skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I've ever heard someone say "Ukraine" in Australia. It sounds a bit unnatural to say with an Aussie accent.

Just going to throw out some totally uneducated linguistics BS here that's just based on my own Aussie accent, but I think there's a tendency with Australian English to not emphasize long vowel affixes like 'yoo' as much (it's more like a sharper 'yu-'), and to blend them with the previous word if it's related. "the Ukraine" sounds very natural because it comes out like "thyu-crayne", whereas "in Ukraine" rolls off the tongue like 'inyu-crayne' which parses more like you're saying Emu Crane or something. Whereas if I put on an American accent (which might be totally inaccurate) it very clearly sounds like three syllables (in-you-creane)

I feel like I have to make a very conscious effort to say 'Ukraine', which probably explains why it hasn't caught on here even though it's more standard everywhere else.

This is one of the problems with trying to make language political btw. I very seriously doubt that any native Australian is saying 'the Ukraine' as some sort of pro-Russian sentiment.
I went through the official channel, so I assume inhouse recruiters (although it appears like some of these recruiters are actually external recruiters but hired by the company to act like internal ones?).
take a look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_Global_Strike
> not for any nonconsensual data collection.

It was absolutely for nonconsensual data collection. From the very link that you provided:

> The CNIL held that since it was carried out without the knowledge of the data subjects, the collection of data using the “Google Cars” or the mobile phones of “Google Latitude” users was carried out unfairly and therefore in breach of article 6.1° of the French data protection law.
> chan (which became zen)

Chan and zen are the same thing, literally the same word.

> I’ve never worked out what china wants in Tibet tbh though, does anyone have a clue?

I think the failure of China to divest its non-Chinese territories after the downfall of the Qing Empire mostly occurred because no one wanted to take responsibility for losing territory.

For Tibet in particular, though, it seems worth noting that Tibet is the source of both of China's major rivers. The Yellow and Yangtze rivers are not less significant to China than the Nile is to Egypt. Look what's happening between Egypt and Ethiopia.
doesn't it kill your battery?
It's not just that - it's that the competition is now the scale of the planet.

Back in the day, if you made it in print somewhere, you were officially an intellectual of some prestige. Then it became about access to radio. Then it was all about reaching TV. All these channels were very limited, so just by getting there one could ensure they had a position among the officially recognised elite.

Now one is competing with a literally infinite amount of channels, from all over the planet, unloading talent in any discipline 24/7. You can market the hell out of yourself and the world can still decide they are too busy caring about Korean singers and African memes.

Which really is the beef I have with this article: genius is not recognised anymore because now we are a global village of billions, rather than an elite of a few hundreds of thousands, and we consume all sorts of radically different media rather than a handful of shared sources. So we simply don't agree on what is "genius" anymore, at a societal level; geniuses do their work in smaller groups, where they get some recognition, and that's it.
All of the Reasons You Should Run Streak (2021)
David Graeber's "Debt: the first 5000 years" makes a fairly coherent case that the first instance of interest-accruing debt [EDIT: I had called this usury, but that implies unethical, which is tangential to the point] inevitably leads to an economic requirement for conventional economic growth.

The borrower must pay the lender more than was borrowed. The only way to accomplish this is to do something that is essentially always considered to be "growth" by economists.

I didn't accept this argument when I first heard it, but I spent at least 2 days debating it while hiking in Scotland, trying to find ways around it, and ultimately accepted that it seems completely true.
Similarly, the suspected or known loss or theft of explosives must be reported to the ATF within 24-hours of the discovery. This has, in my experience, resulted in some "oh no we totally know where that inventory mismatch is" incidents. Boy does their tune change when I make the report for them.
sadly, yeah, the big contractors work for anyone its legal to work for. I'll just make sure I don't end up on a program working for scumbags. If I get canned cause I won't work for someone, I get canned and life goes on. My security clearance is worth a whole lot to the right person
Anecdotal, but I have been told this long before this war: "There's no 'The' before Ukraine, and also there's no 't' at the end of 'borsch'"

Why assume this is Western virtue signaling? The article explains the implications pretty well.
would you mind posting an example of allegedly fake content? If I've been getting duped the past weeks, i'd like to be able to tell how
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The Enemy Within (2010)
They made an account on TikTok. And even assuming it really was Facebook, that's it.
Shorter range ballistic missiles have been heavily used in multiple conflicts around the world for many years. The US military has been researching the possibility of using conventionally armed long range ballistic missiles to fulfill the prompt global strike mission. Potential target countries have no anti-nuke defenses. But there is a risk that Russia or China could misinterpret a launch as aimed at them.
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until we learn how to reverse entropy, there will always be human desire
Holographic projection using spatial light modulators (SLMs) is unfortunately a dead end due to cost and complexity of manufacturing. There was a Cambridge startup a decade ago called 'light blue optics' (who have a promotional video narrated by Stephen Fry somewhere in the depths of the internet).

I don't think the technology ever got past military HUD for fighter pilots.

I do think that holographic projection is a feasible technology but it'll require a cheap method of introducing phase to thousands of pixels reliably. The computation requirements to generate the holograms is certainly something that can only become cheaper over time.
> but it can't be said that the mental illness, in and of itself, was the fault of mental illness.

Late edit: racism can't be said to be the fault of mental illness
Yes, I know how these things work, as my coworkers were those EHS people. The point is that they had training, and they are working within an official university context (laws, etc).
Indeed. Federal employee benefits are actually pretty good, it's the pay that's not so great.
I was referring to political commentary rather than the general population as that was the perspective of the article. In political contexts people choose their language carefully; if they are using an anachronism that is probably intentional.
Hi Inglor, thank you very much for the offer. I'm giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here, they did reach out after the planned interview. I prefer to not escalate as I don't want anyone to get personally burned over this, or hire my future potential chances :)
Scheduled for 2025 but I do hope it gets accelerated.
We celebrated a Lem Year [1] in 2021. Absolutely timeless author that I love to get back to.

[1] https://lem2021.org
LOL at the two sources of actual quantitative data in the article not having data past 1950 or for the entire twentieth century
Indeed, you may as well ask me to take an astrology compatibility test. Or tell me next Wednesday would be a more auspicious day to start.
In 2019, I joined a project with other 2 partners to develop an app for audiobooks. The CTO said the app should be done using Flutter and he sold it like it was paradise on earth. I disagreed but couldn't push that much to try to convince the rest of the guys about this detail.

On month 8 on the project, the CTO resigns and leave, leaving us 8 months ahead of no major development because it was impossible to find Flutter people and, most importantly, people who were proficient on that platform. In the end we relied on an agency, paying a huge price to do upgrades.

Nowadays I am doing a RN project and the speed, results still put that over any option I could do. I would only pick Flutter once it reaches a degree of maturity in all terms like RN.
the problem isn't going around a city here or there (a few degree minutes), but the crazy meanderings for tens/hundreds of miles in either direction (a few to many degrees). some zone lines are so far off that they're two ideal zones away from where they should be.
It could also be inflation...
The newer volumes use a newer version of MIX, MMIX¹ based on RISC architecture, which will also appear in the "ultimate" revisions of Vols I–III. And while you might think that assembly language is ipso facto an indicator of vintage, I think having at least one assembly language² in one's experience is helpful for having some idea of what the computer is actually doing.

⸻

1. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix.html

2. For people targeting a platform like JVM or CLR (dot net), understanding how those machines are implemented might also be useful, although I've found my ancient memories of 6502 and 370 assembler are sufficient for having a mental model of how the code works.
There is no way these were internal recruiters…. third-party head hunters?
Here's a prototype of this style of drive on an e-bike (2016), killer feature is smoother gears and potential for better designed bikes, it'd be perfect for the Convercycle Extendable E-cargo without crazy long chains everywhere.

https://youtu.be/4JKOKpg21dQ
For desktop and gray area torrenting I've not found anything better than qbittorrent

* webclient with separation of LAN/WAN password requirements

* interface kill switch

* handle hundreds of torrents (more than that I would go for rtorrent)

* Updated often

* built in search plugins.

* not bloated

* primarily written in c++
Everything is bad? Sorry, since you asked I'll explain.

He's basically using an infinite timescale on one end (going as far as 1,400 years in the future) but bans quite a few futuristic technologies on the other end.

This is super tilted. He wants to not talk about stuff like going to other planets. Sure, I can accept that in the next century. But in 400 years? 1,400 years? Please.

When the timescales are so long, you're not merely doubting technological progress - you're either assuming collapse before it happens or making an impossibility theorem. The first isn't supported by the post (his mechanism is very slow), there's no reason for the second.

I think the burden of proof is on the other end here, since we can come close to generation ships right now*, it's just absurdly uneconomic, nobody wants it and there's nowhere to send them to. Just a little research on suspension, and a slowwww generation ship is doable.

Third, Virtual Reality is not what he should be looking at. He should be wondering if we can 'upload' our minds like some futurists suggest. Or if strong AI can be created and change everything. I don't usually bother with the 'Rationalists', but they do have some arguments that we can seriously expect AI in this century. And on the timescales he's using, he's making a very unsupported impossibility theorem.

But lets accept all his arguments. He assumes people will be asked nicely to go to Virtual Reality. More likely, if resources are such a problem, costs of existing in the real world will increase so much they won't have any choice [were he an economist perhaps he'd have thought of this?]. This isn't nice, but it is compatible with the definition of growth he uses up to the last few paragraphs, which merely talks about GDP, not human happiness!

* Scifi plot - future Earth sends out generation ships to limit overpopulation. The secret - they have nowhere to send them to. So the destinations are black holes and other disaster areas, the expeditions are meant to die so the plant can reduce energy expenditure thus increasing GDP. The colonists will never know since they're cryogenically suspended. One of the doomed generation ships somehow chances upon one of the rare relativistic black hole solutions that allow them to go back in time... To before they were sent. Now they go back and try to get even. But they can't change history, and they have few resources, so how will they achieve their revenge?
Gather
> "The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its critics" by Chris Lasch

Thanks! Great lead, I wasn't aware of Lasch.
Australia approves malaria drug tafenoquine for use in children
I've got a very different goal than you, but with quite a bit of overlap on saving web pages for historical lookup.

How are you pulling and storing the pages?

For context; I feel like there are quite a lot of solutions here, but not many overlapping and often reinventing many wheels. Memes aside (14->15 standards), i wonder if there's a way i can write my version of this that would benefit others by using common formats we can all benefit from.

edit: Interesting, sounds like it's network/proxy request based. Perhaps there's minimal overlap here?
And if you read the article, the complaint is that Latitude used the data illegally collected from "Google Cars" to perform its service, which it considered an unfair advantage. Latitude itself did not collect any data without user consent.

> In order to implement this service, the company used the same vehicles used for “Google Street View” – the “Google Cars”, equipped with 360° cameras and sensors to enable different types of data to be collected.

If there were any nonconsensual data collection in Latitude, you would expect to see other fines or Google changing the service. Neither happened. On the other hand, there were other fines for Wi-Fi data collection from the Street View cars, and Google did make fixes to it in response.
Product implies that we can reliably deliver via process. How does one reliably produce Beyonce?
This is pretty much the only reason why I dual boot Windows on that box! Sacrifice 20 gb of space for peace of mind
I've programmed a lot in both Dart and C# and my take is that Microsoft looked at Java and decided they needed a Java-like language like so they made C#. Google was into Java but Oracle sued them over it so they decided they needed a Java-like language so made Dart.

Edit: Dart is ridiculously easy to learn because it's very familiar so if someone complains about having to learn Dart it means they don't want to learn it
There might not be a regulatory body that dictates English usage, but there are multiple occupational authorities who publish guidelines for English usage. The AP guide is pretty contextually relevant here, and the basis for which they changed their style guide to "Ukraine" from "the Ukraine" was their departure from the USSR, so there's a definite political context to the usage in English reporting.
It hurts to say it, but I highly doubt these steps are the end of it, they look unbalanced and favouring Russia, given the situation. The revolution of 2014 was concluded by protesters not accepting the result of the "deal" made politically, and the President fleeing as a consequence.
https://youtu.be/HJGp19h47o4

Peter Thiel would say you're describing innovation in bits as opposed to atoms.
For people not wanting to use Google, I've written a script "dateparse"[1] that allows to do the same:

$ TZ=America/Chicago dateparse '2pm PT'
2pm PT: assuming PDT
1647464400 Wed Mar 16 16:00:00 CDT 2022

(You don't need to set TZ if your local time is already CT, of course.)

[1] https://github.com/pflanze/chj-bin/blob/master/dateparse
Of Lifetimes and Linewidths
It's dead as in no one runs a network anymore.

But maybe the last people that DO run a network use it. (AWS, Google, others?)
That's got it backward. Among the tutored, the geniuses could thrive. There were likely uncounted geniuses that spent their short lives tilling fields.
The article glosses over the "exceptions" bit and makes it seem like dropped the definitive article is the rule for the names of nations. But how can that be the rule when it isn't the case for the names of the predominant English speaking nations? Its The United States of America not United States of America. And its The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Not United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. You can argue if The is technically part of the name or not but its always used. The author seems to forget that definitive articles are often used to denote proper nouns in English.

English is inconsistent on this, proper nouns don't have to include a definitive article. We rarely use them for names, probably because names are common. But if we do its to emphasize we are usually talking about the most prominent individual with that name. Ex: I'm not just talking about John Smith but The John Smith."

Because of this, and that fact that many other languages do have stricter rules regarding inclusion of the definitive article like German, I think this is more about virtue signally than anything else. It reminds me of the whole "Latinx" thing, another term invented and pushed by English speaking Americans who are trying to push a specific agenda of inclusiveness while displaying their ignorance of the culture and language they wish to include. It's all very silly.

Having said that, I've always called it just Ukraine. But that's because that's what I heard it called first.
Preface: I'm Iranian.

Ah another Iranian using words and not realizing the history behind it. Or worse, realizing it and using it anyway.

I don't get what the fuck is wrong with your Farbod, get your shit together and open a history book.
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Thats vaguely insulting to all the people who do work on astrophysics, I work in AI and i'm pretty certain the average astronomer is a lot smarter than the average AI researcher. Its mostly a matter of pop culture perspective, astronomy just doesn't get the kind of media coverage it used to
Some country interconnections, in particular those to UK and Nordic countries, have the ability to connect even unmatched phases, by for example converting to and from DC (AC -> DC -> AC).
If you consider the US a hostile regulatory environment for cars, then don't innovate there. Teslas are sold worldwide. I'm glad the FCC, EPA, NHTSA exist, for all their flaws.

Plus, you can't pick and choose what bad press you choose to accept. This is true anywhere. Tesla's nonexistent PR department may have handled it better.
Would be interesting to know how will it be integrated with Kubernetes (guess that's the intention...) and how will this new API Gateway be configured (using CRDs like in Gloo?)
I think that gets unwieldy in more complicated cases. You might want to write:

if condition_A {
acquire_A()
defer release_A()
} else if condition_B() {
acquire_B()
defer release_B()
} else {
acquire_C()
defer release_C()
}

But with block-scoped defer you'd have to write something like:

if condition_A {
acquire_A()
} else if condition_B {
acquire_B()
} else {
acquire_C()
}
defer func() {
if condition_A {
release_A()
} else if condition_B {
release_B()
} else {
release_C()
}
}()

Maybe the syntax here could be better with some kind of defer-if added to the language, but it's the non-locality of the cleanup that's the real downside. The whole point of the defer keyword is to let you put cleanup right next to resource acquisition, to make code easier to audit and maintain, and we lose that here. (Also this version might not even be correct, if the conditions change their values over time.)

To be honest, I think Rust's combination of destructors and move semantics is really the ideal way of doing cleanup, with C++ coming pretty close too. But given a defer keyword, I can see situations where having it block-scoped would be painful.
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> Ray Dalio

A strong suggestion: If you want to know about hedge funds, listen to hedge fund managers. If you want to know about international relations, listen to international relations experts - their writing is widely available. For example, look at Foreign Policy for more day-to-day coverage, Foreign Affairs for essays, Defense One is a good defense-oriented news publication, etc. Think tanks (the non-partisan ones) are also good: CSIS, New America, IIS, Brookings, Chatham House ... there are many more. University of Pennsylvania has a list of the top think tanks, which might be a good starting place.

It amazes me how much people rely on others, who (IMHO) usually don't know what they are talking about, rather than just read the experts who are very available. You wouldn't read Foreign Policy for hedge fund investment advice.
I remember being in high school in the 80s and discovering that there was source code for a C compiler on the IBM mainframe at UIC. Then when I started digging into it, I found that parts of it were written in SNOBOL. Fortunately, the local public library's collection of computer books was hopelessly outdated and they had a book that covered SNOBOL on their shelves.
you'd still have 24 zones, but they'd be straight lines, not the crazy lines a 3-year-old might make that we have now.
So why not save everyone the week of back and fourth emails while nothing gets done and ask them directly how they want to deal with it rather than putting tons of people on blast and substantially constraining their options by bringing intra-organization politics into the mix?
Yeah great question, and I don't fully have an answer yet! For the scenario I need it for, the hostname only does one thing and won't be looked up by the client until it's needed, which helps avoid that problem. Furthermore, thank to K8s nodePort routing, as long as one of the nodes is still alive and answering, the request will be routed even if the first IP is no longer valid. I've also considered as the cluster size grows, only returning the 3 to 5 newest node IPs present since I expect the ones most likely to get killed/recycled will be the older ones (not always true, but often is in my setup).

Has anybody else run into this and solved it? Cloudflare DNS seems to have figured out a decent way to deal with this. I may take a close look at their responses and see what they set for TTL, etc.
Returning things that are fundamentally incompatible with the search (like different dimensions than being searched) is actually worse than useless, as it clutters up everything and makes me spend more mental time and effort seeing if you have something in stock.

Which sucks.

HD search has been basically useless to me in the past for this exact reason. If I’m searching for a 3/8 lag bolt, returning results for 1/4 and 1/2 lag bolts mixed in with random 3/8 lag bolts are literally worse than just showing me 1 lag bolt result.
I'm no expert, but it looks like the Apple Valley big earthquakes were centered on land, and these Fukushima are centered off the coast. I would assume the closer to the center, the worse the damage, so perhaps that could explain it?