skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, couldn't find a better one at the time I've read it. There are a lot of crappy ones, on the other hand. You are right in affirming that this is a massive investment.
Real people are often quiet around those. That is as normal reaction as loud yelling.
Sure: RT (formerly Russia Today or Rossiya Segodnya)[10] is a Russian state-controlled[1] international television network funded by the tax budget of the Russian government.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
China is buying Russian oil at a significant discount. Since such a huge portion of the cost of goods is embodied energy, this gives them a huge advantage.
Many of today's actors /actresses almost mumble their lines and make it absolute hell for the audio people to pick them up, whereas theatre trained individuals were loud and enunciate the crap out of everything.

Sorry, but I work with a lot of Hollywood production companies and have been on plenty of sets, and this is a load of crap.

Today's actors and actresses speak their lines just fine. The problem is the trend toward louder audio f/x and music, which can drown out voices if not mixed correctly. See, e.g., Tenet for a horrific example of audio mixing, and the characters can barely be heard even when yelling; compare to The Batman where Pattinson rarely speaks above a whisper but is audible and understandable in every scene.
Alexander Nevzorov on invading Ukraine back in April 2021

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/taood7/uncanny_pre...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevzorov
> Your bias may prevent you from seeing it

I’m just going to feed this quote back to you. I doubt we will be able to reconcile our respective understandings of this in short order because they’re so far apart, but suffice it to say I believe yours is much further from reality than mine.

To be clear, I never said I believed Trump took actual orders from Putin directly. Did he try to illegally cooperate with and got manipulated by him and his cronies? Yes, that I believe, even though I haven’t seen enough evidence to put it beyond a reasonable doubt (potentially because of the aforementioned obstruction of justice).
If you need help with getting it manufactured in volume (Molds, DFM, QA, Management), I can help / put you in touch with people that make Teenage Engineering products in Malaysia.

Contact in the HN profile.
Agreed... Even "thought leaders" think about things simplistically, but people love simplicity so it sells.
RSUs are nearly as liquid as cash. Health insurance is very much not.
I mean, technically speaking, actually deleting data without physically destroying the drive is pretty hard, especially with transistor-based dead storage !

I've always wondered whether GDPR just closed their eyes on that, or if it was so that the process of later restoring data was flagrant enough that it would be hard to hide upon inspection...
Worldwide Social Credit Industry – A $16.1B Opportunity
There's a little bit of gender role in there:

Male assholes (ex: Rick from Rick and Morty, Nolan's Batman, Downy's Iron Man) are fun and interesting to watch. Female assholes are much, much harder to write (Amanda Waller, Suicide Squad, seems to be the best written one in recent films?)

I guess there's explicitly "female" movies, like "Devil Wears Prada" where that kind of behavior is more acceptable (Miranda Priestly plays the role of asshole boss).

But maybe the "formula" for what audiences accept just hasn't really been figured out yet for female characters. You certainly can't just take male-oriented tropes and try to apply them to female-oriented characters.
I think you mean glowing
On the face of it, I agree with you. Customer experience suffers when drivers can cherry pick rides. That's how Uber would put it. I wasn't making a living wage so I no longer driver for them.
Hence, we’ve established that you and tzs are “both for universal healthcare, but disagree in significant details”.
I don’t know even in hindsight there were plenty of “sometimes a door is just a door” moments with my teachers haha.

Jokes aside, totally agree with you. Definitely something you learn with age
Depending on how inexpensive these things will be, I can see myself basically putting together a few of these throughout my house, with some framing, and probably never touching them again for a year or more. However having a few kits for my kids and I to play with is more likely. In the latter case, we’ll do exactly what we did whenever playing with game cartridges: blow them off, wipe them, and try again. I think it’s part of the fun, really.
Depends enormously on your level and willingness and dedication. At that level the best ones are Spivak, Apostol, Fichtenholtz, Kudryavtsev.
> ESA is looking for a new ride for its ExoMars rover mission, after its launch aboard a Russian rocket this year was cancelled.

Did you read the article?
Indeed- Which author?
> They will be making more like $20-25 dollars

Are you a driver? Because I don't think you know what you are talking about
I was a student at UTCN, as well, and I found it hard to get a decent book on electronics to learn from. I've found the lessons in Electronic Circuits online, used it and then translated it for my fellow engineers, that's how much I liked it. Unfortunately the original website got hacked, so I did my best and recovered the content in its current format.

You're welcome! Thanks for your input!
Which mistakes?
Calculus 1 is an interesting subject as there certainly is a degree of memorization required (you can't re-derive the derivative of x^n every time it comes up in your career). There is a similar to intro to Organic Chemistry, Algorithms and DataStructures, intro to programming etc. But the goal is to build detailed understanding of these methods more so than memorization.

On the other hand we live in a world where access to derivative rules is trivial. I'd imagine in 1800 mathematicians would assume that you would need to have multiplication tables to be productive and not reduced to pen and paper their entire career.

I wonder if there is an opportunity to push more challenging material into the earlier classes and make them more project like.
I like Code Complete by Steve McConnell. It was popular at Microsoft when I worked there in the late 2000s.

I re-skimmed it recently, and it still held up, but the advice has influenced a lot of other writers so it may not feel as profound as it was then, but I think it's sound advice in terms of software craftsmanship.

It's also worth noting that Code Complete biases toward processes that work for a large company where there's lots of cross-team collaboration. The advice is good in general, but you should weigh certain parts less if you're working on a smaller company and especially a fast-moving startup.

Also Joel Spolsky's blog is fantastic.
The point is that if drivers have to drive where Uber tells them for the money Uber wants to pay, or quit for good, then they are employees. Contractors can read a contract and refuse it if they don't like it, on a contract-by-contract basis, or negotiate more money for difficult or unpleasant contracts. If Uber drivers can't do those things and must drive the place the company wants them to go for the money the company wants to pay, they are employees by another name and deserve employee protections and rights.

> "It can’t be allowed otherwise what’s the point if drivers can pick and choose their rides?"

The point would be that the driver chooses to do work which is profitable to them and ignore work which is not. Isn't that what contractors would do with work contracts?

The fact that normal people drive other normal people around, and Uber the company extracts enough money from being the middleman in this to fund lobbying against the driver's interests, and does so, is so twisted.
Make that 25.
"Bob"'s problem was counterproductive pride and being unteachable. There is no room for ego in a precise profession like ours, and none of us writes perfect code. If "Bob" had learned from his peers during code reviews, he would have been fine.

To answer your question: The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire, and Code Complete by Steve McConnell.
Strange conclusion. In game of incomplete information showing your red line is bad. Especially so far west commit to stay outside of direct military involvement. And west cannot quit as 2.5 millions and more refugees have come. Unlike old times they are Europeans. It is all in by force. See the river by force. Hence showing your card is not the way out any more.

This is especially so as Russia has china card still can play. And gas is still pumping.

Russia strangely still assumed Ukraine will compromise and give up.

A hard game. But full information out. No.
> I had some teachers who tried to avoid the issue by setting the A boundary at 89.5%. I outwitted them by earning 89.483%

89.483% rounds to 89.5%, but not 89.50%; it's just a matter of significant figures. I see significant figures often being misunderstood. You can only ever compare values of the same number of significant figures, it's just that most of the time that's done implicitly, so it's not acknowledged.
I am at a point in my life where I can quite reliably tell whether pasta is ready by just stirring it in the water with a cooking spoon. I don't know what it is, they just "feel" ready, or they don't. I was exposed to considerable training data as a student. But I can only do this with "standard" pasta I regularly cook, that is penne, spaghetti, fusilli [0], maccheroni, gemelli, farfalle, linguine, etc. As soon as I try exotic new pasta [1], I have to fall back to tasting it every minute like some amateur. Cooking pasta with a timer has never worked for me.

[0] https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1792508/AOG...

[1] https://www.barilla.com/en-au/products/pasta/collezione/casa...
Doctors are expected to make prescriptions based solely on the interests of their patients, and it’s a big deal if they don’t. There’s not really an analogous concern in software. By all means let’s be aware of the incentives, but if Google wants to give a bunch of developers a good time as part of a strategy to get them using Kubernetes, I don’t see an issue with that.
India Accidentally Fires a Missile at Pakistan. Calm Ensues
"Old folks don't want change ". Maybe. I bet they want more craftsman and fewer kids in a life indentureship for careers they don't want
With the major outbreak in COVID-19 in China right now, I think there will be massive lockdowns coming. That bodes poorly for the economic outlook for that country. It is truly incredible they are still locking down for a disease that, when vaccinated for, is far less deadly or harmful than the flu.
Also salary considerations based on sociological and geographic locations. This ideally should never come up, but do come up eventually, mostly from the HR side.
I use the "t" cli thingy (https://github.com/sferik/t) to pull a list of who I follow ("followings") and then create/update a list based on it.
So now you want the government making laws about how to design your website?
You can also note a parallel with female villains. Yeah they're bad, but you know, it's not their fault. They had such a tough life. And really are they that bad?

And don't hear me wrong. I do love fleshed out bad guys/gals. I do want deep bad characters, but when the backstory can always be summarized with "she went through tough time because of bad men, so now yeah she's kind of bad" it doesn't really count.
Yeah, I think this is a pretty interesting response. That double standard feels to me like a plausible explanation for why some female characters are written differently.
I think the article misses the case that the manager is just an unprofessional idiot and fires someone (or usually more than one) just because he doesn’t like them.

I have seen in the past. They fired promising engineers out of the blue (no negative feedback until then) and for completely random and unprofessional reasons given, e.g. we think you don’t like us.
That basically requires building 2 games as far gameplay is designed.
Amsterdam Russian Orthodox Church Leaves Moscow Church for Constantinople
No mention of the energy cost of doing this? Hopefully not too much compared to the nuclear energy produced.

Is there any chance nuclear waste could be useful for something, such as creating more energy, in the future?
In general, there's probably a fairly high correlation between places that are more pleasant to live in (across multiple dimensions) and housing prices. Jobs, of course, being another major factor.
Those are all perfectly rational actions if you use a sufficiently nuanced utility function. It shouldn't surprise that modeling humans as "maximizes dollars" is overly simple.
I used to be critical of athlete worship, as many nerds are, until I actually started becoming athletic.

I still don't like sports culture, but I appreciate athleticism much more now. Intelligence, while important, is not the sole measure of a persons value, and its not a bad thing for a culture to value physicality. It's a very human thing, just like curiosity or creativity. Of course it would be nicer if we valued intellect to the same degree, but here we are.

Point is, its not just kicking a ball. Its a lifetime of work and passion. A scientist does not have greater moral worth than an athlete or artist. These aren't worthless pursuits only idiots focus on.
Is nuclear waste still an issue now that we can recycle the waste back into the power plant for more energy?

Asking as a total novice on the topic. I want to act as a proponent for nuclear energy but it’s difficult to know what’s propaganda and what’s legitimate.
I suspect those articles are written by “AI” / some script doing a find-replace.
I was in "position 3" about a year-and-a-half ago. I got over the shame / self-worth issues, but honestly there were a couple of betrayal-of-friendship issues from people I considered pretty close friends where it came out that what they were saying to management and each other wasn't what they were saying to me. I even asked on a couple occasions to sit down and tell me what I could do better... Got a huge pay increase and a happier job now, so it's not a sob story, but the friendship thing still stings.
In any case I think the macro issue is trying to placate too many audiences with their own agendas (hardcore fanboys, Chinese censors, feminist cultural agitators, etc) instead of telling a good story with interesting characters, at least for the cinema the video maker is focused on (big budget IP).
uranium 235 and plutonium 239, have a half life of 24,000 years

- U235 has a half life of 700,000,000 years.

If he gets pulses 10,000 times faster, he says he can modify waste on an atomic level.

The article says nothing about how he hopes to gain 4 orders of magnitude. Is there some kind of Moore's law in the "speed" of these pulses?

I wasted my time reading this article, it explains nothing.
I don't disagree that it was the first computer text protocol, I disagree that "128 character US-ASCII is fundamental" nowadays, or (from article) "ASCII text remains the universal interface", or "Use only plain ASCII text. (...) The lowest common denominator -- i.e. ASCII -- will do just fine."

This is incredibly Anglo-centric and just plain wrong. It works fine as long as your colleagues are all named James, John, or Mike, but breaks down immediately once you meet a Françoise, Rémi, Cláudio, etc.

Even the IETF's RFCs, arguably the most popular plain-text documents on the internet, explicitly allows non-ASCII characters. Because the internet is global and unicode exists.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7997.txt
We don't know structure of Russia reserves, all public information about it is almost a year old. Some experts think that almost all reserves in foreign currency are in yuans.
A Formal Theory of Spaghetti Code
sometimes "precise" in the mind of the instructor is "unintelligibly technical" to the student. I'm tutoring an (ESL) friend through an intro to programming course right now, and every time she gets an assignment she sends me the full text of it just to ask me what the instructions mean. to me, the instructions are almost describing line-by-line exactly what to write. but to someone who isn't already at the level where they can just read and understand random pages on cppreference, it's basically impenetrable. this is a course designed for people who not only have zero programming experience, but also don't even intend to pursue a CS major/minor.
Russian disinformation machinery falls apart amid the war in Ukraine
Not sure why I got downvoted. According to a quick search on tire rack I didn't see any tires rated higher than 118 mph in that size (325/65R18).
They would be so horrified by what actually happened.
This looks pretty awesome

- serverless db

- built in search

- built in analytics

But no pricing. Hard to even test a db without an understanding of what it is going to cost.
This is tough because it creates a strong incentive for them to make bad long-term decisions. Think of it from the perspective of a student: you're taking 6 other courses, all of them very demanding with graded assignments, except for this one class where the assignments are not graded. You have a limited budget of time over the week, and time is getting short. Do you: a) work really hard on your ungraded assignment and turn in your best effort for no impact on your grade or b) tell yourself that you'll make up the work at a later point in time, and then focus on your other graded assignments to make sure you optimize those grade. Then you will focus on the other course later on during spring break or something.

Sure everyone says they'll do a but really, this sets a lot of students up for a trap. They think they will have time to make all of this up later, but really what will happen is they will just fall behind in the class. The assignments from other courses keep piling up, so the free time never really materializes. In fact, the same scenario repeats: the student will forego a second assignment, having already done so once before. Then the deferred responsibilities pile up and you end up with a student who is failing your course (even though on paper the grade is undetermined (kind of like a wave function), in all actuality it's just waiting to collapse to a grade of F at test time.

Look at it this way: it's like a reinforcement learning problem. If your reward schedule is that you only give a reward to the agent when it achieves the end goal, sometimes training that agent takes a very long time; if the search space is too large, then the agent can go any which way and will take a long time to reach that goal. That's ungraded assignments.

Instead, if you give the agent little rewards along the way when it makes some significant progress, then the agent can converge to the goal state much faster, in a way that avoid a lot of unpleasantness for everyone. I don't like giving Fs, and they don't like receiving Fs. I feel like if I give an F that's really more on me than them. Part of my job is not just to put course content into student brains, but to also shape their ability to manage their time and juggle a variety of projects. It's the kind of thing I spend many semesters (4) instilling in my students and grades are one of the effective tools I use to do so.

You may say just do away with all grades and we can talk about that. There are different models we could use. But as long as others are using grades it's kind of a baked in assumption at this point. Very hard to change that kind of system.
From a certain kind of boring, predictable, repetitive criticism that's unresponsive to any of the actual points I made in my comment, yes. It either worked or I was too pessimistic, because the responses so far have been substantive and interesting!
Yep, that's what I mean when I say not so much in big, effects driven films - I suspect those will always consume as much budget as you throw at them because there's always a cutting edge to push. But in smaller and less effect driven films/TV shows, the tech seems to be a net win for productivity.
yes, the UEFI initialises the machine such that it is in a state that it can boot

that's it's job

it's not the fault of the UEFI as a standard or implementation that your processor manufacturer chose to require the SMM to have its firmware loaded to boot

the UEFI also isn't suddenly persistent because there are other devices inside the machine that had firmware loaded into them (would you say the UEFI is persistent because it uploaded new third-party supplied microcode into the CPU?)
It would be easy to do a partial rollback if the Russians withdraw. I agree though that removing the sanctions completely might be difficult.
This. These are largely mixing decisions, although it would be kinda weird to have a whispering actor boosted to sound as loud as a train in a scene.

The technical term for this is “Dialogue LRA” measured in LU: https://s3.amazonaws.com/izotopedownloads/docs/insight200/en... - this link also mentions some of the standards around this and now to use their software to adhere to those standards.

LUFS is also relevant here as a measure of loudness: https://blog.landr.com/lufs-loudness-metering/

https://auphonic.com/blog/2020/10/08/dialog-loudness-normali...

and

https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2018/11/10/is-dol...

Give some insight into how this works.
By far the most common though, and the one in which you're most likely to need advice.

Publishing an article about firing and only talking about cases where someone went to jail for assaulting his wife, or where the company is about to run out of money, is not exactly helpful to the founder agonizing over what to do about his head of marketing who isn't scaling effectively.
There are two fundamental rules of making good pasta, maybe more, but these are what seem to be held the most to heart:

1. If you don't salt enough, no matter how good you make the sauce, or how fancy the noodle is, you're not going to have a good pasta dish. This seems to be one of the primary positions of this paper (although I didn't read it)

2. It's commonly known that Italian street vendors serving pasta would re-use the water throughout the day. This led to an increasing amount of starch being extracted into the water and ultimately, a better noodle closer to the end of the day. Starch is important and this is why pasta water is key to the finish of a pasta dish.
Yes, but what will China do with the goods it manufactures? If they have the internal demand to consume them, that's good. If their plan is to sell exports to Western nations then they need to be strategic. TFA is about sanctions being extended to Chinese firms that invest in Russian energy firms, but one could imagine a spiral where the sanctions expand to other Chinese firms that produce manufactured goods ("embodied energy") as well. We're not there yet, but it is a possibility.
Extreme scifi-level scenario: could the Russians commandeer the ISS and use it as an impactor weapon on US or Allied soil? My guess not; super hard to do, and impact doesn't release that much energy anyway. Any space expert opinion?
> I think you're proposing a collaboration? I'm afraid I must very firmly discourage it. I'm currently writing my thesis and cannot justify any work outside of it.

Completely understood. Perhaps when you are tenured I will finally have gotten around to studying doctoral psychology and you would be able to peruse my master’s thesis.

I too am flattered that a doctoral student had the time to consider my thoughts.

If I do formulate some operational definitions in the not-too-distant future, would you mind if I sent them to you in an email for critique, at your leisure?
American English has something like 15 distinct vowels. That’s not that much less than your citation of Khmer, and way more than many languages. Any claim that American English has a uniquely poor vowel inventory is just wrong.
This sounds like more of one of those articles to manipulate people perception of back to the office. Judging by the funding donated by the FAANG, doesn’t surprise me.