skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he probably visualizes the gradual encroachment of NATO ending up with a bayonet shoved up his ass a la Libya. He apparently watched the Gadaffi video obsessively and he was certainly publicly outraged about it, particularly in light of the broken promises the west made to gafaffi that he'd be left alone.

In the 2000s he probably would have felt somewhat safe losing power. I think after that video his attitude was probably that if Russia loses its military power and he loses power in Russia he will die a messy and horrible death.

And hes been in this state for over 10 years now. Theres probably some truth to the notion that COVID isolated him but I think Libya contributed most to his paranoia.

Im pretty sure this puts nuclear weapons strikes on large population centers on the table.
No, I do not.

However, I've heard (too) many stories like "our payments/ads/infra vendor banned us out of the blue for suspicion/politics/obscure-AI-decision" to ignore this. It could be fine for a start-up that is inherently risky, intended to fail early and risks Other-People's-Money (TM), but not always.
This is a good thing to keep in mind; I originally figured this was outlandishly unfair, but lined up against other sanctions it makes sense. If sovereign nations can prevent profitable trade (aka ownership & exercising of business relations) it makes sense to prevent ownership & exercising of business property.
Requirements (engineering) is the discipline that crosses the chasm between reality (needs/usage) and virtuality (software/development). Add the multitude of parties involved, and the lost-in-translation stuff.

Hence, it's the most difficult thing. But noone ever points at it in schools or textbooks
Yes, a complete, well-rounded implementation is what makes for a successful product (where well-rounded == supports use-cases for customers well).

It is expensive (which is why it costs a lot to create a startup) and it is very risky (which is why most startups fail because they mess this up).
The rotten (dot) com parrot burned an image in my brain years before goatse's arrival. So much so, I think of that parrot perched on the disturbingly phallic Amazon logo every time I see it.
How's that different from the US?
I've always used Vanced despite having YouTube Premium because the official YouTube app doesn't enable most of the Premium features for me without using a VPN.
Ecstatica: The Weird MS-DOS Survival Horror That Time Forgot
At least we'd have a chance of making it work. With status quo it's just becoming worse and worse due to brain drain (all active conscious people find a way to leave the country).
> Firefox, if they've graciously allowed us to install extensions we want on our machines

The F-Droid guys have forked Firefox for Android to let you use any extension you want. They named it Fennec as the older Firefox, but is just the name, the codebase is the new Fenix one.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
Celebrating doesn't have to be a reward, and assuming that celebrating a release involves a material reward is certainly cultural. To me, the important part of celebrating a release/milestone is pausing and reflecting on what has changed. That only needs to be a small nod.
What is ASD in this context?
> There's no good evidence that Dvorak is better for either speed or RSI.

This is because there is absolutely no ability to set up a "good" experiment which results ought to be consider as "good". And as a Dvorak touchtypist I can assure you that if you are at least 30 years old or you have already your touchtyping skill on qwerty than you will not gain anything from re-learning.

But for me when I realized that I need touchtyping (for programming without struggling with keyboard's keys which are even not from my mother language's alphabet) and I have found Dvorak's work, I just refused to use qwerty immediately and 10 years ago I consider this as one of three best decisions in my life. Other two was to learn English and to invest in Bitcoin.
Std: Regex crashes when matching long lines
Paul Graham had references to MVP before Lean Startup, he called it "release early" in 2006:
http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html

Quote:
"By "release early" I don't mean you should release something full of bugs, but that you should release something minimal."
USA has something very close to that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

It's universally thought as a "bad thing", and more like a "highway robbery" than something citizens actually want.

But when it's the russians, it's suddenly ok.
These guys scanned Cerro Gordo and parts of the mineshafts underneath it.

https://youtu.be/k1uXppV6TeA
300 baud modems.
On Being Indispensable
And Ukraine would not have been invaded had they agreed to Russia's demands, you fucking bastard.
Or maybe the lesson to learn is that modern military aircraft are simply not particularly useful weapons. Fighters are way too expensive relative to the cost of ground-based AA systems, while a combination of missile and shell-based artillery can do most bombing jobs way cheaper.

In general modern military seems to be focused on delivering as much power as possible in a single unit, never bothering to ask if multiple lesser units could do a better job combined. And so we get destroyers and cruisers that look mighty, but can nevertheless be rendered inoperable, if not outright sunk, by a single torpedo.
Sure, it's not straightforward to roll tanks into Lviv. But I don't think not moving in a week whilst sustaining heavier losses than NATO sustained conquering and occupying famously difficult to conquer Afghanistan over two decades (a country which did collapse in a month after they left) was part of the original plan. Open for debate how much of the cities they originally intended to flatten but I can easily believe artillery bombardment was Plan B, with Plan A being the hope Ukraine's command structure would implode and they'd rapidly sue for peace
> But going into debt for a depreciating asset like a car is a bad idea, yes.

This is just as stupid as:

"But going into debt for a depreciating asset like a computer is a bad idea, yes."

They are both investments in potential tools. For many, an investment in a car can ultimately be cheaper than most other modes of transportation. Just like how companies finance their data centers with debt. Of course, it does not mean any car. Hell, it does not even imply a new car. But the advice of using debt to finance a car is always a bad idea is just patently false.
Make a Fair Coin from a Biased Coin (2018)
I wish people were this skeptical of pharmaceutical companies researching their own products.
So wait... if we europeans wanted to get rid of eg. clinton for bombing in yugoslavia, and then bush of the middle eastern crap (well, technically both bushes), we can just take away property of random rich americans?
What method do you adapt for your business?
Glad they didn't include a laserpointer.
> threatening a leader to their face in their own country, in a room full of their supporters

Have we seen the same video? There's no threat. He said "You lied" and "You need to apologize".
Thing is, nothing in Terraform works cross-provider - it's just a (often clunky, though it got better) DSL over JSON which makes for nicer way to call vendor APIs. But I need to know all the details of those APIs anyway.

With K8s, the basics that "just work" are pretty wide, the bits that are specific to vendor that are necessary are usually small and contained, and for everything else I have extensible API that allows abstractions like crossplane.io
Recursion Visualizer
The ultimate guide: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml
Where was all this reaction in 2008 when Russia invaded Georgia?!

Russia is TO THIS FUCKING DAY in Georgia and nobody cares about it.

Georgia and Ukraine are just 1,167 km = 725 miles away but the West only plays world super police when something near to the EU border happens or if the country has a lot of Oil.

I am really sick of the politics of both sides. If the US would have done something in 2008, than Russia wouldn't even dare to touch Ukraine.
This is a completely appropriate article for HN, and I’m glad I caught it on hckernews.com since it was flagged. Quick read, learned something on the subject of chicken skin science, funny, and mostly about a hack!

What’s more of a hack than using a hair drier in the kitchen? Or using three chopsticks instead of two? (Stallman’s OG interview on “hacker” culture mentions this).
Arguably they're the least special:

> According to data collected by the US Census, more than 4.6 million residents of the country were born in 1991. That’s more than any other year.
> there's no reason to believe that the Ukrainian government will give up once kyiv is taken

I agree. But they don't need to give up for a puppet government to be in place. They need to lose control of the military and communications infrastructure. If the government is far to the west or in exile, it's hard to see how they would maintain control.

And I also agree that a new government would need a substantial Russian military presence. It wasn't that long ago though that a substantial voting bloc supported pro-Russian parties. It's likely that Putin calculated that they'd only get problems with western Ukraine. That's likely been badly misjudged.
They're not. Do you think Biden has been sitting upon his throne for the past 22 years, giving orders to Thiel and Bezos so they can act on his behalf and in return he can give them a little more wealth/power?

The people you quoted have a lot of power and influence. That doesn't make them state actors. The difference is extreme. If you genuinely don't understand that difference, I invite you to read "The Dictator's Handbook" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, which nicely explains (among other many interesting things) how dictators and authoritarians wield and share power. You can apply those lessons to how Russia and its oligarchs work.
There is a similar service [1] however it does not collect articles but lets you send single articles to your kindle via your email address.

[1] https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/
Focusing a camera in low light is still not great with traditional methods such as phase detection. LiDAR focus is spot on every time.

The quality of the camera is one of the main selling points of the iPhone (Eg. The ad campaign on billboards is “Shot on iPhone”. So I would argue it is a very appropriate feature.
The statement above left leaves out some important details when level-setting the just how bad it was in WA state:

> All told, the imposter and fraud claims represented $646.8 million in misappropriated benefits. (Not all the imposter claims were paid; many were stopped by ESD before funds went out.) Of that, the state has recovered $370 million, the audit stated.
One reason is that Java GUI applications were noticeable and annoyingly slow to run, compared to native Windows applications.
H N = 72 78 in decimal ASCII

It fist appears at position 1135, then 2443. It occurs 19950 times in the first 200M digits of pi.
The theory that we are living in a simulation is primarily based on Bayesian statistics, so I find the article's claim that those who disagree most strongly are scientists - the very people most likely to understand and apply Bayesian statistics - incredible. The subheading seems like an attempt to dupe the audience into thinking science opposes the theory, but I don't understand the author's intention. I've read through this article twice but still do not understand the point.
The guy is massively upvoted on reddit though.

Like, you're trying to frame it as some kind of hypocrisy, but it's not a stretch to imagine that the people who rage against russia on reddit and the crowds who go to Bush fundraisers don't overlap much.
> Considering how Finns are generally portrayed in Russia I think its stupid to be a direct Russian neighbor and claim neutrality now...

I also think its stupid to be a direct Russian neighbour and claim neutrality, but I don't connect that to how Finns are generally portrayed in Russia. (I hold that opinion just on general strategic and historical grounds.) In fact, I didn't even know Finns are generally portrayed some particular way in Russia.

So, how are Finns generally portrayed in Russia in your experience, and/or how is that realated to the stupidity of being neighbours with Russia and claiming neutrality?
When people start paying enough for subscriptions.

Yoi don't get ads if you pay for YouTube, or if you pay enough for most streaming services. Most papers and such offer an ad free subscription tier too. Cancel TV and use YouTube TV if you must.

For Google, there are ad free competitors, or just use ad block.

They'll be around as long as the financial incentives are there. Micropayments failed so many content providers are moving back to pay walls again, whether it's Patreon or adult videos or Steam or whatever. Gotta put food on the table somehow. If you don't want to see ads, just pay for the producers' time some other way.
If that's true, then something is seriously wrong with football.
Not to mention even crappy used cars appreciated over the past two years.
> Then the bits about applying lidocaine to anuses to help them get through the shoot... I'm gobsmacked...

Unrelated to TFA but Lidocaine gel works incredibly well on aphthae / canker sore / mouth ulcer. If anyone here is sometimes getting crazy because of one of these... (not a medical advice though).
Also, they are two completely different games, there is absolutely no point in comparing them. A single game feature difference can render the comparison meaningless.
I have to agree. I’ve eaten and cooked (tasty) Indian food for most of my life. I’m biased, but Indian cookery has some of the most diverse and flavorful vegetarian dishes of any cuisine, and as a kid, I ate mostly vegetarian. After saying all that, I’m confident I _could_ be a vegetarian eating that diet (and have), but the meat dishes are still far tastier and something I’d prefer 9 times out of 10.
> seize private property

Mind your tongue. It's not seizing, it is just a special legal operation. Absolutely nothing to do with seizing.

I'd also want to remind what Karl Popper said about Paradox of Tolerance.

" Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
Oh, so all you need is somebody who can see into the future? Sorry mate, these guys are already busy otherwise as stock brokers.

I've tried to come to terms with TypeScript during the last two months, but I am sorry, it is still too messy and does not give me enough guarantees about my code.

What I would love is a Swift to TypeScript / JavaScript compiler.
OpenCDBC: How come 2PC is scalable?
https://github.com/mit-dci/opencbdc-tx

While I love it discusses about linearizability/serializability tradeoffs with different architecture, I'm a bit puzzled how come they chose 2PC for scalability. In my opinion, 2PC has been a bad idea for scalable distributed systems, and generally speaking the design decision that has turned to be good (whether or not this was intentional) by bitcoin was that optimistic locking with cryptographical validation was way better. Am I missing something?
Now do usa!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

But when america does it, it's a "war for peace!" - https://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1995/11...

Look, we all agree war is bad... I live in the balkans, and I had american planes flying above my roof, bombing a country 300km away not that long ago... not to forget all of our "local" wars before that. But saying that americans are any better than russians or vice-versa is a huge lie. Russians atleast had a "weak" period in the 90s, where they didn't do this shit, until they got their economy fixed a bit, americans didn't stop even then.
The difference of [flagged] and [dead] is explained in the unofficial guide of undocumented features of HN, in particular look at https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
Autistic Spectrum Disorder

...which at this point shares a kind-of-larger spectrum with ADHD too. We've come a long way from proscribed-comorbidity in the 1990s to routine comorbid diagnosis post-DSM-V.
Shouldn't you be happy there is at least a reaction now?

I could say the exact same of Turkey and Cyprus. Being sick of the politics "on both sides" only serves to lessen the CURRENT reaction. It's not useful.

You want payback for Georgia? I want payback for a lot of other things that didn't get their deserved political reaction. NOW is better than "let's just not do it cause we didn't do it last time".
A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time
I seem to recall the US' indiscriminate shelling of Iraqi civilian neighborhoods broadcast with patriotic pomp and pride on the news not all that long ago.

I even saw some brown people getting murdered by US forces on TV in my local McDonalds at 4 in the day one time.
What is a user script?
Also referenced in the article:

"Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price Is Too Much for Computers":
https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-stock-price...

The Register top comment, by chivo243,
is too good not to quote here: This is called a "Buffet Overflow"
I think the key take away here is learning to deliver, as that is what companies actually, finally care about - everyone else is nice, but without the final person that ties the bow to get the product out the door, you're fluff.

And the advice to treat dept like a disease is worth following. There is no better feeling than telling the car sales failure you want $5K off because you're paying in cash, with a spreadsheet identifying that's their take from the financing you are not using.
Whenever you interview at another company you're evaluating what is your worth in the market, instead of just guessing. It's always good, even if you don't intend to take the offer.

If you show it to your boss, it means you intend to leave if he does not match it or offer some other perks. It's not forcing anything, it's negotiating.
Hostility against Russians have nothing to do with sanction and everything to do with what the Russian government is doing. You might pretend otherwise but that's not how it works

The clinic has reversed their position by the way
It's no different. And US oligarchs should fully expect to have their assets seized if they ever allow US government to perpetrate such insanity.

US oligarches are the people that decide what the government is allowed to do. They can stop any decision that they don't like. If they don't stop it, they are responsible for it. And should pay for it if the rest of the world decides it's prudent.
There’s a whole community of people doing game engines from scratch. My guess is they’re using Vulkan or OpenGL.
> For many, an investment in a car can ultimately be cheaper than most other modes of transportation.

That's a joke, right? It's entirely dependent on one's location, and i think for more people here on HN the inverse would be true ( I'm assuming the majority of users here live in or around big cities, where tech was traditionally concentrated). In well developed big cities ( so excluding the many failures at urban design and planning in the US) public transit is at least decent, and i don't think there are any places around the world where owning a car is cheaper than paying for public transit ( with the caveat that depending on how you measure the time spent could alter that)
> Where do you draw the line.

Arbitrarily and hypocritically. This is the internet, after all.
At that point, is it a translation error or is it just a typo? I just struggle to come up with a situation where one would translate numerical values into different values when translating from german to english.
This is great, thanks. A small fix I made to stop console warnings was to change:

x.fillStyle = '#' + ((r >> 8) & 0xffffff).toString(16).padStart(0, 6);

to:

x.fillStyle = '#' + ((r >> 8) & 0xffffff).toString(16).padStart(6, '0');

as the pad target length is the first parameter of padStart.
You are correct, ereaders have supported viewing the web for years, but it has been a miserable experience since the beginning.

* Inline links everywhere tempting you to click away to a new page, both fracturing your attention as well as being a multiple-second delay between pages
* Images are everywhere, needing to be interpreted by the rendering engine of the ereader either with a simple monochromatic threshold to figure out what parts of the fully color image are black and white, or if you're lucky it has some way to re-process the image through dithering so that it's possible to see what it is
* web layouts always wanting you to have a screen larger than an ereader can support, so you're stuck scrolling back and forth on a tiny screen that already has a miserable refresh rate of once or twice a second.
* the web is an application platform now, the vast majority of its features just not fitting within what an ereader can support

You're all correct, you can easily implement what Gemini does if you make one website that is only text. In fact, you can probably do it better since you don't have to be constrained to gemtext, or constrained to its handful of weekend-project servers for hosting the site, all of which have their own issues.

But the thing that keeps drawing me back to is is that while you can easily implement Gemini with HTML and HTTP, it is impossible to implement HTML and HTTP in Gemini. The fact that you can't implement a webapp in Gemini means that if you're browsing pages in Gemini, you get a consistent experience and every site is clean and respectful of the experience (whether the author wanted to respect it or not, they have no choice).

Perhaps the real counter-argument to Gemini is not "why don't website authors just make their websites simpler?" but instead "why don't modern browsers run in 'reader mode' by default?".
That sounds like a bonus to me.
Some of the sun’s coronal loops may be illusions by “wrinkles” in the atmosphere
Kermit, world.std.com, wustl repository, IRC and netsplits, VAXen running BSD, Suns and SGI’s, …

And the excitement from Mosaic and watching coffee pots empty. Jennycam.

Rec.humor.funny
...and I have... um... an octopus carrying a block of wood?