skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We triggered this rebellion, by destroying the bread prices, by short sightetly promoting green fuels in a rush.

Similar to mr.putin at the moment is triggering the next wave, by preventing ukraine from producing for the world.

I dont hear you complaining about this matches lighting at the powder keg, so i just assume you do not have the welfare of the people in that region at heart, at all.

And the western interventions did in the end not change a thing.
The middle east, is the same as before the interventions, still a stagnant, backwards region, not prepared at all for climate change and what it will bring.
All the bright minds leave early and permanent.
The despots, that either nature or western power disposes, are replaced with new despots, that align to whoever offers the most, selling the region to the highest bidder.

If anything, western influence is greatly overrated. Iraq was going to dissolve itself anyway after the death of saddam from old age. It was a horrific construct drawn by the british onto the maps and how those lines hold up, can be seen africa.

The only promising democractic candidates in the region, turkey, tunesia and iran are sliding backwards and israel will sooner or later succumb to political barbarism too, cause the cultural enthusiasm of the neighbours for butchering and discriminating one another is catchy.

Some places stuck in the loop, the question of who bombs who at the moment and why is rather irrelevant. Important is that the butchering happens every 2nd generation, to make place for the great genetic lottery that god wills and that god is that we self-optimized for this loop. Super depressing that humanity not given a constant surplus by the environment or science, devolves back into tribal warfare.
“People You May Know” FT Film about balancing privacy rights and tracking Covid
well, they are less likely to be invaded at the current time
I'm not saying this is what's happening here, but here's a playbook I could see behind it:

1. Automatic/ML/AI/buzzword filtering that is, in blunt terms, kinda crappy

2. Preemptively and diligently correct for any such crappy decisions that would result in PR nightmares or credible lawsuits

3. Apply some portion of your effort to reviewing some portion of the cases that appeal. Hope (nudge nudge, wink wink) that those cases that you couldn't review, because you simply don't have the resources to review everything in depth, are those of your "enemies." You're not suppressing them; you just didn't have the resources to help them.

Result: The system punishes your enemies by design and you and your enemies can just blame the AI and your front line support, which everyone already loves to do. People who are suspicious can be painted as nutjobs, because it's obviously just the unfortunate but classic case of the little guy against the giant indifferent bureaucracy.

Thus any sufficiently influential entity can wield Hanlon's Razor as a weapon. You don't event need to plan for this; it is bound to happen. Parts 1. and 2. happening are foregone conclusions. When the opportunity for part 3. arises, I think people in all levels of the organization would quickly and tacitly realize that uneven review is in their best interest, if they don't just do it automatically out of laziness or tribal thinking.
Funny in here, people praise SQLite but dismiss MySQL when it's tiny bit off the SQL standard and people complain how PHP converts values with best effort guess on different types but not when SQLite does that too.

Don't know why anyone would use SQLite in production except for as some KV store embedded in an app.
YouTube already has an appeal process and the author used it.
If this is a long-term (on-going) project I would consider building an app for the museums to track their collection data. The app would sync to your central storage system. You would need to support a lot of import formats, but the app would eliminate the whole data collection problem for the long-term.
Yeah, they really like their soft targets, don't they? On the other hand, a gathering of young men who believably signal that they're totally down for a bit of street violence, now that's not such an attractive target to confront.
Hypercontext (YC S21) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer
That comment is unfairly judged, taking into account how much they used AWS instead of their own solution.

"...Half-a-billion people stored files on Dropbox. Well, sort of. Really, the files were in Amazon’s cloud. .." [1]

[1] "The Epic Story of Dropbox's Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire"

https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...
> mechanical simplicity from when folks weren't concerned about maximizing efficiency, thin window frames and door pillars that would fare embarrassingly in a modern crash test, etc.

Immensely better for visibility, though. Which was actually a plus for safety compared to now, when a pedestrian can well be entirely hidden by your own windscreen pillar.
Ugh, such a cringeworthy and blatant lie. Serbia raged wars to prevent former Yugoslavia’s states gaining independence. They committed war crime such as the Srebrenica massacre. 8,000 Bosnian civilians were killed there by Serbians under UN’s watch. And not just Muslims Bosnians, many Croatians were the victims of the war as well. 13,000 civilians were killed in the Kosovo war, including more than 10,000 Albanians. Compared that to 500 Serbian civilians killed by NATO’s bombing.
There was many new node projects using MongoDB and I remember several failed, but details elude me.

There was a Slack competitor using MongoDB that was snappy and js hipster trendy that ultimately failed because of unreliable database IIRC.
Show HN: My TUI library can now export HTML and SVG screenshots of your terminal
I added a bit of context to the original title of "People You May Know. An FT Film written by James Graham", but there's probably a better 80-character title to be thought of.

"Watch the FT's Bafta-nominated film. We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An FT film starring Lydia West and Arthur Darvill in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate. An interrogation scene explores how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to track and trace, and the right to privacy and justice"
Yeah I largely agree. I don't think the aim should be to replace Google. A large part of the problem with our information access right now is that we have a google, when we could probably benefit from more disparate services for different needs.

Right now Google is tackling website discovery, fact retrieval, shopping, "what's the address for that site I sometimes visit", and so on, through the same search bar, mostly by guessing what you want based on your search terms. Like a swiss army knife, which is capable of many things but not great at any particular thing, I think this is in the end incredibly limiting. If two people search for "coffee", one of them wanting to find a place to buy it, and the next looking for information about the beverage; there can't be one best result. You get this weird dance where the search engine attempts to read your mind about what you want, and you're attempting to read its mind about which terms it expects to show you what you want. Very frustrating.

You can probably take any of these niches and make a superior product, something that isn't constrained to the search bar format.

Right now I'm really sort of down a rabbit hole of finding new formats for discovering and exploring websites. Previously I've built <https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random>, which led to the logical next step of <https://explore.marginalia.nu/>. They're just frivolous toys, but the more I dabble in this space the more I think there are viable alternatives to search bars and social bookmarking sites like Reddit and HN that deserve serious exploration.
Loveland Castle
That this war is getting so much attentions but other wars is not can seem and is in some sense unfair.

But there are geopolitical consideration which means that this war is of much higher interest to the west than any other war going on. Both EU and NATO has large combined land borders with Russian and Ukraine, and a war on their border is deeply problematic for both organizations, and their members. Which both organizations, and their members actions after the attack bears proof of.

If you look at Europe, the political changes around security policy and that many European countries that have prided themselves on not shipping weapons to war zone have reversed their long standing policies on not doing that, is staggering, and it is clear a seismic shift in policies is happening in Europe.

Then there is the fact that this is the fastest growing refuge crises since the second world war.

All of these and many other considerations is the reason why the war is the story now. It might seem unfair and racist, and in some sense it is, but it isn't the medias fault. The war in Ukraine is the big story because it affects more and has bigger implications.

Btw. Just to be crystal clear, I'm not arguing that the lack of interest in other wars are just, or right. I'm just arguing why there is a difference, and what the reasons for them are.
Because Russian troops put down a violent revolt just couple few months ago. It’s not unlikely Tokayev would had lost power without the Russian intervention (I won’t pretend I understand what actually happened there, the whole chain of events seemed pretty confusing).

It seems everyone had already forgotten that, though.
Beeper: All of your chats in one app
@nuvious Apparently, it ain't that simple. If you lump together all brain tumour types, you won't see much happening, but once you split the stats into tumour types an interesting picture emerges. The incidence of glioblastoma's increases at pretty much the same rate as more benign types decrease in incidence. What to make of that? Well, something ubiquitous in the environment seems to be "upgrading" benign tumours into aggressive malign tumours. UK scientists did some work on this, here: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2018/7910754/
Putin limited presidential power when exactly?
Considering that in preparation for the invasion of Ukraine Putin more or less emptied his NATO borders (Norway, Baltics) of troops, it seems that Putin in reality is not afraid of any NATO invasion. It's just political rhetoric.
That has nothing to do with unions though, obviously. If you look at any organisation you tend to see people who have been there a long time without moving upwards or onwards are pretty lazy people who know how to play the system. They don't need a union for that.

A lot of people who are anti-unions appear to think the union is the cause of everything bad without noticing the same things happen everywhere else as well. Keeping shitty staff around is much more a function of employers who don't track how good their staff are than anything to do with unionization.

Also, forming an opinion about unions based on one job that lasted 3 months with 10 co-workers, the majority of who were hard-workers, is appalling. That isn't anywhere near enough information. You really need to try harder.
Why the EU’s transfer of funds regulation is a thread to financial freedom?
I think that this is the reason why many countries will use the spur of the moment. Russia falling apart that publicly with such a weak leadership, that will become a hot summer allover the border regions.
The devils greatest achievement is taking God's one true gift, our rational mind, and convincing people they need to use faith, a direct rejection of our rational capabilities, do be close to God. So beautiful in its sublime deception. So powerful, it insidiously destroys the most intelligent minds.
Most conspiracy theories are too vulnerable to the usual screwups that happen in the real world (a large group needs to keep a secret for a long time), others are too obviously contradicted by things that we really know to be true.

The few where that isn't so are worth consideration.
E-ink works fine in sunlight and are fast enough for my needs but yes, RLCDs seem nice but they seem to have never caught on. I even wanted to get that pixel qi tablet back in the day but nothing ever went anywhere.

This [0] one looks far more reflexive than my Boox tablet; in some parts of the video it's definitely not practically viewable when the light source is on this thing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysbLlZmG9ik
> This war is only special because the media are putting it in our faces.

You don’t even have to do much work to understand that this is simply not true. 97 people were killed in Iraq, but probably tens of thousands of people were killed in Ukraine in the last month. It’s a two orders of magnitude difference just between these two numbers.

I honestly don’t understand how anyone can not see this unless they are actively trying not to see.
Grandpa Amu makes a bamboo rocking chair:
https://youtu.be/heVG8OlBhlE
You're missing one important thing - all of the countries controlled by Soviets wanted out. Life at the other side of Berlin wall was objectively better. It is true till today (see protests in Belarus after elections, and as the matter of fact - current war).

This line of argument assumes, that if NATO refrained from expansion, east Europe would be a happy Russian family. That's not true. I'm living in a post Soviet country and I find argument, that we were pawn played into joining NATO repulsive. We wanted to join NATO because it was only way to stop Russia from exploiting us. It came with tradeoffs of course, but it's not directly comparable in any way, shape or form.

Russian propaganda loves this narrative about "geopolitical goals", because it is making them look like equal peer being challenged by expanding west. This is not true. They are bully trying to keep control of their victims.
The American collective psyche has a history of mistrust long preceding the events you identify.

In the colonial and early republic there was huge mistrust of Catholics, Jews, Masons, Native Americans and African Americans - many thought they were plotting against them. Why? Because at least some of them - say Native Americans - may well have been in order to stop their land being taken away and their families being slaughtered.

In the nineteenth century, "International Bankers" (shorthand for rich Jews), and other rich businessmen - Carnegie, Morgan, Mellon, Rockefeller - all joined the ranks. There is substance in the idea that they literally conspired to create cartels in some circumstances, so this is not unfounded.

And then we get to the 20th century.

If I told you that 10 servicemen who were serving in Roswell in 1947 have come forward and said "yeah, there was a cover up, I didn't want to say anything earlier because I was worried about prosecution and losing my pension", and all their individual testimonies mostly collaborate you might think there was some evidence of a cover up. What if I then told you the actual number was higher? How many ex-USAAF service personnel would need to say "that was not a weather balloon, there was a cover up" would it take for you to re-think whether there was indeed a conspiracy? 50? 100? The actual number is... over 600.

600 people with no reason to lie are basically going around thinking "wow, my government is really keen on lying". Perhaps telling their families that there are dark, secret forces in this World.

Then a couple of decades later, we have the assassination of JFK. For you to accept the official government explanation of what happened on that day in Dallas, you have to believe in magic bullets and a small entry wound to the front of the head and a large exit wound to the rear of the head is caused by a bullet fired from the rear.

All this sits swirling around people's heads and then _actual_ conspiracies are proved completely true: CIA assassination plots, Watergate, and Iran-Contra.

If somebody tells you that the CIA would "never" do something shady, there is ample evidence that they can, do and will.

The reason Americans believe in conspiracies is because at various points in time there has been ample evidence of them and some of them are actually true. Some of them are just racism, or anti-semitism, or shock, but some of them _are actual conspiracies_.

As to your last sentence, and the wonder what it would take to restore trust. Well, quite simply, the true conspiracies need to stop happening, and that means governments need to stop needing reason to form them. In short, nothing less than total revolution, then.
> Cancelled

No, they didn't "cancel" your video. They removed it.
I think believing the propaganda for Russians is a matter of mental and physical self preservation. If you know it's a war and it's bad, what do you do? Remain silent - bad for mental health. Say or do anything about it - physically dangerous. It's easier and safer live in the comfortable "reality" presented by the propaganda, taking the attitude "just tell me what to believe so I will be safe"
In 2008.
https://github.com/pickfire/spt

Enjoy.
I interviewed with Shopify 1.5 years ago. It was one of the best interview processes. The recruiter was friendly and attentive and gave feedback readily. I always had a sense where I was in the process. Of course n=1, but it was one of the deciding factors for joining the company.
"“That’s why I believe..."

"Rogozin said Roscosmos’ proposals on when to end cooperation... would soon be reported to Russian authorities."

Ambiguous and vapid words.
What the Meadow Teaches Us
One reason why OpenCL 3.0 is basically OpenCL 1.2 rebranded, is because no one cared about SPIR profile.

OneAPI is focused on SYSCL, which is targeted at C++ and backend agnostic, it does nothing for Fortran, .NET, Java, Haskell, Rust, or any other language targeting PTX.

CUDA won thanks to embracing GPU polyglot programming and best in quality development tooling.

It is more a failure of the competition to uplevel their game than NVidia's own efforts.
From Polish perspective I'm extremely grateful to my parents generation for starting the collapse of the Soviet sphere and very quick and decisive pivot to the west. Especially, when compared to Ukraine. Poland and Ukraine had the same size economy in 1991. Last year Polish economy was 3 times bigger than Ukraine. Personally, I can travel, study and work wherever I want in EU with zero trouble. I was born in Poland, studied in Belgium and Netherlands, work in Belgium and live in Finland.

Russia is a terrible partner. Russia sympathizer in Ukraine brought destruction on that country from Russia. It's really tragic that Russia is obliterating people that considered themselves Russians living in Ukraine.

There is zero comparison between modern western projects and Russia imperialism that did not change in the last 300 years.
Close to the whole problem is that “city center” the development pattern ends at very short radius from the center in most metro areas (New York excepted), while “close to city center” the geographical fact continues on for several more miles that are currently developed as the suburban dream.

Most cities have a downtown core, and even some high-density housing in that downtown core, but so little of it that you can walk the whole thing in a few minutes.
The article is in Norwegian.
I saw the title of this post, once, twice... and thrice... I kind of sensed what was on the other side...I didnt want to click and read it because I was/am still going through the same grief.

I lost someone young in my family to Covid last year. The chilling words "We have lost him" came on Whatsapp as the entire country was in lockdown and we were in a different city. I cannot forget it and keep going over it, over and over again.

I am sharing this to let you know that this happens to a lot of us. This grief will not go away. I just relive it everyday for some time. I am also a workaholic so it helps that I dont have much time to think. Yes, lots of people talk about therapy, meditation and a lot of things but I have never found anyone who is suffering to have gotten help from these.

Just live with it, what cannot be cured must be endured.
Yeah 30 minutes to even an hour is about the limit - makes it feel epic but doesn’t make it boring (crossing the barrens on foot was a similar time).

But literally days of walking would be too much without something (either plot along the way or fast travel).
> it's not possible to bootstrap LLVM using LLVM

I don't understand, LLVM would be on the host machine under some Linux or Windows on x86 where the development happens, not on the QNX hardware anyways, no ? Unless for some reason one would want to port Mesa to have LLVMPIPE or something like this, but I have a hard time imagining the use case.
Why Qatar is done with saying sorry for human rights and equality issues
Given the wonders of the internet and the chatterverse, if you participate in something you’re indicating you support or at least are comfortable with the political or ethical position of the host. “I didn’t know” doesn’t work anymore. ‘Course, participants might just be soulless folks in it for the money, but then that’s know as well.
I don't think it was fringe. There was the patriot act and secret courts and all that stuff. There were even people who tried to expose this stuff but failed because of a catch-22: to sue the govt for spying on you, you had to show standing, which you couldn't do, because the govt was secretly spying on you.

That being said, I think a lot of people didn't believe in this stuff, which I guess makes it sort of fringe, but I think it was more like there was an attitude of laziness, technical ignorance, and a lot of nationalism to catch the terrorists.
How about stdlog?
it has a roof. look at the link posted in another comment
> images from real (noisy, low-res) cameras

But these won't compress well _losslessly_ in principle, would they?

Or did you manage to find a format that did in fact work well?
I think the point in the design space makes more sense for game textures than sensor input. When you consider the encoding primitives, it'll only do well on images which have a mix of (a) limited palette, (b) blocks of constant color and (c) smooth gradients.

Reencoding JPGs may not be too bad because of the way DCT creates little blocks of gradients and chroma subsampling reducing local color entropy, but ISTM it'll do best on images generated by humans with drawing tools.

The decode speed is another big point in favour of usage in games.
Russia will think many times over before attacking another country now.

Everybody has seen how actually weak their army is. Before that, counties and people were afraid of them mostly because of soviet era fame. Now they've shown they are incapable on anything except missile hits with a great failure rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
> I did read a while ago that a war on on mainland china would be expected to be fought largely underground.

I assume they mean it will be fought between two dudes in an underground bunker for the last can of food. It is hard to imagine how an outside attack against mainland China could lead to anything but nuclear escalation.
JC Denton and Lara Croft immediately sprang to mind for me. Both excellent exhibits of “hup” vocalizations.
Yeah, and that’s unfortunate. I do still think that’s a different problem to solve than what to do with conspiracy theorists, but I’m sure there’s some grey area there.
My father died almost a year ago today and I feel nothing. I have zero motivation and I’m not interested in anything or anyone. I can barely get my work done everyday because I don’t give a shit. If I didn’t have a wife and kids I’d definitely be out wandering the Appalachian trail or working the grill in a Waffle House in some nothing town just hiding from myself.