skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but why NATO wants to continue to expand when the US/EU knows perfectly that this only makes Russia more aggressive

This seems ridiculous to me. Russia has been aggressive to its neighbors for a hundred years.

> They won't join NATO (because the West doesn't want to go to war with Russia directly) but they'll be ruined by a tragic war.

They couldn't join because the second Viktor Yanukovych was gone, Russia invaded the east and took Crimea. You can't join NATO while in an active conflict. People seem to be forgetting that the very second his henchman got tossed out he invaded. The precipitating event was a trade deal with the EU, not a bid to enter NATO.
Downranking "disinformation" could be seen as creating the sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble that Weinberg often denigrates.

> As a result, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural or ideological bubbles. The choices made by these algorithms are not transparent.

I don't think it's unfounded criticism.

One problem is how arbitrary the categorization of "disinformation" can be. Once you go down the path, it can also create a scenario where you tacitly approve the things you don't decide to censor/downrank. While I can argue both sides, it simply doesn't come without trade-offs.
Are you using Assembly3 or 4 or dodo? Do you ever use spreadsheet to control the whole assembly or just each part?
> Who are they to decide what is "disinformation". How do they know?

Making decisions about which information to rank highly vs. lowly is, you know, kind of the definition of a search engine.
Important to note that Stripe has NOT announced any crypto/blockchain/NFT products or tech of its own.

The only news here is that Stripe is letting crypto companies use their various fiat processing services, now that they feel comfortable that they can legally do so. Confirmed by pc's comment [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30629169
If I refuse to trade with the world, the world becomes infinitesimally poorer, but I become radically poorer. Russia is relatively small compared to the global economy and will suffer much more than everyone else.
It could be that you aren't tired of coding but you're tired of coding with those languages, or for those given applications.

I personally really like the embedded space or any other role where I can lay hands on hardware, even if that's servers or networking equipment. I've worked in a data center, on gunshot detection systems, and also computer or network-controlled lighting, vehicles, and herbicide sprayers.
You’re suggesting that these HN readers are criticizing crypto because they’re trying to keep government corruption under the rug?
I feel like I am engaging with a bad faith critique for the purposes of good faith discussion, which is a mistake, but OK, here goes:

Some businesses in the UK have banks that say they will close their accounts if they accept cryptocurrency payments. Mine does! I would without hesitation lose my business bank account if I did, because I am a trifling small customer.

Stripe was safe and reputable, but now it is a place where you can accept cryptocurrencies.

Edit: see note below.

I'm not currently clearing payments via Stripe for my own business, but the way I understand it, it's now likely to mean increased scrutiny from my bank about those payments when I do.

I'm not sure if it has rolled out in the UK yet. But if it has, will my bank be clearly informed when a payout was *not* the result of a cryptocurrency transaction? I've not read that far yet.

Either way it's reputational damage hassle people do not need.

And before you ask: I am of course comfortable with that bank policy. Because cryptocurrency is consistently crime-adjacent and fraud-adjacent. And it's not like banks are that well-equipped at dealing with old-fashioned frauds that have been around a century, let alone new frauds that have been around mere days.

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Edit to add: apparently this document is not meant to communicate that cryptocurrency payments can be accepted. Which is not what the screenshots in the page do, IMO.

Though the fact that Stripe will allow NFT exchanges is more than enough to create reputational risk.

I still expect to have more difficulty when I add Stripe payments.
That's not what I wrote, but you're certainly free to misread my sentence and go off on a strawman.

https://youtu.be/hQlrGGJodgQ

100k miles doesn't make it unsafe, the rust does. 100k miles is mentioned because a 50k mile car is less likely to have potential critical rust, and rental companies are selling cars at 50k miles on average.

Of course now this is the part where you say 50k mile cars can have rust too! They sure can, but where is rust worse, at 50k miles or after an additional 50k miles?

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It's not just rust either, as miles tick up there's plenty of maintenance that's supposed to be done that private renters making a buck won't.

Your rental agency isn't going to pick up a high milage 3 series that's one good highway trip away from shredding its serpentine belt because no one ever fixed a single oil leak it had...

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They're also not going to do what my Turo renter did in Miami:

Give you a car with a brake light and clear metal on metal sounds and tell you "oh, that's ok, the sensor is just broken"
Won’t they get grounded the moment they touch down in controlled airspace? They can probably skirt that for a while but eventually the engines need refurbishment, and that likely requires OEM parts.

And of course any time you have to divert due to a flight emergency you lose that plane.
I don't know how this applies to their crypto offering, but:

> Stripe currently does not support users located in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. While users with direct or indirect activities involving Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine are not broadly considered prohibited by Stripe at this time, all major credit card networks have announced that they are ceasing services to Russian financial institutions. Additionally, Stripe will not process transactions involving sanctioned Russian financial institutions and does not support Mir. This means transactions involving Russian-issued cards are likely to be unsuccessful. We encourage you to ensure compliance with relevant sanctions regulations in your jurisdiction.

https://support.stripe.com/questions/impact-of-sanctions-on-...
Except that the US literally did capture, try, and executed Saddam Hussein.

The vast majority of the death in Iraq occurred from sectarian violence fomented by Iran and later Sunni extremists, to undermine the prospect of having an American ally in the region.
Yes, advice for weight loss THAT ACTUALLY WORKS is always boring, simple, and hard to do.

Calorie counting helps a lot with this. There's easily accessible databases that have detailed data (https://www.nutritionix.com/, https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/). It's funny sometimes how the calories you think you're eating don't match up with reality. My biggest blind-spot was pasta and bread, both of which had A LOT more calories than I had thought. Peanut butter is another one-- you can put a ridiculous amount of calories on one spoon of peanut butter.

Many folks can lose weight "simply" by sticking to whatever one's BMR + activity level suggests. A sustainable and easy to maintain rate of loss for most folks is between 1 and 2 lbs/week.
Thanks for puncturing the silly hype.
If that means one less Russian tank in Ukraine so be it
Plenty of people in the US were involved in getting that iPhone to the person who bought it. Hardware and software engineers at Apple, distribution center employees, truck drivers, customer service reps at the AT&T or Verizon store where many people still buy their phones. Even some of the internal parts of an iPhone are manufactured in the US.

Just because many goods are assembled internationally does not mean that buying those goods does not stimulate the US economy in any way.
VR needs to address the motion sick elephant in the room
while the crypto community wants to avoid as much regulation as possible, it's important to realize that sensible regulation is a boon to the industry as it clears a path to allow institutions and traditional FinTech companies to hop onboard.

So, the timing of this Stripe announcement could be related to the Biden EO:
https://apnews.com/article/biden-cryptocurrency-executive-or...
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RU: We took Gostomel
UA: We shelled airport
UA: We kicked them out
UA: ... <no pictures of 225 or anything else> ...
RU: We never left Gostomel
RU: We have pictures of 225
Maybe… their relationship with North Korea pints too exceptions to that.
Look to how North Korea is doing. They're also a client state of China. They (kinda) survive. Russia will too.
Could be hypoglycemia, which has been linked to headaches.

One thing I've observed from going on / off IF several times is that trying to jump straight into the full fasting window can cause problems. If you normally eat on a 12/12 schedule, for instance, and try to switch straight to 16/8, your body will not appreciate it.

Try very gradually building up to the window -- add another 10 or 15 minutes between meals each day.
Just to add to your last point invading a country in not planned in 4 weeks time. There have been reports they were planning it for over a year. Plus, Ukraine knew Putin would invade at some point and that it was a matter of time.
> their new tax collection stuff

Couldn't you turn that off ?
Why is a preprocessor bad? I do tons of platform level programming. Let’s say I’m doing Metal. There is #if ISO, #if APPLETV, #if MACOS stuff around the code. Sure, I could over engineer by trying to pass in some specialization functions but it can get extremely tedious and ugly to deal with. There’s a time and place for both.

If I recall correctly, C# didn’t ship with one but it was added. For one it makes it easier to use the standard build system (just compile all the files referenced) rather than have to use an outside build system that knows when to include linux.xxx and when to incluide windows.xxx etc.

Of course I’m aware of some of the drawbacks but I’d prefer with than without.
Great. If we follow this line, standing next to a roll of solder is just as dangerous. No need to fire up the iron.

If lead was so easily dissolved into air, wouldn't we have had massive issues in electronics factories? I don't recall ever reading such a thing ( as opposed to painters madness for example ). Not a native speaker, probably doesn't translate too well.
For as long as there's been a Russian Empire Crimea has been either an aspiration or a strategic territory. It's the key to controlling the Black Sea and projecting power in SE Europe and the Caucauses. To some extent, it's the crown jewel of the Russian Empire. If you're an emperor (which Putin essentially is) it's very hard to explain away losing your crown jewel. It shatters the myth of a resurgent/strong Russia and would be an existential threat to Putin's regime.

That's the why. Why now is a little bit trickier. But I think it's because of a fundamental weakness. Russia's military is essentially still the Soviet military. It's a decaying force using last generation military technology that is rapidly being left behind. MANPADs (infantry mobile air defense) & Javelins (anti-tank missiles) have all but rendered their planes, helicopters, and tanks obsolete. And, as a country, they are too corrupt and poor to modernize their military.

They're going to win this war but it's obvious that they're mustering about the best invasion force they can and even then it's been a slow moving brutal war. Five more years of Russian decay and Ukrainian modernization would bring the outcome into doubt. Ten years and maybe it's impossible.
> as I presume each applications is isolated through virtualization

why would you presume that? Android does not use virtualization for app isolation (yet).
Humans, in their majority, are natural liars and dislike the truth (even when they say the opposite)

Treat managers as you will most tech companies: the information you share will most likely be used against you.

Being honest is not in your best interest, nether is lying, not divulging information (privacy) is your best approach.

Unless necessary, be very careful what you share; your manager represents the company, and their interests are not often aligned with yours.
I heard about this paper (which I haven't read) on the radio, where there was an interview with James Tour, who talked about it: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-5-climate-change-and-hea...

Abstract:

> Rare earth elements (REEs) are critical materials in electronics and clean technologies. With the diminishing of easily accessible minerals for mining, the REE recovery from waste is an alternative toward a circular economy. Present methods for REE recovery suffer from lengthy purifications, low extractability, and high wastewater streams. Here, we report an ultrafast electrothermal process (~3000°C, ~1 s) based on flash Joule heating (FJH) for activating wastes to improve REE extractability. FJH thermally degrades or reduces the hard-to-dissolve REE species to components with high thermodynamic solubility, leading to ~2× increase in leachability and high recovery yields using diluted acid (e.g., 0.1 M HCl). The activation strategy is feasible for various wastes including coal fly ash, bauxite residue, and electronic waste. The rapid FJH process is energy-efficient with a low electrical energy consumption of 600 kWh ton−1. The potential for this route to be rapidly scaled is outlined.

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Basically, there's a way to use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash (from coal power plants) and electronic waste to produce rare earth elements. I thought it was amazing.

One of the things that bugs me the most about computing is the disposable nature of our electronic goods and the waste it produces and the slave/child labor involved in mining these elements. I thought, maybe we won't have to any more.

Anybody who knows more have any thoughts?
> Through a series of steep escalations, the case had passed to officers from counter-terrorism command...

Skimming through the article - the police agencies, justice system, etc. poured an utterly ridiculous number hours and pounds into the case of an old homeless man, who'd dug himself a tiny "hobbit hole" to live in. Those organizations need to be replaced with some sane, reality-oriented ones. And maybe the leaders of the old organizations should be reassigned - to standing sentry duty on the South Sandwich Islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sa... After all, some dangerous terrorists in a balloon might try to sneak in and steal one of Her Majesties' glaciers, then flood London by dropping the glacier in the Thames. But with a crack group of counter-terrorist sentries keeping watch 24/7, we'll all be safe from that...

/s
“ Exporting telecom, medical, auto, agricultural, electrical and tech equipment, as well as some forestry products, will be banned until the end of 2022.”

I’ve purchased Baltic Birch plywood before that turned out to be manufactured in Russia. I’m not sure if that’s included under forestry product ban, but it would further impact pricing of sheet goods.

With that said, if Russia were to ban the export of specific metals (e.g. nickel), that would create chaos for auto manufacturers.
I want to use a search engine that puts all its effort into down-ranking sites that I'm not searching for
I'm not sure about that. Even if every Russian tank turned around and went home, the sanctions will still be there for a while. There is already a call for seized Russian assets to be used for rebuilding efforts. Russia's credit rating will not bounce back quickly. And countries from Canada to Germany are looking to ween themselves off of Russian energy products. Damage has been done.
I suspect that that iron is not bio-available and so does not provide much nutritional benefit. To be available for absorption, you want an iron salt such as ferrous gluconate that is soluble in water and can be integrated by cells.
They will start falling apart sooner or later anyway.
I am pretty sure the Russian elite is selecting for psychopaths and sociopaths.
Lavrov and Putin being the most dangerous of the bunch.

As a species, we need to find a strategy to remove individuals with strong traits from the dark triad from power, before they can cause harm.
They should neither lead a team, nor a country.
You might want to give Kagi a try. I've been using it for a few weeks and I think it's better than Google for my needs.
" a government commission on Wednesday approved the first step towards nationalising assets of foreign firms that leave the country."

I guess smash everything before u leave?
that ship sailed a long time ago.

but tbh, some of the most exciting cryptographic problems are being worked on in the cryptocurrency industry (zk tech, for example).
> The latest batch of language models can be much smaller yet achieve GPT-3 like performance by being able to query a database or search the web for information[0].

[0]: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-retrieval-transformer...
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I really never know how to read comments like this anymore.

Are you serious? Are you joking?
After they pay the bill for the damage they caused, yes I’d expect they would be dropped. I don’t think they will leave or pay the bill so we won’t get to check that guess anyone time soon. I also agree with the, can I call it cynicism? that this was a unilateral action with no intention of reversal.
It's been a long time since a looked at it in any detail, but a quick search for "calories burned sedentary" gave me a page full of calculators and estimates.

Looking quickly at a few of them, they mostly have tdee estimates for my age now that were still to high for me at the peak of my exercise fitness a decade ago... That includes the calculators trying to take weight and height into account.

The issue is that most of these are repeating and deriving categories based on guidelines set at points in time when a much larger proportion of the population had jobs that involved physical exertion.

And so you can be much more active than average for todays population and still be considered sedentary relative to the activity levels assumed in guidelines.

E.g. the UK NHS guideline of 2500 kcal for an average male would take me adding a couple of hours of walking during the day to reach despite exercising more than average...

And I'm sure you're right that people's failure to estimate their activity when they are exercising or being active is also a big part of it.
Which ransomware doesn't use the Internet?
the buttons would control other parts of the car through air pressure, it was bidirectional too IIRC

not sure, he only had half of a device in his shop
Seized foreign assets are often used for recompense in such situations. It can take a while to work through the courts, though.
It does make sense to me from a military strategy perspective. You've got a belligerent government in Europe in charge of a major military power that's attacking it's neighbors. The parallels to German's invasion of Austria in 1938 & the events leading up to that seem pretty clear to me.
Or get to localcrypto, localbitcoin, localmonero and find a peer who is willing to give you crypto for your cash.
The same way as a crate file contains everything.

https://github.com/pjmlp/RaytracingWeekend-CPP/blob/main/One...
If someone have access to bricked modem and can ship it for analysis we can try to collect evidence what happen and how modem was bricked - who knows, may be log partition wasn't overwritten or other artefacts are left (significant events like update are permanently logged).
As side effect, recovery instruction can be created.

Best contact point is via https://www.satsig.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1646161484
What kinds of companies do you work for? I find the actual vision of a company and the products one is working on has a pretty big impact on what I do.

If you've been working at very large corporations that simply give you Jira tickets that you have to close, then I can see why you're bored. In that case, maybe try a startup or smaller company where you're writing code but also believe in the product vision and are closer to the leadership team?

Others are mentioning different roles (product management, etc.) but definitely make sure you've explored different types of companies, too.

If you need broader support for thinking about your life, I recommend an essay by Peter Drucker: "Managing Oneself". It covers different types of career decisions that are worth exploring (small vs big companies, company cultures etc) without focusing on specific roles.

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Worst case scenario, are you willing sell Hacker News user names? Because yours is perfect. :)
I believe that it is the intensity rather than the colour temperature of light that keeps you awake at night. The reason that red shifting the light works is that our eyes are more sensitive to the greener part of the spectrum (shifting towards red) and therefore you need a lot more blue light to see the same detail as you would for green or red light.

If you have an e-reader that only emits bluish light like a kindle paperwhite then you can turn down the light intensity and increase the font size to compensate for lost of detail sensitivity.
Find it on the newest list.
Yeah, but no. NATO is just an excuse. Putin has said numerous times that the fall of the USSR was a mistake and Ukraine belongs inside.
Yes I understand how blockchains work. Having that extra layer allows for these projects so, as an end user, we should shift the focus on things like the costs of using an app rather than the implementation (except maybe for PoS v PoW for environmental reasons). Instead of technical uses maybe I should have said projects and products.
Sound the alarms!

Odd, my friend completed their sexual reassignment surgery because they identified so strongly as male-gendered.

I'm going to need to remind them they're actually trying to get rid of gender! Silly them! Let's hope they're never "normalized!"
> MIT is the #1 university brand in the world

Nah. Maybe 15 years ago.
Another thing that would have avoided the whole 'IntoIterator for arrays' issue would have been implementing IntoIterator for arrays. What benefit would your version provide over the 2021 edition as-is, and why would it be worth the major consequence of fracturing the iterator system into T, &T, and &mut T, as opposed to &T and &mut T just being special cases of T?
Wearing a Fitbit 24/7 was enlightening in terms of seeing how little activity it takes to get a fairly substantial increase in heart rate, so yeah, just amlittle more activity sustained over hours can make a huge difference.
Ukrainians have the right to self-determination.

Anyway it doesn’t matter, Putin is empire building, he made that very clear in his speech before the invasion. NATO is just an excuse to give his war of aggression the thinnest veneer of legitimacy to Russians who eat the daily Kremlin propaganda.
Great question. We had this discussion internally quite a lot. Since my co-founder comes from launching rockets let me use this analogy: 20 years ago Elon Musk was though to be crazy when he wanted to build reusable rockets. But now it works. It took a lot of smart minds, effort and money. But they did it. We believe it will be the same with cultivated meat. Completely changing a system, in our case food system, is always a risk and a bit crazy. We agree that the hype is not great. We don't want to make to bold promises. But we do want to change something and we will work hard to make our part to change a system.
Tesla back end is in Rails
I have a new southern California FasTrak switchable, and it does not beep (it's not supposed to, either, per the toll agency: no battery, no piezo).
Exceptions can be handled, so in rust an "exception" is a "Result<T,U>". A panic means the program terminates, guaranteed. This allows us to ignore hugely difficult edge cases when interacting with hardware / OSes and still ensure the code meets safety guarantees; if the code isn't executing it cannot invalidate any invariants.