skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3141592 thousandths. Integer is beautiful.
Rank and yank:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

Amazon is mentioned there, as well as many others.
> I wanted to understand the context of some of the things I needed to do, and also poke into each enough to understand how much depth there is and what I don't know

To me this is not equivalent to "very familiar". I think whakim's comment puts things well:

> I use AWS day-to-day, but haven't used GCP day-to-day in 5+ years - should I realistically be able to keep abreast of the vast number of GCP changes that have happened over that time (plus all the changes in devops that make the workflows I was using 10 years ago look outdated)? Many projects don't need Websockets or Eventsource - do I have to keep that knowledge top-of-mind across the years that I don't use them? Can you really claim that you're "very familiar" with that web framework that you used two jobs ago - assuming there haven't been a bunch of major changes since then?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30474206
Show HN: npx pompoms – pretty and simple terminal Pomodoro
I remember read somewhere SWIFT can handle any currency, it's just most banks process US dollars only. US can audit every transaction after 911. EU invented INSTEX to buy oil from Iran to avoid the SWIFT ban.
Software-Refilled TLBs (1995-2007)
That's why I said "except UK and France". The rest of Europe doesn't have any nukes. If Russia decides to steamroll it with conventional firepower, at what point should NATO push back?

(Article 5 is not automatic, either - if some NATO country invokes it, the rest will still have to decide if they are actually willing to risk a nuclear conflict to defend against a conventional invasion.)

Speaking of paying attention and reading history, I'd say 1938-39 is the more relevant period right now.
The gap between what I imagine and desire motivates my art and coding. "Damn, I can't find what I want to listen to. I guess I'll have to make this song up that my brain wants to hear, myself."
For him the difficult part of the proof was showing that you can represent text as numbers and manipulate it using arithmetic operations. These days we all do that for our day jobs.

Yes - this is a great way of putting it.
> The only effective counter to Russia right now is direct military aid to Ukraine. But the rest of the world has chosen to re-enact 1938 all over again.

The US aid package just announced includes security aid that is a sizable fraction of Ukraine's annual defense spending, on top of preexisting direct security aid. And the US isn't alone. Sanctions aren't the only response.
Hmm, I don't think I misunderstood? I get that they're using MuZero to decide the bitrate for equivalent perceptive quality as a function of the content. Sure, once they decide on that using MuZero it's a valid compression and the end-user doesn't have to do something extra... But it's super expensive to run that on the server's end, no? So it ends up being a bit like an asymmetric (in terms of client/server) compute/compression tradeoff, right? And you need to run this for each file you want to compress, hence it's "online".
>We expect large overestimates of effect size in studies as a function of sample size. In statistical genetics this goes by the memorable name of the Beavis effect.... Beavis effect evaporates with much larger sample size.

This idea would seem to suggest special restraint when negatively interpreting a lot of A/B test replication. It's common to get a good result with a small sample, retest with a much larger audience and get a less-impressive result. If I understand, that outcome should not necessarily be discouraging for the success of the experiment. No?
Stephen Covey coined this popularly in his "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People".

Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effecti...
I decided that I wanted to type 'npx something' into the terminal to get up a Pomodoro timer and could not find something to suit my needs (minimal friction). Once the mood sets in for a long grind I just want to be able to set the Pomodoro timer up immediately and as a javascript developer, I always have npm to hand.

Hopefully others find it useful :).

npx pompoms

(because pompom was taken!)
Archived: https://archive.ph/pzh9r
FYI - French presses raise Ldl in humans.

https://www.healthline.com/health/high-cholesterol/coffee-li...
The old way to turn it off would be setlocale() in your library before and after sprintf, but this is a disaster for threads, and so now there's the _l functions.
In some hypothetically possible world, policy choices are based the best reasoning from the latest information. We, alas, live in this world, where policy is mainly a product of history. The H bomb legacy looms large here.

We are in the position of the person whose car keys were lost somewhere, but we are looking only under the D-T fusion streetlight because we can't see anywhere else.
Do you know of such a person? I would love to see someone who can work in all of those roles simultaneously so I can try to learn how they're so effective across such a large number domains.
> Conclusions

> Our study is the first in vitro study on the effect of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 on human liver cell line. We present evidence on fast entry of BNT162b2 into the cells and subsequent intracellular reverse transcription of BNT162b2 mRNA into DNA.
SWIFT sanctions are nothing like a blockade. A blockade is when deadly force is used to prevent trade from states willing to trade from reaching the target (or getting from the target to willing partners), not merely refusing services to facilitate financial exchanges.

The equivalency is ludicrous.
what does it even _mean_ for the US to have been 'great'. its just some kind of pointless narcissism.
Replacing them with coal would have been a good idea, at least as far as Russia is concerned

Did Russia have some involvement in Germany's nuclear power infrastructure? I'm not aware of that, but interested to know more.

Bringing Thunberg into this discussion serves no purpose except making conservatives giggle because they love hating her. She had nothing to with the decision, and being anti-nuclear isn’t what she’s known for.

Sure, it was probably a bit forced. I wouldn't have chosen to bring her up. Either way, her anti-nuclear stance is now a relatively widely publicized recent event; I don't see that GP did something particularly wrong in referencing it.

Northstream 2 was, indeed, a terrible idea. But it never became operational and therefore does not affect the current situation.

Huh? It's directly related to the current situation.
Sounds like a significant-other who is paranoid, and then when you leave them because they are crazy, they use it to justify their paranoia and become a stalker.

Okay, not really a good analogy but sorta good
I agree with you about the value of static typing and non-nullability, don't get me wrong. My experience is just that _web development_ and other use cases traditionally favored by dynamic interpreted languages tend to have a lot of unexpected nulls of a type that are not prevented by strict typing. There are other types of bugs that I absolutely expect to see less of with strict typing.
Which do you believe, that there is no problem, or that there is no solution to it?

I believe there is a problem, and I also believe it is possible to solve it in a way that upholds democratic values.

If you don’t think there is a problem, then we see things very differently, and we’re not likely to agree. But if you agree there is a problem, why not advocate for a solution?
If someone is reviewing backpacks, zippers are also critical. I bought what I thought was a decent hiking pack from what we Americans call an "Army surplus store" for what seemed a good price. After a couple months two of the zippers had failed and I ended up throwing it away because I don't think there was any reasonable way to fix them. They were not YKK zippers (which I leared about) and I guess that was my mistake for not realizing that would be the point of failure. The old phrase "The poor man always pays twice." is in play here. Brands do have meaning, because they provide some assurance that the product meets some level of quality.
Perhaps OP should be writing 11976 not 01976

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
I fear you may not understand Putin's religious war. He needs Kiev to bring Ukraine under the Moscow patriarchate.
Interesting study. But conventional vis-a-vis all the unexplored timbre-space out there. I'm wondering if it'll be modifiable to 'morph' between two timbres in finite steps (by mod'ing partials). So you could play on any of those steps, or float around, or gliss along them.

Flute+tuba => fluba. Fluba+violin => fluvioluba. And so on. (Harry Partch also wonders.)
That’s true but I always had 3 levels:

- noscript

- js failed to init

- app loaded

I’m very big on graceful failure though because it builds systems that you can really trust.
> They were only valid for 20 years, and 20 years have passed since 2002.

I'm trying to search for this, but I can't find anything about a 20 year validity.
Or put simply: envision something and work backwards, step by step.
I’m really not sure what you’re trying to say here.

Firefox parses the doctyp from the document. Of course it does. That’s why it’s there. That’s what everything does. What else would it do?

Your footnote is incorrect: `data:text/html,<!doctype html>…` will show a doctype in the dev tools and view source, `data:text/html,…` will not show a doctype in either place, and report the document to be in Quirks Mode. If you want more fun, try `data:application/xhtml+xml,<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "about:legacy-compat"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Look at this!</b>`.

The history of the doctype is not particularly important any more, and I wouldn’t expect normal developers to know about specific doctypes beyond <!DOCTYPE html>, but its presence is important, and missing it or not knowing it’s necessary for sanity is a definite red flag.

And that’s the first line. Lang, charset, viewport… these are basic essentials that everyone who works in HTML should already know about, even if it’s as simple as “lang="en" means the document is English”, “there must be a <meta charset="utf-8"> right at the top, I dunno why, but it’s necessary like the doctype” and “this viewport tag is to tell mobile browsers that I know what I’m doing on small screens”. Some of the other things in the ten lines aren’t so important for many areas, but you should still be aware of most of them.

The starting point for basic competence is not knowing things, but rather knowing where and how to look: and that requires at least basic broad foundations of knowledge. I would have grave concerns about the foundations of any web engineer that didn’t recognise and know the purpose of at least most of these lines: the first four lines are basic web page functionality, then there’s OpenGraph which it’s important to know the purpose of and what can be achieved thereby, then three lines of mostly mobile browser chrome tweaks and it’s generally wise to be at least aware of this stuff—you get the idea?

I’ve spent too long suffering because of people that don’t know how to write a <title> tag (and writing user scripts to fix this), often because they’re using the Single Page App style and they don’t know how to get their router to change something in the <head>, and maybe don’t even notice it.
'I'm Ready': Ukraine's Civilians Take Up Arms [Video]
> The reality is far simpler: Putin wants the Ukraine personally. His own private reasons are irrelevant. He wants it. And he has the will and capability to take it. And so he is doing so.

This situation is anything but simple.

Example 1: Russia invading Ukraine is powerful evidence to any other country that they need to join NATO for protection, most notably Finland and Sweden.

This is somewhat similar to one of the many problems with the US invading Iraq. It told the rest of the world that the only way to gurantee their safety was to have nuclear weapons. Putin's move drives neutral parties to NATO.

Example 2: while the EU in particular is unwilling to hit Russian energy exports, that situation may change with prolonged Russian aggression.

Example 3: the Russian invasion of Ukraine is deeply unpopular in Russia. Thousands of Russian protestors have been arrested already.

Example 4: Ukraine is a country of ~44M people. Russia cannot possibly hope to hold it. The insurgency cost will be enormous. Attempting to hold Afghanistan in the 1980s had a massive cost for the USSR and was arguably a contributing factor in the USSR's downfall (along with many other factors to be fair). Even if Russia simply plans to install a pro-Russian regime, that's not that dissimilar to what happened in Afghanistan. Occupying Ukraine would probably take hundreds of thousands of troops on an indefinite basis and have a massive cost in resources and lives.

> Putin wants Ukraine. Negotiation of any kind was never going to prevent this invasion,

That's basically the "trying is the first step to failing" School of Diplomacy. There are two broad possiblities: either it could defuse the situation or it couldn't. If it doesn't, then there's no downside to trying. In fact you get to occupy the moral high ground of at least trying.
Totalitarian regimes have a fundamental problem: succession. Very few empires cracked that nut.
Well, it's deeper than it seems. You cannot just start revoking random people's citizenship for being relatives of the loosely defined bad guys. That's the straight route to turning your own country into a 3rd-world dictatorship.

What you can do is tighten the anti-money-laundring laws, so that living in the West off money made in sketchy ways becomes harder, but there's a major conflict of interest here. A lot of the West's wealth is fueled by the dirty money flows from elsewhere, and cutting it off without inevitable side effects (e.g. real estate crash) is not an easy task.
<isindex> is the most obscure HTML tag I can think of.
I believe etiam means a higher level of background radiation means it's easier to move nuclear weapons, not use them.
I assume that its made to be mutable to enable one to change the locale at one point and update it application wide.
https://hostdefense.com/

:)
Check out the book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" - it's about the US playboook. It's not any better.
Fascinating stuff. I remember my Timbuk2 with a custom vinyl panel falling apart pretty quickly, which made me realize just how big of a deal picking the right fabric for your everyday bag is.

I've been pretty pleased with my Peak Design gear these last few years, I've yet to find a brand that makes bags that feel as well-built. They're not cheap though.
> So you don’t trust your own administrator?

Not per se, but it might just as well be that you share the database with several other applications, which might do DDL. Fully qualifying all identifiers is the easiest way to guarantee that you don't have negative dependencies to worry about (i.e. depending on the non-existance of some identifier in a certain schema); the issue will most likely happen only when a) an adversary gets CREATE TYPES access to the database, or when you use custom types and a name that's in use starts to be shadowed.

Examples:

CREATE DOMAIN "bigint" AS pg_catalog.text;

CREATE TYPE "text" AS ENUM ();

Though, in all earnesty, this is also an issue with custom operators:

CREATE OPERATOR = (function = always_false, left_arg = int, right_arg = int);

You can schema-qualify operators ( Col1 OPERATOR(pg_catalog.=) Col2 ), but in doing that you lose operator precedence.
It's transferable debt.

If I give Paul a loaf of bread and in exchange he writes "Paul owes you one" on a piece of paper, that's money. I can trade that with someone else for some good or service and we'll have to haggle over how much "one" favor from Paul is actually worth.

The dollar is just "the US government owes you one". How much is "one" worth? That's for the market to decide, and largely depends on how much real world goods and services there actually are along with how many "ones" the US government has issued. Although, before 1971, it was explicitly defined as "for every 35 'ones' you have, the US government owes you 1 oz of gold". Now, the value of "one" floats in the market and is constantly devalued by design.

In recent days, the world's markets have decided that "the Russian government owes you one" isn't worth nearly as much as it did last week.

Commodity money like gold or bitcoin don't rely on trust in a government's ability to pay it's debt, but rather trust that a sufficient number of people will always desire the commodity for whatever reason. That's still debt, but more a more indirect, coercion free form of debt.

For gold, that reason is because it has a long history of established scarcity and has some utility as jewelry to signal wealth to others.

For bitcoin, that reason is because it has theoretic perfect scarcity, can be instantly transferred to anyone on the planet with a phone, can be stored in your brain by memorizing the dozen words of your seed phrase, and many other fascinating programmable properties that have yet to be fully explored.
Most useful summary of Russian invasion and Ukrainian defense I have seen in last two days. Map also appreciated.

If Kiev falls where will Free Ukraine build its bastion? Sub-Carpathian plains and city of Uzhhorod adjacent to Slovenia looks defensible and could be well supplied by West. Short jump south west if Lviv.
Afghanis are starving now and Afghan girls can't go to school. (Yes, the Taliban are saying girls will be able to go to school again in March. We shall see.) Western allies spend huge amounts of money building roads and other infrastructure in Afghanistan, much of which the Taliban destroyed. Do you need links? Because you can probably google it as well as I can.

You can't, on the one hand, claim that the Western allies were a malign influence in Afghanistan and also claim that Western aid is the only thing that can keep Afghans from starvation.
Are you sure about that? What if I create an LLC in Florida with that name?
If Pakistan is illegally occupying Kashmir. Why is India not illegally occupying Hyderabad and Goa? Unless you agree they are.
> Yes but if people are gravitating towards Grammerly it's because it's offering something those other ways aren't.

I disagree. Grammarly has bombarded the internet and YouTube with so many ads, there are ads that make fun of Grammarly ads.

Nevertheless, people don't use it because it offers something that others don't. They use it because they don't know any better.
I'm a solopreneur and still review my code before a release / merge into master (I did one earlier today, actually). I've been doing this for a few years and found that it has helped me catch some issues before shipping them to customers. However, I write a lot of code, so my reviews aren't that thorough. They're mostly just to make sure I didn't commit files or changes I hadn't intended to. FWIW I don't enjoy the reviews but consider them a necessary evil.
then why isn't the whole world taking off masks?

also to quote the transcript "The pandemic is still here. We're not at the endemic phase yet. But I do think we're transitioning, and I think it's a good roadmap."
"we will be supplying the insurgent forces with technology that will make the Russians feel like they’re fighting the Martians"

Would be nice if the West supplied Ukraine with all this technology before the war began in the 8 years prior - their airforce and Air defence are tiny and dated.

So far the rich nations of the west mostly left Ukraine to the wolves - supplying only short-ranged squad level weapons and dated equipment.
I'd assume support for those anti war protests in a time of war is probably lower than the support for the truckers in canada (which wasn't that low, 30-40% of the population). Does that make anti war protests in russia illegitimate ? Especially since appearing to undermine a war effort is usually universally despised once a war starts. Even the iraq war started with 90% of americans rallying behind bush and supported the war, so the legitimacy of the war itself does not seem to matter a lot.
It never was

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/nope-...
Sure. I’m like the person you replied to. It’s three things. 1) It took me 25+ years to amass the expertise. 2) It’s a hobby first, and a career second. 3) Since the beginning I always choose to see how things are the same more than how they are different. Goes for languages, hardware, APIs, OSes, protocols, everything. I insist on seeing it all as superficial variations on the same thing, no matter what anybody says.

Oh but I don’t know how to do SRE. No interest.
You may choose to believe that America's empire, its history, and its reasons for existing, are identical with Putin and Russia's reasons, means, and goal in this war.

If you believe this - if you believe all morality is so relative - I recommend you move to Russia and take your despotism pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy that seems to frustrate you so much.
You're totally ignoring Putin's speech where he explicitly stated Ukraine always was and always should be part of a Russian empire.
Yeah but it was a very small minority that were protesting. Why? Because they were protesting a vaccine mandate which isn't literal evil. Every Russian that isn't a piece of shit should be protesting this and shutting down the entire country.
Jens Stoltenberg: "Cyberattacks can trigger Article 5" of the NATO charter
People don't need "trust", they need alternatives. SWIFT is currently in a monopolistic situation right now. Any abuse of that position will lead to eroding trust.
Looks like about $10K.

https://www.cell.com/open-access
This is like something out of Black Mirror's Metalhead. I'll never look at those captcha memes the same way again (e.g. the "select all squares with Finnish snipers" one).
> process comparable transaction volume to credit card networks

Please cite your sources.

edit for people finding this later: Visa and MasterCard do on the order of one billion transactions per day combined. As far as I can tell, Ethereum (proof of work as of today) does about a million per day and Avalance (one of the top 3 proof of stake networks according to Wikipedia) does about a million per day. That's literally one thousand times fewer transactions than the top two card networks. Three orders of magnitude.
I doubt this has anything to do with Russia. Sometimes, all it takes is a little common sense and curiosity to even ask about these things.

Or maybe the guy just read the TOS. Some people actually do that!
> This solves all paradoxes with time travel as you never change the past, but rather, you are creating/finding forks of reality that appear backwards/forwards in time.

You would be breaking conservation of mass/energy, though. Either you restate 'conservation' such that it applies across all universes instead of just within one (and you are moving energy/mass , in which case the number of timelines has to be fixed (which leaves open the possibility of paradoxes), or you're still violating conservation by creating entire universes every time you fork the timeline.

There are ways to get it all to work out, but they are all pretty weird and unintuitive. The first is that paradoxes are simply not permitted (or more accurately, can't be observed) and that the universe hides attempts to create them the same way it hides information that would violate the uncertainty principle.

The other main way you can resolve it is by asserting that while there are an infinity of parallel universes, and more are being spawned all the time, just as many are merging, keeping the number of universes at the same infinite number. Time travel is then permitted to spawn a new universe as long as the books remain balanced. Of course, the easiest way to balance things is for any changes to not matter enough to prevent timelines from merging again.