skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Canada has a higher population density than that of Alaska which is right next to it should they take it over for their protection after all the US is engaging with their enemy Russia?

Do you think they wouldn’t if the population and military strength of the two countries were reversed?

They won’t because they’re a tenth the population of the US, and less than that militarily.

> Second greenland isn't massive it only looks that way due to mercator projection map and the icesheet.

You’re factually wrong:

US is 9.9M km2; Canada is 10.0M km2; but Greenland is a hefty 2.2M km2; and for comparison, Alaska is 1.7M km2. If Greenland were an independent country, it would be the 13th largest.

Acquiring Greenland would be a gain of about 20%, and a larger contribution than Alaska.
This feels like bingo to me. The optional ”creative questions” will be filled by those who have more free time (ie not currently employed), and those who can use LLMs. If you want genuinely mission-passionate applicants you’ll need to talk to them, which means spending your time too, not just theirs.
Android is on the roadmap, but we haven't started yet. Please comment on and upvote the issue!

https://changemap.co/ntl/reflect/task/9239-android-version-o...
This sounds like it came from a chatbot because you're mixing up all sorts of things, some sounding basically nonsensical, full of magic numbers, and then stating it in a plainly defacto and confident fashion. It's nonsensical and completely pointless to engage with.
There are some RPN calculators from SwissMicros that are inspired by HP’s RPN calculators from the 1980s and 1990s:

https://www.swissmicros.com/products

There is also the HP-15c Collector’s Edition (I have one), which is still in stock:
https://www.thecalculatorstore.com/c/hp15c

Two caveats:

1. These RPN calculators are not cheap.

2. Many standardized tests have lists of approved calculators, and it’s possible that the calculators I mentioned might not be on the list. TI has dominated the education market in the United States for the past few decades, and even during the heyday of HP’s RPN calculators, HP largely focused on engineers and other professionals rather than education. Thus, you may need to buy a TI calculator for exam purposes.

I love RPN calculators: I have a HP-48X that I bought used on eBay nearly 20 years ago when I was an undergrad, and my aforementioned HP-15c Collector’s Edition. However, these are collectibles for me; as a computer science professor I’m always in front of a computer, and thus I have access to the Unix dc command whenever I need an RPN calculator, and for more complex computations I have my choice of Excel and various programming languages.
I started taking 1 x 50mg CBD gummy in the morning about 2 months ago and I can confirm that it is better than L-theanine. My analysis-paralysis is gone. I am moving forward with my life better than I have in 15 years.

I was one of the commenters in the HN thread linked by the blog post, and I do find that L-theanine reduces my coffee jitters.
Congratz on the launch! needed a tool like this :)
Green Room (2015). Yelchin was a talented guy and (would have) had a solid career. Patrick Stewart is also cast well against type in that flick.
> It’s no good nursing your private resentments for years, while telling your boss once a week that everything’s fine, and then suddenly walking out on them.

Strongly disagree with this point. Your departure should be an enormous shock to management, otherwise you've just spent weeks or months mouthing off about work to them, they've not fixed anything and indeed might even have lined up your replacement already.
First it was Facebook, now it’s Twitter / X. What you’re essentially saying is - “I can’t take a platform seriously where many / most of the people disagree with me.”
These bankrupt theories have been debunked long ago. The other comments in reply to yours did that well. The first video is literally Putin speaking, the second one is a list of Kremlin talking points, just with an Indian voice.

The term “NATO expansion” for example, is propaganda. Countries that had suffered under the Russian/Soviet oppression looked for protection when the USSR collapsed and requested to join the alliance.
It probably reads the signs. My 2020 Civic has it too, but it almost never works properly because of the way speed limits are signaled here. Intersections here cancel the speed limit signs that are before them, but the car expects to see an extra crossed-out sign so it still shows the wrong limit on the dash. Thankfully, it doesn't beep or warn about it.
a closed source browser is no go for me.
What is the feature set you're looking for? There are symptom-specific apps and track anything apps, but I'm unaware of any that combines both into a generic solution. We have a roadmap item to implement things on Android. https://changemap.co/ntl/reflect/task/9239-android-version-o...
They might want to push Privacy Pass with their own browser. It requires an extension on Chrome and Firefox.
I'm the same. I've taken caffeine pills and not noticed it. I can also just drink tea/coffee and then sleep.
Tried using it, it generates key but after pasting it, registration fails. Is it currently live?
While "superpower" is hype - walking is darn close to optimal for action barriers, and cost, and KISS.
Is there some actual proof that Go code is less prone to runtime errors or more maintainable or easier to debug because of this?

Surely, if Go's method of error handling is superior to every other programming language, there must be some meaningful statistical side effects that can be observed to prove it right? Lower rate of runtime errors, faster time to debug errors, etc. Someone out there in academia must have been able to actually measure this effect if it exists?

If not, can team Go stop going on and on about how superior their excess keystrokes are?
The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't
I think it’s always important to have ambitious life goals. Goals can be career-related. But at least a few should be about your personal life. So, for me, it has always been easy to decide when to go. Is work helping me reach my goals or standing in my way?

As an example, in the early 2000’s I had a comfortable, well-paying job in IT. But I wanted to be a part of something bigger. I wanted to be an expert, pushing the boundaries of science. For awhile, my job helped me pay for school—my extra training directly benefitted the projects I worked on. But eventually, I could see that I was not going to achieve my goals. And even though I loved my job, and my coworkers, it was clear that I had to leave. I do not regret my decision, even though I took a big pay cut to go to grad school, for a long time.

If you don’t have goals, though… god help you.
Meta blogs—aka blogs about blogging—are a common theme on the Hacker News front page. So are blogs about making blogs.

I’m not denigrating anyone’s effort here, but the greatest trick behind blogging consistently is simply picking up the keyboard and starting to write. There’s no other secret sauce.

As you write more, you’ll find your own style and the set of methods that work for you. This is one thing I’ve learned from continuously putting out stuff[1] for the last six years.

LLMs can be helpful, but they aren’t a replacement for thought. Pretty, JS-infested sites are mostly a big time waster unless you’re writing about something interesting. The same goes for scripted processes. You write, read, edit, and hit publish. How many eyeballs your blog gets has little to do with how perfectly you nail your theme. More often than not, it’s a bit of luck and being authentic.

It took four years before my write-ups started hitting the front page here. That was never my intention. I wrote for myself, and some people eventually found it useful. I don’t follow any of these scripted processes and would rather focus on the topic than the process itself. Too much focus on the process and a little too little on the subject.

[1]: https://rednafi.com/
> I'm not from India but will be taking the test just for fun

Feel free to do their work for them for free.
RU has reliably said they would respond to NATO expansion or pulling UKR away from RU influence. RU has also reliably sent gas to EU while responding to efforts by US+EU to swing UKR. RU under Putin is geopolitically reliable, at least in realist sense.

EU are reliable vassals, but they're reliable in the sense that their vassalage doesn't add much to strategic balance, especially vs PRC. EU/NATO bluntly net drain in US security commitments and trade balance. Like EU could have been buying 100s of billions more in US arms and LNG, US looking at the 2T+ trade deficit with EU in last 20 years and wondering if that's worth the hegemon privilege. EU + most US partners think they have a tributary system where vassal supports the hegemon, but it's really an expensive client state system where US pays off vassals. Looking at projected US finances - they can't afford to pay off everyone anymore. Also bluntly, US vassals aren't going to reverse payment flow and become tributaries. If it comes to parity burden share as past US admins has pressured, there's less reason to even be "partners" and more reason for EU to try to be their own pole.
> It's not, though. The passkey itself is strictly a single factor.

The passkey alone is not sufficient to log in. You must also provide a successful response to the WebAuthn challenge from an authenticator that has been registered/configured with that passkey.

> That's kinda the point, to reduce user toil.

It's almost as if letting people elect to enter their secure, never-written-down-anywhere-else passphrase would accomplish that.
This is the first time I've seen a self-study with l-theanine in the context of stress relief. In fact, somehow, it's the first time I've ever seen stress relief mentioned on the topic. For me it has always been about providing a small cognitive boost. The result is clear: for this particular individual, and the specific goal of stress relief, l-theanine does not work.

My anecdote: I used l-theanine supplement for about a year straight. To me, the noticable effect was similar to that of a cup of coffee but with practically none of the jitters.
This is what Brave Search does too with Goggles.
I believe the torture word shouldn't be used here because that's something much much worse that I wouldn't want anybody to experience.

But it's clear that he isn't punished enough and got away with an easy fake prison if he's still commiting crimes.
> actual goal is cost reduction

For many companies the largest cost is labor. Also in many companies, managers amass power by the number of people they manage. If the C-suite doesn't explicitly push for layoffs they will likely not happen, causing them to not reduce costs as quickly as they wanted.
fortunately* citzen science was replaced by solid methods... this is a long fancy self reported post on a metric that is easily figured out by biomarkers (stress levels). what's the consequences if the author decided to make some claim about a substance?
What should be considered “vital functions”? Last time I drove an VW car, it had buttons for almost everything, including most infotainment functions, right on the steering wheel and column. Cruise control, lane keeping, all sorts of alert options and so on, all easily accessible.

Do we consider things like air conditioning, heated seats and so on something the driver absolutely needs to change while they drive?
You notice it and tell it what to use instead
That's another take. Never thought of it that way.
You own the physical disc, but I would imagine the content is licensed.
> That is why it is wrong to simply assume Russia is weak.

russia is weaker than they have been since 1991, possibly 1950.

There is a reason they are now delivering ammo using mules and actually attempting old school cavalry charges on horseback.

And it it's not because donkeys are better than the armoured, tracked towing tractors or because actual horses are better than tanks.
It actually does solve the problem safely and effectively. The fact you don't recognise this is a driver training failure.

I mean this in the most charitable way possible - you should refrain from driving until you rectify this issue, either through self reflection or remedial training. Until then, you are a danger to yourself and others.
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Researchers find an undocumented "backdoor" in Chinese made ESP32 microchip
Even more crazy than caffeine interaction.
You're right in the short term but look how quickly the required outcomes from United States v. Microsoft Corp were relaxed and eventually ignored.
I love Discworld, both its universum and characters like Death and Vimes, yet author first proves that they lack cognitive abilities to understand and position Tolkien's work, then gives hints that their understanding of Roundworld is as superficial as is the character of Discworld, which is no less a work of escapism as is Middle-Earth.

People tend to mistake sarcasm and satire with realistic and valuable insight. If, for example, you want to understand something about war in our Roundworld, do not read LotR or Jingo. Read Thucidydes.
I used to get more done within an hour on the sofa next to my ex watching her shows, than I did in the four hours preceding it at my desk.

As a single guy now, I have the "leisure" to stretch my work hours far longer into the night and I get just as much done as when I was with her.
Well I think that it's a bit of waste of time and money to spend so much to adjust articles to please some people that, in my opinion, are complaining about unimportant things.

I don't see how it's a big problem in our society that medical texts aren't explicitly acknowledging the existense of "other genders" when it's not even relevant.

Why don't we focus ourselves on real world problems?

I'm not necessarily supporting that they're changing stuff back now, but I'm also not necessarily supporting the changes in the first place. I think it's a silly fight between idealists in opposite camps. And to be honest, I think the idealists in the opposite camp had too much of a run, and it went way too far, and now the other side is trying to win back some ground, and of course they also exaggerate and go too far. But maybe we will eventually end up in in the balanced middle. So in that sense I'm not too worried about these changes. Also because I don't think it's a very important issue anyway compared to the many issues going on in the world. I think LGBT people are living in the best time ever. I think there is more acceptance, recognition and tolerance for that, more than ever before. So I don't understand why some people are pushing this forward so much as if it is a major issue. If you let the current trend continue, it will get better by itself. Now that they are pushing for it so much it actually works contraproductive, as you can see. Many people now are fed up with all these changes where we need to make a special arrangement for these people. But that is actually the opposite of equality. So I can understand that many people are getting fed up with it and want to get rid of it.

So I don't see a threat here. I don't think that there are many people that actively wants to erradicate the LBGT movement, of course there are always extremists, but it's not the majority. People just want that we can live our lives without having to take someones preferred pronoun into account all the time. We want to do our work, we don't want to be a personal therapist for every LBTQ person.

The fact only that this abbreviation is being updated all the time because some new group feels excluded itself shows how pathetic this whole thing is. Why can't we just say that we are all human, and be done with it? Why would I care if some document from the government names me by my biological gender? That doesn't define who you are.

You know you can make a problem out of anything if you want. I could be upset because my preffered color is green and I want the letters to be in green font. And I can start a whole religion based on that and get many people all worked up about the fact that they're receiving letters where their preferred color is ignored. It doesn't sound that weird actually, now in these times. 20 years ago it would have been a joke.
I suspect they strolled into the wrong part of the internet.
As a CS undergrad who has worked with C and C++ for assignments but generally sucks at it, I needed this article. Thanks so much for sharing!
This would be more true of management did not play BS with the numbers constantly.

I worked at a firm that for 2-3 years straight would report great Q1,Q2,Q3 numbers.. tell employees it's looking like a good year. And then Q4 report a total wipeout loss that negated the quarterly earnings and swung the company to flat or a loss. Whoops, sorry, no raises, cutting bonuses.. and need to do some layoffs.

Behavior like this reminds us that the numbers are not real real in a scientific sense, but only in a relativistic accounting sense.
The fact that people who think they know it all really piss off those of us who do.
India already got burned.

Their previous orders have still not been delivered since they were sent to the frontlines in Ukraine.

I doubt India will want to repeat that.
> It's quite easy to do most things you would want by just writing some code

OK, I want a similar thing to ActiveRecord - with all the features, is that quite simple to build?

Now you'll tell me I probably don't want an ORM at all. But lets say I do, lets say many people find value in these things.
"No unexpected uncaught exception logs blowing up your terminal"

Yeah, this one jumped out to me, too. I like exceptions in my logs when something unexpected happens.
You appear to be detached from any actual reality. Your ramblings about Canada "openly engaging" with the CCP are so fantastically nonsensical that it boggles the mind.

But yes, do you not understand why the US spent the last half century preventing nuclear proliferation? Trump has ramped up nuclear projects worldwide. And it just turns out that the US -- specifically because of people like you -- is the natural enemy of a lot of other nations. Nuclear proliferation will especially harm the United States. It is an utter certainty.

I mean...Trump specifically said that he doesn't care about such things because he "won't be around". Still gets votes by large numbers of possibly the stupidest nation on Earth.
The headline is what people want to read but has little to do with reality.

My non-US positions have done shockingly nothing the past few years.

Chinese equities were practically being given away a year ago.

At some point there was going to be rotation but believe what you want. Of course, news headlines about the market are never wrong!
> war mongers

> endless

It’s a bit interesting to me that I’ve seen this point of view enough to know precisely the propaganda talking points made in Russian media.
Because worst case scenario they can get their candidate to do some free labor?
In many HPC cases you are using the platform tools, not gfortran.

Also we have one use case that is responsible for OpenCL losing mindshare for scientific community, running Fortran on GPU.

Thus I bet at least Intel, NVidia, AMD, Cray, IBM, being relevant ones.

Yes, some of them are planning to eventually adopt LFortran to replace their own, like they did with clang, or at least are using LLVM nowadays.
> However, in other languages, it may not be clear that your code is not handling a potential exception in a try catch code block, being completely opaque about handling your control flow.

In other words, Go's error handling is an even less ergonomic way to do checked exceptions than Java's checked exceptions.

I'm of the opinion that Java was right all along and they just didn't have the inference tools to make it ergonomic at the time, but I'm in a tiny minority there, and most of this article could have been swapped out as a defense of checked exceptions, while the rest is a subjective defense of the syntax.

And then there are the things that checked exceptions give you that Go's errors don't:

* Automatic stack traces. No need to decide that the error is "actionable to developers" and remember to load a library and wrap the error, errors have stack traces. I can't emphasize this enough.

* You can opt out of the line-by-line exception handling by just declaring that your function can throw. The line-by-line manual handling is only valuable in cases where your functions are very long and might throw many errors (problematic for other reasons) or if you don't have stack traces and need to piece line numbers together by hand (see above).

There are other flaws in Java's implementation, but it's been very frustrating to see how many of the new languages just reinvented Java's checked exceptions but worse instead of iterating on them.
Second that, scrum teams having 3 business analysts, scrum master, product owner, ops/it, ux designer, 2 testers, 4 developers is basically how it goes.

Blaming developers in such scenarios is silly.
The things people say aren't truly independent, even when they are. Like when Charles Sheffield and Arthur C. Clarke wrote novels with the same plots at the same time, they were working independently, but they weren't culturally independent.

Besides, even if several people independently assert "tying a ribbon to a wishing tree cured my warts", that's not an explanation of what actually took place. If repeated observations with unbiased instruments confirm this, then there's something wrong with the instruments (or something), until you have an explanation.

(But saying things like that usually prompts people to bring up cosmology or particle physics or other fields where we really do have to resort to saying "the measurements say it's happening, we'll have to assume it's happening" without understanding much.)
NATO Operations Chief's Five Lessons Learned from War in Ukraine
GM is a great example, Intel as well, that its rarely the engineers fault. You can have great talent but if management is dead set on bad decisions over & over, theres nothing to be done.

And the decision to overhire/overfire, set bad strategy, etc all resides in the C-Suite who rarely fire each other or themselves when it all goes wrong. It's only the employees that suffer for every mis-step.
I prefer zooming for reading code. Horizontal scrolling divs are horrible.
Brexit was about repealing long-term commitments for short-term gain, and a healthy does of FU to closest partners for domestic publicity. Oh and the short term gains never materialised, it was all costs in the end.

I see this as analogous. US is maybe reaping some short term benefits from flipping on its allies, but burning the bridges it very much relies on.
Like, writing binaries directly? Is assembly code too much of an abstraction?
I'm sure many people love that we have apparently entered a new higher level programming paradigm, where we describe in plain English what we want, but I just can't get my brain to accept it. It feels wrong.
> Starlink has already lost orders due to the current discussions and the close relationship between Musk and Trump. ... Ontario, Italy, Mexico,... As a result, Musk lost around 7 billion US dollars, as the company had distributed the satellite internet in 25 countries.
I often tell cursor to "Keep the changes to an absolute minimum, don't do anything out of scope". I find it helps prevent a sneaky component structure/CSS class change or something along these lines
We should use xcancel instead.
This starts off immediately with in-group/out-group tribal mindset:

> Go's infamous error handling has caught quite the attention from outsiders to the programming language, often touted as one of the language's most questionable design decisions.

> Although it may seem redundant and unnecessary for those new to the language

I have plenty Go experience, yet think the lack of sum-types is iffy. But I don't identify as a true-blue "gopher" so I guess I must be an outsider that just doesn't get it.