skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Intrepid Reporter [TV Tropes link] is as much of a stock character as the Evil Corporation. You don’t hear much about the evil reporter, though

Er, like the Immoral Journalist? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImmoralJournalis... The article itself supposes the conclusion "the news is fake."

> You don’t hear much about the evil communist, either.

Uh...the Red Scare? This one is incredibly easy to refute: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DirtyCommunists

The author's counterargument?

> I’d bet the world has seen a >1000:1 ratio of scenes featuring evil capitalists to scenes featuring evil communists

They'd bet. Ok?
You need to let go of the idea that every moment of your life needs to have purpose or some productive output. Luckily you already come to that conclusion: a way to reset the brain and moving your body is always a good idea.
Now, let's listen to politicians talk for 45 minutes. The hold music was better.
Just started! hopefully that's no-code enough for ya :)
Trump was basically a clown saying different things for different audiences.

He said that we should be more friendly with Russia and that Russia has been trated unfairly. And then said we should buy more gas and oil from the U.S. What do you make of that? Why would you buy LNG from the U.S if Russia is such a great friend and its gas pipes are nearby?

Then went at great lengths to say how Europe is the biggest foe for the United States and not Russia.

Not to mention that fiasco at the Helsinky summit. If you talk a lot of nonsese people stop treating you seriously.

If I remember right he fancied NK leader as well. Just a clown or showmen or whatever you want to call him but definitly a reliable adviser.

Germany has been warned about its dependency on Russian gas by its EU neighbours and past U.S administrations long before that clown. It's just that Germany thought Russia is not completely stupid and made a risky and bad bet. Now it has to pay. It may be for the better because now it can invest in more renewables(i.e has a cleaner slate)
This is Putin's line. Anyhow, it's not true. The US has been warning Europe (especially Germany) for years that it has become overly reliant on Russian gas and overly dependent on US military aide. Germany even laughed at the US President's face for implying it. Granted it was Trump, but anyone with any semblance of common sense saw this coming, and even someone who is often wrong isn't -always- wrong.
Education Doesn't Work 2.0
The atomic writes maintainer was free to simply stop using their hosting service, but what he did was try to continue to use their hosting service without doing the bare minimum to protect that service.

So I don't believe I am misrepresenting them, nor the people who have defended their actions. They have made it _very_ clear that they believe PyPI should be forced to host every project whether they want to follow the rules or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozhd
I would recommend getting a vaccine instead of unknown chemicals. Then you know what it is and that it's helpful.
Florida police department diverting calls to mental health staff
Don't you say. Is there also a wikipedia article on how to replace all industrial, commercial and domestic heating infrastructure with those? Europe wide?
Its still not a great measure. A project with three downloads that are all from the credit rating agencies, or a project with 100 downloads from all banks would be considered 'critical' by most folks.
rather because a recent change in the energy code allow to count neighbor firm capacities into the adequacy requirement and the usage of monte carlo methods for adequacy requirement.
>Russia won't cut off gas despite it's threats because gas is quite literally one of the few revenue sources for the Russian economy. Much like Qatar, Russia would implode without Gas money.

Russia literally shut down Nordstream today for at least 10 days.

Getting paid for gas in Euros or dollars they can't spend is worse than not selling it.
How do you guys cope with this? I feel so guilty taking any time off, even to play with my kiddos/dogs/whatever. "Could be making $200+/hr right now" is always in the back of my head.
Peter Shor; though whether easily, I can't say for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm
Most modules for DCS use lookup tables computed in a similar way to X-Plane. (The lookup tables are essentially a computational cache of the element modeling.)
Have you ever considered using PGroonga (https://pgroonga.github.io/) to further extend FTS in postgres? They've got a drilldown feature that is basically their implementation of facets. Always wondered what your thoughts on that might be?

I've got a django setup with postgres and facets implemented as you detailed in your blog (thank you for all the amazing info over the years btw!), now I'm looking to extend it with PGroonga and potentially considering Hasura to try and further extend what I can do while still using Postgres as my single source of truth without need for keeping any other service in sync.
One of the (or maybe both) Nirvana ones are pretty good. He goes into how Cobain uses upper extensions/suspensions to give a melancholic feel. I think one of the Pearl Jam ones he throes the vocal chart on there too.

He's at his best when he's analyzing the vocal melody against the chord harmony (ie: they're using the #4 on the F for a Lydian feel to the 3rd on the Am)
This is an important point that quickly gets lost in a simplified debate.

Different types of power have different characteristics. Nuclear power plants runs at constant load and changes in power are slow. They take on the order of days to start and stop, and can not on their own follow load changes on a country wide network.

This isn't good or bad, it just is. They can manage the same base load day every day until they need servicing. But that also means you need other power sources to take the top load. That's usually natural gas turbines, even if it could be other things. Hydro is optimal, but most countries have a limited capacity for that. Which is, somewhat ironically, a similar situation as wind and solar have, but for completely different reasons.

Keep that in mind when people talk about replacing natural gas with nuclear. They do different things.
Recently, I was mindblown to read about electron viscosity.

A colleague was asking about fluid dynamics, relating to air flowing through a tube with a cylinder in the middle. The equations looked very similar to those used for coaxial cables, and someone else had commented that the physics models are in fact quite similar.

I can't find the StackExchange link right now, but here's another article about electron viscosity, "negative resistance, electron whirlpools and superballistic flow."

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/graphene-reveals-...
> Most of us mentalize automatically. From infancy, other minds involuntarily seep into our own. The same thing, apparently, happens less strongly in psychopaths. [...] these people can deliberately take another person’s perspective, but on average, they don’t automatically do so to the extent that most other people do. “This is the first time we’re seeing evidence that psychopaths don’t have this automatic ability that most of us have,” Baskin-Sommers says.

Interesting that the 'ability' is framed as the automatic behaviour. I would have flipped it as psychopaths have the ability to selectively/consciously consider others' perspectives, not as in being better/worse but subconscious/conscious.

My own worldview is that people are generally responsible for their own emotional state. Of course I choose to behave ethically and within social norms for the most part and make exceptions for a small circle of people I'm close with. Another advantage that I also find is being able to be more objective at times about my own emotions/judgements rather than having them implicitly in control of every situation.
If they were cool, they'd release a patch that'd make the game DRM free, and then abandon it.
History on a Blockchain
A lot of the people who have fond recollections of video rental stores are because they were kids at the time, going to the video store was associated with Friday nights and family movie time for a lot of kids.

I'm sure their parents who were responsible for rewinding the tapes, late fees, etc. remember the video stores less fondly.
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a huge shift over the last 10 year and most visible in technical roles is the elimination of college rankings. i used to work at a company that had a ceo mandate “all resumes must come from top 20 schools”. saying something like that now as an engineering manager would raise questions and probably make you look dumb. there’s many reasons for this but the biggest is it’s impossible to do this with a global workforce. this is great for high school students, one less area of pressure
> Can’t heat with nuclear. Not in a way that’s relevant for this, anyway.

That is not a law of Physics. Electric heating is perfectly fine. It’s true that we cannot do it quick enough to matter in this case, but that is not a good reason to just shrug and not learn anything from this. We will need a long-term strategy, because even if we manage to come up with a temporary solution, it’s clear that these things will happen again in the future. It’s just too good as a way of applying pressure on European countries. Long term, it will have to be electric if we want to improve our energy supply and have a remote chance of not staying too far from our climate goals.

We should have seen this coming for quite a while. It was in fact predicted, but mostly ignored by politicians who seemed to thing that oil crises from the 1970s were fun and that energy independence was irrelevant.
Worked at a company a few years ago that was still using Classic ASP for some projects. It was not supported by Microsoft at this point, which is saying something, and I’d be surprised if the project was ever sunset.

The software development process sounds all too familiar, i.e. hundreds of bugs in QA, long releases, long release cycles, death marches, and burnout. Fun stuff.

This cultural mindset permeated the entire organization. Even for projects using new technology, we were coupled to this legacy project and our processes always devolved to what it had created.
Yes I've noticed this too. Too much fat and you tip the scale, it needs to be well distributed too.

Younger people has smoother and better skin and well distributed fat, I think we begin to deposit fat around our faces in areas that make us look old.

Interesting to know if fasting causes you to age faster because of the loss of fat around your face.
Dependency on an existing Rust compiler during GCC bootstrap process.
There's literally no way to get gas from those terminals to Germany on a large enough scale. They really went all-in on dependence on Russian natural gas and their politicians seem to have been richly rewarded for it.
Title is originally from an @AmuseChimp tweet: https://twitter.com/AmuseChimp/status/906147488582787073?s=2...

Probably one of his best.
Most services offer a ‘recovery code’ incase the MFA device is lost/damaged/stolen.

The only caveat is that the recovery codes are single use and exist such that you can turn off MFA in a settings dashboard, then setup 2FA again. It gives you a temporary window to fix things. Logout accidentally? Tough, you can’t use your recovery code again, unless the service offers multiple codes.
James Webb Space Telescope – First Images
EU plans spy-proof bunker for secret talks
People are going to have to come to a point where they realize that their urban fantasies that everyone wants to live stacked on top of other people just so they will be within walking distance of grocery stores is never going to happen.

They also have to realize that not everyone wants corporate box box stores in their backyards, which in the US is where grocery and household goods are bought.

They also should realize that sometimes desirable places to live can grow faster than infrastructure planning anticipated and nice things like bicycle paths and central shopping areas often aren’t often available that allow safe travel from where the homes are…to where the grocery stores are located by anything other than a care.
I guess I have two points. Perfect information stratego is not a hard game at all. There's still a lot of moves one can make but perfect play is easy to calculate. Near perfect play is probably easy enough even for an amateur player. My gut says many games will converge on this state (early) if you have an unbeatable piece.

Without perfect information, the number of states is still mostly a red herring, because the differences between the states are immaterial. The moves aren't super important. If you decide to move frontline unit A against the frontline unit on the opposite side of the field, there may be several moves between that but you've only made one noteworthy decision. Could be bad intuition. I think a more abstract model here would do better and be far simpler with some minor tactical move prioritization or whatever.
You can also value both currencies in gold, which offers another perspective.
Status of urological Kampo medicine: A narrative review and future vision (2015)
This probably isn't what you're after, but you can blog via a pen & notebook with Paper website: https://daily.tinyprojects.dev/paper_website

(no affiliation and haven't used it, but I love the idea and that person's "tiny projects" are super cool!)
Stress Tolerance: Algorithm
I'd say the eurozone is winning in what matters:

3 trillion euros / ≈14.5 trillion euro gdp of the eurozone ≈ 20.6% of gdp

4.5 trillion USD / ≈23 trillion US gdp ≈ 19.5% of gdp
I don't agree, many websites don't have it.
Its a choice that these we sites that they want to still track everyone, and they are paying for it in bad UX.
On-brand for the JWST, to be fair.
I was reading about a lot of these nuclear cleanup projects at Hanford and Fukushima and the only way to do it is with specially designed robots that are highly radiation resistant. This is difficult since the radiation regularly causes them to glitch out permanently and radio communication doesn't really work with that much radiation around. They usually have to be tethered to be controllable.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/26/16030222/fukushima-nuclea...
You just came up with a better idea than the entire UK government ever has.
No idea why the concept of energy, in the scope of a national ecobomy, is so hard to understand. Of course you can heat with electricity, in the case of heat pumps even sustainable. Thing is, there are millions of house holds, commercial and industrial users that have decades of infrastructure in place heating with gas. No way to replace that in mid, let alone short term.

Also, nobody will freeze to death in his house over this.
> The hardest part of building any search engine is keeping the index up-to-date with changes made to the underlying data store.

That makes sense and I'm curious to know if you're referring to the challenges that arise from attempting to implement a distributed heterogeneous transaction that includes system of record (say RDBMS) and derived data (search engine), or did you think about something that's more specific to search engines?
> which allows a lesser data collection burden on thousands of universities.

How's it supposed to do that? Universities all already collect the data on enrollment for every class they offer.
I lost 60 pounds of pregnancy weight that year, so it's hard to tell, but I didn't notice any particular change in my weight loss rate during the potato diet.
If you think of clickbait as a crowdsourced ranking of emotionally manipulative hyperbole, that could be said of any corporate press rag.
“people depend on third-party libraries too much”
I am also not a fan of WordPress and I have spent some time checking out alternatives. Netlify CMS has been great in my experience. Play around with some templates [0] and see how you like it. I also had an outstanding experience recently using CouchCMS [1] to retrofit an existing static website with a CMS.

[0]: https://templates.netlify.com/
[1]: https://www.couchcms.com/
> but people also get nice healthcare

By all accounts of everyone I know in Canada and also those in Canadian Healthcare, the system is on the verge of collapsing
Explosion during Starship booster testing today
Sweet potato doesn't contain B12 - you're probably thinking of Vitamin A.

Dairy doesn't contain enough B12 to supplement you on it's own, which is why the study recommends against and instead suggests taking an actual B12 supplement (Puritan's Pride lozenges)

4 weeks shouldn't be enough time to develop a serious B12 deficiency but doing this for longer could impair you cognitively.
There's also the angle that each day is the same as yesterday and the person doesn't feel like it's leading anywhere. It's the same as laying bricks for life or being a simple farmer. It puts food on the table but does nothing for the mind.
A lot less money to be made from history
These guys appears to be pushing a pretty radical kind of political change, which doubtlessly influences whatever they're writing about "the news" and "history." This is apparently what they're about:

https://book.thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-se...:

> The Network State in One Sentence

> In one informal sentence:

>> A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.

> ...

> Here’s a more complex definition that extends that concept and pre-emptively covers many edge cases:

>> A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population, income, and real-estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition.

Tl;dr: another verbose anarcho-libertarian fantasy. I'm glad I had JS disabled so it started me on page 1 of 3,440, instead of in the middle.
>Put another way, what’s the most powerful force on earth? In the 1800s, God. In the 1900s, the US military. And by the mid-2000s, encryption. Because as Assange put it, no amount of violence can solve certain kinds of math problems. So it doesn’t matter how many nuclear weapons you have; if property or information is secured by cryptography, the state can’t seize it without getting the solution to an equation.

Yeah, I stopped reading here. It's incredible how confident this person tries to sound when it's clear that very few of these statements are supported by evidence and also don't follow from each other. Bizarre stuff.
The ASL interpreter is just delightful.
> It's the responsible thing to do.

Also, conveniently, it's the thing whose cost is not paid by the people deciding to enforce it.

> If a package gets compromised its PyPi that has to do cleanup work.

Yeah, that's the very essence of being a distribution tool.
Very good advice. Great tips on logging when you're working with trees.
Seems a bit janky to only require 2FA from “critical projects” and not all projects. Why cut corners?
But not by PyPI! Whoever is in charge of supply chain security at those credit rating agencies and banks should think long and hard about what they've gotten themselves into, though.
It's a power of two shifted by a decimal place value instead of a binary one. Unsure why.
The GDPR is a way way more realistic law, there is no comparison here.

Also the EU is a way bigger user base than the UK, and being complaint with the GDPR is actually possible without needing to pay anyone anything.

I think the affect of this law is going to be way bigger than the GDPR.
The common application just means you don't have to fill out unique admission forms for every school. You still pay an application fee to every school.
An alternative is to just layer the FTS on top of vanilla sql to get the extra stuff (this is what I do for my eCommerce backend), so is pretty simple to have something alike:

SELECT ..
-- Get the fts
IN ( FTS QUERY)
ORDER BY
-- The relevance is hardcoded? mayber in another table that store th rankings?
(
Products,
Inventory,
Invoices,..
)

I found is much easier and predictable if I code the "rankings" based on the business logic instead of let the FTS engine guess it. You can store that stuff as normal columns or use the "sources" (ie: products, inventory) as ways to know what could be more important to pull first.

This have the nice property that our search results are ver good and better: Never return non-sensical stuff! (like searching for a apple in the store and get and blog post!)
So this would favor specialized schools in general?
Yes! That was the book.
Sanofi, Nestle, Airbus, Stellantis are not. And those are just the ones I come up woth from top of my head. Germany's strength are actually mid sozed comoanies ezcellong it what they do. And the big obes, is it really a surprise that the biggest EU economy actually has a fair share mega corps?
It's the safest choice given the incentives.
This sounds as sensible as living on hardtack, salt pork, and rum (the pirate diet) -- a great way to get scurvy and other fun diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies.
While the strategy to let Russia sit on the table of grown ups did not work out in the end, I think it delayed Putins actions for a few years. I think Ukraine has much better chances than 5 years ago. And without the pandemic, it might have worked longer.
Well.. first of all sadly enough I do not earn $200+/hr. I am in Europe and there rates are around $100/hr. (Either that, or I should turn this post into a looking for work!)

That being said, it doesn't change the feeling. I try to make myself feel better by thinking something along the lines of this: I have no money issues, more money would ofcourse make life a little bit better. But what if I were to die tomorrow? I would much ratter spend quality time on the life of the people (or animals) I care about, or my own life, then have a few hundred bucks extra. That, together with knowing that I cannot always work because I will burn out and will earn nothing anymore goes a long way.

I work to live my life, I do not live my life to work :)
Electric radiators are quite cheap (they retail for less than $100), and homes in the cold parts of europe are typically well insulated, and if you bought a radiator for every person in the eu (0.5B * $100) it would cost .3% of europe's gdp ($18 trillion), or 5% of the eu's budget for 1 year. This helps reduce the reliance on gas for domestic heating.
Small class sizes are better precisely because the class can then become more than a lecture. I am a professor, and if you give me a hall full of students I’ll give a lecture, because that’s all that can really happen under those circumstances.

If it’s a small group, I can actually learn everybody’s names, get to know them, personalize the material more and spend big chunks of the class just answering your questions and starting discussions based on them. The class becomes less of a mere information dump and more of a mentorship.