skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reasons for this are in the article:

> To shield the assets from the impact of sweeping international sanctions, Russia has banned short selling in these shares, adding to an earlier restriction on foreigners exiting local equities. It has also said its wealth fund will step in and prop up the equity market with up to $10 billion when it reopens.

> “Foreign investors are not able to sell their holdings and secondly, the welfare fund in Russia is also supposed to step in and stabilize the market. Those two things are limiting the downside at the moment,”

> “With restrictions on foreign selling and repatriation this is not a functional market in terms of efficient price discovery, given foreigners dominate the market’s free float,”

Also: "Only equities that have primary listings in Russia were active today, "

And I'm assuming the stocks are priced in rubles which any upside is counteracted with drop in currency power.

This is most likely going to allow Russians to sell off their assets before letting market fall or nationalizing.
I dont understand the xss csrf sqli part, it's up to the app generally, not the server, aint it?
A potassium IV should not be painful in the sligtest, it should just be a tiny pin prick when it's going in. Something went wrong if that was hurting.
Great product that might get lost because of overthinking the business model (say that even as a fellow Swiss). Think the giga-opportunity here is for a chrome extension, releasing it for free or freemium won't interfere with your patent (and if you don't, someone else will, regardless of the legal aspects). Either way, congratulations on this innovation, it's elegant.
> So long as our mind is extroverted, attending to anything other than our own essential self-conscious being, we can never experience perfect, permanent and unqualified happiness

Perfect, permanent, and unqualified happiness. So in order to achieve impossible state X, we must do impossible thing Y?
Archetypal mad scientists aren't comic book megalomaniacs, but are
sincerely touched by the majesty of creation. Feynman was one. Their
electric enthusiasm and sheer joy is infectious. I can remember at
least two or three teachers who had that glint in their eyes and I owe
a huge debt to them for passing on the spark. We used to have a lot
more "celebrity" scientists. In the UK we still have starry eyed
"billions and billions" Brian Cox. Back in the days of TV we had David
Bellamy (Botanist) and Johnny Ball (mathematician). The establishment
finds it hard to "manage" these people, so Bellamy was edged out for
his non-conventional take on climate, and Ball was ousted for his
passionate critique of declining education. The Aussies had Julius
Sumner-Miller, who seemed like a proper Doc Brown fruit-bat.
That’s interesting. The history goes back a bit farther. As far as I can tell the first use was in the BCPL compiler, which was written by Martin Richards in late 1960s and early 70s. Vaughn Pratt’s work was also in the early 70s. See the article in the OP for references.
I am alone and I put all my money, time and work into BR. Visible is only a small part. But I think everyone decides for themselves what is best.
But thank you for the critical feedback.
I was very impressed.
To the point where I got scared about how fast I could read and if I was losing control of the content going into my brain.

Is there an app that can 'un-bolden' letters so I can slow my brain back down.
I follow this for Udemy/YouTube videos
> We must be reading different things. For example, Clarkesworld (https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/) and (https://www.tor.com/category/all-fiction/) Tor make a huge amount of material available.

They make some material available. But there is no downloadable eBook version and in most magazines, it’s impossible to tell what the story is about without reading it. The reading experience is simply not very good.

Our project, on the other hand, is essentially building a huge library of free-to-read, easily navigable fiction on science and tech. Very different from a magazine with some freebies.

> Reading slush is hard…

By black box, I meant that the selection process is basically, “Send it in and hope the owner of the magazine likes it, wait 3 months, maybe get published, earn $100, and be read by a few hundred people.” There’s very little insight into the selection process and essentially zero greater mission, such as promoting interest in science. It’s also almost entirely open-ended random stories, as opposed to our sponsored, narrow focus on particular topics that relate to real world science and tech.

As I mention in a few other comments, the goal here is to build multiple systems of evaluation, not simply have a team of editors read 40,000 submissions and pick the 10 they arbitrarily like. Instead of languishing in obscurity and being rewarded with peanuts, writers will earn 10x the prize amount, get 100x the amount of readers, and support a good cause. Plus, entering a contest in the first place is more transparent and accessible. I really do not see how that is “exploitative” in any way. Nor is it really similar to a magazine.

> You should clarify that only published submissions are CC licensed.

Yes, that is already how we are operating but I will add a clarification that spells it out more clearly. The main concern here is to just make sure they don’t submit the story to a magazine/publisher before we conclude the contest.

> Science fiction magazines are the farm league. Publish a few stories and maybe you'll win the lottery with a book deal

I guess, but again, the amount of people that reads these magazines is basically zero in comparison to the reading public at large. It’s the farm club of a tiny niche genre of books that a small group of people read, not the farm club of literature that can be read by anyone in the world online. The purpose of this project is to promote science and tech to a broad audience, so almost by definition we need to make stories accessible.

In our view, the magazine model is simply outdated, inefficient, and bad for everyone – for the reasons that I mentioned above.
And to think of all the wasted spermatozoids?
That's just how happiness looks like when observed across a dissociative boundary :D
Series 1, eg, PCX1 and PCX2 had (SRC_Alpha, 1 - SRC_Alpha) blending, but not the full set of OpenGL options.

When series 2 was released (Eg, ARC1, Dreamcast, Neon250), it had the full set including support for destination alpha, which IIRC wasn't available on eg 3dfx.
Unsubscribing should have been solved by banks years ago.
Each case is very individual. I am still on WFH, but now its my own choice, to have more free time (and a bit of stressful crunch if too many issues meet at same time). I've spent more time in past 2 years with my small kids than I would before covid in maybe 10 years of daily office work & commute. First 3 years are invaluable time for personality building.

For that only, regardless of all extra free time to do chores, pick up packages, go for walks/runs/exercises etc. it was worth it, very special time and bonds created.

But yeah without kids craving for all attention they could get it would suck much much more. Even though it was hard, much harder than go for a break from kids to the office like many dads used to do.
There are plenty of books on the subject and I'd encourage you to just search and read.

Discipline as you note is essential in anything you do, work related or otherwise, there isn't much that I can add here that you can't already find via a few searches, for me it's always helped taking things one step at a time.
I was once responsible for a private key of big operational value, and I printed it out, put it in an envelope and gave it to the CFO to hold.

It's not rocket science.
Interesting. Every now and then I download and save a local copy of content I think will be "at risk" for future censorship. This was one that I saved.

I'm not surprised it's been taken down from Youtube because, well, it's Youtube. But odd that it would be removed from archive.org.
Can other elements, except uranium, be used for power generation?

I thought uranium is used in reactors because it also produces A-bomb material as a by-product.
I think the "simulator" code is also bundled in there.
Are you the creator of BR?
> How much do you value editorial curation? (from 1 to 5)

Can you translate that into concrete language I (not a journalist) understand? Is it selecting or rearranging or both or..?

> When reading/watching/listening to news, how much do you want a reporter to provide their own opinion or analysis?

I think inevitably reporters do this. "How much do I want them to" makes no sense to me.

> What topics do you follow daily? / Do you follow the news?

I did every day until one day ~15 years ago I didn't, at all.

I didn't bother finishing the survey, it didn't seem like any of the questions + my answers had value.

Ddingus wrote on this page "Above all clarity. Facts and opinion clearly differentiated so that people can understand what the facts are, and then opinions can be formed compared and all of that." I think in reality, there is a spectrum, with facts on one end, opinion on the other, and most of reality somewhere in between. It's impossible to separate the fact-part from the opinion-part for most things, nor does that makes much sense even talking as if there are two different parts. Good luck!
Sark
Same here, it's like GraphicConverter, no brainer buying a licence now and then. In the case of VueScan, I wouldn't really need it as I don't use it often, but it counts as 'asset' instead of feeling like i'm a cow to be milked.
Robots Show Us Who We Are
The one surprise I've run into was that they shut down the arm instances at the end of the trial credits period, even if the arm instances are "always free". So I had to recreate them from the block device backups. But that hasn't re-occured.
Ditched Chrome for FireFox years ago. But now I get increasing concerned on the direction Mozilla is moving towards.
A couple of recent moves:
1. Pockets and Accounts.
2. Unique Ids on installer downloads.
3. DNS over HTTP push.

All those moves can directly be linked to user tracking and I just feels something like "Block others and allows myself and myself only to track". So far I've no evidence to support it but let's wait and see.
Ask HN: Is nuclear energy *actually* safe?
I have seen all the statistical arguments as to why nuclear energy is safe. Statistical arguments are misleading as nuclear disasters have a long tail.

The question is how bad could a nuclear disaster be? What is worst case scenario?
> The argument is that the vague intangible aspects of the job are probably not happening when the work is done at home.

So some people claim that vague, intangible but fundamentally valuable parts of a job do not happen at home.

What evidence is there for this supposition?
Gaia mission finds parts of the Milky Way much older than expected
The greatest success of Amazon is that they made devs forget other providers exist!
I have a friend in the UK, similar situation. After years of receiving no help I took it upon myself to figure out what was causing his self-sabotaging behaviour. I can't say I made any great discoveries other than figuring out his trigger points and devising strategies to avoid them.

Obviously everyone is going to be different but my friend's issues stem from being lonely and isolated a lot of the time. Simply me being around for a couple of days a week has helped. He still drinks but in a much more controlled manner and, ironically, I found that ensuring he always has a supply at home has helped with this too. It's taken away the constant panic in his mind - for want of a better explanation.
Re Penicilin: the 'short term' benefits of not dying from a lung infection are pretty significant though. We might have better drugs today, but it was quite a miracle back then.
Have you considered tweaking the highlight length when the bold part is itself a complete word?

For example with 'theists', 'the' would be bold by default, but maybe bolding 'th' or 'thei' would result in less confusion.
Sorry, I wrongly understood your answer not as an explanation of other people actions but as statement of your position in topic.
I feel like there should be criminal charges, as the treatments and their side effects have affected people and robbed them of proper care. The amount of people affected by this is humongous.
Only because the extraction process is dirty and we aren't willing to do it as cheaply. Waste from mining other minerals is rich in REMs, and deposits are plentiful. "Rare" is actually a misnomer:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/06/15/are-rare-earth-elements...
Are there any actual studies on the gained speed being done by Independent scientists? I could not finde anything on their (quite beautifully done) marketing/landing page.

I see patent registrations, but no mention of any studies underpinning the claims being made.

To me this smells like all the other pseudo-scientific BS marketing and product people are trying to spoon-feed me every day.

Also as said in a sibling comment, for me it killed my reading speed. From their examples I would estimate by about half.

So thanks, but no thanks - this is not an offering for me. But it will probably find its audience. I could imagine it will be a big hit in the self optimization scene.
I wonder how bolding more on uniqueness would work? Instead of just first characters.

For instance now THeir and THere will be bolded the same, on a quick glance that can be confusing. (Using caps as HN can't do bold)

Would it increase pattern recognition in the brain if it instead was THeIr and THeRe, or some other variant where the bolding highlights the unique parts of a word compared to other common words?

Well I wrote the idea here, so don't try patent it, hehe.
Perfect example of why algorithms shouldn’t be patentable
If you follow the thread all the way you'll discover that in this philosophy, whose roots are to be found in the mystical tradition of Hinduism - Advaita Vedanta, your essential conscious being is shared (I'm wary of the western use of "self-conscious", that is why I have omitted it). Therefore, what is really being said is that without the realization that our most intimate identity is (===, reference equality) that of everything else, happiness (defined as equanimity) cannot be achieved. It is actually the opposite of individualism.
Thanks. We are all as good as we can be now, Life, aside of finding ways, continues.
Ich danke Dir vielmals noeltock.

Ja ich hatte bereits zwei Browser Extensions (Chrome, Firefox) als Beta-Versionen. Aber die Erkenntnis war, dass sehr viele Websites — da diese ja individuell erstellt werden — keine gute Experience ergab.

Deswegen habe ich mit Silvio Rizzi (Reeder5) getestet, wie es am besten nutzbar gemacht werden kann.
Hab aus Fehlern gelernt, aber wir denken dass es viele Entwickler gibt, die BR in ihren Leseprodukten anbieten möchten...

Aber vielleicht liegen wir da ja auch falsch. Man muss es versuchen und dann weitere Erkenntnis daraus ziehen.

A liaba Gruass us Chur
Renato
I disagree that you need to prove who was responsible. The authors of the paper signed off on its content. They are responsible, in the same way a Professional Engineer signing off on drawings is responsible: it doesn't matter who did the work, they're guaranteeing it.

(As my username suggests, I have published scientific papers where I'm the corresponding author. I've also been added to truly shitty but honest papers against my will or knowledge, in cases where I did some of the work but left before the paper was written. I would never have approved the papers that were published had I been involved. This is an interesting wrinkle if criminal liability is on the table!)
so you don't have any idea what 'they' should do, but clearly it's the hospitals fault.

Maybe the 'they' that should do something is you?, but I guess it's actually easier to blame 'them', because 'they' should do something.

Even AA doesn't want people that won't admit they have a problem. because 'they' can't do anything for them either. The problem lies with the drinker, if they don't want to stop, they have nobody to blame but themselves.

How do you fix a problem that the patient won't admit they have?
One benefit of describing state change as a pure data structure, instead of directly executing it, is that you may now write functions that run these state changes in different ways.

E.g. you may have a dry-run function that doesn't actually change the state but only describes what it would do. Or you could have a function that generates a verbose log of all steps executed. Etc.

That doesn't necessarily work for IO, as that gets special treatment by the runtime, but you can do it with your own types.
This is the first time I've tried Teclis and it was a very positive experience. Always happy to see anything new in this space (search engineering?) and this seems particularly aligned with my interests.

My queries didn't get (obviously) mangled behind the scenes! Thank you for treating me with respect. Having said that, Teclis doesn't seem to treat alternate spellings of '-ise' words (e.g. normalise/normalize) as equivalent -- this is one case of auto-correction that I do appreciate in other search engines.

I just noticed the semantic search mode tip. I haven't tried it yet, but I like that it's not the default way to interpret my query.

I found it easy to find "technical" results and even (relevant) websites that I've never seen or heard of within the first ~10 hits. I wonder about the link between "non-commercial" as Teclis defines it and authentic, non-abusive, or otherwise desirable search results.

Also good:

- I didn't need to turn on javascript.

- clear info on the front page (the info itself and the fact that it's right there)

- results are actual normal links

- result snippet is normal selectable text (not a giant link)
Pure cost-cutting through offshore outsourcing has been pushed aside for more efficiency-focused goals. Yet, your company’s bottom line should still be on your radar. as a compelling incentive to outsource some services. Savings from offshore teams and outsourced talent pools can save profit. It can impact your company’s margins.
Scramjet Data Transform Cloud
I looked at the Sequoia capital deck and it was just a template. What’s interesting about that?
Thank you for responding. Despite my criticism I'd like to say that the method is really working for me. So as an invention it is great.
Not so. Fraud requires an intent to deceive to make unlawful (or unfair) gains. They're probably just abiding by the license of the data or struggling with a technical limitation.
I would recommend plugging the hardware into power measuring units before the wall sockets to give you an estimated running cost. Depending on where you are in the world electricity can be crazy expensive.

The cost of purchasing a lower power SBC (x86, ARM) might be very quickly offset.

A RaspberryPi can handle a surprising amount, especially the 4/8GB models. The trick is using low resource software.
There's certainly a lot of hate for Mozilla based on the specious argument that actively trying to deny other people the right to marry the person they love isn't hate.

That's a pretty lazy and entitled argument to make when you're not on the receiving end of Brendan Eich's irrational homophobia and attempted sabotaging of your own marriage.

The word "hate" having too many meanings isn't a problem. People trying to deny other people's humanity and human right to marry the person they love is a problem, whatever word you choose to label it with.
A related advantage is expression-orientated code.

In ML languages, code forms a beautiful tree structure where you can see the binding definition of each binding by looking down and right.

let x =
something
really
big
and
complicated

whereas in a language built around statements it will be scattered all over:

let x = null;

x = something();

x = somethingElse(x);

x = anotherThing(x);

In the first case the definition of x is in one indented block; you can read it and move on.
Haha...nice
The basic problem with reading is that your eye needs a fixed point...that's why they should be "blocks". This one doesn't have to be at the very beginning though ;)
But cool comment Hehe
is this a navigation bar?
Don't take my word for it. Spin up an Azure SQL database and try it yourself.

"Ping" it using a trivial query such as "SELECT 1" a thousand times in a row and draw a histogram. Or just eyeball the numbers. I did this recently and had response times over 12 milliseconds regularly. For comparison, a small and cheap IaaS VM running SQL Server can get down to the 150 microsecond range and stay there.

For this 100x degradation in performance you get the privilege of paying several times the cost of an IaaS VM + SQL license.

Azure SQL proxies connections. I mean sure, the documentation says that they can do a "redirect" instead of a proxy, but not if you use any of their "private" network connection options. You would think that is some sort of simple IP header change implemented by the switching gear in hardware, but you'd be wrong -- it tunnels through what is essentially a VPN -- with all of the predictable issues. These tunnel VMs don't have accelerated networking turned on, for example. So you can have "business critical" tier on one end, and huge VMs with accelerated networking on the other end, but the traffic in between is being routed through some 1 vCPU virtual router appliance processing packets in software.

Anyone with database admin rights can alter firewall rules via SQL commands. These are via SQL Server accounts and hence they're just a username and password, no MFA or anything. If you can find a SQL injection vulnerability you can punch a hole through the "firewall". Brilliant.

The firewall supports IPv4 only, and uses different CIDR syntax to everything else in Azure. It doesn't support Service tags, or logging, or monitoring, or anything really. It exists only to tick a checkbox.

Unlike most other Azure services, SQL doesn't integrate with Azure Active Directory or RBAC properly. So for example you can have one AAD group as the SQL Admin. No other rights, no list of principal IDs... just one admin group. All other delegated permissions must be done through SQL commands, blocking the use of ARM templates, Policy, custom roles, etc...

If you delete an Azure SQL Server instance, it deletes all backups associated with it. Sure, they recommend that you put a "delete lock" on the server, but then most administrative operations become impossible because you can't then delete any child objects. And even if you do create a delete lock, that can just be deleted. There is no way to say "backups cannot be deleted for at least 'x' days", even though the underlying storage accounts support this feature.

DISCLAIMER: Some of the above may have changed since I last checked, always read the documentation and/or verify with support if your data matters to you.
I can see my car!
I disagree 100%.

This is amazingly innovative.

We have seen letter switching examples and how the brain will try to fill in the gaps.

This is superbly unique and justifiably a patent and trademark.

The demo works.

The rules may be simple. But as the old boat repairman story says, sometimes you need to know where to hit the hammer.

Please, please don't use this for evil.
I once saw a FoF playing in the Sydney Symphony and then met them at the bar in the harbour for a messy evening of drinking. They were joined by many colleagues. The conversations I eavesdropped on were quite epic:
“No I don’t think it was a mistake to do crystal meth, it was just a mistake to do it in the first day”

And other such tidbits which suggested their lives were anything like described in the article. Maybe both situations are possible, but it seemed that tenured orchestral musicians lived a Life of Riley, and good for them.
Why not create a basic free browser plugin for e.g. 100 Words of a page and a pro version with full page and more customization options?

The rules seems to be simple, so i don't know if somebody uses an api for that.