skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Finland would be in more danger if it joined NATO, not less."

What nonsense is this.

Russians respect force. The more the better. NATO gives Finnish Defense Forces enough credibility to deter any Russian aggression specifically targeting Finland for the next 50 years at least by making the cost of invasion psychologically and analytically too high.
People are more forgiving torwards themselves and their own folks, I can understand that. I'm just thinking it's important to make decisions based on facts. Some self-hosters walk around with this "my own basement is safer than Amazon datacenters" attitude and that's just not true (in most cases, I guess :D).
> to trigger further actions to be taken by the crazy man to the east

You are trying to argue that Putin is both crazy and rational in the same line.

> I condemn war, I don't want there to be a war, therefore I don't want more countries to join NATO as it would be another reason for conflict.

If someone wants conflict, anything will be a valid pretext for that conflict and if not one will be conveniently provided by a false flag operation. Standard Russian playbook since time immemorial.

> If war broke out here because we joined NATO, what would you say then?

The chances of that are roughly just as large as the chances of war breaking out if Sweden did not join NATO. But if you did join NATO then at least you would not be in the position that Ukraine finds itself in today.

Neutrality is a great thing, right up to the point where you are attacked yourself, and then everybody remembers that you took great pains to be neutral. I assume you do expect the rest of Europe and NATO to come and aid Sweden if it does get attacked?
For a cheap (and zero maintenance) solution, double up plugs inside a pair of hardware store "leaf blower" headphones. Very effective, no dead-battery surprises.
I’ll have to check out some of those tools! Never heard of nebula or lunarvim. I just have nvim and some minimal plugins and vanilla tmux. I find that lots of plugin functionality can be done with config changes.
The difference between code running at install-time and at runtime is not that big

It is in java, and rust, and other languages that have securitymanagers or make security guarantees. Node is running code not only in a context that the dev never intended code to be run in, but also a context the dev has no control over. In rust or java, (or a lot of languages actually), code only runs in a context controlled by the dev.

I mean, in the worst case, with node, you may not even get the opportunity to run the app you were trying to install. The module may just own you at the outset. The dev would be powerless to stop any malicious behavior in the library.

From a security perspective, these are huge differences.
As a fair warning to folks who go reading Xah's work:

His style can be somewhat... Esoteric and while not abrasive, controversial in tone on occasion.

He can occasionally sound rather creepy, especially in his occasional discussions of his personal life and/or relationships with others. Nothing terrible, and remember: he's a human like the rest of us.
Reddit is basically a proxy for mainstream US/UK media narratives. If you google "Finland NATO," you'll see almost every US/UK news outlet has published an article with this same definitive-sounding BS headline in the past 2 days.

The real question is why? There have been no definitive announcements from Finland and Sweden, nor even rumors of upcoming announcements. It's all speculation.

So either someone is coordinating to feed this story to US/UK outlets, OR some idiot published this incorrectly and all the copycat content factories are playing a deadly game of telephone seeing who can re-write this headline in the most inflammatory way to get clicks.

My guess is the latter.
Well done! Thanks for it and the Safari, with auto feature, support!
One problem I've observed is that people applying things often cargo-cult "proven" things from the scientific literature that aren't actually proven. It's easier to say that you're following "best practices" than it is to check that what you're doing works, unfortunately.
Day 7 of the great Atlassian outage: Company still struggling to restore access
> we get 4 stars quite often for things like "Oh it was smaller than I expected" even though the listing says the exact measurements like 4 times.

It's hard to really gauge the size of something from just measurements. One thing that often annoys me about product pages is that have a bazillion images of the thingymabob, but don't actually have a bunch of images where it shows the thingymabob in perspective; e.g. somehow actually holding it, a wider-angle picture of it in regular context (e.g. a painting actually framed on a wall in a regular living room or whatnot), and that kind of stuff.

Anyway, just an aside.

I also see a 4-star review as "excellent", but many of these platforms seem to see anything less than 5 stars as "bad".
I’ve got a funny feeling that the author didn’t really understand how offsets are supposed to work. Consider the example of all the rain forests. Assume they’ve all been sold off, but we still haven’t reduced carbon in the atmosphere. So far so bad, but given that, there are still going to be emitters left who’d like to keep emitting. To do that, they’ve got to bid the price of credits up. But any owner of credits that wants to sell now has to find a way to reduce emissions so they can sell. As the price of credits goes up, the incentives become reducing emissions to profit from selling credits.

It’s trying to align firm’s desire to profit with reducing emissions.
That is half of what I would need for a project, the other half being Clang itself running in the browser (to use for teaching). In theory there is [1] since many years, but in practice it never worked for me (even now I get "Runtime error: memory access out of bounds").

[1] https://tbfleming.github.io/cib/
That's a completely useless comparison that applies almost no where in the world? You need to compare driving vs pervasive transit and bike networks. I doubt New Yorkers or Amsterdammers would accept your efficient car hypothesis.

In the few places with high 100% walking commutes, I don't see cars being more efficient either. Do you want every college student to drive from their dorm to class? How about poor countries without the money to maintain good road networks?
You can buy refurbished and also new-in-box (a bit expensive depending on the model) slide rules from various sites, such as https://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html.

I thought about getting into hand making them, figured out most of the techniques that I can do in my garage with some components (the end brackets, and cursor runners) being made on a 3D printer. But I'm hung up on where to get the cursor springs from, or what would be a good substitute. One of these days I may revisit the topic.
There used to be all kinds of distros runnable in tiny systems, localized to your wishes, optimized for speed, and with specialized compatibility.

But then tiny systems disappeared, the mainstream distros got all of those localization options, the optimizations got generic enough for everybody to adopt, and the all the crappy enumerable compatibility hardware converged on Red Hat. That's why the distro diversity disappeared. Nowadays we can get one distro to cover all use cases.
That really depends on how the small business is funded.
There’s something I’m not understanding in this critique . If somebody buys a whole bunch of trees, that would presumably increase the price of lumber overall and thus encourage a substitution away from lumber. So somebody certainly could chop down some other trees, but now the opportunity cost would be higher. The more people bidding for trees in order to offset emissions, the greater this opportunity cost would be. Isn’t this precisely a “market solution”?
Isn't this study just comparing Apples to Oranges? Doing nothing isn't doing nothing. If you're doing a manually intensive task and and sit down and do nothing you might be (1) resting or (2) thinking about how to proceed.

> random individuals or groups of age 15 y and
above were selected for observation at random times in the day using tables
of random numbers. The anthropologist located the relevant individual and
recorded the activity in which they were engaging at the moment they
were spotted by the anthropologist, to avoid changes in behavior caused
by the researcher’s presence.

> These were con-
structed by the diary method, in which each subject precisely
recorded (in their own words) the activities they were engaged
in during each 5- to 10-min interval of a previous 24-h period

Come on now, these two methods are not producing comparable results.
Boost Resource Loading with Fetchpriority
I had similar experiences but some layers are Citrix and others RDC. Seeing your situation brought back my anxiety on those connections.
Sorry for this. Is there any terminal servers to be able to ssh port forwarding? Thus to reduce layers, while as the test setup is gui based at least one layer of RDC is required. Reducing nested Remote Desktop would for sure help with the experience.
Sorry again for you situation.
Worked on a NASA program once, about measuring Earth Science data. We built a database application to gather suggested requirements from members of the earth science community. One such member from our own team helped develop specs for our system.
After we built it, she wanted to measure its utility and usability. She watched as users navigated and entered data into the system. She also asked myself and members of my team who developed the developed the software to use it and be measured. I and one other developer (2 of 3 members) explained why we implemented each feature as we were utilizing the system. The "scientist" measuring us all promptly published as a conclusion in her paper "The usability of the system was better for inexperienced users than it was for experienced users. The experienced users took nearly 50% longer to navigate and enter similar requirements".
She basically made up an "interesting" conclusion by omitting characterization of our testing session, where we explained how we implemented her requirements.
The big banks did not bring accountability to the coronavirus relief loans, because there was no penalty to them for failing.
It's a funny passage, but there is a reason governments pay farmers not to produce. They want surplus capacity. They prefer resiliency to efficiency when it comes to food crops (including fodder). If something goes wrong, they want the ability to put additional fields into play quickly. You actually do have to maintain the machines that you aren't using.

Inefficiencies always look silly, and there will always be those looking to take advantage of them. Compare the vast amounts of fraud on the recent COVID policies. But they were more effective than just letting people die or go bankrupt, which would be even more disruptive.

Heller's book is funny and I don't want to ruin what is basically a good joke. But it's not as silly as it sounds at first.
(2020)

(It's about sanctions on Afghan officials who want to prosecute the US for war crimes, and has nothing to do with the current sanctions on Russia.)
I do something similar, and I really do enjoy it for development. Being able to use mosh to shell into a fast development machine with high speed internet feels like a superpower. The time I put into learning tmux + vim was really well worth it.

That said, don't underestimate the upfront cost of something like this. Getting the right plugins + getting comfortable took me a considerable amount of time.
Isn't OP about a moving infraction it caused, despite its programming?

Arguing the probabilities of an outcome is an engineering-centric approach to selling these cars to the public, and it doesn't land well IMO/in this thread from others.

It makes a false equivalence b/t how we value human agency's role in outcomes, and something other-than-human. Most people seem to prefer the risk outcomes of something I decided, vs. a faceless control system.
They've only killed off one version of self-hosted Jira. Their datacenter edition is still alive.
I agree, but we've really tried everything to be honest! We put comparative photos on there, mention comparative sizing (e.g., "This is about the size of a normal business card"), and so on. Still, people get it and think it's going to be bigger/smaller and somehow that's a defect? It's just part of working with retail customers of a physical product, but unfortunately minor things like that have an outsized impact in a sales ecosystem like this that expects perfection in these interactions.
For reference, this is roughly what I have... still not looking to sell today (that also takes time and brain cycles) but this is what I wrote in an email to someone enquiring by email after I posted this morning:

So I wasn't looking to sell when I wrote the comment on HN, but the gist is: 8 years ago I created a platform for forums, it's a PostgreSQL database with a Go API layer. It's multi-tenant by default, so hosting many forums on a single server or cluster is trivial. That much is solid, and well maintained. But... I am not a front-end person and with that in mind I had the frontend built in Python + Django originally... it has no database, it's a pure veneer over the API just to use common templating for making the HTML. This part has not been maintained... it's 8 years out of date, Python 2.

The platform I run has a number of sites on it, and I'm loosely aware that over the years other people had spun up instances of their own.

Examples of sites using it:

* https://www.lfgss.com (the biggest site on it)

* https://pignolefixe.microco.sm/ (a french site)

* https://forum.espruino.com (something to do with arduino and javascript)

* https://forum.islington.cc (a pretty strong site)

* https://forum.rapha.cc/ (a private members club)

A common theme is cycling.

The entire thing is secure, privacy focused, very low effort to run. There are no adverts, no tracking, no stats... but web logs say that I served 1.5M HTTP requests in the last 24 hours (to now) and that's behind a well configured Cloudflare cache (those not signed in hit cache for 5 minutes, only those signed in get dynamic HTML).

So that's what I have... a forum platform. Oh... what differentiates this forum platform? It has events... in fact the platform is bespoke, the idea when I started it was to have things like classifieds, events, polls, forms, wiki all be native top-level content within a forum. I never liked on vBulletin or Reddit how you'd have to leave the forum to collaborate beyond conversations so I was trying to bring it all into the forum (and thus compete with MeetUp, eBay, etc... who don't have communities and wish they did). Imagine Reddit, but with stronger sense of identity for subreddits, and richer content, and each subreddit able to be on it's own domain if they wished... that's this.

I still don't know if I'm necessarily looking to sell... but if we get to the point that the frontend server fails in some horrible way, the Python + Django being 8 years old probably means the effort to get it working is too much. I did realise this, and started a frontend in Go to replace the Django one (I can maintain Go code) https://github.com/buro9/microcosm but you can see the lack of progress... I joined fast growing startups and my career accelerated too, that doesn't leave time for side projects.
Oh that's a very good point though. Ebay support is great for refunds but absolutely useless w.r.t any account specific problem. I couldn't buy anything for 2 years a while ago and they would never explain why.

Turns out my old PayPal account had a minor issue, and that meant I couldn't use ebay even if I didn't even have my PayPal account linked to ebay anymore and I was using a new credit card. I had to figure that out by myself, ebay was completely useless and unhelpful.
There is absolutely no one that will come and assist Sweden when Russia decides to take Gotland if we’re not in NATO.

And it’s extremely selfish by the self proclaimed humanitarian super power to not step in and help if some of our Baltic neighbors were attacked.

The cost of a strong enough military outside NATO is higher than inside. 4-5% of GDP vs 2%.
I don't understand this argument. Turkey is a NATO country, Ukraine is not a member? So, why would it lead to NATO involvement. If Russia had attacked turkey due to Turkey's strike on Russia Jet it would be debacle.
Access is literally this, and it never caught on.

The are a ton of benefits to enforcing data integrity like data types, foreign keys, etc., but it also adds a ton of friction. Users encounter tons of frustrating errors while simply copying and pasting things, because certain values aren't allowed in certain columns.

I think you'd need human-readable datatypes displayed beneath each column name, adjustable by just clicking it and changing it in the drop-down, and massive flexibility out of the box. You shouldn't throw hard errors - just visually mark the invalid values red or pink or whatever, and let the user fix then before writing them to the database.
Do you mean the risk is that Russia will invade Finland and NATO will have to get involved?

This is short term thinking.

What if Finland does not join NATO and Russia invades? What if Russia succeeds? In the next decade it will invade Sweden that’s also not in NATO. At the end of this process, Russia will still border NATO in the North. Only this time Russia will be a much bigger and a more powerful state. What’s the upside for NATO in that?
No fucking way? I thought my math was rock-solid!

The point is not the exact numbers. It’s to demonstrate that even if we do suffer accidents and deaths from testing self-driving cars on the road, the end result will be many more saved lives (just based on the fact of how many people die from traffic accidents today) Of course this hinges on many other factors to be true, but that’s the case with all kinds of technological advances.
I think it's kind of fascinating that the description of the culture of the "old, dank pub" could equally apply to Emacs and other long-lived free software projects.
As a Finn I agree with everything he posts in twitter. As a prime minister he was perhaps a bit too young and inexperienced, but I agree with his current analysis completely.
For hardware (non-computing) I can't find at Ace, I use Mcmaster-Carr.

https://www.mcmaster.com/
I'm honestly surprised their stock hasn't plummeted yet. There is no way I could ever invest in a company that was this terrible.
Kitty is awesome I’ve been using it lately myself. I can’t get myself fully off tmux into the native kitty panes because tmux is dank for multiplexed remote sessions and actually works everywhere.

I still use kitty windows or just detach from tmux when I wanna do something that benefits from kittys beautiful display protocol.
> Chapter 5 only means defending a country that's attacked.

This is true, but there are no limitations on the circumstances of the attack. For instance, if the US was fighting a low-grade global war with an Afghanistan-based terrorist network that has not previously attacked the US anywhere covered by Article 5 because of the geographic constraints of Article 6, and in retaliation for the acts of the US in that war that global terrorist network attacked, say, New York and D.C., then Article 5 would apply, there is no “well, you chose to fight them for other reasons before they attacked you” exclusion.

Now, if Russia only retaliated against French troops in Finland, Article 6 would geographically exclude Article 5 applicability.
For graphical computation, I recommend Nomographer's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOLYtsL4ge6QfaAvBDeG1IA
I think of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Choderlos_de_Laclos

as "writers" and have a lot of respect for them, not to mention many others.
If I understand correctly, our markets are flooded with cheap Chinese trinkets because the Chinese government subsidizes shipping, making it possible to sell something for 99 cents online, send it across the ocean, and still make money.

This could be very easily fixed for every website like this by the US government adopting a small tariff on low-cost goods shipped from China to cancel out that subsidy. Just enough that it is no longer profitable. Something to think about.
The vehicle manufacturer is licensed here, all safety operators involved are licensed, and the DMV will pull the operations permit or vehicle registrations if they fuck up too badly. This has already happened to pony.ai and Uber.

More consistency would be better, but it's a California bureaucracy. You get what you get.
To be fair, Jira screams SaaS.

I don't want any of my company trapped on it, but if they were I'm sure as well not going to self host that spawn of hell.
eBay's search gets worse every year, but Amazon's sucks way harder. As you say, at least you can filter better on eBay (although their price filters are getting vague like Amazon).
The difference is that non malicious NPM package authors are trying to destroy you with saturation attacks (throw a huge mass of packages at you so you cannot possibly check all of them) so that malware can slip through more easily.
> If you asked me what the difference between the iPhone 11/12/13 is I wouldn't be able to tell you

Well, let me assist. The 13 is way better than the 12, which is way better than the 11. The camera on the 13 is hands down the best camera yet on any mobile device and was sufficiently better that I and millions of others dropped a cool grand to get it. And guess what? If the 14 is better enough, I'll get that too, and be delighted about it!

I get that many phones are now "good enough" for the more basic use cases but that doesn't mean strides aren't being made in other dimensions. You might not care, but others sure do.
I recommend re-reading every decade or so, more stuff keeps turning up that didn't make sense or that you missed the previous time.
Many of the largest proponents of euthanasia (organizationally and financially) require diagnosis with a terminal illness.
The people who are buying Chinese knockoff pirated flash carts, are not the same people pulling out their credit cards for paid support. Also, retro gamers are a notoriously difficult and time-consuming market to support.
Taiwan is not a member of NATO, and neither are other US allies in east Asia.
It's impossible for a piecewise linear function to be anything other than linear outside the training sample. They are by their definition unable to do anything but interpolate.
Gentle reminder to anyone reading this that your problems are probably not FAANG problems. If you architect your system trying to solve problems you don't have, you are gonna have a bad time.
it's the same as everything. there should be more and easier money for the less rewarding task of verification/replication. some people actually enjoy this sort of work just as much as some people enjoy being on the bleeding edge... but there are probably less of them.

where it would get complicated is also the same as everything. when the verification effort neither supports nor refutes the original one. many would argue that it means it wasn't done right, but lots of things aren't done right in life.

then there can be the triple replication revolution! so it goes...
My biggest issue with Spring was, and likely still is since it hasn't been that long, the documentation around annotations. If a framework is going to go all in on magic annotations to define things, the documentation surrounding those annotations better be really good so people can learn how to use them properly and how they work so you can debug issues when they occur. However my experience with Spring was that finding any good documentation was impossible except for very basic understanding of a select few annotations.

Not to mention that when there is an issue, you get a 30+ line stack-trace that usually tells you nothing useful unless you've had the same issue before and can correlate the error with its solution.