skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird.

This is a first hand Russian propaganda news site.

= They want better trading partners than China ( that is only extracting engineers and resources from Russia) and try to force the west? ( What I think based on this)

The future of oil seems to be over within the decade and so would be 20% of their already relatively little economy/GDP based on country size.

I would guess the period after COVID will be the last time where oil price can reach an extreme high price ( eg. Norway is already 70% EV).

They need to do something, but i have serious considerations about trying to influence/threaten the world/neighbors, when there is enough trouble at home.

Additionally, the countries they are constantly threatening are literally a huge income for them.

Any other thoughts?
The art forgery case discussed in that blog post was covered last month in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/nyregion/raymond-pettibon...

The New York Times writer was of course unaware of how this played out on Wikipedia.
You wouldn't trust people that go to great lengths to not bring internal conflicts into the public?
In case anyone is curious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_... appears to list 15 OECD countries as having a higher homeless rate than the United States: New Zealand, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Luxembourg, Greece, Sweden, Mexico, Latvia, Israel, Austria, Czechia, Netherlands, Slovenia.
Well, that was an interesting read too! :)
agreed, and if you intersects the two groups of people, someone easily stands out.
> American SSN usage

Nothing like a secret token that can be reliably guessed using only your birth month+year and place of birth!
poop+poop=poop ice cream ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://tikolu.net/emojimix/%F0%9F%92%A9+%F0%9F%92%A9
I asked for something to do today. I was give 3 separate 1 line changes. Now I'm just watching the builds and waiting to do some cursory tests.
>Tesla owner that owns stock in Shell and votes conservative is much more problematic then a non-voting F-150 owner that works paycheck to paycheck.

>rich conservative voter that emits more greenhouse gas than the F-150 ever can ever hope

Wow
I was disappointed by A Thousand Brains. The last part of the book veered into ... I don't really know. On the other hand, I loved Jeff Hawkins' earlier book on this topic: On Intelligence [1]. It's easily one of the top 5 books that I've read and the first part of A Thousand Brains recaps much of that work, so still relevant today according to the author.

[1] https://numenta.com/resources/on-intelligence/
It gets harder with every generation.
There is a point where we do not have knowledge, let's say when we are born, then we have perceptions, and after that we (may) have knowledge about the world. I will say that knowledge has entered us through perceptions. If something is not in my mind, I have a perception, then it is in my mind; and if I was unable to have perceptions it could not have entered my mind, then it has entered through that perception. All physical phenomena are to some extent emergent down to subatomic particles and possibly even further. It doesn't really have much of an effect on the subjective human experience which principle is more emergent, and the subjective human experience is the only human experience.

It's very hard to teach someone who has no relationship with the world, but you don't need a large set of concepts to synthesize additional concepts. You can derive most of mathematics from a few simple axioms. Democritus concluded the world was made of atoms based on observations about how the world appeared to work, on encountering problems like Zeno's paradox. Knowledge, as well as language, is all about how things relate to each other. Words to meanings, causes to effects.
walnut creek is a suburb about 45 minutes from SF (the closest major population center is Oakland, about 20 minutes. But crime is pretty common in WC.
> and I don't see how these can be meaningfully discussed by someone who doesn't know what went wrong.

The "what went wrong" appears to be an organizational dispute, at least if we're to believe the statement.

Moderation team wanted authority over the core team. Core team disagreed. Moderation team resigned.

It's not clear that there was a violation, though their intentional vagueness does tend to push the reader to that assumption.
"Should not be done" will often lose out to the more pragmatic backwards-compatible solution.

Those three platforms describe 90-95% of all "enterprise" business software ever written or the platform they're used on.

Disregarding that weight of history for... what? A clever trick that Linux used to finally add i18n support decades after other platforms?
NPM should be top of the suspects list there.
What is wrong with Oracle? I have worked here for almost 20 years and love it.
Further, why is pay tied to location anyway? Just because I chose to live in a cheaper region doesn't mean I can't produce the same value to the organization as someone in, say, SF. Are we to believe that employers are paying more in HCOL areas out of the goodness of their hearts?
I’d be happy if we started at simply not killing lobsters and other animals for food (or for any other industrial purpose). You’re right that we could spend a lot of time debating the finer points of it but as you said: lobsters are easy. By that logic I would imagine so are chickens and cows and baby sheep (lamb) and pigs. So let’s start with the “easy” stuff. Whether or not we allow ourselves to harm insects or something while harvesting grains is another question. We could ponder whether it’s ethical to kill bacteria, but we’d die if we didn’t do that so let’s not fret about that.

A lot of people in this thread seem to be suggesting that since we can’t pin down an absolute answer we should what… do nothing? If you really mean to say that deciding not to eat lobsters is easy then let’s go with that logic and stop eating all the bigger animals too. Seems an easy place to start.
100%, swapping assets, e.g. bartering, does not remove any tax liabilities on the gains received. But Fred is a smart guy and must know that.

Maybe the idea is that swapping NFTs may theoretically allow one to avoid a valuation event, thus avoid any tax liabilities? That is the key idea behind this?

FYI: https://sharonperry.ca/blog/why-barter-transactions-are-taxa...
>- Its object orientation story is weird. There is inheritance and there are methods, but there was something off and I can't remember what. I think it did not support runtime polymorphism, which to me is one of the main points of object orientation. (e.g. you have objects of different types in the same container and you call a method on each, instead of using an `if` statement.)

Are you thinking of multiple dispatch? i.e. runtime dispatch on the type of _every_ function argument. It used to have that but they took it out. It still has runtime dispatch on the first argument.
Doesn’t IntelliJ sync most of that? I use IntelliJ on 3 computers and all my extensions and even themes are synced.

And are you aware of platforms like Cloud9 that have been available for 10 years that give you an online developer environment?

Honestly the only two reasons I personally don’t use them is because (1) I’ve never been at any company or place in the world where the Internet was truly 100% available with dependably low latency and near zero jitter and (2) nothing beats IntelliJ for me.
Hi all! Creator here, I made this site to help on my journey as I learn Latin.

Go to any text and click on a word, and you'll see all of the possible definitions and inflections for that word. This has been helpful to me, as I struggle to keep track of all the noun case and verb tense rules in Latin. I hope others find this helpful, please let me know if you have any ideas that you think could make this even more useful!
Why not just make one post, say "salary range $150k-$300k, dependent on location, experience, and interview performance"? Seems like you're making multiple posts in an effort to have your cake and eat it too, and then blaming the laws for the extra effort required for the deliberate choice you made. Which, let's be honest, is a very anti-employee choice.
https://clickclickclick.click
I'm definitely at risk for that.
This argument does not take into account the fact that the majority of Swedish population lives in cities. The Stockholm metro area has about 2M people out of 10M in Sweden. Then there’s Malmö and Göteborg..

Or if you turn it around, if Germany bought Siberia and their population density went down, would they see the an improvement in the situation?
Nice setup, thanks! Just to note, the network-manager-* packages are now networkmanager-*, and the xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse are no longer available (nor needed, I believe). Also, I see packages in your list for running under virtualization, so I'm assuming you aren't running your desktop on bare metal? I actually did a quick install using your guide on a spare machine just now, and it worked great apart from the above changes. Very nimble and usable on an old HP Stream Mini desktop with 4GB of RAM.
Math nor encryption will be outlawed. They will demand that all communication platforms provide lawfull intercept facilities to the authorities. Parties that do not comply will be fined or forbidden.

Don't be fooled that it won't work. It works in China and they have math there too.
I read Hawkins's "On Intelligence" a few years ago and enjoyed it. For anyone here who's read both that and "New Theory of Intelligence", what's the relation between the two?
Everyone has their preferences.

Ours differ and that’s ok.
At least on iPhones though they have a way to activate a mode that prevents the use of TouchID and FaceID. If I press the power button on my phone 5 times in a row that turns that off.

Yes I still run the risk of my device being unlocked against my will if I'm caught by surprise. But I'm able to disable this functionality in places where I think the risk of that may be higher, e.g. while traveling.

I'll still take the trade off of longer password (not just a few numbers) on my phone while using a biometric test for normal access.

Of course not everyone may have the same threats to consider and others may make different choices. Doesn't make either of our choices wrong.
And what is involved in the DNA sequencing? And the DNA assembly service will probably take record of the operation itself (it is not a common service).

In the context...
Yes, very slight spoilers but probably not much more than you'd deduce from reading the jacket of the book. Certainly something that you find out from the first few chapters. Basic progression without too much spoilers is main character wakes up and deduces that:

1. He is not on earth
2. He is on a spaceship
3. He is not in our solar system
4. He is there for a reason
For additional context on how this article has been abused by some: https://factcheck.afp.com/http%253A%252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252...
I'm suggesting that folks not interested in following the developing activism around privacy instead follow Wyden's work on this as their primary source of information, so that they can be aware of the best work going on and have a higher signal-to-noise ratio on this topic.

When it comes time to actually accomplish things, there is no shortcut around action.
Finding bugs as early as possible, rather than soldiering on, is most often what you want. The reason is that the farther the code executes, the details and error messages of what went wrong in the past can get fuzzier and harder to diagnose.

If you're doing ducktyping... it should be specified explicitly, believe Python typing calls it a "protocol."
The CIA's former Chief of Disguise says they very much exist and are used, with some limitations [1]. Her comment on the 3d printer making the mask: "What if I said we had it".

Of course that's not really surprising when you look at the kind of Halloween masks you can get if you are willing to pay [2]. I imagine if you could special order them to perfectly fit your head they would be very convincing to the casual observer and to software.

1: https://youtu.be/mUqeBMP8nEg?t=673

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y32hdPV0L3k
And sometimes just find some other way to accomplish what you needed done.
Probably ethical reasons.

I can’t comment on how working internally in Oracle is, but between many of its products and how they do business, they tend not to be well liked in the tech scene and people will voice their discontent. See also: Facebook/Amazon and defense contractors.
There is the further idea of an "exocortex" that ties into your brain at a deeper level and shares cognitive processes more directly: https://transhumanism.fandom.com/wiki/Exocortex

I guess that is sort of where you are going?
Kind of alarming and a little embarrassing considering the author is a partner in a VC firm heavily invested in blockchain.
> This continued for 2.5 years. Eventually, I had had enough, and I knew something had to change. I went and tried to get my old FAANG job back, but couldn't - probably due to my entitled attitude when I was there.

lol @ thinking this was a viable option. Who returns to a company nearly three years later thinking he or she will get their old job back? By that point, they've likely filled the position several times over.
Anki and similar systems can be used for practice problems, not just "read card" or "read card, say the reverse side, check if correct". There are some add-ons for math that actually generate problems, or you can construct the cards in a way that they promote use and not mere recall. "Io {parlare} con mia moglie" can be one of many such cards that prompt you to conjugate, or set the article, or properly determine the plural. Or can be combined with reading comprehension or listening comprehension scenarios (play or show some sentences, follow on with questions about what was heard or read).
pretty cute poop-man. https://tikolu.net/emojimix/%F0%9F%92%A9+%E2%9B%84
As cool as that sounds in a certain sense, I would be shocked (no pun intended) if doing so wouldn't void one's homeowner's insurance. There's no way in hell I would put so much concentrated energy in an amateur pack anywhere near a home.
Show HN: Greppo – Prototype Geospatial web-apps quickly
its a good question, although I wonder whether the original tfa covered it already. In any case I suspect that cost reductions due to scaled production may be easier to model than technological advancements, so its probably the latter which caused projections to be exceeded.
You might care to notice that the resignation was announced by Andrew Gallant—more commonly known as BurntSushi[1]—who is one of the most well-respected, talented, and prolific contributors in the wider Rust community. Amongst other things, they are the author of ripgrep[2], the regex[3] crate, and the byteorder[4] crate. They have multiple projects which are amongst the most-downloaded crates[5] in the Rust ecosystem.

One would struggle to find more than a handful of people who have done more "actual work" for Rust than Andrew.

[1]: https://blog.burntsushi.net/about

[2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

[3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex

[4]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/byteorder

[5]: https://crates.io/crates?sort=recent-downloads
of course... I never thought that text files to reduce file sizes is sane... Maybe because I don't want to write in a wishy-washy way as if I was stepping into a mine field I came across like that [look at my first comment... I think I started as "I know it is counterintuitive" - I wanted to point point out the binary (as naturally interpreted: storing floats/doubles) does not necessarily mean smaller file sizes for files generated by humans.
Frankly, you should just ask your manager what the comp change, if any, would be if you switched roles. This is a normal question in all but the most dysfunctional companies.
Strong encryption has been available for decades as well, but it wasn't used widely until HTTPS and encrypted email. What is your point? That availability doesn't equate use? That's obvious. But now that it is widely used nothing has really changed, we're back where we started: traffic analysis and humint, which is not a bad basis for an investigation or an infiltration op.

It's not as if all of the old volume of mail was steamed open and read or everybody's TV equipped with monitoring equipment. Even libraries did not track who read what (though they did track who borrowed what).
Yes it's quite the juxtaposition.

"Create beautiful, high-performance 3D apps"

While it runs incredibly choppy on my Android in Chrome and the renderer looks both awkward and has artifacts on the shadows.
Rising Tide of Semiconductor Costs
Companies have to develop a product and then recoup the R&D from sales. If it costs $X to do the R&D and your margins are $M, you recover them after N = $X/$M sales.

But then you need $X before you can make even the first sale. One way to do that is by taking pre-orders. Then you have money for the R&D before you have a product to ship.

The problem comes if the product is late to market and then the people with pre-orders are unhappy. To give them a refund you have to have sold N products -- not including the one they're canceling -- or else you don't have the money because you already spent it on R&D.

As long as you eventually sell N products, you can eventually give the refund, but you might not be able to do it yet. And, of course, if you never sell N products, you're in trouble.
> At the same time, it feels infuriating that in order to afford medicine, clothes, food, shelter, and defense once you're past your working prime you must attach your fortunes to companies that have very little to do with the actual services you require in retirement.

This feels like the worst possible argument against public corporations. There's a whole sector of the stock market for health care, and you can easily buy funds that only invest in that. What other services to retirees need? You will be able to find listed companies providing all of those services.

There are some technical imperfections in a basket of equities. If your intention is to exactly hedge living costs, then you would also seek to own bonds from those companies, much of the economy is not public, and so on. There are valid points to be found, I don't think these are what you're concerned about.

In the big picture, owning the means of production is the only game that makes sense. What's the alternative? The best store of value is a collection of things that people are paying for, because that's central to the economic definition of value. Otherwise, everything is gold or bitcoin.
The contradiction I see is that (IMO) your property is not you.

If an individual is committing a crime against your property, I do not believe you have the right to kill them. In this thread a lot of people are relying on the logic that stealing your cat converter could lead to you losing your job and spiraling into homelessness.

If someone is doing something that you can reasonably interpret as trying to kill you (or assault you) then you are allowed to defend yourself. This may be shocking to people of your perspective (not a personal attack), but in Australia individuals have been sent to jail for the second punch they have thrown after the first punch had effectively reduced the risk of death or injury to 0 (eg knocked out the criminal, the criminal began fleeing).
This is exactly what I am referring to when I said that we grant criminals the same humanity as everybody else. In Australia (and some countries in Europe), Criminals DO expect mercy or pity from their victims, lest the victim risk legal trouble themselves, and if you go and compare the crime rates and violent crime rates of these countries with those that do not practice this philosophy, I think you will find that our harm minimization policy works better.
Talking about that, I found ~old (relatively) slides from phoe (author of a CL condition system book) about control flow:

https://phoe.github.io/slides/control-flow.pdf

enjoy
We even already had something like this in pure ASCII: "a\bc" has "length" 3 but appears as one glyph when printed (assuming your terminal interprets backspace).
Yes, because 50M is a huge sum. You have youtube content creators making similar cartoons for peanuts.
A while back I was trying to get twitter followers. I experimented with a few different strategies - quick reactions to big accounts I agreed with or disagreed with, saying what I thought people wanted to hear, saying what I thought would be controversial hot takes, tweeting about everything trending, etc. I basically got no traction. I was getting low tens of thousands of impressions a month according to the twitter analytics tool and maybe 1 or 2 new followers a month - and, to be honest, those new followers were probably bots.

Eventually, I hit on a new strategy. Instead of trying to generate good tweets I just followed people at random. I forget the exact number, but somewhere between 15-30% of the people I followed at random would follow me back. I realized I could probably get an arbitrary number of followers this way but it would be a pretty stupid and meaningless achievement so I quit doing it.

The "viral post" strategy of the article, asking things like "Who the heck sleeps with the fan on?" maybe similar as a kind of brainless strategy to get followers. I guess some people like responding to these prompts. I suspect it has the same weakness as the "follow back" strategy though. Nobody really cares about the account or connects with it or even understands what you're trying to do. These people aren't your followers so much as they are people who like small talk and coalesced around you for a time.
Commonplace in suburban Chicago.
Over a million GoDaddy WordPress sites breached
From the linked article:

> The viral strains varied from the less virulent HPRS-B14, which killed 60% of unvaccinated birds over 2 mo, to the highly lethal Md5 and 675A, which killed all unvaccinated birds in 10 d

I assume this doesn't relate to covid, which has a comparatively minuscule mortality rate.
You think Firefox ported their jit to power simply by typing make?
The PinePhone is fine as a daily driver. If it's not good enough for you, that's fine, but don't generalize it as if it's something obvious and applies to everyone.

Edit: People responding to me as if I said it's suitable as a daily driver for "most people" or "casual users" need to learn how to read. Not only did I not use either of those phrases, the context of the conversation was "those looking for a Linux phone", which neither of those demographics are.
I think the case of Rust is a bit unique with heavy interest in the future of the language from powerful companies [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28513130
Too many bureaucrats, proposing too many things.
Yep. Having to look up every API call, versus taking the time to memorise the (relevant parts of the) API, makes the difference if you want to be a 10x coder.

Knowing how to look up and apply things is nice. Being able to discern which of the things you looked up are worth memorising, and then actually doing so, is even better.
Exactly. That's what a mod team should do: sort invalid accusations out from legitimate ones.
I am sort of generalizing here, but I bet that most linux laptop users are probably into development more than they are into multimedia. Syntax highlighting doesnt require fancy displays.
Well, I think it's incontrovertible that some people will engage in bad faith conversations with the intent to only further their own agendas.

Sadly, there's no simple heuristic to detect this, and once participants are so far down the road of distrust that this question is on the table, it's unlikely to result in a healthy dialogue. Personally, I assume good faith until demonstrated otherwise - repeatedly.

What did the Supreme Court say about pornography [0] - "I know it when I see it."

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-LB-4558