skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen this argument a lot, but whenever I see a separate price for paying with cash versus paying with credit cards, the price for paying with cash is always lower.
They need to nerf widow mine splash damage.

The Queen nerf will impact early queen walks (good).

The Void Ray changes are not good.

Sincerely
- a salty protoss
Shhh, if you point that out, people will start questioning whether they need a slide presentation at all.

I tend to view 'no aids' as the default; unless I can come up with a specific use for a slide deck, why make one?
Russian military's encrypted phones intercepted after destroying 3G/4G towers
No. You wished China would stop spying on the US. That's just not in the cards.
Quite apart from anything else, there should absolutely be someone asking Hard Questions about the role of the university administration here. If lying on a grant application is a fraud, then asking someone to lie on a grant application is procuring a fraud etc.

That said, I have to say that if anyone asks me to lie or omit relevant information on a document that I'm sending to the government, my first response to that is going to be "let me check with my lawyer on that".
Can you script a CD-ROM to jump off its shelf and into the CD-ROM reader?
What I really wish is some glue layer kind of service that will sync slack with email or teams or something like that so I can do without any one service.
I don't know how it is today, but I've noticed both spelling mistakes and ripping errors on bought content from iTunes (Music).
On day 1 of the invasion I have already suspected something like this.

Putin, a cold blooded calculative sociopath as he always was, would have not started this insanity. So the only viable explanation is that he got diagnosed with something incurable and decided to go out with a bang, because he has nothing to lose. Of course he couldn't just straight up declare war on NATO, his minders would have snuffed him out, so he did the next best thing, probably hoping it will escalate to WW3 anyway.

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
>If I expect a program to do something (eg. handle IO errors) that its code says very clearly that it doesn't, that's not the programs fault.

Is there no such thing as a bug then? The program does what the code says so every "misbehavior" and crash is expected behavior.
Ukrainian medieval armorer contributes to war effort
A PV module has a weight of about 0.05 kg/W. If it costs $0.20/W, that's $4000/tonne. The disposal cost of waste in a landfill in the US is about $60/tonne. So, even with no recycling at all, the cost of landfilling old PV modules is not a significant part of the cost of PV here. And much of the cost of PV installations (the steel mountings and earth anchors, the aluminum frames of the modules, the glass covers) is highly recyclable.
Why not just say "Wow! I'd like to hear more!" ?
Not as a whatabout but a question: Has Taiwan recognized China as a sovereign nation? Or is do they consider it Occupied Western Republic of China?
I'm starting a new EM role at a new company later this month. I've been a team lead for several years, at different companies and different teams, but this is my first "traditional" management role. I have my own thoughts, but I'd love to hear from others about what the better managers they've had in the past have [not] done.

If it matters, it sounds like I am backfilling a position for someone who took a director position in a different part of the organization.
OpenCV, which is what the OP is using, has higher order camera calibration. There are functions to calibrate based on checkerboards or dot grids and undistort images using those calibrations.

Sometimes it's better to match first, then undistort, though.
Most of the time these companies do hire people...they just generally lose people at almost the same rate. It's usually a sign of something negative, though

(note - staying the same size is fine if that's your desire, but it's a problem when you're aiming for aggressive growth and can't)
Ask HN: How much resource does project like Rust need to be properly developed?
and how can it be raised?
His responsibility is primarily to enabling his clients (the musicians) to make money from selling their music. Regardless of his feelings Apple was offering a sales channel for his musicians.
Always chuckle when we talk corporate or western state-sponsored propaganda yet "we" still have shit like this. Collusion between the private companies and governments is fascism, by definition. Which is what China does in their country, and which is what we sometimes allow, willingly or not, in our countries through the internet.

I personally am against censorship of any kind. And while that in principle means allowing propaganda garbage from all sides, it also means not censoring domestic "propaganda"(which could be anything depending on your reference) or material. People dislike this because having a personal filter is hard, but the alternative is arguably worse if you only allow a certain side.(which goes back to the first point of fascism by collusion)
There is more nuance to this, which is that we cannot detect all modes of failure just because we have written to a file object, and successfully flushed and closed it.

In the case of file I/O, we do not know that the bits have actually gone to the storage device. A military-grade hello world has to perform a fsync. I think that also requires the right storage hardware to be entirely reliable.

If stdout happens to be a TCP socket, then all we know from a successful flush and close is that the data has gone into the network stack, not that the other side has received it. We need an end-to-end application level ack. (Even just a two-way orderly shutdown: after writing hello, half-close the socket. Then read from it until EOF. If the read fails, the connection was broken and it cannot be assumed that the hello had been received.)

This issue is just a facet of a more general problem: if the goal of the hello world program is to communicate its message to some destination, the only way to be sure is to obtain an acknowledgement from that destination: communication must be validated end-to-end, in other words. If you rely on any success signal of an intermediate agent, you don't have end-to-end validation of success.

The super-robust requirements for hello world therefore call for a protocol: something like this:

puts("Hello, world!");
puts("message received OK? [y/n]")
return (fgets(buffer, sizeof buffer, stdin) != NULL && buffer[0] == 'y')
? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;

Now we can detect failures like that there is no user present at the console who is reading the message. Or that their monitor isn't working so the can't read the question.

We can now correctly detect this case of not being able to deliver hello, world, converting it to a failed status:

$ ./hello < /dev/null > /dev/null

We can still be lied to, but there is strong justification in regarding that as not our problem:

$ yes | ./hello > /dev/null

We cannot get away from requiring syntax, because the presence of a protocol gives rise to it; the destination has to be able to tell somehow when it has received all of the data, so it can acknowledge it.

A super reliable hello world also must not take data integrity for granted; the message should include some kind of checksum to reduce the likelihood of corrupt communication going undetected.
Personally, I prefer desk arms. They're easily portable to other locations, and give you a huge amount of flexibility for positioning your monitor exactly where you want it.

The free desk space below the monitor is just icing on the cake.
Chesterton's fence may apply.
The size of apps has gotten so bad Google is now forced to develop 2 versions of their core apps and 2 versions of their OS, one for devices with expendable resources (regular Android) and one for devices with limited resources (Android Go edition).

I have removed most of Google's apps from my phone because of their extreme size.

Looking on my phone it looks like the award for most bloated goes to Google Play Services at 500MB. Wow!
> You can get caught up from 8 pretty quickly.

That jumped out at me, too - like, "what the hell does 'experience with Java 14' even mean?" OP did mention earlier in the post that his Java was a bit rusty, so maybe they were just being nice.
Shame, I always liked elementaryOS.
Turboreg is also good:
Paper: http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/thevenaz9801.html

Python implementation: https://pypi.org/project/pystackreg/
Can you script Steve Jobs to let them simply submit the high quality rips and metadata they already had?
I think you might be getting mixed up between the query language and the implementation. Virtual tables define an interface that you can use to write an extension allowing you to query resources using sql semantics. The underlying representation of those resources doesn't change.

So yeah the difference matters depending on your use. I don't think you can add indexes for example, unless they are specifically supported by the underlying resource, or implemented in the virtual table extension you're using.

It's not a table.
Hetzner Statement: https://www.hetzner.com/presse-berichte/2022/03/166980
Yeah goals impacts architecture. But it's interesting to see that computing systems have parameters and structures. Cycle clock, memory, cache .. they don't paint the whole picture. The constant massive data crunching of a Cray is not visible on frequency.

That said, I'm curious about what a 2020 iphone can do, even in HPC numerical contexts..
Ah, our good friend, Amdahl's law. Algorithms will need to be more than 99% parallelizable in order to gain any more performance out of that 256 core chip than a 128 core one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Yeah, no doubt. Everything can be automated. And I'm sure some dirty hack was cobbled together to work around the situation rather than turning some poor human into a zombie with both RSI and PTSD. I'd hope.

But let's not turn the tables that way. My point is that "opportunity" should have been addressed _before_ Steve Jobs decided to fly in all those industry bigwigs to do his sales pitch. I mean, who was selling who here exactly? Different times I guess...
Chernobyl plant disconnected from power grid
> the complete garbage that is iTunes.

I’ve become an Apple fan as I’ve spent most of my IT time in their ecosystem over last 5 years. I’ve come to appreciate their UI pattern (which was confusing at first due to my conditioning of Linux), the consistency, nifty little features.

However to this day I just couldn’t get used to their iTunes (and now Apple Music) UX. I’m always fumbling around, searching for a song is a same sequence of confusing clicks and swipes. I thought it was me but now I’m convinced that it’s just a garbage of a software.
I just had that request from my girlfriend in the Netherlands to bring back an iPad mini in this trip because they're $100 less for the 256GB model here in Canada than they work out to in the Netherlands once exchange rates and taxes are considered.

Living close to the U.S. border, it's quite easy for me to do a 24-48 hour jaunt down to the U.S. - long enough to qualify for the customs exemptions and bring cheap electronics back to Canada. The only down side is that if anything goes wrong with them, I have to cross the border back to the U.S. to deal with warranty issues.

Having an address in the Netherlands and parents in the UK also means that I have similar benefits in the opposite direction, sometimes stuff is way cheaper in the UK or Europe and if I need it I just pick it up there when I'm there. The down side there being that they're obviously cabled for European or UK plugs which means I either need to replace the cables or, thankfully, most stuff is rechargeable via USB-C now, so all I need are European, British and American USB-C charging units and everything carries on as normal.
U.S. warns against travel to New Zealand due to rising Covid-19 cases
The economically (relatively) strong punish the weak for not toeing the line. What's new in the world?

Its similar to how Ukrainians and Polish behaved terribly towards Indians trying to flee the country in the last couple of weeks, ostensibly because India voted to abstain at the UN, whereas Ukraine has consistently voted against India's interests at the UN.

Who asked for the brown people's opinion eh?
> and I hope the world can one day say "we did everything we could to help Ukraine", because at the moment they certainly can't.

I've been getting some vibes from Ukraine today and yesterday - also from the president himself - that are leaning towards anti-NATO or anti-EU, because besides (some) military aid, supplies, refugees and heavy sanctions that barrel Russia into an economic crisis, they haven't interfered in the actual conflict yet.

I get that this is upsetting.

But I also understand that if NATO involves themselves more directly, the conflict will escalate - and given the apparent state and losses of Russia facing the Ukranian defenses, the escalation will involve nukes. Nobody wins then. Kyiv will be one of the first cities to be targeted, out of spite.

I much prefer Russia to be humiliated and go bankrupt and hopefully end up with political reforms and the deposing of their leader than an escalation.
Handy examples. If you need flexibility with regards to output channels, Apprise is undoubtedly a good choice. There are also dedicated projects such as https://ntfy.sh/ and https://gotify.net/ (both self-hostable).

If you have XMPP, you can also send notifications to XMPP directly via sendxmpp (of which there are actually many incarnations: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/User:MDosch/Sendxmpp_incarnations ) or via a webhook/HTTP API such as https://slickmsg.com/
Yes, and plenty of cheap ones, too — you have a pretty good range based on features and looks. This kind of complaint is pretty predictable: most people who want one will drop $100 on a normal VESA stand or arm, but the Apple one is definitely competing with people who either want the matching designer image or simply aren't that price sensitive.

Here's an example of Herman Miller, which is definitely competing for the same kind of buyers with a $450 monitor arm:

https://www.hermanmiller.com/content/dam/hermanmiller/docume...

Now, they do at least discount that a bit so a good question is whether you'll see the Apple ones showing up at less than list price:

https://store.hermanmiller.com/office-furniture-desk-accesso...
Germany vetoes nuclear power extension, aims for LNG terminal in 2024
Once a month, and he often reschedules or cancels it the day before. They are scheduled for 30 minutes.

A couple years ago, I asked him to meet weekly and he obliged. It felt like he wasn't willing to actually engage in the discussion. I walked back that request to two weeks and then monthly.

I've been trying to talk less as well, since I realize that it's a one-sided conversation. It's difficult for me though, since I feel like we should be talking more.
I imagine it hasn’t been the case for any new or remastered music added in at least the last 10 years. They upgraded to 256 kbps in 2009 so CD-originated music surely would have ended by then.
You are correct. The "Buy American Act" has some good features. We recently had to buy Anchor Chain for a gov vessel refirb and it literally took an act of congress to override and buy Chinese anchor chain. There is no one in USA who could provide it in a timely fashion. 52 week lead time is unsat.

China will trade Russia for wheat due to bad harvests.
We are driving Russia into Chinese hands with currency and transactions.
Too bad they have an dictator for life. He gambled and lost.
No foreign policy expert but it seems more complicated than that.

China still does recognise Ukraine as independent in the sense it continues to push for respect of "territorial integrity". It's a key part of Chinese foreign policy, and is what China uses to maintain its false claim over Taiwan (which it sees as Beijing territory, notwithstanding that Taiwanese people see themselves as independent).

Yet it still refuses to condemn Russian aggression on the basis that Russia has "security concerns" which China considers legitimate and the result of the US/NATO.

Confused? So am I. The stance is confused and confusing. It explains why the Beijing narrative seems to change daily as it attempts to push and balance these seemingly irreconcilable views.
1: The international community probably doesn't care if they don't. It will still be seen as an invasion. 2: While Russia formally recognizes Ukraine as a country I don't believe they currently recognize its democratically elected government as legitimate which is the basis for their bogus Casus Belli.
This is asking a lot from you, but in your situation, I think your goal should be to build up enough of a relationship with your manager that you feel comfortable telling them that, or realize that that's never going to happen at your current company and find a new job.

I have reports who have told me that they're happy doing what they're doing. I don't see it as a negative at all - they're employees who are quietly getting their job done and I don't have to worry about them leaving for career growth or Peter Principle-ing them into incompetence. It's important that we continue to have 1:1s though. People aren't static, they can change their mind, and I also want to make sure I keep an ear out for little things that are annoying them, and do what I can to make them go away.
FYI: Executives of F500 multinationals are not the "general population."

The competition needed to be an executive at a F500 multinational extreme. There are many good studies on the topic, from "Dictator's Handbook" to "Power." The latter should be read with a grain of salt, but has helpful insights.

Elected politicians -- above some level -- operate under analogous constraints too. If you don't take an election donation in return for political favors, your opponent will.

I think the decline of the integrity of MIT (as for executives and politicians) became inevitable once competition and $$$ reached a certain threshold.
Other comments imply that the nuclear rods have been inactive for 20 years, and that passive - or even air - cooling will be fine. There won't be any runaway reactions or additional meltdowns, if that's correct.
Back in the early 2000s, I worked for a company that was supplying audio media to Apple, Spotify, etc. and yeah, the record companies would ship them boxes of CDs for ripping, cover scanning, track listing inputting, etc. For some of the companies, it was the only way they had - they didn't have the metadata or cover art in easy digital form, masters available, etc., especially for older stuff.
Maybe 5% of the book is about nuclear power. He does not hide his positive attitude about it, or his ownership of Terrapower, but he does not sound at all gung ho. If anything he advocates more for offshore wind. But most of the book is about describing the problem, not prescribing solutions. I found it to be very informative. Personally, I was less pro-nuclear after reading the book than before.
I really don't have a problem with putting the onus on the owner to make sure their information is correct, let them prioritize and so on.

It's not ideal, but in 2003 the idea that everything has an API was still very pie in the sky for A LOT of things.
The ads being put out in the daily newspapers and radio on his behalf are one good example. He has a near monopoly on what words and concepts are broadcast. Those things should probably be just as fact checked as any other thing.
More songs = more music that is potentially accessible to more people with different tastes. I don't use apple music or spotify because they lack quite a few albums that I've had to source myself.
For didactic reasons it’s preferable to consider it a bug.
Russia’s Oldest University to Expel Students Detained at Anti-War Protests
I worked at AT&T in the late 1990s on an early music sales (not streaming) service called a2b Music. It sounds ridiculous now (why would AT&T think they could succeed in consumer-facing music sales!) but at the time they were a co-owner of the AAC patents and wanted to commercialize them. They also had lots of bandwidth and thought this made sense.

Being "responsible" folks (and also having no choice in the matter) AT&T bent over backward to accommodate the labels. Half the product was proprietary DRM that made everything constantly unusable. Despite this, the labels still strangled us by limiting what we could sell. Apple quite correctly ignored all of this and solved the problem by first launching the iPod, waiting until it had critical mass (much of which involved tons of unpaid MP3 downloading) and then launching the iTunes Store in 2003 when they had an installed base full of piracy - and the major labels had no choice but to join on their terms. (Obviously I pity the small labels who got screwed in the dynamic.)

I think about this a lot when people complain about cryptocurrency or Uber/Lyft evading regulations or destroying legacy businesses. Often this kind of behavior is bad, often the little guy gets crushed. But at the end of the day, legacy businesses really are poison and much of the awfulness could be avoided if they weren't trying to hold on to things so tightly.
why so smug? who cares whichever company makes a better processor?
Google Play Store Download APK App Free for PC/Android
Sid is a rolling unstable development build, that doesn't compare to a rolling stable release - particularly in regards to conversations on what users should expect.
That Covid vaccine project gives me chills. That’s not saying it’s wrong to use an advantage like coding skill or anything else to increase your odds of surviving a pandemic— but it’s a new world we live in for sure.

Edit: I guess I need to clarify I’m not asserting anything was right or wrong.
VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Have you considered putting the text in the slide notes, rather than in the slides themselves?
I based myself on published numbers from the companies, but would like to have a more precise number. Note I am thinking Software Engineers not Employees.
The site really should have examples. I'm not feeding my data into an app without first having an idea of the expected outcome. It's nice for repeat visitors that the homepage gets straight to business so maybe have a separate examples page linked to from the nav.

Also, link from the app to the git repo, not just the other direction.
Decoherence is a consequence of interaction between particles in the coherent state, environment plays no role there, you can do all experiments in the vacuum and they will still work the same way, obviously.
Lost in 1915, Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found off coast of Antarctica
CAn you provide a link? You said on his behalf, do you mean the US government is paying for adverstising propaganda?
You could probably emulate a CD driver using the WAV files from your server.
The Durbin Amendment is responsible for modern fintech as we know it
I don't think I'm reading the text while it's scrolling... But maybe I am more than I realize? I actually think I'm more looking at the shape of the text when it's scrolling rather than the actual text itself.
Likewise, I would urge anyone reading this comment to view it as a prime example of why HN posters’ opinions on fiction (or any art) should be taken with a grain of salt.
I think at some point "more songs" === still not going to ever find it.

And the offering in 2003 is still way more songs than I have in a binder ... WAY MORE.
“Visit Thailand” is both selling services and propaganda. “Russian war is Ok” is a different kind of propaganda. It’s easy to see the difference between the two and online ad platforms should be able to make a reasonable distinction in most cases.
Why not just say "Grr! Too many words, you!" ?
My pal Trump?

No thank you. Both Mr Trump and Mr Biden are deluges of misinformation and horse crap, as you put it.