skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you should interview and find out why people do this. I have been coding for 10 years professionally, started coding in middle school and high school competitively. I live and breathe tech because I love it. Yet to work at all the nice companies I have to be able to identify an a problem pattern and implement an ‘optimal’ algorithm twice in an hour or it doesn’t matter.

Also what constitutes an awesome GitHub? Because unless you run a project with > 100 stars it’s little more than academic and doesn’t matter.
My bet is on some sort of deniable operation from either Ukraine, or one of the other former soviet countries with a bone to pick against Russia. It's not like Russia isn't shy in waving around how much an asset the pipeline is to them.
What data is collected through the service?
This is the paper behind that story: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9347355/
Could we please have at least a shred of evidence of sabotage before we move on to the phase where we conclude there was sabotage? Sorry to be a stickler about major geopolitical crises.
Ok I see, I understood the first sentence like you then but wasn't sure what was the point of a blanket statement there. I do feel like this this is something measurable with tool it could be easy to prove but I guess this isn't the point of this paper.
The biggest gain is for Russia, remember the long "repair" of NS1? Blocking the filling of gas reserves in Western Europe? Repair here, sabotage there and bam Germany has less gas for winter.
The problem is that if you say that, you don't get to veto who does become your manager.
This probably works well in already competent organizations, where followup questions are not met with "because we say so". I've worked at orgs where a simple question like "why are we reinventing caching at every new instance?" is met with pretty subpar answers that amount to more of a digging in than an actual enlightening reasoning. Note that many of the customer reported bugs boiled down to caching.
Or like an actor who likes to be misidentified. There's one player in the global propaganda game who has completely given up convincing anyone of their positions, they've gone all in on the fallback strategy of making noone trust anyone. They wouldn't care if a false flag operation fails to really convince antibody, just casting doubt would already be good enough.
I got following error after trying the demos on the homepage

“You have made too many requests.
Please login or try again in a few seconds.”

You might think about adding exception for your domain or the sample text you provide.
Vonnegut was a highly political writer, as SF writers often are. His most famous work is the extremely traumatized "Slaughterhouse 5", after all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five

That doesn't mean it can or should be neatly mapped to the left/right distinction or culture wars of the current moment. Especially when people have so many bizarre ideas about what constitutes "left" or "socialism".
> granting them some sort of excuse to mobilize in international waters in the Baltic

Russia already has Kaliningrad.
For what it's worth, I explicitly designated the original post as a user rant. I am accurately playing a user by not caring about all the "real problems" these solutions solve. If I'm continually locked out of my devices and websites just because I'm traveling, that causes genuine inconvenience to me.

Ironically, by painting your users as "living in a fantasy land" rather than "focusing on their own business, which doesn't involve taking down large-scale cybercrime", you're the one being unrealistic. A normal user does not know or care what large-scale problems can be solved by the inconvenience they are currently facing.
When the curtain falls we'll see how desperate they are to cut off their nose to spite their face. The gains for joining the west would be enormous, while the alternative is staying a destitute 2nd world country. I don't believe russians are that stupid.
This short article in Science [1] give more information and summarize the whole story.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/something-seriously-...
Isn't that exactly from their playbook? I mean the neofascist book by Dugin about pseudo-geopolitics that they made required reading at the military universities. "Foundation of Geopolitics" is the name.
This is probably most people's experience.
Kudos to Kenton who keeps delivering great stuff on Workers.
The Swedish national seismic network picked up two explosions within kilometers of the reported gas leak locations yesterday.

The time of the first explosion: Yesterday, Monday morning at 02:03 am, second one Monday evening at 7:04pm (local time, CEST).

The reports of the gas leaks came at 1:52pm and 8:41pm, respectively - by means of ships reporting bubbling at the surface level.

One of the two events registered at magnitude 2.3. They were picked up by stations all over the country.

It's clear from the registered seismic waves that the events are not earthquakes.

- You can clearly see how the waves bounce from the bottom to the surface. There is no doubt that it was a blast or explosion. We even had a station in Kalix [quite far up north, some 1300 km away] that picked this up, says Björn Lund, who is a lecturer in seismology and director of the Swedish national seismic network, which measures Swedish earthquakes and explosions.

Translated and summarized from: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/svt-avslojar-tva-explosio... (Sweden's national public service broadcaster, within the last hour)
Excuse me? What was that?
It's a neat technique, but there are some problems:

* Permanent architectural features to reduce sunlight absorption only make sense where its consistently hot, year round. In areas with cold winters, its not grate.

* Perforated walls offer very little privacy or protection from the environment, animals, or people.

* Cleaning and maintenance of these perforated walls requires more intricate and costly effort

* Susceptibility to damage from high winds
> whereas I don't see much evidence that's the case for Apple products

https://www.barrons.com/articles/apples-advertising-business...
> The point is sound - the reader is not responsible for paying the author, not even if the reader read author's work.

What a convenient way to make oneself feel comfortable living a moral-free life. Like as if this changes anything for the end result that someone stole something, and someone else has to foot the bill for that. You’re arguing off the premise that „the distributor is big anyway, so stealing from them doesn’t hurt anyone”. And the premise that it won’t hurt the author. It appears worthy of consideration that there may be a lack of fantasy here on your part.
Love a behind-the-scenes peak of a creator like this one, it's fascinating to see. But yeah, $5k / month for the amount of work and talent that went into this seems disproportionate, but then I could also see this growing exponentially, where if he keeps at it, it will make ridiculous amounts of money that's just as, if not more disproportionate to effort invested, except this time in his favor. Which is what I wish for him.
Yes, it's exactly that. Changing the units from radians to turns, to make your equations nicer, because turns are evidently the more natural unit.
The intent of the bribe could also be to destroy competition.
When you setup a new Apple device, Apple asks users whether they want to share Siri recordings with Apple.
Revisiting mid-century dystopian fiction seems like it might yield some insights about the present. I didn't know who the story was by until the last line. I studied his work in 9th grade english class, and it just clicked how meaningful it is that I was part of a lot of experimental education programs as a kid. One could legitimately say I escaped from a lab, and my phone has also been on silent mode with alerts turned off for at least a decade now.

Maybe we can attract the eyre of the very-concerned about old sci-fi and let them make it into a moral panic?
It’s a nazi on this platform. Flagged it.
Ironically, I personally have always felt a kinship to the character George Bergeron. Why? Because it's a shockingly accurate depiction of how ADHD's lack of control over one's own concentration feels.

Normal stimuli can be like the sounds coming from his earpiece. Unique, unpredictable, and they wreck utter havoc on your ability to concentrate. But sometimes the sounds don't come for hours, and your mind won't - can't - break free of its current task without those sounds.

Anyways. Always a favorite story of mine.
Pipes can be repaired. Russia has been slowing down supplies through the NS1 pipe -- down to 1/10th of Germany's normal supply before halting. [1] [2]

Blowing up a pipe that can be repaired to cause friction between allies? That's priceless. The fact that it's cause for speculation on Facebook, Reddit, HN, Twitter, etc shows exactly how disruptive of a move it was.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/a-winter-of-pr...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/mystery-gas-leaks-hi... "Neither pipeline was pumping gas to Europe at the time the leaks were found..."
Leaking natural-gas from damaged Nord Stream pipelines is erupting like geysers
It doesn't have to do this "regularly", only when someone (not you) wants it.
Lol, considering how many just use AWS or use Firestore or a myriad of other vendor lock in solutions for everything, sadly no-one really cares about lock in anymore.
The paper is really about the difference between C-H and C-D. Also it uses a physical method (Raman) and statistical approaches that will need to be reproduced to make sure it was not just an artifact of the method.
你好！ 我住在西班牙，所以我没有太多机会说。There is an academy near me but it's hard to find time (busy job) so my listening practice is mostly apps (Chairman's Bao and an Anki deck with audio) and videos sometimes, and speaking practice is almost none (repeating Anki flashcards and sometimes speaking to Google Translate to see if it comes up with what I'm trying to say... this website is better in that respect!)

BTW, your link doesn't work for me right now.
What a pity what happened to these pipelines for Russian gas.
I mean, the west will not be buying Russian gas anytime soon anyway, Putin knows that.

But what if such accident happened to some another pipeline? For example, the one that is being open just this week from Norway to Poland. The one that should help EU survive the winter.

Interested timing of such unfortunate accident..
I am subscribed too.

He's sometimes a bit too (economically) left-wing for me, but I generally sticks to well-researched facts, so it has never been an issue that would impair my enjoyment.
4. Knowing the answer is going to be shortsighted and miss the point of the question.
Do you think between getting pummeled by all the NATO weapons exported to Ukraine they were missing an excuse?
They wouldn't. That doesn't mean that others wouldn't sabotage the line.

This thing is spiraling out into a mess. With winter coming, things could get nasty in Europe.
They can gain much - gas reserves in Europe during winter to small -> no chance for sanctions on Russian gas.

This is the same they did with the "repairs" for NS1 which stopped gas to Germany for few weeks (or months I don't remember exactly).
From the Tex Tuneup of 2021: "The TEX family of programs seems to be nice
and healthy as it continues to approach perfection. Chances are nil that any documents produced by previous versions of TEX or METAFONT will be
affected by the changes in the new versions"

This is how the Gods do programming :)
This is why you learn to code. Because just showing up and doing what you’re told you make 3 times as much.
Based on just a few exchanges in Dutch (I'm a native speaker), I'd say it's pretty good. The conversation sounds pretty natural (albeit shallow). Maybe the quality differs per language?
Of course Cloudflare can do it better. That’s not the argument
rixthefox presented. The problem rixthefox stated was that when Cloudflare does go down, they take half the internet with them at once.
>There's many stories from workers at these third parties about how much intimate detail they've heard when listening to these clips.

Assuming those internet stories are even true - can anyone show me actual harm occurring to anyone based on Apple's use of Siri training? I've heard some Alexa stories, but frankly, Apple seems to do a really good job of protecting that information, at least so far, at least as far as the public knows.
Fast compilation times are a human-centric goal. The machine couldn't care less if it takes a millennia to compile your program. Only humans care about fast compile times.

But, I'm not sure that is even the primary benefit. The primary benefit is that you won't be incentivized to leave unused imports and variables to litter your code, as I see happen all the time in languages that aren't so strict. The Go team has even stated that they decided there would be no warnings because they've learned that warnings get ignored.
I highly prefer the Mac's Menu Bar at the top of the screen when using a mouse, and I agree with the Fitt's Law arguments.

However, I am also highly keyboard centric.

So in the case of the top menu, I recommend Menuwhere by ManyTricks. It allows you to assign a mouse click to popup a copy of the current applications menu under your mouse. And you can assign a keyboard shortcut to activate this menu and then navigate the menus by key

https://manytricks.com/menuwhere/

While we can make lots of arguments around about Fitt's Law and what is the ultimate computer UI, much of it comes down to individual preference. I personally find the Mac's GUI to be an ideal environment because Apple provides both a good basic set of global keyboard shortcuts. MORE IMPORTANTLY macOs has great API's to allow other tools to be built to bend macOS to my personal style developed over 40 years of computing. Naturally, you will have other preferences.

(On macOS I also use LaunchBar and Keyboard Maestro among other apps to make my Mac as keyboard focused. On Windows I am a heavy AutoHotKeys user. And on Linux, well it is mostly CLI)
Understood! Does this mean that this leak will affect the whole pipe or can it be isolated? I assume it will perhaps not crush, but at least fill up with water.
And the best experience, where a chatbot can be involved. There are some pure chatbots not used for customer support with apps like Cleo that have been quite good.
You need to qualify massive scale, it can be on multiple dimensions:
* "Large" data (these days, 10s of TB of data, maybe with multi-TB individual tables, billions of rows in the large tables)
* "High" QPS - reads
* "High" QPS - writes

High QPS is in the eye of the beholder, but let's say something like a few hundred thousand QPS and up.

If you have scale in just one of these 3 dimensions, the solutions are relatively easy (except maybe for high write QPS, depends on the nature of the writes). If you are at scale on all three dimensions, solutions get harder (sharding, non-innodb storage engines).

Of course, there is also the wildcard: the nature of your queries/transactions. Large transactions along with scale will make your life a living hell.
Tangentially related: I once worked at a start up that went public. One of the big changes during this time was that they scaled the team substantially. The skill level per person went way down at this time. Eg it was not uncommon for an old timer to be replaced by a team of five when they quit.

I was always confused why they did this, but later it seemed to me the goal was to lower their “resignation risk”: rather than rely on hard to find talent (which they had achieved while a start up), they could hire many more “typical” workers that could be more readily replaced if they left.
It works quite well for Dutch (a relatively small language) both in speech recognition and responses. Well done! It’s a cool project. Lots of people here like to nitpick but I’m sure this wasn’t easy.
Talk to your account rep, think they can help you out with that
Related? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eGk1si6dOKU
Well, if that "consumer friendliness" is usable Linux drivers, then I don't give a shit about NVidia pushing the envelope, even if it means the graphics holy grail of real time raytracing.

And is NVidia really the primary pusher of graphics algorithms and AI? Yeah, I doubt it. SUre they might contribute some things, but modern fabs have so much available transistor real estate that really NVidia is just trying to maintain market control by defining the computing interfaces rather than some fundamental achievement in computing theory.

Raytracing algorithms aren't new, and they are "embarrassingly parallel" like most graphics algorithms, very well suited for modern chip fab design. If NVidia went away, Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo would just find another graphics vendor for real time raytracing. There were "processor per pixel" raytracer experiments in the mid 1990s when 66 MHz was "fast". If anything, real time raytracing likely has been suppressed by the massive investments in rasterization toolchains.
Yeah, it's a lipstick on a pig
Actually, I realized that much of my _music_ equipment falls into this category as well.

My mixer is an early example of a MIDI-controllable analog mixer but since the MIDI protocol is still ubiquitous, it still fits right into my modern workflow. New mixers don't really bring much to the table that am average person would need.
There have been school districts lately that have been getting rid of advanced math classes in the name of equality.
I've worked in game development (AAA and large indie games) for almost eight years and I would generally take the narratives on game subreddits with a healthy helping of salt. They're largely speculative and uninformed. Gamasutra is better, but often game journalism is full of simplifications and rough analogies.

The main problem with this type of content is that it needs to be solid enough that it adds to the experience. If you're allowed to have a conversation with any NPC you need to keep track of what they know, their responses need to be consistent with the world, and the time to generate the response needs to be reasonable.

Old RPGs such as The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall used to allow you to go up to any of thousands of NPCs and ask them about anything! And practically all the results were uninspiring cookie-cutter replies either saying they don't know or relaying some vague common knowledge on the subject. For me it lost its novelty very quickly. In Dwarf Fortress you can play Adventure Mode and go to any randomly generated NPC to talk about anything! Those NPCs are highly complex with intricate personalities, relationships, and emotional states. Their responses are... mainly the same type of response you'd get from Daggerfall. With a good helping of completely inconsistent replies. I once asked someone about another NPC, they said it was their husband. So I asked where that NPC was and they replied "I do not know who that is". Trying to talk to characters in AI Dungeon is similarly frustrating, with the added hilarity of the AI sometimes getting mixed up about who is who between you and them.

There have been a lot of experiments with more ambitious use of AI in games. The most well-known publicly disclosed failure being Oblivion's Radiant AI which was meant to be a lot more impressive than it turned out, because they had to seriously scale it down due to random irrational behaviour.
Apple removed all VK and Mail.ru applications from the App Store
Yeah, I'm a huge privacy advocate but the part people are missing with this fiasco is that client-side scanning before _anything_ is uploaded is objectively less invasive than every single photo being scanned on iCloud (the direction legislation is heading). Again, this is an _opt-in_ behavior when you enable iCloud Photos, for photos that you're trying to upload (currently not E2EE) anyway. The feature comes with the potential upside of allowing Apple to enable E2EE for all photos, while credibly proving to the government there's no CSAM.
Huh, I use Google Maps daily too and have never had a popup since the first time I used it and picked "While using". I could have picked "Always", which worked too, but choose not to for reasons outlined in other posts here.

You can also easily turn off "Maps" tracking or limit it the same way if you choose.

I got to admit that I don't see the meat in this burger, so to speak.
I've lowered the rate-limiting to 1s, so it should be less of an issue now. But I like the idea of adding examples to exceptions, thanks!
What constitutes "ability" and "beauty", and what is acceptable/permitted to idolize, is extremely culturally specific. And the story explores a world with a very different view of those.
A causal test of the strength of weak ties on LinkedIn
> Surely Russia has no interest in sabotaging the pipelines that give them leverage over Europe.

Apart from a false-flag operation by Putin to have a casus belli to start a war with NATO?

Normally, that would be suicide. But Putin has already proven that he, to put it diplomatically, does not see the world the way most sane people see it.
This was exactly my experience growing up in Ireland, and was the primary reason I immigrated to the US after college.
Show HN: craftbase, a minimalistic whiteboarding tool
Craftbase is an open source whiteboarding tool focused on basic functionality of designing or wireframing with your peers. It's still in alpha phase.
The original piece just seems so anxious.

A better title would almost be 'Telephones make me anxious' because I don't think they hate the technology itself.
This to me seems the most likely. If they are afraid EU countries, like Italy, which many of the leaders of the party are against the war in Ukraine, might not support the war, freezing them out this winter might push them to change their mind.
It makes you create an account mid conversation? That’s a dark pattern.
I have no idea about the main topic of this discussion.

But I did lose all interest in chess years ago when I realized the same thing: at the top level it's not about thinking but about memorizing (at the least) openings.

I believe go is too complex for the human mind to memorize strategies? Human mind, not computer.
Race Conditions Can Be Useful for Parallelism
Probably there are some safeguards provided by being a legal registered taxi. The thing Uber and its fans think is overreaching government...
They didn’t spend time on making their GitHub awesome because the companies they apply to don’t care. GitHub can get you an interview at a big tech company, but you have to go through some Leetcode-type questions to get an offer.

It started with big tech companies, but I’ve also seen smaller or less prestigious companies doing that, too. There’s a whole small industry around the big tech interview preparation.

And it’s not only for fresh grads - a year ago I interviewed with some SV companies for senior positions (including EM) and I had to go through Leetcode interview as well
My rd-2000 does excellent modeling and has a pretty decent action.

Sounds and feels much better than the rough old Steinway I play occasionally. Admittedly it cannot compete with the perfectly maintained and positioned Yamaha c7 I also sometimes get to play.

You should be able to pick one up used for 1700.

The newest highest end Rolands (cabinet models not stage pianos like the rd) have noticeably improved modeling and actions, but not worth 7x the price.

Going the other way you can probably find a used Casio Privia px 160 for $170 that has a playable action and hook up pianoteq