skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a slightly confusing way of presenting it though.. would’ve been a bit clearer IMO if the graphs were showing “time taken to complete 2 million conversions” with the graphs sloping downward as cores increase in the good cases (scaling) and going upward (pathological / lack of scaling) for the bad cases..
Force them to use fewer and fewer VPNs and stolen access. Increase their challenge.
AI can't copyright the art it generates – US officials
Exactly. Prosecutors goals are to prosecute. Even if they don't see the prosecution through to the end because it becomes politically unfavorable, you might still sit in pre-trial detention for a decade before they drop the charges.
Defeating the Russian Battalion Tactical Group [pdf]
I've always liked those briefcase icons but could never figure out what they did.
This is valuable reading, from a military historian frequently posted on HN:

https://acoup.blog/2022/02/25/miscellanea-understanding-the-...

Here's one of the many good bits:

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Instead, the clearest understanding of Putin’s complaints about NATO is that they are reflections of his real fears, but that as diplomatic negotiating tools, they were red herrings, designed to create exactly the sort of smokescreen that some media personalities worked to create and exploit domestically. The ‘tell’ here in many ways were the initial demands, which amounted to rolling back NATO positions to pre-1997 status; such demands would be utterly unacceptable to NATO countries (like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland) who would thus be left outside NATO’s line of protection. Putin – and the Russian Foreign Ministry – knew those demands were obvious non-starters, that’s why they made them – presumably to generate that smokescreen and to try to divide NATO internally. But the demands themselves were never serious, as Putin’s actions this week prove.

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The "promise Ukraine won't join NATO" demand was not made in good faith and conceding it would not have mattered.
I tried for years to make cold brew taste like Starbucks - going for black and unadulterated by milk/cream. Tried french press and all sorts of ways hot and cold, overnights in the fridge, etc.

The closest i've gotten is with an espresso machine making a 'Lungo' which is more or less an espresso pull with far more water through it than what you'd do for a shot. No ice on this while making. Just put the glass/mug in a freezer for 30-60 minutes (if you can plan ahead) and then pour over ice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungo
What do the humans eat in the first world?
Yes, at will. They would fix the trails within hours and bombs weren't accurate like they are today.
Whether they “work” depends on the goal I suppose.

If the goal is to get misbehaving countries or leaders to change their behavior, I’m not aware of any examples, not matter how far back we look in history, where they worked. Plenty of examples where sanctions are imposed and the behavior gets worse.

If the goal is to weaken a country (which could be a good thing, if that country is belligerent), I think there are plenty examples of that working. It can have the unfortunate side effect of also impoverishing the ordinary citizens of the sanctioned nation.
Balaji Srinivasan: Technology Will Lead to a Borderless World
Wouldn't China just ship their wares there, change it to say "Made in (Not China)", and then ship ot to the U.S.?
It seems to me like all societies are trending towards low trust. Technology that can work in a low trust environment though can alleviate some of the pain that comes with that though.

Since cryptocurrency was already mentioned recent examples of that can be seen in Ukraine. The traditional financial system there has been disrupted; you can’t get cash out of an ATM. If you have cryptocurrency you can still transact. I think I saw something earlier where a journalist was able to get out of the country by using crypto to buy a used car.

Sometimes inefficiencies are still worth it, especially when dealing with worst case scenarios. Just-in-time manufacturing and global supply chains are very efficient, but when they are disrupted the cost is enormous. Winterizing the energy grid in Texas is expensive and inefficient/expensive, but if they don’t you are accepting that people will freeze in a severe winter storm.
Russian Billionaires Lost More Than $126B in Wealth Amid Ukraine Invasion
I'm starting to form a really negative impression of YouTube ads as well. Lots of scammy stuff all over the place. I'm kind of intrigued by all the "This young scientist invented ...", "This single father came up with a solution that his boss wouldn't give freedom to explore and so he broke out on his own to improve the world...". All these thin and exceptionally vague human interest stories filled with anonymous non-identifying biographical information leading up to some purported great product.

At first I was fooled by those productions since they had some non-zero amount of polish to them that looking back I realize is professional stock footage of some kind. Now I know it's junk faceless import products pretty much that are being peddled. There's a whole genre to them and it's funny now to see past them immediately when they appear, but irritating too.
It's possible this is including many misclassified listings (e.g. hourly paid internships). Additionally, I've seen some listings for higher level jobs for absurdly low salaries ($19,000) which I can only imagine are typos. I wonder if the average somehow includes other regions too with very different cost of living. I wouldn't put too much stock in those average numbers. If you are looking to get an idea for the market for entry level SWE positions, it might make sense to narrow the search to known companies in your region.
The USA did this to itself though, with its actions both against the citizens of other countries and its own.
The site already leans toward jingoist-capitalism so probably pretty likely. Russians love influencing some rowdy investor classes.
Agreed. Subnautica is an incredible game and once I picked it up I couldn’t put it down. I just wanted to keep exploring.
If you don’t need the money right now, getting into IOI /topcoder prelearning all material for CS engineering (buy/download and read the books that you will need to learn anyways) may speed up your university and improve your grades, and will make it easier to work while you are in the university.

Also ask some students there about the hardest subject in the first semester, as it may be the hardest semester for getting rid of students (for us it was calculus, but it was easy for me, as I amazing math classes in high school and went to math competitions before).

I wouldn’t do example projects, as it’s much harder to make an impact there than by getting good grades or working for a known company.
I remember when we were told that if we voted for Hillary Clinton, it would lead to war because she was a warmonger.

Well, we did, and now...
How do they "issue money" if they don't report that transaction? Do you mean cash?
I don't know how this work. I assume tariffs work on direct import from China. China can try to ship through different country with relabeling, which makes it more complicated on large scale, and that country will want cut, but it also can be tracked and penalized.
FYI, there's a port of the Windows calculator to Linux (and a bunch of other platforms): https://github.com/unoplatform/calculator
Shouldn't you use scale for anything coffee related? Spoon is cursed word in coffee world as well as preground
I usually don't, but Raschka's first book was particularly accessible.
Regardless , then that will prove NATO has outlived its use and is no longer a organization worth having.
The obvious one is any time you need a statically compiled binary. There's work on that, but for now at least, that's a definite shortcoming.
Not really, provided the duty cycle is low enough. Espressif chips can be set up so that they boot, run some code and then shut down with a timer (deepsleep). You can stretch the battery quite far that way. I did this to monitor temperature in an outdoor pool.

Omega sell plenty of WiFi connected industrial sensors (with small batteries) that are specced to run for a year or so before a recharge. Usually they report measurements on the order of minutes.

I also have a Bluetooth HRM which I've used for years (probably days of use, cumulatively). I've maybe changed the battery once.
Something has happened to vastly reduce prison rapes. I'm not sure how effective PREA is.. sometimes I would see PREA complaints taken seriously, sometimes not. PREA was vastly abused in the facilities I was in to get attention from the authorities for some other matter. And tons of false complaints against officers.

I never heard of a valid rape complaint. I was older (for a criminal) so I would be on "old man" decks, and that is where they put anyone deemed vulnerable, e.g. gay or trans. Most of the jail population is highly homophobic (at least, they play that role in the jail), as you probably found out, so they would scream and shout and file PREA complaints if any of them were housed with gay guys or trans folk. [also: it is very weird being in a men's jail and seeing transwomen walking around topless with DD breasts hanging out]
Russia has a 10:1 advantage to the US in tactical nukes. They have all sorts of creative nuclear devices that can very much be used in theatre without triggering a MAD scenario. Why the big discrepancy? US weaponry is better. It's more precise. It's more effective. Head to head, Russia realized that they had no hope of competing against NATO. So they decided they won't. They'll just invest in and strategize around the use of tactical nukes which help them level the playing field without triggering a MAD scenario. It's all they've been investing in and cared about in the last 10-15 years if you've been paying close attention.

Putin isn't crazy enough to use strategic nuclear weapons. He's absolutely enough of a sociopath to use tactical nukes, particularly to avoid a potentially brutal urban assault on kyiv. I hope I'm wrong. But when you consider Belarus and Russia just completed nuclear drills in the past month and they're using a lot of conscripts in their first wave, it can't be ruled out.
I remember that installing RH 5.2 (Hedwig? Apollo?) in 1999 and getting FVWM95 installed using rpm. It closely resembled Windows 95. From memory, icewm also had a similar theme.
I miss the simplicity of the gui from this era, not Windows 95, but Windows NT 4.0. The dark blue boot screen was quite nice and the system was fast and quite stable around SP6a.
This moral issue is really easily resolved - what do the people of Ukraine and Taiwan want? It's quite easy to ask them.

The answer is "not Russia" and "not China". That's why the Ukrainians are fighting for their lives now, and why the democratically elected government of Taiwan is prepared to do the same.
Since when is "distrust of authority" a right wing thing? This has been traditionally been a leftist doctrine (with various ideologies such as anarchism focusing on that, along with revolutionary groups that fight against said authorities).
Give "The Now Habit" a read
Here's his profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts
No, this is an Americano, stretched coffee. For cold brewed coffee put the grounded coffee into cold water, let it rest (over night or even longer), filter the coffee, enjoy.

Coffee tastes differently when done this way. You might want to use a different type of coffee than for your espresso - or not.
Actually the regulators encouraged backdated deposits to allow IndyMac to appear solvent.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6514493
"The impact of Western Director Dochow's approval to record the capital infusion in the quarter ending March 31, was that IndyMac was able to maintain its 'well-capitalized' status," ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2011/11/23/financial-fingerpointing-tur...
' Even if regulators are involved in wrongdoing, they have some immunity. Internal disciplinary measures are rarely taken against regulators who perform badly in their jobs, say government officials. '
> I hate to break it to you, but you’re not writing Moby Dick at your office job.

What if he does? Do you like generalization?
Customized board ESP32 could have deep sleep mode with wifi, I couldn't see the reason of choosing rp2040 not ESP32. Prob just due to rp2040 is cooler than ESP32?>
Also a mirror of scihub might be useful at a civilization level, but that's more like 70TB.

Someone should create a 'foundation' project, with mirrors of essential collections, eg wikipedia, scihub, digital art collections, gutenburg, etc.
I don't think there's much sense in hating it. It has a real and interesting meaning, but it's just rare to hear anyone provide it.

The problem is that understanding it rests on something most people have never even heard of, much less looked into themselves: that experience does not actually work how they think it does. Experience seems panoramic, i.e. continuously seeing, continuously hearing, etc. But that's not the way it actually is. Experience actually consists of a very rapid series of micro-messages from the sense bases, and those are stitched together by the mind to provide the illusion of panoramic awareness.

Once that's understood, you can give the real definition of mindfulness: remembering to know what kind of message the mind is currently knowing. This will be like watching attention flicker between knowing information about touching, seeing, hearing, etc. A person is being mindful when they're watching how mind's attention is moving.
You cannot disable the borrow checker in Rust with a compiler flag. You might as well try to turn off the type checker, or ask it to ignore syntax errors.
Good that we have LT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30379593
Not to mention they're perfectly referenceable. If I need to set up a new HTML doc and add the meta tags I can easily find everything I need on MDN and a quick Google search for best practices. Anything more specific (like Apple specific tags) is trivial to find as well.

Interviews should be focused on skills and experience because those take time and effort to develop. Not 5 minutes on the internet.
I regularly use such tools (usually when writing formal stuff) as I usually mess up my grammar, tense, punctuations and some other stuff.
The overhead is completely unnecessary in far too many cases. So what they should have done is kept sprintf to its traditional behavior and invented a new, slower alternative for those fairly unusual cases that need locale sensitivity. Locales tend to be all or nothing and extremely inefficient to make general use of anyway because too many things are controlled by the same setting.

Standards committees should not carelessly sit down and devise things that destroy performance by a factor of ten or more, especially when it is entirely unnecessary and where they do not keep or provide simple, fast alternatives for the most common cases where the format is known and has nothing to do with a preferred locale. What they did instead was a massive energy and time wasting imposition of unhelpful semantics on functions that did not have or need any such thing instead of a tailored let's only do this in special cases with special functions approach.
Read his writing. Moby Dick isn’t coming out of his keyboard unless he’s retyping it.
As far as existing tech goes, I personally like and use Matrix.

Mastodon seems promising as a social media replacement, and PeerTube has the tech for YouTube replacements. Both of these two are using ActivityPub, which is on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

The problem comes with content. Matrix is in the strongest position at the moment imho - moving chat platform has the least network effect, and it has the most effective (only?) bridges between "standard" centralized services out of the three. Mastodon has a decent presence, especially of tech people, but not so much outside of the tech or "got banned from twitter" bubbles. PeerTube is in the weakest position of the three afaict - it's mostly again the tech bubble and the "got banned from youtube bubble", but with a much worse distribution.

The tech on Matrix and Mastodon at least seems well established though[0], and I think both would succeed if not for the massive network effects of YouTube/Facebook/Twitter/etc.

My honest opinion is that even if a federated solution doesn't exist or isn't far enough along yet for any of the above it would be better to break down the current state of things and force the creation of one.

[0] I've not used Peertube really, so I don't know how far along it is.
Here’s a list with operational split-flap displays around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-flap_display#Operational...
I like to use mason jars instead of a french press, I'll make a week's worth of cold brew on a weekend night. You do need to drain it through a coffee filter though. I just dump them into a pourover coffee pot with a re-usable metal filter.
There are a lot of people with a felony record who pose zero additional risk to their employer. Of course it depends on the person and it depends on the job. It certainly doesn't make sense to have a strict policy against all felons regardless of individual circumstances.
icewm is a bit different, but it has a "windows95" type theme that, while it doesn't look nearly as good, is insanely functional.

I've found it to be a window manager that is easy to script, easy to use, and gets out of the way for the most part. I spent a lot of time looking for a good window manager, trying all the usual ones (gnome, kde, xmonad (stayed there for a while!), dwm, etc.), but I've found this one to be the best and least obtrusive of any of them.

Definitely worth a look if you're still in the hunt and not necessarily keen on making something look pretty.

https://ice-wm.org/
Joe Rogan: The Platform-Proof Creator
I don’t think that is true.

Europe got decimal digits with their own characters via the arabs, true, but we use shapes derived from the original source, the Devanagari digits, not the shapes the Arabs developed due to their writing system/technology. South Asian languages other than Urdu are LTR.

You can see the parallels here (clipped from Wikipedia):

० 0
१ 1
२ 2
३ 3
४ 4
५ 5
६ 6
७ 7
८ 8
९ 9
I think the question is if he is intentionally spreading information which he knows that it is wrong, which is not necessarily true. This seems to be a common perception of the situation. As for whether it is harming Ukrainians I would say that it is debatable.
Thats why it was posted... because it's a novel interviewing technique. It has nothing to do with how much you make.
pangolin originated before system76 brought out the laptop
Magnesium citrate before bedtime.

It will improve your sleep quality tremendously which will then improve your concentration naturally. A rested mind has an easier time getting into the zone.

Buddhism and Zen can also help. No need to become a master, simply understanding and applying some of the basic concepts can help mind state significantly. This can also boost concentration by quieting the mind.

Also check out:

TMS Therapy or Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. It is brain stimulation technology. Very interesting and lots of research behind it on pubmed.
Hi, really amazingly cool, thank you!

1. Sorry if this is an inappropriate/silly question. I don't know much about this field.

What I would love is a plain CLI version where I can put the text string and number of frames, and maybe image size, as options, and it saves images of every frame to a file, for making video. Would that be really easy? i.e. starting from blank canvas each time, painting on whole image. Or maybe there is something that does that already, probably, I guess. How can I do that?

Even more than the individual images, I like seeing how it changes over the 30 frames. Being able to save whatever amount of frames I like would be so great.

2. Why does it change so much at the beginning/end of each 30 frames? The first one is often very different from what came before.

3. What are the images it's using for its knowledge? Maybe you've written about all this online, hope so. Thanks again.
When I look at the article two things stand out to me:

1. The author is focusing on the first 10 lines, not the whole document.
2. Their "perfect answers" have the candidate essentially reciting the reference docs verbatim.

That to me reads very differently from reading and discussing the whole HTML file. It reads much more like gotcha questions or an expectation that your candidate has extremely specific, arcane knowledge.

For example, the perfect answer for line 1 includes:

> This was especially annoying because each standard generated a different layout so this tag was adopted to make it easy for browsers. Previously, DOCTYPE tags were long and even included the specification link (kinda like SVGs have today), but luckily the simple <!doctype html> was standardized in HTML5 and still lives on.

So to the author, one should ideally not just know what "<!doctype html>" is for, but also be able to rattle off complaints against the previous revisions of HTML. The whole article just comes off as very verbose and stifling. (For that line he does allow for a more basic, but still verbose, answer)

Is it unreasonable for a senior frontend engineer to rely on references for some of these extremely specific details?
You do know that there are programmers all around the world whose first language is not English and usually need to communicate in English with English-speaking programmers.

Eg, Log4j vulnerability was found by, Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud Security Team. His first language is probably Mandarin, while English is 2nd or 3rd Language. He then mailed the Apache team via mail. He would have used such tools for this important mail to properly deliver and explain what exactly he found.
Not all of us coffee drinkers are that OCD about it.
Yeah, I also see Packt as a "do not buy"-stamp.
FWIW, the article said this is a question they use for a senior full stack role, not a frontend specialist role. With that in mind, the question does seem a bit badly formulated. For example, why would you ask about tags that you know through calibration that nobody will answer satisfactorily? And if you're already gathering signals about frontend specialization fluency by discussing web vitals, accessibility and other topics that would already establish competence, then why continue to get into these trivia style questions? Seems like a bit of a waste of time.

One potential problem with this approach of trivia checkbox ticking is that you could be selecting for "mini me" candidates, meaning that you're overfitting for the skillset you already have. For example, maybe the candidate is "full stack" from a primarily backend background, but you're formulating questions like this because you have a frontend background. But then they might seem less qualified than a mid-level frontend-only person because the interview was focusing on frontend, even though stronger expertise on backend would complement your current skill pool better.
If your business relies on it, whatever "it" is, then you probably need to pay for it, so that if it has some serious problem, you can call up a human and either beg or yell at them to fix it, depending on the situation.

I've always thought it madness to even rely on gmail for a business, who can cancel you whenever.
Movim: A federated, open-source web-based social XMPP client with OMEMO E2EE
Russian invasion of Ukraine visualized article
This is awesome! I made a while ago a cmd line background remover using the same model, https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover
How do you transact across continents without a trusted 3rd party, with blockchains? The only transactions you can do trust-less are transactions that happen completely on-chain, i.e. exchanging some cryptocurrency for other cryptocurrency or similar tokens. As soon as you want to exchange currency for good or services, that trusted 3rd party becomes necessary in the exact same way, no matter how "smart" your blockchain money is.