skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posted elsewhere, but there seems to be good discussion going on here:

I hate to say it, but the US is clearly the provocateur here. There is no real reason that the US needs Ukraine, a state that has historically been part of Russia, in NATO. Having Ukraine in NATO does approximately jack shit to benefit a person like me, a regular peasant in the US.
Imagine if the US lost the cold war and the USSR decided to invite Canada and Mexico into the Warsaw Pact - that's pretty much what is going on here.

The propaganda machine is in full swing at this point, I think the rulers of the US are actively hoping for war. Why else would they be so provocative? If someone has an answer to this I'd love to hear it, but it really seems to me like this is just classic US empire building, disguised under a thick coat of media propaganda and misinformation.

Would love to hear your thoughts, I'm no foreign policy expert.
Two decades of soldiers’ medical records implicate virus in multiple sclerosis
There are two neat things about compilers and interpreters:

1. They are one of the most researched areas of CS with a large amount of educational materials, tools, and community knowledge to help.

2. They map to any problem involving transforming an input into an output (hell, any problem transforming an input to an output is a compiler or interpreter).
Totally agree with everything in the article. Unclear how this is different from prototyping code before you start on the industrial-strength version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_prototyping
shameless plug: I have done a part 1 and part 2 presentations on this very topic

and Your Program as a Transpiler: Improving Application Performance by Applying Compiler Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfigR9wGsA

Your Program as a Transpiler: Applying Compiler Design to Everyday Programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUrY6On1SxM

the second in particular is about reasoning in terms of compiler phases when you have to process something that apparently may not immediately look like a programming language.
I've only called the police once in my life for help. It took them three or four days to send someone. It was not a life or death situation but it was very time sensitive.
> Trying to get me to recognize you as safe isn't going to work, because nobody is safe to me.

This makes plenty of sense, but then I'm not sure why you're expecting others to be physically friendly with you. Having a "friendly" interaction with someone generally presupposes some degree of physical quasi-intimacy that would seem to be quite incompatible with "not feeling like anyone is safe" to be around. This doesn't mean you can't be friendly in many other ways of course, but these interactions will nonetheless be quite different from what folks might otherwise expect.
I agree, when your app does exporting, use escaping and be happy. Nobody ever challenged that. But that is not enough. You should do defence in depth. What I am talking about, you can't realistically escape for every use, because

1) once it is stored, it is usually outside of your control. You simply do not know where your data will end up, due to e.g. new integrations that will be developed in future.

2) you can even not know the proper escaping rules for document types you are producing due to software obscurity. Nobody I can think of escapes any csv files for excel-2001 vulnerabilities. This is just one exaple of software where those files can actually end up opened.

What is more economical/rational to change, your input validation or every csv/excel exporter/converter ever in existence?
Energy Department to announce Clean Energy Corps, hire 1k staffers
This is awesome! Very cool to see developer-first real modern desktop tooling being put together.
Yes, and we did the same thing to mexico in order to grab texas. How the heck does this change how bad it is?

What's the point of saying "America bad too"? So? America HAS done awful things in the past, that's not valid justification for a hostile annexation of another country's land.

Topics on Russia ALWAYS have whataboutism nonsense. It seems supporters of Russian actions so badly want the rest of the world to be shitty too, as if that would justify their actions instead of condemn them as well as everyone else
> we promised Russia we wouldnt do an eastward expansion of nato, etc.

This is what Russia is promoting but it's a gross exaggeration. When the Berlin Wall fell, The Secretary of State at the time, James Baker, threw this out there to Gorbachev in early treaty talks as a "what if?", but others in US gov. said absolutely not, it never made it in the treaty, and Gorbachev never pushed for it. Gorbachev himself said that no promise or treaty was violated, but it was against the "spirit" of the assurances.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-...
This comment chain represents so many conversations I've seen on HN / Reddit.

The understanding I've come to (flavored by my media diet) is very similar to yours...It is just really hard to have a conversation with each other about events when we can't even agree on the base facts.

It'd be nice if we could figure out how to reduce that gap, especially because a lot of these things are simply facts, not opinions.

And that is not to say I am free from blind spots! I am not saying my media diet is the "right one" that gets to the truth, I know I have them, but I do try and reduce them as best I can.
Archived: https://archive.ph/BZZ23
Exactly. Maybe start by disarming the police. Then, start recruiting police from social worker training programs.
> When did the US invade the Guantanamo section of Cuba?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guant%C3%A1namo#United_States_...

About 15 km away from the city lies the Guantánamo Bay, a superior natural harbor which has been utilized by the United States since 1898, when it was captured from Spain in the Battle of Guantánamo Bay. In 1903 Cuba leased it to the U.S. as it had committed to in the Cuban–American Treaty of Relations, and remains the site of a US Navy base, as well as the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
The same thing happens with national security cases being tried in Virginia. This is one of the main reasons Snowden is unwilling to return to the US - the jury would be massively rigged against him.
My feeling, as a Brit, is that the monarchy as we know it will end with the Queen.

I think Harry knows it too, which is why he had opted to leverage what glamour remains to bootstrap his own fortune outside of the Royal Family, before it fades away. Give up the titles and duties, start selling some merch, go on Oprah, sign a deal with Netflix, go to Hollywood... why not.

It might just about keep going under William but they're one scandal away from oblivion
> We have grown to depend on automobiles for modern life and the economy to function.

So when it comes to cars, what you're saying is that "some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". Am I reading that correctly?

PS: The above is obvious sarcasm. See how ridiculous bad risk-management calculations sound?

> Additionally society cannot live with hospitals operating at reduced capacity because of COVID overflow.

Color me skeptical about the severity of this risk for 2 big reasons.

1) Look at actions, not words. Think about how governors and hospitals are acting. If there was a genuine fear of the hospitals collapsing, they'd be putting out daily public service announcements begging for retired doctors, people with any medical training whatsoever, or even random nuns to come and volunteer to tend to the sick and dying. Instead they're mass-firing healthy "health care heroes" who refuse to get a vaccine. Is that the act of people who are genuinely concerned about overwhelming the health care system?

2) This sensationalism has been happening every cold and flu season: see pic-related. Hospitals are designed to perpetually run at close to full capacity for financial reasons. https://i.imgur.com/50eqkXq.jpg
fine, then call me an "amateur cosmologist"
That's not true. Our brains process other input such as stimuli from our senses, past experience, and inherent goals we want to achieve. Language models predict the next sentence based on the previous text. There's a clear difference between the capabilities of a brain and language models, and I'm a little bewildered this needs pointing out.

"Not special" is an interesting way to describe the single most complex thing we know of.
Hey would you mind giving it another shot?
> some people will not get vaccinated either because they have recovered or just don't want to

Sure, and those people don’t get to enjoy the privileges of vaccinated society.
How hard was it to get them to arrest Ted Bundy, or even to acknowledge that there was anything to arrest him for? How long did they stall first?
These days I only usually play old games and indie games. I heavily favour short single-player games, and find myself quickly irritated by repetition and filler content. I know there's a lot of people–particularly younger folks and those with less disposable income–that demand sprawling worlds and play times in the triple digit hours, and all this micro-transaction shit is ultimately in service of supporting the huge budgets those games demand. I'm so far past that now though; when I look at the Battle Pass screens for Warzone or Halo Infinite, I imagine it's how my grandparents felt when they tried to use a computer. Just utter bewilderment.

Part of it is having less time to play due to general adult life things, the rest is just having other stuff I want to do, be it other games or different hobbies entirely, but I would much rather spend my money on a polished 2-6 hour experience, especially if that means the teams working on it actually get to go home and see their families instead of crunching half to death.
I once did some consulting work for a funded startup, for me it was the biggest contract I ever had (about $20k) and the project didn't really work out, but they didn't care and just paid my invoice. It was so nice to be treated like a professional.

On the other hand, small clients who paid $2k for something kept coming back with revision requests...
If you squint a bit you can view the buying a battlepass as actually buying a game, due to the added challenges. In that way its not actually violating the policy.
Job listings, which include IT jobs: https://www.energy.gov/CleanEnergyCorps
It scales with price :)
Just to clarify, do you mean a few videos or many videos? Thanks
Norway just removed jury duty, and if I remembered correctly the last case that had jury duty the actual judges put the jury verdict aside as they all agreed the jury had misunderstood the law.

Of course judges are not always good as well. In the US they are often elected by a blood thirsty population. If they are not elected that has other issues in that the will of the people is not held by the judges.
Oversight by me -- they're definitely there. Added now.
> while it's true that there wasn't a treaty or a document that said "Ukraine will never join NATO", there was a good-faith understanding that NATO would not expand like it has

Between whom? Gorbachev has no memory of it, based on his public statements. The supposed agreement was made in the context of Germany's reunification, something the Soviets not only agreed to but memorialized in various written agreements, none of which mention this supposed understanding.

Also, wasn't the motivation for the 2014 invasion Ukraine's potential membership in the EU?
> Are all cops bastards?

The problem is even the "good" cops protect the bad cops. If they aren't willing to prosecute cops for things like beating their wives, why do you think they're good?

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...

I find it hard to believe there are many police forces that don't have several officers that are known to break protocol, laws, and do shitty things like beat their wives - but they all hide behind the blue shield.

I have never had a positive experience with a police officer in my life, and I grew up in the richest whitest suburb you can imagine. I don't think it's possible to be a good person and stay in the force, and I have heard horrible stories from former officers that quit due to disgust at what their coworkers bragged about.

I really, really want to be wrong about this. But the older I get the more data comes out that police officers are just horrible human beings.
I heard that this year, at least in some regions, they're doing the Gymnasium assignments randomly (!) I know someone where their child qualified for Gymnasium but apparently it's not guaranteed this year due to lack of spots so there's going to be a lottery (!).

This is in North Rhine-Westphalia.
> Since 2015, color grading is the new fad. Also unnatural weird (LED) lighting, like the left half of the frame in strong red light and the right half in strong blue light.

I recently learned this specific combo is called “bisexual lighting”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexual_lighting
Now we're going to have "lies programmers believe about time":

1. Seconds in one time system last the same amount of time as seconds in another time system

2. Seconds in the same time system last the same amount of time as each other

3. Time numbers are strictly increasing - the same time number can't happen again

4. [etc, kill me]
Not to mention in companies that just acquire other companies, the parent company has a lot of revenue, but the sub-companies can be chronically cash-strapped. In big companies (and conglomerates) any given product does not draw from the total financial resources of the entire organization and its various revenue streams. A single megacorp product can have a 250K budget and generate 500K revenue, but they're not gonna get any more money for their product development just because the megacorp makes more money outside that product. And that revenue is probably just gonna get stolen by the megacorp to use somewhere else, the money doesn't go back into improving the first product.

And what's the purpose of this license? Is it to generate revenue for the developer? If so, you want your terms to invite more liberal use by larger companies, as they may start using your project in more and more of their products which will net you more and more revenue. If it's too expensive for one of their products, it's too expensive for all of them.

The best way to get a large company "hooked" on your project is to provide an initial term of free use, like 6 or 16 months, and to track use remotely via metrics gathering ("checking for upgradeable versions on start-up"). Once they've used it for free long enough, you go and ask (politely) for your money. If you price right, it'll be cheaper for them to pay you than to remove your project.
Putin also wanted to join NATO in 2000-2001, but it didn't work out.
What is gbs.fm if you dont mind me asking?
That's a good anecdote, thanks.
This can never happen with regular string literals. String literals have the type `&'static str` but formatting returns a `String`.
I cannot, as I'm simply a laypeople. There are a ton of papers I can link to in the literature though!

> COVID-19 VACCINATION ADVERSE EVENTS PAPERS

Abbate, A., Gavin, J., Madanchi, N., Kim, C., Shah, P. R., Klein, K., . . . Danielides, S. (2021). Fulminant myocarditis and systemic hyperinflammation temporally associated with BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in two patients. Int J Cardiol, 340, 119-121. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2021.08.018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34416319

Abu Mouch, S., Roguin, A., Hellou, E., Ishai, A., Shoshan, U., Mahamid, L., . . . Berar Yanay, N. (2021). Myocarditis following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination. Vaccine, 39(29), 3790-3793. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.05.087. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34092429

Albert, E., Aurigemma, G., Saucedo, J., & Gerson, D. S. (2021). Myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination. Radiol Case Rep, 16(8), 2142-2145. doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2021.05.033. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34025885

Aye, Y. N., Mai, A. S., Zhang, A., Lim, O. Z. H., Lin, N., Ng, C. H., . . . Chew, N. W. S. (2021). Acute Myocardial Infarction and Myocarditis following COVID-19 Vaccination. QJM. doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcab252. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34586408

Azir, M., Inman, B., Webb, J., & Tannenbaum, L. (2021). STEMI Mimic: Focal Myocarditis in an Adolescent Patient After mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine. J Emerg Med, 61(6), e129-e132. doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2021.09.017. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34756746

Bozkurt, B., Kamat, I., & Hotez, P. J. (2021). Myocarditis With COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines. Circulation, 144(6), 471-484. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056135. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34281357
I think 30K is quite a reasonable cost. Parents have almost two decades to save the money, plus they can do so with a 529 plan and avoid capital gains taxes. Even saving $100 dollars a month invested in the market will net 42,000 after 18 years (assuming 7% return).
First time someone linked me to Gangnam Style on Youtube I was completely perplexed and truly suspicious because the view count just looked WRONG -- like it was possibly a look-a-like site with a bullshit viewcount.

It was the first time I ever saw a view count >1B and I remain astonished by this kind of reach.

10B is an entirely different level still.
> ex. 12px font is still fuzzy IMO.

The G2 definitely solves that problem.

> Overall it does not yet improve on what i can do on a regular laptop screen.

If you're ok with a small laptop screen that makes sense. The main thing that it solves at the moment is available screen real estate. It greatly increases it. Depending on the software you use, it can also solve the issue of feeling isolated. IM and video calls aren't good enough
Interesting interview questions might be

- download this OSS project - explain to me where / how this API works, how deep does the call stack go. What tests exist for it?

- write me the spec for that call. discuss.
Also, in languages, which do not treat HTML as a simple string (looking at PHP and many others) or have libraries for doing exactly that, using any kind of data inside any HTML element, where it is put as text, will automatically make it escaped as text, with no overhead for the developer.
More like a gun made of soap, as in "Take the money and run".
I have been entering my phone numbers into the register for at least twenty years. It seems that in the beginning it worked somewhat, but then it returned to the same level of spam calls. In the last five years, the number of unwanted calls has increased dramatically, coming mostly from over seas call centers and computerized robo-calls.

I will continue to update the registry periodically just because it may be doing a little bit of good, but I really don't know how much that is.
Strange title, especially the cherry picked companies (by Reuters, not OP). Full list from the article:

Alphabet/Google
Amazon
Apple
DHS
DoD
IBM
Meta/Facebook
Microsoft
Oracle

So all the major clouds, all the major desktop OS companies, all the major mobile OS companies. "from major tech companies" seems more reasonable.
Casual observation:

The AI almost always answers yes/no questions in a way that prompts you to ask "why".

"no" to the moon, "yes" to lying. If it was the other way around, would we still ask why?

tho im probably just over indexing here :shrug
> This doesn't allow for YoY inflation. $1M today won't be the same tomorrow. The license should expect to issue new versions frequently to keep up with the economic landscape.

That's addressed at the bottom of the definition of a small business:

> Adjust these dollar figures for inflation according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index for all urban consumers, United States city average, for all items, not seasonally adjusted, with 1982–1984=100 reference base.
How is it an act of aggression? Aren’t Ukraine sovereign in the sense that they are free to choose freely any alliance they please?

Besides - Ukraine haven’t been offered NATO membership have they?
> IME, essentially made it a losing proposition for them compared to just hopping jobs.

I think it's weird how hard it is to convince your colleagues and your management that you're worth 50% more than you were yesterday by continuing to work, yet how easy it is to convince the same people of the same thing by quitting.

I also think most companies realize how disadvantaged they are in salary negotiations in this job market, but it's favored employers for so long that very few of them have any idea what to do about it.
That’s an excellent point. The “thin blue line” is a terrible problem and even what I think are good individual cops are reluctant to break it.
And on... and on... https://www.rwmalonemd.com/references

Why, again, was this guy written off as a kook?
Human rights also include access to learning, education and news. Having them for free online is the best option. But you cant have both at the same time
So the idea of "Russkiy mir", USSR falling apart being a "_geopolitical_ catastrophe" (only an imperialist would say something like that), USSR in general being viewed positively by the media, its every act of imperialism like Prague Spring, or the attempt to keep Latvia in the USSR viewed exclusively positively in "documentaries", even positive coverage of the imperialism of the Russian empire (the Great Game) and so on, propagandists saying things from that point of view, and attacking the "straw-men" propagandists who said something against, Putin insisting that Russians and Ukrainians are one and the same ( https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-oliver-stone-europe... ), Medvedev denying the legitimacy of the Ukrainian state ( https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/10/11/russia-shouldnt-ne... ) are not all imperialistic narrative for you?

In general if you turn on Russian news, almost every sentence said reeks of imperialism, imperialistic assumptions one way or another. If you don't notice that, I can't help you. Sorry.
It does actually account for inflation, at least for US users:

> Adjust these dollar figures for inflation according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index for all urban consumers, United States city average, for all items, not seasonally adjusted, with 1982–1984=100 reference base.

If you're in a country with hyperinflation, sucks to be you. And that still doesn't account for the massive COL differences between, say, Mississippi and Hawaii (which is about 2.2x, according to https://usabynumbers.com/states-ranked-by-cost-of-living/).
Correlation is not causation. It's possible that as fields pay more, they attract more men (because due to gender roles imposed on men, men lose more status from low income than women do) and conversely as fields pay less, men abandon them for other higher paying fields.
Parental testing should be mandatory at birth perhaps for these issues. Or at least if someone is going to go claim child support.
I used to be a huge gamer in the mid-90's but now I only really play 1-2 games a year. No matter if PC/console, AAA/indie, there are just so many insanely good games to choose from because I get to pull from the last couple of years! Prior to Zelda I played Stardew Valley on PC and absolutely loved it. I really enjoy old-school shoot'em'ups (little spaceships that shoot at fast moving enemies with fast scrolling) and have been able to play both old classics via emulators and a couple on iOS that were really enjoyable.

To a now casual gamer like me, all of gaming is as good as it has ever been! That Steam Deck does look tempting but I have a tendency to dump hours into games. I'm planning to talk it up to friends so one can get it and I can maybe borrow it once in a while.
Investors are paying millions for virtual land in the metaverse
> The logistical challenges that go into operating a small e.g. grocery store probably vastly outweigh whatever a typical FAANG or YC startup engineer has to contend with.

Doing in a scalable way sure. Grocery margins are razor thin.

Doing it at a loss or break-even by working 80+ hours a week understaffed no, everyone can do that.