skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> but that's really not what investing your savings should be about.

I just had a follow-up thought to my own post (too late to edit).

Maybe part of this culture is that many of the most aggressive young growth stock investors are not investing their savings. That is, what's been inflating these bubbles is inherited wealth being directed away from responsible investments and towards speculation. Contrary to what I'm saying, I do know a few people (not just Millennials) who have blown uncomfortably large portions of their actual earned income / work savings on bad crypto investments... but I still feel like people are more careful and conservative when they're investing money they actually worked to earn.

Or they were. Maybe the whole society tips over towards hype and FOMO when it's all we see online everyday.
Google Cloud unveils world’s largest publicly available ML hub with Cloud TPU v4
The article seemed more like a rant to me. “Choice is between food socialism or food barbarism.” Not even clear what that means. Headline, if it was supposed to be the thesis, wasn’t really explained/supported in the body. Wish I hadn’t bothered to read.
Sberbank sells its stake in SberCloud
You can make your own pictures here:

Guardian says:

- 10% of the world's wheat comes from Ukraine[1]

Which is a lie.

The truth is:

- Russia produces 11% of the world's wheat and Ukraine produces 3%.[2]

Typical guardian.

[1]:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2022/mar/15/10-of-...

[2]:
https://asmith.ucdavis.edu/news/russia-ukraine
Cloudflare achieves key cloud computing certifications
you can leave your web stuff at the door. unless you have a really good reason to use client/server architecture, or make everything async, just write your monolithic desktop app using a framework like QT which will interface with a database out of the box. or you can interface with sqlite directly. if you only need windows or mac support you can use platform specific languages and UI frameworks.
In a later post he addresses chariots. They were not tanks.
> Russia's military, outside of it's nukes is a Potemkin affair.

Let‘s hope that its nukes are a Potemkin affair as well.
But the gist of this attack is that you can recover integer c with Chinese Remainder Theorem. Then you can use binary search (or another root-finding algorithm) to get m.
Also WSJ tends to be an outlet for China hawks - here is the same story in NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/world/asia/biden-taiwan-d...

The White House quickly tried to deny that the president meant what he seemed to be saying. “As the president said, our policy has not changed,” the White House said in a statement hurriedly sent to reporters. “He reiterated our One China Policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. He also reiterated our commitment under the Taiwan Relations Act to provide Taiwan with the military means to defend itself.”
> a common transmission vector this time appears to be men having sex with men - close contact indeed

Wouldn't it be equally likely if a man had sex with a woman? Why has the transmission been more likely for two men to have sex?
I think it was required until about 2010 or so for GNU tar. (I still use it from habit.)

There was a problem about integrating support for different compression applications, with each one needing to get a new letter in the tar command!
Click through to the graph, we're talking about an environment in which nearly 20% of children did not survive to age five. For 30 years.
Still haven't found anything compelling for PCIe4 but for PCIe3, I had no issues so far with 10Gtek, which are reasonably priced.
> The standard counterargument is "what about the old people getting kicked out of their homes?" It's an appeal to emotion that doesn't make any sense.

It makes sense as it was a very real problem for lots of older people who had built the neighborhood just to be displaced by rich newcomers.

What didn't and doesn't make any sense is applying the same protection to corporate-owned properties. Prop13 protection should only apply to a property owned by a named individual who lives in the property. Not corporations, not investment properties.
Kiwix is nice.

Also from your comment, I feel that I definitely fail to communicate what the actual problem is.

The problem is NOT that the kids (and their teachers) cannot access certain sites. Although they might not be able to afford it, if they want.

The problem is that they DON'T KNOW that internet sites exist. For a kid who was born into the era where a magical handheld thing can show his friends' life and funny videos, a "website" means nothing. I even didn't want to write handheld television screen, because most of them haven't even seen a television before.

They don't know that wikipedia exists at all.

Another anecdote (maybe I should summarize it in a post somewhere) is that the teachers were using Oxford Press's Headway [1] books. Excellent series, many of us in Europe learned English from these books. It improves your vocabulary a lot, teaches you words like "coin", "train conductor", "mp3 player" and so on.

Now let's see what does NOT exist in Laos, at all:
- mp3 players
- TRAINS!!!
- and, well, coins (Lao Kips start at 1.000 bills (10¢) IIRC and last time coins were issued was 40years ago. In the 2mo I stayed there, never saw a coin, nor the kids I was teaching).

It's really a different world, it took me some time to even start my head wrap around it

[1] https://elt.oup.com/student/headway/?cc=nl&selLanguage=en
I would struggle to find a single meal eating out for that price at this point lol
A question mobile operators need to hear more often
These days many supermarkets here have self-scan systems where you scan each item yourself with a handheld machine before putting it in your cart or bag, and at checkout you just put the scanner back, scan your store card and pay. Once in a while, a worker has to scan random items from your cart (I assume it's based on heuristics that try to determine whether you might have had a possibly suspicious behavior like cancelling items from the scanner often) but that's quite rare.

It's fast, there are no lines, it's less work for everyone.
GPS signals can be jammed [1] or spoofed [2] by terrestrial transmitters; and the satellites are controlled by the US military, who could in principle decide to deny access or degrade service.

Navigational errors that could result in grounding or collisions may endanger life (and be very expensive), so it is unsafe to rely solely on GPS, even if you have redundant receivers and power supplies.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Mili...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_attack#Global_navigat...
To be even more minimal, you can get rid of custom definitions, and encode everything as calls to the following two functions:

k =
-> x {
-> y {
x
}
}

s =
-> x {
-> y {
-> z {
x[z][y[z]]
}
}
}

For example, 'k[x][y]' returns 'x', so

TRUE = k

FALSE is a little trickier, so we'll need to calculate its implementation based on the definition. It can't be 'k' (since that behaves like 'TRUE'), and 's' requires three arguments rather than two. Let's assume it's 'S[A]' for some argument 'A':

Let FALSE[x][y] = s[A][x][y]
= A[y][x[y]]

We need to find a value for 'A', such that 'A[y][x[y]]' returns 'y'. We can use 'k', hence 'FALSE' can be implemented as 's[k]':

FALSE[x][y] = s[k][x][y]
= k[y][x[y]]
= y

We can follow a similar procedure for the other sections of this article (numbers, lists, etc.)

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

Note that there are alternative systems with only one definition, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31473127 , but those single definitions are quite complex, compared to s and k.
There have been several wearable sensors that measure UV exposure:

https://www.wearshade.com/articles/comparison-of-wearable-uv...
https://www.amazon.com/SunSprite-Wearable-Light-Tracker/dp/B...

I have the SunSprite and the June. The June is unreliable, I believe they stopped selling them years ago. The SunSprite worked well and once I'd worn it for a full year I had a good idea of my exposure at various times of year and stopped wearing it. The magnetic clasp on it sucked though, I would often find the sensor had slipped off and stuck to my car door (or anything else made of steel). Not sure if any of the sensors listed in the article are still for sale, but you can probably still find used ones on eBay.

You can also get simple wearable wristbands or tokens or cards that change color under UV exposure:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XMH95K
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HV91P77
https://smile.amazon.com/Fischuel-Photochromic-Indicator%EF%...

The cards are somewhat calibrated, but any of these technologies require taking into account your personal skin sensitivity.

The technology is out there, you could probably build your own sensor using an Arduino and UVA and UVB sensors. The SunSprite is cool in that it never needs charging since it charges from the Sun.
I oppose the mandating of vaccines while believing they are generally safe and effective, stayed up late to sign up and drove a substantial distance to ensure I got a COVID vaccine on literally the first day I was eligible and our family was all vax’d within the first week of eligibility.

I’m pro-vaccine.

I believe in individual autonomy over their body and, while I’d try to convince anyone to choose to get the vaccine, if they won’t choose that, I don’t feel like society should have the right to impose it.

I’m anti-mandate (on philosophical grounds not safety grounds).

I’m pro-vaccine and anti-mandate. If you want to call that position “anti-vax”, so be it; I don’t believe I have the right to mandate the language you choose either.
Yeah... let's live like we did in the middle age. Lifetime expectancy was HUGE.
Open this thread in full, Ctrl+F, "Plutonium", read each post that hits and the one it answers to. That should answer those two questions.
Possibly the same reason HIV is more transmissible that way.
Things have improved a lot since this article was written. Running Linux VMs on an M1 Mac is easier than ever. Homebrew Qemu and UTM work out of the box. UTM also supports bridged networking. I haven’t had a chance to try it myself, but I believe libvirt also works now without doing anything special.
Are you asking if virtualization is worse than not using it?
I'm impressed. A serverless/internetless wiki.
How would upgrading the "engine" work though? e.g implementing a search or adding code highlighting in the the wiki.
Itanium tried to move branch prediction to the compiler from CPU. Plus it’s failure was not necessary related to CPU design, it can well be a bad business execution.

The grandparent comment is about a compiler generating multiple code copies for different CPU architecture iterations not to support all legacy instructions or at least to allow to implement those via microcode emulation in later CPUs.
No, not n=1. Every time I see cases of empty bottles (for example at the shop where I buy them, most of them on the spent cases are still on, if they sit in plain view), same with every person I know who I see drinking from a bottle.

Also I live 800km from the sea, so maybe central Europe is simply different?
Fresnels final design used mercury (as in the liquid metal) to float the lenses on and allow them to move easily, which allowed the lenses to turn with just clockwork and make the light appear to be flashing from afar.

Mercury had to be used because the lenses were very heavy, so the way to support them was to float them on a heavy liquid. Wheels or bearings would have been too much friction for clockwork.

Mercury vapour is poisonous, especially over time, which is why lighthouse keepers were said to go crazy. At the time people thought it was from being isolated for long periods, but it was probably the mercury in the Fresnel lens support that made them crazy.
> You are free to paint the inside of your apartment however you want but painting the balcony or the hallway side of your front door is not allowed as it compromises the visual image of the building.

Sounds monotonous with a lack of free expression and personality.
Characterization Test
> ordering take-out food is oftentimes comparable

If you account for it objectively, no way.

I'm lazy and often do takeout, but it's definitely much more expensive. A $20 takeout meal can be done for less than $5 by cooking it all at home.
I have no qualms on the salary. I would love an extra $15 a day for food.

The size of the classes at Berkeley has always had me scratching my head for decades now.

"I found it really difficult to balance CS61A (a massive class of 2000) with CS169A (still a fairly large class of 350), since 169A required a fair bit of work in writing quizzes/exams (5 quizzes, 1 exam), grading open-ended homework assignments, and staff management."

I knew people who went to Berkeley years ago, and was shocked at the class sizes.

I've worked with Berkeley grads, and besides constantly signaling they went to Berkeley; I wasen't impressed with their abilities. (That goes for all the fancy schools though? All the ones we are suspose to be wowed by.)

Then again some of the guys I worked with whom really impressed me were college dropouts, or mainly self taught.
China Orders Government, State Firms to Replace Foreign Computers
No idea regarding format, but tape is famously quite hardy if stored well from what I've been led to understand. Not to mention datahoarders are way more common than one thinks, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are some decent number of old treasure troves out there just waiting to be recovered.
And on FreeBSD (and perhaps others) you can also specify the speed limit.

$ echo 'like this' | dd bs=1 speed=10
I haven’t seen laws proposed to mandate transfusions or organ transplants against the wishes of the recipient.

If such laws were proposed, you’d rightly hear people objecting to them.
> Would you be ok if I moved next door to you and hung nazi flags (this has happened to me as well)?

Restricting nazi flags also restricts pride flags.

The question is "Would you be okay if I hung flags?"

What about other forms of displaying support? Are posters just a cheaper flag?
Reminds me of this https://dengarden.com/misc/The-Pitfalls-of-an-Underground-Ho...
I use Builtwith chrome extension for this. Free version is pretty good for most of the use cases. https://builtwith.com/
For the past few years I've read that salaries in China are extremely high in some industries (mainly tech but according to you academia too) but I've never seen any number. What "absurd amount" do academic jobs pay in China?
If a non profit registered in say Italy hosting some packages that say the Brazilian government or court want taken down, do they have a recourse other than convincing an Italian court ?

If the packages are hosted by a company with a Brazilian branch or subsidiary, then I suppose that subsidiary carries the consequences
I think GP meant to say that one could use a VM running on that CPU (e.g. EC2) and SSH into it with an M1 (which might provide up to 2 days of battery when used that way).
> Is Novara Media a reputable source?

Not sure, but if you go back to the Arab Sprng and the derivatives market it's a common tactic dating back to the derivatives markets that crashed in 2008 [0]. Goldman Sachs, but also JP Morgan specifically Blythe Masters with her CDS methodology, are known to meddle in these affairs.

0: https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/04/27/how-goldman-sachs-creat...
It can be up to half a million dollars for professors, but with incredible benefits like massive offices and skipping lines at hospitals and things.
Hmm, this link goes to the follow-up of the "Is this a tank?" post, perhaps worth updating the title?
How many astronomers are there in the world today?
You Are Not Blocked
I was going to nominate mutexes and semaphores
Here's your source on a "Russian Blitzkrieg" being the opinion of the Russian political classes, and an ex-Army Colonel trying to pour water on it - _before_ the war started.

About the author: Mikhail Mikhailovich Khodarenok - ex-head of the group of the 1st direction of the 1st directorate of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Colonel

https://nvo-ng-ru.translate.goog/realty/2022-02-03/3_1175_do...
Just to get an idea, how much would it cost to eat outside for lunch? With my European perspective, 15$ is what I would expect from a nice restaurant for lunch. Or a really fancy burger in an expensive city neighbourhood.
The only place I've seen carbon pellet filters commercially are in things like marijuana grow tent filters and here: http://www.air-purifier-power.com/sharpwashablecarbonfilters...

Unfortunately it seems like the air filtration market as a whole is incredibly prone to snake-oil claims.

As far as your idea goes, I'm not sure. And I don't have a great idea of how to test something like this. I've seen bags of activated charcoal marketed as something you can leave around for better air (sounds like bs).
I used the OSM backend recently and it looks exactly like the qwant map. Pretty easy to implement yourself using leaflet or alternatively just using OSM.
The map you linked seems to have its own added tile layers. Probably just based on the OSM tiles, then they added a whole bunch of their own stuff.
Ah yeah sounds like it
> guaranteed to be completely screwed

Looking at years of MAIB reports I'd say that the thing which you're guaranteed to be "completely screwed" by sooner or later is negligence: https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports

The technology used pales in comparison, a man comfortably asleep in a nook on the bridge at 0300 is equally oblivious to a lighthouse, urgent radio calls from the coastguard, GPS monitoring or anything short of being shaken awake by the vibration when the ship smashes into something.
Serious question: Instead of riding the ETFs down, what if I sell investments now and move to cash/gold? Cash would lose value at the rate of inflation, while ETFs can drop 30-40% more if the FED makes mistakes.
It's more complicated than that. American faculty salaries are high in absolute terms, but they don't adjust fully for the local cost of living. While you can live a comfortable life as an academic in an average area, good universities are often located in areas with high costs of living. (Or maybe it's the HCOL areas that are concentrated around good universities.) For example, good luck buying a house within a reasonable commuting distance as an academic in the Bay Area.

When I was in Europe, industry salaries were ~50% higher than for comparable academic roles. When I arrived in the US a few years ago, I was surprised that the gap here was ~2x. Today the gap is approaching 3x, which makes scarce necessities such as housing really expensive.
Yeah, a $12 entrée is pretty average for a single meal. Add anything else (tips, drink, etc.) or pick anything slightly more expensive and you'll easily hit $15. If you go for inexpensive options consistently (maybe you avoid tips and always get water at a cheaper place), you could probably average around $9-$10/meal, though you might get tired of it quickly. To average less than that while still eating out every meal, you'll have to get a bit more... creative with your selections.
This line of thinking is so unironically pervasive that I actually didn’t realize he was being satirical until I was halfway through the second pargraph.
I see where you're going with this, but a reasonable counterpoint would be that this is a CS teaching role. Most people with the skills to teach university level CS, who also live in the Bay Area, can probably earn much more than $107k/year, which is the choice she's clearly making as well. I'd also note that, from my read, she's not saying it's immoral or anything, she's just saying "I could personally earn more, so I'm leaving"...
Women get aroused when stimulated by kissing and gentle touching various parts of her body. Kissing is definitely part of it.
Straight to penetration is a bit difficult. Unless the woman aroused herself before the deed.
Biden says US willing to respond militarily in event of Chinese attack on Taiwan
Aaaahaaaa thank you.
Or config in 5 is another perhaps more likely to come across as a user.
Bostrom's shtick is the apocalypse - so I read the more as another angle of deriving importance/monetization than actual policy ideas.
I don't think that a chariot is a tank, for the simple reason that "tank" is typically defined as *ARMOURED* combat vehicle.

The chariot as described in that article is more along the lines of mobile artillery.
Glasgow Coma Scale
Oh that's an interesting idea. Never heard of a taco salad.
France's Mustard Shortage
you know in america and europe solar and wind is stable.
it's not like the whole of america is in clouds or has no wind, neither holds true.

the problem with the grid is that it's hard to support a wind/solar grid somewhere else.

nuclear is not as stable as you wish, just look at france the last months. they imported energy from germany, because a lot of their power plants were down.

> And molten salt reactors are resistant to human stupidity. Its literally impossible to cause a disaster with this type of reactors. Its physically not possible to do anything that will cause the core to meltdown.

there is no such thing. really not even in wind and solar. most deaths there were because of stupidity.
and while it's physically impossible to do so when correctly built, people will always find the most stupid cost measures...
Brilliant! Best response ever .. as long as you can actually clean the system completely.
Monads and Popular FP Abstractions Based on Go Generics (Option, Result, Either)
> That's nice that you think the dictionary definition is an newer academic construct

If you have to change the dictionary meaning of a word to make your argument work, it's your argument that is broken, not the dictionary.
I think the test pyramid still has legs. Write both.

I do agree a lot of abstractions in C#/Java seems to be testing implementation stuff leaking into the abstraction layer. A lot of inversion of control in these languages seems purely to allow unit testing, which is kind of crazy.

Personally I prefer the "write everything in as functional a style as possible, then you'll need less IoC/DI". This can be done in C# and Java too, especially the modern versions.
I understand his point, but using 'dd' allows you to set a buffer size which can make cloning a bunch faster. It also has great progress reporting (status=progress) which is really useful for the things dd is usually used for.

And even if you use it without it being needed, it's not a big deal. It doesn't add much overhead, if any.
While a neat idea I think that this would be something impossible to implement in practice. Saying 'the maximum permissive superset of all laws' hides a world of work and ambiguity.
Multiple Browser Testing with PlayWright in Python
Man, this brings back memories of a few years ago when I tried to dd a Linux install image on a usb drive.

It would take forever and always end up with an i/o error. I figured the new PC had somehow wonky usb ports or something. But when that happened on another "known good" box, I figured it was the flash drive. But Disk Utility in MacOS worked well.

Then I tried increasing the block size to 1M and everything went smoothly. It even took less time to write the whole image correctly than it took it to error out before.
I wish there were in general on-demand payment alternatives with low friction. If I go to a real cafe I also do not have a monthly subscription there but pay for what I consume. Similarly, I do not want to pay monthly Netflix subscription but I could see myself paying from time to time to get access to a movie or series I am interested in (similar to video rental).
Well, reports about the relative uselessness of modern search engines was bound to hit the general population at some point.

I've suggested that people try Bing or DDG rather than Google for some searches, but it seems it's more a question of luck rather than anything else nowadays.