skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fox news openly supports Putin... Recently they blamed Greta Thunberg for the Ukrainian war...
In many European continental law countries - notably France but many others, you can be asked to present a national identification card (or passport, if foreign) by police/government security at any time and are expected to be able to comply. This is independent of Schengen or border control - it also applies to residents of the country going about their normal business.
Well, courage is the solution, that's for sure.

On the one hand the organizations we belong to have great influence on our rational behavior. If you don't toe the line, then you'll be gone in short order and replaced by someone who will. To succeed you must adopt the mindset of the organization. I call it company-centric thinking.

On the other hand, you expect corporations to put profit before politics, and develop training and protocols which are pro-marketplace, pro-capital, and blandly neutral socially/politically. Mostly rational and yet, as discussed here frequently, this seems to eventually lead to awful companies with too much influence on our lives.

This is the friction between corporations or narrowly focused organizations and our own communities. Not unlike the Industrial Revolution, technology moves at a pace faster than rational people can adapt. Makes you want to live the life of a Quaker, and adopt new things only when they won't disrupt the community.
No one reads those ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This sounds like less a problem with Java or Kotlin and more a problem with the development team. If you're dealing with a bunch of new developers who just barely read the GoF book and think it's a prescriptive guide to all things code, you're going to end up with a lot of boilerplate. But if you turn a bunch of new developers loose in any language without supervision, they're going to build something bad.

There's nothing in the languages themselves that forces you to use inappropriate design patterns, and as the parent mentions, modern Java and Kotlin have improved a ton in reducing boilerplate. I'm not actually sure what it is that you think they're missing that Python or JavaScript have, unless it's just that you prefer dynamic typing.
Isn't that a step that has to take place on the paired laptop?

Earlier the article says

> This setting controls when someone can remove the profile from within the phone itself. If it’s left as the default value of “Always” then anyone with access to your unlocked phone could remove the pair lock (which would defeat the entire purpose). You can either set it to Never to never allow removing the profile, or With Authorization and set a password to allow removing the profile with the given password (this might be useful to remove the pairing restriction if you do lose access to your laptop).
Why would America's foreign surveillance be inexcusable?
Here is an article and video on "Railway Oriented Programming":

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/

You won't believe it's about monads!
Stop and frisk was so controversial it was ended by popular demand. One upside of America is that privacy invading policies have a way of correcting themselves if the electorate is sufficiently outraged. The proposed changes to Section 230 being shut down are another example of the powers that be not ruling absolutely.
This is a real concern. A lot of these offerings are not useful now because they are not ARM (or, soon, RISC-V). Even with instruction set match, moving between vendors is a huge issue.
> Also I could just be jaded old and grumpy but whatever, this is how I feel about it and everyone is free to be wrong on the Internet.

No -- this is interesting. I also think point 3 and 5 probably informed and explain the new generics design, which seems intended to reward perseverance.

I didn't find channels difficult, but then I have some Occam, CSP and PVM experience, and some message-passing parallel language design experience too (albeit all academically, including 27 years ago in my final degree assignment)
Yeah, when I said 3.5 GHz, I meant CBRS [1], which is a US thing. I do think that other countries will have similarly-open bands, even if they don't match exactly. I.e. bands that you don't need to pay a license to use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Broadband_Radio_Servi...
Thats assuming if something went wrong and also assumes something/someone could be sued. Have you seen various software EULA's?
Quite interesting that this is being published in Nature.
I think there are far worse things that need to be removed.
But so little is discussed on the affect of the sun moving into a solar minimum. That will have some serious consequences as well.
Passwordless login doesn't necessarily mean a physical separate dumb key, it can have many implementations that make sense:

1. WebAuthn (current spec) is also implemented by Android, iOS macOS and Windows 10/11 (natively); that makes your device a possible "passwordless factor holder". You then essentially tie your authentication with your device passcode and/or biometric ID, similar to what a password manager would do, except there's no password to steal.

2. YubiKey BIO supports biometric authentication (I presume with on-board fingerprint verification) to use the device's keys. So it's essentially a biometric-protected private key.

3. IIRC some hardware crypto wallets can act as WebAuthn devices and display the website domain when asking you to touch it. Maybe they support passcode protection?

4. Even if you were to use a "raw" WebAuthn key stored on your computer (on TPM, Secure Enclave, or even filesystem) -- if you protect it with a password, you essentially have pubkey authentication with a second factor of password.
I recommend following him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock, as well as this list, which features his account plus a number of other high-quality accounts reporting on what's happening in Ukraine: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1467909429534380034
Vaguely reminds me when US offered a bounty for turning people in in Iraq so people would turn in their neighbors they didn't like despite them not actually being guilty of anything.

Whole lotta people ended up in gitmo that were actually innocent that way.

This is obviously going to be a very dark decade for Ukraine but less obvious is how bad things are going to get in Russia if they can pull the curtain over it like this.

Worst thing US did to Iraq invasion protestors domestically was put them on the "no fly" list which is abusive but trivial in comparison.

I wonder who is waiting in the wings after Putin and if they are going to be better or worse.
California bill would ban 'squaw' in location names
True. But if required uranium is slightly easier to ship than natural gas, and a power plant doesn't consume much of it. A small plane from the US can transport all the uranium a reactor needs to function for one year easily!
What a long an pointless article to say “I don’t get it”.

Nothing is as explicitly wrong, it just misses the point. Author seems to love authority and defer to such.
The West has weaponised financial and economic forces against Russia. The flip side is that it can backfire.

If I were a betting person, I would wager that these economic sanctions will hurt the West more than Russia. And especially the United States as we have the biggest economy and have more to lose as our bets are the biggest.

Already state pension funds invested in Russian banks and bonds are floundering. And sanctions are forcing state govts to withdraw pension fund investments in Russia and they are advising all to get it out. The impact of this is going to be devastating to America.

We weaponised the $$$. It’s going to come back to get us. Tough times ahead.
The legality is entirely beside the point, although of note, in the case I referenced the Supreme Court found in a 7-2 decision that it was in fact legal to refuse to bake a cake for that particular gay wedding while being careful not to set a precedent. So your claim here is not universally true. Personally I would have baked the cake.

There is a contingent of the left that is happy when force and coercion are deployed so long as its done in a wider context that benefits their political aims. They argue that a baker must be forced to go against his personal values to further a particular goal that they support, but take up the exact opposite posture as soon as it suits them. For example, Twitter is a private company, of course they can ban you for saying that thing you said that doesn't conform with my political views.

At any rate, I was just trying to gesture towards a growing pack of vocal hypocrites, not re-litigate the baker decision.
You could call this the Address Unknown[1] approach. An excellent and quick (<30 minutes) read, but probably not an appropriate tactic to use against a random Russian citizen.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Unknown_(novel)
Russia has nuclear weapons. They are always in a position to negotiate.
The criticism is that is over-representing neural networks' capabilities: saying that they can compute any function is a very big and incorrect claim, IMO it should at least mention that non-computable functions are a thing and of course a neural network can't have better capabilities than the machine that is running it. This is especially because there are people out there thinking that machine learning is able to solve any possible problem, if one of those people comes across this proof they'll think: "Neural netwoks really can solve any conceivable problem! Look, there's even a mathematical proof of this!"
The Coder Supply Chain Runs Through Ukraine
Why do you want to know?

This is a serious question. I'm asking because I find the hobby-level interest in nuclear war kind of offensive. It trivializes a profound threat to humanity.
I’ve always been fascinated by the lengths authoritarians go to legitimize their actions. When no one is fooled, why do they do it? I would be interested to read a book analyzing the value of authoritarian propaganda.
These are not at all comparable.

The stop and frisk program was directed towards reducing gun crime. This is a crime that is understood to be a negative for society.

Moscow is trying to reduce dissent over an invasion of another country.

Do you not see the difference here?
Pension funds divesting from Russia may be new weapon in sanctions war
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Last time I tried xfig was more than a decade ago. I don't do much technical drawing, my needs have been fully covered by Inkscape.

Just apt-get installed xfig. Still works pretty well.
I think this could be very good for Virginia. It gives them a significant amount of independence from the Federal Government.
> subway bag searches

You can legally refuse a subway bag search, leave and enter the subway through another entrance. I've done so a few times, and the officers just roll their eyes and act like you're being unreasonable.

Stop and Frisk was a TERRIBLE rights violation though and we should never bring it back.
Descending?
I would dare to say this can backfire because it means they're losing control and are forced to exercise repression in sunlight, which will further fuel discontent among Russian people.
As for the events in the tweet: guess it's time to dust off my trusted Nokia 1200.
Isn't there some sort of tooling that can be used in these situations? Like a "public search mode" app that encrypts your data but makes the phone look clean otherwise?
My personal understanding of Heinlein is that he shifted from a very pro-government conservative to a far more laissez faire libertarian as he aged and as you follow his works throughout his life. Starship Troopers came far earlier in this progression.
Good point. It can be a tough habit to break, because it seems to occupy the same part of my brain as "the UK".
That step can't be performed from a computer that's not already trusted by the iOS device. I.e., it can only be the one it's pair-locked to.
We can find a function to express past stock prices.

There isn't one for the future, unless said future is somehow predetermined?

Is it, given enough input data?

Does this discussion then distill down to philosophy?

Do living beings have agency, or are they simply very complex NNs?

How one answers that speaks to consciousness as much as it does the prospect of a predictive stock price model.
With today's absurd gas prices, in Romania, even a resistive heater using hydropower costs less than a gas-powered heater.

If you use heat pumps, that goes even cheaper (by the CoP of the heat pump).

You can switch power or gas suppliers at any time.
They aren't a funnel, they would account for like .0001% of our traffic. It is for "industry outreach" purposes - to help strengthen the link profile of the site (whitehat SEO)
The Little-Known Violence Prevention Tool Cropping Up in Cities Across Country
Initial support for Steam Proton prefixes in Bottles enter Experimental features
Nvidia’s GTC is coming up soon. will be interesting to see this play out.

One of nvidia’s largest moats to ML and Gaming workloads is the proprietary software it provides.
I really like Rubocop, but it's quite slow and resource intensive. I was trying to set up tooling for someone doing The Odin Project recently and couldn't get Rubocop or Solargraph working in VSCode in their VM, on a pretty high end XPS.
Kills me how obvious this should be. It's free as in "library." You may go to the library and learn all you want. Check out them books and do all the projects in them. That's it.
Kentucky Teachers Retirement Fund lost $3M in selling investment in Russian bank
Yes. On this study: A comparative study of programming languages in Rosetta code they show that Haskell programs are (brief) less lines of code to achieve the same goal.

Binary size is small..

And very important to me they could be executed even years after they were first uploaded to Rosetta code.

A very good study and the researches gave an entertaining talk on it, that I can't find now.
Haskell hides far more of the inner workings than Python, JS or Go. There's a huge gap between the semantics of a non-strict, pure functional language and the actual execution model.
It seems you are speculating that Putin’s response to Oil & Gas sanctions would be to nationalize all bank accounts and therefore broad sanctions are the only measure that could work.

Let’s say that were true. Why then should the west not apply broad sanctions AND include sanctions on Oil & Gas exports as well?

It seems to me that this policy would shut down Putin’s war machine faster than either measure alone.

I suspect the real reason the west chose to exclude oil & gas from other sanctions is the same reason the sanctions include a carve-out for selling Italian luxury goods to Russian elites.

Namely that the west is equally willing to impose pain on the Russian people as it is on Russia’s elites but they are unwilling to take more effective action since it would be politically risky and may impede their chances of re-election - even though it would effectively end the war in Ukraine immediately.
Stellarium is a masterpiece, my childhood memory, and one of the most important softwares for astronomy education that doesn’t charge you anything!
False, an electric heater is 100% efficient (it's a pure resistive load). But these days we can do better, and you would say that we can't to better than 100% efficiency, but indeed we can with heat pumps, that are 300% efficient or more. Because they use electricity to move heat from one place (the exterior) to another (the interior), and they can transport more heat than the one they consume in the process.

Also, you can use nuclear also for direct heating, without passing trough electricity: city near the power plant can use the waste heat from cooling the reactor as city heating, that is with pipes that bring hot water in the homes for heating the radiators or making domestic hot water. Of course that is doable only for a city very near to the reactor, since transporting the heat have losses. But it was common in old soviet cities to use that form of heating.
'Free' fake news warning from Surfshark VPN
Yes, just not on a Russian airline.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220128222933/https://raccoon.on...
There's a pretty cool python library with a huge number of these if you want to experiment (GPLv3): https://github.com/chrislit/abydos
There is a difference between free software and open source, and this may be the former, but is not the latter
Hug of death, archive link here: http://web.archive.org/web/20210502014855/https://raccoon.on...
I love how they invent a border exception that is no where to be found in the constitution. Then they start sticking everything under that exception. So effectively the constitution doesn't apply if you're within 100 miles of a border.

I'm glad we passed that amendment to the constitution for this 100 mile no constitution zone... Oh wait.

So if the courts are ruling that within 100 miles of the border a constitutional protections of the individual do not apply does that also mean that the constitution itself as a document doesn't apply? Where does the border authority derive its power from or the courts derived their power from if the Constitution itself doesn't apply?

People's ideological interpretation of the Constitution seems to cut both ways for them, and no matter what your ideology is it will always be used against you. The false dichotomy of liberal versus conservative or Republican versus Democrat is the lie that we've accepted. It is the people versus tyranny and until more people begin to accept that this kind of stuff will continue to stand.
> Seems like a really slow, cumbersome technique to monitor people.

No, it is a terror approach. Random people will get the news and panic about being the next to be catch in a police round-up.
> it looks like someone went out of their way to create a shape that makes it as difficult to deal with as possible

I’d like to introduce you to pretzels. :)
I remember seeing the same concept applied to something else and a demo here on HN many years ago. This implementation however is novel, and feels more 'exploitable'. Good idea/nice find!
Can you expand on what you mean by calling Haskell’s type system ‘ad hoc’? I was under the impression that ‘ad hoc’ was basically the opposite of formalized/well-founded. That doesn’t sound like an accurate description of Haskell’s type system in my understanding.
https://archive.ph/XeoiH

http://web.archive.org/web/20220306110425/https://platformer...
Enjoy wasting your time and wellbeing by being incarcerated, having to find a lawyer, testify and then being released because that chat was actually legal.
I'm only pointing out (one possible) way in which two hypotheses are not conflicting. If any such a way exists, then the hypotheses cannot be regarded as mutually exclusive.

It is an error of reasoning to consider the lab leak and seafood market hypotheses to be competing and mutually exclusive.

I find it extremely plausible that in the event of a lab leak, there would be some kind of cover up.

And that there has been a cover up of something is obvious.
It's not a marketing problem, it's a comfort problem.
Source: Me who lived in the Bay for years without a car and knew the VTA, Caltrain and BART like the back of my hand.
Selling off right now while there is a market rout will only lead to class action lawsuits down the line.
Tl;dr: Climate change is likely to shut down the Atlantic currents, covering Europe and the US northeast in a glacier.

(I saw a PBS special on this part in the 90's. Recent satellite data strongly suggest this is already happening. The last time this happened, Europe went from "too hot" to "glacier" in the under fifty years.

If we wait for that to happen, then cool the atmosphere, then it'll make the coming ice age worse in the short term.

In other decades-old news, if we don't start capturing CO2 after that, and the predictions about runaway greenhouse gas mechanisms are true, Earth will become like Venus, obliterating life on earth.

Am I the only one that learned about this from watching PBS in the 90s? Is there something novel in the paper? It's good to raise awareness of just how f-cked we are, I guess.
"unbundled" support, perhaps?
> This workflow ensures any work for minor version upgrade is part of the development workflow. PMs can't deprioritise this work against more exciting shiny product features. If you include this as separate development tickets, it just tends to get deprioritised until it becomes a big chunk of work.

Instead of your maintenance work being visible, you're hiding it. You're describing an adversarial culture, one where you need to do shadow work because you don't trust management to prioritize necessary maintenance, perhaps one where management doesn't trust engineering to place maintenance in its proper context. I don't think this is an ideal, I think this is sad.
I do think you are right there and that generics will have a significant (and likley highly positive) impact on Go.

Much of the code I wrote in large applications amounted to writing application specific data-structures that had no business being application specific. However due to Go restricting generic capability to language level features and reflection being far too slow it lead to a lot of it sadly. One of the reasons I love the JVM ecosystem so much is access to the `java.collections` library which is definitely 1st class among standard libraries.

I haven't kept up with Go development but I hope they are going to revamp the stdlib with generics powered structures etc. Seeing people use the stdlib linkedlist implementation always caused me to start questioning my life decisions.

As for channels I think basic usage is straight forward. Where things become complicated is differences between buffered vs unbuffered channels and how combining those in select statements etc makes for some interesting interactions. Which is what I find egregious, something that looks and feels simple until it's not.
Thanks for the feedback - the reason was originally to allow people to save the decision to their profile on the fly. But I agree with the feedback. Updated to not require sign up to see results.
Korean is essentially a phonetic language now. Japanese is half, with only the Kanji part arguably derived from pictograms. Even Chinese writing is not really a pictogram system for the reasons outlined in the article. In practice, the majority of characters are constructed with a radical plus a phonetic component.

Also, by the way, the vast majority (if not all) "Asian" languages are phonetic unless they have Chinese influence.
The first item in the FAQ:

> "What is rule 7b?"

> > If you suggest something, you build it.

If any @htmx devs read this - maybe rewrite to suggest that you are always open to ideas or even criticism, but no guarantees that things will be addressed.

And that you are always happy to get pull requests if we know enough, and are brave enough, to try fixing things ourselves.
Putin has a direct tie to all ologarch money - they need to give him his cut for "protection" (from him) so as to not get poloniumed.

So any hit to a Russian Oligarch can eventually lead to a personal hit to Putin.

However, with all the resources of an entire nation under his singular pudgy fist, im sure he has plenty of shell-assets all across the west.

Also, ne thing we are not talking about is how the Russian mafia is profitting.

There is a huge Russo-Israeli mafia (speocifically in NYC (Kutchner fam)) and they apparently own a ton of real estate in NYC. This is who co-opted 1980s Dnald Trump...

If you arent familiar with this part of history, its been well hidden - but the Russo-Israeli Mafia in NYC is powerful. Follow the money and all that...

The human cost of all of this is going to result in a shitstorm of suffering on the part of young russian women as human trafficking is going to spike in the next ~18 months.