skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't use Grammarly, this doesn't strike me as a very fair description of what grammar checkers are meant to do. Just like spellcheckers, they only make the changes you let them make. If you blindly accept every suggestion they make, then yes, I suppose you're running your text "through a statistical homogenization machine," but that's even more foolish than blindly accepting every suggestion a spellchecker makes.

I do use a "grammar and style check" built into Ulysses fairly frequently, even on fiction. This is a server-side service like Grammarly, but without the keylogging-ish aspects. (It only works in Ulysses, and you have to explicitly go into "revision mode" and click the "Check Text" button.) And, sure, it's optimized for business writing and is going to make a lot of dumb suggestions. But not all the suggestions are dumb; it really does catch genuine mistakes and even make style suggestions worth considering (e.g., "the phrase here is so overused it's in our database as an overused phrase, so are you sure you want to use it"). And, of course, sometimes I really am writing something for business, and some of the suggestions that are superfluous in creative writing might actually be useful.

I don't like Grammarly's approach explicitly because of the "send everything to Grammarly in the background", but I think people write off style checkers as pointless a little too quickly. Even the stupidest grammar checker, like the one built into macOS (sorry, Apple), will catch things like inadvertently doubled words, which is something I'm prone to do when I pause in the middle of writing a sentence to collect my thoughts.
FSF-funded white papers on questions around Copilot
The most important part is to do it every day.
I'm in & out, probably 2 minutes but I will time that just out of interest. In our household the tub is the higher cost and a timer won't help, only the amount of time per week. Over the holidays we used it 5x per week. I keep joking that we should add a counter. Worse is that it's all heated by gas coming from Russia (North Stream 1) and who knows if the UA conflict mean it gets cuts off.
> You're missing the value-prop of Grammarly -- to help someone who doesn't know write more like a fluent native English speaker.

That's not a part of the value of Grammarly. The tool is going to recommend mistakes; if you can't recognize them, then it will hurt you a lot more than it helps.
Meh. Anyone at a sufficiently large/established company might be senior and never touch these. It's not like those tags need attention very often.

The main thing here is that a senior engineer could:

1. Know how to find out what each of those mean (junior engineer level work)

2. Most importantly, be able to come up with a good set of meta tags after some research (mid-to-senior level)

Being able to B.S. your way through reading the tags tells me nothing. It's like asking language API trivia questions.
How to avoid sharing bad information about Russia's invasion of Ukraine
jfc I work full time on .NET desktop and even I know this. This is fizzbuzz.

Are you really suggesting that actual qualified web developers don’t know this stuff?

This isn’t even fizzbuzz. I was inclined to think these questions were too obvious to ask but I think these comments are completely validating the interview question.
Steam Deck (Q1 Email being sent starting today)
Exercise (mostly I've seen more intense than walking, but cardio like running, cycling, rowing, etc. - I haven't come across much for resistance training like weightlifting) has been very well studied to improve cognitive ability, as well as mental health (depression/anxiety). Depending on what you mean by proven, it's not gravity, but it's pretty good evidence compared to just about anything in medicine (just look at the numerous citations testing various aspects/study designs/different populations).

Just a few studies (there are countless):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951958/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20065132/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35153701/
https://ju.se/download/18.4662178a174aa5f82061c573/160103080...
Keep in mind that most modern nuclear warheads are MIRV weapons, which dramatically amplifies the scope of the damage. These aren't Truman's nukes anymore.
if marketing / sales is free you can scale it up without funds. unfortunately, i came to experience first hand it is not. i doubt you can scale without paying for marketing somehow.
Dr Huberman from Stanford has a great weekly podcast where he talks about how to improve all parts of your body/mind for various activities(sleep, exercise etc.). Here’s one on improving productivity: https://youtu.be/Ze2pc6NwsHQ

One of the tips from the video that I really love is called the cathedral effect. It was found that having high ceilings increases your creative capacity when doing an activity.
I don't think your derivatives are correct.

I'm curious where you get the 90% estimate? In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30446703 I looked at the Chainalysis study at https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-crypto-crime-repor... (use Reader Mode), in which they found that Russian "illicit and risky" businesses including money laundering accounted for 0.004% of (on-chain) Bitcoin transaction volume. (They included even coins that had been through mixers in their "risky" category, so this is presumably a vast overestimate.)

Where do you think all this money laundering is happening geographically, and why do you think there's so much of it?

Even if it were 90%, I'm not sure why the 10% of users using Bitcoin to do things like keep their savings from being frozen should care about that other 90%. Do you want them to sacrifice themselves and their families to reduce the liquidity available for money laundering by 10%? If 90% of oxygen is consumed by pathogenic bacteria, should you stop consuming oxygen?
What you are describing is "mindfulness" exercises; basically a modern take on meditation.

I have the app "Meditation Studio" which consists of some softly-spoken people talking you through breathing exercises and relaxation - would recommend for anyone wanting to try these techniques.
> I bet you wish you hadn't spent those hundreds of bitcoin, don't you?

No - not really. The point of them wasn't to hold them with an expectation that they would become unreasonably valuable (speculation). The point of them was to make an exchange for a good that was otherwise hard to acquire (in this case - weed, before legalization).

You'll notice that's not something most of you "crypto advocates" ever actually do. You know, the sole purpose of a currency - exchanging it for goods and services. Usually you treat it purely as a speculative asset, to be exchanged for another currency that actually can be traded for goods and services.

> Neither do gold, silver, copper, or greenbacks, and they work pretty well as currencies.

Of fucking course they do - the government taxes exchanges on them at unreasonably high rates (gold has a 28% long term capital gains tax, vs the normal 15-20%.) precisely because they understand that they're used as value stores (proxies for currency).

And that's precisely my point, really - the government WILL NOT protect you from fraud in the crypto space if it doesn't have a way to regulate and mediate the costs of doing so (such as tax derived income from the exchange). In which case - all of your above points become moot, because now you're right back to asking the government to enforce your contract or bill of sale. Remind me again how crypto is going to protect me from that government...?

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edit - if you're actually interested, you can read more of my thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29330879&p=2#29331460

I was there when MTGox blew up, I'm acutely aware of the risks of fraud in this space, outside of the current pump and dump fraud that's frankly rampant in the crypto world. Your finance 2.0 looks a whole lot like cooked books and bankers who run away with the cash once they have it, with an unhealthy dose of gambling tossed on top - it's not pretty.
Can you give an example? I found only memorizing key ideas is the way to go, as opposed to trying to solve whole problem in your head, which gets tedious
We need better rules to make digital markets open and contestable
A few more from Dr. Huberman:

ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFL6qRIJZ_Y

How to Focus to Change Your Brain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG53Vxum0as
This might sound trite, but Miyazaki's games have literally been life changing to me, in multiple ways.

I think they're a rare set of games that will still be played and studied in 50 or 100 years.
With stack ranking, team members compete, not cooperate. They will make other members look bad, with trash talk, not responding to slack and email, ans actual code sabotage. Some team members act like the chariot race in Ben Hur.

Remember that EVERY PLAYER in the winning Super Bowl gets a ring. At the Olympics, EVERY team member gets a metal (Ice Hockey, Basketball, Soccer).

Some managers will hire someone incompetent just so they can stack rank fire them.
>apology and response

Twitter: We do not trigger automated enforcements based on report volume, ever

That really isn't reassuring when whichever methods Twitter uses failed nonetheless. And they merely stated that volume isn't the trigger for automated enforcements. I'd be very surprised if it wasn't one of the factors considered. Regardless, it comes down to either bad algorithms or bad human interpretations, or both.
Nagel and Steve Hanks (watercolourist) cover my walls, but I can’t afford originals. Signs of the times and images of our lives.
Now it’s just scary. Let’s hope Ukraine will be able to resist long enough to force Putin to negotiate peace and to forget about any attempt to reach his goals along the Western borders of Russia by military means. It’s too bad that our hope is that enough Russian soldiers will die for Russian public to notice that war is in their house. There’s no popular support for the war, but the pain of war is not yet felt.

Unfortunately there’s no other options left. Sanctions are not a short term deterrent.
I'm Russian and It was clear that this could happen at any moment based on negotiations between the parties and other events, although the media laughed a little at this...
It's on the way to Kiev, the exclusion zone means there are no large urban settlements to fight over, and it's also using the West's weaknesses against itself - reality: topsoil has somewhat elevated levels of radiation compared to normal background radiation. The sarcophagus around the molten core is basically indestructible. public perception: radioactive cloud will make all Europe uninhabitable
Even in Lisp, an actual IDE is well worth it.
Unfortunately while it could be the right decision, it’s probably impossible for legal reasons, would require lengthy domestic political process, possibly referendums.

A super fast process would be perhaps a year, even if the NATO end of that process would be one minute.

You’d almost wish there was a temporary membership that could be used e.g for 2 years while the politics is sorted, without delaying the security guarantee. If we vote no, we leave again. But imagine the amount of Russian meddling in a Swedish or Finnish NATO referendum…
... except I hate the word "mindfulness". There is a specific person I know who talks about "mindfulness" and then walks into an open pit.
Hmm, I thought unar supported the latest versions, while the open source version of unrar was the one that didn't support the latest versions.
Putin is a fraud. Geopolitical politics is a fraud. War is a crime against humanity and the environment. It must be abolished forever.
Yes, unfortunately there are no easy solutions to all this. It will most probably get a lot worse before it will get better again, how much worse I shudder to contemplate.
> Perfect answer: This meta tag...

The perfect answer calls these elements, not tags.
Along with White, Black and shade of black (greys), the technology is becoming mainstream with Red and Yellow color. We are using these for retail customers.

https://www.hanshow.com/news/194.html
https://www.pricer.com/products/ (You can program with visible light too)
Guess the judge hates to be separated from his/her food. Should check the deviation as a function of time to lunch
Is this project public? I'd love to have a look at it. Thank you!
(Axes of horizontal and vertical symmetry, respectively, of course; I don't know why I wrote that.)
DeGHG News: A new link aggregator for climate news by Paul Ford
Documenting Equipment Losses During the 2022 Russian Campaign
Honestly cutting Russians off from the western internet isn't a great idea. That just makes it that much easier for the Kremlin to control the narrative. It does far more to help Putin than to harm him.
Like an iPod Touch with a keyboard instead of a screen. Uh, am I missing the innovation somewhere?
Thank you!

What are the Oberon-2 features in Golang that aren't in Limbo?

I should have clarified the Squeak → Newsqueak → Alef → Limbo → Golang lineage, but from my point of view Newsqueak is already recognizably a version of Golang (and Squeak isn't.)
Regarding the article you sent:

> Beyond deploying service workers and hoping those struggling to bridge the digital divide make it across, I don’t really have a solution here.

One way to get around this would be a MITM HTTPS certificate, which would allow a local caching proxy to decrypt and encrypt requests. This means you'd have to install the certificate on each device you wish to be compatible with the caching proxy (otherwise it can't decrypt it), though.
A little late replying here, sorry.

Probably nothing that interesting - the malloc stuff was the big change and n-t-roff already did a much better job of it than I did.

But if there's anything in the remaining stack once I've backed it out that seems useful I'll be sure to PR it - even if it doesn't make it in to mainline it seems as good a way to memorialise the patch for other people's use as anything else.

(the repo is currently private because gritter had politely requested nobody make it work on windows and one of my patches worked around a cygwin bug - given the advent of WSL I doubt anybody would want that one anyway so I expect to let it be lost to time along with the half-arsed malloc code)
It's probably not perfectly accurate to frame this as DEM vs GOP agenda. It's closer to think of it in terms for Blue Tribe vs Red Tribe. And of course the Covid-19 stuff is the great example of this. 23 months ago you could get banned, or at least your posts blocked, for saying things that we now think are probably true. And this persists around some specific issues.
Mage launches low-code AI dev tool into general availability
"ever"?

I am not usually on the techno-optimist side of things but I have a hard time believing, after observing the progress of SOTA in the past decade on the big problems explored by ML research, that we are more than 5-10 years out from exceptional generative samplers based on tiny snippets of audio.
Thankfully there's a few open source keyboards.

I've been checking out FlorisBoard, available on fdroid.
Sadly, Google and Samsung keyboards are very good at swype/glide, FlorisBoard is coming along though, & I prefer to support it because the other two can't be trusted.
> The lesson I learned in that class was to not use rsync, sadly.

This is a poor lesson! If your TA tripped on the stairs and broke their nose, would you swear off stairs forever?

rsync is an essential tool for anyone who works with files in the UNIX world. There are other options, sometimes, but rsync is almost-always present, and does almost-everything you usually want.

Any tool can be used incorrectly, but rsync is easy and follows the same pattern as most other UNIX file copy tools. If you can use cp, you can use rsync safely.
Pretty much all human interaction is trust based.
CDC says Americans can now go unmasked in many parts of the country
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497291283106250761.html
They aren’t; a backup should preferably be offsite, but nothing is perfect
What do you think every major news outlet does all the time?? Go read “manufacturing consent” by Noam Chomsky. The amount of influence Russia has on American thought is negligible compared with the amount of control our own ruling class exerts by setting the terms of what we are allowed to care about. They tell us when to turn a blind eye, when to be upset, what to remember, what to forget. There’s a reason we pay 200 dollars a vial for insulin and everyone seems powerless to do anything about it, meanwhile unlimited funds are always available for dropping bombs on brown people to obtain their oil. For Pete’s sake the enemy is our own ruling elites. They must have decided that a great way to distract the American people from the fact that they’re fucking us with debt and shipping the jobs overseas and torching the climate and leaving nothing for the future is to start another Cold War (worked great the first time, let’s do it again!). They’re kind of out of ideas so they’re going to start doing remakes of old franchises. It’s just the same plot with better special effects. I just thought we were smarter than this. And yet, here we are.

I remember the run up to the Iraq war. NBC, cnn and everyone else had a 24 hour running coverage about the evils of the saddam Hussein regime. They pulled the babies out of jthe incubators, we were told. They had weapons of mass destruction. And people were scared. We had just been attacked. We lined up behind George bush and gave him everything he wanted- the patriot act, which ended up being a massive increase in the surveillance state, a declaration of a state of emergency- anything he wanted. And it’s so, so easy for us now to point the finger at the people alive then and say, “what idiots”. But people were scared. They were shocked and afraid, and that is when you really have to be careful, that’s when the public is most easily manipulated. People are shocked and afraid now, which means that this is the worst possible time to trust any of our leaders or anything you see on the major news networks.

What kind of new patriot act is Biden going to push through? What new foreign policy disaster? Get a grip! Russia is not some kind of puppet master controlling America! There is only one direction this leads and it’s a bigger and bigger enlargement of the intelligence apparatus.

https://youtu.be/EuwmWnphqII
See, the thing is that you will need trust at some point. Back in the day you had to trust that your business partner didn't just whip out a sword and kill you to take your money.

Then you had to trust that they didn't hand you false coins. After that came false checks. Nowadays you need to trust that online shops aren't trying to scam you.

Essentially whenever you do business there will be one person that needs to make the first move, crypto or fiat, someone always needs to deliver first. But if these two business partners don't trust one another then they need a third party they can both trust.

In our world these are most often banks or notaries. People that will take money from person A hold it till person B delivers then pass it on. If person B doesn't deliver person A gets their money back, if person A doesn't pay person B doesn't deliver.

Now, crypto is trying to claim that smart contracts will solve this in crypto world but that raises the question of who executes these smart contracts and who feeds them information. After all this once again feeds back into the trust problem.

Essentially you need banks not because they are modern or technologically up to date or fast, but because they are in fact fully capable of clawing money back if the laws allow them to, unlike crypto where your money is secured by math.

Because even if some people don't like it, the chance of the average person being scammed is far higher than your bank or the government misusing the trust you have given them and taking your money.
Germany has traded energy dependence on Russia for pharmaceutical, machinery, and car exports that Russia can get elsewhere. Interdependence works well but this appears quite one sided. In explains their inaction in part, though 40% of Germans also supported the annexation of Crimea.
Stack ranking is a terrible way to measure performance. If managers can’t figure out how to objectively measure performance using tools like skill matrices then they are just bad managers.

I’ve left companies because they used stack ranking. When I’ve been in a position of authority I’ve crushed any attempt to introduce stack ranking (or “calibration” or any other variant).

First line managers should be able to determine if an individual is performing at, below, or above expectations on their own merits. If they can’t you should fire the second line manager for failing to train the first line manager.

Jack Welch introduced stack ranking as a way to force managers to terminate poor performers who were being kept around too long. That’s a distinct issue (under empowered or gutless managers) that should (again) be fixed by training and holding managers accountable.
I tend to get shadowbanned for mild posts — eg, publishing the NIH grant where they describe engineering viruses at WIV or the NIH letter saying they enhanced WIV-1.

I wouldn’t describe it at Dem/GOP so much as narrative/against — but with the politics of COVID being what they are, there’s a correlation between Republicans objecting to various things and censorship.

I’m apparently a “conspiracy theorist” and source of “misinformation” because I actually read government documents. Oh well.

https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-AI110964-06

https://www.twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1450934193177903...
Cynism, and cowardise is a diet of tyrants.

Even 1% of Russian male population is a number bigger than Russia's combat troops number, and 10% will overwhelm the full force of the military.

If Moscow will suffer a nuclear strike by NATO to decapitate the Russian government, and prevent a coordinated first strike, these people will have no kids to care about.

This is what people's power can do: https://youtu.be/OCorwQTLZXE https://youtu.be/N7DrIUH64yI https://youtu.be/NhlMCPb4ZM8

The advancing crowd on the video been shot at by 5 RPGs, hail of sniper, and machinegun fire just few minutes prior, and they still routed the government special forces with just sticks, and rocks.
If China were trying to coax Mexico into joining some special pact against the interests of the US, can we assume the response from the US would be swift? How different is this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/iqq8k9/announcing_act...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/t1bim5/announcing_act...
Formatting test for upcoming poetry, please ignore
two spaces

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two line breaks two spaces
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*praise dang!*
No, it will not work because too many Ukrainians will continue fighting against Russians regardless what Zelensky says right now. He might be even killed by Russians any moment now.
In 2014 I believe it was joining the EU. Or perhaps it was electing a pro west government. Or perhaps it’s simply having free and fair elections that triggers Russian aggression. Who knows.
Thanks for the list. I made a clone with your entries included + state railroad website: https://lostmsu.github.io/hack_russia/

BTW, the script is self-contained and pretty trivial, and can easily be modified to include more sites.

I will accept pull requests for any improvements: https://github.com/lostmsu/lostmsu.github.io/blob/master/hac...
Honestly same for capitalism too. It is only possible to succeed at a small scale. When it is forced on people who don't have a choice it tends to fail.