skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a terrible policy. Not all conflicts are identical to Iraq. What will be the most damaging for Europe is if Russia is permitted to violently invade and annex neighboring sovereign nations. It's insane that you would think otherwise.
I was mining back in 2010, lol, I'm doing just fine. I can profit and still tell you that the underlying investment is simply bad.
> Monck said that the WEF removed all media related to Auken's essay from its web site "because of the online abuse and threats she had faced."[10]

This brought to mind those who hold the opinion that "ideas are worthless".

Mainly because Auken's idea seems quite potent all by itself, without anyone ever really seeing the implementation.
Surrealism also is a specific movement that didn't even start with painting, but with writing, with a goal of expressing the subconscious through creative works. It grew from there in numerous directions, with trippy paintings being just one path. (And anything that juxtaposes odd ideas together being labelled as surrealist regardless of the artist's intent)

Many young people start off doing work that fits the 'surrealist' label without even realizing it, because the goal of "expressing your unconscious thoughts" is simply more mainstream now than it was 100 years ago. So you are 100% correct that people relating your work to Dali are probably noting the surrealist aspects of your work without knowing who else to compare it to.

Also, even back in its heydey, the Surrealists adopted other artists who knew nothing about the movement and declared them to be Surrealists because their artwork looked like it.
This thread nicely illustrates the BBC's long balancing act.

From a (BBC) radio sitcom from the 80s:

> [interviewer to Director General of BBC] Director General, everyone seems to hate you. How would you respond?

> [DG] Well, I think that shows we have the balance about right.
I bough a Brothers laser printer in 2020 because my kid and I were home to study and work, and I needed to print documents. It has been a glitch-free experience for me. The firmware works charmingly. No more messy ink change. And the laser cartridge lasts a long time for me. I would never go back to anything else!
One thing I wish could be better is the cloud printing. But it could be because all my online accounts are now MFA and it is PITA to set up my brothers with them.
I have an old gen (9350) Dell XPS13 that I still haven't found a replacement for, recently replaced the battery in it, this thing is almost 10 years old and still great.

I'm considering the X1 Nano Gen2 (Gen1 and Gen3 are capped at 16GB for some reason).
Sounds like you're aware of why it's a uniquely American thing.

You forgot to mention companies that did accept it but stopped after they implemented their own payment system (which again only applies to American branches of their stores).
HP Instant Ink is so widely misunderstood that HP should really just cancel the entire program because it's been an absolute PR disaster ever since its inception.

With Instant Ink, you are not subscribing to ink cartridges. You are subscribing to a monthly quota of printed pages. The ink is merely the vehicle to deliver the printed pages. You never own the ink cartridges. At best, you're renting them. When you decide you don't want to pay the rent anymore, you don't get to keep using them.
No planner ever means for their plan to be dystopian. On the contrary, the planner likely has nothing but the best intentions. But intentions don't make their plan non-dystopian.
Regional constituencies allow politicians to select the voters they want in many respects. The UK might look very different if they had a party list or some other form of PR.
That might very well be, but the _on printer_ experience is pretty obvious I have to say. It even clearly explains what features are available / unavailable if you use non HP cartridges.
In fact, I saw a source (I forget where, sorry) that said this 16.5 million acre-feet estimate was calculated a time of historically large river flow. So it's not just that the flow is going down, it's that the original projection was based on an unrealistic target, even back then!
> The more likely scenario is that Russia would rather detonate a nuke in Ukraine than lose the war, regardless of what NATO's response would be.

Based on literally nothing but your own fantasies.
The weight doesn't decrease, so at some point it'd make sense to replace the battery just to avoid hauling dead weight. However, such batteries can still be reused for stationary grid storage.
Knowing how the values are stored provides you the "why" behind the practical implications. Another example: Half of the range of all values that "float" can store lie between -1.0 and 1.0. Knowing how those values are encoded in memory tells you why.
Nice work :) Your on-page hierarchical navigation looks like something you could do with existing navigation view transitions, disclosure groups, or an outline view, though the sticky header solution is cool. What UI patterns did you consider and how did you settle on this one?
Why is this even notable enough to have its own Wikipedia article? Seems like bait for insane conspiracy theorists.
At this point I won't even own a printer anymore. I'll just go to a print shop or office store type place, let them deal with this type of bullshit if they want. In a pinch I probably have a friend with a printer.

How often do you need to print something anyway? Everyone has a document viewing device in their pocket (or more likely, in their hand) right now. Printing is obsolete, legacy tech that we really by and large don't need. I'll print some pictures to hang on the wall, I'll go to some place and pay the store a couple of bucks. Keeping your own printer these days is asinine unless you deal with governments daily, then you probably also need a fax machine.
I think it’s vague because of the filtering. It gets dumbed down when it’s told to avoid topics
There was this post last year on Wikipedia by Victoria Doronina, one of the WMF trustees:

"The Board has done its main job - changed the CEO."

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village...

Victoria explicitly referred to the Knowledge Equity Fund in that post, which appears to have been Uzzell's and Maher's brainchild.

The Knowledge Equity Fund became very controversial last year when people realised it was set up to funnel millions of dollars of Wikipedia donations to non-Wikimedia social justice causes via Tides Advocacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

Janeen announced on 14 May 2021, two weeks after Katherine had left, that she was going to leave the WMF and devote herself to racial equity and technology causes:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...

She started as CEO of the National Society of Black Engineers on 7 July 2021, just one week after her last day with the WMF.

Including the $325K severance, she pocketed over half a million dollars for half a year's work and went straight to her next job.
HP owns the ink even after they sell it to you? That sounds like... a lie
Not to mention, the LHC is responsible for a lot of innovation in it's own right, just in terms of hardware, software, etc.
Didn't they also have some issues with payments and working conditions for their factory employees?
I'm not sure that there exist any dystopias (outside of YA novels) that were planned as such. They all seem to be about naivete and creating perverse incentives.
Ask HN: How do you deal with shit code?
Question for experienced programmers.

I am in the beginning of my career (3 years in, Mid Backend Engineer).

I just inherited a large project (52297 lines of python code) that was built by a few developers who just left the company. I'm in the process of fixing bugs (and learning about the code altogether).

Every time I'm working on a bug, I just want to re-write the whole thing since the approach prev. devs took feels so bad. Obviously I can't do that, so I end up duct taping the existing thing. This is killing me.

So, here is the question:
1. In your engineering careers how often do you have to deal with shit code other people wrote?
2. If so, how do you deal with it? Psychologically and physically.
3. Are there any resources online that can help me structure my thoughts around this problem.

Thanks a ton in advance.
For the Russians it was much worse.

A claim that is repeated ad nauseam, but entirely without evidence. Reminder: At the beginning of the year the BBC had a count of 20k. You can double or triple that if you like but it’s never going to be close to what (pro-)Ukrainians claim.

Also: The number of Wagner fighters gets way exaggerated. They were at a numerical disadvantage till the end.

managed to build up an enormous defense around the city

That’s not how it works. They spent years turning Bakhmut into a giant fortress city. (They even wrote that stupid song about it.) They fought tooth and nails over it. They rotated dozens of brigades through it, an untold number of men. But it just was not enough.

This is not their last shot at a defense in the region, but it was their best.

offense has been effectively halted

What offense? Only major Russian operation so far this year was Bakhmut. They are not in a rush.

So they can rule the ruins of Bakhmut, for a little while?

Couple months ago, per Zelensky, Bakhmut was strategically vital and not to be lost. Let me guess, a ruse? “Dumb orcs hehe”

The Ukrainians will push back now.

Oh, they will almost inevitably do something, somewhere. But the fact that they managed to retake a lightly-defended area that one time gives people all kinds of crazy ideas. Sure, they will probably manage an advance somewhere (at great cost, of course), get stuck after a couple days … and then what? Think Putler’s just going to nope out of the war because Twitter NAFOids are in ecstasy?

My bet is they will encircle what's left of Bakhmut

How? With what units? Not only did they send their best units to Bakhmut, they had to send some of their fresh, Western-trained ones too. Which were under strength in the first place.
I was facing consistent multi-hour outages during the workday and looked into business internet options with my ISP (Cox) and from what I could gather they _did't even offer_ any plans with an SLA in my market.
Heavy water hydrogen bonds are a couple percent stronger because the molecules themselves are very slightly smaller. Smaller molecules result in a shorter range of vibration at a given temperature, hence less inherent "fighting" of the hydrogen bond.
Heavy water's only about $1000 a litre in bulk. Certainly cheap enough to run experiments on rats and small plants. Such experiments have been done. That's how we know it'll kill you.

Its toxicity profile is kind of interesting. In almost all eukaryotes (plants, animals, fungi) low concentrations (1 - 10%) seem to have no obvious effect at all, while around 25% it seems to cause temporary sterility - the gametes seem particularly sensitive. As it approaches 50%, cell reproduction stops and death is rapid. Very few eukaryotes can survive >50% heavy water in their cells. Though a few types of yeast and single-celled plants seem to be able to survive in conditions like many bacteria can - up to 95% or more heavy water. But all kinds of life die at 100% heavy water, as far as I know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Effect_on_biologic...
I don't see the relevance to hackers here. This is simple political commentary and belongs on /r/politics or whatever.
love the style, shame it's for the NFT ePonzi scheme nonsense
People who offer their labor as shareware will tend towards making 0 dollars. That's just the reality of it, if people don't have to pay, they won't. If you want to make money, you should...charge people money.
Looks like shifting layout really kills the score on this example, along with uncompressed and inefficiently compressed resources (both text and images). Are these things not prioritized by Wordpress, or are the people using them don't know or care?
Thanks! We fund the development via our other product - ERPNext.

We have one full time engineer working on it. If end up using it, please give us feedback and help spread the word.
Don't be fooled, that was the conservative plan all along. Wreak havoc on public infrastructure, send people to private, cough Christian / Conservative cough schools.
Related (and linked from the bottom of the page) is a good description of what “sunset” looks like from the station and from the South Pole itself.

> After the sun reaches its peak, it begins to set. It’s still rotating in perfect circles around the sky; they’re just getting lower and lower each day.

https://brr.fyi/posts/sunset
> Could have been a great opportunity to try to actually improve things rather than adding loopholes for the benefit of special interests.

But the kind of people who want the policy that Brexit is - i.e. xenophobic nationalists - are not the kind of people you'd want to take such an opportunity.

Membership of the EU was a great opportunity. Brexit is an opportunity for fascists.
That is what she claimed after the fact yes. Too bad the social media department of the WEF didn’t realize that and claimed it was a prediction for the year 2030:

https://m.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/8-predictio...
>It descended into me arguing with the machine over whether or not 2b even existed.

Sounds like ChatGPT can already obsolete the tax office.
I think Kevin Kelley explored this in one of his books. What if you rented everything?

I think owning things is basically the only way to fight rent seeking.
That is the IDE, but it is not required for compiling. You should actually use C# .NET 6 and see what they are doing to prevent null exceptions. You must explicitly require the assignment of null or you will get warnings in the IDE and compiler. Here is an example:

public MyClass Students { get; set; }

You will need to create a new object before you leave the class or you will get an error. Or, you can use MyClass? instead, and it will give warnings any time you try to use Students without checking for null first. This is done before compiling so you can check for these null references through the IDE. This is a big change for C# and can effectively eliminate null references (object reference not set to an instance of an object) exceptions throughout your application.
the issue with water rights is that CA/AZ/NV have the most senior rights on the river and the highest usage of river water IIRC
In Northern Ireland, there are two sides, the Irish Republicans and the Unionists. Twenty years ago peace was brought to this part of the world by bringing in power sharing. Had this happened in Rwanda, would the genocide have occurred?
The wiki article seems useful for understanding the origin of the conspiracy theories, so in that sense it's a good reference?
The most important part of your comment is the distinction between 'management' and 'lead'. Leadership is critically important and very hard to find. Ideally you find a leader who doesn't mind managing, though you're getting into unicorn territory.
Besides privacy, what is the advantage of self-hosting when you can do meetings directly on https://meet.jit.si/ ?
Indeed, the sort of reductionistic argument that the GP is making is simply too simplistic to be useful. It's like saying making a chair is just rearranging atoms and therefore it should be free as well.
Got Ketamine in the ER to reduce my dislocated shoulder.

Fell into what addicts refer to as the "k-hole".

Felt I was falling into a complete void. All I can remember is yelling "no, no, NO!".

Highly NOT recommended.
at the moment, if you want a non gc language with automatic memory management, rust is your only choice. ki is an alternative, but my goal is to make it a much simpler than rust. I need to spend some more time writing rust & ki in order to answer your question with full certainty.
Keep in mind the imperial valley's massive use of water predates the Colorado River Compact.

Think about it this way: you move somewhere and you're using 50 gallons per day of water. An agreement comes up that says you can keep doing that. 10 million people move in after and there's now a water problem. Were you over-allocated 50 gallons per day?

You could look at it two ways: you should sacrifice to help everyone else. Or, screw everyone else they shouldn't be here anyways.

My general opinion is that while there's benefits to growing food in the imperial valley, they don't outweigh the benefits of not having to move tens of millions of people out of the southwest - that's like throwing trillions in development into the trash. California has access to the ocean for desalination, and other southwest states don't. The best thing for the country as a whole would be for California to ween itself off the Colorado River. But I don't think that's going to happen, at least, it won't without a fight.
One thing's for sure. If wikipedia were to delete his article, it could only lessen the intensity of the conspiracy theories surrounding the incident. Every Qanon moonbat would take the article deletion as the consensus decision that it wasn't notable, and then focus on more important things.
Ah yes, with the title "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better." If anything the "You'll own nothing and be happy" is LESS distopian than the essay. I mean, unless you don't read it as a peon completely beaten down into Stockholm syndrome. Plus it's all predicated on "free energy" and other such fantasies, while STILL looking like a nightmare to anyone who reads it.
GDPR (and the national laws it replaced) does not exist in a vacuum, but is an implementation of ECHR art. 8, and CFREU art. 7 and 8. If it is changed, odds are it will become stronger, not weaker. And it is quite foolish to think the CFR will be changed to accommodate companies like Meta.
I just replaced the 30+ year old, non-intelligent water heater with a brand new non-intelligent water heater. And a 20 year old, non-intelligent air conditioner with the same. So if tomorrow morning, across the whole world, you can only buy AI-enabled, sensor ladened smart appliances, we will still need real people to cater to the poor dumb appliances for decades.
Dang, that's a good idea (as long as not production data).

It seems like eventually database automation is going be self-optimizing (more than the query planner already is).
Very interested in seeing progress, JSON CRDTs benchmarked with JS objects and arrays, I currently have an implementation based on Automerge but it's borderline nonviable on our largest data structures.
Homeschooling rarely breeds the nonconformity necessary for a healthy hacker culture. And that's what rises in a vacuum created by burning down the public school system.
Does anybody know some interesting practical applications of PCA?
Bring up Cheney on charges of treason. 'Nuf said.
That's how my app handles customizations - they just get resetted once in a while, but you can use them without paying, Premium just makes them permanent. I wonder if it's not obvious from the UI and people think that you can't use them at all.
> I most certainly hope they do. Giving up on taking Taiwan by force would be a wonderful result out of the Ukraine war. The West should encourage that lesson by pre-arming Taiwan with as many F-16s, Javelins, Stingers, etc. that they can produce.

That they'd just give up on militarily taking Taiwan because of this is more Western fantasy that reality, so I doubt that. The lessons they'll take will be ones of military tactics and strategy. They can assume the West will dump "F-16s, Javelins, Stingers, etc." into Taiwan, so how can they counter that? Maybe they develop a version of the US/Israeli Tropy system,* and put it on all their tanks. If they're competent at all, they're going to make sure they're making none of Russia mistakes (e.g. they're going to have someone making sure they're regularly rotating the tires on their military vehicles).

But maybe they don't have to do much if anything, since Taiwan will be far, far harder to resupply than Ukraine.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)
Oof. Hemphill was pretty rough, pre-Antico metastasis cleaning up the far end.

The west & north sides of GT are unrecognizable to me now though -- condos and yuppie shops.
I think implication is that there's a spectrum of related phenomena (and that "black holes" with an event horizon are an extreme case)
interesting, thanks for flagging -- this looks to be a parsing issue when ChatGPT occasionally returns guesses in a format different than the one instructed to. I'll give this some more thought on how to fix...
What are the kind of people your startup looks for when hiring? I would have thought that you'd be hiring experienced developers who would not need to dedicate time to learn things like Golang, and who could hit the ground running.
> How often do you need to print something anyway? Everyone has a document viewing device in their pocket (or more likely, in their hand) right now. Printing is obsolete, legacy tech that we really by and large don't need.

Don't have kids, eh? ;-)
> And colour laser is still expensive.

Totally worth it though. I bought a Brother color laser over 10 years ago and it has been flawless. A lifesaver during covid and printing homework at home.

Before that I was going through cheap inkjets which each only lasted a year or less before becoming clogged and unusable. While cheap at around ~$100/ea, it was more expensive over the years than simply buying a color laser once and stop the frustration and waste.
My personal experience with it is game emulators that reset your customized control layouts and such but I imagine it could work for other sorts of apps.
The #4 item on the front page right now is about black holes.
> The problem is sometimes, ( 10-20% ) I need colour printing. And colour laser is still expensive

It's worth the cost though. I bought a behemoth Brother printer/scanner laser printer years ago and it's been completely reliable (apart from occasionally disappearing from the network and needing a reboot). I don't have to worry about mainly printing black as the colour toner can hardly dry out and is always ready for use whereas I'm constantly hearing of occasional users of inkjets needing to buy fresh cartridges after just a couple of months of them not being used.
Executive compensation packages work differently and tend to be much more bonus driven.

Frequently these types of severance packages are to make up some sort of assumed bonus and ensure no compensation based contract disputes later.
The Aktiia device only required periodic recalibration with the cuff. We'll see if it makes it through the FDA.
>Their use of it is limited to a small area south of LA. Mostly for farming. Which they shouldn't be doing there anyway.

People say this all the time, but where else do you propose this be done? Where's the empty land that can be as productive as the Imperial Valley? If you want to stop farming there, we're going to have to reduce our population or it'll happen naturally in an unpleasant way.
A bit of a stretch to say that public schools breed nonconformity?
For context, the river starts in Colorado and passes through Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California.

I wonder why Colorado and Utah were not involved in the deal? If one of them had a problem with it, would they have standing to sue?

What if, hypothetically, Colorado built a dam and stopped the flow of water to the downstream states?
Exactly what I was getting at. Just the horniness of the film itself makes it fertile ground for hilarious Sean Connery bits.
We’re talking about the ink cartridges, not the printer itself.
Both great ideas. I'll look at the calendar-like feature.

Stats would be cool, I don't currently collect them but will think about adding them. Thanks!
@dang why is this flagged? It was a pretty good discussion of issues surrounding the trans community.
What would you suggest instead? Please do not say Python. Using spaces for syntax is madness.
Hah, that is a very good point! I stand corrected!