skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used it for a long time before switching to Arch and then Ubuntu. When using Gentoo I used to know more about the different subsystems running - it was a function of seeing what needs to recompile when you update and also having to sort out issues when certain hardware stopped working.

I stopped using Gentoo and Arch because it was just easier to be on the same OS as other devs and it didn't feel like I lost much switching to Ubuntu. Every now and again I'm tempted to go back to Arch, but honestly, there are other things I'd like to play with rather than my OS
Last time I shopped for a fridge (2 years ago, maybe) every single sales guy and maintenance guy I talked to at maybe 4 different stores said: “Never buy a Samsung.”

They all seemed to think that LG had gotten its act together, though. I ended up with an LG fridge.
A/N/N/A/R/C/H/I/V/E
Well some of it is used a LOT - for example all of digital technology is basically applied boolean algebra, and calculus is the base of physics. Granted, the original research for those was 200-400 years ago, but the current day applications are everywhere.

So while a new research paper on some obscure subset of point-set topology may not appear to be useful today, it is possible that in the future it will be. :)

EDIT: misread your comment as "widely used", not "widely read", my bad.
Are you sure about that? I’m sure that you probably could find small but significant (in the statistical sense) differences of intelligence between races and genders if you tried hard enough. It would be strange otherwise. Would that knowledge make the world a better or worse place in the current political climate? What would your thoughts be about the motivation behind that research? Do you really think it would be honest, unbiased search for truth?
Thinking back mixing firmware versions on new units was avoided where possible and we would also try to replace like for like firmware on RMAs
They don't even need to open another tab. There is at least one Google Chrome extension specifically for cheating in chess (which the creators pretty much openly admit - their YT channel features a blatant cheating tutorial video).

I've reported this extension for abuse - since it's obviously unethical, goes against the rules of the websistes it's supposed to be used on, plus the description in the Store is misleading, as it's deliberately vague and unlike their YT profile, it cautiously doesn't mention cheating at all. Obviously it hasn't been taken down though.
* Does this study only look at generation costs? What about storage costs?

* Does this study look at the fact that the "traditional" grid and energy production technologies will always be necessary, because renewable energy production can drop to zero? This is what increases energy prices in countries that have both renewable and fossil fuel energy production. You are paying for two grids, so to speak
The reason to pick Costco for appliances is because you get a 4 year warranty if you use Costco credit card (in the US).
> two exile Chinese told me […]

> PS: no clue why anyone would downvote something like that :)

Because there’s no way of knowing whether these unamed exiles exist or, if they do, there’s any reason to think they would have any insight on the matter? This being the internet, it’s safer to assume you’re making the whole thing up (no offense intended ;) )
They may be considered secrets internationnally but they aren't really. All the mediterranean coast is packed with tourists every summer. The difference only is on the individual restrictions in urbanization, natural parks/parking space limits that makes that some areas are better preserved/less practical to visit.
Be careful with this in Postgres: using a zero, blank space, empty array or similar as a default value instead of NULL can lead to enormous bloat in terms of disk space. There are distinct advantages of NULL that have to be considered.
Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> At least with the cheaters, the game is over pretty quickly

Yeah, unless you want to play a longer game than a 5 minute blitz.
Yeah, those nephew were often illegitimate sons, but that just goes to prove that forced celibacy has never worked.
Zazen is about sitting without making distinctions. If a good feeling arises, we treat it the same as a bad feeling, we just let it arise and pass without judging it. Same for distinguishing between self and other, etc. Zazen is a practise for learning how to cultivate a mind that does not attach to discriminations or distinctions between different mental or physical states or objects.

We put distinctions on the world because we think it's necessary to be able to actually live here, but actually if you let go of distinctions you will find that life lives on as normal and you still somehow know what to do but in a much more liberated way.

"Not putting distinctions and discriminations on play" means to play without making distinctions or discriminations, such as: "am I playing right?", "am I being too loud?", "is this a good use of my time?", "could I be doing something more productive?", etc. Most adults cannot play without attaching to those questions and being bothered by them. One way to learn to not attach to those questions is to practise zazen
> There is no such thing as hardware obsolescence.

That's a bit naive. Older hardware devices, such as Android 4 devices, cannot be upgraded to TLS 1.3. Hardware also becomes obsolete when wear items are no longer available - and that could include 3.5" floppies, or compatible batteries, or even RAM modules in some applications. Not to mention wifi devices that support only 802.11a, or G1 cellular phones, or even analogue television in the United States.

Often devices are still needed, but the ecosystem surrounding their usage has changed. That is what often brings around obsolescence in this industry.
Future cost reductions predicted to possibly be on hold for 12 months, before resuming. Actual real factual prices still reduced in the last 12 months.
Did you read down to the 4th paragraph? It absolutely does.

I'd be curious to know if it also includes a "true" nuclear catastrophe insurance price or (as is more common) if theyre assuming the taxpayer will fund 99.5% of a Fukushima-type $800 billion cleanup bill like in US/Europe.
You should include this disclaimer as you commented below

>I should admit that I drove for only a month

so that readers can properly weigh your experiences when forming an opinion.
Hey WaPo, they increasingly dominate journalism, too. Perhaps you should hold a mirror up to yourself.
It also only accepts US phone numbers, so now you have a wrong phone number for my account.
Japan did get Taiwan from whoever was ruling China at that time.

My point is not that Taiwan never was under Chinese rule, but a) it never was really integrated to China like most current chinese provinces (China boasts about a 5000 year long history, loosely controlling (5% of) an island for 200 years before losing it at the very end of the their these 5000 years is not a very strong claim), b) never controlled the entirety of the island because Chinese settlers stayed on the coast, the rest of the island was under aboriginal control (which were not a uniform block) c) never cared about it (it was under the rule of a former pirate turned governor - look up Koxinga) and never did anything with it.

Chiang's army retreated to Taiwan but it's a matter of semantic. It was under Japanese occupation until the end of WW2. Chiang raised the question of Taiwan to the Americans who at that time couldn't care less about that tiny island because they had so much on their plate. The Americans were like "sure, whatever, go for it", but nothing was officially signed (iirc) and Chiang and his army invaded the island and went on to subject it to an horrible authoritarian rule for the next decades.

Final words, about the R.O.C claiming China. That's a sad legacy of Chiang's lunacy. And now the CCP says that if the R.O.C dares to say that they're independant (which they are, but can't say it) they will invade. So Taiwan is stuck with this nonsense because of the threats coming from the Chinese government. Also Chiang had a chance to have a seat the UN but refused because he wanted to be the only China. The rest is history.

Most of what I wrote above comes from the book "Forbidden nation" by Jonathan Manthorpe (and other books but that one covers the history of Taiwan since the very beginning.)

Edit: I posted that before you edit (which I haven't read yet).

Edit 2: I'm not arguing against the parallel with Ukraine which I know nothing about. Just against the analogy with a hypothetical US state leaving the union.
The point is not that they take their time, the point is that they spend roughly the same fixed amount of time for difficult moves (coming up with seemingly brilliant ones now and then) as trivial ones (even in positions when there's physically only one legal move). This is one of the red flags implying somebody is cheating, and doesn't even understand the position on the board. Their pace is monotonous because the time they need for copying the move over to their engine and then the engine's response is more or less constant.
I hope that you have a museum in your will, and that they are aware of that.
> The onus on you to show is this supposed 'doctrine' in 'textbooks' or we should assume you're wrong

Illogical. You could do your own research. Hint, anyway: some material was found as "most interesting" by investigative journalism after Brexit.

Likewise,

> Nothing about this invasion is obvious or doctrinal

is a fully irrational statement.

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About the substantive part of your post: you are committing the error of confusing reasoning, under subjective value assumptions, as a ground for prediction. You do not go "certainly they would not do that" projecting in others the role of "rational agents" according to criteria you defined for them. Generic actors do not act "like you would", they act like _they_ would.
The website doesn't actually say how it works. I can imagine it fitting with some (admittedly german) aesthetics.
Winco is great, but it is not competing with Costco, which has a reputation for selling curated products with somewhat higher quality.

Winco is solid though, and living near both is extremely convenient.
I looked at the site, I can’t tell what’s new about it. Kinda looks like less-grimy BART to me, and that’s hardly modern. Does anyone know more about what’s innovative here?
Cloudflare WARP: https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/

I've noticed it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28652294) when someone has quipped about SSH scans coming from Cloudflare (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651598).

It's a boon for hackers since it provides an unlimited good-quality VPN. If you want to block them (either block only for SSH or just block WARP users in retaliation), here's a list of their IPs: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/
Even if you did have a chance, problem is it's still a numbers game.

For every developer not willing to go through that process, odds are they will find 5 who will, while having their current employees accept doing more work than they realistically should to offset cases of 'nobody wants to be hired'. When the inevitable burnouts come in, managers seem to just ignore it and accept it for what it as 'that's just part of life' or something.

For every company willing to disclose things upfront prior to the first interview, there will be a few dozen who'd rather do the whole song and dance trying to stick to their culture or worse, proactively use sunken cost fallacies to reel you in.

Of course the more experience you have, the more you can fight against this. But I suspect even most seniors struggle with this. Many would rather jump ship to management / pseudo-management or accept things as is than talk and fight back together.
Store brands (private label brands owned by the retailer) have been around forever and are not a Costco innovation. Every US grocery store and most big box stores sell them.
So "it's job is not well defined".

It's a webserver, file manager, sync client, transcoder/converter, RSS reader, metadata manager all in one.

With all possible regards and respect to the author, I find calibre a terrible mess. It does a lot of things, none of which very well. And the one thing that I want it to do, it doesn't. Not reliable or not at all. I want it to give me access to the ebooks I buy online.

This isn't calibres' fault, but the industries'. DRM, incompatible formats pushed by tech giants. But in the end, all I want is a way to see, reference and sync the books that are on my Kobo with my (Linux) desktop.

A python script, A proprietary Kobo app over wine, some bash scripts and a well kept directory achieves this. But calibre doesn't. Though it can read RSS feeds.
Not at all, you might find any of those states in an encrypted stream.
It's possible to handle these kinds of fields (at most one value) with separate tables and foreign keys. It has advantages around 'proving correctness'. But without extra tooling it has significant usability, and perhaps performance disadvantages. I wonder if you can get around some of this using virtual tables.

I come at this with little experience with SQL, and having worked a bit on ampersand[1], a tool where you declare the structure of your data, and some invariants, and the tool will create a schema for your database, and some automatic checking to ensure your invariants are upheld.

[1] https://ampersandtarski.gitbook.io/documentation/
TikTok is BigTech too. Chinese BigTech rather than US BigTech. That's a problem for some. As someone who is neither Chinese or American, and with no local alternative to any of the BigTech's service, I am screwed either way. With lax privacy laws and regulations in my country, both American and Chinese BigTech freely abuse our naivety and trust to harvest our personal data.
To the general point - there isn't enough posing of questions and letting students struggle with them before giving the answer. Rather than just giving the answer.
Reddit, I think.

There was a /startups or similar channel on reddit, one of the first YC companies, and they managed to attract people over here.
Putin’s New Weapon of Mass Disruption: Kazakh Oil
Some of us really like our own company, our own streams of consciousness without interruptions.
It makes lots of queries (like find duplicate queries) much more complex without any benefit. Also it introduces completely unnecessary three value logic in SQL.
Contributing to manage a small hotel (imagine it as a middle level one, nothing fancy, nothing bad, a very average one, with affordable prices), I can confirm that bad user reviews are very often "inaccurate" in the sense that they are heavily influenced by the on-the-spot (hopefully momentary) irritation of the guest at this or that (often a very minor thing or an absolutely ridicolous request) or even because they simply had a hard day and something was a little less than pure perfection in the check-in process or similar.

Being "average" and having "average" prices, we tend to have a few 5 star reviews, many 3 and 4 star reviews and a handful of 1 or 2 star one, of course.

Last 1 star review we had was about a couple that around 23:00 on a saturday night (having checked in at 20:00) lamented that they could hear the noise of an air conditioning machine (true, for some reason there was a vibration that could be heard from the room in the silence of the night) and pretended that we should fix it right now and then, immediately, refusing to move to another room (perfectly silent) that was offered to them because "it was too late".

Surely enough the next day there was a 1 star review, of course without saying that a room change was immediately offered.

The one before this was a couple years before (literally):

>Terrible

>The light on the bedside wasn't working.

What I noticed since the advent of these booking/review sites are two things:

1) the customers instead of asking for a room change or telling immediately to the reception whatever is wrong stay silent and then a day or two after post the bad review, often just the valuation without comments, so that there is no way for us to understand what "triggered" the 1 star

2) a number of people (could it be because they use smartphones and they mis-click on something?) post (good or bad) reviews that are clearly related to other hotels, I have a 4 star one (so, a good one) stating how the location is perfect, near the falls (there are no falls that I know of in a 200 km radius from here) though the swimming pools are a tadbit dated (we have no swimming pool) and it is a pity that check-in is not possible after 23:00 (we are open 24/7)
Stay Focused. Pomatez is one of the best pomodoro technique apps (Win/Mac/Linux)
People are meant to be bored though.
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It's a tremendously complex monoculture effectively controlled by a single entity which also happens to be one of the largest companies in the world as well as the Web's (and world's) largest advertising entity.

The risks raised are of security, of single bug or organisational compromise putting at risk a tremendous amount of infrastructure (informational, institutional, financial, commercial, governmental, healthcare, social & cultural), of incentives which overwhelmingly favour a single party to the exclusion of others, and the demonstrated corresive and inequality-driving effects of advertising itself.
We're still getting wrecked compared to Americans. I get enough recruiters in my inbox that I'm just flatly stating I won't consider less than 100,000 DKK a month. With taxes as high as they are, that's a take home of less than 50,000, which is 6800 USD a month, which is just 81,000 USD a year. That in itself is a travesty but most shops here are trying to get devs at 45,000 DKK a month here pre-taxes.

And they wonder why it's so difficult to fill empty spaces at their companies.
Better dump Poland and Belarus as well :P
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS2 HAWG #10, Siemens and NVIDIA to enable industrial metaverse, Simplifying hardware acceleration for robots with ROS2, Speeding up the transition to autonomous driving requires reducing software complexity, Toward standard tests for automotive lidar systems
Amazon EC2 I4i Instances are now available in nine additional regions
Constitutional revision inches closer in Japan, but actual change still far off
it's the dominant narrative, so no surprise. Most people are generally going to accept consensus, unless there are compelling reasons to do otherwise
https://nitter.eu/youssmak/status/1546402336687497219
So your arguments consist of ideas that:

It is isolated conflict that should be solved between countries involved.

If Russia is selling gas (anything) cheaper you should just buy it as it serves citizens of your country.

Throwing nuclear is a mistake but it has nothing to do with Russia.

My arguments are:

Russia has "Imperial ambitions" towards Ukraine, Georgia, Baltics and etc. Putin is stating that collapse of Soviet Union was the biggest mistake ever, all the internal communications in Russia are very aggressive, Putin was threatening nuclear weapons in the beginning of the war and etc. Medvedev is on another level threatening everybody around - see my previous comment for example.

This is where geography becomes important. While conflict is in Ukraine now, a lot of people believe that it might spread.

Why? Because Russia is influencing EU politics, using soft-power, social media to influence opinions and etc. Russia is very much involved for a long time already. It is not like German addiction to Russian gas was not influenced by Russia. Russia has further ambitions, always had. Russia is not just calmly existing inside of its territory. It always had global agendas. Like any other country.

Values. In the end Europeans have some values and most importantly EU is built on some fundamental values. Democracy, human rights and etc. Authoritarian country starting land wars in the Europe and threatening others does not sit right with it.

I can't agree that "most people in Eastern Europe have a very hard life already". Define "most" and "very hard life". It just means nothing. The thinking is that being at war is on another level "very hard".

So keeping in mind these it looks natural for EU to get involved. Because there is a belief in values and a belief that if Russia is not stopped, conflict can roll over to further countries. A lot of rhetoric from Russia actually state it.
Storage and transmission costs were included in this study as you could have easily found out yourself by reading down to the fourth sentence of this media release which says:

“The 2021-22 report confirms past years’ findings that wind and solar are the cheapest source of electricity generation and storage in Australia, even when considering additional integration costs arising due to the variable output of renewables, such as energy storage and transmission.”
> I'd argue the closest thing in most languages is the null propagation operator (usually using a ? symbol) that at least JavaScript and C# have.

In what sense? null-coalescing operators don’t change how nulls behave or relate to one another, they only provide convenience operators for conditioning operation upon them, like sql’s COALESCE.
True. But it's more about the probability of things being "normal", isn't it? I had multiple Evo970 fail within a very short time. Turns out to be a systematic problem of drives produced in one specific month.

Just how much difference is enough to be safe is the price question...
Normal taxis are not employee either, so either they are all employees or none are.
How is this better than a regular train/subway/tram?
Maybe they are going for this? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Reich#/media/Datei:D...
You know what? You're right again!

The stuff I've read that touches on this idea is almost all from 2006 and onwards, mainly 2010s. The earliest example is a bit of an outlier: Douglas Hubbard's 1985 How to Measure Anything -- but it's also only tangentially related.

The other real exceptions are books on statistics (where the idea of risk management -- at least in my collection -- seems to have gotten popular in the 1950s, probably as a result of the second World war) and financial risk management (which seems to really have taken off in the 1980s, probably in conjunction with options becoming a thing.) Statisticians and finance people (and by extension e.g. poker and bridge players) have known this stuff for a while.

Of course, hydrologists have been doing this stuff since the early 1900s at least, but extreme value theory has always been a kind of niche so I'm not sure I should count that.

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That said, I did mention it was obvious to me. I still find it hard to convince management and colleagues of its importance...
Right, because of all the nuclear missiles stationed in the Ukraine.
I'm not sure it suggests that society is stratifying, though. People didn't go to college nearly so much prior to the 70s. Once college became ubiquitous, I would expect that the number of people who's parents went to college could have to go up no matter what. ie, there is a smaller and smaller pool of people who's parents did not go to college since the 1970s. I'm not even suggesting that society is not stratifying; I just don't think this is proof of it.
Geez! What a couple of bossy little tyrants! Don't do this! Don't do that! Ouch!

The question was aimed at Non Programming Professionals. I thought my answer was thoroughly non-professional, and therefore just about perfect. /s

But seriously, you both make good points.