skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What really bothers me now are movies being distributed over torrents as a multi-volume RAR.

Just...why?

The BitTorrent protocol will handle corrupt data and fix it at the segment level. You won't have to redownload an entire file.

Splitting a file into pieces made sense 20+ years ago when connections (Both your physical ISP connection and the logical TCP connection) were unstable, web servers didn't always support download resuming, and software didn't handle graceful unexpected disconnections, but those days are long behind us. We transfer data over encrypted channels that include checksums at the packet level. We use software that can handle disconnections, automatically reconnect, and resume where it left off, not to mention detect when data went bad and re-download just the bad part.

There's just no damn reason to split a 5 GB .mkv into 100 50 MB .rar files which will then take my poor RPi 15 minutes to decompress.
I think part of this is that the non-US NATO countries basically let the US run it. The only NATO countries which seem to meet the financial and military requirements of the organization are the ones on Russia's border. So the US pays the money to support the alliance while Germany uses the money it's saved to purchase gas and oil from Russia so it can close down it's nuclear plants.
'Disarming the influence of a bad actor'

Russia is going nowhere. They are not NK. Consequences are never one sided, in a conflict, the other side gets a vote too.
Why "outside certain roles"?

If the argument is that serving your time in jail rehabilitates you, then you shouldn't be limited in what roles you can take after you've served your time.

I assume the "certain roles" you are talking about is something like banking with someone with a history of felony fraud. I guess the argument is that maybe prison isn't 100% rehabilitative. But if that's the case, why should I, as a non-banker, hire a felon who, say assaulted a stranger with a baseball bat. Isn't there a similar chance that prison wasn't 100% rehabilitative?
Thank you. I had thought of helping refugees and let that thought slip away in my frustration. I think that is a great idea.

About blow-back, I have thought about that, but I am not worried. I am a bit of a nobody, especially in this. There are people doing much braver things than anything I will do. If some Russian bots or fanatics want to down vote my apps or whatever, so be it.
It's kind of sad how real this comment turned out to be. That the webcam you linked to now (3 days later) only shows a frozen image [1] of the "peaceful" afternoon approximately 13 hours after the posting of your comment.

[1]: https://archive.fo/Db5Ax
His episode 89 - Just Draw - was so useful to me: https://youtu.be/WLqWX7onVmU
Wordle for Win3.1
The USA is helping a lot, much more than Germany. Sending soldiers is not an option for obvious reasons - but everything else is.
The thing I miss most about leaving my Android Pixel 2 for an iPhone is real Firefox for mobile with Ublock Origin and other extensions. The Firefox on iOS is nowhere near as good, and I'd love to have Firefox back.

This lack of support for rival browser engines is one of the things holding me back from buying an ipad.
>Right now, to learn C++ in a generic way, you need to learn pretty much all of programming paradigms and all of their variations - which is not a thing I would consider a plus.

I disagree, I would recommend learning enough where the tool starts providing value to YOU for YOUR problem domain and then pause/resume as needed. The main purpose of any programming language is to be productive in it and use it to solve a problem. In my opinion, there is no reason to learn more than you need about C++ unless you were a compiler author, on the C++ standards committee, or something similar.
I'm on the team at Sapling Intelligence, a deep-learning AI Writing Assistant. A lot of privacy and security conscious folks don't like the idea of a keylogger, so we have self-hosted/on-premise/cloud-premise options for businesses. We have a list of available offerings here: https://sapling.ai/comparison/onprem. Sapling deployments can also be configured for no data retention, sacrificing some model customization.

Cost-wise, it doesn't make sense for individuals to host a neural-network based grammar checker, though some of the rule-based options may work. There's a future where if we can maintain some sort of Moore's law scaling we will be able to run these language models on individual computers as opposed to the cloud.
To add on to #2: people are hard to draw because we instinctively recognize imperfections in other humans (maybe evolution behavior?) and can easily fall into uncanny valley when things like joints/bones don't exactly look right

FWIW, I found male faces/bodies are somewhat easier to get away imperfections since they're generally more rugged
From some cursory googling:

Afghanistan peak US troops: 102,000 (2011)

Gulf war peak US troops: 700,000 (1990-1991)

Iraq peak US troops: range from 168,000 - 192,000 (2007)

Vietnam peak US troops: 543,000 (1969)

Korea peak US troops: 320,000, unclear what year

edit: obviously, Russia's involvement in Ukraine over the last few days would be by far the biggest operation in Europe since WW2. Just not globally (by a long shot).
Oh, this is more on the European nations definitely. Outsourcing their defense to US and being so weak that they can't even do sanctions properly because they need to buy that sweet gas from them.
How much have they changed their minds in the last few days?
Lots of downvotes, but no one answering the question.
I agree; I think there was this kind of default assumption (due to MAD) that wars in Northern Europe were mostly over. All these recent events have done is prove that nuclear nations will swallow up non-nuclear nations if they don't have a MAD assurance from an alley.

Finland and Sweden should decide themselves what is best, but I only wish the best for both countries and after this I cannot bring myself to believe it couldn't happen again.

The only major benefit Finland has over Ukraine is geography.
Thanks, it's amazing the things I know and still botch.
This article covers Macs as well.

I wonder about Windows.
Even if you were correct, does it matter that your European country is not nuked when the rest of them are?
I'm not too versed in the subject but I have a feeling that in disaster scenarios it's better to take the Ronald McDonald House charity model than the payday loans model for organized crime.

People don't forget when you take advantage of them when down and they'll be loathe to do business with you in the future when they're not.

It's a PR move.
I have long suspected Grammarly as a massive undercover FSB operation to monitor the west. The amount of marketing push behind the product never made sense otherwise, and their corporate HQ is in Ukraine.

Even if you don't buy the conspiracy theory, the cold hard truth now is that those servers will be under Russian jurisdiction within a month.
> Learn to write. Don't use Grammerly.

*Grammarly.
The issue I have with this test is it tells you nothing about the person you are interviewing.

When would you actually create such tags as a fullstack dev? Almost never. 90% of the time, those tags are auto generated by some boiler plate app.

A person that can answer correctly MIGHT be someone that's looked into those tags and done things the hard way, but is that really someone you need to hire? A person that answers incorrectly doesn't necessarily seem like someone I wouldn't hire. After all, what do I care about someone knowing the intricate details of the "html" tag and how it interacts with various browsers? That's write once and forget sort of code.

If you wanted this test to mean anything, why are you picking worthless trivia. Why not, instead, pick something like a function out of jquery or your own code base and ask the same question "Tell me what this function is doing".
"Just getting started", I feel the same with the guitar. Been playing since I was 12, 40 years on with quite a few breaks still love it and having fun will never be a pro! I work with loads of great artists, I really can't draw (but am according to the deeds of my apprenticeship a qualified draftsman!) but still love to doodle and sketch. The awesome artists I teach and work with always amaze me, mostly the really good ones always have a sketch book with them and always doodle. This is the key, love it, practice it and enjoy :-)
After such ongoing illegal torture, why don't former prisoners or their loved ones get together and execute serious reprisals?
> Oh, so this is the horrible thing that's infecting my desktop Safari and making it hideous and weird and inconsistent? Interesting.

FYI you can disable the coloring as well as the "compact" layout that mushes the URL bar into the active tab and hides its <title>

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/safari-macos-turn-off-websi...
Are you describing conditions in a prison in the USA outside of solitary confinement? (That's the only way I can make sense of the reply).
Can't you cast to any in Rust as well?
I'm sure most people would want that, but I don't think that we know how to "make people" change. Much in the same way that we don't know how to have school "make children" more academic, we don't know how to make inmates less violent / impulsive / thrill-seeking (except by the inexorable passing of time). I'd be very happy to be corrected, tho.

OTOH, giving proper (i.e. often involuntary) treatment for violent mental illnesses would for sure improve the situation.
NATO was officially involved in several post-invasion support missions in Iraq; not every NATO mission (not even combat missions) results from Article 5.
There's an invasion on, nothing about it sounds good!
Most European countries have surprisingly dinky armies today. Germany has only 60,000 troops for a population of 83 million. Norway has only 3,725. France has 118,000. The UK has 82,000. There hasn't been much for them to do in decades. That just changed.

Sweden has 24,000 on active duty. Finland has about 21,000. Large for the size of the countries. Both have a draft. Switzerland has 120,000 troops on active duty, a draft, and a large, regularly exercised reserve, for a country with only 8 million people. All are outside NATO and prepared for self-defense.

Of the big powers, the US has 1.3 million. Russia has about 1.4 million, and China has about 2 million.
> asleep at the wheel

It's worse than that. Some of them are pro-Russia simply because of their knee jerk reaction to be for whatever the president is against.
> [Cuba citizens] are living life in misery.

Cuba has higher life expectancy and a lower infant mortality rate than the USA. I think it is a mistake to lump it in with Venezuela or North Korea.
Is there any verification that the money is reaching the Ukrainians or is this another scam???
But what about the denominator. All the wars that started in single areas and ended in them too.
Anyone got experience using actix web vs rocket? My rough impression is that actix is focused more on performance, rocket on stability and developer ergonomics?
Yeah but the fact that he invaded an independent country makes all of his other claims baseless. NATO didn't expand to Ukraine, he invaded anyways, so there is no point in appeasing him.
Here’s another anecdote that might be more to your liking. It’s true, BTW. I started drawing seriously when I was 12. Everyone considered me really amazing by 16. I consider myself to have plateaued at 20. I’m not aware of having improved in any specific way since, but I’m Disney-level good, and I can draw anything from life or imagination in a variety of styles and levels of realism. Portraits too. I’m in my mid 40s now.

I'm not opposed to the idea of continuous learning and improvement. It's more like in art (and programming as well), I vastly surpassed my original goals, and I'm already overqualified to do anything that I like to do and am interested in doing. I certainly do not have the skill or knowledge to do everything that is possible to do, but I don't care about that.

I suspect my attitude may differ from that of many artists. I'm not on a journey to explore some mystery. I just need the skills to execute on the projects that I imagine.
no it must be far-left, Shinto, yellow supremacist. Wait! look in your closet, there is one now! quick! get them and post about it
India are far from small, bu they did not condemn Russia.
Technically, if there were attacked this evening, nobody in the US or EU would come to help them. They would be AND are in the same situation as Ukraine.
For Russian one - Putin controls all of the companies in a way. Shareholders have no say. This is reflected by the markets. Market cap of the exchange was 700b, largest US tech companies are larger on their own.
For Ukrainian one - the country might not exist in a few weeks in the current state.

If you want to play on the effects of the conflict, either buying or shorting the ruble is the best way to go.
I am astounded at how much I just learned about banking from you -- Thank you!
Well, I thought that Putin was bluffing and wouldn’t even officially send troops into Donbas.
Side remark: The completing the square trick can be easily generalised to completing the cube. A few additional straightforward manipulations (substitutions) result in something called a reduced cubic. You can then express the reduced cubic equation as cosh(3 acosh(x)) = C for some constant C (or you can use the function "cos" instead of "cosh") and solve for x.
Yeah, America's track record of invading countries without cause is kind of appalling over the last 60 odd years.

Similarly their use of International Criminal Court for non-americans followed by claims that the ICC should not be used as it is not-elected when America has been caught committing war crimes.

America has not done a whole lot to help its own reputation in these matters :-/
Russian space director’s wild threats could have real implications for the ISS
Somebody is enthusiastic about dying in a nuclear war.
I'm an old-timer and mostly backend now... I knew all but one of these lines. But the chances of me now being able to make a website based on modern frontend frameworks is near zero.
+1 for practicality
1) You need to assume that all sides employ sophisticated propaganda tools everywhere. Acknowledge it's hard to be unbiased especially on topics that you have little understanding and no first hand experience.

2) Read "Manufacturing consent"/Noam Chomsky
probably nothing is sustainable at current world population.
Exactly. I had forgotten the name. And yes, the man you knew probably had learned the same lessons as my dad.

Again, this was years ago and I was never equipped with one of these but based on what little I learned and what I see it seems those poor guys where roasted, not knocked dead.
I don't care about NATO. I'm talking about what my country alone, the USA, must now do. We can't allow anyone to use MAD as an excuse to march into a sovereign nation, anywhere on Earth. The US has to do the right thing now, and defend Ukraine before it falls. This is Hitler in Czechoslovakia.

Going tit for tat on details of NATO and hand-wringing as I take it you are doing, is a point we are far beyond now. It's something I'd expect from a bureaucrat. Vladimir Putin is an evil man, that must be recognized and his soldiers have to be met on the battlefield today. They have to be repelled, and Putin brought to his knees, or we're going to be in a much larger mess down the road.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
I like the way you describe it. Thanks for reminding Us. ;)
>The propaganda inside Russia is very strong. Russians need sanctions, they need to start suffering (economically or otherwise). And then maybe they'll wake up.

What makes you sure that it won't cement their position even more? Western countries hurting russia's economy via sanctions basically confirms the "evil westerners" narrative.
Seems that I will have to check what parameters to really use:

$ time 7z a x.7z ubuntu-20.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso

7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,24 CPUs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X 12-Core Processor (800F82),ASM,AES-NI)

Scanning the drive:
1 file, 3379068928 bytes (3223 MiB)

Creating archive: x.7z

Items to compress: 1

Files read from disk: 1
Archive size: 3277419065 bytes (3126 MiB)
Everything is Ok

real 1m23,295s
user 25m24,447s
sys 0m27,991s

is quite a difference compared to:

$ time 7z a -t7z -m0=lzma x.7z ubuntu-20.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso

7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,24 CPUs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X 12-Core Processor (800F82),ASM,AES-NI)

Scanning the drive:
1 file, 3379068928 bytes (3223 MiB)

Creating archive: x.7z

Items to compress: 1

Files read from disk: 1
Archive size: 3305891811 bytes (3153 MiB)
Everything is Ok

real 7m5,647s
user 13m9,589s
sys 0m6,757s
The logic is that attacking a country that attempts to join a defensive alliance (Ukraine) underlines the undeniable necessity of that alliance existing in the first place. There would not be a point in joining Nato if Russia was a paper tiger, but they're working very hard to prove that they are not. They are painting a picture of themselves as violent, unpredictable and hostile to democratic values that we (Swedes) value highly.

By your logic, if Russia ever did invade Sweden, the "logical" thing to do would be to lay down arms immediately: after all, we all want to live a "peaceful life", right? Presumably the same would go for Russia making demands on the size of Sweden's military budget.
The events of 1971 were preceded by events such as the US admitting Pakistan into SEATO (NATO like alliance in South East Asia). India had no other alternative but to choose USSR back then.
Russia Sanctions May Spark Escalating Cyber Conflict
> Move on!

This is an inchoate line of argument. You ask for precedent and then object to it being in the past.

WWII was the last time America was attacked by a foreign state. Ukraine is being attacked by a foreign state. The analogy shouldn’t be lofty enough to go over one’s head. If Russia rolls tanks into the Baltics we’ll have a new analogy for the ensuing half century. For the time being, I’m fine letting the precedent age.
> Rather, device-independent quantum key distribution allows you to scale back the assumptions on your implementation to a well-motivated, minimal set. To me, this is already intriguing enough without the need for hyperbole!

Would it be accurate to say it is scaled back to the level achieved by classical (non-quantum) cryptography?
Daily concurrence of global terrorism and solar-geomagnetic activity (1970-2018)
does it actually matter that people don't all the grammar rules or how to spell things? an english sentence contains a lot of parity data. when you do know all the rules, it can be painful to see the mistakes people make, but confusing "principle" with "principal" or using "who" when you should have used "whom" doesn't really obscure the meaning of the sentence.

when it comes to formal correspondence, spellcheck is always there to help. or better yet, get a copywriter or technical writer to help you and go back to your main responsibilities.
Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives in Ukraine
Theoretically, the main point here is that Facebook has an independent fact checker program, and some of those fact checkers rated Russian media posts (which would lead to a big scary overlay and a reduction in views)

I'd guess they would have used some other excuse to block Facebook sooner than later anyways though.
A few additional points, as someone who spent several years taking courses in drawing in college.

- Don't get caught on the nerd treadmill of tools-before-effort. You can draw with whatever is in your junk drawer. You can draw well with $40 of different hardness pencils and kneaded erasers from an art supply store. Beyond that is a waste.

- As parent said, practice practice practice. Which means finding time to practice. For which a portable sketchbook and basic portable kit is a huge help.

- (Disagree with parent, here) Find someone(s) who won't hold back to judge your work. You need someone who can say (and who you can handle hearing say) "This part sucks." Because you need to hear that, and work on it, until it doesn't. In professional training this is "jury." One-directional courses (them to you) aren't going to help here, as you need feedback.

- Start drawing from life, because you have an infinite supply of content that all obeys the laws we assume to be true (perspective, lighting, gravity, etc). And you'll be able to tell if it looks correct or not.

- Drawing from pictures can help "freeze" a moment. This is especially important for outdoor light and shadow, as otherwise the sun angle will change while you're working.

- Learn to draw what you see, not a representation of what you see. This means don't draw a symbol of a house, but draw the house in front of you. Focusing on details and working through them methodically helps avoid symbolism. E.g. draw that line, or that corner, not the whole thing.

- Draw with intent: every drawing should have a concrete goal when you're learning. It doesn't have to include everything. Consider including or excluding lighting and shadow, which takes a huge amount of time to get right. E.g. circular mass studies, perspective line work, proportion. Think about what you want in this drawing, and then practice only that.

- Find an art buddy or community. This is the opposite of jury! ;) Where you go when you're feeling like your work sucks and you'll never be good, and they'll remind you of all the ways you're awesome.

Edit: 110% agree with sibling comment re: grids for proportion work, when you're learning. Inability to maintain proportion across the work is a huge source of beginner "doesn't look right"ness. Eventually you'll internalize it, and get better at relative proportion with other things in the drawing, but they're a good crutch to start with.
> I would consider calling Putins bluff by accepting Finland and Sweden as NATO members. But only if the two countries agrees.

Yeah, NATO can't involuntarily admit members anyway.

> If indeed there is interest, NATO should admit the two in a day or two.

NATO membership is an active issue in both, but not something on which a political decision has been made.
There are still 8 reactors of the same type (RBMK) active in Russia, though they have been retrofitted with changes to reduce the risk of another Chernobyl scenario.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Stack Ranking for Perf Reviews?
Hey HN crowd.

I'm a new manager in a relatively large company (think FAANG) and just went through a training for employee performance training.

For each direct report, we are expected to provide a rating (meet expectations, does not meet, exceed etc.), but in addition to that, we also need to "rank" each individual within each rating, with the goal of helping our director do a "calibration" that will basically curve overall ratings at the org/company level (meaning that someone who meets expectations may be pushed down to "does not meet", purely to match some statistics).

My knee jerk reaction here was that this was pretty unethical, after all, if someone does meet expectations and the data is there, it should be possible to give them the corresponding rating / comp increase? But then after talking with other manager friends from other companies, it does seem to be something that a lot of companies do to some extent...

So here comes my question: what do you guys think of this practice? Is it an acceptable business practice? Should such companies be named and shamed?
Although, at least at one time, that was his book that was probably best known to a mainstream audience that was far from my favorite of his. But I guess it did plug into the attitudes of a certain time. There are probably a good half dozen of his books I prefer though.
China–Russia Relations
Jens Stoltenberg is Norwegian