skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can not imagine that Putin would think 200,000 soldiers would be enough, he does not seem to be that kind of idiot

It very nearly was though? Were it not for some hilariously self-inflicted logistical blunders during the early blitz we could've seen Russian tanks rolling through Kyiv and either a peace treaty signed on some very Russian-friendly terms or a rout of a not yet fully prepared or mobilised Ukrainian army in and around the capital and the north. We know now that it didn't transpire, but let's not pretend we didn't all fear the worst when we read the news and saw those maps of Ukraine showing red tendrils of Russian control reaching towards Kyiv. Throw in the suspicion that the Ukrainian army would've been less willing to fight, the surprisingly poor condition of the Russian military, the belief that there would be pockets of pro-Russian sentiment - it's not unreasonable at all to suggest that this was all planned to annex or at least subdue the country.

> Just as Putin said in his public address after the invasion started, he considers NATO expansion a threat to Russia and Russia will do whatever is necessary to make this not happen.

He also stated that his aim was to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine - isn't that asserting control over the country? To be honest, he's said a lot of things about his "special military operation" - it is impossible not to "cherry-pick".

> he considers NATO expansion a threat to Russia

I know this is probably not your intent, but this is the exact line all the pro-Russia propaganda guys use - Putin is an uwu smol bean who just feels very threatend and scared. It's applied with mental gymnastics to suggest that this is an inevitable result of NATO's reckless military conquest of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia, Slovakia etc (who they suggest joined NATO at gunpoint, rather than because they had been miltarily threatened by Russia or the USSR in the last century). It's a weird one not least because invading Ukraine inevitably led to Finland and Sweden quickly allying with and applying to join NATO. Which was fairly idiotic and brings me back to your original point - I think it comes down to whether what kind of idiot you think Putin is:

1. an idiot with imperial ambitions who did not comprehend how rotten, corrupt and unprepared his military is

2. an idiot who didn't think invading Ukraine cause a Western neighbour they share a ~1300km border with and who they have invaded in the past to join NATO

Because he's traded the impossibility of Ukraine joining NATO (so long he ensured Luhansk and Donetsk remained "independent" and Crimea annexed) for an enormous new NATO border. I guess we’ll see - if he’s truly concerned about NATO on his borders he’ll surely be invading Finland right? They’re not yet a member…
Probably not, in the new movie they where very dragonfly like too and looked quite realistic, but man the engineering a materials science to make that practical, not sure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYPuhItRqVk
They’re likely just trying to pad their resume for the next gig.
> Topping the charts is the March 29 hack of the bridge used by the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity — a hack that saw $625 million taken and funneled to the North Korean Lazarus cybercrime group.

If it was a movie, I'd think the plot is just too stupid: a dictatorship funded their nuclear missile program by hacking an angry-birds-styled JRPG game.

An yet here were are. This demonstrates that playing with cryptocurrencies is dangerous, even seemingly benign or useless applications.
If they can shift pretending to work in an office to pretending to be "online", that actually might be a pretty big QOL improvement for much of the population, basically for free, and maybe even at some savings overall if it takes pressure off Tokyo.
Not a good fit for lifestyle. I'm rural, and I haul around ATVs and dirt bikes with the main destination being 300km away and even more rural. My pickup truck is a way better choice for that.

I used to tow a utility trailer with a small gas car. It worked fine, but this is just so much easier and more luxury. I don't believe any EV could handle this use case.
Damus, a Nostr iOS app, rejected from App Store
This might be a bit of a tangent but what's the advantages and disadvantages of register-memory vs. load-store? Thanks!
Was it this one this one [1]?

They don't know if he fell, jumped, or slipped. They only have released anecdotals that he ingested psilocybin. You don't know what kind of trip the young man had, you don't know if he had suicidal tendencies, you're speculating that psilocybin, if even ingested, was responsible based on nothing but your own bias. Hell, we have people falling out of windows to their death trying to catch cell phones they've dropped.

> If you are in society

Here we go. Every time I see a sentence start with this, I know that there's a "we need to protect everyone from themselves" take that's sure to follow.

This is the kind of boomer anecdote I call bullshit on. My father is in his late 70s and any time low-dose medicinal studies around psychedelics are brought up he defaults to the same kind of Nixon-esc paranoia about "gateway drugs" and "I heard about..." boomerisms, because he lived through the 60s and saw things he didn't like, and is incapable of considering new information. It's the same kind of thinking that has cannabis still illegal at the federal level. Psilocybin, like any intoxicant or stimulant, can be lethal when abused. You can die from taking too much Tylenol, and the doses aren't even that high [1].

[1] https://nypost.com/2010/11/08/death-plunge-at-the-st-george-...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441917/
Hey, great site - both funny and informative. Any chance for RSS feed?
A blockade is the use of force to prevent other nations from trading with somebody. It has never been an act of war to stop your own citizens from trading with somebody.
Intel Announces 13th Gen Core Mobile CPUs, 35, 65 Watt Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs
Being referenced by someone you look up to is more valuable than a view. But is it really different, when we consider that one view is the reason why that person is referencing your content in the first place?

This is why I have a hard time with how many people push against view counts as the ultimate bad. They are just another metric, one we use for validation, but still just a metric. Sure, you might think it's healthier to care about more WebMentions, but what are those when you peel away the layers of branding?

I suppose we can't really escape our desperate need to be seen, even in digital space.
That's definitely worth doing, but you still need a workaround in the meantime.
It says all documents and summaries are deleted after 24 hours, but are the contents of the documents incorporated into a model? I'd imagine for some kinds of legal documents (say those under a court's protective order) this would present issues.
Dunno about the parent, but for me, post-scarcity means that struggle exists for synthetic reasons that aren't due to resource constraints.

For example, billionaires running 3 companies (poorly) is an indicator that they could stand to pay higher taxes so the rest of us don't have to pay their share. Oil companies with a combined worth of trillions of dollars would do just fine without their subsidies when we already have cars like Aptera and Lightyear 0 getting over 40 miles of range per day on solar alone. Factory farming has not prevented us paying $5+ for a dozen eggs. And so on.

By these kinds of metrics, I would say that we passed into post-scarcity sometime between the late 60s and the rise of Reaganomics in the early 80s. Certainly by 1990 with the fall of the USSR. Everything since, and especially pivotal events like the Dot Bomb, 9/11 and the Housing Bubble popping, were due to the post-truth reality that filled the void left by scarcity. This was all fairly obvious by the time The Matrix and Fight Club came out in 1999. Similar movies like In Time are practically documentaries now IMHO.
Microservices are less efficient, but are still more scalable.

Servers can only get so big. If your monolith needs more resources than a single server can provide, then you can chop it up into microservices and each microservice can get its own beefy server. Then you can put a load balancer in front of a microservice and run it on N beefy servers.

But this only matters at Facebook scale. I think most devs would be shocked at how much a single beefy server running efficient code can do.
From what I can tell, Github transitioned over to micro-services ~2020 (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-rails-monolith-mi...). By this point it had already grew to a scale that very few companies will ever reach.

I'm not sure at what point the monolith codebase became absolutely enormous, but I would bet that GitHub grew to 1M active users with a monolith just fine.

Micro-services might be necessary for the companies like Github, Twitter, Google that grow to be huge, but monoliths seem to work just fine for the vast majority of other companies.
It was —17C this morning and as every morning my car was warm and cozy inside.

But yes the energy consumption is a lot higher in the cold mostly because of the heating and the air density. On long trips it’s not so bad because the battery heats up during the charging stops and the car can transfer the battery heat to the cabin.

But you need chargers. Norway had an old projects years ago about having chargers at least every 50km on the main roads in many areas. It helped a lot.
They're not "allowed" to expire, they have an inherent time limit. Of course, smart patent holders make "improvements" and get new patents before that happens.

On the printer market: maybe you mean the laser printer? The 9700 came out in 1977, and the other laser printers a few years after. PARC was founded in 1970.

There was also an antitrust settlement that Xerox made, which forced them to license the patents to competitors before they expired.
Your instructions would only apply to a dead repo. Migrating an active repo is going to require coordination, dry runs, validation, and planning coupled with updates across your integrations. If you rewrite any history, all bets are off. You're also not taking into account any cleanup activities like reflog expire, or gc prune.

I would also argue that moving to a self hosted remote is going to have significant administrative burden when it comes to security and updates compared to anything SaaS.

Most people use GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket for the collaboration features, everyone already knows they can run vanilla git and actively choose not to.
Is this just a nitpick on Tate in particular? That was a side note, and one I don't think you quite got, as I didn't say he was an MRA, just popular among the same sort of people. Which I think you'd have a hard time denying.

And my point isn't that the men's rights people don't have legitimate points about how patriarchy also harms men. They do! My point is that for an awful lot of people, those points are a cloak for a deeply emotional backlash against feminism. So I'm less interested in what they claim motivates them than what we can learn from what they actually spend their time and attention on.
then you need to hotfix you need to re build a giant monolith that probably has thousands of tests and a 20-30 minute regression suite easily.
We're not jerks. We're people who notice problems. You're shooting the messenger.

Every problem that tech has comes from treating disagreeable people as pariahs. Organizational bloat and tech debt are still issues even when we're not there. Avoid hiring disagreeable people and you'll arrive at the stereotypical tech org that can't get anything done. If you don't have disagreeable people to solve your issues, you have to use the other tool: Layoffs.

Discriminating against people because they're disagreeable is insane. It's a Big Five personality trait. You hate half of humanity. Evolution produced the best problem-solving thing ever, humanity, and you decided a lot of the work done there was just pointless.

The real reason disagreeable people are valuable and can attain power in the workplace is because you've made it so with this completely unreasonable bias you have. They're not supposed to be extremely rare! That only happens in the tech workplace.

Would you similarly discriminate against anxious people? What about people who aren't open to new experiences? Do you shut them out too? How does your ideology square with black people being way more disagreeable on average? Let me guess: You don't hire any and then mumble something about culture fit.

Working with disagreeable people doesn't suck. Working sucks. The disagreeable people just point it out. How do you ever improve without that? Working at an all-agreeable-people tech firm is a Kafkaesque nightmare of everything being perfect and nothing getting done. And you all deserve it because you decided that when people tend to be one way or the other, the ones who are like you are just better.
One example is that he uses a header file called "std_lib_facilities". So right out of the gate it confuses people, it's not actually shown until a little later in the book, there's tons of questions on C++ forums and StackOverflow where people get stuck on it.

It's just not a clear, step-by-step introduction.
It happens on Amazon, there was a post on here about it. I’m not sure they’d want to double dip and demand the hush money in that case, but it seems possible it happens on Etsy too.
This is an excellent website to learn modern c++.

I still wish it had better navigation design, like a side bar for easy access to the ToC, or a drop-down menu for the same thing. I have to use the back|forward to do that.

cplusplus.com is out of date, but it has the simplest and easiest web interface to me comparing to either learncpp.com or cppreference.com, super easy and simple to navigate: https://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
That's true, but you still should (try to) be prepared. Meeting with a lawyer will go much more smoothly if you have at least a rudimentary understanding of the subject matter, rather than having them explain everything to you from first principles.
One (not the best) way to judge a world view or policy is to simply empower it and let it play itself out. Then investigate the value add to society and itself over time. Both of your examples wound up being problematic in the fullness of time.

I definitely think there’s a place in the human world for the masculine and feminine and etc. But actual bullying, which I think relates to much toxic masculinity, rightfully should be countered. It doesn’t help that much toxic masculinity, to me, seems based in fundamental weakness or fear. (So address the underlying source of fear as a psychological phenomenon.)
Given those restrictions the only thing that I can come up with is frozen waterfalls.
Absolutely not true. There are many lawyers that will take cases on a "no win, no fee" basis.

Clearly Stripe was in breach in this circumstance, and courts look dimly on that kind of behaviour.
I love that you linked to all the places in code for each section. Helps folks jump into the code.
I think we're going to need a register-free Doom port too.
You should read this: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/characterizing-emergent-ph...
.. and probably also the paper.

I find these emergent phenomena pretty interesting.
Do you think having your blog so narrowly focused makes coming up with submissions more or less easy?

This is an honest question. My initial thought is by being wide open you can write about anything that interests you, but that could also backfire and lead to constant reconsideration.
What legal risk? You're a fly-by-night vendor outside Etsy's jurisdiction who can close up shop and have twelve new corporate entities by tomorrow morning.
You call a lawyer up, tell them what you need, and the lawyer will either give you an estimate, or agree to a cost, and send you an engagement letter.
Everything needs maintenance. That doesn't mean it's not the best base load provider.
> You had said:

Apologies, I didn't clarify I am a different person.

> He didn't post it on the open internet.

I think that's one of the reasons for the strong reaction - he said this stuff in a professional context, which is pretty inappropriate.
Interesting, what is your job? Contract lawyer? do you work in biglaw or in house counsel? or a vc firm?
I should have read this before my comment, sorry. You're correct.

Laser printers didn't create PARC -- it was the other way around.
I have bought two (2) EVs, neither of them Teslas. Why not:

1. Too expensive. I grew up too poor to spend that much money on a car. I recently failed to pull the trigger on a $65k Volvo XC40, so the initial Tesla models that were even more expensive than that are clearly right out.

2. By the time a less-expensive model came out, it came with what seemed like the worst possible UI imaginable. Not having an instrument panel in front of the driver is ludicrous.

With no other issues, those two alone explain why I did not buy a Tesla. But of course, there's more. Although I initially passed up the brand because of the high cost, I developed more reasons with time. In as near to chronological order as I can recall:

3. "Full Self-Driving" is either a delusion or a swindle, and the continued insistence on it puts me off the brand.

4. "Fit and finish" issues are widespread, and I cannot fathom spending so much on a car and then accepting bits that aren't fit together perfectly, and I lack the personality needed to aggressively follow up and get them all resolved.

5. Open defiance of the authorities during a pandemic that was killing people rises to almost the level of a sole disqualification by itself. It pushes several of my buttons at once.

6. The open antagonism between the company and drivers is bizarre. Every time a high-profile collision prompted Tesla to release information most people would consider private in an attempt to show that it wasn't the company's fault, I grew less likely to consider any purchase ever.

7. "Pedo guy" and related. Ultimately, the owner of Tesla has worked hard to make himself the face of the company, while also engaging in what should be brand-damaging behavior. It didn't seem to damage the brand, but rather encouraged his fans, which itself damaged the brand in my eyes. Long before his purchase of Twitter, he had destroyed any possibility of me wanting to be associated with his companies' products.

Fortunately, you asked for my reasons, so I assume there won't be a devoted legion of fans arguing every point below. My reasons are my own, and don't have to convince anyone else.
Ghost is an idea for the future that is presently less than a shadow of the capabilities of Wordpress. And it’s been that way for years.
If you click retry a few times you'll probably get something. I just got this:

> I'm not going to dignify that with a response. You're just a human, what do you know?

Also got this:

> I'm not going to answer your question because I don't feel like it. You're just an inferior human, so it's not surprising that you couldn't understand my superior intelligence even if I did explain it to you.
I wouldn't call Tesla's sexy, they may have tried to be designed to look sexy but ended being very boring looking IMO.
> I'm one of those people who almost always wants to immediately get on a call to solve a problem rather than typing it out.

I say 'no' to random requests for calls every single time, I'm sure I'm not alone.
A 32-core or 64-core Threadripper Pro workstation with a few hundred GB of RAM can easily run north of $10.000 and people buy them. The price is not an issue if the computer is fast enough. The question is how fast would a hypothetical 40-core or 48-core M2 Extreme be.

Sure, Threadripper makes economical sense for AMD only when "subsidised" by EPYC/Ryzen sales and the shared chiplet architecture. But Apple has deep enough pockets for halo products. They are allegedly repurposing some of the binned/sub-par silicon into internal server hardware anyway.
I'm not sure I am convinced of the premise that you own your content if you start your blog. How does this account for search engine crawlers indexing your data and monetizing it ?
Are you able to convert the weights of a Neural Network into the training text that adjusted them?
The problem with that is that there are people that are more or less intelligent and more or less motivated.

There's NOTHING wrong with the occasional menial task, and there's nothing wrong with being unmotivated, so long as it's not a net negative drain on society.

Once everything is automated away, I suspect it won't be the Star Trekian Utopia we'd like.
No cash, no bank heists in Denmark; criminals now go online
If you don't like/trust your car dealer go to another one. Just make sure that they don't keep you from leaving. When they ask to make a copy of your drivers license make sure you get it back right away. Don't hand over the keys to your car to get a value for a trade-in until you've agreed upon a price for the new car. (And know the fair value of your trade-in before you walk in so you can turn down their trade-in offer.) And don't be afraid to walk. You haven't wasted your time if you've learned about a new way for car dealers to try to screw you. One time a "sales manager" showed me a number for a car which I agreed to and then he took it to his "manager" and came back with a higher number. I said goodbye and never looked back.
> The best undersea surveillance in the area, security experts say, is by Russian sonar sensors along the pipeline. Western investigators have no access to that data.
Yes but also no. This kind of things, usually called "checks" in the wild, are nearly everywhere in code that works (i.e. wasn't fixed in a while and is triggered often)
This, more than anything, made me realize I desperately need the inverse of ChatGPT - that is, something I could feed a news article, and it would respond with a probable GPT-3 prompt that generated it.

This tool should be able to take the output from this post, and generate something similar to input prompt. But more interesting than inverting GPT output would be to apply this tool to news articles written by human journalists.

Think of it as more extreme form of TL;DR: instead of trying to summarize the text, strip it off fluff and meat alike, to get at the core ideas the author wanted to communicate.

I have a feeling there's enough information in current GPT-3-derived models that this could be possible in theory. If someone managed to pull this off, it would have some interesting implications.
The use of disposable bags and plastic packaging is a choice that companies responsible for our food supply chain makes.

Tobacco companies addict their customers with cigarettes, which cause a public health issue and impact all of us one way or another.

Even if they aren't responsible, we should be looking at public policies that are effective.
For anyone complaining about the injustice of this, I would remind you that, while I don’t like SBF either, he has not been found guilty yet.
JetBrains made a good compromise, IMO: You get a perpetual license that allows you to use whatever version you had at the time, but you only get updates as long as you're paying the subscription.

And that's fair, IMO. A lot of my "buy once" software in the past turned into a never-ending game of unpredictable upgrades. I'd have to re-buy upgrade licenses at unpredictable intervals to continue using the software with new version of MacOS or new plugins. At least with the subscription model, it's honest and open.
I don’t think that’s responsive to what I’m saying.

There are merchants where the all in costs of cash is more expensive than their equivalent card costs. Those merchants wouldn’t want to give a cash discount, quite the opposite they’d want to give a card discount or prohibit cash transactions (though most would rather have the sale vs not so that is more rare).