skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not platforms though. A small part of them is a platform, but the rest is private entity with interests.
According to https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/historyclimate/weathera... they're blowing from the West to the East so it's blowing from Europe towards Pripyat, so at least there is that.
Why can't sites suitable FOR children opt in to saying they are, and then really prosecuting any website that makes this claim but is false? Then use already built in platform controls to restrict accounts to these 'safe' sites.

Just assume everything is unsafe by default, and also free and unrated by default.
> Sweden has 24,000 on active duty. Finland has about 21,000. Large for the size of the countries. Both have a draft. Switzerland has 120,000 troops on active duty, a draft, and a large, regularly exercised reserve, for a country with only 8 million people. All are outside NATO and prepared for self-defense.

I think active duty numbers can be misleading, since I believe many countries rely on military reserve forces, especially ones with smaller populations, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Defence_Forces#Militar...:

> At the completion of the service, the conscripts receive a reserve military rank of private, lance corporal, corporal, sergeant or second lieutenant, depending on their training and accomplishments.[24] After their military service, the conscripts are placed in reserve until the end of their 50th or 60th living year, depending on their military rank. During their time in reserve, the reservists are liable to participate in military refresher exercises for a total of 40, 75 or 100 days, depending on their military rank. In addition, all reservists are liable for activation in a situation where the military threat against Finland has seriously increased, in full or partial mobilization or in a large-scale disaster or a virulent epidemic. The males who do not belong to the reserve may only be activated in case of full mobilization, and those rank-and-file personnel who have fulfilled 50 years of age only with a specific parliamentary decision.[25]
Is it the time to consider Actix (or any other rust web framework) for production?

I'm planning for a rather ambitious project, but not sure if I should choose rust (the new shiny thing) or stick to good ol Go (while I do have some issues with it)
Probably the same place the other Stephenson got it. Crypto + /necro/nomicon = cryptonomicon.
Everybody would wish them well, argue they have a strong army and can resist the Russian army, but no sorry, no Spanish or German or French troops dying for Finland or Sweden any time soon. They better hurry up.
SO jobs should shut down.
SO jobs should stay online but cut the price and open it up to all advertisers.
SO jobs should stay online but keep the existing price.
Well... you can read it.

I might be wrong, but so far I think it's been pretty easy to tell if text came from a human or a deep-learning system.

Granted, that probably doesn't scale well.
I still remember the days when almost everyone on Internet forums used pseudonyms and closely guarded their identities

I still remember when everyone on the internet was fully open about their identities.

When you posted something online, you'd always use your real name. Often you'd also include your work and/or home address, work and/or home phone number, and where you worked with job title.

I'm not saying that's better than what we have now. Just pointing out how the 'net has whiplashed from one extreme to another in a very short time.
Unprecdented departure from protocol, Pope goes to Russian embassy over Ukraine
Thank you for posting this every informative talk. What I've written essentially reflects this. The conclusion that Prof. Mearsheimer draws, that Ukraine will be forced to break up by Putin, seems to be the end game here.
Well, given that performance reviews are usually subjective, it’s important to calibrate those within a business unit to reduce this discrepancy. If A tends to be a tough grader and B tends to be an easy grader things must be normalized to provide equal rewards for equal performance. Otherwise B’s people get all the money. This also serves to train in the new managers into the process and approaches to evaluation.

However, if it’s the kind of stack ranking that must yield one “fire” and two “must improve” then it’s evil to use. Imagine, somehow, that a group has all legitimate superstars. One gets tossed and at least two leave with the first review cycle. The rest, being observant, probably leave over the next 6-12 months after such a surprise. This turnover would be perfectly reasonable for a website but somewhat fatal for, say, an auto-driving group.
Honestly, practice practice practice. Don’t try to make that one perfect drawing, make hundreds average ones. The most difficult skill is not how to render the perfect line or gradient but to really “see” what is in front of you and not fill in the gaps.

Photos are nice, I like the website line of action if you want to learn to draw people. Try to draw from real life as much as possible. Draw what is at you desk, your family, people around you in a café. It is much more difficult at the start, but you will progress so much faster.

Also, is there anyone with good recommendations to learn more about (modern) art and art history?
In a nuclear war his chances are just as good as yours.
The article explicitly calls out that kind of behavior under the subtitle "Don't Just Ban Grammarly and Expect Folks To Listen". I know, the whole article is sort of promotional, but the point still stands.
> This is probably a very unpopular opinion, but the lack of anonymity could dramatically improve people's behaviour on Facebook.

I don't think many people would disagree with that. What I disagree with is valuing privacy and internet freedoms so little that you'd be willing to sacrifice on those even the tiniest bit just so people behaved better on social media. And really, disagree is an overly tame word for it, and I couldn't overstate just how much so.
Hi, I got an internship during summer 2021 as a 10th grader, and created a blog post about it at https://blog.vishnus.me/posts/getting-summer-2021-internship.... Hope this helps.
> We know, however, that they don't.

We know no such thing. The only objective fact is that there have been fewer financial crises since the dollar went off the gold standard than before.

Financial controls don't work perfectly, but having money tied to a commodity is fraught with its own difficulties. It's actually quite handy to have fine-grained control over the money supply that is not coupled to external physical circumstances because then at least we have the option of controlling it to produce better outcomes even if we don't always succeed.
Right, I mean Russian state actors not private citizens
I doubt Bitcoin will help you when an authoritarian government targets you specifically

https://xkcd.com/538/
Do Sweden or Finland have any mutual defense agreements themselves or with other countries (Norway?) - or is NATO the only club in Europe ?
This doesn’t provide solutions to the problems and doesn’t show you how to do the mathematical calculations. It assumes you know proof based linear algebra and if you’re a math beginner the level that this is written at will be beyond you.

Instead I recommend http://www.thomaswong.net/introduction-to-classical-and-quan... which doesn’t assume much pre-req knowledge and contains solutions so you can check your work
That's a pretty cool language learning app concept - you haven't overcooked it. A lot of apps want to make themselves the star of the show - if that makes sense - but really it's a vessel to learn vocabulary, and it looks like yours lets a user add arbitrary vocab, which means it will be relevant.

Any plans to add new languages?
The First Law of Petropolitics
If I were completely cynical and amoral I'd use Ukraine as a quagmire trap. Take direct intervention off the table, beef up the defences enough to cause a problem, and wait for the Russians to take the bait.

Then when Russia is trapped in a continuing guerilla war which is generating huge economic consequences and negative PR at home and abroad, wait for the regime change in Russia to happen spontaneously.

It's a risky strategy given nukes, but not entirely unimaginable as realpolitik.
"As a side note, it looks like Twitter omits the HEAD tag for performance reasons"

Yeah, right.

HTML is supposed to be <html><head>head stuff</head><body>body stuff</body></html>. But in practice you see multiple HEAD sections, missing HEAD sections, multiple BODY sections, missing BODY sections, and even multiple HTML sections. If you omit all those tags, it still works, mostly.
You are making the rather optimistic assumption that here is a single definition of the macro. There are likely dozens, most of which share a name and randomly overwrite each other, others share the name but are subtly different. Macros are a truly terrible way to metaprogram. In my experience, if you spot one in a code base and can remove it, you have removed a bug you never knew you had, you spot one and change it, you have broken more things than you will ever know.
Carnegie Hall drops Putin supporter Valery Gergiev from weekend concert schedule
Micro organisms, plants and animals literally up-cycle nutrients into proteins to do this every day, there absolutely is a process. The world was much hotter a long time ago. I'm not saying climate change is an issue, and there won't be serious problems to deal with, but the idea that we're all doomed or its all insurmountable is seriously hyperbolic. For every arid farm land that becomes a desert, some place like Alaska will start growing tomatoes. It'll fuck with eco-systems for sure, as it already is, but nature has been through much worse than us. I remind you literal meteors have fallen on the planet and half the planet was an ice block not too long ago relative to the history of the world. The conditions the dinosaurs lived in were much hotter and carbon rich.

There's a lot to be done with just the tools we have now and a lot of things that we're working on that may help.

Rezoning cities for instance making them more walk able or usable by e-bikes, etc, and encouraging people to live near where they work or work remotely at least part of the week can help. Conversion to solar, nuclear, wind, etc. I watch YT videos of third world ppl creating solar powered energy sources. I've seen articles about people developing plants that can be converted into bio polymers that capture 80% of carbon that gets turned into plastic that captures carbon and when it inevitably gets buried in a landfill, its a good thing, because that carbon was removed from the atmosphere and captured in the ground in the course of creating a disposable product.

I currently give $50 a month to cotap.org because its helping somewhat reforest the planet, which I know isn't much in the grand scheme considering how much sealed carbon we're releasing but its something, even if its just spitting in the ocean. But systemically you not having a kid isn't going to fix it any more than me. You act like someone won't just immigrate in from a less developed country to yours or someone socially conservative or traditional won't just have 5 kids, and offset whatever good you did. Honestly, raising a kid whose more environmentally conscious and equipped to handle the upcoming challenges is probably far more productive.

It will take a lot of effort, and the sooner we get on it the better. Personally, energy generation and car dependence for me are the two biggest challenges to conquer.
A very obvious misunderstanding. For the last 15 years NATO and Russia have been extremely clear and consistent on the point.

Russia has consistently announced that it will invade Ukraine to stop NATO membership.

NATO has consistently announced that it will not defend Ukraine, but it is Ukraine's' decision if it wants to be a member.

You might not like the situation (I don't), but the cards have always been on the table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations
Can we get some benchmarks to get a rough ball park estimate of performance/$ ?

Is it say possible to run a production quality server that can handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent users on digital ocean lets say?

It's not clear to me as a "buyer" what its selling points are and what makes it uniquely different from other Rust frameworks
Hacking With The Homies: Detroit's Black coders Conf comes to town for 3rd year
The Japanese government did disallow an IME from Baidu (a software that converts typed keys-strokes to Japanese kana and kanji), because it ran inference on a server.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20140119231002/http://www.techre...
Reserve requirements at US banks are regulated by the US government as one of many mechanisms used to control the money supply. So... yes, sure. It's complicated, but a dollar at a US bank is a "dollar", because that's what "dollar" means.

The contention upthread was that foreign banks could do the same thing to print dollars. And, again, it's complicated. They sorta can, but only in the sense of placing a gargantuan short bet on the dollar. (A ton of short selling on a small security can push the price down for the same reason). So no one does that, because no bank wants to play that kind of game (or is allowed: all those large foreign banks are themselves regulated by their own national regimes).
Though no one has ever written either of those sentences for any reason other than to put up a strawman to tear down in their defense of grammar.

I'm a fan of learning grammar well, to be clear, and wish mine were better, but this is not a good argument for grammar mattering.
"rules-based international order"

Where are these rules written, do you have a link?
Money is the flow of utility (1st derivative). Flow of money is 2nd derivative.

The uses you indicate are probably 10% of the use case, the remaining 90% is money laundering.
> Honest question, do you really believe that Russias attack was based on the NATO aspirations, or is that just an excuse?

Yes, and no. I think that acceding to Russia’s demands here could have forestalled an invasion for the time being, but would have led to increasing Russian demands to direct policy, backed by threat of force, with even less available outside assistance. Ultimately either invasion or becoming a Russian puppet state would be the end, unless something else altered Russia’s course.

The long game is empire, but close NATO association is an urgent obstacle to the long game.
The needs of an apocalyptic world would not be the same as the needs today.

I’m guessing repair knowledge would be more important in the short to medium term.

Outside of that I think you need to work your way back up the tech chain starting with the wheel, leapfrogging as much as you can. But you don’t want to leapfrog over early tech like industrial machines, transportation, etc. and start working on web apps too early.
Title edit to fix broken word choice in the original.
I think expecting people to know things they really shouldn't, and seeing how they react to that lack of knowledge is a very important part of interviewing.

I assume this isn't the only question OP asks in their interviews, but I think it's got a couple of good outcomes and returns a lot for the length of time it takes to go through.
Yes, we are very similar. But we are OSS first. Svix is SaaS first.

We're designing a tool to be flexible and simplify webhooks from a binary perspective. We already support multiple queuing & storage backends, we already support an in-memory queue and on-disk database, so you can run convoy as a single binary without third-party dependencies.

The thesis is if we can simplify webhooks like this, we can do more with a tool like this vs. just for API providers.

Although, I learned they recently open sourced some parts of their backend, but I think that's how we're fundamentally different.
You replied to a report about two more Northern European countries joining NATO who seem to have been against it before by saying Putin is freezing NATO membership where it is?

It seems like things are going completely opposite of the way you describe them.
And austria too… somewhat shocking- I took this for granted for some reason
- https://htmlhead.dev

- https://github.com/kevinSuttle/html-meta-tags
Good luck! Art is a hell of a fun pursuit and I hope you have a good time with it. The long periods of boredom and frustration lead to those moments of bliss as you make things you're proud of and you start to understand what you're doing.

It's an endless road but it's a damn fun one.
Russian citizens should be formenting anti-Putin thoughts in the general public. His popularity allows him to do this nonsense. If the sanctions help convince you such a thing is a good idea then they’re working as intended.
You're out of belts.
Shenzhen's innovation model differs from how things are done in Silicon Valley
The system is designed to isolate prisoners from their loved ones, if they have any to begin with. Once free it requires significant resources to execute legal reprisals.

https://www.occupy.com/article/jpay-scam-prison-bankers-cash...
Had a Swedish colleague and he said he did a military service. Answering to the question "why" he told us that Swedish must prepare not for the if but for when Russia invades. That was before the Georgian war when Russia seemed to be less aggressive. I guess the perspective should be changing within the country.
I came here to say this. I studied art in school (but not an art school, so I'm not very good :) but this book was really the core of the curriculum. The exercises and approach radically helped me improved my drawing. The other component is just practicing a lot. I can't remember the URL, but there was a developer I used to follow who could not draw at all and just committed to drawing every day (using similar exercises). Over the years, he got really good.
Most desalination plants only concentrate the ocean salts a little.

The more you concentrate them, the more energy you need to put in to get any more water out. I think the only time this would make economic sense is if there are laws in place saying brine may not be returned to the ocean (for environmental reasons). In that case, it would make sense to concentrate it further with reverse osmosis, and then use multi-stage flash to further concentrate the brine.

After a few more steps, you could probably sell most of the resulting salts.
Nato is mutal defense act. That is what it is. If your Russia attack Poland, other NATO members should treat it as attack on themselves.

That is what it is.
Tbh it's tough to tell. There's a long history of Putin complaining about NATO expansion, and even before he came to power there were concerns about it.

When Georgia was about to join NATO, Putin seized it. Seems like they are trying the same now.

It's tough for me to empathise with this pathological fear of NATO Putin seems to have.
> Over the next few months, the tolerance for bullshit, especially in politics, will go way down.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think it's way more likely that the next few months will allow those politicians who relied on that bullshit in order to push their agenda, to instead push that agenda quietly and with little or no opposition.

For example, you don't see a lot of outrage on Twitter over Greg Abbott's persecution of trans children anymore, because Twitter is abuzz with what's going on in Ukraine. This is a thing that is just as "real" as Ukraine, but the collective attention gets focused on one thing at a time, which is why "bullshit in politics" is usually needed.
There's not enough troops to prevent all the atrocities in the world. Morality ain't got 'nothin to do with it. Nevermind that more war means more suffering for everyone involved. The answer is way more complicated, and anyone on the internet that claims to know what to do is full of shit.
And Chinese ones too. I think it’s fair to assume all sides have supporters. It seems odd to me that people would think there are not russian supporters here. We do not live in a totalitarian society where 100% of people are anti-Russia.
see this for power options : https://github.com/ligi/SurvivalManual/wiki/Power
Of note, the Indian Diaspora in the US is also becoming increasingly active in policy shaping and civics within the US. Over time, it will be interesting to see how this dynamic influences the alignment of US and Indian interests [0]

[0] https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/remarkable-pol...
There is a very big difference between being nuked and not being nuked
Decades feels a bit long, from what I've seen/experienced. I'd say if you're dedicated you can hit a professional level in 5-7 years.
Around 2000 I spent 2 years in Mexico as a missionary. I became fluent enough that when people called on the phone they thought I was Mexican.

When I returned it the US, for the first few months I actually felt more comfortable in Spanish than English. I spoke Spanglish for a while.

I went to school and studied Latin American studies and Spanish.

Without daily practice I lost increasingly more vocabulary. I can listen to spoken Spanish and understand it pretty well but I have a hard time speaking or writing because of a lack of recall of vocabulary.

I have a feeling if I went back to being immersed in the language daily I could become comfortable again within a month.
DQ = Disqualification, a no go.
> does it actually matter that people don't all the grammar rules or how to spell things?

It does if you hold the view that teaching someone to speak and write is teaching them them think.

If that is correct than if someone does not know how to speak and write in a grammatically correct fashion then the implication is that they do not know how to think properly.

Even if there isn't a perfect 1to1 mapping between grammatically correct writing and thinking skills, I still think it's a good proxy for measuring a persons ability to think because in general the more you read, the better you get at writing, and the more you read, the more you know.*

* the traditional caveats apply with garbage in, garbage out.
By your own [2] above, Germany still consumes more than 67% of its energy from oil, gas and coal. Had it chosen to scale up nuclear instead of scale down nuclear, it would be less dependent on that 67%. France famously gets over 75% of its electricity from nuclear, and has plans to expand capacity by adding 6 more reactors [4]

U.S. is not a major importer of Russian energy. U.S. is a net exporter of natural gas.[2]. Foreign imports for energy fell 30% under the previous admin [1].

Russia only accounts for 6.6% of our foreign imports [1]. And foreign imports have become less important for the U.S. as it has become a net exporter of oil & gas [3].

Under previous admin, our natural gas exports doubled [2].

[1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
[2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/imports-and-...
[3] https://dailyenergyinsider.com/news/29194-united-states-expo...
[4] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/macron-presents...
While Sweden was never part of NATO, there are rumors that under the table they were given assurance that if there was trouble NATO would be there. Sweden used to be a big world power.
> Technically, if there were attacked this evening, nobody in the US or EU would come to help them.

Nobody would bound by a public alliance to help them.

We don't know if secret agreements exists? But I guess such agreements would be easier to not honor.

And just because NATO isn't required to intervene, that's not the same as they wouldn't.

In theory it's a bit like Ukraine, except Finland and Sweden are less corrupt, more wealthy, etc.
The article talks about Linux.
> does it actually matter that people don't all the grammar rules

No.

*ducks*