skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russia is near inconsequential compared to their existing economy, trade, and clout.

Russia is inconsequential compared to their trade and economy but not clout.

But looking at the overall figures is just partial picture. China imported over 10M barrels of oil per day last year. [1] At current prices of Brent, i.e. an import bill of $1.4 billion per day or $500 billion per year. Imagine getting a discount on that.

Also, Russia still has tech advantages over China in some areas, the best fighter aircraft in PLA's force uses Russian made engines. They rely on Russia for their Air defense systems, the S400.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinas-crude-oil...
Stop spreading Russian propaganda.

It's absolutely 100% Russian aggression. They've invaded a sovereign country that they had a treaty with to not attack.
get an Arduino and do stuff with it (writing in plain c/c++ after getting comfortable with the Arduino library).
So you can be censored anonymously?
I disagree.

Who is likely to invade a neighbor, Poland or Russia?

Not Poland. So, not provocative.

And Russia is definitely doing an unprovoked invasion.
China has several territorial disputes with other countries and several regions that want to break away. Russia’s blatant violation of another country’s sovereignty is completely against China’s foreign policy objectives. It’s not surprising at all that they abstained, and Russia was tripping (to use the diplomatic term) if they thought that China would support them.
I likewise agree. When I read both Melville and McCarthy, I'll often find myself mid-run-on-sentence and think to myself, "welp, he's gone too far this time" only to find, by golly, they pull it off in the end. What would otherwise be complete pretension and chaos is, when wrought by true literature artists, simply breathtaking. There are times when I'm reading McCarthy and I literally, out loud, utter "Lord have mercy" for the beauty/fullness/meaning that man can lay upon us.
> Light is considered a particle - or more accurately has particle-like behaviours in certain contexts - because you can count individual photon

So how do they produce an inference pattern in the double slit experiment? I know you don't have an answer to that, but that's rather the point - neither does QM. Probability density does not explain an interference pattern. Only one thing does - that light is in fact a wave.
Quick question: the NextJS demo seems to be doing auth on the client side which would result in a flicker on page load while it waits to see if the user is authenticated. Do you have a server friendly component in the react library? Other libraries (ex: auth0) have a special function which is deployed as a getServerSideProps function on each page, as well as an API route that handles auth requests.
WTF are you talking about ? NATO explicitly said that it has no plans to incorporate Ukraine. And incorporating Ukraine was not possible given the disputed territory of Crimea.
Your are just repeating Putin's propaganda here.
Everybody should browse the internet on Tor from time to time to get an understanding about how the web works on a second class IP address and a slow connection. On some exit nodes reCAPTCHA actually enters an endless selection where it's impossible to pass.
You could find a winning lottery ticket, so without buying you do still have an (even smaller) chance. While one is sufficiently likely that it'll happen to someone and the other probably won't ever, neither will happen to you.

I think the bigger difference is probably the prop and the immediacy of the experience.
Where would a person who's looking for a job have the time and the financial resources to embark on a legal wild goose chase in search of a hypothetical payout? What kind of termination of an individual contributor for performance results in dragging in execs? This is a complete snowball effect of a scenario.
"I have an easy time meeting people, just be like me!"
I interpret these sorts of statements to be short for "a statistically insignificant number of people play games on macos (or linux)" rather than the literal case where as long as a single person does, it is false.

According to the steam hardware survey, Windows is 95%, Macos is 4%, and Linux is 1%. And to dig deeper you'd need to see what games that 5% of the non-Windows is playing - are they simpler games that don't need graphics acceleration (e.g. puzzle games, roguelikes, etc) or ones that do?

My desktop is an Intel NUC running Ubuntu, and yeah I play games on it. Slay the Spire, Spacechem, even some older MMOs like DDO or LoTRO (which run but at 15-20 fps since that system just has Intel Iris). I'm unable to even start many others (e.g. Grim Dawn) due to not having dedicated graphics.

So yeah it's nuanced but lots of games that need a graphics card don't run or even display on that system.

That's why I have a windows gaming system too. I'm realistic, the market just isn't there. I used to have a Mac (dropped it in 2018) and if I still did I'd subscribe to Geforce Now or just do console gaming.
You're asking this during Covid?
Can anyone link to some documentation explaining how to make it work without messing with other software? I tried twice to enable it on two different Debian installs, and both times I suddenly lost access to all my MIDI devices under Wine (no matter the user or the Wine version), although they were still perfectly usable by native Linux software, so I had to uninstall it back.
Title should be adjusted to:

Picovoice/leopard: On-device speech-to-text engine powered by deep learning

Since the claim is only in the HN title and not in the actually page that is linked.
It's not that expensive for the amount of people it's shared among, works on mobile and other devices ( e.g. TVs), has a few extra features ( e.g. downloads for offline viewing) and gives more money to content creators. All in all, not a bad deal.
redis-server is just a plain executable. Unless you're putting it in a sandbox yourself - for example, using a VM or systemd features - redis has no sandbox. There is nothing to escape from.

The Lua interpreter _within_ redis acts as a sandbox, which got a bit mangled here. Most features are not implemented in Lua, though. So this is only used for things like the EVAL command.
Well there's this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Picovoice/speech-to-text-b...

So allegedly twice as accurate as Google Assistant, which sounds very impressive. No clue if it would run in real time on something like a Jetson Nano though.
Thank you for the Fringe calendar !
It’s not like that everywhere. Apparently at Amazon, the first 20–30 minutes of any meeting are dedicated to reading and taking notes on a memo, then the rest of the time can be spent discussing the contents of that memo. This ensures that nobody has to sit through any presentations, and also that everyone actually has time to read an in–depth document with the information that they actually need for every single meeting that they attend.

I wouldn’t want to give up engineering, but I think that sounds like something I could put up with if someone forced me to be an executive.
Obviously answering the question: can this person that we're considering hiring to write code, actually write code? Is worthwhile trying to answer.

Whether you can reasonably do that in a 1-2h interview by asking them to type stuff into a computer, I'm not so sure. I suppose it's a not bad approach but it seems likely to produce false negatives. e.g. candidate may have been working in a non-coding role for the past year and might therefore perform poorly in a coding challenge, but when hired would get back up to speed in a short time.

I came from a hardware engineering background, and we had the same concern there: does the candidate know how to design hardware? We didn't ask them to design a circuit in the interview, but somehow it worked out ok to just ask them questions and listen to their answers.
I did something similar not long ago.. lol
My tiny program regularly scans a dropbox folder. If it finds a pdf, it prints it and moves it to an archive folder. That was just to avoid every family member emailing me documents so it is nicely printed by the time they get home to study.
Please look at a map. NATO already has several borders with Russia.
We love the SOLID project as well. We use similar principles and beliefs, would love to adopt their network as it grows as well.

Right now the hub is javascript for websites, but we have a React and Node SDK and will be adding more over the coming weeks.

Can you chat a bit more about the Go API vs HTTP API thoughts? We are Go fans, just trying to find the right use-case to jump into it.

Our pricing is monthly, but always happy to chat about it.
Alcohol has calories - inhaled cannabis does not.
The APK bundle could definitely be kept in the factory image while still allowing true removal, there's no reason it is done this way.
Ignoring the James Bond qualifier makes this scenario completely plausable. It is not clear that the US would not weaponize bioagents as one of the leading bioweapon manufacturers in human history.
Looks nice. Are there any plans to support CHF (Swiss Franc)?
Current safeguards seem to work quite well, even for what you call pedestrian nonsense.
I got a psychogenic fever and lost a few kg in a week that didn't come back

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27227051/

If you hit the right buttons in the sympathetic nervous system you activate a special population of fat cells that seems to thermalize fat without the fat cells fighting to get it back afterwards.

I don't think it's reproducible because the level of psychological stress required to make it happen is extreme so there would be ethical problems with any protocol to induce a psychogenic fever.

If I were you I'd consider going a week without eating anything. It is general advice to lift weights to put some muscle mass on to raise your metabolism. It's not fashionable to do cardio for weight loss today but if you can manage to do 2 hours a day for a while it will move the needle.
A government only needs to be able to exert as much force as is needed to incentivize its citizens, and who actually wields that force is very distributed, even in an autocracy. If you are absolutely insistent upon this definition and sole function of government (which is empirically dubious) then you must at least recognize that there are other properties of this "monopoly" which are not captured by the number of "shareholders".

There is no such thing as a true monopoly on force, since I require other people to fight for me. They could instead choose to do nothing, so I must always operate in this context. I won't speak to the full set of ways to accomplish it, but it seems clear that there are at least two.

In order to meaningfully be an autocrat, it must be possible for you to wield this force in a manner inconsistent with its own majority interests. If you do not maintain that power, you are de facto operating in a democracy.

This is a real downside to running an autocracy. The autocrat now forever engaged in a game of don't-let-the-balloon-touch-the-floor, and the cost is that for every gun you want pointed at your personal objective, you have to point a gun at the person holding the gun you want pointed and so on. As you can imagine, this is expensive and fragile, since there are, by an absolute law of mathematics, fewer guns at the top than the bottom, and you have to possess a lot more guns than if you didn't need to point guns at the people actually executing the force. Technology can lower the number of guns you need to point in between layers in order to reach pseudo-stability, but never to zero, and there is always a risk that the force will figure out how to organize in its own interests and depose you.

There is another way, of course, in which the organizational structure of the military is designed around ensuring that its aggregate interests are met, including the meta interest of maintaining that property. This is roughly identifiable as democracy, and it should be clear that the difference between this case and the previous one is qualitative, which makes it a much more sensible way of drawing a line between the two governments.

I still claim that this is a bad definition of government.
So, science as more of a cult than the scientific method?
Harkens back to Wen Ho Lee [1]. Getting wenholee’d is now an adjective if you’re perpetually seen as that dagum fornur.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/04/us/the-making-of-a-suspec...
To be honest I've turned down roles paying an extra $20k because the interview process is so drawn out. I'd have to be reaaaaally enticed to spend potentially days interviewing.
We collect post interview feedback for hires and non-hires, and measure candidate NPS on the hiring process.

If some hiring manager or interviewer scores badly, well, he may end up not interviewing anymore.

We want even our non-hires to have a good experience interviewing with us.
The taxes vary and are around 60% in the case of the iPhone.

We have the ICMS in São Paulo (18%), the national tax on industrialized products (IPI – 15%) and the tax on imports (II – 16%). In addition to them, there is still PIS (2.10%) and Cofins (9.65%).
You're right. The manual contains this ominous notice at the very end of the errors section:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/write.2.html

> Other errors may occur, depending on the object connected to fd.

I don't understand why every possible result isn't explicitly documented. This is the Linux system call interface, we need to know everything that could happen when we make these calls.
What? Is it a joke or an actual thing?
iOS 15.4 arrives next week
Thanks for checking... I use Fastmail and Firefox with EFF Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin. If you want to send a new email, I can try it for you. Email is joel@joelparkerhenderson.com.
Hard disagree on nested ternaries, or rather chained ternaries, which are just as easy to read and reason about as chained if else statements:

if (isA) {
return A;
} else if (isB) {
return B;
} else if (isC) {
return C;
} else {
return D;
}

is equivalent to

return isA ? A : isB ? B : isC ? C : D;
In 2011 I bought $300 in various lengths of 1/2” plumbing pipe, couplers, and flanges, and one sheet of smooth plywood.

From it I made a standing desk, and a seated desk, both on four legs.

In my current home the same desks are now supported by two legs in front, with the back edge screwed to 2x4 mounted on the wall.

Moving again this year and will take the pipe but replace the plywood as it has a lot of screw holes, ugly holes for cables I made in a rush. Maybe, we’ll see. Seems like I’d have issues securing it since the holes are in just the right places already, but I might have a go in order to keep my desk budget at $300 in 2011 dollars.

The pipe is so sturdy I expect to never need to replace one piece of that.
mid-march, passports no longer required for restaurants, life going back to normal. there are still powers and mandates, and businesses have "discretion," to require them, but for posterity, the catastrophic options in my comment above were just that.
No, LG and Samsung for me. They wake up just fine with my intel mac but not with my M1 Max. My Dell monitor works fine with both.
Apple isn't using GDDR6X, either, nor does threadripper use GDDR4.
We're fans of SOLID too! I think there's a ton of interesting work to be done in that space to make it scalable, secure, and really user friendly. We've definitely had some discussions around how Rownd and SOLID might fit together, so stay tuned.

From a browser perspective, Javascript needs to be enabled.

We'll definitely release an SDK for Go! We're heads-down building SDKs for all sorts of technologies, and could actually use some engineers with a background doing that sort of thing. If that's you, I'd love to chat about it (mhamann@rownd.io)!

The pricing is monthly, but if you're interested in more of an annual thing, reach out and we can get you numbers with the annual discount applied. We're working on more self-serve options, which will eventually include the ability to subscribe annually right from the website.
You could of course wrap the switch in a self-invoking function: {() => { switch... }()}

Sometimes an inline switch is indeed the clearest code. The closest JS has is the do-expression proposal: { do { switch... }}
because twitter is "forcing" you to give them mobile number for saving their asses when governments knock on their doors.
Check out the Shangri-la diet, I haven’t tried it, but it certainly qualifies as a weird hack.
The Cold War never ended for the u.s.

The USSR fell apart, but the US kept building bases, toppling regimes, and expanding.
Seriously, who needs 8k?

For textual work, 4k is crisp enough, for gaming you can't run 8k with 120Hz as it's way too demanding and there are no content that dense, for movies or TV there are barely any content for 8k and maybe it's just for photo editors.

Having 120Hz for all the display's baseline is far more important than going beyond 4k.
I believe, for some people, personal networking truly isn't an option. For example, I work remotely for U.S.-based companies while living in a rural area of Germany. There simply aren't any professionals around here who do things that are similar to what I do, and whenever I meet any people at all IRL who are vaguely software engineers, their companies' pay bands top out at maybe half my salary expectation. So I don't just "organically" meet people IRL who could usefully connect me to my next job.

My role at my company isn't outside-facing. I'm never in any meetings that involve vendors or customers or anything like that. And my company has been very clear, that if I want to do things like attend conferences etc., I'd have to do it on my own dime, and in my free time. Needless to say, the projects I work on are never open source.

So where does that leave me network-wise?
That's a good idea. Nitter proxies behind Tor onion service nodes.
I would single out both Krita and Blender. Both are fantastic projects that really elevate what you can do artistically with free software.
Also no cocacola and no mcdonalds

Ronald McDonald has killed more people than putin, and even more than all the american presidents combined, so this is not that bad for russian health and obesity issues.
> By incorporating Ukraine,

Except NATO never incorporated Ukraine, nor did they want to. Ukraine asked and were told no.

> a direct adjacent border with Russia head to head

There's always a direct NATO line. Ironically, if Russia annexes Ukraine and Belarus (as seems to be there goal) there will be a direct border between Russia and NATO.

> It's definitely unacceptable for Russia, remember what happened when USSR tried to place missiles in Cuba?

Back then long-range ICBMs didn't exist in large quantities. Nor did missile submarines or other assured second strike capability. The calculus has changed and proximity is no longer the valuable thing it once was.

Besides that, NATO doesn't put missiles in every member state. They aren't in Latvia/Lithuania/etc.
YMMV. The only time in life I needed a lawyer, even to shop around I had to pay to each of them EUR 150-200 per hour for the initial consultation to introduce my case. Doctors?! I have yet to meet one who would feel obliged towards me in any way, when it comes to hiring at a hospital then perhaps it's a demanding process - no idea.
He's a running joke though. His stance on many things is outright ridiculous ( like the EU) and he doesn't stand any chance of getting actually elected. He also had very dubious stances on Russia before the invasion of Ukraine ( he's of course changed course). Nobody is taking his position on nuclear seriously. I hope.
I'm really curious, what your storage stack is that your getting undetected bit flips. This stuff was my day job for ~10 years. I've seen every kind of error you can imagine, and I can't actually remember "bit flips" showing up in end user data, that wasn't eventually attributable to something stupid like lack of ECC ram, or software bugs. Random bit flips tend to show up two ways, the interface/storage mechanism gets "slow" (due to retries/etc) or flat out read errors. This isn't the 1980's where you could actually read data back from your storage mechanism and get flipped bits, there are too many layers of ECC on the storage media for it to go undetected. Combined with media scrubbing failures tend to be all or nothing, the drive goes from working to 100% dead, or the raid kicks it when the relocated sector counts start trending up, or the device goes in a read only mode. What most people don't understand is that IO interfaces these days aren't designed to be 100% electrically perfect. The interface performance/capacity is pushed until the bit error rate (BER) is not insignificant, and then error correction is applied to assure that the end result is basically perfect.

But as I mentioned these days I'm pretty sure nearly all the storage loss that isn't physical damage is actually software bugs. Just a couple months ago I uploaded a multiple GB file (on my ECC protected workstation) to a major hyperscaler's cloud storage/sharing option. Sent the link to a colleague half way around the globe and they reported an unusual crash. So I asked them to md5sum the file and they got a different result from what I got, so I downloaded the file myself and diffed it against the original and right in the middle there was a ~50k block of garbage. Uploaded it again, and it was fine. Blame it on my browser, or whatever if you will, but the end result was quite disturbing because I'm fairly certain my local storage stack was fine. These days i'm really quite skeptical of "advanced" filesystem/etc. What I want is a dumb one where the number 1 priority is data consistency. I'm not sure that is an accurate reflection of many of them, where winning the storage perf benchmark, or feature wars seems to be a higher priority.
Russia is restricting social media. Here's what we know
NATO doesn't "incorporate" countries.

Becoming part of NATO is a sovereign decision for a country.

But I guess "sovereignty" is an hard concept for imperialists to understand.

> Remember what happened when USSR tried to place missiles in Cuba?

Yes, there was no war. What is your point?
Vijay+Ravi, I work with a large number of seed and pre-seed (many YC) startups who are in tough financial situations -- would love to see some kind of referral program as I will probably be referring a high volume of startups to your service! It looks fantastic!
Statement by Clare Daly – Dublin
Excited to see this on HN, congrats on the launch!
Not really. You'll still have interviews, they'll just be more personality and resume-driven.

Personally, I'll take writing FizzBuzz over and over again vs. "where do you see yourself in 5 years?" ("I don't know but probably not working here") and "why do you want to work for our company?" ("to earn money").
I was in Milwaukee once, and needed to get to the airport. I don't use Uber or Lyft, but I asked the hotel what they recommended. They said Lyft. So I signed up, and put out a request for a ride.

Nobody responded. The app helpfully showed me all the Lyft drivers nearby that were ignoring me, which was really awesome.

At some point, it became clear that I was not going to get to the airport in time unless I left really soon. So I called Yellow Cab (or whatever the taxi service is called in Milwaukee). Five minutes later, the guy showed up and I was on my way.

I get that, as a brand new user, the drivers may have been cautious or wary of a gumper with no ratings, but WTF. I'm at a hotel going to the airport. I deleted the app from my phone, and would now rather take a pogo stick than Uber or Lyft.
Power Struggle over Ukraine’s Electrical Grid
Crucial question: does the DoD fund equivalent labs in other countries too, or is Ukraine an outlier?

If such activity is just business as usual for the DoD in every country, then it certainly weakens the case for anything nefarious happening specifically in relation to Ukraine.