skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jewish democratically elected president and yet you repeat the lie that this war is about nazis. Jewish people are persecuted by nazis, not elected to the presidency by nazis.

Russian land invasion fears as speculation for why Russia invaded, but this war started many years ago when Russia took Crimea and Crimea doesn't have a land connection with Russia. Russia shares a sea with Crimea, but not land. What Crimea does have is a lot of oil. So much so that it was a geopolitical threat to Europe's reliance on Russian oil.

This war isn't happening because of baby busts. It is happening because Russia raped Ukraine for oil, but then discovered that holding Crimea against Ukraine wasn't feasible. Crimea gets its water from Ukraine. Russia doesn't have a port for the sea that connects it with Crimea which is always usable. So it has to ship water in, but doesn't have a great means to do so when Ukraine is hostile.

It built a bridge, but that sort of infrastructure is vulnerable in the event of war.

Stealing Crimea turned out to be expensive. Meanwhile, Ukraine was modernizing its armies and pretty upset that its land was stolen from it.

So they call them nazis, which in this case really means people willing to defend their land, but who cares about actual meanings when you can just repeat Russian propaganda?

If Russia waits, Ukraine continues to modernize. Eventually the war starts on Ukraine's terms and instead of humiliating international defeat now they would have gotten a crushing and humiliating international rout later. The defeat is Ukraine retaking Crimea. It isn't an invasion of Moscow. The war with NATO that Russia is afraid of isn't NATO invading Moscow either. It is NATO supporting Ukraine's efforts to retake Crimea.

Which is why Russia was so desperate to do this now, even though it was a bad decision. Every moment they waited Ukraine was getting stronger. They wanted to win now to stop them from facing justice later. Except they miscalculated. Ukraine grew stronger faster than they realized. Moreover, their espionage wasn't as effective as they had hoped. They wanted to win quickly. They hoped to just take Ukraine and be done.

They didn't. They blundered. This blunder goes back many years. As far back as the invasion of Crimea itself.

The kicker? Oil isn't the currency of the future. They blundered over the resource that everyone is going to be trying to get away from.
I think arguing the definition of "hobby" farm is drifting from the point. Whether or not unsold food gets wasted is the more pertinent question, and I know the small farms I live near, as well as our own hobby farming, has very little waste. Between eating our own food, canning it, or recycling it to the chickens or livestock... not much gets thrown away.

Put into that context, there is absolutely a bottom to the price it is worth selling at. If you are offering less than its value as chicken food, we won't sell. Admittedly, that is still pretty cheap.
I like the way JHipster does it:

- Organisations give money that goes into Jhipster organisation coffers

- Committee / treasurer manages this chest of money

- Bugs are found and assigned bounties depending on how severe they are

- PRs are made for those bugs, when accepted and merged the money is released
A friend (small business owner) had this excellent retort when confronted by some particularly aggressive faux-sympathy-mongering:

> Oh, really, you're a small business owner too? Then you should know better.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18943/putins-air-launc...

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/why-calling-russias-kinzhal-a-h...
This is true -- and I forgot to mention it (although I was perhaps obliquely alluding to such things with the CIFT comment). My brain meant the more the conventional dutch roll / longitudinal static stability concerns that are perhaps more actively considered in airframe design and aerodynamics. Thank you for pointing this out.
Hello HN,

I have been working on an interesting low-code feature for the past two months in my open-source project - Diode. It's a visual way of building API endpoints without having to write a lot of code.

As it's not something I've built before, it was a challenge to design and build this feature from scratch. I had a lot of fun learning and building this, and would love to get some feedback from the community :)
Reddit Place is really cool. Place, Hacker News, Reddit and other sites are like global Ouija boards that indicate what is currently interesting to the community mind. Wikipedia reflects what the community thinks is true about a particular subject. The item is fuzzy when it first comes to the attention of global mind but then gradually comes into focus.

Hacker News and Wikipedia are not any better if we add more computing power.

Ethereum is not like that. It requires bit accuracy since it deals with money and contracts. Ethereum would be have a lot more utility with more computing power.
I think the white lie is even simpler.

As a kid, I always wanted to go swimming (swimming pool or sea) as soon as I finished eating. My parents told me not to because of the cramps. "You must wait an hour before swimming".

It wasn't about throwing up and as an adult I finally understand it: they wanted to have a chat at the table after eating, take it slowly, maybe they were a bit drowsy. What they didn't want to do was to look after kids doing potentially dangerous activities such as swimming. So that hour of waiting? A period of grace for them to enjoy their meal and maybe rest for a short while.
They seem to have been having a bit of a lie-down, today. I can't submit TestFlight builds, but now, it is taking longer, before the server throws a nutty, so I guess the fix is on its way.
+1, visit MIT. They have/(had?) campus preview weekend. Definitely kick the tires to help decide
Right, challenging people's deeply held AND common beliefs is dangerous because it is "blasphemy", punishable by ... see the map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law#:~:text=A%20pros....

Thank God United States has constitution which forbids blasphemy-laws, not blasphemy.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear.

When I was using X11 I had things set to fractional scaling because there wasn't good support for multiple monitors with different resolutions (and had it set to 1.5, where one monitor should be 2, and another should be 1, so I split the difference.)

Now on wayland, I have things set correctly, where scaling is set to 2 on a single monitor, and is set to 1 on the other monitor (and the application respects this and can be moved between monitors with the expected behaviour).

I also remember something about fractional scaling not being recommended on wayland (I believe it increases the amount of processing needed to be done by a lot.)
That is (very limited) intelligence imo. It's nothing more than a very complex, ever increasing set of procedures plus a huge amount of data and a fast processor.

I mean, the more you know about something, the less "magic" it seems. You know algorithms, the author may not. Pretty sure someone from the 1700's would think a smartphone with some personal assistant software on it was intelligent (even if possessed), for example.
I think a "web app" should definitely be able to have some sort of more properly integrated filesystem API, but a "web page" has no business having access to such a thing. There just hasn't been a line drawn in the sand between the two, so every "web page" has all the capabilities of a "web app" by default.

Personally I wish there would be a meaningful line drawn between the two so that users could have a nice shorthand for allowing web pages to "upgrade" into apps which have access to things like WebGL and filesystem access. Such a thing would only have any meaning to power users and privacy oriented people though, and the general trend in browser design has been to spurn such users in favor of reducing friction for everyone else at all costs.
Improve your security with input validation
> I think compared to Boston, Pasadena or Stanford, Blacksburg is far more conducive to mental and physical health.

And I agree. Blacksburg was certainly better for my mental health than Boston. But again, this all turns on what you want out of life. Mental and physical health are not the only things a person could possibly desire. If what you really want is to be on the bleeding edge of something like science and technology, and you're willing to endure some stress and physical discomfort in order to achieve that, then Boston is probably a better place to be. This is why figuring out what you really want is really important and really hard.

Case in point for me: what I really want out of life is freedom: not being beholden to anyone, being able to do whatever I want whenever I want to. I've more or less achieved that, but it comes at a cost: I have no children because if you have children then you are beholden to them (or at least you should be). I have absolutely no regrets about this, but obviously many people want children more than they want freedom, and that's probably a good thing or we'd go extinct. Different strokes for different folks. That plus a free market is what makes technological civilization work.
I’ve never thought of that before! I had heard of the effect and always thought it was a freak case that spiraled into fame, but CO2 accumulation actually makes perfect sense.

So, would that not normally happen without a fan? If a room is that small, and that pooorly ventilated, how does a fan make the co2 concentrate in a more dangerous way?
The story has changed somewhat recently, but up until ~2020 most ML for Inverse Problems research was done in Matlab, especially for MRI and CT reconstruction. Thinking of FBPNet and ADMM-Net.
The whole idea that the iPhone 7 was dumb but now the 12 is too smart shows how poorly researched this article is. The aperture on all cell phone cameras are tiny, so you’re running into the limits of physics as you get very few photons per pixel imaged. The noise is just very high and uneven. So all cameras use computational photography, including way before the iPhone 7, in order to achieve the results they get. You can argue that the algorithms are getting worse, but you cannot say they weren’t smart before.
I hope you’re right, and that it’s not coordinated.
Hooktheory: Create Music
Russian Asset Tracker
for me the search function also refused to work, but the start page loaded without a problem... downloading an app still seems to not work though...
A German business associate said that the German school system drilled into their heads deep awareness of Germany's war record. To be contrasted with, for example, Japan.
>> A colleague told me the best way to level up coding skills is to read excellent code.

> The best way to level up is to code.

I think it's much more subtle than either of these.

First of all, "excellent code" is an extremely subjective thing. I once worked with this one developer. He could cook up solutions to complex problems very quickly. But he didn't comment or docstring any of his code, he favored writing his own libraries and frameworks rather than pull in dependencies, and every single thing he wrote was grossly over-engineered once you managed to figure out what it was doing.

Which is a long way of saying, he was a brilliant programmer who wrote very shitty code. And unfortunately, there are a large number of open source projects and maintainers like this, so picking some at random to study may not get you very far.
> “Make it less smart—I’m serious,” she said. Lately she’s taken to carrying a Pixel, from Google’s line of smartphones, for the sole purpose of taking pictures.

And here we completely sabotage the premise of the headline, and make it clear that this whole topic is a subjective perception issue by the consumers. Pixels do FAR more ML-based post-processing than iPhones. It just so happens that I guess they do a BETTER job.

Which means that iPhone cameras aren't too smart, but rather aren't smart enough.
No. “Doesn’t respond for me” doesn’t imply “down for lots of people”. If you discover that foo.com doesn’t respond, it takes a while to figure out whether that’s on your system, in your network, in the city, etc.

Yes, you would set up multiple hosts across the world polling that server, but that adds complexity. Maybe, those pollers decide the site is down because of a bug in your network setup, while the rest of the world happily uses your services.
Does anyone have this problem with VMware Workstation Player in Gnome/Wayland, where the VM keyobard shortcut are captured by the host?

Like ALT-TAB inside a Windows VM actually does ALT-TAB in the Gnome destkop?

Had to switch to Gnome/Xorg for that to disappear
Very few people actively want to be tracked by 500 different companies. Some don't mind, some consider it the price they have to pay

The whole point of the charade of "asking" is to get people to

1) Just say yes

2) Complain to their government about it
I had abnormal trouble pulling video I uploaded to iCloud yesterday. Something is up.
It's more complex than that...

1. There are business that maintain open source software, today. That are paid maintenance. This can work for some cases. This can even work for libraries as some already do this.

2. Linux is a good example. There are legal organizations that surround it. From Linus to most of the contributors. People are paid for the work. Through legal organizations. With contracts involved. It's not an example of open source with volunteers doing the work out of the goodness of their heart.

3. Open source software can be great. But, just like an electrician doesn't just do electrical work in order to make a living... the same applies to open source software development.

4. There is a lot of open source maintained by companies that is not their core business value. This is reliable and production ready software. Sometimes people do make change requests to fix or improve these.
Someone doing a half-assed refactor doesn't mean it's "dangerous" to encode a unit in a variable or function.

I do agree that generally it's better to use something like a struct that's more flexible, but doing that for every function is also quite verbose. For some functions the time requirement may never change as well.
No, I didn’t. The Khmer Rouge killed 2 million people in 4 years, fully 1/4 of the population. The preferred weapon of execution for much of that time was the pickax. It’s a disgusting comparison to make, and I don’t like Larry Summers at all.
People are arguing that our post-Soviet policy was fucking insane and that Summers was a chief architect of it. It was wholesale looting that set world stability back for generations and it was justified on principles of mainstream neoliberal economics and implemented by that community's (at the time) golden child.

It was one of several fundamentally catastrophic decisions of economic policy made in the 1990's that have their roots very firmly in academic economic orthodoxy.

If anything I'm understating how bad it was and how much needless human misery was unleashed from this community of sociopaths.
They shut down two reactors, and are currently reliant on other countries nuclear generated power. As long as they get to say _they're_ not the ones producing it, it's okay?

I'm all for renewable energy, but this is hypocritic nonsense fuelled by emotional decision making, and not helpful towards that goal.
If you as a developer are tasked with understanding this, you take the time to read the actual rules and then you misunderstand it, you are incompetent. But this is not what generally happens. Folks don't read, just yolo some terrible explanation off of SO and then complain when someone tells them they are not compliant. That's laziness. Those are the only reasons for noncompliance, outside of actual malice.
Dokku on Hetzner if you want real cheap
I sure do! Knock if you ever want some stickers!
I'm trying to understand your response. Are you saying that most magical thinking, here and elsewhere, is a result of "them" (rich people?) trying to keep the population under control? Is there no grassroots element to magical thinking that can be addressed?
Satellite Internet is already a multi-billion dollar industry before you have inexpensive and low latency service provided by launch vehicles (and satellites) a tenth to a hundredth the cost.

But sure, buy into Musk pretending it’s desperate to try to motivate his workforce. The SpaceX Steamroller continues apace.
Hence Bilbo living at Bag End instead of a cul-de-sac!
From what I've understood, being cold weakens your immune system. So while the main cause is the closer contact to others, the cold weather does make it more likely to get sick.
Try Manjaro with KDE.

Manjaro is way better than Ubuntu; KDE is way better than Xfce.
I'd recommend q4os distro. I tried it on old toshiba chomebook with 2Gb RAM and it works quite well. Trinity desktop environment looks like old Windows.
And another good alternative is Crunchbang++ (CBPP). OpenBox windows manager requires you to have alternative approach on UI a bit but it works very fast.
I personaly use CBPP on my laptops (both, old and fresh enoght).
>Questioning the existence of supernatural powers is considered taboo in much of Nigerian society.

Questioning the existence of the supernatural power God is considered taboo in much of United States .
Just to be clear, are you saying... not open source?
> From Moscow's perspective Ukraine could have a Nazi party take over at some point in the future.

Moscow doesn't care about Nazis; it's essentially a fascist state itself, and has been backing neo-Nazi groups among the separatists in sponsors (like the Sparta battalion) before Azov was involved in the conflict, much less incorporated into the National Guard.

It only cares that Ukraine has a government now (not potentially in the future) that it isn't a willing puppet of Russia like the Yanukovych government was, or like Lukashenko’s government in Belarus is.
This is how I remember it too. “Freedom Fries” and stunts like pouring French wine down the drain were widely seen as stupid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/nyregion/strained-relatio...

https://www.cc.com/video/9os75w/the-daily-show-with-jon-stew...
more details on Russian demographics...

https://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP162.html
In British Columbia, Canada, the BC Motor Vehicle Act mentions interior lamps in connection with larger passenger vehicles. In addition to requiring that they have them, it has this requirement that they be on while driving at night:

Interior lamp
10.20 (1) A commercial passenger vehicle shall be equipped with a
lamp or lamps within the vehicle so arranged to illuminate
the aisle of the vehicle to the rear of the driver.

(2) A person driving a commercial pass enger vehicle having a
seating capacity including the driver of more than 12 occupants
shall insure that the light or lights referred to in subsection
(1) are illuminated at all times that passengers are being
carried between sunset and sunrise.
I think something with DNSSEC:

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages-discussion/2022-Ma...
Pop quiz, if you had to go would you pick a pick axe or starvation?
I recently saw a listing where badly inserted trees and piles of rocks were littered around the back yard, maybe to hide crap the owner hadn't bothered to clean up? Not sure, but it was obvious.
In reality it depends if you should isolate the code or not, are you writing a unit test or an integration test?

If you wrote an algorithmic function crucial to your app, isolate that MF and write a unit test. If you're testing a transformer or API response, you don't need to isolate each layer and run/write your integration tests at this level. If you can't isolate your code for unittest and you're writing OOP your architecture probably needs to be rethought.

That said my goal when writing something new is to have all the critical/core functionality covered on the backend, with a test case for edge cases. The biggest goal is I don't know who will be working on it next, and if they miss-understand what a function is doing because they are just trying to fix a "bug", the test case should catch it. That's why it's import in TTD to have one person write the tests and someone else write the code. More so if your team , is a clusterfuck particularly some of the senior devs are hacks.
React Cosmos: Great Potential
It's supposedly a "citizen developer" tool that records your actions, as a macro, and runs it later, so all those executives got it in their head that if they buy RPA tools, they won't have to spend extra on developers for automation tasks, but then, people decide they don't have the time, wherewithal or just think it is beneath them to learn this stuff and end up hiring "pro" developers to do it anyway, so it usually ends up becoming just as expensive to build and maintain, and usually nowhere near as robust.

If you really do have citizen devs in your org, it's great. I think people are more willing and able to learn Power Automate for Desktop than PowerShell/Python/what have you, then add in the governance, inventory and monitoring/analytics options in an RPA tool like Power Automate, and it can be easier to manage.
I disagree.

95 good. 98 bad.

2000 good, XP bad (for me), Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 8.1 better but not great, 10 OK, 11 bad.

As always: https://www.badscience.net/wp-content/uploads/complicatedcov...

("I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that." -- Ben Goldacre)
only listen to advice from people who sufficiently understand the context for which you need advice. be it from a stranger who has done what youre trying to do, or a close friend or family member who knows the nuances of your life rather well, there is probably something you can gain from considering their perspective.

as others mentioned, the why someone is offering advice is critically important. Is it because something about your situation is jarring to them, given some knowledge they have that you lack? if so, pay close attention to the advice and where it is coming from. Is it from a misunderstanding of your situation, a generic platitude, or just some content to fill up time and space? probably best to consider it very lightly or ignore it completely.
ProRaw is demosaiced and includes the computational photography stuff as well.

The big picture is that cameras profoundly influence how we see and share ourselves, others, and the world. Fairly recently, cameras (and their developers) started making opinionated decisions for us about things like the color of sky, the texture of skin, and much more. Sure, any one of us can opt out and do things RAW, but the rest of the world will go on taking pictures with these decisions baked in. I don't think the answer is RAW, because the problem is not pixel data -- it is who controls image making in the first place.
Hence, "Einheitspreis" was the codename for a bombing raid on, I think, Wolverhampton because Woolworths was initially a fixed price store (everything 5 cents) although modern Brits probably remember it as something rather different before it ceased to exist.

World War II is about the last point where "clever" codenames are allowed before the burgeoning use of signals intelligence means everybody realises that you should pick codenames randomly so that the codename doesn't reveal anything and so you will get shouted out at if anybody can guess what your thing does from the name. It's also the last point where people who have three military units number them one, two and three, because it sure makes life harder for intelligence if your third tank group is named group twenty-six...

Manhattan was a pretty good codename by modern standards, but Sea Lion is not very subtle at all, and Ultra is hardly subtle either (it is referring to being even more secret than Most Secret, even if you can't guess why the Ultra secret is so secret it's pretty obvious this is important)
Other APIs for async file I/O are outright painful.