skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this claim pop up pretty frequently but I think it ignores a rather important factor and that was that those countries suffered complete defeat at the hands of the US, that meant the US could impose any ideology they wished on the country. This was never the case with Russia. Now for sure, the USSR ended its life as a failed economic state, and the Russian Federation that emerged may have been willing to accept any economic ideology imposed on it... but capitalism needs more than this to work.

For example it needs the firm rule of law to be established, yet it is not clear there's anything the US could have done to prevent the divvying up of state resources amongst clever individuals who appropriated vast wealth, through usually dishonest means, becoming today's oligarchs. Nor could the US do anything to eliminate the Russian pride that remained in their former empire, which placed fairly unique pressures on Russia's leaders ("we may be poor but at least everyone else is afraid of us" was not as much of a fringe attitude among the common people as one might think).

So I don't think the conditions were at all similar between Germany and Japan on the one hand, and the Russian Federation on the other, and I don't think any kind of Marshal plan could have ever worked without these missing conditions.

After all, for decades we thought of China that if we just made them all rich, they'd all see the benefits of Western democracy and become more like us ideologically. So the West encouraged open trade with China and... the end result was a country which now had the resources to reäffirm their state ideology. Today we see a China pushing to strengthen the Maoist values it was founded on, rather than dismantling them.

Unfortunately, without utter national humiliation that completely breaks the people's belief in their former state ideology, I just don't think ideological transformation in any kind of short period of time is possible.
Not necessarily. The hunter drone don't need to carry payload that the attack drone is supposedly carrying. Also it may not need the batteries for long range. It is kind of like bomber-fighter situation.

I think the hunter drones would be first to get autonomous operations. The cost of errors/bugs is less for them than say for a ground attack drone hitting your own tank or unrelated civilian truck.
"The move affects millions of developers, as the Python extension is by far the most popular tool in the VS Code Marketplace"

One of the reasons to use Emacs is to avoid asking Microsoft for permission to code.
But none of my extensions & normal accessibility tools will work.

I keep pointing out CanvasKit's problems because it's incredibly harmful & retrogressive. That it's convenient for you the app developer doesnt offer any succor to those of us who want to use extensions, accessibility tools we know, and in general obstructs view-source usability.

I dont think it's necessarily nepharious intent ("oh maybe we can make a canvas renderer"...), but my gosh, to even a casual web enthusaist, it so clearly a shortsighted & cruel misuse of the web. It prevents so much of the genetics & capabilities of the web to treat it like a bunch of dumb pixels, prevents so much of the flexibility & ecosystem that html enables from happening, replacing it with solipsistic caring only about yourself.
> Nottingham’s Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is a timber-framed building dating to the 17th century, and was not open for business until the late-18th century

From what I understand the claim about Ye Olde Trip relates more to the caves that form part of the structure and the part they may have played as a gathering point for crusaders heading south, with claims that there was a tavern of some sort on the site, than the existing front of the building.

However they certainly like to imply some sort of continuity of trade so it's interesting to find out different.

Regardless of the veracity of the claims, it's well worth a look at a quiet time, because there aren't that many pubs where the back rooms are literally caves in the bedrock!
The watermark.
It is easy for you to judge not having experienced the cruelty of the war and communisism and central-planning. He saw a problem and lead people to fix it.
I think there is a quiet but noticeable push back to owning hardware for predictable workloads but that’s beside the point. You can run nomad on EC2, GCE, whatever the Azure equivalent is, in addition to bare metal you own.

Setting up your own, non-managed Kubernetes cluster is definitely possible but I’d argue it’s on a whole different level of difficulty.
The sheer size of Russia combined with hyper centralization in Moscow is not sustainable.

Russian Federation is RSFSR left intact with its borders and regional partition.

Crushing parliament with tanks in 1993 left the country without any checks to presidential power.

Yeltsin constitution gave enormous power to president. For example he can introduce general attorney (the only one who can open investigation on president). Or judges of supreme and costitutional courts (that can introduce changes to constitution itself). Once you've got a puppet parliament, you're free to go, unchecked power.

All regions besides Moscow (or hyper loyal enclaves like Chechnya) are ruled by capital as colonies.

It's evident not only in Russian regions but also occupied territories of Ukraine and Crimea. The assets are quickly divided between Moscow, Chechen and local gangs. Dissent is crushed and voices are forever silenced.
Vincenzo Natali says the film adaptation of Neuromancer is back in development
This is what happens when you build software on another company's platform. Why put your time making plugins for VS Code when rug can be pulled from under any time?
Playgrounds is mostly a local running environment if I am right ?

If you teach a class, having a CI build and run the programs, potentially taking screenshots for you to review later could be a pretty good use case, especially for remote home work.
You're just saying what exactly? If you have a point to make then state it directly instead of wasting our time with useless innuendo.
You can put a bell around their neck, which apparently reduces their catch by half[1]. The cats usually don't look happy about it though.

[1] https://www.publish.csiro.au/wr/WR09127
Images generated have a watermark that can be used to filter.
This looks amazing. I have a couple of legal teams who would.love to get their tools protected with this type of tech. I'm going to checkout ease of use on Flask and Django.
That number is already based on using `zlib-ng`. Sometimes I wonder if it's cheating since `git` might not actually use it. In any case, improving the efficiency of `zlib` along with the Rust integration for it has immediate impact on the git object database performance of `gitoxide`.
For that cellular data is fine and cheaper.
Which ever way the cause and effect happened, I think parent's point stands that there was little the US could have done to intervene.
Terragrunt is an antipattern. Made the mistake once with a very poorly structured project I inherited, never again.
Not sure if you're religious or interested in certain spiritual practices, but almost all organized religions have silent retreats. No phones allowed and talking is only allowed in specific contexts or times. I aim to do this once per quarter.

Do your due diligence though because "silent" has quite the range.
The area of the Pacific is 386,900,000,000 times larger than the wing area of a 777.
Cloudflare allows doxxing
Arctic lakes are vanishing in surprise climate finding
I'm no artist.. though I'll admit i dabble, but is it just me or does everything that is generated in this seem to lack emotion?

I have seen some very impressive pictures but nothing that seems to "emote"
Can I download ckpt file for fp16?
I don't understand why some people hate teraform so much.
I built a system to help people take payments with Google Forms. It was very much an MVP but I lucked into a niche that hadn't been filled, so each week a few people found it and started to use it. I charged 2% of the transaction volume (later lowered to 1.5%) and made about $3k before shutting it down at the end of last year to focus on other things.

Interestingly by that point there were much better, cheaper alternatives and the friction of switching was low, but I had a hard time convincing people to stop using it.
I tell people that they can’t reach and do an OOF mail. Works like a charm. The only person who I say can reach me is my dad and all other numbers are blocked.
Its not an email containing an ad. Its an ad looking like an email in a space reserved for emails. You cant filter it out, and most likely you cant delete it either. Similar to how Messenger puts an ad in your chat list.
OK, here's one for you. How would you automate a task in Firefox? Here's something I need to do often (to get around a bug in FF):

1. Press Ctrl P to get to the Print dialog
2. Scroll to "Print Using System Dialog"
3. Click on Page Setup.
4. Select 2 Pages per side.
5. Choose "Letter" for Paper Size
6. Click on "Print"

I can automate this using AHK on Windows. How would you do it on Linux? And how is running Firefox on Linux helping me any more than Windows?
>HashiCorp’s tech is a mess of over engineering, poor UX, and insufficient documentation.

Second that. Very steep learning curve for some use cases that could be accomplished in a much easier way. Another kubernetes in disguise.
Before you start in on it identify a milestone you want to hit, write down objectively assessable success criteria, then work on it until you check those boxes. It will be hard but it will feel good and reinforce the behavior. Rinse and repeat. Don’t set yourself up for failure - start with easy milestones and give yourself some wins.
Yah, you'd have to guess the input text that generated the image.
St. Cuthbert's Beads
The same could be said about many other platforms: Apps for iPhones and android, chrome and Firefox extensions. Yet people still write them, and some get screwed when their app or extension is removed or doesn’t evolve to the next API change.
So far for me Nomad has been very pleasant to work with. We are a small startup with just three devs - and are running multi-region Nomad in production for a few weeks now.

We migrated around 20 services within a couple of days, coming from a mixture of all sorts of AWS services and Hetzner infra.

Documentation was fairly good and the community was helpful.

(This is without consul or vault, we use native service discovery so far)
This is a name I associate with an era and a great change. You have names like Julius ceasar, Henry VIII, Hitler (in a negative way), Stalin, Washington, Genghis Khan,Alexander and also Gorbachev.

May future generations know your name good Sir.
`gitoxide` can currently perform many of the tasks required, and closing the loop for a full clone with worktree is going to happen at the end of this year.

That said, here is how to receive a pack from the remote and resolve it: `mkdir out && gix -v no-repo pack receive https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide out`.
> Being able to produce methane from CO2 would be a pretty useful technology all by itself.

Totally. With this process, we could get the planet heated back up in no time![1]

[1] Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.
MH370 disappeared more recently than that. Hard to believe it could happen again though - particularly with the forthcoming phone to sat services from SpaceX and Apple.
At last! I love Colab but the vague promises around availability and quota made it impossible to recommend for my team to use professionally.

I even tried and failed to get it up and running with a Google cloud GPU recently, before just switching to Lambda which worked first time (but had since hit availability issues).
but.... underdogs
I had to use VS Code it briefly for a class, and was kind of shocked by the telemetry stuff, and that it's just ignore-accepted by both the students and the instructors.

But what turned me off more was this janky feeling around the whole application, something I don't remember experiencing in many other Microsoft tools, such as VB. It feels like it was designed from the code up rather than from the interface down, and everything I do feels like I'm accommodating the program rather than the other way around.

Anyway, the author of this article was right, I still did have it installed in my dev environment, left behind from those classes. I decided to use this opportunity to `pacman --remove code`.

The situation with bad application behaviors being "baked into the code" and propagating to all the "free" distributions is very sad, similar to what's happening with both Chrome and Firefox.

For example, HSTS is now baked into the all the standard distributions and there's absolutely no way (that I've found) to turn it off. I understand the "security" reasons behind it for regular users, but as someone mindful and often completely unable to access a website only because their certificate has expired, I am quite miffed.
> The most popular tool in HashiCorp's ecosystem that wasn't written by them was written by a consulting firm who hated HashiCorp's UX

This is the initial comment about Terragrunt, which doesn't say that
> There is no collection of facts from the real world in which the vaccines are causing more harm than they prevent, and no collection of facts from the real world in which lockdowns didn't save lives where implemented. But nothing is likely to convince the true believers, so carry on.

Actually there is.

It is called VAERS, and the statistics on Absolute Risk Reduction.

> "The concept of risk, and our ability to assess risk, has also made the headlines in the context of the COVID-19 vaccine trials. Using data from a Nov 26 opinion piece in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), we can see that vaccine efficacy in terms of the relative reduction of the risk of getting ill is around 95%. For example, in the Pfizer trial, assuming an equal split of the 44,000 participants into the vaccine and placebo groups, 0.74% of the placebo group fell ill but only 0.04% of the vaccinated participants did. The relative risk reduction is calculated as the difference between these two incidences (0.7%) divided by the placebo value (0.74%), arriving at the conclusion that 95% of COVID-19 could be avoided if people got immunized. However, there is another way of looking that the same data: The risk reduction in absolute terms is only 0.7%, from an already very low risk of 0.74% to a minimal risk of 0.04%. Thus, risk reduction is 95%, but it also is just 0.7%." [1]

> "A critical appraisal of phase III clinical trial data for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine BNT162b2 and Moderna vaccine mRNA-1273 shows that absolute risk reduction measures are very much lower than the reported relative risk reduction measures. Yet, the manufacturers failed to report absolute risk reduction measures in publicly released documents. As well, the U.S FDA Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) did not follow FDA published guidelines for communicating risks and benefits to the public, and the committee failed to report absolute risk reduction measures in authorizing the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 vaccines for emergency use. Such examples of outcome reporting bias mislead and distort the public’s interpretation of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine efficacy and violate the ethical and legal obligations of informed consent."

Now, you may want to argue this for higher risk groups with comorbidities. What about Absolute Risk for teenage males where the risk of covid 19 is a fatality of 1 in hundreds of thousands to millions, but an MRNA vaccine carries a significantly higher chance of pericarditis/myocarditis, not to mention other AEs? What about athletes where the risk of a vaccine increases the chance the injection will not be intramusculuar, but instead, intravenous?

Some of the of the MRNA vaccines effect on the heart was not known at launch [2]

Anecdotally, I know two people that had severe adverse events to the vaccine, one almost died. The chances of that happening with a safe vaccine are miniscule. One of the aforementioned was likewise a healthy athlete with no comorbidities, in excellent health, of young age.

[1] https://www.oyetimes.com/views/op-eds/341030-covid-19-vaccin...

[2] https://drjessesantiano.com/study-shows-spike-proteins-affec...
This is rather scary and disheartening. I finally switched from 12+ years of Eclipse to vscode just last year. After a disproportionate amount of hand wringing and testing. I'd rather move houses twice before moving to a new IDE. But it's true that since running VSCode I feel less like I actually own my environment. I would never rent an IDE or do my work in the cloud, just on basic principle. I really like VS now that I've wrangled it, though, and I'm hoping to not have to bail and find a new platform in the next 10 years or so.
Are your clusters at the same scale as Robinhood or Roblox? We’re talking many millions of inbound requests per second generating multiples of that on internal service calls.

Nomad, Consul and Vault work find at small to medium scales. Sometimes. If things are working really well and there aren’t any real problems on the network. It’s very fragile, though, and tends to shit itself under the slightest bit of abnormal pressure.
That's good to know about hsCRP. How much does your personal testing cost?

IIUC, they're not planning to provide a solution but rather a tool with a dashboard and some statistical insights. Even statistical insights could be problematic given how the FDA limited 23andme. Personally the FDA was overly eager, as the 23andme actually gave me some very helpful, if too late, knowledge on my genetic predisposition to an AI condition.

Well depending on how they execute it might be really helpful or not. The per test cost seems fairly high too.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to make your website/browser interactions faster?
I'm a long time Mouse & Keyboard user. However, as of late, I've been working away from home more frequently, I'd hate to bring a mouse and mousepad to a coffee shop for a number of reasons so I've been interacting with webpages primarily using my laptop's trackpad and chromium's mediocre keyboard shortcuts. Does anyone have a setup for faster, ideally keyboard-based website interfacing?
welcome to how 80% of startups roll

most people capable of raising money have connections… buddies and social capital

i never raised money for my company. meanwhile a well known VC funded a competitor because of connections or because they like the founder’s “energy”. after a few years the company went bankrupt. the guy went on to raise money again. we had far superior technology far beyond what they were able to develop. it would have been cheaper to acquire us.

TL;DR most peole who succesfully raise do so because of different reasons than having a product or revenue.
I'm honestly going to think about game ideas and try some with the family. It's fun to play with these models on your own, but it's way more fun with a group of people laughing and one-upping.

(Also, very happy for somebody to steal this idea!)
You can view the recent changes to a wikipedia article page using the Related changes link under the Tools subheading on the left pane of the article page.

Here is an example from the page on Mikhail Gorbachev.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked?hi...

You can also modify the filter to look at different period. (Not sure of the limits there on how far back you can go)

You can also click on the View history link at the top of the article page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev...

and the result page has a link to the oldest article version.
I have grown to appreciate HTML and the Web for this reason. If done carefully, one can write an application which is accessible to dozens of different client software and hardware options, and no one vendor can screw you over.
Meh. Having seen a lot of benefit from reducing internet usage, I am split on this. I could really do OK with years of no internet. HN and a few news sites are all that I regularly visit and I am doing so much better now.
This seems a reasonable summary and FedNow is stated as being faster to settle than Zelle. https://www.paymentsjournal.com/the-distinctions-between-fas...
It's almost as if you believed that a world without advertizing wouldn't propagate any information.
could you share a link to PIC ?
"useCallback" is not very intuitive naming. I'd guess a fair bit of the confusion could be attributed to this alone. Could have been useMemoizedValue useMemoizedCallback at least. The whole useXXX naming convention is also unintuitive.
As far as I understand, it's not a big deal as this is sort of the dumb end of the IDE- just the text editor part, not the compiler or debugger. Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know why anyone would bother using a microsoft text editor on linux, but if you are using windows you're already getting screwed pretty hard with telemetry

If a windows-using colleague asks me what text editor to use, I just tell them to use notepad++ or geany. The hard part is moving them away from MSVSC++ to some command-line compiler or debugger (like msys/mingw) so they can make reliable/extensible build scripts.
Banality of swindle: The Missing Cryptoqueen book review
Why did they call it diffusion? It's not diffusion. It's addition of noise (noising)
I’ve been using Optimage for a while (a native Mac app that I believe wraps some of these tools, if I’m not mistaken) and I’ve been impressed by how much it can compress videos. A few times I’ve dropped in “animated gifs” (which were actually MP4s) and it’ll cut a few MB file down to a couple hundred KB.
There are stories of Venmo transfers that do not include ACH (ie the source of funds is a venmo balance) being difficult or impossible to reverse. That's purely a product choice by Paypal.
Agree. I just do not like restaurants which charge full price of burgers to me when there are clearly more patties on grill than customers at that time.
True but the alternative is rolling and maintaining every aspect of your environment yourself. Build environments in particular. If you even have that kind of time, you have to weigh it against shipping a product.
> See, eg, the amount of energy antlered deer (especially males) expend on having large, healthy antlers, purely to compete with other male deer.

Deers have antlers for reasons other than competing with other deer. To defend themselves from predators.

Since they have them, they use them to settle differences in quality. In this case, quality of self-defence.
You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride.

Federal lawsuits are not cheap and the default is that you pay your own costs, you have to win the argument that you should get court costs & attorney's fees.
It gives extension developers less control and flexibility, making some features more difficult or simply impossible. Notably, it nerfs functionality that ad blockers rely on, so the suspicion is that's pretty much the only reason the change is being made. This will impact you because your ad blocker will suddenly not do as good a job blocking ads, or be more cumbersome to use.

The upside is some poorly behaved extensions will have less impact on browser performance.
ACH has always been next day. It was processed at night, so the funds were available the next day. In 2016 it became same day. It is processed four times a day, so is available four times a day.

If your bank is locking up the funds for 3-5 days, that's their decision and has nothing to do with the US banking infrastructure.

My bank processes all transfers same day.

You should take advantage of the many alternatives and switch.
Texas bans 10 banks, 348 investment funds over fossil fuel policies
It's extremely trivial to remove the watermark.
Generally true, unless that vendor is google. Manifest v3 is still in recent memory.
Look above to where you say, "Because that would be monstrously cruel..." If that is not condemnation, then what is it?

It sure doesn't sound like any kind of empathy.