skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that anyone but an obsessive will bother to follow this, but for those few obsessives, I'll respond.

> Why is there so wide margin for the ethnic Russian population? 20-40%?

The claimed percentage of Russians in Ukraine varies a lot for two reasons. First, because it has policy implications, so people try to bend the numbers to fit their agenda. Second, ethnic identification is fuzzy. There are "ethnic Russians" whose first language is Ukrainian, and vice versa. It is agreed, though, that the Russian population has significantly declined since 1991 due to emigration.

> Based on what is written about this article elsewhere...

This claim needs references. A citation search for the article shows nothing like that.

> ...it looks to be based on small number of asylum seekers...

In part, but it also covers widespread cultural trends. This book chapter cites the article and continues the chronology:

Anti-Semitism and the extreme right in contemporary Ukraine (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/97802031...)

> This paper also investigates period between 1991 and 2001. It is more than 20 years back from today. A lot has changed from this time, especially since the new government in 2014.

Yes, and things continued to get worse. Richard Sakwa covers this in his book, Frontline Ukraine, and in more recent articles. (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24717077-frontline-ukrai...)

> Azov Battalion fighters

A reminder of who they are from Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40653204-armies-of-russi...)

One of the most controversial of the volunteer battalions, Azov has simultaneously a formidable reputation as a hard‐fighting unit (blooded in the recapture of Mariupol in June 2014), and a questionable one for the far‐right politics of many of its soldiers. Its shoulder‐patch symbol recalls the Wolfsangel, once used by the Dutch volunteer unit of the Waffen‐SS.

> Here is how Ukrainian Jews who have been working with the battalion see it.

That interview was with "David Arakhamia, head of Kyiv’s negotiating team." What else would he say to an Israeli reporter?

> Historian Kamil Galeev has many very insightful Twitter threads...

I can't think of anything polite to say about Galeev's writing. He elaborates on the basic thesis of the posted article. If you agree with him, you will love the books by Taras Kuzio. (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/908534.Taras_Kuzio) I regard Kuzio as a Ukrainian ultra-nationalist, and not at all a reliable guide to history.

> Holocaust researcher Timothy Snyder

Whom historian Marlene Laruelle accuses of "distortions, inaccuracies, and selective interpretations." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_D._Snyder)

I recognize that you may have life experiences that give you a different perspective from mine, but consider that my points are based on the scholarly literature, while your information here is derived from blog posts.
Another worrying trend is trolls finding minorities and insulting them using subtle slurs the algorithm is unable to detect.

The targeted people understandingly answer back (not even using slurs or hard insults - just being rude enough to shut down the person attacking them).

Once this is done, the trolls post the direct link to the comment in one of their Facebook groups (usually reserved for that purpose and containing nothing but such links and filled with oblivious fake accounts that use similar patterns i.e. "Aloph Hiller III").

They then brigade the comments and mass report them. The algorithm perceive this high number of seemingly unconnected users reporting as having a lot of value and acts on it.

In certain communities, almost everyone is used by now to have their account locked out for months long periods with some people outright losing access forever. This created huge migrations to other websites or apps.

Facebook does not responds to calls to delete the harassment groups even when people organize to try and report them - due to the fact that the trolls are savvy enough to be invisible to the algorithm.

In my eyes, this is one of the ways Facebook is bleeding users. Especially the younger ones.
It's always worth talking about. I think most companies avoid putting part time explicitly on a job posting because that sends a message that this is a side gig vs. something you should be focused on. I know for sure for the right candidate I'd be open to 30 hours a week or something like that (less than 20 to be fair is where I'd probably draw the line).
I absolutely can tell you that a History PhD studying the life of a 15th century Pope provides value to society. The value of such work has been recognised for centuries.

Lots of people demand 'salaries that they cannot produce themselves'. For example, soldiers, nurses, firefighters, etc. etc. I'm not sure why you have it in for academics specifically.

Universities in the UK and many other countries have been heavily subsidised by governments for a long time. In general this does not seem to result in universities becoming a tool for those in power. Quite the opposite in many cases.
Working 18 hours a day sounds massively productive but it is not sustainable. You are bound to hit a wall at some point, which sounds like your experience.

Take time off and learn to work at a more moderate pace with some breaks. Or keep doing the crazy productive days but take your time off more frequently, maybe even push for 4 day weeks.
And how GPT3 translate it:

I am a 34-year-old man with no fixed address. I am a nice guy who is a little overweight and middle-aged. Until three hours ago, I was a veteran hikikomori who was not homeless, but when I realized that my parents had died, I was treated as if I did not exist because I did not attend the family meeting, and I was caught in the scheme of my brothers and sisters, and I was expelled from my house.

Deepl seem to do a better (and cheaper) job but both are very intelligible.
Most company's right now want to automate all skilled labor away as quickly as possible. CEOs don't want innovation, they want a saleable product with the highest profit margin and the least risk. Removing people was always the goal.

I've worked at two jobs were in the first week I was told my goal was to automate myself so I could progress my career... Yup okay then...
Turkey's military expenditure per capita is roughly $250. Finland's is about $710, Sweden's $590.

I don't know about PKK, but it seems like they don't have significant presence in either of those countries.

I do find it odd to have weapons embargoes to nations you're supposed to be in a military alliance with.
It really depends on your industry, doesn't it?

Supply chain worldwide is still broken due to Covid (China's closure of multiple cities recently), so...
We keep apples at room temp for up to a year in our house, too — no basement/cellar. They just keep really well. (Seattle.)
It's always the first thing I try. Last time I asked for a raise they said not even the team leads make that much. I leveled up into the same job at a different company for the same pay I was asking for, plus better benefits. And the job turned out to be much less stressful too because of how management ran the department.
> I don't get what point you're trying to make

They succeeded in making it quite clearly, imo:

> This is what you wrote: "young families being able to socialise was considered absolutely non-essential, Facebook is as essential as you make it". I am saying that pandemic did not shown any of that.

in other words, they were correcting your incorrect statement about the inessentialness of socializing during the pandemic
Surely wingdings are reversible?
Most companies are internally run like communist dictatorships. Leadership is only marginally interested in the conditions of their underlings but they compensate for that with spreading a ton of propaganda. They send out mission statements ("We believe in..."), company newsletters, hold motivational meetings. But it's almost always a one-way street. Lots of information comes from top down, but almost nothing trickles up.

In the end you just have to accept that below a certain level you are not part of the "in" group and the "in" group has no interest in your opinion. They are only interested in what benefits them.
Volvo will use Epic’s Unreal Engine to create photorealistic graphics in its EVs
Since nobody is prescribing testosterone for anxiety I'm guessing it isn't as simple as this explanation suggests.
I basically lost on my first try - 4 words remaining and 5 guesses left.
People are confused, you should most likely not opperate k8s yourself if you don't know or does not have a team for it, nowdays managed k8s are easy to use and operate, with 3 clicks you get a cluster up and running with sane defaults.
Yup, title is now 'Study confirms superior sound of Stradivari is due to how wood was treated'
Or the upkeep on the other six accounts. :)
I think for that it's somewhat less critical, since it's a somewhat less common usecase to take this whole benchmark table and somehow continue data analysis on that.

But for things like atomic data or various model setups that you do want to use in your code/your work that's based on the previous paper, having a machine-readable version is a huge time-saver.
This perspective fits nicely with the simulation theory.

If we accept it, for argument's sake, then what's happening is essentially delegating the computation to the ultra-meta-computer that runs the simulation.
TomTom is such an interesting story in technology and finance. Went from zero to $ 10B+ between '05 - '07 [1]. Everyone you knew had one, used one, loved one. Then the sudden boom in mobile phones and mobile internet and the financial crisis. Total crash of the stock. Pretty much subsistence without any proper profits since '09-'10. Not enough IP to get bought, a few licensing deals here and there. Always falling revenue. No profits. Pretty much a zombie corporation employing 4500 people.

Perhaps I'm harsh. Reading the annual report [2]. It's a great company! High management board remuneration. Great place to work. A minister on the supervisory board. Measures CO2 and environmental impact and water usage. And still... what does it say when 4400 people generate about 2 years of salary in total market cap? And where the only positive value is free cash flow (non-GAAP).

[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/tomtom/earnings/

[2] https://corporate.tomtom.com/static-files/8fd1d5d2-0ecb-47b6...
By far this is the best explanation, thank you.

Just like there are a plethora of programming stacks, there exists a ton of choices in implementing a software supply chain. Kubernetes is valuable to infrastructure engineers to use it to create these systems in a maintainable and reliable way.
>Conspiracy or a lagging indicator of reduced cigarette consumption?

The graph I linked has a lagging indicator factor to be sure.

Tobacco consumption from 1970s to today has dropped for obvious reasons.

Lung cancer dropped from 1990s to 2006 or so in a highly correlative rate to tobacco consumption. Which is great news!

But suddenly since 2006 lung cancer rates have dramatically increased. It's now above the lung cancer peak in the 1990s.

The conspiracy mainly being they dont show you the huge increase since 2006 and keep their graphs clean.

The allegation that tobacco toxicity kept lung cancer in balance is possible but certainly unproven.

Instead what my other link tried to show is that perhaps tobacco use isn't the boogeyman and hell you probably noticed governments have given up on the anti-tobacco game.

We now know what's causing it but what's the consequences to society if we published? Oh man I could see the collapse of society so quick.
Heh - I miss those days of offbeat, new products.

Myself, I grabbed a 130 shortly after release. Combined with a PCMCIA modem, and serial cable connector to my Motorola Flip, I was one of those obnoxious nerds in coffee shops checking my email, before WiFi and smart-phones.

NewtonScript was amazing, such a great language - and the promise of an operating system with built-in database-like/searchable storage was amazing. Which was also one of the reasons I fell in love with BeOS a little later.
Thoughts on C# and .NET
For those of you who have experience developing in C#, what are your thoughts on modern C# and .NET? If you have experience with ASP.NET Core, can you please provide some random thoughts about it? Did you or do you enjoy developing with C# or ASP.NET Core?
IME: in my career I’m always a bit under or overworked it seems. Getting better at boundaries, but I suspect this is the case for many in our industry. Choose your poison, and realize it may not be what you want your whole life.
I was discussing what you, individually, can do today, rather than wishful thinking about how things should be.
Anecdotally the only place I heard doing the opposite "consistently" is Japan, and I highly suspect these reports are still select blue moon cases. Cases where executives themselves took the hit to keep the ICs at their current level, or at the very least share the burden equally.

Everywhere else, I've heard both a near universal reluctance for executive types to take any kind of pay cut ("we can only go up"), and a near universal reluctance for anyone higher in the hierarchy to earn less than their subordinates, no matter how rare their skillset. Which also creates the massive bureaucracy problem where everyone wants to go into some form of management or pseudo-management, and no one is able to prove whether this was at all beneficial for the company as a whole.

I even had a personal experience where HR was describing a new career advancement strategy, confirmed developers were paid under market rate, but bluntly said "no, this doesn't mean we'll increase your salaries right away". I was more surprised people in the room didn't react with disgust at this obvious "haha we got you by the balls" move.
Two of the core ideas of Gemini are that it should have as few features as possible and that it should change as little as possible.

Gemini is not very popular, but it is quite mature—there are a number of clients and servers and users who expect Gemini to not change. In this sense, Gemini is more mature and more resistant to change than the web.

If you proposed adding a feature which would require changing clients or servers, as your first message on the mailing list, you probably got a response that ‘you don’t understand Gemini.’

Gemini isn’t looking for more people to suggest changes to the spec. If you’d like to create a Gemlog or write a client or a server, I hope that the Gemini community response is more polite.
That makes significantly more sense.

This is what human translators came up with.

"I was a thirty-four-year-old man with no job and nowhere to live. I was a nice guy, but I was on the heavy side, didn't have good looks going for me, and was in the midst of regretting my entire life.
I'd only been homeless for about three hours. Before that, I'd been the classic, stereotypical, long-time shut-in who wasn't doing anything with his life. And then, all of a sudden, my parents died. Being the shut-in that I was, I obviously didn't attend the funeral, or the family gathering thereafter.
It was quite the scene when they kicked me out of the house afterward."

So the DeepL one seems more close. Though the Human writers do take some liberties and not entirely 1:1 accurate.
"You have all these companies reporting record profit and margins, but somehow they can’t pay people more? We are seeing this behavior all across the supply chain. These companies are skimming more and more off of the top with “pandemic” and “supply chain issue” as excuses. I’d like to think there’s a reckoning for this type of behavior but sadly that would be very naive of me."

Super yachts are becoming more and more expensive. They can't afford to pay people more.
Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019)
Reservoir computing still needs to provide input. How do you input into weather? And if you find that you indeed can provide inputs to weather, you should ask if you should provide inputs into weather. Using weather as a computer might simply be unethical and could get you killed (after some angry farmers come knocking on your lab door because you ruined their harvest).
Richard Dawkins asks that exact question in his "Selfish Gene." For example humans cannot survive without it's gut bacterial flora. So is human a single organism without it or not? Where's the boundary? He also explores self replicating organisms (like mentioned seagrass) and explains benefits of evolution "introducing" sex based replication.
I mean there's people who are barely working right now, including many people who are barely working at multiple companies and getting paid for full time employment at all of them. With that in mind, scaling back from 8 hours to 4-6 while still delivering everything you need to deliver seems very achievable. And in many places that level of commitment is the norm - everyone including management is working those reduced hours - companies just aren't spelling it out in their contracts.
It doesn't work, period. I tried Chrome, Firefox, Safari, mobile Chrome.
This is totally normal. There are 2 things that can happen from here in my experience.

Either…

1) You’re going to be rewarded with higher compensation and because of it you determine to stick with the company long term, build up a very stable savings/investment and focus a lot more on your life outside of work for your personal fulfillment. As a side effect, you may find ways to get interested in new challenges at the current job (like organization efficiency).

2) You change jobs for higher pay and focus on a new problem that gets your interest.
Not just that, but I can imagine in an EV future having trailers that work as a reserve battery/range extender as well. There would need to be some major redesign to make them handle better than a cargo trailer, and probably redesign the charging ports on the cars as well as 100 other things. But it would be a great way to blunt some of the compromises with owning a teeny roadster.
Predictive Modeling Survey
Hi everyone, looking for participants for my survey. Can’t give too much away, but was hoping some of you might be interested. Would greatly appreciate your participation! Here’s the link: https://www.soscisurvey.de/Perception_predictive_modeling/
"C is slower at concurrency when implemented naively"

That's a bit like saying that a Formula 1 car is slower than a Toyota Yaris when operated by a poor driver? What are you implying here?

So you're saying that with languages without GC, you can tailor your own GC that is a good fit to the problem you're trying to solve? Or that when the problem you are trying to solve is a good fit for the GC in your language of choice, you get good performance with less effort?

That's a huge list of databases that I've never heard of. In a sample of the categories, I looked for the most performant one, such as "NoSQL" where the one that comes out as best on benchmarks was Mongo DB which is written in C++. Why are all the number on spots on benchmarks written in C or C++ when the potential of GC languages is higher? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding.
I’m over 50 and recently did a job search and I have to say this wasn’t my experience. I had to do all the same coding tests etc that all the other candidates did but I never felt like I was treated with disrespect. Maybe I just got lucky or maybe it was because the tech job market was still extremely frothy but I was braced for a bad experience that never came.
See I could probably stomach a PhD, yes it’s going to be a shock in QoL, but it’s not too long, and can be a useful credential.

But the post doc stuff feels like ritual hazing. Poverty wages for highly educated, highly skilled individuals for even more years. It seems like medical residencies, but you’re never going to see the type of money the physician will after paying dues.
I believe this has less to do with software in particular and just generally reflects the typical dynamics of the line/staff distinction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_and_line
Samurai: Shape and Material from Unconstrained Real-World Image Collections
So those 3 projects I linked to have all been scrapped, abandoned or cancelled?, which would qualify your claim as what you described as 'going disastrously' assuming you have read the whole article and its links then?

Can you at least backup your claims on them 'going disastrously' and being cancelled, scrapped or abandoned rather than making very unsubstantiated and baseless claims? Since I have already backed up my claims with links that these projects are still alive?

> And you wonder why people don't speak more widely about it.

Or is it because these companies know that the ones they selected are suitable for their use cases and are compliant with regulations and are not part of this extreme 'all cryptocurrencies is scam, ponzi, planet incinerating' narrative that these 'technologists' are pushing?
>> being stay at home is way more isolating then pandemic was.

> I could not disagree more, and my partner would say the same. What was so absolutely terrible about Covid lockdowns was that the few coping mechanisms available to primary caregivers in those early months and years of their childrens' lives (cafe visits with friends, having other people visit, going to the park and talking to others, etc etc) were completely removed

now imagine you still have all those problems, but without a parner to help you (can't go out to cafe due to having to watch kids, cant talk to nonexistent partner at home, cant invite friends over because youre banned by facebook from your communities, etc.)
The right-wing hostility comes from the State govts at state schools or Fox News shitheads that send their audiences after an author of some book they want banned.

Also there was a Trump executive order that threatened ALL govt funding to any org that commits a thought crime and that will return as soon as Republicans win the WH
I wont click but it sounds like best prepared ‚yo mama joke’
Great!

What's your plan for that?
The key question is what are you comparing to k8s in terms of complexity?

Does it add work compared to setting up a VM with Docker and Watchtower? - for sure..

But does it add work compared to setting up something that gives you all the same benefits of k8s without using k8s? - imho definitely not.
A lot of features were removed like the control panel, variable width fonts and the tree bookmarks editor. It was 14 years ago, so it is hard to remember. The features removed weren't documented and reasons were never given. It just happened and it was very difficult to roll back because of the changes also required rolling forward or back the GTK+ libraries in debian.

There was already a browser called Epiphany and Galeon was changed to mirror the features in Epiphany even if that meant there were less features than in Galeon 1.2.x and removal of features was unpopular with the users.

https://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/Browsers/Galeon%...

EDIT: I also forgot to mention that Phoenix, later renamed Firefox, was developed for Windows first. Linux development was considered an afterthought. It was recommended to use Mozilla or Seamonkey.
Framework IO is extendable within the chassis. If the TB ports fail, the IO dongles will not work.

What makes Framework's design different or superior to Apple in this regard?
The desktop Nvidia 3050 that I just bought has a single HDMI port and 3 DisplayPorts.

The AMD card before that and the Nvidia card in my other desktop have a similar number (one HDMI, two or more DisplayPorts)

I'm curious too.
that's beautiful logic. We are not sure if employees will appreciate more money enough so let's just not give them any money.
That's a pretty simplistic view of an extremely complex issue. For one, factories shutdown. This wasn't caused by people wanting to work remotely, but due to covid outbreaks in the factories and government mandates. Second, the supply issues were already starting pre-covid. It was clear we were heading into an IC supply crunch 3 months before Covid emerged in China.