skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's naive to think that a Western-style democracy could've been instilled in Russia just through some extra effort.

The fact that it works elsewhere doesn't mean it's a suitable model for other countries. Especially when there's a lot of prior baggage of being ruled by a single person, be it a tzar or a head of Politburo.
For those unfamiliar with what happened in Lithuania, in 1991 Gorbachev used military force to kill 14 Lithuanian civilians who were demonstrating for democratic reforms.

https://www.rferl.org/a/lithuania-soviet-crackdown-1991-krem...
Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion
Contra-rotating floating turbines promise unprecedented scale and power
25$ or compute hours free a month, I wonder how much tests that is, and any overhead cpu costs?
You can't be self-reliant when you are bankrupt and all basic neccesities are in short supply.

USSR was defunct. Its communist party was also defunct.

Russia is lucky to have China which produces enormous assortment of items as well as trade surplus.
xdotool does about a quarter of what AutoHotKey does, and even combined with sxhkd, Espanso, Autokey etc. still doesn't match up. xdotool doesn't do hotkeys itself, and doesn't work well being run with hotkeys involving modifiers (yes I'm aware of hacks involving getting xdotool to release modifier keys - I haven't succeeded getting them to work for anything nontrivial). AutoHotKey also does hotstrings (Espanso is the closest Linux equivalent I know, and doesn't work as well IME), app- or window-specific behaviour, and more.
At some point you are just playing into the filibuster games.
> I mean when has US ever had a marshal plan?

That's kind of a silly question, as the answer is in the name.
And people like Larry Summers are still around giving economic "advice", failing upward.
1) Why is this article sabotaging itself by not showing the picture provided in the original paper?

2) Just like many other low effort high impact discoveries, we will never ever see this used on a significant amount of wind turbines, which is very depressing.
Sadly, no.

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This requires xcode, which requires a Mac as far as I know.
3. Free through December 2023, then US$14.99 per month if you choose to subscribe at that time.
This talk suggests they're exploring ways to improve the DX: https://youtu.be/lGEMwh32soc
Except for market garden operations, which can produce a decent quantity of garden vegetables out of an acre or two. You could probably get $20k, $30k.

But labour costs and capital costs are very high. It's not a really profitable operation. Labour of love really.

Most organic market garden type places are only a couple acres.

2.5 of premium wine grapes with on-site winery could also be profitable except around here and in most places regulations explicitly forbid wineries that have acreage that small. Around here it's a 5 acre minimum and then most townships have much more stringent regulations on top of that yet.

In general anything "value added" (jams, wines, bread, butchered/prepared meat, whatever) can be used to turn a a pure small "farm" into a more profitable operation. But again, costs.

(I have a 6 acre property, with about a 3/4 acre of grapes for my own use).
I never talked about a “real pipeline” that was someone else, also this is a very let me google that for you type question but here goes:

https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/how-fake-n...

This was a great podcast:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/12/02/504155809/epis...

The research on this stuff is fascinating.
You still need a Mac with Xcode
> It was not effective at all for willow ptarmigan, ground birds which tend to run into the turbines’ base rather than its blades.

That certainly says more about ptarmigans than turbines.
Programmer.

It has varied from me being the only person working on it to full time work.

It's been easy enough that I've always taken 2, 20 hour/week jobs so that I don't lose all my employment at once when one ends. It's never been a problem picking up the next contract.

I've never worked with anyone else from Toptal, though I have been the replacement.

I haven't been using them for a while, but it's been non-stop inquiries from them, even though I've set my availability to 0hr/wk.
I'm not sure the average Russian would have seen the situation much differently.

Look at the people today who decry chinese investment in the US economy? I'm not even saying those people are wrong.

All it takes is for one person or group in the country to poke us enough to the point where we feel the need to strengthen our security posture there (read: add more troops) and then some terrible situation like Abu Ghraib completely destroys any credibility we have with the local population and it just spirals into disaster.

I simply have no faith left in our government's ability to execute even a completely peaceful operation like the marshall plan (and similarly what we did in Japan).
Hooks are obviously not stateless - I'm saying they were an inevitable consequence of the push towards functional components and that they represent an inferior development experience. No one needed to write 2000 words on how to use setState.
If your boy Mike, however, had a temper tantrum every time someone called him "Michael", or exerted public pressure on corporate HR and lawmakers to make it illegal to call him "Michael", I would indeed go out of my way to call him Michael, even if I don't actually know or care about him. It gives me pleasure to enrage entitled people demanding things they have no right to expect.

In order to have my respect and niceness, you have to ask for it with respect and niceness. Otherwise you're just begging for abuse, and you have nobody to blame but yourself when it comes. I suspect I'm far from the only one who see it this way.
Capability-based instead of user-account-based operating systems and interfaces would go a long way of breaking this pattern.
Incidentally, this is why DisplayPort is always preferable to HDMI if you have the choice. HDMI is kind of a stupid specification.
No, this lets you do automated tests and builds in the cloud.

You’ll still need Xcode to create the project, sign it, manage entitlements, load to test flight, etc.
Ask HN: Future proofing software engineering skills against AI
So whilst I don't think my job as a software engineer / backend server dev is about to be taken over by AI, it's pretty clear that AI tools will be able to, for example, build CRUD apps in the not too distant future. Not sure of the timescales but if this isn't starting to really take off in 10 years I'd be suprised. Obviously one solution is to move up the stack and get better at guiding the AI, writing the specifications, data models or whatever inputs might be required by this, as yet, hypothetical AI system. High level systems thinking and mapping that to the messy problem domain will become more of a focus as the lower level detail wlll be increasingly automatable.

What skills, other than this higher level work do we see sticking around? Understanding security and infra generally, i.e. moving down the stack for an app developer also seems like a good option. As well as reasoning about the software behaviour we need to ensure security, reliability at a human level to some degree. It just seems like writing app code for many standard use cases will be a solved problem by some AI system so staying in the middle long term, might be a dead end?
This very much depends on your use case. I recently did the planet for zoom level 12 as I mentioned elsewhere on this article. I can go into details if you're interested.
hah, so the line of logic was: "let's post on reddit to get some low stakes feedback in preparation for a HN launch"
The author of the joke doesn’t really matter here; the point is that it’s funny, period. I’m not sure how you can see a mockery of any country in a joke that would work with literally any important person in any country.
Certainly the west could have done more to prevent corruption and money laundering in western banks, but the opportunities were too lucrative and refusal too dangerous.
US definitely were helping to bankrupt... but then just before the putsch in August 1991 USA got really worried that USSR will split in parts, and the nightmare of managing relations with multiple nuclear states led them to support Gorbachev and USSR, until it actually broke. Then the work of gathering all nuclear armaments into one state - Russia - was going on, along with support of Russian scientists (lest them go to places like Iran and help them with their projects). That's one of the big reasons we have ISS now...
If you study geopolitics and history, you might come to the conclusion that Russia was never going to be a democratic ally of the West regardless of how much economic aid they were given.

Russia at the end of the cold war had geopolitical imperatives such as a warm water ports, buffer states and desire for Russian hegemony that would have existed regardless of their economic state. They also have a long, long history of authoritarianism.
I'm glad people seemed to enjoy this.
Ask HN: Is it ethical to make use of a public dump of hacked data?
I have a list of emails, and from that, I'd like to map them to corresponding user accounts on a public site. This mapping is possible if I make use of a data from a hacked data dump.

Is doing so ethical?

I don't personally mind, since my attitude is that so many people are already doing this and the cat is basically out of the bag. In my mind, what matters moreso is whether the use of the data is harmful or not. But I want to tread lightly, as I don't want to assume that others share my same ethical assumptions.
Is carbon black not a super cheap, black pigment?
Federalism is one of the core principles of the Republican party. I don't believe that's a controversial statement of fact, but I also didn't think vaccines or the shape of the Earth were controversial subjects, so I never know these days.
Good work

I have used AHK a lot and looked for a Linux alternative in the past, like AutoKey, Actiona... which did not felt as good

But nowadays I think I prefer the "Linux way" tools, the bulk can be done with: sxhkd, bash, zenity, xdotool, expanso...

AHK is all-in-one personal automation tool, very useful in Windows, a single tool with a unified language

Linux has a CLI tool for everything, more disperse, different implementations, but easier to re-use modules elsewhere

Still choice is good
Every year, Mississippi the state takes money from the federal government. Money that they don’t earn through taxes levied. Every state of course does this, but Mississippi is pretty bad on a per person level and on a percent of total budget level. To cover existing budget shortfall they’d need to tax an extra 15% of income for the average resident (6k per person). For comparison California would need an extra $12 per person which is like 0.03% to cover their differences. That should set the scene for how cash strapped the state is.

Considering how dependent the state is on funding, it’s not crazy to imagine that the local municipalities would also be similarly dependent.

Jackson surely knows how to raise bonds. In Dec2021 their water and sewer bond rating was put in the “B” range (Baa) for their existing 200M in debt for the water system.

Mississippi likely just has no more money from their existing population available. And has likely started to run out of availability debt accessible.

Ps:
The “rest of us” surely are suckers paying for it, but it looks like we always were. I’m in California and I’d raise my own taxes by $12 just be able to brag to red states that California takes less in “government handouts” than them. But it doesn’t matter. We’re all in one big national union working together to help each other. It doesn’t matter who is paying and who is getting re-elected - those residents need water. And fwiw, it’s not like the fed balances the budget. That’s just “free money” anyways.
"When people show you who they are the first time believe them." -- Maya Angelou
For starters, how about governing the country in a way that doesn't create numerous low-hanging opportunities for propaganda against it. You know: don't invade other countries, don't torture people or hand them over to allies who do it on your behalf, don't ally with countries who do all of the above, don't conduct mass surveillance on your own citizens etc.

To be clear, I'm not saying that the enemy agitprop is all true. However, the most effective kind of agitprop is the one that uses facts as the foundation for the rest of the structure. So how about we start there?
From podcasts and articles I listened or read I always got a pretty good impression of the work the USDS is doing: https://www.usds.gov/.
Ah yes, the world was such a utopia before the US.
Good addition.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoKey
Also, many of the richest people didn't even earn it. They inherited it because some ancestor of their earned it, or stole it.
It’s been a fine “hang” for me for 13 years, it’ll be fine for another 13, most likely.

Also I think it's the literal definition of hubris to disagree with, "what may be tendentious to you is not to someone else" but I'm guessing you don't really care about hypocritical shit like that.
Podcast interview with Eleuther AI co-founder
I think people are overestimating the features of compilers. Today's compilers might struggle with that. 70's compilers even more.
It matters because it gives an indication of whether the dress code is necessary for some reasonable reason (e.g. they want their employees to look nice) or because they were just suppressing unionisation.
2000 was fine. A nice upgrade for NT 4, but Unix has been running on PCs for a long time, and writing a device driver, while not trivial, was a very well documented process. The fact that, besides PCs it ran on high-performance exotic hardware made scaling up the easy choice before scaling out came into fashion.

As it not being written by Microsoft, that's one thing that makes it the last good operating system Microsoft has ever sold - someone who knew what they were doing wrote it for them ;-)
It' a trope to cite individual frustrations with your bike commute as valid in a discussion concerning what is reasonable for the entire world.

There are lots of people who are not able to ride a bike or walk to work, or even a hospital even though we as individuals may be... Many people don't have the vision, equilibrium, attention span, or stamina it takes to ride a bicycle. I am able now, but one day I will also be unable to ride a bicycle myself, and so will you be. God help us if Uber is a monopoly my then, a simple ride will be astronomical in cost.

You don't account for bad weather and just the shear process of making people surrender their right to owning a car just simply won't fly in many cities realistically unless you are suggesting a strange oppressive government control on individuals, which in itself is a slippery slope.

During the initial stages of the pandemic, public transportation was almost completely abandoned, it is still operating at an annual loss world-wide, and being subsidized heavily to stay afloat, just as it was prior to the pandemic. That is indicative of the kind of total chaos that can come if that kind of illogical moral control takes hold of our rights into the future. If riding a bicycle on major roads is not safe, one has the ability to make an individual decision to chose a better form of (safer) transport, than just complaining to restrict everyone else...

At the same time, cities should make dedicated bike and pedestrian infrastructure, without a wild assortment of scattered efforts n every road, and not wasting tons of money just to placate angry online mobs that want their individual perspectives catered to -- That's what is rational.

Some of the most vocal dictators on how all humans should live suffer severely from the inability to consider factors outside of their own experience, and it's a fatal flaw that often gets imposed on everyone else.
yes, theoretically. the wrinkles are: finding a cough syrup that's pure DXM, and if they're doing anything fancy with extended release (I don't think so, but worth checking.)

your best bet is getting a compounding pharmacy to make the tablets for you, if your insurance doesn't cover this and it's too expensive out-of-pocket.
https://archive.ph/pyshR
That has little to do with the USSR as those lands were conquered by the Russian Empire in 18th century from the Ottomans.
Kind of the thing with being in mass media with an enormous audience is that you lose the ability to just do what you've always been doing. I mean, he can, by abandoning his platform and starting over with something else, but the piles of money are too attractive.

Public figures who can heavily influence discourse and thought have an ethical obligation to not give unchallenged credence and a drastically increased audience to their nonsense. If Rogan thought that Goebbels was interesting and let him do his thing for hours to an audience of millions, he would be held to a higher standard. If Rogan thought that Ted Bundy was interesting and let him tell "his side of the story" without challenging it with the truth, he would be held to a higher standard.

This is a basic which we should expect of our society.
I'm not sure what special powers you think the United States would have that could change the course of an entire culture that still seeems drawn to the strong-man archtype. These kinds of transformations have to come from within.
This is just a CI/CD product. You still need a Mac and the Xcode desktop app.
What is "disputed"? It says right there, under Commanders and leaders: Mikhail Gorbachev. Such is the nature of the deal; power for responsibility.
I think most or all of these models are in the R Standard lib
Wow, some of the distortions at the end of the article are really mind bending...

For simpler fisheye and defisheye effects, I wrote this web based tool a few years ago which some may find useful!

https://jywarren.github.io/fisheyegl/example/
Maybe it's because Russia as it currently exists is not a viable country? Moscow's delusions of adequacy really become apparent when the Russian Army is stealing washing machines en masse from its poor neighbor.
That’s interesting you say that because I initially had the opposite impression because this would imply that the Earth has experienced major temperature swings much beyond what we’re seeing now and life carried on.

Then I reread and saw the part about increased greenhouse gas effects… I hope those calculations at least are inaccurate.
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I think Neil Young tried to cancel him right? Young is from a different generation than me, but I had the notion he'd be more free-speak/free-thought/don't trust the man minded. Maybe that is what happens when a pharma exec buys your catalog? Or was that misinformation?
When you hire someone with experience in an esoteric or obscure language, there is a reasonable chance the person really likes learning esoteric or obscure languages. This is usually a plus.
Sure, who among us did not massacre an uprising or two.
Free speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want.
It's likely unethical by most people's standards and illegal in many countries

> I don't personally mind, since my attitude is that so many people are already doing this

There's a common idiom about people jumping off of bridges that applies equally well to committing crime or being unethical

Do you want to be an unethical person or break the law?
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We should take into account the amount of time he spends being recorded, the frequency of the incidents, and the trends of the incidents over time. I think most everyone has said something wrong in the last 12 years. If it happened 12 years ago and hasn't happened since, then I'll give him a pass. If it's a repeating thing, then I'll judge more harshly.
They were minted in late 80s and 90s with the help and active involvement of the West.

There were so many stories...

Working at McKinsey in Moscow in 90s made you instantly into a multi-millionaire. US was sending planes full of dollars to Almaty. Chechen avisos were a CIA plot... and so on and so forth.
Propagandistic anecdotes deserve a little bit of ridicule. But just a little bit.
We definitely were, probably still in one but there is no need to wait for lagging indicators here.

You can run all you like but the problem is, you just can't hide. Best you can do is prepare months in advance like the smart people did. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508238
I am curious, but surely the $900-$1400 an acre is based on rows configured for tractor-based tilling/plowing, fertilizing, herbicide etc.? As I understand it, the nice thing about a smallholding is that you don't have to mechanize near as aggressively, and therefore can plant much more densely than a tractor-based farm would.
Not "ideas" failed the people, but the implementers - which turned out to be straight up robbers, dividing past empire's industrial base amongst them, like western idol Khodorkovsky or Berezovsky.

Where the politicians were less corrupt, the free market worked spectacularly well, like in Poland.
It does, because we could apparently reduce that 20k down to 6k, which lets us scale wind power up even more while looking after the planet even better.

We need to reduce our negative impact on the earth as much as possible. So a simple action which results in a 70% harm reduction is a huge win!
You couldn’t impose democracy on many parts of the USA if it were suddenly removed, let’s face it.
Maybe I'm getting off on a tangent here, but I have two daughters and I truly don't understand the idea that it's completely fine for sexually-degrading jokes to be made about every single woman except my wife/daughter/mother. If I feel that I'm free to make those kinds of jokes about every woman except the few closest to me, then I am essentially granting that same agency to every other guy, leaving my own kids open for those same degrading jokes from others. It's a double-standard, and our wives/daughters/mothers are going to see that. To me, that's a really shitty thing to do as a parent; we should be leading by example.

And that's without addressing the fact that Diaz' comment is potentially rooted in truth...