skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Serbs had bad PR at the time, having been seen to be responsible for some pretty awful things. I'm not saying they didn't do them, I'm emphasising that it depends on whether the west sees you as a bad guy like Saddam. Only after the bad guy level does it matter who you actually are in terms of proximity to Western culture. The Nazi regime were also Christian bad guys.
I am hoping EdgeDB heads this direction to some extent.
not OP, but in general in Central Asia, Russian influence pervades every aspect of life, especially in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan - it feels like living in a Russian province... perhaps this is a bit less tue in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (at least culturally, but still very strong link economically).

There is a push of Central Asian people toward a form of de-colonial thinking and praxis, but in my humble opinion, it's another colonization with a different color - from the west.
Yes, it's true, but uncomfortable for people in power to talk about, so that fits my definition above.

Other true things like slavery being bad, the reasons for the civil war, rich people getting away with terrible crimes while poor people were killed for minor infractions, Nazis targeting trade unions, kings being dictators, royal families often being foreign parasites, human races not actually existing and so on fall into this weird realm as well.
If you look at some PRs on elementary's GitHub, you will see that neither Cassidy James nor Danielle were cranking out mountains of code at any point in time. Both were involved in reviews and UX decisions, Cassidy seemed a bit more in charge of communications lately, but the majority of elementary OS code has come from volunteers for as long as I've followed its development.
Opposite here. My office had people wearing dress pants and dress or polo shirts. I decided to add a tie. I was taken aside and told not to do that since it made me seem out of touch with the culture. Seemed like a pretty small step up from the based line to me. So much for dress for the job you want, or next job up BS...
what highly critical comments so far. Every stipulated problem resonates so well for me. I don't really care what the solution is or will be, they are addressing the right problem imo, which is overlooked in the CI/builder space.

So many days are wasted for me because of the ridiculous back and forth to the buildserver when adding or changing automation. My experience is mostly with Gitlab, and I dare to say it's an absolute business strategy for them to lock you in, into the buildserver. They've had the option to use local build runners, but that one lacks fundamental functionality which results in you having to change the Yaml file locally, temporarily, just to extrapolate templates and such. It's horrible. There are so many tickets asking for feature parity for this local-runner and the actual runner on the build server; it's simply ignored or false promises are made. Afaics, Github actions won't do any better.

I do expect Dagger integrates well with Gitlab such that I can download logs, artifacts and such from the Gitlab UI. But
I'm afraid if something like Dagger catches on, the existing CI platforms will gatekeep functionality through pure yaml instead of allowing API calls from your pipeline. That would mean something like dagger will have to rely on compiling to a backend language, probably YAML. However, when did the 'one-ring-to-rule-them-all' approach ever work?

So, basically my question is, what's the incentive for the current CI providers to play nicely? And isn't it trying to follow multiple moving targets?
>From Germany it is closer to Kiew than to Rome

False. It's ~1210 km from Berlin to Kiev and it's 1180 km from Berlin to Rome. If we are to take closest points between territories, the difference becomes much bigger.

Also it's ~1000 km from Berlin to Belgrad and I do not remember a similar outcry during the NATO invasion.

>How can we stop the murdering Russian/Saudi/Talian regimes if their people can't seem to find the power to do it themselves?

Right after the US and EU citizens will be able to stop numerous invasions by their governments with much higher death tolls.
Georgia and Moldova are on the same path as Ukraine, they want to be members of the EU.

All three countries are outside of NATO and EU, so they will have no one daring help them against a Russian invasion.

Putin has shown that he is willing to take on 44 million Ukrainians with the invasion of Ukraine, so it's impossible to know if Georgia and Moldova are also on the list.

Any country not a member of any defense pact are at risk, so membership of the EU is a sound but also dangerous choice.

A regime change in Russia would of course change the dynamics, but that outcome seems highly unlikely.
Do you offer your work for free? It‘s a fair comparison for EU+US market in my eyes.

For EU customers data export has to be possible
To be fair, both Iraq wars were major, major news. But Iraq and Afghanistan dragged on for a decade plus, Americans got war fatigue. Reminds me of Fahrenheit 451, where the people are so distracted by entertainment, that the news of imminent war barely moves them emotionally.

“We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard rumors; the world is starving, but we’re well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much? I’ve heard the rumors about hate, too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don’t, that’s sure!”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Sweden had one too

https://travelblogeurope.com/deep-inside-cold-war-aircraft-h...
Disclaimer: I'm new to SEO so I might have done something wrong

I submitted a sitemap to Google Search Console and they indexed all my blog articles... except for the one about using Plausible instead of Google Analytics
Honestly Facebook (StackBook? BookOverflow?) theme is much more legible for my eyes than SO default theme.
Or they'll assume you're leaving and choose not to compete to retain you. Then all the bonus etc gets funneled to the other coworkers.
A large red button that you can slap with gusto seems appropriate, especially for finishing excercise, but anything that can be incorporated into the activity is good.
Neither of which use -0 suffix, however, which I believe to be GGGP's point.
Some honest stabs in the past have been crushed, which has contributed to stagnation. You also don't have to "beat" them, to make a difference and contribution. Not everyone aspires to take over the world. Cooperation can help us; happy to explore with anyone.
The problem of NP/PA is not in the design or scalar length of education. It is in the credentialing. MDs have to take MCAT and step exams, which I know weed out many people. From my understanding, there is a relatively very low barrier to entry for NP/PA.

As a side note, the physician credentialing process of the US is far too long.
> What's the probability you are optimising though?

The probably of me or my kids receiving a correct diagnosis.

To clarify, my intention was to specifically respond to

> Why the assumption that they're worse?

I have others views on healthcare credentialing on a societal scale.
In fact, powerlifting and bodybuilding are notorious for being money drains for people who are competing but aren't in a very tiny proportion of top performers.
According to the 2020 Rust Survey[0], a decent amount. The majority is on stable rust, but a bit less than a third of rust users are on nightly.

The company I work at uses a pinned nightly rust in order to access some soon-to-be-stabilized features that simplify our life a bit. We update our pinned nightly in lockstep with stable rust releases. In practice, we've almost never had problems with using nightly rust - those are still very well tested, and problems are caught early and fast. The Rust test suite is quite thorough!

However, we do try to avoid using features that don't have a clear trajectory towards stabilization, so for us to consider thread_locals, we'd need to have some very solid proof that it would fix some critical performance problems.

I suspect every org will have their own policy, and while the majority will use stable rust, it's not like nightly rust is completely unthinkable.

[0]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/12/16/rust-survey-2020.html
way too overpriced for such poor HW, it is a way for China to sell its tech junk, no thanks

For cheaper, you can get a Steam Deck ($399), and a case with a physical keyboard (probably $50)
Sweet spot, actually.
I'm willing to bet that once the current generation of top level Linux hackers retires, Linux development will be reformed.
The text does not mention, in my opinion, the most toxic status game: moral superiority.

If choosing money leads to working all the time, and beauty to mental problems, choosing moral superiority leads to what you started out fighting against - an immoral person.

This, in my opinion, happens through radicalization, which is a result of the fight to be "more ideologically pure" than others.

The worst thing is, this game seems to be the dominant status game of the western society right now. And we thought the "who has more money" was bad. We should have counted our blessings.

Nothing is worse than a fervent believer in the pureness of their own moral standing, who decides that yours is lacking. I used to, wrongly, believe that this level of fervent belief in ones own moral superiority only happens among the religious (with the well documented atrocities that follow). But, unfortunately, political ideology is not much different.
modern warfare is about mobility and firepower, tunneling will be to slow.
The ambiguity of language drives machines and people trying to learn it nuts. The context (such as the voice) conveys a whole lot of the meaning. “Polish polish”. Is this a typo or a bottle of furniture oil from Warsaw? “Let’s eat grandma”. Is this missing punctuation or the plot summary or a cheap horror flick?

This has to drive those into programming bonkers as it’s diametrically opposed to the precision needed to create and describe code.
Since being wrong is so low impact, we should have no problems entertaining crazy ideas then. Midwit Redditors who derive an inordinate amount of satisfaction from being correct all the time are ultimately stunted by their pride. When you've got a big beautiful brain, you understand that thinking is free and there's literally nothing wrong with shotgunning every schizo theory you come across and letting things work themselves out.
“Can’t be proven” and “can be disproven” are not the same thing. There’s a whole range of concepts that are unfalsifiable, and religion is the typical example of this.
So, we officially rolled back on the "capitalism" will reform authoritarians theory?

Do those political science papers and books get retracted?

Do those who propagated this nonsense for years do public apologys?

Will professors who carriers road on this dead horse leave universitys and grants?

Does the end of history have a shelf life?
Lending a whole new meaning to “take my toys and go home”…
There is some general FUD for using CC licenses for code. The CC0 works for code but is a lot more complicated then 0BSD.
Disagree. The conflict in Donbas was started when Russian forces helped those who wanted to take up arms against Ukraine.

Had there been no Russian help, things would look very different.

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas
Western imperialist democracies can be bad (foreign policy, war mongering to extend their reach, racism, white supremacy) without autocracies and dictatorships being any better. It's just that there's a small chance of western democracies developing towards more progressive, scientific and less nationalist, religious and isolationist as younger demographics challenge the status quo, even if it takes multiple decades or even centuries for such changes to have gained majority support. People are often lazy, fearful, prone to group think and are easily swayed by charismatic populist preachers. Such changes are almost impossible without democracies because all opposition can easily be crushed before it reaches critical mass by state violence.

(I'm aware of how western imperialists fight progress in the shadows via subversion, abuse of secret service powers, coups and disruption of opposition groups.)

There are definitely better concepts than current democracies on paper but most haven't been tested in production/reality at nation state scale but without some sort of democracy in place, state power will reside with only the elite oligarchy, noble families and strong leaders that will do anything to protect their power and wealth.

You don't stop writing tests and fixing bugs for your application even if you're aware that perfection is impossible to reach (give up on democracy because of its inherent flaws) because letting the rot fester will lead to collapse.
Essentially good compression needs prediction. Here the previous pixels are used but it seems only from the row. Given that this is a linear decompression (not a progressive) it would help a lot to instead of looking just at the row, also look at the above row where the other previously seen neighbor pixels are. With something like arithmetic coding and only the previously seen neighbor pixels as prediction contexts with some tweaking one can quickly get better compression than PNG offers. Doing this in a short C implementation is left to the reader ;)
Tldr I think this project is delightful and that I am a target user who will be downloading this and giving it a try today.

I've only ever watched Been Easter do some 6502 assembly on his YouTube videos, but not did it demystify the scary machine language for me, especially since he did it after building an entire 8 bit computer starting with just a D flip flop. It makes me want to program my boring line of business application in vhdl then have a custom circuit board printed haha.

But since that is rather crazy, I'm watching projects like this to wear my way into assembly language programming.

Sidenote, I wonder what it is about assembly programs that triggers antivirus software so much.

Granted malware has probably been written with assembly before, but that shouldn't mean an entire programming language stack should have to constantly submit false positive reports.
This is beautiful. What do they do when it rains?

It sounds like this is a functional building, it’s a welcome center, but is anyone here familiar with Vietnamese culture, or the culture of this region of Vietnam? What would the locals do if it started raining while they’re inside?
My preferred image format looks like:

byte 0-3: magic code
byte 3-10: 64-bit index into global decoder table
byte 11-...: compressed data

The global decoder table is maintained by a standards organization. For every occupied index, it contains a piece of WebAssembly code that decodes the data and produces an image and metadata. Advantage: no more dealing with various image formats and installing decoders libs; there is just 1 format that can be tuned to specific uses and it will be available hundreds of years into the future. The WebAssembly code can be hand-optimized into native code (or even hardware) for frequently used decoders. The only downside is that you might occasionally need to access the central code repository over the internet to download a decoder.
Improving the Performance of our Rust app
They have refused to recognize Crimea and the Donbas as independent entities as requested by Russia. They are definitely moving away from being beholden to Russia.
Chi Network (DAO)
I agree. Just wondering, would chemtrails classify as easily falsifiable?
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Some people think that a short and simple license keeps lawyers away. It's the very opposite.

There's a good reason why GPL and contracts for renting an apartment, buying a car etc are so long: it's to reduce ambiguity.
If the original comment said 'it would not be language evolving [normally]...'

As opposed to 'organically' would you still have an issue understanding?

Assume here that normal is a linguistic approximation to the mathematical idea of arithmetic mean. It could also be replaced with the word typically.

In this context, your notion of a top down demand that blue means red or vice versa, is not 'organic' evolution, it's guided. Closer to the dog than the wolf.
Not commenting on tailscale, but for the state of databases.

Sometimes boring is the right choice.
PostgreSQL has worked for decades now, and seems to have regained much of the performance that MySQL once boasted.

If you do this for the money, investing in tried and true (but boring) software should be the default solution.

I watched with dread how the MongoDB fiasco played out a decade ago. Meanwhile, I kept using PostgreSQL and had a good ride.
> What links these is a strong perception of betrayal by government that has failed in its duty through corruption and preference for private power interests.

What if I told you that all governments are similarly corrupt, and that the USG (arguably, Western governments in general) is one of the least corrupt by reasonably objective measures. Let's not fall for this trite divisive propaganda dating back to old KGB psyops, that has now taken a zombie life of its own (like in the best Hollywood stinker movies).
“Low prices on toothpast”

Ads with text interpolation are hilarious
The US and CIA have almost zero interest in building stable prosperous and independent democracies. As long as foreign government serves their agenda it does not matter whether it's a democracy or not (Saudi Arabia, the Shah regime in Iran, Pinochet in Chile, autocratic government in South Korea during Cold War). And if a democracy does not follow the US will, well, it's worse for that democracy (see Muslim Brotherhood overthrown by military coup in Egypt and two unconstitutional power changes in Ukraine).
Robotic dog will be on patrol in Pompeii
It seems like it is, but it's not new either.

Eg. This was co-ed with their president 11 years ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kazakhstans-steady-p...

Many signs that they have good-will for democracy, but I don't think it's easy in their position ( member of the CSTO and in Russia's "sphere of influence").

I have seen signs that they aren't just a puppet of Russia for example and I wasn't sure what was going on. But the article somewhat explained it.
Albert Einstein photobombing family members (1938)
You realize that you can do such a format with HTML? And ‘print’ to PDF if you wish?

Truly my bafflement is infinite as to why people keep dragging in PDF when all they make is a bunch of text with maybe a few images or tables. My guess is, those people just hate and wish constant suffering upon everyone who doesn't have a 14" portrait-oriented screen nor has to fumble with paper.

Asking for PDF is also bitterly ironic in the context of QOI.
One of the many ways history is repeating the 30’s in Europe. It’s not too much of a stretch to see where the 20’s were repeated as well, along with the crash and the start of the nightmare years (pace Shirer).

Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it.

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.
The median American also wants stricter gun laws, supports same sex marriage & opposes civil forfeiture.

It’s almost like the median American is pretty down the middle on political issues.
A couple of days ago there was a similar discussion on Italian television and one of the politicians there was asking questions similar to yours.

Incredibly enough, the TV host interrupted him and said "but they (the Ukraininans) are like us!". They are like us! "They are European brothers", he added. I don't understand how you have the courage to say something like this on TV: if you don't have a better argument keep your mouth shut.

He immediately tried to retract it, saying that he was referring to geographical distance. Of course, when he was made aware that we also bombed Libya, which is way closer to Italy than Ukraine is, he didn't know what to say then.
> How can we stop the murdering Russian/Saudi/Talian regimes if their people can't seem to find the power to do it themselves?

Well first by ensuring there are channels and means for them to get out of the news cycle that keeps so many believing that everything is a-okay.

The massive exit from Russia for entities not covered by sanctions and so many of the senseless actions(TikTok dance to stop the war, banning Russian cats from shows, freedom fries 2.0 with Moscow mule), this basically has only strengthened the power of the news cycle in Russia, made it more credible that there is a conspiracy against Russians. Many Russians that did leave to neighboring countries survive only because of the Mir payment network (Russia's card payment system), those within Russia can't even circumvent the news cycle because they can't get access to VPN services to bypass restrictions.

There are a lot of people who want change in Russia and they need to convince those stuck in the news cycle. But now they can't and increasingly, it looks like the Russian systems support them through this event and the Russian systems alone.

The claimed intent is to punish the government and send a message; all it's done is punish ordinary people who do protest and do work to do exactly what those behind the sanction actions want.

The world is awash in propaganda and feel good moves, and ultimately it just harms the goal of stoppinh such behavior by removing the only power they had to do so in the first place.

I dont think you meant it as a judgement, but try to imagine being in the position where you're expected to enact change, and every resource you'd usually use to do so is taken from you because "you need to learn a lesson". What are people supposed to do?
Including a futureproof decoder in every single image is a huge filesize overhead though. Or maybe I don't exactly understand your proposal.
Same here. 15 years. It's a loss I'll never get over. It will be sadder if I do.
> The source of wealth is labor. The people who make stuff will have an advantage because they will have leverage and position due to chronic interdependency. This is nothing new or even complex at it's core.

“Making” order from disorder is also making stuff. A predictable society with overall working courts and trustable populations is a resource in and of itself. Hence the value of the USD, Euro, etc and foreign oligarchs parking their wealth and spending time living in developed countries.
> The big question is why we aren't capable of acting together to stop this war

Nuclear weapons. It's nuclear weapons. The answer to every "why is..." question here is 1,588 ready to deploy nuclear weapons and 2,889 in reserve.
Their timing is shit, with spacex able to take up some of the slack their bargaining position is weaker. Plus if they ISS does have to be abandoned the other nations could afford a replacement, Russia will be lucky if they can afford to launch any rockets without someone else (western nations or companies) footing part of the bill. China and India have their own space agencies and no one will want to tie themselves to russian technology which is a) almost 50 years old and b) is used as a bargaining chip in international relations. Thus is likely the death of the Russian space age.
Me and the team at https://spike.sh are incident management nerds. Its rare to find people interested in this practice. I usually keep my ears to the ground finding Incident management nerds, its not easy though.

Open to collaborate on content, practices, experiments, and in general of how different engineering and non-engineering teams across the world instill and follow incident management practices.