skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy at the bottom of some of our deeper mineshafts. Radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep, and in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling space could easily be provided possibly for one hundred years.

Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine sites in the country, but I would guess that dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided.

A computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously. There would be much time, and little to do. With the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present Gross National Product within say, twenty years.
The chances of any startup succeeding is extremely slim. Do not even worry about what you could potentially lose. If it is a daily nightmare, just leave.
> Probably China and India are the only parties now able to influence Putin to back down.

The problem is, if Putin loses the war, he will lose power, and possibly even his life [1]. This makes him more likely to use nukes, as his life is endangered without a victory. Under this circumstance the only way out is to give him a "small victory".

[1] https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/09/30/exp-gps-1002-khodor...
Yeah, it's more of a starting point for your own design, especially with the unavailability of RPi.

This ESP32 board has Ethernet and battery charger, https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32/ESP32-EVB/open-sou...
As someone from the balkans... what do you do when some other nuclear superpower decides to bomb eg. yugoslavia or invade eg. afghanistan or syria, libya, iraq, iraq again, etc?
Yes, this is what I was talking about. It was an avoidable tragedy.
Seems more likely that every country would shut down trade with Russia, and Ukraine would keep fighting a conventional war with even better weapons than they have now.
That's what the `<template>` element does. From the HTML standard[0]:

> The template element can have template contents, but such template contents are not children of the template element itself. Instead, they are stored in a DocumentFragment associated with a different Document — without a browsing context — so as to avoid the template contents interfering with the main Document.

[0]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#template-...
Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups
thats called geoenginbering and it can be done by spreading particles from airplanes.
They forget to mention "Politics".
The sentiment is understandable but probably has nothing to do with the story. The US routinely buys these kinds of drugs for preparedness programs, has done so long before Ukraine was an issue, and planned this specific acquisition last year, when the drug in question was approved for the purpose.
This is a strawman. In fact if you go search for actual leftists that don't just repeat keywords on social media you will find that most agree in some sense with what you just said (in the sense that the political situation is tons of superficiality). You cannot just put the spotlight on your weakest adversaries. This whole situation is because political education is at a general low level and universities are under pressure, hence even the leftists (just like everybody) are fighting hard with shortcuts/groupthink/.. inside their ranks.

ps: it's definitely not unpopular, it's a mainstream media talking point, but that's another story
He adopted a prayer as the CoC.
Attacking a much smaller neighboring country and failing so miserably that they have to start making nuclear threats is hardly casual. That's a professional-tier fuckup. Given the apparently irrational decision making that's going on in this situation, we can only prepare in whatever ways we can.
> Using a computer engine is part of learning and preparing in chess (AFAICT). What other sport has a similar issue where an extremely useful and essential and highly available tool in the sport is considered cheating based entirely on using it within the narrow window of a game? Of course it was going to leak into play in online games where you only have the data feed of moves and nothing else connecting the players.

Pretty much every e-sport with hidden information has this issue. CS:GO, DotA2, SC2. They all have replay analyzers to reveal the map and let you look back to figure out how to play better. But if there was a way to use them in game (map hacks), it'd invalidate the game.
We need to change education, and until we devalue prestigious institutions, this will never change.

I'd look at breaking it out into 3 separate areas.

1. Foundations (1-2 years). This is a course offered which introduces students to the basics of areas they're interested in. Students can learn about many different areas to study or work in, as well as understand what the requirements of Academia are (essay writing, research, studies, etc).

Once Foundations are done, you split out into either..

A. Apprenticeships, Technical Institutions, Polytechnics: Created by industry leaders, board members are those who have worked in the industry, trainers are those who have worked in the industry recently and are limited to tenures of no more than 2 years - but they get paid more than they would in their roles.

Course length depends on field. For example if you were to become a Software Engineer, probably 18 months is enough. Medicine on the other hand will be more aligned to current expectations.

B. Academia, University: Created by those who want to write and study the field, but not work in it primarily. These will occasionally work with folks in the industry to try new research. These are usually primarily publicly funded.

Right now, the institutions who run and advertise B are the majority - but pretend to operate and work for A. Which is bullshit, but they are incentivized to continue operating that way by the government, by their board and by their own corporate institutions.
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It’s pretty weird that we allow advertising to attempt to distract you while you’re doing the most dangerous thing you generally do daily: driving.
I agree, NATO will never respond with nukes, even if a nuke is launched directly into NATO territory. NATO understands this is a 0 sum outcome. And it's not needed.

I think the risk is that those around Putin (regime), and Putin himself to an extent, believe that a world without Russia is not worth having. And to the regime, Putin is Russia and Russia is Putin. The question is, if there is a 100% chance that should he lose this conflict that his regime will collapse and a 99% chance that Russia could survive a nuclear war on equal footing with the west which will he choose?

Even a full scale nuclear war will not end the world, many millions, likely billions will survive. It will just be nothing like the world before.
Ah yes appeasement, it's always worked so well before.
I think that's the limit for a single junction with glass in front (Shockley–Queisser limit for single junction is 30% at 1.1V). This is where the balance point is from energy lost by rejecting low energy photons vs energy lost by not absorbing all the energy from the photon.

Polyjunction cells overcome this limit by absorbing some photons more completely and letting others pass to another layer. This is very expensive with silicon.

The current hotness is tandem perovskite cells. The silicon provides a strong substrate and market confidence in its durability over time (things perovskites are bad at). And the perovskite is very cheap to add another layer (something silicon is bad at). The hope is that - worst case - for the first generation you still have a silicon cell in >20 years, but for 5-25 years you also have the perovskite layer.
I won't exist and you likely won't either, so what's to lose? Either way, I did not make a prediction, so I'm not sure what you're even talking about.
Not commonly used, but it’s commonly offered as a laptop feature because it’s nearly free to do so. The security it can provide is minimal, but in some cases it’s enough for the job.

If you just need to stop someone from picking up and waking off with a laptop, it’s great. If you need it to resist even a very low skill attack ($10 cutters), it’s terrible.
chess.com is a first rate entity in the chess world (a peer of FIDE and lichess), and Hans was caught cheating in events that had cash prizes. Hans cheated for money, that's plenty of indication that he would cheat in more important situations as well.
Ikea has an app to do this but it is flaky.
C# is great. You get:

- Tons of developers know it
- Tons of Java developers can be made to know it with ease
- A good default IDE experience within VS and VSCode, and a JetBrains product if you prefer it.
- A good LSP implementation with OmniSharp if you don't want to use an IDE.
- ASP.NET, a good default Web framework.
- NuGet as a package manager with tens of thousands of packages.
- Better than java reflection and runtime generics.
- Cross-platform CLI tooling since .NET Core, now it's just .NET.
- Ability to deploy self-contained applications.
- Mono version of C# is used for making games.
- A continuously evolving cohesive language with minimal competitors (like Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, etc... on the JVM)
- F# if you want a stricter functional language that interoperates with C# seamlessly.
- PowerShell as a way of interactively running any .NET assembly, regardless of how it was compiled.

And many more... C# is one language you can build a career on and also use for hobbying and have fun.

The haters will complain that MSBuild (the default build system) and Visual Studio suck. If you've tried them in the past, you're probably right. Try them again in 2022 and see if your opinion doesn't change.
> But everyone is much safer overall if the "common standard used by most people" did not use wifi.

To be clear, Thread is not Wifi.
Hypothetically, is the solution to give Ukraine their nuclear weapons back? Well, suitable replacements from the US, that is.

Since Russia reneged on the protection deal when they were removed, it seems like what they signed is moot.

From a game theory perspective, doesn't this restore MAD?
That depends entirely on what CS masters program you select. I've been eyeing the GT OMSCS for next year and you can take the entire thing almost entirely focused on low-level systems if you want, without much (if any) math beyond whatever their algorithms courses cover (one or two are required IIRC).
In my experience, it seems like it's very hard to get into some programs despite the job demand. There's either a lack of resources to make spaces available or it is gatekeeping.
Yes, it's basically like an indoor swimming pool. It takes a lot of water to initially fill it, but they clean and reuse most of it.
Hmm if it’s so unenforceable, why have some cities managed to get rid of the billboards?
Welcome to the area! Hope you like snow. :)
The last time I checked this, there were a few open CVEs that had been patched in the paid version, but the free one was not updated. It looks like the version numbers are similar now, so maybe my caveat no longer applies.
IIRC they're (finally) encrypting the management frames in WiFi 6.
Possibly this isn't the wonder tool for busting through our current semiconductor supply chain problems that I hoped it was ...
I don't think it's a miserable career for uninterested people. It's a miserable college degree for uninterested people, doing algorithms problem sets and such, but afterwards, you can make money doing mentally unchallenging things, like simple CRUD apps or maintenance of a ghastly complicated in-house software.
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As an odd coincidence, I ditched the fake books, almost 2 decades ago. It was kind of by accident. I had been hoarding more and more books, and got to the point of hauling a huge pile of books to every gig. One time, I got a last minute call, and couldn't remember where I had stashed the books, so I rushed out of the house without them.

And it went OK! In addition to the mental model that you describe, I've also learned that most tunes are more forgiving of changes than one might guess by all of the chord symbols notated so precisely.

I've revived my fake books for another use: To practice treble clef sight reading, which I neglected when I was younger. Also, I think learning melodies helps a lot in terms of mentally organizing and navigating the standards.

There are players who are a lot better than me, and are still attached to the books.
It's a different layout of RAID, it's also not expandable vdev for now since it's made for enterprise. RAIDZ expansion is here https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/12225
I live in the DC area.

If there's a confirmed warhead inbound, I'm standing on a rooftop. I don't want to live in the hellscape that'll follow.
Memorizing is not cheating. Many of the pros do that. He'd need to be receiving computer analysis during the game for it to be cheating.
I'm guessing that in Putin's world view, what happens to the world after he dies is truly irrelevant. I.e., what he experiences is all that really matters, and he expects simple oblivion upon death.

If that's his perspective, then we all might just be NPCs to him.

I'm not excited about someone with little time to live, and existential dread / nihilism, having nukes.

Edit: This is pure speculation on my part. I have no reliable info on Putin's worldview.
The yoga pants thing wasn't necessary. You don't have to show me pretty women for me to care.

I don't care. I'm happy about it actually. We are going through a transformation with regard to our relationship with information. Libraries, copyright, higher learning institutions, $100 text books, professors teaching, your kid getting roughed up by the school resource officer, $60k degrees in English followed by the Starbucks job, smoking in the boys' room, they're all going the way of the dinosaur, and it's very exciting. It's exciting because the gatekeepers are being destroyed, the rent seekers are going hungry, education and information are the same thing, equally accessible to everyone. However, nobody is going to show you your path, chart it for you, not anymore. You can learn anything you want, anything at all, for free, with nobody's permission, but you've got to figure out what to learn by yourself. It is a revolution in self actuation, from now on you'll be what you make of yourself. Of course, it's always been that way, they lied to you when they told you they knew better or that there was a shortcut, but at least it's not a secret anymore. So go out into the world and do whatever the fuck you want, there's never been a better time to do it than now.
This sounds like something that mosh was built for.

https://mosh.org/
Are you just naming random crimes?
I think #1 and #3 of these make a particularly good combination; they have very different and quite complementary merits. CLRS is rigorous and precise and analytical and theoretical. Skiena is handwavy and pragmatic and not always quite correct. CLRS is written for people who will be implementing complicated algorithms. Skiena is written for people who will be using other people's implementations. CLRS is deep. Skiena is shallow. CLRS is heavy going. Skiena is pretty easy reading.

(But ignore everything Skiena says about generating random numbers.)
Oh, it looks like he had adopted the Mozilla CoC, but has since removed that. https://sqlite.org/codeofconduct.html

I am familiar with the Code of Ethics
Your average person is unsophisticated with regards to macroeconomics and how interest rate policy impacts asset prices.

Look no further than your local MLS with properties active 90+ days and the prices they’re asking. This is the “missed the market” cohort, and there is a long line of folks who are going to be exceptionally sad with the forward looking macro on both sides (stubborn sellers as well as recent buyers seeing an immediate decline or ongoing stagnation in their home price).

I am not unsympathetic to those are recently bought and will see their home values and some of their equity decline, but artificially propped up values are unsustainable.
Does Stress Impact Technical Interview Performance? (2020)
This is great.
Can someone please explain why sloths are everywhere nowadays?
I don't want to overstate my experience--I've used neither professionally. But I think it's true that the repl is better with Clojure than with Clojurescript. Cider with shadow-cljs is very nice but not quite as well-supported as vanilla. Plus, the very fact that you're producing code to be rendered by a browser pushes the work you do on the pure data level, where the repl really shines, towards the background.
Yup that part stood out to me as well. There are dozens of "Anonymous Confessed GM"s on the cheating list, most of them with a rating much higher than Neimann's. And this doesn't even mention the players who are flagged by their algorithm but haven't admitted their guilt. Given the very high ELO range of the offenders (2600-2700), it's clear that a lot of the most popular names in chess are involved. Why not name all of them? Shouldn't they receive the same amount of scrutiny, public criticism and punishment as him?
We already do that. Regional appellations limit what food can be called. It's not champagne if it's not from a specific part of France.
Well the stupid popup is coming from the stupid website. If they stopped collecting data they mostly don't use (let's be honest, most websites probably don't do anything useful with most of the data), then they would not have to show the popup.
He's a chess prodigy not a computer nerd. It probably never even occurred to him that chess.com was tracking page focus to get a sense of cheating.
For example: https://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/08957...
Thank you, this is why I value HN so much.
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I come from a place that bans billboards. Arguably it’s fairly practical, no one seems upset about it and property owners seem to get by. Also there don’t seem to be issues of enforcement because everyone is more or less on the same page about it.
That sounds really neat! Unfortunately it doesn't look like I'm eligible for the scholarship since I'm not an EU citizen [1]. I also don't know if I would be able to work at all under whatever visa I would get. But tuition is so much cheaper (and food/housing also somewhat cheaper it seems) than in the US, so it still might make financial sense.

[1] https://www.studentsurvivalguide.dk/posts/survival-guide-to-...
Types are tests run by the compiler. You shouldn't avoid testing, just let the compiler do it for you.
> Banks loan out a multiple of their deposits. In other words, banks create money when they make loans. Amazing, isn't it?

I've heard about that, and it's really amazing.

If i understand it correctly, the loan interest i have to pay is money that also does not exist yet, at the point of time, when i get the cash. The bank faces the risk of me not being able to generate (get from others, who potentially also take loans) that extra money, so they demand a collateral as an insurance against that risk.

> Inflation happens when the government prints money that has no collateral, and has no correspondence to added value in the economy and so it dilutes the value of the money that is already in circulation.

What instance decides, if some printed money does or does not have collateral?
We do. It wasn't until the 80s that twin engine airliners were certified for long flights. Before then it was 3 or 4 engine only. It took a lot of effort to get jet engines that reliable too.

Single vs dual engine helicopter is a big safety distinction. There's heavy lift and military helicopters with 3 engines.
> P.S. note: Many people disagree. Good, you should not take it as absolute truth. I guess my real point is that you should question whether you really need to take Calculus. Don't just take it blindly because you are told you should. You have other options.

I agree, this should be questioned! Calculus is probably not the right choice for everyone, and I think most competent math departments are looking at how to make their curriculum more appropriate and relevant for today's world—certainly mine is. However, I think it is too easy to confuse "I don't see the relevance of this" with "this isn't relevant for me"; most students are not really in a position properly to evaluate whether a course of study is useful for them. Students shouldn't take whatever the university, or their professor, or anyone tells them as gospel—but neither should they think that their individual judgement will necessarily guide them towards the path that will best prepare them for whatever future it is that interests them, or the future that they don't yet know interests them. Perhaps most importantly, it is easy for a student to tell when they aren't using knowledge they have, but it is not so easy for a student to tell when they need knowledge they don't have!

I'll also dare to venture the suggestion that a lot of people could benefit from a much less utilitarian approach to education. College for everyone is a wonderful opportunity, but I wish it were that, an opportunity, not a requirement—and, given that it is a de facto requirement, I understand students' frustration with it. But, while a student is here, I wish they would make the most of the experience, and treat as a chance to learn things just because learning is an enriching human experience, without subjecting every bit of knowledge to pure humanitarian experience. I don't program, but I am glad for the knowledge about programming I have; I don't use history directly in any professional historical sense, but I am glad that I know the history I do. I am a professional mathematician and use my knowledge as such—but I'd be glad I learned it even if it weren't my career.
"the assumption that nothing said by Russia is true, and their future behavior will always be bad. "

Based on their behavior over the last 10 years this is an extremely safe assumption.

"and casually disregards anything that Russia says and any of Russia's stated concerns?"

Because Russia lies, blatantly, obviously, and constantly.
I wonder what members of congress traded on advanced knowledge of this.
That can’t be right, that’s insane. I would find it easy to do 5m inserts in 30 minutes.
Does it? I mean China is not exactly as free a market as the US, and I wouldn't say they are lagging horribly behind... on the contrary in many cases
China and India are the only nuclear powers with a no-first-use policy.
Note also some sizeable perf differences between AMDGPU-PRO and AMDVLK.

The raytracing impl for example is just not the same.

https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=2022&image=radv_rt_per...
I moved 1 thing to Github with GitHub actions. The rest I kept on Heroku and paid.

I use it and they should be paid for it. Why not?
Because Twitter's failures are all semi-public anyways. He's scapegoating. Attacking them for these things firmly attaches blame to the previous management and becomes his first success as a manager. It's what always happens, but he did it proactively.

It won't hurt Twitter's value because it never really had credibility, but also doesn't need it. Nobody is going to get up tomorrow and say "I was going to tweet this, but I'll rumble it instead because Twitter has lied to the FTC since 2011!"