skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago Alexandrescu said that Facebook estimated a .1% speedup to HHVM would save them $100k/year. It's presumably only gone up since then, but he's stopped giving an actual number in talks.
Robert Zubrin: Fusion Power Is Coming
I think the implication is that in a hybridized company the people who are there in-person will have a leg up on promotions over people who are fully-remote.

I think this is pretty obviously true - even though I don't endorse the state of affairs.

This is already true - even pre-pandemic those in remote offices far from HQ have a distinct advancement disadvantage vs. those who have face-time with senior leadership on the regular.
If a company is 100% remote that’s one thing, but in any hybrid scenario those that consistently appear in an office will unavoidably be at a significant advantage. Those informal coffee chats, grabbing lunch together and such are invaluable and it’s hard/impossible for someone on a screen somewhere to get the same benefits.

There will be those that dig their heels in hard but unless the company is 100% remote forever such stubbornness is likely a career limiting move.
As others have pointed out, this isn't even true anymore. Google's Play Store model lines up with what F-Droid is doing (effectively), so it doesn't really demand more trust, just different trust.
> Russia recognized weakness and appears to be correct about that. The head of the German army just confirmed they are not prepared! Google translation and source below.

Yeah, the German military is in an abysmal state:

https://www.stripes.com/news/as-germany-prepares-for-nato-cr...:

> Among the failures: none of Germany’s submarines is operational, only four of its 128 Eurofighter jets are combat-ready and the army is short dozens of tanks and armored vehicles needed for NATO missions.

> In addition, troops are short on the basics: body armor, night vision gear and cold-weather clothing.

> The situation is so dire that 19 helicopter pilots from Germany’s Bundeswehr were forced to turn in their flight licenses because of a lack of training time.

> The reason: not enough helicopters for the pilots to fly.
Could you explain the motivation for avoiding these? Are they run by the government? Is there a risk that they will be? If not, why exactly should I have a problem with Russian software developers?
Type-safety while incrementally migrating a large app from Flow to TypeScript
Why does Google still have the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button?
> it also let professional journalists vet the sources, and while they sometimes got it wrong, they were right far more often than a layperson.

It also lets professional journalists cover up atrocities. Speaking of the Ukraine, Walter Duranty was a journalist for the New York Times who covered up Stalin’s genocide of over 3 million people in what is now the Ukraine. He was celebrated and even won a Pulitzer Prize.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
And what he wanted was NATO backing off so that he was more free to invade neighbors, not just Ukraine.
I think that's a good point but I also think it's important to remember that war suuucks. A citizen in Ukraine right now is not having a good day, there have been arbitrary arrests and some fighting in the streets... but if other military powers got involved they'd be having an even worse day with mass destruction of property and loss of life.

Escalating a conflict to using deadly force can be a necessary step to prevent tyrannical dictators, but it often has very steep short term costs to everyone innocent stuck in the middle. I personally am in favor of intervention at this point, but it isn't something to be considered lightly.
Given that one of the primary belligerents in this conflict has a longstanding, solid, undeniable reputation as a producer of online misinformation and state-sponsored trolling, it's easy to predict that the next few weeks/months will produce an unprecedented amount of fake war content. I'm going to have a hard time believing anything I read, unfortuately.
Smolensk Air Disaster (2010)
These platforms don't exist in a vacuum. Imagine we have a table with four legs. What happens when one leg is too short or too long. It becomes immediately obvious by comparing it to the other legs.

If everyone on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube is talking about something, people will be talking about it on TikTok. If they aren't, that is noticeable and that too will be something people will talk about. That can actually lead to more attention on that platform due to the Streisand effect.

The primary concern would be if all the social networks censor the same thing, but that isn't a concern here due to the opposing political views unless your concern about censorship is just these platforms not allowing extreme violence, but that isn't what the article is discussing.
The system has already collapsed if war is happening. The opportunity cost of economic trade is dependence. There’s more at play than basic competitive advantages to actual trade.
Unfortunately, for SB9, this is only true for you, not a developer -- it requires that the owner retain one of the units as a primary residence. That will make it much less applicable.

Definitely a step in the right direction though!
I don't know about starship troppers. I'm just saying it's not at all fair when 50% of the population can elect leaders who have the power to order the other 50% to die on their behalf. That is the current situation with men and women in the vast majority of countries today, including mine: men and women can vote but only men are conscripted into military service.
Sometimes even a non-invisible hand of the market can get it right, if only by accident.
She is almost 11, and some of the cards are very very challenging, and some are impossible for her at the moment, but I just pick the ones who are appropriate for the mood/patience/concentration capacity for the day.
In the specific case of Syria, the evidence that surfaced was misaligned with the narrative that US intelligence and NGOs (but I repeat myself) were pushing.
> What was it that all the journalists got wrong about the 7/8s rule?

If you would mind explaining what you understand the rule to be, which sections of the proposition text helped you reach that conclusion, and how confident you are in that interpretation, I will happily describe my side of this.

> You seem to be suffering from the belief that techies are smarter than everyone else, which is not only offensive but just wrong.

Ah, no. I stick by what I said, which is not what you seem to have read. But I'll quote it here anyway:

> In my experience, if you ask a random SF Bay startup software engineer or medical doctor to spend 30 mins on research they will outperform a professional journalist over the same period of time. This makes sense: it isn't that journalists are better at news; it's that they are the ones who aren't good at anything specific and are therefore doing news.

Imagine that I used those words intentionally and also purposely avoided saying "smarter" and "everyone else" and all that. And since I didn't explain "outperform", we will interpret it as "model the world in a more accurate way".
I think seeing this as data scientists “getting a pass” is looking at it through the wrong lens. Data scientists and quants tend to be good at statistics, data modeling, and solving business problems, not software engineering except as a means to an end. You might be able to find a few people who have a combination of those skills, but you’re picking from a very small pool.
Had a Huawei and now a Google. Neither has died of updates, but I didn't like Huawei making their own Android skin.
Presumably when you have a specific font AND a specific weight in mind.
There are many externalities of war. They're all bad, all important, and all worth talking about, to help prevent wars.
Screenshare with audio only. Video occupies too much mental bandwidth (human brains prioritize face recognition to the detriment of all other processes)
Five Types of Tools to Improve your Browser Productivity
Thanks. I updated the question so that it is more clear. Wow, there's an update from today (24 Feb). I have a lot of reading to do. Thanks.

https://www.commerce.gov/news/fact-sheets/2022/02/us-departm...
Thanks!

(I'd be able to make those, I would probably need to do it in a few passes though.)
In Search of Troy
Sure, as my prof once noted, "Why, with the assembler you just need to type more!"
I think its pretty impressive that this is being built in Flutter.
depends on how much of the south china sea, bits of India and other neighbors they can grab while the west is busy in Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o861Ka9TtT4

Yes Prime Minister: Salami Tactics.
> There are four platforms that have a considerable number of users (TikTok, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook/Instagram), and they all have provenly effective censorship, especially optimized over the past couple of years. If it's one of those four, it does matter.

Three of those platforms are American-controlled and one is Chinese-controlled. Even if all four have "effective censorship", it seems unlikely that American-controlled and Chinese-controlled platforms will block/manipulate in the same way and to the same end.

This is not a fixed set either – every few years, a new platform pops up. Tiktok is a relatively recent example, Instagram an earlier one.

If content restriction gets too heavy-handed, people will respond by moving to new platforms which are less restrictive – at least in free(-ish) countries. I personally think that inconsistent and overly heavy-handed moderation – punishing too many users by algorithm for innocent or trivial things, even while reports against other users doing seemingly much more serious things are dismissed – is one of the factors behind Facebook's recent slide in users.

Added to that, many people on the political right (30-40% of the population) view these platforms as politically biased against them, and are keen to find new places without that perceived bias. Attempts at establishing more conservative-friendly platforms generally come unstuck by being overrun by extremists (neo-Nazis, antisemites, etc) who push mainstream right-wing users away, and also through pure incompetence (both technical and business). But I think it is likely that sooner or later someone is going to come up with the right balance to succeed in that space.
How is that? I can follow his thoughts 100% and it's very plausible.

Also his reference to the german green party hits home because I'm from there. And I can see my electricity prices right now go to 90 Cent/kWh _before_ the war.
The underground economy of solitary confinement
From the article:

"It’s easy, in hindsight, to critique things CSS got wrong or should’ve prioritized differently. But I want to take a moment to marvel at the things they got right."

If you are going to bring them up, it would be nice to also provide the modern CSS way of fixing those problems.
I use the name Didget (short for Data Widget) because it encompasses much more than file data. A 'File Didget' is an object where its data stream has unstructured data and is unmanaged by the system. But there are other Didgets (Schema Didgets, Set Didgets, Tag Didgets, etc.) where their data stream contents are completely managed.

Like NTFS that uses files for its internal data structures and many databases that use relational tables to manage databases, I chose to enclose all my internal structures (e.g. tags, file tables, allocation bitmaps, etc.) within other Didgets.
> In my opinion these automated solutions seldom work in the long run

Beeminder cofounder here. Can I hear more about why you think this? There are definitely people for whom Beeminder doesn't work at all but you sound like you're making a different claim -- that it may work for a while but then stop working. That's the opposite of our experience. Our churn numbers get really good for those who stick around for a year and anecdotally we have lots of people getting PhD theses written thanks to Beeminder, etc.

But if you've had short-term success with things like Beeminder -- https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors -- and then had it fail, that would be valuable to hear more about.

Oh, and I should mention that Beeminder isn't necessarily entirely automated. If you derail and are about to be charged money but don't agree that it was a legit derailment, you talk to a human about that.
And to add to this - burn pits, and other common actions in the waging of war, can cause more severe chemical damage than radiation. When the order of the day is "We're killing other people" there tends to be a lot less emphasis on doing things as safely as possible.
But the civil war in the Ukraine has been going on for 8 years, 12k people have died over this time and the shelling has been fairly continuous over this time with only short lived cease fires. So what has been happening is already similar to Yugoslavia.

However, what is happening now is very different. This is more like when the US attacked Libya and it was over in two weeks.
"""alt-right""" content is censored to an absurd degree.

(ask me how I know.)
This is where sources like Bellingcat come in, they’ve been working on verifying and geolocating videos coming out of the region. https://twitter.com/ryanmofarrell/status/1496919144477839373 And clamping down on insanity, https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1496984468141522945

For those who don’t know, the incredible team at Bellingcat are the same ones who hunted down the FSB hit squad sent after navalny.
After decades of cheerfully deindustrializing and giving up the source of ordinary people's prosperity, the US is waking up to the stupidity of doing this. It's very visible in the chip industry because it's very visibly dominated by just a couple of firms and because a large range of seemingly simple things can not function without sophisticated integrated circuits.
> Speaking of the Ukraine

Outside of Russian propaganda, it's just “Ukraine” not “the Ukraine”.

> Walter Duranty was a journalist for the New York Times who covered up Stalin’s genocide of over 3 million people in what is now the Ukraine.

It was Ukraine then, too.
I can see where you are coming from, but all the points you made are actually still relying on the mental health of a small group of indivduals. What prevents them from picking the cult of personality for personal gain over their public responsibility? Not to mention some of these people aren't even democratically elected. You don't need to look further than the current US republican support for Trump.
A bigger concern to me is that Taiwan is probably more disposable to China than it is to the rest of the world. China would significantly benefit its internal semiconductor industry by destroying fabs in Taiwan while the rest of the world would be starved of critical semiconductors, and given the active US sanctions towards Huawei in China... The balance of invade vs don't invade for China regarding Taiwan is slowly shifting.

The possible what-if scenarios arising from unchecked expansion of superpowers is disturbing.
TBF eating something that is not part of a traditional diet every single day can have weird consequences that aren't inherent to the food itself.

There's a ton of food that we properly support and has clear benefits at reasonable amount but will trigger adverse effects on abuse.
Yup - It's people that lack friends and a social circle and want work to force others to spend time with them
Follow the Data, They Said, and Then Hid It
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations...
as if journalists do not have bias?
Types Considered Harmful (2008) [pdf]
That's a big "if", considering that social media is controlled in Russia, and that protests about the invasion can be made illegal.
>> We should be talking about human lives.

>> My Ukrainian colleague was terrified for his family today.

> You think a global increase of food prices will not have an effect on human lives?

Not nearly the same kind as the one the GP is referring to.
What I find weird is that a very large number of states claim that they are a republic, a word invented by the Romans, but absolutely no one of them is a republic in the original sense of the words.

After bad experiences with their last kings, the Roman Republic was based on the principle that it is dangerous to concentrate any powers into any single individual.

That is why for all the public functions of the Republic at least 2 people were assigned and no important decision could be taken unless all those having a function agreed to it.

So there never was a single "President of the Republic" but only at least 2 consuls. (with the exception of extraordinary events that required very fast decisions, e.g. wars, when a dictator could be appointed for a short and limited time)

So all present republics fraudulently claim a historical link with the Roman Republic, because all of them are more or less controlled by a single human, who frequently succeeds to circumvent whatever checks and balances are supposed to exist.

Such a unique leader is contrary to the base principles of the original Republic.
That would be an awkward claim considering Ukraine _had_ nuclear weapons and gave them up to Russia in the 90s for guarantees about Ukraine's territorial integrity. Obviously that didn't work so well for Ukraine now
Those krypton fluoride and argon fluoride lasers are exactly the lasers that use neon, even though "neon" is not in their name and their respective Wikipedia pages do not currently mention it. See for example this 2016 announcement from laser supplier Gigaphoton:

https://www.gigaphoton.com/en/news/3797

"Gigaphoton to Begin Field Evaluations for Neon Gas Recycling System “hTGM”"

In KrF and ArF excimer lasers, which are used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes, neon accounts for over 96% of laser gases used as the buffer gas. However, the cost of neon gas has risen sharply, reaching 5 to 20 times previous prices due to difficulty in obtaining it, a situation brought about by a worldwide neon supply shortage that has continued since 2015. In response to the situation, in July of 2015 Gigaphoton launched the "Neon Gas Rescue Program" in order to provide support to customers in sustaining stable high-volume manufacturing environments.

Of the three program options Gigaphoton previously announced plans of launching in 2016, the company has now completed development of its neon gas recycling system "hTGM," and will begin field evaluations of the system this month. hTGM makes it possible to reuse laser gas by connecting directly to the conduit of lasers in operation at semiconductor plants, collecting the used gas, removing impurities, and then re-injecting it back into the laser. This system is both eco-friendly and provides the greatest possible recycling rate without impacting the operation of laser equipment. hTGM also features an extremely efficient design that allows up to five lasers to be connected to a single unit. At present, the company has decided to begin evaluations for KrF lasers at user facilities from the end of February, after which it plans to progressively apply the system to ArF lasers as well.
From a culinary perspective, packed in oil tend to be tastier.
NATO encircling Russia is as much of a problem as Russia encircling NATO. There's no contradiction in my argument here.
Or, as Sting once sang, "I hope the Russians love their children too" - in this case, one particular Russian...
_can_ be or _will_ be?

Will the be used for learning better practices, or will it be used to avoid ever learning them since the AI takes care of it?
Speech is cheap. In the end it is just a PR. I doubt they'll have any serious repercussions because the message is vague on purpose. But everybody in the comments already give them credit for it. Actions/money are all that matter.
Willing to put money on that?
The Ukraine NATO talks were the direct precursor to the Crimea invasion and were ongoing before that. Russia has black sea navy assets in Crimea and per NATO, Ukraine couldn't support Russian military assets in the country while simultaneously joining NATO. Russia needs them there, so they took Crimea proactively to preserve their naval position in the event Ukraine joined NATO.
>I think the risk of direct NATO military intervention is very low.

Because Joe Alzheimer is the weakest dictator in the US history.
I'm out of the loop. What am I missing?
Coinbase refuses to work with Authy.

I first heard about Authy when it was recommended to me by coinbase but sometime last year coinbase forced me to change to Google authenticator.
> supporting their war enemy

Condemning the attacks is not the same as supporting their governments war enemy.
I don't think that follows. Since the adjacency matrix contains O(n^2) _bits_ of information, the number of adjacency matrices of graphs is O(2^(n^2)). This makes sense: graphs with vertex labels {1,...,n} are in bijection with symmetric n x n binary matrices with zero diagonal. It's difficult to quantify how much information is lost when we reduce this matrix to its spectrum, since the eigenvalues are real numbers, but there are O(n) degrees of freedom, and in principle plenty of room to distinguish any two graphs.

Of course, as a sibling comment notes, unlabeled graphs are often more interesting, for which one has to look at equivalence classes of adjacency matrices. The spectrum is nice here because it is automatically invariant to vertex permutations and hence a graph isomorphism invariant. The existence of nonisomorphic cospectral graphs is not immediately obvious, although there are simple examples, and that there are infinite families of cospectral pairs is even less obvious. So at the very least, it's interesting that the spectrum is not a complete invariant, and that it does work well for certain classes of graphs.
The 100-900 weight scale came straight from Windows. It wasn't some great insight from the CSS spec authors.
active as in radio-active...
Russian support won't come in the form of money or weapons. It'll come in the form of shutting off gas lines to the EU or invading the next set of non NATO countries in the EU, forcing the major military powers of the EU and NA to decide between protecting Europe or protecting Taiwan.
I'm going on the assumption that you haven't visited those countries or you would realize that the sentiment runs a lot deeper than being allowed to buy NATO grade American weapons, those countries have Russian occupation in living memory and very much won't go back to those days without a fight.

> Besides, there is no reason for Putin to claim those, nor a real strategic value.

The strategic value of Lithuania or the North of Poland for Russia can not be underestimated.

> Sucks for self-determination and all that, but again, avoiding nuclear holocaust is probably worth losing the occasional battle.

It isn't the West that is threatening nuclear holocaust here, Putin did just that on live television and if that threat works this time I don't see any reason why it would not work the next.

Historically appeasement of dictators never ends well, I don't see why this would be the exception.
Datalist has some unfortunate UX quirks in my experience. Trying to view the list of available items after you have already selected one is not possible on the browsers I used this week. A select will allow you to view the list regardless of the current value.
In Rails you can replace the ActiveRecord layer using regular Rudy classes that include some ActiveModel modules.

In this architecture, you’re using these classes to replace models. Which gives you a layer of abstraction between the UI and the database.

Querying becomes more difficult and some libraries won’t work out of the box, but it’s quite easy to implement.

Most people don’t do this because this architecture isn’t the default, takes more time, and requires a larger application to justify doing a lot of work twice.
Maybe a better way to phrase it is “people don’t remember why it was good to have world police”.