skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>More like about 15 percent as of Feb 2024, per the UNHCR.

Please, do some due diligence before making comments like this. You are incorrect.

Your link counts refugees.

It does not count:

- people who left Ukraine and permanently settled abroad

- people who left Ukraine on work visas

- people who ended up under Russian occupation

etc.

Ukrainian population has plummeted by 25% due to the 2022 invasion alone[1].

The war didn't start then, either. Crimea and Donbas were occupied since 2014. 3 million people in occupied territories[2], technically, never left Ukraine.

Another red herring is the phrasing as refugees or asylum seekers.

The latter does not nearly account for everyone. With millions of Ukrainians having family abroad due to war, and, at this point, millions of those settling permanently abroad, millions of Ukrainians are eligible to immigrate to reunite with their families abroad. Working families, mind you, Ukrainians integrate well, and not refugees anymore.

I am a Ukrainian living in the US. I have evacuated my MIL from Kyiv the first week of the 2022 invasion. She ended up living in the US until her death from cancer this year, and she is not counted in your stats.

As all Ukrainians, she had a 90-day right to stay in the EU, visa-free. She didn't cross the Ukraine-Polish border as a refugee. She had an active Canadian visa from a couple of years ago when she visited her daughter there, so she didn't enter Canada as a refugee. From Canada to the US, we used the United 4 Ukraine program when it was instantiated[4], a remarkable achievement of Biden's administration.

You may note that it is distinct from "temporary protection" status, and requires someone in the US to sponsor you. It is a parole status; my MIL didn't enter the US as a refugee or asylum seeker.

Her friend, whom we managed to get onto the same evac train, remained with her daughter in Spain. She was eligible to do that years earlier. Reuniting with a family member doesn't make her a refugee or asylum seeker.

I can go on and on with examples, that's not the point.

My point is that the only accurate measure of the population drop is looking at the number of Ukrainians who remain in non-occupied territory of Ukraine to gauge the impact of the war on the population.

You will not find this number. If the government of Ukraine were to publish it, there'd be panic. You will only find estimates. And when you add up the estimates of how many people ended up abroad, you'll see that a third of the population is quite reasonable (a quarter of prewar 44 million is a lower bound estimate).

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/22/ukraine-population...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories_o...

[3] https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/03/12/7446142/

[4] https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine
I didn't "fail to understand" anyone's (yours included) comments.

Adults take responsibility for their lives. They pay their bills and do the things they say they're going to do.

To anyone who whinges "ooh, what if I forget to pay my bills. It would be so sad. But I shouldn't be held responsible."

Please.

Maybe that flies with mommy and daddy, but to anyone else it comes across as immaturity.

To those folks I say, "Grow up and pay your bills. What? Are you 12?"

If you can't or won't, that's your fault.

Is that a good enough explanation for you?
That's still a decent ground speed of 350 mph! Never gotten my bike to go quite that fast
Tell HN: Chartable Sunset has broken downloads for lots of podcasts
A few months ago podcast tracking service Chartable announced they were shutting down:

https://chartable.com/

and in the last few days they have turned off their domain chrt.fm . Unfortunately it looks like lots of podcasts didn't get the memo and they are still trying to use them and thus the podcasts downloads are broken.

You might want to contact podcasters you know to let them know.

Note they way things seem to work with podcasts is the download URL contains a series of other tracking URLS (often at different companies) that are redirected to one by one.

So the URL:

https://chrt.fm/track/4EB79A/tracking.swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS6742777722.mp3

redirects to:

https://tracking.swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS6742777722.mp3

which redirects to:

https://traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS6742777722.mp3

which then does a 302 to somewhere else (but using a DB lookup rather than just stripping the URL)
Sometimes as you say in your article life happens and I have to abandon a cart with the intention to return later. What will make me not return or ever use a site again is receiving a reminder of items in a cart as your service provides. Those messages are nothing short of spam and I refuse to do business with spammers.
nobody intrest?
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html#DESCRIPTIO...

One can use `hidepid` parameter when mounting procfs to hide cmdlines.

I don't know why this is not implemented today by default in most distros. Probably history reasons.
Zen and the Brain [pdf]
Probably two things:

- Pure programming means having to unlearn a lot of stuff you usually do through intermediate variables[1]. You have to express what you want without this (and it's actually freeing).

- Lazy evaluation allowed by pure programming. It means that the order of execution is not the same as you'd have in strict/eager evaluation. It can it be hard to reason about it initially, but once you get it, it can be very powerful.

[1] Not exactly true, you can still use them but they're used in a different way.
Glorified Markov Chain Text Generator.
He seems to have responded:

> Under EU and UK law anyone can use a patented technology to research improvements in it without paying royalties. So no, it wasn't any problem.

> This is not the case in the US.
While 10,000 sounds like a lot, about 25% were accidents, and 75% in combat, so 7,500.

That's 7,500 aircraft lost over 5.25 million sorties, or 14 lost per 1,000 sorties.

The loss rate was 5 times higher in Korea and 25 times higher in WW2.

And as the other comment mentioned, most were helicopters (5,600) and UAV's (1,000). Only 3,400 fixed wing, manned aircraft were lost.
> Another thing that's strange to me is that lots of bluesky users post selfies almost nonstop and half of users have selfies as their profile photos.

Honestly that sounds like it could be bots. Although maybe it is just people making new accounts.
As any worthwhile piece of advice, this post is not saying "Do good things, don't do bad things" but instead "Prioritize one good thing over another".
Hence lots of comments. I wish there were more submissions like this.
Where is my PAS-16 which was neither SB nor GUS? Actually I guess it must have had some blaster compat mode since while I remember some games having special pas16 support, I don't remember many not working wothout it.

fekkn wierdball cd interface... glad I replaced the system before the drive died or before I wanted a simple upgrade for speed and new disc types.
> One of the robbers ordered her husband out of bed, pressed a gun into his back and demanded cash, checkbooks, credit cards and the couple’s PINs, she said.

Two weeks later …

> Warren and another man wearing dark sweatshirts and masks knocked the victim to the ground and robbed him of his watch and phone.

He committed armed robbery, and they let him go. Two weeks later committed another and they slap a non-functioning gps bracelet and let him go? It reads like some satire not real news.
"The best" is, of course, Haunt, written in Guile. The following list has examples, and guides and so on:

https://awesome.haunt.page/

A few hand-picked examples:

https://jakob.space/blog/decompilation-by-hand.html
https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/latest/
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/learn/
It works the exact opposite way.

People from totalitarian shitholes improvise a lot more than people from functioning democracies (because they have to improvise to survive daily life). And they trust their state and follow the rules a lot less (and for a good reason - their state exploits and lies to them to a degree you can't imagine living in a free country).

USA wouldn't send its army to Mexico with 12 hours of fuel telling the soldiers it's exercises. After selling half the fuel and ammo on black market and providing them with faulty non-spec tires so that significant percentage of their vehicles just broke the first week it actually had to drive somewhere.

Russian army did all of the above, on a massive scale. Nobody in Russia was surprised except maybe putin. IMHO he was more surprised that Ukraine was organized than that his own army wasn't.

Think for a while how you'd adapt to living in such a society. One of the first things is that you pretend to do what they tell you and then completely ignore it and do whatever you can to survive. And then to adapt to that - the army has units that shoot at you from behind if you don't want to be a "meat wave" in the next frontal attack.

Army won't provide you shoes your size? Steal. Army won't provide you drones or anti-drone measures? Cope cages and loot Mavics from malls. Etc. In totalitarian countries (and I've lived in one so I'd know) everybody had to learn DIY cause you couldn't trust the economy/country to provide you with the things you need.

Oligarchy and libertarianism is the same system, just looking from POV of rulers vs ruled. When society doesn't work people have to be libertarians. When everybody's a libertarian - oligarchs rule and society doesn't work.
> Some developers fear fungability, they think that that one system only they know is job security. I see it the other way, I see that as a technical risk, but also a thing that might be keeping a great engineer from working on more important projects. Or the way to work on something else when you get fed up with that one system you hate.

I don't fear fungibility - if a place doesn't want me there I don't want to be there either.

I dislike idea of fungibility because it creates huge overhead and avoids using talented people to full potential - because they are not fungible.

In some places that's warranted - but in others - the process overhead is far greater risk to your project success than bus factor.
I've only ever needed it for checkout, but in other commands I believe the full syntax @{-1} should work.
Elon Musk was willing to spend 44 billion dollars just to burn down a social media platform for being too "woke." I don't think he cares, and I don't think Trump cares.
WordPress Brand Tone and Voice Survey Results Are In: "It's Not a Unified Brand"
I'll leave it to them to announce once they're ready, but it's certainly a pretty future-looking play.
I have experienced two or three computers in my life (and least one laptop) that produced barely audible sound when CPU activity changed. The most memorable was a PowerBook G4 with a touchpad, and as I slid my finger slowly across the pad in a quiet enough room, I could hear kind of a tick each time the pointer moved a pixel.
How was the pilot impacted by the lightning? Maybe he had a few systems shaken up as well
> Software is worth getting angry about because everything is worth getting angry about.

This sums up the post best for me.

It's really about the human condition. It leans autobiographical (as is tradition) but is quite well written, and feels widely relevant. Set it aside for later if you don't have time now-- maybe a bit on the long side, but not that long. Well worth it for me, and saved.
Austin isn't a success case, and I just moved out:

1. Inner city roads are absolutely terrible, full of potholes, confusing traffic design, and hostility to non automotive users with random, dangerous, hidden obstacles in the middle of the road

2. Loss of local community and cultural sites replaced with ugly, gentrified skyscrapers and corporate garbage

3. Unaddressed unhoused problem

4. Skyrocketing housing prices

5. Out-of-control property crime and APD short 300+ officers

6. Slap-shod new construction
I did stay factual. I made special care in writing “ICC prosecution recommendation” and “ICJ genocide case”. Both are factual, one being recommendation and the other being an ongoing case. Both have factual documents supporting the case, including allegations of conspiracy against the Israeli rulers.

Who started what does not matter, being rulers of a country who is victims of terrorism does not make it impossible to conspire to commit genocide. In fact indigenous resistance has been used as pretense for colonial genocide for centuries.

My point here is that allegations against Israeli rulers to commit genocide is very plausible. So much so that an international consensus has pretty much formed around it, including among genocide experts, and legal scholars of the world highest courts.
What do you mean by "instead"? Would you have expected the pilot to guess where the runway is without his instruments? He was flying in IMC. Meaning he couldn't see where he was going.
Gif that displays its own MD5 hash: https://shells.aachen.ccc.de/~spq/md5.gif

$ md5sum md5.gif
f5ca4f935d44b85c431a8bf788c0eaca md5.gif
What's the hourly cost? or it's charged per play?

I don't see the pricing.
That’s exactly how I read this: did the Marine general staff think, on review, that this guy had “the right stuff” to lead their test pilot division? Nope.

The plane situation sounds shitty in the extreme, and an F-35’s electronics fritzing sounds, um, real bad, and sadly, not shocking, but the Marines’ elan and doctrine at its core involves dealing with stuff like this successfully, in the field, with little support. I imagine that the people around him felt fairly similarly, and so, end of story. He won’t be moved up to general staff, he’ll get some fine deployments until he decides to head out, which given his age, he’s opted out of a couple times, it’s fine, and he’ll be fine. Just, unfortunately, like you say, he wasn’t Chuck Yeager when it came down to it.
The gaslighting of the masses by the rich continues. K-shaped recovery and profit-price spiral are verboten topics.
Can I port it to FF?
Exit node or relay?
My high school used a system so bad I stopped caring about my grades, I just didn't want to log into that crap more than once a year. I couldn't believe my eyes when I got into university and saw they were using the exact same shitty system.

Reverse engineered just enough of that .net monstrosity to get the data I cared about. Replacing the school's portal with my own script made me so happy. They kept breaking my scraper constantly though, got to the point it was too much effort to maintain it. Worst part is I don't even think they were doing it on purpose. They were just bad in general and couldn't keep their site together.
> Use your resources wisely, acquire more AWS Services each turn, build Architectures and claim the Well-Architected points as long as they're still available!

And see your cloud bill go through the roof.
New Marqo Ecommerce Models Outperform Amazon by Up to 88%
At least for me in the Netherlands, for the past month if I click a link to a specific song, I get redirected to a page to start a radio based on the artist and encouraged to upgrade to Premium.

I've had to get friends to share the titles manually, before I found Odesli to be able to convert them.
Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor
apologies, i meant i only have a linux device with only spotify installed, because it's the thing i use. no, i'm not talking about music players, only streaming services.

you're completely right other services and software are available on linux. but the point i'm trying to make is, this tool is spotify -> others, but a common use-case is others -> spotify.
As far as I know, the Unix group has to promise to build a document processing system to get the pdp-11 they needed.

Building Unix was a specific non-goal of Bell Labs as a result of their experience with Multics.

It was the perseverance of the Unix group that made them get the resources they needed.
This resonates very strongly with me - I am happy there are other people writing about this. It may not change the course of society but we need to fight for things worth fighting for and not give in to the system.
Where's My Robot?
You can also find the models as well as datasets and spaces on Hugging Face:
https://huggingface.co/collections/Marqo/marqo-ecommerce-emb...
The finality of death feels impossible to grasp. I think of this with my parents who are in their 90s and live on the other side of the world. I also think of it with my own children - how do you say goodbye when you’re the one leaving?

I love the story these photographs tell. I’m an avid archiver of our family’s photos.

The other thing I did was to interview my parents 20 years ago to document their life experience in one go from their perspective (separately, because they are different).

Maybe not everyone is a nostalgic, but for those of us who are - I encourage doing these things now. It’s never to late to start and they might bring comfort both today and when you wave your last goodbye.
Granger's causality is a very restrictive and incomplete view of causality. Pearl's counterfactual system with do calculus is a more general way to think about causality. This SURD appears to be a souped up version of Granger.
It's Europe. You can take the train, right?
That's fine and you're entitled to your opinion, but using the word "Hitler" is going to be hyperbolic in all situations.
Nice! I’m working on a second version that reads very differently, it’s taking me a while though. Here’s the opening: https://gist.github.com/steveklabnik/53b51724920dac76fc623d9...
Congratulations for the launch!
Two US airline jets struck by gunfire over Haiti's capital
no, a relay
I personally tried a lot of dev fonts several times over the years but keep coming back to dejavu sans mono, which is always missing for some reason from showcases like this. I find all the others to be imbalanced. Too wide, to skinny, too short, etc.
When Jon Stewart was on the Late Show talking about the possibility of a covid lab leak [1], he gave a quip along the lines of “science says ‘why did curiosity kill the cat? let’s kill 10,000 cats and find out.’” and that if science can do it, it will do it, and it’s uncommon for people to ask “should we be doing this?” before it’s too late. I think that ego and scientific urge to understand are sometimes hard to distinguish because they sometimes lead to similar outcomes.

[1] https://youtu.be/sSfejgwbDQ8?si=_AJvP_pHn68v5RRh
Not in 80s or 90s, but 大海航行靠舵手 could be an example in my opinion. Songs in Mainland has been influenced by HK and Taiwan a lot since about 1980
There are two populations of people reading the NVIDIA specs (and now you switched groups). If NVIDIA ever changes their marketing strategy and the asterisk denotes something else, there might be a third population because I know a lot of people that I suspect will keep dividing those starred FLOPS/s by two :-)
(But to be clear Jj has worktrees if you do like that workflow)
Discussion a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41967734
I get your sentiment but I can think of so many exceptions. I've seen people here in Germany splitting their time between tiny flat near workplace for <500 EUR during the week and (whatever bigger, better, often inherited) in the countryside.

Does not mean you're rich per se. Not poor, sure. Also yes, you said fly in, but there's really no difference if they fly in or go to their weekend house on Thursday or Friday by car, they're not here. I think the main point is the "is the person actually living there or visiting twice per year", because I think that is killing neighborhoods (if people talk to each other, not the case here in my building).
Very touching and beautiful. Just now, this year, I started taking pictures of my parents waving me away on the platform.
Like the space program; while it is an ego excercise the journey created a ton of useful tech.

Not that I don't think they can figure out how to fund mundane stuff, politics (as we just saw in america) isn't about facts, figures, and boring reality; it's about energizing people to get off their ass and do something.
Yes. The solution is to have urban places built for people, not cars.
Any plant biotech or farmers here: Is this the same amaranth strain grown as a grain for human consumption or is it a suboptimal varietal that is just a difficult-to-eradicate plant like some types of mint?
It would help if you specified exactly what you didn't like about them.

I use Apple Music, I use it because it's lossless and it's integrated in the Apple ecosystem. The UX of the actual Music app is... not great, but tolerable, better than the iTunes before it.

I listen to some pretty obscure stuff and I don't think I ever found something missing on it. YMMV.
Initial setup is less beginner-friendly in Ruby case when compared to Python. See for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16042945/rubys-irb-with-...
> I assumed the latest weapons are GPS guided, and just zero in on a long/lat coordinate

Germany's Taurus for example is muuuuch more than that. It uses a sensor fusion model - GPS of course, but also inertial measurement, planetary volume modules (i.e. terrain data) and imagery. It's essentially designed to be a first-response system, able to strike Russia right where we want it, and Russia (in theory) should not be able to counteract it.

That's also, no matter if I like it or not, one of the reasons why we didn't deliver Taurus. For it to work, we'd either have to hand Ukraine the systems and data required to program the missiles (which we don't want because the risk is very high that someone sneaks the stuff off to Russia) or we'd have to send our own troops to do the programming (which we don't want because obvious reasons - remember, Germany doesn't have an equivalent to US SAC/SOG). And on top of that comes that we don't want to risk Russia finding out just how well it works and to maybe even develop countermeasures.
Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google
EU Commission calls on Apple to stop geo-blocking practices
You essentially described Musi, although it still serves you the Google ads and its own occasional ad every now and again

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/musi-simple-music-streaming/id...
Um, I would argue that what has helped society the most is agriculture, sewage systems, healthcare, electricity and heating, etc. All of which are technological innovations.

Also, how many variations of a to-do app does the world need?
Makes sense considering that movies are usually self-contained art pieces while games these days more of then than not try to upsell you DLC or microtransactions and TV series tend to be so drawn out that hey are cancelled before getting to the point.

Books are the odd one out in that they don't have this problem and as a result are still considered prestigious (probably moreso than movies) but instead suffer from lack of audiovisual communication.
I play tons of old games these days and if anything it reinforces just how shittier things have become.
last.fm is still there and you can still use it to discover new music!
Nice, anywhere we can try that out?
In the wise words of Grug:

> grug understand all programmer platonists at some level wish music of spheres perfection in code. but danger is here, world is ugly and gronky many times and so also must code be

https://grugbrain.dev/
Each department in my company can designate someone as a "critical man" so they can't change teams. However, those people usually get the highest possible ratings and raises. I've only seen it used maybe one time.
Something which can be applied to old people as well, not just some hand-waiving about old people dying anyway.
> I am also quite often seen as an asshole because ...

or ... you really are in fact (acting like) an asshole. speaking from own experience.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the feedback. It’s still nascent, so I really enjoy hearing stuff like this.