skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this is somewhat misleading.
The people ordering the books are generally skewed in one way politically. So there are objections to those books by some on "the other side".

If the roles were reversed, the people ordering school library books skewed the other way, would not be surprised if the books listed and the people objecting would change.
"are being discussed". By whom exactly? It's not attributed to a quote or anybody. But a random unsourced sentence in one article somehow reflects everything "the Germans" are saying, over, you know, the entirety of public discourse available?
Or Square, or Slack.

Following this thread closely - we are following in the footsteps of some of these co’s, and out is the way forward.
I don't see where an incorrect assertion was corrected. "They" was about Apple, not someone else.
I've been watching Workers with interest basically since the beginning. Now they just need to bring WebSockets support out of beta. Or is the long-term plan to replace raw WebSockets servers with something higher-level like the new Cloudflare Queues?
Hey man, thanks again for finding this. I've open-sourced the project now: https://github.com/cw12574/anotherdarntodolist

I'm trying to fix the 2 vulnerabilities that you mentioned. I'm pretty new to this though so am struggling a little. Is there any chance there's any way I could message you privately to ask a couple of questions?
This whole thing has given HarmonyOS a second market. I thought the whole thing would stay China only but it seems that as a result of sanctioning Huawei and by extension HarmonyOS based devices they have now opened a second (fairly big market) to HarmonyOS. I don't understand how there is no one left around these people to advise them of the unintended consequences for their policy decisions.
Interesting topic especially when compared/contrasted with this Atlantic article on Asker vs Guesser culture.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/askers-....
From what I've heard, many cases of these kinds of bribery schemes are fairly widely known within the companies themselves. The general attitude is that "everyone is doing it" and any harm is so indirect as to not seem particularly unethical. For example, some government is already set to spend $100 million with X software company, so what's the harm in kicking back $10 million to the person signing the check?

Of course it's wrong but it's very easily rationalized by psychologically normal people.

If the goal is to actually stop this kind of bribery, we should give whistleblowers a 20% reward of the penalties. In other words, we should legally bribe people into reporting illegal bribery because bribery works.
More broadly than the VK and mail.ru apps mentioned in the article as being pulled by Apple, but not (yet?) Google, there's an Ars article today [1] looking at a bigger picture:

> Google and Apple have removed hundreds of apps from their app stores at the request of governments around the world ...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/apps-...

EDIT to add that the Ars article was originally published in The Conversation - https://theconversation.com/the-same-app-can-pose-a-bigger-s...
It was pretty obvious to me (except styczeń). But I did read Gołubiew's "Bolesław Chrobry" series that's written in Polish stylized to 10th century :)
I think it actually was Russia because Russia has really reliably misjudged its position and resources. I see no reason to think they wouldn’t do this self-destructive thing when they’ve done so many other self-destructive things.

The videos coming out of the conscription paint a fairly incredible picture.
But not one physical table. It is certainly sharded across 1000s of machines. Basically a tuple store at that point, rather than a rdbms
Iranians are keenly aware of the advantages of VPN services.
On the contrary, I’d say access to user data is a liability for Apple.

Apple saw how damaging the iCloud privacy scandal and Cambridge Analytica were. They responded by fully hitching Apple’s brand to the privacy train.

If Apple were to be caught intentionally violating user privacy now, the damage to the brand would be immense.

Apple makes their money primarily by selling cool stuff to people. If they tarnish their brand by violating people’s privacy like Google or Meta, end users have far less incentive to buy Apple’s products.
California to phase out gas furnaces, water heaters by 2030
The US is working hard to keep a coalition of NATO countries together (for instance, avoiding secondary sanctions that EU generally thinks are extra-judicial). I don’t believe Germany would agree with this course of action and if the US unilaterally did it it would severely risk the strategic goal of a Ukrainian victory.
You left out the best part:

"The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space," he recalls, adding that U.S. satellites picked up the explosion."

Also:

"When the pipeline exploded, Reed writes, the first reports caused concern in the U.S. military and at the White House. "NORAD feared a missile liftoff from a place where no rockets were known to be based," he said, referring to North American Air Defense Command. "Or perhaps it was the detonation of a small nuclear device." However, satellites did not pick up any telltale signs of a nuclear explosion.

"Before these conflicting indicators could turn into an international crisis," he added, "Gus Weiss came down the hall to tell his fellow NSC staffers not to worry."
There are exceptions, but generally US legal mechanisms function on money. More money buys more consideration.

US culture also tends to wink at a lot of what is called "white collar" crime. If whatever you're up to does not involve stealing from specific individuals or rich people, you'll probably get a slap on the wrist. And if you're stealing from the government, a lot of people will commend you, or at least envy you.
If the pipeline started operating, which it probably would in a few months with energy catastrophe in Europe - it would be total victory for Russia: natural gas revenues through the roof, end of war, etc etc. USA for some reason believes that Russian victory is against its interests.

See Biden recently: https://twitter.com/ah114088/status/1574435558675316737
Sure, but that doesn't mean that Google needs to help distribute them. Google is responsible for what they do with their servers, not what you do with your phone.
That was the premise of the comment I reacted to. It says: I’m starting to see more and more people demand quantifiers or conditional disqualifiers on statements that shouldn’t reasonably be considered as absolutes.

Seeing more and more people demand such qualifiers is culture moving away.
Many would argue that the US deserved and deserves comeuppance for its actions abroad, yes. If other countries felt it to be their prerogative to remove US software or products as part of that, it would not be absurd.
The mobile safari hack may not be working for me. I’m on the latest iOS and had the issue in the browser and in the PWA home screen version. It might be an issue with the first sentence only but I haven't tested enough to be sure.
Having read through the docs Mypyc has a concept of "native classes" and python classes, and it looks like you can use a "native" (compiles) class from regular python and vice-versa.

So my reading is that it should be pretty seamless.
I consider it morally wrong for a system (this system) to expect people who essentially embody a company to not be considered to own the company. This means that such people do not own what they do (and have done). I consider that if I do something by right it belongs to me.

I don't really buy into the idea that we are freely selling what we do to our employer company and that therefore the company gets to own what we did.

An employee and a company are two very different kinds of entities; a market transaction should happens between comparable kinds of entities, which a company and an employee aren't.

It would be as if your own organs and cells were not considered part of you and so you'd have to pay them for doing their thing...
Russia may have done it simply out of spite

(The earthquake theory might also, ahem, hold some water but I'd say it's less likely)
Damaging the pipeline destroys a major source of Russian leverage against Germany. And now that they're desperate enough to play the nuclear card with a "this is not a bluff" chaser, it's pretty obvious that they need all the leverage they can get.
Haha, I started doing this with Cap'n Proto 10 years ago. :)

I periodically get crap for it but so far it hasn't really broken anything.

The biggest annoyance is exactly what you point out -- the GitHub URLs look ugly because they %-encode the plus signs. Though it turns out you can manually un-encode them and it works fine.
> waking people up to a centralized authority

i think people are asking for it
Recompiling the whole software is way more expensive than pasting a file on the filesystem, that was my point.
As long as the paid version removes this advertising (picks a random movie for instance) and you're up front with the fact that the "free" version will include sponsored content in the conversation [1] then I see no problem at all.

I'm sure everyone knows by now that if the product is free, "you're the product".

[1] I wouldn't even care if the conversation went off on a massive tangent temporarily to include the advert. The point is that not everyone can afford to pay for such a service, and advertising can solve that issue.
The brain doesn't engage in the same process when presented with translated subtitles, to such an extent that you're better off watching a familiar show with no subtitles. However it can be helpful to have same-language closed captioning to improve distinction of word boundaries, accents, etc. Netflix has been great in recent years for this, in my case watching German-language shows.
Love powertoys. I started using it for being able to define screen areas to snap windows to "FancyZones" but once I started using PowerToys Run, I was hooked. I almost never use the start bar (or calculator) anymore. In addition to starting your apps, it also can do calculations, execute shell commans, web searches, find open windows, etc.

It also include a mouse / click highlighter that's helpful when you're recording a training / onscreen presentation.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I read that nuclear options were considered for Vietnam war but were never publicly used as a threat. I'm guessing same with Korean war?
You need educated, healthy workers as well. That takes government investment.
I used this tools a lot for writing my thesis. It made me search through many papers saved on my computer easily and fast.
This was a huge upgrade. PHP <6 + MySQL 5 to the latest versions of everything (except substituting MySQL for Maria).

A whole variety of scripts that used constants without quoting (`CONSTANT_NAME`), which later became a problem because the language mandated them in quotes (`'CONSTANT_NAME'`). We were finding those in various places literally months later.

mysql_ family of functions was gone from PHP, so we had to patch files to include a "polyfill" snippet to translate those calls to mysqli_

MySQL (/MariaDB) itself was another idiot-fest because of the way it handles Unicode. This is a slightly too long story and would risk doxxing myself, so I will simply give you some highlights, and then ask you to imagine that everything that could go wrong, did go wrong:

1. MySQL storage engines have a fixed upper limit on how long an index can be for each row. For 4-byte UTF-8, that is an upper limit of 768 characters.

2. MySQL defaults to utf8mb3 rather than utf8mb4.

3. Unicode characters in column names are rarely a good idea.

Apache, surprisingly, went relatively fine. I really don't like the ancient way it does things, but it's serviceable if you're fine with banging your head against the wall to do something that seems like it would obviously work.
That version of euler's formula might make a nice case for half turns. Then it's just

(-1)^x = ncos(x) + i nsin(x)

It's obvious how to handle it for integers (an even number of half turns is 1, an odd number is -1), and the extension to real numbers aids the intuition.

Or, depending on your focus, quarter turns are very clean too:

i^x = ncos(x) + i nsin(x)

Either way, turns > radians (it's what I think in when doing most fourier kinds of work anyways!).
4-wire PC fans are usually PWM controlled. That might be why the first attempt didn't go well, if he didn't try multiple fans.
The "egg cartons" are spacers between explosive reactive armor places. The interesting part isn't that there are egg cartons but that there's only egg cartons - the ERA plates are missing.

My favorite story of Russians and armor plates was the dead Russian soldier who was found with his armor vest plate replaced by a stolen MacBook.
There are only two prices for a piano these days: new is quite expensive, and used is free, as long as you can move it yourself.

(This is slight hyperbole, but Craigslist currently shows 8 free pianos in my area, ranging from beaten-up uprights to two really beautiful baby grands, one of which has apparently just been tuned. The folks looking to get a few hundred dollars for their pianos are effectively delusional. The going price of a decent used electronic keyboard, on the other hand, is about half the price of a new one.)
I usually ignore most articles that fall in this category. "Some X", "X suggests", "Study Shows", "These X say Y", etc. It's all thinly veiled opinion articles. I wish there was a plugin to just hide stuff in this format.
That sounds like an interesting result, but I wonder about how such studies were done. Might it be that attractive people are more likely to have certain types of mannerisms or other traits? Did anyone go as far as making people wear clothing or makeup that made them more or less attractive and then putting them in front of the animals?
/me thinks reading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Basis_of_a_Backward_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_selection_(politics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality

would be more productive.
As a Pole, you're giving our elected representatives and secret services/special forces too much credit.

Especially the latter were gutted by this government in its current and previous(2005-2007) incarnation under the guise of "decommunization" and replaced with people without the, to put it lightly, necessary qualifications.

I mean, quite a few government motorcades got into accidents because the poor fool behind the wheel wasn't a professional.
I'm a freelancer. It basically means I do exactly the same job as an employee, and can be "fired" for the exact same reasons as an employee. But I never consider my customers as a "boss". If they don't want to work with me anymore, I just find another customer.

And in the end, the difference between freelance and employee is just a legal one.

I never understand why some people willingly put themselves as a "servant" of "the boss". It's a very limiting view on the world. Why not view it as a win-win relationship, where if either party doesn't have any benefit, you can just leave. They pay you, you do the job. They are literally buying your service. If you want to put yourself in a position where "you have to do what they tell you", that's all fine by me. But I will never put myself mentally in that position, because it really is not like that. I don't have to do anything, I'm selling my service under very strict conditions.
The kernel already guarantees isolation. Unless I missed the point of cgroups.
And Israel, and India... half the world is basically invading the other half (because said half previously invaded the other half and repeat)...
Totally agree.

In my hobby DSL, those inlined childX are syntactic sugar for parent{ children=[child1, child2, child3]}.

More generally, I remain uncomfortably undecided about named params (pairs) and indexed params. Esp wrt constructors.

IIRC, I spotted a (hobby?) language that permitted both indexed params (matched in order per method signature) and named params, plus default values. So given "method( int a=10, int b=20)" you could invoke as "method( 1, 2 )", out of order like "method( b: 2, a: 1)" or partially like "method( b: 2 )".

Riffing a bit, this could then allow passing a map of params to a method. Code construction wise, that looks like passing around a context object.

I'll look at Lua again. (It's been a minute.) Thanks.
I think there might also be a consideration here that it's a US company. The FCPA has driven some foreign companies out of business and allowed giants like GE to buy up their assets. Alstom exec's were fined for ordered to either pay 700m or face prison time and instead chose to sell the company to GE. GE itself was fined only 20 for FCPA violations in India. I can't find the list right now, but I believe GE bought a couple of companies this way.
Russia has a LOT to gain from this.

1) They are running out of time on this war of aggression, and this will force gas price action NOW, not in December. They can sell gas through other pipelines to the EU if it accepts it.

2) Norway just TODAY inaugurated a new pipeline to the EU. Norway has warned about unaccounted-for drone activity around it's oil and gas fields. Russia is likely sending a message: "Nice pipeline you have there - it's be a shame if something happened to it".

3) Russia has favorable actors planted in just about every western democracy, and some of them are already tweeting accusations against the US. As long as the Russians can keep suspicion off of them with reasoning like "what motive do they have?" and "somebody else must have done it", it works very much to their advantage in undermining opposition to their war of aggression.

In contrast, this is the last thing the administrations in the US or Germany need. They need stability and moderation of gas prices. Their methods are not to create chaos and try to take advantage. That is Russia's standard modus operandi.

So, yes, Russia has the biggest motives of anyone. They also have the means with extensive submarine capabilities, and ports on the Baltic Sea.
Dutch is a sister language of English so I’m not surprised
OpenStego is a steganography app that provides Data Hiding and Watermarking
Oh. Hi! :-) 8minutes faster U!
Multiple people have pointed out in here have asked about a privacy policy or where this information is going.

Considering this doesn't work without having to create an account, you need to provide some information about how people's inputs are being recorded, how it's used, and who it's sent to.

This is a dark pattern and it's disconcerting that people's questions are going unanswered, especially since you mentioned that you would be seeking an accelerator for this project.
This is covered quite well in "Honeybee Democracy" by Seeley. Absolutely fascinating read about swarm intelligence.
Russia is spoofing mainstream media to smear Ukraine, Meta says
Other long-standing direct competitors include Vonage, who acquired the original WebRTC platform-as-a-service, OpenTok; AWS Chime Video; and Daily (YC W16).

https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/video/
https://aws.amazon.com/chime/chime-sdk/
https://www.daily.co/
>EU’s forced labor ban poses potential threat to solar growth

Yes, banning imports of panels made by slaves thus limiting supply is the main reason for products overflowing European warehouses. Makes perfect sense Bloomberg.
Make.com is down, being DDOSd
Hmm, I believe WebSocket support came out of beta at the same time as Durable Objects, about a year ago. It's entirely possible we forgot to update a doc, though.

We do have some plans around making WebSockets more efficient by allowing the application to shut down while keeping idle WebSockets open, and start back up on-demand when a message arrives.
A different article from the same site basically says software engineers should expect a raise every year. I do think with the market being so hot it makes people start to look elsewhere if people only get the generic 2-3% raise a year. It explains why higher paying jobs keep people for longer.

https://developerpitstop.com/how-often-do-software-engineers...
Equity, not equality. Big difference in modern parlance.
Similar thing has happened on USA soil (Gas Terminal explosion)
What's going on in the reviews? Benjamin Khavasov coming in hot after 6 years.
Nice find!

Was talking to a trumper who was blaming the invasion on the US having a weak president.

Seems like the opposite if anything. Biden quarterbacked the maidan coup. Seeing him become president probably wasn’t a happy moment for Putin.

Edit: these things are censored in google, Wikipedia etc by US state actors. We largely have to go on the words of people like Max Blumenthal and others who have been largely censored and scrubbed from easy access by these same state apparatuses or wait until foia requests reveal what they always reveal about our benevolent state.
Which sports is TRT specifically allowed? The only one I know of is MMA, but I'd consider that marginal as a "sport". Are there others?
You should tell them about Facebook, YouTube and GitHub, on top of your own personal experience (which might be harder to verify).
That's not recently, that's 2022-02-07, nearly 8 months ago, and before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Is it possible to understand that Russia is the aggressor but also oppose sanctions? Russia has absolutely committed more atrocities than Iran and Cuba, but none of these countries are democracies, and therefore I find it difficult to support measures that disproportionately affect the citizenry over the ruling class in any of these countries.

I also hope the dialogue in these threads can improve. The quality of the comments, at the time of writing mine, are poor and quippy.
This is why you need to own the content delivery channel itself. Dick Dale preached a lot about this with regards to the music industry.
I always thought that the interruption theme was not at all the point of the story, but simply the most disturbing handicap from the perspective of an author.
Maybe the Russian military has some factions, and a faction is thinking surrender. Destroying the pipelines would advantage the faction against surrender, because then the surrenderists would be weaker, since they have less to offer to the EU. Which faction Putin would belong to is a different area of speculation.

Or it's really Putin's way of saying "I'm not bluffing, in fact, here's how serious I am, see these pipes for that possible future gas sale?". If he really is destroying something that could make him money in the future, maybe he's really in an "If I can't win then let me flip the board" mood. Which I'd extrapolate to him being in a "Get the nukes warmed up" mood.

I wonder what discussion inside the intelligence community is like currently. It'd be amazing. Maybe watch what the senators connected to the intelligence committee are buying/selling.
I'm not sure I agree with 15,000 hours. I started a job in French 4 years ago, I could hardly stammer out a sentence with my one university french course, now I'm quite apt. A quick calculation of work hours puts me around 7000, much of that working alone at the computer. So maybe 2500 hours of conversation got me to a high level of fluency.
FB's MySQL team gave a tech talk on sharing circa 2011. A couple of bright engineers from Pinterest were there and asked a lot of great questions. A year or two later the same gentlemen presented their own MySQL infra at the Percona (?) conference. They'd used that talk as a springboard for their own design, which was quite clever and clearly integrated some of their unique business needs.

A decade later, I still remember how good their presentation was! I wish I could remember the engineers' names.
oops thought it was July...