skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing this play out in the media reminds me of the Iraq War hysteria in 2003. Completely one-sided coverage, classic war-time propaganda (ghost of kiev), banning Russian arts and paralympians, etc. I've lost all faith in the media. Period.

You may think that there is an absolute answer to this situation, but there isn't. I recommend that you study commentators and scholars such as: John Mearsheimer, Zbigniew Brezinski, George Friedman, Peter Zeihan, George Kennan, Noam Chomsky, Peter Hitchens, Gonzalo Lira, Tim Marshall, Robert D Kaplan, etc., etc. to gain some insight into the other and more complex side of this story. Their books are a good and quick read.

I am a proud American -- but, I am convinced that my country started this entire episode and planned to have it be so for a long, long time. 9/11, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, etc. just got in their way. Instead of drawing a rational meet-me-in-the-middle red-line with Russia (ex: Poland and the Baltics) that we could live with, we decided to take Ukraine for this ride. We did that. We encouraged Zelensky to talk about acquiring nukes, grabbing Crimea back, grabbing Luhansk and Donestk, joining NATO and the EU, etc. -- instead of encouraging Austria-like neutrality, we promoted our-way-or-the-highway.

And now what are we doing? Fighting to the last Ukrainian? Fighting until they lose even more in a country that has lost ~20% of its population from its peak? We are literally sacrificing their country and encouraging suicide. This. is. just. wrong!
No, it really shouldn't be. It makes it impossible to distinguish between those "theoretically this a breaking change" kind of changes and the "you're going to need to rewrite a bunch of code" kind of changes. At the very least libraries should be allowed to define how the library must be used in order for their semantic versioning to apply. For languages which allow "import * from x" style imports, the library should still be allowed to add in new functions without that being a breaking change.

If you want your software to be pristine forever, you really need to pin your dependencies, ideally via copying the source of the library into your repo so you aren't reliant on a package manager being available in the future. For library developers, regardless of versioning scheme you need to avoid ANY breaking changes whatsoever. Instead of changing an existing function, introduce a new one so that your downstream users can still access the old behavior while keeping up to date. Trust me when I say this will be much easier most of the time than patching old versions with security updates and bug fixes.
AI could use a lot of immersive improvements, there is a lot of low hanging fruit above "hard mode enemies have 4x HP" or "the easy AI is an aimbot with a slightly longer reaction delay".
I'd blame Canada for putting the Russian military on American's doorstep.

Who would you blame?
I pay for NYT, but I can't subscribe to the paper of every article I want to read. I need some kind of group subscription for it to be feasible.
I take advantage (pirate and use this extension) mostly because where I've grown up it was normalized (Eastern Europe) and because it's convenient. Nowadays I do try to support more but I am not so sure I really buy the arguments that this isn't wrong. The way I see it those who support subsidize the rest and that's not necessarily a bad thing but I can be convinced otherwise.
Surgeon general demands data on Covid-19 misinformation from major tech firms
You're not losing your mind. You are not out of line either. The media is pushing just 1 primary narrative. Period. We are being used as geopolitical pawns.
I thought it was great because it ended up being a debate about the different positions, rather than simply presenting Mearsheimer’s viewpoint. In the end I disagreed with both of their stances, and I felt much more informed on the potential weakness in the mainstream interpretation of current events.
FYI use the clean version which removes Google analytics. It's also updated more frequently while the one in the link is almost a year old: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

I use this, and it's great. I recommend using uBlock Origin as well to remove ads on these sites.
The terms of the bet require the car to navigate through New York in the winter. Definitely a lot of challenges there that aren't present in Austin. I think 2030 is a nice contentious number to bet over. Far enough in the future that there could be key breakthroughs to make it work.
Average Wages Rose by One Penny in January, Falling Behind Inflation
You can subscribe through your phone, so then Apple is in charge of cancelation. You can link your accounts and still view things on the desktop website. (I think they also have bundles to make it non-monolithic, but that probably doesn't translate to your desktop because... that would be too convenient.)
PSA: (National) Newspapers incite rage for clicks and revenue generation, and serve as a propagandizing arm for our beloved 3 letter agencies. Their services are essential for ensuring the success of our neoconservative war hawks in Washington to continue to fund their war machine with hundreds of billions of dollars while neglecting more pressing matters like our nation's crumbling infrastructure and completely unaffordable healthcare system. So please help society by becoming a well-informed citizen, and taking everything someone is trying to sell you as the truth with a heavy grain of salt.
> they would only have half of the genetic concern I do.

It is complicated. If it is due to a flaw in one of the X or Y chromosomes, that greatly changes the calculation. Dominant/recessive categories changes the math.

But ignoring all that, it seems like you have the same risk as your parents: for them, there is a 50% chance they got it from one known carrier; for you, there is a 25% change of having gotten it from each of two known carriers.
My daughter went to a Montessori school here in Canada from 18-months old until high school. About the class size...

As a Montessori class has students in three different year levels together (e.g. a Casa class would have children aged 3, 4, and 5) and part of the philosophy is for the senior students in a class to assist in teaching the junior students, the class has to have a sufficient number of students in order for this approach to work. Small class sizes don't have enough students to support the learning model.

In my experience 27 children in a class is very typical and not at all an over-populated class. I've seen larger classes work just as well.

The Montessori school my daughter went to would have a director/directress and an assistant in each class.
He was an incredible man. A megalomaniac, pathologically violent tyrant, and it's one hell of a life he led. The accounts of his behaviour are just horrifying.
I can't recommend the various books on him by Simon Sebag Montefiore enough (and also his book on Jerusalem, and the one on the Romanovs, but that's off topic).

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826564.Young_Stalin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282108.Stalin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9477628-jerusalem
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/21094391-the-romanovs
For those who are interested, this lecture was sent to me as an overview of quantum computation for people like me: people who know how to code and know some basic linear algebra.

It goes deeper than the pop-sci articles about "doing all combinations at once" but remains accessible and by the end you understand entanglement and can read some Q# code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Riqjdh2oM
Oh man; I was going to support the GP post, but then I remembered what unsubscribing from The Economist was like, and my mouth is filed with Bile & my brain is filled with pure sheer hate.
Totally agree.

Micropayments have not worked because major news outlets won't use them. Technically it's a solved problem. See Coil for example:

https://coil.com/
Yes, this has gotten even wackier in the era of "neural image enhancement". A phone pic isn't a picture, it's a "DLSS of a picture", or "deep dream of a picture".

And to agree with grandparent - developing a photo has never been a neutral act, whether it's digital or film. The choice of developer and processing has enormous impact on an image. It can increase or reduce contrast, grain, sharpness, etc which can completely change the feel of an image. And that's not just developer choice and times/temps, but things like selenium/chromium/mercury intensification, staining developers (that modulate image contrast/etc) like pyrocat, etc.

All of modern photoshopping evolved from analog techniques - they call it an "unsharp mask" because photographers would actually make a mask using a blurred copy of the image, which cancels out some of the signal and increases the sharpness of the remaining edges. And even before the negative is developed, you can do all kinds of things to control the feel of the image.

In fact for about the first 1/3 of photography's existence it was practically necessary to do intensification - you will find tons of references to it in older guides.
Looks nice. I might even change
I agree. The vast majority of contractors are burning through days like an FTE (I know of a guy who used to sleep, a lot...I just left him alone) for double FTE pay. My understanding is that this works because investors (walstreet and VC) cringe at employee headcount. Contractors do not fall under that count. There are other aspects such that GE can say they only laid off 50 employees in a press release...forgetting to mention the 4000 contractors they just sent packing.
> Does our immune system not have any way to fight prions?

The normal and misfolded versions of a prion have the same protein sequence. This lack of differentiation allows the pathogenic form of prions to remain undetected by the immune system.
"Many Ukrainians may die in order that NATO expands, but that's a cost we, the United States of America, are prepared to pay."

/sarc
> The terrorists killed innocents, then the US invaded a country, using the first as justification, then the US killed civilians, and in response civilians were "radicalized" and fought back.

I mean some of the words are the same ("innocent", "invade"). That's about all the credit I can give to your analogy.
I am all for making Poland and the Baltics a hard red-line front that we protect against Russia. But, taking Ukraine from Russia in this non-neutral manner is just wrong. We can easily hold the Polish and Baltic fronts. And, Russia can live with that too. We can then trade as usual.
So, piracy turned out to be a great thing for games (Steam), movies (Netflix), and music (Spotify). It just hasn't happened at scale to the news world yet.

I will not pay $50/yr for 20 different news sites. It's absurd. Who do these people think they are?

I'm glad projects like this are being created. It addresses.a boneheaded, outmoded industry that won't meet consumers where they actually are.

These sorts of "news piracy" apps will force change for the good of all parties. But they need one more piece to really take off: social P2P sharing. Strip articles of ads, share them in a p2p protocol (which could also develop interest graph capabilities), add voting, maybe comments, and definitely include the article's pictures.

1 - it would be fantastic as a reader

2 - the entire news industry that is stuck in 1995 would be forced to adopt to a Spotify model or adopt the microtransactions that have been promised since the 90's.

I would love to subscribe to a single source for all news. I'd pay a hefty fee. I'd also be happy to pay $0.10 an article. (I'd learn to avoid sites that shill clickbait, too.)

This whole industry sucks for readers. I support anything that gets them to adapt to change and become more consumer friendly.
Maybe pick 1 or 2 newspapers you consider to be truthful to actually get a subscriptions for, besides using this addon.
I get it, there are newspapers out there you really don't check out that often, and they have no free articles per month or "purchase this article", and paying 20 dollars for a subscription for 2 articles a month at 10 different newspapers is a little much. But the more people don't pay for news, the more clickbaity and hyped up journalism will be.
I use https://12ft.io/
No, it's mainly a cheaper way to get some level of trusted computing and/or hardened credential storage on ARM-based mobile devices.

Like with all such platforms, it can be used for good and evil (from the device owner's perspective), and its aptitude for enabling hard-to-detect backdoors or spyware depends entirely on how powerful the interfaces to the main user computing platform are.
FizzBoom Server Benchmark
Is there a service in the same vein as music streaming, but for news outlets? I'd be happy to pay for a subscription somewhere at a reasonable price, but not happy to pay for and manage 150+ individual subscriptions (like what this tool provides). Granted I wouldn't ever actually sign up for most of them, but managing even more than a couple would be rather undesirable. Perhaps something with pay-per-view built in, given how infrequently I come across articles from certain publishers?
They managed to make something more infuriating than the "before you go" exit intention modal.
Not disagreeing that a new model is needed, but.. I'm not sure Netflix/Spotify is a good example. In order to access all the content I want, I have to have a zillion streaming accounts with monthly fees. The Netflix model in particular is indistinguishable from the existing pay news model, at least in this regard...
Hiring at Pirate Wires
On Medium everyone knows you're a dog.
That’s just one county out of several in the Bay Area. Your study is also just a survey. There’s a good chance a mentally ill person will not consider themselves mentally ill.

Nationally the percentage range from 60-80% of chronically homeless as mentally ill depending on the study.
Ah, the NYT that helped justify the US invasion of Iraq based on falsehoods? That NYT?

Edit: Explanation - the "I subscribe to the NYT" as a pat response to funding news sources puts far too much power in the NYT's hands, and they've proven to be less than trustworthy in the past.
no worries, it's the same patch to two different releases; you linked to the merge commit & I linked to the fix commit.

source: i cut the releases ;)
I contacted StackOverflow to see if we could post a job. The sales rep said that they only took subscription accounts, not one-off postings. They were open and helpful, but as I only had one job to post, they said they couldn't help us. It was disappointing, as it's the kind of place I'd like our candidates to find us!

If you build the replacement, please accommodate places that don't have constant churn!
This is a huge pet peeve of mine.
The value proposition just isn't there. How does an article expect to compete with a free YouTube video. The YouTube video is probably going to be more entertaining anyways. YouTube offers me a billion times more value than some news site.
As someone who has worked on self driving for a few years, and holds some patents in the space - I do not feel at all qualified to make a guess. It is always a little odd to me, then, to see how many folks are. Can we all tone down the confidence? Skepticism is healthy, but armchair expert-ing is not.

Carmack is a genius, and 8 years is a long time. If we look at what cruise is doing in SF, it certainly does not seem impossible.
People in the US have a hard time having an intelligent discussion about subjects like this because of the "Well it's different when the US does it". John is right about all of this for sure:

> Right, but saying that America will not allow countries in the Western hemisphere, most of them democracies, to decide what kind of foreign policy they have—you can say that’s good or bad, but that is imperialism, right? We’re essentially saying that we have some sort of say over how democratic countries run their business.

> We do have that say, and, in fact, we overthrew democratically elected leaders in the Western hemisphere during the Cold War because we were unhappy with their policies. This is the way great powers behave.

> Of course we did, but I’m wondering if we should be behaving that way. When we’re thinking about foreign policies, should we be thinking about trying to create a world where neither the U.S. nor Russia is behaving that way?

> That’s not the way the world works.

What is unsaid is does the world HAVE to behave this way? Are humans capable of cooperation beyond petty short-sighted resource grabs? If the US ceased it's imperial ambitions, and all discrimination and capitalist exploitation ended, would we be able to build a harmonious society where we cooperate on prosperity?

Up until the COVID pandemic, I would have said yes. In spite of religion, capitalism, communism, genocide, or the entire history of the world, the human capacity for empathy and adaptability is strong enough that we could build a utopia.

I genuinely believed this until I saw 21st century internet-connected individuals politicize the science of virology, immunology, and epidemiology. When I realized people - MANY people - genuinely valued their own discomfort of wearing a mask over the safety and LIVES of others. When I realized that Alan Moore was actually too optimistic during the ending of The Watchmen.
The notion of "blame" isn't really useful when you're leading a country, and want to not get invaded. Moral superiority won't repel attacks of enemy troops.
I'm very confused. Go literally uses refs as versions. However to allow for situations where you'll need to update a module because of a bug fix or something like that, Go allows you to safely automatically update to the latest minor version, on the assumption that there are no API breaking changes. If there is such a change, Go wants the module owner to increment the major version so you don't get bugs just from updating.

I will agree that the ergonomics of this method aren't perfect by any means. But what it does accomplish, is that it forces you to declare your dependency explicitly (which seems to be one of Go's underlying principles).
Well wouldn’t the answer be to rely solely on NYT for your news?

Ironically the real solution to this is more ads, but people will block that too lol
How about a group subscription on Substack, distributed to the authors based on the log of the number of page views?
Researchers can steal data during homomorphic encryption
They made it so difficult to unsub, I just waited until the credit card expired.

I vowed never to pay for a news subscription again. Big mistake.
> So America is at fault because they wanted to protect Ukraine from invasion by a foreign power?

Russia has just invaded, where is the US? Certainly not protecting Ukraine.

Pretty clear the US has no desired to protect Ukraine. They certainly could if they wanted to, right now.

What the US and her allies do have is a strong desire to hurt Russia, and they're doing a great job at that since the conflict began. But actually protecting Ukraine? No.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before
How do you think this new law would prevent this situation?
> That's not about what people think, but official position... That's for what we can hold them accountable for.

And the official Russian position is that they have not invaded Ukraine. Do you see how ridiculous that sounds?
So you let Russia move in. What does Russia take next?
You mistake saying 'how something is' with approving of it. Pragmatism is an essential part of diplomacy, without it you quickly discover how essential it is. This is no fantasy, this is reality, as frustrating as that may be.
I'm a broken record on this as well: a huge part of the value of a contractor is that you can retain them for the duration of your project, sever them, and bring them back whenever you need them. You don't get anything resembling that kind of flexibility from an FTE, and that flexibility has value, enormous value; high-end consultants charge dearly for it, and you should too. It's part of the expected value of the transaction.
Cannot remember the US general defining the purpose of the NATO as below:

"Keeping the US in, the Russia out and the Germany down"
> But, taking Ukraine from Russia in this non-neutral manner

Taking Ukraine from Russia? What have Russia the right to take Ukraine from (checks) Ukraine?
NYPD, a "local" city police department, has a huge terrorism counterintelligence department, one that surveils internationally and duplicates a lot of the federal intelligence infrastructure.
This doesn't really hold up in a conversation about paywalls. Clickbate generated ad revenues isn't typically from sites funded by subscriptions. Subscriptions actually help fight that.
Do you know that there has been Russian vs. Ukrainian fighting for nearly a 1000 years (maybe more)?

Russians were slaughtering Ukrainians before the world knew of the North American continent.
I don't think the growth is unlimited; there's got to be an upper bound of "value" even if it's literally "cost of a chauffeur for every single car on the road today".
> The 0BSD doesn’t actually inherit from any other BSD license, the “BSD” bit is more of a spiritual nod that I found more confusing than helpful.

Don't tell Rob Landley that (the creator of the license). He is quite adamant that he used a BSD license as the basis.
Probably the US and then Canada.

But what if the Russian military didn't even have any significant presence in Canada but the US invaded anyway? Then I'd absolutely blame the US primarily.

I wouldn't blame Russia in that situation.
Russia had signed several treaties with Ukraine, of note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements. Russia invading Ukraine despite these treaties makes it a particularly untrustworthy partner. This is the principal reason Europe is so concerned. That should really make everyone think ...

To my knowledge USA had no treaty with Irak even between the two wars.
Bad AIs can really break immersion, for example in one of the Settlers of Catan games they'll refuse to trade with non-AI players. In civ5 harder AIs just get random levels of free stuff but otherwise are still rather dumb.
i use 12ft.io and in most cases it works or i use facebook redirect [1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u={url}
> I suppose it just needs to do approximately as well as a human.

From a practical/logical sense this is true, but I'm not sure it would work out that way. People would never accept FSD cars with accident/injury rates comparable with humans. FSD would have to be at least 10x better than human drivers, maybe more. Psychologically we are much more risk averse to when not in control. It's why people are afraid of elevators but not stairs, despite a 50x difference in safety.

Historically computers go from "barely able to do X", to "better than any human could ever be" very quickly. I'm with Carmack on this bet.
They are kind of both right? Like Steam and Epic. Roblox is a game. It is also a platform.

But I see what you are saying. The model is very different from a typical game studio.
Otherwise known as a "naked ping" and discussed in many places before:

- https://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2014/02/20/naked-pings/
- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/No_naked_pings
- https://blog.doismellburning.co.uk/nobody-likes-naked-pings/
- https://www.die-welt.net/2020/06/naked-pings-2020/
Oh, I was under the impression that this was something new. Should have actually checked the repo first I suppose.
Nice, forgot that bit.

And IIRC, AN-124 can be abused into rough landing deliveries if necessary, just rarely seen because of rarity of the plane and costs.
> Do you know about what Victoria Nuland (leaked intercepted tapes), Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsay Graham, Hunter Biden, CIA John Brennan, etc. did in Ukraine?

Did they invade Ukraine?