skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep a copy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_to_Be_Reproduced on every one of my hard drives. Magritte was a wonderful inspiration.
How To Win Friends and Influence People is an historical best seller. Almost everyone wants to be rich. Money is power.

I don’t know how many people would be able to resist the One Ring if it was within their reach.
There are paths of escalation that merely risk nuclear annihilation rather than guarantee it. In particular, in a war with NATO, where Russian forces would be heavily outmatched in conventional warfare, Russian forces would consider using "deescalatory" tactical nuclear strikes on NATO troops. The side that has the most invested (e.g. for Russia where Kyiv is seen as integral to its historical Slavic / Rus heritage) is most likely to engage in escalation and brinksmanship while the other side has to consider whether to follow it up the escalatory ladder or back down.
>and the winner usually was the one who never bluffs

Once everyone starts playing by this strategy people will not want to challenge as they will always fail. Since people are no longer challenging it is safer to start cheating again.
It does get a lot of spammers. Probably hackers trying to have fun getting around HN restrictions, as well as some traveling spambots. I wouldn't say it's "not huge" - HN regularly pops up at the top of Google searches.

Downvotes do help a lot. dang often refers to them as " white blood cells".

Some new accounts do get flagged as spam accidentally, especially when they sign up to promote themselves in a less spammy manner. Vouches do help here and if it's really bad, and you can email HN if you think someone is wrongly flagged as a spammer.
> At what point did Joy's Law -- "2^(year-1884) MIPS" -- break with reality?

It was never really true. PS It is formulated as 1984 not 1884, though. 1884 throws off MIPS calculations by 2^100 or 10^30.
To advance organized labor for all.
I am a fan of the cloudnine mechanical split ergo. It is as close as you can get to the Microsoft ergo 4000
As parent said, in good times (demand >> supply), the difference between individual optimal and union optimal is relatively small. Or negative!

In bad times (demand << supply), the difference between individual optimal and union optimal is very large.

Ergo, you're not going to see a lot of union benefits in good times.
> driven by DARPA to get Raytheon imaging chips working with Intel AI chips

Well that's a terrifying thought...
You mean the good old times when the US military just shot at people trying to unionize?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
Depending on how rocky it is, perhaps something like a large powered impact driver could be used to push through. I'm not sure how it would be any improvement over just excavating a large enough hole to begin with though.
Do YOU have a geiger counter on your desk?
Nintendo doesn't - or at least shouldn't - have the right to use the threat of legal action to shut down public discussions they dislike. This is the exact purpose of anti-SLAPP statutes. "Protect their IP", sure, but that means taking action against people who violate their authoritative copyright on the programs themselves, not threatening action against those who merely use brief gameplay footage clips in a highly transformative way.
You could say this about any military aggression from Russia though.

"Putin taking Estonia isn't as bad as nuclear annihilation."

"Putin taking Berlin isn't as bad as nuclear annihilation."

"Putin taking DC isn't as bad as nuclear annihilation."

What if he just goes, "I'm invading western Europe now too, and if you fight back I launch the nukes"? Do we just roll over and say that it's better to surrender than fight?
Flutter on Embedded Devices
> buckethead soundtrack
Wait, what! I know quake had NIN doing the sounds, but if its buckethead from Praxis, I'll have to check that out.
Protected Mode Segmentation as a powerful anti-debugging measure
> compensated to “opt-out”.

Didn't you basically just describe the goal of a union? Better conditions for their workers?
What do taxes have to do with the ability of an average person to choose to work less than 40 hours per week, when a standard full-time position requires it?
Yes, I always have the option to quit. Which I had in the first place. It's just as possible (in fact, probable) that the union negotiates a worse contract than what I could have gotten myself and I'd be forced to quit a job I liked. That's a strictly worse outcome.

> At least in the union situation you’ve had an advocate in negotiating the contract.

They're not an advocate for me. They're an advocate for the union. Those are not at all the same thing.
>I didn't know that. But if that is the case, the company could have offered them money and support to relocate somewhere out of the war zone?

They were literally surrounded and being bombed in Kharkiv. Hard to get out in those circumstances. It's an actual war...
Chimps are evolving and will soon reach human (homo sapiens) intelligence level. Planet of the apes incoming....

Chimps got coronavirus and it boosted their brain power.

(/s, joke)
Work remotely and come to Florida.
“Peter and the Wolf” Is Ukrainian
I don't think the union contract should cover people who don't want it.

If the company consents and an employee comments consents, why is the union when relevant? Why should they be able to barge in and mandate their terms?
I don't quite understand Russia's paranoia around NATO. Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia already border Russia (+ Poland if you count Kaliningrad). Why is it such a big deal for Ukraine to enter a defense pact, unless Russia wants to retain the right to invade when they see fit? Not trying to be rhetorical, this existential threat to Russia is news to me.
The past is gone and we have to wake up
I'm thinking maybe their long-range plan is to turn the reactor off and then damage it in some way that it can never be used again without rebuilding from scratch. Russia's main export is fossil fuels, and it's in Russia's economic and strategic best interest for Ukraine to be dependent on them for energy. Nuclear enables Ukraine's energy independence, and thus can't be tolerated.
Hear, hear! A/UX was a great OS, with an OS9 GUI on/with X11. Worked fine in 8MB. (Note: not GB, MB!)

I still have my SE/30. Need to replace some caps and boot it...
I thought the 40km long column was headed to Kyiv.

Also, I thought they staged troops in Belarus and started one portion of the invasion from there because it was closest to Kyiv.

I know they’re invading from all directions, but there’s a symbolism to Kyiv as Ukraine’s capital and I read somewhere that Russia wanted to capture it with the intent of demoralizing Ukrainians.
It's basically impossible to have a trustless E2EE experience if you didn't build it yourself.
I've thought about this off and on, and there's certainly interesting possibilities. You can imagine a cloud renderer that does something like a global scatter / photon mapping pass, while each client's session on the front end tier does an independent gather/render. Obviously there's huge problems to making something like this work practically, but just mention it as an example of the sort of more novel directions we should at least consider.
Knowing nothing about hiring journalists, I wonder why other news organizations like the NY Times don't hire the now-unemployed journalists. Who is more impressive, the person who just graduated from Columbia's journalism school or is the star reporter at the Des Moines Register, or the journalist who kept reporting and investigating under threats, pressure, and restrictions from the Russian dictator? After that, it's hard to imagine that an angry CEO or denying Western politician is going to intimidate or dissuade them!
My son was in a standard non-montessori private kindergarten.

Every day we dropped him off he would cry and throw a tantrum, and it would break our hearts, but you know... that's life.

He was falling behind all his classmates, his speech hadn't developed, he didnt sing the songs, do the dances, etc. All the other kids were doing great.

I attended one of his classes and noticed he refused to sit at his chair, all he wanted to do was stare out the window to try to spot airplanes.

That's when we decided to switch over to Montessori, mainly because I wanted him to have more freedom, and at least enjoy school even if he didn't learn much.

The change frankly has been incredible, after just one week he was waiting inpatiently at the front door of our home, anxious to go to school. The only crying when we dropped him off was from my wife, when he ran into the school without looking back every morning.

His speech and abilities have normalized with the rest of his class after a year.

Now I'm not saying everyone will have the same outcome,maybe he just grew and would've developed any way.

I just wanted to share my personal experience in case anyone finds it useful.
Is Access to Black Sea and Expanding Moscow's Maritime Trade Putin's Real Motive
This is a great game. My wife's family plays it. It's funny to watch new players realize how cheat-y the game is.
Not exactly answering your question, but my wife and I considered Montessori for our kids. However, after observing it (and getting some advice) we concluded it wouldn't be a good fit, since our kids (one of whom likely has ADHD, the other was diagnosed with high-functioning autism) would probably spend all their time looking around to see what the other kids are doing and struggle to pay attention to their own work in that environment.
Show HN: RateYourRecruiter.dev
Tech recruiting and interviewing sucks. So I created https://www.rateyourrecruiter.dev/ to hold recruiters to account.

The elevator pitch reads: Interviewing for a role in a highly sought after tech company is broken. Recruiters have incentive to get as many people in for interviews, with little to none (or incorrect) information. Questions often have little to do with on-the-job responsibilities, and are rarely communicated to recruiting and back to the candidate.

By having a more transparent process is not only more equitable, but will lead to greater success for candidates and recruiters. RateYourRecruiter.dev aims at demystifying the recruiting and tech interview process.
I bought a Montessori book, and while I'm only a few chapters in, it has some ideas I really like.

I think it's important to remember that these techniques were defined in 1912 though. There seems to be a sort of worship of the Montessori method, and a "black and white" mentality about what is correct. Using a 100+ year old book/method without adjustments and chasing purity in following it seems misguided.
Yes, because it is monopolistic/anti-competitive behavior. In isolated cases, it doesn't seem so bad. But you eventually end up with entire industries dominated by unions where you can't work at all without paying their protection money.

We have laws against corporations using market power to force monopolies. Unions also should not be able to legally monopolize the labor market.
It's not a mainland take - it's not some journalist from Shanghai - it's Chinese Communist Party propaganda, intended to manipulate the global audience.
I did write Glider. That was a long time ago. Thank you for your kind words.

I still enjoy writing small amusing applications and games.
I think a union forming at IBM in order to compel management to stay in the mainframe business would be a net bad for society.
Do you feel this way only about RT or does it extend to US propaganda organs as well e.g. Voice of America / Radio Free Europe?
That makes sense. I recently got a keyboard with configurable layers, but I'm using mostly standard qwerty to start out, adding custom bindings one at a time. I think I'll try out your suggestion, would you mind sharing more details of your configuration?
One bad person can ruin a team and cause good people to leave. See California where it can take 5 years to fire a bad teacher and 100000s of dollars.
I'll take the downvotes too. We had a president who idolized Putin and still praises him to this day. If we think this sort of thing can't happen here, or aren't clear eyed about the threat he and his enablers still pose, we are in even more danger.
Anymore? when were they ever safe? When has anyone in a position of power ever paid more than lip service to protecting whistle blower
> Overall though, not having a contract, recourse and representation in a large company is a pretty big risk factor unless you just toil away in silence.

Why? I have an in-demand set of skills and could easily find a new job if I wanted to.

I'd much rather negotiate directly with my employer than have a union intermediating that relationship. If anything, it feels far riskier to have a politically-motivated union boss control my employment.
Unfortunately America has just shown us that it too can advance a wildly inappropriate and simply stupid individual to the highest levels of power.
This is a tweet that quotes a sentence from Musk, and does not claim that it is true and offers no corroboration or further reporting on it.
Yes - "Oh I love trash!" and "I love it because it's trash!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyNDUboVsL8
I don't think many people want to send their kids to a crap shoot.
I'd love to be able to choose to opt-out of paying social security tax (and forfeit future benefits).
Attackers Search for Exposed (LuCI) Folders – OpenWRT?
Because you need 2 children to replace their 2 parents in an assumed one husband one wife household.

Of course, due to mortality we actually need more than 2. Around 2.1 - 2.4 for most developed nations IIRC.

And this doesn't hold if the household have more than one wives, say.
No idea what the actual numbers look like, but I think I see your point and think that level of overreach is unlikely to happen in most scenarios. If the government could track cash as well as they could track crypto, should a business or individual that unknowingly receives illicit cash be punished? It's certainly possible but I think it would be untenable in a country where people can vote. I also didn't expect Canada to freeze bank accounts before last month, so maybe I'm off base
It's a short read. It's about hourly compensation and how and when overtime is to be paid. Anything over 32 becomes overtime and is paid at time and half. Anything over eight in a single day is overtime and at twelve hours, it's paid at double. By the very nature, it would encourage employers to have people work fewer hours. The drawback is obviously the hit to those who work hourly and suddenly lose 8h of pay because they get capped at 32. Seems like a potential bargaining chip for raising minimum wage instead. I don't see it passing but if it did, it would likely benefit salaried employees last but more.
Yes. Unions are tightly regulated under the NLRA and by the NLRB, both of which constrain their collective bargaining powers, right to form, etc.
"The Montessori Method" by Maria Montessori is available as a free pdf on the web and is also a free ebook on Google Play.
> If a laptop could play games at the quality of a top end PC today, would people really want to pay for an external streaming service, deal with latency, etc just so they can get the last 1% of graphical improvements?

Think of it a different direction: if/when cloud rendering AAA graphics is practical, you can get a very low friction Netflix like experience where you just sit down and go.
It tapers from 40 to 38 to 36 to 34 to 32. The rollout is slow.
If you want to achieve victory, you must understand your enemy as well as yourself. The Russian attitude towards NATO expansion into Ukraine can be roughly viewed from an American perspective as well equivalent as the old Warsaw Pact attempting to bring Mexico into their treaty. Or, at least, this is part of the explanation used to frame it as an ‘existential threat’ for Russia. This, combined with a somewhat precarious economy based largely on fossil fuel exports and the fact that in some sense Putin serves at the pleasure of the group of oligarchs, and only as long as they can earn. This combo of circumstance makes it pretty easy to guess at how we got here, and frankly how easy it was to provoke. Unfortunately for Putin, and fortunate for pretty much everybody else, at this point, it appears that outside of complete and total victory and annexation of Ukraine, it looks like he loses no matter what.

Putin is a ham-fisted dictator, and the world will be better off without him, but his motivations here aren’t mysterious.
Combined with "_future_ child(ren)" ;-)
This is really interesting - at a high level it reminds me of some of the approaches taken in Facebook's messenger app: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/03/02/data-infrastructure/me...

The relevant content is touched on briefly in the "Use SQLite" section.

I'd be curious to learn more about the differences in the two approaches.
No, he said post ww2 which is after 1921.
seems like a typical Twitter PhD
It seems if you invade AND the population supports the local guerillas rather than you, then you have three options.

1. Kill everyone.

2. Convince everyone. Or enough to support you instead so that guerillas fizzle out or are actively outed by local population.

3. Leave.

Any other options?

What does 2. look like in a warzone? I mean, the West was in Afghanistan for 20 years and as a civilian many miles away I couldn't say I saw 2. reported on.
I'm not so sure about some of those. The classics are often flawed in some way - many came before the invention of economics, modern religion, scientific method, modern storytelling.

There was an era where storytelling was just about failures - drama and comedy. And often this was from one's own fault, and they would spiral all the way down despite best efforts. But religion, probably Christianity, flipped that and storytelling became about people who failed on their own weakness and then repented and became successful.

18th century Economics also changed the mindset of society a lot. It was no longer about stuff you had or would steal from others. It was about productivity. Suddenly wealth was measure in GNP/GDP and not gold.

But there are some really good stuff in the classics. I love Aristotle's stuff. It's reverse Blinkist - a summary of it is actually longer than the original books.

Also because old stuff is flawed, it's good practice to criticize them. Instead of blindly opposing something, bring up where the author is uninformed, misinformed, or illogical. Sometimes you know something is missing but can't articulate it, and that's a good study on where the missing piece is. Something written thousands of years ago is bound to have lots of missing pieces.
I've been on the fence and I've literally had the sign up page on tab for a week. Should I join?
"Replacing publishers ads with your own and stealing their revenue is not sustainable. Even if you allow them to sign up and claim that revenue."

Tell that to Google.
Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, noted that people more easily believe colossal lies, totally out of whack with reality, exactly because, well, who would say such a wild thing if it were not the terrible truth?
You can see her credentials in their profile. Presumably, her followers are mainly geologists.
A union is like an insurance policy, or a lawyer on retainer, or a contract in writing. It doesn't do anything when times are good, that's not what it's for.
Do you reuse the same password or password pattern across multiple services? If not, do you store your passwords in a reputable password manager, or are they in a location such as a text file?

Have you had any other indications that your identity may have been stolen? Do you receive massive influxes of spam emails--thousands of messages at a time? Odd letters via snail mail?
to be fair, we were curing people with mercury not too long ago, so I say it still counts
You can't really run your own Signal server. The app doesn't support connecting to unofficial endpoints, and the server setup guide you link to is an unofficial third-party thing.

If you have a custom app compile, it's no longer really "Signal".
We called this "nuts". Same idea, but only 4 solitaire-style piles and 11 in the "nuts pile". First to clear the nuts pile gets bonus 10 points, Kings played on the table count for 5. Otherwise all the same.
Experienced it recently with UPS in fact. They’re a trash organization with no respect for their customers that make Comcast look like a shining beacon of humanity.

That said, I fairly regularly deal with phone support for different companies because when push comes to shove to varying degrees of success, I want a human on the other end to deal with my problem. Rarely do I regret taking that path.
I think that Sergei Prkovief would have wanted me to convey this.

I love his "Classical Symphony," and listen to it often when I am working.

Isao Tomita's rendition of the second movement from Prokovief's fifth symphony beguiled the musical tastes of my youth.

I hope that Kiev stands in the morning.
He probably means the students who come out of them. I feel the same about Waldorf schools myself. I have taught in a Waldorf school and have been frustrated by some of the methods (and don't get me started on Rudolph Steiner), but I had to admit that in the three years I taught there, the graduating grade 8 students all were remarkably kind, intelligent, curious and creative young teenagers.

IOW ultimately you have to look at the fruit that is born from these trees to judge their ultimate worth. If you just walk in on one of these schools in the early years, you might be shocked/appalled at the lack of structure and discipline.
In ancient times: be willing to stay for several generations + lots of rape + slavery. These are also all war crimes, though.
Not to mention:

- The DKIM hashes of the emails on the laptop were verified.

- The pictures on the laptop contain him in it doing various illicit activities.

- His business partner came out against him.

- He won't deny its inauthentic, he said it "could be".

- There's a video of him talking to a Russian prostitute saying they stole his laptop and he's worried it'll be used to blackmail his father who is running for President.

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/hunterbiden/video-2479077/...

https://nypost.com/2021/04/02/hunter-biden-says-laptop-at-ce...
Thanks for this. I had more fun writing The Grouch and another goofy app named VideoBeep than I did with 35 years of more serious software. -Eric Shapiro
Sure, just like companies can require you to work at certain times as a condition of employment, or wear a uniform as a condition of employment, or a hundred other things.

Letting it go the other way just results in freeloader syndrome: unions fight for improved work policies and work culture for all, but you can get much of the benefits without paying in. So many people don’t, which ends up weakening the union in the long run.
Wow, I want to watch this animated while someone reads it. There's just much more than I can imagine.
Only if the organisation is thoroughly incompetent, and in that case it's already a terrible place to work. Of course it's possible to put too much bureaucracy around firing people, but the correct amount is not zero.
I watched the same livestream the AP is screenshotting. There weren't any signs of "shelling". There were two RPG blasts, and then later on tracer rounds fired back towards the source of the RPG blasts.

Edit: Saw an explanation that media journalists are probably mistakenly identifying the lighting flares launched in the video as shelling. They're way too slow moving to be shells or explosive rockets.
Linux still works OK on spinny disk (though exponentially worse every year as applications trend towards bloated Electron), but Win10 is nigh unusable on a spinny disk (technically works but very unpleasant). It works quite comfortably on ancient hardware though given a SSD and sufficient RAM.