skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding of Mearsheimer is that he says the Russian people feel betrayed. That they feel their country suffered the highest losses during WWII, much higher than those of the other allied countries. And that the Russians were cheated again after 1989 about NATO not expanding.

I’m not even sure he is saying Russia is so powerful, or they we shouldn’t underestimate their strength. Only that we shouldn’t underestimate their resolve: That, from their point of view, NATO expansion is an existential threat. And that this interpretation of the Russian point of view made the Ukraine invasion predictable, whereas the other interpretations did not.

Demonstrating, as this article seems to be doing, that Russia is, in fact, not that powerful, and actually also didn’t influence the outcome of WWII as much as people think, did not really address those points.
biologist / chemist will take the architecture studio approach, then develop math to shorten the write-up.

research software engineer will develop the mathematics to describe things,
then use the numerical system to write software to determine things.
Accounting is not a static thing, and is also constantly changing with new legislation and financial instruments popping up. Most bioinformatics tasks nowadays are not any more "creative" in their research. Specifically in the last few years a good chunk of the research is just okayish application of ML research to their field of research.

For many specific problem sets in the natural science informatics disciplines, you can just stay up-to-date on ML trends and release a new paper that applies them every few years, in an almost automatable way.
To 5 (Elon Edition) with Lindsey (Bruce) Crider
Virtually all architectures have floats implemented in hardware - including NaN behavior. This means things like IEEE 754 float comparison is done in a single instruction, executed in a single cycle.

Explicitly checking for NaNs would (at least) double the cycle count in cases where that branch is not taken, and having to deal with the custom comparison is even worse. This is not helped by the fact that there isn't a single NaN value: there are both positive and negative NaNs, and there are 23 bits which are usually ignored but for which some values do have specific meaning.

To make it even worse, modern CPUs include vector extensions, allowing you to operate on multiple values at once. With AVX-512, you can compare 32 floats per clock cycle. I would not be surprised if switching to a custom comparison made some edge cases over 100x slower.
This seems like a pretty loud statement to make ;)
I found it funny.

And if you'd replied with that one quote from Billy Madison, rather than making a grumpy reference to it, I'd have found that funny too.

There's plenty of humour in absurdity, even without punchlines; and ravi-delia displayed a similar style of humour to the "Look Around You" TV series.
Can someone explain this trick to me. How can I benefit from a tax break on money that I gave away? given that I don't have the pretax money anymore either (you'll recall earlier in the story I gave it away..).

Are they giving it to themselves somehow? At best I can imagine they get their name on a school or something, a nice thing but hardly the same as still having the 100 million or whatever bucks in their pocket.
Show HN: OKSolar: Improving Solarized using the OKLab perceptual colorspace
Yep, the only thing you can’t post on Tumblr is outright porn all that’s because of CC companies, advertisers, and Apple.
I'm actually pulling for Elon but thought this was really well done.
The biggest win, imo, is nipping a potential WW3 in the bud. If Russia were winning, it would have been emboldened to attack more European countries. It might have emboldened China to attach Taiwan.

Putin was showing traits of early hitler where he was up to annex whatever the hell he thought was next. But unlike hitler, Putin is losing badly. A weak Putin Russia also means that there is no chance that Russia attacks any other country.
We all will be old one day, if lucky. My comment was not about you because you happen to be old right now. But are you unfamiliar with typical end of life care in the US? Where the last few years is a constant stream of hospitalizations, rehabilitation, etc with no quality of life and no tangible benefit but a very substantial cost? I find that concept… interesting… as in, I don’t like paying the cost and I don’t intend on participating in it when my time comes. I think this feeling is growing with younger generations because we’ve witnessed what older generations are subjecting themselves and their families to.
I was just feeling down as I completed a 3 hour code screen where I was supposed to be recording my screen the whole time I worked, but somehow I botched it and don't have any recording to show. Awkward and my own fault...

Those chicken diagrams got a legitimate smile and chuckle out of me though. Thanks for the day brightener!!

Reminded me a bit of this "Microservices" youtube sketch which also includes a surreal architecture diagram (and is very funny):

https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ
You're comparing liberal people who vote democrat to republican politicians.

The people who create the laws have the power. What laws they create and their policies is what matters. They are also voted in, meaning people support their views.

Anyone can just say ,"I'm a Democrat and all kittens should be killed" hell, someone could lie to make a particular side look bad. However a person who has support behind them, like a politician, pundits, etc, those people matter and define what represents a political ideology.

For example Biden doesn't support defunding the police nor has that happened I believe anywhere (there might be 1 or 2 exceptions). Republicans, by that I mean politicans, on the other hand have enacted their views into law

What laws have the Democrats pushed or enacted for woke ideology?
Nobody has benchmarked postMessage vs QuickJS?
Your comment had me wondering how you did the strikethrough, since HN doesn't support it. U+0336 "Combining Long Stroke Overlay", clever.

I really did not expect to learn anything here, of all places.
i would argue, if any party, group, organization, state intentionally blows up civilian infrastructure, it is either a terrorist attack and/or a war crime.

if it is by a state, then it could be considered 'aggression' -- the 'supreme international crime'.

as for the no direct / immediate civilian casualties part ("dubious") -- we can think of myriad examples of terror attacks and war crimes where the vast majority of civilians dying as a result of said attacks came later, even from 'indirect' causes -- dresden, hiroshima, nagasaki, al-shifa, etc.

but whether you decide to classify it as a terror attack, terrorism, war crime, or something better or worse, i think we should be consistent, regardless of who the perpetrator(s) is/are.
How are you so sure what other people want? Using the hardware defined equality function for integers is reasonable a lot of the time.
This feels like my brain after a week of agile/scrum/bullshit meetings and processes that get in the way of creating software. Takes the weekend to go return to normal.
> decision set no burden for evidence

Defence didn’t allege the cops lied. This case wasn’t about lying cops.

> no reasonable civilian pilot would be flying so low

This argument has merit. That said, civilians don’t slowly patrol neighbourhoods either. So I’m not sure where the threshold is for what cops can do on patrol.
Figma has a great blog post on some different user-generated javascript isolation approaches [1]. They discuss this iframe approach, running a webassembly javascript interpreter (also suggested in these thread comments), and using javascript realms. In the post they originally opted for javascript realms but there's an edit at the top - it seems like they ended up switching to the webassembly javascript interpreter approach.

[1]: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-sys...
I wish the media, especially conservative media, focused more on this point rather than partisan politics.

Putin’s hubris coupled with Ukraine’s bravery is reshaping the world for decades to come. Instead of fomenting chaos, the war is expanding Western influence, solidarity, and military power. There is no true victory for Russia, even somehow seizing all of Ukraine, at this point, would still be an economic, geopolitical, and military loss over the following decades. China gains a northern vassal and discounted energy, but I question whether that makes up for the setback of a reinvigorated Western alliance.

All this for Putin’s pride? He set Ukraine up for the role of morally righteous heroic defenders, and they are exceeding all expectations in living up to it. Giving the West an existential threat with a moral cause to support that aligns with their long term pure self interest is dumbfounding.
to very opposing philosopies:

MD's -> patient interest comes first

MBA's -> company interest comes first
Assumption is that russia does not want peace. It wants a pause during which it can rebuild its military strength and repeat the war again, until ukraine de facto looses sovereignty (becomes similar to belarus)
Cheating to get the Stanley Parable achievement devalues the hard work that all the rest of us did to earn it.
> This is a cope because Elon is clearly right. An application where prod begins to get buggy just because it’s left alone is poorly engineered.

Twitter is a top-5 near realtime web property. It has an enormous attack surface across nearly the entire spectrum of cybersecurity threats. It's hosted at least in part on prem. Swathes of it are programmed in Scala, which is a minority language that is hard to hire for. It makes money through ads, which involves significant operational complexity at scale. Its recommendations and trending features are built on machine learning models which themselves require data engineering pipelines to deliver continuous updates. It's been in continuous development for 16 years, with an accumulation of accidental complexity (aka tech debt) in addition to the ever-expanding essential complexity inherent in its functionality.

Those of us who have taken an oncall shift in the world's most complex distributed systems environments are just shaking our heads at some of the drivel in these comments.
GPT-3 says otherwise: https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2022-11-20-08-0...
This is a great read. Thanks for the information. What you originally described is basically my dream job: software engineers working alongside scientists and engineers, where the software engineers become domain knowledgeable if not experts in certain areas.

I had a job similar to that at a similar places (actually places), but I ended up leaving because I was a one man team and got burnt out. Writing software for scientific purposes and true R&D is very fun and interesting, and I think there is a lot of untapped potential for doing some interesting things there. But there is a balance between the wild west, then what your first described, and then what you later described. Keeping things organized enough to not be chaos but loose enough to not get siloed.
Everything people don't like is Kremlin propaganda these days, even when you cite Radio Free Europe.
I really love open library and have volunteered with them a bit over the past few years. They have an exceptionally friendly community, there are weekly calls anyone can hop on who wants to work on an issue. Mek and company are very helpful and support people in starting all kinds of projects.

If you're at all interested in volunteering to do software work they are a great place to start. Plenty of frontend, backend, infra, and design problems that could use someone to take the lead and make it happen. :)
I have no idea what your comment means. Explain to me how the US defeats Russia while avoiding war with Russia.

Fight a proxy war with a nuclear power, see what happens!

I would prefer not to see what happens.
Meh using floating point as keys for maps in any language is just asking for trouble -- it’s not just NaN

I don’t think there’s any real use case for it

I’d say clear() is good for clarity, and that’s it
To be clear - I don't argue that it's impossible to run Twitter with smaller crew. Hard to say without a look at the internals, but if I had to bet - yeah, probably there are inefficiences. But OP was coming from "you can leave it and it will just run by itself" angle, which is very much different thing.
Show HN: An open-source and decentralized social media site like Twitter
https://archive.ph/EOPpY
Would you want to fight an evenly matched adversary? I sure as hell wouldn't.
I think Ukraine isn't as backwards as people assume. And also has legal justification since they are at war with Russia. A crass motive is blowing up a pipeline that wasn't being used forces Russia to devote military resources to protect their oil and gas infrastructure elsewhere.
On the whole, seems like a level headed take for once.

One area not touched on here, and that outsiders don't have much insight into, is how is Elon planning on compensating the remaining engineers? He can't rely on chutzpah, latitude, and charisma forever, and it only seems right to reward those who stick around and build what's next in what's going to be an extremely intense and chaotic environment not unlike a startup. Startups of course generally do incentivize lower level employees with a share of the possible future spoils, but as far as I know Elon has done no such thing as of yet. It could be that he plans on doing so after people have proved themselves, but if he doesn't he could be setting himself up for failure with an even worse reputation than he's got already amongst the people he really wants, perhaps needs, to attract in order to run the business of Twitter.
a belief in god is not synonymous with religion and the former is orthogonal to the scientific method. questions that can’t be proven by the scientific method have no concept of a burden of proof. thus the failing of logical positivism.
This is a popular article. Popular articles have always focused more on biography and human interest. At least there are articles about poets at all!
The best attempt at creating a learnable programming language I've seen is this design document by Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

It is now ten years old but I don't know if it has even been put into practice? To be fair, it would be a lot of work to include all the IDE features and Easylang comes reasonably close to it already. However, if I could recommend one paragraph it is the one on "Recomposition", which is an extremely clear explanation of why functional programming matters for learnable programming.
Oh jeez, it's going to be so much worse than y2k.
Well, I can only speak from experience. I've encountered all of the points above just during the last 3 weeks or so. I've seen critical infrastructures in former companies being taken down by an expired SSL key or a full hard drive or a power outage or a DDoS.

Does your engineering department have a solution to all these problems that does not require human beings? Or are we talking of different things?
I've followed HN over the last few weeks and there are literally hundreds of comments and posts from people being negative about Musk and Twitter (since it got taken over by Musk).

Barely anything about Holmes.

Amazon lays off 10,000 workers. Not a peep from HN. Musk's Twitter lays off less than 10,000 workers. Massive angst on HN.
I wrote the code that puts headers on USA federal court documents (PDFs). I see them all the time in the real world and still get a kick out of them
R/conservative has moderators who ban people, on Hackernews you're referring to getting downvoted which is done by users.
The very public reasons he initially tried to take over Twitter were disagreement with some of the political censorship decisions they made.

AFAIK he's still banning trolls. Like for example that exchange regarding Alex Jones that got re-shared.

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So, unless that meeting didn't match what's public, why would less political censorship be a "brand safety/suitability" issue?
The question isn't "do publications receive donations" it's "does that change their coverage" and given that Vox quite happily completely monstered him immediately, I think we can feel pretty good about the trade off.
Disaster Breakdown made a video about this accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rXmskgv8nw
If mathematicians could solve these kinds of problems, they could answer valuable questions like "Will this equation always have a physically meaningful solution?" If the answer was "No", then we would know that the equation can't be a faithful model of reality.

We already know that the incompressible Euler equations can't be a faithful model, for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere in the thread. But I think the hope is that if they can answer these questions for incompressible Euler, then they can eventually extend their techniques to more complex fluid equations like Navier-Stokes, which people generally assume (but can't yet prove) is physically reasonable.

Simulation has great practical value, but it doesn't give you any guarantees about the behavior of the solutions for all the cases you haven't actually tried.
The sad reality of peace is often that public opinion drives each party's willingness to negotiate peace.

Putin cannot pull out of Ukraine without being overthrown, and Zelensky cannot concede land to Russia without similarity losing power.

So the two nations will continue to fight and many tens of thousands more will die until the populations are ready to accept compromise.
Don't know why HN still have down votes. Down voters are among the most stupid people on the planet. The site changed you stupid f*ckers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221119162905/https://claymcleo...
the speed limit in Germany is 20kmh which is ca 12.5mph. that's about the speed of a normal bike ride. they are bikes for the sake of traffic rules and they are allowed to ride where bikes are allowed and they have to use bike lanes where bikes have to use them. minimum age is 18. the rules re clear and the speed is low.

other countries have scooter speed limits of 20mph aka 25kmh.
that's a speedy bike ride already. for an untrained person it's hard to keep and maintain that speed on a flat and even road, by bike. I don't get how it can be allowed for scooters. and I don't get how scooters can be allowed to rent below 18.
In Australia, the majority of drug deals are organised on Wickr. It's so popular amongst criminals, drill rappers mention it in their bars [1]

This is going to be a huge loss (or gain if you're in law enforcement, I guess).

[1] https://genius.com/17161424
> After lugging around two fetuses that won’t stop kicking my bladder, I have no patience left for gender activists who pretend that men can give birth.

Why does this woman's personal experience of pregnancy make her so offended by how other people who can give birth think of their gender?

I do agree with the author that the existence of trans people shouldn't mean we can't use the word breastfeeding anymore. But I don't think that's the fault of people who want to say that men can give birth.

Here's an idea - why not have resources with different language for cis women and trans men? Just like pages come with different language versions and you can switch in the nav bar.

This would also be medically helpful, as I'm sure the birthing experience is not identical for the two populations.
Actually, we'll probably be partying like it's Fri Dec 13 1901 20:45:52 GMT.

Ooh, Friday the 13th too, ominous.
People seem to be responding to the pitch in a different way to how it is intended. It's entirely a pitch that there is a need for this. So if you aren't highly motivated by doing something valuable and useful, this isn't for you.

For me, working in the field is worth doing because I have come to a place in my life where I value doing something useful more than I value other things. You really can't put a value on being able to get up every single day and know that you are actually doing something good for the world that day. And getting paid, while less than your absolute highest potential, still a really good salary by comparison to most of society.

Plus you do get a lot of freedom and autonomy, and exposure to absolutely fascinating research and biology, and if you want to dabble in academia, it's surprisingly easy if you have a supportive group.
Please don't do snark or ideological flamewar on HN. Your comment hasn't added any information—it just repeats the point that letmeinhere already made. We're hoping for curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most billionaires are terrified of unrestrained capitalism; they got where they were via government subsidies, regulatory lock-in, or simply measures came about at a time when they were big enough to afford regulations and their startup competitors could not.

Not that I'd completely advocate for taking the gloves off completely -- at some point, unrestrained capitalism has a tendency to devolve into absolute feudalism, unless certain non-aggression principles are adhered to. But in either case, you'd have fewer billionaires.
So you define 400k subscribers and 44k views as "noname Youtuber"? Especially in the domain of OSINT, he's actually quite big.
The E-GMP platform shared by this car, as well as Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 is great.

The 800V battery can charge really quickly, making these cars viable for road trips. In summer temperatures they really need only 18 minutes to recharge for 2-3 hours of driving, and the 300kW charging networks already exist across western Europe.
Where are "power" and "strategy" defined in this 101?
I think most people don't realize this given how normalized it is. Wealth is a mechanism of distributing limited resources, and thus profit seeking without concern for externalities or creating value makes everyone else worse off.
It was only one weird operation I was doing that needed a gradient defined. I should have made that more clear. I was using Zygote.
My interpretation of that bit is that seeking power does not make you a good or a bad person, just through the act alone. There is definitely an agreed upon definition of 'wise' and 'loving', look it up in any dictionary...what differs is how different people project those definitions onto other people.

The thing about power is that it seems to be a corrupting force more often than not. If I had to take a guess, more people have started out with good intentions and gone to the dark side than the other way around. I think for this reason a lot of "wise" people avoid power like the plague.
They aren't being handled with kid gloves, the company is being investigated.

The only company/person currently handled with kid gloves is another "billionaire" with a social media app with political ties.
Reminds me of when that adulterer website got hacked and people used government emails to sign up
ouch. it's one of the top questions in driving school: dangers of wet leaves in autumn to bicycles (electric, ICE or muscle driven)
Ask HN: How can I DDOoS attack my personal website (for curiosity)?
Am curious about simulating cyber attacks (e.g. DDOS) on my own little website, for my curiosity. Am a software developer but know embarrassingly little about security and exploits.

Should mention I have a few laptops (2020 Macbook Pros) at my disposal to act as DIY Botnets.

EDIT:
Thanks everyone. It seems to me the suggestions for DDOS'ing converge on hitting a expensive query/operation many times and this can be aided by various tools, such as botnets and load testing tools.

What about other "common" security exploits? ie, exploits that are commonly unprotected against and can cause damage to a website?

Also...I have websites hosted on Bluehost (wordpress) and Namecheap. Do these hosting services automatically protect me from the DDOS tactics suggested?