skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't buy it. I've interacted with people with (lots of) money. Their viewpoint on education is that they want highly-educated people who know how to do math and program computers and design rockets to mars that they can pay to work in their factories. They're not "afraid" of an educated populace, but they don't want to pay for one either.
'It wasn't 1M, it was about 1/5 of that. I'm not of course justifying the loss of life, however it behooves us to speak precisely instead of hyperbolically.'

Yeh? Source pls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
Like you, I can only say based on my experience and from what I've seen or heard from other people. I accept that every workplace is different.
If you order a pizza and get a calzone then you refuse the transaction and raise an error, you don't just fall over in a heap on the floor.
More specifically, it's probably a lost SYN. 2s is too long to be a single retransmission on an established flow.
>Edge literally offers you loans when you are checking out on a website.

That literally never happened to me. Maybe because I'm in Europe.
The Ukrainians will need places to live. Russians will not build those. Ukrainians might be constrained to buy reconstruction services from Russian oligarchs, and to go to work for them, at a (large) net loss.

Conquerors find ways to extract value.
The problem about being oncall is not how many times you get called, it’s that you cannot plan anything in your free time without having to take your laptop with you.
All this curl script does is print strings in the terminal. Are you saying that printing strings is dangerous? I think you may be confusing it with executing the output of curl which is not what this script is doing.
For example: nan==nan is false but inf==inf is true
Only one national leader -- Harry Truman -- has ever allowed nuclear weapons to be used in combat, in 1945, the same year the weapon became available. This was 77 years ago. He was the 33rd president, and we are on the 46th. By this measure, based only on the US, we get such a leader once every 77 years or once every 13 leaders. These numbers will only get lower once you start to add in other nuclear weapons states.

That said, I don't think any of this math is pointing us toward any kind of answer about how likely any person alive right now is to experience nuclear war, which is really what we're after. At the very most, every day that nobody uses one extends the lower bound of how often they are likely to be used (77 years and counting), but this is almost tautological. Also, maybe it follows some kind of power law and the farther away from their invention, the less likely we are to use them? Or maybe the opposite? Or maybe we oscillate between the two in some sinusoidal pattern? In any case, we can't know. History is not an experimental science.
Antibody evasion properties of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages
I was also both Gifted and Learning Disabled (although I prefer to list them in the opposite order). I think it's likely that there's a lot more neurodiversity than acknowledged generally, but we're just sort of stuck with the very human condition of balancing the needs of the group with the needs of the individual.

Honestly I don't think any "program" is truly prepared to meet the needs of anybody at all. It was difficult for me, too, but I think striving, suffering, etc are all human conditions that we all experience regardless of how we get there. "Gifted" and "Learning Disabled" programs exist for the benefit of normalizing behavior and capabilities that are farther outside the curve. That they existed when we were young is merely a testament to a collective desire for general cohesiveness.
> We went from mass societal panic about Covid to mass societal panic about Ukraine basically without skipping a beat and few people notice how their energy was redirected so seamlessly.

Could it have to do with the fact that covid is the biggest pandemic in hundred years and that the UN Security Council had to call an emergency special session for the first time in 40 years because of Ukraine.

If these are not good reasons for "fear-porn", what do you think would be?
> (My kids are ridiculously picky eaters. I’m willing to accept that this is my fault.)

Just to say, out of an urge to find some common ground: I was a "picky eater" -- initially whimsically and then ultimately rather more seriously, until early adulthood (though never to feeding tube territory, I was definitely underweight).

My parents would want me to tell you that it almost certainly isn't your fault.

And I can tell you from thinking it through that it was never really about foods I did or did not like. It was always about disgust, and deep-seated, too.

As I've said before in comments, it's actually a diagnosable eating disorder (ARFID) even at the fussy/faddy stage, and can become problematic even when it initially manifests as quite a mild or simply defiant thing.

To keep it on topic, here's where you might find yourself at odds with your own position further up the thread: if they do have any psychological basis for why they are picky, then you trying to make them do better through assertive parenting is more or less guaranteed to make it worse. Most of your parental instincts will be at odds with the outcome you desire.

I could tell you what worked for me if it would help.
8 classes ranked. 4 teachers

A: 1&8

B: 2&7

C: 3&6

D: 4&5

The ole Catan split
It's already a key concern. Still there other key concerns such as not having democracies taken over by dictatorships.
It's funny, I recently attempted to learn the latter lesson in order to get a good paycheck and build something really exciting. After 3+ years of working on making something happen, I finally realized that it either wasn't going to happen - or the company would never let me be the one to do it.

After hanging up the towel officially, my mind is boggled by how much the constant pushing against a wall was weighing on me.
For me burnout comes from imposter syndrome. It's being surrounded by a tech world with people who are so certain about everything, and especially that their way is right. Where there's no nuance or context taken into account.

I find it exhausting as I'm constantly questioning myself. And, despite delivering projects that help people and work for the business, I always seem to be swimming against the tide of (programmer) opinion.

20 years down, another 20 to go.
A Russian businessman has put a $1M bounty on Vladimir Putin's head
I was like this too, try hotline miami it will definitively scratch that itch too.
Do you have a source for that? I've heard this same point made before about why Jewish people are so successful compared to other races.
I view the digits as having genders and personalities.

"5" and "6" are definitely guys.

The evens tend to be a bit kinder than the odds. Hasn't helped me with arithmetic, though.
SpaceX chief Musk warns that its Starlink system could be 'targeted' in Ukraine
How did it decrease?
I'm playing on a M1 mac with GZDOOM.

The magic incantation (from the dir with all yer wads):

sigil: /Applications/GZDoom.app/Contents/MacOS/gzdoom doom.wad SIGIL_v1_21.wad SIGIL_SHREDS.wad

one-humanity: /Applications/GZDoom.app/Contents/MacOS/gzdoom doom2.wad one-humanity.wad
Error/packet-drop paths can be moved to a cold path outside of hot loops using if(unlikely(...)), although I agree that does require analysis & code modifications.
> His most recent take is that by refusing to get directly involved in Ukraine, NATO creates an understanding in Putin's mind that it wouldn't get involved in, say, Latvia either.

That’s a weird take. Ukraine is not a NATO member, NATO can choose to fight for them or can choose to not fight for them. Latvia is a NATO member. If Latvia is attacked and the NATO doesn’t fight for them NATO stops being a thing immediately. The 5th article is a cornerstone of the whole aliance. It is not an optional “and one more thing” but the reason to join the aliance at all, if it becomes shaky that undermines the whole thing.

I wouldn’t dare to guess what goes on in Putin’s mind, but I also don’t see any reason why he would think that.
I remember it took years for Windows to catch on - not until Windows 3.0 I'd say, so really a 5+ year gap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.0

There were other graphical desktops like Amiga and Atari ST around that time but nothing on either platforms had the finesse of the early Mac programs (as flawed as they could be).
Regarding the Iraq war, Wikipedia has an interesting page about protests against it [1].

> On February 15 [2003, before the invasion started], millions of people protested, in approximately 800 cities around the world. Listed by the 2004 Guinness Book of Records as the largest protest in human history, protests occurred among others in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Syria, India, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and even McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

I don't think "the largest protest in human history" qualifies as "mostly shrugs and silence" ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War
My take is slightly different, but if you manage to survive a first (and a second) strike, would you really want to live in that world anymore?

I would try to make sure I have a way to die as peaceful as is possible.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do all the other stuff (stock up on supplies, find a place that's safe from fallout and nuclear contamination).

What I am saying is that today if the reality is that Russia holds 6,000 nukes, and many of them are cobalt bombs, depending upon the weather and where you live and how many cobalt bombs were dropped and the efficiency of conversion of CO-59 to CO-60, etc... I'm not sure there's much you can do other than die peacefully.

I think some people will say, "But Nuclear War is Survivable. People dying of fallout won't happen. Nuclear winter is a false hypothesis. Russia doesn't have cobalt bombs."

I just don't want to test the hypothesis and find out they were wrong.
Leaning on the sporting event analogy, the goal is cohesiveness. You value your star players, but you also need to be a part of the team. We're not sure what the game is, but we're a social species.
No it didn't imply that, because I have no idea what you are talking about. I am merely commenting on the caste system literally described in the article written and linked here about India.
> I think it's a by-definition thing at this point, that if a nuclear war occurs it will be due to irrational actors. The only rational thing to do with nukes is not use them.

> There's no reason to think that's the end of the list.

i agree with both. my point is rational/irrational actor has nothing to do with it. i think retaliation would be irrational but many would make a case otherwise. a case could be made for initiating conflict as well if weighing against hypothetical lives saved. that's frequently how ww2 usage is justified.

> What nuclear power plants have not been built, due to fears of thermonuclear weapons?

fair point. while i agree there is a distinction between weapons and energy, i think the branding applies to both. also, if we didn't fear nukes in the wrong hands, every country would have the tech for energy. wikipedia says 32 countries have nuclear power plants. i understand our fear, but i'd say it's also why nuclear power isn't ubiquitous.

> Well, because there's been nothing to sample in the extremely short time-span of 80 years!

absolutely. very short time. there were ample opportunities to use nukes in warfare even in that short time. my comments were focusing on the fact we use hypotheticals of irrational actors when the only evidence we have is counter. there's no telling what happens going forward.
we can take that a step further, and produce a screw-in survival bunker; it would be a lot like boreing a caisson into position then making a suitable doorway and overburden.
I don't think this conclusion is well supported by the piece or discussion. If you think being against racism is just code for being anti-white there's not much I can say to change that, but when people are used to special treatment equality can feel unfair.

I'd certainly be happy to change our admissions process such that it's purely meritocratic (but then remove legacy admissions, which mostly benefit white students). However, this idea that minorities need to "assimilate" into US culture is exactly the kind of racist nonsense that makes us decry the norms as whiteness. A lot of immigrants to the US face direct and indirect violence for things as simple as wearing a hijab. Having to present ourselves in a way that's comfortable for you all to not view us as a stereotype is taxing, especially when these efforts are aggregated as "anti white and anti asian hate"

Like what even is anti-white hate when less than a century ago Italians were considered nonwhite? "White" as a social construct only exists to contrast with ethnicities we view as lesser. We should not collapse 300 million Americans into 5 groups (none of which cover those from the middle east) and then base decisions off of such a subjective classification. It's obviously going to cause issues
Well, the list's author (Jason Snell, the former editor of Macworld) does write, "one of the most popular things about this series will be arguments about my terrible rankings and my unforgivable omissions." :)
For me GCP is way easier than Amazon. I feel like home there.

Just remember to create a project (or put that one in a folder) for anything that must be billed together or when you have several projects that must inherit permissions or restrictions.

Remember that some resources are global (like projects), and others are regional.

Authorization can be a bit tricky, though: they are deprecating old authorization roles (adminitrator, viewer, etc..) to make it more granular. Sometimes is good.
> Also Peter Thiel doesn’t manage or control Rumble but is an investor.

An investor is just another word for owner. He owns part of Rumble. He has more say than any employee in the company ( including the CEO ).
The sad likely outcome is Russia will kill enough people in Ukraine until they submit. Russia has a long history of indiscriminate massive violence, even against its own.

What do we do about it? In my view Russia is outside the U.N. charter and Geneva Convention, the multilateral system for peaceful resolution of disputes. And they should not profit at all until they leave every inch of Ukraine and pay restitution. Until they do that, they are out of the the global free trade system. Sanctions should be a complete and total. And it will take time to get there because the spigot can't be turned off over night. By extension I think it is necessary to completely cut off from global free trade any country that continues to to business with Russia.

Every single dollar I spend on a product in country A or B who then does business with Russia, is a resource in the pocket of Putin to drop bombs on Ukrainians today and Europe, or even America, tomorrow. His word is worth less than nothing. He has renegged on all of the most important international agreements of this time.

We have to stop looking for cheap oil and gas as the excuse for weakening the best thing the world has invented so far, however imperfect it is. And that's our obligations under the agreements signed after the last world wars. No amount of profit and comfort is worth that. This is lost on too many people who think it is. They think it's acceptable to come out on top and it will be just the peons who will suffer, and that's OK with them. Well FUCK those people.
People think MAD is 'we launch everything at our enemy if we see one missile' -- this hasn't been the case for decades, since all sides can see launches almost as soon as they happen. So yes, 'warning shots' are now effectively the start of such a conflict. Where MAD comes in is it's generally accepted that if you do that your opponent is likely to lob one back. An eye for an eye. I suspect capitals of nuclear powers are special cases though, and would generally be avoided unless absolutely necessary.

I don't think Putin needs to actually start nuking European countries to get his way though. He knows the Americans simply do not have the resolve to escalate a nuclear confrontation unless its own domestic security is threatened. I don't think the UK or France would either. NATO is kind of a sham.

But Putin isn't worried about nukes in Ukraine as much as ground troops. The fact that he is suggests he's not worried about getting nuked himself, which is actually a positive sign, for everyone except Ukraine.

ETA: I just realized in Biden's SOTU he said the US would defend every inch of NATO territory and make the Russians pay, which was clever, since neither of those statements suggests either an invasion of Russia nor a nuclear response, only that Russia wouldn't be able to hold the territory and that there would be repercussions of some kind. Not a dumb guy.
Eh, leave it to the modders. There was no shortage of fan-made levels that featured some public figure widely regarded as an asshole as a killable enemy, back in the day.
It's hard to quantify, but sitting at one of these upright Macs is a joy. The B&W screen was great for writing. It had this friendly-face look about it, and it took up so little desk space. A laptop is sort of similar, but you sit hunched over at those. The classic Mac allowed you to sit like a human instead of a caveman.

I get that it's not great for everything we do today that requires acres of screen real estate, but if you want to concentrate on a single task like writing (or programming) with little distraction, it's really nice.
>Struggling kids are made no better, and the exceptional are dragged down.

I disagree

I've been terrible student (think of passing subjects, but pretty close to the "edge") until last two years of HS

where I actually started putting effort into math/english and then I looked at the best students after working with them for a while and I was like "why can't you do better, just like them? are you worse or something?"

that was huge motivation, just awarness that you could do better itself

it works in other things in life too - internet, programming, hackernews.

If I were in a group with people similar to me, then I don't know how it'd end, honestly and it pretty scares me to think where I'd be now in life
The "they" has changed a couple times since the 90's.
Troll (Research Station)
1 and 2 are the reasons I left my previous job. I was not motivated at all.
> The NATO message was clear & consistent that they will intervene in case of an attack on a member - there's 0 reason to believe otherwise.

How did Putin take that message? I think that's the only thing that matters at this point.

> Keep in mind that Putin's mythos was blown to pieces, there's no way he can (politically, if not physically) survive this.

_If_ that mythos was blown to pieces, in the eyes of the Russian public. That remains to be seen.
How does one get an orthographic photo that is not artificially made? I know what an orthographic camera does in 3D graphics, but how can you accomplish that in a real life?
Completeness and Liveness, Safe and Sound
Google Cloud announces security feature to detect crypto mining
ritht,n and do people really think governments should be independent of their citizenship?

you are right, this is sending a message, but its a deeply philosophical message.
I find this kind of stuff, including the authors article, weirdly fascinating. I try to do what other people describe, such as yourself, and it really is impossible. It just makes no sense to me. I'm sure I have ways of thinking as well that probably baffle other people. It's all very strange.

With that being said I wish my mind was blank sometimes, I wish my inner monologue would shut up every now and then. :)
> putting multiple dies on a single package

This part isn't new, or why this is significant. For example, AMD has been doing this since Zen 2 (Ryzen 2xxx), combining 14nm and 7nm components.

On the other hand, the top chip designers and foundries working together and standardizing is potentially very significant, though I reserve judgement until actual products are produced on this new standard.
There's a slider at the top. It took me 2 minutes to find it.
This is one of the best/most insightful comments I've ever seen in casual internet discourse, I approve and applaud you.
Seems like a great use for one of those "battery eliminator" things, with an empty plastic shell in the shape of the battery with a pair of leads that extends out of the case.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Book Review)
>So I'm guessing that demand for Aeroflot in the GDS systems is tiny at the moment.

If I understand it right, the international demand would be low, but I believe even the domestic sales typically go through travel agents that use a GDS. That is, most Aeroflot customers don't buy their tickets online. I'm sure they will find a workaround, but turning off the GDS will affect even domestic sales for a short time. The travel agencies could, of course, do the booking online, but then they don't get the commission. The workaround is probably some way to pay them commission for those kind of sales.
well I'm not exactly an expert on surviving mass extinction events, I gave it a bit of thought, given sufficient amount of funds I think it goes as following:

1. move to New Zealand
2. find a nice plot of arable land,
3. build a radiation proof bunker, does not need to be nuke impact safe as I dont expect NZ to be a designated target for direct strike, but hey, if you have the money go nuts with the reinforced concrete
4. stockpile on canned food and seeds
5. probably need some kind of radiation level detection systems or poll some official sites as an early warning system
Aztec C was the first C compiler for the Mac I remember... I think it was 1985? It was self-hosted too, no Lisa required. But Think C (and Think Pascal) were the real game-changers for me.