skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I am a biologist and a bioinformatician, though not currently active in those fields. There is no such thing as an "objective definition of race", and claiming that so-called race can be determined from one's DNA is indeed pseudo-science.
>If I buy something from an online store, I pay the same no matter where I live.

that is probably incorrect. Lots of places charge different based on location.
It's great, until it isnt. For small and simple documents (sub 20 pages), there's no better option.

In my experience it starts to creak on large documents with multiple editors. I did a project many years ago where the key deliverable was a large report, worked upon by 3-4 contributors over 12 weeks.

That last week was absolute madness. Document got corrupted, and we tried all sorts of things. We ended up importing the corrupt document into Google Docs, which, oddly enough, did a better job of working with a corrupt Word document than MS Word did.
When the idea is backed by corporate HR departments and academic orthodoxies, it’s no longer raging against the machine. It is the machine.
> one would expect French companies to have the most demanding interviews, since it is almost impossible to fire someone).

In my experience, it's not that hard. You have up to six months to fire the new hire for whatever reason you like. They can also leave during this time, of course, but people have a tendency not to.
> If the sanctions didn’t work before, I don’t know why they would work now.

Because these are different and harsher sanctions. That's why people are complaining more about them now, and why they might might perhaps finally work.

> I don’t have the answers,

Yeah, that's becoming abundantly clear.

> but

...you like to bloviate?

> certainly any move toward more militarization of the world is usually a bad thing.

"Every country has an army. Its own, or someone else's." (Can't recall where the quote is from, but that doesn't make it any the less true.)
>arbitrarily classifying things into categories

Most things have continuous features. Any kind of classification is of course arbitrary then.

It's arbitrary to distinguish these 3 types of T-Rex as well as it being arbitrary to draw a line between chicken and velociraptors.

Of course there's some point where most people agree that a classification makes sense, because there's a "well d'uh" kind of difference, like the chicken and the velociraptor. At the other extreme you'd classify every individual, because they're all unique. People will endlessly argue where to draw this line. There just is no answer to the question how far we should go.

Simpler classifications are useful to enable communication on a broad level. I'd be disappointed to go to a hip-hop concert even though I expected techno. If you told me some subgenre from hip-hop however I might not have understood what the music is they played, because it's not my thing.

Fine classifications are useful to enable communication between enthusiasts/experts. The hip-hop heads will have their subgenres, and the techno people, too. There are distinctions which don't matter to outsiders, but they do matter to insiders.

The finer the classifications are, the less useful their distinction, and the more likely that your communication partner will not understand you though. Techno now has so many subgenres, that I'd be hard-pressed to explain a lot of them.

The problem is that nobody can meaningfully draw a line.
but none of them brings a happy face...
You clearly have absolutely no idea what you are talking about so I'll just stop responding but just know that I got a good chuckle out of this comment because of the incredible disconnect between the situation as it is and your view of it.
I think the goal would be to sell packaged up RISC-V IP for manufacturing on their fabs (to chip designers). If they want people to use their fabs, they'd do well to provide some pre-made IP that works well that can be included easily in bigger designs.

The goal is to make money as a fab, not make money as a chip seller to OEMs.
I feel like my Python always gets better from reading Norvig's notebooks. Didn't know you could rename decorators!
I doubt it, the idea that Russian soldiers are using Maps to navigate in Ukraine is a PR disaster waiting to happen.
> Why does my location change the value of my work? Do I suddenly become better if I move to SF?

Plumbers charge more in SF than in rural Idaho.

A plumber that moves from Idaho to SF starts charging more because 1) they need to to compensate for the high cost of living and 2) to keep up with market rates.

SF would have no plumbers if they all thought it was immoral to charge more than their counterparts in Idaho for the same work.

And SF would collapse economically if all salaries in all industries across the city were suddenly paid based on a national average, independent of cost of living.
Yandex-conqueror: bot to spam Yandex with 5-star reviews with Putin's wrongdoing
Agreed ownership of your notes is imperative. You do need some structure though. Try Logseq. I adopted Obsidian after Roam, but missed the low friction structure that Roam offered. But Roam was not secure and was proprietary. Logseq is the best of both worlds, is plain text based with minimal structure (markdown-ish) and is Git friendly. It's a work in progress, and needs a few files adding to .gitignore to minimise merge conflicts (pages-metadata.edn for one).
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I am not the creator. I just found out about it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t4veo2/a_bot_to_sp...
> HTML, Markdown, JSON, LaTeX, and many other standard formats, are just plain text.

Is parsing json (correctly) really markedly simpler/easier than parsing something like cbor?
People are laughing at this, but it's less dumb than the adjacent project when I was still at a certain BigTech.

They were implementing a "3rd party platform" like Geocities where you can describe your webpages in YAML. This templating language lacked the composability and flexibility of HTML or Angular. Nodes in the tree mapped to custom built Angular.JS components. This is all arbitrary. You'd have to know the names of the components, which props to pass in. The implementation itself was built on top of Angular.JS instead of native vanilla JS and DOM manipulation. So basically they maintained a virtual DOM on top of Angular. All of this lived in an IFrame.

The competing solution was a sandbox where these 3rd party vendors could describe their UI sections in a limited subset of Angular, running in a security sandbox where data access is done through an API ( as opposed to providing components with tightly coupled and hard-coded data access ).
If it’s real intel, forward it. Let them think it’s secret.
I wouldn't read too much into this specific instance, but the general point about how Facebook itself will drive a policy is the thing that creeps me out.

That Iran thing mentioned in passing is most terrifying!

How and why did people allow it to be the entity shaping public opinion?
since you're in the field, what could be the cause of the "lack of progress" ? We need detector that are too hard to build to get the data/measurements we need to progress ? Or do we lack a sort of "flash" when someone figures the new physics out of the current knowledge by a change of point of view ?
What would be the geographic restrictions though?

“In ukraine”? Russian troops might be located there, also VPNs, and non-GPS geolocation is not exactly reliable (at least in my european experience where I’m essentially never geolocalised correctly and the subsequent localisation is always incorrect, any location within a few hundred miles of a border is a crapshoot).

“Out of ukraine or russia” would be trivially bypassed via a vpn as well.
True, but they have strong ties to the state department, and I imagine those conversations are happening. The right strategy might be non-obvious from the outside.
Let's make them all planets! Let's fight for the small planet against the tyranny of the giants!

First they came for Pluto and I didn't speak out because ...
Not sure what you are trying to say?

> Deepak mentions that 15% of those classified as SC/STs also wear the sacred thread

My point is that this is incorrect.
Nintendo famously has the worst security of all the console manufacturers.

That there are still no good attacks for the xbox one speaks volumes.
Not to mention the entire logistics side seem to have broken down entirely so coms and digital services being out / unavailable would be… unsurprising.
It's still painfully slow, and the WYSIWYG editing is very clunky.

The real time is not as real time as, say, Google Docs. There's a lot of lag.
No I mean don't think they would, in a regular case...But for such a thing, where say it affects a target/person of interest/VIP who is under surveillance/protection, or, say in this case, where it's an action in and that directly affects a war-zone, I imagine there be such a requirement...

I mean, if anything, you can imagine the situation where say CIA was doing some operation in a country, and at the same time there was some sort of mass disinformation campaign by some "enemy" actor, and Google decided to discontinue services, but that interfered with the CIA's operation somehow, maybe by cutting CIA off from intelligence and capability against the actor. So you imagine that it would be desirable there would be some co-ordination of things, to avoid stepping on toes. I mean, right? That's reasonable, isn't it?
Maxar Technologies: The eye in the sky tracking invasion of Ukraine
No, that is indirect. Thus when that same medicine gets delayed en-route due to a large rain storm, one wouldn't say you were "killed by the rain".
Yeah, because the censorship is working so great. How could I be so naive to not believe that.

The west did arm Nazis in Ukraine by the way, the US senate voted to supply the arms. This is a fact but there is also a context. And I think people should look into it.
This is awesome to hear! I stopped making games for a few years to focus on other things, but now I'd like to get back to it.
That seems so obvious, now that you said it. Thanks for sharing :)
Could their employers not just pay them a reasonable wage? I’m already likely to be overpaying for the food/drinks being served which is supposed to cover the business overheads, if it doesn’t you have a failing business.

I don’t see how any of the above has anything to do with me, the customer.

I would argue US labor/wage policies are the detestable thing to defend.
It renders humanity less meaningful for a temporary period of time. Empires and regimes always dissipate eventually. Nuclear annihilation renders humanity meaningless forever. It is an unfathomably selfish preference, especially given that countless humans with meaningful lives have lived under kleptocratic dictatorships. I do not consent to be part of your death wish.

(But I do desperately hope and pray that Ukraine somehow manages to beat Russia back without massive loss of life.)
From very credible evidence it looks as though the surprise cherry on the cake would have been to also invade Moldavia. That doesn't change your calculus in any way?
Yesterday someone who had been right about other things told me on Twitter that Russia has been running their communication in cleartext at least until recently.

I don't listen in to Ukrainian radio so I cannot verify but I am sure someone here knows more if they want to tell. It seems at this point it is already a very open secret.
Thanks for this nice writeup :)
well, your completion script doesn't _need_ to be written in bash.
If you're writing a completion script for an executable, that executable can be called with an option that generates the completions for bash to consume.
You just need to generate the output in the expected format and install a softlink .
Hope this can give you some comfort.
Whenever I join a new team and need to inhale a new architecture or complex process, I take a stab at documenting what currently exists, and then share my notes with the team. Corrections immediately pour in, and this "wrong answer" inevitably produces a much better end result than asking any single person to tell me the "right answer".
am I the only one who is like "I don't care about creative work". I just like to code and I like money so for me my career is a win win?
Gizmodo Media Group Union employees on strike
Do you have any single example in history where this censorship was required?
Mushrooms, lotus and hemp rope. Hmm… what kind of lounge was this this?
Is there an easy way to test if a middlebox is vulnerable to this so you know if you need to patch it / mitigate the issue?
I'm tilted more towards the US being in the wrong here and should repeal some acts. I do agree with you that it applies to every website in the world when it collects info on individuals located in the EU. Penalties only seem to occur if your business operates in the EU. So some subset of websites could ignore it I guess? IANAL.

Edit: Also the more I read about the GDPR (and the CLOUD act), the more I'm in favor of it.
Bungie rejects Steam Deck’s Linux, threatens to ban Destiny 2 players there
that's an easy one: webstorm

there are too many small features, like the local history which has saved me multiple times from blunders like running git clean forgetting that I hadn't yet committed the files

OTOH, since webstorm indexes the project, the refactors across multiple files are more reliable than for ex. vscode
Raw density doesn't mean nearly as much as mineral geography and availability.

It's because of the number of people that there's a race to the bottom in terms of wages. Skilled labour is almost half the price in India, $7kpa vs $13kpa (old Russian XR). Secondary materials like steel are 80% the price in India. Harvest materials like cotton and rubbers come from India in the first place.

I'm not suggesting that the process would be free or fast or painless, but risking sanctions for something that could be in-housed for a relatively small in-house fee, and long term savings seems like a stupid thing to do. India needs an external market more than anything; certainly more than spare parts.
Ah, ok. I missed that section. Now things start to make sense.

What I don't completely understand, for two reasons, is why foreign map publishers would allow this pseudorandom offset to exist on their mapping apps:

1. The obfuscation algorithm has basically been cracked.

2. I don't think the Chinese gov can do much about foreign companies, except maybe by proxy, by pressuring the national trade liaisons or some such.
Jeez, this thread is a dumpster fire!

The article is more Paranoia than Fact in today's context.

What may have been true is earlier generations has largely disappeared in Urban areas and in particular; in the IT industry. Everybody just wants a good paying job and a decent life, nobody bothers much about Caste.
I disagree, the unfiltered high noise is what makes it valuable. Curation is a bias.

If someone wants to dive into any topic in the archive 30 years from now they will have access to everything, not access to what some of us deem 'worthy' of curating.

I agree that it makes it harder to find things but I also see the value of IA as a time capsule.
We Are into Robotic Process Automation(RPA)
C# generics are delicious. Combined with the strong compiler and super good reflection features, you can do very well indeed with it.
It feels very improbable that a government would be using google maps for this.

Does it? My 'knowledge' of war comes from movies, TV and video games, which is obviously nonsense. I know that. I know that my belief that military tech is a bit like the things you see in Call of Duty or a Marvel blockbuster is wrong, and that it's all special effects and creative license to make things look 'cool'. Learning that soldiers on the ground in an active warzone pull out a phone and use Google Maps wouldn't actually surprise me at all. They're cheap, reliable, and understood by everyone. The only reason I can think of not to use it is because Google can be forced to block your access. Maybe they don't care about that?
Plain text adoption often implies markdown for a richer experience, but we also have the wonderful https://orgmode.org markup.

There is no shortage of markdown-based tools on all platforms. Our org markup options, on the other hand, are very few outside of Emacs. Org markup itself is super versatile and can power lots of use-cases.

I built two org-powered apps for iOS myself:

https://plainorg.com

https://flathabits.com

There are other great ones out there:

https://beorg.app

https://logseq.com

https://organice.200ok.ch

https://orgro.org

http://orgzly.com

Lastly, a shoutout to Karl Voit who's been driving org markup awareness outside of Emacs with Orgdown https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown. He's also discussed org markup's strengths at https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only
Java fixed the mutability issue for its generics, you can insert Cats and Dogs into a concrete List<Animal>, but you cannot insert them into a List<? extends Animal>.
This includes Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, and The Root.
Indian startup says founder siphoned off money
Have you ever been risked your life and that of your family by being part of a revolutionary movement?

I haven't. I don't know that I would if I lived in a dictatorship. I'm not going to start blaming people because they haven't either.
Then why can you tell what race people are by looking at them?

I claimed you can predict 99.9999% of people's self-identified race from their DNA. Is that wrong? How high does that number have to be before you'd call it non-pseudo-science?
Destiny 2 is not supported for play on the Steam Deck or on any system utilizing Steam Play’s Proton unless Windows is installed and running. Players who attempt to launch Destiny 2 on the Steam Deck through SteamOS or Proton will be unable to enter the game and will be returned to their game library after a short time.

Players who attempt to bypass Destiny 2 incompatibility will be met with a game ban.
I hate to be pedantic[1], but:

> HTML, Markdown, JSON, LaTeX, and many other standard formats, are just plain text.

On this definition, Word and Excel are just (zipped) plain text files.

> Every device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text.

This definitely isn't true, and it kind of misses the point that there's no such thing as "plain text". It's still encoded in ascii, or utf-8, and still potentially has problems being read on other machines.

It's reasonable to say that ascii has become so ubiquitous as to be universal, but it definitely wasn't always so, and won't definitely always be.

[1] Okay, I love to be pedantic
Normally I would do that, and I considered that, but the only possible alternative to you lying in this case would be that you didn't notice the three separate rather conspicuous links in the sentence you quoted, or didn't realize they were links to supporting information, or that they weren't there when you read the article, perhaps because Johnstone added them after you read it. This seemed extremely implausible to me.

If that were the case, presumably you would have said, "I didn't see those links" instead of just "It’s a good idea, and IIRC part of this site’s guidelines, to “assume good faith”. If you find the linked articles more convincing than I do in making the case that NATO had a hand in starting this war, then maybe say “I disagree” rather than “you are lying”."

Therefore the presumption of good faith in this case has been comprehensively overcome. Blitzkrieged, really. And you still haven't expressed any remorse, just complained that it's ill-mannered of me to point out your lie.

Perhaps I shouldn't have talked about my evaluation of the reliability of those three articles, because the point about your lying is that, even if all three of those articles were nothing but lies, Johnstone's assertion still wouldn't be "unsupported", as you falsely claimed it was. It would be "supported only by lies".

But I mentioned my evaluation of the reliability because I think the question of whether what's going on in Ukraine is much more important than the question of whether you were lying about what Johnstone said.

Which, to be clear, you were. Please own up to it and don't do it again.
I was curious about how the Indians handle this, too, so I read Republic of Caste by Anand Teltumbde. It's a long, rambling, but detailed description of how the reservation system was playing out in India. Broadly, he argues that any initial positive effect has been displaced by caste becoming even more of a wedge issue (each caste feeling disadvantaged unfairly and hyper-vigilant for others' corruption) and castes scrambling for favorable designations (e.g. inventing a new history of victimization or fabricating a genealogy in order to be assigned to a more favorable schedule).

Ironically, Teltumbde advocates for replacing reservations with American-style affirmative action.
Very sad. I wish the best to the Nadella family.

Props to him putting focus on people with disabilities to make Windows and other applications easier to use. Many programmers like myself without any disabilities often can forget that many people suffer from different disabilities so making apps and websites easier to use is important.

I will try to improve all the usability of the stuff I work on going forward.
As a media producer / video person, 10gbe has become pretty essential and commonplace. The idea of having 10gbe internet at home would change the entire work from home / media industry.
These marks could be set by ukrainian citizens wanting to return the glorious days of Soviet Union.
How about adding reviews to those places that tell the truth about the whole situation? Looks like it could get to the right people.
Israeli TV channel airs spoofed video of Tie Fighter downed in Ukraine
Uploading raw videos from a DSLR, or data sets for photogrammetry.