skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kinda feel I can code better when mildly sedated - eg late at night, after a beer. If I'm thinking too much I get distracted.

If I know I wont get interrupted is much better than not getting interrupted. eg if no one is in the house I can concentrate more than if they're there.
With unlimited resources, sure.

But most scientists trust the peer review process and base their work on their own ideas and the ideas/results they read in journals.

In short, scientists trust other scientists.
Can you output Eastern-Arabic numerals (e.g. ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩١٠) with sprintf? My gf sometimes uses them and its confusing as fuck for me. Especially as the numbers are then written RtL.
3.141,592 - Germany formats numbers that way.
>an R^2 of 78%

I generally assume that more intelligent people than me would have stumbled onto any connection that obvious. So, I always take it as a warning sign that I've messed up a parameter or put a proxy variable into my training data if I see things reaching that level of effect.
It depends on where you live. In some countries it's common for monthly fees to exceed the interest you get paid. My corporate bank account ended up in the hands of a colleciton agency that way!
> I honestly wish we would also regulate and crack down on it

It's mind boggling to read HN comments advocating for restricting people's free access to internet discourse. (Reminder that Hacker News is social media, too)

Even a few years ago the idea of anyone in the tech world advocating for regulations or "crack downs" on letting people freely communicate on the internet would be unthinkable.
I understand the nature of the gesture, thank you.
I don't think this is even the problem though. We have amazing physical modeling synths but the problem is it is not "playable" with a keyboard in the sense of being able to control all the needed variables.

You basically need a breathe controller to make a realistic playable sax sound otherwise you can't control the variables in real time that are needed.

Personally, I want to hear synth sounds that are not even trying to be reproductions of acoustic instruments. If I want to hear a sax sound I want to hear someone who is really good on a real sax and who knows how to actually play a sax.
Try out outwrite.com

If you need a grammar correction.
This was solved by my buddy's startup 10 years ago: https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/where-are-they-now-grafight...
> the safety, correctness and strict type system is absolutely necessary for maintainability and refactoring purposes alone

Erlang would beg to differ, and it has been continuously running on systems with uptimes longer than rust has existed.
Thank you, I have read the content and it certainly does not read like a sales pitch.
I don't see how you can read that and take the word of that attorney general as anything but self-serving CYA bullshit.

Even ignoring for the moment the deferment of local news outlets to government officials' press releases, instead of actual journalism, the story simply doesn't line up.

Plus when your only defense is "you haven't proven it beyond a reasonable doubt (because of all of the attempts to make it impossible to recover evidence)", even though that holds up in the court of law, it is not very convincing to any layperson who knows how crime happens.

Bluntly put, this article and subsequent defense are textbook bootlicking.
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Yes, that’s why it’s an “offshoot”. The founding thinkers of post-modernism were former Marxists and left-wing radicals (in the proper, actual political sense), again this is not a slur, simply a statement of fact. Depending on your political persuasion it may not even be a bad thing! But it is, at least, a thing. In as much as Mormonism is an offshoot of Judaism.

To revisit the original point, civil rights is deeply intertwined with radical left-wing and Marxist politics, for better or worse. Personally I think it’s a shame because civil rights should be for everyone, it is bigger than any political persuasion.

The best thing we can do is de-politicise these movements, the entire political spectrum has become so toxic and divisive.
There is a demo link towards the top of the README but it doesn't entirely scan as meaning a link to a demo as it says "use it here" where here links to the demo/editor: https://cascade.page/
More analysis than 'live' news:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/
Unless the Russians have forgotten their history lessons, they’re probably aware of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1994–1995)
Sorry this previous post is pretty agressive, my frustration is definitely coming through there and they do not deserve that. I am sure they are well meaning. I wish I could delete it.
> I've always found it easier to follow a conversation in a language I am learning than to speak it

Absolutely not. I have lived abroad half of my life (sometimes with a language reasonably close to my mother tongue and sometimes very far)

Speaking is always easier. I can make my own speed and I never use an unkown word. Sometimes I have to be a bit creative how to explain things if I am lacking a word.

Following discussions is hard. People use words I don't know all the time. Slang, dialects, accents on top of that. And many of them just speak too fast. This can take many many years and might never disappear when certain speakers are involved.

News speakers or documentary movies might be a different story.
Unfortunately, I no longer remember my old example, and I wasn't able to find a good new example. So maybe it is as powerful now.
In my country most people do not really use thousands separator, so here it would be either 3141,592 or 3 141,592.
I've been having trouble focusing as well as I could for very long at a time, so I'm going to take the whole summer and do something about it.

I should be just fine once I've made it through concentration camp . . .
It would be great if social networks and messaging apps were interoperable, but there are going to be some difficult questions about how that can be done securely.

For example, Facebook years ago added support for sending PGP encrypted emails to users[0], so in theory they should be able to allow users to publish their Facebook posts to non-Facebook users using that same open standard. They could even be forced to add Delta Chat[1] compatibility to (Facebook) Messenger.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/01/facebook-...

[1] https://delta.chat/en/
Another older piece of software is the Unix Writer’s Workbench, which legend says put all other grammar checkers to shame. Unfortunately it seems to have been lost to history and I am too young to have used it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer's_Workbench
Nice gesture but I don't think unilaterally implementing policies on the basis of someone's speculated nationality -- based on analysis of their private data -- is the role of private companies
The “Big Tech” Self‐ Preferencing Delusion
There was literally a response to the 1619 project by Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_Commission
I'm not sure what you are claiming. That Ukrainian militia would follow the Russians back to Russia after Zelensky negotiates a deal?

I get that it isn't very emotionally satisfying to give in, but concessions would save countless lives and his country from an unwinnable war.
On a somewhat different vibe, the Lilith was a pretty interesting machine back then. These FPGA platforms get a lot of attention for retrogaming, but they'd be incredibly interesting for exploring extinct more "serious" hardware platforms.
I agree. Unfortunately those prosecuting this war knew that sanctions were coming, and will be largely/wholly unaffected by them.

It is only normal people, most of whom are against war, who will suffer as a result. Doctors who can't source medicine, workers who can't pay their staff, et c.

These sanctions will not negatively affect Putin; he has expected them for years and indeed has been explicitly preparing to cope with them.
"Very sad and bad such civilian accidents" is a euphemism I haven't heard before.
OSINT should be imagery and/or audio with a place and time, speculation should be limited and reasoned. Here are some accounts doing that instead:

https://twitter.com/RALee85

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko

https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin
> Now it’s just scary.

And getting worse.

> Let’s hope Ukraine will be able to resist long enough to force Putin to negotiate peace and to forget about any attempt to reach his goals along the Western borders of Russia by military means.

I hope with you but the force asymmetry is large. But so far they have been doing much better than could have reasonably been expected.

> It’s too bad that our hope is that enough Russian soldiers will die for Russian public to notice that war is in their house.

This will be one of the most carefully controlled statistics, there is no way that official channels will get close to communicating these numbers. I've been wondering if this isn't one of those areas where the tech world could really assist.

> There’s no popular support for the war, but the pain of war is not yet felt.

And likely won't be for weeks or even months.

> Unfortunately there’s no other options left.

Agreed.

> Sanctions are not a short term deterrent.

Also agreed, but they are a message, especially if those sanctions hurt the EU as well. I would be happy to shut down the heat here if that's what it took to get the EU completely disconnected from Russian gas. It would be very annoying but we'd live, my grandparents went through far worse than that. And I've been trying to figure out how I can really help Ukrainian refugees.
Inoculation effect; Determinants of long term returns; On happiness
Interoperability in One Minute
My concern with that these days is what if Samsung blocks his account? Now I’m not a Samsung customer but if I handed Google $1k and they gave me a dud I wouldn’t dare do a chargeback no matter what because the risk of loosing my Gmail and other services is too high. Same for Apple.

Consumers need more rights when it comes to termination of services that are borderline essential.
To be honest I never optimized my setup to a single artifact level. The way I set up this was that in a Google Cloud Storage bucket I have a subfolder for each build whose name is monotonically increasing (ie by including time in the folder name like 20220225_23_49_50/bazel-* folders). That way I can copy the latest build to the cloud build VM and still retain history. The object lifecycle settings I use keep artifacts around for 1 month and I never had the need to find something outside that time window.

There could be smarter ways to do so tbh, like having time&date_<Sha of commit>, but I didn't have the need for any of that yet.

About GitHub I am not sure, bit cloud build can be triggered by GitHub commits: https://cloud.google.com/build/docs/automating-builds/build-... . I hope it helps!
Whataboutery.
Interesting. By this, do you mean select '2020-01-01' :: date; is slow, but select '2020-01-01' ::pg_catalog.date; is fast?

If so, that is very surprising. Any ideas why that is slow?
> Accountability for criminal homicide of Black people, especially by law enforcement, has definitely increased since BLM became a force.

Especially by law enforcement, or only by law enforcement? Criminal homicide of blacks is way up since BLM.
That's true but the sanctions do send a message, especially if those sanctions also affect the EU: that we are willing to take a hit to get this under control.

Regardless: if Russia doesn't come to its senses quickly the country will likely not recover in the next 40 years or so from the kind of damage they are doing to their stature on the international stage, this is not the kind of thing you walk away from and claim it was 'just Putin'. Time is running out, and the easy solutions have all already been pre-empted by events.
>What’s more important, protecting Ukraine, Taiwan and anywhere else under threat, or slowing down the erosion of something already being eroded. Lives matter, swift will do just fine without Russia.

I might be completely clueless, but Ukraine doesn't have anywhere near the same amount of strategic or economic importance that Taiwan does. As I understand it, what should have been done was for NATO to promise to not add Ukraine and keep it as a neutral zone between Russia and the US. Adding Ukraine to NATO was effectively putting US troops on Russia's doorstep and I can see why that makes Russia nervous. It seems pretty clear that Ukraine wasn't going to get NATO membership anyways.

I don't know if the promise would have given Putin the gall to invade, but the way I see it being ambiguous about it didn't help at all.
And that parent was using Nazis to disclaim the US as evil. The US doesn't just get off the hook because they haven't resorted to genocide.
Very, very rarely. I got into one serious fight and lost (broken nose). I toughened up real quick. People are going to steal your shit from you, or you're going to lend someone something (say some coffee until commissary day) and they won't give it back. What will you do? If you don't fight then everyone will know they can take advantage of you. You have to at least have to intimidate the other person and make it seem you are willing to fight.

If you go to jail or prison it is relatively unlikely you will come to serious harm. Not many people in jail really want to fight. I did watch hundreds of fights and I came to the conclusion the human face is really not designed for fighting. It breaks very, very easily.
I have no issue with free access to Internet discourse! In fact, I wish we had more free access to Internet discourse. What I object to is the commodification of attention, the deployment of sophisticated algorithms intended to drive clicks/views (and thus promote the most divisive and controversial viewpoints), pervasive surveillance, and so on. I don't think regulating these facets of our present-day technology, which are driven by profit motives, not by the desire of ordinary people to speak to one another, is at all incompatible with a free and open Internet.
Hey madnuttah - nice work, those dockerfiles look pretty solid to me from an initial readthrough.

Are you familiar with reproducible builds? (they can be challenging to achieve with docker, but I believe it's possible)
I ran into sprintf's dependence on locale recently when trying to use it in a WebAssembly module. Since I was compiling for the browser, I wanted to not depend on locale. Even setting aside the locale stuff, the wasi sdk still wanted to pull in file-related things like read/write/seek. I just wanted to do formatted print to a pre-existing buffer.

I ended up using nanoprintf — it's a single header file and in the public domain.

(https://github.com/charlesnicholson/nanoprintf)
> The German consumer federation VZBV found more than a third of users would change their main instant messaging service if they could message people on other services.

It would also be good to know how many people currently have multiple messaging services installed (and how many people like having their contacts split between multiple services).
I agree that's a good ideal, but it doesn't mean that everything else isn't OSINT, or that it should be subject to algorithmic suppression as misinformation.
You cannot do that instinctively. It requires internalizing the rules which will take a while, a couple of months probably, longer in lower grades at school.
Unfortunately, Language Tool seems limited to very basic mistakes.

It's Spanish demo only highlights some mechanical punctuation, gender, and plurality errors though it has one useful suggestion for a word that is too specialized.

Useful, for sure, but Grammarly is much more helpful, pointing out things like run-on sentences, clauses that lack parallel verbs, and things like that. Maybe it's better in English, but hopefully Language Tool can get to that level one day.
> I actually really like this and I’m a bit surprised to see all the pushback.

FWIW, I have yet to see any discussion about interviewing on HN that didn't attract a lot of pushback in the comments. It doesn't seem to matter what format the interview is in (technical questions like this, leetcode-style problems, take-home problems), it will attract angry comments on HN and Reddit.

I suspect a lot of this is exaggerated. In the real world I've only ever had a couple candidates decline to do take-home interviews, and that's only because they were 99% sure they were taking another offer at that point. Back when we did in-person technical interviews we never had anyone end the interview early because we asked questions that were too hard (as the top HN comment claims they would do).

Take interview-related commentary on HN and Reddit with a grain of salt.
This is really out of touch with reality. Russia has been provoking military incidents almost every day for years.

From memory, in total, western airforces had to block Russian fighters entering their sovereign territory 240 times in 2021. French fighters were sent several times to stop Russian fighters in the English Channel, e.g. 2000 km from their base.

Then you can add Russia submarines nosing around, spy vessels desguised as fishing vessels going close to points of military interests (for example, when one of the 6 French nuclear submarines dive from its base nearby Brest on the Atlantic Ocean, tens of French fishing vessels are invited to circle around to mask the submarine noise. Every time, there are Russian fish vessels popping up that very day.

In the last decade, Russia has been testing our detection capacities, speed of reaction, going as far as receiving summation fires from Western fighters.

Russia has been in an aggressive attitude for at leat the past decade. That must stop.

I think Sweden should join NATO. Finland is a more complicated case, since they already have a specific agreement with Russia and are so vulnerable. They may prefer the status quo.
My only question is why does a furniture rental site interview candidates like they're trying to change the world. Dear lord, you're making a CRUD app. Get over yourself.
lots of words, they were declaring this intention since 2008 with a break between 2010-2014, during the presidency of Yanukovych. This request was never granted/never under serious consideration, due to obvious reasons. You are shilling for the Russian dictator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Ukraine
> Nope. On WhatsApp, no message I've ever sent has been censored.

Just because you haven't been censored doesn't mean everyone isn't censored.

https://reclaimthenet.org/whatsapp-kashmir-deactivated/

Facebook owns WhatsApp. You really think there is no censorship on WhatsApp.

> You aren't making the point you think you are. You are confirming that they were disappeared for a LONG time by the gov't.

I am making an exact point. Oh my god, a tennis player and jack ma didn't make themselves available to western press for a bit. That's so crazy. Because we all know that these chinese people belong to western journalists. Right?

People complaining about censorship in a highly censored website. That's rich. Crazy how so many "people" care about china's freedom all of a sudden.
I don't know how their process worked exactly but if you're going to just claim they didn't listen to their users and therefore you win the argument that's pretty cheap.

They certainly listened to their users and potential users.
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Carlson's manner of speech here is intended to make you take a giant step back, look, and think. This is very threatening to people for whom beliefs are packages you subscribe to, not things you arrive at with effort. Folks can make anybody sound any way by cherry-picking sound bites out of context. I see it happen constantly here.
> I'm thinking especially of people in Europe castigating politicians for not wanting to clamp down hard on the Russian energy sector. The way I see it, the europols are in a no-win situation. If they go easy on Russia and keep the gas and oil flowing, they look like weak and waffling appeasers, which yes, they are. If they cut off the Russian gas supply, will the people posting Ukrainian flags on Twitter remember or care about the noble root causes when faced with unprecedented energy prices?

That seems like it's a false choice. Couldn't they cut off the gas supply while simultaneously implementing other policies to keep "unprecedented energy prices" from falling to hard on everyday people? Maybe even rally people around making some collective sacrifices?
An attempt to share some facts for the future to look back on, not really relevant for today's conversation.
This is a bizarre framing of the intervention in Yugoslavia that largely omits its intention, context, and history, other than a brief mention of "aiming to...put an end to anti-Albanian violence in the province of Kosovo." Serbian paramilitaries and security forces were in fact engaging in coordinated acts of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, including property seizure, rape, and massacres of civilians, then deliberately obstructing attempts by the international community to investigate or stabilize the situation. This was not propaganda or 'fake news'-- it was the reality on the ground. NATO's intervention, while not an unqualified triumph, was largely successful in halting this.

Strangely enough, in the years since, a loose coalition of international leftists have taken up the conspiratorial cause of Serbian recidivists and nationalists in declaring the NATO air campaign as an act of 'imperialism,' both unjustified and illegal. I can perhaps see why younger Serbians would be reluctant to see themselves as aggressors; it is harder to understand why Western leftists would take up the cause of someone as loathsome as Slobodan Milošević purely to make an ideological point.

Furthermore, if this intervention irked the Russians, it had very little to do with questions of international law and sovereignty, and much more to do with the fact that this area has long been seen by Moscow as its personal playground (famously, one of the primary causes of WW1), and signaled a blow to their declining prestige.

Finally, I would be wholly suspicious of any comparison of Yugoslavia to the current crisis in Ukraine, as it implies some legitimacy to Moscow's patently fictional claims of 'genocide' in the separatist areas in the east. Regardless of who 'forged the world in which such a war is possible,' this particular war is purely a creation of the Kremlin's grandiose and cruel imagination.
(I'm a professional dev/devops but have been drawing a long time)

Lynda Barry's resources are excellent! Her "What It Is" clearly communicates the magic and identity of making marks on the the page. She shows her adoration of marks by NOT-trained artists, they're more "alive", so many of her exercises are UN-learning things from more traditional "artist" pathways.

I'm really enjoying her "Syllabus" book, it's a startling refreshing way to learn, including making marks / "drawing".

https://www.instagram.com/thenearsightedmonkey/

https://www.amazon.com/Syllabus-Accidental-Professor-Lynda-B...

https://www.amazon.com/What-Lynda-Barry/dp/1897299354
I don't see that happening. If they would do that it would instantly annihilate any support for NATO the world over. First user of nuclear weapons today is going to go down in history - assuming there will be anybody left to write it - as worse than Hitler.