skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like quite a narrow-sighted view of the man.

The way I see him, he is cheerful, enthusiastic and tries to find joy and fun in technology and computing.

Color me prejudist, but that's probably the polar opposite of trying to find politics in technology and computing.

Besides, not everyone is 100% caught up in this trans-bubble, where being trans is the single most important thing in the universe. I realize it is for some people, a small minority, and that's perfectly OK.

But at the same time, it is not for the vast majority, and most people just don't care that much, and don't pay much attention to the subject, at all. And that's not wrong. It's OK too. And the minority will just have to deal with different people being different. That's sort of their schtick too, isn't it?

Would it be completely out of this world to assume that Lunduke is simply being careless here, because it's not on his radar? I certainly wouldn't go checking if people I've interviewed before have changed gender since last time around, before referring to them in an article.
As usual?
top comment currently references he was near multiple organ failure prior to the transplant.
The defense industry really is the GOAT when it comes to slide decks.

Nothing gets the creative juices flowing like sitting through an 8 hour presentation of a deck with 200 slides, which are really just 10 different slide decks from 10 different departments stitched together, mostly containing quotes copied from actual design documents and pasted into bullet lists
Yes, diplomacy backed by pure strength and power.
If we could cut off Russia's electricity like we could the Internet, without that being likely to escalate to a hot war with them, we'd do that too. We'd be crazy not to.
The standard way of doing this is to define your own package for what you want installed on the system. Check in the package spec to version control and it gives you the history of everything you wanted in the past. For your sway-xwayland case, make another package that depends on both, and make that a dependency of your system package instead of sway and xwayland directly.

You will also need to use your package manager's method of marking all packages as "automatically installed" except for your system package. How easy this is depends on the package manager. Eg for Alpine's apk this is trivial, because all packages are "automatically installed" unless they're listed in /etc/apk/world, but for OpenSUSE's zypper you need to update /var/lib/zypp/AutoInstalled to include every installed package and periodically refresh it when zypper decided to switch an automatically-installed package to manually-installed for some reason.
Given the total amount of money I've lost due a single AZ being down, it was totally worth it to NOT go multi az or multi region so far.

Multi AZ isn't that hard, but generally requires extra costs (one nat gw per az, etc...)

But multi region in AWS is a royal pain in the ass. Many services (like SSO) do not play well with multi region setups, making things really complicated even if you IaCed your whole stack.
I would also be happy to go vegan, but I don't see a way to be healthy that way, so..
Michael Hudson on global economics - https://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/america-defeats-germany-f...

Benjamin Norton on Latin American geopolitics - https://multipolarista.com/

Pepe Escobar has fantastic & entertaining insights on the Eurasia region if you can stomach the occasionally pro-Russian hagiography - his main site (+ other great analysts) is down to DDOS right now - http://thecradle.co/

The difference between these guys and Zeihan, is these guys are actually on the ground (or spent their careers on the ground), whereas Zeihan is a desk jockey that makes pretty charts and ridiculous, baseless extrapolations from them.
Is there a term I can use to understand "(nearly) uniformly inbred and do not carry many deleterious alleles with large effect sizes"? In my limited experience self-breeding can fix deleterious alleles with large effect sizes, so I'm curious how to achieve the opposite.
They gambled that Russia was a "typical European country" if they thought that far. Choices have consequences. Outsourcing to China, unfortunately, might turn into a similar "choice". Although Venezuela looks like rehabilitation is possible.
Fair point. But even learning how to measure things, mark them, cut them out, and how to assemble things would help my young engineer coworkers.
If you're a certain kind of person who is either lonely or lost in life, it's a mission with a purpose whose reward may be a connection that makes you feel less alone. Readinging between the lines of this article, it sounds like this author may be a bit of both.
Glad to hear they thought of that - I haven't used this particular service before. However, I just looked at it and there are zero United States numbers available to rent for Twitter signups right now.

I could use one of the European numbers but given my experience with how sensitive Twitter is to sketchiness I'm guessing I'd get more random phone number verification requests.
Why Git Checkout Command Is Legacy?
I really like this approach, however I have a use case where the application user id that made the operation must be saved in the audit table, unfortunately, I cannot see how to do that with a pure SQL solution.

Has anyone done something similar with SQL only?
>How does Pipewire deal with this?

It doesn't, it sets a much shorter max buffer length so that the latency is always acceptable. This does mean that in theory, with an otherwise totally idle system, PipeWire can't be quite as low power as PA.
Great point.

What we (now with hindsight incorrectly) wanted to show was that you can enter you email and then NOT have to verify it and interact with the actual code snippet you can put into your app or website. Since we are in webflow and if you used a live snippet with a live App key, we assumed users would want to come back if they wanted access to it again. So, we figured most (and we have had a few hundred) would enter their email and then see a fully working snippet, with an API key, ready to roll in webflow and think that was neat.

Now, having a few hundred people on the site, I do think letting users see the snippet and then "request" an APP key with their email is the right answer. We could not have come to this conclusion without this launch.

Appreciate it!
- Rob from Rownd
Hopefully he had the opportunity to get out from the hospital in the meantime.
Would you mind sharing which country you’re in?

I’m doing some academic work on Uber’s effect on existing laws, and your example would be very helpful.
"seem" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

That statement from Zeihan is absolutely hilarious to anyone with a passing knowledge of 21st century history and ongoing trends...
Well I mean it's my IP so I can open source the particular file if it makes you feel more comfortable. It's not closed source because it's secret, but because it's harmful in the wrong hands.

Web crawlers are harmful to independent web crawling. It can be very annoying for webmasters when misconfigured, and abuse leads to honest crawlers encountering obstacles. It would probably spell the end of independent web crawling if every tom, dick and harry with a few spare raspberry pis set up their own search engine operation.
The (Russian) author lives in Barcelona, Spain. What penalty would he receive?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/cv/oz
I think most take it as a given that human life > swine life
So in your opinion, the slide said that with the impact of the foam it would have been very unlikely that the tile would have failed? In that case the inpretation by NASA of the slide was correct.

Which is weird because slide also mentions that a small increase in energy can have a disproportional effect.

I find it weird that they would rely on their model (for extrapolation) when they know that the behavior of the tiles is non-linear. If they knew that the real world was outside their testing parameters and they decided not to test, then that sounds to me like a very serious ommision.

I.e., it is weird to extrapolate tests to something 600 times bigger. Certainly if it is about impact on ceramics.
Sure it does. Most people don't want to get punched in the nose, so they will work harder to stop the war in order to not get punched in the nose.

I'd love to know how info-isolating Russia is effective at reducing the ability of the state to wage war, but not punching random Russians in the nose.
> also irrelevant

It sounds like you're saying that even if the messages were relevant, such as "you tagged the wrong account", that would be unsolicited?

A single burst of tweets is very solidly solicited when you tag someone, even if it was by mistake.

> Don't get emotionally invested in this.

What in the world do you mean by "emotionally invested"? That reads like a weird way of being unwarrantedly dismissive.
>Joining NATO is just good sense for countries unlucky enough to be geographically close to Russia.

The issue is for the good of the world, they can't be allowed to join NATO. If the price to pay to avoid WWIII is that Ukraine just doesn't join NATO, that's worth it. It worked for years. Clearly Russia views it as a direct threat, since NATO is really just an extension of the US military.
I think it is absolutely an issue if you are a kid or you are living paycheck to paycheck. There is a social/prestige aspect to skins and game rewards that shouldn't be underrated, and that type of business model is always targeting 'whales', i.e. people with a phenotypic disposition to getting carried away and spending a huge amount. I don't think it's right to let companies deploy manipulative business models or collect obscene rents - it always winds up hurting the most vulnerable people. Further, nothing of value is created by that model - it's simply another rent collection tactic to force people to pay up when it's best for the company.

At least with physical goods there is an overhead to keeping old SKUs in the catalog. A digital skin is a metadata blob in a database, which can't be deleted anyways, since anyone who paid for access to that metadata needs it to exist.
Last time I have seen data damage was about 2005, this was multiple SATA drives connected to a regular consumer motherboard running Linux (sorry, don't remember the brands). If I remember right, I think there was an 8-byte block damaged every few gigabyte transferred or so? So a very high number of damaged files given I had a few terabytes of data.

I never found the cause, because I just switched to a completely different system to copy data. I know it was not disk-specific because this was happening on multiple hard drives, nor it was physical damage, as SMART/syslog were silent, and reading the disk again was giving correct data. Memory was fine -- not ECC, but I did run a lot of memtest's on it.

Later on, I found some blog posts which mentioned the similar problem and claim it was result of bad SATA card, or bad cable, or even bad power supply. I remember there was original one made by Jeff Bonwick on his ZFS blog, but I cannot find it anymore. Here is a more modern link instead: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/9769-silent-data-cor...

I now have the homegrown checksumming solution which I use after each major file transfer, and I have not seen any data corruption yet (*known on the wood().
"We strongly condemn the actions of governments and the private sector, represented by the owners of websites, social networks, online platforms and marketplaces who resort to arbitrarily blocking accounts of or restricting access to users from Russia and arbitrary labeling of the content of Russian users."

It's hard to take them seriously when they don't even condemn the war crimes of their own government.
this is great! I've done something similar many times, but the ability to do it on arbitrary tables is really nice.

If you have the HSTORE extension, you can also use it to get a diff of the old and new: `HSTORE(OLD) - HSTORE(NEW)` and vice versa, very nice to easily have the deltas.
They’ve had the open internet in Russia for a while and yet they’re still committed to dear leader, as witnessed by Russians lack of effort to depose him.

This statement should really target Russia for the same thing, so yeah it’s troll bait. It’s propaganda to instigate “ooh the poor Russian victims of their own indifference.” discourse.

We can see in this thread it worked.

Circle around logical propositions all you want, theorizing has little value when the behavior is concrete.
Every communist state has been rife with communism. Centralization is what increases the reward to corruption.
A lawyer might argue that the greater support system you note is actually evidence-of, and a consequence-of the greater complexity of law relative to writing software.
You are confusing two different (but related) things.

The Free File Allowance is intended for lower-income individuals to e-file for free. (Some tax service providers still participate.) The IRS withdrew from the agreement preventing them from providing their own such software to low-income taxpayers, but it's a moot point since they don't have the resources to create such software.

What the parent commenter was referring to was the EU-style tax systems, where they send you a pre-filled in tax return, you verify the amounts and sign, with minimal input/preparation required by the taxpayer. That is what the IRS is prevented from doing, by law, as a result of Intuit's lobbying.
First of all, this looks super awesome, and at least an order of magnitude better than our home-grown solution (grown over 25+ years on a DB that is now mariadb).

How well does this work when you audit multiple tables with foreign key relationships between them?

If the user references a customer, and you want to find out what customer the user belonged to at time X (but the customer might have been deleted in the mean time), you have to track through the history of multiple tables to find answers. More if you have n2m relationships...

It sounds doable, but not trivial to get right for more complicated models.

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Update: to clarify, I want to be able to present a somewhat homan-readable history of an object without doing much table-specific logic.

If an author can publish many books, you typically have an n2m mapping table, like book_authors. If you want to add newly published books to the "author" history view, you have to determine than you have to include parts of the history of the book_authors table. I don't think you can do that through a join though? Trying to think my way through this...

Maybe this can be dealt with easier if you can assume each table has a non-composite primary key, and include that primary key in the history table, and then you can do joins more easily on the history?
It sounds like a line of reasoning that programmers fall into.
"This code is so stupid! Shouldn't it be like blah!?"
And then a more senior person tells you a story and yeah, you couldn't have found a better solution given the circumstances.
As long as The Internet is available to Russians, people will find a way around Roskomnadzor blocks. All it takes is a single 100Mb VPS to provide VPN connection for 10-20 people. It's decentralized and can't be blocked, at least without making it criminal offense which did not happen yet.

But West, blocking Visa essentially made it impossible for average Russian IT guy to pay for VPS. And if The Internet would be cut off, the game is over, the entire country will be brain washed by Russian propaganda exclusively. I guess, it should be possible to use UnionPay to buy VPS in Turkey or something like that.

I, personally, don't believe that western propaganda is one bit better that Russian propaganda. It's the same half-truths, half-lies, just picked differently. But what I do believe is that every person must have access to all points of view, without any exclusions. And must be encouraged to learn all points of view for important subjects.
Look i get it, you are angry but stop telling people that their leader is someone and accuse them of "victim playing", was Trump your leader? Has anyone told you that you are playing victim? Was Bush Jr your leader the guy who attacked two Country's and lied about Chemical weapons in Iraq..where did i heard something like that lately?

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-moscows-claims-of-bio...
If other country revenue systems can do this, why do you feel the US tax filing landscape is so different? As gamblor956 mentions in other comments, this is not a technical or practical limitation, but regulatory capture via statute.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/how-are-countrie...

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-other-cou...

> Denmark and Sweden, both small countries, operate tax agency reconciliation systems. About 87 percent of Denmark’s taxpayers and 74 percent of Sweden’s had their returns filled out by the tax authorities in 1999. Spain, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Iceland have also implemented tax agency reconciliation systems.

CalFile was purposely kneecapped in a fight with Intuit.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1668912 | https://escholarship.org/content/qt1tw989zv/qt1tw989zv_noSpl...

> Under the auspices of the Free File Alliance (FFA), Intuit, manufacturer of TurboTax, has been attacking state-run, free e-filing services for several years. The latest victim, Virginia’s successful iFile program, succumbed late last year. Through it all, the unquestioned crown jewels of state e-filing programs – California’s CalFile and ReadyReturn – have managed to survive. But this year, Intuit has ratcheted up its annual campaign to end the two programs. In the process, it is peddling some familiar falsehoods as well as some newly crafted misrepresentations.

> This article describes Intuit’s nine lies, the false arguments about ReadyReturn and CalFile that Intuit and its lobbyists have been telling elected officials, staffers, and nonprofit organizations serving California’s low-income communities. It also evaluates Intuit’s proposed Free File alternative to the state’s existing programs. For all of Intuit’s assertions – whether regarding the purported shortcomings of the state programs or the purported benefits of the Free File initiative – the article offers a point-by-point refutation.
Maybe silly question, but how do you get the insect back out in a controlled way? I assume they don't die inside of there.

I have a vacuum with a detachable wand, but I've never really used it for insects because I always felt like... now what? Can't they just crawl back out?

Also slightly skeptical of a handheld grabber or my vacuum's ability to handle a 3 inch spider, but maybe I'm overestimating their grabbing strength. I guess I could also upgrade.
Why are there so few insects and spiders in San Francisco?

In any other city in the world, I encounter insects with 10-100x the frequency.
Question: With this method, what would you do if , in a few months, Microsoft flags the account and asks you to verify with a text SMS? (I'm aware if one sets up TOTP hopefully they wouldn't do this, but one never knows) - can you reactivate the SIM smoothly?
Movies Anywhere should be called Movies Anywhere So Long As It's in the U.S. It doesn't exist anywhere else. What's more annoying is Movies Anywhere seems to have led to the demise of Ultraviolet which actually existed outside the U.S so digital codes are even worse than they used to be where I live or not existent.
This is the end result though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

This is why people come from all over the world to work and study in the US.
As others have already mentioned, the process is interestingly enough reversible (to some degree) by simply subjecting it to a colder environment like a freezer for a bit.
Artificial hearts are artificial hearts- mechanical plumbing. This is far more akin to human heart transplantation (which is a mature operation that has excellent outcomes).
Are you claiming that sanctions on Russia will affect ONLY the average citizens of Russia; that is, are you arguing that sanctions on Russia will have ZERO effect on the country's ability to wage its aggressive war in Ukraine? It seems to me that this is your implied argument here, and if so, that's straight up incorrect.

If that ISN'T your argument, is your argument then: "Sanctions will affect both the Russian government's ability to wage war AND the Russian people, and because the sanctions affect the Russian people, they are not justified" ? Could it ever be the case that sanctions could affect only a government's ability to wage war and never the people of a country? Are you then arguing that sanctions are never justified no matter the circumstances? How far are you willing to take this argument? Should a country be forced to trade and engage in business with a country that is currently invading them?

I really don't understand exactly what you're arguing here and I'd appreciate clarification
Good to hear that the void left by Ukraine and Russia can probably be filled

>The U.S. might be able to step into that breach and make up some of the gap, by planting more wheat. After all, U.S. wheat production can vary by up to 20,000 tons per year, which could probably make up for all of the shortfall in Russian and Ukrainian exports

Although it's unfortunate that like many world events, this will hit the most vulnerable the hardest
What’s up with all of the multi-platform outages lately? Seems abnormal looking at historical data. Are there issues affecting the internet backbone or something? Or just a coincidence?
Zeihan's been predicting for a decade that Russia's collapsing demographics would force it to quickly act (before it can no longer do so) to expand its borders/security zone. It's tough to call the Ukraine invasion anything else.
What about traditional management styles? All that real estate? The local deli's... For modern tech companies they can be damn unmodern. Are the middle managers that insecure and that unable to actually judge results. Developers, in my experience, are introverts or somewhat introverted and "being left alone to work" is a good thing. And getting them out of the bullpen and out from underfoot makes for good things.
That part is really not addressed at all. They can fly? To what altitude? How does a spider even fly like this in the first place?
Fast fashion retailers are similar indeed, but they have vastly larger selections and slower cycle times by comparison. Dozens of different items in each category versus a total number of items I can count on my hands. The item selection changing daily rather than seasonally (monthly?).
Huh. I have those around and didn't even know they bit. Had one living in my screened patio a week or so ago, but I think it finally figured out that it wasn't going to catch much there...
Wonderful. Cool to see it on observable as well.
Have you tried asking the resellers of they have what you want in stock? That's one possible advantage.

Otherwise, they can sometimes be cheaper.
> I don’t understand people who give a restaurant a bad rating when the problem is that the driver took 20 minutes to drop off when the place was less than 5 minutes away.

I’ve had all of the major American services blatantly lie to me and say a problem was due to the restaurant and I’d be surprised if that didn’t work at least some of the time since they lie so routinely. UberEats did give a really fast full refund the instant I mentioned having called the restaurant first and being told that my food was ready almost an hour earlier.
I was introduced to FriXion pens because I have a Rocketbook. I have a pack of colors. One day my daughter came out of my office with a nice drawing (she's 5...so it's more sentimental than artistic). My wife wanted me to laminate it...well...out came a blank piece of paper, except for the parts she used a regular pen.