skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the day, the SFPL had several Herb Caen collections that you could borrow in book form. Makes for some lively reading. He had a great sense of humor that I really enjoyed.
US defeats Russia in a battle to control the future of the global internet
> On Thursday, members of the International Telecommunication Union voted to appoint Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the US-backed candidate, as the group’s secretary general.

> Bogdan-Martin, a nearly 30-year veteran of the ITU born in New Jersey, beat out her chief rival Rashid Ismailov by winning 139 votes out of 172. Ismailov won just 25 votes.

List of most important standards by ITU:

https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/com16/ehscg/Documen...

Full list of standards by ITU (click on the alphabet letters):

https://www.itu.int/en/publications/ITU-T/Pages/default.aspx

Bogdan-Martin's Announcement:

https://twitter.com/ITUBDTDirector/status/157539988875760435...

I'm open to better titles, but given how important the ITU is for the telecommunications industry (see massive lists of standards above) the original headline is less clickbaity than one might at first think; meanwhile, a lot of users might not immediately know the significance of the ITU, so something like "US candidate wins control of ITU" might not reveal the impact. For this reason I just left the title as-is.

(BTW, also curious if anyone can point out any really interesting standards to look at from the standards list above. It's massive)
You still have a few months :)
Film is disambiguated by verb vs noun context, gif isn't
Yeah but you'd need to have enough space for them to write if they want to.

Otherwise you'd be making an argument in bad faith.
±required maintenance,
materials and sensors reaching their end-of-planned-service-life dates.

I'm not so sure it's "clearly cheaper" to extend the lifespan of a vehicle that's approaching the end of it's planned service life.
Any place to read or get this that isn't a preview version?
It is a very common take.

For instance :
https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/hate-speech-is-not-free-...
As far as I see those making money (actually value behind it) are not getting rich but those who sit on top of the money flow do. Skimming it.

Also pension funds take over money from young or middle age, yes, but not giving it to anyone else than themselves on the end, when they became old. It is not given to boomers, are you sure you know what pension funds do and how it differs from traditional (social) pensions?

Not given to else eventually, except in the meantime when given into the care of financial professionals to hold it for them to keep its value - for a very generous fee, not for free of course, the fee of the professionals is determined by the professionals themselves - and indirectly to bad politicians to finance the everlasting popularity spending and consequential budget deficit through bonds (or sometimes for a good cause too, like in recent and ongoing turmoiled period in the form of social support, which might still strongly overlap with popularity runs, see current UK government).
The documentation they have may not be complete or in a form they are willing to release (e.g. because it mentions future products)

They also may be reluctant to release it because of fear of litigation. They may do something that’s patented, similar to a patent, or deemed patented by someone else, and releasing documentation makes it easier for others to find such cases.

Also, in the end, there’s dollars. Even the simplest process to release documentation costs money (and theirs wouldn’t be the simplest for the reasons mentioned above). They may think there’s not enough money or reputation gain in it for them to do this (and for reputation gain, they would have to keep doing it)
Eyes are so strange. Ever looked at your own iris through a magnifying glass? Mine are strands of grey, yellow and grey-blue... in different lights and settings they can appear more grey, more green, or more blue. They're hard to pin down as a colour and as I've aged they seem darker and sometimes the colours stand out more. I've also found different emotional states seem to make the colours different, I'm assuming this is to do with pupil size and how the iris is relaxed/tense/etc. In my life I've often had "your eyes are blue today", "they're more green today", and of course I don't see my eyes and really have to imagine how they look in that moment, in the light, the environment, with certain clothes, certain emotional states.
Do you think the YouTube integration and the other "killer features" you mentioned would have made Stadia more popular if they actually came to fruition?

Personally I believe if the YouTube integration was ready at launch the whole Stadia story would have been very, very different. I do believe that a frictionless way to jump into a game that you are currently watching a video/stream for or even join a streamer in multiplayer with a click would have been an amazing thing!
I dislike Meta as much as the average person here, but it's easy to imagine challenging projects at their scale.

Say for example using advanced engineering techniques to optimize existing processes to achieve a 0.1% speedup. That alone could save a couple million dollars with Meta's scale. And it's only possible with the kind of scale they have.

And of course outsiders wouldn't even notice such a thing.
> public leader that is always representing Apple

He's far more low profile than Cue or Federighi, and completely unknown among the general public, which backs up your "wanted him gone" theory. If they really did fire him purely for this, then I'm speechless; it never went viral, and it was clearly a joke.

Companies overall take social media far too seriously. The amount of women who would have been turned off working for Apple because of this joke is likely many orders of magnitude lower than the amount of people who refuse to work for Apple because of their strict social media and academic research policies (especially AI researchers).

For context, his line is a direct quote from the 1981 film Arthur; quite literally and obviously a joke; and most of the comments on social media seem to find this hiring puzzling.
How were the energy subsidies going to be funded?
Ctrl + win + left/right to switch desktops

Win + left/right/up/down to move around windows

Win + tab for an overview of all windows and desktops
At least the recent Finnish/Swedish keyboards do have both ⌘ and “command” written on the key.

Likewise with ⌥ (option) and ^ (control).
Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
Users are reporting banner ads such as "New! Track your health and fitness with the..." below the search box on both google.com and chrome://newtab.

Google has historically been protective of their front page, why now?
JPMorgan to hire about 2k engineers even as economy softens
Of course they don't directly evaluate competency. Just like a math test doesn't directly evaluate the ability to do math (real math, as done by mathematicians - not schoolwork). The hope is that you can evaluate some other thing that's positively correlated with the desired property and is easier to measure.

But you can study for the interview just like you study for the test.
This. Stadia was years ahead of every other streaming service, at least for me. It was the only one that was actually playable!

Everything else had either unbearable latency or unbearable image quality

And even ignoring the actual gaming experience, it just feels more polished (as in the UX and UI) than some of the other ones like GFN
Well, then I might as well point out, that IBM did make a 8-bit adapter for VGA, so I could use my Sony Trinitron with my PC XT 10Mhz clone. Beat the daylights out of my roommates 6Mhz AT, and ran Xenix, which most unfortunately turned me into a Xenix expert of crap ware. After a bad compile, it destroyed both drives file system, so I went back to just Windows 1.0.6, and DOS.
I heard that a special unit was traveling on quad bikes through the swamps next to the column to harass the column in various ways and ensure supplies never reached the front of the column.

My impression as a layman is that Ukraine has been fighting this war with a lot of creativity and innovation, surgical precision and excellent coordination. Unlike Russia, which tried to be fast and clever but failed at it, and has since relied on just massive firepower to destroy everything in their path.
Genuine question to the Googlers here: how do OKRs factor in the misaligned incentives internally? in other words, are OKRs a good idea badly executed, or just ineffective period?
I wonder if the war has anything to do with this actually. These chips and some larger STM32 like F7 and H7 are dual use and can be used in missiles and drones.
I couldn't buy the car manufacturers' excuse. I think MICs around the world have been stockpiling these chips.
My brother in law had a 286 with SVGA around 1990...
I know, but the difference is important because a lot of the gotchas related to the # operator make a lot more sense and are well defined in the manual.

> A table with exactly one border is called a sequence. For instance, the table {10, 20, 30, 40, 50} is a sequence, as it has only one border (5). The table {10, 20, 30, nil, 50} has two borders (3 and 5), and therefore it is not a sequence. (The nil at index 4 is called a hole.) The table {nil, 20, 30, nil, nil, 60, nil} has three borders (0, 3, and 6) and three holes (at indices 1, 4, and 5), so it is not a sequence, too. The table {} is a sequence with border 0. Note that non-natural keys do not interfere with whether a table is a sequence.

> When t is a sequence, #t returns its only border, which corresponds to the intuitive notion of the length of the sequence. When t is not a sequence, #t can return any of its borders. (The exact one depends on details of the internal representation of the table, which in turn can depend on how the table was populated and the memory addresses of its non-numeric keys.)
In my experience, pretty close to constantly working on whatever has been prioritized from above and needing actively to push back and have exceptionally good arguments for improving things that are not in scope.
That's basically Facebook. What reaches your ears are the biased one (assuming your friends and family are like mine).

While it works, I find the drawbacks is that very important news don't make it. My wife didn't know about the war in Russia. Many friends don't talk about the climate change and floods.

Unimportant news is also covered frequently - political stuff, most of it putting the blame on one group. If I hear of floods or lockdown, it's almost certainly phrased in a way that makes one party look bad. Which is probably why European hot wars don't make it to Malaysian news; there's no local politician to blame.
Thank you, I remembered vaguely that episode but couldn't find a reference to it.

Related, this Forbes articles explains the matter and links to a few documented cases:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/07/02/the-...
How about "If you think this isn't 2008 by a long shot, I have an investment to sell you." ? Interested now?
It's common for most European people I think.

In France, "têtes blondes" (meaning "blonde heads") means children in general, because most children are born with blonde hair, even though they turn dark later on for most of them. Although this is about hair, eye colour is very much correlated with this.

I'm pretty sure that's only the case for people of European descent though, bar probably a few exceptions.
yea, we went from being burned by trying to optimize before we knew the problem, to being burned by not optimizing because we knew the problem but didn't optimize.
My particular worry was that AMD would cancel Xilinx's CPLD chips, but so far it does not look like it. They are very very useful if you want to replace old 74xxx circuits and greatly simplify development.
They did implement pre-emption at some point and there are parts of that still in the code. It's intended to let you more easily manage load e.g. by de-scheduling complicated batch jobs that are low priority and then re-scheduling when the service is under lighter load. But it won't ship as public API as a part of Loom, maybe it will never ship (generally once OpenJDK finishes a project it gets de-staffed and they don't go back to it).
Surely it's not the first or the last time that this has happened or will happen again. I can smell the glowies from a thousand miles away.
Googlers Are Insufferable
It's a straight quote from the 1981 movie, Arthur, for the record. There would be zero legal liability to keeping him since any court would see it's a joke.
In the UK, Mac keyboards generally seem to have "command" written on the key in addition to "⌘".
You don't need to build new gas or increase production to beat nuclear in cost whilst reducing total emissions to netnzero levels, so you are still lying. Additionally nuclear necessarily demands gas in exactly the same way because it is cost/capacity limited so a 100% nuclear grid would cost 300-500€/MWh.

Just using existing heavily deployed technologies

https://model.energy/?results=8181a21c563945780e7f86ca888fd4...

https://model.energy/?results=c68fba298e21e52a0fb45b52da6ef1...

Adding hydrogen (note that you don't even have to build a h2 turbine if you retrofit):

https://model.energy/?results=f3494dc5d4d8f4f67a81451d8fbc1a...

Prices that will be available well before a nuclear reactor is finished:

https://model.energy/?results=295f72370fce3a21d9b3a7077905f0...

Or without turbines:

https://model.energy/?results=51dd5248c3f176a297cf3ad38fd87d...
That's likely true.

However, it is worth considering that loading firearms of that era without a projectile was trivial, requiring no special materials or advance preparation (just wadding), and was arguably easier than loading them with one. The amount of powder could also be adjusted. Celebratory gunfire with them would have been different, and would have had different safety considerations.
It can, but that means that there's room for improvement for Google's internal communication and external expectation setting.
>If I ask you to count the number of red balls in a bag with only 3 yellow balls, then the initial count in your head is 0,

Sorry, no. Humans count from 1. That's just a basic fact reflected in the history of numbers, which at early stages often didn't treat 0 as a number, but as a special case. And if you would say "I counted zero red balls" most people around will find it an unusual wording. Normal way of saying it doesn't involve mentioning 0 at all: "It's empty", "There are no red balls" etc.
It used to be that Russian media, as well as most Russians interviewed by foreign media, gave the impression that most Russians supported the war. Since the mobilisation, the hundreds of thousands of Russians trying to flee the country tell a very different and probably much more accurate story of how many people in Russia really support the war.
Still, many recreational tools are quite deadly. There are a number of weapons being used recreationally. I have personally used bows, axes, and swords for example. But also non-weapons are deadly: all kinds of power tools for example.

And as long as people don't casually walk down the street with a chain saw or keep one under their pillow I don't really see the problem. The problem with guns is that people do handle them in unsafe ways (at least in the US). Switzerland for example has lots of guns, but people handle them differently than in the US.
Any difference can give rise to discrimination.

It would just move up to the next least expensive items such as books, transportation, etc. Would schools even need to exist if everyone was the same?
Idiots will believe anything these days if it is on tiktok, and it proves their side was right all along.

Edit: Your Boos Mean Nothing, I've Seen What Makes You Cheer
Also important to remember a portion of funds is being allocated to "trade up" soviet equipment in NATO countries to modern US variants. E.g. US gives modern US tanks to say Poland and Poland gives soviet tanks to Ukraine. Also some equipment has limited shelf life so if not used it would have being replaced in the next few years anyway.
a test on a mouse click? really? finger travel time is going to dwarf and eat up whatever reaction time you have.
that is so amazing! Next up it puts a skeleton in them and animate :o
I think this is missing a lot of nuances of digital advertising and the environment that business now operate in. The two major types of ads that used to exist were local and brand. Local is pointless for vast majority of today's digital businesses. Brand is very expensive from both a production and spend perspective, it is only suitable for already large businesses, there is also a lot of research that suggest it is very ineffective in actually generating sales for B2C.

Third option was to take out ads in a specialist publication to reach an audience that would mostly be aligned with your product (ie. business that makes chess boards taking out an ad in a chess magazine). This is probably the closest equivalent of targeted advertising today.

The barrier to entry for retail has dropped ridiculously with Shopify, allowing for niche and specialised retailers in a way that was previously not feasible. Acquiring new customers is still the hardest thing for a business to do, always has been and always will be, without the ability to reach new customers and connect with the audience who is interested in the businesses niche that is all dead in the water.
Why is 8.8.8.8 considered core product?
Visualized: The World’s Population at 8 Billion
I don't know the article you mention, does anyone really believe that people enjoy music festivals for the sound quality???
You mentioned because WhatsApp and related messaging services are blocked GSM and SMS has to be used to even speak to people within the country. Is there any Iranian specific messaging services to use as an alternative? Could self deploying something for friends and family be a good solution?
> Alternative opinion here, 30 years ago games/software were much simpler.

Funny coincidence, yesterday I posted a link which supports exactly your statement (even the 30 years):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018669
This is the funniest angle that Russian propoganda stopped pushing like a month ago because they realized how bad it makes their army look.
I only shudder really learning it that if i got a job doing java i'd be doing horrible java < 8 codebase work
Not just in USA. For folks with AD(H)D it's being prescribed to it is, however, barely useful for "having a good time" (unless you count having some kind of predictability on how you focus on tasks to be "a good time", which I guess works for its literal meaning).
Couldn't be further from the truth. War today is fought with currency devaluations (currency wars), financial warfare, cyberwarfare, psychological warfare (propaganda, see the Western media reports on the well-funded Ukrainan and Russian propaganda operations), and more. Most people see war as purely kinetic war, i.e. bombs, but that is far too expensive politically and in terms of lives, and has become a small percentage of wars fought.

Governments today are explicitly endorsing what I'm saying above. The U.S. Los Alamos lab has been wargaming financial warfare for decades, for example.
What places are doing modern java development?
In other words: first, understand your data.

That's what Mike Acton says before he shakes your hand in the morning.
Goodbye Sidecars: Could eBPF Steal Istio Service Meshes' Thunder?
I wish they improve products for users. For example, IG on my newest smartphone is the only app which totally freezes on ads stories. You have 80k employees but simple slider in IG desktop version can't keep its position if you close story. Why, it's just a few lines of code. Rather not mentioning content on FB, it was so much better 10 years ago.
Exactly. The reason it's worth it to send those weapons, is because Ukrainians themselves are so eager to fight for their country. That is the massive difference between Ukraine on one hand, and Afghanistan and Iraq on the other; Ukrainians know exactly what they're fighting for, and what they're fighting against. I don't think it's possible to break their fighting spirit.

All that spin about NATO fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian is wrong. It's the Ukrainians themselves who want to fight for their country, with or without outside help. The outside help just makes it easier, but they would have fought either way.
> The FT has the best comments section on the internet, IMO.

Mostly yes, but depends on the topic.

Anything where Brexit can be involved (anything about an EU or EU country problem, or UK issue), there's a bunch of stupid comments, mostly empty pro-Brexit ones.

Anything tech is usually mostly technically oblivious financial people (oh VMware have a great position, numbers looking good, tech is amazing).

Anything where Russia is involved, there's at least a few (idiots|Russian trolls|etc.) getting eviscerated.
A major project like Cassandra will find that it is easier to use the current version (before LTS existed, people had to upgrade to the six monthly feature releases, but because they didn't get a new version number people didn't care as much). If it does cause trouble, let us know, because LTS really isn't intended for actively maintained projects that want new features and isn't the recommended path for them. Just note that the free upgrade services called LTS are not quite the same; they just include backports from mainline and don't support the whole JDK.

Anyway, I'm sorry about my tone. I know that the change in the version numbering scheme confused people to pick the wrong upgrade path for themselves, and it's our fault for miscommunicating. But I don't know when features will land, or when those who want new features with an LTS service will be able to use them. But I can say that our process assumes that those who want long-term support are trying to avoid new features and are happier when a big feature misses the next release with LTS, so while missing one release normally means a mere 6 month delay, those who wait for LTS for actively developed codebases (even though it's due to a misunderstanding) might have to wait a further couple of years.
Baud didn't invent those numbers I quoted. I could have cited a different book, but this was at hand.

I'm well aware of Baud's writings and his military career. I do have issues with his intellectual honesty, but I think he is in no sense a mouthpiece of Moscow. His driving motivation seems to be not pro-Russia, but anti-USA, which is not so unusual for a Frenchman (Swiss). That article you linked is itself rather dishonest, raising issues and then sidestepping Baud's version of the story.
This is a bit of history, I had to search a while for:

"The designers of the 80286 based it on the Multics segmentation model, but in reality segmentation makes it really hard to implement, because of internal memory fragmentation. A while back I wrote blog post about how an alternative 80286 with segment registers pointing to 256 byte paragraphs giving a true 24-bit virtual address which was then paged into a 24-bit physical address space. 8068 compatibility could then be managed by having the segment registers map to 16 byte paragraphs as before."

But: The screwed up on the switch back to real mode, and on the reservation of the 4th byte of the descriptor tables, which made it so that Xenix-286 cannot run on a 386. ( long discussion... I think that MS purposefully made it incompatible. )
Well this takes the testing of compliance with regulations to a new level though. And here I am, doing my daily and weekly chores with HoxHunt and two other Q&A websites on our compliance procedures. And these aren't intellectual questions or anything - rote memorization is what they are striving for. I wish they would just send me crypto and be done with it.