skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it takes more than money and the word of the top man to successfully turn around and attack your own homeland.

Yes, they're mercenaries, but they're largely Russian mercenaries, subject to much of the same propaganda. Prigozhin's people don't just blindly follow. Granted, Russia did a lot of the convincing for them it seems with lack of support and alleged friendly fire incidents, but still. The reason this wasn't really an option on the proverbial table is because things had to get bad enough first for Russia/it's mercs to even acknowledge that table existed. Afterall, keep in mind who these people are, and how many countless and considerable, merited justification the western powers sitting at that table have to drag their ass to court and/or a firing line.

Keep in mind, dropping fat stacks on said table doesn't mean much to a Russian in Russia in the current climate if those stacks are American dollars (and the recipient wishes to remain within the Russian sphere of influence, and promises of payment upon completion are less compelling than cash that can be spent upfront to pay for a coup for example). And it might be hard for foreign powers to come up with enough rubles that would both be worth it and wouldn't throw up a lot of red flags before hand. Now, if anyone can do it, it's the alleged shadowy figures we're alluding to here, but the ultimate point is that such a thing is not something that happens quick, or easy, or when things are going "good" for the people you're trying to turn traitor.

The reality is this hasn't happened because it's a whole lot more complicated than simply showing up with enough cash in your pocket, because even that alone is a huge undertaking all thing considered.

For the record I don't necessarily think this is the primary impetus for the coup, but I'd be shocked if there weren't very serious powers making serious efforts to achieve something like this, and as a result, likely had non-trivial influence here. I highly doubt it's as simple as Wagner just getting bought out though. If anything I'd say this as much opportunism and initiative by Prigozhin himself as it as any foreign powers work.

EDIT: Think I had a stroke typing this originally, cleaned up all the typos, sorry.
That's a pretty strong claim considering this is a field of study notorious for the obstacles to collecting direct evidence.
Tesla is looking to acquire wireless charging startup
You pretty much have to assume intent, though? To mind, language doesn't exist without intent. You are correct that you may be wrong on the underlying message that is being communicated, but that is basically boiling communication back to the measuring problem. You measure what is easy to measure, you say what is easy to say. (As a fun counter to your example, so it would be ok if I bring a jack hammer and start pounding away? Or a shovel and dig to my hearts content?)

The silliness in this is that it boils everything down to a single rule and expects that you can define the words of the rule in a way that makes it obvious that some other meaning may be inferred. That isn't how language works. In no small part because language isn't static.

Put in a way that programmers know, decently. Regular expressions can describe context free shapes of symbols. These are usually concise and people feel like they can have a hold on them. Context free grammars, though, are typically not concise and lead to all sorts of interesting theory and problems to keep them going. And, much to the frustration of near everyone, colloquial language does not have a context free grammar, even. To try and take it out of the context is to lose.
Much like [decent but overrated entertainment], the issue isn't with travel itself. It's that the vast majority of people who are "into travel" are insufferable.
I long ago found the lyrics of this lesser-known Beatles song to be thought-provoking:

Without going out of your door
You can know all things on Earth
Without looking out of your window
You could know the ways of Heaven

The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows

Arrive without travelling
See all without looking
Do all without doing

-The Inner Light
If so, they really should disclose that. At this point, voice recognition is just a security time bomb.
The only "problem" with that argument is largely that it assumes that human consciousness is somehow different from all other possible forms of consciousness, and that's not at all a given.

What if the universe itself is conscious? We'd have absolutely no way to measure that from our limited perspective.
Despair. Resist creating, promoting or buying technologies that eliminate jobs not by automating them away, but by offloading the work to a much greater population, thereby diluting it until it's seemingly gone. Favor dealing with people over self-service processes. Or, at the very least, understand this failure mode of economic metrics and don't accept claims of productivity gains at face value.
So what, they set out to make a speech-generating AI tool and only after they finished it realized that they had made a speech-generating AI tool?
The article is not decent because the premise "niche protocol is still niche after big player dumped using it" it's blatantly obvious. It's just another trite "X is dead, netcraft confirms it" juxtaposition of maybes and what ifs.
They have no idea how long they take. They come up with a task first and then slap a time limit on it afterwards so they don’t feel bad about asking too much.
Yes, this one exactly, thank you!
Is a bicycle only a vehicle if equipped with a human?
I thought the Ferenghi were supposed to represent human greed.
It seems like a neat trick, but I don't know if I'd call it much easier. It took me like a second to do the math in my head.
I disagree with it, but I love this biting line about travel:

To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience, It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.
> Those millions brought in by Google and Facebook didn't care about the federated nature of an extensible messaging protocol, they wanted to talk to their friends.

Yes, and instead of using "true XMPP" to talk to their friends and contribute to its growth, Google diverted that flow of new users into its own product. Sure the growth would have been far slower without Google, but this way Google managed to steal a few users that would have joined XMPP even without Google, on the false promise of compatibility.

Instead of slow, healthy growth, what happened was fast, parasitic growth, and on top of it all it added a maintenance burden for XMPP developers trying to maintain compatibility with Google.

You say XMPP was small - that's the point! To kill competitors before they become a threat.
And Janeway - such a great character development.
I mean, the child had a nightmare or something and it was related to the tablet movement. That's all we know. It could have used the tablet once.

My child (2) this morning started crying while asleep and saying "pista", which refers to railway track (not sure if the wooden or the real one).
I get the sane info from it.
I wonder when support for modules lands so we can see that the design doesn't work out and deprecate them.

Sorry if I am too salty here, but really, it's more of a joke at this point, isn't it?
Absolutely, even ancient Buddhist thinking comes to the same conclusion: consciousness isn't a single "thing", it arises moment to moment in contact with sense organs (including "thinking" or "mind" as a sense organ). There isn't a single point of consciousness that is "I", that's just an abstraction we develop.
I'd like to see the product without needing to register first
As a now-manager/ex-maker, when I’m setting a meeting with an engineer, I will always try to make mine adjacent to an existing meeting on their calendar, meaning their interruption is longer but at least it’s not an additional interruption. (This isn’t always possible, especially for group/team meetings, but is usually possible for 1:1s.)
doctors/nurses looking out for each other to avoid medical malpractice is just as entrenched as backing the blue. getting another doctor/nurse to testify against another is nearly impossible. sounds to me like this nurse was just trying to prevent someone from getting a leg up on a case that would make all of their malpractice insurance premiums go up
It looks like they are a pragmatic project that prefers to have contributors to being ideologically pure. It's not like there isn't an official repository hosted on gitea: https://gitea.com/gitea
I agree-- in terms of it being almost exclusively overhead.

Personally, I hate typescript. So much redundancy. It's not insanely awful, but just awful and unnecessary enough (except large corporate projects with significant developer churn) that it's a pet peeve of mine.

"Hey, let's just write the same thing 4 times so you know it's a string! Because quotation marks aren't clear enough! Yay!!" "I must redundantly ensure you know this number is a number! Even though you can easily convert it to one if you need to, and move on! Yay"

I'm bummed that it is becoming so common and popular in the industry.
I expected this to focus on the climate aspect but it didn't.

> In the many great cities I have actually lived and worked in, I would never consider spending whole days walking.

I do. I walk a LOT in Barcelona. And I've lived here for 6 years. It's a great way to discover really exceptional things and I discovered the area I live right now in this way.

In fact it's much nicer to just walk around and explore than to do all the usual tourist crap things.

> That is, before quickly moving on: apparently, many people spend just fifteen seconds looking at the “Mona Lisa.” It’s locomotion all the way down.

This is because you can't look at it quietly. It's tiny, behind a 10cm thick pane of glass you can't approach closer than 1 metre, and there's a whole queue of impatient visitors behind you. It's ridiculous.

I think the author doesn't really get it. For me travel is important, it teaches me about other cultures. Understanding is important int his connected world. One time I spent an hour talking to an old lady beggar in Bucharest, who told me a surprisingly accurate vision of what is wrong with the world. She was not a druggy but a retired school teacher whose generation has been done a really raw deal by the current government.

I also found the city I love to live in, which really improved my life. I've lived in 4 countries so far in my life and I love it. I don't think I'll ever want to return to my native Netherlands because it's changed so much and become too right-wing and materialistic. When I visit there now I'm anxious to go back because I don't fit there anymore.

If I never would have traveled, why would I ever have considered moving? I'd have been stuck there. I would never have known what I like about different places, what I don't like, what's really "me". Travel has profoundly changed (and arguably improved) me as a person.

So no, while I agree mass-tourism can be a terrible thing (here in Barcelona a typical example is the hen party groups that just come here to get wasted in a different and cheaper place), not all travel and not even all recreational travel is bad.
What was the success criteria of the project? sounds like they did what they wanted and only after realised they didn't want to? why?
That is it, I think. Or the saying, "not afraid of dying, afraid of not having lived."

I'm pretty sure as an old man I will not be wishing I spent more time in life browsing the web, ha ha. (Honestly though, probably regret having not spent more time with the people I love — we can of course have travelled together though!)
Including runtime checks would also have performance implications.

I really enjoyed using myzod (more performative, simple, zod) for awhile, but recently I’ve been using Typia, which is a codegen approach. I have mixed feelings about it, and from my own benchmarking it’s performance seems overstated, but the idea is sound: because we know the type, we can compile better, type-optimized serialize/deserialize functions.

As for not littering the codebase with runtime checks, it may be worth reiterating to the person above that you really should only do type determinations at the I/O edges: you parse your input, and it becomes known from then onwards. You runtime type-check your output, and its requirements propagate upwards through your program.
They are gone set up fiber connection into every ship and airplane? Into ever remote corner of the world? To every mining site? Along every farmers field? Is your proposal to connect Ukrainian tanks with fiber connections as well?

And what if a government doesn't make the necessary investment into fiber? You can stand around here saying what everybody should do all you want, but governments don't just magically do it because you want them to. Those people are just fucked and its their problem?

There are also advantage to using lasers as internet backbone.

In summation, if it wasn't need and it was so easy, why to millions of people want it?
https://archive.ph/m8pf7
> The distance in time from the point when some evolution lineages have split is a very poor predictor of the genetic distance between them.

It seems to be a very good predictor with some extreme outliers yeah? It's reliable enough that this event ran against the intuition of specialists who are trained and experienced in this domain.

It's easy to look after the fact and say "oh ya 180m years but they didn't change much" it's another thing to have predicted this as a likely outcome. They didn't, I wouldn't have, I doubt you would have either?
unless you didn't watch the video or were multitasking while it played, he definitely showed how he iterated through design ideas. so i'm really not sure what you're on about with the whole comment anyways
I've always found that one to be pretty hard to follow... Interesting while you read it, but 48 is quite high to be something you can remember them all, much less recall when needed.
> These examples fall sorta flat for me because they don't present an actual difficulty with moderation,

Did you read the summary at the end?
> What incentive do people on the left have to deny the obvious conclusion that it came from the lab?

Huh, isn't that kind of obvious?

A big part of left wing ideology is progressivism, which is an exaltation of progress. The exact definition of progress changes over time, but the idea is at heart about having the most intelligent and specialized people being granted power to re-organize society for the greater good, as they see it. It is explicitly against the public making their own decisions in a decentralized way (neither via markets nor politicians), because it's assumed they're too stupid to do so with good outcomes.

Core to this worldview is the belief that there are such people as neutral experts, wise intellectuals, morally uncorrupted regulators and so on. You have to believe these people exist and in large numbers, otherwise the core progressivist project falls apart because who would be in charge of society? So the left are very keen on regulators, NGOs and especially "scientists", by which they don't mean corporate scientists but academics and government lab workers. They see in such people the core of the progressive project. Motivated by the greater good rather than self-centered profit, they deploy their superior skill and wisdom to make the world better.

So COVID comes along and it appears at first to be the perfect vehicle for validating the progressive project. Nature attacks, and who will defeat it? Not politicians or ordinary people! It will be the scientists and public health officials - but they say they can only do it if they're awarded total power over our lives, if politicians and markets are disposed of entirely and if we're all forced to act in concert (so we get collectivism as well as progressivism). Ideal!

The lab leak conspiracy turns this progressive dream into a nightmare. Suddenly the experts, the public health officials etc aren't the heroes of the story anymore, they're the villains. It turns a story about the virtues of progressive power into a story about how supposedly intelligent people killed millions through a foolish, careless and ultimately useless pursuit of abstract "progress" without regard to risks. And if they lied and covered up that then what else might they be lying about? How can anyone defend these people as superior leaders when they behave this way?

So depending on whether or not it came from a lab, the conclusions can switch from total validation of left wing goals to total repudiation. Of course they will never accept that it came from a lab leak.
well, all we can do, is all we can do…

if swimming upstream is that hard (and i agree that decades of professional usage on a X layout is hard to give up); at least when teaching someone you could say something: “here is the layout you should use! i know mine is different and i can type typewriter with one row in case i want to impress someone but yours is better, like minor chances of getting a RSI and general efficiency when typing stuff…”
“keep your phone open on the seat map app as you board”

What’s that? It sounds useful.
https://t.me/milinfolive

Here’s a pretty good source of almost realtime updates, one of the large pro-war Tg channels. If you are on paid Telegram membership, I think it allows to translate all content.

Not a fan of such media, but I’m from Rostov area so had to subscribe today to stay tuned.
Glad I'm not the only one who read it that way. It just smacks of "we are just way too good at what we do".
Ah the 34th and 35th of rule of acquisition. It’s easy to get them mixed up.
Why are you equating going to space and going to an old crummy boat. One's way cooler and attractive than the other. They're not the same at all.
That’s the thing, I am certainly interested if governments are engineering a possible plague and accidentally this plague leaked out and killed many. That has a widespread obvious general interest to the public. What I don’t understand is why laypeople with no connection to the possible groups and government supposedly involved would be motivated to take up the cause against the speculation. What motivates them? I don’t see the general interest value to cause them to choose that side of the debate.
American brain is a prison.

Modern Russia doesn't have an ideology. It does not stand for a big idea of any sort. They do not fight because of ideological differences.

Reading into these beliefs is absolutely pointless. Russia is highly individualist, any ideology is a post-factum confabulation.

They just ratuonalise whatever is their current situation. Ukrainians went fron bother-nation to nazis overnight.

They fight for the same reason co oeting feudal lords fought
Not entirely sure why this was downvoted, it was my initial thought too (though I must concede I’m reading the comments before the article… which may give me my answer…)
Dismissive and cynical writing in The New Yorker.. never!
If a javascript program crashes the interpreter that is a bug in the interpreter. I don't understand how this is even a discussion. In the era of IE6 there were lots of one-liners that could crash the browser and no one would blame whoever wrote them.
Traveling is for people too low IQ to find boundless entertainment sitting in their room at their computer all day. Mentally and emotionally sessile, they can only move physically.
I guess the principal reason in this topic context for this to provoke thought about the benefit of travel is that it is a song written by George Harrison after he had convinced the band to travel to India and study Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and a song that demonstrates an overt Indian classical influence.

It is literally a song unlikely to have been written without the act of travel.
Yes, it was a disappointingly judgmental piece that did nothing to change my perspective.
The show was really hurt by making it be so episodic. At the end of most stories they had to reset things (unless it was cast changes). How many times was Voyager taken over and had some non-Federation tech installed only to have it removed by the end of the story?
I thought the same as you until I once got a new Mac and forgot to switch off natural scrolling during the initial setup. You scroll down on a page far more often than you scroll up, at least in my day-to-day. Natural scrolling on the mouse wheel makes scrolling down an easier motion on my right middle finger than with classic scrolling. It's easier to push out than to pull in.
Reid Hoffman is still on Microsoft’s board despite all his Epstein dealings, so yeah…
Also, Palestinians = Bajorans. (Don’t attempt the transitive property on this one, for it will probably get u in trouble)
Its even worse, since they are not increasing
the stack pointer and thus firefox is violating some redzone abi somewhere.
They issued these in booklet form. I picked it up from Goodwill a year or so ago. I haven't read it but for $1 it is a nice conversation piece on my shelf.
This kind of ambiguity is rampant in technical writing. Example: "There are situations where developers do X instead of Y which is the wrong thing to do." Wait, is X wrong or Y?! You go ahead and assume X is wrong and then figure out later they meant Y is wrong or vice versa. Argh!
A valid question if you can first prove that wildfires are “caused” by too much underbrush in a way that could not be otherwise mitigated. Many of the recent fires have been caused by arson or pg&e and merely facilitated by poor forest management practices caused by real estate values being absurd in California.
For every thread that I comment on there are usually several that I read because I find others' comments informative or thought-provoking. Reading comments is basically why I am on HN. There may be the same dynamic in play here.

On the topic itself -- this war, and the world reaction to it, is a critical part of modern history and will likely influence political, military and technological developments for years to come. I would love to hear more smart people express an opinion on it. Flagging greatly limits this.
The intro has nothing to do with the rest of the article, really. The author claims it does at the end, but it's just trashing OOP for fun (the author even says this).

OOP is fine. And DRY (what the core idea of the article is getting at) applies in OOP paradigms as much any another. The arguments the author makes are orthogonal to OOP.

The author seems to not enjoy planning before writing code, which I guess is more necessary for OOP than other paradigms?
I don't think anybody is suggesting elimination of all synchronous meetings from a workday. There should just be preference given to long, uninterrupted blocks of time where deep work can be done. Many teams even have a single day of the week dedicated to "no meetings" now to provide makers with at least one guaranteed day for deep work.
Hong Kong has a million written rules with harsh penalties that are never policed. It was bizarre to me but spoke volumes about the local culture!
At least in my social bubble, composition over inheritance has been the more popular guideline for two decades.

Instead of a Manager class inheriting Employee and Contractor (which in turn inherit Person, which in turn may inherit other classes...), you'd separate employee and contractor into traits/interfaces and define distinct manager classes that implement the two traits. Of course, ultimately it's all classes and inheritance in C++ because there are no traits, but it's organized differently.
Spin Isomers of Hydrogen