skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've kinda lost track of object reality there: "Only logged in users who are deliberately un-hiding this content" is hardly "as valid as any other content".

Slashdot's attitude is that things which are "removed" (voted to zero) ought to be auditable. This means everyone knows what the rules REALLY are (as opposed to what people SAY they are), and it also prevents the system from being abused (since you can trivially link to examples of that abuse)

I really don't think an auditable record of moderation decisions is that bad, and you have to understand that this is NOT "content that is presented to regular users." I don't remember my login anymore, so I can't even figure out how to see the comment you linked - I'm sure if I logged in and reset myself to view negative scores I COULD see it, since I've used the site before, but it is distinctly non-trivial to do so.
Z - zapad - west
V - vostok - east

At least that's what some analysts attribute to their meaning. I suspect it's to delineate chains of command when they meet in the field.
> annex a territory, fund insurgence, kill innocent civilians

Not Nazi.

> destroy holocaust memorial,

fake news and not Nazi.

war of aggression /= Nazi.

The Nazis themselves has two major non-Nazi allies doing these same things (but not the genocide, which was kind of the Nazis special talent) at the same time.
I can see how one would want to know What The Other Nerds Think about any given topic in the global narrative but it truly is better this way
1. The Russian gov't looks the other way. Hackers in any other country might fear prosecution & extradition, but Russian hackers are protected as long as they don't attack Russians. There was some malware going around at one point where someone realized the payload didn't run if the user had a Russian keymap installed.

2. Kind of a "worse is better" phenomenon. This is apocryphal but while Americans and Europeans were digging into Apple IIs and Commodores, Russia just had crappy knockoff machines that didn't follow the behavior of the machines they were meant to be clones of, so anyone who stuck with it long enough basically taught themselves reverse engineering and the operation of "weird machines", how to operate in environments of undefined behavior. Thats just how I heard it, I'd like to learn more about their history since their space program was pretty one-to-one with ours, they definitely had computer engineers and programmers just as sophisticated as USA
So you buy an external 1TB drive just for the sake of the conversion, then create a new partition, then copy your 1TB of data over, then... what? Wipe your PC, boot into a live CD, then copy the partition over? Do you find this easier/more worthwhile than an in-place conversion? How/why?
Well racism...
seems like we found a new pain au chocolat flamewar :p
Can a Z80 be dropped into an 8080A socket? I'm thinking there were hardware differences.
It does appear that is one of the molecules that will help stimulate production [1] but to what degree I can not tell. This might make for some fun reading on PubMed. I take half of those things they list but have no way to measure it.

I would avoid commenting on the people down-voting you, that typically just makes it worse.

[1] - https://www.neomed-clinic.com/the-best-nerve-growth-factor-s...
Well the worst-case is that it "succeeds" in which case we dump a lot of money that could be better spent on seriously addressing climate change. Instead we construct new security hazards to rear their heads during whatever societal disintegration we face as climate change, the rising tide of fascism, economic mismanagement, and the lawless global system of competing blood-thirsty imperial blocs, converge down to a point.

I worry that if humanity survives all this, a thousand years from now, as new civilisations form out of the ashes, what problems they're still going to be left with.
Polestar O2 Is An EV But Desirable (and has a built-in drone)
I think they were talking about the number keys, and perhaps plus and equals (but that might need shift depending on the keyboard and be less convenient), not cosine and family.
What safety risks exist that do not exist for other forms of fuel and energy?? Wouldn't marine be the perfect use of hydrogen? The only output is water. Energy storage of hydrogen is cheaper by weight then battery. If there are some solar panels and/or wind generators on part of the vessel then couldn't it technically stay adrift from shore forever (temporarily forget food for humans or degradation of the boat without maintenance).
I remember looking through XPath and wondering why no one had converted as much of it as possible to a generic path language for any tree-based data format, which JSON, TOML, YAML, and XML are.

XPath was the best of the XML standards. Well, it helps that the language wasn't xml unlike XSLT and others.
> So, fuck Putin, fuck Russia and their expansionist ambitions

Being a member of nato is like being in a gang whose leader (US) really likes to fight and cripple others (I would say way more than russia in recent history).

It is certainly convenient but hardly morally superior.
This gives me a real sense of the past, I always looked forward to the comic strip in Linux Journal Magazine

https://archive.org/details/linuxjournalpdfcollection/Januar...
You're just old and nostalgic. (No worries, so am I).

People still have interest in philosophy, free Internet and so forth.

Nothing is gone, it's just been made a bit less obvious.
What a coincidence:

https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrsw/installations/navbas...

One of the primary military function of San Clemente Island has been to support research and development of many of the Navy's weapon systems

…

This integrated set of ranges and operational areas covers approximately 2,620 square nautical miles (nm). The SCIRC consists of more than six dozen ranges and operational areas. The extent of these areas range from the ocean floor to an altitude of 80,000 feet.
This is definitely not the case. At minimum there are web browser releases and OS related releases (distro releases, Linux kernel releases, glibc releases, bash releases etc). Then there are releases of each of the dependencies for web apps. There are releases for various desktops like GNOME/KDE and also apps like Krita/Inkscape/Blender.
With the west looking to cut off Russian energy and the world economy staring at a ton of misery due to the sanctions a green new deal like stimulus could be a great way to tackle all 3 problems.
>They could be, with RF and laser equipment running reasonably-advanced software to spoof such sensors.

Based on Occum's Razor, this doesn't seem likely to me.

However, to go along with the premise, this could be some interesting method of disrupting radar systems prior to attacks. In the design phase, so one was borded and made it do test patterns rather than full blinding. ??? Then, it just became a thing for those in the know to just mess with people as drills for testing your thing. Each new trainee learns to program it using the manuals until some 10x person gets a go and now we have an easy way to keep the UFO thing going. (doesn't explain the visual observatiosn though)
There's also a more full-featured guide in the OpenZFS wiki for setting up more complex configurations (mirrors, encryption, etc) for ZFS-on-root.
You should read up on Anom to get a better idea of what a real FBI honeypot looks like.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nnmg/inside-anom-video-ope...
Wow, I actually hadn't noticed I could flag stories and even comments, I assumed it had the same points threshold as down voting (I say this as a relatively new account).
> Why is Russia so into hacking?

Same reason NK is. Same reason every country is. It is rather cheap in comparison. I mean even the largest super computers only cost a few hundred million. That's rather cheap when you consider other military adventures. One state of the art super computer is roughly the price of one (maybe 2) modern jets. The biggest cost is people. And you can do a ton of damage with hacking.

The costs are low, benefits are high.

[0] Summit was $350m, and a F22 costs $140m (per jet, not including development costs which is hundreds of billions)
viasat under attack? probably by a 3rd grader. #ViaShat
Because one of those is difficult.
Are they going to add zfs to the TUI installer for Ubuntu Server? I've tried several times over the last year, and I have yet to find a good method for getting Ubuntu Server running on zfs root.
> For the same reasons, NATO can't be seen to tolerate the popping of tactical nukes in a regional conflict; they would have to retaliate, for fear that their nuclear deterrent be treated as a joke.

NATO should definitely not respond to nukes with nukes unless Putin drops one on a NATO country. Ukraine is not in NATO. That makes it a first strike, not a retaliatory strike. Putin's propaganda has been that NATO is an aggressor threatening Russia. If NATO strikes Russia in retaliation for a strike on a non-member country that only vindicates him, and you know, leads directly to WWIII
I used to use a firefox addon which have nice expression input and history. Firefox updates killed so many good addon, even yesterday the 97.0 is disabling my addon again.

Now I just keep a RStudio window open.
well, relative to aws they are a small company ;-)
To me more like generalized jq. Didn't know pandoc supported these formats.
Very thorough break down of how lighting in corners actually happens in reality, and the general misunderstanding of it in people implementing SSAO.

Honestly SSAO is just a performance hack.

But that's ok! Game engines and the like are filled with performance hacks where things can be "wrong" but sufficiently close to what's expected that we don't (generally) notice it. Sometimes it's approximations (fast inverse sqrt for example), movement (strafe + forward having faster movement), or lighting (artificial glow, halos, SSAO, etc).

That said it wouldn't hurt for shader writers to read something like this, because maybe these issues can be handled better even though the AO is still just being approximated.
Well, you hear about Russian hackers on the news a lot, which would seem to indicate that either:

1) they are very good at hacking

2) they are not so good at hacking

3) Russia is a popular place for hackers to set up proxies
After some years without cases and if the country has a high vaccination rate, then the recommendation is to switch to use only the injectable vaccine. More details in the section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule
That's right. It's pretty much exactly analogous to "da Vinci".

The concept of the algorithm is named for the person, al-Khwarizmi, and not for the place, Khwarazm. Why would you remove the al-?
Bitcoin can be made illegal on a per country basis but a few countries have and are making it legal tender so it will continue to stay relevant in many places. El Salvador was first. Mexico is rumored to be looking at the possibility. It's too volatile now but nothing says it will always be.

It makes sense for some countries where the local currency keeps on losing its value and dollars are hard to get.

Even if it's made illegal all over the world the technology will continue to evolve and find its niche given the restrictions it might be under. It will probably take a few generations for it to happen. The idea of paper money took 100s of years to take hold so it's not out of the ordinary for cryptocurrency to take many more years to become common.

Once Bitcoin became an asset, people's greed kept it going and will continue to keep it alive and evolving.
"Russia was not able to join the EU at the time due to its oligarchy and systemic corruption, very weak democratic institutions, lack of understanding and enforcement of some basic human rights. It was clearly incompatible with the EU values and has actually severely degraded in that regard since then."

All these apply to an even greater extent in Ukraine.

Propaganda is the succor of dull minds.
“Society as a whole needs to be engaged in the project of raising the next generation, and that breaks down if having children is treated as an individual choice. Raising kids in America—especially in urban areas among more educated people—is just such a sad, atomized experience”

This entire paragraph is three assertions given without evidence. Feel free to own these ideas as if they are truths but arguing axiomatically from them is just wrong.

For me, I think you can find a plethora of examples throughout history that show positive societal contributions from people divorced from child rearing and raising a child is the very definition of personal choice.

Finally, I’m in about the most liberal, urban, educated environment you can live in the US and I can’t imagine how much more engaged the community could be in for parenting. It’s a source of constant joy to me how engaged my family is with our community and vice versa.

Perhaps your view on this reflects the specific choices you made in where to live and raise your family? Try not to extrapolate too much from a singular data point.
A lot of well-funded startups pay SWE $200K+ in base salary. You can find a bunch of examples here: https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/?team=...
Hopeful that https://www.vesta.earth/ can make a difference.
doctor fun? https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/archive.htm
> Do they really end up with less money if the person wouldn't purchase it otherwise?

Frankly it doesn't matter whether the person would have purchased the item or not if they couldn't make their own copy. Going down that path would outlaw all competition, or even just choosing to abstain from purchasing anything. There is nothing inherently wrong with making choices or taking actions which result in other people receiving less income than they might have in some other hypothetical scenario. What matters is that they still have all of their own property whether the copy is made or not—they are not made any worse off than they were before.
I have a feeling the surgeon did the surgery because he was in Belize, you can probably get away with more there.
I feel like you're just describing the JS ecosystem and for some reason included Go in the same group, even though Go's far more similar to Java than to JS.

> [...] move quickly/rapidly adopt new language and runtime features, don't generally care much for backwards compatibility in the library ecosystem, have many competing frameworks and libraries for everything. etc.

None of this applies to Go and in fact, Java is much worse when it comes to churn than Go is. Just look at how many companies are stuck on Java 8. Go updates are fearless - there's no reason not to run the newest version available.

> [...] move quickly/rapidly adopt new language and runtime features,

Go 1.0 was released almost exactly 10 years ago ([1]). Since, there have been *zero* major language changes. The changes that did happen were small, typically to address inconsistencies or small inconveniences. Though, there is one big change coming in this month's release - generics.

[1]: https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1
> A friend of mine said at the end of 2020 that his prediction was that "2020 will be the best year of the decade" and it's scary watching that cynicism come true.

2016-2019 were all better than 2020.
So I’m using restic currently (barebones; with scripts). And I pay for storage on b2.

Should I download it from elsewhere? Isn’t Blobbackup opensource?

Can I use blobbackup instead to do the same only that Blobbackup will be a gui for Restic?

As an analogy - what is Vorta for Borg.
The headline is a poor summary. The report finds that the climate is tracking right down the middle of predictions made 10, 20, and 30 years ago. But the report finds that the impacts on human civilization is more severe than anticipated.
On the other hand, if someone wants to experiment on themselves, why not let them? Nobody is harmed if it doesn't work, and we can make quick breakthroughs that might be otherwise impossible due to ethics/etc.
Everything you described would be a problem with hydrogen as well if not more so. You would need much much more insulation + special pipes for hydrogen usage. I don't know about slow ramp up times, I've never heard this. It takes mine about 10-30seconds for a 3 story house to start up. "So no more opening the windows at night for fresh air, then getting the house back up to temperature in the morning." I don't understand, how does hydrogen solve this problem? How is this not a problem for other sources?

Random note: I'm all for heat pumps & all for hydrogen. They just aren't for the same use cases. Heat pumps are good for heating+cooling of spaces. Hydrogen is good way to store electricity when care about energy-to-weight and/or need quick fuelling.
AWS is pretty huge too - thw list ofnaervices doesnt fit on my screen!and half of them are half baked!
Where does one go to get a part fabricated, though? It isn't quite as easy as getting a PCB made.
What a coincidence. I just linked Insect in another comment thread a couple hours after this post. I thought you saw my comment and made a post for it. Nope. Turns out you're the OG.

Insect is my go-to calculator when I'm not in Emacs. Excellent program. Although I'm not a fan of NPM being its method of local installation.
In its heyday, Slashdot was often (but not always) really timely with tech news, and was reasonably well-curated. The comments were generally numerous, and had a lot of genuine insight since the site tended to be frequented by actual IT/development professionals. Even the political discussion was fairly sincere. It also had an early user-driven moderation system, which while flawed, was enough to separate the wheat from the chaff. It anticipated Web 2.0 in a lot of ways.

I used to click on big posts, set the filter for Score: 3 or higher, and read through EVERYTHING. It'd take hours sometimes, and I'd learn a ton about all kinds of stuff. These were discussions, not just comments, and I think people took more pride in the quality of their contribution.

Like everything from back then, Slashdot got whittled down. It went through multiple acquisitions, and eventually became disconnected from all the original people behind it. Subsequent owners seemed to have no vision or connection with the community. There were some attempted changes that never seemed to go anywhere, but I think the most important thing about the acquisitions is just how bland the site became.

And of course, even if Slashdot had all those same people, everything else changed too... the industry, the people, the culture, the Internet, the whole world.

HN is the closest thing I know today to /. -- I'd say imagine an HN where editors curated the content, and with a lot more whimsy in its culture, and a lot more optimism. I don't expect to find any of that today on Slashdot, and when I do click through to the comments I find them to be very one-dimensional and tired.
I confused by 2 things.

1) Why can't/hasn't Mircosoft/Nvidia/Root CA revoke the certificate yet?
2) Why are Nvidia's code signing certificates around to be stolen? From my experience most code signing certs are issued on HSMs.

Does anyone have deeper insights into what's going on.
Nowadays space heaters are for bitcoin/ethereum production.

I keep wondering when ASIC+5G "electric heaters" will be nearly given away to people.
total nostalgia bomb.

i can’t tell you how much valinux changed my life.

the excitement. the possibilities. the dotcom money.

most of all the people - like rasterman, octobrx, rasmus of php fame.

insane coalescence of talent.

working there part time on linux.com was such a foundation experience for me as a freshman in college.

i feel like an old hippie now too.

but forever greatful to LNUX
I call this the ability to bullshit status.
Which is why Wikipedia is so western-centric. I could be the world expert in my field, say... coconut picking. I haven't published any papers about picking coconuts, and neither is it a subject that the newspapers want to write about.

If I wrote wikipedia entry about picking coconuts, it would be immediately deleted because personal experience isn't a citable source. I need to tell some other fool about what I do, have him publish it in an article, and only then am I worthy of sharing my knowledge on wikipedia.

I've seen absolute hogwash in wikipedia articles about my field (not really picking coconuts lol) but I can't correct them because I can't find an article where someone else has written about the topic.
Show HN: Octordle
All of the above!
You have to be joking. Ukraine has existed as a "country" only for a few decades.

The very name means borderland. Pull up a map from 1930 show me the country Ukraine? How about 1830? How about 1730 (then a big part was still under the Turks). How about 1630?

America has existed as a country longer than Odessa has been a city.
Right?

Depending on field you could argue that by gating entry to university they were controlling access to some careers, but I'm not sure there's any material that exists that could adequately express such a stretch.
Everyone should be opposed to a central bank digital currency. If you think tracking and censorship is bad now with tech companies, wait until the Government can control your access to money and cut off access to the financial system for any or no reason. Not only that, but the surveillance capabilities will be better than even George Orwell could have envisioned. Imagine if your wallet is restricted so you can only spend money at certain locations on certain days or times.

I am aware that technically the Federal Reserve is not part of the Government, but the reality is that they are ABOVE it which is even scarier. They are not accountable to the people via elections or any other means.

I do not know how they intend to spin this as a positive for society, but I am sure they will come up with something. Perhaps they will say that it makes it more easier to track down terrorists and criminals, or that it is necessary because Bitcoin mining uses a lot of energy, or that it is necessary to control Russia, but make no mistake, this is and will be an attack on regular working class people.
You reminded me of this scene from Battlestar Galactica that has stuck with me since I watched it (spoiler alert). Conversely, the character laments the sensory limitations of the human body :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPnx3zO3SDc&t=73s
Regarding XQuery we just added JSON querying on top in Brackit[1] / SirixDB[2].

Brackit is a retargetable query compiler and does a lot of optimizations at compile time as for instance optimizing joins and aggregations. It is useable as an in-memory processor or as a query processor of a database system.

The Ph.D. thesis of Sebastian:

Separating Key Concerns in Query Processing - Set Orientation, Physical Data Independence, and Parallelism

http://wwwlgis.informatik.uni-kl.de/cms/fileadmin/publicatio...

[1] http://brackit.io

[2] https://sirix.io
Touchscreens
Only one side of the kids have skin in the game and don't really need to be fed anything..
i remember you ;)
and it was a wonderful time indeed.
>Of course, the most likely answer is that these reports are some simply untrue. If someone has an impossible story that you can't independently verify, there's no good reason to believe them.

As Carl Sagan (among others) pointed out, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Or, more recently, what Matt O'Dowd calls the "Space Time[0] Mantra": "It's never aliens. Until it is."

I'm going to wait for that "Klaatu barada nikto[1]" moment before I buy into any claims of intelligent aliens visiting our little world.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/show/pbs-space-time/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto
Bell's theorem.

I did an whole B.S. in physics and I could just never get it.