skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In any vaguely medieval setting, a tower is a conspicuously high-status abode, with both "loner" and "don't mess with" vibes. Whether looking down at us from a window, or up at the stars from the parapet, the Wiz is both physically and metaphorically above us mere peasants.

And, when story-telling, a wizard's tower is a very cheap bit of the narrative. The audience visualizing a mere house might need mention of the size, materials, style, color, etc. - not so the tower.
I did offer yes, but they arn't taking untrained civilians who don't speak the language.
No. Its easy. Once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
The day job interviews for programmers ask "write me a language formatter, you have 3 hours" I'll probably end up in jail. Those things are way beyond my skillset and I'm glad smarter people than me exist. If you're one of those people: thank you. I love you.
Are photos and videos like more large than text? Like 90%? This is Coriolanus http://shakespeare.mit.edu/coriolanus/full.html 317.9 KiB (325,563 bytes). This is HB frontage https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images... 1.2 MiB (1,217,366 bytes). Yeah 77%.
> “huge part”

That’s fairly doubtful. There’s some proponents of the NATO-provocation theory but geopolitics is way more complicated than than a single indicator.

Putin would still have invaded if the US was an inept backwater that had no foreign policy
russians have worked very hard to deserve such attitude. let’s not swap the cause and effect.

btw sending ballistic rockets to bomb Kiev’s population is hardly justified by anything anyway.
Wizards are physically weak, have finite spells to use and require solitude and rest to regain them.

Living in a tower gives them substantial physical security. You can have one point of entrance at ground level that is significantly guarded.

A typical house has numerous points of entry. Not as big of a deal for a fighter that can defend him/herself at a moment’s notice but much riskier for a wizard.
What we can agree on is you're overly susceptible to appeals to emotion ("what if your house was invaded?"), your analogies are bad and you have no conception of the consequences of what you're suggesting.

Russia being a nuclear power, "winning" probably means the house is destroyed and the land its own is littered with weapons and mines for years to come and I can't possibly afford to rebuild it.

> I did offer to go to Ukraine ...

Noble.

> ... but they are not taking untrained civilians.

Ok, I get it now. You simply have no conception of the realities of war and the aftermath. Got it.
And yet, he’s the one who fired the first shot.
Why didn't you just build from source, and then use those binaries?

What did the reproducibility add?
Ask HN: Any datasets of player communications available?
I am currently learning python with some AI and ML. I need some datasets to play with. So, I am looking for any legally available datasets of in-game chat between players, the more the better. Doesn't matter which game, platform etc.

I need this as I am looking into the amount of toxicity or negative comments between people online as opposed to, for example, more formal conversations between a business and their customers. So ideally, real world communications between strangers with all the colorful language it entails!

All suggestions welcome!
Meanwhile you are signing us all up for WW3
One nice upside to having tex source is that you can set the page size to match e.g., a phone screen. Reading standard pdf textbooks and papers on a phone isn’t very fun.

I used to do this for reading arxiv preprints, but the script I wrote was kind of brittle and it doesn’t really work out with figures anyway

Honestly if the scientific community moved to something that could be interactive and reflowable I would be so happy
I personally haven't seen a biased Wikipedia article in a very long time. It is absolutely astounding to me and seems like one of the great successes of internet culture.

I assume OP has a particular set of issues that they are not in agreement with the majority of experts on.
As Nvidia hacker deadline looms, 71,000 employee accounts have been exposed
Please don't sink to ad-hom on hackernews. Nowhere in my comment is apologia, merely context. Ukraine should be defended and helped in any of way we can (without causing nuclear war) not in spite of our history of saber-rattling, but because of it. It is now our responsibility to clean up a mess that we are partially to blame for. People far more intelligent and credible than both of us are making these arguments so I think you're going to need something a bit stronger than sticking your fingers in your ears
When you are big bad wolf owning a holding company sucking out cash from your other risk facing companies by renting them office space, material and vehicles, you will understand why u need peons in the office.
You can already do this by just forking all of Wikipedia, as many people have done.
> getting rates of mental disorders at the population level is a useful application

this post sounds dangerous to me -- there are vast differences in a legal judgement and a medical judgement; thirdly, political policy levers are sometimes used in ways that make very little sense, due to situational factors.

It is no secret that humans are competitive, tend towards violence, and political oppression exists to some extent, of some groups, almost everywhere. A "medical judgement" used for legal or worse, political purposes, I claim, is dangerous. The post above this one appears to make no distinctions and leans towards "yes, do this."
how do you come to conclusion that Chinese leadership is not a narrow circle of delusional madmen? As far as I know there is not much difference, the leadership executing fellow politicians when they find out about their hidden black money, without giving 10% to their fellow cleptocrats. Secret services, censorship and media control is the same, even worse. No difference at all.
It also encourages shorter and often less descriptive names. That's not necessarily a good thing.
Show HN: GenieCloud – no-code app builder for Julia, Python and R
I believe it's a symbolic reflection of their knowledge and wisdom.

Low to the ground, you can't see much. There are obstructions in the way. What lies beyond those mountains? Ascend high and find out. Atop the tower, there is nothing obstructing your vision. You can see for miles. One who has scaled the tower is all-seeing.

Wizards have reached great heights of knowledge and wisdom. They are all-knowing, or all-seeing, as is the one who's scaled the tower.

Now why a tower rather than something like a whole castle? Towers are a bit more humble, independent, and potentially isolated, as the wizard himself often is.
Epic Games and Bandcamp make strange bedfellows
Right. They were really simplified, and up against US economies of scale that meant less simple machines could be made at competitive prices.

I think Timex's main projection was that the Sinclair machines would be affordable over the long term. But I guess in the USA, the competition became cheaper much faster than they expected.

Over in the UK, as well as more expensive imported Commodore machines, the native competition included the very expensive BBC Model B and its cousin the Acorn Electron, the beloved and excellent Dragon 32, the quite inexpensive Jupiter Ace (think ZX81/Spectrum but running FORTH natively!), and Tangerine's Oric-1, which was adorable, and as with the Amstrad CPC sold well in France, expanding its market size a bit.

The Spectrum 48K did well against them on price-performance, though the Oric-1 was often cheaper and is arguably the better device.

In the USA, much larger economies of scale meant that the C64 was more affordable, and for cheaper machines the Spectrum was up against the VIC-20 and Atari 400, and even Mattel wanted a chunk of the low-end in that same period of time with the Aquarius (which is similarly simple Z80 stuff).
Thanks for that.

Maybe we should make a table with a no. of victims per country so we can distribute blame more fairly? Can also probably automate and gamify this. Good thing most leaders who made these decisions are gone and we can shift anger to actual citizen instead.
Look at how uniform the Ukrainian coverage is if you think we can’t agree on a common reality. In principle I am pro Ukrainian I guess, although the gas prices are pissing me off, it’s too obvious to see the uniform lack of anything but one side story being told everywhere online and in media
Apple is rumored to be developing a 'Mac Studio' desktop and 7K display
Yes, but it says that it's brittle because it needs to spoof a specific Mac UA and this is not the most user-friendly process—especially for a newbie that switched to Linux and isn't used to the terminal and Python, but wants account security. I emailed support to just use TOTP because this step is dumb.

If Symantic wants to see TOTP as a service that's fine, I guess, but I just picture an astronaut with a gun saying it was just TOTP the whole time. Meanwhile they try to sell hardware keys around the obscurity layer of their product.
Why not 8K? Did they hit some limit?
Why Can't I Stop Staring at My Own Face on Zoom?
controlled environment for book storage.

https://critical-hits.com/blog/2017/02/22/the-wizards-and-th...
Who can blame readers for supporting an author they know can produce good output that they enjoy. Maybe there are good books by other lesser known authors out there, but then you have to take a risk with something new.

Up until 6 months ago, I had read probably 3 books in 10 years. 6 months ago I started reading again.

I started with Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles, books 1 and 2. That set a high bar.

Next was the Dune trilogy after I saw the movie. Overall it was good but a bit heavy for reading before bed, I often didn't manage for more than 30 mins before starting to drift off, whilst with Kingkiller chronicles I could easily read 1+ hours. I gave up on Dune book 3, I'll read it on vacation some time.

Then I tried Ready Player One, which opened up a whole world of realizing that books can be really bad, just like other art forms. I feel like I've never read a bad book before this (despite not reading for 10 years, I did read a lot as a teenager).

The first 25% of the book relies 80s references every other sentence, clearly the writer is trying to nostalgia trip the reader into enjoying it. Then after that he is describing playing a video game. People bemoan how there is a big cultural shift towards watching people play video games, but here is even worse; he describes a super boring boss battle involving an 80s arcade game. Every chapter I read, I got more annoyed at how bad the book was, until I realized I could just abandon it.

And now I just started Sanderson's Mistborn #1: The Final Empire, and it feels good to be reading something quality again.
How to Write a Living Will
There are clearly two classes, supposing someone is not handicapped: the ones who parasite others intentionally and the ones who are net tax payers. It is not about amount of income but about role.
I hope you dont have hobbies, since apparently hobbies are now childish.

Maybe you should grow up a bit :)
Breached Password Detection (2020)
care to give some examples?
No, not "with us or against us" just genuinely surprised at the level of anger being expressed by avgcorrection to what to me seemed pretty innocuous speculation: I think it's possible that the status of the VKS pilots is contributing to a reluctance to fly them into danger for political reasons.

Russia is famous for corruption, seems a weird thing to defend. Even in the US there are at least some well-connected sons getting seats in fighter jets, and "paid drivers" have existed in Formula 1 since forever. Doesn't seem too far fetched, but right or wrong hardly worth any kind of attack. Additionally I never said the pilots would be incompetent--in my experience when people start responding to accusations that were never made, something else is going on in their head.

For what it's worth, I like Russia. I'm ethnically from a former Soviet state and although I have very little cultural connection to it, whenever I meet Russians anywhere in the world they've been instantly friendly towards me just based on my name. Even with this happening I hope that someday within my lifetime EU/Russian relation can be fully normalized.
Just anecdata but almost every vegetarian I have met has a cheat they allow themselves.
We rented from Hertz and something happened when we returned our car where they didn't mark it as returned, and kept charging us $100/day for it. After weeks of DMing on Twitter (which is _bonkers_) we finally got it resolved and reimbursed. I guess we should feel lucky we didn't get arrested.

This is obviously part of their business policy.
Aiven Open Source
Not what I said at all. Re-read.
Eliminating privacy to fix the pedo problem (that they exist) is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Protecting kids starts with protecting your actual kids, not recording your neighbors porn habits, purchase history, and political forum posts. Well intentioned or not, when you advocate for reducing the convenience of private comms, you harm more good people than bad. As long as the bad incentive exists, people will do the bad thing, whether it's a little hard or very.
Now I'm not a lawyer but very familiar with EU legal texts.

Firstly, the part s/he quotes at the beginning is from the preamble/recitals, essentially intention statements, explanations and background. This is not in any way legally binding, but a court would use it to interpret the articles. The articles are what matters

And then we get in the messy things: article 12.

> It shall be prohibited to participate, knowingly and intentionally, in activities the object or effect of which is to circumvent prohibitions in this Regulation including by acting as a substitute for natural or legal persons, entities or bodies referred to in Article 2e(3) or Article 2f, 5, 5a, 5b, 5e, 5f or 5h, or by acting to their benefit by using the exceptions in Article 2e(4), 5(6), 5a(2), 5a(5), 5b(2), 5b(3), 5e(2) or 5f(2).’;

Eu law tends to be intepreted conservatively. Its not like US law which is largely case law - in EU law, except for judgements by the ECJ, the measuring stick is the legal text and intention, not a wide interpretation that extends the actual text as you might do in the US.

So e.g. if users can upload text or video on your service and do so to spread/share RT propaganda, you would certainly not need to fear anything directly unless you notice/are told its there and then don't take action (different rules for large platforms though).

Similarly, a VPN or tor node has many functions. Unless you actively and intentionally host such content or explicitly advertise or distribute it (think e.g. a Popcorntime for RT) you would not expect sanctions.

Problem beyond this is that the EU is 27 legal systems. The intention of this regulation is to empower national media regulators to take action against the propaganda anf lies spread by these state media. So while the regulation applies directly, each national law might have slightly different ways of implemeting this. E.g. Poland might take a much stricter view than Portugal, in line with national media regulations.
This is how free speech dies.
he is alive and kicking, didn't know he got an MBE (isn't that a kind of knighthood?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seva_Novgorodsev

The other thing is that the Russians will bring out the radio jammers, wow, these are absolutely crazy times...

If we are now back in the eighties, then generation Xers will get their second youth...
Show HN: A Repository of Recruiter Email Domains and Email Filter Automation
I've found it useful to maintain email filters for technical recruitment companies so that I can separate these from my other email and review at a time when I can give them the attention required, depending on whether I'm currently looking for work.

This takes regular maintenance and so I've created a repository along with some scripts for automating the filter strings for my GMail account.

The hope is that others may find this useful and contribute domains to the repository.

Note that as per the README, this is NOT a spam list. Recruiter email is essential for finding work. This is just to make the work of sorting email easier.
Go back to 1580 when Russia started to invade their fellow neighbors. Never stopped since.
It was a "mostly peaceful protest."
Verification of packages is something that is controlled by the distro, not the Linux kernel. However, if we are talking about drivers (modules), then they are verified at load time in both operating systems.

As for Windows packages, there are several "package" systems:

- AppInstaller (winget): A SHA256 hash is included in the application manifest. I might be wrong, but I do not believe the manifests are signed afterwards. Packages are verified upon installation.

- MSIX packages: They are signed and timestamped with a publisher certificate. They are verified upon installation.

- Executables: Not really packages as such, but PS1 scripts and .EXE executables support Authenticode signatures. They are verified upon execution.

As for Linux, there are several package systems:

- DPKG/DEB: Built-in support for verification with hashes generated at install time. Packages can be GPG signed for stronger security, but it is disabled by default. Repository metadata is often GPG signed.

- RPM: Like DEB above it supports verification with MD5. It also has GPG integration. I believe it is disabled by default as well.

Linux does unfortunately not have support for signatures of ELF executables.
Martin here. I cited your paper in the related work section. It's a good start, but it does not cover everything that's required to achieve BFT — in particular, the issue that an operation may be valid in some contexts and invalid in others, and all correct nodes need to agree on whether an operation is valid or not.

If you have more details on the caveats you have discovered, it would be great if you could write them up so that others can learn from your experience!
Internet Traffic Handler Cuts Off Some Russian Customers
I think Wikipedia is mostly good contentwise.

Of course there are two extremes where there are problems: disputed topics (especially contemporary political topics) and niche topics receiving little to no attention.

I think for both an improvment can be made by improving the view on the editing history. Showing what kind of editors (new accounts or ong term members? Editing only few articles or across the board? etc.) do what kind of editing. Maybe even broken down to article sections ("this section sees lots of change by new editors, while that section is stable")

But not sure how that would really look like to be usable more or less intuitively.
Are you really fully supported by the Russian state if your official ID says nationality “Jew” and not nationality “Russian”?
replying my own question: analyzer at compiler time(thus static), sanitizer at runtime.
Cherry pick all you want, your thoughts are more propaganda than original.
I am not an expert in traditional fermentation but I believe presence of contaminants depends on the crop, the strain of yeast present during the process, and conditions. So basically it can vary a lot.
10 layers of weak defenses should be enough for anyone.
For western takedowns, until recently, host it in Russia?
> Make programming more boring

This is a terrible argument for anything to do with programming/code. It is pure opinion and preference and therefore is not falsifiable.

If you’re on a team of one, go wild. But if you’re on an actual team trying to get things done, please don’t bore the other people to death with the “interminably soul crushing debates over code formatting” as the article aptly puts it.

The team wants to see exciting results, not “exciting” code. Code is a means, not an end.

And especially if you’re on the job, you are not being compensated with excitement, but money. Go seek excitement in your personal time.

Formatters are not comparable to GPT because the code semantics have not changed, only the form. You just don’t want to retrain yourself to read code that isn’t written exactly to your liking. That’s laziness.
>If video games are that important to you buy a video game console.

and play PC games how? for some reason I thought people around here were smart
Russia Says It Has American Basketball Player in Custody
Why jail? Cause you'll lose your mind and do harmful things? Asking for a friend
This seems to be the general case for user-contributed sites. People who are fans of a subject (be it football or model trains) may consistently use such sites but generally aren't invested enough to create content or do much beyond argue briefly when they feel something is totally incorrect, generally healthy people have healthy lives and don't get intensely invested in curating an internet forum.

On the other hand, people who have unhealthy lives become totally invested in that forum or space because it's literally all they have and guard it like a mother hen guards their eggs. In Wikipedia they create a huge bureaucracy which excludes all but the most determined of users. That intensity drives away all casual users.

On the other hand I once made an edit to a Wikipedia page from an IP address - I removed an unsourced claim from the Ron Paul page - and didn't find my edit reverted or blocked in any way.

So while I have heard of the issue of frighteningly intense editors camping pages as though their life depended on it and demanding all changes be proven to the nth degree it doesn't seem to permeate the entire site.
Except social media can't control if Russia will fire nukes. The Russians don't need to rally a russian mob on social media to goto war at all.

Twitter can't prevent this from happening by censoring a russian official.
I'm not sure I understand why dynamic programming wouldn't work (and the author explicitly mentioned Knuth). Tex's main job is literally doing line breaks, which is the exact same problem being tackled here. I would expect a similar approach (progressively build a graph of the most promising breaking points) to be effective. Why wouldn't it be the case here?
Firstly it’s not half of America since not everyone votes. Secondly I doubt every Trump voter believes or believed every single lie he spewed. There are tons of reasons why someone might have voted for him without really agreeing with all of his rubbish. IMHO it would help to stop painting this other section of voters as dumb and easily duped.
not sure if /s or not, but the first page is literally "Overcoming homosexuality". wtf?
I agree. While some articles may seem to have a slant in emphasis, I can't recall a time when credible information contrary to the slant was omitted or distorted. That's much better than I can say for just about any other source I read online.

I remain an avid wikipedia reader.
spends don’t commute: if two transactions both consume $1, and the senders account only contains $1, there’s no way to apply both transactions and end up in a valid state.
> What would be an example of an "appropriate" use of this technology?

Well, investigative officers concerned for the well-being of the individual and the potential for self harm or danger to others could attempt to help them with a taser or a shotgun.

Or, if you are a liberal you could have an algorithmic silo-ing of their posts? That way it would be demonstrably not a prejudiced censorship but something that could be investigated later if the right channels are followed.

It could be coupled with the software that detects whether people are homosexual or conservative based on their physiognomy.
Best not turn it on again at all. Just to be sure ;)
Who let the dogs chat?

Who! Who! Who Who!

(sorry)
What you are describing is the problem. Both your options are terrible. This needs regulating.