skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably getting downvoted because betting is pretty darn cynical. But I also follow some of the Russian & Ukrainian propaganda sources to contrast it with Western media. While 80% of the time it's total garbage, they are often several days - even weeks ahead on certain stories. And some stories never even make it to mainstream media. The key is to know what to ignore (i.e., jingoistic bantering, etc) and what to pay attention to (photos, videos). It's also not for the faint of heart. Lot's of people getting killed, dead bodies, fresh graveyards, etc. I often have to take breaks from looking at it.
One of the hardest parts for onboarding is determining which code is relevant.

If you're dumping a 300K line codebase in your newly hired engineer's lap, you're failing them.

This is one of the reasons why I developed Call Stacking - it records all of the method calls for a given endpoint (trace).

This is the perfect documentation for new hires - because they can look at these traces and get an instant idea of what is happening on the backend.

https://callstacking.com/
Tomahawk cruise missiles originally used terrain following. (1983) Now they have GPS capability but I think terrain following is still an option.
I feel like this was a bit too aggressive backlash for this. I think they should be allowed to release a beta BIOS without warranty support. I get that it is very enticing if the old BIOS may fry your system but technically it seems better in every way.

- Gets it out early for third-party verification such as these YouTube channels that are doing testing.

- Keeps it transparent that they are still working on the issue.

- Allows them to experiment with more exotic BIOS (in the general case).

Maybe what is missing is some sort of message like "This is an early preview, we are still doing internal verification before we can provide a stable release with a fully warranty"?

Also IIRC the phrasing was "installing this will void your warranty" which is not true. It would have been better if they were clear that "damage done to your hardware by non-stable BIOS are not covered by warranty".
I've played this game and never played aoe2. As I understand it, aoe2 has no aircraft while swgb has classic star wars ships (x wing, y wing, tie fighter, etc).

If you like star wars and aoe2, I'd recommend it. Goes on sale for like 2 bucks on gog
Ask HN: Can you suggest some free side-project hosting solutions?
Trying to figure out the best combo of tools for hosting side projects (authentication, DBs, site hosting, backend etc). What tools would you recommend? Any help would be appreciated!!
You have the victim/perp relationship mixed up I think. Facebook does harm. They are the perp. The EU data subjects are the victims and the 'world stage' is exactly why this sort of transnational company should adapt to local legislation.

The idea that it 'wouldn't be tolerated' suggests - correct me if I read this wrong - that the country where the company originated would then do some kind of tit-for-tat with companies from the other country. But: where were those comments when VAG and other car manufacturers broke the law in the US? (and probably elsewhere too?). My position hasn't changed, they deserved their comeuppance as much as FB does right now.
It was the Cameron/Clegg government that normalised food banks in British society.

I'd like to know what the fantastic job they done was, because if it's solely holding off a Brexit situation for 5 years I could argue their relatively weak opposition whilst in coalition actively enabled a shift further to the right and their extremely weak position by 2015 allowed Cameron to be so assured of the centre-right vote that he could court the UKIP vote with a referendum he assumed would never pass.

He did get voting reform to the point of a referendum in the UK at least, which regardless of how badly it was executed is something (and I don't think I can blame him for that too much, it was doomed with the UK's media), it's just a shame that seems to be the entirety of what he managed.
The Lumenate app.

Or if you don't count oxygen as a drug: Breathwork (Holotropic Breathwork, Quantum Light Breathing, Shamanic Breathing, Rebirthing, etc.).

Never tried but I heard that multi-day retreats in complete darkness can also induce some kind of (visual) trips.
If anyone you're closely enough related to also gets sequenced, it will effectively de-anonymise you
A lot of cities already have a communication channel in place to notify authorities about noise (like sending them an email about the culprit).

But its difficult to gather evidence of noisy vehicles, and could be a nuisance to notify authorities.

I wonder if a "NoisyVehicleRecorder" app/device would be able to capture the evidence from the comfort of our apartments or yard?

The device and app should be able to
- Take accurate(ish?) noise levels, and start recording above a certain decibel
- Store the recording somewhere
-- AI_Vision can then spot if there is a car in the video, if not then delete the video
-- AI_Vision can then extract the number plate from the video, if no number plate then delete the video
- At the end of the week the app should send yourself a report of the culprits in descending order of most infringements per license plate
- The user then decides to forward these to the authorities (this email address could be pre-stored in the app somewhere as well per city)
- Would be great if this app could be open source so it can be tweaked per country according to their laws

Possible issues:
* Recording cars without permission might be an issue
* The device might be too expensive, as it might need to be waterproof / burglarproof
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."~ Marcus Aurelius

One extension of this is that your meaning comes from within. Looking outside of yourself for meaning will always be looking at things that are outside of your control. Therefore your job can never give you true meaning. Only whether in doing your job do you hold true to your values. That is what gives your job meaning.
No idea either... it's jm bait ;)
>The notion that the trip is the therapeutic element seems oddly frightening or threatening to a lot of people.

The result of years of "altered state of mind" anti-drug propaganda. There is a significant perception that "altering your state of mind" is immoral (even though we do that every day, all day, and in fact even some foods can "alter your state of mind"). If cannabis could actually cure cancer just by smoking it, there are some people who would respond "well now we need to take the 'high' out of it, because getting 'high' is wrong". These type of people would never accept that the "high" might be the actual mechanism of psychological action, especially with psychedelics and dissociatives, where the user probably won't be able to interact with what passes for objective reality.

For example, DMT is very useful for, among other things, learning more about life and death. If the beliefs are correct, and DMT is released in the brain at the point of death, then DMT itself could be good preparation for the weirdness that happens at and before death (like Alzheimer's or dementia). Taking the "trip" out of DMT would make it completely useless.
Regarding centrists:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_centrism

One POV on it:

* https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/28/centri...
Articles like this make me glad I just use indexes for 98% of my investment...
> US companies would essentially need to stop operating in the EU altogether if they wanted to be fully compliant.

That's exactly what they should've done to not break the law while there was no legal basis for what they were doing.

They didn't. Now they suffer the consequences for breaking the law.
> If you cancel your magazine subscription, do the magazines you have already received vanish, or become unreadable? An ink subscription should be exactly the same.

it's not an ink subscription

it's a printed pages subscription

you still have your printed pages after cancelling
Some exercises have the side benefit of being fun!
It had the first phone web browser, and indeed the first web browser on any device smaller than a laptop, which didn't make you want to immediately throw it out the window. That was a big deal.
Peaceful Sweden Became Europe’s Gun-Murder Capital
I look at it as shutting your computer off and plugging in a USB drive with repair software and wondering why nothing got fixed after you turned it back on. Aren't we just meat computers?
Okay, that is garbage... I don't know what to say other than to also look at Amazon reviews... But yes, totally misleading and you would never know until you get the printer in hand and purchase the subscription.
If I was doing something this sick I would not be posting about it under my real name got damn.
> Is a DEI channel the appropriate place to discuss HR complaints? Wouldn’t HR have a place for that so any surfaced in a DEI channel would be directed to HR.

It's certainly plausible.

FWIW, I wasn't sure that the aforementioned DEI channel had a good reason for being private. I was just responding to the "that's all I need to know" assertion.
GnuPG has offered authenticated encryption for 20+ years now along with everything else that implements the OpenPGP standard.
https://archive.is/XF6V9
They can be far more mobile than, say, an artillery piece, as they're just spewing out interference. HIMARS is much more useful for targeting things like ammo depots or fixed positions.
Thanks for sharing your very interesting experiences with meditation. Makes me want to have another go at it.

(FYI, you mean to use the word “propel” in place of “propulse” above… they aren’t synonymous, surprisingly.)
> When we sleep or get knocked out, we are aware that we've been unconscious for a period of time.

Not always, at least not in the ways that matter.

When I was a teenager, there was one occasion when I went to bed at night, pulled the bedsheets over my head, and with no subjective pause or discernible change of subjective internal experience of my mental state everything became bright, I pulled the bedsheets away from my face, and it was morning.
>This promises to be a portable unlimited screen space

Well, if the resolution is up to par and the software is set up to mitigate the problems even middling resolution would cause.

No headset, except maybe the 8K (and possibly the 4K) PiMax designs, are capable of displaying text in a way that isn't a blurry mess; the problem is both the lack of resolution and the fact that anti-aliasing can only do so much (move your head ever so slightly off axis so the text no longer lines up with the pixel boundaries and fine details become completely distorted by insufficient resolution- software could help fix this if anyone bothered to write any but that hasn't happened yet).
Please do not dehumanize your victims.
They also ejected much of the intelligentsia from the country who had the means to leave.
You basically can't do science like this and prove anything useful outside of group A is the more effective than group B. And that's assuming your test subjects can't tell the difference. That would tell you that at minimum either A or B has a non-zero effect because they both can't do nothing and be different. But proving that A is an improvement over not A is the important bit. A and B could both be worse than nothing but A is just less bad.

"find something that has a similar trip but does nothing" is actually equivalent to the original problem.
Thanks. It was a misconfiguration of my company laptop's VPN.
"End of the year" is far too soon for that one, I think. Simply on linear progress I wouldn't expect Ukraine to be back to the start of 2022 until after then, and Crimea and Donetsk/Luhansk are going to take longer.

The F/16 deal is evidence towards the idea that the war is settling in to be a long one.
especially if your supplier country is secretly rooting for your enemy.
>There’s a new EU-US data framework that’s expected to be ratified within a year which should make EU-US transfers possible again under new guidelines.

Until it's struck down by the court again.

The agreement will not - it cannot - satisfy the requirements of the GDPR and CFR unless and until the US changes its law.
Can we actually have a discussion on here about printer manufacturers' practices, and which companies engage in this type of behaviour?
If we could figure out who the companies that don't engage in this are, maybe we can change our purchasing decisions slightly and help steer the market towards less craziness.
This situation was dangerous and remains dangerous. There are a couple of significant risks here:

1) Western policy risks building up a big Asian military alliance. It should be obvious to China that what is currently happening to Russia is also slated to happen to them. India will be nervous too unless they are hopelessly naive. China and the US were friends once too, back in ... the 2010s...

2) We're escalating towards WWIII. This is like watching athletes limbering up.

3) In the modern era it is astonishingly rare for the US military to get involved and leave a country better off than when they entered. The US does not have the resources to head in and rebuild Ukraine - that privilege now belongs to China, world manufacturing superpower. We're going to see massive distabilisation in Eastern Europe for a generation. The Poles are wise to be rapidly militarising.
Just to clarify a bit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030033

You’re not wrong in your assessment but I would still expect a company architecting a total replacement for an existing system to know why they are choosing critical components. In this case it was an extensive lack of database consideration in many decisions.
Very interesting read, thank you!
Pac-Man Recreated in Lego
I second this - I'm never buying another inkjet printer again, because my use of colours is fairly minimal these days and I have a box full of ink cartridges for two printers whose printheads are irredeemably clogged (not inexpensive models from Epson and Canon). Sod it.

I've got a wee Brother laser B&W printer for 98% of my printing needs, and the email address for a local printshop who can slightly overcharge me whenever I need a photo (etc) printing.
Good point, but not entirely true. It's not that Germans have to adhere to US law, but that US fines can be outrageously high and German institutions want to keep that risk in check. Insurance premiums are a lot higher if you do business with people from/selling to the US.
Just like I can purchase the non-subscription based Netflix to watch Stranger Things... Oh, wait...
I think one way to go is to do this early, with a clear bound. For example, one might set a rule that if they can:

* no longer compute ∫x²dx

* remember the capital of France; and

* recall where they were born

Then they have crossed that threshold.

Personally, though I don't want to be killed. At least by my values, killing is not okay. I think there are much better things to do, such as:

- Being frozen in Antarctica, in case medical technology improves in a century or two to the point where I can be revived and cured.

- Go some place where I will surely die, but where I can still do some good (running a school for girls in Afghanistan when the US was there is a good example)

- If none of that is possible, do something interesting and dangerous. For example, if my brain is going anyways, experimenting with drugs and dying by drug overdose seems like a decent way to go.

And to be abundantly clear, that's my opinion and my values. I'm not trying to decide for anyone else. I don't think these sorts of decisions should ever be forced, mandated, or imposed.

Footnote: Thresholds are hard to define. I did have one relative with complete loss of short-term memory who seemed to be having a wonderful life. They were happy, friendly, and told grand kids wonderful stories from decades past. It helped that they had a very easy-going personality. On the other hand, they didn't know how they got to where they were, or what we were talking about five minutes ago. They also didn't have any recent memories (e.g. if a relative had been married within the past half-decade or so, they wouldn't recognize the spouse). There was a point where I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have passed any reasonable threshold, but they seemed to be living a very full life surrounded by a big family who loved them. On the other hand, if my brain was where their brain was, I'm pretty sure I'd be completely miserable.
I've never personally done ketamine, but what these studies fail to take into account is the simple fact that for most of these classes of compounds, the subjective psychological experience is the entire mechanism of useful action, and looking purely at the physiological side is missing the forest for the trees. Unfortunately, delving into the subjective with double blinding is damn near impossible, since the whole point of blinding is to remove the subjective aspects of the study.

I know my DMT trips have been so potent of an experience, that if you took that out of the picture and just left the physical aspects, it would be little more than vasoconstriction and elevated heart rate, and I fail to see how that would do anyone any therapeutic good.
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And I think we should get rid of the pop-ups.

Let the service do what it does with least permissions. If something doesn't work there should be a settings where you opt-in. Don't block my view, hoping I will click the dark pattern as you want me to, believing I don't get anything if I say no.

That's not informed consent. That's consent under duress.
> The only thing that will push back is if consumers revolt and stop buying things that require subscriptions, especially if the subscription doesn’t make any sense or as with this case has unacceptable terms.

As we should. I don't care how much sense it makes for the business. It doesn't make sense for me, and I'm the one making the purchasing decision. Those who play this kind of game to trade higher non-recurring revenue for lower recurring revenue won't have my revenue, whether recurring or non-recurring.

The big problem is when it's hidden. If it's clearly spelled out that this is the way they're going to play, fine. But if you buy a printer and then later find out that they're doing this, that's basically a deceptive business practice, because the terms aren't what you were led to believe they are. That's something where consumer protection laws should apply.
I dunno how much the campaign for reform can be blamed really; the bulk of the political and media classes were rabidly against it and it's very easy to make any kind of PR sound more confusing than it is.
Delaware Judge Targets Secret Funding of Patent Lawsuits
I'm sorry, maybe I am not as competent as I thought I would be in this life. You want people to ship a brand new feature to your product on their second day?

The kind of people who can onboard and ship a feature in a 48 period turnaround aren't working for your company, they're building startups.
> Java even plans to remove them from the language

The "Alternative techniques" section of the JEP suggests to use Cleaner.register, which was created as a replacement and has a similar API to Go's runtime.SetFinalizer.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/api/java.base...
Neolib fantasy to shape your world via consumption decisions. Try “5 whys”ing your way to a more actionable root cause and sharing that message instead of a fragile “Wirecutter revolution”.

Pretty cool that we've let ourselves be led into a world where there's a rising private tax on use of "the printing press" and accept the choices that enable monopolizing control in the first place. Buyer's boycotts promote accepting the parameters but rejecting this one bad thing that just happens to be a product of those parameters and leave people exhausted from uninspiring campaigning with questionable impact. Like voting blue (or red whichever you want) harder to try to fix this kind of problem.

Speaking practically on topic, I haven't seen any Wirecutter-level consumer awareness campaigns in tech lead to material lasting change against corporate interests. The state of most Wirecutter type coverage of product categories seems to be generally worsening and getting more expensive rather than resulting in consumer-friendly change from market pushback. What you advocate for is essentially a Wirecutter movement and is as radical as Wirecutter is which we can see the underwhelming results of already.
That “Russia” was called USSR, was supported by the West, and included Ukraine among others. This time Russia’s only ally is Iran.
You can load normal cartridges into that printer. You cannot get a subscription cartridge and keep using it after you cancelled the subscription.
Or at least something slightly lower tech like an electronic compass that will keep a back bearing and fly the reverse course if signal is lost.

But it has to be a question of cost too. Drones are attritable by their nature and there may be no more reason to try to recover one than you would recover a discharged bullet.
I'm pretty sure I saw HTTP/1.0 in a PLC's status page recently.
I figured that shipping labels or tickets were almost the only thing I printed these days, and hence bought a thermal label printer. Couldn't be happier with it. Reasonable price, never asks for ink, prints are instant, never stops working over random nonsense, small form factor.
> This leads to a fundamental issue - global capabilities (drawing a graph between all the people you know) should not be limited to arbitrary geographical boundaries.

For me, this hits a more fundamental issue: how do we govern global issues without a global government?
Could not find the thread in that article, but wanted to point out that Ian Anderson did a whole lot to change how people think of the flute. So did a lot of other rock and jazz musicians.
No, if only you have a credit card.
From the original report (https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-r...):

> An overview of Russian adaptation reveals a force that is able to improve and evolve its employment of key systems. There is evidence of a centralised process for identifying shortcomings in employment and the development of mitigations. Nevertheless, much of this adaptation is reactive and is aimed at making up for serious deficiencies in Russian units. The result is a structure that becomes better over time at managing the problems it immediately faces, but also one that struggles to anticipate new threats. The conclusion therefore is that the Russian Armed Forces pose a significant challenge for the Ukrainian military on the defence. Nevertheless, if Ukraine can disrupt Russian defences and impose a dynamic situation on them, Russian units are likely to rapidly lose their coordination. Changes in the air combat environment, for example, have led rapidly to incidents of Russian fratricide.

Both sides are adapting, we'll see how this develops once the Ukrainian offensive starts.
No one really doubts that the revenue increased. The question is whether the claim that it was by aligning the blah-de-blahs with the foobars is an accurate one and, related, what the individual contribution/leadership was. (Could another peer make the exact same claim with similar credibility?)
They still don't have running water and indoor sanitary facilities in most of the rural areas.
Hmm so people report better symptoms when they know they’re being given recreational drugs but report no change when they’re not sure what they got.
You don't need to be a math genius to buy stuff from China.
I have to believe that experience is gained largely equally on both sides in any conflict. The more interesting question would be whether or not there has ever been a case in history where experience was gained asymmetrically in a conflict.
Can't say I'm surprised - london is famously cctv heavy