choir after "some of the hardest planning and preparation of my career" (from the Minister of Education). The master plan: "sing quietly"
Da, comrade - it is very important that we discuss all these German issues in a comment section about a news article about the poisoning of a critic of the Russian regime.
That grandfather and two of his brothers left [...] with no plan [...]. They were helped by strangers and survived. Their mother however, along with two other siblings, had a plan. They had a deal with a smuggler [...] and all 3 of them died in deportation. Lesson: each person who has information on you represents an additional chance for it to be leaked.

This puzzles me... The paragraph clearly states that the grandfather had contacts with strangers (and we can then assume there was some exchange of information of some kind), and the ending was positive, whereas another exchange with a single point of contact had a negative outcome. But goes on to present as a lesson that the chance of a negative outcome increases with the number of contacts.

I see the point the author is trying to make, but I think this part fails to prove it satisfyingly. It either doesn't prove anything, or it's missing key information (shared information with the strangers and the smugglers) to support the point. To me, it proves that luck (and maybe the grand-father's ability to be a good judge of character in picking which strangers to rely on) were more likely deciding factors.

(Or that having no plan helps. But that's for a different perspective.)
"Most of us"? Really? I absolutely acknowledge that some jobs do this as other commenters have noted. But "most" sounds like an extreme stretch. I've he;d plenty of low-paying, manual labor jobs and never even heard of the practice until the last few years. It's the overwhelming norm at schools and - as far as I've seen - fairly exceptional at a job.
Do you have an example of a motivated terrorist killing (say) 300 people with a single bomb in a well chosen crowd? I can't find one. The example I quote about is around 14 people per bomb for a very well chosen target for quite large devices.

For comparison, a small bomb on a near full 747 would kill 450 (plus people on the ground).

I think blowing up planes is just a really really efficient way to kill people compared to blowing up almost any other grouping of people...

>Fortunately, 99.9% of people aren't genuinely evil.

Very true. And those that are are generally more interested in making headlines than setting records for casualty numbers luckily...
I used a min heap in a FANG interview. It's an obvious/good solution if the problem has a mix of reading/removing the smallest number in a data structure and writing new numbers to the data structure.
Why wouldn't it be? Unless you're trying to flag stuff a year after it's been posted, I would expect at least that a posted link would be accessible to read.

Unless what you mean is "inaccessible" in the sense of "not accessible to people with disabilities," in which case, good luck flagging a large percent of everything that gets posted. :/
Htop – An Interactive Process Viewer
How We Upgrade Kubernetes on GKE at Gojek
You could go through security without providing id. If I recall correctly that's the case in most EU airports I have been to. I have been asked for id only by the airline at the gate after security or by border control on international flights.
Remote Hiring at Tech Companies Is Racist
The fact that it continues is not evidence of effectiveness of educational ability, it’s evidence of structural entrenchment of the process due to the efficiency with which the process can extract value from students without options or perspective.
For what it may be worth, I am aware of a couple of thriftier, high-quality, sustainable, (edit: also online,) alternatives:

BYU Pathway Worldwide and associated programs. It requires a "close tie" (i.e., family, close friend, attendance...) to the sponsoring Church but not necessarily membership. Tuition is lower (especially if you take the year of English etc first) and varies by country; bachelors programs (like IT, business, others) are available; programs excellent; and it is also suitable for those who need to first become qualified for entering a university (edit: i.e., learning English which is used in curriculum, and other basic skills), then provides that university. More info is in Wikipedia and I have gathered a bit of info including linking to a news article that explains it well I think, here: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854578440.html .

And: https://www.wgu.edu/ (also mentioned in wikipedia): state aid available from multiple states it seems (per wkp). Others have commented about it in other HN discussions.
interesting read, needs more jokes
It’s not in every marriage by default. Divorce is negotiated between lawyers, judges and juries(?).
There's plenty of used ones available. Nice and cheap.
This is akin to reporting water is wet...
> Actual Russian security forces, doubtful. They aren't idiots

They're not the most competent, either [1]. It's been two decades since Putin first came to power. That sort of cronyism corrodes any bureaucracy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Lugovoy
> As a bilingual person yourself I assume you do the same. You would really be willing to give that up?

IMO: Language is emergent. The fact that you often switch language mid-sentence, or use different languages in different contexts, demonstrates this.

I vaguely remember hearing somewhere that English became popular because it was easy to adopt words and phrases from other languages. I suspect that even if we (all people) had a point where we all spoke a single language, our general emergent behavior means that new words, phrases, and dialects would naturally emerge.