skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting that Cloudflare operates portions of the Private Relay infrastructure. @jgrahamc, can you share any details?
Analysis of Variance
In fact Oracle saved Java. Sun was struggling and Java was stagnant at the time. There was hardly any big innovation in the last years under (the) Sun. Java Modules started in the Sun age, but they didn't get it out of the door. J2EE / Java EE was also kind of dozed off.

So, while Oracle is for sure not the most sympathetic company, it is good at execution.
Devterm Linux Handheld has retro-future vibe
> Source: I've done engineering work on the C602. I know how it works.

After watching the videos on how these machines work, and all the hidden menus within hidden menus with self-sabotaging software/hardware....

Admitting you have dev'ed on this is plainly disgusting. As a fellow engineer, we need to put our foot down and not work for places that institute such unethical and/or illegal behaviors. The faster companies are starved out for *trying* to institute unethical computing, the better.
Haven't used Lombox, RxJava is great, but it just feel like bandaids on a language that wasn't really designed for it.

There's no accounting for taste, but I'll take either Scala or Clojure on the JVM any day of the week. Scala's monads don't feel like a library feature, they feel baked into the language...because they are.
Very interesting article. It shows the cultural disruption brought upon tradition and a religious canon by a new product. After a long time when the many theological discussions did not solve anything the supreme argument of business interests solved the matter swiftly. Not different from today!
Chris (CEO) here. Thanks for the HBR citation regarding incentives. I can hope the market will someday shift quickly, because that would benefit more people more quickly. Realistically, though, I think it will take at least 10-20 years for a broad shift in the market. Large organizations (such as legacy insurers) are very slow to change – even when it is in their long-term interests.
Seems that having the brick and mortar shop exposes how cheap the crap on Amazon is. I never regret going to a store for anything remotely expensive where I'm unsure of the quality. Amazon will always hover around just good enough and just cheap enough.
A lot of stores and shops either don’t or are reluctant to accept cash right now. Partially due to people’s COVID contamination concerns and partially because change is still hard to get.
> why Russia is going with this strategy

Because this isn't the intended strategy, but rather then resultant strategy.

Modern Russia seems to suffer from the same weaknesses as the USSR: garbage-in, garbage-out. If you staff an entire bureaucracy (including your military command structure) with Yes-Men, you get "Yes" responses.

When the question is "Are we prepared for the invasion?"

When the question is "Will we be able to supply our ground forces?"

When the question is "Will we be able to achieve air superiority rapidly?"

And because that's how hierarchies work, you believe the "Yes" you hear. And make your strategic plans on the basis of it being true.

Consequently, Russia appears to have built an entire invasion plan on a not-insignificant number of lies about their own forces, as communicated by their own mid-level leadership.

Imho, that explains things pretty simply and fully.
I now think rust-based mdbook is simpler and better than hugo, give it a spin. the limit of mdbook is that it's one book only.

another one is vitepress(vue3 based but you don't need know vue3 to use vitepress) that you can have multiple 'books' under one site.
They run the machine dry so that it can be cleaned out daily without wasting product.
The Azov Battalion is the cause of everything, it seems. They're recruiting everywhere, I'm surprised it itself isn't the whole of the Ukrainian defenses now, if I believed all of the Russian shills.

/s/Azov Battalion/Ukrainian National Guard/
Phoney War
Why would they? The Turkish economy is in shambles and this is amazing PR for their arms manufacturing. I’d imagine those drones will be sold out for years to come
An important thing missed here: according to the EXIF data in them, these photos are all taken with an iPhone XS. That means they are taken with a tiny wide angle lens. You'd get a very different shot if you took out a dedicated camera with a physically larger lens and a smaller angle.

The overall thrust of this article touches on this when it starts discussing different focal lengths, but the fact that the engineers at Apple made a particular set of choices with their lenses that are a compromise between "what can be achieved with a tiny flat lens measured in millimeters" and "what provides a mostly-acceptable image in any situation", and are very not the choices one might make for specifically photographing a portrait or a landscape or whatever, is really never remarked on.
Reminds me of my Army days using the Wet Bulb device to obtain the "Flag" status.

Used a dry bulb, wet bulb, and a black bulb fed into a slide rule calculator to determine the heat index and thus working conditions.

http://www.wetglobe.com/
I never really understood why, but I can guess. Could have been political/strategic, to try to force developers onto Objective-C. Or his keen attention to detail might have just bristled at some of the performance an UI issues that many of the Java apps had at the time.
It's soccer, so it could be the "net proceeds to bulge when Keppa gets beat"
Chechens have truly horrible reputation in east/central Europe, picture ISIS but worse. There is absolutely no sympathy to them, thanks to what they showed in Syria fighting for the same guy. I am surprised they are actually taking some of them as prisoners.
Somewhere Neil Peart is saying "Hold my beer"
It may help to know that it isn't easy to do.

Two things that might help your images say what you'd like them to say:

1) For depth, try making images that have a "foreground, middle-ground, and background". The 24-28mm-equivalent lenses on smartphones are a perfect training ground for this kind of composition, as it is easier to select foreground elements.

2) Dodging and burning: The human eye is drawn to bright parts of an image. Gently darkening things that are less-important and gently highlighting things (and paths) that are more important can have a huge impact on the perception of an image. The Snapseed app, again on a smartphone, offers a very-intuitive interface (look for the "brush" tool) for learning to dodge and burn.
Dark Energy Camera Snaps Breathtaking New Photo of NGC 1566
HN Enhance, providing dark mode. Forget Me Knot, forgets cookies & other data. DecentralEyes, Anti-tracker centralizes content delivery.
This seems insightful, thank you.
lol wut? that's merely another example. nothing exists beyond or without what i mentioned. it's how the world works.
Nope. Once installed it does not need the Internet. If there is a connectivity it will use it, if not it will still work (well except the collaborative functionality).

You are knocking wrong door. Try SAAS instead for your critic.
A common person in Russia isn't the aggressor. That's like blaming entire western population for the shit their government does. Russian ruble has tanked significantly, which means things in Russia are gonna cost way more for an average person.
The threat of using nuclear weapons is much more powerful than actually using them because just about everyone thinks they can cause more devastation than they actually can. There have already been 2058 nuclear explosions on earth since 1945, close to 600 megatons in total.

Theories like nuclear winter have been disproven. Radiation is down to reasonable levels 10 minutes after explosions and down to zero well within 48 hours. What really sets nuclear weapons apart from conventional bombs is the yield to weight factor, making it possible to send them around the world with little effort and in some/great quantities. Nuclear weapons that leave much radiation would not have caused a large explosion (you want to use all of the energy for the burst). The effect will mostly be localized to the burst area and dependent on it being a surface or air burst).

The fear and uncertainty about nuclear weapons is only beneficial to those that have them and especially those that threaten to use them.
Either way, after all that work, it would be smart to provide some preloaded images that work well with it so people can try it without fishing around in their filesystem for what might be a good candidate.

I don't even have any on my new laptop, just some screenshots of Wordle.
Reminds me of this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJKcdlj-Uiw&ab_channel=ahhoo...
Making Rocket League F2P meant that skilled players could register as many new accounts for themselves as they wanted and "rank up" their buddies in competitive matchmaking. This completely ruins the competitive aspect of the game since it's far too common to join a game and get completely crushed by some grand champion playing on a brand new account, teamed up with his friends.

Another problem it enables is trolls: People make new accounts then join games to ruin the fun for everyone else. Account got banned? No problem: Make a new one. Repeat.

The ranked play aspect of the game was completely ruined after Epic bought Rocket League.
One thing we need to really think about as we come out of this, and not speaking specifically to the current conflict;

There is too much opportunity for an unstable individual to rise to power in a nuclear enabled country, and for said individual to have access to a nuclear arsenal.

We have a lot of really smart people in the world, and we really need to figure out some safety mechanism to make sure we don’t get wiped out by some such individual.
With NPM I can install packages, develop with them, and then use webpack to bundle everything into a single JS file. How can I bundle the WAPM packages I install into a single WASM file?

Also is there a way to use the WAPM packages I install from emscripten? How would I import these packages from C?
> There is no "data", let alone primary data about these things.
> The authoritarian nature of the governing system in Russia makes it nearly impossible to gather such data.

oh I'm just referring to her argument that academics in Russia are all brainwashed. Of course there can be data. That's the premise of this blog. That she's free to just email them and get responses back. But she was unwilling to accept that one of the responders was free to have their own opinions. If she decided that "Russian Academia" was brainwashed based on those responses, where is the data?
The HN crowd is primarily software engineers and their curriculum probably doesn't cover this. But a EE can specialize in this field with courses in radar systems, signal processing, control theory, etc.
Will this allow them to no longer be referred to as Chelski?
Hello everyone. I’m the co-creator of this robot and author of the post and YouTube video. I think maybe the most interesting part of this update is that you can run our code in simulation with a single line from docker. I should note the whole robot is open source and our goal is to make kits available and utilize community innovation to make a low cost farming robot that is useful anywhere in the world. I am inspired by projects like Godot, Octoprint, and Blender which fund their engineering entirely by crowd funding, allowing them to stay totally open source. If you have any questions please ask!
This seems like the opposite for me... every time I've walked into an Amazon Books I've found at least one thing that I've wanted to buy

So much easier than hunting through a Barnes and Noble or doom-scrolling through online listings
Star trackers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker

Ironically, the last one I touched was a piece of donated Russian equipment, intended for spacecraft use, with no manual.
Michael Cushman on materials science, synthetic bio, and AI-powered education
Crypto exchange boss rejects Russian user ban
> However, I feel that version control focused on text breaks,

Pijul doesn't, by the way, the diff algorithm is customisable. I wrote one industrial application of Pijul that uses spaces as breaks, and semantics-aware breaking is totally doable.
Does your company offer intern roles?
Global research community condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine
China won’t invade anyone. They haven’t had any battles in a long time. They can just take over with soft power since Russia is in a extremely weak position in a few months.
China Asked Russia to Delay Ukraine War Until After Olympics, U.S. Officials Say
Not PowerPC, but 32-bit programs are no longer supported since Big Sur - since they decided to no longer ship 32 bit libraries. There's software on the Mac that's 4-5 years old and cannot be run.

And it's not an academic one - a large percentage of somewhat older Mac-native Steam games don't even start.
This has restored my faith in the government wrt technology. I am sure there are some very passionate and smart people behind this initiative who are motivated by doing things right rather than intellectual laziness.

I’m convinced that the “defense in depth” and “security permitter” models were pretty much entirely driven by laziness (define a perimeter and call it a day) and pork (defense in depth= we can pay for tons of different disjoint security software/vendors/contracting because it adds depth). Zero trust actually requires you to do the right thing and do it everywhere, and hopefully reduces the amount of waste thrown at vendors. It will create a lot of integration work but will hopefully consolidate the actual security software used.
>I know it's hip to be cynical and all, but seriously.

I mean, thats many of the comments about this news, despite Epic/Tencent historally ringing true to their words.

>could anyone even put together a payout that'd be better than "continue to watch the Steam Store print money, beholden to no one because Valve is a privately-held company held by you"?

Sure. It's just a middleman storefront, and there are trillionaire tech companies right now (and more in the future). Maybe Gabe leverages Valve and jumps to a whole other industry when he tires of games. Maybe he just sells it all off and turns that into assets to will off (better than giving family a company they can't manage).

Nothing is certain and much larger internet darlings have been turned agaisnt faster.
That would be an epic failure of Russian intelligence. Alternative take: they knew but didn't dare to tell Putin. Don't underestimate the isolation of strongmen.
And he's actually doing it, so what's your point?
WAPM already has a mechanism for signed packages (although not through Sigstore, first time I'm hearing of it but thanks for the reference!)

You can read more about it here:
https://medium.com/wasmer/securing-wapm-packages-with-packag...
Product: It is possible that in the future we would roll out a PPO based product to have a broader out of network option. Right now we do not have any plans to do so. Our target employer groups are focused geographically which fits nicely with our EPO approach. Sales to larger groups and greater, or prolonged work from home trends, may accelerate our consideration of PPO product development.

Pharmacy benefit: We integrate the pharmacy benefit into the overall benefit plan. We are selling a full package, and to fully insured groups. We work with a great, NCQA/URAC accredited national pharmacy benefits manager. I think we provide pretty good pharmacy benefits (broad network, comprehensive formulary, decent prices) but it has been an interesting process to standup. Still not a lot of price transparency (even for the insurer). There is broad opportunity in this space for other players.

Sales: We are using a combined approach of direct and brokered sales efforts. As Jay responded to another question, we have been expanding our broker relationships.

Network: I am not sure I understand what you mean by two-sided network. We are building our network from scratch, which enables us to establish relationships with physicians and collaborate with them on the outcomes-based approach we prefer to use in our contracting. We use a national network to wrap around the direct contracted network so there is national coverage for emergencies. We do not believe high deductible plans and pervasive use of high copays translates into effective consumer use of healthcare services because at these levels the cost to the individual has become punitive and encourages delaying care not accessing care. incidentally, we have had a couple of self-insured employers’ express interest in our approach because even with the high deductible plan, their stop loss expenses were so high that the combination of self-insured administration fees and stop loss protection was just as expensive as being fully insured (as we offer better benefits and more care support).

There are employers and physicians that don’t see eye to eye will not want to work with us on this basis. Regardless we have built a network that satisfies all regulatory requirements. Some things will always be more expensive because of the specialization. Neonatology, for example, will always be extremely expensive for us because of the limited number of medical providers.
It implies such signing is nit used all the time
Maybe you could start with what kind of evidence would convince you? It seems like you're asking Tim Sweeney to prove a negative, which is difficult.

I don't think "blind faith" is fair - I just haven't seen any reason to believe Epic is controlled by Chinese interests.
Transfer auth codes and confirmation emails have stopped arriving from Namecheap. I've transferred a ton of domains and now I can't transfer the rest. What am I supposed to do with the deadlines that you've set when your system doesn't even work?
I always found this very confusing. I still do. At one point in time I think I could have explained why there were three tags. But I don't remember the specifics anymore.
>Writing things for people to read is unavoidably an arts discipline.

I understand what you mean, but I'd have to disagree with that. I've been working on a very large engineering project with a large-ish team (~50 members) for over two years. All of our communication is via an established methodology of engineering diagrams, design documents, position papers, etc all of which are in a structured format that follows common rules/regulations/conventions.

As a result, all the companies we work with for e.g. understand our P&ID diagrams, electrical schematics, mechanical design docs, system layout diagrams, etc. There is no reason why such a methodology can't be brought to code. I don't view code as anything special - having now worked on on both sides. I think there really is a lot of value in the engineering methodologies that can be adapted and applied to the software world.
Hint: rerere doesn't always work. It's still guesswork, like the rest of merges/rebases/cherry-picking in Git. This is because looking only at the tips of branches doesn't work, and that's the only thing Git can do (with or without diff3 as the merge algorithm).
It's still worth pointing out.
Hey I think I might be able to help with marketing. What's a good way to contact you @batterylow?
I'm so, so excited for the release of ECH. This is going to revolutionize internet access in so many countries.

I hope services setup a "ech.fqdn" endpoint that forces ECH and doesn't work without it. Something like "encrypted.google.com" from before https was so popular.

E.g. "ech.facebook.com", or "ech.youtube.com"
>I think its actually very dangerous for Russia as a state right now. Showing this much weakness might motivate some neighbors. Especially China, they could run through the country all the way to Barents sea without breaking a sweat.

To which I say: Russia has ~half of the world's nuclear arsenal. (The US has ~half, the rest of the nuclear states are mere footnotes by # of nukes, relying on the fact that no one really needs more than about a dozen).
Romania: Mig-21 has vanished from radar off the coast of the Black Sea
>I believe Germany recently pledged to raise it's military spending to 100 billion (a lot of flashy headlines but couldn't find details), so soon it will far outspend Russia.

Not to 100 billion, by 100 billion. Euros that is.

https://www-tagesschau-de.translate.goog/inland/innenpolitik...
The input latency is noticeably higher when you play like this though. It drove me nuts last time I tried it (using Steam Controller and Dualshock 4 controller). It's a big reason why Rocket League sucks so bad on the Nintendo Switch (input lag).
It's Not Enough to Not Want to Lionize Your Protagonist
Fix it how? Russia has been unstable for well over a century
From a formerly Communist Czechoslovakia: if telling the truth results in a punishment, everyone will learn to lie habitually.

Of course the resulting system is pretty brittle to shocks.
From what I can gather from a week of obsessively following military experts’ explanations of the conflict, there seem to be two main factors at play.

One is the Russian choice of overall military tactics, which is derived from their political goals. While we can’t know exactly what it is, we can assume that Russia plans to impose some sort of political settlement on Ukraine (could be anything from puppet government to partition to annexation). Whatever this settlement is, Russia needs more than Zelenskyy’s (or some Quisling’s) signature on the dotted line: Russia very much needs at least the grudging acquiescence of the Ukrainian military, state apparatus, and general public. Without this acquiescence, Russia will be tied down indefinitely in counterinsurgency and “state building” with an unsustainable cost in manpower, money, and probably blood. To prevent this outcome, Russia initially tried to bypass most cities and focus on rapidly taking Kyiv and Kharkiv with minimal destruction. Hence the (initial) minimal aerial bombing and the various failed tactics such as yeeting paratroopers into airfields with no backup and sending light vehicles on Leroy Jenkins thunder runs into Kyiv and Kharkiv. Needless to say this plan did not succeed. So now Russia has a choice: ratchet up the destruction and try to grind Ukrainian defenses down, or fold and get out to avoid the long-term quagmire, which might eventually endanger Putin’s political survival at home. Problem is, folding would be a major show of weakness for Putin, which could also endanger his political survival at home. So far, we are beginning to see an intensification of shelling of cities, indicating that he is not folding. If this continues, Ukraine should expect to see more bombing from the Russian Air Force (coupled with more shelling from artillery).

The second factor seems to be the prevalence of portable air-defense systems (MANPADs, such as Stinger missiles) in the Ukrainian military. These systems are much harder to find and eliminate than larger anti-air weapons like the Buk or S-300, to say nothing of fixed-location air defense systems. MANPADs are also cheap—much much cheaper than military aircraft. So it becomes an expensive proposition to use aircraft at low altitude for missions like ground support. With MANPADs continuing to flow to Ukraine from friendly governments, this factor does not appear likely to change any time soon. So while Ukraine may see more high-altitude bombing as Putin intensifies the destruction, the Russian Air Force might remain leery of conducting some types of aerial operations.
I think it's more so the result of cheap money than some way of thinking. Higher interest rates will curtail a lot of this activity. Might even see a wave of divestitures or spinoffs as companies have to look harder for sources of capital.
"The narrative that Putin is mad is ridiculous"

Dunno, people that have been watching him for a decade or more have seen a significant change for the worse as of late. He was smart, shrewd, and in control. Not so much lately.
Okay, interesting. If you don't mind saying, what is the size of your team?