skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full disclaimer: I have no cryptocurrency assets, nor interest.

> Since the “decentralized web” includes all sorts of things, it is important to also mention things that we will not be doing with this grant. We are not looking at NFTs, blockchain, DAOs, smart contracts or related aspects of “Web3”.

This absolutely is Web3, and Filecoin is on a blockchain. This is a great use, though I understand why they wish to distance themselves (Web3 is popular amongst political opponents of the chattering class).
In terms of number of personell, the "large" countries in the EU, such as Germany, France and Poland have about 200k each. Russia has 3 million, when including reserves.

And while the Russian forces are actively trained as one force, European armies would have significant difficulties operating together and would lack shared leadership. Also, while some of the European forces are highly proficient, others are more at the level of militias, really only useful for defending their homelands, if that.

Without heavy US involvement, I would expect Russia to dominate a confrontation with EU forces in the early stages, by focusing on the forces of one country at a time. This is particularily true if the confrontation happens in terrain such as that of the Ukraine or Poland, where the flat land gives attacking armored forces an advantage.

With moderate US involvement, this changes a bit. Lets say the US sent an expeditionary force of 100k people, maybe half of which were fighting forces, then NATO would _perhaps_ be a match for Russia, but would probably not be superior, espeically in terms of infantry, armor and artillery.

Realistically, a defence of Nato with current forces needs to be done in depth, forcing Russia to attack into central Germany and/or the Carpathian mountains. Eventually, Russia would lose such a conflict due to massive economic inferiority, but this kind of conflict is not something European countries are willing to go into over just the Ukraine.
Intent to Prototype: Topics API
You'd hope so right?
People in these countries don’t really trust their currencies, many have their salaries paid in USD or Euro.

Most Russian consumer goods are foreign imports that were paid for in USD.

Today all banks in Moscow have been full of people trying to get their money out in not-rubles, Friday might get even worse.
France is in NATO.
Filecoin's deflationary "number go up" economics distract from its use for storage. It's true that Filecoin incentivizes miners to provide storage space, but the vast majority of that space is unused so it appears that the incentives are out of balance. In other words, Filecoin's "users" are just hodling Filecoin to get rich; they're not storing data. It's too soon to tell whether this situation is temporary or not.

Also, Filecoin has fairly high non-storage hardware requirements so miners aren't just providing storage; they have to spend significant energy and capex to prove that they are providing storage.
right, but the alternative is no support for tags at all, so xattr gets us halfway there, and filesystems that don't have it need to keep up.

searching can be sped up by building an index. apps that want to use tags will need to do that, just like they build an index of files already. because searching filenames is also slow.

a version of locatedb that supports xattr would help for example, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_search
The rust belt has spare houses and apartments. Why the hell can't we allocate better? We can't stuff everybody into CA, dammit!
I've only seen one and it was in the context of people mentioning that its fake.
This is a really naive view. TikTok wouldn’t just have a banned message that pops up if you try to discuss it. Instead you’ll get a curated list on the topic that alters your perception of the popular opinion. Or some other “controversy” will fill up the feed to distract you.
Many people believed this kind of thing in July of 1914.
A better question would be why the universe exists?
Who else went to Google and hit that button for the first time in a decade :)
Companies that use APL and other array languages in production:

https://github.com/interregna/arraylanguage-companies
Keeping nuclear weapons "secretly" really undermines their deterrence aspect.

“Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world?” -- Dr. Strangelove
I love the roomba analogy! Definitely going to steal this. :)
How much GC stuff have you seen in comparison to C?
> ...a Soviet guy decided it was best not to send missiles back

In that case the judgment was whether the telemetry was reliable enough to justify launching a retaliatory strike, with all the grave consequences that produces.

An unambiguous order to launch a first strike might not elicit the same kind of hesitation.
France is one of the founding countries in NATO. Indeed, NATO's progenitor was a bilateral treaty between France and the UK (the "Treaty of Dunkirk").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_NATO
It is a choice between (1) acknowledge it is an OS problem the library can't fix, or (2) pretend the library can fix it. C++ chose one; Rust, you say, chose the other.

The Posix file API is shot through with races. Patching around them is a game of whack-a-mole. C++ cannot fix Posix. Rust cannot fix Posix.

It is dishonest to assert that "C++ programs are only intended to run on a machine where they have exclusive control over the entire system". The system a program is a part of is expected to have enough control over what it operates on that its semantics are well defined. No Standard can do more. Rust can do no more. I doubt Rust pretends to more.
I had to view the source to read the article since it seems text won't display without javascript. I know it's considered a lost battle to expect sites to at least make basic static content (text/images) accessible without needing to execute 3rd-party code/trackers, but I still judge sites that can't.
So it is like a hashtable collision
> I am considering taking another full-time contractor role at the same time

Just get a new job. Juggling two jobs rarely works out as well as people expect it to and you risk burning your reputation in the process.

Find something you like doing with a team you like working with. Don't become the kind of person who sets aside your values in some misguided pursuit of more money.
Arma 3 is the worst one for realism. They pushed for futureish, with personal body armour and whatnot, then noticed time to kill was too long, so they upped weapon lethality (tweaking bullet speed along other things) but then cover was useless so they upped resistance to all map materials

Arma 3 is a mess, even before taking apart their idea of future war (combat mission black sea did way better there)

At least mods fix most of the unit issues, albeit the game as it is just don't work as a milsim because any consideration between doctrine and taor and toe gets thrown out on the name of cool
Paying people more than the minimum wage and not outsourcing just to save money (which some argue is just another form of imperialism)

I think that would be a good start
Post-communist states sold off their remaining assets after 1989. Many people think (correctly in many cases) that there was a lot of corruption during the process. That allowed people (usually foreign) to buy a lot of key infrastructure and other stuff for nothing.
There is absolutely no precedent in human history for two fairly equal powers engaging in a conflict and one side refusing in totality to use almost any weapon at its disposal and certainly not one that an enemy has already used. Japan did not nuke America back in 1945 because it did not have a nuke and had lost all air superiority.
The world would have ended by now had people followed that advice 50 years ago
> What is your take on the entire situation?

Terrifying, I’ve been working around the clock to evacuate my friends and their families from Ukraine. Even now many are very reluctant to leave, trying to convince themselves that the war will end as fast as it started. At least the western borders are mostly open now, I have multiple friends with kids who don’t have passports.

In Russia? Fuck knows, nobody I know well would be there this time of the year. Russian friends in London and Europe have little faith in Putin being able to keep this up, even if most of these people were in favour of the annexation of Crimea.

My telegram is getting spammed with lots of pictures of increasingly large protests in big cities, hopefully they will continue growing.

> Why do you think Putin is doing this?

Nobody knows. My wife is the daughter of a Russian oligarch likely to be sanctioned soon, nobody in our circles has any idea why this is happening. Nobody believed there would be a war until the moment it started, most have purchased other passports and many are planning to get rid of their russian citizenships.

I emptied my Kiev apartment wednesday and had everything transferred to Romania, most of my friends were laughing about me being paranoid. They’re not laughing anymore.
Try Tom Select: https://tom-select.js.org/examples/

Any initial impressions on that one?
DuckDuckGo's !bangs[0] deserve a mention as well, where you can use an exclamation point with an (abbreviated) site name to forward your query to the site's internal search (try !hn).

(Using a plain ! anywhere in your query seems to do the same thing as \)

0: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
Why do the New York Yankees still wear pin stripes?
Maybe not: https://www.saveecobot.com/en/radiation-maps#12/51.4321/30.0...
Create ephemeral environments based on GitHub PRs with Actions and Terraform
The problem with many small businesses is that they are really a job disguised as a business. Meaning that with out the owner working every day the business could not exist.

If it's really a business then it should have a net income after all expenses and fair salaries, for everyone, are paid. You then multiply the net income by 10 which gives you a starting point. Increase multiple if it's a fast growing business or decrease the multiple if it's a slow growing business. There are so many ways to make a business look profitable without really being profitable that buyers will want to see a history of growth.

A job disguised as a business is priced differently and it's all related to the prospects and the business's asset value. Annual sales revenue is an iffy way to price it since you can sell a lot and have very little income. I once heard of a company that sold over 5 million a year but could just support 2 employees at a 35k salary. But at least it was able to cover the expenses and salaries. Many businesses can't even do that even though they have lots of sales revenue. You should look for a business broker and see if you can hire them as consultants for a fixed price.

But the least you need to do, if you want to sell, is to turn it into an business entity and make sure you can transfer all assets and intellectual property independent of your and your partners interests and liabilities.
France is a member of NATO, they entered NATO in 1949 • Reference, The NATO website: https://www.nato.int/nato-welcome/index.html
haha ya, look how easy it was for the Canadian Government to control the narrative on the Freedom Convoy.
So you are proposing that the air force can just start pummeling the air defences around Moscov? Because that would be a viable counter step if not for MAD.
On a very lateral note, pulpo a la gallega is made with boiled, not seared, octopus
I fail to see how it's fallacious since you're confirming my point.

> I'm not starting with an app, adding my trust of the developer, and adding my trust of F-Droid

You are. You seem to believe they actually read the whole source code when it's not the case: all they do is running their own scripts to scrap known trackers and the like (and again, I must say badness enumeration is a flawed approach), this is far from a stringent process and this would be a very weak approach in any threat model to rely on that.

You still have to trust the app developer, and you'd be much better off trusting the strong guarantees provided by the Android app sandbox anyway. Seems like there's a major disagreement here when it comes to our approach to privacy.

> Thirdly, Android's default app store, Google Play, also trusts a third party by default - Google, who insist on running a tracking rootkit on your computer, which is so much more egregiously invasive than trusting any one app that it renders any comparison with F-Droid moot.

Play App Signing is mentioned in the article.
Obviously I believe it shouldn't. I think it is extremely unwise, extremely dispiriting that the 'under god' thing wasn't stamped out early. The pledge of allegiance is evil. wiring it to christianity just compounded the evil.

(evil here, does not imply anything other than its colloquial 'wrong' meaning.)

I do not think the current courts have a mind to deal with this, to the contrary I think they are on hair trigger to enshrine laws regarding christianity. My only hope is that they fall into some error like believing "faith" means christianity and die on the bonfire of the satanists and others approaching the desk for their mandated rights.

I think all US courts should have a Zoroastrian fire ceremony...
> the poster's child is probably a native English speaker

She is not, but started learning english when she was 5 or 6 by watching netflix peppa pig in english and with english subtitles, now she is almost 11 and watches anime in japanese with english subtitles.

What pushed me to do that years ago was Stephetn Fry's turn on the subtitles video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zISnJ-oao (I cant actually find the one I watched at the time, but was the same content)
> If Russians leave than Ukraine goes back to what it was.

I'm not sure that's true. But that may be because I have a different view of Ukranian internal politics than you do. See below.

> Why?

Because, first, I don't think Russia's economy is all that dependent on the products that Western sanctions would cut off, and second, I don't think the sanctions are going to be all that well enforced long term, since that is the way sanctions usually are. (And I expect Putin thinks that too.) For one thing, Europe is dependent on some key products from Russia, such as the natural gas that is now not flowing. Past experience suggests that European countries will find ways to route around the sanctions while publicly giving them lip service.

> a country that definitely doesn't want him there and is now pissed off

Some Ukranians are. I'm not so sure a majority of them are, at least not in any sense that matters for Russia. Eastern Ukraine, in particular, I think is generally sympathetic to Russia.
I personally think that scientific papers offer a lot of good ideas. They will often talk about what useful applications that certain mathematical concepts have and the state of the art of what can be done with a certain technology, you will be amazed how many applications there are for something as simple as linear regression. A lot of the times they will outright publish open source libraries that have achieved state of the art performance in certain specific applications and can be integrated in your own product demo.

Also, watch some lectures (and do problems if you really want to understand the material) from MIT open courseware on challenging subjects like Linear Algebra or Statistical Inferencing. If you can combine fields from web crawling/page ranking and linear algebra (like Google did), you could have a really great idea.
Comparing dress code to working in person is pretty ridiculous. Is your claim that there is literally zero value to seeing your coworkers in person? Also not everyone has a long and/or unproductive commute.
I'd be perfectly happy if your website looks like the OS platform it's running on. That way, I already know how to recognize and use the controls before I arrive. Granted, I'd blame the browsers if those controls weren't accessed by default.
Should have (2019) in the title.
Wait you mean after all these years of scoffing every time a movie included a scene with the protagonist sifting through surveillance images, and someone says, "enhance that image", revealing someone's face from blurry pixels, that WASN'T just wishful Hollywood thinking?! That's bonkers!
Yeah it could be.
Diamond doesn't seem to have given a citation, and unfortunately I haven't found his source, so not sure if there is evidence about that.
You just depicted your world, not the West.
Thanks for your interest! If you want to dig into the project, another good resource is the #gpu stream on xi.zulipchat.com. That has some more in-depth discussions as well.

I'm openly embracing the fact that piet-gpu is advanced research into not just 2D rendering, but parallel algorithms and also GPU infrastructure. The fact that it's doing advanced compute portably is not something a lot of other projects can claim. Unfortunately, it adds constraints and makes the code more difficult than it would be if it were targeting a single GPU.

So, feel free to ask questions, and I'll do my best to answer them. Education is part of what I'm trying to do, and I'd like to put together more resources for understanding both piet-gpu and also compute shader programming more generally.
Barrier: An Introduction
It's an interesting point of view, even if it's not the mainstream political-science meaning of "nation state". Certainly the USA has a strong national identity, shared traditions, a couple of nearly unique dialects (though GA and AAVE are also spoken in Canada), and a state religion in which schoolchildren are forced to pray daily to the Flag, and to a significant extent the USA grew out of a tribal invasion and colonization of America by English colonists with shared descent.

Still, I think the US is better understood as a multiethnic, profoundly racist society, not a single tribe: 41 million people (12% of the population) speak Spanish, another 13% speak AAVE, and 2% belong to various Native American and Alaskan Native nations. In all cases most speakers also speak the language of the dominant GA-speaking tribe, and there are identifiable musical, culinary, religious, political differences associated with their varying descent, along with striking segregation in housing, schooling, and education. Subsequent to the initial English colonization there was also substantial immigration from Ireland (9% of the current population), Scotland (8%), Germany (15%, already 9% by the first census in 01790), the Netherlands (1%), Italy (5%), and Poland (3%), China (1.5%), India (1%), France (3%), as well as other countries. Some of these immigrants were also Romani (0.3%) or Jewish (3%). But, in the US system of racism, these differences are largely submerged in generalized "[non-Hispanic] white American" and "Asian American" (7%) ethnic identities.

Since only 62% of the US population belongs to its hegemonic "non-Hispanic white" nation, which is as you say built out of immigrants from various European countries, I don't think it's reasonable to describe the USA as a nation state. It's not even officially white supremacist, although its historical foundations are in genocide and slavery, and in practice its government treats its ethnic minorities very badly indeed even today. It's at least two more major genocides away from becoming a nation state, although Obama's horrifying mass deportations of "illegal immigrants" and their weaker continuation under Trump were a significant step in that direction, as is the ongoing GULAG-scale mass imprisonment of mostly African-Americans, many of whom are enslaved in prison.
>Russia is the only country I know that thinks it might actually be able to win a nuclear war.

Of course that's what they'd want the world to believe, right?
> I'm really unhappy about how difficult it's becoming to avoid web3 crap turning everything into a financial instrument to fuel speculation

Almost like it's not all speculation and it actually provides a utility....
Interesting that they're using traditional electromagnets instead of semipermanent magnets here. This has always been one of the core applications for semipermanent magnets, in my mind.
Edit: my comment was likely to be misinterpreted so I removed it. I don't agree with your metaphor. I think history and power politics should be respected to maintain world peace.
I remember having to go backwards from SVN to CVS for a project a long time ago, and I was so shaken by the fact that CVS couldn’t do atomic commits with multiple files!
The 1-week life is based on something on the order of 30--60 minutes reading per day AFAIU, though I don't have sources or specs handy. It's a typical "value never to be exceeded in actual use" so far as I'm concerned.

Otherwise, I've given you the information I have, and have pointed you in the directions I'm aware to point you in. My interest and awareness here is modest at best.

With one further exception.

GSeph Electronics is a YouTube channel which has given some technical e-ink demonstrations and might offer further information along the lines of your questions:

See this video demonstration of response times (not what you're looking for, what I have on hand): https://youtube.com/watch?v=KdrMjnYAap4

Video playlist: https://m.youtube.com/c/GSephElec/videos

Twitter (via Nitter): https://nitter.kavin.rocks/gsephelec

I'm curious just what you're thinking of that requires / demands a maximum of 100--1000 mW power draw.
What exactly do you see that is false or unrighteous in your "quick skim"?
Also how inconsistent the look and behavior is from browser to browser. If you want to achieve uniformity across chrome/safari/ff, you basically have to go custom.
Higher PPD is good, but with the lower FoV it's going to feel like you're looking at your computer screen through binoculars.
I think it's becoming clear that they're trying to find uses for that storage, but it's the old "solution in search of a problem" chestnut, IMO.
I don't think my comment broke any rules, and I have a hard time taking you seriously when I compare the reality of what goes on here day in day out to the fantasy world of the supposed guidelines.
You mean an alliance helmed by Canada? Ukraine is not allying themselves with a superpower on the other side of the globe, but their western neighbours.
The "in fashion" meaning of the word "cool" is also important and influential (and imported into other world languages!) but it is not the relevant meaning in the phrase "laser cooling". At best you can say that the American audience has a propensity to be confused about the term "nation state", compounded by its general historical illiteracy.
This war makes me sick and very sad. It reminds me of the pale blue dot quote by Sagan : "Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g
You left out Kosovo.
Do you have any citations to support this claim?

Flutter is open source.
Tales of ETH Denver
Date inputs are particularly terrible here once you try and do any constraints
When are you going to start? Contributions are welcome.
Read the article. That's their point: it was fall on the opposite hemisphere where mammals were sheltering and preparing for winter.
A little more or a little less