skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To those condemning Yandex for the war in Ukraine, please keep in mind that they're a Russian company forced to comply with their country laws, as every other company out there.
Until we know for sure that their management is really aligned with their government agenda, whatever they say, or don't say, now has zero credibility because it could be extorted from above.
During the 2nd gulf war against Iraq, when the death toll began to rise, the US government forbade the reporting of military personnel coffins returning from the war zone, and news sources complied, including those against the war; this happens everywhere every time.
What doesn't happen everywhere and every time is a rogue nation attacking their neighbors and killing civilians using laughable pretexts while the real goal is to take control of a very resourceful and industrialized area (Donbas) to be used to help the already poor Russian economy.
The enemy is the Russian government and the rich oligarchy behind it, not Russian people that could be either lied and manipulated by ruthless politicians (been there, done that; does Covid19 ring a bell?) or merely intimidated.
Given the amount of drunk driving and other Darwin Award efforts that go on, it’s an open question if there’s much critical thinking really going on…
> 1. They've astroturfed a lot. (By paying famous people to use their service.) This has given them a lot of credibility.

Paying for what is essentially celebrity endorsements seems like the exact opposite of "astorturfed".
Oh, I forgot. Still, we're working on what we call TaigaNext and some of these requests will be addressed, but we don't have them now.
yep, this is exactly how I use it. Nixery is so convenient for getting random one-off containers. Thank you for building and hosting it!
Fix the ventilation don't pump more chemicals into a poorly ventilated space!
What percentage of new developments are going to foreigners?

I looked up some property tax docs of a new luxury apartment building (majority of units go for 2M+) in NYC and I was shocked to see something like 90% of the owners had chinese names.

I'm guessing that the majority of these are foreign buyers. I'm also guessing its unlikely that the NYC new development market is being dominated by asian americans?
It is entirely plausible that cases are under counted and deaths are over counted.

The thinking goes that if someone is just a little sick they aren't going through the hassle of getting an official test and being counted. If someone is nearing deaths door they are going to take action and go to the hospital or clinic so you're likely to have a very high percentage of cases leading to death being reported. Add on to that the fact that people who died in a car accident and happened to have a non-symptomatic case of covid was added to the death numbers. That might not be a huge number but it will have an effect at some level. I don't see how it could not unless you completely ignore them.

Inaccuracies in data can cut in all directions. In this case though, over counting deaths and under counting cases (a deliberate choice made by the CDC) made the virus seem more deadly than it likely was at the time.

Is there a plausible argument for an under count of deaths? If so, I have not had the pleasure of hearing it.
what does word "improve" mean if you do not measure anything? How would you know that something is better/worse? (no metric is perfect, there may be downsides but "we don't need no metrics" attitude makes no sense--it leads to burning witches in an attempt to improve the weather)
Try completing the square when the coefficients are variables :)
Of course. But realistically, no one wants to deal with the inevitability of ageing populations having to either take the bullet and accept they were sold a bunch of lies, or causing the working class to crumble under the collective weight of all who depend on them. Most immigration and pushing for higher birthrates is just that, an admission by politicians they don't want to deal with the problem and passing it onto the next reigning party.

That said, it's nowhere near the sole contributor. Quite a few countries have very low immigrant numbers along with low birthrates and still face soaring house prices. Rampant individualism doesn't help, either.
Everything eventually dies.

The problem is you might die first.
Seen the actual state of thing I have no interest living on Pluto or some other planet, but I might be interested in the ability to live in a Borg sphere/cube with full autonomy (food, water, weapons, ...) and enough (selected) humans to have enough DNA variability to been able to survive generations, a thing most people forget going to planets just for some natural resources when recycling is not enough...
> This is NOT the first study generally disproving a link between sodium and CVD.

That's a weird way to phrase it because this study has nothing to do with cardiovascular disease generally. It's specifically about non-hospitalized patients already diagnosed with heart failure.

This does nothing to disprove the very clear link between sodium intake above a certain level and heart disease in a previously healthy individual.
Yeah, we're now an interesting hybrid between python and clojure :)
Oh I guess I didn't realize that Russia re-opened their stock exchange. Does anybody actually trade on it?

Also

> 1800 roubles/share

This is nearly worthless
It’s possible to keep it secret, it’s just more complicated. I proposed one such setup in an old comment. Quoted here with some fixes.

“What if you get the receipt with UUID and your voting choices, then at a separate kiosk only in the polling station, you can enter your UUID to view the full results as posted online (meaning electronically recorded and stored). Along with your UUID and results, a hash of the two is displayed and can be printed onto your receipt. Before leaving the station, you must detach and dispose of the plaintext voting choices portion, but you can hang onto the UUID + hash.

At any time in the future, you can enter your UUID into the site, which will compute and display only the hash, giving you verification of no tampering but not disclosing any results to nefarious third parties.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921442

It’s not foolproof and still requires more trust in maths than just showing your voting choices would. But it does solve vote buying and voter intimidation.
Ha, never heard of this before. I had to hunt the audio down (found it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU) but it was definitely worth it. Very funny! Thank you!
Maybe sometimes it is best to aim a bit higher than what you'd settle for. Perhaps Cali considering 32 hrs is the push the US needs for 36 hrs.
This seems intuitive, but it's wrong. As someone who went through the process, I think blind bidding suppresses prices, not inflate them.

When you are making a blind bid, the only information you have is the home itself. The ceiling for your bid is on what you think the house is "worth". You are very conscious about "overpaying" because you have no perspective on what other people are offering.

In open bidding, you are competing against other offers and the ceiling is basically what you can afford to pay.

Can't tell you how many times we lost offers because we didn't want to overpay - when the sold price was revealed we realized we would've paid another $25K on that had we known.
Me neither, but I partially blame the choice of song - not only am I not familiar with it, but the fact that it's an electric guitar means that I cannot differentiate where the guitar's own distortion ends and the watermark begins.

(Sennheiser wired headphones listening on my Android phone, in case it matters)
some continue working, many relocated to EU (Yandex is based in Netherlands)

others have taken offers from foreign companies

Yandex had like 3 different managers since the beginning of the war, because as it turns out a manager position at Yandex guarantees you a spot on a sanctions list

https://yandex.com/company/press_center/press_releases/2022/...
How Does a Gift Card Reseller API Work?
Wonderful Life The Burgess Shale Nature of History does an excellent job explaining why the textbook visualization of the evolutionary tree reenforces this notion and why it needs to be done away with. It may be a wild understanding, but when every middle schooler is shown "The March of Progress" can it be any surprise that folks think we're more evolved?
Finland also just recently signed a deal for 64 F35s after several years of research and comparing alternatives. I'm fairly confident that if there was some significant problem, they would have picked something else.
Ask HN: How do you make sure code snippets in docs are working and up to date?
modern APFSDS rounds work purely through kinetic energy penetration and don't contain any explosive charge. The penetrator is usually around an inch in diameter, and maybe 30 inches long. I doubt Trophy can target these rounds effectively since velocity is just too high, something like mach 5 (compared to a javelin's paltry 140 m/s).
Better combined arms tactics and road march protocols will reduce the losses from these attacks. It's like the Russians became stupid. No bounding overwatch, no artillery prep, no jamming as you said. No air support, dumb attack helicopter usage. No effective recon, no proper ambush engagement. It's like you gave a bunch of military gear to drunk conscripts who were poorly trained...

A cohesive BCT would be able to decimate light infantry. Yes, there will always be losses in war, but this shouldn't be an effective strategy. And I also think that the video coverage is making everyone think that ATGMs are winning the war. In the 2014-2016 Donbass, the UA lost over 400 tanks, the majority to artillery. Yet that isn't captured on video as easily unless there's a drone correcting the artillery's fall.
I love sun stack but I really think they need a way to pool subscriptions or lower the cost.

I’m not going to spend $100/month to follow my ten favorite bloggers.
So far they're reluctant to quash dissent of prevailing corporate/political narratives.
There are two questions here, really. The first is why does Substack appeal to readers? To me, it doesn't. What appeals to me are the writers. If I care to read what they write, I'd read it on any platform. They happen to be on Substack, so I read them on Substack. The other question is why does it appeal to writers, in particular the more popular high-quality, high-prestige writers that are attracting readers?

I don't think that's a question to be asked of Hacker News readers in general, as presumably most of us aren't Substack writers, just readers.

To be honest, I don't like Substack as an application. Their commenting defaults are terrible. I'm not a fan of the push model of newsletters in general and prefer the pull model of going to the site whenever you feel like being updated on your own schedule. But I like the writers, so I go there anyway.
So this is an interesting distinction. Isn't "free speech" much easier to support if your platform is zero/minimal discovery to it? I.e. if you actively are searching for <insert taboo topic> and subscribe to it, you're actively signaling your choice. Whereas, YT, Twitter, etc. content gets throw at you whether you like it or not.
In the situations where you are supposed to manually sign and scan a printed out pdf, this way instead you can paste your signature with transparency onto it, reform as pdf and then make it looked scanned.
Air freshener would be great if it worked. But it doesn't. The stuff I mentioned is the minimum except the self cleaning toilets. Even then, just leaving a toilet brush and some cleaner isn't a bad idea. I pay all those costs at home and it ain't breaking the bank I tell you.
Because they don’t censor people.
I believe because some organizations require "wet" signatures on documents, and ask to be emailed scans of those signatures.

This would assumedly let you use an image of your signature rather than printing and signing.
Honest question: How does this relate to "illegally" downloading songs vs perpetually streaming them?

I have enormous respect for professional Craftsman musicians, but I don't know if they make a real dent in the numbers when compared to the trendy Biebs and Gagas.
Sounds very Wonka-esque
If a signal is imperceptible to human ears but detectable by a program, it's a prime candidate for being thrown away by lossy compression to save space. All the low hanging fruit there has long since been grabbed. The whole point of an audio watermark is that it must survive re-encoding, but it's a race that cannot be won.
If not blatantly obvious, I was being flippant.

You seem committed to the idea anyone is advocating yac-shaving by a highly constrained developer. I'm not seeing that.

Like anything in software projects, the path of least resistance will get you to the quality floor. Trivially actionable advice doesn't exist because it will become part of the quality floor. That's just the evolution of software.

That doesn't mean there isn't actionable advice that's low on the learning curve. But like others skill, there is an unavoidable learning curve, it also takes time to apply the skill, and choosing when to apply it is a skill in and of itself. That's just life in development.

I'm not saying to never sacrifice quality to get products out the door. But there's also nothing wrong with acknowledging when that's being done. And the state of affairs is that performance is very frequently sacrificed, leading to a pretty damn sorry looking status quo.
> Hang on, is that a Natural number, or a signed Integer? Is it place-value, and if so what's the base? Big- or little-endian?

I fail to see how that makes any sense. OP clearly referred to the unidimensional nature of a scalar in contrast to the n-dimensional nature of a vector, or the n*m-dimensional nature of a matrix. It makes no sense to try to go off on a tangent regarding, say, the resolution of a scalar representation. Perhaps the concept of a ray gets halfway there. Perhaps the concept of a line at infinity.

The concept of a scalar is familiar, as is the concept of a vector. Using the terms "scalar with a direction" to describe a vector makes no sense if you come from that starting point. Perhaps magnitude+direction vector rings a bell, because that's also a basic description of a vector.

Perhaps the author made a mistake, or does not have a good math background, or is filing in his knowledge gaps by coming up with definitions . Or perhaps he's actually referring to different concepts that the readership is not familiar. Who knows?

> This is tongue-in-cheek; but from a software perspective, all those representations have the same "API" (arithmetic).

This assertion is quite wrong. Both scalar and vector, in this context, are data types. Describing a data types as a data type of a data type is meaningless and does not compute.
previous discussion with DIY command-line approaches https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23157408
The tank is now an unmanned flying drone- so it is just a change of form factor.
A fun thought experiment is trying to imagine what career an 18 year old today should work towards if they want to own one of those homes. VC or Onlyfans? How can anyone plan for the future when prices might double between the start and end of a degree? They did for me…

I think the only option left is moving away. Everyone in tech is already doing it
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Great story from 2019. https://dev.to/michaelpaulkunz/what-we-can-learn-from-sir-ch... relates the same story back to Sir Tony Hoare.
This is funny and somewhat accurate, certainly for 95% of what's on the sites. For me anyway, medium articles only usually come up when I'm trying to learn about, say, some aspect of data science (and usually read like something someone wrote it so they could put it on their resume). Substack seems to be much more about the authors, and there are a few popular ones that have gone "independent" and write there and have good followings. That, I think, is where substack can be good, if you like editorials from particular people, it's easy to follow them, and they have enough of such people. I wish there was some way to aggregate subscriptions to get a discount though, I feel like I would end up paying them more if I could get an "unlimited" version, though maybe the quality would go down because top folks would get paid less.
Price tag is a small part of it.

Have you ever humped a combat load? It sucks. You’re rolling out with 40 lbs of stuff hanging off you before we even talk sustainment.

Javelin has gotta be 40-50 lbs. Add that on. Want an extra missile? Add another 30 or so.

Now suppose you don’t run into any armor, this is why every infantryman doesn’t/won’t carry one. Maybe 1 per squad, if we want to be super aggressive maybe 1 per fireteam. But that’s now a machine gun they’ve left out, what if they really needed more suppression?

It’s a trade off and humans aren’t capable of bringing all the nice to haves to every fight. This is why there won’t be hundreds in a company.
Just a humble thank you for the effort to pass it along. It's appreciated.
32/4 = 8
True, but on the other hand, people outside of Russia can decide for themselves how to react to and treat companies from unfriendly countries.

You mention oligarchs - how can it be ruled out that Yandex is directly or indirectly, fully or partly owned, and even directed, by them?
I'm already on a 4 day workweek, but the company still wants 40 hours. It's madness.
I've always wondered whether higher-level "global top-down" market distortions (i.e. ones that use economic statistics as an input) would work here, where these sorts of naive "local bottom-up" manipulations fail.

For example, requiring that home sellers sell their homes with total consideration (incl. any required "side payments" to third parties) matching the mean market value of equivalent homes in other non-manipulated markets.

Or requiring that homeowners get their home appraised, and then legally mandate that consumers be charged a total compensation of at most the appraised value minus 10% to buy said home; with it being left up to the homeowner how to make that happen. (Where they can apply for their own government grants or whatever else, but they can't do anything that increases the total compensation demanded from the buyer—which would include taking any grants given to the buyer for buying a home.)
Something I find wonderful about the OP is that the emphasis is on the humanity. It's not that the news outlet is lying, it's that they are human and making a very human mistake. The OP's argument is that, even when the human working with numbers has the best intentions and plenty of relevant experience, it's really easy to fall victim to the "numbers are objective reality" fallacy.
Isn't that just clinging to the old advice without evidence? This study shows it has no effect. A lesser restriction would logically also have no effect.

Let's give up on the old urban legend that salt has f-all to do with heart health.
I read that the USMC ditched their tanks in preparation for a conflict with China in the South China Sea. In that environment, tanks don't really fit in an island-hopping scenario. In the place of the armor and aviation units they got rid of, they are looking at things like HIMARS systems. The U.S. Army on the other hand has kept it's tanks.
So seamonkey? (But better maintained)
I think it is good that it is so flexible, because you never know what kind of data you may want represented on your filesystem. I would rather that there be as few restrictions as possible.

There are cases where you will encounter lots of nasty filenames, especially if you are handling user generated content, like scraping from YouTube or Instagram.
The ban on selling shares by foreigners is probably still in place. So the price might be somewhat overestimated.
What if their death ritual is fire related?
The Screaming Mona Lisa, Van Gogh Style
I went from a fun hard job to a easy job. I hate every moment of it.
I love my kids, and spending time with them. but without the challenge, I don't feel fulfilled.

but i also live in a area with a train commute that makes getting home late vs very late irrelevant. Ie. even if i leave at 4pm (early), i still get home at 5:30, which misses most of my kids stuff anyway until weekends.

what we need to do as a society is kill commutes.
If you're curious how that was solved, it certainly wasn't stimulus or unemployment running out. It was FedEx increasing starting pay rate 30-40% overnight, bringing them near parity with competitors.
That's the opposite of what I mean by "cynical". That is the charitable view that gives tremendous benefit of the doubt to people who do not deserve it.
A constitution without separation of powers with the possibility of judging the representatives is worthless.

The fact that doing so is difficult (the most blatant case being Nixon) does not make it worthless, it only helps granting the executive some stability (because it has usually been elected by the people, so it needs some berth to operate).

In that sense, the US constitution is a very good early example.

The independence of the judiciary is essential.

I am not defending the US constitution per se, though.
For fun of the implementation, I imagine.

But you could use it to get one over people who insist on receiving (scanned) 'originals' or 'wet-ink signature's, by combining it with something like handwritten.js [0]..!

[0] - https://alias-rahil.github.io/handwritten.js/
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I understand what they meant though: paying celebrities to join while giving people the impression that those celebrities joined by free choice* (ie because the platform was so great).

* edit: free choice as in "not swayed by payment"
Favorable conditions such as the F-35 being parked on the ramp and the Cessna crashes into it?
It's hard for a bubble to burst when it's cheap to borrow money.
Their success reminds me a lot of Slack. They did a simple thing, but they did it really well. That seems to be an underrated strategy for startups.
> There would be no cut in pay, and those who work more would be compensated at a rate of no less than 1.5 times the employee’s regular rate of pay.
Or you put a Pi with screen, solar charger, etc in there too. Networks might not work, but you should be able read the data. It could all fit in something like an ammo can if one wanted to store it permanently.
What's better for the housing market: someone who buys a $10 million home for themselves, or someone who buys 10, $1 million dollar apartments and rents them out? If anything, the former should be paying a higher property tax because they're constraining the supply buyer and renter markets.

>Basically, Georgism tax policy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism.

Yes, I largely agree with Georgism, but I don't think incentivizing rich people to buy the largest home possible is within the spirit of Georgism. You'd also run into the problem of people pretending their apartment complex is really just a large mansion. They'd likely spend money on renovations that make the units less desirable to make it classify as a single home.

>What benefits do you see REITs provide to a community, beyond increasing your personal wealth?

What benefit does my landlord provide that a REIT doesn't? REITs allow me to be invested in real estate without exposing me to too much risk associated with a single location.

>Also, a hard cap of, say, 10 homes without increase would still allow REITs to exist depending on implementation.

No REIT can exist with 10 homes. That's way too much money proportionally spent on administrating it.