skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's because he's genuinely interested in what they have to say, and busy people like Zuckerberg / Musk actually have 2-3 hours of content/ideas they want to get out to the world. They could go on a crappy cable news show for 5 minutes, but they'd rather talk about it for 3 hours in depth.

BTW I believe Joe Rogan popularized this format (with some influence from Howard Stern and others, yes Howard Stern changed). For example, Rogan's interview with Snowden is quite good. He just lets him talk for 3 hours. Where else is Snowden going to get that? (in addition to the big audience, the format is a draw)

(Joe Rogan has been controversial recently, but consider the asymmetry of him considering a subject publicly for 3 hours, while his attackers are posting 30 second clips on Twitter. Not saying he's right or wrong about anything, just that there's a huge asymmetry, and that people who are genuine and have decent attention spans should notice.)

There are of course the more basic reasons like having a book to promote, and the fact that Lex tends not challenge them on controversial issues.

Also, many of the guests have watched 3 hour interviews by others, and probably learned something, and want to do the same. There's definitely a viral / network effect to booking guests.

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I really liked this interview by a farmer, chef, and CEO of meat raised holistically:

Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew8U43IXTfk

It's very technical and practical. And I think it shows he is spreading interesting ideas independent of whether the person is well known. So the well known people who have ideas are attracted to that.

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Actually this reminds me that I remember there was a good podcast by a guy in Silicon Valley who was just getting started, and had a pretty strong Indian accent? Nevertheless he was genuine and James Gosling and several other well known folks went on. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It was probably 2-3 years ago. I'd like to find that podcast again. As far as I remember it was mostly on a website.
I'll be real: I only have so much emotional bandwidth to deal with the flood of news right now. I welcome having a place to talk about literally anything else for a few minutes, if only to relax and catch my breath before I go back to the world stuff.
How many examples do you need to finally realize that the naive appeasement strategy does not work with Putin 10, 20?
The opposite of secrecy is not transparency, but safely trusting.

That is, some things are hidden, but not actively so. I don't need to know how hard my peers are working. Or what they are thinking. Or if they think the project will succeed. Or when they work, for that matter.

I trust that if they need or want help, they can ask. I also trust that if I offer help, it is in good faith and it can be turned down. I could be wrong that they need or want any help.

Not all interactions have to be interventions.

This is not that some things don't belong at work. It all depends on the trust in the group. I agree that more trust is generally better. But sometimes that is fostered by not forcing a spot light on everyone.
> 4 (four)

I mostly see this type of writing in formal settings like contracts, or in cheques I think it's also done (but I've never seen a cheque so not sure). Now I have a chance to ask! Why do you write the same number twice? I always assumed it was to make reading easier with large numbers (not having to count groups of zeroes) or prevent writing errors (in formal contracts), but this is not a large number and HN has an edit system.
Obviously the alledged Ghost of Kyiv footage was an urban legend, but Ukraine did down multiple Russian fighter jets.

Incredible, really.

Also, note that the account of the poster consists of random characters and was created just and hour ago.

Who‘s information warfare is this?
This honestly sounds like a dreadful way to live.
I believe I read that the DoT wants to make that mandatory, as they did with the (short distance) remotely-managed tires.
Darn, its the new calculator. I actually delete this on a fresh Windows 10 install and if you search, there is an installer floating around that re-adds the Windows 7 calculator. It takes much longer for this new calculator to boot up and you can feel the bloat when using it.
kr_autonomous_flight, a flight system for GPS-denied quadcopters
Absolutely sick. Chip community is so rad.
I think it's perhaps possible that Ballmer, as CEO of a major competitor, was not engaging in dispassionate analysis and in fact there was a non-zero chance that the iPhone would gain significant market share.
How Node2Vec Works. A Random Walk-Based Node Embedding Method
You can also do git submodule update --remote --init --recursive if you've already cloned it.
My comment refers to "trademark" or "IP of some kind", not copyright.
+10 (if I could). For those less familiar with the role of Kiev in Russian history:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus
I should probably say a significant border with Russia. Norway's border with Russia for example is a narrow sliver of mountains. It's completely insignificant. Finland isn't part of this because they're not a NATO member. The Baltic states (Latvia and Estonia; Lithuania doesn't obrder Russia) are a little more nuanced. I imagine that was a tough pill for Russia to swallow but again the borders are small. Poland and Kaliningrad is also more of a technaclity.

This map [1] puts the size of the borders in perspective and also why Russia has made Belarus effectively a client state. And also why Georgia is in a similar position as a buffer between Russia and Turkey.

But Ukraine is of particular strategic importance to Russia not only because of the expansive border but because Ukraine is relatively flat. Here's a map of the Operation Barbarossa invasion route [2]. It was largely through what is now Belarus to the north and Ukraine to the south.

I can't find a similar map but I believe Napoleon followed a similar route.

While niether of these two campaigns were successful, quite famously, it's merely a function of geography.

Additionally, Ukraine's position is even more significant because it potentially threaten's Russia's access to the Black Sea and the occupited territory of Crimea.

[1]: https://www.nationsonline.org/maps/countries_europe_map-L.jp...

[2]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Marcks_P...
Sorry for being an idiot. I don't quite understand the point of the tool. You have to have two different versions (x and y) of the same database running? And you're trying to work out how the versions diverged (e.g. what sql statements you'd need to issue to change x into y)?

I'm sort of confused. Is this for people who don't know how to write database migrations? Surely not. What is this for? Sorry for being stupid.
One hypothesis making the rounds on Twitter is that Putin’s bombing campaign was targeting US funded biolabs in Ukraine [0][1] which the Russians have previously complained about [2]

[0] https://twitter.com/Manifestor4/status/1497162095762288672/p...

[1] https://twitter.com/jqkennedy17/status/1496793895040008192/p...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/russia-china-nikolai-patrushev-vlad...
They're banning Russia from SWIFT and Germany is now sending 1,000 antitank and 500 stinger missiles to Ukraine. The latter will kill a lot of Russians and save a lot of Ukrainians, even though Germans aren't standing in the line of fire.

It is pretty unlikely that Russia won't retaliate economically and I can't see any way this continues and people would support EU governments sending money to Russia for energy.

Provided Putin's government doesn't crumble soon the gas exports are getting shut down one way or another, it just hasn't happened today. Probably not the kind of thing you want to turn off with the flick of a switch without giving people time to prepare -- there are probably many thousands of workers around the EU working out plans for when the Russian gas gets turned off.
Nvidia Fires Back at Hackers, Encrypting Stolen Data and Ransomed Their Systems
sprintf/setlocale date back to at least C89, and probably even earlier - over three decades ago, this wasn't the performance and multithreading hazard it is today, because people simply weren't multithreading. Global state was the practice de jure - even reasonably so, compared to drowning everything in a sea of redundant parameterization on monochrome 80x25 terminals, in an era of smaller programs, when global state was easier to reason about.

The C89 standards committee wasn't "careless" here - it was a product of the times. Of course, when modern APIs and standards committees duplicate sprintf's issues, it's far more fustrating - even when justified in the light of "backwards compatability".
> The whole point of Bitcoin is to eliminate the possibility of chargebacks

This is obviously false. There is absolutely nothing that compels normal payments companies to honor chargebacks. Since you don't need Bitcoin to complete this goal, this goal cannot be Bitcoins purpose.

The reason that they do it is because being consumer friendly is more important than being merchant friendly. Even merchants would attest to this fact
Saint Javelin (motto: do a flip then hit) seems to be every bit as effective against Russia's most modern tanks as she is against any other tank.

> So would Relikt-style ERA and soft-kill infrared defenses work against the Javelin? There’s simply no way to know for sure, unless Moscow were suddenly to invite Washington to test its anti-tank missiles against its best tanks in a friendly competition. But given that relations are too frosty for the United States to participate in Russia’s annual tank biathlon, don’t count on that happening.

Guess now we know.
It reaches 0C inside?
Don't change the topic. You were the one claiming that requesting Ukraine stay neutral is not unreasonable (implying that it is fine to attack another country if they do not abide to the request).

Why Ukraine should not have the freedom to choose?
Is there some reason why that's an issue if you're in bed? I live in the UK and well we don't put the heating on at night ever. Doesn't matter if it's a snowstorm or below freezing outside. Heating comes on first thing in the morning, but overnight you'd be pretty much fine in bed.
I literally had to approve with my bank to verify payment of a relatively large sum.

My credit card got into a locked state for a while every month, when Vulture did a approved monthly charge.

There are plenty of systems that verify things out of the ordinary.

It's not because you haven't encountered it, that they aren't there.

Additionally, stolen credit cards can be marked as stolen. Which would block any future payment with it.
I've ridden elephants before, and I would be very hesitant to even approach them, let alone load them down with cargo, without an experienced handler supervising everything.
I think that's a big part of their humanism. They understand that the folks that they want to invest in aren't in it entirely for the money. In return, they make it easy to to sell to them: they'll give you a dollar amount, and close nine figure deals inside of a month.

It's self fulfilling and self reflecting.
For my hobby projects or even more recreational programming I often choose some technologies that have some aspects I'm interested in learning I can't easily do during the day job. E.j. a different paradigm, digital signal processing, desktop vs web app, etc.

Because during work I tend to be very pragmatic, and choose pretty boring, but battle tested technology. For the projects I have been working so far, usually niche tech doesn't provide enough tangible benefits to justify the risk of choosing it, the generally smaller ecosystem, less tooling, fewer documentation and potentially longer developer onboarding. Doesn't mean only the most established things one can choose, but avoiding things that are too new and unknown or too far off of what I'm comfortable working with.

And once a tech stack is chosen you are likely not going to change it significantly for years to come. So it can get a little stale and I can get an urge to try new things. But my warm fuzzy feelings or curiosity for some new tech doesn't justify increasing complexity by adding no stuff to a production product/service.
Huh, I had never heard of this, but a quick search revealed a minimal English checker that works with the sample text in the article:

https://learnthesewordsfirst.com/tools/CheckMinimalEnglish.h...

I couldn't find a minimal English translator online though. The closest are these for simple English, which I hadn't heard of either until addaon's comment here:

https://www.simplish.org/conversion/F1618DD6/

https://www.online-utility.org/english/simple_basic_helper.j...

https://seotoolzz.com/article-simplifier.php

https://ds.gpii.net/learn/accessibility-masterlist/translate...

I feel like if there was a semester class or certification to know how to convert one's language to minimal, and another to know how to convert between minimal languages, we'd be well on our way to being able to communicate with anyone.

The alternative is to invent a language like Common in role playing games, and expect everyone to learn it. Unfortunately, that just doesn't work, as shown by Esperanto's lack of adoption:

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

https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/

To me, it looks a bit like the Spanish I know, but I can't really read it.

Programmers have Lisp and the shell and assembly and SQL and even C-based languages like Javascript that they can fall back to when explaining something. It's been a long time since I looked at a piece of mainstream code and didn't immediately grok what it's generally doing.

I feel like there's something to that. For example, I never had to "learn" PHP, because it stems from the context and metaphors used by the shell and C++. If you know how string interpolation works with "$var" and how associative arrays work with $array['dog'] = 'cat', then congratulations, you already mostly know PHP. But I never fully internalized how Ruby works, because it attempts to transcend the commonalities and be its own language, more like Perl maybe. I'm not quite saying that right, but maybe there's a term for that concept. Ruby might be more "expressive" than PHP, which can result in a steeper learning curve.

So translating English to Japanese, for example, might be like Python to Ruby, but we'd be better off doing something like Python -> C <-> C++ -> Ruby. That way anyone who knew C or C++ could generally communicate with anyone. But we don't teach (or even have) those common basis languages for communication?
is this allowed for speedruns
In the US, we have active military members where they are 24/7 soldiers. There are also reservists where once a month, they get together for a weekend to do solider stuff. There's also a two week stint once a year to keep up training. So not quite as well trained as active military, but a hell of a lot more well trained than just handing rifles to someone with a slap on the backside with a "good luck" for extra measure.

Otherwise, calling a retired active military member back to active service is known as being recalled.
It also seems unlikely to me and I am skeptical. But logistics are hard under fire? Does Russia control the airspace or are the rumors true that Ukraine still has aircraft? Are there enemy teams with shoulder-launched missiles along the route? With cheap drones for reconnaissance?

My impression is that the country is full of handheld antiair and antitank weapons, supplied by the west. That can't make it easy.
My only annoyance with GitLab on that front is the lack of tags for "14.8-ce" to enable use of watchtower to keep the minor/security patch up to date, like we have on other images.

I definitely do not want to use "latest", in the past there have been updates or intervention required between major versions.
Serhiy Storchaka tweets from Russian occupied Ukraine
Impressive if true.

So much for the „omg taking down a website is like ripping down a poster“ mockery here on Hackernews just a few hours ago.
nothing terribly concrete and specific; red flags that the author (you) might be approaching it out of a panicky midlife crisis desire to achieve something, anything, to fill a hole in their soul or a desire that people would respect them more if they had more skills and achievements. X is something therefore achieve X as a checklist item to attain, even if without any particular interest in X. That the author might want to reflect on why they're looking for the best course instead of putting pencil to paper or being halfway through any course already.

The distinction between "I want to learn the basics of conversational Spanish for my holiday this summer" compared to "if I could learn another language people would like me, Spanish is supposed to be easy".

The distinction between "I want to learn to fly a helicopter and need a course which won't kill me" and "I want to learn to cook, I have a kitchen and spare food and money, and it's been years and hopefully what I need is out there somewhere I can watch or research instead of in a messy pile of ingredients in the kitchen right here".

> "Currently going through the free drawabox.com lessons and that seems to have all the exercises and videos I need to get going."

That is good. Nowhere do I mean to say "don't do it"; only to reflect that from the outside your description feels like you aren't really interested, not to tell you that you aren't or shouldn't be interested. Good luck! :)
Sure. :-)
If you really want to be pedantic, the US and Russia have a sea border.

If you count EEZ's, Russia's and Turkey's EEZ border each other in the Black Sea, as would Romania's if you believe Crimea (and hence its associated EEZ) to be part of Russia.
(With apologies to Noël Coward) Facebook is for investing in, not being on.
S&P lowers Russia's rating to 'junk' status, Moody's issues junk warning
> Then again, if Chechnya showed anything, it is that Russia can play long occupation and 'win'.

You can't compare Ukraine with Chechnya. Also Russian soldiers are much more hesitant to attack Ukrainians, the plan as I see it was to scare them to surrender, but Ukrainians weren't scared so what could follow might be a horror for humanity to behold if it continues for a long time because resentment builds up we might see some terrible atrocities of war.
> "...if teams have an antagonistic working relationship"

Yes of course a set of people constitute a team if and only if it meets the requirement for teamwork. That is, cooperate via info sharing, work load distribution and other support to get jobs done. Obviously merely assigning random workers to contiguous cubicles in no way constructs a team. That remains true even if a manager is loudly chanting holy corporate verse while pronouncing teamhood upon the hapless crew.

This is as it's always been, teamwork is essential for the survival of modern humans. Companies that foster teams, and teamwork among teams, are the ones likely to succeed in the marketplace.
how's tech in Lisbon right now?
> Although many factors contribute to a secrecy culture, they all boil down to a lack of trust.

In my experience, there are two reasons for internal secrecy:

1) Security. There are things that only certain people need to know.

It may be trade secrets, or security. In any case, these can make life difficult, but are important and valid secrets.

2) Gatekeepers

These are individuals or organizations that are hoarding influence and information; trying to leverage it for their own gain.

In my opinion, #2 is much more common than #1, but they will often say that they are following the diktats of #1.
What exactly is the point you're trying to make?
Do the tools provide APIs you can listen to? If not, using a "website change detection" service could work, if it allows for logged-in sessions.
Based on early reviews I'm excited but will wait for V2 with better screen and fewer software glitches
I think it’s usually better to accept someone’s words at face value than to attempt to infer deeper meaning. Ballmer has gone on to say that was one of his biggest mistakes and history agrees.

Regardless, there’s many examples of people throughout history finding no value in seemingly pointless technologies only to be proven wrong so I believe the point the quote still stands. I suppose I could always just link to the infamous Dropbox post here instead…
Indeed. But the bully also knows that using nukes would be the end of him, even if he gets to take everybody else along. Russia would absolutely use nukes if it's actually invaded, but a conventional military confrontation on foreign territory is a very different matter.

As for being willing to take more pain - you're right, that's a big part of the problem for the West. But it needs to understand that, just like in 1938, avoiding the bully only delays the inevitable, and the pain will still come eventually.
Same in Europe, at least in Denmark. Source: my dad is a civil engineer who has been doing renewables since the oil crisis in the 1970’es.
I'm so confused by your comment about scroll lock and pause. Have you never used a desktop keyboard? This is exactly what the 104 or 101 key standards since the 1980s or so include and always have for backward compatiblity. Every keyboard on the planet would have these if we only used desktops. But when laptops were introduced there was a compelling reason to compromise and remove keys. To this day I remain frustrated to death by the missing keys, most especially End and Home and the arrow keys. I need that functionality on a daily basis, and that need has not reduced in the twenty years since I went to mostly laptop usage.

Scroll lock usually only is important if used for something specific in a specific app. And pause, yeah, has fallen out of use. But it is mostly that laptops are now so common companies avoid assigning functions to keys no one has.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/26/world/26ukraine-b...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/26/world/26ukraine-b...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/26/world/26ukraine-b...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/26/world/26ukraine-b...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/26/world/26ukraine-b...

Yellow armbands seem to be the militia indicator.
If your country is invaded, would you care about Geneva convention?
The [dupe] marking happens because software thinks its a dupe. That seems wrong here, so contact the mods to fix it.
I'm a veteran and was did convoy security overseas as part of my service. I can believe it. Logistics is hard.
Interesting interview. I can’t help but correlate the timing with such a drop in Meta’s stock price.
If you do want to get into it, checkout first the arc forums (the UI might be familiar to you: http://arclanguage.org/forum) and then after that check out Anarki which is a community-maintained fork of Arc, seems more up-to-date and has some QoL upgrades, https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

Coincidentally, seems my post have been the top #1 post on the Arc forums since I first made it, ~17 days ago. That forum could do with a bit more of traffic :)
17 is a bit on the chilly side indoors, but 23-25 in the winter (sweater season) sounds like a sweaty, awful, and, even before current events, expensive time.

21 is cozy, 20 is absolutely fine, 19 during the day is where we’re at now because toddler (who seems to be adapting better than me). We’ve been 18 at night for years - a big ol’ down comforter from my in-laws makes that ideal.