skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How come trade is seen as a peace maker for inside the EU, but not seen as a peace maker when done with Russia?

AFAIK Russia has been a trustworthy gas supplier and it would be economical suicide if they proved not to be trustworthy.
To be replaced by Russian gas. Great move!
Why waste money on military? Couldn't it be used much better ways like to decarbon various areas in infrastructure?
>You need permission from the central root certifying authorities[...]

>You need to remain out of the shitlist of a handful of “spam and anti-evil” authorities

And the exact same will happen in the world of 'web3'. Except you won't sign your terms and conditions in English but in from of a smart contract. The internet is a distributed computer, blockchains are distributed computers. Whatever people built on top of it will be as permissioned and have as many authorities as anything else.

You think you can't do encrypted, peer-to-peer communication without authorities on the good old internet? Of course you can, there's nothing technically in the way of it at all. It's just that nobody runs a business that way and they won't do it in the world of 'web3' either.
> The bank still has a dependence on trusted authorities when it assumes your ID documents are legit. Rather than asking banks to confirm your identity for other accounts, I think we should ask governments to extend their practice of providing physical ID documents to providing online identification services.

Sure, that would work too. Or even do both. The point is to have some place I can go in person to have my identity verified for a third party such as an email provider or domain registrar. Then set up the email or registrar accounts so that account recovery requires such a verification.

I wouldn't have to tie everything back to the in person verification. Just things that I want to be sure I can recover if I lose them via accident or hacking.
Personally, I would never use Lambda for a passion project. The uncontrollable pricing model is not friendly for individual developers. What do you do if you wake up in the morning to a $1000 bill? Leave it up and just keep pouring money down the drain or just end up rewriting the whole site to custom infrastructure so you can control the spending anyways?
Imagine not having a key logger and mouse tracer on your computer at work. Our machines also lock your account, computer and ID if you plug mass storage devices.
My brother’s house burned to the ground in Colorado last night. His wife is about 7 months pregnant with their first child. I’ve been looking for more ways to help remotely, and this article had a few nice tidbits. It just seems so daunting, having to deal with what comes next. As the article mentions… the road to recovery is a marathon, and not a sprint.
>Granted, there seems to be no censorship on Hacker News

follow the site through RSS and you can see a huge amount of flagged, dead/removed posts
It is amazing. But two major incidents within 30 years time range are not so amazing. When we continue in that rate we will have a serious problem. And with aging reactors and instability everywhere it does not look good.
Yeah I don't understand everyone going "oh, that explains it". That is not a photo of a leaf in front of a face. A foreground leaf is involved, but it's not large enough to obscure a face. There's also a leaf-textured halo of brown which looks like it was once someone's hair.
Shutting down nuclear to buy coal sounds pretty countereffective. What was the justification for this decision?
Yeah Magic the Gathering is precisely the playing card moneymaker that would have fit Nintendo's aspirations.
I can guarantee a roller coaster track at any modern amusement park in America is inspected far more frequently and is much safer to travel on than the interstate highways and bridges that get you to the parking lot.
TBH, UBOs are quite useless in GLES3/WebGL2 (the guaranteed size is too small, and dynamically updating without sync issues isn't trivial because the under-the-hood details seems to be different in each GL implementation). If you really need to render lots of skinned characters, you'd use a single texture anyway for uploading the joint data of all characters (e.g. this demo renders hundreds of independently animated characters in a single drawcall in WebGL1):

https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/ozz-skin-sapp.html
> However, the death of a close friend has made me reevaluate whether I want to work until 65. Maybe retiring early or at least having the option to not work full time makes sense. I do know that you can still live a good life before you are retired, and I am guilty of "Groundhog Day" living like some of us are.

After grinding for years and finally becoming financially independent, my advice to people considering the same is: don't.

Instead, focus on making small improvements to your daily quality of life. From sleep, to exercise, to diet, to finding a project/team/company that is aligned with your personal enjoyment. Try things out and stick to whatever works for you at the moment.

The reason for this is that becoming financially independent is not going to magically make you a happier person, it just gives you more free time. If you were bitter and joyless from years of keeping your nose to the grindstone, once you retire you will just be a bitter and joyless person with extra free time to simmer in your own misery.

Happiness happens today, not some distant future.
I doubt that politics is the reason why extremely small installations like that are uneconomical. The capex per kWh would be higher and the same for the opex, maybe you can properly reduce the capex if you produce tons of them but how will you fix the opex? You'll need too many people per kWh to operate the plant and for security.
Anna Shipman: Why didn't Clojure work concurrently in Vagrant?
Sorry about that, there are more modern citations among them. It was a lot easier to read on a different device.
It's not blocking restaurants per se. It's doing some heuristic based match and seeing entries on the site with words like "wine" "whiskey" "cocktail" and determines the website is "alcohol and tobacco" and bans or limits it.

Ran into this at $lastco, as a chemist. Used to look up alcohol water azeotrope charts and half would be on homebrew sites and got blocked.

I just used my phone to email the charts to myself.
I will add, CBD and Delta8 are very different things. CBD is not like smoking weed, it's just relaxing and I believe what the parent is referencing. Delta8 can (and usually does) contain Delta8-THC, which is far more psychoactive than CBD (its purpose is to be a legal alternative to regular weed, its made to be as close as possible). Now, if you wanna actually smoke weed you can get weed that contains very low Delta9-THC (Delta9 is weed as we've known it for decades) with high CBD that will not get you (very) high.

I don't even know if Delta8-CBD exists but if you go somewhere and ask for delta8, it's going to get you high and potentially be very not relaxing. If you ask for CBD specifically, it will not be highly psychoactive. Just be careful out there these days, it's only getting more confusing and marketing heavy.
After working on a decentralized side project the only projection I can promise you is that nothing you imagine is correct until you are heavily using decentralization.

Decentralization enables basic necessities that would you never before attempt, which means you are likely already engaging with killer ideas and dismissing them outright. That which is current boring and/or common can suddenly become sexy and powerful in ways that are unexpected or unplanned.

It also means that which you imagine as being the next hot thing most likely isn’t. The more time you spend working with decentralization the more true this becomes.

Think of decentralization as a steroid. It makes you (your technology) more of what you already are, an amplifier, not something new. New things will ride on the success of a successful application.

The challenge there is if an application is actually fully decentralized how will you determine success.
This is what we’re building over at https://KubeSail.com :)
One incident caused by a natural disaster that would never happen in a European country like Germany, the other caused by mismanagement and frankly jaw droppingly pigheaded incompetence which would also never happen in a country like Germany.

Edit: in response to the large number of people bringing up BER and other infrastructure failures in Germany: yes, BER and others may have been bad, but a completely different kind (and magnitude) of incompetence than that which led to the Chernobyl meltdown. They really aren’t comparable.
The equivalent of "forum moderation" is removal of content by Facebook group owners, or subreddit moderators. Censorship at the scale Big Tech does today would be equivalent to the vBulletin developers baking admin backdoors into the software so that they could censor other people's instances of it.
https://imgur.com/fjYhJCU
You know what else can reach the brain and heart? Love.
Its origins are "racist" and "sexist" in that the stereotype is specifically a white woman.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a little stereotyping: the only reason it's "bad" is that actual bigots ruin the fun, so to speak. If anything, I feel bad for people named Karen.
Writing helps a lot. Just write everything out without a filter.
Interesting to see the FT tech director hacking on a side project at Xmas. And going yak shaving :-)
For context a nice realtime overview of the current energy production in Germany is given by the Energy Charts[0] of the Frauenhofer ISE.

[0] https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&...
At my job plugging in a USB device gets you paperwork and loss of computer use for at least 3-6 months. Fun fact my job also can't fire you, but it can make you wish you could.
A senior at Google earns much more than many directors at non-prestigious companies, it is only a demotion in your head. See for example technical director salaries at AT&T.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/AT-and-T-Technical-Director...
I have skimmed these kinds of articles, and maybe I am missing another important reason for this happening, but I am not seeing it. Is it essentially: people are scared of nuclear?
okay then the SaaS and gaming and merchandise used in the games

I don't care which phrase you use, a lot of it is happening

and even centralized-ish chains don't block any of it, and would be too slow to even if they were compelled to

that was the point, not the semantics
Yup, and we will end up paying 50% more for our energy usage, just because of political swings.
The problems you've described are the reason we have tools like CMake, no? CMake's reusable find modules handle the heavy lifting of coping with the annoying differences between Linux distros, and for that matter other OSs.

> you have an exe that works on your version of Ubuntu

This is indeed a downside of the Linux approach, it's the price we pay for the significant flexibility that distros have, and the consequent differences between them. Windows has remarkably good binary compatibility, but it's a huge engineering burden.

> Tbh i think the only sane-ish way of building to dockerize your build env with baked-in versions.

This is an option, but bundling an entire userland for every application has downsides that the various Linux package-management systems aim to avoid: wasted storage, wasted memory, and less robust protection against inadvertently using insecure unpatched dependencies.
Incorrect. Karen was originally someone who tried to wield power over retail workers, and always demanded a manager. The white lady calling police on black people usage came wayyy later.

Now it's been abused and overused to where I don't even know what it means anymore. Lady comes outside to ask TikTokers to quit doing burnouts in her yard and it's 'shutup kawen, stupid kawen LOL amirite'
I'm sad that the UK has left the EU. Out of Germany, France and the UK, they always seemed like the voice of reason and the least bureaucratic. I can't exactly pinpoint why I think that but here are some examples - (1) they don't make ridiculous policy decisions such as shutting down nuclear power plants (ok, leaving the EU is an exception to this) (2) best at e-government (3) seems like a good environment for startups, for example almost all European fusion startups are from the UK (4) their politicians don't end up working for Russian energy companies.
I see. I lived almost a decade in Berlin, and both in west and east. I cannot say enough good things about the trains. However I will not say they are always on time!
I would focus on one area that I find the most interesting and where I would be willing to go all the way [1].

[1] from personal experience, if you many things, you will not end up doing many of them at a top level.
Green points... Gas is not green, thus better not to progress it until absolutely mandatory. On other hand eco-terrorist are also against nuclear so better to get rid of that as well. And electricity comes from wall...
It would be the medical equipment manufacturer who would choose CentOS. And I'd argue CentOS was a fine choice given its track record and RedHat sponsorship.
Despite a lot of investigation it looks like Fukushima did not cause an increase in cancer deaths (and there were no direct deaths from it either).

It's sad and strange that we treat it as if it had caused hundreds or thousands of deaths, and our response to it is to increase fossil fuel use, which definitely will lead to more death and pollution.

Read for yourself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster
The second half of that statement is questionable, isn't it? I have not worked at a FAANG company, but my distinct impression is that one trades time for a significant chunk of money.
Yes, although never say never...
What I Did in 2021
"Meaning" is a human concept, and only humans can fill its definition. It's also an individual concept, so everyone has the right to write its own definition. So indeed, as long as you have any desire(s), you can walk a path towards them. Any desire is fine if it's fine to you.

There's one commonality though: we kinda have to align with other humans. Maybe you would be able to be happy meditating alone... but if there are others around you who find what you do weird and criticize you, meditating alone itself becomes harder as you will have to additionally be able to remain unaffected by the criticism you receive. In the other side of the spectrum, if what you do is enjoyed by many other people, you will more easily feel reassured that it's a good investment and that it makes sense to do it. Plus you will be more likely to connect with other people, which is like, the main desire for most people: no better way to feel that your life is meaningful than having others tell you that you mean a lot to them. And we kinda keep rolling in that loop.

So those guys have found each other and Spyro will have enough depth in some aspect that they can keep walking around it meaningfully (to them). It's all cool.

As you also hint, putting some effort to make others suffer less is also an interesting idea: suffering is kinda at the opposite side of happiness and meaningfulness in life, so reducing that is also another way to increase positively the meaningfulness score.

It's rather bizarre that we are so dependent on others to make a positive evaluation of our own meaningfulness. Like, it doesn't even compile in most languages.

But maybe god is ok with circular dependencies. Let's ask in the next code review.
It would definitely be interesting to run some experiments with automatically splitting up Rust crates into compilation units if possible.
Avoiding nuclear will save you money in the long run though
Fukushima.
No one decided to do this, it's just OP's predictions. OP might turn out to be wrong. Or right...
Well this article hit home. A large chunk of my hometown burned to the ground last night.

My parents still live there and are okay but there is no doubt that friends and colleagues (I still work in the area) have lost their homes.
+100 to The Effective Engineer. This is the best practical book on how to improve individual engineering effectiveness that I've ever read.
Ok, which of the following is closest to your beliefs?

1. Tech people are of approximately average intelligence,
and we should be able to see this in IQ or other tests.
2. Tech people are of approximately average intelligence,
although IQ and other tests may say otherwise;
those tests are all bad.
3. Tech people are of substantially above average intelligence.

I would suggest SAT/ACT scores as the most obvious and least-confounded alternative to IQ tests. More-confounded alternatives would include grades, rate of having a college degree, rate of attending an elite college, rate of having advanced degrees, size of vocabulary...

As for social awkwardness, I think that is less well-studied than intelligence, but you could imagine constructing a survey with questions that attempted to measure what you cared about. For example: "How many friends do you have?" "Were you bullied in school?" "Would you feel excited or apprehensive about attending a party where you didn't know anyone else?" "Do you find it easy to make new friends?" "Do you think others enjoy your presence at parties?" (Some questions like these have in fact been used to estimate "extroversion".) And I would ask a similar question here: do you really think tech people are average, and, if so, do you think this would likely be seen in the results of simple questionnaires?
Yeah I was thinking of gigantic industrial/factory floor surfaces, some types of malls, and/or large theme parks. I think the first successful fully autonomous driving platform will probably have this wheel/frame style as a base, and operate within the confines of some single entity's road/surface network.
Why is putting bone matrices in a texture awful? Seems great to me.
> ADHD

I was experiencing this symptom before I started ADHD farmacotheraphy + CBT
Yeah, I'm a supporter of Nordstream 2 because cheap gas is better than expensive gas, but I can't understand why Germany is making itself more dependent on gas instead of building out nuclear capacity to be less dependent.

The whole policy really doesn't make a lot of sense, it's not pro-fossil fuel or anti-fossil fuel, it's not pro-Russia or anti-Russia. It's all of the above, which is worse, since it's anti-everything and pro-everything. It suggests German leadership is too incompetent to pursue their own interests and so they are effectively acting randomly.
It's insanely costly.
Original image was using digital zoom, so working at the limit (or beyond) what the sensor could provide. Image processing is just doing the best it can with very little input.

https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476399735858683906?s=...
Nuclear is "bad" and scary... Plus you know nuclear weapons. And solar and wind produce plenty... Apart form times when they do not, like many times during winter.
It's not politics. It is a practical reality that it is dangerous. As dangerous as coal plants. But for some reason HN likes to turn a blind eye to un-disposable toxic waste and the potential for citywide devastation (Chernobyl).
Yes, it looked like a woman to me but I was going by the title of the thread "man's head".

Anyways, the image I was commenting is the one clicking on the thread title takes you to. The head is definitely missing:

https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026

What image do you see the head as being "clearly visible"?
This is not censorship resistant. Relays are external points of centralization. For all intents and purposes, they are federated service providers -- central services that can deplatform users by simply choosing not to syndicate their messages. Over time this will result in all relays being compromised by state adversaries. Legitimate "free speech" relays will be removed from the internet via ddos, legal complaints, and just general nuisance complaints that the SPLC and other organizations excel in. Both domain names, ARIN/RIPE/etc IP assignments, and BGP peering relationships are historically subject to revocation via a loud chorus of complainers when the speakers are politically unpersoned. Original nodes will then be replaced with adversarial ones -- sometimes on the same now-reassigned IPs or domain names that were taken from the original operators.

This could be reasonably censorship resistant if the first place people checked for the updates of users they follow was a hidden service that is innate to every client. Ricochet Refresh and Bisq are great models of this -- every messenger or trader client launches a local daemon accessible only by a hidden service that corresponds as its identity. Any kind of relay or pub system needs to be an offline-only gossip protocol that is only checked if the publisher's hidden service is inaccessible.

Secondly, this just does not scale, at all. The twitter firehouse is petabytes of content a day. If even a single city adopted this and used it like people do Twitter, running relays would be a financially and logistically significant enterprise. This is obviously nonviable. There are great ways for lowering the cost of UGC, namely serving it on some sort of DHT. You could use BitTorrent, or you could use IPFS. You are using neither, which means you haven't done basic napkin math on what being a Twitter alternative would mean.

But basically a real useful and actually decentralized and censorship resistant protocol would not be dependent on pubs or relays. If you want to contribute to something in development which actually has a viable model, I recommend Identia: https://github.com/iohzrd/identia

This proposed service has not confronted a single one of the actual problems of censorship or centralization in the subset of social media. You maybe should actually talk with people who have done significant anti-censorship work and ask them what the actual problems are and what needs to be done to solve them.
Well, to be fair, he was correct. That's not what happened.
$26+ each? Now I am curious which applications it does make sense to use these in.
Don't they need to wait for all the reactions to die down and everything to cool down?
A bully (Russia) comes up to a child (Ukraine) and kicks them in the shin really hard (Crimea). Then grabs them by the shirt and rears back like they're about to punch the kid.

You're right, why waste money teaching the kid Aikido when we could instead spend that money on school tutors to try to get them into schools that don't have bullies.
Offering discounts to insurance companies and people who bargain is how they do it, but it's still price discrimination. In fact that's how prove discrimination usually works. The more effort you put in, or the more market power you have, the better price you're able to get. That effort is a proxy for your willingness to pay.

"Ability to pay" might have been too narrow a phrasing though. Often as not it's instead essentially "ability to not pay", as with insurance companies using their bargaining power.

Now, will a law requiring prices to be posted prevent them from discounting the price? If only the powerless actually pay the sticker price it becomes a bit meaningless, so maybe? It would depend on the details of the law and its interpretation though, and I won't pretend to be knowledgeable there.
Looks like France will be kind of an insurer for energy market.

Trading the risk of energy supply shortage for the risk of radioactive accidents.