skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand the word "vaccine", it is something the confers lasting protection. The goalposts have been shifted for this vaccine, as it only lasts for a few months. Israel is one of the most vaccinated populations in the world, but it didn't stop waves of mutations.

So I won't be forced to take the 3rd, 4th, 5th "booster" to remain a part of society.

In the UK we have had no mandates and our health service didn't collapse this winter time. Covid was never a lethal illness for the majority of adults. The issue was that it could cause national health services to collapse from sheer number of cases. Now that is no longer a threat, there is no longer any justification for limits on individual liberty.
I notice dedicated communities around PARTICULAR TECHNOLOGIES.
If you want fun fun fun and tech, get into the zillions of hobbyist communities centered around things like: those little dev boards (teensy, arduino, rpi, espressuino, whatever...) or digital audio, or 3D modelling, or whatever floats your boat.

Seeking good natured nerding on a venture-capital sponsored "tech news" site, however much "better than Reddit" the members depict it (I've found fun communities on sub-reddits, FWIW...) is a recipe for sadness...
this place exists to kick tires and act skeptical.
it's a sounding board where reactions to ideas react with each other, for better or worse.
It's not to devalue what we have here, but to recognize what it is, and not seek to squeeze orange juice from bicycle locks.
Sam Altman wrote a post on this and HN: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/new-hacker-news-guideline

"Critical thinking is good; shallow cynicism, on the other hand, adds nothing of value to the community. It is unpleasant to read and detracts from actual work. If you have something important but negative to say, that’s fine, but say it in a respectful way.

Negativity isn’t the problem–gratuitous negativity is. By that we mean negativity that adds nothing of substance to a comment. This includes all forms of meanness."
> Is there any conceivable burden urbanites don't imagine the people and land outside urban areas can tolerate?

The burden of wealth.
still very cool but yeah I doubt its a biological.
I know nothing about this but I too would like to speculate.

It looks like coral.
Well, any help they will get can help this propaganda, it's not a reason not to help.
Give it a decade or two.
You can't have discovery without taking risks, and you can't generalize one problem to the other problems. Keeping the status quo has its own cost.
RNNoise works good enough for me
I would consider changing your boss. What a piece of work. My guess is he’s flawed in many areas…
Reports that the fires were intensified by the lithium ion batteries igniting and therefore harder to put out are not the first time reported:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/04/tesla-f...

The vehicles ignited overnight. This is a real problem, especially as more high rise residential buildings are considering retrofitting their underground parking with charging for EVs. Fires breaking out in the middle of the night are most dangerous.
Once the bully starts hitting, the only option that actually solves the problem long term is everybody hitting back.

Because you'll end up fighting the bully anyway sooner or later. But if it's later, there will be fewer left standing by your side.
Novorosiisk is undergoing expansion for precisely that reason. And Ukraine wasn't exactly unfriendly before the invasions, the Sevastopol lease was prolonged just before that.
"Not so long ago you were claiming that the US hadn't attacked anyone in your lifetime."

the English curriculum in Russian schools must be really awful because I never said that
ESP32 has been pretty good whenever I have checked them. An right now 10k stock on Digikey for esp32-wrover, at standard prices, and manufacturer lead times still listed as 8 weeks.
I have so far not heard a convincing piano synthesizer, i.e. one that would fool a pianist.

Pianos are actually really easy, input-wise. You have attack speed, when you lift the keys and pedals, and that's it. But simulating the audio computations done by a physical instrument is just really difficult.

There are some physically-based (spherical cow physical) synths that sound more alive than the usual sample-based stuff, but their timbre is not right.

If I had more time, this is what I'd be working on right now. There's a market for a great piano synthesizer.
But they can't dictate Ukraine's constitution and government and expect the locals to fight against that, or at the very least overthrow the lot the second the Russian troops leave.
I pay about $30 every 3-4 months for a haircut and most of my clothes are 10+ years old (one of my favourite shirts, that I regularly wear in the home office, is the Australian team's football jersey from the 2006 World Cup).

I cheerfully use Google Meet with it's poor blurring that constantly pops things in and out of the background without giving it a second thought.

I judge people by the content of their words and the merit of their actions, not what they look like or how much effort they've gone to in order to have a perfect webcam production.

This tool looks super awesome and I can absolutely see myself using it. I've tried greenscreen in OBS before and decided it wasn't worth the effort for my purposes; something that is roughly decent as this looks at a glance will be really useful.
If asked this I would ace it. And I'm not even a web dev :)
One thing I noticed a couple of times now is that they just blatantly copy other publishers bestseller titles, probably in the hope of people buying their books accidentally after reading a title recommendation.

Example:

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and Tensorflow, O'Reilly, 2017

Hands-On Machine Learning with scikit-learn and Scientific Python Toolkits, Packt, 2020

Really makes me want to filter them out as spam on Amazon etc.
So, I, a non party to article 5 can trigger WWIII by a clever cyber attack masked as a state actor?

This is absolutely insane, we all know that it is practically impossible to prove who did a cyber attack unless the one that did it is openly talking about it.
It's not significant indeed. Imagine a balloon the size of the earth and pricking a tiny hole in it. Does it 1) rapidly deflate, or 2) does not change measurably in size at all for millions/billions of years? Replace your mental model of a balloon with that of a massive amount of hot stuff surrounded by a thin crust and you have your answer.

Geothermal works pretty well anywhere from a technical point of view. The main issue is that drilling holes is expensive. There is a company called Eavor that is actually re-purposing former (failed) oil drilling attempts to get a head start on that. That is smart. Even so, they are on the expensive side of the spectrum. It's just a lot of capital expenses to get to warm enough temperatures that you can get steam to drive a turbine. And of course you need either a lot of holes or a very big one to scale it.

Eavor claims that they are going to be essential for baseload. IMHO they might be too expensive for that but we'll see if they can lower their cost over time.
It's not a Lebensraum maneuver, of course. It's reclaiming their Sudetenland, almost explicitly so if you've read the essay Putin published about Ukraine.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Row Level Security or RLS for postgres. It allows tight and domain-specific access control to each table through security policies you design. It's so effective at controlling access that Postgrest (postgrest.org) uses it to completely manage the access control for the HTTP API that's used to access the underlying postgres instance.

What I personally like about RLS is that I can test every access scenario for a user's session in unit tests, and I don't have to worry about application bugs allowing one user to access another user's data or accessing tables that their session token/api key doesn't allow them access to.
Tracking the location of all the Russian oligarchy with ADSB
That, again, depends on which group you're in...
> Game theory says “on three JUMP HIM!”

Yes, sure. But what you're betting on here is that when Sweden says "on three JUMP HIM!", the rest will follow. And when you have multiple countries now refusing to take Russia out of SWIFT, which is a relatively benign measure, compared to an all-out war, how confident are you that they will come in your defense in case of an actual war against a nuclear power?
Oligarchs Flee Russia
Who cares ? Anonymous is state department pet used to lure immature youngsters. this is a chimera of underground made to fool idealistic peoples
>US GDP per capita is four times higher than in 1950. People did not have trouble supporting families then. If you want to have a very high standard of living by historical and global[1] standards that is indeed difficult.

I may be somewhat biased, as I'm based in Melbourne AU, but I don't think you've given proper credit the explosion in the cost of Real Estate (both rent and mortgage costs; keeping in mind that you cannot lock in a set interest rate for 10+ years in other countries like you can in the US).

>That might be true if women couldn’t work but with two income families it certainly isn’t now.

You're not wrong there, but I was specifically looking at male incomes, which (at least when looking at localised populations) are strongly correlated with fertility.
Alright, I’ll try to pitch the counter argument.

The current green movement narrative is the same it has always been: living within our means. The current fossil fuel driven economy is objectively unsustainable.

Yes, you can geo-engineer your way out of the heat problem, but that doesn’t solve all the other problems resulting from unsustainable growth, and who knows what fresh problems this will create. What the green movement wants and has always wanted is a conservative growth model, where the growth is not based on the depletion of finite resources. It is mostly the promoters of unsustainable growth that twist this into an anti-growth narrative.

Now, techno-optimists say we can solve the problems created by unsustainable growth with more technology, and this may be true. But it is asking everyone to take a pretty large gamble on technology that does not exist yet. The conservative strategy is sustainability, and that goes much wider than just solving climate change.
Reading the source code, I was surprised to find the following fragment:

Build ZIG.
For great justice.
I'm not advocating for that! Just that Esc/Mode shouldn't be far. Vim uses Esc for mode switching because the author wrote vim on a keyboard that had Esc where now Capslock is on a modern keyboard.
just a desert rose?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_rose_(crystal)
4xx indicate client errors (you need to change you request). 5xx are server errors. "410 Gone" would be a 'permanent' error.
Why it's easier to move country than switch social media
>This has been true for something like the last hundred years out of all of human history. It's not something you'd want to try to architect a society around.

Unfortunately I think the horse has already bolted there. Short of restricting contraceptives, the only thing we can do to increase fertility is give people a greater sense of stability.

>There's a mass delusion of inability to afford a family -- but there isn't much inability.

I honestly think you might be right there. A good friend of ours who had their first at the same time we did are on a single income, part-time wage and they are able to get by living frugally. He does miss out on certain experiences as a kid, though, and will have great difficulty trying to get ahead when he's a young adult as his parents won't own assets.
Hope but we have to demand from the politicians decisions that move us away from the conflict, not towards the conflict.
I didn’t mean to contradict you. Only to add ;)
I drink cold brew everyday winter and summer!
I can't imagine it takes more than a few circuits of water through the bore to recover all of the energy, the static column of water alone would contain a non-trivial fraction of the energy required to drill the bore after equilibrating.
Blurring the background is different than putting some other sort of background there. That doesn't bother me nearly as much.

Regardless, I am someone who never pays for a haircut and has very casual clothes. But this is something that, to me, indicates a complete lack of sensitivity to aesthetics, and in a large number of jobs/roles, that's a really bad sign.

There's also a bit of the "what is so important to hide?" question.

It's great if you can ignore such things, but not everyone can or does. This is almost like someone who has poor hygiene, who has dirty hair or a bit of a smell to them. Anyone would advise such a person to put in a bit of effort if they want career success. Same thing.
I've been using ProWritingAid instead of Grammarly. They have discount deals every once in a while, incl the Lifetime sub.
That is entirely fair. And per @animats comment it isn't clear they have managed to do anything "new" yet.

That said, microwaves (like lasers) do tend to go straight. So from the point they start using them going forward, I would expect it to be possible (not easy, but possible) to keep them in a straight path.
> Anything that works would be used by the oil and gas industry, and if they're not trying it, one suspects it might not be working.

To flip that around: this would imply that the most under-investigated-in-industry approaches to deep hole boring would be the ones that destroy the economic value of any oil-and-gas in the ground, no? Ones that make the ground radioactive, perhaps. Or that would set any potential oil fields on fire, or react them away, or irrevocably mix a combustion-inhibiting azeotropic solvent into them.
It looks like an old mineral crystal. "Strange plant-like" sounds very amateurish and does not reflect facts.
I know it doesn't do it efficiently, but there are a whole bunch of plasma themes, window decorations, cursor sets and so on that emulate win 95/98/xp (and even vista) in KDE Plasma, and you can install them right from the system settings.
I can't say for sure but I think the issue with why the reverb sounds off in that particular example is that the reverb present in the recording has a longer decay than the maximum reverb duration I set for the experiments (1s). I will set it longer in the future.

Yes, that kind of visualisation could be performed. The authors of the prior work we are building on (DDSP) have made some great visualisations which I think you will find useful! Here: https://storage.googleapis.com/ddsp/index.html
> It seems to me that preference for UI styles is completely personal, probably being influenced by what OS we initially used.

My first GUI "OS" was Win3.1 and while i do have some bits of nostalgia for it, i do not think it is a particularly good UI. It is a bit better than Win95 in one element where they tried to introduce a consistency where every element that represented a command was supposed to have a 3D/bevel look while every element that was an input entry was supposed to have a 2D/flat look, but ultimately they didn't succeed completely (e.g. menus are flat even though they invoke commands) - and was ultimately abandoned once the "3d controls" were introduced (and later became the default style in Win95).

However i do think that Win95 is among the best styles not because it has the most pleasing looks, but because it is the most visually neutral while at the same time being among the most functional. During the 90s there were even games that used regular desktop controls and it felt fine because Win95's style didn't really clash with them (well, unless the user customized it, but that was up to the user's choice).
The point is

Russian gov does something you disagree, annoy Russians

Canadian gov does something you disagree, annoy Canadians

But yes they also took part in Syria, Iraq and Libya's invasion
I've tried using a Russian VPN (almost surprised nobody else did?), and mil.ru redirects to pda.mil.ru, and eng.mil.ru just loads a blank page.
I think I'll take a further look once I'm home.
For now, I think they wanted to make the site unavailable to western/NATO/European/..? countries and someone just made a joke out of it or whatever. Or maybe they wanted the site to appear as if it was hacked?
Were they as much scared by neo-nazy Asov battaillon ? The level of cognitive dissonance in this specific community is very high. It almost reach clinical Schyzophrenia
Accessing it through VPN from a Russian IP gives a 200 OK (but still an empty page)

So it looks like a geoblock returning 418 and that they blanked the English pages anyway.
Humans can set the input configuration for the AI and then filter the generated content. AI could generate too much content for anyone to hear, so there's value in human curation.
You're conviniently missing two of my four arguments - HDI and Gini coefficient. Yes, democracy and free press are very nice to have, but you can't argue with low HDI.

> Rape and sexual harassment are much much more prevalent in the decadent sexually immoral West that's a fact.

That's just absolute bullshit. Yes, women are forced to be married to their rapists, and do get punished getting raped. Not everywhere, but it happens. Sexual assault and the like are underreported in the West, let alone countries like Pakistan and India where femicides and brutality against women are close to being normal and usually go without any consequences ( point in case, a brutal case in Pakistan made the international news because the perpetrator got punished after sustained media and public outcry).
Since we appear to be inching closer and closer to a WWIII in real and cyber worlds.

What would be a good set of tools to protect and monitor your own network?
> Ukraine is a democracy

Looks likely that it will soon be the same kind of democracy as Belarus.
Why would I choose Actix over ASP.NET MVC with which I'm already familiar and works fast and reliably and doesn't require me to learn another language?

There's no need for a deterministic memory managed language in web applications. GC languages such as Java and C# work just fine there.
I changed from pour over to cold brew around a year ago thanks to a recommendation of my co-worker. Can't go back to hot coffee now, I enjoy it way too much. Somehow it's much more forgiving than pour over coffee and super easy, too. Hario (and many others) sells some glass pitchers with filter. You put them in the fridge overnight and have great coffee in the morning.
I thought this might have been inspired by the actress who played 'hot lips' in M*A*S*H dying recently.
PostgreSQL has the RETURNING statement for DML queries. It‘s very effective for that case because you get all affected rows and their new values.
> Going with the USA, apparently something like 98% of people have managed to get work that pays better than the Federal minimum wage.

Others already mentioned state-specific minimum wage, but you are likely neglecting to consider:

1. Prison labor.

2. Unreported labor (in whatever statistic you're relying on).

3. Last but certainly not least: unemployment ("have managed to get work that" - what if you haven't managed to get work?)
Obviously they didn't want to risk breaching the GDPR/CCPA.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy: From comedian to national hero
Video of Russian military out of fuel, food and stuck on highways
That's not the situation

The Russian gov is murdering people as we speak.
I have one of those. The well is 170m deep. Took 2 guys about half a day to drill it, so that actually doesn’t seem excessive in terms of time required (mostly sand, no rock below my house).
Respectfully, i think you maybe misframing the problem.

The problem is that your emotional state and your brain is literally under the control of shit you read on the internet. So now you're asking for different shit to read. It's basically a TV addict asking for a better channel. Maybe stop watching TV all day? Unplug, meditate, reclaim your brain.
They can also be horizontal, covering a larger area at a much shallower depth.
Would be pathetic to see Scholz running away and Lindner and Habeck together with Ödemir leading our troops
I am not sure at the moment but don‘t you need superuser access to create operators? In that case not „any application“ could make your application faulty.
Equation group's Linux+FreeBSD Hacking Tool is studied
This is actually the risk I came here to mention about deep bores.

Bore first, build later, otherwise you may be the unlucky winner of a fluid formation trapped under a rigid formation in the local geology.

https://theconversation.com/a-mud-volcano-has-been-erupting-...
That might make some sense. I've been running Cyberpunk 2077 playlist when starting coding sessions. Kind of get me in the mood to start fighting. It might have helped that these audio clips have been mentally linked to real-life fighting. (in the game, of course).
Translation is supposed to be:

Soldiers say they are out of gas. Driver offers to tow them back to russia. Everyone laughs. Russian soldiers ask for news on how they are doing in war. Driver tell them that Ukraine is winning, russians are surrendering and impliest that they should too.
I see where you're coming from. It's a failure on my part that I didn't make it clear that one of my ideals is continual expansion of our moral intuitions. It's also partly a choice to leave it out because it can become so unintuitive that it affects the basis of the entire argument.

Since you expressed openness to this dialogue, I'll share. When I really, really stretch my moral imagination to the point it decouples from practical logic, I find myself feeling spiritually reverent for the things that the mental abstraction "complexity" points at. I arrive at this by synthesizing a particular metaphor from Alan Watts with Mihalyi Czikszentmihalyi's ideas on complexity.

In the same way an apple tree apples, the universe peoples. It also dogs, and weathers and softwares and cows. Of it emerge these beautiful structures, including plants. If I was capable of surviving the endeavor, cherishing and protecting every single one of those things that the universe expresses would be my ultimate ethical goal. I don't know if there's farther expansive rings of morality. I imagine I might be able to peek at some with the help of deep, deep meditative practice or other tools.

The thing that re-embodies me is the Buddhist idea of bodhisattvas. They are beings who have reached enlightenment, but then rejected paradise in honor of the work still left to do on this plane of existence.

That's basically the outline of my metaphysical beliefs.

Finally, specifically regarding pain and plants, I agree that we bend our intuitions to the experiences that make sense to us. My argument is that the word "pain" and what we understand pain to be, is predicated on a specific biological structure, nociceptors. To speak of pain without nociception is like saying the water in my hand isn't wet. They're enmeshed, dependent properties. So, if plants do experience something that increments the universe's suffering counter, which I leave as a possibility, we would have to imagine some other form of communication. Language and thought extrudes from the human body. As a consequence of that fact, there are just some things it can't capture, and attempting to do so places us closer to the choice: bodhisattva or buddha.
What do you need explained?

Have you forgotten all the wars the US put themselves into over and over again, often based on lies?

Have you forgotten what the CIA did, and still does, to countries all over the world?
Are there any projects regular people can participate in, like deanonymizing russian soldiers? The world should know their "heroes".