skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish this was true, however I’ve had enough memorably uncomfortable views expressed to me from black cab drivers to know this is far from reality.
Is it though?

I follow that strategy, and it's working absurdly well for me. However, when I am looking for something, I see nothing but low quality, almost machine-generated content. Outside of my niche, it looks like content is not king at all.
Hmm, try to combine your OpenSource with your work. Ask your boss to make something for OpenSource as peace of your regular job. Try to sell him OpenSource. It should be something small in the beginning. After some time, you'll be working on projects more and more, and it will become a regular part of your paid job.
Ask HN: Was RT the only intl, non-US-aligned TV station of any significance?
I often rotate amongst various international (and rarely, domestic news) tv stations/outlets to see small glimpses of intelligent news coverage, esp regarding Ukraine.

By 'intelligent', I mean...mostly brain dead and useless hype-training and pat-ourselves-on-the-back-ism, but for some reason I can deal with it better coming from international anchors.

My typical rotation over the past couple of weeks, in order of the amount of time I spend on each, has been:
* Sky News (US/UK?) -- not the Aussie-based cast
* Al Jazeera English (Qatar)
* France 24 English (France)
* DW (Germany)
* TRT (Turkey)
* CGTN (China)
* NDTV (India)
* DemocracyNow (US)* (just 1 hr/day, M-F)

PressTV (Iran) went away this past summer.

RT (Russia) went away the past day or so.

DemocracyNow gets an honorable mention because it's indy media and really good, even if it's only a few hours a week.

And Fox News deserves a mention even tho I don't watch it -- it at least occasionally provides a counter to whatever CBS/NBS/etc. are saying, and that alternative message, despite all the racism and bigotry and covid denial and the rest -- I guess you could make an argument that it could, in the case of a Biden admin dragging us into WW3, Fox News _could_ help slow that train down. I just don't see anything from the other mainstream US media except POTUS talking points, and the international TV stations that are still on the air do the same -- just toned down a bit.

I guess you could say with some accuracy that Fox News (US) is anti-US, at least anti-Democrats, and anti-US-when-there-is-a-Democrat-POTUS, so it really does provide another point of view on things, at least occassionally, which is a good thing, imo.

CGTN (China) was, up until a couple of weeks ago, anti-US in the sense that they weren't actively supporting the White House line on everything, but the past couple of weeks - during war on ukraine - they just show a repeating loop of Xi giving a speech to some factory workers.

NDTV (India) has been fulltime on their elections - not sure if they're going to cover Ukraine - doesn't look like it so far.

If a station is very pro-US or doesn't say anything too bad about US intentions, they get labeled on youtube as:

> [TV Station] is sponsored in whole or in part by the government of [Country]

If, on the other hand, a station is _rabidly_ pro-US, they get labeled:

> [TV Station Name] is a [Country/French/Turkish/etc.] public service'

If a station hates on US policy/intentions/anything, they're off the air/net.

What international news channels (or others?) am I missing -- that are still on the air/internet?

TYT -- young turks? No.
> Resist the temptation to use images. If you are unable to distill the concepts or thoughts into language, then you have likely not fully understood the problem.

This is really hard to agree with. There are some things text just isn’t good for, like sheet music or color theory. There are also many readers and authors for whom big chunks of text are hard to digest.
What would be advice to a developer who at some point aspires to be on your level?

I have 5 years experience under me belt. I'm a good developer but maybe with worse presentable skills
This suggested the PNW to me, but doesn’t it rain there a lot? I think days of rain might be even more important than temperature to me.
If you're willing to put in some time learning a slightly different approach to programming, you could check out BlockStudio [1]

It's an authoring environment that allows text-free coding (using Programming By Demonstration) of interactive graphical software, like animations and games.

[1] https://www.blockstud.io
isn't omikron acting like a vaccine anyway ? with its astounding spread, everyone will have been contaminated anyway. And it seems that natural immunity is as good if not better than mrna induced immunity ( although i'm not sure if it's controversial or not).
Are you sure about #3? That vast majority of cases now are Omicron, so new variants are far more likely to branch off of Omicron than an earlier strain. Therefore I can't imagine how a vaccine targeting the original spike protein would be expected to be more effective than one targeting the spike protein from Omicron against new variants.
Even if you are under the legal limit if you get in an accident (regardless of fault) you can be charged with a DUI.
After the first couple of paragraphs I began to skim, so I may have missed the point the article was trying to make, but it certainly was not stated within the first few paragraphs.

"Designated driving gigs" enable alcohol abuse among men? Alcohol abuse by men is a huge social problem? Drunk driving by men is bad but so is drinking to excess by men?

I think it would have been a stronger article were it just a series of anecdotes about driving drunk people around, without the moral and social commentary, but then, it would not have been published in Slate.
utf16 is not a windows-ism. It is the encoding of strings in the DOM and JavaScript. That you think it is a windows-ism indicates a lack of familiarity with the web.

More specifically, JS is UCS-2 rather than utf16 so strings can also validly contain unmatched surrogates.

If WASM is expected to being compatible with the web - which I would have thought was a given, given that browsers are the primary execution engines for wasm, and the V8 javascript engine seems to be the primary non-web wasm runtime - then WASM has to accept UCS-2 strings.

I don't deny that the post seems biased over specific features, but I want to be super clear that the string issue specifically is not a windows-ism and is a critical element of the primary WASM host environments.
Watch either of these documentaries and tell me whether you’re still irked [0][1].

[0]:https://youtu.be/8gqwpfEcBjI

[1]:https://youtu.be/dvtVkNofcq8
RT was not of any significance.

Al Jazeera is more credible than RT ever was.
What about dependencies and libraries ? For tech that works very well for self-contained scripts, take a look at Deno. Supports she-bang. Also, you can have self-contained script with imports pointed to URL's or file system paths that are automatically resolved. This leads to easy management, maintenance and distribution.
I have, since the days of 16 bit home computers where when I wanted ultimate performance it had to code the core of the application in straight Assembly.

The only platform that offers native RAD like tooling for Web Development is OutSystems, most don't come even close, probably WebFlow.

Naturally since most devs don't like to pay for their tools, their target market is enterprise shops, so only Fortune 500 devs get nice tooling.
Ask HN: Are there any extensions that allow one to chat with others on web page?
Are there any extensions that allow people to chat with other visitors while visiting arbitrary web pages? I seem to recall StumbleUpon or one of those used to have such a feature.
I agree with you, that claim also gave me pause. And image can be worth more than a thousand words; taking that proverb at face value, it's hard to argue that you should spend the thousand words when an image would convey the same information much more efficiently.
The way I understand this situation is not that that they wanted to "ban" Dostoevsky. Instead, they tried to postpone it in order to avoid any escalation or negative reactions given the current times. Still doesn't make sense but it's a very different reason.
Wow, I have no sympathy for that driver. The sleazy beginning of that article, which glosses over the difference between drinking and drunk driving. If she doesn't like her passengers or what she's enabling, she should stop doing it.
This isn't about US or non-US.

It's about not wanting war and not wanting to make an relatively recent democracy being send back to the soviet era.
Euronews is also a decent channel. They are covering Ukraine and interviewing cool guests like the President of Moldova Maia Sandu.
Smart people adjust plans as they discover new information. Your original hopes for a solution at the start of a disaster will change drastically as you better understand the problem at hand.

There seems to be a pervasive thought that our leaders ought to somehow become superhuman and obtain clairvoyance about how to solve any problem we have. They are no different from any of us, who think a bug has a simple solution before we spend a lot of time figuring out more complicated things were happening under the hood.
I suspect you are mixing concerns.

For people who ended up supporting the war, yes. Propaganda worked, because constantly filtering misinformation is not exactly conducive to a normal life. Trust is the default mode of operation for a human who did not grow up in adverse conditions.

But grandparent seemed to refer to people who actually live such a life. People who do not support the government and are preparing for the worst. They distrust everything, they see that innocent people are dying and country is headed towards extreme times, but they treat it as impossible to change. This is pretty bleak.
Sadly, at least it uses WinUI/UWP underneath.
MicEye: Record radiologists' eye gaze when they are labeling images
Problem drinking isn't due to marketing, and precedes modern marketing by ... millenia.
Funny, one of the opening quests to one of the Yakuza games on PS3 had your passengers rate you on your conversation skills. I was under the impression that you chat with your cabbie, like where I am used to
> A genocidal war like the one Russia is waging in Ukraine is such a situation.

There is genocidal war in Ukraine that has been going on for decades. Look up the Minsk agreements... or how the Roma people or any other minority groups have been treated in Ukraine: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/...
The basic premise that the author is expounding is "CS research will be guided by industry interests". This is good to most extent, save a few very remote situations. Conference funding in particular has a very tenuos relationship to what directions get a nod of approval in overall CS research.

CS (and EE) is a field which has seen great advances and adoptions due to the tighter integration between industry and academia. The tech has advanced much due to the fact that researchers manage to work on hard & real problems. Many of the avenues of research emerge & advance from industry adoption - e.g. bandwidth compression, codecs, recommender systems, crytocurrency etc.

In my observation, whenever there has been a significant push by a single corporate entity, it has seen a palpable pushback. One example that comes to my mind is Amazon engineering vs. Rust foundation. Also, if any company tries to cut some major research's lifeline, there is always a competition grabbing that opportunity to secure it to its own future advantages. There are no shortages of 500-pound gorillas when it comes to corporate sponsorship. Everyone wants a piece of the cake.

As mentioned, the only time this could suffer is when a company of the size of Google, AWS establishes complete monopoly on that research & ultimately sends to some academic graveyard, much to everyone's horror. But in my limited knowledge, that kind of black swan event doesn't seem to have ever happened.

Corporate sponsorship aren't inherently evil. University researchers get a taste of real world tech issues & companies advance their tech by sponsorship. Conferences also become a good hiring venue for jobs or internship. It's a win-win from what I see. Conference sponsorship is in no way going to change the fate of ongoing research.
Malware, pirate software havens, hacking organizations?
Implementing Substitution in λ-Calculus
Awesome! Also, it would be great to add a release on GitHub. So we can watch only releases on your repo and be notified on every new version.
I found disabling encryption worked for me.
Because they might raise difficult questions. Also, for example, how would one suppress the Wild West mythos in Texas if you figured out it contributed to a small% increase in crime?
Loans create deposits, not the other way around. Your broader point that in a rational society money will never be a limiting factor is good though.
> Von Neumann, who saw the underlying mathematics better than almost anyone, showed how wave and matrix mechanics were essentially the same, and how one could be expressed in the other’s language.

Maybe he did that, but Dirac was certainly the first to do so.
I used to work at Akamai and Problem Details is used in most of their APIs. It might have something to do with the fact that one of the RFC authors (Mark Nottingham / @mnot on HN) worked there for a while.
Meta employees lose free laundry perk
Even if the protestors were engaged in mass murder, that would still not authorise the government to freeze their accounts. It would just mean the government had a good case against them in court.
I want to see C++ which I would guess stars with importing asio.
I haven't compiled the full BOM yet (since I gathered the parts for this gradually over an extended time), but I'm 99% certain BOM cost for a single unit is under $200. Probably closer to $100 or $150.

And I think the single most expensive item was ordering the 3D printed parts as MJF nylon for better tolerances and surface finish, at ~$35 (I FDM printed some functional prototypes, so that's a cheaper option too, they were just ugly). PCBs and stencil were $24 (enough to build 5x, so more like $5 each if you build more than one or split it with a friend). LCD was ~$6, ESP32 module ~$7. Motor $4. Strain gauges $5 (enough for 2x). Misc electronics (CH340, HX711, VEML7700, MT6701, resistors, caps, LEDs) were probably $20-50 in total from a few different suppliers). All of those numbers are with shipping included.
In Japan they'd always talk and ask if you're American and make small talk. They say they watched Hollywood to learn their English. almost every taxi driver that spoke even a little English wanted to talk. maybe parent is directed at Japanese in the taxi and they don't talk as its a service. but as a foreigner they certainly were warm, friendly, and always wanted to chat.
Wait maybe not:

https://owlcyberdefense.com/learn-about-data-diodes/
On the other hand, if they needed $500k, this is well within the budget of popular crowd funding projects, and it seemed like they have succeeded. As far as I know they raised the funds so I guess the strategy was sound. I don’t know the details but often crowd funding allows the creators to keep all IP rights, which would give them more freedom than going through institutional investors.
Another counterexample is the flu vaccine. It never purports to eradicate flu, but it helps with the season. The unfortunate reality is that some diseases change and evolve quickly enough that the immune system can’t defeat every new variant, even with bolstered protection against previous ones. Like you’ll catch a cold from time to time, or perhaps the flu. The immunity you developed previously didn’t stop that because the disease evolved.
It comes at the cost of reducing regulatory burden but also the oversight and safety rails required to make sure the "cure isn't worse than the disease".

For the initial wave of COVID-19, it was an absolute necessity, but unless our backs are pinned metaphorically to the wall, is it really worth taking a short cut? In the best case, COVID-19 will become endemic (prevalent every season, but not as harmful for the majority of the population)... so wiping it out by way of universal uptake of a given vaccine is not (and never was) on the tables.

A weaponized virus would inflict untold suffering, but there is nothing to stop another Operation Warpspeed. Having OW active all the time? I don't see that being a good thing.
For those in Security Theatre of HTTP APIs, I found this also useful:

https://github.com/yosriady/api-development-tools
It would have taken many years to get the new technology approved, but we skipped a lot of that due to the pandemic. Now that we have lots of safety data it is easier for them to get new vaccines approved.
I think a lot of it is that clinical trials are expensive and drug manufacturers generally try to maximize odds of success. COVID was unique because they could get a ton of money to develop and test a vaccine that they knew there would be a ton of demand for if they were early to market with something that worked. now that they've seen how much easier and cheaper mRNA vaccines can be to develop, it's much easier to decide to start a trial.
I remember watching recently a discussion on CNN about how Virginia voters were white supremacists because the CNN-preferred candidate had lost the state election.
Note: These would be the same voters that voted for Obama in previous elections.

The media is garbage, pure and simple.
The easiest way to do this is to create the animation in PowerPoint which is trivially easy.

Then export the transitions to a video [0].

[0]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-a-presentati...
Even Germans don't know their insurance won't cover or just partially cover crashes happening > 130km/h (hint: Richtgeschwindigkeit/recommended speed is 130km/h everywhere, even on Autobahn stretches without speed limit).

[0] https://www.allianzdirect.de/kfz-versicherung/zahlt-die-vers...
Distant Writing: A History of the Telegraph Companies in Britian (2012)
> Google Translate

Thanks for the laugh. An automated translation tools, especially dumbed down online ones, never work right because they don't have a context or a means to provide it.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0#Russ...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8...
German somewhat has (e.g., you write "ue" instead of "ü", "ss" for "ß", as in "suess"), but Spanish certainly hasn't. Saying that Spanish can be written in us-ascii is about the same as saying that English could cope if you removed the h and the y — it would still be understandable, right? Us-ascii Spanish "?d'onde est'a la biblioteca?" is as pleasant as, uh, "w^ere is t^e librarv?"

I agree with most of this article but, as a Spanish, German and Italian speaker, you can bet I'll refuse to write in an unnecessarily crippled and incorrect version of these languages; I'm very grateful for Unicode.
And coding as well, I keep seeing APIs that I would easily exploit with Postman, because devs code as if the JavaScript requests were the only ones in the world doing the API calls, in a well behaved manner.
Ok, it seems I have been wrong about this as a general statement and liberal (or even most?) jew movements indeed consider it possible.

Last time I checked - it seems I read a viewpoint from a rather orthodox rabbi (but his article was the first one, that showed up in google at that time, now I cannot find it anymore), which clearly stated, this is not possible at all, with no exception.

The only way, would be to recognized as a "lost jew", meaning being of jewish origin, who lost connection to the tribe (even some generations ago). And the recognition would need years of devotion.
That looks like a neat product, but it appears to be a NAS not a web host—or am I missing something?
Yeah, I don't know how many services say "please enable TFA" and then don't support my yubikey.

AWS takes the cake - you can enable a youbikey, or other TFA, but only one. So I get locked out if my device ever dies.
Yes taxis are everywhere and easy to get by waving at any road. Also subway is great but for non adjacent to subway journeys they're a must. Also many get taxis when a bit tipsy versus subway. both are of course common. Also subway and then taxi at the end of station for the last 20 minutes instead of walking.
These pages are the least performant part of the preferences application.
What was the point of this? Yes, that's what I said. And?
The author is male, FYI.
A picture is worth a thousand words and all that. I guess we need more schematics and images to communicate disambiguously. What if you are writing 1000 words of plain text to explain a workflow but has zero images? That is just bending backwards to fit in with the plain text rule
These are only US traditions, especially about firearms. And if I look at the results, your idealistic and self-confident description seems a bit too positive.
The research was easy, but the development required billions of dollars and literal war-time production efforts (in the US the Defense Production Act was invoked). Drug regulators are also very conservative. Why take risk on making a low-margin mRNA influenza vaccine when other platforms are good enough?
>This safety mechanism worked at least once.

Generations ago. In essentially a different, more civilized world.
> * Human readable

Computers are the main consumers of APIs, and ISO 8601 is far from machine-readable.

For example, in Elixir, DateTime.from_iso8601/1 won't recognize "2022-03-12T07:36:08" even though it's valid. I had to rewrite a chunk of Python's radidjson wrapper to 1-9 digit fractional seconds (1).

I'm willing to bet 99% of ISO8601 will fail to handle all aspects of the spec. So when you say "ISO8601" what you're really saying is "our [probably undocumented, and possibly different depending on what system you're hitting] version of the ISO-86001 spec."

(1) https://github.com/python-rapidjson/python-rapidjson/pull/13...
Some of us don't think much of Qt either.
This has been tried plenty of times, ARM just decided something else because reasons.

Also to note that all hardware vendors are adopting hardware memory tagging as the only way to fix C.

Intel messed up with MPX, but I definitely see they coming with an alternative, as I bet they won't like to be seen as the only vendor left without such capabilities.
I assume they can't upgrade to more recent LLVM versions, as the 3.7 bitcode is now found in a ton of published games. If they move to, say, 3.8, they need a LLVM 3.7 to 3.8 bitcode translator.

Basically, microsoft published someone else's unstable, unsupported API.
Brave is probably not that privacy friendly as their marketing says.

- https://blackgnu.net/brave-is-shit.html
This sounds like the XY Problem[1]. Why do you want a senior engineer, that isn't a contractor, but doesn't work as much? What country are you in? Do you want to pay this employee an hourly rate? Why do you think a contractor could only be scoped to one project? Why is this described as a "guru" role? Are you sure you aren't looking for a "consultant" instead?

[1] - https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...
He listed some survey numbers. They don’t back his claims though. Classic correlation vs causation.
Don't get me wrong, I think these languages shouldn't be crippled too.

However, I also think that contexts such as system log messages should be in English.
Don't think so. You made it sound like the base of the whole BLM movement was a fake incident, while racism is still very real, which is the real base. While on the other hand D&D had nothing to do with satanism or occultism.