skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. The invasion of Ukraine was not a surprise. Even Trump was impeached for witholding aid to Ukraine because this threat has been around for a while now. I still remember when their previous president or PM sold them out to Russia by selling of a base or something and they had fist fights in their parliament because of it. The US and pals tell everyone what to do in their country, including putin (see Chechnya), they invade Iraq for Oil but act like they are better than when russia invaded Georgia. Russia's economy depends on oil sales to neighbors and to Putin, the only thing preventing the west from twisting their arms is nukes, the US has been handing out THAAD and hosting nukes in NATO states, Ukraine and Georgia have the desire to join NATO. This isn't that surprising. Putin wants a buffer of former soviet states . Of course, I personally disagree with his views but from his perspective invading Ukraine was in the best interest of his rule and preserving Russia's sovreignity.

The whole WW3 scare is silly. Putin isn't interested in a 1000 year reich. He's a KGB spy who spent his life resisting western influence, he is doing what he does best. Now that they have him feel cornerned though, things will get very bad. He may invade all the former soviet sattelites and the west should stay out of it unless WW3 is on the calendar.
Your sarcasm detector is in dire need of recalibration.
Eugenics is a very lefty thing to study.
Ukraine belongs in EU, Commission chief von der Leyen says
Partially...

"Ukrainian arrested for attempting to sink a Russian's luxury yacht"

https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2022/02/27/9...
I hope not. I do not like the prospect of a Russian vs USA war and that we would have if the US do that.
Ahh I introduced one of these a few years ago! Can't wait!
Do you feel that recommendations given to you are perfect? That more or less should answer the question.

Evaluating recommendation systems is hard because you actually require a human in the loop. Even worse, giving the recommendations alters the human behavior. Then you need to think what metric are you going to use. For training you will most probably use a proxy metric that correlates. Maybe you want to optimize different metrics and they actually need to be balanced. Then there are lot of confounding variables: maybe a better UX will improve the metrics than a better algorithm, or a change of products.

It seems that with big enough data you can improve old models with deep learning but I think recommenders are very far from similar gains to other fields (NLP or CV for example). And most companies don't have that much data.
When does it start?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183700/us-average-retail...
I am not falling for any propaganda. I have a realistic understanding of how little is really known about what is happening.

You can read this article and share your opinion:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/23/united-states-europe-wa...

I personally agree 100% with the author's concerns. As much as we all condemn Putin and his actions, the situation is not black-or-white when it comes to motives.
This is probably good general advice for getting comfortable in a crowd and starting conversations, but I doubt such "networking" has as much to do with getting a tech job as people like to think.

In my 2+ decades of experience on both sides of tech recruiting, getting your foot in the door is always the easiest part of the process. Apply online at the company's careers site. Get an existing employee to refer you (literally anyone will be more than happy to do so for the bonus). Message a recruiter on LinkedIn. All of these will get you at least a screening call. From then on 100% of your hiring chances are dependent on your resume and interview performance.
The progressive C++ification of JS is scary and exciting in equal measure.
1) States do not currently levy property taxes. Localities do.

2) It's unconstitutional for states to tax property directly without federal apportionment.
IMO this will make-or-break based on air superiority.

Impression #1: The Ukrainian population is VERY MOTIVATED.

Impression #2: The West will supply Ukraine's population with as much infantry firepower (TOW, MANPAD, etc) as they need.

As the days go on and military supplies flood into the Ukraine from the west, resistance will increase.

Helicopters and tanks will take heavy, expensive, demoralizing losses against well coordinated anti-armor infantry defense forces.

I also think the Ukrainian population will toughen and get trained/experienced in warfare quickly. Potentially Russia is training multiple millions of soldiers on the Ukrainian side with this attack, and forming a national identity, pride, and will to fight.

The only Russian trump card in those situations is air power.

I don't think this is like Afghanistan or the Iraq/Syria smorgasborg. Ukraine is THE buffer state between Europe and Russia. They are fairly westernized. I don't think there will be any concerns with blowback terrorism by equipping the hell out of the Ukrainian army and volunteers/populace. I don't think there are nearly as many policy/cultural concerns about supplying serious infantry weapons to the Ukraine.

Even if all of Ukraine's airfields are compromised, likely Ukraine can continue air operations from Romania and the like. Would the West supply Ukraine with replacement air force? Uh, yeah.

Russia had two military hopes:

1) very fast ground total victory (doubt it at this point, why did Russia attack in winter? Because they could get a quick victory they hoped? Even Russian soldiers will have lower morale in winter operations.)

2) win air superiority to enable a ground victory long enough to get puppet regime in and the West gives up support. I think this is where we are now, and I have NO IDEA how the air war is going.
I find it amazing it takes 7 bya for two close galaxies to merge, only twice as long as the entire life of the universe to date. It feels like we are just at the beginning of time.
I actually can't find exactly what I was searching for when making that comment, it may have been 10 or so years ago.

In my searching, did find this which shows trading blows with others... yet to see a comparison showing that compiling everything leads to performance gains...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ec2-holi...
Almond.css: Collection of CSS styles to make simple websites look nicer
Having grown up in Korea and lived in America, Canada, and the UK, one thing I consistently noticed about all those Western homes is how dark they are.

Most homes where I come from have a large, flat lamp in the center of the ceiling of each room that evenly illuminates the entire room. Large spaces may have more than one such lamp. In the past, this was accomplished with a bunch of fluorescent tubes arranged to look like a single large lamp. These days, it's all LED. People also put lamps on the bedside table, above the dining table, and other places they want to accentuate, but it's always in addition to, not instead of, the large ceiling lamp.

Most of the American/Western homes I've been to don't have a single bright light in the living room or any bedroom, relying more often on several low-temperature lamps scattered around the space. It looks really nice, it's perfect for watching movies, and it may have been more energy-efficient in the past. But it's just so damn dark, especially if the room doesn't face the sun.
The functional programmers always sound like wannabe mathematicians to me, with their fancy category theory words. And the OOP guys always sound like wannabe engineers, with their fancy AbstractFactoryFactory.

Nice article though.
I'm from the Netherlands, which is parttime king of the world.

I haven't worked in a fulltime software development job for almost two decades now. Never has it been a problem. Never was my parttime requirement the reason to not hire me. I don't even consider fulltime an option.

I'm very surprised at how people here react to this idea. Untill you pointed out it may be cultural thing.

Another reason for me to not even consider working for a US tech company.
Gitlab is open core, so basic functions you get with the free tier can be self hosted.
Chronicle of a War Foretold
To feel special and prompt people to ask about their funny hat
And let’s see what happens. Suppose Russia ends this thing and withdraws before they do. Then what? Bet they look for it back.
So basically a clang wrapper?
One thing they are missing is collimation. You might want the light rays to be parallel, to simulate the far away sun and to get sharp shadows. I tried to come up with a solution to do this in a flat package, but optics is not my strong suit.

Generally, you always have a trade-off here: If you want to get rid of the harsh point-like light sources, you have to add a diffuser, and then you get indirect light. But too diffused, and you get the feeling of sitting in a studio or in a bright cave. I think having a window or a skylight with parallel, non-diffused light and letting the reflections on the walls diffuse it is probably the most natural-looking solution.
>...We’re self sufficient in the sense that we produce more power than we use.

It is probably a bit more clear to most people to just say that you produce more power than you use, rather than say you are fully self sufficient.

>...your comment history looks like you’re pro nuclear/anti renewables,

There is no need to misrepresent my comments.
A pandemic spent in isolation may have driven Putin mad
I would very much suggest both biographical and idea focused sources.

For me, the absolute best written is Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes. It covers a large swatch of British Science from Newton to Maxwell.

Other good reads are

1. The Invention of Science by Wootton (which is very academic in style),

2. The Wizard and the Prophet by Mann

3. Galileo At Work by Drake

4. Newton by Gleik.
Say what you will about our insignificance compared to the cosmos, but currently we're waging several wars in the other direction against proteins and molecules, and I hope we win. We already rule several atomic and chemical reactions.
Not with online services, they've at least rebranded if not recoded them a few times. mac.com, MobileMe/me.com, icloud.com. It's true that the market is now much more stable, though.
A JavaScript library for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, and more
The only solution is the building plague.
Again, when I respond to someone, in the context of their premises, I am not adopting those premises and I don't have to defend them to anyone.

Go back and argue with the person who actually introduced what you want to dispute.
Just wanted to say I've been working on mine for a year or so now, and most of this doesn't line up with my experience
You may be interested in the following video, where a quadruple board certified doc reviews relevant literature regarding sun exposure (and the critical wavelengths involved) and various facets of health: https://youtu.be/5YV_iKnzDRg

The review paper that ties many different findings from different fields (optics, endocrinology, circadian rhythms...) together with an audacious spoonful of hypothesizing is this: http://melatonin-research.net/index.php/MR/article/view/19/2...
> When you have fun, you are authentic and relaxed, people can read that subconsciously and also relax

This seems like the sort of well-meaning advice that leads to people burning a lot of bridges when it doesn't apply to them.
> Asked by German broadcaster ARD whether he could imagine allowing nuclear plants to run longer than planned under Germany's exit plan, which foresees shutting the country's three remaining plants by the end of 2022, he said: "It is part of my ministry's tasks to answer this question ... I would not reject it on ideological grounds."

Letting nuclear plants that have been kept on life support to run for a little while longer is not an about turn. Would have liked to see more nuclear energy be funded.

Germany will be reviving coal plants and the Greens will herald in a new decade of climate change accelerating emissions. Bravo.
If you have Hue lights, make sure to upgrade to the new generation that just came out. It's much brighter. The color ones were sold out, but I found it worthwhile to upgrade even though I can't make them blue anymore.

Otherwise, Cree is one of the best home bulb brands.
Russia Sanctions List
We are basically seeing self imposed price controls and everyone knows that price ceilings cause shortages.
I recently learned that Clang supports this kind of cross-compiling out of the box. https://mcilloni.ovh/2021/02/09/cxx-cross-clang/

The main difference is that Clang does not ship with headers/libraries for different platforms, as Zig appears to do. You need to give Clang a "sysroot" -- a path that has the headers/libraries for the platform you want to compile for.

If you create a bunch of sysroots for various architectures, you can do some pretty "easy" cross-compiling with just a single compiler binary. Docker can be a nice way of packaging up these sysroots (especially combined with Docker images like manylinux: https://github.com/pypa/manylinux). Gone are the days when you had to build a separate GCC cross-compiler for each platform you want to target.
No doubt about your first part. Don't get me wrong, I am not supporting any of that as there must be no tolerance for such actions in the modern world.

To make it more clear, I want to figure it our for myself whether interventions in the past by the US supported by some European countries were any similar.

Unfortunately, I don't understand modern politics very well so it would be great to understand whether there is any bias these days towards some countries.
Metal-halide HID lamps are best for this purpose. They have the best colour rendition of all lighting and they come in different sizes and colour temperatures.

My pick for a bright daylight would be about 6000K colour temp and I’d just throw some fittings in a room then walk outside at mid day to determine how many watts Id need to satisfy.

Bonus of these is you can get coloured lamps with more awesomer colours than LEDs.BLV is one manufacturer.

Second bonus is if you use a grow lamp in your setup, it’ll also help reduce the effects of SAD. They use the same fittings.

Oh, and remember diffusion is the key for comfortable indoor use.
IIRC Not if they were using the OS time type. I recall BSD is entirely compiled from a shared repository so the only breaking software would be external applications and possibly saves that have an incompatible timestamp baked into the file format. Anything outside of their 'ports' package repo.
The bay area is a huge outlier when you talk about "most US tech workers"
Site seems down but here is one with the frequencies and the crypto key (one of the footers has it).

https://site.ua/skitalec/ya-pisu-etot-post-dlya-ponimaniya-t...

The is a list of code name mappings as well.

edit:

Main frequency: 25.639 MHz

Alternate : 161.562500 MHz
Do you support the flagging of the original article, which is mostly focused on testing the glyphosate content in consumer foods?
so niche! love it, super nerdy.
Good example of such lighting would be Kessil: https://kessil.com/aquarium/freshwater_A360.php

As you can see, heat management is a prime feature of these lights, and the quality in general is absolutely amazing (it’s priced accordingly, though).
I think you're confusing 'being nice to both sides' with 'being balanced'. It is totally balanced to call Russia the aggressor in this conflict, because they essentially decided the war would happen when it did. In the same sense, it's balanced to call the US the aggressor in Iraq or Afghanistan.

There are, sadly, not many articles that shed light on the situation. That's largely because the situation itself is murky. If you want a more objective take, wait until everything is done, then read academic treatments.

Bear in mind that 'balance' is not always a logically coherent thing to look for: there is no such thing as a balanced middle point between 7 and fish. It's still possible for interested parties to deliver sound analysis and to uncover or fairly present facts.
This has been applied for decades. Those 'ceiling windows' in art galleries are often false windows with bright daylight lamps beneath it.

By the way, the sun produces ~50.000 lux on earth's surface. That's 100 times more than in a wall illuminated office.
To reach that brightness, you would need tens of kilowatts of LED lightning for medium and larger sized rooms. That's totally infeasible. Also, imagine the heat building up. It will literally be like a greenhouse in your room.
So in reality, no one actually aims for the brightness of the sun. But just something fairly bright at a high ('cool') color temperature. That produces the same sensation.
s/programming/restricting
I think it’s important to note that whoever wrote this article at the time of writing didn’t anticipate:

- the scale of the western sanctions

- the level of Ukrainian resistance
I remember using it for some training materials. The main problem was it was so slow with long documents. I frequently left it running overnight to complete some operations.
Agree with all of this. Don't do any yak-shaving you don't want to do just for the fun of it; build your language and its tooling on existing systems so you can spend your time on what makes it special, instead of what doesn't.
I’ve been playing with UTF8 in c99 and the examples here have helped me understand how it works a bit better.
I have found Professor Sakwa's account after the 2014 kerfuffle to be illuminating and reasonably detailed[1]. He splits the story into the "Ukrainian problem" which are purely domestic that lead to the "Ukraine problem" which has wider geopolitcal implications. Sakwa's position was shared by some very illustrious names such as George F. Kennan of containment fame[2][3], unfortunately it seems to be a minority opinion among the policy makers of the West. It's depressing to see that the situation has not improved since 2014 and have festered instead.

>I don't remember seeing this level of solidarity back when the US did similar things (in my opinion at least). Isn't that a sign of double standards depending on the country?

Unfortunately as the global hegemon, the US (and to a lesser extent its allies) can and do get away with waging aggressive war, that's just how it is. Although the example comes to my mind is the Indian annexation of Goa in 1961, which is an aggressive war waged explicitly for irredentist aims based on historical claims (Goa was conquered by the Portuguese in 1510(!)). The world reaction to that was largely a shrug and India more or less got away with it.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24717077-frontline-ukrai...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/05/opinion/a-fateful-error.h...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-n...
In the Netherlands almost all women work parttime. Which is a major reason the country has such a high rate of parttimers. Men work more fulltime.

This is both a serious problem and a solution to social imbalance. Again and again, polls show many of the women would stop working alltogether¹ if their only option is fulltime.

This does give men some unfair advantage in career options or pay raises, though. It is cited as an important reason for payment inequality between men and women.

¹ The irony is that this would change the parttime ratio: one reason why it is this high in the Netherlands, is because those mothers in many other European countries, simply don't have a job at all. The Nordics being a positive, exception, by the way.
This WW3 scare is IMHO stupid. Just let Russia take Ukraine? Kazakhstan? Lithuania? Georgia? Finland? Sweden? Estonia? Poland?

Where do you draw the line? I don’t think any of those are acceptable. If you don’t fight a expansionist tyrant then what do you envision happens? Sacrificing innocent free countries to (maybe) appease a monster is completely out of the question.

Things can get bad if you interfere - things are guaranteed to get bad if you don’t
You might like an ecologic option. Think of a
fiber optic cable or mirror tube that can be placed from a roof to any room in the house.
Could not find a good english translation, but similar to this one:
https://www.lichtkamin.de/
How about using them as collateral for credit? Seems like a popular way to get liquidity and diversify without selling.
I think what it means is the company has to close down it's physical offices throughout Europe, will be unable to hire European staff on a EUR payroll etc. For them to get kicked off YT/FB etc the US would have to act which I doubt will happen. But who knows it's war so expect a lot if unusual things.
I would assume battery supply is the constraint for most EV manufacturers. It makes sense for them to put the limited supply in expensive vehicles.
Yea, the participants have their interests: Russia wants to create a “Russian Empire”, Ukraine wants to survive as a democracy and as a country.

Decide yourself which side you want to help.
When USSR fell in late 1991, yes, Ukraine did have 4th largest military in the world, and 3rd largest nuclear arsenal. But that is such a long time ago. Just look at what happened in 2014 when Crimea got annexed.

Afghanistan is also very different story than Ukraine. First there is the question of logistics. 75% of the terrain is mountainous and 50% of the country has elevation greater than 6500 ft [1]. This makes it quite the challenge for any would be invaders. Compare that to Ukraine where only 5% of the country is [2], and is also a lot closer to Russian center of power.

I do hope that with what support Ukraine is getting will enable them to give bloody enough nose to Russians that they decide it's not worth it. But given the thinly veiled threat to use nuclear weapons, I fear things will get worse, not better. And before someone says that Mr. Putin is not crazy enough to escalate that far, most people thought he wouldn't actually attack in the first place, and threatening with nuclear weapons can only be seen as an act of weakness, coming out of desperation, and desperate people do desperate things.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-moun...
[2] https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine
Since you seem to be a heavy user, and if you don’t mind me asking: Has your eye sight deteriorated in those eight years, and how is your sleep quality?
There are in fact LED bulbs that aren't overdriven to a deliberate and premature thermal death, but you can only buy them in Dubai: https://youtu.be/klaJqofCsu4

Lightbulbs have a long and very successful history of artificially driving lightbulb lifetimes down though a cartel system: https://youtu.be/j5v8D-alAKE

If you're building your own LED fixtures, you can probably underdrive the LEDs and run them at a radically cooler and slightly more efficient operating point, at a higher upfront cost: you need more LEDs for the same output.
I heard someone on Japanese TV hypothesising that it could be used to spread the fake news that Ukraine had a secret program to build nuclear weapons. I guess of that were true, that would already have happened?
Great job with the editor.

I really love how you embed pngimg, do they have an API?

BTW working on something related, its for server side image rendering check https://bruzu.com
Show HN: Treat your dotfiles better with ansible and stow
Because of the rule of law, essentially the same reason govt employees pay tax
"limitless power"? The choice of words doesn't make it sound like something worth reading
My experience with multiple part time assignments, both personally and from other coworkers, is that the contractor gets more output for the money since the mental break of switching assignments fuels mental energy, not drains energy.
If he is starting to lose the internal power struggle, as we hope sanctions might cause, I could imagine Putin reaching for one final trick to stay in power. That trick could be "we'll just win the war in Ukraine with some tactical nukes". Or maybe "if I beat America (by nukes) they will respect me again in the Kremlin".