skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope that Putin saying that the negotiations are a few days short of a breakthrough are not just lies and distractions, and that his losses have been substantial enough that he is willing to give up (= sign a peace treaty).

That would obviously be the best outcome for all and would put an end to any escalation.

What might happen instead is that this is only to buy time to do something nasty like a chemical attack, or slowly capturing one city after another, kidnapping the mayors and installing their own puppets.

How this might escalate is that Nato has already stated that if their convoys are attacked, they invoke Art. 5, and Putin has says that he considers the convoys valid targets.
I tried running on Linux (Ubuntu) and using Reaper, so I don't have to use Windows with it's BS.

Getting the audio stack running was a nightmare, and it always just sounded bad. Something was wrong with the drivers that caused a ton of latency and weird compression. It appeared to be something to do with everyone's favorite default audio system: Pulseaudio (have a look sometime at how many troubleshooting steps there are for the simple "I'm not getting audio out of Ubuntu", it's silly)

I spent a few days trying to figure out the proper magical incantation to make ALSA work with my setup (Scarlet 2i2, pretty common), with no success. No matter how many semi-sketchy and unofficial websites I went through.

Put it on Windows, works out of the box, sounds great. Went back to recording audio instead of doing IT.
I see no reason to trust any of them.
I don't want Mozilla to let Disney use my personal computer as a billboard.
In a word: hyperbole or adynaton.
Even this is not really accurate. World War II started when the Germans invaded Poland, but the Russians also invaded Poland.
In many ways this war seems to be Putin‘s attempt at bringing back spheres of influence and a greater Russian empire. That’s not exactly a new experience in Russian history. Russians will even point at napoleons invasion of Russia, and happily forget about all of the war of the coalitions that they were an part of before then.
This ignorance of history isn’t a bug in Putins world view - Its a feature. It’s a lot easier to tell the story of napoleon without Austerlitz, and Hitler without Poland, Finland and the Holodomor.
Russia is far from alone in this - but unlike others Putin seems to be committed to bringing back the existential wars of the 20th century….
I can't tell because it has been taken down—was the Wordle archive using the original game's javascript code, or was it a complete rewrite? Wordle is entirely client-side, so it would have been easy to do.

The game concept (probably) isn't copyrightable, but the code certainly is.
The reduction in raw material is from finding structurally sound ways of using less, both in the product itself and in the packaging. Yes, that's driven by production costs.
> she could go somewhere else and make significantly more money

With all due respect, that statement elicits a massive DOUBT reaction. It's the sort of thing that the C class spouts to justify their backscratching, but it's hardly a fact for most of them - and for Baker in particular, at this point.
Does China really ban all outside access or they only ban some specific sources such as newspapers and info they deem dangerous to their propaganda?
You should be allowed to distribute your own code. The Youtube app itself is Google's intellectual property so I understand why they did that. I hope they can release the mods so we the users can apply them to the app ourselves
Mary Coombs, first woman commercial programmer, dies at 93
Ima hafta call baloney on this one ...
If WalterBright was real he would'a wrote a language ... even better than C! Maybe throw in some memory management.
Just sayin'

Plus, "Zortech" ... wth kind of name is that? Someone couldn't make this stuff up as fiction! And a journalist that knew the right question to see if you knew about C plus plus ... You almost had me til there.
Not if it's been demonstrated, as it clearly has with the CDC, that the person's decisions have been arbitrary and capricious.
Not true for all such tools. Though like a sibling comment suggests, part of the issue is that no-code is defined too broadly to include everything under the sun.

I work on a no-code tool that checks those specific boxes (shameless plug: https://www.plasmic.app), but the use case is very different from Bubble. The key is that it explicitly doesn't try to replace all code, and was designed from the ground up to integrate deeply with existing codebases. I don't think we need be the only one, other tools can also do the same. But this aspect is by far the most complex part of building this product. That, and the pressure to create vendor lock-in is real.
Girls in bikinis don't want to sun themselves on a fusion reactor.
Do you have some pointers to interesting research of the kind you are doing? Btw, when we're talking about "non-ML" we meen no-learning, not just no-neural-nets, correct?

Thanks in advance.
I have since day 0; my background for why i got into coding at all was "Ugh, i have all this damn lab data i need to analyze and i really want to know what it means; guess i have to learn something better than excel!"
All thoughts are altered states of consciousness. A collection of self reinforcing thoughts that represent an instance of depression are a state of consciousness in the same way that experiencing sun on your skin is a state of consciousness. All is qualia and we move between states of qualia like fish through an ocean.
I have a Schwinn IC4 (https://www.schwinnfitness.com/ic4/100873.html) which I bought used for around $400. It's a fantastic bike and I have zero complaints.

I have a ErgRower from Concept 2 as well, but I can't help but feel Concept 2 stuff is consistently overpriced.
Many megayachts are chartered when not in use by their owner. So in the end they are investments that produce a return [1]

“ It's worth acknowledging that while owners will ultimately spend a huge amount for the privilege of having their very own superyacht, they're able to recoup some of these costs by chartering them out.
Connor estimates that around 12 weeks of charter represents the annual operating cost of most yachts, which means owners can break even if they hire their boats out for the same length of time they use them during the year.”

[1] https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/hidden-costs-of-owning-a-supe...
The problem is that, as-is, there's no way to add a 128-bit integer type (which'd be very uselful!!) to the C standard (among other things like time_t or something), because that'd require changing intmax_t to 128-bit, and that'd break all existing dynamically linked code. The problem of being forced to have a "common [never ever ever ever possible to be in any way shape or form changed] include file" is exactly what this solves.
This is an SCP, right?
This is fascinating.

“The cursus publicus (Latin: "the public way"; Ancient Greek: δημόσιος δρόμος, dēmósios drómos) was the state mandated and supervised courier and transportation service of the Roman Empire, later inherited by the Eastern Roman Empire. It was a system based on obligations placed on private persons by the Roman State”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_publicus
To be fair, you do get a better tan with a fission reactor.
The relevance is that the NYT has a sordid history of user hostile actions, and this is just the latest in a long line of them. In other words, the relevance is in highlighting that this is kind of conduct is part of a pattern, not an aberration. This is relevant, as it helps situate the action.
Where I live, you only need consent of one person (ie: ypu self).

But then it changes when you are using company tools. Teams can be configured to automatically record all conversations. The consent is baked into your employment agreement.
I was going to say, same here, I have my spouse, my hobbies, my friends, work I like, what's there to be empty about?

Which country do you live in, by the way?

EDIT: After some light stalking, you aren't in the US. I wonder if life in the US is more alienating, that's certainly what I hear from lots of friends who moved there.
I clicked the ad to support Mozilla.
> The infrastructure wasn't improved? Pretty much all of the video conferencing tools are much better and tools that didn't have screen sharing & video calls added it.

It's very HN to think infrastructure is "zoom" and not the implied: internet, housing, roads, power.
I disagree, that tuning into detail and avoidance of the context allows more brain power to be applied to the detail.
Not "just because". Go is exactly as enterprisey as Java and C#, and for exactly all the same reasons.

And, it is not a programmer problem. It is a management problem. None of them would exist without management demand for minimally-productive languages.
Not for me, or any other developers I know. I still enjoy coding and learning new languages and concepts, for over 40 years.

Having said that, I no longer write software professionally, as I stopped enjoying that.
Being a team player at every company is different too. That makes it hard to give general advice. But I think that "learn to prioritise, communicate priorities and default to no" is most useful advice than "don't say no to your CTO."
Good thing you didn’t bet because you’d have lost a lot.
> the Russian contribution to human civilization

> By renouncing my nationality I would also renounce Lomonosov, Dostoyevsky, etc.

No you wouldn't. Culture transcends flags and borders, but you're putting the nation ahead of it. You can still appreciate your Russian culture without having to buy wholesale the whole Russian (or any other) nationality. The Russian people have created beautiful things like everybody else on Earth has done. There is nothing unique about its uniqueness. You can appreciate it without having to drape yourself in the Russian tricolour, what you call "identity".

Patriotism and sense of nation is, among other things, what causes people to invade and prove themselves better than their neighbours. Patriotism is just thinking your tribe is better than the others. It's an idea worth eschewing if we want to make our planet a better place.
She didn't "give herself" a raise. That's almost never how executive compensation works (why would any company allow its CEO to pay themselves as much as they want?). The board voted to give her a raise, in accordance with their bylaws[1].

I linked her personal justification below, but to summarize: relative to her professional cohort, Baker is substantially underpaid. Not doing layoffs would have meant offering pay cuts to a significant number of highly qualified engineers, causing attrition. Instead of doing things the slow and painful way, she did them the fast and painful way. If I was in her position and had the knowledge I currently do (i.e., that just about anyone working at Mozilla can find employment elsewhere easily), I would probably have done the same thing.

None of this, however, means that I think CEOs should be paid as much as they are.

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/documents/bylaws/
Always has been. Commercial coding is about gluing things together most of the time. The exceptions are too short to be valuable.

When I want to do coding-style puzzle solving for fun, I pull up Zachtronic games.
Don't know why anyone hasn't made such a board a priority. Seems like a sweet spot.
Except unlike the targeted ads that track everything about you, this is just, an ad.

It pops up once and never again.
The mean velocity in a gas is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_velocity

v ~= Sqrt( k_B * T / m) ~= constant * Sqrt(T)

(There is another constant in the formula that depends on what definition of mean you use, but it's safe to ignore it for this discussion.)

So if T is big enough, the result of this formula is faster than light.

But this formula is useful only for a not relativistic gas. Once the temperature is so big that relativistic effects are important, you must use another formula. (The other formula is more difficult to calculate, but when the temperature is low the result is almost identical to the formula I wrote.)

Temperature has no theoretical upper limit, but if it's high enough weird things can happen as described in a sibling comment. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#Planck_temperatur...
This blog post seems quite a departure from the author's portrayal of Silicon Valley in his two most recent books.

In the books he defines "innovation" as a novel solution to an important problem, but highlights that "important" is subjective. What one person think is important may be different from what another person thinks is important.

This subjectivity is exemplified in the top comment in this thread. The commenter believes "AI/ML research" and cashierless checkout from a single company are examples of innovation. This confused thinking is perhaps a contributing reason that today's faux "innovation" is able to gain traction. The top comment believes research is innovation. Further, the important problem to be solved in the opinion of the commenter is the existence of cashiers, not, e.g., how to increase their productivity.

Methods of increasing profits and solutions to important problems (=innovation) are not necessarily synonymous.
I'm staying in a house right now that features a SubZero refrigerator. It's at least ten years old, huge, and full.

It's not very efficient, when it comes to power consumption.

But the freezer is huge, and works for this family.
Considering how mainland China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC) are separated, they're more like siblings, with ROC being the elder one.
Tim Cook and many CEO types are great at selling their reasons to outsource. Since most advanced tech is designed in the US it looks like stadiums with chinese engineers can be replaced by factories with robots and highly trained operators - i think we arent doing it simply because its easier to hire loads of cheap engineers without rights and demands. The alternative is to sit and wait until Xi is replaced by a maniac like putin, but with actual monetary resources, know how and self-sufficiency. Maybe this should be a turning point. I am happy that china is developing but our reliance on them puts us at great risk.
> Imagine thinking those quoted people are "experts in the field" instead of woke virtue signalers.

I mean... you'd think that a "doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan studying gender and sexual violence with an emphasis on college sexual violence" has insightful opinion on the topic at hand.

Furthermore, this is not the only argument but I'm guessing you've read only the first half of the article. The second one being that "victims of domestic violence who engage in self-defense are often punished in the criminal justice system for those acts", and therefore are present on those lists while not belonging there.
I never thought of it from this perspective. A yacht could serve as a research vessel with slight added protection against political turmoil. One of the problems with setting up organizations inside of a nation-state are the economic and political risks. Without the necessary dive into the ethics of the proposition, it might serve as the Noah's ark for vital research and the associated minds.
In that case, her board should call her bluff. It's no problem to me if they do!

I wonder how much they'll need to pay her replacement.
I said nothing about 'should'.

Simply history. Ukraine was never a 'country' until briefly in the 20's then the 90's.

Ukrainians have been Rus, or Russians, or Ruthenians, etc... for most of their history. They were once a single people. That's just a fact.

The differences in identity are the fact that western Ukraine has at times belonged to Austria-Hungary or Poland. Or the fact the Cossacks carved out small states amidst foreign rule. And likewise Novgorod and Moscow had small states during Muslim domination which also contributed to a unique Russian identity.

It's not as simple as 'Ukraine was part of USSR for a generation.

My ancestors were Ukrainian, spoke Ukrainian, identified as Ukrainian but were from Austria-Hungary and officially were called 'Ruthenians'.

The same thing that separates Russia and Ukraine is what separates the Czech Republic and Slovakia. One people (ish), just different historical circumstances at times creating different identities and eventually states.

Ukraine should be its own country today. But not because of made up history, simply because today they want to.
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Proposed road charge would piggyback on California’s per-mile driver fee (2021)
As it's a popular belief here that Russia is totalitarian because you can't unite shariah state of Chechnya, buddist Khakasia, diamond extorting Yakutia and sea trading Vladivostok in one state without military and other types of oppression. But democracy is unfavorable to Moscow (and most Russians of the Central part) as Moscow's power is based on extorting mineral resources from the lands of conquered/peacefully joint nations. Overall we do not produce much of the economic value. European and other markets are far away. So we can't compete with Poland (or Ukraine) for European low-tech goods. The European part is interested in local manufacturing and import tariffs while Russian Far East is interested in free trade and cheap imports. Just too many conflicting interests in one state.
> Not all of your passwords will be in memory.

They almost certainly will be, but the key will be if they aren't.

> I don't know how you read a password from "webpages".

Like a billion ways. Inject JS, log keys, install malicious extension, blah blah blah

> Session tokens do not exist for websites you are not currently accessing.

I'm just enumerating the billion ways that encryption is made pointless.

> he password file will contain all the saved passwords, whether you are logged in or not.

And the attacker can just access it lol

Maybe in a world where full disk encryption wasn't ubiquitous you could talk about an offline attack, and you could tell me you share your computer with someone who's not tech savvy but is an asshole. But it's all gonna be pretty niche.
Why was it hard for people in Western Europe to get Greek manuscripts before the fall of the Byzantine Empire? It's not that far from Rome to Athens. Seems like you could just ride down to Brundisium and then get on a boat, get to Athens and ask around. Before 1054 there wasn't an East-Wests schism so the clerics in Greece wouldn't be hostile.

Was the political situation really so chaotic and crazy that you couldn't take that trip? Or was no one interested?
I'm unsuccessfully trying to go the other way - but that's because I was never a developer to begin with.

Writing code (or even working with computers at all) is not something I ever aspired to. I put this down to the impact Microsoft software had on IT education in the UK in the 90's - computers were for miserable people with pallid faces who never smiled, poking around in Access databases.

Now, I work all day every day on a computer because a career as a scientist doesn't pay an acceptable amount. However, since I never studied computer science or did and significant programming early in my career, I've circled around the field doing sysadmin and project management work. I find myself too senior to take on the kind of programming tasks I can reasonably handle - there is no time allowance for me wanting to learn some of these skills in more depth. Doing personal projects and changing jobs could get me into writing code, but only with an intolerably large pay-cut.

The sad thing is, my field (scientific computing) needs exactly the skills I am aiming for - but since no-one will pay sensibly for that kind of work, people either steer around it like I did, or just jump sideways into DevOps or other "retail" IT.
It could have been over within 6 months if we'd acted more decisively.

It is not the flu.

GB declaration supporters are part of the reason why so many are still dying.

Nobody is forcing people to live in fear - we are just not pretending everything is ok when clearly it isn't.

The most dystopian part of the last 2 years has been the loud voices of those who actually support the virus (for financial and ideological reasons)
Simply scaling SPAR or ITER doesn’t result in commercial operation.

First you need fuel, global Tritium supplies are tiny and DD fusion is much harder.

Next stability is an open question, no Tokamak has ever operated near maximum capacity for even 1 hour.

Add to that serious material science questions, etc etc and even Q>100 alone just doesn’t actually mean much.

Now let’s just assume all of that is solved, you still need to actually ensure your design is economically viable. Simply producing energy from fusion alone isn’t enough which means you need to cheaply solve not only all the above but do so cheaply.
There’s very few situations in which dropping a feature that was previously ‘highest priority’ midway through makes sense.

More likely, you finish up fighting the latest fire and someone will suddenly remember the thing that is now ‘very late and behind schedule’.
Safari just means wrangling control from the company who will stop at nothing to sell ads, to hand it to the company who will stop at nothing to sell overpriced hardware.
No new company that isn’t a payments company should take its own payments, IMO.
its mainly because saying "someone could have gotten a slap on the wrist because of this mistake" isnt really worth mentioning
Thanks that might be a good idea. I kind of tried, but maybe should try again. My impression was, it is kind of like studying in a library. You go there, do your stuff, but not really there to interact with random people.
Well it is a red panda, i.e. a firefox. In fact, "Turning Red" could be seen as a metaphor for switching from Chrome to Firefox (in addition to, uhhh, the advent of menstruation).

Maybe if they had managed to sneak some product placement for Firefox into the movie it would balance things out and make it seem better.

In all seriousness, I don't like it either, but I wish the question wasn't so unnecessarily hostile ("Disney shit") toward a Pixar movie that I and my young daughter found quite delightful. That kinda makes me want to defend Mozilla.
I could have but I noticed that Disney has been kowtowing to CCP since HK protests. So I see a clear link.

I am gonna push back on you for this absolutely baseless accusation of racism. This seems to be a pattern to gain moral superiority over others. Find ways to accuse others of racism/bigotry, what have you.

Little do you know, I've lived in Chengdu for 6 months and still have many friends. So kindly go f yourself.
For real? Is there anyone who doesnt just leave their laptop on their desk when not in use?
May I ask what you do now? I’ve been pretty successful in my career so far as a 25 year old Senior SWE, but realize that at some point there needs to be a pivot, most likely towards a managerial role or other field.
No emptiness to report over here, people will suck you dry until you are empty with their insatiable desires for novelty, entertainment and financial assistance. Being alone is more sustainable for me.
I mean just block VPC ranges then. They’re public, and lots of sites already do it. I would bet you don’t expect and traffic originating from rented servers.
> It might not be as bad as living with a smoker (as the NYT asserted)

They actually said,

“For children who live in a home with a gas stove, the increased risk of asthma is on par with living in a home with a smoker,” she said.
Companies provide goods and services in exchange for money. If Mozilla was a "real company" their goal would be to increase Firefox's market share.

Google's paying them, but it's not for Firefox to be successful—Google is paying for antitrust cover. To them, Firefox should ideally lumber along with enough market share for them to be considered a "competitor" but not enough to take too much away from Chrome.

Considering Baker's reducing expenses while keeping the status quo: I'd say she deserves that raise from Google's perspective.