skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think with something like Icelandic, your best bet is to find a teacher, be it online or in person.

Because Icelandic has a small population of speakers, and less of a global reach compared to languages like French, Mandarin, or English, there will be less easily available resources. It will also be very distinct. I don't believe Icelandic is a part of common language families, like a romance language, or a germanic language.
Do you store them as plaintext in the backend db?
reminds me of High Output Management by Andy Grove: (paraphrasing from memory) if someone isn't doing their job they are either not capable or not motivated
If the Magnitsky Act actually worked then we would expect changes in the behavior of the people it sanctioned to get off the list. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act#Individuals_affe..., it doesn't seem too effective. Dan Gertler is still a billionaire even though he's on the list. In practice I suspect OFAC designations just mean the designated individuals need to pay some lawyers a fee to get their assets held in the names of nominees.
Consider Sweden's geography along coast of the Baltic Sea ; joining NATO would basically close this path to the Atlantic Ocean for the Russian Navy.

Well, at least if enough missiles and/or fighter jets are placed on its soil by NATO countries to effectively close the Baltic Sea in case of war.
Say you like a certain sound in a song and would
like to use it as a starting point for your own
sound patch.

As a bonus, you might be the Lucky Winner of a copyright suit that eventually establishes a whole new area of case law.

Yeah, it would be ridiculous and unreasonable - but so was "I copyrighted these three notes in a row so pay me naow" :(
Rocket development has stalled for a while now due to the project owner stepping back as he has some real world stuff to deal with.
> - sovietism wasn't real socialism

This is one of those funny and illogical arguments that come up often and uses a rather common (and ironic) propaganda trick of just denying a massive failure ever existed.

This is the equivalent of stating Nazism wasn't "real national socialism" or Mussolini wasn't using "real fascism".

You can't just pretend away bad outcomes from a terrible system when it doesn't go your way. They deployed socialism and communism and the outcomes were exactly what those systems always bring.

Where has this mythical "real socialism" been tried and succeeded? Venezuela? Its also a disaster. Was that not "real" socialism either?

The reality is Socialism has been most effective while being integrated in a hybrid manner with other systems (Social Democracy). Socialism on its own is a disaster that hands over far too much power to the state and doesn't work economically.
So we have a guy saying that he's receiving calls against Biden's support of Ukraine. Certainly we have something more verifiable than that, right? That insane tweet by Candace Owens, yep. That is the type of thing I'm looking for. What I'm not seeing is some overall support from "the right".

If this were some big Russian support smear campaign by the right, certainly we should see it in all their normal channels, right? I really do not feel like visiting any more right wing sites to prove my point. The simple fact is, we read comments like the grandparent, and we're supposed to believe that Russian support is wide-spread. The truth is, aside from a couple of nut-cases, both sides of the aisle seem to overwhelmingly condemn this invasion.
Decentralized consensus & trust doesn't rely on banks and all the associated cost, complexity, obscurity, and gatekeeping that comes with them. With crypto: "Banks" can't unilaterally or fraudulently print more money, settlement is much faster & public / atomic, APIs are through transparent smart contracts rather than semi-structured SWIFT messages, and no need to rely on trust that funds are real compared to (say) Eurodollar derivatives -- i.e. many of the legacy hacks that others are talking about in this thread.
I don't blame him either. I'm just pointing out there is a choice.

Totally understood that not everybody is in a position to make that choice, now or maybe ever. But there is safety in numbers.

https://www.inyourpocket.com/gdansk/the-story-of-solidarity-...

FWIW I was in Poland at the time, the people there were absolutely phenomenal, and the amount of personal hardship and risk endured blew me away. Unstoppable, they would have happily run their country into the ground first. Big difference: they had relatively little left to lose, Poland had been bled dry by the Soviets over decades. By contrast Russians today have far more to lose, or so they may believe, when in fact they probably have more to lose from Putin's continued presence.

A dictator is one thing, an unhinged dictator quite another.
Yes, because he was still very actively supporting the countries bordering russia. He didn't like the structure of NATO but that's mostly because he wanted more involvememt from European countries, not less. I don't think any president would actually back off a nato member getting attacked.
Yeah it's a shame the concat_ws function doesn't quite work here.

I've had success using Slick, an ORM-ish Scala library, to abstract away this tedious concatenation in app code.
could this model be applied to mimic the characteristics of a guitar amp or pedal for example?
Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
I would guess that there's just nothing in the standard which _prevents_ people from changing the locale. So if you want a conforming implementation, you need your implementation to work if the programmer changed the locale object directly.

EDIT: Nevermind, sprintf_l isn't part of the C standard, so really they could be implemented however the authors chose.
That's the problem decision time is so short.

Missile defense is as it exists today is not a deterrent.
Anonymous leaks database of the Russian Ministry of Defence
Tucker clips are being broadcasted right now inside Russia as part of their state sponsored propaganda. His description of Ukraine as a US client state and other pro-Putin propaganda is harming Ukrainians.
There's 10 lines.

If they're applying for a web development role and say "I don't know" to all of them, it tells me enough about their skills and abilities to end the interview right there.

If they don't know half of the trivia but tell me "this looks like it probably controls browser feature X", and they're making a reasonable guess (regardless whether it is correct or not), that's a good sign.

If they don't know something but confidently pretend they know and spurt bullshit - red flag. I don't want to have to second-guess everything they say, and have them deliver something that looks right while being completely wrong.

If you don't know what that specific prefixed attribute does, I don't care. If you don't know what a vendor prefix is in CSS, you haven't written much CSS.
> if you understand my intent, then I have used language effectively.

I'll agree as far as it goes, but it ignores the burden of understanding on the the part of your interlocutor.

Have you ever been in a conversation where either you or the other party didn't speak the language well? It is a strain on all parties, even if sufficient information was transmitted and understood. I might consider this merely sufficient or barely "effective". I'd hope we aim for clearly expressing oneself without causing strain on your conversation partner or reader.

A good deal of what people quibble over regarding "grammar" has more to do with good style (whatever that means to you -- proper use of less/fewer, who/whom, capitalization and punctuation, etc) and achieving a certain verbal register.
I've worked in this industry long enough to understand when people are "McNamaranites" and I tend to push back against them....vigorously.

To be a person is to not be reduced to an array of arbitrary scores in a worksheet.
Do you know that grammarly keeps this information and doesn't toss it after it's AI looks for patterns for training?
The one has absolutely nothing to do with the other, and is in part propaganda.
There are plenty of American leftists taken in by Russian propaganda because it plays to their biases, but the difference from the right-wingers who have been in that the leftists are marginalized politically, whereas a number of the right-wingers are influential, several in major media, some federal elected office-holders, and some people discussed seriously as Presidential candidates for 2024.

Now, part of this is the asymmetry of American politics where leftists, qua leftists, are generally marginalized, but it goes beyond that.
This incredible high brow view is a stain on what is happening in Russia. I’m in America and I am not at all surprised that our private company’s are in the pocket of our government interests, once again. This would feel like ANOTHER provocation, if you are a Russian official. I wonder if we will see Americans realize that (at least in part) this Russian aggression is a retaliation to how the USA / EU policies have put the Ukrainian people in incredible danger for their own political motives.

To be clear, against all war and what is happening in Russia is also equally unacceptable.
already ordered
Hey, Russia has people who have been and are fighting against this shitstorm. Block Putin's money, not the people's.
Russia ≠ Putin
That's sort of a no true scottsman. Occupy wall street resulted in nothing, BLM protests were huge to no lasting effect, massive anti war protests in the early 2000's resulted in a couple decades of war. What ones recently were big enough? Million man march? That was just LBJ buying votes if you ask him about it privately.
Unrest in Ukraine alone is not likely to cause a new world war. There has been a civil war mainly in eastern Ukraine for many years already. Ukraine has historically been an unstable area mainly due to its unfortunate position between the major powers Germany and Russia. Ukraine government is better served to remain neutral and avoid provoking the angry bears that exist on each side of the country in my humble opinion.

Not sure what you mean by depreciation during war. Some things will depreciate like fluffy tech stocks, luxury goods makers, and real estate, but other things like certain commodities and possibly food will increase in value.
That's really bad actually. Especially if they are storing it away in a database associated with your unique ID for surveillance for 3rd party companies and the government.
It's not that simple. What about the 14,000 killed in the DPR and LPR over the past years?
It's nice that the script works both ways, but keep in mind that it's always best to pull backups from a remote system, so that an attacker in the production system can't log into the backup system and delete the backups.

If your prod system(s) is/are logging into the backup system, then you have a big problem because if any of them are compromised, they can wipe out / corrupt / etc all of their own backups, and possibly the other server's backups as well (if the same user account is used for all of them.) This problem goes away if your (isolated, hardened) backup server logs into the prod systems. Of course, the inverse problem is that if an attacker manages to get into your backup system, then they also have (at least read) access to all of your prod systems!
Poeltl – NBA Player Guessing Game (Wordle Inspired)
He had on a neofeudalist/neoreactionary/hbd guy just to banter with him (Moldbug).
I found this interesting because of how it compares with:

* discussions regarding if the glass is half full or half empty (it is of course, neither; it's full... part with liquid and part with air... unless of course it's in a vacuum.)

* what appears to be the (what appears to be common) tendency to look at / dwell on the negative things.
Thanks for the feedback -- sorry I missed this a couple days ago! Had no clue it got posted to HN.

FWIW, I've found GIN is a bit faster if you're just looking to filter. IIRC it was maybe 10-15% faster for the particular use-case I was looking at. So, worth a try, but don't expect a 10x improvement.
> The parent poster is not making an apology.

Downvotes from creating a plausibly deniable strawman and then tearing it down are less than the upvotes from doing a good job tearing down the strawman. This kind of crap discourse is incentivized in a "if lawsuits are cheaper than recall we don't do a recall" sort of way.

HN (and other social media) is rife with this behavior/feedback loop.
No, you can't. They were only valid for 20 years, and 20 years have passed since 2002.
I have a relative with severe dyslexia who is a native English speaker. I wonder if grammarly could help him, even with things like spelling, too.
What does the idle power draw look like? I've always been super disappointed at the power draw of maker MCUs; just keeping the regulator on 24/7 depletes a moderately-sized battery in a matter of days.

It would be nice if they put something like a TPL5111 on board, which is an ultra low power device that can turn on at a set time interval, and then turn off on demand. So it will pull up the "enable" pin on your regulator, your microcontroller will boot, your program updates the display, and then you tell the TPL5111 to turn off, and you draw basically no power until the next refresh cycle. I actually use a RP2040 with one of these to drive an e-ink display that measures the humidity in my 3D printer filament dry box. It wakes up every couple hours to update the humidity (it doesn't change much), and I've been powering it from a 400mAh Lipo battery for several months that way. To me it was groundbreaking to bite the bullet and add another device to conserve power, the results are excellent. Would love to see a provision for one built into the next version. (And hey, dump a BME280 on there and I can replace my entire hacked-together device with one circuit board and a battery ;)

(Oh, and for people asking why I built my own humidity meter using complicated electronics and a computer program instead of a $2 jobbie powered from a coin cell that you can buy on Amazon, it's because I wanted to be pretty accurate with the measurements. 10% humidity is different than 9% humidity in this case. As for why an e-ink display instead of an ESP32 that writes the value to some database server and I get a text message when I need to recharge the dehumidifier... it's because I didn't feel like writing that particular computer program at the time. Wifi connection errors. Authentication tokens. I'll just look at the display when I walk past ;)
Often keys are stored in some sort of secure Key Vault. This is part of the infrastructure, e.g., Azure Key Vault. Or something like https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets
Elderly driver crushed by tank in Ukraine is miraculously rescued alive
Ask HN: Any scientifically proven techniques to boost concentration?
I feel like I have to be in a very specific head space to write code. It’s like climbing a big hill but in my head. Sometimes it’s effortless and sometimes it’s a slog.

Are there any proven exercises or techniques I can adopt that are proven to boost my ability to focus and get in that clear headspace to write code?

Edit: adding some tips as I try to figure this out. Note: not scientifically proven (to my knowledge)

1. Music. which type depends on the individual.

2. Timing. Dead of night or early in the morning when the world is quiet. Not this isn’t a muscle you can flex at any time, you have to just capitalize on the right time.

3. Long shower

4. Caffeine

5. Get out of the office/house go somewhere else (like a cafe)

6. Take a walk

7. Have a beer

8. Write thoughts down in a notebook without any phones/laptop in sight and then jump to the laptop to implement

9. Meditate

10. Lift weights / exercise to work the demons out and quiet the mind
These are also the skills you'd learn in e.g. a volunteer firefighting brigade or search and rescue team, you'd just be applying them to the task of putting out fires and finding lost tourists rather than killing a building full of people.
Nvidia confirms it’s investigating an ‘incident,’ reportedly a cyberattack
It's also about your communication style. If you know what an HTML tag is for, can you clearly explain it in language that's easy to understand? If you don't know what it does, do you just say that, or do you try and bullshit your way through the answer?
There is no right wing equivalent because of the structurally different ways in which the right and left position their narratives. The appeal to the right wing in the US is via Christian nationalism and distrust of authority (from scientists to lamestream media to the US gov't). The right wing in the US buttresses its legitimacy by claiming that Christian nationalism is the historically correct point of view and is the "traditional structure". This is in fact false, but the whole point is that the right wing (as you point out) couches its message in terms of "this is the truth and the way it's always been" while the left wing appeals for transformative change. A wholesale move to Christian nationalism would be in fact a transformative change for the US, but you gotta be cognizant of how you sell it, right? The new right-wing distrust for the US military and US intelligence and support for Russia is pretty transformative. It's just good sales.
What’s the right value of N? That’s the tricky part.
It is the case, but aren't you then trusting your enemy to be honest? It would allow at least one warhead to get through the boost phase.
…until there is a security breach at grammarly
if it makes any difference, I was referring to C, for which Make is the majority, I think - could be wrong, though, since I'm not a c developer.

But to the point, I'm not sure if the code at issue would be considered minutiae or not, but I believe that the more curious you are, the more you tend to dig into the details, and a person doing this over many years would attain a rich knowledge-base spanning depth and breadth. I know as a java developer that I've referred innumerable times the docs for the POM and settings structure in order to explore the limits of customizing my build, which would include the rather obscure features. Not saying this is technically comparable to meta tags in html, but maybe that's what the author was going for.
assert user_data == {
'id': IsPositiveInt,
'avatar_file': IsStr(regex=r'/[a-z0-9\-]{10}/example\.png'),

> Without dirty-equals, you'd have to compare individual fields and/or modify some fields before comparison ...

Hmm, I'm not convinced. Why not

assert dirty_check(user_data, {
'id': IsPositiveInt,
'avatar_file': IsStr(regex=r'/[a-z0-9\-]{10}/example\.png'),

It would work just as well without abusing the == operator. Doing so seems like a bit of a gimmick (although the actual functionality of the library looks useful).

Edit: Ah, I guess the difference is that dict.__eq__ (and list.__eq__ and so on) recursively tests equality of all child elements. So to support arbitrary nesting I think it really does have to be the equals operator.
Nice post. Nice linked journal article. Nice blog. Nice vocabulary page (the Kangaroo bit).

Bookmarked :)
It's a WordPress site it seems. Firefox's Reader View still worked for me
Good point – I should have linked to the general concept instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Accords

> Further, your response to a question about a guarantee is regulation and reports? How does anyone know the reports of another central bank are true? When a central bank fakes numbers, what are the consequences, if any, and who adjudicates them?

Money, especially fiat money, is a social construct. The conformance with and violation of it is therefore within the domains of law and politics.

> How does anyone know the reports of another central bank are true?

Monetary theory is not my expertise, but I'm curious how a central bank report can even be "false" (assuming it is issuing fiat currency and isn't falsely claiming to be backed by foreign reserves or commodities, for example).
I’m not sure how self consistent histories might be chosen. It seems like some futures should be more common based on our physical understanding. Maybe they are all there (many worlds) and we happen to find ourselves in the compatible (most common?) ones.
The OP seemed to imply that the West actively orchestrated this? Is that what is meant by "there was a lot of corruption during the process"?
what are the best books/resources to read about the system?
Here in Denmark, it's impossible to get more than maybe ten kilometers from a settlement of 500+ people.

I am, by local standards, comparatively out in the sticks, but I'm still no more than a few hours walk from a city of a 100,000. Even if something happened that wiped out 90% of them, that's still a lot of people who are likely to walk by here and want my food.

Prepping for just myself would be a solipsistic fantasy.
Yes. During COVID everyone locked down to their range/tier (constitutional violation because space is so small not allowed to be permanently confined in it). Minimum laundry (constitutional violation, must keep sanitation). No chow hall all food brought to the cells. No rec time/outdoor time (constitutional violation, everyone must be allowed 1 hour of recreation time). Only let out to make phone calls during a short window that didn't necessarily line up with your family could take your call. No law library access (constitutional violation, denying access to the courts adn remember inmates challenges are time bared, you only have 14 days to challenge an illegal sentence and something like a year to challenge unconstitutional from the time of discovery, and these are jurisdictional, I.E. can not be waived). No certified mail access (constitutional violation, denying access to the courts as all motions must be mailed). No family visitation (some of the guys family relationship especially with wives and kids were holding on by a thread, they needed those visits). While it might make sense because of COVID, a year of it was very wearing.
Yes, some people change their pronouns based on their internal state. These people will frequently self-describe as "gender fluid".
Senior engineers duties including mentoring juniors, working with managers and architects, setting and maintaining the technical direction of a project, having input into planning etc etc etc. Talking about the first 10 lines of a website and seniors is laughable.
None of those resulted in crippling the country, which is the level you need.

Without Russia propping him up Lukashenko would be out by now.

Think Solidarity, not BLM and get the whole country to grind to a halt. That will make a difference. By the time the police and the army have to decide if they want to open fire on their family it can be won. But for that to happen something major will have to change in Russia first.
Just to make a counter point, we only know when this doesn't work. We don't know the times people relied in diplomatic solutions rather than suffer these consequences.
It's been showing up perennially as a concept since the late 18th century; periodically people get excited about it and then realise it's not very practical.
France recently announced they’re building 14 new reactors. By 2050. It’s not a short term solution.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/10/france-to-buil...
and Russia can switch it's entire economy to be largely reliant on Bitcoin at the drop of a hat?
You could equally say that in actual reality it's a matter of having enough men with guns. Occasionally the abstractions break down and that's where it all bottoms out.
That's the point. It gives the state a cudgel with which to keep people in line.