skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that Russia's liberation of Eastern Europe was incredibly traumatizing to the domestic populations.

You had systematic mass rapes on a bewildering scale. As in, every single female from city X was raped. See this article: "They raped very german woman from age 8 to 80" (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/news.features1...).

And it was not just German women. Similar things happened in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania (http://www.globeatwar.com/article/red-armys-rape-europe) These reports would filter into diplomats in the West and they were so shocking no one believed it at first, and it was downplayed in the West but citizens from these countries remember. In addition to the scale ("almost no woman in Hungary was spared") is the blindness of the attacks. Everyone was a target. Especially shocking were the rapes of emaciated concentration camp survivors -- who had just been liberated by the Red Army! Often after the rape the women were shot and many committed suicides. Russian prisoners freed from German PoW camps were raped by Red Army units they encountered as they made their way back to Russia.

There was also extensive looting -- organized, systematic looting of people's household treasures, watches, clothes, shoes, etc. Soldiers breaking into homes, raping the women, stealing any currency or valuables. Then moving onto the next home. Block by block, city by city, across all europe. The native population quickly learned it was not safe to leave your home wearing a watch.

And of course that was followed by systematic political oppression, arrest of political enemies or those who were "tainted" by the West, including ordinary soldiers or aviators who committed the crime of flying with the RAF or with free French forces (https://www.wingsinexile.co.uk/clanky/return-communist-perse...) -- these were all jailed, de-personed, and hounded by authorities for the rest of their lives as being politically tainted. Remember some of these were national heroes. And that was followed by a series of coups in which the communist parties assassinated their opponents and seized power.

Bottom line, Eastern Europe has very mixed feelings about being "liberated" by the USSR, whereas Western Europe has much more positive memories of being liberated by the West, and so it's more a matter of one side celebrating while the other would prefer to not remember those events at all.
Ugh. Waiting for this cliche.
If making a chip is so hard, then why do the FAANG companies own this world, not e.g. TSMC or Samsung?
The author of TFA asserts "busy people don't make good decisions" without citing studies or presenting evidence.

You can save a lot of time by ignoring articles like that.
My irony detector doesn't give me a clear signal on this
Wins and loses do not cancel each other out. When you win you win when you lose you lose but I can agree that at the end of the day balance sheet is what matters. Cryptocoins are fad, technology and concepts behind them are important. Coinbase is nothing but a bucket shop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)
The equivalent if sin taking revolutions (let’s say sinr) is just sinr(x)=sin(x2pi) there is no fundamental mathematical relation broken by this, that would indicate math was broken at the core. And the Taylor expansion isn’t any less simple, you simply state the pi’s in the expansion rather than having them implied in your input variable.

It’s amazing people assume math will break somehow if you use a different unit for angles, when most should at least be familiar with using both 360 and ~6.283 and some using 200 as the scale for one rotation. And when trying to reason about it every single person always translates this into ratios of rotations or percentages of rotations.
In this day and age its easy to forget that even "dumb" appliances still use microcontrollers.
Yes, even functions like monitoring temperature, turning a compressor on and off, and beeping if the door is left open for too long... are probably more easily and cheaply done with a low-end microcontroller than some sort of electromechanical contraption.
I stopped reading after 5 or 6 tweets, pretty much when she started talking about politics and politicizing Bitcoin, and assuming all Bitcoin users share the same political beliefs.

Sounds like a rant to me.
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In WH40k, it was prehistoric shamans from all over the world noticing their souls were being eaten by demons and preventing reincarnation, so they all kill themselves at the same time, merge their souls in the warp, and reincarnate as a single super human.
Please do recall that the USSR was effectively on the same side as Germany for the first two years of the war.
I believe you could build such a parser out of parsec. Altough, I am not sure if that is exactly what you are going for.
I appreciate it, but still apologize for being flippant.

I did intend the comment to be about the dog washing startup that I assumed to be a fairly small business. Not buying the (presumed to be in the 10,000 quantity range) MCUs they needed ahead of time, knowing that they will be the single linchpin chip that there will be no pin-compatible replacement for, is what I found to be ridiculous.

I hope you find that perspective to clarify my intent some.
My experience has been different.

It was a wildly unpopular war with poor people being sent into a meat grinder.

And its the one with the pervasive urban legend about returning soldiers being spat on.

Vietnam is still a single-party state run by a self titled Communist Party that follows Marxist teachings while adopting the more modern state-capitalist approach. This is the opposite of American values and the exact outcome the Americans were there to prevent. Although the consequences have been largely muted.

I also see memes about it almost every day. I saw a video on instagram about Muhammad Ali talking about the absurdity of people being sent into that war.
Maybe they pay really well
This is a great time to sell a car you do not need. Prices have gone up significantly just since last month on sites like carvana, carmax, etc.
I've been making a VR piano app to help with my own practicing. I find that it helps to see the recorded hands moving in 3d space in front of you. I can also slow down the movements to make it easier to replicate. It's certainly easier than learning sheet music! Here's a video if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBmjtgb2rA
> Also why don't we talk about tax havens while we're at it?

Tax havens aren't a party to ransomware. This is just whataboutism.

We can talk about tax havens too, but that's a different conversation for a different time.
Okay wise guy:
A 1990 f150 crew cab is 74" high, 232.2" long, and 79" wide.
A 2021 Tacoma crew cab is 212" long, 71" high, and 74" wide.

This proves false the the assertion that a modern Tacoma is bigger than an old F150, but glad I could get downvoted by people with no mental rigor.
l0pht Heavy Industries / @stake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0pht
Here for you,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/atl/active-template-lib...

In 2000 it was version 3.0 alongside Visual C++ 6.0.
If you hire someone in another country, you (employer) must fully comply with local labor laws, tax requirements, run payroll and pay any local dues in local currency.

This is only solved by either setting up a local office and hire local experts yourself, or working with an employer of record.

Source: I'm the CEO of Remote.com and we do this for other companies across the world, and run all our own entities and compliance.
I have to ask, is this series of comments some kind of performance art or some sort of social experiment? Or is this unironically how you write/speak/act?
The commenter I'm replying to uses an entirely different toolchain, and the frequently-recommended Cornell book (https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2021sp/textbook/) uses ocamlbuild and utop and makes no mention of Dune. If you (understandably) happen to land in the official OCaml manual at https://ocaml.org/manual/index.html instead of the page you linked to (which I can't find from ocaml.org, by the way, but you're right that the ocaml.org tutorials do mention Dune and opam), then you don't see Dune or opam mentioned at all. I get what you're saying, but I don't think you could disagree with the premise that there are parts of the OCaml ecosystem that a newbie would land in and be confused or misled by here.
I’ve got hués through the whole house. Primary use cases are:

- Being able to trigger dimming of the lights in the house as sunset approaches.
- Being able close all the lights in the house in one go (such as when leaving).
- dimming lights when I don’t have dimmers wired in.
- being able to adjust colour temperature of the lights (and full colours, I tend to use a mix of oranges, pinks, and purples).
- turning off lamps that are not otherwise on the same circuit as the ceiling when I flick a switch.

Things like dimming and controlling lights on the same circuit could be done with electrical work, but I’m renting. The bulbs come with me wherever I move. The electrical work doesn’t. I already was bringing my own lightbulbs wherever I moved anyways (to save electricity).
Facts Surface on the Heroin War (1971) [pdf]
The data consent script seems to break it. Can't wait until that stuff disappears again.
I made an app for promote world peace
Maybe you can review it
That sounds really hard.
The economy is projected to grow quickly in 2021 though and even 2022 is projected to grow 3.5% which is still higher than trump's 2.5% average. The debt burden may shrink from sheer growth alone.
I think there's some misunderstanding here. I'm not LAC author. Just had a minor contribution a long time ago to make it easier to compile.
The actual fix for the bug (discussed in the article) can be found in GitHub PRs [1][2]. Uniswap is ignoring this PR for a long time for some reason.

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[1] https://github.com/Uniswap/uniswap-v2-subgraph/pull/86

[2] https://github.com/Uniswap/uniswap-v3-subgraph/pull/5
That's a difficult question. Without US involvement the USSR would probably have won but at an even more disastrous cost. And the war would have taken longer.

But ultimately the USSR had more resources and more manpower than the Nazis so the question was moreso about when the Soviet wartime production would have finished building up.

There is also the question that Soviet planning would very probably have been much more urgent if the US kept neutral.
Modern humans have very low genetic diversity. There are more genetic variations among apes in a single group than among all humans on the whole planet. A typical interpretation of this is that we are descendants of small group of survivors, but whatever the reason the consequences is that the genetic variation between Neanderthals and humans can be in fact within normal variation within single species, we just do not have enough data.
I've always considered the Surface Book line to be Microsoft's answer to Apple's Macbook Pro, and design-wise, it's a pretty good one. Detachable tablets with a real operating system and a dedicated GPU base are kind of the ultimate form factor (unless they could fit that GPU into the tablet).

But the specs fall short. Macbook Pro hard drives start at 512GB and go up to 8TB, and they have more ram at the high end as well. It's just annoying and I'm probably just going to try to build my own laptop in a year or two.
Love to see this line of thinking taking over in the industry. Languages like Go make this type of object relationship super easy.
Musk quickly went from beloved by the tech community and misunderstood by the masses to beloved by the masses and scorned by the tech world.

What's most disturbing is that Musk knowingly "backed" a technology that he knows is inferior and meant as nothing more than a joke which sort of goes against everything he has been promoting as an innovator and futurist.

I am not sure what exactly his endgame is, but I think he is too far into this he can't really back down from being a Doge's spokeperson and supporter. This is hugly depressing and demoralizing for the entire space of cryptocurrency.
Ask HN: Endpoint Management for Linux?
I manage the infrastructure for a small software company (~20 software engineers), while being one of those software engineers myself. Most of us are using Linux. Some of our clients are $megacorps and they have all kinds of compliance requirements regarding our internal infrastructure. Some of them are sensible (full disk encryption), others are a bit silly or overly specific (gnome screensaver must be enabled .. but I don't use gnome?).

This wasn't a big deal when there were only 5 engineers. But now that we've grown to 20, this is sort of becoming a chore. I don't want to spend time checking whether people have lock screens with passwords, or whether they actually set up full disk encryption correctly.

I'm aware of endpoint management tools like JAMF for macOS, but I don't know of any in the Linux space. I'm not even entirely sure what features I would be looking for exactly -- so any advice in this area is welcome. I guess at a minimum it would need a reporting function which tells me whether things like full disk encryption are enabled, selinux is running etc. I'm not terribly interested in features like remote wipe, remote software installs or even remediation of compliance issues at this point, but those might be nice if we continue to grow.

Just to clarify: I'm only concerned with engineers' laptops, in this case, not servers or phones or anything else.

Thanks for any advice!

~ elric, wearer of many hats
Buy from Europe.
Seriously, most stores will ship to US. The ones without English UI have better stocks.

I have been able to buy everything I've looked for at normal retail from European stores
The only consistent resource I know about this is wikipedia's "influenced [by]" section and the references in there.
So ad hominem attack not relevant in any meaningful discussion.
Perl is great for this. It’s been a long time since I’ve written any, but with the right flags and use of qr// you can write extremely readable perlre.
What small trucks even exist anymore? There used to be lots of options, but I can't think of a single one in the last decade at least.
Ask HN: My bank stores PIN as plain text, should I be worried?
Hello HN,

I received my new credit card with a reminder of my current PIN. I'm not sure how that could be possible without having a database of their customer names, addresses and secret PINs as plain text somewhere.

Shouldn't it be common sense to salt and hash them like any other stored password?

4-digits PINs are also used for other systems like SIM cards or ID cards in Europe, and I guess people often use the same code. Malicious employees could get access to bank accounts or smartphones of their relatives.

And If a leak happens, PINs will be on the wild with names and addresses attached to them, couldn't it be dangerous?

Do I take PIN way too seriously? Should I contact someone about this?
Good point. Still, a person that radiates creativity and curiosity in an environment that they find inspiring could be the exact opposite in another environment that they find less suitable. Hence my point that this personality trait stuff is at least as much dependent on context as on personal traits.
There are a number of metrics that are commonly used to settle on a number of factors to extract. There's some judgment in it to be sure, but you are looking at data-driven phenomena as well like percentage of variance explained, a precipitous drop in new added value, and etc.

Essentially you come to a point where extracting another value isn't explaining much more variance or producing a factor that's meaningful (e.g., two items of conscientiousness with negative wording are the entire new "factor" and only take variance explained from 80% to 82%).

https://www.theanalysisfactor.com/factor-analysis-how-many-f...
I’d rather download only featured or featured+good articles.
Materially significant portion of lend-lease also happened after Stalingrad.

If US would not join USSR in the war effort, the Soviets would stop at the Atlantic shore, not in Berlin.
Mitchell Hashimoto has written about this. Think there's at least a comment on HN somewhere but don't immediately find. Basically especially spanning countries there are a lot of considerations and you almost certainly can't just work wherever you want--especially as a full-time employee.
> There are an enormous number of marketplace norms which prevent being able to make demands on a customer like that

There's also the reality that every business is on a 30, 60 or 90 day phase lag from delivery to getting paid, and so they have no choice but to enforce those rules up the supply chain. If you don't you need piles of cash upfront months before you generate any revenue, at scale that is really tough to manage and there's a very real cost to money.

The simplest example of this I can offer is that if you have to borrow ten million dollars to pay all your suppliers upfront and this money cost you 1% per month (making the numbers simple for the sake of an example), you are going to incur a 5% cost of money if you have to wait five months to get paid (again, keeping numbers simple).

I have a friend in the production business who made commercials for a major animation studio. He told me it typically took them about six months to collect. They would invest massive amounts of money on equipment and personnel to shoot, edit and deliver a commercial and their payment would not come for six months after delivering the end product. The entire cycle would easily have taken a year.
I'm not seeing anything like that. Here's the latest roundup of "the best rates" over at Bankrate [0], which includes some online-only banks. Highest I see there is 0.57%, with most at 0.4% and 0.5%.

You might be able to scrounge up a few basis points somewhere if you're really determined and/or willing to meet some requirements. Still, even with our low-inflation these days [1], you're actually losing money in these savings accounts.

Main point though is that it's more of a relative game vs your ROI elsewhere. Even indexes and ETFs that are reasonably "low-risk" are routinely returning much more these days, and of course over the long haul equity markets still beat this handily, even when smoothed for downturns.

[0] https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/rates/

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/244983/projected-inflati...
Not really. The USSR knew conflict with Germany was inevitable, Molotov-Ribbentrop was about delaying it as much as possible.
We've had a company wide call to switch to AMD instances wherever possible. It's generally a straight 20% cost savings and most instances are usually overprovisioned anyway.
> For this task, the suggestion of "use a parser" is indeed sound advice.

Perhaps technically, but it's also useless advice because a parser does not exist for their particular flavor of malformed XHTML. XHTML parsers parse XHTML, which you yourself have said it wasn't:

> they were trying to fix a malformed document

So in the absence of a reference to a particular malformed-XHTML-recovering parser (which may or may not work on the specific input they have, but "try this thing" is at least actionable advice), "use a parser" amounts to "write a entire parser yourself, then use it".

> don't be a jerk about the precise semantics of a question, look at what the person needs

Pot, kettle.
I reject the universality of your definition. How the government spend the collected revenue can't (and isn't) the singular requirement on deciding wether something is a tax or a fee in many circumstances.

For example OECD has definitions they use when comparing tax revenue between countries, loosely explained here [0]. OECD count the public service fee as a fee, but I'm guessing that other things that your definition might categorise as fees are counted as taxes (e.g parts of the compulsory contribution to socialised welfare systems that the employer pays).

To further complicate things, the Swedish government via the ESV seem to categorise the public service fee as a tax [1]. EDIT: This probably describe the reasoning [2]

(But I don't think anyone would argue that e.g the church fee is a tax, since it's voluntary and the government have no ability to spend it at all, even though it's collected via the taxing system).

[0]: https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/oecd-classification-taxe... (p. 320)
[1]: https://www.esv.se/contentassets/9d641ba02ce246189306a1c50a2... (p. 91).
[2]: https://scb.se/contentassets/237f5d71840c4b6b84b147514dba4d3...
Do really people not consider mammals--even mammals they have regular exposure to such as dogs and cats--to be conscious? I know people tend to have a superiority complex when it comes to other animals but I have a hard time believing that they don't consider them to be conscious.
Apple is not the only game in town. It doesn’t even have the majority market share.

Not to mention that there is also the web.

No website has to pay Apple 30%. In fact, no dating app has to pay Apple 30%. They can all force you to pay on the web and Apple won’t get any cut.
This actually sounds like a great browser, looking forward to trying it out!
I never met Sapir or Whorf. My hypothesis is that libraries like RSpec which offer a thin "rephrasing" veneer over the assertion-based test module are a waste of mental capacity (and this goes triple for Cucumber and other similar regex-based trash).

The specification goes in the test title and if necessary, a comment. Then the programmer writes code to test the spec. I've never understood what is suboptimal about this. Why do developers need to be tricked?
Or Emacs and Vim users....
Cost is not the entire point of reusability, especially the first to substantially pull it off (Space Shuttle). Demonstrating and developing the technology is part of it too. Starship for example will use ceramic tiles, not identical with, but still proved out by Space Shuttle, which used them first.

You are also comparing amortized program cost of space shuttle and not final marginal cost (around $450million per launch at 7 astronaut capacity and higher payload capacity).
I actually already switched my Kubernetes cluster to the new AMD CPUs in GCP and it's running fantastically. Couldn't be happier with the performance.
I agree. A scan of the research seems to suggest the risk reduction is bounded at around 40% on the high side of "potential risk avoided if all vehicles were equipped" with actual results of equipped cars coming in the range of 19-45% depending on the paper and type of accidents and aids focused upon.

Which is to say "quite meaningful", but when the absolute rate of serious crashes per driver is as low as it is, it's statistically impossible that driver aids are saving the typical individual driver from a serious crash multiple times in a driving lifetime, let alone multiple times since their introduction.
Easy: crypto operates on the basis of real money entering and exiting the system. Real money is one of the most regulated things we have. Turn off the spigots, no new money in, miners cannot be paid for their services, value drops, people get bored and move on to the next speculative mania. Most people are only in the space for number go up.
You didn’t even answer the op question… is it too much to ask what brand / supplement you took, and how much?
The whole Web Page with sprinkles of tiny interaction needs a ground up rethink preferably without JS. Google has been trying to built the Web into Web Apps since 2008.

I am working down on my Tabs, finally got to 53 right now from 500+ last week.