skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to ask such a macabre question... but why would China ever release political prisoners? Moreover, why wouldn't they just disappear them?

I'm in no way suggesting they should or asserting China's great because they have standards when it comes to taking political prisoners... Nor am I stating that China is so barbarous that I would expect nothing less of them... I just don't know and wonder about the answers to these questions?

Sounds like the former prisoners you met still hold the beliefs that probably made them prisoners in the first place. They're still monks (practicing I assume). They're now back in their country of origin?

What was accomplished?

Time? The best I can come up with is that it bought China time to begin and continue ethnically cleanse (displacing, not killing) Tibet (as well as other regions), while not breaking any international laws or attracting enough negative attention to jeopardize any foreign trade or financial relationships?

Look at the news about what's supposedly going on in Xinjiang... China is getting nothing but bad publicity, but no international entity is pulling out of those areas or others in China because of what they're supposedly doing to the Uyghur population. If anyone is leaving China, it's been reported that it's for unrelated reasons.

If China just disappeared these people instead of putting them in camps, would the world react any differently? It doesn't seem like anyone has been able to substantiate these claims about the resorts (concentration camps), so how much harder would it be for China create the same level of control around a massive park or recreation area (polyandrion or burial site)?
They are also in the process of releasing the Megane model as EV only model going forward, and the reviews so far are very encouraging.

https://www.renault.ie/electric/megane-electric.html
ARM is a UK company and the UK is not part of the EU
Reviews in question:

Incident: https://youtu.be/sbSDsbDQjSU?t=204

Review of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9rM8D3k34
They are not doing well, but neither could afford a split at this moment, although Carlos Ghosn case is a big issue in their relationship.
The split is not realistic to happen in the next few years, but some type of restructuring where Nissan would get more control/independence is likely.

Not sure where the data came from in the top comment, but also Renault didn't have any talks with Stellantis AFAIK, and not sure such merger would be approved atm.
Yes, humanity has normalised many problematic things before. We've set many poor precedents. I don't disagree!

The issue here is that vaccine passports currently have no medical justification but are persisting purely as a punishment (I'd say incentive, but anyone here who hasn't yet been vaccinated will never be swayed by vaccine passports at this point). I of course do expect these to go even in my fairly strict jurisdiction, but now the precedent of punishing people in this way has been set. Was quarantine, mask mandates, vaccine mandates used to punish people in this way previously?
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Nobody will claim any military action is a good thing. But you equally cannot say this conflict just started a few weeks ago.

If NATO hadn't pushed further and further (and went against what was agreed), we would have never had that issue in the first place, as Ukraine wouldn't have been turned into a pawn against Russia.

This issue has been known for decades. Biden mentioned it 20 years ago already - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNgCwoaT9u4

I can only highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 as well.
Why not hire a remote personal assistant and command him or her by SMS to do stuff for you?
Not sure if you're joking but the Lada Niva Taiga sells quite well in the Austrian countryside where you want a car to beat through the mud and snow. The most modern feature on it is probably electric windows.
Arithmetic coding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding
http://laughingmeme.org/2016/01/10/towards-an-understanding-...
The Norwegian government granted Ukranian refugees the ability to work. There isn't really anything a job board can do about it.

I vouched for your comment because even though I think it is misguided, it not merit getting flagged.
with all these massive subsidised investments across the world is there going to be a huge supply glut in a few years as these plants come online?

(wine and butter mountains, but with chips?)
> Why in the world would Tesla allow someone whom they employ, to generate bad press while they're still heavily developing a tech. Isn't FSD Beta already not enough negatively covered?

Welp, you can’t blame others when you yourself is jumping into the burning pot of politics. Tesla just did that by firing the employee in question, and also blurred the line b/w normal business operation and politics by disabling FSD. Now, nothing can stop all the political notes from everywhere. Rather, if you advocate the freedom of speech, you should encourage this.
Or you are indespensible, and the company could go under, but you can charge them huge afternoon-consulting fees while working a new, better day-job elsewhere.
> Where I live one is still required to present what amounts to an internal passport to do pretty much anything, despite not having any medical justification.

Except the UK is an a joke in relation to vaccine passports.

The politicians spout "authoritarian" "libertarian" bullshit as an excuse for not using vaccine passports.

But then THE VERY SAME GOVERNMENT is very happy indeed to introduce a requirement for people to produce ID when voting (Elections Bill). And yet somehow none of the same politicians make any mention of "authoritarian" or "libertarian" when it comes to mandating ID for voting.

Or indeed we are talking about THE VERY SAME GOVERNMENT that is busy trying very hard indeed to introduce laws to limit protests (Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill).

And THE VERY SAME GOVERNMENT that is trying very hard indeed to bring in laws (Nationality and Borders Bill) enabling them to remove British citizenship from someone even if it renders them stateless.

Its an absolute farce.
I can only speak for myself here, but why would step 1 be "become a user"? I ask because I don't fully grok why I would want to contribute to a project I don't use (either in my personal time, or work time)?
I didn’t say malicious, I said knowingly. i.e. someone misspeaking might be forgivable.

This person knew what they were publishing. I don’t suspect they were malicious, they were just reckless and had no respect for their role in the workplace.

I definitely don’t think that personal gain is a good excuse for undermining your coworkers.
Ukraine is a highly corrupt country. The worst in Europe. It is 122nd out of 180 countries, Norway is placed 4th. So that's probably not a criterium they used.
You guys are definitely not playing xcom and seeing 99% shots miss.
Apples are particularly bad, as they're "extreme heterozygotes". Good for avoiding pests in the wild. Bad when you want to plant more of the same tree.
"Technical debt" as it is used today is already not owned/understood/wanted by management, but only by technical teams, so what difference does it make here?
Another risk that I have seen play out more than once at large corporations is that people who are "indispensable" and tied heavily to a particular project will often get laid off rather than moved to new roles when that project is cancelled.
According to the newest ordinance [1] with the "pending" status (not sure what's the reasoning behind delaying this ordinance's effective date until a few days before the first time change, I guess no one knows):

Year 2022 – 30 October,

Year 2023 – 29 October,

Year 2024 – 27 October,

Year 2025 – 26 October,

Year 2026 – 25 October.

Every time it's the same hour 3:00 CET / 1:00 UTC. Which means that the hour 3:00 shouldn't display on the clocks, because the Summer time ended, and so 2a:00 displays instead (the "a" is supposed to be displayed till, and including, 3a:00, after which 3:01 should be displayed without "a").

[1] http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU202200...
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Ukraine is (was?) the most corrupt country in Europe. It's got nothing to do with that.
> That’s exactly my take. What exactly constitutes a “derived work” in the gpl (plug-ins do!)

Of course they do. The goal of GPL is to reduce the amount of proprietary software in the world. Proprietary plug-ins would go directly against this.
Why do any of those attributes put you in SPA hell?

If you were to write an Android application that featured Authentication, would you also be in "app development hell"?

Languages, performance and UI decorations aside - it's basically the same thing, no?
IMHO, the most important thing is to remember what is your goal in the first place.

It is way too easy for an engineer to lose himself in the microsphere of his project, wanting to make better software for the sake of better software. That often clashes with the goal of the organization - the only relevant result is whether the software works or not (or, in the case of most non-critical applications, what percentage of software works).

The downside is that technical debt can massively increase development time - and there is no way to measure how much time you're losing because, to know that, you would have to be free of technical debt in the exact same scenario.
According to the Council of Europe, Ukraine is the most corrupt country on the continent after Russia.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/corruption/completed-projects/enp...
There's a problem with your proposal: What if there's a station, where the train is supposed to arrive at 2:30? Teleporting would make it skip the station, and I imagine it's one of the reasons why trains don't do that in Poland.
Well, they are essentially being used to tell us every day EU should close border around Ukraine to make it fair and lock Ukrainians inside. Which is something Putin would like, sure.

By quick google, Norway now established 8000 places for Ukrainian refugees. They in fact took in Syrian refugees too looking at google results - finally ending up with 30000 additional people over that.

And third, the bad situation of Syrian refugees is also because surrounding countries do close refugees to camps with no future for them. No one ever seem to blame them.
I stopped using KDE along time ago (not because it's bad, but because I realized I'm far more productive in Sway). Two KDE programs that I still use daily are Okular and Dolphin. Okular is, in my opinion, the perfect PDF viewer.
There's already a number of comments trying to spin this in one racially loaded way or another discrimination loaded way or such. Please stop. I'll try to explain why your take is misguided with a parable which you can no doubt poke countless holes into.

Say you've lived in one place your whole life. You have a neighbour, and they've lived their whole life there as well. One day your neighbour comes to you and asks for a hundred bucks because they've fallen on hard times. Now compare this to a stranger on the street asking you for a hundred because they say they've fallen on hard times.

People go up and above for Ukraine because they're that neighbour. Many have friends, family and/or relatives there. Many have travelled there. This is not about race, or religion, or any kind of hate. We're helping our neighbour.
Willing to bet most people, especially in Europe, work with a lot more Ukrainian contractors already anyway. I know of a bunch of people who have had their devs flee and have worked them out accommodation or accommodation for their families in Poland etc.
I think analog buttons to control rotation, zoom, contrast, ... are more easy to use and tweak until you get a nice image than a slide bar or a number in a form.

Probably the monitor to camera part is easier to do in software, but as other comment says the author probably is more familiar with monitor and cameras and understand better how to tweak the values to get nice images.
First off, what city? 100K in the middle of Iowa goes much farther than a HCOL area like SF or NYC. But, even then, don't do it. 300K to 100K is too big of a swing. Depending on your lifestyle, it will also be the difference between retiring early or later in life. The non-profit world isn't a utopia and will come with all the same baggage as regular, for-profit companies.

If you still decide to go through with it, I would try to negotiate that 100K up as much as possible. Get the whole notion of non-profit out of your head, they are still competing for your time/expertise and should pay according to the market. Have a look at their public tax disclosures and see what the top brass is claiming as income. If you do a little digging, you will find many non-profits that have board members/c-suites/VPs/etc making quite large salaries while they pay peanuts to the grunt workers.
Haven't seen any useful changelogs from major vendors short of the event of fixing a known very bad bug.

In any case, I treat this as a high risk operation; no HDD/SSD firmware flashing without making sure the backup is working...
These problems are best solved by addressing the issue itself - that teenagers need more sleep than our maniacal obsession with starting school early in the morning.

That’s a change that can, and should, be made independently.
I sent off a few messages. I'll report back about the discussions if I hear back.
JSON lines has a few nice properties.

The biggest advantage is that 1 line = 1 record, so you can use unix tools like head, tail, grep, sed to work on it.

It's also easy to sync state in case of errors, since a newline always means record boundary.

In CSV and normal JSON a record can span multiple lines,which sucks, so you almost always have to write custom code to work on them.
Covid appears to be “done” in the UK. Not that the virus is gone, just that there now seems to be widespread acceptance of its health impact, and a strong desire to move on without any restrictions on normal life.
> economic collapse means that they will inevitably submit to western liberal democracy

Not, economic collapse means that Russia will became a serf from China.

Coca cola, blue jeans and jewels are easily replaceable; Russia not having anymore Intel CPUs, or Taiwanese chips for fixing computers, or even neon gas required to make their own chips will not be so funny.

And by Computers I mean all that is basically a computer now: cars, trains, machine, TV, phones, appliances... the "stone age" one is a good metaphor. Everything can be smuggled, is just more expensive, but "Smart" products can easily be redesigned to refuse to work inside Russian frontiers, for example.

Of course Russia could buy (almost) everything from China instead, paying with raw materials or asking China to buy all things in their name (Many African countries are doing exactly that now), but then China will write the price. Russia will not have much leverage to negotiate in that position.
As long as you realise just how selfish your last sentence is. Presumably you never expect anyone to even help you out at any cost to themselves, no matter how small?
This is basically prohibition and I don't think it will work. I also don't understand the incentive to act as smoking got more unpopular with younger generations.

I don't think this will pass judges if anyone who smoked illegally will demand his right to do as they wish in reference to older people.
It's a strawman and I'm tiring of reading it everywhere. Ukrainians are Europeans, it's normal they're flying to neighbouring countries, that is European ones. Syrians are Middle-Easterners, it would be logical for them to flee to wealthy neighboring countries (most does: Lebanon is hosting millions of them) which are geographically, linguistically, culturally and religiously closer to them like Saudi Arabia or Israel. Europe doesn't owe anything to non-Europeans, especially when there are millions.
This is entirely the wrong take. Its like saying everyone was panicking for no reason in the Cold War because Earth wasn't destroyed in nuclear hellfire.

Its feasible that vocal protests helped push back against further tyranny.

i dont want to go down the who was right and who was wrong rabbit hole of covid policies. just dont use hindsight to try and retroactively prove your point.
> all evidence from South Africa suggesting that Omicron is nothing but a super mild cold

I get your point. And the UK didn't lockdown. But this statement is a stretch.
it isn't even an internal beta. It is a public beta.
> You don't have to eat during the flight

In theory you don't have to do anything mate. Just lie down in a coffin at home, shut the door and I bet you you won't catch COVID or any other mild respiratory illness. If to you the meaning of life is to get born, not catch COVID under any ridiculous circumstances and then die then this is a dead sure way of achieving your dreams!

I rather live life, take risks, feel my heart beat, go out and spend intimate time with other people, feel the thrill of being close to other human beings, feeling the joy of a person's touch, seeing their beautiful face when they laugh, share food and drinks without being paranoid and indulge myself in everything the world has to offer. Getting a mild cough or feeling a week a bit ill because of a flu every few years is a small price to pay for all the amazing memories I'll collect along the way.
More efficient if coin flips are your scarce resource, less efficient if computation is scarce. But nowhere near as inefficient as it sounds - you don't actually have to materialize the table.
> I wonder how Syrian refugees would feel about this, considering that they also fled to EU from a war zone with Russian ranks.

It is a little disingenuous to blame Russians for Syrian refugees, given that we already had tens of millions of people that left Syria before Russia joined the party started by IS and other Islamists and escalated by the US/NATO.
Has the disadvantage that you can't index content of sites where you need to be logged in as you don't have access to the browser's cookies
This is wrong. In the 1970s there was for instance a big revival of ragtime, popular music from 50-60 years ago (then). Then there was of course the blues and various other folk revivals, which had a tremendous influence on all that 1965-75 music which is still popular.

But of course there were both technical and copyright reasons they didn't just re-release recordings from the 20s!
Gnome-remote-desktop in Gnome 42 (to be released soon) uses NVENC for H.264 encoding, if available. Of course, the client must support that too (many do, if the user left everything at 'auto').
> The neediness of Sales folks is relatable.

This is a symptom of bad communication.

I faced some of these issues in a company, and the best solution we found was creating a massive “FAQ” single page where (browser) search could get you what you wanted, and a firm policy that any question asked should end with a modification to the document.

All questions had to include the search terms used to find the answer, and if it was a “failure to find”, those search terms would be included in the “related tags” section of the question for next time.
Ukranians are like family. You always help family first before strangers. That doesn't mean you don't like the strangers.
I had a very expensive holiday mostly ruined because someone arrived at a 1 to 1 meeting with me the week before and announced 5 minutes in: "sorry - i've got a cold at the moment".

I now always phone ahead if I've got sniffles and ask permission. There should be better ettiquette around things like this.
I am not sure the argument for corruption adds up, given Ukraine's global corruption perception index scores are comparable to developing nations in Africa and Asia.
For most problems an async 'coprocessor' that can use system memory over pcie is a good enough model. It's not tied to one platform and doesn't have to get involved with modifying the cpu architecture.
"free speech absolutist."

What a joke. Typical narcissist behavior. Rules for thee but not for me.
This method generates approximately

log_2(sqrt(1/(2*pi*p*(1-p))) - 1000*log_2(p^p * (1-p)^(1-p))

bits of entropy from 1000 coin flips, where "p" is the probablity of flipping heads.

Neumann's method generates 1000/(p(1-p)) bits of entropy from 1000 coin flips. The theoretical maximum is

-1000*log_2(p^p * (1-p)^(1-p))

but it requires knowing "p" exactly. This method is close to the theoretical maximum. I didn't plug in numbers, or analyise further, but it's far better than Neumann's method.

One obvious drawback is that you have to flip the coin a 1000 times to produce the first unbiased random bit, while Neumann's method starts producing bits much earlier.
This is the wrong way to look at it. If Syrian refugees had the media coverage Ukrainian ones do there'd be job boards for them and much more besides. People are reacting to the magnitude of the perceived crisis. Peoples' compassion pretty much knows no borders.

If there is any finger-pointing to be done then it's at the mainstream media not at how individuals or groups are trying to help human beings in need.
If you don't read his blog then you probably shouldn't make claims about what he does or doesn't say in it, nor about the scientific literacy of his readers (much higher than average - they will happily peer review studies he posts and highlight in the comments when he's misinterpreted them or when the study is bad). So sure, he has responded to the Atlantic directly, many times.

The Atlantic on why Berenson was wrong: "[he is] arguing that cloth and surgical masks can’t protect against the coronavirus (yes, they can)."

The last three words are links to junk studies or articles of the sort that suddenly became fashionable after April 2020, after many years of studies saying there was no such evidence. But Berenson was and is correct. Mask mandates don't stop transmission or protect against COVID and this has been proven over and over again. Here's Berenson responding to this point by refuting it with another study, but this one is actually high powered and has a reasonable methodology (it isn't a dumb modelling study or lab experiment):

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/school-mask-mandates-use...

"On Laura Ingraham’s show, he downplayed the vaccines, suggesting that Israel’s experience proved they were considerably less effective than initially claimed"

They were claimed to be 95% effective at stopping infection after two doses. Nobody has believed this for a long time, not even governments, which is why Israel is now up to 4 doses and it still isn't working. This claim was a correct reading of Israel's data.

Now, Berenson shoots from the hip. He likes to treat Substack as if it's Twitter and sometimes publishes stuff that turns out to be wrong. But he doesn't have to be right 100% of the time or even 50% of the time to beat the media outlets criticizing him. The Atlantic should especially pipe down because it's probably the Pandemic's Wrongest Publication:

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-atlantic-oh-my/comme...

They've served up some great headlines in recent times. October: "Four measures that are helping Germany beat COVID" (Germany is currently one of the most restrictive countries in Europe). December: "We know enough about Omicron to know we're in trouble" followed by in February: "Open everything: the time to end the pandemic is now".

Anyone reading Berenson has been consistently about 6-12 months ahead of the "mainstream" journalism curve. Anyone reading the Atlantic would have been exposed to a whiplashing of overwrought nonsense that bears no reality to what actually happened.
Is there any actual "shock" that comes if a default happens in a case like this? My understanding is that the probability would already be priced in to whatever the debt is trading at, so that between t_default-epsilon and t_default+epsilon there should only be some minor adjustment based on how the probability was mis-estimated. Does anything really change at this point if they default?