skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you read about local episodes, like a single bombing event, there is not much to filter: such small scale details are unknowable by the public, you can only know a bit if you were there or have someone you trust in place.

Large scale things on contrary are far easier to spot, at least at a certain scale and at a certain extent. For instance when we keep reading "the Russian bombing hospitals, theaters and schools" it's evidently propaganda not because "Russians are good" vs "Russians are bad" but because missiles&co are not that cheap nor that abundant so an error can always happen, but normally no one army in the world waste ammo for nothing and as a result if those bombing are true then means Ukrainian army choose to violate Geneva conventions recycling hospitals, theaters, schools etc for military purposes and than as a result for the other side they became legit targets. But as always people at scale do not like to reason, prefer being fed with emotions.

With similar simple reasoning following the classic Latin cui prodest we can easy conclude that this war is needed by USA and UK élites against the EU, Ukraine and Russian interest. Unfortunately for those élites that move means pushing Russia toward China witch is less weak alone than Russia and far more important with Russian natural resources and a far augmented military tech transfer from Russia China will arrive in few years to have enough military capacity to counter USA and UK together. Those élites play the same game they have played with nazi Germany, counting on similar outcome, of course as back then against their own citizens interests. On the other side Russia need safety at their western borders, for them nazis are ok-ish if on their side, not ok if on NATO side, so they haven't really choice but go to war. China needs stability to keep growing, as any dictatorship that need to grow, but also to sustain it's population. There is no morale on all sides, just mix of interests, some legit some criminal, and different school of thoughts confronting.
As long as you don't go into salt water it's doable, but once you do continuous maintenance is your lot. I've worked a stint for a sailmaker, the annual repair bill on a mid sized sea going sailboat was about half of what I earned in a year back then. A few thousand here, a few thousand there, it really adds up quickly and that's before you get into things like storm damage.

A small car engine powered fibreglass cabin cruiser (remember to ventilate before starting the engine!!) can be affordable, the costs would mostly be fuel (still quite a bit of money), periodical re-painting of the underwatership and small maintenance of the upper structure as well as regular engine maintenance. That probably works out to a few hundred per month if you do a lot of the work yourself.
I assume there are capable people working at these large TV companies who can ascertain reasonably well what kind of demand there is for a dumb TV.

Also, TVs went from dumb to smart, so empirically, sufficient buyers voted for smart even when they had an option for dumb. The alternative is all the manufacturers simultaneously pulled all dumb TVs out of the market even though selling them would provide a competitive advantage in a razor thin profit margin business, which does not seem likely.
The only "smart" thing I wanted in a TV is a SMB-capable media player. And nothing else, literally. I had to hack my tv to install CIFS module and a few dirty hacks to mount the NAS, but it was worth it. Because I hate to have an external computer (aka set-top-box) connected to computer inside tv to be able to connect to computer on a network to show some damn movies and photos.
It would be nice, though, if our minds could control that directly, rather than going through exercise. Perhaps evolution is not there yet.
I watch youtube and play xbox on my tvs. I want the big screen sit back good surround sound. Laptops and phones are for airplanes and work.
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I already said that you can do whatever you want in your garden. I am merely engaging with delusional justifications that make no sense, are inconsistent, selfish and shows a complete lack of understanding of how nature works.
I’ve never thought I would be ambivalent towards a war.

But here we are.

Living in Asia there is definitely not the staunch apposition to the war that you might expect to see.

People here don’t like it but are not lockstep on Ukraines side.

And as a so called and derided “red pilled” guy I’m not going to jump to any conclusions for the next year or so.

We’ve all been seen the ultimate truth and aims and outcomes of the last half dozen wars involving the USA.

Once you live abroad for a significant amount of time you tend to take off the rah rah USA rose colored glasses and see the world from the point of view of other peoples.

A very annoying thing about the news and SJW social media is everyone jumping on the Ukraine bandwagon with nary a thought as to why what is happening… is happening.
ASUS sells 43" monitors.

https://www.asus.com/Displays-Desktops/Monitors/All-series/f...
They have a mini PC "Star Labs Byte".

Basically a laptop sans keyboard, display, and internal battery.
If it’s such a big deal then why is GitHub not intervening to help a “super-elite” tier of project?

Devs retconned the concept of a like onto a star. That doesn’t mean they are the same thing.
Idk I live in a city that honestly is great to live in (Tokyo), run a distributed team comprised of others who all live in big cities around the world, and nobody has expressed that they feel like cities suck to live in. Different strokes I guess. Or maybe it’s not that cities suck, but that the cities you’ve been to (cough USA cough) suck.
POWER9 is 100% blob-free. Not even the ram init.
This is awesome. While, comments are generally lacking in info (but still entertaining) there are always gems in there. It’s a bit like needle-in-haystack. I think there’s even a subreddit dedicated for this. I’d love to see ML/DL deployed to make it easier to find such comments.
> A world where none of your coworkers have any shared background with you

So you're against diversity? Differing backgrounds and points of view can only be a good thing. For coworkers, for the product, for the company. I know it's en vogue now, but it really is important.

> where you can lose an interview at a local company to someone 700 miles away

Hiring is not zero-sum. With the current and likely future dev market, there's enough jobs for everyone. Companies should consider applicants regardless of location of residence, and offer the same compensation as well.
No. Testosterone makes us take risks for breeding opportunity. This chemical value proposition is still in place today and visible in most places where humans gather.

It's one of those things that we don't want to talk about but has been and will be true for the immediate future till some other trait better for the species becomes more attractive.

Until that time we are stuck with t and risk taking.
I know thats not how Craiglist works. Do you even know how darknet markets work or what they are?

Escrows, vendor reputation, feedback, etc?

Something illegal depending on the jurisdiction

Legal =/= ethical
Because employees have families and lives outside of work so can't just drop everything to go a team ski trip. Once or twice a year, sure, but more than that it's a chore more than a perk :)
>But if there are no dumb TVs for sale, how do you know if that's the consumer's desire or not?

The same argument has been posted multiple times for small phones. Yet, every time apple releases small phone, they are disappointed in sales.

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/28/apple-cutting-iphone-se...
You make a copy, store it on your medium if choice, and put it in a filing cabinet. I gather that certain organizations use magnetic tape backups for especially important data. For some organizations and individuals, kernel source code could be that important.
Agree with you. I'm highly skeptical of an argument from a (X?)googler about why remote is bad.

Like sure it might be nice to go to Google's office instead of work from the kitchen table but that's not what's on the table for 99.999% of developers. It's some open-plan dead air noisy hell.
It’s not released for x64 anymore?
Fwiw, I used a fantasy sports league to keep in touch with my college buddies and its worked for decades. By having an organized activity that occurs yearly, we have an excuse to communicate. Anything to reinforce the desire to stay in touch is a win.

And as people will change over time, having something that isn’t a huge time sink or controversial is good.
Most people in this thread seem to be ignoring another very major cause: the inconsistent naming for personal READMEs between users and organizations. Users have their README at username/username, but orgs have it at orgname/.github

Nothing else on GitHub is like this: orgs and users are treated as the same class of entity pretty much all the time. I could easily see myself making the same mistake on autopilot.
Ahh!! Perhaps people are referring to a different scale than what I’m perceiving. I’m thinking 18 foot cabinless boat for Muskoka Lakes sized boating. Some water skiing. Etc.

I can imagine that when you get to Great Lakes sized boating or salt water, things get expensive.
you mean... like if people could vote on the best comments, and you could sort by the votes? The issue is that figuring out what is actually useful is intractable and subjective.
The German defense budget was 46.5 bln € in 2021 [1]. The problem is not spending, the problem is the utter mismanagement in the defense ministry and military forces. I have talked to someone who did contract work for the ministry and knows their internal processes. He proposed that the first step should be to fire everyone and restaff the ministry from scratch.

[1] https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Monatsberichte/2022/0... (Ctrl-F "Ausgaben des Bundes nach Aufgabenbereichen", row title "Verteidigung")
To me that whole thing seems to polarize even more.

I don't know how good Russia will come out of this. But at least in Europe it seems to weld countries together a bit more and moving focus away from US help to being more self-sustained in many different aspects.

In the best case it can lead the Europe to become a real global contender besides China and USA again.
Hmm, well, not sure, actually weapon-making in USSR was mostly constrained to Russia proper. The more advanced the weapons, the more they were constrained.

Much of the “allies” produced simple bits of kit, but the advanced parts of them, designing etc were generally kept in Russia just in case.

Ukraine is a bit of an exception, I guess because it was seen as more of an “insider”. This is why their weapons industry is actually so comprehensive (anti ship missiles, anti tank weapons etc).
I'm not gatekeeping, I'm having a discussion. I'm merely providing counter points against the common god complex people have in "managing" nature, whilst this leads to more plagues and less biodiversity, not more.
I think Facebook is a good tool for this, but you guys are in a generation that doesn't use it anyways, so it may not be effective.

Maybe a Discord server? During Covid, one of my friends made a Discord server for their high school group, people used it.
Could a new kernel implement a compatibility layer of some kind for Linux drivers? Or just expose the same API?
How is this relevant to Linux/BSD?
> He is a scientist with published papers, and he seems to have a decent understanding of physics.

There are many mentally deranged people who have published papers and are "scientists".
I solved Chinese Wordle using knowledge graph
> GS 7 and walk through the steps as normal for that role, jump to a higher GS via a job change/similar.

If that’s the case, then they should approximately never get applicants who could also get private sector jobs.

I wonder if they are targeting vets who got a small amount of programming under their belt while serving… or something like that.

Not even being a 7/9/11 for an in demand technical area (esp. if in the DC area) strikes me as extremely short-sighted.
I'd settle for a mechanism to update a "smart tv" to remove said "features" and prevent future updates. A rogue firmware update hack. Let's see them take users to court saying we're "not allowed to remove those advertisements... but not because we don't really own the device."
Right, that's why I shared it. It has an old-school Web vibe I thought HN might like.
I wonder if they will come down in price. The internal mechanism doesn't seem to warrant a starting price of 400€.
I'm convinced it's associated with the methodology of how psychology has approached matters.

In the world of biology, you're observing the world around you. Same for physics, chemistry, et al. This means that you can set up proper controls to obscure your own presence from any potential results (e.g., isolate everything in another room, use cameras to avoid being near animals, etc.)

Psychology has the same nightmare as quantum physics: pre-existing thoughts and beliefs literally define what results you end up with.

I'm convinced that psych is a victim of the "new" way of doing science: treating the Scientific Method™ as a self-evident concept instead of regarding science as a vastly certain domain of metaphysics.
I’m not the OP, but you’d be surprised just how good the image quality on a decent CRT is. They lack the resolution to display the sort of fine detail you get in HD video, but the brightness, contrast, dynamic range, and colour reproduction still holds up (assuming it was a decent unit at the time).

Importantly, they’re far more forgiving to lower definition content than modern displays, and while retro games are more of a driving force for still using a CRT today, I could totally see a VHS collection being a good reason to keep one around.

The main drawbacks are the size/weight, limited screen size by modern standards, obscene power draw, and the fact that they need maintenance to keep the geometry good.
That's a beautiful boat but even for free I could not afford it. And if he ever does get it finished - which I really doubt, this is a 10's of millions level project to properly undertake - the fuel bill is going to be astronomical so you can really only run it commercially.
I once had a game that always crashed under wine. Instead of trying to understand the bug, I got as far as figuring out that this was a virtual function call into nowhere and then just 909090'd the crap out of it. The game then seemed to work perfectly and I couldn't even tell what was missing/different after removing a totally random function call.
"Why is it lost?"

Because it requires resources and opportunity.

If you don't have the money, or the training, or if others are preventing you from doing it for whatever reason, you won't be able to.

Not everyone can buy land to build a structure, or to garden, and regulation tends to keep people from doing things in general. When people aren't allowed to, or can't afford to, they stop trying and then forget they could.

The reason it is lost is because people prevent others from doing it, in general, intentionally or unintentionally.

This is the problem with inequality.
This made me wonder if it's possible to create a terrestrial spaceport which walls out the atmosphere to provide an area for low friction launches and landings. That's probably even more materially impossible than a space elevator would be, though.
Airbnb in the UK lists and sorts by the total price. You can see the breakdown between nightly and one-off when you click through, but the headline price includes it. I think this might be too avoid breaking a regulation under Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 and/or Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.
Transactional Analysis and Eric Berne (author of The Games People Play) disagree.

Emotions and (business) transactions are not mutually exclusive.
And firmwares, especially from Samsung since around 2010, come with all sorts of encryption, protection, DRM and stuff. (
That's a good question. It would be irresponsible to bet on the nukes not working. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if one day it becomes known that Russia's nukes are non-functional due to negligence and corruption.
I went to dual boot with Ubuntu but ran into issues that were going to take more than an evening to resolve. I can't remember exactly what it was now - something about bootloader and needing to change something in Windows registry to work ?(!).
Not sure if I should reply to you, but in this war, it's crystal clear who annexed what first and who invaded when and where.
Oh okay, the site should make this obvious.
Because millions of people use them and the feedback is mostly positive?

Because where there is demand there is supply.

Pot sellers were criminals once now they are businessman

You think buying from a well known anonymous user with months/years of reviews will result in a "scam"?
It doesn't even run on qemu /kvm due to very poor compatibility so not sure what Oracle is trying to achieve here - maybe get me to buy their x86 servers if they are still selling one? Or find specific old h/w in my basememt anf try it on there?

If you needed dtrace or zfs luckily FreeBSD runs fine on most hypervisors and real world x86 hardware.
Daniel Lemire’s simdjson probably belongs in this discussion and I would be surprised if it is not the fastest tool by some margin.

https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
> What about using it to cheaply send fuel from earth up into LEO?

Just to clarify for you here, but this can't actually launch anything directly into LEO. It needs a rocket of some sort, or something in space to "catch" it and complete the orbit. This is why what they're launching in their slingshot isn't a payload, but a small rocket with plentiful heat shielding that will contain the payload to be released. That small rocket still needs to be built every time so it doesn't actually reduce costs that much until there is something in space to "catch" the payloads. Which I am skeptical of the ability to do for Earth orbit given the much larger speed differentials of catching things in LEO.

Also on the cost thing, you have the cost issue inverted and you're trying to solve the wrong problem. The most expensive part of space travel is the whole "throwing away the vehicle after one use" aspect, not the cost of the fuel. SpinLaunch makes the vehicle itself cheaper, but it's still throwing it away.
Asahi Linux will never work as well as a normal Linux machine within any sort of reasonable time frame. Even with Intel CPUs the Linux experience on Macs is kinda shit.

If your goal is to have a Linux workstation then buying a Mac is pretty dumb.
As a long-time reader of The Economist I have to say that their latest issues (especially those related to the war) were pure propaganda, I think the issue that came up just after the war started had a mention of Russia every two articles (yes, even in their Arts&Culture section).

The thing that really got to me (and which made me actually write them an email, the first in 10+ years) was their latest Charlemagne column [1], the one where they were comparing Orban and his political party/government to a virus (to Covid, as it happens). I tried to explain to that poor fellow/lady writing the column that making that comparison in these parts of the world (I live in neighbouring Romania) is extremely, extremely problematic, given past history. We were supposed to be the "good guys", the ones that are fighting against Orban the anti-semite, but we can't be the good guys anymore when we're borrowing well-known anti-semite tactics from the past.

To say nothing that half-way through the article I was saying to myself: "maybe I'm imagining things, maybe painting your political enemies as a virus/disease is how it's done these day", until I saw one of the column's sub-titles that was just this text: Buda-pest . Absolutely horrendous.

[1] https://archive.ph/OUfpc
>because missiles&co are not that cheap nor that abundant

Russia is mostly using in Ukraine (like before in Syria) dirt cheap unguided WWII style bombs, like FAB-250 (550lb) and FAB-500 (1100lb).

> if those bombing are true then means Ukrainian army choose to violate Geneva conventions recycling hospitals, theaters, schools etc for military purposes and than as a result for the other side they became legit targets.

You forgot to update your Russian propaganda version to spread. For example Russia hitting the Mariupol hospital because there supposedly was an Ukrainian army command center is the old version of their propaganda. Now they tell that they didn't hit the hospital, and that there were no Ukrainian military there, and it was just a real hospital which Ukrainians intentionally blown up.
This has been a theme on reddit since comments were introduced.

The largest shift in the site was something 12-14 years ago when they redesigned the site to have thumbnails.

This brought people to the site for images instead of content. That was absolutely the original torpedo.

It made the site much more popular, but the quality tanked fast, and has continued since due to having to cater to the lowest common denominator of millions of people.
You're emotionalizing the discourse. The people killed by other types of power plants have families too, you know. Your level of propaganda implies an ideological agenda against nuclear power. I do think the general sentiment for environmentalism and against the governments and industries that destroyed the planet was and is justified. But the anti-nuclear ideology was the wrong conclusion and has done more harm than good (lots of burned coal, lots of misguided activists/politicians). Nuclear power is comparatively healthy (even considering your inflated worst-case numbers), albeit expensive.
And why do you think it's happening?
Wait. He is saying her demands are neverending and you advise him to keep a list of his failures to guess them ?
USA and China actually, contrary to most common beliefs, are on the same social design line, their élites both consider citizens as sheep to be treated like any farming animals, following classic Gustave Le Bon, Eduard Bernays considerations on general population. Both are really deeply neoliberist [1] with just marginal differences in appearances, not in substance: USA try to appear a Democracy while is a corporatocracy led by few historically rich and influential families not much different than Chinese élites, they both want a mean poor population that need to live paycheck to paycheck to obey, they both have a narrative apparatus and media control to makes people imaging a mock reality. Yes they are competing for third party resources and they booth need them with no choices...

[1] some might consider this word an error, it's not. It's an old scam liberist have done to be called "liberals" for masking better their real nature
Because it's the database that came after Ingres.
I run a globally distributed startup - we still have very responsive communication but a) it’s not everyone on the team that’s a workaholic since not everyone prefers to be always “on” like that, and so that’s fine, they contribute in other ways; b) we have to be a bit more strategic about timing since you can’t powwow with someone unless that person’s awake, and c) we spend more effort explicitly aligning since misalignment can waste a ton of time, so in a way it’s upgraded the quality of our communication. I personally think it’s been fine, and as a result we have a much bigger hiring pool and are getting as much done as any startup in SV I’ve worked at.
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Military spending is based on the size of the economy.

Russia's was 6% of GDP , but EU easily outspended it with <2%
Why would somebody use Solaris, does it have any real benefits?
In all likelihood, no you couldn’t. Because nobody buys those anymore.
IMHO it falls into the same category as content farms trying to drive traffic into buying a product.
Their product runs on Illumos and were co-founded by a Solaris engineer.