skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember watching a TV documentary about the Endurance expedition 10 years ago and being flabbergasted.

First, the Endurance is trapped by ice for half a year. Then she is crushed by the ice, and the crew camps on the ice. Then they start a 500 km march, over the ice, carrying the lifeboats, to reach an island. After over half a year (!), they finally decide to start a 160 km journey across the open sea in the three lifeboats. The crew of 27 manages to reach Elephant Island after 5 days on the open sea in wet clothes at temperatures below -20 degrees. The island is completely uninhabited and there is little hope to ever be rescued from there, so they build a new boat out of the three lifeboats, and Shackleton and five other men set out for a 1,300 km journey to South Georgia, which they know has a small whaling station. Here is an image of the boat [0]. This journey itself has is its own Wikipedia article [1] and is considered one of the greatest boat journeys ever accomplished. The rest of the crew is left behind on Elephant Island. Against all odds, they actually reach South Georgia after 17 days in extremely bad conditions. However, they are on the wrong side of the island. So Shackleton decides to cross the island by foot, with 2 others. It's a 40 km journey across a mountain range nearly 3,000 meters high [2]. They have no map and improvise their route. In what was actually the first confirmed crossing of South Georgia, they reach the whaling station after walking, without stop, day and night, for nearly 2 days. Just imagine being placed at that whaling station, at the end of the world, and suddenly seeing these 3 half-dead men come out of the mountains. They pick up the remaining crew on the other end of the island by boat. Then, Shackleton immediately tries to rescue the rest of his crew which is still 1,300 km back on Elephant Island (he has no idea whether they are still alive). This takes another 3 months and multiple ships. Only the fourth attempt is successful. But in September 1916, over 1.5 years after the Endurance was trapped in ice, Shackleton has saved his entire crew. Everybody survived.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_James_Caird#/med...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_James_Caird

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Panorama...
Out of curiosity, why did you fall out of love with SDF?

Also curious why BREP is represented through a language rather than e.g. a tree or graph (or maybe this is just a language shortcut, and the idea is that the language is used to specify BREP objects?)
Yes, having them get caught on something is annoying, but 99.44% of my headphone use is seated at my desk, where that never happens, and where most of my bluetooth problems DO happen. I doubt in my entire life I've ever gotten on or off an airplane or run through an airport while wearing headphones.
Not to mention very verbose! Need bullet points to quickly scan and remember the key bits in advance or to read in a hurry at crunch time.
It doesn't look OSS to me.

I haven't registered and downloaded the software from their website but I doubt it would come with any licensing or OSS mention. The marketing doesn't mention OSS either.

There's at least one thread asking for clarification on the subject which, as far as I can tell, is not formaly answered.

The repo you linked is 13 months old but it's informative nonetheless:

> Do not distribute the presets that come with the free version of Vital. They're under a separate license that does not allow redistribution.

So my best guess is that the author is granting himself an exemption and distributing that software as a closed source software. Which is legal, it certainly helps that there's only one author.

If we really wanted to know what's going on exactly, we should download the software from their website. If it's advertised as being OSS and under the GPL, we should ask for a copy of the source code of the distributed software, as provided by the GPL.
I currently run blender in a docker container headless on google cloud run. I generate 3D model and render animations of them. Here is one I did today:

https://storage.googleapis.com/lulim-api-file-storage-prod/R...
That’s a good thing in it’s own way. Being a specialist can be lucrative and offer job security. I wish I could do that but I chase the shiny thing too much :)
Windows product stickers as an insight into the past
Yeah, your second language can be a real struggle. But after the 5th there aren't many big mysteries.

Languages have also gotten a lot better over the decades.
In a big development I imagine clearing inventory in a straightforward way at prices that'll net you a good profit margin anyway is more appealing than trying to run bidding wars for each unit individually. Depending on the market it's also possible that the gap between "price four people are willing to pay" and "price nobody is willing to pay" isn't very significant.

There's also a goodwill aspect in other cases: Sony kept selling PS5s at MSRP even when scalpers were getting $800+, because better for them that people are pissed at the scalpers than dealing with the bad PR of such a huge price hike over previous generations.
That's the point of the interview, to validate the resume by having in-depth conversation about the projects in it.

Note this doesn't mean trying to test for the skills that they must've applied to do those jobs. That's hopeless to achieve in an interview for all the reasons endlessly documented in these threads. Instead, assume that if they did the jobs listed in the resume, obviously they must have the skills to have done them. So now the interview is about validating they did those jobs, not the technical detail itself.

Based on more than two decades of hiring, this works very well.
These distortions are predicted by relativity. They’re a consequence of it, not a problem with it.

Objects influenced by a gravitational field don’t feel an acceleration. Astronauts in orbit round the earth don’t feel anything even though they are going round in circles. It’s only when something gets in the way that you feel an acceleration from the thing stopping your trajectory, like the surface of the earth.

The distortions were talking about are created by a mass though, the mass that created the original gravity wave.
I don't think that is a big issue at this time. The Rust code would be building a data model in memory, one could easily do an internal DSL or call it from an external language.
My small script is a thing that will run all these small Docker containers easily, it may be helpful to you. I love it:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster
Does anyone have experience with using Blender as a video editor? I have experience with final cut pro and imovie and am looking for to switch to something free.
I'm not sure I buy the argument that this will provide "cover" to the Russian government to isolate the country from the global internet. What cover do they need? If we are to believe that the Russian people are powerless to stop the invasion of Ukraine, then wouldn't they be equally powerless to stop their government from disconnecting them from the internet, with or without cover?
Original digitized version available here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858048128189&vi...
"Caught another mistake:
Section 3.2: First, an observation: the column sums of Q(G) are all zero is wrong. Contradicts their definition of Q(G)." True, but it's pretty obvious he was referring to a directed graph G where matrix Q(G) is defined as Qij = 1 if vertex vi has an outgoing edge ej; -1 if vertex vi has an incoming edge ej; 0 otherwise.
Obligatory plug for the free version of DaVinci Resolve, too. Excellent fully featured editing software that even has a pretty good compositor too.
Any tips on SIMs? I'm only seeing $20 ones from Tracfone.
I have long ago learned that most care about environment as long as it doesn't impact their life and what they like.

Makes people feel uneasy.
Fair enough, but we ask the dev to send us an invite to the repo when they first create it, so then we ask them to Email us an hour later and we check the repo.
From within AWS, it just feels like we push people too hard. Service teams are too small relative to their goals, sales teams have unrealistic growth targets and also double as support for needy/incompetent customers, and professional services have billable hour requirements which are as high as any major consultancy and with additional pre-sales support expectations.

Strict adherence to the "hiring bar" means we fail to bring in good people who aren't desperate enough to act out the cultish LP dance during their interview. Hiring new grads seems to be the only area where growth is not stalling - but that can obviously only help so much.

My team is hiring for 2-3 people and we are being buried alive without that growth happening sooner - but I can't in good conscience recommend this place to anyone I respect or like.
Read my response to user SketchySeaBeast below. The 19.53% APY payout rate is not fixed and not guaranteed, just as the interest rate paid in bank savings is not fixed nor guaranteed.

The principle and any interest earned to date is insured if you purchase the insurance. Again, I don’t endorse the insurance products as I haven’t done the research, but elsewhere on this thread I mention Ozone Insurance which claims to be a trustless on-chain stablecoin insurance protocol.
Tinder users can now run in-app background checks
I want the original SE back with better specs. All this other SE not really SE in my mind. Just an imitation :)
My understanding of planes for Ukraine drama: US pressuring Poland and other eastern bloc countries to direct transfer planes to UKR. This puts heat on Poland et al. Poland unceremoniously deflects by proposing (threatening) to transfer planes to US bases in Germany, a polite way of saying no-you. Either stops the pressure or in case of US/DE saying yes, Poland gets to trade in obsolete migs for discount/ first dibs on F16s without painting target on back.
Example: It took me two hours today to figure out why “Format on Save” wasn’t working.

Turns out, Intellij’s “Actions on Save” are only triggered when a “Save All” (option-command-s) is issued, and ignores any other type of save like good-ole command-s.
As a Latvian:

What the actual fuck?

Are we your serfs to pass around like property?

Stop adjusting to Putin‘s ridiculously displaced Overton window.
As an archivist/librarian-programmer, I'm totally here for calling myself a tech priestess.
I think I understand why so many humans share this kind of attitude, explicitly or otherwise, but it's no less borne of culpable ignorance for that. I've made friendly acquaintance with wasps, and met spiders who proved smarter than some humans I've known, and there's nothing about those statements that should be surprising; the only reason it is, is because so few humans bother to pay any kind of real attention to the life with which we share this planet, and those few of us who do take an interest not purely motivated by selfish utility are regarded by the rest as creepy and weird.

Maybe if we took the time to get a little less bad at that, we'd get a little better at keeping healthy the ecosystems on which we also depend for survival. It's nice to think so, anyway, not that it matters; apparently it's much more important to us to go on thinking we're somehow special, privileged to dispose of all life on this planet and the planet entire as if we need never fear the slightest consequence. Hasn't this kind of foolishness already got us in enough trouble? Don't you think it'd be a good idea if we didn't keep it up and buy ourselves even more?
The former Soviet republics do not want to be part of Russia, and it should be their decision.
I also built a web app for barcode scanning. For testing quaggaJS is fine but it’s highly inconsistent and requires an extreme degree of customization to get adequate results. I recommend scandit. It’s a good production ready library with a very nice web sdk.
> This is official DOJ policy.

* for poor people.
A handful of large-traffic sites have recently, and relatively suddenly, started blocking traffic from a large region. That's a major change in flow.
In my experience, education certainly seems to not have kept up with computing, at least in terms of having massive academic-industry partnerships like a doctors residency or a trade apprenticeship .

I’d definitely agree that it is probably harder to become good in older organizations - the technologies are probably generations behind the current state of the art and the learning curves are high for those older technologies.

Just thinking through keyboard, but it’s probably reaching the point where enterprises need to evaluate aqui-hire or outsourcing entire development departments due to attrition, due to the incentives to leave for regular employees.
My wife has gone through countless burnout in her career, can certainly attest to this anecdotally. We've considered quitting her career over it a few times. Thankfully she's landed in a good spot at this point.

She has also experienced ridiculous discrimination, low pay compared to colleagues, and discrimination especially when announcing she was pregnant… here’s the kicker though, women managers were the ones doing this to her. Not the men. She’s come across a few sexist men in the workforce, but nothing compared to other women. I think there's a lot of focus on women and men discrimination in the workforce, but not enough involving women against other women. This is a huge factor in burnout.
> You're missing the point

No, I'm underscoring it.

> The planes can then go to Ukraine from the US

How?
Living away from a river/woods and keeping my house relatively bug free in general means that I generally don't see any large spiders in my house at all. Some of that might be due to declining insect populations though.

We had orb weavers all over our porch growing up, slightly terrifying to enter/leave the house if you're scared of them, you had to kind of walk through this tunnel of webs to get in and out. But I think a lot of their presence was environmental factors, being in a rural area right next to a river. If these follow the same rules, I'm relieved, I already mostly know how to manage orb weavers and how to avoid them.

> I think her evident terror upon realizing her mistake would have aroused some degree of sympathy.

Important to keep in mind that arachnophobia isn't really a rational thing; I can appreciate both the beauty and usefulness of some insects/spiders, and even have contexts where seeing them doesn't frighten me. If you're going to manage insect populations in a dwelling place you kind of have to be able to think about them as being part of an ecosystem, you don't really have a choice.

But appreciating spiders or even admiring them doesn't change anything about fear of encountering them in certain situations. You can't logic your way out of an irrational fear, you just learn to manage it or you train yourself to deal with it or overcome it to at least some degree (depending on how far you're willing to go to change your instincts or avoid triggers). Telling yourself that they're not evil, or that they're harmless, or that they're more scared of you -- that stuff only really helps if those are the reasons you're afraid. But for most people, I think their reactions aren't really conscious or voluntary.

Another example is creatures like rodents. I keep pet rats, some of my relatives are pretty scared to be around them. It's not based on anything rational, they know the rats are harmless and cuddly and smart. It's just that they see the tail/hands and it freaks them out to be around them or to think about them. I'm not affected by that, I don't really understand the feeling because I don't feel any aversion to holding them or having them crawl around on me, my brain just registers them as cute. I never had to overcome anything to be able to hold them, my brain had the opposite reaction and immediately wanted to hold them as soon as I saw them. My family and I have the same information and understanding about rats, but for some of my family members there's a subconscious, emotional aversion that they have to overcome even to be in the same room, and for me there's just not.

I'm a little envious of people who don't have an innate fear of insects or instinctual fears around them. I've worked reasonably hard to get it to a manageable level where I can live alone comfortably and where I'm mostly not worried about insects most of the time, and it doesn't disrupt my life -- but that was difficult to do, it was a lot of work; definitely not quite as simple as just learning more about them.
> Presumably there is some sort of ‘key frame’ however, or you’d need to go all the way back however many years ago to start rebuilding the objects current state?

Correct. My criteria for the snapshot feature becoming a priority will be when log recovery takes longer than 5 minutes. I cannot see that occurring anytime soon based on current figures.
Of course you can. Text only ends up unreadably small if your text is specified in pixels. Which on a density-aware toolkit (like Android's) it isn't. https://developer.android.com/training/multiscreen/screenden...

This is also best practice on many other platforms, too (eg, 'pt' and 'em' units). This is far less commonly followed on most toolkits, though, but it's the norm on Android.
If you add the variable of the gas supplies found in Crimea, it makes even more sense.

He wants to keep control over Europe and that would have been an instant loss as soon as production went live.

I believe the takeover over Crimea was primarily for this. The rest was a result of what he thought "preparation" to cement commodities/gas within his influence.

He's a bit jealous of China too. Russia has all this territory and doesn't even remotely gets the respect he screams for, at least he isn't getting it from the west.

It's a tiny man with a big ego.
If it is truly commoner than most think, wouldnt acceptance of it become common eventually?
If it hadn’t been one thing it would have been another. The next two missions after STS-51-L were planned to have two shuttles on the pad simultaneously and both of them with thin-skinned liquid fuel upper stages in the cargo bays.

Charles Perron, in the book Normal Accidents warns of the tendency of people to subtract from the safety margin of a successful system in the pursuit of speed, performance, profits, etc.

It does boggle the mind however that with so much documentation for the Shuttle they never thought to specify a minimum launch temperature!
Yeah, for established brands like Sony who expect to have long recurring relationships with customers, it wouldn't make sense to run auctions on products because you're just going to upset people and no one will think you're making mass-market products any more. The same goes for some popular musicians: they could make more at a particular show by auctioning off tickets, but they often go out of their way to have a lottery and prevent people from re-selling tickets at higher prices.

It seems possible that a large housing developer has similar incentives.
Asking Putin to step down? That's gonna be a non-starter. He doesn't want to consolidate russia just to give it to somebody else.
Is this a troll? Putin and his successor will never allow "USSR" to be a democratic anything. Despotic tendencies are forever.
It's built into Google Lens. Use it occasionally to send files over wifi to phone, with webwormhole.
I've noticed that headphone cords are the main reason that I break my phone.

I'm debating switching to non-cabled headphones to fix that and save money on replacement screens
Anyone know what a stock split typically means for current shareholder value? I’m assuming the price would go back up and shareholder might make a boatload of money.
One one have any expert advice? I know nothing about stocks.
Wow, 7 lifes at stake and still managers can decide to "skip smaller text" because if it is smaller it is definitely less important...

I agree: it's an awful slide. But the information was there. And I can imagine that the engineers were asked to assemble that presentation in a couple days, so I'd be surprised if they could do anything better.

I agree: an outsider would not understand a word of that slide. So what? What was the audience of that presentation? Why did the audience not read the slide / documentation beforehand? Why was it not understandable by them?

Again: the point here is the stakes. Would I read such a presentation for my day-to-day work? Probably not.
Would I read it until I understand every single word if there were 7 lifes at stake? OF COURSE!
Would I try to understand the engineers that had to assemble a comprehensive and credible document in a matter of days, and do my part of the work? If it was my day-to-day job, probably not. If there were 7 lifes at stake? OF COURSE.

So yeah, terrible slide. Don't try to justify people not reading it, though.
Business Strategy for the Entrepreneur
Healthy people? Well, it's not like it's "raining organs" for people on a waiting list. Many of them will die waiting. There must be someone on a slight better shape and willing to take a chance.
Seems fine he
Or a low-cost option with ads. Hulu and others already do this, and Disney+ just announced that it would be trying a similar model.
Do many large grocers in the US seem to be regionalized? This mention of "Shoprite" may have given me an idea of the location this poster is from (Eastern Mid-Atlantic region?)
One of the most used "tiny program" I wrote [0] is a weird one to explain to non-technical people: a scoreboard UI to display the current score of your match on a stream when playing Eleven Table Tennis in VR. I see it being used quite frequently in Twitch streams.

It polls an API every 3 seconds, parses the match data and displays the score in HTML/CSS. The tricky part was finding a way to make it easy to add to OBS without a server, luckily OBS has a "browser source" so you can add any HTML page/URL, so the variables needed to select the match/player and are customizations are stored in the URL.

[0]: https://github.com/Cristy94/eleven-vr-scoreboard
NASA Studies ‘New’ 50-Year-Old Lunar Sample to Prep for Return to Moon
> My understanding of planes for Ukraine drama: US pressuring Poland and other eastern bloc countries to direct transfer planes to UKR.

No, the US has been fairly consistently negative to neutral on it; the strongest it's gotten for it is a positive signal that it won't oppose it if they choose to do it. (Which seems to be a recent policy change; the initial NATO opposition after the EU official tweeting the idea had to have at least involved consulting the US.)
I use Cherry Browns, and they are reasonably quiet. When I worked in a cubicle I had no complaints.

They have the ergonomics relevant to me: my finger joints were getting sore. I got the mech and trained myself to type without bottoming out the keys much, and that fixed it.
CuriousMarc has lots of old transistors, so he found some that worked as replacements.
There is a full copy of the zxing library in JS. It's been working great for my purposes - scanning QR and C128 Barcodes.

E: https://github.com/zxing-js/library
He could take credit for it. And he would be given immunity.
Logistics were never the issue. US was pressurising Poland and other countries for at least a week to transfer the planes to Ukraine. Poland doesn't want to do by itself for obvious reasons so they've proposed for the US to take ownership and transfer the migs themselves and provide compensation down the line.
IMO it's Poland telling American and Germany to assume risk of escalation. Reporting from 3+ days ago read like US pressuring eastern blocks to ship planes to UKR to provide runway access which puts them in crosshairs of RU retaliation.
What does cultural preservation have to do with any of this...?
I thought it was mainly caused by them not properly collecting tax from rich people...

I would assume though by the sheer amount of annual waste that that the additional revenue collected would be easily absorbed as well though. :/