skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with only questionable characters investigating.

Well the assumption in the physics community is that if you're investigating this field you're a questionable character, so its surprising that it got investigated at all.
Does everyone at your company with the same title create the same value? Plenty of people at my office with the same title create double or triple the value.
I don't really see it as a "limitation" as it really makes grokking the code much easier than other languages. Probably >95% of libraries out there make this assumption as well, so its not just "how it is used" but also the culture and existing code that make this assumption.
Moscow Stock Exchange will remain closed for trading Tuesday: Russian C Bank
We can do better than "every C program is a valid C++ program, so C++ can’t lose" defensiveness.

Look at the data tables published with that 2017 paper:

https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/re...

There's an order of magnitude difference between the times of the selected C and C++ programs, for one thing — regex-redux. That is enough to explain all of the difference between the C and C++ time measurements shown in "Table 4. Normalized global results". (Seems like an outlier which could have been excluded.)
Putin Accidentally Revitalized the West's Liberal order
the linked article specifically says

"When an individual leaves an EU country and travels to a non-EU country, they are no longer protected by GDPR."

and

"If an EU citizen travelled to the United States and interacted with an EU business, which required the collection of their personal data, their data rights and freedoms would be dictated by US federal and state laws. GDPR would not apply."

true, this is inside a section where the headline refers to people 'living' in the US (which of course implies taking up a long term residence there), but the text of the body makes clear that just traveling to the US means that, as one would normally expect, the laws of the US pertain and not the laws of the EU.
This comment is much more nuanced than your original black-and-white "If a law is preventing us from being globally competitive it is a bad law." I appreciate the followup.
Nearly 50% of startups under $10M in revenue that SPACed are missing targets
CMD and Windows Explorer don't like that. Powershell handles it fine.
Tea must be served!
> Everything underground and safe from natural disasters.

Well, until stuff gets digged out for construction... I was affected by the arson attack in Berg am Laim last year, took about twelve hours for power to get back.
What total bullshit...

It is the lack of renewables that causes wars. Earth-friendly energy is near ubiquitous. Every country has access to solar, wind and water but some countries have more than others.

One barrel of oil has about 6200 MJ of energy, therefore each MJ is worth USD 0.016 (USD 98.05 Brent Crude).

Using that high price you can replace *ALL* fossil fuel for a ZERO COST compared to business as usual over the next 10-15 years.

The Oil companies and Saudi Arabia may complain but there would much less conflict over energy.
>“We don’t though.” <—- I agree as far as the U.S. is concerned. Individual rights of American citizens are not threatened.

The USA doesn't think it must fight.
This is pretty much what Hindu Ayurveda says, when you eat and what you eat

For too long we have just been told calories are calories and equatable amongst foods
Hats off to Starlink, especially given that this makes them a potential military/sabotage target for one of the most powerful states on earth. Their skin in the game makes this decision courageous.
Thanks, but is there something like that for plain org? I use org-roam for a few limited use cases. Most of my org stuff is not related to notes, and I don't put it in org-roam.
Yes, I do this for my own OSS projects. The standard approach of giving feedback and waiting for the user to fix something is fine, but for a small change it's easier to just expedite the process and do it myself.

But if my version of the code has substantial changes (ie changes beyond just whitespace, small tweaks to the code, changing the commit message), I push it to a branch and ask the PR author to review and approve it first. Only after they approve it do I merge it into master and close the PR.

I also retain the GIT_AUTHOR of the original PR so that they still get credit; my user is only the GIT_COMMITTER. And I add a "Closes #" ref to the GH PR in the commit message so that it can be tracked later. git also has a de-facto standard of having multiple authors for a commit via `Co-authored-by:` lines in the commit message. This is useful for when my contribution is large enough to be equivalent to the PR author's.

Note that this doesn't work for workflows that require signed commits. If you have such a workflow, you have to go back to giving feedback and waiting for the PR author to make changes.
I just received the same email.

Good for them, moving to nic.ru
Namecheap sent this email to Russian customers.
> 8 square meters of land

Pretty sure this is off by a few orders of magnitude.
There seems to be an inconsistency in the article. First it says the Dynamitron produces gamma rays:

> We can jump-start the fusion process using what is called a Dynamitron electron-beam accelerator. The electron beam hits a tantalum target and produces gamma rays, which then irradiate thumb-size vials containing titanium deuteride or erbium deuteride

But later it says:

> producing neutrons from a Dynamitron is energy intensive. There are other, lower energy methods of producing neutrons including using an isotopic neutron source

Is the input neutrons or gamma rays?
see also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505343
Probably a database/messaging consistency check via human, I wonder what a dropped packet is, back then. E.g. paper jam on the fax machine, "Hey what was that fax?" "Dunno, the machine ate it.".

I once accompanied a travelling family member to the airport, and the airline didn't have a record of her ticket! This was in the pre-historic times before there was e-tickets, mobile checkin, etc.
There have been a lot of "social media age" signals of opposition to the war. Does anyone have a sense of how these play with Putin? I can imagine him (and supporters) basically just laughing at the weakness of people sharing hashtags and flag pictures on social media. I see little indication there is anything behind this, it feels like the "slactivism" we see in other spheres applied to a serious war. Will this actually impact Putin's view or will he just laugh and keep doing what he wants (subject to hopefully real forceful opposition on the ground).
Prediction: This is a prelude to becoming the CEO of GM. How well it works is important to the future of the company.
From what I've read (Farhad Manjoo's article in the NYTimes about the new Escalade), it seems like it's fairly impressive.
Peter Thiel – “It's the right time to Thiel”
> [I]t boggles the mind that we still let anyone anonymously accumulate assets where even regulators don't know the underlying owners.

At this point, examining the property records too closely to unmask the anonymous or pseudonymous owners risks a collapse in real estate prices. Quite a lot of these properties are purchased not as an investment per-se (though rising property prices are nice), but as a way of exfiltrating capital from various regimes for a variety of purposes, such as in case the need arises to bolt from the authorities and assume a new identity offshore.

If shell corporations, DBAs, and false identities can't be used to reliably shield assets in this way (or if the difficulty/cost of setting up and maintaining the facade rise too much) in a particular market, a lot of real estate will be sold and the capital moved elsewhere.
Yes if we starting again today, we wouldn't do containers as they are now.
This is why, as a UK based traveller, I aim to get to the airport for international flights so that I can check in when checkin opens 3 hours before the flight.

At least I'm usually sat in a comfortable lounge for the extra time, and can get a few things done, or just relax and read.
That's definitely a use case we're interested in. For example, here's a demo of spinning up a VS Code instance just by hitting an API endpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-mHFxd04U
Interesting. Will it be possible to control sweeper via API also?

I'm a solo open-source maintainer and have a popular project that people want to orchestrate many instances of. Each instance (a.k.a session) is stateful and individually configurable. I'm excited to test out spawner. Any company that makes it super simple for open-source maintainers make money by providing a managed service will be a huge success - from my initial thoughts, this looks to fit the bill.
Fischer–Tropsch Process
An applicant has as much job-related gambling when they take a job as the employer, especially when the job can just fire you. When applying, you have no idea if the management is terrible, if your particular manager is terrible, if the projects you're going to work on are terrible, if the procedures and standards for working on a project within the organization are stupid or will penalize your style of work, if the job will have high expectations and skimp on resources, whether your new company sucks at hiring and all your coworkers are going to be terrible...

Calling it a crapshoot on both sides is a pretty empty statement. When it comes specifically to compensation, the applicant is David and the company is Goliath.
McD partially fries and freezes their fries before fully frying them. [1] That probably makes them more crispy and tastier to many (myself included). In-N-Out uses fresh potatoes, which means no fry-freeze-fry.

Five Guys has very crispy and tasty fries — especially the cajun style — that are not double fried. [2]

1: https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/this-is-how-mcdonalds-mak...

2: https://www.delish.com/uk/food-news/a37315383/how-five-guys-...
On GitHub you can push commits to the PR branch. I use that to fix up rough edges myself and then merge the PR.
> I've never been to a fancy restaurant and been served food that was cooked worse.

I have, and it's not like I make a habit of fancy restaurants (I'm a freelancer so I don't make a habit of fancy _anything_ now.)

There's a lot of motivated reasoning around food and wine.

People who tell me they can't cook and then cook me a meal are proportionately more likely to outdo the expectations they set than a high-end restaurant; some of the best meals I have had have come from people who tell me they can cook only three things.

Coffee shops often serve coffee that tastes worse than an aeropress at home, but costs more than a whole month's worth of good beans. Home coffee "experts" who are surrounded by the acquisitions of their motivated reasoning don't improve over that aeropress either. And even Aeropress experts make Aeropress coffee worse with their optimisations.

Wine tasting experts sometimes can't tell the difference between red and white wines in blind taste tests, and yet still insist that reds and whites have specific associations.

Fans of "fine dining" are often in the same zone.

Expensive meals in restaurants have a veneer of quality even when the food is average and the service is objectively worse than an Angus Steakhouse.

The truth is that -- like buying your fiancé a diamond ring -- the consumer often falls for their own motivated reasoning, either in making the purchase in the first place or post-justifying it afterwards.

One thing makes food better: eating it with friends or loved ones. And you can do that with sandwiches on a park bench.
Have you ever lived under a dictatorship? You do realise we can't just vote him out? He has guns pointed at us as well.
'Atlas of Human Suffering': New UN Climate Report Is Shockingly Grim
> hand-delivered courier who I had to meet at the nearby airport.

where they presumably were able to fly gratis, since they own the ticket stock! lol
I worked for a software company many years ago that also operated call centers for customers who didn’t want to run their own.

My colleague was an immigrant who had moved up the ranks from a call center agent to a senior technical role.

I found out when fixing a technical problem that she made $25k, while I made $65k. Basically, they gave her a 25% raise from a call center supervisor to be a Unix SA, and in lieu of raises “gave” her comp time for 24x7 on-call.
Netflix refuses to comply with new Russian rules
> I am deeply concerned that the West keeps upping the confrontation instead of backing down.

> Russia is sending some of its nuclear arsenal to Belarus as we speak

Remind me again who keeps upping the confrontation?
You send the url to your friends however you like. Email, chat, QR code. You don't send it to people who aren't your friends.
I'm not a lawyer and certainly not a Dutch commercial lawyer. This is just general info.

> I can publish whatever I want, right? Freedom of speech?

Not exactly. For a clear cut example, something like "Competitor X has a rootkit which will upload all your nudes to Facebook" is libel (unless they really do that) and you'd lose that case in almost any jurisdiction.

Even far less blatant statements like "is slow" or "is less secure" can run afoul there. Libel laws vary tremendously by jurisdiction.

There's a separate issue also of advertising standards; many EU nations, including I believe .nl have laws requiring fair and honest presentation of the product and competitors. And they can be pretty strict. There have been countless court cases and tribunal rulings on "the fastest network" or "fewer dropped calls" being dishonest advertising with mobile service providers, for example. Often boils down to: can you prove the claim?
Oh? My current IP is 2601:646:4300:758:f676:3f1b:8b5:42a. Please show me how to turn that into my name and home address. Thanks!
How about we call it "Cool Fusion " as a compromise??
> China presumably really wishes Russia had set a wargoal of annexing Donbas / Crimea / all of Ukraine to be part of Russia.

You can't set that wargoal anymore without proclaiming to the world that you intend to be and are proudly taking the mantle of "warcriminal". The world decided after WWII that a nation doesn't just have the right to do this anymore. Invading a sovereign country to make it your own against its will is a warcrime. Of course just as prohibition didn't stop people from drinking, this idea on the bounds of acceptable national behavior does not dampen imperial tendencies, so if you want to invade another country you need a pretext first.

It's like that South Park episode, where Stan's Uncle and Ned go hunting for bears, and scream that it's attacking them before they shoot it, when in fact it was just sitting there peacefully.

If Russia is successful in taking Ukraine, what will follow is a propaganda campaign aimed at "proving" everything Putin said about his rationale for the invasion was true. You'll have public executions of Ukrainians "admitting" to all the crimes he says they perpetrated, and he will proclaim loudly to the world that he prevented genocide and everyone should thank him for invading Ukraine.

And guess what, his allies will buy it. You and I will all see through it, and they will too but it will help them sleep at night, because not all of them are as psychopathic as Putin. Elites still need to mingle in polite company after all. It will give them something to tell their children and teach them in school. It will be something for the grieving mothers who lost their sons in the war will have a story about how their sons died for a cause, rather than the impulses driven by an insane dictator's ego.

Anyway, that story isn't as good if you went in without a pretext. Honestly though Putin got impatient and his pretext was too thin. He didn't have a 9/11 like the US did going into Iraq, so he came up with a story about Zelensky being a Nazi, which is really hard to believe. That's why a lot of people are saying his goose is cooked as a leader, because now the body bags are going back to Russia, and there's no good reason anyone has for it.
A sign-up wall for a site which should be able to show me public book reviews and recommendations is a non-starter for me (and probably 99% of users clicking the link). I really don't need another social media platform, I would like a book discovery system though.
I have always been skeptical about the info war machine on both sides regarding this. It took about ten days for the Taliban to retake over most cities without real resistance. Ukraine is far better equipped though small compared to the Russian army. Our guage of Russian progress will be very different to theirs. They might not even be expecting a full take over for weeks
AAAS and scite partner on development of smart citations
Thieves used to break into (relatively unsecured) travel agencies, steal the blank paper tickets, and resell them at astronomical markup, with the agency "on the hook" for paying the maximum value of the tickets stolen.

Basically, "ticket paper" was like a blank check which you could fill in with a pencil saying "$10,000: first class ticket from NYC to LON", and the airline would accept that ticket, and reconcile it _back_ to the original issuing agent (who didn't issue the ticket, but instead had it stolen).

Once "the paper" was out there, it was prohibitively expensive to maintain and distribute a "rejection database" of serial numbers at all points-of-boarding, so tickets were accepted "at face value" rather than denying boarding.

As the world has become more connected and digitized, yes, airline use cases have always been one of the first to take advantage of integrating commerce and technology. SABRE is one of the oldest technology companies, and probably one of the oldest, most important "continual use" databases around. https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/sabre/ ...great history in that article!

> The thieves are well organized, stealing thousands of blank tickets at a time, forging them and typically reselling them for $200 to $10,000 apiece, authorities said.

> “The airlines, in my humble opinion, could stop this,” said a Westlake Village travel agent who was recently held at gunpoint and tied up while thieves ransacked his business. Officials with the American Society of Travel Agents, which represents more than 11,000 agencies nationally, agree.

~1978: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/airline-...

~1999: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-22-me-2752-...
There are also good options for GraphQL. I particularly like embedding the calls in org mode[1]. There's similar functionality for REST[2].

[1] https://github.com/jdormit/ob-graphql

[2] https://github.com/alf/ob-restclient.el
I work in the AV space, so I guess you’ll just have to trust me. I assume Cruise internals look very similar to the internals at other AV companies, which I think is a safe assumption.

>The sensors and automation decisionmaking is going to be identical, and that's where the hard parts are.

Sensors will be very different. LIDAR prices are coming down but we’re still a while off from incorporating it into consumer vehicles - and we’re way, way off from incorporating multiple high resolution, long range LIDAR pucks, plus short range LIDAR to cover blind spots, plus imaging radar, plus thermal cameras, etc. into commercial cars the way they’re integrated into Cruise cars right now.

Automotive decision making will also be extremely different. Modern robotaxis rely on very high detail HD maps that are continuously updated. It’s impossible to scale that nationwide in a way that would work in a consumer car. Fundamental parts of the stack assume these maps are present and accurate - remove that assumption and a ton of things have to be rethought from first principles.

Remote support is also a key part of AV stacks - that is, asking a human to clarify an ambiguous situation. There’s a video where Kyle says that Cruise cars request remote support approximately every 5 minutes. Again, fundamental parts of the stack rely on the availability of remote support and have to be rethought from first principles if it’s removed.

This isn’t even getting into the differences in compute on a Crusie car and a consumer car.

>Or alternatively: a less charitable way of making the point work would be to say that Cruise's stack was a bunch of special-case hacks for specific regions and vehicles and wasn't scalable to arbitrary environments nor regular passenger cars.

I mean you’re not wrong, but you can’t create a robotaxi without this. ML models just aren’t capable enough to handle edge cases in a safe way without tons of hacks in place.
From the last time that Cruise showed up on HN a while back, I recall I made a comment based on the photos of their test vehicles that they're clearly going all-in on LIDAR + RADAR + camera for feeding data into their autonomous onboard navigation computer.

This is directly the opposite of what Tesla has mandated their engineers to do, which is to be 100% reliant upon camera systems only.

Somebody at Cruise commented that their intention is to drive down the cost of LIDAR units through economies of scale and better technology.

My personal belief is that the data acquired from LIDAR representing a at-this-moment-in-time snapshot of a vehicle's surroundings is very valuable, and Cruise is probably going down the right path with this.

Relying entirely on cameras only requires the full intellect of a human who can make snap judgments about what's going on in a scene (eg: a pedestrian wearing a black or dark blue jacket who is walking a black or brown labrador retriever across an unmarked crosswalk in Seattle level mid winter rain, at night time, something I literally saw just two nights ago).
OS/360 dates to 1966. I believe z/OS in theory still provides compatibility back to applications of that vintage, though AFAIK it is a separate codebase.
> Turns out it didn't work well. GM learned the hard way the founder was the best CEO of Cruise. There's a lot they do not understand about how startups and Silicon Valley work.

I'd be hesitant to generalize this lesson. Another case of "adult supervision", in that case against the wishes of the founders, was.... Eric Schmidt at Google. Say what you want about Google, but it's difficult to say that they weren't successful under his tenure (2001-2011)
The comment you're responding to said $100 -> $5000. He's a moron to risk $100? There must be some context you didn't make explicit.
The company is 100 people and you are one person. If the company had a union, it would be easy to call the union and get accurate figures.
Not the same, because giving a range allows you to discriminate on race, gender, and other things. The reality is this actually happens, and that's why this discussion is happening in the first place.

If it's an objective function of qualifications that's a lot more clear-cut.
Thats a rather ignorant statement, as if Americans somehow universally lack empathy.
There is a demo for almond.css at the bottom of the second paragraph: https://alvaromontoro.github.io/almond.css/demo/

Certainly could stand to be elevated in the readme as it's generally the first thing people look for.