skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Kicking my dog would also not affect human society,

But it would. At least we have, as a society, decided that it would. But this is rather flexible, since in older times, as well as in some cultures, wanton animal cruelty is accepted. I guess that the argument for prohibiting cruelty to animals is that it is good to prohibit behavior which we believe to be detrimental to the person doing it. I.e. it’s not prohibited to protect the dog, it’s prohibited to protect you from becoming a cruel bastard and turning around and being toxic in human society. Whether this actually is a valid argument is, of course, subjective and debatable, which is why cultures differ on this point.
>Presumably they have a web crawler of some sort.

Can confirm. Caught one of their bots on my site and called them out about it on Twitter.

They did not respond.
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I don't have as many complaints about Python's dependency system as most people but that issue is very painful. Calculating dependencies properly is slow and very vulnerable to network failures, causes constant issues inside corporate networks with crappy VPNs and unreliable networks.
Joe Armstrong: Minimum Viable Programs (2018)
Differentiable resynthesis. You input a desired goal, it tries to achieve it, through (essentially) trial and error. Then the artist can focus on imagining goals, rather than fiddling with knobs :)
I can only speak for myself, but the only thing that boosts my concentration is to buckle down and concentrate - which rules out most of the above. It usually takes a couple of hours before the effect is noticeable. (I'm not claiming to be good at it, but I have learned what works for me.)

The other thing is to notice when I am no longer able to concentrate any more, as it is no longer productive to keep going. When that happens, any of the above might be helpful, but that list is missing the most important one: get enough sleep.

Your list is mostly of solitary (or not explicitly social) activities, but socializing is also helpful for me.
While I too have seen strange knowledge gaps in interviews (interviews for JS developers who can't write a function that adds two numbers), the NXDOMAIN issue doesn't surprise me too much.

Maybe it's different for SREs, but as a fullstack web developer, unless you've got a greenfield project, usually someone else sorted out DNS a long time ago. And unless you're working on something that changes DNS a ton, nobody has touched DNS in a long time.

Additionally, I've seen NXDOMAIN way more often as a local machine configuration problem, rather than as a production environment DNS problem.

So if I'm going in to debug a server, but then I see an NXDOMAIN, I could see myself getting stuck wondering just what else in the world is broken. If I was doing the test on my own hardware, I might panic that my machine is in a bad state. If I was doing the test on hardware the interviewer provided, I might start wondering if this is some kind of trick, and I have to debug a broken client and a broken server.

Then again, maybe if I went back to those people who couldn't add two numbers in JS, they'd have a great explanation too :)
So who will be the new Gavrilo Princip then?
This is not good at all. If Apple were to accept this, it would set a terrible precedent.
The fertility rate in Ukraine is 1.23. In Afghanistan in 2001 it was 7.39. Vietnam in 1960 was 6.35. Its much easier to fight guerilla war when you have hordes of young people. Ukraine is old, but so is Russia. Every male killed in this war there is probably the end of male lineage for that family.
I have a few things laying around that could benefit from screens, but didn't justify $40+ screens. This is fantastic and cheap. Instant purchase.
Aren’t you concerned about the high fluoride and heavy metal content?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322924754_Green_Tea...
I've got a dyneema backpack[0] that I can recommend, pricey but waterproof and very light. I'm not a ultralight backpacker by any means but when I am climbing big hills I appreciate the ounces saved. Bonus is the black one is fairly inconspicuous for a stealth camp.

[0]https://www.hyperlitemountaingear.com/collections/packs/prod...
did de gaullie execute a coup or did he just fill a power vacuum left as the result of a coup?
Aren't the unexposed at a risk of zero? Or was that your point?
It's not rude, it's a good question. A couple things that might potentially help without provoking retaliation might include

- Help find ways for Ukrainians communicate with their family members and friends outside of Ukraine as many mainstream platforms will be heavily constrained or censored or region blocked. Some of them have family in other countries that may be able to help.

- This might be a dead end but one could try contacting their own government and say if they have space and resources for a family to stay with them. There will be many people fleeing with nowhere to go and will not have time to find permanent residence while fleeing. This would mostly apply to people living in EU near Ukraine.

In regards to throwing money into the wind that is sometimes the case. Some organizations do little to make an impact and some even waste a lot of that money on administration overhead. I linked IRC because they actually send people into extremely hostile environments to rescue civilians but there are others that do this as well.
Major disruption to Ukraine's internet backbone provider
This has the wonderful property that proof isn't necessary. Pretty much any country can be blamed for a cyberattack so this means that NATO now has the power to declare war with anyone they want, anytime they want, for any reason they want, without provocation, by simply saying it was a cyberattack. Regardless of what Russia or anyone else is doing now, this is ripe for unlimited abuse.
It's a tough one. It seems the users don't have an idea of the inner workings of what they are using, but it's open source so they can take a peek if they want. Generally they feel like they are using something 'better' than corporate whatever it is. Which we can't compare if we don't know what's inside the black box.
Oh no, he could crush Ukraine for now but that does not guarantee a definitive victory. But think about the hate Ukrainians have for Russian oppression, they’d stay quiet for a while if needed (for lack of viable options) but at the next chance they’d stab their captor in their back in a moment of weakness. Brothers they will never be by force.
"Very familiar" feels pretty squishy, aren't there fairly standard HR terms for these levels of knowledge? I'm pretty sure it's less than "proficient" which is less than "expert," and I feel there should be at least one more in the middle there. I've always understood "familiar" being just a little more than exposure.
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Because that's what you grew up, learned, and have used forever?
Let's ask it another way - why would the country you are in and the language you are currently speaking NOT decide those things (which are defined by said languages.)

What are we doing right now to each other besides banging out some symbols that have a shared meaning?
I got banned from this, so yes, it can happen to someone that does not comment on any video, has no videos of their own, and only makes a few comments in these Ukraine live streams.

I did not lose any other Google services during this, just access to youtube.

Thankfully, the ban got reversed today.
Can anyone think of a reason why to do this? Apart from personal fun project, of course!
Before you go to bed tonight: put a bunch of big spoonfuls of coffee grounds into a French press, add water, and stir. Into the fridge. Then put some oats into a big cup. Pour in milk til they’re “swimming”. Put that in the fridge.

When you wake up, press the coffee grounds out and pour that into a thermos. Put some honey in the big cup of oats and throw a spoon in there. Now you have the best breakfast and coffee to go, and it’s so easy it feels like cheating.
Depleted uranium generally are used by 30 mm autocannon rounds carried by CAS planes or helicopters, though depleted uranium APFSDS tank shells do exist. Detectors are most definitely not detecting depleted uranium ammunition due to how radiation intensity falls off swiftly with distance, and the low radioactivity of DU itself
Definitely, but not in this case. They only lost access to Youtube.

Source: Got banned yesterday and unbanned today.
This is why I'm skeptical of claims that Putin won't get what he wants here. The West is politically incapable of rallying people to do the right thing if it comes at any degradation to their livelihoods. US/EU banks still want their bonds paid and US oil companies don't want Russia seizing their investments. The incumbent party, especially in an election year, doesn't want any more economic risk, and the donor class won't stand for any losses.
Doesn't this just hurt the people on the ground. I'm sure the top brass can find their way around it.

In addition, the way this way this sanction is applied demonstrates that the United States doesn't respect private property rights.
You may have stumbled on a new form of activism: ad baiting. Wonder who pays the most for ad placement that's also deserving of being drained (in a small way) of funds.
> HTML is supposed to be <html><head>head stuff</head><body>body stuff</body></html>.

It’s not. Every single part of what you quoted is optional, and you didn’t include the parts that are actually required.

This is a complete, valid, correct HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>…</title>
…

> But in practice you see […] missing HEAD sections […] missing BODY sections

You never see this, ever. It’s not possible to have an HTML document without a <head> or <body> element. The document I listed above has one <head> element and one <body> element. Both the opening and closing tags for these elements are optional. When an HTML parser parses that document, it will construct a DOM with those elements in it.

> If you omit all those tags, it still works, mostly.

Omitting these tags works completely. This is valid HTML that follows the HTML specification correctly without any need for error handling. All browsers follow these parsing rules without any problems.
Archaeologists find 9k-year-old shrine in Jordan desert
I started drawing a few years ago then took a college course.

Learning to see what is the major theme and made an amazing difference.

I would leave some sessions as if in a trance seeing the world in ways I’ve never had before
Russia doesn’t have popular support even in the breakaway East. Who wants to live in a gangster republic?
Which federated services would you advocate for? Just want a sampling for my own research. I would assume Matrix is one (for chat servers.) What are some others?
Long-Enduring COBOL May Still Have a Shelf Life
I’ve used this before and it’s quite good; it not only captures the “old Windows” look well, but I find it to be quite functional too.

I was frustrated trying to get my Linux box to look “pretty”, since I find that most GTK and DE themes lack attention to detail that is glaringly obvious to a trained eye. My solution was to take the “scorched Earth” approach: make my UI look as primitive as possible rather than aiming for perfection.
Omitting the <head> tag doesn’t violate any standard. It’s valid HTML.
With the STEMMA QT port you can attach something like this $4 RFID breakout[1] and have a badge that people can scan at a conference to get your details. No soldering needed, you can connect it directly to the board with a $1 cable and it's probably easy to program with MicroPython, although I'm not sure how extensible their "Badge OS" is.

edit: there's no MicroPython library for it apparently, but the datasheet[2] is pretty detailed. I've written Python libraries from such protocol definitions before, it's not too difficult.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/4701

[2] https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/st25dv04k.pdf
YC has an immigration lawyer that frequently does an AMA and answers a lot of questions on O1 EB1 etc for founders. Maybe search through past threads and see if that answers some of your questions
80% is the theoretical limit for what? AFAIK the theoretical limit for an Otto cycle engine is somewhere around 46%, and we're getting pretty close already.
I think this is a universal truth, with nothing specific to Rails.

What framework/language/environment can you think of where a junior dev can be dropped in to a big project, and not flounder?
> how a central bank report can even be "false"

they issued money to institutions or individuals, but pretended that they didn't in the reports, thus creating untraceable money without oversight.
> All you need is a few tracks along the wheel and some electrical contacts. Encode the position directly in the track connectivity. Select position by just sending the binary for the desired letter down the wires. When it reaches the correct letter, the powered contacts get cut off and the motor stops turning.

... or use a $4 MCU. Even get Wifi capabilities for "free".
The general complaints about the API's design and style have not changed so much even with the advent of eager execution by default, etc.
How to deliver something like this from a distance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKG-3_anti-tank_grenade
What portion of the Russian STEM workforce does this guy think would take this deal? How much would you need to make a noticeable dent? As it is, about 9-10K Russians per year get green cards in the US. Presumably that would need to expand by a couple orders of magnitude to make a difference.
Anotov An-225 Mriya: Reports largest plane destroyed at Hostomel airport
If you want the absolute best online drawing class try Vitruvian studios Drawing Basics. It literally starts with how to hold a pencil. If you want to jump straight into portraiture David and Mindy have a portrait class starting in March. Their zoom classes are low stress, funny , you learn so much, and at the end you have an amazing portrait that you can’t believe you actually drew yourself. They are two working artists from Chicago, check them out.
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See, and people like you put words in other people’s mouths, are unable to understand and follow a conversation and then conclude that the whole world is against them. But that’s not a problem because they just want to hear themselves. It’s just annoying for everybody else.
There's no premise that you need to be exposed to develop some issue X. The comparison is between developing disease X while being exposed to something S, with developing it without being exposed.

(The example the parent gives is "HPV and cervical cancer" - it's not necessary to have HPV to get the latter, so those not exposed to HPV don't get a 0% chance of that disease).

E.g. say a study finds that if you're exposed to VirusX (or ShouldNotHaveBeenApprovedByFDADrugX, as this applies beyond viruses) you have 10% more chances to develop a heart arythmia than without being exposed to it (which, if I'm not mistaken, the latter should be the same as saying: "as compared to the control group").
The gross of that wealth is probably not going to be inheritable to Putin’s family, though I doubt his family aren’t set up for generations. The wealth Putin ammassed is based on confiscation from other oligarchs who made their wealth in turn by embezelment from the public wealth of the former USSR and actual embezzlement done by the little Napoleon of Russia himself (yes, I mean Putin and yes I’m hinting at a certain complex).
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In fact, the fact that arabic is written rtl is why our numbers are big endian. Because the European number system is based on the arabic system.
He actually executed the coup. The event is described in details in the book "Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%89tat:_A_Practica...
[2] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737266
What? Tanks are blind. Without infantry support up close they are less effective.
If wars have either winners, losers, or ties, the Iraqis definitely were the "losers" of the invasion of Iraq by the US. This isn't intended to be a moral value judgement on the slaughter of the 1 million Iraqis in the process.
I hate to break it to you, but you’re not writing Moby Dick at your office job. You’re trying to communicate a (possibly complex) idea in a way that another person can understand it and make a decision.

> Running what I've written, the codification of my thoughts, through a statistical homogenization machine is dystopian in a way I had never imagined.

This is why Grammarly exists.
In my company we see a senior as someone who can help increase the leverage of juniors.

Another definition I’ve seen is “a senior developer is a developer who can turns other developers into senior developers”

Whereas someone who can autonomously get shit done (and may or may not be good at the earlier definitions) is a “contractor”.
At will... aside from the strategic and interdiction bombing of North Vietnamese trails (officially) and Cambodian trails (semi-officially) and substantial (especially for the 1960s) monitoring of the routes.
Purifying wastewater is much cheaper than desalination.
Significant Internet Disruption in Ukraine
Does Putin care though? If he orders eg missile strikes on cities….
But do you think this would give the population yet another reason to put Pressure on Putin to fall back in line with the will of the people?
We had this conversation in our OPSEC meeting this morning and decided protecting our assets had a higher priority than any inconvenience placed on the Russian Civilian Population. we can always reverse our policy later but for the time being we'll error on the side of our clients.
It may have something to do with the fact that Flutter state management of the UI requires the UI to repaint completely whenever there is a change.

This makes no sense whatsoever because it goes exactly in the opposite direction of optimised graphics programming - where the ideal was to repaint the smallest portion of the screen as possible for any change.
> The Queen of England is the theoretical owner

No, she isn't. The crown holdings haven't been owned privately for hundreds of years.
Don't forget the "sex cults" he constantly mentioned, that not only came to fruition, even better - everyone is now scared to even discuss how trans should not compete in women's sports for example
> Every single military, the world over, is heavily trained to ignore civilian casualties.

This sounds extremely implausible.
You can buy split-flap clocks at MoMA [0] for $650. Not cheap.

If you want to see a big one in person, the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport in New York has the original split-flap departures display made by Solari di Udine [1] (the same company makes the MoMA clock). Solari also makes other split-flap devices [2].

Not to get off on a tangent, but the TWA Hotel is a very cool place to visit [3].

[0] https://store.moma.org/for-the-home/home/clocks/solari-cifra...

[1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/architecture/t...

[2] https://store.solarilineadesign.com

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbH-eawcZSw
Came here to suggest this episode, it is a gem.

https://hubermanlab.com/optimizing-workspace-for-productivit...
Many countries, including Canada, are sending military equipment or financial support to Ukraine. Its not an either / or proposition.

If however by direct military aid you mean soldiers on the ground fighting Russians, then a) I agree that would be more effective and b) I think it's unlikely to happen because c) if we engage in second order thinking, I don't see how it ends well for anyone in the short term. That's the problem with a Bully, they don't care about their own pain as much as other guys care about theirs. Once they start hitting, there are no great options. All options from here on suck.
Russia’s Credit Cut to Junk Rating
I think they are referring to this part, second alinea: “Now, in pursuit of DeepMind’s mission to solve intelligence, MuZero has taken a first step towards mastering a real-world task by optimising video on YouTube.”
> MuZero is being used to optimize the choices made in the VP9 compression.

I think "parameter optimization" is a better expression here. Optimize can means many things, but certainly it's not optimizing the algorithm/encoding itself. It's all about being smart at the very last mile.
I wonder how soon administration recognizes this is a national security threat.
Nostalgia mostly. However, Win95 had very clear UI elements that made it nice to use.
modern armor is incredibly resistant to spalling. HESH rounds, the high-tech version of sticky dynamite, have fallen out of favor in preference to kinetic penetrators and shaped charges.

the hardest part of applying anti-tank munitions to a tank is getting close to the tank. so, they're generally projectile weapons.

man-portable devices have size and recoil limits that immediately rule out kinetic penetrators.

shaped charges work at lower velocity, but are massive and conical, so they mostly have to be rockets fired from a recoilless launcher.

there has probably been some work trying to deliver shaped charges via drone to reduce launch signature, but that would be much slower, more costly, vulnerable to active defenses, and vulnerable to electronic countermeasures.

eventually if your drone is small and fast enough, it's a missile, and if it's big enough to launch from out of reach, you just launch it from an airfield, and we already do both of those.
Ident.me: looking for protocols besides HTTP(S), DNS, SSH
Not much in office, no. But say, on US academic campuses you'll find lots of people even in the 21st century who still claim to be Marxist. The traditional Left definitely exists in the US as a subculture.
Is there a Japanese and German language learning guide like this?
The type of guy who you want on your side during war is often not the type of guy who fits in well during peace time.
And if you can't do it without Grammarly, maybe you shouldn't have that job.
Reading the article, it sounds like the author is looking for a Senior Software Archeologist, not a full stack engineer. None of this is relevant or useful to any job somebody might be doing.
For some reason I can never separate William James and William Blake. They are the same person in my head. I need to read a lot more about them to split them into two.
Already a lot of video game footage online (mostly planes and explosions) masquerading as real video.

Hopefully there’s AI analysis of video too to make sure it’s not manipulated.
We had a ticket where someone complained about "latency" when cutting and pasting into Microsoft Excel.

After some quick tests yielded the expected results, the person selected an entire paragraph of text and pasted it into a cell.

Sure enough, there was about a 3-4 second delay as the Grammarly add-in sent it in for analyzing.

Imagine if you had confidential data in your documents.
It doesn't follow from Amdahl's law directly. Amdahl's law sets an upper limit on how much you can gain in total efficiency from effort. But I actually was speaking about how valuable the effort is. Is it the control loop on a self-landing rocket, a rendering engine for a video game or HFT algorithms? Then the efficiency is probably very valuable in its effects. Is it an app for a dating startup? No one will ever care if you could have shaved a millisecond off the match time.