skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Genocide" became a meaningless word because it's used willy-nilly similarly to "terrorism". Even if we are to trust number of civilian deaths reported by Western and Ukrainian sources it's really far from being "genocide". IIRC in relative terms, the US invasion of Iraq with subsequent fight against ISIS is closer to "genocide" than the invasion of Ukraine.

Genocide has a definition and even basing our assertions of just what Russia is admitting that they are doing they meet the definition of genocide, its not meaningless it just has a broader definition then most people know.

You can read the definition of genocide from here.

>> https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

>> In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

>> Killing members of the group;

>> Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

>> Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

>> Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

>> Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

You could argue about some of the points but Russia _proudly_ admits they are kidnapping Ukrainian children and forcibly relocating them to Russia. So they meet point 5 of the UN definition of genocide.

> And as for "rape children", it's yet another blatant demonization. The lies became so toxic, Zelensky even had to fire Denisova, the person responsible for distributing most of such claims without properly supporting them with evidence. Most of "Russian soldiers rape children" articles you read in the Western media were citing Denisova.

There are multiple counts of different atrocities that the Russians had committed if you want to discount the child rape go for it, but we plenty of evidence of Russia raping plenty of people in Ukraine.

> Oh wow... Are you incapable of critical thinking? Like at all? Russians can always physically cut wires in the territory they control.

Are you incapable of discussing something in a civil manner?. Please read the guidelines for hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

> If they wanted, they could've easily bombed every substation in Ukraine with its missiles. But because they do have some humanitarian considerations, they don't do it (unlike some other countries). As we can see, Russia has no techincal trouble bombing stationary objects as far as the westernmost Ukraine.

Yes the country that is levelling cities, kidnapping and forcibly deporting children, and raping women (and allegedly children) has 'humanitarian considerations'.

Russia regularly uses civilian deaths as a part of its war machine they are trying to do it to Ukraine like they did it too Chechnya in Grozny. It's why they force civilians to stay in the cities they capture.
Antitrust.
Sounds like you could put them in a data center...
> Which could be soon based on what we're hearing from the mobile vendors.

I'd really like to see wider webauthn support, so I'm curious to know what you mean by what you're hearing from the mobile vendors please?
TeXShop on Mac, Spacenvim or evil-mode Doom emacs on Linux.
I created a poll version of this here [0]

to make it easier to vote and see a summary of responses.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32606904
Easiest Way to Integrate Spring Boot with Prometheus, and Add Custom Metrics
how many are bots? AFAIK bot traffic is higher than human there. Plus they added so much bot APIs that now bots are hacking and spamming users' accounts
Does anyone have good self control? Or do they just tell themselves that they actually DO want to mindlessly scroll for hours?
Follow Jonathan Stark and listen to ditching hourly. At the time I triple my income instantly following his advice. He will change the way you think.

The tech doesn't matter, you need to solve your client's problem. If it is painful and you have the right clients you can get a lot of money.
I have a white friend who once asked me “why do you always sound like you’re defending my racist uncle?” (I think I made some comment about understanding where Trump voters are coming from re: immigration since people in my own home country would think the same way.) And I’m thinking “why do your views on race and immigration seem to be a proxy for your conflict with your uncle?”
He’s arguing that there is no point to having another level of topmost if all applications currently using topmost are all going to use that new super topmost level anyway. If they’re currently using topmost, you can practically guarantee that will be the case.

If what you say is true, the only way they prevented that is by not making the new super topmost accessible to users, which isn’t really fulfilling the users request.
What if it's a hacking attempt in disguise?
If we had continued building renewables in quantity ten years ago we would be in much better shape now too. Unfortunately we did neither.
But on average? Does the average person have a home server? A desktop PC?

I don't know any non-techy person who isn't using a laptop exclusively, and then pretty rarely, as most things nowadays happen on the smart phone. AC is non-existent in Germany. So I'm really curious. I have a 24/7 Homeserver and laptop, and am at ~1200kwh a year.
The problem with that is that our brains work a lot better when it finds patterns - when it recognises things. And for that, you need to know these things.

We have access to a lot of knowledge at our fingers, it's true. But if the data is all stored there instead of our brains, then we won't be able to recognise that fact A (which we just read) is similar to fact B (which we read a long time but didn't bother to remember because we could just look it up anyway). The implications of that depend on the context, of course, but in a general sense, I think it'd slow our development as a species down.

Exams are generally supposed to test your understanding, not your recollection abilities - with some exceptions, of course, but in general that's supposed to be what they're for.
Why? I'd argue a world in which succeed to make vertical integration minimal would be a better one, with less manipulation and corporations vying to become states.
Actually this is a good decision. Instead of squeezing paying customers to fund the free users, it's better to stop the free plan and offer better service to playing users. There are lots of free hosting plans now a days like every cloud vendor offers some kind of free plans.
> Well, the "before Google" was librarians, and they have a history, a long, long history of saying "no" to the feds when it comes to giving out reading and checkout lists of people.

In the US they lost that fight and now reading lists are handed over to the state.
EA has pretty good working conditions for SWEs.
Could've been a jenkem connoisseur, but still apparently having a bad day.
I would not be able to discern 10k miles or less for a car is an outlier from those data points, it does not say anything about the underlying distribution.

Not to mention the whole female column is pretty much 10k and below, as well as men over 65.

This is a little bit better breakdown, but I could find miles driven by decile. I would assume it greatly differs by location and is greatly skewer by people who drive a lot.

https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/average-miles-dri...

Either way, the purpose of the miles driven per year in cost calculations is because after a certain amount of miles, the up front higher cost of electric is offset by lower per mile costs of driving electric. Assuming fuel costs stay the same, then people who drive less have less incentive to go electric.
Haven't read the top, but increasingly I'm obsessed with something that sounds similar: "Life as a computation."

All the adaptive properties of a living organism can (very rudely) be imagined as "if" statements. To us humans[^1], a "more complex" form of life is invariably one that can leverage more computation to ensure (reproductive) success. For example, a cabbage plant is more resilient to mild environmental and biological threats than a protozoa, because it contains "programs" for forming stems, root systems, energy-gathering leafs, bark and so on, not to mention their sophisticated immune system "subsidized" by the bigger amount of energy the plant can collect.

Then there is thinking: a tool that has allowed Homo Sapiens to work around their biological limitations and achieve a measure of comfort.

(Some) governments, religions, and other bits and pieces of culture present forms of collective thinking (computation). Humans are formidable as part of these structures.

Computers allow Homo Sapiens to move some of their life-sustaining computations out of their biology, which can be used for great evil[2], but are mostly used for the benefit of our species.

The practical corollary of this ramble is that we will likely demand much more computing power in the future.

----

[^1]: So caveat emptor, it's on the eyes of the beholder.

[^2]: Think, nuclear bombs or bioweapons.
> ...all memory accesses are indirect ... module-data is position independent and may be moved in case memory should fail due to radiation damage.

I once used a debugger that shipped with a rather snarky easter egg command: "find my bug". One of its more useful suggestions was "Maybe a cosmic ray error? Use smaller chips!".
An example is AMD Zen 2. The latency of both vpaddd and vpxor is 1 cycle, but throughput is different, 0.33 versus 0.25 cycles.

BTW, Zen 2 CPUs are used in both Xbox S/X, and PS5.
Paying CDs at multiple levels of government means that not everyone has an equal share of all land and resources. If I live in a poor part of the US I am entitled to far less in land and resources from my CDs. Many Georgists view this as neofeudal.
Some of us fall under that category. But I guess we're not that many.
This works for concrete knowledge (declarative, procedural) where simply knowing a set of facts or a pre-existing process is sufficient to perform the job. But when you most into more abstract, creative work, this idea falls apart quickly.

You can easily find an answer to "how do I enable file sharing on Windows." You cannot easily find an answer to "how do I design a website for an engineering firm which wants to increase it's inbound leads by 25%."

The former is a simple search away. The latter requires the integration of numerous abstract concepts which the shallows of a search engine cannot return.

Further, such an approach also limits our ability to create new knowledge.
> If you create something like what Dijkstra created back in 56' (undeniable innovation), then no door will remain shut. That's the beauty of Math, CompSci, or STEM as a whole.

Don’t get me wrong, this seems like a nice idea, I’d love to live in this world, but hasn’t it been disproven time and again throughout history? This board itself is flooded with engineers with great ideas being dismissed because of “realities of the business” or “changing priorities”, much less “political realities” etc et Al.

In fact I’d say the reality is probably opposite,(as a matter of principal, obviously great ideas do eventually make it but) truly great innovative ideas are ignored, it is only the incremental ideas that don’t make anyone uncomfortable that are accepted.
World of Tanks copies all that goofy stuff. Having been on the game for 12 years, I just ignore that stuff. They are free to play but have crap tons of loot box and season pass hoopla. I use the "free to play" term loosely. I have spent a lot more money on that game than any other I have ever played, and I'm not a big spender by any means.
Highly recommend this book (discusses rate/value a lot) for anyone doing software consulting: https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Suc...
The cream generally rises, sure.

But at what rate? And how long will they stay in the game without recognition before giving up? And do those numbers differ based on your color or where you're from?
Why will Amazon stifle innovation? All EA do is release the same games every year with slightly different content (FIFA, Battlefield, Madden, Sims, etc).

What am I missing?
This may not actually be true. The number of people currently dying from those things due to lack of coverage is tiny, while a vastly greater number get substantial QoL improvements from the disconnect.
The Calculus They Won't Teach You
I believe they use ScyllaDB exclusively now for storing messages
Random Acts of Kindness Make a Bigger Splash Than Expected
I think it depends on what you want to become.
Good developer -> Slow specialist.
Good entrepreneur -> Quick generalist
Birthing Predictions of Premature Death
True that. But changing a few lines in and hot-reloading is simply not possible in case of compiled langs; that was what I was driving at.

One could say JSX/TS/TSX are compiled langs too...
Maybe some people don't entirely digest/neutralize the capsaicin before it passes through the body. I've also never really had this issue except one time some years ago when I ate half a fresh raw carolina reaper as a dumb drunk thing, which I assume has loads more capsaicin in it than what I normally ingest from spicy food.
This government represents the people. Companies represent the interests of their owners.

This point would make more sense if I could vote for the leadership team at Amazon.
> 1300 kwh/year

Wow that is low. In most states in the South average household consumes that per month. https://www.chooseenergy.com/news/article/the-states-that-us...
There is no readability argument here with just short phrases and bullet points, so your stance is purely middlebrow gatekeeping.

SPJ and Tim Sweeney don't care about people who are only willing to listen when the other one does it "the right way". They put something out and if you don't like it, you can leave it unread.

I like good fonts, I have bought several "serious fonts" for private use that cost serious money. I would never use Comic Sans in larger texts. I wouldn't probably use it myself anywhere.

But this here is whimsical, and cool, and fun.
I wonder if research into the frequency and severity of mass shootings would be permitted into the journal - or if it would be blocked because it might promote harm
I agree. The problem EV’s are trying to solve is to save car culture.
There's networking now.

https://github.com/minexew/Shrine
Key difference is that EA still charges full price up front, too.
https://archive.ph/jmHRK
only with the now 'cheap' clients :) at some point you are in a different league. gotta keep moving and growing.

but in actuality, no, unless you have a social group where all your old clients get together and mingle. my clients do not know the other ones exist, for the most part.
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
$124 AUD/pH. Contact usually renewed with same company each year.

DevOps admin/Microsoft stack
-SharePoint
-CRM
-DotNet

80% of my time is spent automating with PowerShell
Getting their URL put onto spam blocklists sounds like an unusually counterproductive way for a 'block spam' service to market...
Wrong movie
The original Pinephone has an extremely weak processor. I wouldn't suggest getting the non-pro model.
Can I know what projects you build?
Alien; the Company.
Note taking apps like Joplin for Ubuntu?
For some stupid reason, I'm not allowed to use Joplin by myself LOL. So, I want to use a note taking app that's very similar to it.

I want:

1) Image pasting

2) Tabs with close UI there

Basically sth that looks like notepad++ but with image pasting facility where I can see image directly without having to open new window

I tried zim, but it was stupid UI for me. Closing tabs was hard. And as soon as I started writing in 1 note tab, that tab would come to the right highlighted. Pretty annoying.

Any recommendations? Please share.
They could also use that IP to produce movies and television.
Haha. Truth on the food!

It’s only a little higher than the US for taxes. But I was self-employed in the US, so I didn’t have an employer invisibly paying half my US taxes. If coming from a place of employment to the NL, a doubling of taxes would be normal?

For the car, it’s usually far cheaper to just rent a car for a few hours (SIXT ride share) or days vs owning one.
The ingredients are cheap and common; just recycle them after a coupla hundred cycles. Maybe you could even refurbish these things at home. The article didn't mention any exotic or expensive materials or parts, so perhaps you could even build your own. Which wouldn't infringe any patents, as long as you didn't sell the thing.
Not really. VMware vSphere and KVM based virtualisations are by far the most popular. Xen's last holdout was AWS' custom version of it, but that has been replaced since a few generations ago with the KVM-based Nitro.

So it's basically a niche thing, mostly used by those who already had it/know it (VMware vSphere is going down that road as well, it's basically legacy today).
This article isn't ethics. It's ideology. It is not unethical to identify differences in various cultural, demographic, or organizational groups, or any others for that matter. It used to be called science. A prime example of this thinking is the media's treatment of the Monkey Pox risks. If the researchers and the media had had the courage to acknowledge that those most at risk were men indulging in gay sex, we'd likely have seen fewer cases and fewer lives disrupted. As a retiree, should we be "protected" from research that says active retirees who eat well live longer than their sedentary peers who live on beer and pizza? At the end of the day, it's time for people to quit hiding behind ideology and start dealing with reality. It's sorely needed.
The author is Tim Sweeney, creator of the Unreal Engine.
Are you willing to share what your rates are?
Bot traffic and human traffic aren't mutually exclusive, bots can be humans:

https://t2bot.io/discord/
The timeline does skip a bit too fast over Medos-2[1], the predecessor of the Lilith's operating system, using Modula-2. That plugs the gap between the Alto-Oberon timeline, with Oberon basically being both a continuation of that and a simplification of Smalltalk and the whole software environment in total (surprise: Wirth is not a fan of it [2][3]).

[1]: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/...

[2]: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf (PDF)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

[Edit: corrected reference to Ceres, which was the Lillith successor]
I run a small digital agency, and agree with the £400-£600 a day range.

You can obviously expect more premium £700-£1,000 day rates if you're working for banks or big four accounting firms, or if you have very specific or highly demanded skills (e.g. React)
Oh boy. ”Roll your own queue” is really bad general advice. Lots of unknown unknowns on the way. And what if it’s for data integration into/out of said database?
Zig also tries to block quick-and-dirty stuff, unused variables are errors for example. There are formatting related things too.

This is obviously not as "righteous" as Rust as you put it, but when you look at the source of some shipped games, you'll see that some programming best practices are ignored.

None of this will block Zig from being used in games, of course, but I wish they had a "let me work in peace until I get this working and then we can worry about that small stuff" mode in the compiler.
I don't buy the attention filter argument. No one -- and I really do mean no one -- is going to read the entire contents of the proceedings of even just one of these conferences. NeurIPS -- a single CS conference -- is more than twice the size of the Joint Math Meetings. ICRA and ICML are just as large or larger, and AAAI isn't far behind. That's just one sub-field of CS. There are so many papers coming out every year that I simply cannot keep up with two of my own niches. Adding more papers to that firehose wouldn't materially change the situation.

I've reviewed for some (high quality) Mathematics journals. Papers tend to be more complete, for sure, but the reviewing is much less rejectionist. I'm not aware of any Mathematics journal with a 10% acceptance rate, and even 20% is probably on the low end.

> It's an unfortunate reality of academia that there are fewer resources (jobs, grant funding, etc.) available, than there are researchers who are prepared to put them to good use.

I don't think this is true in CS. Universities outside of an elite set really struggle to hire and retain high quality faculty. It's at a crisis level outside of R1. Teaching-oriented institutions have mostly have stopped trying to hire traditional academics; a masters degree with some teaching experience is sufficient.

Some of this is due to industry -- high-quality faculty candidates tend to also have 3x-5x offers in industry, and it's hard to turn down a guaranteed early retirement for the grind and uncertainty of the tenure track. But I think some of it is also that students who would make good teachers and mentors lose confidence due to a series of unnecessary paper rejections and decide to nope out of academia.

Again, I spend a lot of time around academic mathematics. The rejectionist culture in CS is real. And not just conferences, btw. An NSF program manager started my last review panel by telling us that scores are consistently way lower in CS than in any other field and to please chill out.
>Without the ability to run my banking app or do basic interactions with postal services and government institutions

You can already do this with a web browser (in Linux, no less)
I think that's vertical alignment rather than a monopoly.
Would you want a 10.000USD or the 30.000USD surgery? There is a paradoxon that people associate costs with quality.

High rates never hurt anyone, given that they actually deliver on it.
We use Rust and low-level programming to build MetalBear
If this goes ahead that means Starship is a thing, so the professional astronomers will have lots of orbital telescopes.

It's the amateurs who are screwed.
Between $50-$80, senior engineer and consultant.
How do I get into your work?
IoT and Edge – Zimaboard singleboardserver and immutable database immudb
Local bifurcation with spintransfer torque in superparamagnetic tunnel junctions
Autohotkey has this, called hotstrings, and you can even bind functions and much more. Not cross platform tho.
Durable coating kills Covid virus, other germs in minutes
Well, in that case we shouldn't improve anything as long as children are starving to death in this world. That should be our only and biggest "bug" to fix. Feel free to recommend another one, but we'll pause all other improvements meanwhile. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Do people really feel a flood of endorphins?

Yes.
> cycle between your clipboard

I'm not sure what you mean but if you want really nice clipboard management, with great UX, CLI and scripting capabilities, check out CopyQ[1]. Have been using it for a year and love it.

1: https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/
I do backend Java development as a mid-senior engineer (~10 years of experience). I have a good grasp of SQL, git, Spring, ...

I do 35€/hr in central/southern Europe, working for a local fintech company (2-3x what I'd get as wage). I plan on rising my rates later this year. I was in talks with a US company, and they balked when I requested 42$/hr as that was what they paid their employees from the US.
It makes sense if you are looking for new team members, the small patch is sort of an improvised interview.
> But why don't they just cut the connection at the plant. Agreed about demonizing themselves, they do.

This assumes Russia is a rational actor, they could want to do it and try and have leverage to blame the Ukrainians they could want to do it and try and cause a disaster and blame the Ukrainians.