skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You trust the journalist.

It's not a perfect system obviously but yet to see an alternative.
If you want to understand a topic you have to hear all sides.

Yep there is substance in some Russian points

- Ukraine is, somewhat, artificial as a country (bear with me)

- In Crimea a lot of people celebrated the takeover. The referendum was rigged but there was a tangible popular support

- In Donbass some people are not really fans of the Ukrainian government. I know people from Donetsk that prefer the Russians

- People in Donbass suffered from continuous shelling from Ukrainian forces (I don't want to emphasize the "Nazi" affiliation of the Azov brigade because it's a propaganda point but yes, there have been incidents and civilians suffered). Donbass reminds me of Hamas controlled Gaza Strip and I can see both sides

- Yes EU and the US pushed for bringing Ukraine into the West and funded their people there

- There is definitely a very high level of corruption in Ukraine, especially in the political echelon. Some EU-friendly policies have been obtained by corruption

That said I agree with most of the criticism of Putin's regime too. And of course invading a country that is becoming more democratic precisely because they want to defend themselves from you is a crime.

And Ukraine is a bit artificial (not 100% artificial but it's not a country with an established culture and identity) but it's exactly those events, like this war, that make it more and more real. The Ukrainian identity is becoming stronger and stronger hour by hour.
because it lines up with what I have already determined to be the truth, therefore it too must be the truth. who needs trust or verification when you have emotional resonance?
Apparently it's by a children's book author: https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Larkin/e/B002P53NXE

Based on http://brucelarkin.com/about-bruce-larkin/ he seems like a funny guy.

https://www.wilbooks.com is apparently his main site. I bet the address there might match up with the JRI.
I've got a 256GB SSD as my boot drive. Storage is not cheap.
> The intelligence on the exchange between the Chinese and Russian officials was collected by a Western intelligence service and is considered credible by officials reviewing it, the Times reported.
There has been a lot of that on this site. Implicitly sowing distrust in free press (such as in this instance) or flat out shitting on the free press with insults.
Yeah I’m with you here.

Would it be reasonable to say that hard work should be rewarded? Well…ones propensity for hard work, it turns out, is highly heritable. Either from your genes or from your upbringing. You didn’t choose your parents, nor did you choose your upbringing. So your propensity for hard work is really just unearned privilege.

Same line of reasoning can be applied with future orientation, or smarts. People don’t deserve the fruits of their intellect, because they didn’t do anything to earn it.

I’m not sure if there is a name for this kind of absurdity, but “Achievement Fatalism” is a nice fit.
It's not that SPAs cannot handle that but it's rarely a requirement.

I've once launched a product on (early days) Google App Engine and it was unusable as purely server-side rendered website because sometimes it would take ages to load or worse an error would come up eventually. With AJAX it could be solved and failing requests could be repeated. It's a pity that this is rarely done but it is of course possible.
> Also "Core Web Vitals" is deliberately not scoped to just performance.

What do you define as performance then? And how is it different from speed?
Are you arguing that super powers don't exist in the modern world or just that China doesn't qualify as one?
Google Cloud, explained in cute, easy to understand pictures
Around me in Sydney, there is a major “hospitality group” that’s spent the last 10+ years buying up bars and pubs.

There’s a few smaller operations doing it as well.

The big one, Merivale, seems to have practically unlimited money to throw at interesting or struggling venues. While I really don’t like the changes they eventually make to most places they buy, I have a grudging respect for the business acumen of Justin Hemmes the owner.

He seems to have an uncanny knack for having bought a good sized venue a year or two before, in every area that becomes cool and popular. Often they’ll barely change for a few years, while the demographics around them shift, then one day they’ve suddenly been renovated and there’s a queue of b-grade celebrities all dressed up and lined up around the block waiting to get in every weekend for a month or two.

I totally get that my demographic spends less over the bar than the crowd he’s so good at attracting, but he’s ruined two of my local ex-favourite pubs in the last few years, and over decades he’s turned some of my favourite music venues in things like trashy Mexican restaurant/bars.

But yeah, even as successful as he is in his field, I doubt it’ll get him into the three comma club.
that sounds like a mismatch between the architecture and how work is getting planned no? if the backend is in the critical path to delivering the user value of a feature then the backend and frontend engineers need to be developing (and testing) the feature together
In your view how does the chosen technology stack impact these three measurements:

* user experience

* speed of feature development

* operational cost including cloud billing and staffing/training costs
It's more that intelligence sources know better than to talk to the press unless told to, so it's nearly always for propaganda purposes. My experience is that the veracity of these claims are at best a coin flip.
Russia is very much the junior partner in the relationship with China, and now that they have burned their bridges to the West they lack any leverage against China. They are going to have to defer a lot more going forwards.
It’s all about state management IMO. There are legitimate reasons to keep UI specific complex temporary state on the client that would be more complex (and slower) if the server needed to hold it. So an SPA or at least partial SPA in some situations does makes sense.

But it does tend to become a hammer for every screw over time…
Yeah digging through 2000 page reference manuals and looking for 1 bit differences with nothing other than a serial port/memory debugger is a lot harder than putting up a web page. Now backend stuff at scale is similar complexity. I still do embedded, but I also help/design on the web front ends for said devices :)
It says no domain verification required. So would that mean the test email (test@example.com) would actually arrive?

[edit] Ok, I think I understand the product now https://www.mailchannels.com/outbound/ It's aimed at shared hosting providers so there is bit of expectation that not all email senders can be verified.
Why I'm Glad I Lack Passion to Be a Programmer
"Digesting" Siberia.
> And, there's a strong possibility that we're experiencing some psyops here, to make the Russians appear incompetent.

Definitely. You're not going to hear about the encounters where the Russians smoke the Ukrainians and they have serious loss of life/equipment or don't come back at all.

Not that there's not a lot of organic sentiment around the world, but Ukraine seems to have a very good PR corps pushing news of their victories and memes about the situation. And unlike a lot of these attempts, they aren't "how do you do fellow kids" type shit where it's super obvious.

Exhibit A: the Ghost of Kiev. Regardless of whether he exists or not, he's a great case study in propaganda.
That's probably just due to normal staff retention issues that everywhere seems to be experiencing right now. There are still plenty of brand new Whole Foods popping up, plus the Amazon Go technology has just begun to become integrated as of just a few days ago.
Every time a small successful tech company gets swallowed by a behemoth, I feel sad. Bandcamp was one of the good ones. If Panic ever gets bought, I'll straight up cry.

An ecosystem thrives by having a variety of organisms of different species and sizes interacting. The tech business ecosystem increasingly looks more like a giant pasture of uniform grass being grazed by half a dozen aging tumorous cows.
Don't forget, every media outlet that isn't Russian is going to show those incidents to the world to make that bad guys look bad. We're also not likely to see any wins against Ukrainian military targets for both political and practical reasons. So it's very hard to tell from these reports what the overall picture really is.
No, but you have no idea what game the anonymous source is playing. Maybe they're telling the truth. Maybe they're telling a lie that will help them in some manner. Maybe they're just misinformed and think they're telling the truth.
It's a game. It's UI is full screen and completely divorced from "standard" UI elements (WIMP, etc).

You can call it a desktop app, and you'd be correct in the most pedantic sense, but then every web app is also a desktop app since you run it on a desktop.
I think I see - you can 'lock' the colors at the top and they remain persistent.
Some proof would be nice.

Wikipedia mentions that it is contested if it is intentional or not.

Personaly for me, intentionality doesn't seem far fetched, given gulags, forced relocations to siberia without supplies and liberal presentation of history/facts
(ussr guides said that kaliningrad is russian from olden times).
I initially thought part of the appeal was offloading the workload to the front end, where your processing power scales infinitely with each user's device. Maybe the benefit turned out to be negligible, I'm not really sure. Can server costs be reduced by offloading the work to the front end?
It seems like the natural conclusion is that the US health system is inadequate to the task of providing health care for every citizen. Some portion of the population has to do without.

That sounds uncharitable, yes. But the same contingent that claims we cannot feasibly support universal healthcare due to the bottom 50% being essentially leeches on society happens to be the same people who insist that we cannot improve income for the bottom 50% because the free market is speaking.
Who else to blame? The Russian people allows this man to be their leader
Pretty sure it's just a front service for 7digital. All the big streaming services besides Spotify and Tidal are skeleton crew operations.
would be fine except this is how we end up with mandatory invasive anti-virus forced onto all our laptops causing all kinds of problems and (yes!) security issues, 15 years after it was a good idea.
I don't even really need a hypothetical scenario. All that could happen does indeed suck, but I'm mainly irked about giving my money to Epic after 15 years of loving Bandcamp.
Using Anglo-Saxon etymons it would be "overlord", I guess.
That applies to UA armor too.

Way harder to do hit and runs on road columns when you can't fall back to where ever but have to follow roads your self.
Soviet SAM operators shot down 48 US aircraft in Vietnam. Not just supplying the NVA with SAMs, but Soviets were firing them at Americans.
Is this strange to anyone else? Streamlit and Snowflake occupy fairly different niches.
The preferred way to survive nuclear war is to not to provoke one in the first place.
Yes, that's totally annoying since it really isn't very hard to get right... Swings layout managers are just made to deal with this stuff.
These are the open source libraries we use to make Discord
IPFS: bafykbzacedqk3izhcrqsk4lmnebhmi6dv2sn4h2nundwnyhuu5hmbleoqqiqm

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedqk3izhcrqsk4lmne...
I absolutely loved the University Village Amazon bookstore. I've got a big list of reasons why. First of all, there was no need to absolutely pack the books. Each book was displayed cover out, with some space around it, with maybe an endorsement or a bit of a review under it. It made it easy to discover interesting stuff simply by looking around. As a sci fi nerd, I'm used to the sci fi section being a bunch of paperbacks squished together floor to ceiling with just a vague title and an author name facing me. This was a huge step up. I found more than one new book there, and knowing that I'd get the Amazon price for it when I checked out made purchasing it and walking out an easy call (unlike at another bookstore, where for a new release I would've had to choose between getting it today or getting it 30% off the "list price" on Amazon).

That said, the whole reason this works as a store design is that the store has no particular motivation to have a big back catalog. If they don't have it, you're just gonna go get it on Amazon, so they haven't lost a sale anyway.

The store did get worse over time, though. More and more of the floor space became focused on selling a bunch of stuff that worked with Alexa. Stop it. You're not an Apple Store. Just be a book store. And as much as the book selection was pretty great to me the first few times I went in, when I stopped in a year later and the book selections were mostly the same, it was a lot less great.
If you care about security, consider using Qubes OS with hardware-virtualized VMs for compartmentalization. Then, you Firefox for banking won't have the same extensions which you use elsewhere. Works for me.
Given they've been profitable for years, yes.
There is a wide variety of intelligence sources.

Marco Rubio is privy to classified material and doesn't answer to the Biden administration.
>Having said that, I still think they should add some accessibility features that can make the game easier.

They do have that. Particularly the first Dark Souls game:

- You can bonfires if you need extra help getting through levels.

- You can summon people for help if you're struggling on a boss.

- You can just level up or grind some more.
China has been the world's superpower for the last 12 years.
I think the point is that the public should take what “anonymous intelligence officials” say with enough salt to put the Dead Sea to shame. They might be right, they might be wrong, and they’re probably lying.
I mean, we called the things we currently just call “planets” “major planets” instead, and include “dwarf planets” as an additional subsets of planets instead of a separate category, and the terminology would be more consistent. It would be a good way to complete the terminology shift that split what used to be minor planets into dwarf planets and small solar system bodies (including reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.)
Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26795290 the FOVO Renderer that uses a variable zoom based on 2D distance from the center of focus, which is more similar to human vision.
nobody does this. they should, but they don't. nobody keeps the wavefunction of their views on a topic uncollapsed. this takes incredible mental fortitude and immunity to emotional resonance, which increasingly few people have.
> When people talk about how a focal-length "compresses" or "exaggerates" an image, what they're really talking about is perspective. Each field of view carries with it its own perspective.

Completely agree. What is happening when the focal length of a camera is changed is that the distance of the vanishing points relative to the scene is changing.

I teach perspective in my drawing class. Few subjects are as difficult to convey. Using 3d animations has helped a lot…

https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/perspective...
A sentence at the end of the article helped me understand why looking at photos on a 12.9" iPad feels uniquely pleasurable to me: I can, and naturally do, hold the device such that the image fills my focal length.

Phones are of course too small, but my laptop screen, while larger, isn't as nice, even for photos in landscape perspective, because it's subjectively smaller in terms of the field of view it fills. I'm estimating I naturally use a laptop about twice as far from my eyes as an iPad.
Clean Cities Ranking
> China won’t invade anyone

Except Hong Kong (and the "expansion" of the South China Sea).
Like, people's self-identified race is virtually always consistent with their ancestry, except when they're mistaken, unhinged, or taking advantage of lower standards for non-whites. 23andme's proprietary algorithm might be bad at predicting whether Elizabeth Warren calls herself native american or white, even if it it caught that 1/2^n wisp of DNA, but her self-identification is made on the basis of ancestry.

> Say I change my mind about what race I am due to it being typically poorly defined.

But it isn't poorly defined. Your race is the combination of your parents'.

You're trying to use some college definition of race, and I don't know what sort of indoctrination made you that way, but that's not what people actually mean by race.

Like, middle easterners who are Republican might call themselves white, while politically involved Democrats might call themselves "people of color". I know two siblings who probably split down this divide. But even if they do, they're actually the same race, because they have the same parents.
The other way around. In feudal terms (where "suzerain" belongs), the US States would be vassals to the US governement.
You trust the vetting rep of the newspaper.

NYT in this case which seems to have one of the best processes.
The annoying thing is that this is basically all replicable online, except Amazon has apparently never even tried.

Like, say I'm interested in 14th-15th century European history, maybe I have a couple good books already that I know. You could go to a university library and look them up on the shelves, and find a wealth of related books near them. Amazon won't even give you that level of browsing by library classification, using data which already exists. They have the same half-assed recommendation system which seems to have barely changed in the past 15-20 years.
Eastern Ukraine is also not where Kyiv is, or where the swamp I wouldn't want to drive a tank across outside of winter [0] is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsk_Marshes
Navidrome [0] has been a solid replacement for me. It has all the features I want aside from Keycloak/generic oidc integration, and the author is very responsive.

0: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome
Yeah, it’s sort of a semi-conventional (and somewhat controversial) statement in the film/photo world to say that 50mm lens on a full frame sensor/35mm stock is “what people see.”
Some argue it’s closer to 35-40mm. Some argue it’s all moot. Maybe he ultimately just decided not to firmly stick by it haha
Theology is a funny thing. Once upon a time, Lent was a time of fasting for the entire period. Then it was a period where you didn't eat meat. Now you don't eat meat on Fridays and you give up some other random thing for the 40 day period. I might have gotten some of that slightly incorrect, but the main thing was that you were supposed to give something up that you really wanted and then refrain from eating meat on a certain day.

Well, in South Louisiana, seafood is a huge part of the local food culture and crawfish season starts about the same time as Lent. It's a time of the year when crawfish are plentiful and fat, and their shells aren't as hard as they get during the summer and fall months. So instead of fasting on Fridays, they gorge themselves silly with shellfish and beer when they aren't eating fried fish and oysters either by themselves or in po-boys. Hell, the archbishop of New Orleans even declared alligator meat to be fish for Lent. From time to time, you will find stern condemnations of such activities in opinion pieces from well-heeled socialites who grew up in the upper class New Orleans area Catholic social scene... but those are the sort of people who would never be caught dead at an average man's crawfish boil to begin with.

So the local Catholics will go be pious with ash-smeared foreheads and palm leaves drying on the rest behind the back seats of their cars, then party it up for 6 straight Fridays.
Europe's dependence on Russian gas is a gun to their head that only exists in winter. It took some deliberation to get Germany to accept strong sanctions. That might not have happened a month ago.
Java designers chose the public method with the same name as the corresponding field policy as the preferred one (as per record’s design), this combined with the coming syntax for “copy the object but changing these fields” will make java quite good to use imo.
That might have had more to do with the threat of nuclear war.

The west isnt going to sacrifice itself to save kyiv.
In addition to what you say: A snow cover will act as insulation and prevent ground frost from penetrating deep compared to bare ground (something small winter-active mammal can attest to).
Russian Biolab Propaganda on Ukraine Spreads on QAnon Channels
Can't help but think about The Day After https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
Can confirm, with much grumbling to boot…
When I visited Amazon's book stores they always had little end caps with curated selections of books. Employee picks, celebrities like Michelle Obama or Oprah Winfrey reading lists, etc. I agree independent stores have a lot more character but Amazon's store wasn't just a cold, sterile pile of books that an algorithm picked.
Out of curiosity, what in ARMv9 are you looking for that isn't either optional or already mandated in ARMv8.5? I'm actually not sure what ARMv9 additionally mandates over ARMv8.5...

SVE/SVE2 is optional in ARMv9 [1], despite all the reporting claiming otherwise.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest
I also only know the word suzerain from Civ VI haha. Certainly learnt a lot more history and gained a lot more interest in historical texts after playing Civ, far more so than school ever did....
Off topic but the lighthouse in the video is at the Cap de Formentor in Mallorca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formentor_Lighthouse
Bitwarden, Sideberry (tree tabs), Markdown here (for MD in Gmail)
We will all need this soon.
the frustrating thing is that i rarely find a page that doesnt take at least 20 seconds to load, even if i only want to see an 100x100 image. This happens no matter how fast computer i use and it 's despairing

The term "server-side rendering" gives me giggles every time
Ask HN: What dictionary do you use as your source of truth?
I've been using Webster [1]. I imagine there are better options.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/
I learned “revanchist” from Europa Universalis IV and it has been a pretty useful word in the past week.
The problem with forgiving the loans is not economic. It would be trivial to do, and the economic consequences probably positive.

It is a moral hazard. First, it amounts to a giveaway to people aren't necessarily all that sympathetic -- people who can afford to go to college at all, even if they borrowed money to do it. Remember how much of the population couldn't even get that far. Second, any kind of student debt jubilee without first reforming the system just invites every future student to take as many loans as possible with the expectation that they too will have their debt forgiven.
I don't know how accomplishable that really is at this point - it's looking like Russian troop cohesion is insanely low[1] and Putin may just need to withdraw forces to keep the domestic situation under wraps. I'm pretty sure if Putin started peace talks he'd be ousted at this point, so he just has to sorta pray that western powers don't stall out the annexation - otherwise I think he's pretty hooped domestically.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/01/russia-lo...
Thanks for this. I expected to see a pricing link somewhere, having been attuned to all the subscription Saas these days. Glad to see there are tools offering immense value for free still.
some people working in the field said it wasn't proven to be graphene (disagreement on methodology basically) and that it wasn't replicated