skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes in 2016 we were working on a kitchen renovation and decided on a built-in double oven, and went with GE's offering. I seriously considered $ 300 more for the top-shelf offering that included convection on both ovens and Wi-Fi connectivity.
Back then Haier just bought GE Appliances and that made me waver. Also I knew their fridges with Wi-Fi were running Windows CE, what I didn't think it would have a long future, and integration through a now chinese/american company didn't quite appeal me.
In the end bought the version without Wi-Fi and only one convection oven, which has proven more than enough.
The advantage of Wi-Fi we though would be to be able to set the oven to cook the food left on it by the time we arrived from work.
But then again food had to be left at room temperature most of the day, so we figured it wouldn't be something we would use too often.
Now after two years of working from home, this became more irrelevant.
Now my house is as automated as I can possibly make it, but running local mesh networks (Z-Wave and Zigbee), and the few Wi-Fi devices are HomeKit enabled, which means it should not depend on 3rd party cloud offerings for standard functionality, and has been mostly limited to decorative lighting developed in North American or European companies.
I wonder what the performance impact of these changes is. There must be a reason they are disabled by default.
I know this will seem like a troll, but please take this as a genuine attempt at a meeting of minds. I am not an American and I would like to understand some things.

Do you believe climate change is real? Or even putting aside that, what are your thoughts on air pollution and the early deaths caused by cancer and other diseases that can, at least partly, be linked back to the burning of hydrocarbons next to peoples every day lives?

I get that there is an element of Red state vs Blue state, and all the goes along with that. But do you agree that there are downsides to internal combustion? Those down sides might be environmental, health, or even national security, but at least some of them exist right?

And those downsides are worse the larger a vehicle is right?

So isn't less ICE vehicles, and smaller versions of the ones that can't be replaced, a good thing?

I agree that some of the emotive language used by both sides here isn't helpful to actually action any change, but to an outsider it looks a little like cutting off your nose to spite the lib-tards.

You might have a good reason to drive a low MPG vehicle, but why celebrate that when doing so negatively impacts all the people around you?
I really like Microsoft’s mirror of CRAN because it’s versioned by date- you can install everything as it was on a particular date, so that kind of reproducibility is easy. I wonder if this could be added to pypi
Build an Injection Molding Machine from a Cheap Pneumatic Press
You could start by reading the article.

>Growing up on the San Manuel Indian Reservation in San Bernardino County, Assemblymember James C. Ramos said “squaw” was one of many disparaging terms hurled at his Native American community.

Regarding priorities, also from the article:

>Assembly Bill 2022, introduced by Assemblymembers Ramos (D-Highland) and Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) last month

It was introduced by two members of an 80 member legislative body. Clearly this is the top priority of the entire Californian government. /s
To be really prepared for a war, not just having a shelter full of supplies and weapons, means one has already experienced a war, which often changes people's life for the worst. So I'm not sure I would want to be prepared.
For example, as mentioned in another comment, by making all read and write `volatile`, that way, dangling pointer and out of bounds are "defined" to be memory corruption or crash, and not the compiler optimizing the code in a way that the programmer did not enticipate.
> The chain of causation for Crimea annexation was very similar to the one for the current invasion.

Yes, Putin’s desire for territorial aggrandizement for both image and resources reasons.

> Just being practical, doing more of the thing that has led to two invasions

Having land that the national mythology Putin appeals to views as Russian and/or has economically and strategically useful resources and features is all anyone else has done which has led to the invasions (and it's more than two; as Georgia bears witness to.)

Can't really insist people stop doing that.

> this has been the official Russian government stance for about 15 years

You are confusing pretext with causation (and also ignoring much of the public pretext, like the claims of WMD programs.)
Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows and QtCreator for Linux.
absolutely. c.f. top gun et al.
The problem with this approach is that if any service/spambot does, somehow, get your personal email, you're stuck with crap.

The better solution is to make a whitelist, and only let that in. Then have a convenient means to let people put themselves on your whitelist. And an even easier way to kick them off your whitelist.

One solution: http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-proble...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100807
The most interesting thing is that the burning bush is a real extant species. A cousin of the oranges that is a sort of phoenix plant able to ignite without burning. So the "hallucination" is the real part in that legend. Fans of Harry Potter will probably recognize its other name Dittany

I want one since several years but I don't have space for it. Maybe I should order the pink cultivar this season. Low maintenance, big fun

Aren't plants awesome?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH7u4xFmpP0
The problem is exactly that attitude turning what used to be highly accessible and interactive sites into elephantine "web apps" that need the latest and most user-hostile version of $BIG_BROWSER (which doesn't run on older OS and thus hardware too) to do what was perfectly possible with technology of a decade ago, or even less functionality.

I wonder what is more responsible for that; the fact that people don't care about history, or that corporate propaganda has pushed them away from realising it.
In Sydney I've seen utes and SUVs become more popular because of the image they project I suppose. There is one ute owner in my building with a pristine vehicle. I know another person that went from a Mercedes hatch to a ute.

I imagine the US also has the same phenomenon of people picking cars to project an image and not to actually use. Are trucks the in thing now? Can this list simply correlate to the current fashion?
This is not helping anyone who wants to prepare.
A team standard helps contribute to clear responsibility.

If correct SQL is a priority (which seems reasonable), but it's not clear who should check it, it's likely to not be checked at least some of the time. Same with whatever other things have difuse responsibility.

There's still some room for individual preference. If it's author's repsonsibility to do X, they can ask for the reviewer to do it in the review request; or if it's the reviewer's responsibility, they can approve but say they didn't do X and are relying on the author to do it; or the author can assert they've done X in the request (perhaps it's difficult to do for this speciric request) and the reviewer can note they've relied on that assertion. But having a clear expectation strongly reduces the cases where author was relying on reviewer to check X and the reviewer was relying on the author, and X wasn't checked and the check would have found an issue before production.

Some things are a much bigger problem when found after production, and some things aren't; diffuse responsibility is ok for things that aren't a big deal, IMHO.
Discriminating based on nationality is only "discrimination" in the sense that you're differentiating between two groups of people, and treating them differently. It's not bad - unlike discriminating based on race. GP clearly meant "discrimination" in the discriminating-against-a-protected-class use of a term, which discrimination based on nationality is not.
> it's that having multiple perspectives on the code will lead to a higher quality and more well designed product.

Will it though, when those multiple perspectives are enforced through pair programming?

Like a lot of agile cargo-culting, pair programming often seems like software development for extroverts. Those of us who are introverts, and got into software development because it's interesting work which suits our temperaments, don't necessarily appreciate this... at all. I'm not saying I'm unwilling to work with others, or figure out problems together - I have to do this all the time, we all do - but I prefer to program alone.
You might interpret it as a sign of weakness. Some people seem to interpret using ridiculously overpowered weaponry as a sign of strength or virility.
> The blame is on Putin.

Not arguing that point. He made the decision to invade, he has agency of his own and is responsible for his actions.

My point is that if people think his Nazi and NATO talk is bullshit, call it by offering terms that completely neutralize those points.

It's one thing to say, "Ukraine was never going to be in NATO, trust us." It's a completely different thing to say, "Ukraine will never be in NATO, here is a legally binding treaty stating so, contingent on X actions by Russia."
This Twitter thread across two software engineers from opposite sides of the world got us here; hopefully it encourages others to reach out, discuss and get closer in resolving their different world views <3

https://twitter.com/javierluraschi/status/150058723702029517...
> "[...] The compiler will treat that access as if the addressed memory had the type specified for the array." The behavior is defined, it is unsafe, but it is defined.

I believe performance (compiler optimisation) is the reason the language isn't defined that way. Permitting the compiler to assume that the runtime error will never arise, opens the door to all sorts of optimisations. (At least, that's the idea.)

C permits the 'union trick' to (roughly speaking) access the bit-pattern of a value as another type, which is to say an escape-hatch is offered in the language.

Similarly the strict aliasing rule is surprising to people who are new to C, but the C standard committee seem to be committed to keeping it, presumably for performance reasons.

> Not like "the compiler may or may not choose to optimize out loads and stores, or re-order them." which especially on embedded systems creates bugs

Right, but it's defined that way to enable compiler optimizations, not to spite the programmer. As others have mentioned, C has features like volatile specifically to address this kind of thing. If the C standard required memory fences to be inserted everywhere, performance would be ruined.

> That kind of UB needs to die in a fire IMHO.

C cannot easily be made into a safe language, and I think the committee is doing the right thing in declining to try to make C into something it isn't. On the plus side, there are plenty of other languages around, many of them with compelling advantages over C. Ada, Rust, and Zig, for instance.
CLion from JetBrains and Microsoft Visual Code are the best commercial ones for Linux, NetBeans is a free (as in freedeom and open source) one (that also supports many other languages like Java and Python).

What I don't recommend is Eclipse - it's complex and confusing for beginners (but a bit faster than some others).
For fun, I started keeping a log book of the number of times a driver has been involved in a dangerous situation with me (like cutting me off), grouped by make.

BMWs show up about 30% of the time in my notepad (in absolute numbers, not adjusted for how many BMWs are on the road here in the UK (5%)).

I would be shocked if BMWs (and Vauxhalls/Opel) aren't massively overrepresented in accident statistics here in the UK.
OK, I'll bite: Has the name "Rubik" been canceled? It took me a while to realize that they were talking about Rubik Cubes.
"volatile" is not a synchronization primitive and doesn't forbid reordering amongst access to different memory locations.

All it does is forbid reordering or removing accesses to a particular memory location.

Historically, many compilers implemented it as a hard memory barrier, but that isn't how the standard defines it.
I am not sure how to feel about this. Will a pariah status
ultimately leave Russia with a more robust and resilient electronic
posture?

In all this jubilation around Russia being "cancelled", I can't help
but wonder if some grand experiment is afoot here, which will further
the splinternet, and lead to more governments secededing global
structures that were ostensibly instruments of peace and cooperation.

I've been all for ways we could use networks to influence Russia, but
I reluctantly had to admit ICANN made the hard, unpopular but correct
decision in rejecting Ukraine's plea to just "unplug" Russia.

The writing has been on the wall since DNS became politicised with
regard to organisations like TPB, Wikileaks and SciHub. Lots of
what's been going on seems against the spirit of the Paris Call of
2018. Are we emboldening regimes and even commercial power blocs to
threaten or impose internet outages?
The profit / reward is your kids get to live and have kids.
I did this as well: http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-proble...

I believe hey.com provides this. Some years ago I did find a few other obscure providers with this service. Here's another one: https://www.spamarrest.com/features/
Focus on taking care of things that you can control and learn to let go of everything else. Everybody's gotta die sometime.
NZ. It's an import from Japan and slightly predates the mandates above.

Thanks - interesting, I didn't know it's already required.

Makes a lot of sense - it did save my ass few times on other cars.
That's whataboutism. I absolutely do not want Microsoft grabbing stuff from my PC without asking me, it's so insidious. And then they put the switches to turn these off behind so many loops and registry flags that's it's a nightmare to turn this crap off.
The article says:

> The second caveat is that the class of functions which can be approximated in the way described are the continuous functions. If a function is discontinuous, i.e., makes sudden, sharp jumps, then it won't in general be possible to approximate using a neural net. This is not surprising, since our neural networks compute continuous functions of their input. However, even if the function we'd really like to compute is discontinuous, it's often the case that a continuous approximation is good enough. If that's so, then we can use a neural network. In practice, this is not usually an important limitation.
> So I assume you also think the US should destroy all of its nuclear weapons today?

yes please.
Quicker and easier ways to get more light
From what I see, several countries are thinking really hard about their position regarding an EU army. Which is good. Sure, smaller countries in the heart of the EU like Denmark or the Netherlands do not benefit directly from a stronger European military and are often reluctant. But they still benefit from the stability of the union, which requires the ability to ensure the territorial integrity and control the borders of the member-states. Too much hangs in the balance to leave Romania’s border integrity as a purely Romanian responsibility. (I love our Romanian friends and I don’t doubt their commitment, but I’d rather not leave their military as the only bulwark against an unhinged Russian army).

Like Germany seems to be doing, they need to realise that they are part of a major power, and that they should stop playing the little guy hiding in his corner. An EU army should not be an offensive force, but is should be credible enough to safeguard the EU’s security.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...
“5 terabytes is so little that I've forgotten how to count that low.”

— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
Man's Search for Meaning

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
> If nuclear war happened, assuming I survived I'm not sure I'd be able to cope with the real suffering that would follow.

Humans are very adaptable. You have no idea what you're capable of (and hopefully you won't find out) but I expect you'd surprise yourself.

I don't think there's any point in trying to prepare nor do I think we'll see a world war anytime soon much less a nuclear war.

> I am scared and I've not been able to focus on anything else since this conflict started.

Go for a run. Read a book. Stop reading the news for a day.
The case for a decentralized Web 3.0 grows by the minute.
Russian here. Foreign HNers, please, realize that our country is essentially occupied too, and being a protester is equal to being an enemy to the government. We tried to protest, 10 years we were protesting - and it has only helped the government and sent many people in prison. UN had good reasons to establish the basic rights for life and freedom - so please, respect our rights.
If you can get one! I preordered in 2018 and haven't gotten mine yet, while for approximately the same amount of money and less time I have also ordered, received, and used 3 different Pinephone editions.
There's only one reference to a bat file in the article that I saw, but that bat file is named "gpedit-enable.bat" and is at the end of a paragraph describing how that is for enabling the local group policy editor on home editions of Windows. That script itself is also quite clear with it's use of `rem` to explain what's happening. Perhaps read it again...

"Local Group Policy Editor is available only in pro/enterprise edition, but you can add it to the Home version of Windows too."
If you want to start small, Z80 might be a good point, but it seems opposed to your not wanting to start with DOS; a small VM will be very useful, and with Asm you'll soon discover that even 64k is plenty to play with.
>I’m still using a paid third party AV for this sole reason.

Would you mind naming it? AFAIK most third party anti-malware solutions act like rootkits, possibly introducing new attack vectors, or have become basically ad-ware and malware themselves trying yo bait you in various subscriptions.
Yes, but now he can apply the same principle to literally every bureaucrat, with minimal effort.
What PII laws are there in the US?
Morse Code
What is the latest and authentic way to learn Morse Code?
The regular contour was marketed as a “sporty” sedan, despite the performance characteristics. Like the Lumina euro-sport, and similar. The big 3 did a lazy job of competing with imports in the 90s.
I wrote a meditation course based on the practices which kept me sane (ish) when I was working intensely on nuclear terrorism, worst case scenario pandemics and similar cheerful topics.

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/.meditation_2015/transcripts/...

Worth noting it’s drawn from Hindu rather than Buddhist sources, so it assumes that life can be good and humanity is not inherently flawed. Meditation gets a bad rep because the underlying Buddhist superstructure often puts people off, but different traditions use similar techniques in different ways.
There was this, not that it amounted to much https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/30/donald-trump...
Why? Non-linear activation functions are common and easy?
Even if he does, who will enforce that?
> You're suggesting that common Russians feeling "consequences" will change the war and I would like to disagree

You misread my comment: I said that you want to save the impact on normal Russian and keep feeding the war economy. I suggest to stop feeding them money for their army, and the consequences on the common Russian is something that can't be avoided.
What is China’s Swift equivalent and could it help Beijing
He is saying that many programs are written to use "free RAM", ergo unless defender is still using 2GB ram when your PC is at your RAM limit you don't have a problem. Every OS does it, let your OS manage RAM.
> Has the name "Rubik" been canceled?

Rubik is a trademark in the context of toys. Competing rotating cube products are available, but can't use the name unless they want to be cancelled by trademark lawyers. Hence the sport is just "Cubing".
Realize that right now, everyone is telling ghost stories.

It will. Not. Happen.

Russia has lost the war already, due to their logistical failure. There is no recovery.

Putin has no choice but to stop. He can’t escalate because it wouldn’t make any progress.

You need to snap out of it for your own well being. Consider this some tough love.

Here’s what’s going to happen. In two months, news will fade, or have faded. In six months, people will occasionally reference the war.

In one year, you’ll realize that right now, we all sound as foolish as those people who tried to buy 500 rolls of toilet paper during peak covid. As if we couldn’t wash ourselves in the shower if worse came to worst.

The flip side of it is, nothing you do to prepare will matter if it happens. Which it won’t. So close Orange Website and play a game, read a book, write some music, get drunk, or just watch Netflix. You know, the standard weekend stuff.

That’s how to prepare for ww3. I doubt there’s a more optimal strategy for the non ultra wealthy.
I was recently wondering about that - Cloudflare is still protecting Russian servers, AWS, Google still work there.

There are multiple Ukrainian and Polish people working in those companies and a history of internal activism.

My hopeful bet was that US is gathering a ton of intelligence right now from all those sources.
that's pretty fun too
I wonder how long China and Russia will remain allied. There's similarities between the two since they're both authoritarian countries, practically dictatorships. But China is very racially uniform and xenophobic, believes Han Chinese people to be superior. Ultimately, they must believe themselves superior to Russians as well.
Ads themselves might be fine to you (I disagree). Breaking privacy laws, spying on users, and dark patterns to trick user into "consent" is not.
I also like "semper gumby" meaning "always flexible"
All highly addictive. Try an EV, trust me.
I'm usually not a fan of "cheat sheets" (HTML online documentation, man pages and even real books are quickly at hand) - but this is a useful (and pretty) synopsis of many useful library functions and recent additions to C++, thanks.
No. I’ve been a cubist for decades and it’s uncommon for people to say “Rubik’s”. Partly because hardly anyone prefers the original brand. Partly because insiders know what “cube” refers to.
Why pull down your pants when the ford is still far away? You being drafted is extremely unlikely... however, if you want to be mentally prepared, consider this the preparation. You feel anxious (me too). In a few days, we will get used to it. And when something even tougher comes, we will get used to it too. You are already a lot tougher than you were two years ago - you just survived global pandemic.

It often helps to do something with others instead of worrying at home. Any chance there is some refugee center close to where you live where you could help Ukrainians or someone?
> It's one thing to say, "Ukraine was never going to be in NATO, trust us."

No one ever said that. Ukraine is going to be in NATO if they want to be in NATO. The claim that Ukraine would eventually be admitted to NATO is not the bullshit.

The bullshit is that NATO is offensively directed at Russia; the only reason Russia isn't in NATO and covered by its defensive shield (Russia joined the onramp Partnership for Peace program in 1994) is that Putin decided he didn't want it to be, made known-unacceptable demands to bypass the accession process, was rebuffed as he knew he would be, and used that as a reason to stop any work toward joining.
Minio on a raspberry pi at a friends house.
I think Github Azure Edition, is what you’re looking for
Yeah, I feel like it's actually the opposite. You use Spotify/random music service to find the niche music because you couldn't find it on torrent/napster/kazaa/etc.