skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically about covid - I think everyone knows that nothing is perfect. Arguing that other people think either vaccines or masks are perfect is a classic strawman argument. [1]

Vaccines are less-bad than a Covid infection, training your immune system without actually exposing it to the dangers of Covid-19 itself. Masks reduce viral loads - mostly through reducing shedding and partially through reducing intake.

Assuming lock-downs have impacted you personally, I'm sorry about that. We're all experiencing that pain together, personally I find most things about the lockdowns horrible. But still better than lots of people dying.

Masks, Vaccinations and lockdowns only benefit society with high compliance. So expect strong social pressure to comply or you invalidate everyone else's efforts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Yes, if A: you have code that's expected to "fail" relatively many times, and B: this code is also multithreaded. A lot of code doesn't match one or both of these conditions while still being perf-sensitive.

Further, as you can see in other comments, it's not an uncommon belief that exceptions simply shouldn't be used for A (and thus it's reasonable that they aren't optimized for something they aren't supposed to be used for).
Not really. However the position of Russians has been absolutely constant. See these excerpts from talks between Gorbachev and James Baker, Baker and Chevarnadze, with the famous "verbal assurances":

https://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Promise...

Yeltsin in this telex to Bill Clinton from 1993:

https://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/otan-ex...

Reported in the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/02/world/yeltsin-opposes-exp...

Then came a promise from Secretary of state Christopher on 10/22/93 that there would be no extension:

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16380-document-08-secreta...

However Richard Holbrooke changed his discourse, and Yeltsin complained in 94:

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16385-document-13-officia...

Then again:

https://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NT-fron...

However, Yeltsine nearly died in 96, and his election relied entirely on manipulations at a large scale from the CIA. Therefore, Clinton thought he was free to proceed with NATO extension:

https://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Perry-p...

But there was large disapproval from the Russian, like Gorbachev still in this Herald Tribune 1997 guest article:

https://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/otan-ex...

But in the US too, like George Kennan in the NYTimes, 1997:

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/05/opinion/a-fateful-error.h...

and many others, Michael Mandelbaum,Richard T. Davis, John Lewis Gaddis, even Thomas Friedman thought extending NATO was a serious mistake.

> Privately, though, a few more perceptive officials acknowledged that relations with Russia had not been handled well. In his memoir, Duty, Robert M. Gates, who served as secretary of defense in the administrations of both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, made some interesting admissions. “When I reported to the president my take on the Munich conference, I shared my belief that from 1993 onward, the West, and particularly the United States, had badly underestimated the magnitude of the Russian humiliation in losing the Cold War…” Yet even that blunt assessment given to Bush did not fully capture Gates’ views on the issue. “What I didn’t tell the president was that I believed the relationship with Russia had been badly mismanaged after [George H.W.] Bush left office in 1993.” Among other missteps, “U.S. agreements with the Romanian and Bulgarian governments to rotate troops through bases in those countries was a needless provocation.” In an implicit rebuke to the younger Bush, Gates asserted that “trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching.” That move, he contended, was a case of “recklessly ignoring what the Russians considered their own vital national interests.”

https://www.cato.org/commentary/did-putins-2007-munich-speec...

Also, there's the treachery of the 2011 Libya operation :

https://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/libye-0...
It’s not America but it was founded with western liberal ideas to be a functioning self-governing democracy and have English common law ideals similar to America. Chief among those is due process which this emergencies act completely sidesteps.
You are misrepresenting what I said. I simply said that seizing proceeds of crime is common, normal and not a human rights violation.

I don’t agree that it should be done with no oversight from the judicial system.
Can confirm. Data science team just schooled the entire engineering department in our Deep Racer tournament.
> Basically, when you need to read some very old Japanese site where their encoding is pretty non standard, you are screwed.

As it happens, the primary reason why the single menu item remains instead of an override being totally gone is usage in Japan. (Many people in this thread comment as if Firefox had done what Chrome did: complete removal of override as you note.) The remaining menu item is pretty accurate for its primary use case, which is dealing with Japanese legacy sites that misdeclare their encoding. (There is one exception: If the page declares UTF-8 but is actually ISO-2022-JP, then you don't have recourse.)
Launchers are bundling roughly 4 main services into one: (a) automatic update, (b) storefront, (c) mod portal, and (d) social networking.

The most important services are of course the first two, and in this sense, you can think of them as basically something like apt, but built with software that requires you provide proof purchase before downloading it. This helps explain why having to use multiple launchers provokes such frustration among users--it means you basically have two package managers running on your system.

Maybe if software update were a part of standard OS services, it wouldn't be such an issue, but as it isn't [on desktops], another platform providing such services becoming popular for doing so shouldn't be surprising.
There is the red flag: "regularly thrown". "Regularly" is opposite to "exceptionally".
> Most NATO members in Europe vastly reduced their militaries and defense spending

Most western members did. Eastern ones, meanwhile, ramped it up very significantly. Which is the only reason Western countries could get away with it, really - NATO is supposed to feed the American defense industry.

> NATO only expanded east because of Russia's posturing

More like because of the bordering countries clamoured for protection, even when there was no threat whatsoever (since the Russian military was in utter disarray). In a way, they were right: the ones who didn't manage to escape Moscow's orbit back then (Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasus stans...), are now enduring dictatorship or war. In another way, they fuelled the Russian paranoia that fed Putin's nationalism, eventually ensuring that the doomsday scenarios did, in fact, materialize.

> The most baffling part is literally no one wants to invade Russia.

It's not just about immediate military occupation. Gazprom is an important piece of Putin's kleptocratic powerbase, and Gazprom needs to be free of Ukrainian control of their pipelines. If NordStream2 can't happen, because the Germans have to obey their American lord-protectors, then Putin must establish an alternative to the South - which doesn't need to be entirely in Russian hands, but rather in a position where Russian troops can secure it in a matter of days if necessary. In my view this is the real endgame.

This, obviously, on top of putting the strategic Crimean ports in a safer position; because NATO might not want to invade Russia, but Erdogan's Turkish troops are not shy about "securing" stuff (any sanctions against them carving up Syria? Not that I'm aware of...).
It started as demands around mandate but then that Tamara Lich character gained prominence who is pushing an Albertan separatist movement
Absolutely agree. The American viewpoint seems to be "restrictions on freedom of speech! Not allowing protests! Canada is becoming a dictatorship!" which I think is an absurdly extreme reaction, particularly in a minority parliament.

I think Canadians have more faith in our institutions, particularly the courts, to remain apolitical.
There's also Legible News, which is similar, but aggregates news sources from Wikipedia articles instead of just pulling different site feeds: https://legiblenews.com/
It’s not even true. They teach Parisian French (or Standard French) in Canada at schools outside Quebec. I did immersion for 12 years. I think its simply a practical choice: French from France has more standards (set by the Academie Francais), more materials (because it’s the international standard) and therefore more teachers.

In SF, they certainly teach Standard French. FWIW, I think that the differences are simply that Quebec uses a lot of old (like 17th Century) pronunciations, and a lot of distinct vocabulary, along with its own regional variations.

Consider learning Quebec French equivalent to teaching English exclusively by reading works from around the time of Shakespeare. You could probably get by but you need to adapt if you step out of that world. Walking around saying “thou” would get you strange looks for sure. We would read Quebec literature at school, but there was often new vocabulary.
It is in Go Lang which shares error handling philosophy with GP.
I think some culture deep sense of tradition is a way to cope. You inherit the past, you give it to your kids. It's no more a void on both ends if you carry the past along. Does it make sense?
> The police couldn't touch the protest for weeks not because of inaction but because your right to protest is a human right. They required the national emergency to remove our right to protest in order to label the protest illegal.

This is wholly incorrect. The Ottawa Police made a huge error at the beginning of the occupation, allowing the occupiers to entrench themselves in the city. Further disagreements in the police force and municipality extended the situation that all levels of government agreed was illegal from day 1.

This wasn't a protest, it was an illegal occupation.
Carl Icahn pressuring McDonald’s to improve welfare of pigs raised for meat
Calling the Canadian system robust is just detached from reality. Between the fact that quebec has not even signed the constitution yet, the opportunist and sometimes never ending elections, the total mess that is our constitution and charter... and your comment is in a thread where the government invoked an act that strips away almost all our charter rights and does away with due process. Do you not see the irony? That has never happened even in the USA.

I guess it's just natural for canadians to have this weird smug inferiority complex towards the US but you have to remember that our government admitted to committing a genocide (still ongoing) barely 2 years ago. Also on average even a majority government rarely gets more than 34% of the total votes. But I'm legimately curious as to what parts of our system you see as being so healthy?

Btw saying that the majority of canadians are not concerned at all about setting the precedent of suspending charter rights over a protest is just a complete self own if it was true and I don't think it is. Well at least I hope it isn't
Right, I see. That's not really possible imo. For things like mlops, sure. But model development, selection, evaluation? From what I've seen, it's exactly when engineers reach for standard tools without giving thought to how it applies to the given problem that they do a bad job.
Cool, looks very similar to https://github.com/m1k1o/neko
You can look at families and generations as a series of obligations, or as a series of pleasures and relationships. I've seen both sides, and I've come to recognize the value of relationships. It's selfish to think that you are independent and disconnected from other people, when the truth is that we are all part of a web of kinship, friendship, and relations. When you acknowledge and accept this life becomes much richer, more interesting, and more rewarding.
Same here. It's helpful insofar as any story can be helpful in the face of what we have to go through.

Interestingly enough, although my wife shares the same beliefs as me in terms of religion and God, the stories that resonate most with her from that show were the evocative ones about God and heaven. She told me that the science-based ones barely register to her at all, and almost not at all on an emotional level. As I heard the other character describe her idea of heaven, I too feel the pull of those descriptions. There's a part of me that agrees with the character when he says, after listening to her speech, wiping away tears, "I really hope you're right."
Yeah no. Already have a heavy load and my life is already F'd enough, I can't be putting any more rocks into my load by amplifying attention on me in any way thanks. Plus a guy six months out still has a lot of mental issues, not back to being human yet :) A year living in a space smaller than an elevator with another person, a bunk bed, and desk with no out time because COVID doesn't help. On the plus side when you read the same magazine cover to cover 50 or so times you get a different take on it and feel expert enough to spout nonsense about it :)
Legal businesses, receiving much larger individual payments from a limited number of clients.

> It makes a difference because there's more than just you and the KYC exchanges reporting, and it's survivor bias to assume they appear the same.

Exchanges are usually the least of your problems, it’s the banks.

Even very high risk businesses don’t face scrutiny which isn’t easily overcome when all of your incoming payments are anonymous and untraceable. It’s really not hard to create a fake ecommerce business that would be entirely indistinguishable from a real one.
But then people forget that the bugs back then were just as bad as today, you would get crashes literally every 15 minutes, and some were hilariously malicious - Pool of Radiance (late 90's version) would straight up nuke your C:\ drive if you uninstalled it from the non-default location.
>back in the days of Jim Crow it was sometimes possible for a particular "black" person to become legally "white" just by crossing state lines.

The "One drop rule' says you are wrong.
Ada exceptions are fundamentally different from C++ since they only carry type data with a possible message and no other user-defined data.

Old school C++ used to have additional try/catch blocks (and performance hit) inserted to ensure that functions match the given exception signature. Also, C++ usually focuses on performance, so all of the bookkeeping required for exceptions could historically be the last 3% or so difference between making your FPS rate or not.
If you can afford it, it's not a bad idea to take a vacation.

And if you keep seeing unrealistic deadlines at work, just go somewhere else. It's extremely hard to get someone to treat you the right way.

It's much easier to find someone else, and this can go for a manager, friends, partners, etc.

Is this the only job where you have this issue, maybe taking a lower paid role where you're no longer a lead would be better. The idea of being a manager of any sort horrifies me to no end.
A world where energy consumption increases by a factor of 10,000 is a far fetched fantasy. If we're starting with such premises, should they not be followed?
>It leads to the current situation where you have C++ "the language" which is everything, and then C++ "the subset that everyone uses" where that subset constantly changes with time and development context.

But what exactly is wrong with that? I don't quite understand your argument here..
Steam provides a massive CDN infrastructure, SDK / API integrations for all kinds of things, release manager etc. Plus just being on their ecosystem helps sales too. I personally can't stand any other game launchers and just wish I could get everything on Steam.
That’s funny you mention the freedom convoy article. I thought Wikipedia was pretty unbiased until I read that article the other day. It’s incredibly biased against the truck drivers.
Which rights were stripped of citizens exactly?
That's based on the pretty big assumption that there's a lot of under-utilized hardware being slaved to some central government authority, which by definition it probably isn't.

I would bet more on cloud infrastructure providers being able to do better than nation-states in a CPU takeover of an ASIC-resistant network like Monero.

Motivations aside, it still comes down to cost though, and without any handwaving, Monero just isn't that important to take over.
Pretty good anthology of info here, but, no commits in over a year ?
> But there's a design pattern where nearly everything is returned as an exception.

shudder The worst of cargo cults!
Very nice! I would add a section on "How to get help on terminal" and discuss manpages, the -h / -help flags, info / pinfo pages and the /usr/share/doc location.
Laws exist they were just not enforced until the act was called.
Which is consistent with what I said: It is not stressful to many. I did not claim it didn't stress some people out.
I’m not saying that at all.

I am saying that protest by its nature is supposed to be disruptive on some level, and laws prohibit the type of disruptive behaviour typical of a protest clearly don’t apply _if_ you have a right to protest.

Blocking roads and occupying public spaces are some of the most fundamental features of a protest, so if you have a right to protest, then you certainly have a right to do that within the context of a protest.

If a protestor decides to commit a crime during their protesting, like destroying property, arson, assault… then they should still have full criminal liability for that. Nobody is disagreeing with you on that point. To me it seems you are simply trying to invent some contention out of nothing, in order to fit your view that the entire protest itself is illegal.
I'm not sure the API docs are publicly accessible?
What are advantages of doing all those steps using Monero instead Fiat?
I understand that you can hide your trances but if you buy legits things, who cares?
How does moving the border 100 or 150 km west make it more defensible?
I see. Sorry! I got excited and went in founder mode — for a moment I thought you had a problem we could solve for you :)

Thank you for stressing the importance of accessibility. We're really impressed with the quality of the questions so far.
The context seems to age fairly well. So even if you're not current, you're only missing that most recent piece.

Vs online journalism doesn't seem to have the skill, or make the effort, to effectively set the news of the day in a well-summarized background.
I'm very excited about Chalk. Quoting from the page:

Chalk is a reimplementation of Rust's trait system using declarative logic rules, à la Prolog.

Chalk has been years in development, and has been experimentally integrated into rustc in the past. This year, jackh726 and nikomatsakis own the task of improving the chalk integration, to drive it to the point where the team can consider migrating to chalk as the implementation of the trait system. This will unlock many features that up until now have been too difficult to implement in the old trait system implementation, and its declarative structure will provide a proper foundation for people to reason about the correctness of the trait system.

Also, it's nice to see that compilation speed is being worked on!
> you conflate value and price here

I'm not doing that. I'm pointing out that the author of this paper is doing that. He is assuming that everything of value is captured in the GDP, i.e., in money spent. But as you acknowledge, this is false, and that invalidates his argument.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

The Jevons paradox does not say things don't become cheaper when their cost of production is reduced. So it is not an argument against the statement of mine that you were responding to here.

Also, if we are talking about life-essential resources like food (or air), which was what I was talking about in the comment you responded to here, the Jevons paradox is of limited applicability if it applies at all, because demand for such resources is constrained. Even if food were free, people would not eat an unlimited amount of it, any more than they now breathe an unlimited amount of air because air is free. The most important factor driving an increase in total consumption of such resources is population increase, so if population levels off, the resources consumed for these life-essential things will be naturally limited no matter how cheap they become.
Surprisingly, Disney figured this out for movies with their "Movies Anywhere" service, powered by something they call KeyChest. You create a "Movies Anywhere" account, and then link digital stores (iTunes, Prime Video, Vudu) to that account. All movies that you purchased from participating studios then appear on all of the linked stores.

It actually works quite well. I can purchase a movie on the Roku Movie Store (powered by Vudu) and have it appear as purchased on my Apple TV with iTunes, and all of the big studios are members so not that many films are missing.

You also now get a Movies Anywhere code in the box of most Blu-ray purchases, which works exactly like you would expect and appears on all the stores as if it were a Roku or Apple TV purchase. (Ultraviolet codes are grandfathered in if you have any of those.)
Ansible & k8s:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/scenario_guides/kube...

ansible-collections/kubernetes.core:
https://github.com/ansible-collections/kubernetes.core

geerlingguy/ansible-for-kubernetes book:
https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-for-kubernetes

openshift/openshift-ansible:
https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible
It's a system set up with "here's where the American system gets screwy" hindsight available, though. The two systems are cousins, not identical twins.
Subsidizing any industry is always bad for economy (because you are shifting money taken from good businesses to bad ones), it's just that the amount of subsidies given to corn industry, or even amount that can be given to chip manufacturing are nothing compared to US GDP. Try make that a general rule across the whole economy and see what happens.

"Modern socialist ideas" are basically the same ideas that were already tried in Soviet Union, just dressed in fancier words.
If a site makes it time out after 5-10 minutes that's on them.

An hour should be ample time for it to be delivered while offering a decent amount of security around token availability, especially since it should be revoked as soon as it's been used once.
What are the hurdles to electrifying a home? Contractors and experts weigh in
We have a slogan in our pod: "Love is a Dangerous Game"

If you develop an attachment with somebody, even if you have banished any hostility and eliminate sadistic tendencies, even if you never get angry at them , even if you are completely dedicated to see, hear and understand them, even if you could avoid the inevitable accidents that make people feel unmirrored, you would still hurt them by leaving -- no matter if it is breaking up, drifting away, or "death do us part".

It's still a game worth playing.
Not a bad thing. One becomes an expert in one niche domain (I wouldn't say COBOL is niche but you know) and comfortable sit on top of it. One can just work maybe 15, 20 years and retire early.
That's a fair question, but to be honest, I've not looked at that angle at all.

I will see if I can in my copious free time </ironic> but at present I'm trying to work out how to run it under DOSemu...
Will you vote for him again? Will other Republicans?

Assuming you think that as bad as Parsons is for this, the Democrat opponent is worse - what is the process in Missouri for replacing Parsons on the Republican side of the ballot in the next election?