skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, this is pretty much return to normal, but I guess growing up under the cold war left me a bit stoic in regards to the prospect of dying in a global nuclear holocaust. Find Tom Lehrer's "We'll all go together when we go" on your favourite streaming service, grab a snack/drink and realise that it's more important to spend your time wisely rather than to spend it worrying about what comes next.

Life as you know it might end tomorrow, but it's just as likely to be a traffic accident, meteor strike, or something more mundane like a heart attack or cancer. Remember to live while you can. Death will come to us all at some point, and the specifics don't really matter when it comes to you deciding on how you want to spend your time while being alive.

As others mentioned, doom-scrolling will not help. Sitting alone, worrying won't help either. Here and now, there's little else to do but to put pressure on politicians in order to keep them applying harsh but non-violent sanctions on the aggressors, make them stick to their own promises of aid to Ukraine, as well as to be prepared help refugees if/when they arrive.

If you feel this is consuming you to such an extent that you feel that you _must_ do something, then direct action is an actual option. As far as I know Ukrainian armed forces are accepting applicants both for combatant and non-combatant roles.
Who was handing out cookies in Maidan Square during the Euromaidan? Just the tip of the iceberg of the outside help.

In another forum, someone said to watch for the coming "let's roll" vignettes. Of course they were right, the US corporate press seems to be looking for narratives of heroic Ukrainian resistance, whatever the evidence - the defiant Snake Island defenders (who there later emerged video of them surrendering and Ukrainian officials saying they may still be alive), the Ghost of Kyiv fighter ace (who does seem like an actual ghost) and on and on. Of course it's difficult to verify the facts of these heroic narratives spun from rumor and propaganda during the fog of war, where the first casualty is the truth.

There are also many reports from almost the first day about how the Russian military is on its last legs and so forth, which sounds absurd. There may be one or two small there's there, but from US corporate media reports you'd think they were on the verge of defeat. Kind of like how the NLF were said to be on their last legs in 1968, prior to the Tet Offensive.
Blind people use mobile devices, too.
You're assuming they're going to be trying, but they don't know they should be "managing" something.
You'd think a billionaire CEO has it all. Commiserations.

I would trade $1b anyday for the health of my kids. So sorry to hear this.
Yes I agree with you and Descartes the only thing we can be certain of as conscious observers is we exist.

But I moved on from moderate uncertainty leading to a default of skepticism.

Some actions have very predictable outcomes even if they aren't guaranteed. with those I like to use the vernacular that implies certainty. That's how I feel about nuclear exchange. But I don't associate the probabilities of expectation of nuclear exchange and invasion as conditional upon each other. A surprise outcome in an invasion of a nonnuclear non-nato state wouldn't lead me to feel a nuclear exchange probability suddenly becomes inverted similarly.

Because countries have invaded others during nuclear times. That should come as no surprise to a student of history even if many didn't expect Putin to in this particular instance.

But the pressing matter is would Putin use nukes? Would he use nukes if it means easy escalation to a mutual exchange where him and his country would end up as ash? Nah I don't believe he would unless some development allowed him to nuke with impunity.
That is not a contradiction. The OP is just arguing that you should use the best medium + format for the job - and sometimes simple text is sufficient (as it says in the article).
"I'm hanging onto it for the next time they try this shit..." :)
yes.

Surname change was to avoid revealing caste. No appropriation of "lower caste" to get favorable quota.

I have no evidentiary way to conclude if change ended up helping me or not. I just never had to face caste based discrimination.

I shared the experience, so folks on this forums come out knowing more than what is typically seen in media.

No rhetoric. There is no denying, that problem is real.
Find any React component in code faster than ever
The hardest is to make multiline text input and rich text support. None of the smaller, home-brown GUIs gets this right. You basically have to write a complete editor that supports all languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, etc. Even native operating system text input widgets have been plagued with problems. Generally, there are tons of edge cases and special input considerations to consider in a GUI, e.g. DPI scaling, accessibility, right-to-left languages and unusual unicode glyph handling (composed glyphs), scrolling behavior & mouse handling, platform-dependent layout issues (HI guidelines), escape characters in file paths and unusual file systems, and so on and so forth.

It's quite possible to make a good GUI, just lots of mundane small issues to deal with, and it's overall a massive undertaking. It requires at least an extremely good knowledge of how different languages deal with text and input it.
Do we know what the pay discrepancy between physics research and computer science and finance jobs. I wonder if we are attracting the brightest minds in high paying jobs.
The comms have neither authentication nor encryption. So at least on a technology level it is very possible to transmit.

I doubt they have robust enough authentication to determine whether you really are supposed to be speaking. Likely they won't believe you, but they will also start doubting, in general, messages sent over the channel. That means being less sure the actual authentic messages are to be believed.

It's more about disrupting their faith in the comm system, rather than about having them believe your falsehoods.
Jitsi lets you set room passwords, and it is also very easy to create a new Jitsi room, so you can easily send a new URL around as needed.
I really enjoyed StumbleUpon until it was suddenly completely changed. Checking their website now, it seems that the website is dead: "StumbleUpon moved to Mix!". I don't even understand what https://mix.com/ is.
I agree with him on this issue. I believe social networking just creates a pool with extreme peer pressure and especially insecure people are strongly affected by this. The expectation it creates are stronger than what can be induced by publications or people close to those affected.

Problem is that government quickly pervert the issue. Child protection becomes an issue about how to sabotage encryption. Real child abuse happens in the vicinity of the victims, so investing in schools and care would put more eyes on the problem and would have a measurable benefit. But the point Mrs. Paglia makes is also relevant. You want to teach people that it is completely okay to see things differently, that their acceptance does not rely on their agreeableness. Although they have quite bad role models currently...

I don't think the solution is becoming a luddite. You have to build resilience so that online opinions don't affect you as much. But "don't believe anything you read on the net" has become "extremely dangerous disinformation".
Agreed. I read the Mistborn books a few years ago and just found them very... sanitised, especially compared to other prominent fantasy novels by the likes of Scott Lynch or the brilliantly sweary Joe Abercrombie.
https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/issues/118

Norvig's Sudoku solver inspired me to make my own Wordle solver last month
Which features are you talking about ? Even in c++23 there isn't yet a way to replicate moc, rcc, uic with the same ergonomy for the end user and the same efficiency.
All 8.0 PDFs and the zip of traces: paste the following in your browser's console.

$('td:nth-child(3) a:nth-child(1)')
Someone's gotta invent the iTunes of articles.
This is excellent!

I've done a Wireshark lesson internally for coworkers with some similar examples, but this is so much more complete than what I'd put together. In the future I'll be using this instead, as it's exactly what I hoped / tried to do, but so much better.

(My lessons were the UI, capturing, writing filters, then as troubleshooting examples: unanswered SYN / properly setup TCP session, ICMP ECHO example, and SMB protocol version.)
It's all fun and games until Putin totally rages and dials it up to 11 without even a "no fly zone" being offered by the rest of the world. They have almost the military power of the US and look at the total decimation we did to Iraq.

I mean they are already bombing civilian areas so thousands are dying, just not being reported to keep moral up.

Putin will threaten maybe nukes in response but there has to be a no-fly zone over Ukraine or they are going to be destroyed by end of March.

Putin doesn't have to occupy Ukraine, he just has to destroy it, that's way easier. It will take at least a decade to rebuild if not multiple.
At this point I personally stopped caring too much about the OS, so I think I would go for Windows: it's messier than macOS, not open source, but you get both a Windows and Unix environment thanks to WSL, which means you can run almost any software without too much trouble. And the desktop environment is good enough to get things done in a productive fashion once you get used to it. The OS itself is stable and almost any hardware is supported so you have lot of choice for your workstation.

I've been in the Unix world almost all my life, switching between MacOS/OS X/macOS and some flavour of Linux every few years, and finally decided to try Windows a few years ago after they announced WSL. And the experience has been really good so far.
I deal with it by having at least a vague idea of a plan. Currently, I have a place to go that seems reasonable based on all the fallout maps I’ve seen. I’ve settled on a signal to evacuate that hopefully beats a mandatory evacuation order and all the mayhem by 48-72 hrs.
Measuring team output seems just as difficult as for an individual.

I was reading an interesting piece in the economist today about maintaining peoples performance on a long space flight. One part that stood out to me is people being productive makes them happy. I always assumed the causation would be the opposite way round. Perhaps the best a manager of managers can do is try and figure out if the members of each team are happy or not.
Which is entirely different claim then "CIA/MI6 are almost certainly running Ukraine's PR".
So? Aren't we talking about hiding evidence that something may have connection to sanctioned individuals?

If so, I agree with everything you said but it could still be obstruction of justice.
I think longevity is not just an issue of the data format but more so of its organization. It so happens that text files organized using the file system is the most easily producible, maintainable and queryable data organization tool.
But other media can have the same properties if they're organized using the file system rather than any complex tools. I have graphs and datasheets that have endured decades that I refer to often and are easily findable because they are well-named files in well-named folders, even though the formats are comparatively much more complex.
I've been using Terminology[0], which has some of these features. That's not why I'm using it though, it just happens to have the lowest latency of all terminal emulators that still does fancy font rendering on my machine.

[0] https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology
I simply don't care, because it's all bullshit. I don't let the fear machine, or those manipulated by it, make my life miserable. If you let it, then recent history (that's decades, not years) taught you nothing. If you want to stop being afraid, stop watching mainstream media.

They're the number one cause of fear amongst populations.

We go from one fear mongering bullshit to the next. The very recent past had Trump, then Corona, now - without delay, coincidentially just as the corona fear mongering stops working - it's the Ukraine and Russia.

And if it's not fear, then it's something else meant to rattle our collective jimmies.

Here's a challenge!

100 imaginary internet points for whoever answers this question:

What was the major jimmy-rattling topic before Trump?
I'm sure you know this but for others ES is gradient free. Population sampling for optimization is distinct from 'gradient based' techniques in the literature.
I believe that from the gestalt of human history and culture emerges a sublime grace. This grace will save us from perdition. That is all.

https://www.websters1913.com/words/Grace
VMs don't tend to be an issue anymore, since pretty much all VM software supports HyperV now. VMWare works great, VirtualBox is still in beta afaik.

It's a recent development so you might have missed it.
Show HN: I created ANSWERDLE that shows the answer of Wordle
Nice strawman. Care to attack the argument I was actually making, which had nothing to do with emotional appeals about Ukrainian sovereignty?
Not “part of the language” but definitely privileged in the implementation. #ifTrue:ifFalse: gets rewritten and inlined as a branch in just about every compiler. If you implemented your own, it would suffer in performance.
Let me have a go at objectively explaining the difference: America has a lot more political clout than Russia.

Under Putin, Russia's soft power has been decimated and they are left with misinformation, violence and resource starvation as their main tools to make others comply. A government like that will face much stronger pushback than a nation like America.

America is rightly criticized for its wars and its mistreatment of countries like Palestine but it has the political clout to absorb those criticisms and slow down their effect. When the criticisms eventually mount the government is forced to make changes, but this is slowed by soft power.
Show HN: The struggle with SSH key management under Linux
I don't know; instead of seeing those failures as a shame, I see them as a learning opportunity. Those failures have taught us that graphics alone aren't compelling enough to drive adoption of those graphical features.

You must redesign the terminal experience from the ground up and include graphics from inception if this is ever going to take hold.

There's lots of things that are wrong with current-day terminal paradigms. For example, to turn on an option for a command, you start the command-line option with `-`. To subtract, or turn off, you use `+`. Things like this are just proof positive to me that things need to be rethought from the ground level - the very basic core principles of what a terminal is actually for need to be considered and modernized.

Lots of people don't understand that the purpose of a terminal is to have a back-and-forth conversation with the computer. You say something in the form of a command, and the computer says something back in the form of command output and/or errors. Find ways to augment that conversation meaningfully, and you'll be on the right track. Everyone knows it's a back and forth, but few realize that this is what makes a conversation.

Passing the output of one program to the input of another should not be done as text, either; it's too limiting; it's as far from strongly typed as you can get, and you require that every program include a text parsing library. Objects should be passed, ideally self-describing ones. PowerShell got this right, at least partially. When you run a command alone, without piping or writing to a file, text is shown (because without redirecting, output is inherently piped to the terminal itself, and the terminal knows how to serialize those as text) but if you pass to another program, objects are passed and used as-is. (This is more along the lines of what Alan Kay meant when he coined the term "object oriented", as I understand it.) Passing messages around.
Rust has a number of burgeoning GUI libraries. Some of them are further developed than others. I think the difficulty is just the complexity of the work. It takes a lot of effort to make a complete, functional library, and many of these are largely the work of one to a few people (probably in their spare time)!

https://www.areweguiyet.com/

The secret, I suspect, is probably "money".
Is it even offered in English? I'm just getting Dutch and German
That may be true if you are sideloading F-Droid. Our security model focus is based on integrating F-Droid into the ROM, like with CalyxOS. This method is proven to provide better security than Google Play devices, since by default, all apps are open source and reviewed by humans. For example https://f-droid.org/2020/03/04/f-droid-is-a-key-source-for-a...
Mexico's lucrative avocado industry found itself in the middle of gangland
That’s not really a universally applicable assumption. I have a degenerative nerve condition and auto-immune disease, they both substantially make my response times and ability to press buttons worse. I am absolutely loving Elden Ring and I have beaten each Soulsborn Fromsoftware has put out. However, I am terrified that I will reach a point where I will simply not be able to play the games. I am working on hardware interface designs (ie controllers and keyboard/mouse) to hopefully allow me to overcome this, but I’m not sure it will ever be doable/usable enough to still enjoy my favorite games. I don’t want a difficulty slider, but some options could exist to make my future life better (more iframes, narrower hit boxes on enemy attacks, etc).
CIA cannot defend USA from Russian propaganda. CIA are noobs in this war. They used our (Ukrainian) help to catch Russians. I know Russians inside out. I have 15+ years of experience in defending of Ukrainian informational space. Who has more years of experience than me? Nobody.
Ironically, the "pro plain text" link posted earlier used lots of formatting.

I don't see why pure plain text is better in any way than plain text with formatting, like a simplified form of HTML (<a>, <b>, <sup>, some kind of table formatting, etc). The latter is non-proprietary, easily read and diffed, and communicates better than pure text.

Images have their own value, as do animations and video on occasion. Here matters become more complicated - image formats are generally non-human-readable and non-diffable (though SVG or a similar format could solve those problems for schematic-type images) and image conversions generally involve data loss. For starters, though, one should at least use a non-proprietary format for images and video.
Rust uses it and so has become a default license for Rust crates. See https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/necessities.html#...
Is there anything good in this world anyway? Do we deserve to survive? Does it make any sense to continue self-destructing behavior and suffering? Personally, I don't think so, therefore if we will be nuked, so be it! This is what we deserve, this is what we did to ourselves, and there is no one to blame.
These satisfying animations are made with just 150 lines of Python
Reading the comments to decide if you want to read the article is totally acceptable.

However, people that feel the need to comment without reading the article are the worst.

Sadly there has been an increase in this behavior in the past years.
Beyond the "this is too hard" responses (which from personal experience working on GUIs and toolkits for decades i think are overblown), it is also that a GUI toolkit -or any other library really- written in a niche language will only be usable for that niche language's audience but a GUI toolkit -or any other library- written in a language that can be used by other languages with almost zero friction, is way more likely to be used.

And people tend to use what they see other people using, thus repeating the cycle.

So you see these 15 year old libraries being used because other people are using these 15 year old libraries because they are written in languages that can be (relatively) easily be wrapped (both C and C++ wrapping can be done automatically and there are many tools for that - largely because this is something a ton of people want to do, so again, it feeds back to the cycle of things being popular because they are popular).

But there are lots of new toolkits being made, you can even find a submission for a new one in Hacker News almost every month (though the responses are pretty much the same in all of them :-P).
I am not a font snob but the lower case u is 20% taller than the other lower case letters (on my Chrome on Ubuntu 18). Distracting.

Anyway, the article was good.
(2018)

Hoping for a v2 but couldn't find one.
If an individual is concerned enough about tax implications of a new acquisition, the individual probably has enough foresight to consider the cost of fuel.
There is plenty of research that show extrinsic rewards don't really work that well, especially for intellectual endeavours.

On top of that you have the problem that now your developers will follow the set objectives to the letter even if it transpires that something else was required.
People from SV like to convince themselves they deserve more money because they happened to squat in one of the most absurdly expensive places in the country.

I agree, as a resident of Gold and Diamond Castles Avenue.
that, and then the highschools where they have 30 or 40 'valedictorians' in one graduating class. Now the term 'valedictorian' has also become meaningless as well.

When everyone is a valedictorian, nobody is.
Very cool! This triggered another idea - our ears already can move a slight bit by its own muscles. Can't we read these muscle movements, and amplify them by controlling the servo Cat Ears in sync? Might be easier to learn to control, maybe.
Any negative new related to ukraine is either shot down, assumed to be russian propaganda, not talked about. There has been widespread racism faced by blacks and indians. If you goto reddit any news related to it are downvoted as russian propaganda, uncivilized people not following orders etc. Even HN did not pick it up.
Could you please share links to fallout maps and explain your signal. Thanks.
I can only speak about Bitcoin here as I'm not as familiar with how other coins work. Bitcoin is basically designed to make this hard.

In order to spend money you need the private keys. No way around it, even with 51%. What you can do with 51% processing power is rewrite history. You start a parallel chain where the oligarchs never received their money. When your chain accumulates more processing power it will in theory be accepted as the canonical chain. Now there are a few problems here. First the simpler one: If you want to rewrite any significant amount of history, say undo a transaction from a year ago, you will need more than 51% to achieve it in a reasonable time. Think of two runners, one is a few percent faster, the other has a year long headstart. It will take very long to overtake. With 66% of computing power you can do it in a year*. Renting that much power for that long year would be extremely expensive. Second problem. It's highly doubtful that people would just quitely accept such a huge rewrite.

* Assume the rest of the chain has processing speed X. If you have speed 2X then it works out to 66%. One year of 2X power equals two years of X power, catching up with the 1 year headstart.
If there are thousands of nukes flying around and hitting targets all over the world it doesn't really matter where you life. You are absolutely right you won't die because of an impact or direct radiation in Tirana but you will die from nuclear fallout of many destroyed nuclear power plants or just because the sky turns dark for weeks or months.