skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inspired by a quote from MBS in the article, I search for Qaran and death penalty and found this on Wikipedia:

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter, Except for those who return repenting before you apprehend them. And know that Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.

— Qur'an, Sura 5, ayat 33 & 34[8]

That's incredibly vague and appears to be made for abuse of interpretation.
good point, will edit (edit: nope, too late to edit!). I'm talking tiny company that does not have a tech team, but is paying an all-in PaaS license for content delivery, with features I don't think they need. Looking to serve thousands, but not hundreds of thousands.
>The challenge from the company's perspective is that historically, people game the system and tragedy of commons scenarios can quickly become prevalent

Well yes, that's what every business does. Ultimately that's the fundamental problem. Uber wants employees that act in the business' best interest but does not want the regulatory burden that comes with it.
I think it is mostly the latter. At least -- I rarely got useful feedback other than a little x (best case it would be on the error, more likely on the questions).

Personally, when grading I keep a file of all my feedback so I can easily copy-paste it into their feedback files (since everything is digital nowadays). For a given assignment, usually only a handful of mistakes are made (repeated by each student). If anything, having the file makes my grading more consistent -- same points for the same error.

I'm under the impression that this is a not-unpopular system, but try as I might, I cannot get anyone else to adopt it.
International law and human rights are for :
- poor/light weight countries
- adversaries and competition

For the self and allies there is only:
- Rule of law only until it comes in the way of Self interest -- in contention, self interest always trumps.

With this rule-set a lot of things make sense.
Nuclear waste storage is a solved problem. There are no shortages of underground facilities to store the waste forever.

What is a bigger risks/concern is environmental radioisotope contamination in the case of a disaster. Lasers won't help with this.
On the one hand, I've previously suggested that managers should be quicker to fire underperforming workers, but on the other hand, it's absolutely true that some disappointments from workers are because of my own lapses in communication. When I wrote about one-on-one meetings, some people suggested to me that one-on-one meetings allow a manager to tell one worker one story but tell another worker a completely different set of facts, and the end result is that workers ended up feeling like they've been lied to. So when I recently wrote about this, I included this story, which I think shows both sides of the issue.

There are times when workers feel they’ve been lied to when they have simply misread or misheard some communication from their manager. This is an actual communication that I recently had with a freelancer I was working with, putting together some preliminary numbers for a marketing campaign:

Me: About Task 3, can you wrap this up by Thursday or Friday?

Them: I’m busy on Thursday, but I can get to Task 3 on Friday or Saturday.

Me: Are you sure you can’t get this done on Friday?

Them: I don’t know. I’ve got some things scheduled for the afternoon on Friday. I’m not sure how long that might go into the evening. But I can get it to you by Saturday afternoon, for sure.

Me: Look, this doesn’t have to be perfect. Don’t go overboard. Just put in what time you can on Thursday and Friday. In this case speed is more important than quality. Whatever you can do is fine.

Around 9 PM on Friday I had not heard from them, so I wrote to them again:

Me: Hey, can you please send me whatever you’ve got regarding Task 3?

Them: I told you, I can get it to you by Saturday afternoon.

Me: I told you the deadline was Friday.

Them: You never said the deadline was Friday.

Me: What I said was, whatever you have by this point, Friday night, is fine. I think I said that speed is more important than quality.

Them: Yeah, but you never said that Friday was the deadline.

Me: Okay, that’s fine, but please send me what you have.

They sent over what they’d done so far, and it was fine. In this case, we were both a little bit in the wrong, in that neither of us made explicit what the deadline was. I thought I’d been reasonably clear that by Friday night they should just send me whatever they had, but they felt that I’d authorized them to keep going until Saturday. It’s important to be very clear about expectations, otherwise workers hear what they want to hear and then they sometimes feel that you lied to them.

In this case, I simply failed to make 100% explicit that the deadline was Friday night. If I had invested a little more time into the communication, I probably would have made clear what my expectations were.

I've previously suggested that larger, stable firms should do more to offer some kind of apprenticeships to novice tech workers. But in small startups, when the whole team is just 4 of 5 people, often you need for everyone on that team to be perfect, so if someone on that team isn't perfect, you need to be fast to fire people. This was one of the main conclusions that I put in my book "How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps."
I guess he means that they didn’t have any negative feedback until then.
I’ve heard that baseball player taxes are an absolute nightmare because they have to file in every jurisdiction their team plays in.
That would be the outcome that Putin can live with.

For the West and Ukraine to accept it, the treaty also has to state that all Russian troops must be withdrawn from Ukraine.

Sanctions cannot be lifted before that happens.
The possibility seems remote right now and I dislike the inflammatory framing, but I think this touches on one of fundamental drawbacks of nuclear power: it is hard to engineer plants to guard against catastrophe because there's a lot of energy stored in an inherently dangerous form.

Hydroelectric power is often similarly vulnerable: you can engineer the dam to hold, but when something outside of tolerances appears, the downstream consequences are severe. Compare with solar or wind, where the energy source is not concentrated and so plant machinery is comparatively inert.

We are continually reassured by proponents that today's designs are invulnerable, but both history and the fundamentals of energy storage bespeak the limitations of such assurances.
Another plausible explanation is that omitting the items you bought means that you have to log back into Amazon and look at your purchase history to see what you ordered. That gives amazon several more touch points to get you to buy more things, including the "buy it again" button that they put on the page for particular items. It also makes it more difficult for you to search for the name of something you bought in the past to order it from a different retailer.
Note: I believe that everybody is entitled to their own relationship with "God" however that may be (I'm an atheist), but these religions want to extend their laws on everybody else -- and that's a serious problem that needs to be addressed by society.
I think most execution methods are worse... Some might be better, but generally they are not used...
War is not politics.
Politics is argument in parliament.
I'm a practicing nuclear physicist and do work on gamma ray interactions with actinides. It's possible i'm missing something important, but i think this article is an utter mess and was clearly written by someone with absolutely no understanding of what they are saying. Attempting to learn anything from this article will be counterproductive.

Here is an explanation of chirped pulse amplification: https://www.rp-photonics.com/chirped_pulse_amplification.htm...
This technique is for producing optical photons, which will have less than 10 ev of energy. In the same way that you can't focus the sun's light to a point that gets hotter than the surface of the sun (violates second law of thermodynamics), it isn't obvious how low energy laser pulses can be useful for this. The article offers no explanation whatsoever. Maybe the electric field across the nucleus can be made strong enough to induce scission?

In general, if you want to interact with the nucleus you need photons on the order of 1 Mev or more, whose wavelengths are comparable to the size of the nucleus. These are gamma rays, which are not optical photons. There are ways to boost optical photons to those energies (like inverse compton scattering), but the article says nothing about that either. I would think inverse compton scattering of a chirped pulse from an electron packet in an accelerator will completely destroy the sharp timing and reflect the distribution of the electrons instead.
Just about every virtual machine runner works around this by emulating a USB tablet (touchpad) and not a USB mouse. Should be simple to do same via USB gadget driver.

https://qemu-stsquad.readthedocs.io/en/doc-updates/system/us...
As long as it's in one cut.

Multiple cuts would be horrific.
High school AP stats teacher here in their first year of teaching. While I think this article holds some water much of it is a hyperbole.

In reality a good teacher will learn they can’t make everyone happy and learn to deal with students who complain.
As an instructor, agree about everything but will add that I try to keep a positive framing.

That people procrastinate and need incentives is human nature — no more use bemoaning this than bemoaning politics. The job of instructor is precisely to enforce a system of rules and incentives while not being too dogmatic about them that the class turns into a grind while promoting enthusiasm for learning while creating inspired course content, while balancing all this with the instructor’s own scholarship priorities. It’s a tall order and very few people do it well.

That mastery is difficult and subtle does not distinguish pedagogy from other professions, but what is different is that every shmo off the street remembers being a student, so thinks they know the secret formula for pedagogy.
yup and they assassinated that Iranian general recently
> As far as I could tell, the sponsors had zero additional asks. They paid money in exchange for the pre-determined advertising package to have their logo printed everywhere. At a certain level they got a booth where they could hand out swag and recruit. They didn’t direct the conference itself, though. Maybe it’s different at the mega-conferences, but locally there was no indication that the sponsors were trying to capture the conference

And that’s exactly right. This is needlessly alarmist. A lot of accusations without any kind of macro analysis on what consequences this all has. It and also further doesn’t provide context of this versus government funding in academia, along with reasonable alternatives. It also doesn’t recognize the growth these fields have had, and how the landscape has changed with the scale.
A quick Google for "multivalent covid vaccine" shows trials in progress and articles from as early as 2021, so I'd say there's progress happening here.
I think these are two different classes of issues you’re comparing.

Kids are perhaps often intuitively good at evaluating the severity of unintended consequences.

Adults are much better at being aware of deliberate efforts to take advantage of developmental stages and tendencies.
> That's incredibly vague and appears to be made for abuse of interpretation.

One could argue this is true for most (if not all) religious texts
I’m not saying he’s a populist, I’m saying that the populists have scored a significant victory by pushing him to the right on cultural issues even if he ultimately wins reelection.
Yup.

I cook a LOT in my Instantpot. Rice button sets for 12 mins after it gets up to pressure, so its ~30 mins to said rice - however, I usually just leave it in while I cook the other things - and typically its been an hour that the rice is done and just sitting there waiting to be eaten.

FYI - if you dont yet have an instant pot, it will change your cooking life.

Get one.
Well, yeah. If US-Saudi relations deteriorated even a little bit I'm sure YouTube would get itchy trigger fingers.

The price of being a global company is that you're gonna end up doing business in some awful places.

That doesn't mean you have to be consistent about enabling shitheads.
This is what Deel and Remote do for international employees. PEOs do this domestically (Justworks and Insperity, for instance)
I agree. Many people press guerilla warfare which I don't think is applicable in Ukraine.

Afghanistan and Ukraine are different countries. I don't think people in Ukraine can tolerate the life of Afghani people. They are not used to luxury and were indoctrinated with radical religious views. They were following terrorism, although I don't think they were terrorists as portrayed by the media. Ukraine people are modern and they understand the value of life. And, even if they resist Russian and start to act like a terrorist, the EU won't support them in long run. There is no place in the EU for terrorism or radical beliefs.
China's output per capita is so mediocre (~$12k GDP per capita) there is a lot of room to outrun the worker contraction and retirement context. Although I'm skeptical their increasingly rigid economy, courtesy of Xi transporting them back in time to a worse system of stricter command & control (vs a more liberalized approach), will be capable of it.

Their productivity doesn't transform into a negative. To deal with more aged persons, they need to bolster output and taxation on that output, such that society builds a social safety net for the retired. China has room for increased taxation on various aspects of wealth and income in their nation (their wealth has ballooned massively in the last 10-20 years obviously), along with higher personal income tax rates in general.

Increasing productivity and automation frees labor to be devoted to other things that society needs. For example their farming system is very ineffecient, they have far too many people working in farming producing far too little (compare it to the US, South Korea or Japan). If you bring that up to where it should be, some of that labor becomes available to take care of the elderly, paid for via taxes. Now apply that to everything else in China that still needs modernized, made more efficient, automated.
> There's also at least one open source sound driver too

Looking on the bright side, that means the firmware can potentially also talk to you if you can't see the screen.
Right, I'm not sure Spectre is worth worrying about outside of big multi-user systems, or a web browser executing Javascript. Otherwise if you're executing untrusted code, you're in big trouble regardless.
This is our staunch "ally" in the Middle East (along with Israel of course). Saudi Arabia is presently conducting a genocide in Yemen with US-manufactured and supplied weapons. Their autocratic leader approved the operation to kill a Saudi-citizen and US resident journalist in Turkey. It also funds madrasses that promote extremism because it deflects away the attention of their general populace from the unpopular monarchy to the West in general and the United States in particular.

Pervasive use of the death penalty is obviously an issue but far from their biggest sin. Execution as a form of punishment is pretty much completely pointless.
> Are you aware that the USA and its "allies" have orchestrated a Coup d'etat in Ukraine?

You mean that thing in 2014 where a few Ukrainians protested a thing the president did that they didn't like, and in response the president of Ukraine promptly fled the country never to return?

Meanwhile the current president has the entire Russian Army bearing down on him and hasn't left.

Some "coup".

The truth is, all "Evil West" whataboutism aside, Russia is weak and corrupt and cannot bend Ukraine to its will. Too bad.
okay, so there exists a library that allows people to write C++ code that can be loaded into the kernel

this doesn't mean the ntoskrnl.exe is written in C++

the fact nvidia's linux loadable kernel blob is written in C++ doesn't suddenly mean linux is written in C++

"grasping at straws" would seem to sum up your position
> it's also not possible to use new versions on older hardware, they started to require more minimum RAM/FLASH.

You shouldn't imply that OpenWRT is in any way bloated.

The kind of hardware that doesn't have enough RAM or storage for OpenWRT is truly pathetic. Those devices don't have enough CPU power to route traffic at reasonable speeds, their WiFi radios are so outdated that operating them in a crowded 2.4GHz band is an obscene waste of airtime, and even with the manufacturer's firmware those devices usually can't support features like IPv6. A router that old is usually only worth using as a managed Ethernet switch, if it even supports gigE.
They don't recommending Euclid as a way to learn geometry, they recommend him because his book has been the foundation of the scientific dialog for the last several millennia. Regardless of whether his formalization of geometry is the most up-to-date, every subsequent mathematician and logician has been building on The Elements. That fact alone makes it valuable to read, not as a way to learn geometry, but as a way to understand where we came from.
> This sounds like more of one of those articles to manipulate people perception of back to the office.

My first thought exactly, and one I've easily debunked for at least myself.

Anecdata point of one, YMMV, but I definitely have learned more by myself than I ever have from a teacher or mentor. I can go at my own pace, stop to look things up, try things out, and never have to feel pressure due to falling behind or waiting for others.

Even in the case of the paper's specific area of learning (visual and spatial), I can watch a video, slow that video down, skip around, etc, much more effectively. And for many things, there are usually plenty of them - that's actually how I learned to tie a bowtie, after failing to learn from a friend who tried to show me.
No. "pedaling!=peddling".
Anyone got a non-standard Distributed Systems book pick? Also a non-standard Concurrency book pick?
Israel is unique in it's history.
There are only few people who have been through what Jews have, maybe none. There are very few countries who are as threatened as Israel is right now (maybe South Korea? it doesn't seem to be as bad there).
It was Arafat who said the womb of the Palestinian woman is a weapon to destroy Israel btw.
Oh yeah for sure. Even if you make sure your lists don't have any cycles, it's also possible for a given object to be on multiple different lists. Sometimes that's the whole point of the intrusive approach. But if you're accessible from multiple lists, there's no way a list can meet the uniqueness requirements of &mut. I guess you have two options:

1. Make the whole list API unsafe, so that the only way to expose a safe API on top of it is to make the list an internal implementation detail.

2. Take the Rc<RefCell<T>> or Arc<Mutex<T>> approach, where each element effectively has its own lock. Of course in high-performance code this is usually too expensive, and in any code calling .borrow() or .lock() all over the place is annoying.
I still don't understand why it's being done in Arizona. Sure, it's still economically worthwhile for the state government - but then it would also be viable in a state with better water resources, which would have a lower cost of water infrastructure, and so would be able to offer better tax incentives. What am I missing?
I feel the same with Wikipedia, the Norwegian articles are often better than the English ones because they often are shorter and to the point.

I don’t want to read 2000 words for something that could be explained in under 100.

Have been thinking of a 200word limit per article version of Wikipedia.
I was referring to small companies and startups where there aren’t such things and founding engineers are like gods within the company and can have such ‘professional’ attitude.

I have seen it happening.
Imperial Rulers are just a bunch of sticks tied together.
None of this is impossible to do, just a lot more work than clicking "upload" on Vimeo and letting it take care of there rest for you, for what, $20 a month? Those 4 steps are already work that most won't bother to do. Because why? What would the advantage be?

Things that could go wrong: The end-user's frontend (a 4-year-old phone browser, a crappy smart TV, a Chromecast, Microsoft's browser abortions, whatever) has to support your protocol of choice. HLS is more and more common but it's not a guarantee, whereas the Vimeo and YouTube players have years of legacy and fallback support and have their CDNs pretty stabilized. With HLS you might still need a frontend JS player and then have to manage the distribution and packaging for that. And if you care about the video player UX, things like supporting user-chosen resolutions (overriding network speed), theater mode or easy full-screen or subtitles, 1.5x+ speed, etc. And you have to invalidate and re-CDN a bunch of separate files every time your source file updates.

But really, again, it's not that you CAN'T recreate what Vimeo and YouTube etc. have done, but why would you want to? It's a lot of effort to end up with an inferior UX, higher bandwidth charges, and a whole new pipeline (if not stack) that you have to maintain. No reason to reinvent the wheel for such a common use case.

Edit: And you STILL have to CDN it in the end, unless you have the phattest pipes in all the worlds. So you still have to subcontract with a third party in the end. Why not just put it there to begin with? It's silly.

It's one thing if you're Google-scale and need to in-house everything because you're dealing with a billion viewers a day, but when it's just a few thousand (the OP said that in a different comment), it's really not worth your time or bandwidth charges to reinvent that infrastructure.
dang this that we do - "forcing toddlers to eat everything and then they get dessert as a direct reward (which often ignores teaching them how to read signs that they’re full). The list goes on"

sometimes you do need another perspective. you go through the process without even thing about harm process could be causing.
Moscow was far from enthusiastic about the Minsk agreements. Their position has always been that they were only acting as a "mediator" not as a party, thus - conveniently enough for them - they could not be blamed if the agreements broke down. More recently, they've stated outright that the Minsk agreements are dead.
At least if it is in the assignment, you can passive-aggressively copy-paste the text of the document to them.
Fall Back? Spring Ahead? How About Neither, Experts Say
I wouldn't even give it a decade. All it'll take is a few good storms to erode it away.
Is there a punishment in Uber for not logging in into the app?
If we're going to criticize other countries for human rights abuses, we should get our house in order.
Yup. Energy independence is a cost that’s not factored in. (Then again, solar/wind could serve both factors well)
These are all premium features you have to sign up for.
I had not heard of it either. Very interesting. Thanks!
That isn't something you typically see from Reuters.
SA in Yemen and Russia in Ukraine are both horrible, and the US needs to not rely on either country. Unfortunately, we are years away from that - decades maybe, and attempts to move to green / renewable energy within the US are too few and too slow to speed that up. I hope that changes soon.