skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"C Is Not a Low-level Language Your computer is not a fast PDP-11."

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
> It took me some time to figure out that they were not successful entrepreneurs, but that these were fronts to cover for rich parents.

"Housewife jobs" are structurally similar.

I'm based in Europe and work U.S. hours, so I usually have my mornings and early afternoons for leisure activities, including riding my horse. This means I travel a fair bit in social circles comprised mostly of middle-aged women who don't have regular jobs.

If you ask those women their job or, with a slight lack of tact, even ask directly how they make a living, it's usually something like yoga teacher, photographer, landscape designer, etc.

Initially, I always walked away from these interactions thinking something like: Wow, you must be a really good landscape designer, if you can actually make a living at it, and have the time and money for two horses at a pricey stable.

Later, I realized that these occupations are mostly fronts they put up because it's not socially acceptable these days for a woman to have a husband who does most of the earning for the shared household.

What you do is: You take some online class on landscaping and tell your girlfriend (the one who you're regularly giving $100-christmas-gifts to) that you're now a trained landscape designer. You do a bit of consulting for her by making a few suggestions about what flowers would look good on her front yard and have her pay $30 for the privilege of having consulted a trained landscape designer. From now on, whenever someone asks you your job, you no longer need to say "housewife", but you can say "landscape designer". If someone walks away with the misconception that you actually make enough money from your landscape designing to pay for your lifestyle, then that's just a misconception that you're under no moral obligation to straighten out.

The problem: This sort of behaviour is not really advancing the cause of feminism at all.

Because now, when a man tells me he's a landscape designer, I assume he makes enough money as a landscape designer to pay for his lifestyle. When a woman tells me she's a landscape designer, I assume it's a front and she really just has a rich husband who pays for everything.
European leaders are largely acting out of public opinion being against Russia

I think you're in the minority if you're against sanctions

Russia poked and prodded NATO for years (Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea) and watched the European powers stand idly by with maybe some words and small sanctions

This caused them to miscalculate and push too far. But the escalation is Russia's fault, nobody made them invade anybody
There were before, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225133800/https://novayagaz...
I am not completely happy with Western media. They don't address the fact that stopping cars in Europe would be the hardest sanction to Russia because Russian energy exports have built a strong Russian military and continue to maintain it. Still energy is excluded from sanctions.

There are other wars were EU and NATO don't give a good picture. 1000s of people drowng in the Mediterranean.

But still I have a basic trust and know that outright lies are much less common in Western media than in Russian ones. If you don't count reports how Trump's victory was stolen. But the US is dangerously close from leaving Western democracy standards. Not the media, but 48% or so of the voters.
You can add

about:reader?url=

before any URL to enable it on any website.
Due to UNIX clones, and religious cargo cult on some embedded circles.
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Fancy creating 'a-ba-gillion' images that are same same but different? Itching to flood opensea with random gifs and pngs but not quite sure you have enough material to make a big enough flood?

Look no further...

A BLAZING FAST command line image manipulation program written in c that only seg-faults sometimes.
You ever get the feeling people will finally say enough is enough?
Right, I guess there's a lot of debate on why things improved so much economically around that time. But still people will tend to associate it with the administration it happened under - we do it in western countries as well.
The canonical example for pumping lemma disproof is a^n b^n, which is more obvious IMO.
I love the Garmin watches! Not the best features compared to Wear, but Wear has intolerable battery life.
Easy: The law they're passing where if you call the war in Ukraine a war, it's 15 years in jail, and several of the last independent news organizations shutting down, as well as that they've publicly stated they have started to block or degrade several platforms - e.g. Twitter, Facebook?
They go out of their way to try and represent both sides of a coin, to a fault. If it’s clearly raining, and they have a guest on to talk about the rain, they will also have a guest on who will try and argue “oh these precipitation levels don’t constitute rain” etc. A bit contrived but you get the idea.
What do you mean, “we”? He founded and owns the company. He also single-handedly prioritized sending them units for free.

There is no we. There’s him. He calls the shots. He tweets what he wants. He deals with the hacking.
Typical liberal democracy has 2 modes of work: peace time and war time.

In time of peace, value of human life is infinite, thus fredom of someone ends where freedom of somewhere else starts. Nobody can cut basic freedoms of someone else without court decision.

In time of war, this freedom creates vulnerability, so modern democraties have utalitarian laws designed to maximise survivability of nation as whole instead. It's not so important for behemoths, but it's essential for smaller countries. However, even in large and powerful democraties there are loopholes around basic freedoms for desperate times, such as natural disaster, or assault, or war, etc.

For example, it's not allowed to shut somebody else, except when defending or to save life of someone else. It's not allowed to force somebody else to keep silence, except when it puts lifes of others in danger, such as hate speech, or division by race, color of skin, nationality, religion, income, etc.

Russian outlets are doing just that. They are trying to portrait other nations as evils. They are telling to Ukrainians that Jews are rulling our country (half truth, many politics in Ukraine are Jews), then they tell to Jews that Ukrainians are Nazi, to induce fighting between nationalities, to start civil war.

This creates danger for everybody, so we cried for years to shut down Russian propaganda. Nobody listened to us until today.
This is a predictable feel-good move but of course it doesn't come anywhere close to fully offsetting the sanctions' impact, or they would have done it before!
Neither of these websites are banned in the EU. The servers are not very responsive at the moment though. Probably someone is DDOS'ing them.
Some of them are, some of them are not. What's your point? Your original statement is emphatically not true because cards issued by many of the biggest consumer banks (among them Sberbank, Alfabank) continue to work internationally. And internally all cards continue to work. So please don't spread rumors if you don't have access to accurate information.
Weren’t there less than 200 US troops and Russia had already amassed at the border of Ukraine?

Seems like it was going to happen regardless since the removal of US troops was because of the Russian build-up and not the other way around.
For the aged or others outside normal healthy boundaries, wearable tech is a life-saving benefit. Otherwise it's a life-style option.
Seriously?
Nobody beyojd a few OAPs actually thinks the BBC is a font of perfect vision. It's simply a but less crassly propaganda ridden then most other sources, and more centrist (if you believe in the 1d political tribalism meme).

The anti BBC narrative is largely political posturing to discredit one if the few remaining sources that aren't bought by private individuals to further their personal objectives. It's an obvious business move to increase their traction and value proposition.
It's incredulous that he would believe that after Ukraine flirting with joining NATO and receiving a lot of defense funding from the west.
Yes, consumers will get resold stuff from other markets but b2b it is sheer pain as now you probably need credit and in a foreign currency, and you may be rolling the quality and service dice on unauthorized resellers.
If they have 1000x as much wealth they won't be feeling any need to.
No, that's false. I can access rt.com from Europe normally after a "checking your browser" screen. Using the Tor browser however, rt.com blocks access after said screen.
I wish this where true, but I disagree. I think you drastically over-estimate the average (particularly non tech) person's will and ability to learn such things.
Warning: infer has been deprecated because it does not build!
One of the cuts to BBC funding that Cameron introduced was for the World Service. They removed main funding from the Foreign Office, it is now funded from the BBCs general budget. I hadn't realised that they had been topping it up with additional funding from the FO.
Eh, I think of the menu of options, taking out Starlink in Europe with a DDOS has a high probability of providing value for Russia and is safer to execute compared with the theoretical attack of getting locations out of a starlink ground station. Even if they managed to gain access to the ground stations, they would then need to wade through a proprietary stack and hope that what they have access to actually has useful location data. SpaceX apparently operates on cells that are "5 miles in radius" hexagons, though people on reddit claim to get service up to 15 miles away from home. In any case, I could see a world where the ground station only knew what one of those cells a person was in, and the whole exercise of breaking into a ground station would have been for nothing.
And will lead to WWIII with nukes flying left and right!
Implementers want to get paid more than they want to solve society's money/government problem. Turns out, corruption isn't just for bureaucrats!
Tucker Carlson would be proud of you for that take.
Third time’s the charm, right? Yanukovych has been kicked out of Ukraine by a revolution twice. Madness to think the result would be different this time.
I wish I had never been in a position to weigh the two but deprivation of independence and selective political persecution, however bad, does not go as low as genocide.

Genocide indeed targets the entire demographic and is insidious in part because it may be misleadingly quiet and peaceful (see the ongoing sterilization of Uyghur women).

That said, one can consider deprivation of independence as adjacent to cultural genocide.
So, cooperation with Germany during WW2 was OK, but now "we ain't siding with baddies". okay...
On the positive side, a solution for global warming.
I would redesign this page - https://venuscounselling.com/best-career-counselling-in-delh...
I have a USB C monitor and a second monitor connected to the first monitor with a DP cable. The USB C cable is connected to a ThinkPad x270 (a machine from 2017) running linux. Am I missing something regarding TB vs USB C + DP, or are you saying that this setup wouldn't work on a newly released MacBook? It sounds pretty unbelievable to me.
That's not the case at all. They may do that for some topics but not for all. At the moment coverage of Ukraine really is "war reporting" in the classic sense, i.e, there is control and a line to follow to make sure one side is pure white and the other side pure black.
I highly doubt the Russian military is mentally nimble enough to put in effect a suggestion some lowly analyst have read on the internet.

It's probably why they're not as effective as we thought.
The pain for sure is real. The way we approach it: Whenever there is a data change we re-run our models and see if it improves performance or some other metrics (which are very specific to us). I wonder how valuable "generic" metrics are.
We scrolled less (thanks Aza), but were the same monkeys before. People wildly overestimate their critical thinking faculties and how impervious they are to propaganda.
I stand corrected. I also forgot to consider that Rob Pike is Canadian, which further improves his statistical chances.
Yeah, you're right. I didn't think to check previous versions.

It seems to me like a flaw in the language that "==" can compare unexported struct fields.

Looks like it's possible to disallow comparing structs with "==" at compile time: https://go.dev/play/p/BfM6sDxlTq9. Not ideal, but better than nothing I suppose.
Not so long ago, Russians used to have a population for being extraordinary programmers. Doesn't that still apply?
> Looked at Russia, in what sense?

I will respect that you know better than me, an American that would like to see the sights of Russia one day.

In the sense that Putin murders/poisons his political opponents and journalists like Navalny & Politkovskaya, tortures and imprisons activists like Magnitsky and Nadya Tolokno. I can sympathize with anyone who would avoid a government responsible for such acts, granting that I'm ignorant of any Ukrainian equivelancies.

To me, Ukraine has the hope of a European future of democratic rule and economic prosperity, unburdened by such kleptocracy as that which has deprived the Russian military of its competence. Really, I think Putin was told his forces on the border were topped off with food, fuel, and combat units hungry for conquest. He is sorely mistaken, and his troops are hungry, out of gas, and without purpose. Again, this is just what I see. A superpower that isn't. As the war drags on, Putin has to answer to his fellow oligarchs as much as anyone else, and Ukraine will continue to be supplied by Russia's enemies.
Starlink satellites are orbiting fairly low and atmospheric drag would clear the remnants within 3-5 years.
I'm having trouble believing that figure. I read the article, not the study, so shame on me for that. 11% of Americans will make, at some point, over $300k per year? That is an obscene amount of money. I cannot believe that 1 in 10 people will make that much in a year for at least one year in their life times. Maybe amongst computer science grads from good schools, where 1 in 10 gets into a FAANG, but amongst the general populace?
Correct about AM radio . FM radio, mention previously in other comments is only short range.
Putin can never trust Europe again. A new democratic government could.
Sci-fi author dethrones Pebble for title of most-funded Kickstarter campaign
Only on desktop? Does not work on Firefox 98 on Android.
Here is an even better example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30548787

Razengan

"Not resorting to Whataboutism, but try to see how the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan (two in a row, and the subsequent occupation for 20 years no less!) by the US was seen as “just” by all the nations now condemning Russia.
Take a look at maps of NATO expansion:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/t37zf4/countries_j...

If America was concerned about Russian nukes in Cuba, shouldn’t Russia be concerned about an alliance encroaching up to their literal border?"

selfhoster11

"This is basically whataboutism. I don't consider myself well informed enough on any Middle Eastern conflicts, but if I found anything objectionable there, I'm happy to call out both the US and Russia on their BS.
BTW, "NATO expansion" was there for a reason, and you don't get to claim that the new members didn't want to join of their own initiative. Every post-communist country that wants to keep their self-determination is worried about falling back into being Russian puppets once more."

Razengan raises the perfectly valid point of how come invasion of Iraq and Afganistan was not met by any outcry or sanctions by those countries who supposedly value countries sovereign rights?

selfhoster11 instantly replies with "whataboutism" and so kills the discussion that way.

Question: how is asking about what makes the Ukraine invasion different from the Iraq invasion, whataboutism?

Answer: It's not whatboutism.

People just throw blindly throw whatboutism when there is any discussion about other countries even when there is zero whatboutism. In this example, selfhoster11 doesn't even bother to come-up with any explanation on the differences between Iraq and Ukraine and just cites "whataboutism" like it's a magic word.

Russia would be committing Whatboutism if they just said since USA got to invade Iraq and Afganistan and violated those countries rights', we should be able to do the same to Ukraine. Basically, USA committed a wrong and so we get to do the same as well.

But that's not what Russia is saying, what Russia is saying that there is such a thing as justified aggression versus a threat; USA's justification for the Iraq invasion was Iraq having WMDs. Russia's justification is threat of Nato Expansion and the interesting discussion would be if that justification is valid or not. But no, most discussions just cry "whatboutism" and all discussion ends there.
> I can read in our media what they say.

Actually, no matter who it is, you can't and hope to get a proper sense of it. Try it sometime. Luck anyone controversial, especially if your really dislike them. Read an account of s sketch they gave in "your media" whatever that is for you. Then read the original transcript.

I tried this with Assange more than a decade ago. I had the idea he was a bedrock lunatic crazy reading the accounts. Then i read transcripts it watched video if him and decided well be may be wrong about everything but that impression about what he was was just very wrong. Cherry picked, edited, context missing to make him seem as repulsive as they possibly could in every dimension.

Always form your own view and don't let it be handed to you fully formed. Go for the source documents whenever you can /especially/ when everyone is angry and upset. You're unlikely to change 180 at all. You are likely to have a deeper understanding of nuance and who is taking advantage of the situation for their own ends and why.

This advice is the same for American media if you don't live in the US, or middle eastern, or African it Asian.

At the minimum it should take you no more than 10 minutes to confirm RT is exactly what you think it is and that is worthwhile in itself.
It always amazes me how seemingly complex hardware problems can be fixed in software with the right amount of work. It's a bit similar to where we are in AI I think, with very advanced and capable hardware but just needs the correct software to be able to fully exploit all the hardware capabilities.
Except for viewers in Scotland.
It actually is. I wish the US would put sanctions on the EU for all the man-hours wasted clicking those stupid things.
Ha! Indeed, I'm listening to CRI as I type this!

When you say stopped broadcasts to Europe do you mean programming content rather than frequencies used? I hope there is more will to expand these BBC services permanently.

Long time before I got into computers as a career I was a sound recording engineer. I had a brief time at Nottingham University's languages department recording off-air shortwave broadcasts from racks of Eddystone receivers onto 1/4" Levers Rich tape machines. Comparing the diversity of broadcasts then to now is quite startling.
For most using HN, the standard of living is likely better than all the pharaohs and kings of the past by a considerable margin. Gratitude is important, all the rest is relative.
> pointless changes where modern Germanic languages are closer to modern English.

I agree that there's a lot of these, but arguably English still seems to have way more Latinate/Romance borrowings than your average Germanic language. So the direction they're going for seems correct, they're just overdoing it (which after all is the whole point of that project!) and, more worryingly, sometimes missing the most appropriate Germanic word for their desired concept, like "Thing" for a democratic assembly.
Yes, there is a podman-compose package as well.
> Not to mention that attacking US satellites would probably be an act of war.

These aren't US satellites. They're SpaceX satellites. An attack might still result in war since they're owned by an Oligarch, but that certainly isn't the default.
Can we agree that the name of FSD was selected before it actually was capable of anything? And if that's the case how should they have named it: "someday it might be full self driving"?

I totally understand your point, and I also agree with it, but I also can understand the point of view of someone as ambitious and driven as Musk that saw an idea, and then committed to it by choosing a name that reflects what they intend it to become, not what it's capable of doing at the moment.

You can see this very pattern if you watch Shawn Murray's first interviews about No Man's Sky. He shows the game as being capable of doing all these wonderful things that were proven to be bullshit when it was first released, yet over the years the game was built almost into the state that he first wanted it as. Was that an intentional way of cheating people, or was it just an ambitious person telling you about what they see at the end of road for their project? In my opinion it's the later, but people that bought into the hype at launch day, I bet they felt pretty angry.

So my advice (and apologies if it sounds patronizing), if anyone is in the market for buying a product which sounds too good to be true, maybe research the fine print and the owner's manual before putting your life and others' in danger by trusting the marketing team's selection of a name.
You need one rocket launch with a lot of (nuclear) EMP as cluster munitions.
And of course nothing from stopping Biden creating his own platform should the tables turn, right?

It's true the large social platforms are privately owned and so they can censor to their hearts content, but given the obliquity and integration these largest platforms have in the social fabric, is that reasonable?

Should they at least have clear moderation policies? It's an issue that needs some hefty discussion and evaluation especially, as we're seeing in this thread, the outsized influence on and control of public discourse they have.
Improved Approximation Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Search-Diversification
From my location in Sweden, sputniknews.com is currently available but www.rt.com is not (error 403). Probably sputnik will go away as well, as the EU ban on these outlets is "expected to cover all means of distribution or transmission, including internet video sharing platforms and applications"
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/28/eu-rt-ban-extends-online/

This seems like a boneheaded move. What credibility will the EU have in criticizing media censorship in Russia when they engage in censorship themselves?
Either did I until writing my post! Perhaps they are having second thoughts.
gritzko (always on the vanguard!) has also been doing this kind of stuff in RON for a while, though I haven't looked into it deeply enough to determine how much it overlaps with Kleppmann's approach: https://replicated.cc
Civil war? Majority supports the invasion, the rest is indifferent, and 0.1% are protesting (soon to be jailed).
I think self confidence (where I’m generally high) is extremely valuable. But going into my uncomfort zones, that’s where the value can come. I really do feel faster growth.

I’d love to have a coach focused on non-violence. For marriage, I think I’d find it very valuable—but also for greater self awareness.