skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NATO prefers authoritarian and extreme-right wing over socialist modern democracies.
The EU on the other hand not.

The EU membership is in danger, not NATO. And if the EU wouldn't hope the next elections would fix that, Poland would have been thrown out already.

There are a couple of other authoritarian eastern block countries who are now encouraged by Poland, which will blow up to a full blown crisis if not handled immediately.
Integral?
Yeah, but using an Indian address generator works fine.
How would such a trivial library achieve popularity? It would have to be part of a larger framework.

Anyway I just checked and Glib does seem to have it for example.
But that would be roaming, not a us number originating from a non us phone line.
Instead of avoiding it in production code, it's better to understand that it's the perfect place for a comment. For example:

for ...:
...
else:
# loop ended, no positions found
return ...
Note: this refers to the global Steam service/community - Valve still offers Steam China with a very limited/censored selection of mostly-Valve games, adhering to local child protection laws.

Most Chinese Steam users have historically been using the global service instead, as this Chinese version of Steam has only been available since February 2021.
Has the meaning of tool changed? I wouldn’t call 3D Pong and quite a few others on this list tools. They’re programs that use X11.

Also expected tools for managing X11 (e.g. a sane font selector, or ways to make X settings understandable), but that’s minor.
Openly doxxing himself to people actively trying to hire killers doesn't seem too smart.
I generally try to live a decluttered life and minimize the number of "things" to deal with as I value my time above anything else.

That said, here are some things I value:

- Spotify. At ~$10/month, a great deal that makes listening and discovering music really easy. Have a shared account with my wife.

- Gaming. While gaming hardware isn't cheap these days (~$2k for a decent build) games have incredible value. Playing competitive online games once a week with friends kept me sane through the pandemic. Incredibly immersive experience.

- Guitar and Rocksmith. At ~$300, let's you hook up an electric guitar to your computer and learn how to play the guitar in a fun way. Really elevating experience.

- Electric Bike. These aren't cheap either ($2k+), but this purchase made commuting by bike exclusively (pre-pandemic) practical (cutting down my commute from ~55min by regular bike to about ~35min).

- Climbing gym membership. About $70/month. Such a fun way to stay in shape and socialize while doing so.

- Wired headphones that work well while biking. Let me keep in touch with aging parents on daily basis. Never need to worry about charging.

- Relatedly, Pixel 4a. Comparatively cheap ($400) phone with a headphone jack. Camera is great. It's very light which makes reading before sleep pleasant.

- Books. Unbelievable value. Authors' life's insights distilled into something you can buy for ~$10. The hard part is finding good ones, but lots of good recommendations on HN.

- Good food.

Other things that I don't have yet, but am considering:

- Mail forwarding service (~$30/month). We've been moving around a bit since the pandemic started. These services let you maintain a permanent address, scan or forward mail if needed. Still deciding which one to get since it's not an easily reversible decision.

- Fiber. Not offered yet where we live, but would get it in a heartbeat.

This may sound cliche, but luckily some of the greatest things in life are free (spending time with family and friends, playing volleyball on the beach, going for hikes in nature and all the great content online such as on HN).
Your comment gives me chills.
> And they make some serious revenue compared to the lasers.

I don't know why you've linked ekspla, which has 4x lower revenue than Light Conversion. And sure, the revenue is bigger in Pieno Zvaigzde, than in Light Conversion, but the profit is almost 3x lower[1][2]. Also, look at the grown of revenue. It's like night a day.

> Single German company is much bigger than everything laser related in Lithuania

So? Am I to understand that Germany has won the competition in laser related technologies and Lithuania has no chance?

> Regarding Taiwan and semiconductor factory. Sorry, I can’t take it serious being electrical engineer and working in semiconductor manufacturing.

We shall see :)

> The foreign policy is absolutely shit in Lithuania. Relationships with Poland and Latvia are a disaster.

Source? Because Poland and Lithuania has been cooperating on multiple levels and their relationship is at the highest right now. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania also are cooperating on a lot of levels. Just recently, they've agree to create joint ‘operational area’ for defence[3]. They also agreed to jointly develop a MLRS artillery system for the first time. Thanks to russia, relationships are better than ever.

While relationships with authoritarian regimes were never warm to begin with so I don't see any loss here. Either you support pro-democracy or not. If not, relationship with these countries will be bad.

[1] https://rekvizitai.vz.lt/imone/pieno_zvaigzdes/apyvarta/
[2] https://rekvizitai.vz.lt/en/company/light_conversion/turnove...
[3] https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1569645/baltic-stat...
Either going to be a huge, incredible, historic event, or a massive Christmas Day tragedy. Hoping for the former - good luck NASA!

E: Wow, the coverage about the hurricane causing leaks in the buildings is wild. The pictures of tarps over computer desks makes me unreasonably uncomfortable.
There's plenty of ways you can 2FA without a smartphone, look into security keys
The regulations are not evidence based, they are outrage based though :/
Right but the cities are already there. We don't have the luxury of redefining the American lifestyle and dependence on cars with a single unit of new housing. There's no benefit for the developer - leaving out parking (aside from the mandate to include it) makes the property less desirable.
Merry Christmas all! And remember no one is truly lonely.

Have a virtual hug from me. Love you all
I'm an immigrant living in the UK by myself and it is not even in my homeland tradition to celebrate Christmas. So today will just be a regular Saturday for me!
> How would such a trivial library achieve popularity?

There is no size limit on how many features could ship with a library. In fact, we live in an age where packages like rimraff report around 50 million downloads per week.

But the original question, and the point it made,still stand: why isn't there such a library to provide such a feature? Might it be that you're overblowing it's demand and usefulness? Perhaps there is no such thing in the standard library because no one bothers with it, or feels it's missing?
Looks like it has been flat for 3 years and then suddenly grown a bit in the last 6 months. Don't fall for the linear trend line on a graph that clearly isn't linear.
Looks a little bit like picocli.
You probably have a decent point to make, if only you bothered to hone in on it.

Sure you can say some people won't work for Google because their conscience prevents them, but you can't reasonably compare getting rich by working for Google to getting rich by getting your friend arrested because they read a book or listened to a radio station... If you have a point to make, make it.
It's not hard at all. The target programming language has a well-defined grammar that says which special characters need to be escaped in strings, and a mechanism to do so, be that in the case of SQL, sh or printf formatters.

Not doing it is just plain incompetence.
You're saying that since, based on your personal experience, China doesn't play fair, NZ shouldn't be ok with this kind of wealth transfer? What about Russia, is that also your personal experience?

Your point about playing fair seems a bit specific. Do you think american and european startups play fair? So in that case american and european tech-millionaires should be allowed to invest in NZ and get a visa?
But the problem is the inverse one: given a library, which project in your org depends on it? Possibly a project tucked away into a repository that a developer maintained that just left last week and that just happens to be deployed on an external facing web server.

It’s easier for Java based apps since you can just scan the machines they’re deployed on, but it’s hard for C and the like.
This and similar categorizations, seems like they say virtually nothing, personally, I have different personality based on environmental context (warzone country passing checkpoint versus family dinner), fairly sure I am not the only one, furthermore environments context activates different set of "personalities" in each individual human, I don't think there can be derived useful average of sort, because humans adapt behaviors to environmental contexts to some degree, in addition to changing perception of context.
Thanks for the hug OP, right back at you. Happy Christmas
This is time and structure of society, not soviet times or not. I have been to deep Russia places where they had gulags, etc. 10 years ago. Inta, Vorkuta, Irkutsk and plenty small towns around and I can tell a few things which are very clearly seen - when the train passes 200kilometers from Moscow - it is deserted with nothing new. You could even experience that by going to Moscow by bus and back. You will be surprised how clean and amazing everything looks when you pass russian/latvian border on your way back. Yes - living in suburbs can be harder, but the difference in cleanliness and life quality (while can be worse than in city) is day and night in Russia and in the Baltics with Baltics being superior.
Note that most browsers allow MITM in presence of HPKP in certain circumstances to facilitate interception by schools and corporate IT.

(Mentioned also in your linked WP article - "Most browsers disable pinning for certificate chains with private root certificates to enable various corporate content inspection scanners")
There is no algorithm in the world for how to check whether a video codec is working correctly or not
That's an interesting point, but I'd say you cant really compare the greatness of a project if its a different industry for example Saas, social media, Indie game but you can compare teams that created these products.
Holy Water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

Do you believe this whole article is "Wester media propaganda"?

In my opinion the entire world is responsible for these atrocities, not only China.
Fascinating article. Video version of this talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSdGG6wEE9k
My hope is that if it's the latter, building a new JWST from scratch will not take as much time and money as designing the first prototype did. I hope they have kept really good notes and backups :-)
In my eyes, the attack on 'effeminate men' is the nail in the coffin for the government of China. They are as dead to me and my actions will reflect it. Down with Emperor Pooh!
Right back at you. Not an easy day to be alone. Don't do anything silly people. Call someone you care about if you can.
Gold is artificially priced.

The "real" intrinsic/industrial value of gold is a fraction of what it is currently priced at, since industrial use of gold amounts to around 10% of the gold usage.
Thank you. I am alone but more happy than most others. Because I am free from internal and external vices. That is the true message behind Christmas. Let us celebrate each and every moment of our lives. May all always be very happy and healthy.
Interestingly Singapore had no MIQ lottery or restriction and had about the same experience with Covid infections.

The difference was, was that they didn’t fuck over their citizens when they tried to return - they did their best to accommodate them.

But amazingly NZers are willing to give the government a pass on not altruism, but incompetence and violation of a right even Singaporeans enjoy.
The correct approach is to design for the biggest common mistakes, not for all mistakes ever. We already do this for floods, earthquakes, wind load, etc.
Lex Friedman podcast was by far the best This year followed by Freakanomics.
> 24 stories of Grenfell were engulfed in an hour - the fire bypassed the doors, walls and floors, by going up the outside

Because the exterior was flammable, which isn't the norm and is actually criminal.
Tesla Planning Significant Improvements to Model 3 and Model Y
Nobody is "erasing" other experiences, they are just very uncommon.

When talking about how "people in a country" live, you look at the average person. You don't say "but the King and his ministers live differently, we shouldn't erase their experiences". The inner circle always lives differently from the masses, but by definition, they are very few. Look at the lives of the many, not the few.

And regarding Iraq: during Saddam's reign about a quarter of a million people were murdered or disappeared. There's a good chance that the majority of Iraqis did have someone in their family affected, though it might not have been their son, but a cousin or nephew.
Sure why not you can believe that if you like. Obviously there’s no reason to think it would but don’t let that stop you. What on earth has gold got to do with it though?
Yet states and countries that did not have significant Covid restrictions have not suffered at the level politicians like Newsom and Fauci were implying they would.
Sorry I didn’t build this, so I don’t know where the data comes from.
Even for FOSS, teams actually have to market, sell and maintain their product too. Doesn't matter if you built the greatest thing ever if nobody knows about it or recommends it. Often, organic growth just can't beat the competition, especially if you want to make money.
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back, has no brain.

-Putin
The problem isn't only a potential panic. While the people are evacuating, how does the fire brigade get to where they need to combat the fire in the apartment?
> There were 3 equally sized population groups at the time: pro Russia, pro EU and we-don’t-care.

Pro russia equally sized? Where are you getting this from? It seems you're just a troll and I'll stop engaging with you now.

> can’t guarantee the same outcome today.

Lithuania has one of most positive view on EU[1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/10/14/the-european-u...
Why? Lock one, go to the other, douse it with something flammable, light it.

Anyway. Most of the world does not go up in flames regularly, despite having not having this regulation.
Now it's a merry Christmas!

Well, I'm holding my breath until it is actually in space, but still, great news!
For both gold and BTC the price is purely believe based.

The only way quantity in existence matter is if it makes people believe that it makes it less worth.

So if I hypothetical conjure a few tons of gold as long as no one believes it makes a difference it doesn't, but if a make people believe there is tons of more gold then they thought I could make the market crash without the amount changing.

Similar if I make people bribe Bitcoin gets outlawed by the whole world, Bitcoin can crash without the amount changing.

Or in other words, it doesn't really matter weather the quantity for good it's know as long as it's generally beloved that is "low enough".

Similar it doesn't matter that BTC had known limits as it does crash (or spike) due to external factors.
> As a Bucharest resident I must say this is so cool on so many levels

Here here! I was really pleasantly surprised to see Pardon cafe mentioned, it's one of my favourite places.
This is not objective value, this is theoretical maximum value of bitcoin. ( (Considering it will be "the only" currency)

Imagine this:

Sand grains on earth: 7.5 x 10^18

1 bucket ( lets say liter ) sand: 2 x 10 ^ 7 grains

So sand on earth : 3.75 x 10 ^ 11 buckets

M2 ( according to article ): 95 x 10^12

One bucket of sand objective value: $253
Also maybe the genocide in Xinjiang.

The constant attacks against India.

Daily sending war planes into Taiwan's air defense zone.

Using armed fishing vessels to militarily attack the Philippines.

Raiding the fishing grounds of poor countries by turning off transponders and sending hundreds of fishing vessels into their national waters at night.

Destroying world heritage nature reserves to steal fish.

And don't get me started about the crimes the Chinese Communists are doing to the Chinese people...
Super exiting.

* JWST costs ~$10B, about the same as Large Hadron Collider or aircraft carrier.

* JWST has 344 single-point-of-failures (SPOF), 80% of them related to deployment.

* No ability for repair. JWST goes to orbit the Sun 1.5 million kilometers away from the Earth, almost 4 times the distance between Earth and Moon.

* Ariane 5 launch failure rate is 0.045

---

assuming 0.045 launch failure probability, and 0.0001 failure probability for each SPOF, the mission failure probability is ~8%.

0.955×(1−0.0001)^344
As far as I can tell, those who might normally be unable to take vaccines are being encouraged to do so with COVID.

The old "we all need to get vaccinated so that those who can't are protected by herd immunity" thing doesn't seem to apply here.

Example -
https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/media-releases/third-p...
It will go away in '22.

2122 of course.
> XmGrace

I used it for quite some time during my time as a PhD student and found it rather easy to use compared to gnuplot. Used it to make all my plots for my publications.
Real-Time Error Correction for Quantum Computing
Thanks, you too. Solitary Christmas here too - being an INTJ, I wouldn't like it any other way. To me, this is a great opportunity to review the past year, plan/predict the next one and work on some cool side projects. All best wishes!
Thank you for this gesture.
I lost almost everything. Job, 7-year relationship, my mental health.

Feeling that I'm not only alone but inadequate to have a life like anybody else.

I'm still alive, so there's that.
As a westerner living in Taipei the China/Taiwan relations don’t affect my day to day life at all. I love living in this country and highly recommend anyone to spend time here!
I'm as excited as I am anxious about this, hope everything goes well, it sure would be poetic to get it up there on Christmas day.
Transltion is correct. He says "puolitoista tuhatta kilsaa" so "one and a half thousand kilometers". It does seem like an oddly small number though.
Plus the development time they give internally to the open source project.
> since May 2019

Well. Kinda. They gave a "yearly" contribution of $50,000 once in 2019, then never again. Also that was before Logitech bought Streamlabs.
It’s weird that westerners care so much about such issues compared to, you know, erosion of human rights, genocide, totalitarianism.
> drones

Flesh and bones automaton?! Marvelous!

Also use 'Avatar - For The Swarm' as a soundtrack when interacting with them.
There are some decentralised solutions for this issue such as Tor. With Tor, every domain generates their own public/private key pair (which represents the domain itself) hence making it impractical for actors to break all of them (in fact, breaking even one of the 128-bit ed25519 keys would be a breakthrough in cryptography).

The primary issue with this is that centralised services have a much greater network effect so this cannot be relied upon for everything.
and x2vnc, which fits in the same category of tools.
Official pre-game show and launch live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nT7JGZMbtM
If you're on company-owned equipment during hours the company is paying you to work, why wouldn't it be acceptable? Without such capabilities, people could hide any kind of traffic (from "I'll just check my social media while I'm here" to "I'll just upload some company secrets to my future employer" without recourse.
> NZ’s continued use of MIQ/draconian restrictions on freedom of movement is counter to what needs to happen (return to business as usual).

The picture should be clearer now? The business of NZ is selling to foreign investors. They are closing to contain the coronavirus because what matters are these foreign $$.
> research

why is questioning a regulation that already lacks evidence for its efficacy requires research?

it's plenty of research to point at the other parts of the world that is not in flames despite higher urban density and only one egress per unit.
I see, you are the real ambassador. I like that! But life is not black and white. There would be no loss for not being in a war against China, Russia and Belarus.
getting clicks for overhyping stuff that in 99.99% of the case does not even make it to human trials. Shoving ads in your face at the same time.
But also in Japan they allow for rescue/escape through special windows which can be broken in an emergency (the ubiquitous red triangles you see on all tall buildings), so in effect there are many escape routes.
Huh. Mine loves strip clubs.
If they had put in these proposed charges from the start, it would protect the NZ government from the criticism they're facing.

Ending MIQ is inevitable but it's a one-way decision. Once the virus takes hold there's no going back, even if you take quarantine and isolation to China levels. Nobody likes a lockdown. My opinion is that the right time is when the globally dominant variant is a fast-spreading one with a proven hospitalisation rate post-wave that is lower than what NZ could cope with, given the vaccination rate. Omicron could be a candidate but its wave is still spreading, so it's too early to tell.

As for MIQ dues, the government and therefore the people bear its cost. NZ$13 million isn't a trivial sum, but it isn't huge either, so while any scheme to reduce the burden would be welcome, a plan with a huge potential cost such as ending MIQ is a bit too much risk, especially with Omicron data coming soon on the horizon.
According to Statistics Canada, 88.1% of Canadians had a smartphone in 2021. 33/38 is about 86%, so in the same ballpark. Maybe a few more percentage points have non-smart cellphones (though many flip phones these days run Android so they probably get counted as smart), but I think there are more cellphoneless people than many folks in the tech industry might assume.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=221001...
> CCP/China that's the same thing. You might want separate you cannot separate your head from your body.

You contradicted me earlier when I called it the CCP’s claim, so I guess you have changed your mind.

> The throw away account. I don't get it. Throw away are created for temporary use. After this episode of chat, this account will disappear. I just have quite a few I created in a whim, and use any one from the Google password manager.

Ahh so you created quite a few accounts all at one time, 3 years ago, and you use a different one each time you want to present the CCPs point of view.

That makes sense.

> Lastly, your reasoning of questioning other's motivation through minor details are really killing the conversation.

I’m not questioning your motivation. You have been clear about that. I am simply trying to understand the method.

By creating a set of throwaway accounts to use later, you avoid them appearing to be new accounts which show up in green at the time you use them, which makes it less likely people will notice that they are throwaways.
Sounds like you are from one of those cultures I referenced!

To explain it in plain words: It's not acceptable because I have a human right to privacy.

Yes, privacy allows people to "hide" stuff. It's not an overriding thing. Employment relationships, like rest of our society, are largely based on trust and respect.
I prefer the code do any generating of file/directory names. Too many edge cases with user input when working at the OS level for me to sleep at night.

Leverage a lookup that says user input “../../../root” == code generated directory path.