skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy this. 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. In fact, I'd say that current response in Ukraine enforces this (though it's not a NATO member it got plenty of offensive equipment, intelligence, money, support, etc. - basically everything possible short of direct declaration of war / direct military involvement from all NATO members).

Keep in mind that Putin's mythos was blown to pieces, there's no way he can (politically, if not physically) survive this. And he probably knows it. This is the weakest position he can be in - if the west attacked him, he could at least mobilize the Russians to "defend against western aggression" and could even justify the nuclear bombs to his generals; As things stand, his rhetoric and position are very shaky (he's not being defeated by mighty USA, but by the "weak" Ukrainians who "aren't even a nation")
For fun, I went and brewed a cup of coffee on my Nespresso. Coffee coming out was 185 degrees. The finished cup was 170 (but that obviously depends a lot on the cup).

If this was brewing into a foam cup, it would have been served very close to 185. Regardless I’m currently drinking a cup of coffee quite close to the 175 number you seem to think is unrealistic. Yeah, it’s hot. It’s definitely not the hottest coffee I’ve ever had, though.
Where are you getting that info?

Rockchip is 100% a mainland China company from what I can tell.

Mediatek is indeed Taiwanese.
The likelihood of nuclear war is pretty much 0. But if you want to prepare, I can only think of off-grid homesteading or farming with known community ( aka it has some friends or family that you know ). People will need help from others/community to survive. In a nuclear war, you want to be as far away from population centers ( cities, suburbs, etc ). And you want to be able to supply your own food in some capacity. This is assuming human civilization has collapsed and won't return within our lifetimes.
Apple likes to validate hardware through serial numbers or other identifiers before connecting to apple services. I suspect this will be near impossible.
This. The tech, role, salary, and checklists like the Joel Test are less important to me now, than questions like this.
I'm at a company with a sustainability and technology-oriented mission that still can't get its shit together and let me do my damn job. Grass is always greener. The mission does help, though.
as they say, keming is important.
World’s first 3D Wafer-on-Wafer processor – the Bow IPU
Yes, it rocks.
Civilians in an authoritarian regime still have things they can do to undermine or weaken the regime without even taking any risks. They can not jojn any of the state institutions of repression - the police, army and security services. They can avoid doing business with such people or organisations as far as possible. They can seek out independent information, and disseminate it through family and friends. They can peacefully protest if it's safe, or in some cases vote or abstain from voting.

They can of course go much further than any of this, but we need to make it clear how we feel about their regime and it's actions. We need to provide a motivation to resist. Yes it sucks, the Russian people are not our enemies, I know and work with Russians, including close colleagues. Sanctioning the Russian state, and struggling against it from within are two sides of the same coin. It sucks that anyone has to do any of it, but that's the fight we're in whether we chose it or not.
> I've been watching this, and frankly given the high number (>dozen) of verifiably false claims made by Ukraine

Would you be willing (for the education of myself at least) express some of the more egregious false claims? I am a layman in this stuff so I just go with what media has to say, so I’m curious what I a layman am likely misinformed about.
> What we're saying is that we shouldn't hold someone born without the ability to be academically successful to unreasonable standards.

How does this relate to improving performance at schools in poor or de-stabilized districts? There are "high IQ" individuals there that merit attention.

Yes we should address the amount of waste that these poor performing districts generate, but there is idea of a zero sum game in this thread between poorer and richer districts that encourages dismissal of solutions.

Nobody has talked about intergenerational poverty yet in this thread. Just wild.
I think I have aphantasia and no inner monologue. Mind you, I can summon an inner voice to compose a sentence before saying it, but when I'm thinking about something being discussed and someone asks me what my thoughts are so far... I never have any idea what to say. My mind is blank! It's always blank! There are never any discernable words or images in there to give you. If I need to communicate my thoughts, I have to spend significant amounts of time translating to words and choosing words before I can actually summarise what I was thinking, which is much more nebulous to me than words or images.

My 'thoughts' are closer to a mouse cursor changed into an hourglass while waiting for a computation to finish than 'First we need to do <XYZ>, but to do <XYZ> we need <X>, <Y>, and <Z>. To get <X>, <Y>, and <Z>, we need to ...'

I find it really hard to operate in live/in-person discussions because of this. I physically end up just as silent and blank as my mind!
I've had similar realizations lately among my friends (early 30s). Especially since the pandemic, basically everyone is on one or more brain pills and most people have tried several.

In contrast to your story, I have yet to meet someone who reacts well to Prozac. It seems to be the first thing a GP prescribes, but nobody stays on it. Lots of sexual dysfunction and weight gain, minimal positive effects.

I was also put on it but did not stay long due to side effects and no improvement in other symptoms. I have been viewing it as a running joke in the industry, but I'm glad to hear it does in fact work for some people.
Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino
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I'm excited to reveal Surfboard to you all! Surfboard is a widget that enables you to share your Arduino code as a URL link or HTML embed. People interacting with your widget can edit, compile and upload the code into their Arduino board--right in the browser.

Surfboard supports over 170 boards and over 4,200 libraries, so rest assured you can share quite a large variety of Arduino projects here :)

More on tech stack:
- Backend is Node.js and Go with MongoDB database, with most of the codebase a derivative of the Duino App project (https://duino.app/)

- React frontend

This project is a few days old so feedback is highly appreciated!

P.S. If you live in the UK (esp. London), I'm also looking for a highly technical and passionate partner-in-crime. Send an email to birudeghi@gmail.com with 1) Something amazing you've built, 2) How you got into the hardware space, 3) Contact details and times when I can talk with you.
Congratulations, that worked out well for you!
Of course not. There isn't any good reason to invade a country outside of self-defence or genocide.
Great write-up. I've never worked with a surveyor (I rent) but I did some Googling to understand the process. I think I would need to convert point clouds to DEM which Shade Map natively understands.

I'm wondering if I should meet with local surveyors of if there's some big names in the industry you suggest I try to go after?

Also, sorry for my abysmal treatment of buildings on the map (pixelated shadows at high zoom). I'm working to improve this.
They do. This graph shows the nuclear "baseload" being crowded out of the market by cheaper renewables. (Or in this case mostly coal, but they are about equal on the electricity market in terms in inflexibility and cost structure.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load#/media/File:Renewabl...

So, this means that nuclear is crowded out of the market during the sun hours, and later all windy hours. Take a low-ball nuclear cost of ~$130 per MWh. [1] Say that wind + solar can fulfill 12 hours per day, this is a low estimation. Current estimates is that ~80% is easily feasible without storage.

That means the nuclear plant has to make do with the 12 hours left. The nuclear plant has now, based on napkin math, entered a LCOE of $260 per MWh. It was already hilariously uncompetitive at $130 per MWh, now try $260. Now you can do power 2 gas and then burn it or any other extremely inefficient energy storage and still come out ahead.

> While historically large power grids used unvarying power plants to meet the base load, there is no specific technical requirement for this to be so. The base load can equally well be met by the appropriate quantity of intermittent power sources and dispatchable generation.

> Grid operators solicit bids to find the cheapest sources of electricity over short and long term buying periods.

> Nuclear and coal plants have very high fixed costs, high plant load factor but very low marginal costs, though not as low as solar, wind, and hydroelectric. On the other hand, peak load generators, such as natural gas, have low fixed costs, low plant load factor and high marginal costs.

> According to National Grid plc chief executive officer Steve Holliday and others, baseload is "outdated".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load

[1]: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
It's technically already possible by installing/virtualizing macOS and giving the SMC emulator a plausible serial number - it's tolerated by Apple for now, however they can trivially block this (both for Hackintosh as well as this iOS emulator) by requiring a real serial number.
PDP-11 Assembly language is just beautiful, well compared to most other assembly languages. I highly recommend it if you are trying to learn the concept of doing assembly language as a 'trainer' language. Not practical these days but a great way to learn.
Yeah, change is harder when the timeframe is limited. I can reply to an email a couple hours later, when someone might be in a different mood. In a store, there's much less time for a change of attitude.
Nope, they suck. Rain, pollution, low clouds, fog, thermals etc and it drops to nothing.
So I found a translation of that article and another article by the author. It seems like the gripe is that Solzhenitsyn wrote about some Bolsheviks and gulag camp administrators in a way that drew attention to their Jewish identity, and that leads some critics to believe he was in fact an anti-semite. Is that a fair reading?

I don't actually see any evidence that his portrayal of life in the Soviet Union was anything but accurate, at least from the perspectives available to him at the time. I'm sure there were a great many possible life experiences, especially for people born after the terror, but the terror too was part of the Soviet experience.
Does it really pays better? I thought that cooks aspired to own/operate a restaurant because they think they'll be able to do the stuff they want the way they want.
Using a twisted pair cancels out both the magnetic and electric field. But it also more than doubles the cost and the size of the cable. Which is why all existing DC transmission lines use earth return circuits.
Being willing to use them is not the same as being willing to use them first.
Can't wait for a few more decades of "50 years of failed climate predictions".

That said, there is plenty of tech being developed to improve global warming, so that rich mega corporation won't have to abandon their fancy offices and villas on the seaside.

The real ecological catastrophe will be plastic, the recycling scam (approved by governments and paid with oil money) really sold plastic to people and now we have microplastic everywhere - including our body.

Hopefully governments won't stifle innovation too much so that the private sector will come up with a tech solution.
This is currently possible with Hackintoshes, but only because Apple tolerates plausible-but-fake serial numbers that follow their usual format. They can trivially restrict this if they want to.
Only a government change in the US would allow an alliance with Russia. Current US government is Russophobic to the core.
State of the Russian Stock Market
The context of this discussion was kids in "ultra ghetto urban districts"

Not sure why we are talking about intellectually disabled kids. Someone else did this juxtaposition, and it is quite concerning that people tie poverty with lack of ability in this thread.

> The label is useful.

The labels have changed for a reason.
Russia-Backed RT America to Effectively Shut Down, Lays Off All Staff
I'm aware Deutsche welle and RT are financed by their respective govs, can I now click OK and enter the site?
Even with increases in costs for French nuclear, they are still nowhere near being un-profitable. They are definitely having trouble commissioning new plants now that political interests are lining up against new Nuclear capability. They have even had to start authorizing coal plants to increase energy production due to lack of supply to meet demand.
I mean, you're right.. But I can literally shoot civilians in the face in most of the games I have access to right now (Farcry, Cyberpunk).. And lets not forget ID's history (Wolfenstein 3D)... It's maybe distasteful, but it's not really MUCH more distasteful than shooting sprites of pretty much anything else.

I mean.. In a lot of these games, those monsters are at home and we're the ones fucking their shit up? ;)
Nice try Ukraine.
When "the web platform" can render the majority of pages in plain text
on my w3m browser, over a low bandwidth or Tor connection, then let's
talk about interoperability.
You can see the height of many projectiles like rockets in flight. Rockets fly towards enemies' height.
Space junk set to crash into far side of moon and cause crater
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was implying anything about innate characteristics of racial groups. I was trying to point out that the picture the article and the parent comment were painting was too simplistic. In general, I don't think any of those groups try harder than the rest and so saying something like "people shouldn't get butt-hurt over this unless they are willing to put the same time and effort in" is ignoring a lot of what goes into the dynamics at play here.
Thank you for such a thorough and informative response!
Obsidian.md stores your notes in normal folders and plaintext files on disc, all attachments as standalone normal files. The company offers a mobile app and an end to end encrypted sync service (paid).

The basic app is simple, but has a good extensions API which means people can and have gone nuts with it.
Even if it is currently being used frequently, there will come a time where it sits forgotten for an extended period. This isn't always a deliberate decision. Even if it is, it's easy to procrastinate removing the battery. This person is also afraid of opening the machine due to the CRT. In such a situation I think foregoing the battery is smart. Another option is wiring up an external battery that is much easier to remove (and won't be able to destroy the machine even if forgotten).
Bethesda sued Carmack, not ID

Edit: also that was a much different issue around intellectual property ownership, I don't think even Microsoft / Bethesda will sue over soliciting donations
I can only speak for myself. I won't get the same thing because we wont be sharing common goals, and/or celebrating little wins, or pulling in favors from other departments, etc, etc.
These days MS makes way more from Azure, hurting Linux support will hurt Azure, and they can't afford it.
I'm pretty sure that's just a storage optimization and not one being a subset of the other.
Im was addressing it's usefulness in the situation suggested. Yes it is useful in other situations, as I pointed out.
I finally picked up this habit 3 months ago, and I can be yet another person with testimony that the hype is real.

I have created around 350 cards in the past three months, with topics such as Python, Java, system design, statistics, napkin math.

I’ve significantly benefitted from the at hand memorized info in interviews and in day to day work. I suspect that over time doing my job without Anki will be almost as objectionable as doing it without source control.
Derek Sivers started a tech blog
> we are subjected to just as much propaganda as they are that just tells a different story

You're clearly bad at quantifying this stuff, and you're also trivializing the problems of a society and a press where journalists are routinely assassinated for reporting truthfully about their government.

If you look at a list like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_... and think "oh yeah, just like the United States" you are very, very confused about what is going on in the world.
uh yeah until you need to modify it, then it becomes another complexity issue. Or in the case of 'microservices', now you have to solve a distributed systems problem.
> Isn’t this, by definition, a very debatable topic with pros and cons that have to be weighed.

Honestly, you're voicing for support of the person you're responding to, here. These aren't "non-issues" as GGP claimed.

But, puberty blockers, the medical treatment under fire, aren't non-reversible.
This is more what I was going for - not retcon exactly, but that our definition of what a superpower is, changes more often than our list of who the members are.

I'd always heard it described as essentially force projection - the ability to fight a war on the other side of the planet - but this is probably just a snapshot in time too.

Does Russia fit that bill? did it ever? I think that's where we get caught up in trying to nail down a definition while it keeps changing around us. The Cold War certainly reached the other side of the planet. They certainly had a sphere of influence.

But I think it seems very obvious that between England and France earning the title, America and Russia earning the title, and now China - the definition has changed each time. So we're trying to argue semantics with a definition we're not clear on - no wonder we get fuzzy results.
As I understand it, the scientific consensus among educators is that there are no innate differences in ability between racial groups, which stands to reason since they aren't a meaningful biological category. Thus under-performance by black and non-white hispanic students is caused entirely by white supremacy and racism, either direct or systemic. The question of whether or not white hispanics suffer from racism is cloudy, because the data is rarely broken out. Still, I suppose it tracks pretty well with other whites of similar socioeconomic status. That leaves Asians, who measurably and increasingly outperform all other races both scholastically[1] and economically[2]. This presents something of a challenge to a naive understanding of the consensus theory. After all, why would racist whites be systemically advantaging Asians over themselves? The obvious explanation is something like that Asians are too hard-working to be held back by white racism, but as others have noted it's hard not to take that as implying that blacks and non-white hispanics are inferior to Asians in their work ethic. Lumping whites and Asians together makes all of these difficulties go away. The consensus theory is shored up, and if on the margins some Asians miss out on admissions, they can still be proud that they are helping to rectify an even greater racial injustice while looking forward to the highest average incomes in the country.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/10/29...

[2] https://www.epi.org/blog/racial-disparities-in-income-and-po...
This is a major plot point in the show/book The Expanse. Very worth checking out.

The major point made in the story is that putting people in space just changes the types of conflicts we have, it won't eliminate them.
I don’t get the direct connection between response from a non-NATO country being attacked and a NATO member.

If Putin tries to invade Latvia, the default assumption in this analysis is that NATO will just crumble rather than respond?
> Chess isn't something that's played "on behalf of" countries like the Olympics are, are they, or some gray area in between?

Most events, and the general culture, is in a grey area. Outside of the Olympiad which features literal national teams, flags still feature prominently. There's of course wild variance in how nationalistic players feel; some like Karjakin are deeply nationalistic while the average probably feels loosely tied. Some even change associations after conflicts with their country of origin, see young prodigy Firouzja moving from Iran to France recently. I can't think of a comparable international sport to compare it to since I mostly know about American sports. Somebody else that follows chess and i.e. football may be able to make that comparison - AFAIK most players play for national teams during nationalized events but don't wear their country's flag prominently when they play for private clubs.

Each country has its own federation and playing for one's federation is so deeply ingrained in the culture that the solution "well, just play as yourself, not a national" that seems obvious outsiders is something that organizers and players are hesitant to reach for. I think *a* reason for this is that dipping out of a federation prevents you from playing in that country's championship or representing them in the Olympiad, each of which are a big deal to the top players. There are also almost surely other complications in FIDE rules that I'm not aware of. Suffice it to say that playing under the FIDE or ROC flags is not the sort of thing you'd see until recently.
Are you really going to get maturity or just superficial signs of maturity from immature kids? I think kids that more boldly explore social interactions (ie. naughty) at a young age may end up more mature as adults. Someone who's polite and well-behaved may doing that because they're too emotionally immature to know how to do anything more risky and are just performing "professional behavior" which is a kind of lowest-common-denominator for getting along with others.
What is an ensemble probability of something that has never occurred and is essentially impossible to model? Have you seen all infinite alternate universes? Probability does not make sense.

Compare the following:
What is the probability that you will die today?

What is the probability that you will die today given that you belong to the category of people with A_i characteristics and whose ensemble probability of dying on a given day has been measured?
I mean they switched from strings being bytes of UTF-8 to unicode, never say never for Python 4! It would be a downright Pythonic move.
Yeah, dynamism describes it well.
i haven't gotten around to watching it yet, but will soon. Having to read subs makes sure you actually pay attention lol
It doesn't matter how difficult the change of Russia's government can be for Russians. Nobody else can do it. And history teaches us that nothing except very strong and overwhelming rage can induce heavily indoctrinated, brainwashed people to topple - forcibly or peacefully - a government.

Thus we - the civilized world - have no choice. Sanctions influencing the living conditions of regular Russians are our sole weapon.
Just in time for the launch of Privateer. [1] Surprising there's no mention of this new company in the article.

1: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/01/tech/space-junk-steve-wozniak...
While not mentioned in the article, and also obviously not using the new standard, Apple has been putting multiple dies on a single package too lately haven’t they? Isn’t that how RAM is done on the various M-series chips?