skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a valid point but there are a few counterpoints that come to mind:

* FOSS now, while complex and intimidating, at least has the possibility of allowing for bug fixing and alteration (and having those alterations fold back into the main project) whereas proprietary software almost surely does not.

* The situation is not as dire as you suggest for many projects, especially ones that are self contained or smaller in scope. Arduino libraries can be understood and updated. There's a lot of scientific software that can have parts isolated, updated and fixed for someone knowledgeable enough.

Technical tasks like fixing headers, patching code or even using Git, are intimidating and difficult. Many projects are so complex now that on-ramps, even for highly technical users, are difficult. I don't see that changing anytime soon. FOSS at least offers people who can understand these technical tasks the possibility to take actionable response.

Convenience is absolutely something that should be prioritized but proprietary software and closed standards favor ease of use at the cost of freedom and, ultimately, longevity. My view is that FOSS is a necessary but insufficient element to a healthy ecosystem. FOSS, especially compared with proprietary software, is at least a step in the right direction.
Thank you, that is a nice positive and in-depth review. It is good to discuss technical details of 'Algorithms for Modern Hardware' but it also helps to show how real-world projects struggle or succeed in applying various optimizations: Amdahl's law will move you focus from one serial bottleneck to the other (in large programs). Some optimizations are so intrusive that code becomes unmaintainable or undecipherable.
I’ve always been confused about this too. It seems to me like asymmetric encryption is all there is to it… shouldn’t it just be a bit of data encrypted with a private key? I don’t understand why it’s so complex.
Honestly local news is more relevant to your life than stuff happening on the other side of the world. /unpopular opinion
That's true - which is why I spent the majority of the comment speaking about a situation in an infinite scroll where you do not want the video to automatically pause.
Agree not to join NATO or EU, load up on weaponry, train the whole population as soldiers, then join both NATO & EU.

I am not saying this is what Ukraine should do, just that Putin knows this is what they can do.
Very interesting. Just so I understand - are you asking how does pg-osc updates the references in view(s) when pg-osc performs an ALTER on a table that is being referred in these view(s)?

If so, it actually doesn't handle that currently since AFAIK, there is no good way to get the views up w/o dropping and creating the view again :(.
That's a good overview similar to my experience.

> those are pointless for an internal backend with at most 10 concurrent connections

I'm also arguing that the benefit of async over threads at 10 _thousand_ concurrent connections is still unclear. Yes memory usage will be less, but memory is cheap. Context switching overhead may be less, but a lot of it is still there because of readiness-based I/O. We don't see new, high-scale systems built on blocking I/O perhaps not because they can't be, but because async has become the norm, at the cost of _a lot_ of complexity.
Setting a precedent is bad because in a long time that precedent might not hold? That makes no sense.
It's also an obvious sign to anyone with half a brain that the remaining state run media is full of lies.
Russia will end before Ukraine will agree to terms like these. But these terms are not intended for Ukraine, they are intended for Russian consumption and are simply part of the propaganda.
> How has the military (US, or other) historically managed to recruit and retain their medical corps, or the Army Corps of Engineers? Has there just not been a situation in modern memory where there weren't doctors sufficient to keep the gears of war turning?

The problem I saw when I was in was that the retention problem was one of incentives. Enlisted folks who work on offensive cyber are sitting next to people who are making far more than they are for nearly the exact same job, minus the aspects of being a soldier (long hours, no OT, tasks outside your core job). Being a contractor just pays more for less, so they have little reason to stay in when the promise of a better life isn't quite what their recruiter told them.
> RT is directly financed by the Kremlin just like CNN is at the behest of the current American administration

It's not just like at all.
it is, and that's important to know. most russians (and more importantly russians abroad) are presented with the same tired old propaganda they always did
It does not matter - the serious actors are already on it anyway.
Slimbook in Spain is like the EU version of System 76.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

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It's not about my using that phrase. It's about how often it's used and in what context.

It's inevitable when talking about Flash, but not, say, Windows, or other contexts with security vulnerabilities. Always "Flash" specifically "riddled".
Ukraine never implemented the Minsk agreements. Zelenskiy won the election as a peace candidate who was supposed to implement them, yet even he didn’t. If the Ukrainian parliamentary process was not a race to “who hates Putin the most”, those regions would have gotten their federalist autonomy and there would be much less pretext for Russia to invade now, and less justification to the rest of Russians. Minks agreements had the opposite effect of what you’re claiming, creating a cease fire for 8 years, and we’re a viable compromise with the separatist regions.
Just. Say. No.

If I had anything to do with it, working on NFTs would mean you never work in this industry again. I am not the only one.
makes me wonder if student loan default en masse could follow this time.
Oh yes. I absolutely hated editing that file, but when I got lucky and got it right on the first or second try, that rush was something I doubt Windows or Mac users get often. Although now that I'm a bit older, I'm glad I don't need to do that anymore.

The closest equivalent is probably tweaking memory on DOS to get that new game to run, but I just got to see the tail end of that era.

Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/963/
we are not seeing 'corporate induced inflation' we are seeing government policy induced inflation - very big difference.
The more EVs penetrate the market the less vulnerable we are to oil price spikes. Oil has been the rate limiting reagent of our civilization. That is ending.
Seems to me like better UX as the users are being informed why they can't make pull requests. Of course this could be done differently but I don't have an issue with it.
I have a couple of friends who work here
https://www.synapse.com/careers
You have to be aware that a war is going on, and there is propaganda from all sides.

Hiding a few soldiers in an evacuation group, attacking russians from a group of civilians, and then blaming russians for shooting at those civilians is just one of many nasty war tactics.

What really happened, we will probably never know.
Should "we" force you to label your posts as "activism" rather than "information" or "discussion"?
One thing that comes to mind about Ceausescu, when I visited his 'palace' (the people's house) was how many escape routes and hidden exits there were (including apparently a network of tunnels under the city)

For a man who is said to have thought the people deeply loved him, he sure was paranoid. Or maybe he actually knew how much people hated him and he was just fooling himself?

But Putin is nowhere as unpopular as Ceausescu was. His approval ratings that I've seen are no different from those of Western leaders. A lot of people there seem to believe Ukraine is full of Nazis. Nobody is going to storm his palace any time soon and I don't think the sanctions will help. They'll just reinforce his "the West is out to get us" narrative. Don't forget they don't have anything reminiscent of a free press anymore.
There are individual excesses, but definitely no kind of systematic discrimination. Excesses like this happen even in Germany during peace.
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I did this with a COVID screening kiosk; we sold 120 units at $4,000 each, BOM costs of about $1200, about 1600 hours of engineering time and 4 hours each of fab time - you could buy Chinese kiosks cheaper than that by a large margin, but we integrated with customer RFID tags, time clocks, and door lock systems on a per-customer basis. It was helped by the fact that we had an industrial laser cutter and press brake to fab the mechanical aspects, a large network of existing customers, and a team of MEs, CEs, and fabricators to put everything together who were short on our usual B2B automation equipment work.
Which nuclear winter?

Most posts on HN about nuclear war are so comically exaggerated as to merit no serious treatment what-so-ever.

During the post WW2 era a persistent effort has been made to intentionally artificially increase the scare factor of nuclear weapons in hopes that they'll never be used, by exaggerating the end of the world potential.

You could hit Texas with all of Russia's nukes simultaneously and you'd still fail to kill everyone in that state. If you perfectly deployed all of Russia's nukes against population centers in the US, you'd struggle to kill half the population in that one country. The US and Russia set off ~1750 nuclear weapons in less than 50 years and the world barely blinked. If there were an exchange of several thousand nuclear weapons between the US and Russia (highly unlikely even in a nuclear war), the world would keep marching on, despite the vast destruction in several nations. There would be no nuclear winter at all, not even remotely close.

I don't disagree with the use of exaggeration tactics to keep nations from utilizing nuclear weapons. Maybe it's an effective tool. There's no sense in being scientifically ignorant on a forum like this one however, nobody here is deciding nuclear policy for Russia and the US, this forum isn't going to shape world opinion on nuclear weapons. There is zero potential for global nuclear winter from the world's present number of nuclear weapons.
Disbanding this battalion sounds like the sort of thing that might be a condition of joining the EU.
There are certain niche applications where they might make sense if done right (managing namespaces for example.) No one working on NFTs seems interested in applying them in useful ways though.
> public transport in London is pretty excellent

Really ?!?

I'm pretty sure most Londoners would disagree with that. Dirty, expensive, crowded, strikes and signal failures. TFL doing everything possible to avoid telling the truth, stating "good service" when everyone on the platform can see they're having a bad day in the office (again !).

Compared to the Japan, the Nordic countries, Switzerland, South Korea, just to name a few, London is dire.

Look at Japan, specifically Tokyo. More populous and densely populated than London. Yes the trains can get a little crowded at rush hour. But I've been visited a good few times now and I've never experienced the London-style horrors. Everything is punctual, clean, no strikes or signal failures. And that's just the Tokyo subway. The Shinkanzen is simply fabulous. Its great !
And tell us the word for a person who resorts to name calling?
>How about allowing sovereign countries to remain democratic?

Are you the aware that the west funded a revolution to overthrow Ukraine's democratically elected leader in 2014 and install a more west-friendly replacement?
There's no natural right to artificially ban copying something.
Wow! They added a markdown formatted code of conduct 40 years ago!!
yea, all those poor people who can't afford to fill their cars should just run out and buy Teslas instead.
listening to the other extreme isn't giving you their POV or even their perception of reality. it just gives you what they want you to believe, and more propaganda. if the aim is not simply more entertainment for our lizard brain (voluntary indoctrination while being also fully aware that this is what's happening), then the better way for seeking truth isn't to hear all sides but to find outlets that are not having a horse in this race. (which unfortunately is almost impossible, but my point stands that it will not add value for seeking truth)
This process would be satisfied with a linear search. To even just see that there is a log n algorithm in the case where the input is sorted, you need to think analytically about the problem and its solution.

Suppose the problem is presented with runtime constraints for some sufficiently large test cases, such that this difference in performance matters. Even in that case, what are the chances that a TDDer who is unaware of the binary search algorithm will stumble on the correct solution, while never looking beyond the next test to be satisfied? In the small cases, the difference is not discernible. I suggest that to be successful, one must think analytically about the problem, and code to the insights revealed by that analysis, in addition to the specifications themselves.

A lot of problems are like that - e.g.:

http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...
Another source worth mentioning is waronfakes.com which counters ukrainian propaganda echoed by western msm.
Is the proper mechanism naming, shaming, reporting, and solidarity? Or is the mechanism proper compensation for the officials in question so that bribes are unnecessary to sustain a sufficient quality-of-life in their jurisdictions?
Ask HN: What do Russians on HN think about this war?
I hear a lot from the Western/Ukrainian perspective about this war but I'm curious what the Russian Hacker News community thinks.

What is your perspective on what's happening? What are you seeing and hearing from your family and friends in Russia?

My deepest sympathy goes out to everyone affected by this tragedy. <3
> Why bother listening when sooner or later all promises, agreements, treaties are just ignored and shat upon

We shouldn't forget that there are a lot of places across the world where people could say exactly that about the west.

Heck, there are a growing number of people[0] in the west who say that about their own leaders/governments.

[0] Public Trust in Government: 1958-2021
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/05/17/public-trust...
> Consider Sweden's geography along coast of the Baltic Sea ; joining NATO would basically close this path to the Atlantic Ocean for the Russian Navy.

Given how narrow Öresund is, I'm fairly sure conventional artillery (not to mention missiles...) could cover the entire strait from the coast of NATO member Denmark. I doubt Sweden would protest too loudly about this incursion on her territorial waters, if she lets the Russian navy do the same first... And even if she does, so what?
Democratically elected and populous forceful overthrow are the same thing.

I think Russia has a point to be worried and concerned about a Ukraine in NATO or the EU, however they went about it in a terrible fashion. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Not to mention, they moved to annex Crimea and supported civil war in other parts of the country. What did Russia expect?
In the US, there are slander and libel laws that you can be sued for if you print something that is untrue. But if you are a public figure or entity, you have to prove not just that an untruth was printed but also that it was done with "actual malice".

Which country were you referring to specifically? I don't know any that require presenting both sides of a political issue as a general rule.
Those are called space heaters :)

In fact a company in Germany tried to circumvent the EU ban on lightbulbs by calling then heatballs. Makes sense because as a heater they're very efficient.
Then you need a car or motorcycle, not a bicycle, to get to the place you were trying to go to.

That said, I live in a small village myself.
No table service at McDonald’s.
NES light guns aren't that simple because it has to have a way of detecting which target the gun is pointing at. In Duck Hunt, there can be multiple targets on the screen at once.
Not much of a neutral state if its constitution is dictated by another country which also appoints the PM.

This proposal must be only for internal Russian propaganda.
You are literally justifying the Russian aggression, also with the historically inaccurate information
Japan’s ‘killing stone’ splits in two
How would that work? I thought most US based student loan can't be defaulted on.
Had to read half the article before the word "gasoline" appears, indicating that the gas in the headline is vehicle fuel and not heating gas. After reading the whole thing, I'm still not 100% sure.
I you want to get really pedantic with the use of "literally": you're misquoting him. He didn't say you're literally "taking" the money out of their pocket; he said they literally have less in their pocket. I guess we could argue most people don't use cash these days so it's not literally in their pocket, but that's a level of pedantry I don't think is really valuable in a public forum.
To cut carbon emissions significantly, we need to move away from fossil fuels.

Anything else (other sources of emission) is simply a distraction from this simple & obvious solution.
That's not a "Russian ship", that's a personal yacht owned by a Russian who has been explicitly sanctioned. The boat was sailing under flag of the Virgin Islands (tax haven, who would have thought!).

Sequestering all generic ships sailing under Russian flag would be a different, and much more serious, action.
Commenting more in the sense they are supporting non democratic states. The same way companies/consumers(?) are moving out of Russia, they could reduce spending on products from places that fail at environmental, social, governance and democratic levels (it comes with its own set of problems though)
You bring up valid points about engineering practices and backwards comparability in general. I do think you're nitpicking a bit when it comes to the issue at hand.

For example, in you grievance, is there a way to provide a Docker solution to run the working code under 'emulation'? Is there a way to compile an older version of the kernel to run these programs in the way you want? I don't know but my bet is that the answer is 'yes' to both of those.

My point is that this wouldn't even really be possible without a FOSS ecosystem. It requires labor from someone who cares enough to fix it but at least the avenue is open enough in the form of accessible standards and code. Under a proprietary standard or source these would need to be reverse engineered or, in maybe an extreme case, be illegal.
They even reference "Windows Store app package directories and files"[0]. Very futurist thinking!

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/edf82c2ebf6bfe099...
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Above you are citing the DANMASK study that found a tiny effect size of −0.3 (!) percentage points with no statistical significance to mask wearing.

In what world would that be evidence that masks work?

For what is worth, at this point there is little reason to cite and refer to these early publications and estimates anyway. Those were early guesses in a hysterical world.

Empirical, observable direct evidence from countries where masks are mandatory, from Germany (N95! is mandatory) to South Korea, Hong Kong etc makes it evident that masks have no effect on the spread of this particular disease.
Levi's and PwC among firms pulling back from Russia
If Russia is willing to use nukes over Ukraine, what makes you think it won't end in nukes any how? There is no way Ukraine is the stopping point if they are willing to use nukes to secure Ukraine.
I'm fascinated to hear of the mafia ties. Does your research extend beyond "The Irishman"?
It's the 'their own people' part that's problematic. If they only decide against the interest of businessed but in the interest of the people then I have no problems with it.
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You said, specifically, that "US legal definition of free speech, at least according to the courts", included the expectation to be heard. That it implied an audience be made available to you.

You need to be able to cite a source, ideally a case or specific law, on such a claim because no one else I know holds to that definition. A link to a Wikipedia article about a different concept does not satisfy, because it does not cite a legal definition of free speech by US courts.
Yeah, a gzip file is itself a container for a DEFLATE stream. Gzip files can contain metadata such as timestamps, and comments.
Europe is planning to sharply reduce their oil & gas imports so this can't continue to be used as a lever against them. Every EV, every electrified house, etc. lowers demand for Russian petroleum. Similarly, they have a lot of other exports and as each of those is replaced by purchases elsewhere they'll have to work harder to re-enter the markets after hostilities end. There are also some big challenges for certain sectors: for example, after watching the current massive under-performance, how many places are going to be jumping at a chance to buy their weapons systems?

Also, remember that while China and India can choose to continue receiving exports they didn't pay as much as Europe did _before_ the war. If Russia has reduced itself to one or two potential buyers, those buyers have the power to dictate pricing well under market and the financing options are going to be very much not in Russia's long-term interests. China has a strategy they've used on smaller countries where they offer aggressive loans for projects and then take control of infrastructure / resources if the borrower defaults, and I'd be exceedingly unsurprised if some Chinese companies end up doing something similar here.
Books were hand-made items, but machines and production techniques were copied a lot too, and also knowledge of eg. medicine.

Patenting a "ground flower X and leaves of plant Y in alcohol with sugar added" was not a thing back then.
Well, they get out of date because the code around it changes. If the code doesn't change either...

I do agree with you though that commenting is a good thing.
At least some punishment or force them to comply with the basic rule "

If you put false/wrong information on first page like Bob did Y. then justice can force you to put on the same first page a retraction like "We are sorry, we were wrong, Bob did not did X" and pay Bob damages.

So if some TV channel or Internet media thing says shit like "Masks do not help with Covid" they will have to pay a fine and publish "Masks can help with Covid in this cases "

The issue remains with extrnal media like from China and Russia, they can refuse to follow the local laws and then we can label them, maybe tax them and use the money to support local news/media related universities.
Maybe not responsive, but definitely fluid design.
> I don't understand why Russia, or anyone else, thinks that Ukraine was anywhere near joining NATO.

I don't understand why anyone thinks that Russia thought that Ukraine was anywhere near joining NATO.
now got it, strict aliasing that is.