skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of nonsense reasoning had people predicting civilization end within 15 or 30 - back in the 70s...

Resources aren't a fixed notion, crude oil was worthless and toxic before we learned how to refine it and suddenly it's a critical resource.

Natural ecosystems are considered vital today, but if we were to come up with artificial biospheres we would be looking back at the days people got infected by malaria and tick born disease living in uncontrolled environments like we look at people who live(d) in cities without sewage systems.

Anything can be a resource, and be worthless or harmful, depending on the context. Claiming that resource problems can't be solved is a logical fallacy - resources are anything you use to solve a problem.
UCF Team Develops AI That Can Detect Sarcasm in Social Media
Beauty in mathematics is overrated.

If you study enough, you might end up finding some results or proofs elegant and beautiful and so on, and that's great. But in a lot of online materials (e.g. youtube, quanta magazine) beauty is a trick used by people who think that math is important to push math on people who don't care about it and there's something very offputting about the whole thing.

I think people don't need to worry about the beauty in mathematics that much - study math as much as you need/want and if something ends up looking beautiful to you, that's just a nice bonus.
I agree that the proposed solution has many flaws, and that PAKE is much more promising than any plain password-based scheme. As another commenter pointed out, OPAQUE is very interesting.

I just wish browsers natively supported that authentication scheme to further defend against phishing and other attacks where the javascript implementation can be replaced.
"the soldiers have smartphones"

Surely militaties don't allow their frontline troops to have phones? That would enable Ukranian side to track and count troops and use that information for artillery strikes?
Nice story, thanks for sharing.

My hard drive is full of unfinished projects, started to learn about programming language, or try out new design approaches, quickly abandoned after the initial goal was achieved.

Regarding imposter syndrome, two guidelines that have helped me in such situations, are "only repent for paths not taken", "failure is better that not knowing at all".

Obviously those quotes aren't from me.
Russia can go fuck itself. United States is giving military spending money to a lot of countries, and in case of Ukraine, the US has supported Ukraine militarily since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Russia has no business whatsoever in the internal or foreign affairs of Ukraine that don't concern them.
The Reality of Ukraine
Thanks, but I’m on iOS. There are wallabag apps on iOS but don’t seem rated well.
Asylum seekers are supposed to stop fleeing from war in the nearest safe country, not go choose the country that they want to stop in. That rule is a big part of why the Syrian refugee crisis is different than the Ukranian one.

Also, a lot of the "Syrian refugees" weren't actually from Syria: once people from Africa and poorer middle eastern countries learned that Syrians were getting asylum, they tried for it too, pretending to be from Syria.

This is not a proof of racism. These are the rules about asylum.
Ok but where is the hatred in my reply? I could also say that your reply is mainly german superiority pointing out the money it contributes.

Where do the sweet german money come from? East Europe accounts for 15% of german exports.

This needs to stop really, we are all in this. There is no hate in having disagreements, as there is not hate in germany being proud of its economy.

But we are all in this together. We all depend on each other. And its fine to disagree but not when it comes to security and thats what i mean by germany not doing enough. I am not saying germany is a total slacker, i am saying we need to move fast and show unity. We’ll argue in the eu parliament thereafter and it wont be hate.

Edit: sorry, the only reason i brought ww2 into this is in reply to you bringing it and stating that germany dhows compassion towards russia for what it did in ww2 and i said but where is the compassion for east europe.

Germany is of colossal help to europe and is an undeniable positive player in european affairs. Period.
> Furthermore, russians aren’t monsters and they are against such a war.

While that's certainly true, Putin is a product of Russian culture. Just as the Russian state is today, and just as it was 30, 50, 70, 100 years ago.

The people of Russia are responsible for what's going on. Putin is a very logical outcome to their culture of power, conquest and empire lust. They cheered when Putin took Crimea, they reveled in the expansion of empire, it made them feel good, and Putin fed off of it. They are responsible. For how many centuries does an outcome have to persist before the people of a nation are held responsible morally for what has occurred? Golly gee, those poor Russian people, they're just never responsible for anything that happens even if a thousand years goes by. I just can't figure out why Russia keeps ending up with authoritarian leaders, century after century. Must be some bad luck, that's all.

And Americans don't bear responsibility for Iraq or the military industrial complex. Bull, of course they do. Yeah, but Putin is a dictator! The Russian people greatly applauded Putin's successes, gave him credit for things he didn't deserve credit for (oil prices artificially bolstering their economy during the Bush years), tolerated his behavior and extreme human rights abuses, and have never actually attempted to remove him from power (only relatively small challenges to his power have ever occurred). Overall they've barely lifted a finger in his direction to curb his behavior. They are responsible in every possible way.

How many monsters, tsars, conquerers have to come out of Russia before it becomes obvious that it's springing directly from the Russian culture. The Russian culture is made by the Russian people. Thus, they're responsible.

The German people were also responsible for Hitler, they made the culture of the region that produced him ideologically. They cheered the notion of empire and conquest openly, they reveled in the successes of their war machines.

If one goes swimming in the history of cultures that repeatedly produce leaders with the conquering, empire mentality, you see many similarities. Putin has the mentality of European conquerers of centuries past, he represents a regressive disease ideologically. Russia is the only major nation that is part of Europe today that is still holding onto (largely) vanquished ideologies of conquest and empire that were very common in Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries (and before).

For Russia to not just get another authoritarian after Putin, the people of Russia have to consciously change their culture. Other European nations have done so, have eliminated barbaric cultures of conquest and empire, including prominently the Germans, French and British among others.
He is a deeply religious man and his views are rooted in religious belief, the most powerful belief there is. I seriously doubt he has changed his views, he just wisened up to where the wind blows.
Ukraine wasn’t anywhere close to joining NATO and Russia invaded anyway.

Now they’re definitely gonna push their hardest to join NATO after the war is over, and who could blame them?
Users demonstrably reuse credentials across systems. If you are relying on users to always create a new key pair for each service, they simply won’t do that.

A few seconds is plenty of time for an automated system to cause harm.
Russia’s way of conducting urban warfare bodes ill for Kyiv
so... 100 billion to China then?
one just has to identify how society determines the "rich", and how much to require.
both of these are very difficult questions.

i want to tax the rich! yes, i do. lets take a reasonable share and deal with societies ill's.

let's not take all their money; just the excess that there is no reasonable chance that an individual could use it.

for example, you could raise my takes $100 a month and it would not be missed, or noticed. in Elon's case, $10M a month would be nothing.
Right now NATO is the United States. Tucker Carlson has a point when he claims that this conflict doesn't concern the US, it really doesn't. It concerns Europe. And with 450m people and that GDP, the EU shouldn't be a third wheel in this conflict, and it is the EU, not Biden, who should have detered Russia. It is time that Europe takes its defense seriously, starting with Germany.

International treaties are only worth the will of the signing parties to enforce them. Just like the Budapest Memorandum. And NATO is just another treaty.
I was looking on streetview eg https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.4511906,30.5154931,3a,75y,...

and it seems fairly open. If I was a tank driver I wouldn't count on a couple of power lines saving me from missiles.
Mirror - http://archive.today/GZWXZ
> If Russia was in fact waging some kind of imperialist war

> They want to restore a supplicant government loyal to Russia,

What exactly do you think imperialism is?
That must have been a calculated risk of Putin. This was going to happen, besides neutral European countries reconsidering NATO membership (e.g. Sweden, Finland, Austria). Especially because they cannot join NATO once they are in a military conflict.

I can't imagine that he wouldn't have foreseen this. Except if he'd thought to replace leadership in Ukraine in a few days, Western countries would impose some sanctions, and would move on as usual (as happened after the annexation of Crimea and MH-17).
It is already happening:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SilvermanJacob/status/14977824579...
Honest question based on some of the comments current, past events:

Given the background of pacifist education enforced/encouraged for long by Allies post war in German schools, is it not possible to assume generations have been brainwashed into thinking that they can stay safe while the world burns.

Can such a populace take rational decisions when it comes to defence or offense?

I can honestly can't think of any reason for such bad decisions taken collectively like:
1) Getting into a deep trade relationship with a dictator
2) Assuming such relationship will keep the nation safe
3) Starving their own army of weapons and budget that their own chief of army says he can't guarantee safety of the nation:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-army-chief-fed-u...
How does it not concern them? This is exactly the same scenario as the Cuban missile crisis playing out in reverse. Do you think the United States had no business in the foreign affairs of Cuba as the soviets placed ICBMs there?
There have been many articles about heating recently, most likely due to expected European gas shortages.

But the bigger issue is how to cool off. Every summer has been hotter than the previous, and things are getting worse. Are there any effective ways to cool a dwelling, other than the traditional electrically-powered air conditioning? I've seen evaporative coolers, but what can people do who live in humid environments? Or have water restrictions?
I think the point was just to fight an absolutist anecdote with another absolutist anecdote, to demonstrate how awkward they can be?
It doesn't seem like "Russia" is fighting the war at all as a society; Putin personally is, but people up to federal legislators are publicly objecting, and if you follow the battle reports it seems the soldiers so far have barely been given orders, don't want to do their jobs, not to mention keep running out of gas and abandoning their vehicles.

Somewhere between the cabinet and the rest of the military there is quite the lack of motivation.
>> so bad I wanted to disable them

ls -la

Some terminals have picked their default ls colors so bad that some entries are almost unreadable. Dark blue on black etc. Forced me to configure the LS_COLORS.
It NATO went away, they still would.

Perhaps more relevantly, a single member, the US, spends more than the rest of the world combined. Remove the US, and NATO is spending less than China. This doesn't seem like an honest argument.
"The C Puzzle Book" by Alan R. Feuer

For anything C/C++ related, grinding these little puzzles yielded tremendous value for the time spent and removed any lingering questions I had about annoying low level details of the languages for the rest of my career. There are a lot of heady academic books that consume a lot of time, but this one impacts the 80% of time you actually spend at the keyboard.

Stroustroup's "The C++ Programming Language" is eloquently written and surprisingly accessible to beginning/intermediate developers.
Nuclear is expensive due to red tape and onerous regulations. Those exist in such exaggerated amounts because of green's antinuclear lobby.

Turns out environmentalists of the 20th century are directly responsible for global warming.
Apparently he carries his own water bottle and has food tasters. They'd have to find something else.
War is its own kind of virus, has everyone gone insane?
I have always called the inside of an Ikea store intestines. Mainly because the make sure that you mostly have to go past everything to find the thing you want.

Ikea maximises surface area of things for sale as you move through. The human gut uses the same trick to maximise getting food into you blood via villi.

* As a side note, I know that Ikea has shortcuts. Thank fuck! But if you walk through the store wandering aimlessly following everyone else, you are being maximised.
Someone writes up a bunch of tweets Omnicron is a lab leak too: 576 points.

Three studies suggest it originated from the Wuhan markets: 28 points.

Mmm.

This came up recently, and I think it's high relevant to some of the folk posting here:

https://jaydaigle.net/blog/replication-crisis-math/

> A lot of psychology results that don’t replicate look a little different from this perspective. Does standing in a power pose for a few seconds make you feel more confident? Probably! It sure feels like it does (seriously, stand up and give it a try right now); and it would be weird if it made you feel worse.

> Does it affect you enough, for a long enough time, to matter much?

> Probably not. That would also be weird.

Papers like these are uncontroversial, because they are probably right.

If they were all wrong, it would be weird. Surprising. TED talk worthy.

Not impossible... but, probably not.
I'm not a big fan of the simplistic left-right political spectrum, but...

You'll generally find the left of those countries on the correct side of all those issues. And the right on the wrong side. Even within the countries doing the bad stuff, like Russia or Israel, the people protesting their own leaders will be left, the people doing the bad stuff on the right.

As I said, it's simplistic, but it's less simplistic than "The West are hypocritical", we're talking about hundreds of millions of people, who often get their news from fascist media monopolies.
I don't think mellosouls means that those portrayals left Jobs aside. I think they mean we should put the 2013 movie, Jobs, aside (hence their italics).

(Wise, though I personally think Kutcher did a good job
with what he was given.)

Jobs very famously liked (or at least whimsically came to terms with) Noah Wyle's amazing portrayal of him in Pirates Of Silicon Valley, getting Wyle to repeat his performance on stage at a a Macworld keynote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIClAanU7Os

At the time, people thought that was Jobs doing damage control because Pirates made him look like an asshole. At this point looking back, it seems more like part of his self-reflective pivot to what came next.

Either way I am not sure it needs more treatment and more demonisation, but they were all pretty lucky with the care that went into their portrayals in Pirates Of Silicon Valley.
Is Russia even taking prisoners in this conflict?

And I'm fairly sure that all of the volunteers would rather die than surrender themselves to Russians. So shoot a couple of more Russians and die with them, instead of surrendering.
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> We need the money elsewhere, NATO should have enough guns already, this is just going down the industry-drain instead of funding much needed help in the care- and education sectors. We need elementary school teachers, psychologists, and systemic change for the people who care for the old, sick and weak.

At long last, it would appear that German politicians understand what you still fail to grasp: You can ignore your defense budget, refuse to pull your (contractually defined) weight in a defense pact, and invest your ill-gotten savings elsewhere – but ultimately these investments will have been all for naught if you are unable to defend their returns when push comes to shove.
The ones outside Ukraine are operational, it seems. A Norwegian army platoon is on the way to Lithuania in one of those, pretty much as we speak.

(Yes, left Oslo 16 minutes ago. https://www.flightradar24.com/ADB5090/2af5a3ab.)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-nakamoto-had-outside-...

Some interesting background. For people that don’t know, the Laszlo in the story is Bitcoin pizza guy that spent 10k Bitcoin on two pizzas and initiated the thought in the public’s mind that Bitcoin could actually pay for things.

I found that article because it occurred to me that Satoshi knowing cryptography that deeply and coding and all his other attributes would be quite hard to believe all in one person.
It's written in Perl - I think Perl is a niche language these days, right? I wrote a version of part of it in Racket, too, which definitely qualifies. I keep thinking I might move development to Zig.

The language is Decl. I think at this point it's more a notation than a language; it relies on a host language for execution. My understanding of what I set out to do has evolved over time, and the past couple of years I've thought of it more as a DSL along the lines of SQL (not in that it's used for database access, for which we already have SQL; I just mean that it's used by embedding it in something else that defines actions).
Yes true, let's put it that way, "traditional" server-workloads.

>If you for example are targeting <100ms p99 latency for your web service.

Ah yes absolutely, if that needs that to be guaranteed maybe even real-time.
It’s funny, because their layout makes me spend less. Not because it doesn’t work, but because it makes me absolutely dread going there. There’s no other store I hate going to as much as Ikea because of the pure annoyance of their layout. So I usually don’t.
Beliefs can change based upon experiences and time. It's called wisdom.
We are in a golden age for new languages.

You have https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/ for doing the integration between IDE and your parser.

Also, https://highlightjs.org/ which lets you broadcast your code in a pretty way.

I do however feel that your QoL will depend on whether or not you make a compiler or a translator. The key benefit of a translator is that you can co-opt the host language's standard runtime and debugger.
What I mean is, Putin wasn't even making a propaganda claim about Ukraine being anti-Semites. The Russians he was talking to barely know that was the Nazi ideology, and that's assuming they'd disagree with it. He was just claiming they were going to attack Russians.

He also said he'd "show Ukraine real decommunization" the day before. Not sure if that was propaganda or a threat…
And here are some words about it from the creator, Alvaro Montoro: https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/67998/introducing-comicss
That's borderline racist thinking.

Of course it is. And this is the sad fact, most Europeans would rather take in Ukrainians than Syrians. It is not surprising, even though it is (morally) wrong.

Russia is Europe

I don't think Europeans have any issues with Russians, only with Putin's aggressive behavior. I think most Europeans are just sad that Russians live under an oppressive regime that takes the country's wealth and redistributes among a few oligarchs.
I'm aware that RTL Japanese was a thing. In fact, what you have described is not really RTL; its inline direction is top to bottom and its block direction is right to left [1] while what we typically refer to RTL is about the inline direction. RTL Japanese is actually a specific variation of this TTB/RTL writing where the line itself only consists of a single character. Very rare (typically signages), but it did exist.

But that doesn't mean your RTL text should be preemptitively reversed in the memory, which is exactly what the exercise asks you to do. Historically this was the case for some early character encoding, where the reversed text is called the "visual order" opposed to the "logical order". This caused enough problems that Unicode is now primarily the logical order only, except for a few scripts where the historical visual order is retained (e.g. Thai).

[1] See https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-4/#text-flow for more information.
I think it shows quite a disconnect on your behalf to call it ‘war games’, it’s real people out there dying as you write this comment. A country sticking its head in the ground ignoring this to focus on internal matters is not a solid long term strategy.

Also NATO is not some kind of puppet Germany can use however it sees fit. It’s a group, where each member has its own interests and views and one day they might diverge from Germany’s.

While all the things you mentioned are very much needed, so is the power that ensures their security.
Also unfortunate that it keeps being called a “Ukraine” conflict, completely leaving out the aggressor.
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> it seems to be used to mean "handwavy centre".

The "epi-" prefix is typically used to mean "near" or "close-to", so it seems like a good use of the word.
Russia is pretty much turning Belarus into a puppet state, not a neutral buffer.
Ukraine wasn't threatening anyone and it doesn't even have any nuclear weapons.

The Soviet Union placing ICBMs 100 miles from Florida is very much a threat.
Europe is not sending a lot of weapons instead of soldiers for a single reason: nukes. Nobody wants to contribute to the end of this Earth and although Putin seems to be playing Nixon's "the president is crazy" card well, you can never be sure how far from reality he is.

Edit: well, that escalated quickly:

https://ria.ru/20220227/putin-1775389742.html

'As stated in the directory on the website of the Ministry of Defense, the strategic forces "are designed to deter aggression against Russia and its allies, as well as to defeat the aggressor (inflicting defeat on him), including in a war with the use of nuclear weapons."'
This is my argument too. History teaches us it’s never the people. It’s that one bad apple.

Solution is simple: force Russia to demilitarize. Put sanctions on them until they do.
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We are not. The amount of the wealth of billionaires and their number has exploded since the "golden 80s" era, and the corporate and individual tax rate has plummeted correspondingly since then.

We had so much tax money that we used to build and maintain swimming pools even in tiny villages. These days, after they had to close for lack of tax base, we have record numbers of children drowning because they have no nearby and affordable place where they can learn to swim.