skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things got ironed out quite a bit, the fifties and sixties were really good. Cuban Revolution, suddenly there was sugar in the kitchen. Big sugar rations! Increased rations! Then later increased even more! And while yes basically they were poor they were at least all equally poor, that is a much better outcome. They had privacy from Capitalism (weren't getting big data analytics extracted from them), and plus, Russians never made the big bucks off their expansion, never cashed in on it. Unlike everybody else ever.
Meanwhile there are millions of people in poor countries who would love to have a conversation with you in French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. over Skype.
> /or made to wear a mask

Just having to wear a mask for a year is "generational trauma" level horrific? Being a surgeon must be unbearable (that or you had a truly cushy life).
The Workers Launchpad funding program: $1.25B to build on Cloudflare
Biden openly stated that he would destroy these pipelines.

Why would a "competent" intelligence agency need to get involved in making it covert, after the US President, himself, admitted that it would happen?

This straw man argument you're making does serve to deflect attention from the one party that is obviously going to benefit from this event, however.
So you’re going to “legislate” that Apple must maintain compatibility forever?
Tesla's a funny example to pick; if they detect that you've tampered with it, the company doesn't stop at "not having anything to do with you" - they actively kneecap your car. Not for liability reasons, but because it undermines their ability to market segment. You don't really "own" a Tesla the way you own most other cars.

https://electrek.co/2020/08/22/tesla-fights-back-against-own...
Which is what a rational person looks like under the circumstances. One would assume reasonable people are easier to hold and work with.
But not necessarily cheaper, no.
Well clear winner of current sitaution is US, clear loser is Europe/EU and Russia is somewhere in between, but they can sell their gas elsewhere, so what would be point sabotaging own business (though it could be false flag attack).
They said no evidence was found, not that no cheating took place. (After all, it would most likely be very hard to detect.) And the anti cheating measures were upped after Carlsen quit; therefore they were not adequate in the first place.
It's not out of question that there could be a faction in Russia that would want to undermine the current regime.

Edit: Or it could be a play by the current regime against any competing factions.
I would assume a meaningful definition of luxury involves at least abundant space, food, energy, and time. For example, working 100 hours per week is not luxurious, nor living in a Hong Kong pod, nor having to eat ramen because you cannot afford fruits and vegetables.
Weirdly negative tone towards Andy Warhol for seemingly no reason, otherwise interesting article. The guy (Warhol) was almost 60 years old when the Amiga came out and already a pretty famous name.
The air con term reminds me of my time in Asia getting used to saying air con instead of AC.
Wesnoth is great. If you don't want to move your units, what do you want?

There's Globulation, in which you set the tasks/goals and your units strive to achieve them the best they can.
> Worth also mentioning, the key actions on higher-end modern digitals are also pretty damn good these days

I've bought a few $1500-2000 digital pianos (Kawai ES8, Yamaha P515). The action limits tend to show up when you have to play "in" on the black notes. There just isn't enough leverage to allow that to happen the way it does on a grand. Playing something like Bach in F# or G# is not really possible.
For Sure. This is for people who don't have the server access, knowledge, or patience.
AppleTogether: Collecting Goodbye Messages from Former Apple Employees
I don't understand what Tim Cook is talking about - it may be the case that a majority of tech workers are women, and this includes Apple's own far-flung global workforce. For example, let's look at Apple's Foxconn workers (Jan 2022):

> "More than 85 percent of the 17,000 employees at the plant are women, mostly temporary hands, according to the workers and activists The Quint spoke with. Almost all are 25 or younger, and landed there through local middlemen..."

Listen to this heartwarming personal story that reveals just how much Apple cares about women in the tech world!

> "With an education loan to repay and a family with no earner, she took up a job at Foxconn’s iPhone factory. One that paid so less that she would need more than a year’s salary to buy the Apple Inc. phone she assembled."

https://www.thequint.com/news/business/foxconn-reopens-tamil...

Of course, the excuse for that kind of thing is inflated profit margins obtained via decreased labor costs, which is why Apple won't build it's pricey phones in Silicon Valley itself, preferring Third World sweatshops.
Take a look at Wargame: Red Dragon. Might scratch the itch. In fact, the whole Wargame series by Eugen systems is set in the Cold War I believe.
> But I have to wonder why?

No idea, certainly the HN spam filter isn't perfect. You can mail the mods and ask about/ask for it to be unbanned, in my experience they appreciate people reporting false positives to them.
Mostly since I have zero knowledge of the Nordstrom pipelines, that's why I'm wondering if there's any commonality.

I assume the current mode of operation is far from the normal one, which probably brings a much higher likely chance of "edge case" malfunctions, but yeah just speculating here.
> the odds of you being a good programmer are pretty low

You're a good programmer if you've made something good. Most people who are good at leetcode have never made anything significant. When is the last time you saw someone who is well-known for some successful product linking to their leetcode account?
Rest vs. Spread Syntax in JavaScript
That makes sense. Coding is an excellent way to train problem solving skills.

Even if you consider intellectually demanding fields such as mathematics and physics; although they do train your critical thinking skills, they don't teach you how to be pragmatic. Software engineering can help you to develop a pragmatic 'most efficient path to meet the goal' mindset.
Cool product, I ran out of free requests before I could try the knowledge graph API. Out of curiosity have you thought about how someone would use this product? is the idea that you would use it to organize information in a CRM or similar product?

One interesting use case I heard from an SMB real estate agent was that they needed an assistant to organize customer details, send emails, and make appointments. As one can imagine such a gig isn't great for the employee as there isn't much career path in the long run.
Oh snap, when you sign up you get a learning track. This kicks DuoLingos ass. Like practical stuff (conversational aids) right away instead of useless practice sentences like "the monkey has a ball".

In all fairness, I bailed on Duo about a year ago after a full year of maintaining a streak and feeling I wasn't learning much.
How well do your DOS programs run on Microsoft’s successful mobile platform that doesn’t have swap, limited memory and has 24 hour battery life on the latest processor node?
But he didn't compare 15 year old PC games to iOS applications. He compared a 37 year old console game.

You also need an emulator to run 31 year old PC games like Civilization on modern OS/hardware.
They do indeed! Have a listen to Clara Schumann:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvnznUFagY
Probably, like me, they note that it's a) reasonably okay-looking, and b) way easier than changing it.
Has anyone been able to resettle all the Portlandian refugees? From your comments, it must have been on par with Dresden in March of 1945, right?
Less well remembered is the companion device, seen in a few of the pictures, with 5 piano-like keys for your left hand to rest on. The idea was that you could “play” 31 different “chords” instead of typing on a keyboard (with some sort of “shift” chord to get numerals and punctuation; or maybe a foot-pedal?).

The huge advantage was that you never had to move your hands between the mouse and keyboard, and have to re-find the home row, etc. I saw a number of people actually using this system, including support staff, during a visit to SRI around 1980.

Speed and accuracy were reportedly stellar; the downfall, evidently, was that everyone developed Repetitive Stress Injury from chording (before RSI was even a thing).
I'm curious why you're avoiding the obvious party: the USA did this.

Biden even stated he would do it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-germanys-scholz-stress-u...
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook addresses lack of women in tech, EarPods sales, AR future
The motive here is obvious. It is to stop any remaining gas shipments from Russia to Germany without formally violating their contracts and providing plausible deniability for future restoration negotiations using the newer Nordstream 2 pipeline which has much larger capacity anyway.

Germany has struggled to store enough gas storage for winter. They have told the public they have enough, however those estimates assumed a continued flow along the Nordstream 1 pipeline.

I suspect we will see additional oil/gas supply "mystery disruptions" to reduce Europe's willingness to support Ukraine and pressure Ukraine to accept a ceasefire along the existing front (which will defacto annex a big chunk of Ukraine to Russia).

It's going to be a cold and politically difficult winter in Europe.
People who were played for suckers in this obvious way are less likely to return to you in a crunch.
Word also gets around about practice of your company. A big corporation might weather the bad PR and missed hiring opportunities, small company not necessarily.

Who you are left with are either very naive new kids, high rotation desperate people or people adept at minimizing work done.
Pretty hard, because there isn't enough leverage in the smaller action of digital pianos.
AI Art Addiction Woes
> Magnus may not be great at spotting a cheater, but his expertise in this game suggests that he could be, and adding that fact to an existing body of evidence isn't even close to committing an appeal to authority fallacy.

OP:

> He is widely regarded as the greatest chess player to have ever lived. His opinion on what it takes to play high level chess is worth taking extremely seriously.

- A: Magnus is a great chess player

- B: Magnus claims cheating because "gut"

- C: Therefore Hans cheated

The argument rests solely on the fact that since he's an expert his word should be taken "seriously," heavily implying that Hans cheated.

> To bring up that fallacy here is just lazy thinking.

I disagree and you're not going to convince me otherwise with statements like this one.
I really dislike your use of the word 'profound' here.

Leadership is not some higher calling, nor is there anything particularly profound about learning to do it well.
Lots of people in Russia have family in Ukraine
I believe you are conflating patents and trademarks. Patents require novelty to be accepted. Trademarks do not.

As it happens, there are many registered trademarks and variants of trademarks for "computer system": https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=computer+system
Let's not forget cook food.
Apple and Oprah splitting up, contract will switch to a project-by-project basis
Can confirm, the demand for factory work is insane right now. I know someone who went to work for a factory because the pandemic effectively killed his profession (union pipeline welder) and he pretty much exclusively works 12 hour shifts 6 days a week because there just isn't enough workers to keep up with the demand atm.

He was in a desperate situation because he got saddled with debt trying to stay afloat during Covid, so he just does that and keeps his head down all the time while paying things off. Its a shame too, he was so close to retirement and now I don't think he will be able to.
When I am in my office I use my 27' 144hz monitor and when I am on the road I use my iPad as the 2nd screen.
Literally nobody benifits from someone sitting there doing nothing in work time. There is almost no philosophical argument that somebody should be doing nothing purposelesslessly. The only question is should you be actively working to better yourself/your community/something under your own judgement or someone else's.

During work hours as an employee, the agreement is that you are prioritising tasks based on someone else's judgement. But once that decision is made, it is still best if everyone is as productive as they can be.

Although I personally assume this effect it is probably not an issue of laziness but of organisational overhead in large groups - if it were easy to avoid people would do so. There are some unreasonably motivated people out there.
Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
The @pn(...) construct is very interesting, compelling, worth chewing on.

I too have a pet DSL project for graphs. Think JSON, QML, etc.

A central design problem is divining a single syntax for both "groves" (nested objects decorated with key/value pairs) and tabular data.

Asked another way: How would you inline CSV snippets within JSON?

Parenthesis are used for function parameters.

Curly brackets are used for composition: parent { child { key value, key value } }

Square brackets are used for arrays: parent { array [1 2 3] }}

How to simply encode tables (matrices)? Nested arrays? Like: table [ [1 2 3] [4 5 6] ]

Is there another character or lexeme to use?

Maybe delimit rows with pipe char? Like [ 1 2 3 | 4 5 6 ]
I agree the modern rules are better.

Mogg Fanatic was massively nerfed in the modern rules though, which is sad, because it was such an iconic part of the monored deck. (It used to be able to sac itself and deal 1 in combat trade)
Been doing that by running kubernetes inside SmartOS zones via bhyve VMs on multi-tenant systems. Works pretty well, although they are slightly more resource hungry VMs than the ones in this article.
Perhaps you should commit a new "Still working well..." line to its readme file in every few weeks to satisfy the update hungry crowd. :)
-But that resolve is feared to be weakened by falling temperatures in Continental Europe.

Surely it cannot be completely outside the realm of the possible that Someone(tm) helped EU politicians do The Right Thing(tm) by ensuring they couldn't give in to Russian demands this winter even if they'd wanted to?

(I believe this one's on the Russians - but I can see other actors finding it beneficial that Russian exports cannot easily be resumed. Especially as long as the Kremlin denying it had anything to do with something is largely seen as evidence it did indeed have something to do with it.)
This resonated a lot with me. Well put. Thanks for sharing.
I typo'd a bit so maybe it didn't get across. I meant an AI with human reaction time.
Cant recall the SaaS site but I found it on HN. On their front page they clearly said - how would you like to engage with us:

[ Setup a Meeting ] [ Watch a Product Demo ] [ Join a live Webinar ]

I think that's definitely a good path to follow
My first couple weeks were pretty bad then it wore off since I have serious real-world responsibilities. I can imagine it being terrible, as bad as actual drug addiction for certain people.
Me too! And it does not only keep HDDs cool but even more importantly it keeps them at a constant temperature. At this point the script should be shipped with TrueNAS directly.
> Can we please stop to compare to a Baltic state when their size is smaller than that of a western Europe large city. It doesn't bring anything to the comparison. (I'm pretty sure it's an order of magnitude of what San Marino need)

Ah yes. Some countries are more equal than others.

Estonia is 15% of Swiss population if you want to compare populations. So, to indulge your insistence to only talk about Switzerland and completely ignoring the bigger picture, Estonia's population is more than Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Lausanne, Bern, and Winterthur combined. Ah yes, and consumes more than San Marino of course.

But that's not the point

The point is: It's not just Switzerland that has to increase power generation by ~17%, and build all the infrastructure to distribute that electricity, and make sure all those new plants are properly connected to the grid.

On top of that Europe's grid is tightly interconnected. Here's a good twitter thread on what it means to supply/demand side of the equation: https://twitter.com/BurggrabenH/status/1567929340737863680

Pretending that "we need 17% more electricity is nothing, and is easily solvable" is uneducated at best.

China is building those very fast because you wouldn't want to be a worker in one of those construction projects. Even though I agree on principle that the dismantling of nuclear energy in EU is a disgrace.
No English?
A CTO often will be the referee for making big technical decisions. If that CTO doesn’t have a good bullshit detector then bad decisions will be made.
Real World Micro Services
I've also seen Optane recommended as cache for ZFS pools[0]. I wonder if Intel is sufficiently disillusioned with Optane to license it to another manufacturer. Particularly with the CHIPS act in place, perhaps there's room for someone to take another run at it.

[0] https://www.servethehome.com/exploring-best-zfs-zil-slog-ssd...
am rusty chinese speaker. randomly assigned to converse on Furniture & Locations.

---

Quazel: 告诉我吧!你是如何安排你的家具的？

Me (in halting, broken chinese): 窗户旁边有一个沙发，中间是电视和桌子。我的工作就是在这里.

Quazel: 所以你的沙发是面向窗户的？那真的很好。我敢打赌，这样你会得到很多自然光。沙发后面是什么呢？

translated

Quazel: How do you arrange your furniture?

Me: There is a couch next to the window, with a TV and table in the middle. This is where I work.

Quazel: So you have your couch facing the window? That's really nice. I bet you get a lot of natural light that way. And what is behind the couch?

---

holy. shit. its like a very very patient language teacher who doesnt judge you, who understands objects and context.
Hey good job! Can't identify with the opposition in the comments, this looks useful to add a fancy feature to a simple website.
SEC Charges Oracle a Second Time for Violations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Not if it is a movie or a tv series. Best (enjoyable) way would always be to watch something you like in a language you want to learn with subtitles for a longer term. Things like binge watching won't work though because the brain gets tired and tunes out.
Not aware of any Uber drivers told swallow these bags no questions just swallow, drive, and shit on floor at the destination.
Because of their association to period dramas and high culture.
Which suggests that pay disparity isn't the source of their decision making. After all, if they are simply trying to spite tech for not paying them as much as men doing the same job then they would do the same in healthcare where you indicate men are also paid more.
No, the winner here is clearly Russia.

They wanted to cut the line to pressure the EU into pressuring Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire along existing battle lines.

Cutting production through an "accident" allows them plausible deniability to cut Europe's gas supplies without formally violating the contract and for restoration negotiations if the Ukraine question is settled.
This is unconventional and in fact real wisdom.
I’m a musician who went to a music school that had a lot of nice pianos. I love playing piano but I don’t consider myself a pianist.

My wife is a pianist who studied piano performance. We own a refurbished 1924 Steinway and we love it.

I’ve gotten the chance to play and hear many Steinways and a few Mason and Hamlins. My favorite piano I’ve ever heard was a 1920s Mason and Hamlin that was owned by my wife’s piano professor.

For us it seemed like the only way to get the kind of piano we wanted to own was to find one of the “golden era” pianos from the 1920s and refurbish it or find one that had been refurbished. It’s a lot of work so it’s expensive to do, but still a ton cheaper than buying a newer piano, and the sound and quality of the 1920s pianos can be excellent.

There is a notable lack of great piano technicians and tuners. We have an amazing one, but everyone else we have tried cannot make the instrument sing like he can. Some have been downright terrible. There is such an art to really getting the individual strings within a note in tune with each other to the level where the sound waves line up and sustain one another rather than canceling each other out and killing off the note quickly. My tuner says that most tuners don’t even know the difference or that it’s even a thing, and I believe him.

I hope the art of piano tuners and technicians doesn’t completely die off. It would be easy to see that happen.
When a non cached request comes in to the Python layer, I set a response header with that object's modified date. Lua intercepts that response header, and stores the modification date in a shared dictionary under that object's cache_key.

When the next HTTP request comes in to view that object, I lookup the object's date in the shared dict. If the modified date is > now(), I set the bypass flag to 1, so nginx updates its cache.
Objective reality does exist.
Do they? It doesn't look at all like that when I google screenshots. It looks like there's some chrome in between the top of the screen edge and the start of the tab. At least in Chrome.
100% this. Children make mistakes all the time, but they're not afraid to, especially at the stage they're first acquiring the language. But by the time you're an adult, you're much more cautious about appearing dumb, so you hold back.
I played extended in 1997 and it was fantastic. Four necro in one deck was broken but I loved it.
Actually Ma bell could tell you who to buy a telephone from early on. They controlled what devices were allowed to be connected to the network.
I feel this is a profound statement - I'm unreligious and yet that aspect of some religions (forgive others that you may be forgiven) seems highly sensible and you have effectively completed the explanation of why it is sensible.
"Beef alone, as a source of iron and other vitamins that are needed especially by men, is critical."

This isn't true. A healthy vegetarian diet can provide you with everything your body needs.
> Ceramic armour resists bullets.

Why do my plates shatter when I drop them then ?! if they can't withstand my floor how could they possibly deflect bullets ?!

> Cardboard doesn’t block or deflect threats to tanks in any form

Well then good thing there is no cardboard in their tanks. You really take a random pic from twitter as the absolute truth even though you were presented alternatives ?

Maybe another twitter post might help you then: https://twitter.com/russian_defence/status/91989519933319168...

It might be outdated, it might be shitty compared to western version, it's not cardboard and it is supposed to be like that.

But ok let's all dial down our IQ to 56 and pretend Oligarchs sold egg cartons to their army to pay their yacht, that's a nicer story to tell on TV news. "aha look at them funny corrupt russians and their egg cartons, russia dumb"
Diatoms are pretty cool.

Their frustules (shells) are nanostructured pure amorphous silica, which gives them interesting and possibly useful optical properties:

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/fd/d0fd0...

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2018.003...

Some pictures of the frustrules, with some words and diagrams too:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.0012...
Also, you can just download the bundle if you want to stop using the site to host it. Personally I make enough edits I like to keep it up.
Most mainland European gas reserves are full, there will be no freezing in Europe this winter.
Don't read too much into that. You're thinking more about that phrasing than the author probably did.
That's how you get a big tip.
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