skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! With advanced protection you get enforced security keys, recovery only through admins, enforced safe browsing in Chrome. It's a nice way to get a bunch of improved controls in one shot.

Would be nice if Google allowed enforcing it with a grace period for new accounts though!
I was watching live streams from Ukraine on TikTok last night. No problems.
Awesome list, thanks
While an interesting use of applied RL, in some sense isn't this just another way to cast the compression/compute tradeoff? I.e. can't we just achieve the same effects by using another compression scheme which trades off local compute for better compression?

Running MuZero online sounds like a fairly computationally expensive prospect...
They managed to pretty well identify when you are quietly singing some song and claim all revenue from your videos, I am sure they can handle basic bots.
NATO will not come to Sweden's or Finland's aid. I am willing to wager. Europe will hold discussions and issue strongly worded announcements with their displeasure while Putin rains missiles down on Helsinki.

Ukraine is defending all of Europe at this moment. Pray for her.
It seems like people with skills and ambitions don’t want to work with search. The search feature of Github is also garbage. The ranking is ridiculously bad. Stackoverflow search is also a joke. Almost forgot about the docs at MS. Clone and use a tool to find in files for MS docs will beat the MS docs sites. Also, I challenge anybody to write a serious version of find in files on Windows that is slower than the native one.

My tip is to try to avoid searching. Ask yourself where the information may be located. Then try to find that location if you do not already know it.
Robert Laszlo Kiss on YouTube is very good. You gotta know the basics of perspective (single point, two point ans three point perspective) to advance in drawing / painting.
Everything is a box in perspective. Then you fill in the details from there.
Recently, comment sections of popular YT videos are littered with bots spamming links accompanied by phrases like 'hot girls' and '18+ only'. They're everywhere, and this really doesn't strike me as an inherently hard problem to solve.

(In fact, I wonder who these spammers are targeting. Surely the average YT user is smart enough to recognize blatant spam?)
There's also Fantastic Fungi (2019), which is on Netflix (at least where I am in Australia)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxABOiay6oA

Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom offers us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.
Notice that the same page says that the Earth's crust contains 20 parts per million of lithium. That's more abundant than tin or lead, to name two rarer elements that are currently mined in much larger quantities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

Here's the USGS lithium report from 2010 that this Stanford web page got lithium reserve and resource numbers from: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/prd-wret/assets/palladium...

Here's the corresponding USGS lithium report from this year: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2022/mcs2022-lithium.pd...

See the tables "World Mine Production and Reserves" in these reports and following paragraphs.

From the 2010 report to the current report, world lithium resources went up from 25.5 million tons to 89 million tons even as extraction rates rose from 18,000 tons per year to 100,000 tons per year. That alone brings us up to 37 billion Nissan Leafs.

How can resources go up even as we're using lithium faster? It's because reserves and resources are determined by a combination of economics and technology. The Earth's crust contains 20 ppm of lithium now and 12 years ago (or a million years ago, for that matter). The geology doesn't change but the effort put into identifying potential sources of lithium and means of extracting and purifying lithium does change. Geologically speaking, the Earth has a lot of lithium. For as long as the USGS has been keeping records -- only a few decades, admittedly -- world lithium reserves have been increasing faster than they have been depleted, because the industrial demand that causes reserve depletion also spurs additional research to identify potential lithium sources and extraction processes. This Economist article is about such new processes.
Author here, didn’t expect to see this here again after two years!

I guess I’ll give a quick update on how things have been since this article was written. I haven’t used or studied French much since then, and have gotten quite rusty, though I’ve had a few conversations fully in French in the last few months and can still maintain a conversation. I have been thinking of picking up French again soon, as traveling to a French speaking country becomes more of an option.

I also did roughly the same thing with my Spanish in the following year, with similar results, though I’d say I probably reached a solid B1.5 or weak B2 after a year (due to COVID I was unable to take the proficiency test and lost some motivation to continue studying to a high level as a result.)

My recommendations are still largely the same, though I haven’t used these resources (e.g. Duolingo) since I stopped studying a while back. And as others have noted, for other languages, particularly those that are less closely related to English (e.g. Japanese), you’ll have to follow a different path to achieve the same proficiency. However, language learning resources are getting better constantly, so you can certainly still learn quite a lot without total, in-person immersion, as I did!
More and more I start to believe most of communications are really noise to make the less aggressive camp pause and think if this makes sense at all, while the other camp marches on.
My chemistry teacher had a similar acronym for remembering which of the anode and cathode where positive and negative.

Penises are not cunts.
Interesting that democracy is “to the brink of collapse” due to individual people expressing their thoughts on technological platforms. Either this is an exaggeration or maybe there are other reasons for the “collapse” like bad actors in government (not regular citizens) providing false information and trying to manipulate the citizens.
Yes, you are and no, they aren’t good people. They are complicit in fascism of Russia. Please pass it on to them - they are sincerely hated and should be ashamed. Unless of course they’ve been protesting and striking.
Yeah I just lost my business banking and can't anymore get payments from the states. But, most Russians support war, I don't care about them and ok with small inconvenience.
Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read on Negotiation?
If you had to gift a single book on Negotiation, what would it be?
Probably “Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists”: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/
They are also relatively easily gained.

The hard stuff is the stuff you don’t even know you need to ask about because everyone thinks it’s “common sense” without realising that’s just shorthand for “stuff I was taught without realising I was taught”.
My understanding is that the US is okay doing it.

The ones that are blocking this are Germany and Italy. Even France (where I am) said okay, even though our economic interests in Russia are quite big (I read that France companies are in total one of the largest foreign employer in Russia, la Société Générale owns a big Russian bank, and some of our energy companies have interest in Russia).True we don't depends as much on the gas.

Germany, I'm so disappointed in you :(
> That... seems like a mistake.

It's not a “mistake”, it's the central point. Ukraine is leverage, not the end goal. The end goal is a vast Russian-dominated sphere of influence covering all of Europe in proximity to the borders of Russia (even as Putin also expands those borders.)

I mean, yes, the whole strategy leads nowhere but disaster, with only the scope and timescale on dsipute, but this isn't like something that started aimed at a manageable little imperial conquest and then lost focus and got carried away in error; the broader goal has been telegraphed in Putin’s demands and speeches.
They are an internet company. This is how internet companies work, generate such high profits, and command such high valuations.

Businesses which scale by hiring are much harder to grow and tend to be a lot less profitable. As a result, internet companies tend to see such businesses as not worth being in. Sure, there are lots of successful companies which operate this way, but Google sees it as an unacceptably high opportunity cost. Rather than pour resources into growing a scale by hiring business, they would rather put the resources toward a different business that they think they can scale with non-linear hiring.

Given this, it surprises me that Google is going after the enterprise cloud business. It is pretty well known that such businesses scale fairly linearly with sales and support staff. My understanding is that they know this and are attempting to scale the business this way instead of their usual strategy of ignoring the issue and hoping it will go away.
For founders who do not have a network the best bet is come to the table with paying customers and a pipeline. It is hard to deny growth and success.

Do a lot of outreach trying to get someone to see the numbers and open the door to talk.
I think that this is a situation where "when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns."

Requiring real world identities to post online had a number of chilling effects on speech online.

- LGBTQ people were outed after having their online persona linked to their real world identity.

- People who need to maintain strong personal/professional life separations have been outed (ex: Slate Star Codex)

- People have had their lives upended by being part of an angry community (ex: Blizzards RealID caused revealing peoples identity to the gamer community. Love my games but wow does that community love doxxing and sometimes SWATing)

- It has not prevented spam / trolls / people being hateful online (ex: Nextdoor)

This has been a long standing conflict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars). The UKs opinion has always been one of providing as much information as possible to the government for questionable purposes. This is the same government which constantly wants to backdoor encryption so that they can spy on citizens at any time.
Not for learning, but for practice I made this little site:

https://daily-drawing-prompt.vercel.app/

It gives you a daily drawing prompt to practice.
Syria had/has combat videos. I think that was the first to happen while it was ubiquitous. It did not make it any less intense or terribly.
It did, they destroyed an airport in Russia with a ballistic missile strike.

But Russia seem to have destroyed most of Ukraine's ballistic missiles without them firing a shot.

Poor readyness, and lack of serious attitude did cost Ukraine the golden 30 minutes.
Degradation of food? Housing? Do you know what people ate when Bach was alive? Or in what conditions most people lived?
It's not just 100 years old.

It's over 1000 years old and it evolved from nothing to what we have.

It's very weird that you ignore history like this.

You should read up on Spain, silver, gold, china and tons of other history regarding tender.

What we have with fiat is your very well working monolith fine tuned over centuries while everyone who wants to make money of of you tells you why their Nanoservice with security holes and no features is so much better.
Chris Voss – Never Split The Difference
Not entirely true, liaisons---and the rules around them---make part of any half-decent French curriculum. But liaisons are only one part of the "dropping/concatenating" in spoken French, the other part being accents. Accents can obfuscate speech terribly, but detecting accents can only come by with practice and exposure [in the wild] to regional varieties of FR.

The thing that made liaisons much more clear for me was bucketing them by: optional, forbidden, and required.
>I think I like this rule in a sense that it will stop intolerant people from creating mess. T

There could be better solutions then sending your ID to Facebook. Like limit posting or sharing for accounts that you suspect are bots, apply the terms of service if the post is against that, put limits on new accounts so their posts don't spread.
Elections have consequences but electors sometimes need to come face to face with those who bear the consequences to remember that.
Tell HN: We should show "No to War" banners on our websites
Sanctions will do a lot, but our community have a lot of power too.

This would be very similar to when the Black Lives Matter movement happened in US, collectively added banners on our websites about the movement.

I think this is the least we can do.

If anyone is open to collab on creating something like a no-war.js or similar to add a simple banner on websites, please ping me on @reimertz on twitter.

edit: tweaked idea regarding redirect / block of russian visitors after some feedback.
> misinformation from anonymous actors has pushed democracy to the brink of collapse

If voters in a democracy are basing their votes on random stuff they read on Facebook or Twitter, the problem isn't misinformation. There is no way to have any platform for distributing information that is guaranteed to only distribute the truth. Any responsible adult should be aware of that and should apply critical thinking to whatever information they see, no matter where it comes from.
The decision doesn't contradict the _purpose_ of NATO, which is a fairly straightforward military alliance. It does impact the _effectiveness_ of NATO, because one of its member states is economically dependent on a non-member state with a high likelihood of conflict.

Trump is saying that NATO shouldn't exist because of this intertwinement, and there's a sentiment going around that NATO caused the conflict by existing and forcing Putin's hand. Saying things like "the purpose of NATO is contradicted" plays into that narrative.
I’m merely relaying what I’ve heard from people who were there describe in interviews - that while they were protesting, they could not imagine the army turning on them, specifically underscoring the idea that this was the “people’s” army by brand or design, so we’re shocked when it happened. You’re saying there may have been incidents of insubordination - I wouldn’t doubt that, but not sure how it takes away from larger point. It’s evident that in the balance, the military did the job the ruling party asked them to do, in opposition to the lay people, not the other way around.
I find the opposite is true. Knowing a lot of hunters (and being one myself), I can say that they are intensely interested in their prey's thoughts, behavior, and feelings, certainly more so than the average person.

I increasingly see a world where meat eaters want to not just know where their meat comes from, but know exactly what animal it is they're eating and exactly how it lived and taking personal responsibility for its death. You see more people doing things like buying shares of a cow (and even visiting the cow in person to see how it's doing), or raising chickens in their backyard, etc. in my country.
I never read the sequels to Gateway and now I'm glad I didn't. Gateway is such a great novel, but it's unsurprising Pohl wanted to investigate more of the universe.
Katya – The Liberated Text Corpus with Scraping
The NSA targeting SWIFT is interesting because it's difficult to legally justify if one (or especially both) parties are US citizens. But spying on CIPS is exactly what the NSA is supposed to be doing. It's unlikely they are not.
IMO I think such acts only make the state stronger.

People will be “cheaper” buy. Votes will be cheaper. It only helps consolidate the wealth in the target country and makes the massez more reliant on large institutions and wealthy individuals.

I wish you best of luck in dealing with things to coms brother.
Several if not all of these companies actively censor content based on their own ideas of what does and does not constitute acceptable expressions of acceptable ideology. A healthy amount of contempt for them is fine.
Access to SWIFT is one of several economic tools which work together to limit and essentially “bleed out” the target economy. Although Russia acts like a big bully, their economy is relatively small (e.g. smaller GDP than Italy) which makes economic actions especially impactful (even if it will take a moment for them to fully reach their potential).
The "central directory" of a ZIP archive is at the end of the bitstream; so, yes, it's a consequence of the format.
> If the main objective is maximizing profits there can’t be a strong political agenda because with every shift in governance the way to maximize profit will also shift

Even more simply, companies like Facebook and Twitter are stuck in the middle if for no other reason than they can't lose either half of their audience.

They're happy if a few extremists peel off to their "free speech" platforms, because it's less headache for them and they don't have to worry about those platforms appealing to the mainstream. They themselves will obviously never do anything to lose the mainstream on either side.
Did you read the article? Even if you didn't - "Big tech" generally refers to... the big tech companies... several of which are mentioned by name in the article..and have trillion+ valuations...
Then you haven’t thought very deeply at all.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/please-dont-give-up-on...
Even that's an overreaction. Saying as someone who has moved out everything from Google, the best bet is to own your "identity" (domains, email address, & logins - don't use Google login), and backup your data (either in another cloud or locally in a Desktop/Laptop).

I use a throwaway Google account for YouTube as well, just in case.
On the other hand, Facebook has temporarily lifted its ban on the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian neo-nazi paramilitary group.

https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-ba...
I doubt this is intended as a real efficiency effort for YouTube, since anything that doesn't fit into their hardware-accelerated video compression framework isn't going to be economical for them.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3445814.3446723
Absolutely wrong. SWIFT is just a financial messaging system (secure email for banks). Transfers of USD anywhere in the world ultimately require messages to/from US banks. US regulations require that those messages disclose the ultimate payer and payee of every transfer, and US banks must follow US regulations and block transfers that violate US sanctions. US banks are free to use whatever communications channels they choose, but SWIFT is used for 99% of international transfers today. SWIFT has nothing to do with balance sheets and banks recognizing fund transfers.
Please read https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/please-dont-give-up-on...
Considering the Holdormor, I'd be fleeing too.

Life under Russian occupation doesn't sound like a good time. Still I don't see Ukraine winning this, plus even in peacetime you'll do better in Romania , Poland or Germany. At least from an economic point of view.

The best case scenario at this point is a ceasefire is declared, with Russian troops remaining in much of the East.

Even if the War ends today, still expect tons of refugees. Much of the economic base has already been destroyed. Given the option of fleeing West, being able to build a better, safer life... Or living under constant threat of another Russian invasion.

Which would you pick ?
Yes and no. That tool would simply unmask the text. If the text is not there to begin with, then there is nothing to unmask. So it depends on the programmer who creates the text in there. For me, since this was an obvious security hole, I always inherited base classes and created the real text to be kept somewhere else in memory. Still doable to be found with Cheat Engine for example, but harder by simply hovering Spy++ over it.
Zig build system internals
Where I was a single letter covered is K2, spice, whatever you want to call it is worth $1500 minimum.The inmate distributing it got $500 of that. Who knows where that $1000 went. And that was for K2, spice, a super crappy drug.
I emailed the CTO of a startup directly when I was in high school.

I was very respectful and humble in my request. Told him what I could offer and expressed that I wasn't in it "for a summer job". I really wanted to learn and just needed someone to give me a chance. In exchange I would write whatever code they needed.
There's a balancing act there. Open communications are strategic. However, bidirectional communication that can be used for cyberattacks is a weakness. I mean, how much citizen-to-citizen communication to Russians is worth compared to the cost and probability of a well-organized cyberattack.
" If all 30 NATO nations threatened to halt trade"

That would be effectivly the same as launching nuclear missiles? Mutual destruction economically.
Of course they are free to do so. Nobody has said they are not.

What people are saying is that they are cowards for doing so, and that they will from now on refuse to do business with them. As I am sure you can agree, they are free to do.
If you read HN comment threads you may come to the conclusion that tangential discussions are the norm.
I think language classes are in itself slow. Duolingo is a lot faster. After Duolingo you should read texts in the language (B1-B2 maybe) and then you will start being able to listen to arbitrary native speakers (which I don't think is practicable before C1).

French has plenty of difficulty in orthography and some in grammar. Maybe the grammar is slightly less complex than German, but only slightly. But I'd say for someone from another language that is easily overshadowed by prior experience in English or Spanish or similar.
What Putin Fears Most
Some historical context is probably needed that most non-Indians won't have. During the 1971 war between India and Pakistan, the US sent a carrier group from the Seventh fleet into the Bay of Bengal as a means to deter Indian invasion of what was then East Pakistan. The Soviet Union countered this move by sending a nuclear attack submarine into the Bay of Bengal to prevent freedom operation for the carrier group. The move apparently worked, and the carrier group backed off. India defeated Pakistan and East Pakistan became what is now the independent nation of Bangladesh. Hopefully, I have the historical facts right.

As to how the mere presence of a nuclear attack submarine can scare off an entire carrier group, I still don't understand. But then again I build web apps not submarines.
Then how is it a blockchain, or where does that power draw come from? Sounds more like git than like bitcoin if it doesn't have PoW, but git doesn't use a lot of energy. I'm confused.

(I'm using git here as a bit of a hyperbole to indicate something we all know as being a cryptographically linked list of things while clearly not requiring miners, currencies, or power-hungry infrastructure. Feel free to replace git with a better example if there is one, I'm not sure how to better differentiate between blockchain with and without consensus mechanism than this.)