skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, could they? I don't know anything about missiles, but it would seem logical that it takes a specific missile and detonation system to deliver a nuke. Could any missile delivery system carry a nuke?
Why not? Kiev was a safe place to live until the current escalation. For example, much safer than the city of Donetsk and other cities close to the front line which are under fire almost daily since the beginning of the operation, many of them since at least 8 years, though not at such intensity.
Same in The Netherlands: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0017452/2021-07-01/0
Sorry, Feynman, whatever else he did, on probability he gets a grade of flat F. Here is why: In his book Lectures on Physics he states that a particle of unknown location has a probability density uniform over all of space. No it doesn't. No such density can exist. Done. Grade flat F.

I tried to be a physics major but could not swallow all the daily really stupid mistakes such as this one by Feynman I got each physics lecture and I didn't have time both to learn the physics AND to clean up the sloppy math. So, I majored in math.

As I learned the math, from some of the best sources, I came to understand just how just plain awful the math of the physics community is.

Then in one of the Adams lectures on quantum mechanics at MIT I saw some of the reason: The physics community takes pride in doing junk math. They get by with it because they won't take the math seriously anyway, that is, they insist on experimental evidence. So, to them, the math can be just a heuristic, a hint for some guessing.

Students need to be told this, in clear terms, early on.

It went on this way: In one of the lectures from MIT a statement was that the wave functions were differentiable and also continuous. Of COURSE they are continuous -- every differentiable function is continuous.

The lectures made a total mess out of correlation and independence. It looks like Adams does not understand the two or their difference clearly.

There was more really sloppy stuff around Fourier theory. I got my Fourier theory from three of W. Rudin's books. It looks like at MIT they get Fourier theory from a comic book.

I got sick, really sick, of the math in physics. Feynman on probability is just one example.
[removed - beating a dead horse]

The whole study is about the usefulness of regular colonoscopies as a tool to reduce mortality in the general population, and the surprise comes from the already known "usefulness of colonoscopies in increasing survivability, early detection and decreasing probability of colon cancer" not leading to a decrease in overall death rate. See the other comments in this thread about the intent-to-treat principle and why you can't compare only people who accepted the exam.
Tell HN: Missing service – StackOverflow, but with monetary rewards
There is a market for technical questions that few people _can_ and/or _want_ to answer or work on.

When you need to do research for hours (or even days), you are of course willing to spend a few bucks to get your solution quickly, and get on with your project.

- So you would describe your technical problem, as usual.

- You would then set your monetary reward for the accepted answer.

- You could increase your monetary reward if answers are lacking or coming in too slowly (the list of unanswered questions could be sorted by "reward").

- To make your start easy, you could import your StackOverflow "karma" (points) into your new profile.
Why are the prices so damn high
AFAIK epigenetics does not cause speciation
That means that Facebook currently has 80 k employees. What exactly does it need them all for?

There are significant global engineering companies that do real things that benefit the world in concrete ways that have roughly that number of people, including their R&D departments.
[It’s worth emphasising that Sands was hugely positive about the lectures and was great friends with Feynman.]
which XML did you go with? docbook? Dita? some homegrown?
I'm reading 'An Editor's Burial', which is a collection of essays which inspired the film.
There's an interview with Wes as a foreword, and that's exactly what he describes as his intention for the feel of the film.
> crystal nights

Are you refering to something like Kristallnacht, or is it something else?
These missiles specifically can; many can't.
Companies don't really have a choice. Employees retire and are trained up. Companies die and new companies are created. Foreign companies can expand into new markets. If there is a change of circumstance that leads to new avenues of profit, they will be taken up.
Because technology doesnt help every sector in the same way
If you want even lower resource usage, try honk[1] (currently using about 80M whilst my Pleroma is using 350M + 500M from Postgres) (although it is considerably more minimal than Pleroma...)

[1] https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk
But surely this website is comparing the same book. There should be no difference in quality of paper or condition of the book?
This "system" mostly consists of men on duty with MANPADS. They either shoot the missile down or, if they don't manage to because it flies overhead too quickly, call the next guy in the direction it flew to, informing them that a missile is incoming for that direction (it will be a short time, 1-2 minutes). So the next guy will be fully prepared and knows where to look. That simple.

If missiles flew too high for MANPADS, they'd be very easily shot down by proper SAMs or fighters, they survive by flying under the radar.
pdfs should certainly have more robust means to prevent tampering I agree. pdf integrity assurances aren't much better than ROT13 is for cryptography.
12 days has passed and Russia attacks civilian objects all over Ukraine during rush hour as a retaliation for attacking the bridge.

What else is this than a butthurt mafioso thinking "you will find out now what we are capable of". There is no military strategy, no tactics, no nothing in today's attacks. Where would you see any Russian rationality today? This is just something a school bully would do, not a military power.
And no military target was hit. Why did they target cities and not military targets on the front lines?

If you want to directly donate to UA army you can donate here https://www.supportukraine.cz/en.html via bank transfer and here https://www.weaponstoukraine.com/ by credit card.
Foreigners will be able to become e-residents of Ukraine
It is true that (at least above the level of quantum physics) we tend to believe that reality is deterministic. When the meteorologist gives a chance of rain, in truth if they had perfect forward information on all of the clouds and pressure systems, they would simply declare whether or not there was future rain. In cases like physical phenomenon, you can think of observed uncertainty or chance as being a product of the exact settings of the unmodeled but deterministic factors underlying a particular outcome, or else errors in the functional form of the model with respect to the measure. We tend to assume that unmodeled factors are as-if orthogonal to the causes we are interested in modelling, and thus zero-centered, and our models minimize error predicated on this assumption.

In your proposed flipping model, there are likely to be very small physical imprecisions (vibrations in the flipper, say, drifting tension of some kind of spring or actuator, or small amounts of circulating air, or perhaps tiny imprecisions in the way the coin is loaded into a slot). The machine might always flip heads, but it's still possible to say that whatever arbitrary degree of certainty you need to model the coin's behaviour in the air to achieve 100% accuracy, there could still be arbitrarily smaller error below that threshold, and we'd view this as "randomness" even if it isn't by the laws of physics.
Cheapest restaurant isn’t The French Laundry w/ the caveat that you skip out on the bill.
Read "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. This book is about exactly this kind of resistance.
Everybody knows Feynman, who knows Jaynes?

https://quantumfrontiers.com/2018/12/23/chasing-ed-jayness-g...

Jaynes about Probability in Science:

https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/physics/theor...
18 is when then president Trump appointed Powell after not re-appointing Yellen. I don’t see that pointed out in your link.
QED = Quantum electrodynamics, for which Feynman won the Nobel Prize.
It's a sad and beautiful obituary, a miniseries would be unnecessary long.
I actually work with the team behind this, if you have any questions feel free to ask!

Feels like a 4th wall break when something from your job pops up on the orange site.
I mean wasn’t this to be expected? Shouldn’t this be more accurately titled a “confirms” not “detects”? (Not calling for a HN title change I’m complaining about the original article title) Even if they weren’t pumping and Nord Stream 2 was only full of nitrogen filler gas, Nord Stream 1 would be full of whatever was in the pipe when they turned off the tap.
Greek religion didn't come from nothing either: proto-Greek society was simply following certain gods that they considered important for them (fish-god/soil-god), and then when one area managed to invade another area they reconciled their religious allegiance by assuming the god of the invader was simply "stronger" than the other one.
vscode is very good at this, and is the primary reason why I even use it.

Frankly speaking the vim/emacs lines are yet to catch up with this sort of thinking. vscode feels like you are editing on the local machine. The experience is seamless and feels magical.
The question in this context is whether it’s an effective public health measure to recommend the procedure to a population: specifically, does it reduce the number of deaths over a given period?

Whether it’s effective on an individual basis is a related, but different, different question.
Sounds like a pretty good system.
The only cookie I want to allow is one that stores that I already rejected all their other cookies.
The ftp client is, by default, installed in the OpenBSD base system. Even though the name is ftp, it works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP/FTPS and so on.
Well "automated" deserves some quotes. The main point was "can they be more ready and more efficient the next time", whether "automated" means automatic response, or something beeping at a person with a launcher, or more people with MANPADs.
I think he's implying that those jobs aren't for the "regular joe". I again don't agree with him based on my own experience.
PDF processing seems like a security minefield. What are folks doing to mitigate that problem prior to (or as part of) processing? Or as part of any system that accepts PDFs with the intent that they’re shared with other systems and users.
Its sad I've looked up old books on Amazon and come to discover via the reviews that there are counterfeit e-books on their platform. I would of thought that if I wanted an e-book of all places to look Amazon would be a pretty safe bet. I never did find the book I wanted on there. This is why I've sort of sought other alternatives. I enjoy my Kindle for reading when my iPad is just too much (laying in bed at night for example, I don't need all of my iPad if a Kindle suffices).

So I applaud any efforts towards improving online book purchases since, Amazon which is a tech behemoth built on top of online book sales cannot do its original task very well.
Sounds like another case of “pessimists sound smart, optimists get rich”.
> people like JBP, meaning it at least misses the point by a mile.

Who?
Really curious to know the title of that other book.
Would you care to look it up? Thanks!
Binance admits hackers used cross-chain bridge to steal at least $100M
Yikes, I thought we were past this.

Even if the original text was in some weird encoding... storing the data in Latin-1? Really? In 2022?
What is the problem with density on space?
yes the street slang for it is premature ejectulation, or more formally known as performance anxiety.
Read Quantum field theory for the gifted amateur
OSINT community is monitoring ru nuclear infrastructure, no doubt US military is doing the same using mil sats. Im fairly confident US will know if ru are preparing to load nuclear warheads, and will pass this information (maybe, depending on US own agenda, how close to elections etc) just like they were sending constant escalating warnings (sadly ignored) in February.
The enema is replaced with a laxative often. That is still really hard, I barely got half of mine down and was in a rough state the morning of the procedure.

I was sedated, so laxative was the hardest part of the ordeal, not the fasting or actual procedure.
I can't get myself to use those leap/easymotion/avy in editors.. but I definitively use this in vimium to jump to link and use that feature a lot in kitty to be able to select text/url/word/file/sha compared to using the mouse it's a life save, I don't think I have ever seen this feature in any other terminal (maybe you can achieve the same thing with screen/tmux scripting but I don't use much multiplexers)
Here's a good video with an example (from today, I think): https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1579433935075147777
I would assume it would primarily go through the elevator shafts and emergency staircases. But water has a way to go through random paths. I live in a concrete building, a neighbour had a leak toward the center of the building, the water made its way through underneath the apartment floors and started pouring from the facade though I couldn’t see any opening.
It is. It's also one Russians can't probably do anything about.
Until Meta gives up on the Metaverse, I don't think we will see a cull that's WFH oriented. Surely if Meta can't find a way to work in the Metaverse, no one ever will.

Now other big companies that continue to invest in HQs: I wonder.
If so, provoking this Russian vengeance strike is the best feat of the Ukrainian army by a mile. If you can bleed 1 billion in military spending with the cost of a few deaths and an lorry filled with explosives, that's by far the most effective way to win a war: you will quickly bankrupt Russia while your own army is still able to fight.

Sounds much like the V2 rocket program used by Hitler to punish the British for their continental bombing incursions; it was largely irrelevant militarily but very expensive.
That's what I get now https://i.ibb.co/XXch7ZL/2022-10-10-133602-1920x1080-scrot.p...

No Firefox reader support, nothing on the page, effectively the cause is that TPRB blocker block forum.effectivealtruism.org + NoScript blocking lesswrong.com js but anyway, without allowing the third party domain AND the main JS I can't see anything...
This Perl module can read and modify PDFs:

https://metacpan.org/pod/PDF::API2
Yes that's about how it works. Around a 100 of these groups of 3-4 guys strategically placed all over Ukraine is enough to ensure ~50% losses of those missiles. Less if they are given a pickup truck so they can move ~10km laterally in ~10 min.
Not OP, but binding data to elements is pretty nice (how $("#thingy").select2() always works on the same instance of the plugin without me having to store a reference somewhere).

Also things like fade and animate for when CSS transitions aren't enough and the ability to perform operations on multiple elements without a look are very convenient.
You can use tramp in emacs?
I think part of the parent’s complaint is that, although 23976/1000 fps is much more accurate than 24 fps, it’s still very slightly slower than the correct value 24000/1001 fps, by about 2.1 frames per day.
> There is one high speed rail in North America and it isn’t on the West Coast.

The Acela is barely high-speed for around 10% of the route length. Route which it has to share with other trains of varying speeds. There's no real high speed rail in the US, even though there are many opportunities for such routes.
I still don't understand why can this be needed when everything is digital signal received over IP and presented over HDMI nowadays. Or do many Americans still watch RF TV?
Perhaps better source, missile landed 150m from that building.

https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/samsung-building-hit-in-russia...
Because they didn't learn their lesson from the 20th century that targeting civilians doesn't break resolve but reinvigorates it by making them hate you more.

Civilian targets are easier to hit because it doesn't matter what you're firing at specifically as the goal isn't destruction of specific targets but spreading terror. Hitting a military outpost needs to be much more precise because hitting an open patch nearby will do nothing but hitting a plaza or park will still inflict terror by maiming nearby civilians.
Use a VM when running random scripts.
Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are 'spurious and dangerous'
Not a physicist, but your argument is pretty unconvincing in that it relies entirely on intuition about classical physics, ignoring quantum phenomena entirely. If one were to argue that probability were fundamental, they'd very likely start by describing wave functions, which are probabilistic and seem pretty close to fundamental to observable reality.
USA, but that happen ONLY one time, so perhaps there was something up just one time, still an a bit ridiculous behavior anyway...

Oh, BTW for us from EU to get a multi-entry visa we are asked few questions, one is of the very same kind: if we have participated to the nazi crimes against the Jews EVEN if obviously born after nazi German fall...
I’d never question Russian intelligence Or military capabilities.
Nothing they say can be taken at face value, nothing they do can either. These guys are chess masters, after all.

I don’t want to make it sound, and any way that I like these assholes, I mean Fuck Putin. These pricks are incapable of even understanding decent human behavior, and have spread so many lies that I’m pretty convinced they have lost grip on reality and truth.

That having been said, everything about this illegal Ukraine invasion is tainted with spy games and propaganda. Dead “civilians”? Targeting Samsung? Inaccurate weapons? I don’t buy any of it. When it comes to this conflict, it’s a matter of faith: do you think The Nations who stand against (that asshole) Putin are good and justified? If so, then just keep the faith and don’t trust what you read. The alternative is to subject yourself to a carnival ride of fake news and lies that will leave your head spinning.
Reading through the comments I see a couple of recurring themes.

For what a quiet layoff means, that's easy. All these companies have a performance review system. Employees are effectively stack ranked. Facebook in particular has a target of 10-15% in subpar ratings. These are ratings below MA (Meets All Expectations) including MM (Meets Most), MN (Meets None) and NRL (Non-Regrettable Loss ie an employee who quits that they don't want back). This is the tech equivalent of IBM or GE firing the bottom 10% of staff every year.

So all you do is you get aggressive about PIPs and forcing those subpar ratings out. That's how a quiet layoff will work here.

The second theme is who will this affect. It's naive to think the answer is "low performers". I don't think the young will bear the brunt of this either. Young workers are as a general rule cheaper. Diversity will inevitably enter the picture. jAs a whole, people who good for whatever diversity metrics the company cares about will be forced out less often than those who aren't.

It's actually older workers who will bear the brunt of this as age (ie in the US being over 40 is a protected classs by law) is not a diversity metric I've seen any tech company cares about. Don't bleieve me? Go look at your company's diversity policy. It'll mention specific protected classes. See if age is one of them.

As always, leaf nodes in the org chart and some low level managers will pay the price for poor leadership right up to the executive level. Nobody cares about the metaverse. It's a strategy from a company that has no idea what it should be doing.
> that does use PDF files as input

That's not a great idea. PDFs are a very "final presentation" format. They don't even really have a strict concept of a block of text. There are even tools which will happily put the separate letters is various places and call it a day. I've done something like that (just inserting short content + signature into a PDF) and do not want to touch PDF editing with a 10ft pole ever again. To preserve sanity, use a different format that actually understands the structure of the content, one step before the PDF is generated.
Yes, I searched a book, saw $14 as the price (“Ouh, that is cheap”), then clicked through to see $14+$26 shipping to Canada :/
Reminds me an old version of https://www.javascripting.com/
Great article.

My biggest challenge is that when I plan to take whole days to recover or have fun, I end up falling sick or my kids/spouse do.

It’s usually a reminder to take more frequent time off rather than wait until after a long grind at work. The analogy of not waiting for your gas tank to be empty to get more fuel comes to mind.
jsx mail also accepts tsx. it's important to remember that jsx has several things that pure React doesn't have
So, I don't have a source to back this up, and without a source this will be worst of the rumour mill, but I'll say it anyways in case someone has a source to back it up or refute it.

A few weeks ago it was explained that Facebook is telling affected people they are no longer on the team they were on before, and they have X weeks (4?) to apply internally and find a role on a new team. So you're not fired, you just don't have a team and failed to find a new one, so.. see ya?
Because its not practical? Driven by the hype of speculators?
I've observed that no matter what a study says, there will be people on HN contradicting it, no matter how ridiculous.

Humans can't tickle themselves? I can.

Humans think in pictures? I don't.

Humans don't remember the moment of their birth? I do. (Followed, of course, by "I thought this was normal").

Do people lie out of defiance, or to make themselves sound like special snowflakes, or what? Is there a term for this?
I think the fact that helix doesn't really need a plugin/extension system is beautiful. It means that it's simple enough to config yet still powerful. Helix smooth out the learning curve in this good way and I hope it won't become complicated and make learning curve as deep as vim/nvim.
Maybe this exists, but blur images unless site is whitelisted. Then a person could read the news without bikini pics and Oscar dress pics, etc. UK papers are the worst.
I've completed a video shot at 24fps, some footage was recorded at higher frame rate for slow motion, but you can tell the diference. The 24 fps is the best, as it looks and feels better in the eyes for most people and also my audience :)
Should Linux set the new constant-time mode CPU flags?
Why? What are the main limitations for precision? US switching off GPS? Glonass not up to the job? Is it a speed thing? Hard to get a position lock? Do you really need ultra accurate precision IMUs to compensate?

So many questions…
I was in Odessa for holiday in July. Very cheap airbnb, but there was night lockdown and pubs were closing early. Also beaches were closed (mines) but nobody cared.
What happened in 2019 that caused globalisation to die? I remember the first volleys against it being the onset of the pandemic and border tightenings in Feb/Mar 2020. In 2019, COVID-19 still seemed like it might be a local phenomenon and most people outside of China had barely any idea that it existed.
It's not like "next time". This is not an unprecedented attack. Russians simply launched a week's worth of missiles in one hour. That's what they can produce + restore from Soviet stocks. There is no "escalation" in that sense, they simply caused "shock and awe" by concentrating everything they normally shoot in a week, in one salvo.