skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. A cyclist can be seen going about their life before a bomb lands in front of them. The proximity would have sent shrapnel directly into them. They did not survive. It is extremely sad and awful to watch unfold. Warning: the second video contains gore. https://twitter.com/realistqx1/status/1496757503195029508 and https://twitter.com/zyundex/status/1496735074720563203
It was only a few years ago (2015?) that people asking for destructured assignment were treated like simpletons, with a long, jargon-laden explanation how the language formal syntax for destructured "let" was incompatible with assignment syntax as it was then, as if syntax were not something that could be extended anytime, or as if there would be no choice but to express it using the same nonterminals for both.

Yet, here it is. I was not fooled, but the attitude left a deep impression.
Just stick to a LTS branch; no reason to give up bugfixes.
Those tests are brittle, and they're also the thing that protects you at module boundaries when those boundaries are being hammered on by different groups of people.

Having them not be necessary is nice.
College Degree Hacking 101
Burnout and the Brain
Ask HN: What cloud storage service you are using?
> Isn't oil price increasing good for Russia though?

Yes. From Putin's POV: two mehs and one thumbs way up
It takes two to tango. Putin is as much a son of the loot of the USSR as Hitler was of the Versailles agreement.

Victory must be magnanimous or it's just temporary.
Clang can do it. Google ships clang-built Linux kernels in Android and ChromeOS.
"Russia has far more basis for invading a rapidly arming country on its own border than the US did for invading Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam or Korea."

Ukraine's attempts to prepare against invasion do not justify said invasion.
I don't think the concern is with Google keeping the keys secure. I think the concern is with Google being able to rewrite the app however they want and sign it without the developer even knowing.
The examples you listed, the giant Sloth, the Mastodon, and the giant Armadillo are all actually smaller than a modern elephant so you're not really making your point with those links.

The giant sauropods are thought to have been 10 times heavier than an Elephant.

Ten times heavier! That's enormous.

And the wandering albatross you linked to is said to have existed 50 million years ago in the article.
So nobody wanted to believe me when I said they needed to “hug it out”. N (cont)
It's not true that we have raw footage stream of the war, What we have is a curated stream that is optimised for engagement(until the content is found to be unhelpful with the official agenda, then it is censored).

Actually, most of the raw footage comes from instant messaging(WhatsApp or Telegram, mostly), shared in groups with an agenda. Then it is shared on TikTok, Twitter etc. to a wider audience where it is curated and censored by algorithm that optimise for something(engagement, impression, revenue, agenda and so on).

Which means, instead of getting our news from journalists on the ground who know the context(at least the good ones) we get a snapshot of the event curated by an algorithm or people the way the analytics told them to.
The Russian ‘firehose of falsehood’ propaganda model (2016)
Impressive product, but honestly, how is this the solution we’ve come to?

“Should we get our data scientists to make the merest amount of effort to stop writing bad code?”

“No, we’ll use an AI to fix their code”

Just what?
Notebooks are nice for exploratory code, but that’s it. Got problems with data scientists writing terrible code in notebooks? Make them stop then. Stop accepting PR’s, stop letting them do it.

I’m not saying this as an outsider, I’m a data scientist by trade too, I don’t think we should be enabling bad practices and habits that we wouldn’t tolerate anywhere else in software development.
The first rule of decentralization is that it will eventually become centralized. We're already seeing version 0 of this with this morning's poorly implemented twitter livemap. I have no doubt that there are already defense contractors and private companies working to compile and package OSINT more reliably, completely, searchably, etc.
Climate change is real as is COVID, but the "fearmongering" part is, that the people who are telling you to take it seriously (politicians, top 1%, celebrities) are not taking it seriously themselves (partying without masks, flying private jets to Davos, ...).

Therefore, while climate change and COVID might be real, most of the proposed solutions are completely fake.
> How is neon extracted and why does one country have a 90% monopoly (in this specific grade)?

"Specific grade" - you need very, very, very high purity gasses for lasers.

Noble gasses are very, very, very hard to purify because they are chemically inert.

Welding gas (argon) is dirt cheap, 99.99% pure argon is surprisingly expensive, and semiconductor grade Argon, or Neon at 99.99999%+ purity far more.

Ultrapure neon is a great example of a single source critical input for the semiconductor industry. There are hundreds of similar small companies around the world supplying something completely irreplaceable.

Semiconductor industry is extremely fragile.
Welcome to HN. This happens all the time. I added 'Linux' to the title, which attracted attention.
NATO did not move towards Russia by its own desire, as you imply.

All the neighbors of Russia have always known that one must expect that Russia will invade them at the first opportunity, so they made efforts to join NATO as it was obvious that like Ukraine, they do not have enough resources to fight alone against Russia.

Entering NATO was not easy for them, because the main NATO countries imposed a lot of conditions and the new NATO members had to actually unofficially pay their membership with billions of dollars in contracts awarded to companies from various old NATO members.

The NATO membership was not a free gift and it was paid dearly precisely because the new members were those who wanted the NATO expansion, to be protected against the Russians.

It was not the old NATO who desired the expansion towards Russia.

Moreover, calling the new NATO members as "ex-Soviet satellite states" is an insult. They have never been satellite states by their own will.

All the countries from the Eastern Europe are states who have been invaded by the Russians during WWII and where the Russians were able to install puppet governments and steal whatever they wanted as a consequence of the agreements between USA and Great Britain with Stalin.

The states from Western Europe have paid their freedom from Hitler with little of their own money but mostly with what was not theirs to give, i.e. with the countries from Eastern Europe, which were given to the Russians.
I have done a similar analysis of the Lone Wolf series [1].

[1] https://notes.atomutek.org/gamebooks-and-graph-theory.html
Europe's Innovative Decade
If you look at the current numbers in the upper-right corner of the graph, validator RAM use went from 3816 MB to 2956 MB, a reduction of ~860 MB. The y-axis was selected by the tool based on the data in each series, and the second graph happens to include a spike above 10 GB caused by protocol migration; I doubt the author was being deliberately manipulative. (I do agree that it would have been better to present the data without that spike for a closer comparison.)
It's quite surreal. Watching people being invaded. Jets, choppers taken down. Missiles hitting housing. And yet being powerless .. super weird.

Even with the potential for fake news, it seems this might change the war dynamics. At the same time Ukrainians are fighting for their lives you can see Russian people protesting against this invasion. The real time loop could break military reality distortion field.. if you're a Russian soldier and you see people in your city walking the streets against what you've been ordered to do.. it might cause deep conflict in your head.
Still not very specific. Or correct, as far as I can see.

Here is the text of the memorandum: https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.or...

Can you point us to the provision that you claim the U.S./Europe have violated? It is only about 1-2 pages long, so I don't think this is too much to ask.
That's the quote I had in mind.

To anyone with basic reading comprehension, it's obvious that Trump isn't praising Putin, he's praising Putin's tactics, which, judging by the (lack of) response from the West, is pretty smart!
Yeah, this has been my frustration for a while. Honestly, at this point just buy natural gas from a country that isn't helmed by a warlord. Similarly, Germany decommissioning its nuclear reactors isn't helping matters. I genuinely wonder what short term solutions are feasible with respect to decreasing dependence on Russian gas--can Europe ramp up production of heat pumps or similar? Is "Norway expanding its natural gas capacity" a reasonable short term option? Would love to hear from people who know anything about this.
To be honest -- when I see this, I also go out of my way to say something. I don't have a hate for scooters, I just get really annoyed by the lack of perspective people have for their neighbors.

With that said, I rarely have to say something about this to the people in my neighborhood, because while they may be blocking the sidewalk to do whatever they may be doing, they are incredibly aware and say something as you're walking by:

"sorry about my car"

"sorry about my trailer"

And I know that if someone was/is in need they'd go out of their way to help you out.

My complaint wasn't about my neighbors -- it's a pretty tight knit community. It was about everyone who comes in for some event/holiday who doesn't give a shit about those of us who live here. I'm personally not inconvenienced by the scooters, I just care about my neighbors that are.
They are Czech company only on paper (probably for better access to western markets). They don't have any sort of real presence in Czech Republic, just offices for their global teams. Their products don't have Czech versions. Not even their website is available in Czech language. Highly unusual for a technical company. Even big global companies offer at least something in our local language.
A lot of what is being shared is fake. Careful what you believe. Gizmodo has some examples:

https://gizmodo.com/10-photos-and-videos-from-russias-invasi...
Yes I just left a startup (resigned) where most of the tech leadership had been fired and rotated at least once, always with lots of complaints from the CTO about how "terrible" they were. I took his word for it the first two, but afterwards it became clear "it's you dude...", and left soon after.
The point is that the Platform matters as it allows certain countries to control the narration. Do you think US BigTechs don't take orders from the US government or act for US interests? China also has such platforms. The internet is now being cartelized into corporate platforms, and this is only going to increase and become worse (from a consumers point of view).
As a sort of redux, I guess my feeling is that obviously, every state would prefer to be surrounded by allies, or better still, by seas.

However, the idea that all superpowers inevitably go to war to preserve this state is just wrong. If you consider superpowers starting from antiquity to today, the only state that has achieved this situation (at any point?) is the USA. Every other has had at least one significant land border with an adversary.

(PS: Probably the biggest one is, of course, between the USSR and China, which was a very hot border since the sino-soviet split).
How about 10x IRA contributions?
What percentage of non-C applications did you review? I suspect C has enough footguns to be an issue, but its popularity, especially in low-level software (kernels, codecs, firmware) ensures that it'll show up in security issues regardless of how bad the languages itself is.
Only if they're aware that the information was manipulated.
could have chosen a better name considering the recent events and rumors...
There is a reason Mearsheimer is part of an IR school of thought called "Realists." This analysis doesn't focus much on self-determinism or international law because it assumes that these concepts don't have much influence. I also think that it's regrettable, but people making foreign policy calls should be aware of this line of thinking.

For what it's worth, what Mearsheimer is saying here about NATO expansion being destabilizing is pretty much exactly what Putin is saying in his various speeches.
I can see that there are still some commits coming in on the Github repo, but the blog hasn't been updated since 2020 and the Twitter hasn't been updated since 2021.

If anyone who's on the team or close to it is around, would be great to get some updates about whether or not the project is completely dead. The movement of Servo's control outside of Mozilla was scary, but I remember at least a few devs saying at the time that there was still interest in continuing the project. Now, I don't even know what's happening with it.

Are there any timelines, goals, specific efforts going on? Ostensibly Servo is owned by Linux Foundation. In practice, has there been any "official" activity under the Linux Foundation over the past year, or has the project been put on hold?

I'm glad that somebody took over Servo when Mozilla dropped it, but it feels like there was never any real update about what the Linux Foundation even wanted to do with Servo. From the perspective of an outsider looking in, they basically took control over the project and immediately stuck it on a shelf. And I know I don't have the full picture -- but it kind of makes me wonder what the point of moving the project over even was. What's the advantage of having Servo under the Linux Foundation? What happened because of that move, and what was developed/planned as a result of the Linux Foundation being involved?
That’s… unequivocally false.
List maintainer here, I'll work on adding the suggestions dang noted here.
Huh, I did actually miss that. Thanks for pointing it out. Linoleic acid isn't fully accepted as being healthy, so it was an easy assumption for me to make.

My understanding of linoleic acid is that it got a ton of good press as a result of the blowback from the discovery that we were basically poisoning ourselves with trans fats. So it wasn't really that we know PUFAs / linoleic acid are good, it's just that we know they're an existing alternative to something very bad.

Example random study link that points out some of the unknowns around linoleic acid: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492028/
It's been a long time since I was there, but I thought there were plenty of 15,000 call site refactorings done in a single final CL. Not that the Linux kernel should do the same!
>prepare for the increase or make whatever financial decisions you need to

What does this statement actually mean for an individual family? Most working class people cannot just demand more money from their employer. So really it just means "get ready to move out and find a new home", which means uprooting your family, commuting further, finding new schools for your kids to attend, potentially worse ones because its probably a cheaper/poorer neighborhood.

>It's also not clear that being forced to sell over high property tax bills is a bad thing

I just plain old disagree with this; my family would have been forced to move because some rich people would have displaced my working class parents, and it honestly sounds like you consider that a good thing, "well they're poorer so they don't deserve to live in a place where a lot of people want to live" is really what that argument boils down to. Even though they worked hard and saved for many years to afford to buy that place. There are very few condos in the neighborhood I grew up in, and the ones that exist are on the edge of the city in much less desirable areas. I would have had to go to a different (worse) school, lose touch with my friends and generally have much less space than I had as well. Your argument only makes sense if you consider people as wanting to live somewhere purely as a financial enterprise rather than a good safe place to raise a family.

If you eliminated the zoning restrictions and power of the NIMBYs then this would allow for the best of both worlds. We could continue to allow a tax rate for working class people, but also allow the development of more profitable/denser units. As people naturally move around, companies could buy the houses and redevelop them into denser units.
Yup. Raising the target SDK means that more phones become ewaste, not because of their hardware becoming outdated, but because their software will never receive an update.
Who decides what are individual rights? Would they be held up if 95% disagree with it? I mean it might work idk, it would just not be a democracy.
This might be too generic. What's the usage?
There is also a possibility that they did exactly this because they are green, conscripted troops, who have grown up in social media age. They don't assume they will be tracked as individual soldiers, but in aggregate they leak information die to unprofessionalism. They have been doing this since 2014 so why do we expect them to be fully professional overnight?
Freetube can play age restricted videos (it has worked for me so far). I'm not sure how they do it, I suspect it has to do with the Invidious API somehow.
Indeed, ancient wars were fought to recruit/enslave farmers as often as for any other reason. If they were all killed there would have been no point.
Not problems like 'what is beauty' because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy.

We solve practical problems.
I agree. It's like suddenly everyone's forgetting the power these media giants have to control their platforms. This isn't the YouTube of the early 2000s, everyone. Always treat unsourced and unverified information with skepticism, especially if the truthfulness of the content doesn't immediately affect you. Always ask yourself "why would they not censor this video but censor these others?"
No, this isn’t all about an evil dictator named Putin being reckless. He’s a horrible person but he’s not a movie villain that’s being evil to move the plot forward. This is the same sort of cartoonish understanding that existed after 9/11 that lead to millions of people believing that the Middle East hated us for our freedoms instead of hating us for occupying their countries and for historical wars.

Much like Bin Laden and al Zawahiri told us their motivations and nobody listened for ten years, the Kremlin told us their motivations for this and nobody is listening: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828

Reaching for a simple explanation precludes real conversation about why this is happening.
The problem is the 5G allocation. It infringes on a band that existing use cases rely on.
It's not clear that the West is willing.
While way off topic, why would Saudi Arabia need nuclear weapons? My understanding is they are pretty closely allied with Pakistan, a known nuclear state.
I thought it looked more like a random mashup of iOS, Android, and Chrome OS.
Yes, government wastes money.

The current USPS trucks (Long Life Vehicles aka LLVs) do have some very unique requirements. The tests the trucks were put through sounds insane (e.g. hauling 1 ton while thousands of miles driven on paved, gravel, cobblestoned, and pot-holed roads) with the life span of 30 years.

I do not believe we got enough details to throw USPS under the truck (yes, intended).
Officially yes, although we can argue about how much you can "backport" and still count. But even so - if new code requires a newer C version and thus newer compiler, it's harder to backport.
Trump has an anti-war, contain the bully platform.

He introduced new sanctions for Iran and killed one of their highest ranking officers. Precision strikes instead of wasteful wars.

Turkey and SA are US allies, Trump just continued that long-standing policy, as does Biden.

> And even if you don’t believe that, Trump is currently okay with the invasion.

Quote? Trump said Putin's "pretty smart", which, judging by their progress towards Kyiv, and the lack of response by the West, well, you can't say it's not smart (at least in the short term... long term, remains to be seen).
It's still a dumb position/argument to point a finger at someone who is now a target and say "see I told you so" probably from the other side of the world.

It's like if your friend just had their bike stolen after someone suggested not to leave it there. What was a valid contribution turns into being a dick "Yes, ty for your useful contribution"
> and (in the case of the US) bomb less defended countries for their natural resources.

That's not terribly different from what Russia is doing with Ukraine - they will overwhelm a weaker country for their own strategic reasons, enjoying the impunity granted by a nuclear arsenal (and not just your average one: the largest!).
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was when we fired all of the unvaccinated nurses amid the Omicron spike, and then CDC lowered the quarantine to 5 days and hospitals made sick workers come to work. So yes, let's fire folks that want to work, but force sick (contagious) people into work. It makes 0 sense.
Yes, he did, but that just shows that it's possible to inject self-replicating code in a compiler. It doesn't actually tell us how resistant such code is to compiler source changes, audits, binary analysis, etc. which are all required for a successful exploit.
Right you are. Macroexpanded:

Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623470 - June 2020 (313 comments)

ElevatorJS – Scroll to top the old-fashion way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17048610 - May 2018 (1 comment)

Finally, a “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9446389 - April 2015 (10 comments)

Elevator.js - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416993 - April 2015 (66 comments)

(Reposts are ok after a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)
I hope you all are okay! I follow a blacksmithing shop that makes axes and woodworking tools out of Kharkiv and they haven't posted in quite a while. Has me worried for everyone out there
Maybe not Russia, but sanctions can hit them pretty hard. They might not be able to transfer money to Russian and western companies might not be comfortable using what is basically just Russian software with "Czech" sticker on it.
This grind my gears so fucking much! You are running your business not only on property that isn't yours, but the public's -- AND it's an inconvenience to every person who walks by in a busy neighborhood, some that absolutely need the sidewalk.
These days, there's not really a good way to protect yourself from a virus like that. A lot of this state-designed malware relies on expensive zero-days that can't be mitigated with typical antivirus software, so I can only recommend this:

Backup, backup, backup.

The old "3-2-1" rule should be good enough for anyone who's paranoid about this sort of thing: keep 3 copies of data, on 2 different media, with 1 located offsite. For extra security, I'd recommend switching/supplementing the "1" out to 1 offline backup, if you've got the resources to do that periodically. That way, even if your device is pwned and the Russians dd your root directory, you can reinstall and have your mission-critical data onhand.