skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's harder to mobilise people behind a corrupt cause once blood starts flowing.

I don't know how significant it is. Dictatorships have always been feared and despised. And armies lost motivation many times in history, before the internet.

From a military perspective what I think is different this time is how (probably) US intelligence is helping Ukrainians. It seems they know any Russian move in advance in real time and I doubt such a feat could be pulled in the past.
It’s not the primary thesis of the talk, but there’s a pretty good introduction to recommender systems: https://youtu.be/l5JqUvTdZts.

I’m a bit dated but I had a pretty significant responsibility for consumer-scale recommendation systems a few years ago, if anyone has any questions on how this stuff was done in production ~5 years ago.
Quick guide to CRI

<90: Crap

90-95: Can be ok, or not. Depends. Different lights will likely not mix at the same color temperature.

98: Good

99-100 full spectrum cyberlight: As good as Halogen and only ~30x as expensive.
Thanks for reporting !WalterGR, !DanG did rewite the 'sans.edu' url-filter some months back to correctly parse the url, I did check the first post which Worked!

I'll send him an email, and ask him to take a look when he has time!
In Denmark we have "Bopælspligt", residency requirement. As the owner of an apartment you are required to make sure someone lives there at least 180 days a year.

It seems to work pretty well.
Ok, thank you. I didn't mean it as criticism, just genuinely curious about the (c language) idioms involved - especially after struggling a bit with Zig strings in relation to advent of code - and after seeing the approach rust takes on ownership.

In zig the idiomatic approach (as far as I can tell) is to manage allocator in main/the caller, and passing that down to the callee. Thus allocation strategy (heap/stack/arena etc) is global/caller determined, while resources are "locally" managed.

I generally work in high level languages like ruby, where one rarely worries about the details of (especially string) allocation (beyond trying to not create way too many copies/buffers).

So it's interesting to see what kind of balance on encapsulation/delegation of this concern can/should be found in C.

Thank you for taking the time to comment.
I mean, Steam installed from Flatpak (app isolation) running Windows games targeting a specific Proton version (static set of libraries inside another layer of isolation) is basically what you're asking for, and it already out there.
The usual suspects: The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks. Management by Peter Drucker.
This assumes you have sunlight outside in the first place.
Some Mosquitoes are pollinators, like bees.
What's being suggested here is that most vendors would only offer networked solutions and you wouldn't have enough options to exercise your choice.
But of course that’s not doing science.
Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
Something I can't wrap my head around is why is there even Internet in Ukraine still? Shouldn't the first step of Russian OPs have been to take out telecom? Phones went out in a hurry in ex-Yu (per my parents), but in Ukraine there's still widespread "phones on steroid" to live stream/comment the whole thing every step of the way.

Is it because they're hard to take out or is it a strategic decision? I was initially thinking it must be a voluntary omission, some kind of psyop to get Ukrainians a false sense of security/superiority before Russia shows their actual hand. But as this goes on and it seems Russia's military is not as strong or tactical as expected* the more I just find it puzzling.

*A sentiment I get namely due to info from the thread below, my TLDR being Russia's army is green or only faced weak opposition, not intrinsically motivated and used to doing special ops not wars while Ukrainian's army is battle hardened (6x 60k served in Donbass) and defending their homes. To be noted, if true it doesn't make the situation less volatile - a losing and cornered paper tiger with access thermobaric weapons or tactical nukes seems most dangerous to me. Or not, but if it is I'm getting nervous we (West/NATO) removed them the option to retreat by obliterating their financial system.

0: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1497993363076915204
This sub-thread is about false positives, which has already been stated as a user-flagged event that was subsequently reversed by an HN moderator. That is a physically observable event that is visible in the HN public record, therefore it is an event that is subject to scientific study. It either exists or does not, so it is objective.

In this sub-thread, "unfair" is quoted directly from the HN guidelines as the term for the objective event of a reversed flag, i.e. a "false positive", which we are discussing. It's not being used here as an adjective, it's being used to connect this discussion to the official HN FAQ.
> We worried about food back in the 70s but then we got better at agriculture, except it isn't sustainable what we do to boost the yields, the soil is getting used up. We can do better, but there are simply limits, and with no deaths we will find them much sooner.

See but when you're saying this and mention expanding off earth in the next sentence - why do we need soil to produce food ? Or plants even ? Even now there's efforts to process algae into protein etc. It wouldn't surprise me at all that we have specific nutrient production farms via some simple GMO organism in some large scale industrial setting - vertical stacking, ocean surface farms, etc. Compared to space colonisation this seems far less far fetched.
It was _their_ hardware, Sony didn't care about generic hardware support, since they need to support their own only, and only they know how it works. Not at all the same thing.

The only thing Sony needed from FreeBSD was x86 support and generic kernel facilities such as memory, process and IO management. Everything else they wrote themselves for their proprietary hardware and userspace.
I think the implied meaning was "how to make LED lighting feel great".
Seismic study reveals key reason why Patagonia is rising as glaciers melt
> Let’s unpack this

No, thank you. I thought the term post mortem already was the political correct term for something more frivolous. I don't even like the term at all. Too much drama for something very mundane. Its common usage is relatively recent in my experience.

> But as Site Reliability Engineering expands beyond the figurative network basement and begins to draw in diverse — in particular, neurodiverse — talent, do we need to have lingo like this?

It is unreasonable to change language here. Most importantly that is nothing anyone suffering from real conditions would ever ask. Not sure what "figurative" relates to. I doubt the author speak for anyone here.
Tom Gauld on the addictive qualities of Wordle – cartoon
The new ARM based ThinkPad X13s
In Germany they sell these LED Panels, though not with the same dimensions used for their curtain installations. But unfortunately it looks like they are discontinuing these products. I just searched for "LED Panel" on their website and all listings say "Letzte Chance! Nur noch kurze Zeit erhältlich." (Last chance! Still available for a short time only).
I thought the same. For me the article is missing an explanation of why existing artificial skylights cost $30k, and how to avoid those costs.
TickTick. A "today" list widget takes up half the screen on the front of my phone. I use repeats a lot, even to remind me of ongoing stuff. Getting the whole list without scrolling is a win!
Nvidia Breach Seen as Ransomware Attack Unconnected to Ukraine
For a country not planning to occupy, the US lead coalition sure stayed for quite some time.
It's good to remember Ukraine never possessed operational control of them [0], so I'm not sure how much is "willingly giving up own's nuclear weapons" since they never had concrete nuclear deterrence capability, and circumstances (treaties and support from both Russia and NATO) required them to do so. Their decision has been impacting their condition ever since. But this may be the good outcome for all we may ever know, for they may have been alone otherwise.

0. https://www.nti.org/countries/ukraine/
Doesn't a lambda based on a docker container incur container startup time, whereas if you use one of their language-specific SDKs you don't?
I did check the first post which Worked!

FYI, I checked all 3 submissions again and I’m getting the behavior I described…
NK is not really left alone. They face very tough sanctions daily. But I agree, broadly I think there will be an arms race for nuclear weapons amongst the smaller asian countries.
Indeed, current theories of stellar evolution place the extinction of life on Earth in the range on hundreds of millions of years, due to the increase of its luminosity. For example here's a description of a better climate model [1] extending the time until the surface temperature reaches 70 degrees Celsius to one billion years, whereupon feedback of the water content of the atmosphere results in boiling away all liquid water.

So while the sun may be nowhere near the end of its life, the time of Earth lying in its "Goldilocks zone" is much shorter.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131216142310.h...
It's USB2 so if it's doing triggering on the host it must be at a lower frequency. 48 MB/s is a bit too much for USB2.
Here's the single one resource I'm giving any of our new leaders, it's really short and the highest signal-to-noise ratio I've ever seen:

https://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html

I'm personally revisiting it every time I send it around, because it's just so good.

Here's another I've seen recently that goes into a bit of detail while not being quite as succinct:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30240428

EDIT: replaced second link with HN one as it contains an Emoji and broke due to policy
Raspberry Pi: Happy Birthday to Us
I recommend "Managing Humans" by Michael Lopp aka "Rands".

https://randsinrepose.com/

It's a bit tongue in cheek rather than "management theory" but no less worthwhile for it.
The study would be on flagging, which is typically done by independent HN users.

HN has non-public mechanisms to detect some coordinated activity (e.g. upvoting submissions) across registered usernames.

> If there were organized efforts to censor specific topics

Note the "if" at the beginning of the sentence. It's not about transient topics, but long-term patterns. Broadly speaking, "censorship" is only one possible motive for coordinated activity, flagging or otherwise.

> If memory serves, there are website(s) that track which submission get flagged.

Thanks for the pointer, found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29144989 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29113079 & https://github.com/MoserMichael/flagged-hn.
Is that excluded from the total cost calculations of nuclear power?
>What price do you put on having rolling pastures all around your home and no manmade noise around you?

And yet that's much cheaper and attainable than a small "livestock pen" in a large city :) If you don't mind living without infrastructure - building a cabin in the middle of nowhere isn't that expensive and doesn't seem like there will be a rush to this any time soon. Population seems to be heavily concentrated and the rural areas are being depopulated if anything.
Yeah I was thinking about this - surely the incentives for Russians to buy crypto just went through the roof? Is it worth anyone's money to receive rubles in exchange though.
I think a better option would be to use a light pipe like Solar Tube[0][1]. I've worked in an office with one and it was just wonderful. Natural sunlight is just so invigorating, I can't really explain it.

Anyway, these tubes don't seem to be too expensive and they are basically free to operate. And with modern head units they seem to capture the most sunlight possible, even on overcast days.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2APH2TKyY
[1] https://solatube.com/
That is why, even in systems where it seems straightforward how to choose the system variables, it is important to do a system identification analysis before committing to any form of Kalman processing. It provides performance and stability assurances, and is what separates the amateurs from the pros.
Getting it wrong would be something that was a waste of money or deadly.
You should try with a short arc xenon bulb like the Osram XBO series. They are among other things used architecturally for emulating daylight inside buildings.

Downside is you need a 70A 28V power supply and a semi-massive cooling system. And bulb lifetime is approx. 1 year of normal use.
Canonical/Ubuntu are, not Debian.
Sanctions, sure. But no real military conflict, or attempted regime change by anyone, since the end of the Korean War. NK is at peace with its neighbors (meaning direct military conflict) almost as long as Europe is (ignoring the non-EU countries for now).

On top of that, the nuclear arsenal allowed NK to get away with a ton of human rights abuses and all the other shit, like shooting missiles over Japan, for decades.
> By combining some "not-too common" HTML attributes with some CSS variables, we can generate a series of widgets without the need to use JavaScript or HTML classes.

This sounds suspiciously like abusing semantic attributes for display purposes. At which point, surely it would be much better to use classes?

Come to think of it, what is behind the design goal of avoiding classes?
Neat hack! One minor improvement suggestion: if you seed the RNG with `__DATE__` (or a hash of that string), then you can replicate the one-puzzle-a-day experience with no need for an externally-supplied seed variable.
I wonder what one gains by using super bright lights. The pupil will adjust to counter the effects of lighting.

Adding more lux just makes your pupil smaller. Or am I missing something? Maybe its non linear? Or maybe the idea is to reach the minimal pupil diameter? Or maybe happiness is somehow dependent on pupil diameter?
This looks really cool, will have to dig in more later.
Well, I'd say "postponed" ;)
Ah, that is interesting. For a specific reason I'm still keeping a copy of 8.2.1 around, the version just before that, but I've actually currently forgotten that reason. I think the way it renders audio files, newer versions write the whole thing twice, that version only once, which helps with huge audio files sometimes where I only need to do basic processing.
Excellent! I might just have to get me one of those.
The collapse of the ruble is well under way. I've been watching the USD/RUB spot rate this morning, and the graph line is roughly vertical.

As a side note, German language news is reporting that Sberbank Europe is insolvent or soon will be.
A toehold on the eastern-most edge of the Black Sea, yes. They clearly want more. They tried for Georgia in 2008, succeeded with Crimea a few years later, and now are attempting Ukraine.

Each of the above increases (or would increase) their contiguous coastline.
Iirc NK also has the backing of China and has a ton of conventional arms aimed at Seoul which would cause mass casualties
I think what he meant was that in 1994, in the Budapest Memorandum, it was decided that Ukraine would hand their nuclear weapons to Russia over and in return Russia promised never invade Ukraine. Interesting that the fact that it could be a mistake was raised back in the days already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine#De... I would be interesting to find out what the other "experts" said back in the day.
Based on recommendation from HN, a while ago I picked up an EspoTek Labrador: https://espotek.com/labrador/

Again, not exactly the best oscilloscope in the world, but amazing considering the price ($29).
Your application does indeed sound like it's beyond OTS solutions, thanks for sharing!
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow: “Why Russia will lose this war?”
Very nice, bookmarked. Hope you'll post a followup, it would be particularly interesting to see how your web monetization works out in the long time.
Flying a single-engine Antonov An-2 over the Atlantic Ocean
I was surprised to see this alignment among BRICS.
ARM has had trust zone for years now.
Sort of. He believes that if people try to come up with infohazards and then immediately spread them, there’s a nonzero chance that they succeed. It’s unlikely, but still not something to encourage.

(This is not the same thing as “being certain that a minor modification of Roko’s basilisk would produce an evil time-travelling AI,” to be clear.)
Interesting. I was recently looking to upgrade my personal T480s which I use for development, but didn't see anything in Lenovo lineup that were reasonably light/powerful/quiet/cool enough to make put in the order. I've grown so sick of laptops constantly hissing at me when I do something more complicated than browsing the web. My work issued Dell is basically unusable in a quiet room without headphones. So as an impulse buy I sidegraded to M1 Air instead just to see what the fuss is all about.

Well, I'm not really wanting to go back to regular intel/amd laptops now, I have been spoiled.
Same.

While it is still a bit unclear to me at least why Russia sent their seemingly old gear without proper support and young conscripts in first, the terrible parachute attempts still stand out.

When you want it to be over quickly, you have to send in the best soldiers with the best gear first to seal the deal?

In addition to live NATO intelligence, it is clear to most europeans that US intelligence tried to warn about this at the start of December, with photos showing large preparations for heavy army movement all around the Ukrainian border.
How are you measuring this? Got a link?
Ex-PM Abe says Japan should discuss nuclear sharing arrangement
Is it a tax or what?
There's a great article about using Zig as a cross-platform C toolchain for compiling CGo, to bring easy cross-platform compilation to it, which is usually a pain: https://dev.to/kristoff/zig-makes-go-cross-compilation-just-...
Yes, I read the same article. Do you believe, based on a single word, that the author believes that literally zero people in the entire course of human history have ever suggested “brighter lights” until Yudkowsky came along?
He's of the concave theorists, which take the flat Earth society one step further, and believe the Earth is concave.

And surely for them, you can see the horror of such large amounts of light being funneled, being reflected back and forth, over and over. So no, most assuredly, he does not look at the Earth!
On a sunny day, your pupil also adjusts to the effects of lighting.

And yet, people tend to enjoy a sunny day just from the sight. This is attempting to replicate that.
Very nice-looking! When I read the title I was skeptical about YACSSF (yet another CSS framework), but this is absolutely a worthy addition to the canon. Well done.
That depends entirely - what was the goal of this attack in the first place? Did he think he could quickly take Ukraine and the West wouldn't interfere? It's possible. His soldiers look unmotivated, even unprepared though.

Maybe it's part of a larger strategy. We might see more crisis popping up soon.
> For me the article is missing an explanation of why existing artificial skylights cost $30k, and how to avoid those costs.

Because people with rare diseases are willing to pay a lot of money for stuff sold by snake-oil peddlers after they have been let down by the traditional healthcare system, and other than people with SAD there's not much of a market for these things.
Tomshardware is such a ad filled cess pool of a site. I refuse to go to any pages of theirs. I’ve blocked them in my DNS. The tech reporting is garbage anyway besides the ad filled pages. A better site for this info is: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/lenovo-announces-the...
Yeah, turned out that was mistake (or was it really?) almost 30 years later. Back the day the world was different. The former USSR countries were dirt poor, military hardware was sold left and right wholesale. The USSR was utterly defeated. So for everyone, it was much saver to have only one, potentially failed, state having the USSR's nukes instead of multiple ones. And it worked for almost 30 years, so back then it made sense for everyone. That might change going forward. Or might not, way to early to tell.
I’ve hired at multiple smaller startups, and the rule has always been that if someone gets referred by an existing member of staff then the referrer isn’t involved in the interview process beyond being a high confidence reference check.
Why would you buy crypto when you can buy bucks or euros?
An alternate setup I've seen at (this was for a super, super experienced distinguished engineer (like a Google L9) who wanted to work part time) was to work full time one week and then take one week off
Well, that's just the payback for making NULL interchangeable with 0. Where map data is concerned, there's always a bunch of random objects reported to be floating in the Gulf of Guinea. (Specifically, at [0,0])
> Elevator pitch: Bring enough light to simulate daylight into your home and office. This idea has been shared in Less Wrong circles for a couple years. Yudkowsky wrote Inadequate Equilibria in 2017 where he and his wife invented the idea

Uh, no. See "lighting design" [0] and the related field "daylighting" [1].

The more I read of Less Wrong the more it seems More Naive. Lighting solutions and their effects on mood have been explored outside of "Less Wrong circles" for decades, probably for centuries.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_lighting_desig...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylighting
Unfortunately geoblocked here. Is there another link?
I dislike crypt currencies because of the grifters it attracts, but we also saw how the financial system was used against citizens whose assets were frozen. The central bank in the EU cannot really be called independent either.

I do like the ability to shape monetary policy, but that would only go hand in hand with governments not able to just deperson people.

Corporations do not offer any protection. Like on social media, if there is a legal question, the users gets banned.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project...
If you read the newspapers you'll see this assumption is universal. They are describing his campaign as having run aground, delayed, going badly etc because he didn't take the entire country in 24 hours. Feels like war propaganda.
https://www.droneinfo.fi/en/registration-and-theoretical-exa...
Keep driving old Diesel or buy new electric vehicle?
Shouldn't tzdata contain historical offsets, too?
If you can manage it yourself, I advise using the Bitnami PostGreSQL on top of Kubernetes. Using this, you will have a more solid installation than what is offered by many local cloud providers. Kubernetes can be scary, but it's not too hard to maintain if you use a simple Kubernetes distribution like K3S.

https://bitnami.com/stack/postgresql/helm

https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/postgr...

https://k3s.io

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Otherwise you can definitely find a local provider offering managed PostGreSQL databases.

Just for the big ones in Europe:

https://www.scaleway.com/en/database/

https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/databases/

https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting
> Remember when Soviet were dirt poor then they can match USA militarily, Russia now is sig ificantly richer with more sophisticated weapons

They were poor, it's true. Tragically, because they were a centrally planned economy, the USSR could starve its citizens to funnel wealth to its war machine.

Russia is richer (about as rich as the state of Florida) but less centrally controlled, so it will find it harder to concentrate wealth into state initiatives at the expense of the lives of its citizens.
Discussion for the Ars Technica article here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30497616
The Toolbox Fallacy [video]
When people ask “Does it run Linux”, they typically don’t mean WSL (which in its current iteration is essentially just a VM).