skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you suppose should have happened? Especially in regards to strategic arms which are discussed in the thread?

I think the implication is that some of the problems the Russian military has had in Ukraine could be indications of systemic issues (e.g. neglecting basic maintenance even before a planned war, like the tire thing I linked below). Maybe their nuclear forces don't have those issues, but maybe they do.

However, personally, I wouldn't bet on those issues continuing (even if they in fact do), because it's more risky to underestimate and become overconfident.
Engineers pave way for next-gen deep ultraviolet lasers
Will Trump come back? Will there be a donate-dogecoin button? Will Elon soon loose interest? Time will tell ...
Yeah I didn't infer from this video that the game would be 3D in the sense of camera movement, just graphical engine.

And wow, Weird West's graphics look interesting.
They were wrong about a crapload of things. They completely censored the Biden Laptop story and called it Russian propaganda. Twitter and facebook banned accounts that posted links to the story, for example. Just because you don't want to believe it doesn't mean it isn't true.
AMD acknowledges TPM bug causing stuttering issues
> while you’re (illegally) seizing their property

This is nonsense. Gazprom Germania attempted an illegal transfer of ownership. From what I can tell, Germany isn't appropriating anything. It's just seizing control in a regulatory measure.
The protagonist is so addicted to the Internet that he's willing to do literally anything to be able to use it again. If that's not a relatable motivation, I don't know what is.
The moment you aren’t fascinated by software, the sheer magic of it, that’s when I would throw in the towel.
This seems like a silly post on first reading, but actually thinking about it, that would mean the first amendment actually applies to Twitter right? In which case it would actually mean government can't interfere with it?

It's an interesting mind exercise. What happens with blatant spamming, or bots, is the government allowed to interfere with those? Or does the 1st amendment block that too?
>The whole crux of the matter is that we don't know in advance what pays off.

Yeah we all know that. My post was sensitive to that. You're not wrong, but there is a cost to that.

>I take it you wouldn't have funded a patent clerk in Switzerland in 190x

Please cite sources on Einstein getting funding for his research from the government. I do not believe that happened, at least not while anything was theoretical. His PhD advisor worked for free, and Einstein published multiple significant papers on his own accord.

He was later paid by the government to take his theory and make the most out of it in reality, which is what resulted in the development of the weapons that won the world war.

So before you dismiss what I am saying for being a bit counter to the typical narrative about science funding - please be aware that what you want is what Germany did in that situation. Which was continue to develop theories of new fringe ideas instead of taking the new golden goose egg that was discovered and making something useful out of it right away
It's less about package versions (which are indeed versioned on a per-project basis in sane ecosystems - python being a notable exception) and more about versions of the language toolchain itself. e.g. you might want one project on Java 17 and another on Java 8. These tools allow you to seamlessly switch between those.
Sure you can, it's just limited - like with North Korea.
I’d say you have to know your audience but it seems to work fine here. Plenty of self hosted blog posts make it to the front page of HN. I don’t see anyone writing for the broader masses and maybe that’s more the type of writing you think will be quashed, but writing for a niche seems to proliferate to the specialty sites just fine.
It was nice to have it back, though I hope they will stick to that 5 year gap. On day 2, the streaming community at large caught up with the project and there were a lot of "wars" happening for space. If you are a small Reddit community, you don't stand a chance against 300,000 people using Tampermonkey to recreate a gigantic drawing in 10 seconds.

Having said that, I also hope that the next time it does happen - Reddit developers will implement at least some protection against this kind of brigading. I wouldn't be surprised it was also the reason they decided to wipe out the whole thing in the end.
Every nuclear disaster is unique yet nobody is willing to bet on any of them being the last. Fukushima was also unique in that it caused coal usage to skyrocket in Japan - a problem Germany is not currently suffering from.

To me, the way to prove that something ISNT safe is to shout loudly about how safe it is and to absolutely refuse to shoulder the costs of anything going wrong.

This is what the nuclear industry does and the government backs them.
The author of this blog is Fefe who is known for his strong pro-Russian bias.

He told the world up until February 23rd that everybody was dumb to believe that Russia would invade. I would not believe anything Fefe says on his blog, ever. He dips into conspiracy theories time and time again and when he gets proven wrong he just says that it was meant to be "media competency training".
Been a happy Sidekiq Pro customer for years.
EU was sanctioning Russia, and cut off sources of income (advertising and eyeballs) to a Russian state media organization. Not because they didn't want people to look at the content, but because they are going along with sanctions.
Why assume this list is hardcoded? It's possible/likely it's controlled by an API (ultimately through a web frontend) and stored on a machine devs don't even have permission to access... that's pretty par for the course for Amazon. The person who coded that functionality, and the person who has credentials to edit the list are likely not one in the same.

(The exception would be, when the person who coded the API goes on-call. Still there's lots of checks and balances there and any such change would be quickly undone.)
Semantle is like the Dark Souls of Wordle
I have the exact opposite experience. Nix is the best solution out there especially in the sort of situations that you describe.

Nix provides a level of flexibility that other solutions simply do not offer. If a package in Nix doesn't fit your requirements for whatever reasons, you can create a modified version of a package with ease. For example, say that you need a version of Nginx built against a custom version of OpenSSL. You can do just that with a few lines of code:

let
mypatch = pkgs.fetchpatch {
url = "https://example.com/bugfix-for-openssl.patch";
sha256 = "...";
};

openssl = pkgs.openssl.overrideAttrs (old: {
# add build flags
configureFlags = old.configureFlags ++ [ "--enable-foo" ];

# add dependencies
buildInputs = old.buildInputs ++ [ pkgs.foo ];

# add patches
patches = old.patches ++ [ mypatch ];
});
in
nginx.override { inherit openssl; }

Nix will even know which packages it'd need to build locally instead of downloading a prebuilt binary.

You can't do that with other common package managers. You're stuck with whatever the package manager provides you. So if you're not in the happy path, you're out of luck. You'd either have to give up or build from scratch. If you need a bugfix for a particular package, you'd have wait until the fix reaches the package repository. When I was using Ubuntu, that was often until the next major release. None of this stuff is a problem with Nix, which allows for customization with very little effort.

It's easy to learn about Nix if you know where to look for. Nix Pills [1] would be a good start. The core language is the easiest part. It's JSON, but with functions and variables for proper abstraction. The documentation, while imperfect, is quite extensive compared to a majority of other high profile open source projects. If the documentation fails you, the Nixpkgs repository [2] is an even more rich source of information. The code is well organized, and I was able to get familiar with writing Nix packages fairly quickly by grepping the codebase. And finally, Nix has a sizable community so you could always ask if you're stuck.

[1]: https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/

[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
I think an easy trap with nix is the immediate desire to have it manage everything, which usually involves installing NixOS. It's the equivalent of being airdropped into the Romanian countryside with working knowledge of French. I am trying to adapt nix for use with some teams I'm consulting on, and my goal is to make its usage as dead simple as possible for really high value tasks.

I also feel like nix is immediately tangible and beneficial in a way that makes us want to get to the power user level, but I don't feel like wanting to learn, say, kubernetes means one automatically wants to learn to be a cluster operator. The scope and complexity are great, and I have experienced all of the things you have described as well. Now that I am fairly confident in my abilities, I think it's important to make sure we find ways to help everyone get the most out of it, even if it doesn't involve scaling the wall that is the learning curve.
> The lame social media posts from fellow tech workers about how things "should" be regulated gets tiresome. The real solution is to simply not work for them.

Just like Twitter can ban Donald Trump for using certain phrases (Steal, Election), so can Amazon ban certain words. They’re both private corporate entities.

Exactly as you said, if you don’t like it, move elsewhere.
Let's not pretend that this is just about progressivism (though it's not like even Progressive ideas were ever exempt from being highly problematic: eugenics anyone?). You could find plenty of literal tankies posting on Twitter before Putin made the whole 'tankie' thing rather unpopular.
Also, "money doesn't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes"
(Analrapist)

"Oh! It's pronounced uh-nalll-rupist!"

"I wasn't concerned with its pronunciation."
> That peace of mind is peace

Kanye has peace of mind?
The Sprawl trilogy and its fashion/world is formed a lot by politics. Gibson himself says that Neuromancer is an exaggerated critique of Reaganomics and the problems it exasperated (or, at the very least, failed to address). The rampant drug abuse, sovereign corporations, the ever increasing gap of poverty and technology -- I think a lot of derivative media adopts these elements to look cool (without actually understanding their context or meaning).
Show HN: BigSearch – More than any ordinary multi-engines web searcher can do
This browser extension even works with websites that don't provide GET/POST interface (so-called Ajax-render websites). User can "send search request" to those websites just like to any working general search engine.
This is very interesting, my own workflow is with shotwell + darktable but shotwell is a bit too limited for my usage.
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>a tax on people who can't do math.

The national lottery in the UK sends about 25% of the money to charities, so for some it's a form of charitable giving. Also what the other commenter said about dreaming.
I hope people do realize what it means. It is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_genocide loud and clear.

It will put everything that has happened in Ukraine into completely different framework.

Please also keep in mind that this is not something new. This paper just reflects what Russian general opinion has been prepared for years.
I would be totally unsurprised if it was profitable to manipulate the Dow to a specific open price in order to win lotteries. I think it would be better to go with +10 min from open
>> no artifact would be worth my own personal liberty or reputation regardless of how it was obtained.

Exactly. But for many people possession of such artifacts is seen as protection against jail. Certain European organized crime figures have used the "return of cultural treasures" as a bargaining chip in plea negotiations. Possession of stolen art, or at least knowledge of where it is hidden, can reduce one's time in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/what-is-the-valu...

"A prison sentence, for instance, might be reduced in some jurisdictions in exchange for a criminal’s help in retrieving a missing Monet. In effect, an unframed canvas, easier to move across borders than its equivalent in cash or drugs, acts as a high-value and extremely pretty bank note."

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/10/13/steal-and-repeat-...

"In other examples, it appears that anticipating the authorities catching up with them is exactly the reason why such prime works are appealing to criminals. “One thing I’m seeing more of is the use of such stolen works as a bargaining chip for [reducing] sentences,” says Robert Read, the head of art and private clients at Hiscox. “This trend was noted about a decade ago, but as sentencing gets more creative in the courtroom, it would appear that criminals are viewing it as more of an opportunity—in this case the more publicity and better known a work, the better.”"
Twitter stock up 30% on the week.
I first read about regular reviews in David Allen's "Getting things Done", I think.

I agree though, a periodic project review is a must.

I also find scheduled "brain dump" check list super helpful. Basically, a bunch of questions amounting to "what am I forgetting", by listing all the generic categories I'm responsible for (like "Am I forgetting to pay a bill", "are there any house maintenance items outstanding"). Allows me to unload anything that I'm unconsciously holding on to in my working memory.
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

― Bob Dylan

I aspire to this and to help others do the same.
(Slight spoiler) The issue they found there was that the actual lottery draw was fine, it was the database that contained all the tickets purchased which was being tampered with
We're always one whoopsie away from a war, and some of us (i'm from the balkans) have had a few whoopsies not that long ago here and not that far from my location.

Globally speaking, in the same time, US (and nato and other "allies") attacked quite a few other countries, iraq, afghanistan, syria, libya, they're bombing somalia, bombed pakistan, etc., and none of the media was blocked back then.

Even the taliban are allowed to maintain their twitter accounts ( https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-twitter-allows-taliban-ma... ).

And now, we're blocking RT, for what?
don't forget the speed addiction!
Money gives you freedom to pursue your happinness.
Now consider that Germany has a huge dependency not only on the supply side to China but also on the demand side for machinery equipment and vehicles. In addition, we have a huge dependency on the US for national security.

So we are dependent on Russia for Energy, on China for Manufacturing and industrial demand of our most important industrial sectors and are protected by the US from a National Security point of view.

The army is a national laughing stock, the car industry is begging to be disrupted, and chinese equipment and machinery companies have completed their IP theft programs and are now almost at par from an innovation level.

All while international media hailed Merkel and her useful idiots for their international leadership.
> Is anyone under an illusion that Gazprom in Russia will honor these contracts, now that their branch was seized?

In this case because both parties need it (for now) even through currently neither of them wants it. (Russia needs the money, Germany the Gas, if Russia could afford it they would already have cut of Gas to destabilize Germany. If Germany could afford it they would already have cut payments to force Russia to stop the war.)

Also I think some people misunderstand what sizing means in this context it doesn't mean "hey this is now ours" but is much more subtle and complex, and most important temporary by nature.
Informative function signatures, allowing programmers to add per-function documentation, and tooling that displays those things are by no means limited to staticly typed languages.

I guess knowing allowed types for each parameter is informative (more if very specific types are used rather than string or integer), but documentation usually specifies that anyway. And even knowing all the types isn't usually enough without documentation.

My point is just that I've used plenty of libraries in dynamically typed languages without needing to read the source. And conversely, I've occasionally needed to look at the source of a function in a staticly typed language, to answer some question not answered by the types and documentation.
Switzerland's historical approach to banking is closer to Guernsey's, and a local resident of Guernsey could open a USD/EUR account at their local branch.

But for what it's worth, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and NatWest offer these accounts, and more banks offer them to businesses.

https://wise.com/gb/blog/multi-currency-accounts-you-can-ope...
Having half a dozen cables on my desk that I need to connect to my laptop every time I sit down would be a pain, and also a huge mess on my desk.

Having USB-A ports would make no difference here, I want to deal with LESS cables, not DIFFERENT ones.
Gotta start with rewriting all of those programs that were rewritten in Rust.
> 'EuroDollar' came about after the invasion of Hungary in 1956

The first known eurodollar account was opened in France for China during the Korean War, in 1949 [1]. The phenomenon is a result of the Marshall Plan, which left lots of physical dollars overseas and thus outside U.S. jurisdiction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar#History
> I don't agree with 20 years warranty, many things like batteries and capacitors just don't last that long

Some capacitors can last just as long depending on their specs. For batteries, it's more complicated but longer warranty would probably incentivize R&D for durable batteries instead of smaller/stronger batteries, which would be a great win for the environment (see also: supercapacitors).

But the point is most devices are designed to be thrown away, not repaired. If your devices had apparent screws, and easy-to-replace parts, it could be repaired very easily by any skilled laborer (preferably as a public service, but it could also come from a local private workshop). Unfortunately, i don't know a single way to incentivize manufacturers to produce easy-to-repair products apart from extending warranty significantly: when they hold the responsibility to do repair on 100% of units not just the 0.1% people actually care to return (which will likely be replaced not repaired), they may be interested to make stuff easier to repair for everyone else.
Sure, maybe it's just gross incompetence. But since websites can't detect root, as long as they're allowed to accept and save credit card numbers, there's never a legitimate reason for native apps to need to detect root to do so.
are tankies progressive? I think their primary axiom is hating America.

Either way, I agree that there's a range of legitimate discourse and it shouldn't just be the current flavour of progressivism. I was more cutting out a negative exception for the far right than a positive exception for libsocs.
The design with those dual mezzanine connectors was bad to begin with. So much so that Hirose put out a design document saying "please don't do this because the tolerance stackup is impossible".

https://www.hirose.com/ja/product/document?clcode=CL0684-404...
Probably true, but somewhere between 2015 and 2020 netflix was a pretty dominant monopoly - at least in my area.

Controlled viewing comparable to directTV / OnDemand was the main selling point. Being able to binge an entire show at will. Breaking Bad hitting its peak. I think they would have gotten away with it
Welcome to Your Bland New World of Consumer Capitalism (2020)
I'll let you know if I ever figure that out.

In the mean time, I will die a lot sooner if I do not work a job I find no fulfillment in so I can afford to survive and do the things in life I don't hate doing.
Java tooling already provided that and it’s trivial to install multiple JDK versions on a system. I probably have 4. Most IDEs have a dropdown to pick the one you want, there are CLI tools for it too, and overall it’s about as complex as a $PATH variable.

It’s also possible to install multiple versions of Python on a system. The dependency management is the real problem — having more than one version of a runtime is not the hard part.
This is pretty sweet!

There isn't enough information about larger/heavier but greener battery technology that would be suitable for grid/home storage without the environmental costs associated with the rare earth stuff needed for transportation.
Early cyberpunk tends to be power fantasy wrapped in dystopia. So, Hellblazer with more blinking lights and megacorps instead of demons.

And it bears remembering that Gibson was 34 when he wrote Neuromancer.

You can see a shift in his characterization by the time he gets to Mona Lisa Overdrive (a book and 4 years later). And certainly with the subsequent Bridge trilogy. IMHO, the Sprawl trilogy that starts with Neuromancer gets better with each book, even though the first is the most famous.

Also, plug for Void Star, which I recently finished after a recommendation here. It sits somewhere in Bridge-era Gibson tone, but with the quintessential "What the hell is going on?" Cyberpunk mystery that a lot of retro-CP authors drop. https://www.amazon.com/Void-Star-Novel-Zachary-Mason/dp/1250...
Your confusion is well founded, these products are not for you and the true customers don't care. LEO Satellite network connectivity is every military's wet dream: impossible to deny without triggering global condemnation for creating space debris; only accessible to those with the most money (and access to launchers); allows you to run operations without deploying large power-hungry ground infrastructure.

Why do you think Amazon fought so hard to take away the JEDI contract from Microsoft?