skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The PLA cannot simply march to Taiwan. There will be no surprises there.
It’s totally a systemic problem, that’s it. Same thing with me. I love teaching, I just can’t stand the faculty anymore.
The Things I’m Afraid to Write About
"If I took off the mask, would you die?"

"It would be extremely painful"

"You're a big guy!"

"For you."

hmm, you're probably right.
Capital One. Only bank that actually ever helped me when I had nothing.
I want this to be true, but when looking at both home and auto loans, the CUs around me were not remotely competitive on rates.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/299868/death-com...

'Three' is a holy number IMHO and many esoteric texts reference Three or the Trisquel as being of divine origin.
technology serves capital more than society.
It’s really shitty to use the acronym “FAGMA” instead of “FAANG”. It’s clear homophobia and sucks to read. (I assume it’s a joke because (1) “FAMGA” works just as well and has no slur and (2) quick search for it yields very few results).

Hopefully someone will take it down for this or other reasons.
I'm pretty sure the 'EU' solution for this is just that you are responsible for collecting VAT in every single country, regardless of any nexus. It's not actually really any simpler, but it does mean that taxation is no longer tied to a business presence. Specific tax laws still vary between countries.
When you're cooking for just one or two people, you can just make everything in one large pan. Start the sauce (fry garlic in olive oil, etc), then add the liquid (usually canned tomatoes plus a couple can-fulls of water) and pasta.

You need a little experimentation to figure out how much water you need, then you'll have perfectly cooked pasta when the sauce is appropriately reduced.
Not really, for example we had people dying in droves last winter in Italy, the numbers this time were much lower, even with less harsh measures, and the expectation is the I'll be lower still going forward.
Afghanistan was about Soviet/American imperial conquest & controlling Asia.

Chechnya was about suppressing separatism / national security.

Ukraine is also about national security, but a rung up from Chechnya because Moscow is concerned about a hostile military empire putting hypersonics there. Cuban Missile Crisis but even more extreme (imagine if Cuban extremists were shelling and killing Cuban Americans in Florida and ethnically cleansing the minor islands of "Americanism").
Maybe it's fine for you guys that the a part of the population get eliminated because they are not strong enough against a disaster and "they are going to die anyway"...

But no, thank you. That's not the place/mindset I'd like to live in.

Good luck, and stay safe.

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Edit.

Just think of it.

Say Bob is a programmer so addicted to coding. He code and code, day and night, ignored necessary exercises, skipping meals, drinking too much soda.
And then omicron hit and he didn't make it.

"He deserves it" you say? Why should not him get another chance to pull out of the rushing sessions and get better at taking care of himself?
good follow up exercise. set up a mutex between reader and writer.
Self host your video(s). Signup for BunnyCDN/AWS. Make sure to put a cap on bandwidth so you don't get unexpected charges.
IMVHO the main points of usenet does not count much in archival terms, yes archives, especially personal ones, might be useful but that's just a nice addition, the real "cultural" main points are IMO:

- being property of no one, so no one can act as a general censor, we are all peers, between our peers, like we are/should be in a real democracy as Citizens, there are rules, there are "private" parts (groups) etc but we are ultimately free;

- being decentralized, for similar reason, anyone can run a usenet server and many in the past have done that, again a guarantee of freedom;

- being "local" in the sense that local client can archive messages, is the main UI etc, so we can change server from a third party ones to another to ours own one and nothing change in most cases, we have our messages, we read others messages etc.

Those are the main technical points that still make usenet a good things too bad so many have forgotten.

The humans one are: mixed people, on a group is common found a guru of the group main topic and newbies talking each others, benefiting each others: the guru understand what happen in the non-hi-culture world and newcomers benefit from guru teaching. In every fields. These days we have HN for some topics, Reddit for some other but nothing like usenet, generic and effective/specific at the same times. On usenet we have killfiles, groups, scoring, so we do have "filter bubbles" but not by someone else: our OWN personal bubbles we can change, know and control as we wish and that's a very big difference: usenet give something MORE than today's "recommendation engines"/"aggregators" while remain fully personal and free and that's the most important humans points.

Having essentially lost that just because of eternal September and shiny new modern WebUI is really a shame, just like dropping gold because there is a bit of mud on it.
> Thiel used $10 million of his proceeds to create Clarium Capital Management…

> 57.1% return … 7.8% loss … 40.3% return

> …By 2011, after missing out on the economic rebound, many key investors pulled out, reducing the value of Clarium's assets to $350 million, two thirds of which was Thiel's money.

Sounds like it was overall somewhat profitable?
I have all my loans now through credit unions. On purpose. There are no drawbacks.
I suppose that parent comment is trying to say that given our history with nuclear waste, especially with the increasing caution, it hasn't caused any (significant) incident by the waste
It's not just evergrande, it's all property developers pretty much. It's a real estate bubble popping when an immense portion of wealth and growth is in real estate.
What I've heard from people who have had to deal with this sort of thing is that you can outsource it to some degree but there can still be a fair bit of legal effort and cost. Especially for smaller companies, it's often just not worth the effort.
Ah the “protected species”
Chesterton's fence refers to a principle that before changing something, you should first understand why it is the way it is.

> Chesterton’s Fence is a heuristic inspired by a quote from the writer and polymath G. K. Chesterton’s 1929 book, The Thing. It’s best known as being one of John F. Kennedy’s favored sayings, as well as a principle Wikipedia encourages its editors to follow. In the book, Chesterton describes the classic case of the reformer who notices something, such as a fence, and fails to see the reason for its existence. However, before they decide to remove it, they must figure out why it exists in the first place. If they do not do this, they are likely to do more harm than good with its removal. In its most concise version, Chesterton’s Fence states the following:
Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.

[0] https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
> Why are people still saying this? This statistic has been unmasked to be quite useless and only used for fear mongering so politicians/bureaucrats can cling to their emergency powers.

Can you post the source you used for this?
European can mean a lot of things. Most of which are better than the crap you're sold in Japan.
How would that even work? Do you expect dying soldiers to bravely sign "I am dead" blockchain transactions with their private keys?
I mean this is obviously very subjective, but to my tastes the Expanse is a must watch. Almost everyone I’ve asked bounced off the first few episodes.

The Drinker’s review is a pretty good place to get a sense of whether or not it’s your cup of tea.

I have at least one or two friends who had to kind of power through the first 4-6 episodes before abruptly becoming fanatics. It grabbed me on episode 4 and pretty much never let up. It’s got soft episodes like anything, but I don’t think there’s a soft season.
I had a "Bob" a few years ago who was a unique case: He was a very intelligent, experienced senior developer who at some point lost his ability to actually ship. Given a relatively straightforward feature, he went into agonizing detail in his documentation, spent months implementing layer upon layer of abstractions, held himself to noble standards like never testing or debugging on a production server...and the end result after a year (plus) of effort was a repo full of such high-brow code that nobody could make sense of it. Once he was gone, we got a junior developer to rewrite his last feature in two weeks.

He was moved around between a few managers after he passed the zenith of his 15 year stint at that company, but from what I was able to piece together he didn't succeed in bringing a single feature to production in the last five years he was there. He was just so darned friendly and smart that nobody was willing to do the needful and separate him.
The War in Ukraine Is Just Beginning
> Older people knowing better than younger people is one of those heuristics that's almost always right

Up to mid 20's, yes.

> stupid parents are rare

Not even uncommon.
Don't mess with people's muscle memory. I double-click because that's all I've ever known. The double-click means you consent to open a file. The consent is baked into the UX.
pretty sure Cassandra is used for iMessage. although that may have changed after apple acquired foundationDB.
I don't know. The mainline franchise turned out to be kind of a disaster (the prequels less so than the sequels, surprisingly) but the ancillary content has been pretty good.
Indeed. At $currentJob with 1k employees we use Dell laptops (currently Latitude 74xx series, Precision 75xx and 55xx). The 55 series has been the most problematic by far. The earlier generations broke down so frequently that we had to have ~50% of mainboards replaced, being completely bricked or with having the CPU frequency locked to 800Mhz being the most common causes. This has improved, now we "only" have overheating and ballooned batteries as frequent problems. Other than that they have the downside of having few ports and no 4G/5G modem. Despite we (IT) warning our employees, many still pick the model because it looks sleeker and is lighter than the 75 series (which has been excellent).
I'm no expert on VAT, but it seems like this is a lot more like the sales tax case, where you are required to pass the cost on to customers. I'm sure companies prefer to avoid this, but it doesn't seem like it'd be nearly as strong a disincentive as having to pay business income tax in another state.
Yes! And then the rubric should actually define the pieces of the assignment you care about them getting right. I have this debate a lot when we’re designing assignments for an intro to Python class (which, sadly, we have to do very regularly because of sites like Chegg…). Figure out what it is you want the student to get out of the assignment (e.g., manipulating dictionaries or sorting values) and evaluate their results based on whether they did that thing. If they did the thing but missed some nitinoid details they don’t get a perfect grade, but they should get a solid, passing grade for it.
> “write a method named NAME that takes in XYZ parameters and outputs exactly in QRS format”.

That's a pretty realistic requirement, though, isn't it? If you're writing a class that's supposed to interoperate with other systems, it's not like you can just name things whatever you feel like. They have to fit the expected interface.
I'd be much more willing to put Gell-Mann on that list than Hawking or Feynman. To me, his discovery of the ability to make accurate predictions about the existence of fundamental particles based on symmetry groups forms a pillar of theoretical particle physics and the composition of the Standard Model, in the same kind of way that Einstein's application of differential geometry to the concept of space-time does.

Newton will sort of always stand apart in that he was "the first", but I think that grouping Gell-Mann (no pun intended) with Hawking and Feynman, who although both brilliant and huge personalities, weren't the same level of "giant upon whose shoulders others stand" that Einstein and Gell-Mann's work ended up being is somewhat unfair.
The USSR spent less time (wall clock) in Afghanistan than the USA and left Afghanistan on way, way better terms.

It managed to build a secular Afghanistan state which was able to survive past the fall of USSR and will only collapse around 1993. The USA has left with people falling off its airplanes and the state has collapsed in two weeks I believe.
Admitting your political enemies are "brilliant strategists", if accurate, is practically a defining characteristic of realism.
Dropping in my area, but still plenty of deaths attributed to it. Citation needed. Regardless of the deaths, there are more disabling side effects than you can shake a stick at.
I am absolutely delighted that the world at least seems to slowly be approaching a point where invasions will not be tolerated. I am an American and I hope that if we ever aim to invade a country again that the world will shut us down even harder than we have Russia. Stop exploding children, if your government aims to explode children, eliminate your government. Quit pretending to be concerned about the telescope.
There’s no such thing as a serious DNSSEC bypass.
Yes, their entire real estate market has been in slow motion collapse for the better part of a year. Too many articles on the state of the economy are using the Russia crisis to drive their news cycle, when actually most of the turmoil was already happening.
Beware that -300 a day, +300 the next one still means a -, a thing too many forget...
They are probably politically members of the left-of-center minority, have lived abroad, or both.
well that was entirely unclear, and they appeared for such a brief time that I couldn't even parse them if i knew that.
Professors grade the assignments to make sure that students do them.

There are many other options for evaluating the students, but not many to force them to learn something.
I can totally understand not being optimistic about such a small island succeeding in creating a lasting paradise on Earth, but I think it's pretty incorrect and demeaning to view this as a game of pretend when they're actually attempting what they set out to do.

Whatever else you want to say about these people, unlike some "real nation", none of them are using coercion and force to get people to organize as they see fit. That in and of itself should be lauded.
If a rational and emotionally mature adult still believes that the decisions their parents made were bad then there’s a much higher chance that they’re correct (compared to when a kid believes such things)
During a period where people at our company were being let go, one of the managers fainted at work (we assume after having to do it). I imagine it’s quiet a difficult thing to do.
This seems very US centric?
What is filmmaking, especially in Herzog's style, if not applied sociology?
A lot of the scenarios described here aren’t “firing” someone, as I understand it, but making someone redundant.

The difference being that being fired suggests the employee did something to deserve it, but being made redundant could happen to the best of employees.
Regretfully too optimistic.

1) I can see the Russians being bogged down indefinitely, but outright defeat in the manner Fukuyama suggests requires either a counteroffensive or mass mutiny.

Ukrainian forces have proven they could defend and execute ambushes, but there haven't been many successful counterattacks, and no large scale counterattacks - and I guess they are right not to try. If the Ukrainians get the timing wrong and Russians aren't entirely out of ammo, they get cut down by Russian artillery, which is one thing the Russians seem to have an endless supply of.

2) Strategic counterattack requires heavy weapons, the weapons Fukuyama suggests not giving Ukraine with a very silly reason ('narratives' are less important than giving weapons the Ukrainians need). I suspect he lets his feelings towards the current US administration get in the way - Ukrainian generals are better suited to know what they need and we should listen.

3) There will be no effect on the fortunes of populists all over the world. The reasons that led to their original success are local and still exist. Also frankly the record of non-populist politicians regarding Putin is less than stellar. For example, if history went a bit differently and the US did not pressure France, Putin would be attacking using Mistral ships sold by France.
>Why would word get out if you just grade that way?

Students compare grades and talk to each other. It's also not uncommon for students to ask about your policy on rounding in the first class, when you're going through the syllabus.

>Cheating had no negative impact - on anyone, at all.

I'm afraid your cheating did have a negative impact on others, albeit a small one. For example, suppose that the class you took was graded on a curve. Then by adding a false datapoint, you may have pushed up the cut off point for the higher grades. More generally, the larger the number of cheaters, the less meaningful grades become for everyone. Every fake A grade contributes to the devaluation of real A grades.

>Getting caught cheating would have huge negative impact.

You'd be surprised. As the article explains, punishing cheaters isn't really in anyone's narrow interests. It's sadly rather easy to get away with cheating at university, even if you do get caught.
Curious, what is your argument in favor of a container over a type union to represent Result? As long as the type checking system forces users to refine the union to use the value and is aware of blocks of code within type guards (I've heard this referred to as "flow-aware typing" but I'm not sure if that's a standard term) then the advantage of an explicit Result type isn't very obvious to me. What am I missing?
Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market
He pretty much says the opposite of what everyone claims he said in that book. People who've never read the book read the title and assume they know what his argument is.
If it drives faster it uses more gas so it should be taken into account. Duration only based price would not take that into account. As a side effect it would be an incentive for drivers to drive slower. Would be a net win for the planet and for safety but maybe not for the customer :)
>replace the retired population

Why replace anyone? The alternative is to ramp down to a lower population baseline and deal with the transition. 800M Chinese by 2100 is still plenty. Reality is right now there's 100s of million undereducated/undertrained Chinese who can't be integrated into modern economy - they're net drains. And even current system is struggling to employ millions of STEM graduates. PRC doesn't need immigration, just clamp down on top level brain drain and setup foreign worker program to take care of the aging - plenty of cheap ASEAN labour. Bonus side effect of less people = more self sufficiency and freedom to conduct assertive foreign policy. There's few upsides to maintaining and trying to increase living standards of 1.4B people with PRC resources.
Even if the manager is unprofessional idiot, the manager can't fire somebody without working with other people at the company, such as their boss, HR, and probably the Finance department.

They can certainly drive the decision, but they need the buy in of others too.
It isn't a question of political nuance, Russia is murdering an entire nation. With no cooperative option currently existing to end it. I am heartened that the world is resisting on as many non violent fronts as possible.
Or Russia could just say this is a price and either swallow it or fuck off. Oil price is already high and due to West not buying it from Russia competition increases. So China can either pay exorbitant prices to compete with the western buyers or just take some reasonable price from Russia. Win win for either. The West of course can get mad and start sanctioning China but nobody can really predict how / when / if this is going to play.
If you don't need PPV (pay per view) or fancy monetization, you can just put them on Vimeo or even YouTube for very cheap.

Or CloudFlare Stream, maybe: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/

Edit to add:
Please, for the love of god, do not self-host your video as a static file. There is a LOT of thought that goes into modern video streaming, such as on-the-fly transcoding to different resolutions & bitrates, pre-caching the next few seconds, seeking support, thumbnails, auto-captions, hardware decoder support... absolutely none of that is trivial to implement, but they make a huge difference in end-user UX. You may design your video on some sort of 5k supermac, but a lot of your viewers will be watching them on cheap Androids. The video providers spend a lot of time optimizing their streams and networks for such use cases. You will not, and your users will suffer for it, if you try to self-host. Please, please don't do this.

Signed, that guy who hates it when you're expected to download a 50 meg MP4 to understand a product.
There's nothing simple about setting up a company.

Hiring people as contractors rather than employees probably does simplify things. But a contractor may, for example, not be able to work for you full-time and you may not be able to offer them benefits beyond base salary. The bottom line is that, for a small company especially, hiring an individual who requires a lot of special care and feeding is probably more trouble than it's worth.
> China's biggest problem is, imo, the continued slow motion train wreck of evergrande and its real estate market collapsing.

It's at least an order of magnitude larger of a problem for China than ties to Russia are.

For anyone unaware, nearly 2/3 of China's household wealth is tied up in real-estate assets (for the US it's < 30% of household assets in real-estate). That's a doubling over what it was a decade ago. China's socio-political stability is particularly bound to the condition of their real-estate market. A crash there would be devastating; if housing were to fall enough to revert back to that asset class being 1/3 of China's household asset base, maybe $30 trillion in national 'wealth' would have to vanish.
You're right, but so far it's unclear if Putin is at all concerned with PR.
Yes, although about 15 years ago so my memory of it is admittedly hazy.
Most states have a "nonresident" filing option for income taxes. Whether you actually pay tax in that state depends on the specifics.
Any specifics areas ?
Ok, but what about the responsibility of the manufacturer? And the buyer? POTUS is not the boss of the world. People still buy smart phones despite a decade of these same issues.
My friends work on such a tool for many years: https://www.animatron.com/studio

It is an online HTML5 animation editor.
Macron is definitely more right-wing than might have been expected five years ago.

That being said, even with the largest possible definition of "populist", he hardly qualifies.

The most likely outcome of this election round (president + assembly) is a macron presidency with an "official" right-wing coalition of macron's party with the most "centrist" part of the right wing. Very run of the mill stuff. And populists keeping their job as "yelling from the side".

Then again, "eternity of one month".
peertube
Seems you'd have a better chance of surviving in a specialized bomb shelter on earth than pretty much any scenario on mars.
I think this goes along with the prevailing view - that Ukraine would take heavy losses as a given. I think no one expected Russia to do the same. But now, it seems headed towards old school Red Army style meatgrinder warfare, sadly...to the vast detriment of everyone involved.
If they found a problem and didn't report it, and someone leaked that fact to the press, that would be some very bad optics indeed, autonomy or no.