skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Learning a language is difficult when there is little to no mapping with previous languages

This is very similar to human language. Spanish is much easier than Japanese for English speakers. One of my biggest college missteps was not taking Spanish and getting my easy C.

As for programing, I love high level stuff, like C# and JavaScript. I've never been able to grasp Rust or C++.
> I'm presuming it's a level in the French proficiency measurement system.

Not quite, no. The system is linked in the first paragraph:

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

it begins at A1. So "A0" is just word play for "I know nothing", no exam necessary ;-).
Voters in fact did not get rid of Bush. Unless you mean HW.
Isn't a laptop just a computer integrated into a keyboard, plus a detachable screen?

Personally: I'd rather have a laptop with a detachable screen; or some kind of clamshell I could slip the keyboard into.
Two new ways of extracting lithium from brine
Could be targeting library or desktop business uses cases?

There is no reason why it cant be squeezed down to $299. Basically the iPad ( $329 ) without screen. Or more like with A14 but $399.

Cool idea, the problem is I still dont understand where the target market are, the two above doesn't seems very Apple to me. There are ~700M business PC ( both laptop and desktop ), I would imagine this is attractive enough for Apple to make exception.
> Ironically, in the case of Ukraine, it's the US who turns a blind eye to the neonazis.

No, it doesn't. There simply aren't any in positions of significant policy influence. (The US has—although that has changed a little bit since Jan. 6, 2021 for...reasons—historically largely turned a blind eye to the much more extensive influence of neonazis in the US, where they have, among other things, deep and extensive peentration of the internal and external security services, which is one reason the US has been especially vulnerable to their use as international agents of influence by Russia under Putin.)
Given what we know about YT’s gameable enforcement mechanisms, probably the former.
The confusing, overlapping MacBook lineup at various times is at odds with this assessment, I'd have thought.
A livestream about watching Kiev livestream to demo how long it takes for the account to get banned should be interesting.
Our cards won't change in the next few days. If playing them now or a few days ago wouldn't have stopped Putin, why do you think those same cards would work better once Putin has gone even further and owns Kyiv?
> Expressing disapproval against people behind the facts, and not merely the facts, is important.

The platform is in a position to actually help beyond denouncing but they abstain. It is lip service nothing more.
Did 20 months in federal for selling cannabis. Also spent time in solitary. Conditions are far worse than you could imagine. Also, many prisons are functionally solitary so the 4% number is way low.

The economic networks in prisons are wild, and of course there are incentives for guards to participate.

Not only are there massive number of cell phones in prisons, there are cell phones in solitary because the guards smuggle them in.

Capitalism, what a thing, eh?

AMA
Thanks to the Woodpecker team for making an Open-Source CI that's not a nightmare to deploy (I'm looking at you, Concourse)
You don't remove people from a project for being wrong about whether a proposed feature works in the syntax. That's silly.
The quadratic formula is a nice toy exercise in learning some of the pitfalls of floating point numbers.
Apollo workstations and DomainOS were ahead of the competition and implemented many great ideas. Unfortunately, all of this was killed when hp purchased Apollo in 1989.

Other hp casualties:

- TI's computer division in 1992 (TI990 16-bit minis, S1500 680x0 Unix multiprocessor servers and Explorer Lisp machines)

- Tandem NonStop systems (via the Compaq acquisition)

- DEC Alphas (also via Compaq)

- Palm and WebOS

...and probably a lot more which I don't remember right now. It's so sad...
Be careful out there S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Thank you for writing this, I usually write what you do.

I am French and this genuinely strikes me in the context of a document that has some value. I saw thesame with the word negro, in a document about the history of this word.

This honestly sounds childish when reading a whole ar**le with sta**ed words.

Of course I understand that the word can be used as a slur. And do what? It was used by someone who apparently does not care, but reporting this fact is supposed to hide it from our delicate ears?

I genuinely fail to understand it.
UCI
I have come across this before, searching for a particular problem but not finding the relevant Github issue in google's search results, which made me search using Github's own search functionality inside the relevant repo to find what I'm looking for. I'm not sure why google wouldn't be indexing Github issues though
I'd rather leave the internet
That's the big thing with me as well. I would comfortably say I'm at a B2 level, but the french from native speakers in casual conversation is so fast sometimes. It gave me a new appreciation for how fast I probably speak english.
I don't buy anything pre-made, generally. If it's not seed oil it's HFCS or some other garbage ingredient. I 98% just buy ingredients themselves. The bread I buy is whole wheat and I've just confirmed that it does not have seed oils.

The thing is, I'd like to stress that I don't go out of my way to do this or expend much extra effort. It's not a burden to eat a potato instead of a cup ramen or something. People just don't care about their health and buy every trash food they see.
Yeah. I had four years of high school French and was in maybe the top 25% of the class (barely). But I've never spent any appreciable time in France and, even when I was at my best, was maybe "OK" for written French and thoroughly mediocre for spoken French. So the idea that it just takes a bit of dedicated effort to get very good is not true broadly.

I realized on my last trip to Paris with a friend that I know a lot more than someone who has never studied the language at all but it's still pretty bad.
suggestion: remove the audio.
Show HN: A Minecraft server startup system written in C++20
YouTube, where oppressive regimes decide what you can watch.

I'm sure this is top priority right now for Google to fix. But perhaps everything is automated to an extent that this has no good countermove. We shall see.
The best real application of compressed sensing (that I know of) is subsampled reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging.

MR scanners actually sample data from the frequency spectrum to build a visible image by using several techniques involving electromagnetic fields and pulses that are applied to some organic body. One could think of it like taking a picture of the Fourier Transform of the actual image you want to see, to which you later take the inverse FT and get the image.

This is done "pixel-by-pixel" where each of them is a specific sample of an specific set of frequencies, and for each of them a different set of physical parameters need to change in the scanner, a process that takes some non-negligible time. As we would like to have big pictures with lots of details we need to do this as fast as we can, but there are physical limitations on the scanner and the actual scanned region (we can't have a person lying still for hours to get an image of their brain). So in order to get a good image we have to balance image quality and resolution with scan times.

Using compressed sensing, we can "skip" some of these pixels in some smart way (usually in some random fashion), and be able to reconstruct the image with virtually no loss of quality, there are some beautiful mathematical results that guarantee us that if the reconstructed image is sparse in some domain (e.g. organic images are usually sparse in DCT or several wavelet domains. This is actually what allows us to compress several megapixel images in a few megabytes without loss of percieved quality), you can reconstruct the image with no theoretical loss of information.
Think of it like having to guess an image from a subset of its pixels. If I tell you that it can be any possible image, you won't be able to guess anything until I give you all its pixels. But if I tell you that the image is of a cat, you'll maybe need half, or a quarter of the pixels and then you can start guessing some of the missing pixels, as you know how cats look like.

In a practical sense, this techniques have allowed us to generate high quality MR images with an incredibly low subset of the samples (10% or even less). In my opinion it is one of the most beautiful applications of a theoretical mathematical result in a real life problem with real impact.

If you want to see some more information about it you should check this presentation from Terrence Tao on the topic https://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/compressed-sens...
Raph’s work has been immensely interesting for me over the past few months as I’ve become interested in 2d rendering. He has an immense amount of references littered throughout his different blogs and repos, and it has been a wonderful experience (trying) to fully understand the simpler parts of modern/next-gen 2d rendering.

I’m excited to see results of innovation in this area, but the fact that he (and others like pcwalton, nical, etc) are making things like incremental updates and blog posts with supporting images and pseudo code available to us is just fantastic.

Thank you, Raph. I’ve had so much fun exploring your work on font-rs, and on Piet. I hope one day I’ll be able to move past tinkering and actually pitch in and help, thanks to your fantastic write ups and docs.
Building fear in the West.
>Not to mention a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be almost trivially easy for the US to stop.

What if they Putined their way into Taiwan? "We are going to invade, if you stop us it's nuke time". Would the US risk a nuke on their head for Taiwan?
Had to go search for it, but YC funded a company - https://www.70millionjobs.com - that focuses on felon-friendly companies hiring.
Yeah, I just don't get it linking properly and didn't want to edit the post a third time. :) So thanks a bunch, kind person!

It's a pleasure, have fun with it.
You hold a position to launch attacks from that are hard to counter attack.

Setup your artillery there and they can’t just shell the area back out of fear of causing a nuclear disaster.

IMO, the UN should have stepped in and taken control of the nuclear zone. There is a global risk here.
But pthread_cancel isn't exposed in the Rust standard library! It's marked unsafe in libc, as it should be.
Does CORS security work on the client side response data? The server should still receive the load, right?
You would hope that invading Ukraine would also be understood as risking a world War. But clearly that would be a misunderstanding.
This looks like an awesome resource, thanks for sharing!

Question: at the point my impression is that Rust is the consensus best overall systems programming language (assuming you’re starting something new). Is that just me or so others share that perception?

I’ve mostly done high level programming in my career but have wanted to eventually move into some barebones hardware stuff for fun. So I’m curious if Rust really is the best way to go these days (versus my old assumption that I should try to master C).
It's definitely for me -- I'd love one, if it has a built-in Magic Trackpad and if the small high def portable monitor market can catch up.
Unification of Moldova and Romania
That's what a german expert explained. Those tanks rolling by are heavy. And they went directly by the plant, and not on the other side of the river.

It cannot be the sarkophagus, because then the numbers would be much higher.
It'd make very little difference for anyone else if you get yourself arrested just because. Besides, he's done his part. Why require your heroes to continue working for you after their first act of heroism? That seems unfair.
Beware that this script only uses rsync with the "--archive" flag.

This may be enough for some users, but "--archive" does not copy all file metadata, so it may cause surprises.

rsync must be invoked with "--archive --xattrs --acls" to guarantee complete file copies.

Unfortunately all command-line utilities for file copying that are available for UNIX-like operating systems use default options that do not copy most file metadata and they usually need many non-default flags to make complete file copies.

Nevertheless, rsync is the best of all alternatives, because when invoked correctly it accurately copies all file metadata even between different file systems and different operating systems, in cases when other copying utilities may lose some file metadata without giving any errors or warnings for the users.
You 'chose' only two stars for the missing word :-)
Believe it or not men actually make better soldiers for the physical stuff at least, and therefore there is a historical and just evolutionary reaction in times of war that men go and defend their country. Denying this is like denying sexual attraction.

When your country is attacked families are seperated, people die, and fucked up things happen. But if you don't defend your country you are guaranteed to lose and be overrun and be ruled by a maniac dictator. So there's your choice.

I find your position ridiculous and clearly from someone who's never experienced war or even heard about it from parents and grandparents. I have. You can forget about your equality crap and avoiding "inhumanity" and being concerned about the mental health of families.

That doesn't matter when a russian tank rolls down your street. What matters is your survival and your country's survival.
Agreed, it was a metaphor and not really meant as a call for physical damage that would (presumably) later have to be fixed again anyway. I should have written that more clearly.
If you keep the pipes running, they might not freeze. It's also usually not too difficult to drain the majority of the pipes depending on the plumbing design.
RT shares anti-Ukraine, pro-war propaganda. It’s Russia’s news agency
How was RISC-V for setting up the toolchain? ESP32 was a bit confusing (I'm also a Rust newbie) and AVR/Arduino is stuck on an old version (2021-01-07) due to a bug.
Yes, it is pretty annoying if someone posts a .7z.001 file on usenet. You can't peek inside. You can't even see if it's password protected until you downloaded the whole thing.
Do you have an example site that shows this problem?
From the government's perspective he was fleeing the US with stolen classified information. What do you think the government should do?
> Turn off the news and step outside to interact with real people. The situation is much nicer when you’re not letting a 24/7 stream of news and hot takes teleport your attention to whatever the worst event in the entire world happens to be at the current moment.

I go outside a lot. I don't watch the news, I watch people. Have you seen people in the past 2 years? Do you think they are acting normally? Were they always insane?

Do you also think that there is a planned reset going on? One that involves us moving to technocracy? With govcoins (aka UBI), bio-medical-security-id, energy rationing, etc.

Does the stock market meaningfully relate to reality? Does crypto? Did you know that Western governments have the ability to seize people's wealth from their banks, like in Canada?

My view is that the preppers sounded crazy then to me, but sound a lot less now. I reckon in 5 years time, they will appear to be modern sages.
Happens quite a bit when you post on weekends/public holidays - sometimes folks just miss the content that day.
Yes, inaction always supports the status quo.
> Yeah, AGPL is the thing you want now to dissuade commercial use in SaaS.

The thing is, AGPL allows commercial use just fine, it only disallows proprietary use.

The fact that companies are dissuaded from making commercial use by being prevented from putting a proprietary moat around the software is really an indictment of those companies.

Heck, you can even make AGPL software a bit more friendly for commercial enhancements if you want by granting an exception for plugins the way some GPL software does, but those same companies would probably still be dissuaded.
Chernobyl has a nice road that happens to be the shortest road between Kyiv the Ukraine capital and Russia. It also still has several active reactors only 1 of them melted down so that gives some strategic merit byt the road is 99% of it.
A better link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/twitter-admits-i...

From the sound of it, it seems that the Russian botnet is busy gaming all major social media sites.

YouTube/Google have a similar situation on their hands:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467384
That reminds me of the saying:

Languages are (best) learned in the cradle or in bed

(no idea where I heard it first)
This has happened way too frequently and in distinct cases to keep pretending 'it's just incompetence/ignorance'. By the time people realize it's more akin to malevolence it will sadly be too late.

I now propose an updated motto: "Don't be evil: just look away."
Even if you don't want to write a small OS, or don't want to learn rust, this is still an excellent resource for people wanting to learn about low-level OS and hardware details.
>>At this point, neither intervention nor non-intervention is likely to prevent this. It's entirely likely that if Putin loses this assault, or faces an intractable insurgency, he could launch nukes out of a desperate attempt to save face. He's old — at this point, only the reputation he leaves behind is what matters to him, and it's clear that he wishes to be remembered as a fearful and powerful figure. What better way to do that than nuking someone?

I do agree that if he's pushed against the wall he can nuke one Ukrainian city saying it was the hideout of the rebels or whatever, effectively sending a message that he's not afraid to use nuclear weapons, without directly attacking a NATO state. I can only assume that at that point whatever is left of Ukrainian government would voluntarily step down to prevent further destruction.

You're right that he's a madman, and any sort of logical strategy just doesn't apply here.
Other comments mention some sources, here are two more:

- EU-EC JRC - Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring - https://remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Advanced.aspx (not granular enough to detect anything)

- SafeCast - https://map.safecast.org/?y=51.361&x=30.123&z=11&l=0&m=0 (does detect high levels right now)
An interesting company in this space is LifeMine Therapeutics. My understanding is that they have a large collection of fungi genomes. They apply bioinformatics techniques to search for genes encoding metabolic pathways that produce biologically active molecules. Fungi metabolism produces some truly wild chemicals, which, as the article mentions, include some of the most important medicines we have ever discovered. Penicillin is the classic example.

Personally, I was totally enthralled learning about this approach. Using artificial brains to scour the life essence of fungi to discover ancient, mysterious compounds that heal disease. It's like a scifi/fantasy subplot that gets cut because it sounds strained.

https://lifeminetx.com/
Flash freezing is required by the FDA for eaten raw seafood no matter how fresh it is. It has been since the 90s I think. Flash freezing is used throughout the world on most seafood these days sans a few old school Japanese institutions.

Because everything undergoes flash freezing in the boat anyways, 8 hours or 8 days isn’t going to matter much.
A lot of people in Europe and the UK are already struggling to pay bills. It's been described as "eat or heat", since some can't afford to do both. Rising cost of living, reduced job security, and lower wages are all killing tens-of-thousands of people already.

https://www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk/about-fuel-poverty/
It happened to me also, not just for GitHub, but also Stack Overflow. I no longer rely on Google, and search the sites directly.

Sometimes I can't find anything non-commercial. For instance, I wanted to find out where the phrase "milk and honey" comes from. Googling it only yields a book for sale. But a Wikipedia search for it, which is one click away in Firefox, gives me this page [0] which is exactly what I wanted to know.

Looks like Google no longer acts on the mission to organize the world's information, but focuses on making money.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_Honey
For starters, regarding live streams, the Ukraine government doesn't want citizens filming what is happening because it might give away positions of the Ukraine defenders as they attempt to maneuver in Kyiv, so that could be one motivation.
On the other hand, the incentives on Youtube are the other way around. No matter how complex an issue, "these 5 tricks will make you lose weight" or "avoid these 3 foods and you'll be as ripped as me" are what gets the most clicks. And is always total crap.

Much better, eh?
I would say C1 is what I consider the level to tell that you have learned a language.
Nato dropping the ball here. The west is weak. Won't right for its principles, only to sustain its addictions
No, it was left in an ambiguous position after the Bucharest Summit in 2008 as Germany and France opposed its membership. As of now it can’t join because of the territorial dispute in Crimea, which is probably one of the reasons Russia invaded Crimea back in 2014. It’s not hard to imagine a similar fate awaits Finland if it continues to remain neutral.
Yeah, but that's about "normal" for what they have been doing with YouTube and account security for the last 10-15 years.

It's incredibly difficult to reach a human being in their customer support chain, and using bots to take out rival / oponent / people you don't like YouTube channels has been "normal" for years.

Anyone can literally create a few fake Google accounts (or take over / steal existing ones esp. long-running ones) and write a bot to ban practically anyone else.
> That site is suspect. The "radiation map" page did not seem to exist before today: https://web.archive.org/web/20220224230609/https://www.savee...

Just because it wasn't in the Archive.org's archive doesn't mean it didn't exist. Many websites are not indexed until someone links to them (shocker), and since no one really cared too much about Chernobyl until yesterday/today, it's not that weird that they (Archive.org) didn't come across the website until today.
That removes fear in the West in the context of battles raging around it. Russia has enormous nuclear capabilities, they don't need Chernobyl for anything other than to secure it from being used against them in some manner (whether stunt propaganda, or some kind of radiation threat). Chernobyl being secured by Russia relieves that risk for the West.
America is a huge country. Europe is huge as well, it’s not surprising that there are regional differences in our diet, and trying to generalize is always going to tick someone off.
Patents like this definitely get granted, all the time, and at scale. Have a look at one of the international patent classes they are using -- google other patents in that class.

They are seemingly a way to register a product's technical design for protection, rather than an outrageous fictitious claim of innovation over something that has been around 40 years. They contain unusually detailed (rather than abstracted) sketches, they contain some very specific measurements in specific claims.

I think some of the more egregious uses of patents in the past have blinded us to the sheer scale of the use of the international patent system to protect designs from copycats and to allow companies to develop unique design languages.

I think we may often misunderstand why patent claims are structured as they are with seemingly obvious introductory claims. It's because a patent has to be self-contained, as far as I understand it at least?