skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 0:47 into the video, and it's already stretched past credulity to the breaking point. We've seen how completely the kleptocracy has crippled the Russian military. Does anyone seriously think that a single weapon would be used, given the extremely low probability of making in through a number of steps including:

* Someone, a person with family and friends, has to follow orders that could kill them and everyone they know, to advance a war they possibly don't support.

* They have to target the right location, and not some relatively empty area to appear to be doing their job

* The missile has to correctly launch

* A single very anticipated launch has to avoid all interception

* It has to accurately make it to its destination

* All of the parts that have been in storage since the end of the cold war have to have been properly maintained, maintenance that costs the US about $10,000,000 per year each. Any small mismatch in timing, composition of the core due to nuclear decay or humidity and corrosion, and electronics all have to work within microseconds of each other.

To use a single weapon with all these risks, and break a 75 year Taboo against their wartime use, is not something a rational actor would do.

Furthermore, the entire US military would have positive confirmation within 90 seconds of the nuclear detonation, and begin to react according to existing well tested plans.

Next, the US and NATO have a vast array of non-nuclear responses that would effectively cripple Russian ability to project force beyond its borders. The conflict in Ukraine is just the stuff we can put into the hands of those quickly trained, and NERFed enough to avoid deep strikes into Russia.

Also, you have to look at the human factors of those who support Putin internally, they don't want to loose all their spoils of their efforts which are mostly situated outside of Russia.
Really enjoyed Division 2! Having visited DC during the Last Administration, your apocalypse was much nicer :)

On the GIS side of things, didn't Ubi team up with some European nonprofit to make other real world locale into games for educational purposes? Can't remember the details, but I used to work for a museum and my boss wanted us to do something like that. And I was like that'd be nice, but we're not Ubi.

It would be awesome to read about your production pipeline, like did you go from drone footage to photogrammetry to dozens of artists manually fixing things, or? Was there much ML involved?
It honestly would pass for a recorded video at twitter's resolution... if it wasn't for the character animations looking decidedly average and robotic.
Why can't Twitter stop the “Twoo Fun” spam?
These 3 simulations are so much different from each other that you can't really extrapolate behavior of one from behavior of another. And, yeah, it would be naive to have faith in almost any simulation of this complexity.

Also, what is your source that the climate simulations underestimated? It was my impression that global warming has been much less dramatic than people expected it to be back in the 90's.
If you think about it, instruction encoding is really a compression method.

I wonder, if it would make sense to decouple compression and microcodes. So you could take a body of Code and find the best compression for it.
Or even be able to change "lookup tables" before starting the operating system. Possibly have different compression methods (x86 / arm..) run on the same CPU, without any drawbacks. Which could get you around licensing an ISA. (Yes I'm a software engineer thinking about hardware)
Twitter users migrate to new pro-democracy Twitter competitor TribelSocial
Much easier to keep contained

No, they're not. You're making the same erroneous assumption as most unsuspecting buyers.

Sulcata turtles can easily burrow under an ordinary fence. If kept indoors, they will literally dig through your walls to escape.

These animals are built to roam and determined to do so in search of food and a mate. They will work to destroy anything preventing them from doing so --- even if it means destroying themselves in the process.
> What did Germany replace the base load generation with? Natural gas and imports.

If you had looked at the link I provided, you would have seen that the largest replacement of energy to the grid was by wind, not by natural gas.
I couldn't find much about this new platform, except some reporter complaining that it is too sexist: https://www.thedailybeast.com/lefts-new-free-of-hate-social-...

Any ideas how is it regarding privacy, usage, and any interesting features compared with Twitter?
Pop_OS was great with Pop_Shell. It was a very pleasant experience; it was not perfect but could be polished.

But they got NIH* syndrome and started this COSMIC desktop; UI changed, the whole experience changed, more bugs ruin our lives. And then they got "Let's rebuild everything in Rust" fever and the great experience of Pop_OS + Pop_Shell was lost forever.

I understand the needs of creating unique experience for a product, but they could have built their desktop on top of Gnome like Ubuntu is doing or using the Gnome stack like Cinnamon, Elementary and many others. Or, if Gnome is a problem for them, they could have chosen the KDE stack, since KDE community is friendlier to outsiders.

* Not invented here
I guess the next frontier for realism is character animation. To me their robotic movements and moonwalking feet break the illusion. There were very neat demos of ML-generated postures/movement, so it may be possible to nail it.
Are there any coders who would voluntarily work in HR?
What if we gain more knowledge, and this isn't suppressBreastTumor. What do you do now?

As I see, the answer still cryptic name, and lookup table.
The main things I noticed as being off:

- The wave breaks/spray from the boat doesn’t look right

- NPC motion is still janky and robotic.

- Lack of wind. All vegetation is motionless as is the hanging sign. Even on windless days vegetation still tends to sway minutely.

- Lack of squelch. The ground is wet and has leaves and puddles all over it but everyone sounds like they’re walking on dry ground. Some NPCs don’t seem to have audible footsteps at all.
Nobody is gonna give you work life balance.It's something you have to make for yourself by setting boundaries.

If those boundaries aren't compatible with your current employer find a different one.

On-call doesn't have to be a nightmare either but it does mean prioritising reliability over feature work, often a be a hard sell to "the business" as they likely care more about revenue over your lack of sleep. Again it comes down to boundaries and sternly refusing to accrue the types of technical debt that are likely to cause issues.

Ultimately, you draw power from being the person with the ability to create software. It's on you to leverage that to build the lifestyle that you desire.
As a dad, breastfeeding was a great moment to snuggle with my wife and child and have a few minutes of rest.
I don't know about where you live; but, here in Texas, NIMBYism is an outgrowth of redlining, whose stated purpose was anti-Semitic & anti-nonwhite: it was literally rooted in antidemocratic ideals.
Honestly, if that's what you guys want, a 9-5. Go for it

For me working remotely isn't just about having my ass in a different geographical location, it's about flexibility. Both in my private and professional life.

I didn't say you can't spend time with your kids, but personally, working 8am-9am then 8pm-12pm doesn't sound so bad either. (for example). I find kids need to do homework and get to bed early so those times for me would work pretty well.
Resurrecting All Humans Who Ever Lived as a Technical Problem (2021)
remember... no dutch
The same reason they can't remove the various crypto scammers that impersonate Elon Musk and reply to his tweets with a scam crypto "giveaway" even though the spam tweets are predictable and trivial to detect.

Why would they remove it when 1) they're not liable and 2) the spam contributes to "engagement"?
Was anyone else surprised by the very low number of fatalities?

At 1:06 in the video "The Tactical Plan" says Russia sends 300 nuclear warheads and NATO responds with approx. 180 warheads, but the immediate casualties are estimated only 2.6 million.

Maybe I've been utterly misinformed, but I thought just one "modern" nuclear warhead detonating in any major city in the world would kill more than that instantly.

For 480 of them to go off and only kill 2.6 million people is kind of shocking, really.
e.g. I'm writing a regression test for a derivative pricing function.
Low enrichment, compact, long fuel cycle. Choose two.
Why Australia and not South America? Better food, people, language, landscape, it’s more diverse, it’s bigger…
I was there in April and this video really throws me back. I can't count how often I had to go over one of these tiny bridges.
It doesn’t have to be affected more, just diagnostics in US might be better. People in outer parts of the world might not be getting diagnosed and cared for.
BRCA is an acronym for Breast Cancer, so we are already doing that to a large degree.
It does look great. The water, particularly with the boat going through it, is what I noticed first. I spend a lot of time in boats and around water, so it's always one of the first things I see in graphical simulations.
This is the one question for which I still haven't understood the answers. But not just because Clojure is dynamically typed, and more because of its concept of "it's just maps". More specifically, how do you know for sure that a map that holds "everything" and has been passed around hundreds of functions will have the field you want with the shape you want at a certain point? Even with specs, how do you even reason about that?
I clearly mention those are the extremes, it's the first line of my comment.

I'm aware that Libertarianism as a philosophy has much broader branches of it, that it includes by definition concepts of freedoms and autonomy. Unfortunately most of the interactions I have with self-identified libertarians (both in Sweden and in Brazil) go towards extremism. As much as most of the philosophies under the umbrella of Libertarianism aren't that extreme that's what I see in public discourse, it's a caricature.

Libertarian thinking is also responsible for inspiring trickle-down economics, free market privatisations across the board and so on. These policies have been, at least, a mixed bag of results with plenty of it being failures (e.g trickle-down and privatisation of healthcare/education). We know, empirically, what the consequences of purely libertarian policies such as the ones brought by neoliberalism can be: monopoly/monopsony formations (i.e corporations mergers), empowerment of elites, diminished power of labour and so on.

Libertarianism defers too much power to private individuals, without much regard to the power imbalances that will arise from its philosophy, just trusting that certain mechanisms will balance it all out. That's my main reservation with the philosophy as a whole.
>With the hacking capabilities of government and organisations, would planting incriminating material on somebody's computer be trivial?

I do believe so. Twenty years ago as an curious teen it was easy for me to penetrate various systems and to dox people. Now the security is better but also the attack vectors and tools evolved.

If we aren't talking about oranizations with good security practices or paranoid individuals, it won't take a large organization to break in a target. A good prepared hacker could do it. Maybe not in a few hours or days, but in some time it is doable if that person is sufficiently knowledgeable and determined.

But we have to ask what for? Nobody is going to hack your personal system without having nothing to gain. And even if he has something to gain, the prior condition is for him to know this.
Science, technology and innovation isn’t addressing world’s most urgent problems
The volatility, in one direction, is a bread and butter argument for the crypto skeptic. Most people investing in crypto know the risks, that’s exactly what draws them in, because it comes with huge potential upsides. No one is better at pointing out scams and schemes than other people in crypto.

What the skeptics fail to realize is that they often occupy just as much, if not more of a ‘team mindset’ than those engaging in the space. Their skepticism becomes more like the failed D.A.R.E. program to reduce adolescent drug use by exaggerating the virtues of abstinence and the worst case scenarios. And ironically, they can’t even articulate the worst parts, because they never engaged enough to have a deep understanding.

If you really want to find the deep dark secrets of crypto, no group will do it better than devout followers or developers of competing projects. I have read far more useful takedowns and warnings from people heavily engaged with and passionate about crypto currencies than the cynics are even capable of.
Yes, i have VMs for android, macOS, Windows ready with virtmanager/kvm, gpu passthrought, baremetal perf

linux for my casual, dev, gaming needs

macOS for my testing and video/audio/photo editing needs

windows for my testing and when a game doesn't work with proton needs

A matter of a simple command line

boot macos

boot windows

boot android

You can't match that UX and performance with windows ;)

EDIT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7SG7ccjn-g
> RISC was a set of design principles developed in the 1980’s that enabled hardware to get much faster and more efficient. We tend to still call modern-looking instruction sets “RISC-y”, but really, a bunch of the original design principles of RISC CPU’s have not stood the test of time. So let’s look at the things that have worked and not worked between the 1980’s and 2022.

I think the design principles of RISC were actually on a meta level above this: take the quantitative approach, use your transistors to best serve the software you have and compilers you can build. "Nice ISA to write assembly code for" was thrown out, or at least demoted significantly.

In that 80s moment in the transistor count curve, it meant simplifying the ISA very radically in order to implement fewer instructions in hard coded way without microcode, to the point of ditching HW multiply instructions. The microarchitecture could either do fast, pipelined execution or large instruction set in the transitor budget, you optimized for bang for the buck in the whole-system sense. You could make simple fast machines that were designed to run Unix (so had just enough VM, exception, etc support).
another thought:

The root issues here are down to complexity and eng/management capacity to master it. What gets teams in trouble is picking stacks that have mountains of implicit complexity without attendant controls.

i agree that some (or maybe all) frameworks go needlessly complex with their dependencies. little libraries that contain one function that should really be folded into the other libraries that are using that function.

but isn't part of the problem the the inherent higher complexity of modern interfaces? the days where a site as simple as hackernews are appealing to the average person browsing the web are gone. i am afraid that in order to compete for visitors or customers, we have pushed ourselves into a corner. doesn't any new website need to function and look as modern as every other if it wants to have a chance?

a large engineering team with a sufficient budget and time may accomplish that without a framework, and so you are exactly right, the strings to accomplish it need to be pulled at the very top. but what hope do we have when the primary directive that comes from the top is to keep the cost down?

especially new projects suffer from this. i can only afford to spend engineering resources after a project has become profitable. but in order to get there, i need to cut corners where i can. that usually means using frameworks to get up and running fast. and once we make a profit we can spend money to improve things. but by then it's to late to switch to a non-framework approach unless the resources are enough to start over.

the complexity caused by frameworks is costing us money. but it's money that is now available because the project is making a profit.

wouldn't your approach require higher expenses upfront, at a time when i don't even know if it is worth the effort?
Yes, the Sino-Soviet border conflict of 1969 and the Kargil war between India and Pakistan in 1999.
The video is full or reflection artefacts because it uses screen space reflections, in 2022. It would be so much better to use raytraced reflections like RTX games.

It also has transparency bugs. You see the boat through the reflection on the windshield of the car right at the beginning.

Walking animations are a bit clumsy with the path finding that is a bit unrealistic.

The water effects around the boat look bad.

This isn’t very much better in terms of technology than a AAA from about ten years ago. The artists did a great work.
i loved midtown madness because i was able to drive around san francisco. ten years later when i first visited, i was able to recognize many of the landmarks because of the game.
> Surely NZ must be targeted all over when this has already become a meme

Why would that be the case? Destroying rich people is not the goal of nuclear weapons. (There are much easier ways to kill them, if a nuclear armed state wishes so.)

> I don't get how that is a viable survival attempt.

New Zeland doesn’t have nuclear weapons. This is their declared policy. In case of a global nuclear conflict you can waste warheads on them, but any warheads aimed at them have better use against the weapons or the cities of your nuclear armed enemies. (Either as direct means of preventing a launch against you, or as a retaliation to preempt an attack with.)

It is also very far from almost anywhere. Which helps in three ways: it is unlikely that the country gets dragged into some neighbourly small scale war by accident, it makes the country less threatening in a post-apocalyptic world, and it somewhat protects the country from radioactive fallout.

Is it guaranteed that there won’t be a nuclear attack agains NZ? No, of course there are no hard guarantees about anything. But on a strategical level it is reasonable to expect to be safer than many other places.
Here is one https://www.wired.com/story/modified-elephant-planted-eviden...
An apartment market with zero vacant units seems like a non-functioning market as well. How does anyone move into (or within) such a city?
This article is about New York City. Do you know how many Walmarts there are here? None.
The larger the community the more it will trend towards the population average. That's why exclusive clubs began in the first place.
Briar Project appear to be a good E2EE messaging app.

https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/
What do you mean by “the walking pill”?
I don’t understand why there isn’t more education around cybernetics. It is such a straightforward general concept and rather useful in design.
>This branch contains a version of Mahogany using a backend written in C. The old version written entirely in Common Lisp can be found in the full-cl-old branch.

Why the change?
sorry for the confusion, i'm not saying it is, i'm saying unscear as an organization have rejected lnt, and this is their conclusion on health effects in fukushima, i.e. i don't accept your claim that analyses disregarding lnt necessarily overproject cancer deaths

i would also say that unscear is a more credible organization than the nrc when it comes to measuring and predicting effects of radiation, and that their conclusion ought to be the canonical one, as should be their position on lnt
Interesting that it is based off of QjackCtl and looks nearly identical. I've been using QjackCtl with pipewire and haven't found any issues so I wonder what the differences with this version are.
Meh. I don’t care much about how realistic it looks like. I care about how realistic the interactions are, this is: can I break a car in two? Can enter any building? Can I make a hole in the ground? Can I cut trees? Can I kiss NPCs? Can I demolish any building? Sadly, games are not optimizing for these kind of interactions.
I'm really greatful for clojure to exist. It exposed me to a lot of concepts and gave me a new perspective to think about problems, which in turn helped me to grow tremendously as a developer.

The emphasis to work directly with the data is quite unique to clojure (as I'm aware of, please proof me wrong on this) which allows me to just dive in and think about the problem I want to solve instead of fighting my language or framework.
The interactivity of the environment paired with immutability results in an instant feedback loop which let me get into mental flow really fast, which is a joy.
Strange question. Does anyone buy anything without checking the price? I’d say you have a conversion problem, not a ‘what page to show’ problem.
Computers do? I think you are overestimating the ability that computers have in understanding speech.

Think auto-subtitles in YouTube in English that often barely work.

In other languages it's much harder, because sentences don't necessarily work the same way as the system was designed/trained for.

When e.g Google Translate actually works really well, we can talk. Before that, human translators are needed.
Sure, you'd expect that to happen. There are lots of interesting things you could do there, all of which are better than random letters and numbers that never change. Committees and proposals, objects and references. Things change their names all the time and society is perfectly capable of handling. Pluto isn't even a planet anymore and we all survived that.

I just think we can do better than the first system we came up with, and improving the system would open the whole thing up to more people and possibility.
Startup land is most likely to burn you out with its relentless 80+ weeks (but depends on the you live - there are cultural differences).

But you could work as a freelancer/contractor or be employed for a few years at a slower-paced show e.g. a gov agency. Once you get bored by it, and after you have had time to recover from burn out, and have had the chance to spend more time with the family, you can always change pace again.

I would not agree to any contract with a pager-duty clause, personally, apart way back when I worked as a paramedic.
"Are they just expecting that all Russian nukes will actually make it to the US?"

Russia and the US have something like 5000 nukes each. Many if not all of those nukes are way more powerful than the ones that flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Even if only a small fraction of them make it, they'd likely be enough to completely destroy every major city in both countries... and cities are where almost the entire population lives. Plenty of remote areas will likely be hit too, because that's where the missile launch sites and military bases are.

All those huge "impregnable" bunkers you see in movies that were supposed to house governments in case of nuclear war were quietly decommissioned because it was realized that they couldn't survive hits from modern nuclear weapons and there's no way to hide them from today's surveillance technology.

So in an all-out nuclear war probably most everyone in Russia and the US would die from direct hits.. and that doesn't include knock-on effects from radiation poisoning and fallout, nuclear winter, complete infrastructural and governmental collapse (ie. no clean water to drink, all the animals dead, no food and perhaps even no ability to grow food).

As for other countries, I'd read that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the UK general in charge of his country's nuclear arsenal met his Russian counterpart and him whether he thought the movie Threads was an accurate depiction of what would happen in a nuclear war between the two countries. The Russian general laughed and said the entire UK was designated an overkill zone.
Yeah, I noticed that too. I think it's tied to the frame rate of the animations. Kinda weird