skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SPAs. They allowed history manipulation to allow state updating via URL without triggering a page reload.

Design a thing for a purpose, people will use that thing for a different purpose. Those new purposes are not always benign.
I have looked into it, and what I said is absolutely true. From your linked article,

> "The clinical criteria will continue to be guided by WHO definition which is basically to report any death where the person had an acute Covid-19 infection regardless of what the cause of death might be," Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told RNZ.

The death was reported as a "death with covid" in accordance with WHO guidelines. Again, if you don't see the absurdity then you can't be helped.

> Think about it - if you get nasty infection while under surgery - was cause of death surgery or infection.

How on earth is this relevant? The victim was not showing symptoms and did not undergo surgery.
Just ask Elon?
The input mono license is very clear to me, either the font is distributed/published or it isn't. "Publish" and "distribute" have very clear meanings that refer to the use of the licensed material.

I think you need to go over the license copy with an attorney or native English speaker, since I am still left confused by your comments.
Well, Waymo is already working in San Francisco. Winter in New York adds traction control and additional obstacles. Traction control is already mostly the vehicle's job anyway, what with anti-skid systems. It can go way beyond that. Stanford has an autonomous, electric, drifting, deLorean.[1][2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIDcT0Zdj4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x3SqeSdrAE
since Carmack thinks it will be available by 2030 I have to take the possibility more seriously. Maybe he also is privy to some developments not publicly available. But if I had to place money of my own I'd bet with coding horror here.
As I've heard it from IRC, "Don't ask to ask, just ask." - https://dontasktoask.com/
Baltics are easily neutralized with taking the Suwalki gap. The Russians were also not happy with them joining NATO, but couldn’t do much about it. And Ukraine (Kievan Rus) is the center of eastern Slavic civilization and therefore much more important to Putin than a largely unrelated culture in Latvia, Lithuania, etc.

Otherwise yes I do think Mearsheimer is a little too mechanical in his theories and doesn’t factor in ideologies, especially in the modern Information Age.
I think Mearsheimer is ignoring the other aspect of the China equation, which is that China is now watching a concerted reaction of NATO and friendly powers against aggression in the Russian sphere of influence.

China would review the US/NATO response differently if the US played the old strategy of setting "red lines" and allowing them to be crossed with minimal reaction. We still have yet to see how this goes but Chinese officials who would have wanted to attack Taiwan are probably watching this play out now.

Russia has awoken a sleeping giant.
One thing about Veritasium is that they do get things wrong. They did one on electric circuits where if you had a circuit that was miles long with the energy source sitting right next to you, you would get current as soon as you turned on the electrical circuit because 'electricity doesnt follow the wire' or something along those lines.

This has been disproven by people doing experiments
https://archive.ph/fDXtz
Citizens will only be able to view russia approved information now. Not sure how this will help anything or if it has even been thought out properly.

Internet access should be a human right and any attempts to limit it should be decried regardless of context.
Kyiv, not Kiev (the article is correct).
Judging from the current sentiment around piracy among younger generations, I've concluded that MPAA/RIAA propaganda against piracy has been a rousing success.

My philosophy has always been: Pay for things if you are able, it's convenient, and pricing is fair. And if piracy is easier than paying, piracy always wins.

It's the reason I buy all my video games now and rarely pirate music anymore, but half of my TV and movies come through my seedbox.
Not everyone shares that opinion, including myself. This article does a great job of explaining some reasons why:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/04/bill-gates-foundation-phi...

Something not a lot of people think about a lot is that having a billion dollars is so wildly greater in scale than being a simple multi-millionaire. You have to have 999 million dollars before you have your first billion.

If I make $100k, and I buy a banana for $1, that would be like if someone making $1 million bought a banana for $10. For a billionaire, that would be a $10,000 banana. That means if you're Elon Musk, my yearly salary is like half a banana.

What I'm ultimately getting at is that, to be a billionaire, you have to hoard wealth away from other people in a dramatic way.

These philanthropic organizations are packed with money obtained from customers, and I think it's important to remember where they got that money in the first place, and what alternative activities that money would have engaged in if it wasn't hoarded in the first place.

E.g., how much money does my city have to pay Microsoft for Windows licenses that could have gone toward education, health, and infrastructure? How much less would Windows licenses cost if Microsoft had never been a monopoly and had serious competitors?
I think the overall idea here is to piss off ordinary Russians enough to incentivize grassroots change.
> You probably meant it the other way around, too much sacrifice for the reward. Wouldn't the concept of creating value imply that net value was created?

Without the reward, there would be no sacrifice. The reward drives the sacrifice, and it is strictly higher than the sacrifice, otherwise people would not sacrifice in order to lose money and waste resources.

Unfortunately, right now the value created is less than the sacrifice (and I agree with you), which is in turn less than the reward (see the next point).

> So in practice you'd be hard pressed to show the net value.

The Bitcoin transaction fees are higher than $300k/day [1]. So, at least that much value is provided to those transacting, otherwise they would not transact.

Unfortunately, the current implementation still adds a hefty (100x larger) inflationary reward on top - so miners make upwards of $30M/day. [2]

While such a ratio may have been useful in the early days, now that virtually everyone interested knows about Bitcoin, I argue (and agree with you) that this inflationary reward is excessive.

In addition, I argue that the resource sacrifice is excessive because this inflationary reward is excessive. Had the creator(s) of Bitcoin predicted the meteoric rise of the price, they would have diminished this reward more quickly than the current schedule. [3]

Maybe someone could fork a "Bitcoin Green" or whatnot, with the difference that the reward schedule is sped up, and hopefully it would gather a meaningful amount of hash power to prevent 51% attacks [4].

[1] - https://www.blockchain.com/charts/transaction-fees-usd

[2] - https://www.blockchain.com/charts/miners-revenue

[3] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply

[4] - https://www.crypto51.app/
I agree, been trying to read / watch many analyses, this is not the best but has many of the points of better ones.

CSIS has some good videos on Youtube
Culture mostly, turns out that little barrier to editing makes PDF practically immutable for non-secure uses.
I'm glad to see work being done on packaging alternatives, especially biodegradable/compostable solutions. However I have one issue with using mushrooms: these life forms are so remarkable and so valuable for nutritional and medicinal purposes that the time and energy spent cultivating them just for packaging material is a terrific waste of resources in itself. Search "medicinal mushrooms" or "fantastic fungi" to gain an understanding of the extraordinary nutritive potency and medicinal potential of mycelial crops. Perhaps a symbiosis between mushroom growers and processers could be worked out, whereby nutrients and medicines are first extracted and concentrated, and the 'drosses' or fibrous remains are then processed into packing and construction materials. In other words, if you're taking the trouble to grow mushrooms, maximize your resource and production capabilities. The same sort of thing could be done with cannabis cultivars, could it not? I'm looking toward a future of zero waste, of all materials and energy generation.
Interesting, thanks for sharing:

> Only 11 per cent of Ukrainians agreed “if I could leave Ukraine safely tomorrow for another country I would”

Brave people.
For an entertaining look at the pluses and minuses of the opposite route, see any of the rants about parsing CSV!
Dart: Patterns Feature Specification (in progress proposal)
There were several major indie games that started out in Flash and ended up on consoles. Alien Homind, N++, and Castle Crashers come to mind, in particular. They were pretty great games. Castle Crashers on Xbox 360 was a favorite of my roommates.
Yup. We have this MCU good guys vs bad guys thing ingrained in us now.

Nobody wants to talk seriously about the intricate complexities. My way or the highway.

Russia bad. Ukraine good. America leader of the free world. Go to sleep. Eat. Buy. Work. Rinse. Repeat.
Nice work. I just posted it to a group of friends and they’re all playing it and posting their scores.
Do what I do and simply disable internet access to the TV. Netflix and whatnot gets ran on my PS5, which mainly advertises their PSN store, so it's less intrusive.
Sure, but the particular PDF I emailed you is immutable (by me). It's sitting in my Sent folder and your Inbox folder in our respective email clients, and we can both be sure what it said.

Notion could implement a feature like "permalink to the content as it was at this point in time". Maybe they already have. But for me to be sure that's an immutable record, I at least have to trust Notion.

I don't see where checksums come into it - either I trust Notion to tell me I'm getting the same document we agreed on, or I need to be able to download the document in a readable form and compute the hash on my client. In which case we're back at PDF again.
I'm completely in support of those types of measures - especially sanctions - but cutting off the internet means the only information many Russians will have is domestic propaganda. The Russians have already cut off most non-state-TV stations and are instituting 15 year prison terms for derogatory remarks about the army.

The young folks in Russia are using TikTok et al to find out what's really going on. These are the ones who will most be hurt. Those seeking the truth.

We need those folks to have information so they can push back.

This is why the BBC has a Tor service. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50150981
At a previous employer I stopped responding to “Hi”.

It was interpreted by the “hi” folks as me not ever being at work.

Eventually (as I anticipated) someone complained that I missed an important priority issue about X.

I had to explain how “hi” /= important issue about X and that I revive so many “hi” messages that I couldn’t assume they’re all important.

It was pretty tiresome explaining it, but it worked, I stopped getting “hi” and got “hi, important issue X”.
You sound very sure about things that are the most difficult to predict. Keep an open mind.
Politically because EFF cannot agree to cutting off a very bad actor like Russia, even when there is just cause to do so, because it undermines their position on net neutrality domestically. Cutting off a country from the global internet is not a decision to be taken lightly by any means, but it's one that should be considered for a set of circumstances.
Perhaps, but I think under-socialization will be less of a problem than many fear because most kids were under-socialized. The fact it's happening to most kids and not one or two eliminates the feedback loop.
Swahili became the largest language over decades . Also this is only for central/east Africa not the entire continent.
That still has room for interpretation though.

What if the car "works" under all conditions, but moves extremely slowly, takes huge detours to avoid tricky roads etc. In fact what is stopping this "technically correct" approach: car calls a human driven tow truck, gets hitched and towed to destination?
Lapsu$ claims they breached Samsung
You can say hi + ask a question in the same message. So I don’t really see how:

Hi. <Press enter> <Ask Question>

Is any more polite than:

Hi. <Ask Question>
But who pays $2500/month for nothing?
I've seen a bit of twitter chatter from international relations people about this article. Most of them are fairly dismissive of Mearshiemer's position---I've seen the phrase "stuck in the 1815 world" of colonial powers used repeatedly.

One substantive issue that I have seen is that he discounts nationalism; it seems like Ukrainians are rather attached to their independence.

One that I haven't seen much about in the nuclear non-proliferation issue: if the existence of a country without nukes is predicated on the whims of one with them, every country is strongly incentivized to develop them.

As for me, a little bit of my heart belongs to his book, Liddell Hart and the Weight of History.
Pale of Settlements is a good start.

The brutal murders of Jews and Poles occurred during the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648–1657 in present-day Ukraine.[22] Modern historians give estimates of the scale of the murders by Khmelnytsky's Cossacks ranging between 40,000 and 100,000 men, women and children,[23][24] or perhaps many more.[25]
Thanks for the feedback! Is the search bar for the libraries not sufficient? We assumed that whoever is writing the code will know what libraries to include so they can just type them in the search bar.

We see that people wanted to have a play with the product before fully creating one for themselves! We’ll consider doing a demo widget at the front page to serve that need, but out of curiosity, what do you find most difficult about creating the widget?
CarbonAPI
CarbonAPI helps you calculate your carbon footprint generated from your emission-generating activities. The mission of our API is to be part of the solution to climate change.
Here’s an example for chess: I found that I was repeating the same lines and the same ideas over and over during matches. One of the key points in the book is to simply observe what you’re doing without judgment. I realized that I’d fixate (especially under time pressure) on an idea that didn’t work.

I tried working on this with deliberate practice on cycling through different areas of the board. There’s a mental feeling (not too different from the physical feeling of swinging a racket) of working through a line, and then moving to another area and trying a different line.
> many of whom have been protesting the war.

So more of them can protest. Not sure if you've seen the latest news and videos, Russians aren't even trying to fight soldiers anymore, they're just straight-up bombing apartment complexes...

I have absolutely no sympathy for any Russian until there's no more bombs killing Ukrainian civilians. Maybe more incentive to depose Putin.
It is strange those making their living off coding and tech and are tech enthusiasts based on reading HN are also promoting ways to steal the income of others who make their living coding and tech and other knowledge based work.
This is a terrible idea, or one might say, not at all cogent thinking.

I deplore what Putin is doing in Ukraine. This is a war of aggression undertaken because he is scared of the democracy in Ukraine making its way to Moscow (i.e. Russians wanting democracy too).

But. Ensuring Russians can see a view of the world not provided to them by Putin is critical to stopping him and those like him. It gives them access to news on what is happening in Ukraine and gives us news on what is happening in Russia. Cutting off the internet makes his life a lot easier.

I can only imagine people from the State Department to newsrooms to the CIA are hitting their foreheads repeatedly on their respective desks.
It's a side-channel attack on the encryption, not a break of homomorphic encryption:

“We weren’t able to crack homomorphic encryption using mathematical tools,” says Aydin Aysu, senior author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor of computer engineering at North Carolina State University. “Instead, we used side-channel attacks. Basically, by monitoring power consumption in a device that is encoding data for homomorphic encryption, we are able to read the data as it is being encrypted. This demonstrates that even next generation encryption technologies need protection against side-channel attacks.”
You have previously posted about Wolfram's New Kind of Science. So I think you understand what it means to have original thoughts and go against the status quo.
By "highway speeds" do you mean appropriate for the weather, or going at the speed limit?

A car should be able to see better than a human in those conditions, and at an appropriate speed it could be reasonably safe. It probably won't go at the speed limit, but a human can't safely drive at the speed limit either.
“Highway speeds” sounds a bit dramatic.

In a snow storm on icy roads it’s safe to assume the speeds would be as slow as safety dictates, just as the speeds should also be for humans in the same conditions.

Also, computerized traction control is amazing, especially with electric drive and no transmission lag. When driven by a human it’s not infallible, but if the car doesn’t have the flawed yet behaviors that humans sometimes have, it could be pretty competent. They’ll have to get it to the point of being able to do without lane lines too of course.
This request is literal flamebait. You are asking me to list controversial topics, so that a flamewar ensues.
Where I live, gas is $1.56/L and electricity is around 11¢/kWh.

So assuming 6km/kWh and 100km/9.5L, the difference is a factor of 8. Also, my car is not nearly this fuel-efficient—I get about 14L/100km.

I assume you made those prices up as unrealistic, but it just depends on where you live.
The correct comparison is not how high income is in Russia, but how high income is in Russian puppet states.
Surprising as Uber killed that pedestrian: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverles...

As someone who doesn't live in a city with Waymo, do they have backup drivers?

If they do, hopefully they are paying attention and not watching Hulu.
For me, the angle matters, but also the softness of the touch. For this reason I have loved the Kinesis Freestyle 2. I really tried hard for some weeks, and much customization, to like the Kinesis Advantage, which is programmable, but the keys were just too stiff for my hands' comfort.

Maybe someday I'll have to try more of the other kinds, that people discuss. Time/$/priorities...

Edit: I've tried multiple MS split keyboards but they were also a bit stiff. The nearest other I've liked was a Belkin that I found somehow at work, but I forget which model.

(Ps: if someone seriously wants to try my Advantage enough to make it super-easy for me to mail it to them, it's just sitting here in the box...)
Too bad the consequences of that "data point" are still so profound that people are still dying daily in that region directly because of that war. When do you think we can just forget about the kind of war mongering the NYT pushed ?

Has the NYT changed anything concretely since then? Because going by the way they still seem completely addicted to "anonymous sources in the intelligence community" it sure doesn't seem like they have learnt their lesson.
Imagine something like:

var transform = ...your own data structure
transform.scale(zzz);
transform.rotate(zzz);
transform.translate(zzz);
transform.scale(zzz);
// perhaps as many as 50 as you go down the visual tree
ctx.setTransform(use your data structure to set these values);

This is a little faster than calling all the corresponding methods on ctx. Of course you gotta implement a transform class.

And of course it becomes meaningfully faster if you are drawing a large number of objects in a visual tree, and their locations do not all change, so you can save these transforms that you've created, and then the only thing you are doing in the draw loop is a single call to `ctx.setTransform` instead of all the calls you'd normally need. Again this really depends on what you're doing, but you can imagine for drawing the visual tree of a diagram, it can be quite an improvement.
Yeah I've wondered about testing conditions for a while, at least for a human snow certainly adds a big twist to things. Off the top of my head the most challenging driving conditions I semi-regularly encounter in the Northeast US are:

- Heavy snow falling at night on an unplowed, narrow road with ill-defined shoulders. The falling snow ruins visibility, and the smooth, white, unplowed surface of the road makes it super hard to identify where the pavement actually ends.

- In traffic on a busy highway in snow. Berms of slush make sudden movements very dangerous, and there is lots of unpredictable behavior from other cars nearby. Often there are cars/trucks nearby getting stuck, sliding off the road or spinning out. Going slowly enough for conditions might mean others start passing you dangerously. Other times taking a more aggressive approach is required if cars around are going too slowly and don't have the momentum to avoid getting stuck on hills.

In either of those cases I'd likely decide just to not make a trip at all if I knew in advance what it would be like, but sometimes you get caught or otherwise simply have to push through. I guess that's an interesting question: at what point does the car tell you it's too dangerous to go or keep going? Hopefully not while on a back road in the middle of nowhere at the beginning of a two day blizzard.
This is already a pretty popular concept on Fiverr, YouTube, and other content-based platforms. Basically the TL;DR is the agency is a "face" which is a personality, etc, and the operations are run by a whole team and outsourced for pennies on the dollar. It's smart.
The answer to 'why now' is COVID. People in the west are already worn-out by the pandemic and are in no mood to engage in a new conflict. Putin has simply picked an advantageous moment to make his move.

Also China. Even Biden recognizes China is a problem and is making moves to attempt to manage them (renewed alliance with Australia, domestic manufacturing). China has likely made some guarantees to Russia with regards to its economic security, in exchange for seeing how the West puts up with its annexation of more of Ukrainian territory.

And there's the recent Ukrainian rumblings about wanting to take Crimea back, which certainly did not help matters. Speaking of which, Russians in Crimea have been expensive to supply, and I would point back to how we're all taxed because of COVID.

There are certainly other variables, but the timing is not random. Putin certainly has not suddenly 'gone crazy'.
I wrote about this a while ago, it was previously discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24429045

The post itself

https://donatstudios.com/Go-v2-Modules
Funny to see Haskell as the only (general purpose) language in the demo :-)
I’m sure you actually do understand the difference right?

In one case you have a group of people taking advantage of protests to engage in criminal theft that is divorced from the reason for the protest.

In the other the point of the protest was to disrupt the orderly transfer of power. The violence, looting etc were a mechanism to accomplish that goal.

We wouldn’t include looters using the protests at the capital as cover for breaking into a mall in the capital protests anymore than we’d forgive a BLM protest that’s stated goal was disrupting general policing by starting a violent riot.