skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US military industrial complex is left wanting, Biden has sinking approval ratings and nordstream 2 is about to be turned on. All signs point to needing to start a conflict by the US.
I think that's fair, but it's not like the former communist countries were forced at gunpoint to join NATO.

Russia may not like it (and I'd imagine I wouldn't were I in the same position) but invading countries because of their own sovereign decisions is unlikely to be successful in the long-term.
The debris could pose a danger to their own satellites.
Then let’s make it a priority.

We can talk about it in the next sprint, after a story has been created and groomed. Then it’s just a matter of someone taking it off the backlog after they’ve gotten through their current workload and scheduled a meeting with product to make sure expectations are aligned.
Use google at your own peril. Truly evil company.
> The Russian military was in the Crimea back when redcoats were stationed in New York City, and has been in the Crimea ever since.

No, it hasn't.

From the creation of Soviet Ukraine in 1919
through 2014, Russia neither controlled nor pretended to control Crimea (except for a 9 year period from 1945-1954), which it acknowledged was its own entity (prior to 1945) or part of Ukraine (after 1954).

(People sometimes equate the USSR, which essentially replaced the Russian Empire with “Russia”, but the modern Russian Federation is a direct linear continuation of the entity that was known as the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, not the USSR, just as Ukraine is a direct linear continuation of the entity that was known as the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic.)
1. Not if it's fitted well. Some people seem to need aftermarket straps for that. Myself, I'm fine with the stock Oculus Quest 2 strap, as long as I fit it properly. My core game is a table tennis simulator (Eleven), which requires lots of fast sudden movement.

2. It does. I wash the face mask foam regularly with just warm water + soap. The face cover is removable so it's not a big deal.

3. In my case, it's all absorbed by the washable foam.

4. The Quest 2 is pretty sturdy. I did bump the controllers pretty hard against each other a few times, and had a few glancing hits controller vs headset. Nothing broke so far. The controllers have a ring that tends to protect your hand and the buttons when you crash them into something.
Do you think troops have been moved to Ukraine's border in Belarus and in Russia?
Sounds like that's an issue with the media and American attention spans rather than the scientific method
Thank you! I never knew. Been doing this for so long, not anymore.
I loved those books when I was in high school. I wonder how they’d hold up today.
Probably too energetically intense, but what if it pushed a junk satellite into one of their military satellites?

Also, there have been rumors that a number of ‘dead’ satellites are actually spy satellites using the ‘dead’ status as cover, which maybe this could make no longer tenable with some plausible deniability?
Ruins of Hampi - Vijayanagar Empire - 4K : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be6cbn2hRSI
Russia has been holding the same military drills for over a decade without triggering this panic. [0]

Also, calling Ukraine a democracy is a bit of a stretch. They shut down 3 tv stations critical of the government, and imprisoned a political rival. I am sure there are people here that would love to shutdown RT, but we don't do that in a democracy.

[0]
2020: Russian Military Exercises Near Ukraine. 100 to 120 thousand troops. No WW3, no threat of nukes. https://empr.media/news/conflict-zone/russian-military-exerc...

earlier:

2016 https://www.vox.com/2016/9/1/12729426/russia-troops-ukraine-...

2017 https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2017/09/13/whats-putin-up...

2018 https://archive.is/0gqL0

2019 https://radiolemberg.com/en/ua-articles/ua-allarticles/almos...
Do you think "works" is not a valid word? I can't see any other grounds for objecting to their grammar. This is quite a bizarre comment.
If NATO was nothing but a self defense pact, I'd tend to agree, but then if that was the case no one in NATO would want to expand too much.

NATO is not just a self defence organisation. It's an offensive tool. NATO has gone into more offensive missions (at least 3) than truly defensive missions (literally zero - I don't count the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan as a defensive act).

For many members of NATO, the only existing military threat is within NATO itself (see: Turkey and some of its neighbors).

The truth is, NATO expanding is a great way for the West to force it's enemies to increase their defense spending and to lower the cost of offensive military interventions.
> can align with who they wish

Historically, this has never been true. Countless wars were started when the balance of power was threatened, even by such a small thing as marriage (can’t they marry “who they wish”?)
You can try https://geizhals.eu/ or https://skinflint.co.uk/
They have really nice filtering and very good coverage of specifications.
I always use them when searching for tech.
Photoprism might be worth a look
>That's because they don't actually spend that much of their wealth.

From what I remember Bill Gates is on track to spend almost all of it.

I've always found the idea that billionaire wealth isnt "real" because liquidating it all simultaneously is impractical to be unconvincing in the extreme, verging on dishonest.

>I would agree if I could trust politicians with that amount of responsibility

Politicians are not actually restrained by taxation as decades of persistent deficits prove.

I find it helps to consider a thought experiment: what if every dollar taxed was burned to a crisp and every dollar spent by government was printed?

The answer is nothing. Taxation exerts a deflationary effect and spending exerts an inflationary effect.

The question I ask when I consider if a higher tax is necessary is "are inflationary pressures too high?"

I think it's clear that inflationary pressures in housing and asset markets is off the scale.
> Especially under duress is Evolutionary Biology, here is a prime example

The article kind of said nothing, it just had the flashy headline:

> Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?
>
>The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.

Then never mentioned that topic again.

It looks like you're trying to misrepresent "the left doesn't believe in old debunked claims about race and IQ" as some kind opposition to actual genetic research.
Yeah. Drum the war drums and watch Taiwan's key industry flee to safe habour in the US.
So what's the actual impact? You can't set sharing on your .DS_Store file as "Anyone on the Internet with the link"?
The internet in all its duct tape glory.

Prime example of trade-off between cleanliness of implementation and backwards compatibility. As much as I like a pristine, pure spec, the market winners are clear. It pays to keep product debt around.
ouch. Can't say that truth bomb didn't hurt. As a counterpoint, if I did plan on living forever, by extrapolating all the past history of me not dying into the future, the data trend is pretty robust that I will continue to not die indefinitely.
> I'm not up to date with the less popular web frameworks. Which frameworks do that?

One of them is https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view which is a component of Phoenix / Elixir.

It will render your initial page over HTTP but then when you transition pages or perform actions using various functions it provides you it will send a diff of what's changed over WebSockets. These actions could be limited to only the 1 user using the site, such as clicking different links in a nav bar to transition between page A and B.

The alternative to this is doing what other frameworks like Rails has done with Hotwire Turbo where they make these types of transitions or actions over HTTP. Turbolinks started to do this back in 2015 or whenever it came out and now more recently with Hotwire Turbo there's ways to only update a tiny area of the page (again over HTTP) but it also optionally supports using WebSockets for when you want to broadcast things to all connected clients, such as updating a counter somewhere or maybe showing a new reply on a blog post, etc..

Laravel has Live Wire and there's also HTMX which is back-end agnostic which all use HTTP for a bulk of their behaviors to send server rendered HTML over the wire. I'm not a Laravel developer but based on their docs they have a drop in solution to handle broadcasting events with WebSockets on demand too[0] so it can continue using HTTP for everything except for when you want to broadcast events similar to Hotwire Turbo in that regard.

[0]: https://laravel-livewire.com/docs/2.x/laravel-echo
I recall there was a leak a long time ago, but definitely well after the IE5-era. Hypothetically, it could be this leak where the code comes from.
> Over the last 12 months I've lost almost 60lbs

That’s so awesome to read, keep it up!
What about the American propaganda that the government doesn’t spy on its citizens, because if it weren’t for Russia the person who brought that to light would be sitting in a jail cell instead of taking interviews.
In Norway for the same reason one is supposed to pay for a doctor. That amount is limited to about 250 USD per year, anything above that is covered by the state. Still it is quite effective to prevent visiting a doctor for trivial issues.

And it is not only elderly people who just want to chat to a doctor. When I was a student a girl from the university told that she invented symptoms just to visit a doctor who was handsome and cute.
> the alternative is strong men using cruelty to extract wealth at any cost.

That sounds like America now...
Nuclear winter is apparently not so extreme as initially thought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d... Anyway, it would be nice to not try it.

[I'm not in a bunker, but in case of a global thermonuclear war I hope everyone forgets to nuke Argentina.]
I’m not a business. I don’t use domains or SSO. Yes, I use my gmail address as a login to many websites, but losing access to gmail does not mean I can’t login to those websites anymore. It just means recovering an account is more difficult (but in most cases not much more difficult). And I do export my gmail inbox every year as a backup.
Roald Amundsen, and Chris Austin Hadfield have beautiful autobiographys I am reading just now.
Torvald's "Just for fun" and Hardy's "Apology of a mathematition" and "A litte book about a big memory" and Feynman's two books are the biographies I can remember without thinking.
Nice work, very fast, simple display. Also, I learned that a speeding ticket I never paid back in the 80's is still an open case, and that a few articles I wrote in the 90's have been cited in dozens of patents. Yippee.
I've had this exact same experience! Same reason (cyber-bullying) given.
Who cares what Biden will say? If Russia does something as drastic as a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, what's next? European basic security is threatened.
I don't care whether something will make Biden look good or not.
Technical Analysis of the DDoS Attacks Against Ukrainian Websites
The sale to Kraft came first, I distinctly remember because they promised the British government they wouldn’t move production out of the UK then did shortly after the acquisition closed.
Hyper-rationalization of the fairly typical human trait of weighing different options. Reductionist in his appeal to opportunity cost ("get the cheaper bat son because it's cheaper"). 90% autobiography which barely coincided with the title.

Perfect LinkedIn spam material though, can't wait to see how inspired people were by it.
Pretty sure UK and EU is still near identical on this. Hasn't been much drift since brexit.
> The US secretary of state, James Baker, promised Russia that NATO would not expand eastward if Russia withdrew its military from the Warsaw Pact countries

No, he didn't.

And even if he did promise the USSR that, I don't see a signed international agreement. Any such personal assurance with no formal agreement could not reasonably be viewed by anyone as anything more than a statement of policy of the then-current administration, not an open-ended binding commitment. I do see a signed treaty, signed much later, committing Russia to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, that was in force when it invaded and occupied much of Ukraine.
The ExoAnalytic video mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDCLpXCB62w
You might want to check out 'hck' to replace 'cut'.

https://github.com/sstadick/hck
Agreed, although [1] gives some idea. It would allow large buildings to use their windows as solar panels at about 75 to 80% efficiency if we follow that graph. Anything under 50% compared to conventional solar panel would be misleading given the graph. But because there's a lot of windows in a skyscraper they get a lot of volume. I would assume people owning a skycraper are usually businesses who got the money to burn on a long-term investment.

I wonder if this is patented.

Also, that James Dyson award seems to yield them credibility.

[1] https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/Document/06e5abae-0a5c-4a64-...
In the specific case of timekeeping though what is the point?

For everything that probably 99.9999% of people do that just involves their at-home devices with no outside communications they don't need time more accurate and stable than a quartz resonator. Heck, most people could get by fine at home if all their clocks dropped the seconds display only showing hours and minutes, provided that they also had a stopwatch for when they need to time intervals smaller than a minute.

You generally only need something better when you are coordinating things that do involve communicating with the outside world in which case you can sync with outside clocks.
The funny thing about emotional spherical cows and trusting the process is that the first rule of agile is “People and [delivered] software over process”. You can and should do anything to get working software over the line. Even if it means breaking process when it isn’t working.

And you should always prioritize people over working software, if needed.

Working on a team that groks that part is quite nice actually. You can go to your manager and say “Hey this thing is getting in my way” and they’ll say “Good god man why are you doing it then!?”
I don’t know what amazes me more: your engineering solution or the fact you was able to find notes dated December 24th 1978
Really bad title, really.

Try this on for size: “Why is <insert-your-country-name> such an economic failure?”

But, but … BUT nevertheless … this is a GREAT article of insightful things.
Well, we wouldn't be able to have any useful kind of radio communications, for example.
I am sure they are out there, but I have never met a “balanced” full stack engineer, unless they were equally bad at all levels.
Hum, I can't see a draft be accepted in order to defend a country a few thousand kms away... when vaccination against Covid was politically impossible (I'm putting aside ethical issues here).

Nuclear deterrence cost 13 B€ per year to France - that the price for no large war anymore.

Well, in theory.
I've got a somewhat different critique of the article, in terms of the expected lifetime of the codebase. Part of this goes to language choice, feature choice in the language, etc. The author of the article skims this in the paragraphs above the Conclusion section.

Basically, Python is fundamentally, a moving target. You can use features today which may disappear in newer revisions of the language. This isn't theoretical, I've run into differences between 3.6 and 3.9 which caused me to add work-around code, so I didn't need to build functional versions for each different python. One may say "subclass!" but that is missing the point (and extending the cognitive load).

I've taken code I wrote in the very early 90s, compiled it, and run it against some of the data sets I had still sitting around on my disks (well, SSDs now) over the last year. These data sets were big endian, as I used to run on supers and the old style unix vendor workstations. My little endian machines were a) able to read the data thanks to a simple compiler option, b) compile the 30+ year old code, c) allow me to run this.

This is not because the language (fortran) has not evolved, but because it has been, and remains, remarkably stable over timescales comparable to peoples scien tific careers. Python, in contrast, doesn't remain stable over timescales of single digit years.

So if you code in (a very restricted subset of) Python, you may be able to get this type of stability, that should be a major feature of a stable research language. If you do any function calls, open files, create directories, etc. you need to code for the lowest common denominator, if you wish your code to be operational over even 5 year intervals.

I've got similar complaints about C++, that I ran into some 10yo boost that didn't compile on a recent compiler, even after setting the --std lower. I had to forward port that code to late model boost.

I didn't need to do that with the BLAS/GE calls in fortran.

If you think your work will be around in the long term, and you might need to use it in 10 years without redeveloping it, some of the other languages might be better fits.

Note: I have a similar, albeit more moderate critiques of Julia, in that something changed v0.7 to v1.x, that caused me 10 minutes of recoding in one case. Mildly annoyed, but given the far higher performance and far lower cognitive load of that language relative to the hyperoptimized (and likely still slow) version that article author wrote, I can handle that.
The "mud could complicate things for Russia" is one of the statements that the White House officials made, e.g. [1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-invasion-of-ukraine-...
Thanks, I did not know this. But then comes the follow up question. For every increase in accuracy of an individual clock, how many extra of these improved clocks scattered around the world do you need to improve the overall accuracy of the system time?
Yeah mine has 4 gigs which is pretty lean. But it’s soldered on so no upgrade for me!
Same here.

Sometimes, if rarely, these things actually work in your favour. Many years ago, I signed up for a PAYG [pay as you go] mobile tariff with O2 [in UK]. It offered 300 texts and 500mb data for £10/month top-up. The really unusual thing with this tariff though was that, unlike every other tariff I'm aware of, whatever credit you hadn't used at the end of the month carried over to the next month. Usually, with these kind of tariffs, the credit resets every month.

So, as I rarely use the phone for phonecalls I usually have most of that £10 left at the end of every month and it just keeps accumulating. Last time I checked, I had about £260 of credit. Since you can buy Android apps on the Google Play Store and charge them to your phone credit, this means I can effectively get any Android app I want for free. In addition to this, I get a 10% 'reward' back every three months on my top-ups. So, every three months, I get £3 back from 02. I save these up until I've got £10 or £20 of Rewards credit and then exchange it for Amazon vouchers. So, every now and then, I get some free Amazon stuff too.

I'm 100% convinced that some bean counter at O2 made a colossal cock-up, when coming up with this tariff because it was only available for a short time before disappearing and [as I said] I'm not aware of anything like that being offered by anyone else.

O2 keep trying to persuade me to 'upgrade' to a 'better' tariff, which would offer a bit more data and/or texts, in return for my credit disappearing at the end of every month. Er... no thanks. I'll stick with the one I'm on.

I'm actually surprised they haven't [yet!]force moved me to another tariff and cancelled this one.

[Hope no-one from O2 is reading this. Don't want to give them ideas!]
It's likely not possible. The best backdoor I can think of is that if the email list uses any standard email marketing tools there should be a persistent web hosted version of the newsletter somewhere that you can search for.
You can’t shoot down very many satellites until you poison the orbits with debris that knocks out all satellites.

If you can grab and deorbit a satellite, you can also grab it and steal it to learn its secrets.
All power to you! Congratulations. For me, the takeaway is that XR (AR+VR) opens up a new market and attracts new people (customers). Everything in our world is a continuum. Candles to lightbulbs, horses to ICE to EV mobility. Telegraphs to phone to cell. The adoption curve is the continuum.

Your comment is such a clear signal that this technology, XR, has a place on this continuum. It will evolve and attract new people to it who have not been sold on/motivated to engage with previous generations of presentation - in your case exercise.
There was a party in the 1950s Singapore who said things along these lines. They were unceremoniously tossed in prison in a political crackdown, but they still left a long lasting imprint on the country despite constant attempts to exorcize their ghost.

HDBs exist largely because it was an idea of theirs that was popular and because Lee Kuan Yew was afraid of their popularity. Officially, though, it happened because of LKY's "pragmatism".
So pretty much the same as this: https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
> Especially when a near-by country has a habit of being an aggressor

Some Islamic terrorists use terror to try to form a Qoqaz caliphate on Russian territory, and Russia fighting this development within their own borders is "being an aggressor". Meanwhile the US flies to to the other side of the world to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, which I suppose was a defensive action by its Department of Defense.
Would be interesting to draw up a list of package registries and whether they require MFA…
Well, it is a bit more nuanced. In 1990s there was a surge in various nationalist movements in ex-USSR republics trying to establish national identity on ethnic grounds. In some countries this resulted in armed conflicts with ethnic cleansings. In others minorities were discriminated or pushed to severe their historical and cultural ties. “Alien” passports in Latvia and restrictions on teaching of Russian language in Ukraine were the most notable examples. Russia traditionally protected Russian minorities in Baltics and Ukraine, which resulted in tensions between the countries. Indeed, when you build an ethnic national state and ignore large minority with ties to a nuclear superpower, you may be worried about survival. Whether ethnic national state should be a thing in XXI century is another question (maybe we should also ask Belgians about how do they feel about speaking French).
The primary issue with space weapons is space is big and stuff is moving in insanely quickly. Current anti satellite weapons don’t need to enter orbit they basically stand in front of one and get run over. That works for a single satellite, but the side effect is debris from such collisions may end up taking out your own satellites.

Yanking a satellite out of orbit avoids such collateral damage. Any practical weapon would need a lot of deltaV but Ion drives plus solar panels could be enough.
This one is a different beast. Our governments have been ignoring it until now (new government in 2022) but I doubt its going to be enough, we cannot deal with this problem on a national level. If a country like China slacks with this, we get hosed.
Recommendations on shooting/hunting sims?
Is it possible to get an allocation in ipv6? And what are the steps you’d take to do so?

Im interested in making my projects ipv6 only if I can have a long term address allocation which I cant do in ipv4
I converted the GIFs to APNG and both ffmpeg and ffplay gave the same results as the browser, so the specification is very consistently ignored.