skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in the end your position boils down to "but, but Russian aggression!!111". You were unable to refute any of the evidence of Nord Stream 2 being a commercial project first and foremost presented in my comments. When I gave you hard numbers, you've continued to repeat the baseless assertions about Europe becoming more "dependent" on Russia. BTW try to calculate on how much this "dependency" will increase in the ultra-optimistic for Russia scenario of Nord Stream 2 being used at full capacity.

When you started to talk about the climate change, I've countered with the well recognized deep connection between natural gas and renewables at the current moment in history and presented the dirtiest Poland energy sector as a counter-example, on which you've replied with another apologetic propaganda line "but, but independence from Russia!!!11".

>It was Russia that annexed part of its territory and this is unacceptable

More unacceptable than bombing of Yugoslavia and recognition of Kosovo by the West? Or US' military invasions into Iraq and later Syria unsanctioned by the UN? I know that you'll reply with another "but, but it's different!" rooted in the deep and naive belief that the West lead by the US is always right and always on the side of "good guys". Also don't forget that even the Western polls admit that Crimeans overwhelmingly support the unification with Russia and this support again has deep historic and cultural roots. Now compare this effectively bloodless "annexation" with Ukraine blatantly killing its own citizens in Donbas using unconstitutionally deployed military forces.

I recommend for you to widen your horizons outside of propaganda templates and learn more about Russia. Right now you think about it not as of country with its own thoughts, believes, phobias, and interests on the world stage, but as of a pure evil incarnate whose only wish is to see the world burn. Note that in all wars the first thing propaganda does is dehumanization of enemies. I hope you can see the similarity.

A good start would be this lecture read in Yale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ
Perhaps I'm deeply misinformed, but as a hedge against a modest amount of regular inflation, stocks generally perform quite well over the long term - especially when compared against other asset categories.
I'm not sure I understand your comment.

Bank credits are auditable, because there are some precise algorithm around them. Humans created the algorithm specifically so that it is interpretable. Then they must apply it the same way to everybody. They can't just say "oh, I think this person is more likely to actually reimburse, I play golf with him and I trust him !"

This is a specific case where no black box will ever be used (at least I hope).
Here’s more, including “the 12 criteria that need to be satisfied in order to deliver a vaccine passport“: https://royalsociety.org/news/2021/02/12-challenges-for-vacc... (or way more: https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/set-c/set-c...)
meh the dark ages are well studied and any minor effort to find some information on it will get someone more and more accurate information on it than asking on HN. It's the kind of question that has a short but useless answer that fits on hackernews 'fall of rome bad for progress' but the answer you should get is to go put in some basic effort and look it up - its easy to find information on using the terms 'dark ages'.
Of the 30 stories currently featured on the NPR website, 1 is about race
South Korea’s Answer to Amazon, Coupang, Debuts on Wall Street
And especially today, when tech megacorps attempt to copy every successful product on any of their platforms, doubling-down on doing one thing extremely well is your best defense because that's what they struggle with
> while antifa members haven't killed any

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_an...

Yesterday:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/imez-wrigh...

Edit:

This just in! https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1370281113239891969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWsJ8SvlMY

Antifa are clearly one of the most violent organisations active today. Borderline terrorists (= "action or threat designed to influence the government or intimidate the public").
Jonathan Blow has an excellent talk on this topic in relation to software.

https://youtu.be/pW-SOdj4Kkk
To me its crazy too about how the rioters in the Capitol are rightly prosecuted, but the riots in Portland Federal Courthouse as still going on and nytimes wont even mention it.

EDIT: I hate bringing politics on HN, but cnn/nytimes have become the mirror of fox. Biden/Democrats are wonderful and do no wrong, Trump/GOP are always doing bad things. Just as the Taibbi article says.
Pretty cool - but why is it that so many people in LATAM don't have credit cards? Does the existence of neobanks (I'm thinking Revolut, N26, etc.) change much in your thinking about the market?
No, I don't. And please stop spreading outright lies. And posting inflammatory comments, a look at the guidelines wouldn't hurt neither.
BTW how do you use keyboard to select terminal text in the first place? Also, is there a way to use clipboard in text mode consoles (without X)?
Starlink, for me, is the same price as cable internet, once the teaser price on the latter expires.
I know a certain Jesus Christ who would disagree with you. In seriousness though, visiting poor rural American during Trump is a really numbing experience. You see the people there flagging Trump signs everywhere while living in dirt poor conditions. It is hard not to emphasize with them even though they are calling for everything you are fighting against.

After all, the establishment has failed those people. The democratic party has severely failed them. Democracy it self has failed them. I know that really capitalism has failed them and they would find better answers under socialism then under Trump (after all Trump has failed them as well). But you must still understand where this is coming from. That is you must empathize with them, even though their views are wrong.
I’m, I just not willing to wait for them. It also tells me that they are not interested in the company, and the best people both good and interested. And yes, it saves money (both hiring and motivated folks produce more) - no surprise here

Fun fact, that when I’m looking for a job I will be arguing like you.
I gather this is somewhat disputed. In particular, spacetime already exists in some capacity in eternal inflation models.
Ask HN: Open-source cloud storage written Ruby on Rails
Does it exist?

I looked at a bounty the nextcloud project posted [1] and felt overwhelmed with the source code. I'm thinking a properly managed RoR project would be more accessible to extern contributors.

1
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/96704088-calendar-sends-duplicate-notifications-if-there-is-an-additional-attendee
People throw around "debunked" like it's final. In reality, it's just a lazy dismissal without substance.

You want to say he's wrong about something, say what it is and give a reason. Otherwise you're just avoiding actual critical thought.

(Also, I have no idea who Peter Turchin is. I just don't like it when people inflict their defective thinking on others.)
I switched to "PDF Expert" (developer is Readdle I think) on the mac and its equivalent on mobile. Its easier to use than Acrobat ever was and costs less per year.
In the title. However, I am sure, having listened to NPR almost every day, that most of those stories contain an explicit "racial analysis" segment. It is also possible that the written content is less race obsessed than what airs on the radio. I know when I am listening to NPR driving to work I hear racially focused stories back to back every single day as if there was absolutely nothing else interesting to talk about.
Nope. Several of the vaccines are cheaper. Even the most expensive are about the same.

https://www.drugs.com/price-guide/ivermectin

> The cost for ivermectin oral tablet 3 mg is around $79 for a supply of 20 tablets, depending on the pharmacy you visit. Prices are for cash paying customers only and are not valid with insurance plans.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-much-will-it-cost...

> Moderna, a two-dose vaccine, recently announced each dose will go for around $32 to $37. The Pfizer vaccine, also given in two doses, is expected to cost $19.50 a dose. Each dose for Johnson & Johnson’s two-dose vaccine will cost an estimated $10, and AstraZeneca’s two-dose vaccine could be the cheapest at just $3 to $4 a dose. Novavax’s two-dose vaccine is estimated to be $16 a dose.
The scam goes as follows.

'We have detected fraudulent activity, call us back with the number on the card.'

You hang up. They don't. You pick up the phone, and dial the number on the card.

Depending on how landline phone routing works in your area, you hanging up does not end the call. You picking up the phone again resumes the previous call, you dialing some numbers does nothing, the scammer makes some telephony noises, and goes ahead and resumes their conversation with you.

Nothing to fall for, eh?

Also, please keep in mind, we are apes. The logical centers of our brains turn off when your bank calls you to tell you that you are being robbed. Especially if your mind isn't as sharp as it used to be.
If you want to go deeper, I can recommend Jo Marchant's book on the device as a lovely summary of what it does, the research history and how it all relates to the rest of world history.
> The only thing a sorted linked list is really good for is being able to cheaply peek/pop the lowest- or highest-valued item, and a heap is almost always better for that use-case in practice.

Or cheaply peek/pop the middle items, and reinsert a middle item. As is the most common operation in Knuth's solution to the exact cover problem (aka: Dancing Links / Algorithm X)

There's also benefits to middle-operations, such as text editing (although text files are so small that inefficient operations aren't a big deal anymore).

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Linked Lists also can be "merged" together, in a sort of "inverse tree" sort of way.

Consider the following data: "ABCDEFG", "123ABCDEFG", and "111ABCDEFG".

The two array representations are obvious. But Linked-Lists can optimize that into:

* A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F -> G

* 1 -> 1 -> 1 -> A ...

* 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> A ...

This has come up a lot for me in a recent toy problem I've been working on. A lot of sub-lists happen to be have the same "ending" as other lists, so I'm merging the linked lists and saving precious RAM (I'm building up GBs of data: so saving redundant chunks like this really wins)
Oh ok thanks for suggestions I’ll check them out
This happens in Linux apps as well. Vendors like Discrete will have restrictions on what kernel version, which distro, what hardware that is really no different. With a Mac, you just don't have a choice on the hardware to install. On Linux, you have a choice, but only from the 2 options listed and you have to build it yourself.
Stats Canada claims lockdowns, not Covid-19, are now driving ‘excess deaths’
The data on that USB drive will deteriorate over a couple decades. NAND memory generally isn't an adequate format for archival purposes.
Engineering at its worst and marketing at its worst have contradictory value systems.

At their best though, they are as harmonious as art and mathematics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZ_E1OO_PY
> The point of a union should not be to collu[d]e to raise prices. The point of a union should be to pool market power and resources

These are just different words for the same thing.
Crypto is the best financial system designed. Period.
I would argue that many of these changes the world is going throught are technological in principle.

the perpsective that the pandemic merely accelerated already ongoing trends towards remote work, and the growth of internet-centric society?

i.e. all because of the internet?? I know it's a stretch...
The m1 is basically the a14, which is rumored to go into the $350 base ipad real soon now. That’s their profitable entry level laptop.
I don't think you can reply to say, a slack message from it

I think Slack post-dates BlackBerry but you could definitely reply to e.g. a FB message from within it. BB wrote and maintained their own FB connector to facilitate it, FB never shipped a BB app.
This was also featured in Rough Translation: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/21/915299467/how-to-be-an-anti-c....
Having replaced afl - which google barely maintains these days - with afl++ in all of my fuzzing projects, I can heartily endorse it! Keep up the good work
It'll be interesting to see what changes they actually propose. Id assume they would want to avoid threatening the EU adequacy decision so would go with some changes that would score them some points with businesses but without materially affecting contents of the current legislation.
Yes I heard that too. Like you can tell from the name, or the length of the name, something. I think if India gets rid of that part most Indians should be pretty happy...
> a square foot or three of tightly packed grow space [...] is enough to feed a person

That seems insanely optimistic to me. I've done a lot of reading about people's attempts to feed themselves with home-grown agriculture, and it's way more difficult than many assume. I would multiply that square footage requirement about 1000x before even trying it-- and that's if all possible relevant research is implemented and everything goes smoothly.

I tried & failed to find an article I read a few years ago which broke down a whole bunch of the math behind this, but here is a video that matches pretty closely with what I've read elsewhere (despite being short on sources):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926Z6wzf278
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> Not only would they disagree with you, but their strategy actually works. Leftists, "wokeness", and social justice wouldn't be the hot topics they've been if the strategy of leftists weren't effective.

Is the goal of social justice movements just to be hot topics? Your statement makes it seem like success is measured by the amount of retweets or something. Clearly that can't be true, but if global fascism and ethnic nationalism is on the rise, what actual victories can this strategy claim to have won?

In general I think there has been progress, but it's all come from other corners: economics, regulatory reforms, art, and so on. Other than getting attention, are there any specific things you're thinking of when you say this strategy has been effective?
Maoists and National Bolsheviks are a really small minority inside leftist circles, you will have to look for a long time before you encounter one in the wild. And when you do, and if you are a leftist, you will most likely shun them. Racism is usually not tolerated by the left.
> even iTunes used an installer made by a third party! That felt very un-Apple to me.

Yes, everything installed differently, updated differently, and maintaining currency across a large application set was unreasonable without third party subscriptions like “Mac Update”! It was crazy.

And yet, it seems majority of HN wants to rewind from the App Store which was created as to assist users and devs with that problem.
I agree nostalgia can cloud judgement but there has been a fundamental shift in the nature of farming in the last few decades.

Btw, this is a perspective from Europe - the same thing has happened with family farming here. While I didn't grow up on one, I spent a lot of time on my grandparent's farm.

Farming has never been easy but the amount of capital required (represented by land, livestock and machinery) to run an economically viable farm has increased enormously increasing the risk. By viable I mean profitable enough to provide an average family with a median income.

My grandparents raised 4 kids, putting 3 of them through 3rd level education and never really wanted for much purely on income from a 90 acre farm. All their neighbours and the entire landscape was covered with family farms of this size plus or minus. What's left now are some old bachelors barely surviving or part-timers (who generally inherited the land) with "real" jobs who keep some dry stock or rent out their land to big producers.

It's sad to see a way of life disappear but I don't see any alternative. From an economic perspective, it can only be supported by transferring income from others to small farmers. This is effectively what happened in the past through higher prices paid for agricultural produce. As a share of disposable income, spending on food is a fraction (well under 10% in the west) of what it was in the past - which hurt the poor disproportionally.
If you think about the Press as being the SEC, and the political elite as Wall Street, what we have today is a full regulatory capture of the corporate media by each political party.

The GOP got Fox, WSJ, and a bunch of smaller players.

The Democrats got basically everything else.

It should be noted that only the elite, corporate friendly wings of each party controls these media orgs. Not the more grassroots elements.
Non-brahmin here. First question asked by my every new brahmin acquaintance was my surname. I think there were more than just a few idiots.
Maybe because one is actually a treasonous riot and the other just a protest?
Sometimes though, the engineering exists to create art. Because we are all human and we all in our own way yearn to answer the question "What is beauty?"

Including the folks at Valve.
I believe Garland was asked about this specific issue in his hearing. He said that the distinction was that in Portland the 'riots' are not disrupting the normal function of government.
You can have cooperation without price-fixing.
I'm not saying there aren't many more points of weakness. I'm just saying there is value in data being proactively removed from places that the company has control of.
You're talking about arenas, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management
I think part of the reason they evolved this way is because iOS has a shared calendar database which is surfaced by the API called EventKit, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/eventkit.

This also exists on macOS and WatchOS, but I think it existed in iOS first.
What are the CHAZ and new George Floyd autonomous zones then?

How are people declaring themselves an independent 'commune' _not communist?

How many people died in and around of those zones?

Maybe my comment was inflammatory, but there is evidence for the underlying point I'm making.
An engaging journey into the heart of darkness...
> The fall of the Roman empire was essentially a post-apocalyptic event for the West. The economic and political collapse of Rome's satellite states halted the progress of technological and cultural development across subsequent generations.

"Halted" and "post-apocalyptic" are strong words. The Fall of Rome was a very long and drawn out event, and plenty of technological and cultural development continued after the Fall. r/AskHistorians has many good posts[1] describing why the "Dark Ages" weren't Dark and the various advances made during the post-Rome pre-Rennasiance period.

A lot of people think that technological and philosophical progress stopped after Rome, when really it just isn't talked about. In my opinion, this is probably because it's a lot more exciting to talk about Roman architecture since many buildings still exist today, rather then the three-field system and mould-board plows that kept the population alive.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/235w3l/why_a...
> The other side of the coin could be they’re getting funded because yc likes the founders :)

I think you're entirely correct. It's akin to hiring, sometimes the best prospect isn't the one with the most relevant experience.
Ken Dryden was not a butterfly goalie. Almost no one was until Patrick Roy popularized it.
Not starless, surely. Stars like Sirius and Betelgeuse should be visible just about anywhere, and that gets you 8-500ish years back at least.
> For those with less context into social dancing, this is because the typical default "stance" is offset to avoid stepping on each other's feet - each partner's right foot is roughly aligned with their partner's midline.

I presume that is in ballroom.

For Latin, Tango and Swing which are all mentioned: Simply not true. Your hips are so far apart that it doesn't matter.

That being said: you ideally have a key/change pocket in your pants. Or even better, a beltline interior pocket. The latter is where I keep my keys when dancing tango. On the right side btw. You can't tell from the outside.

These pockets are sadly not available in off-the-shelf clothing any more since maybe around the 1940's.

The reason is twofold: you won't feel your keys/change as much and from the outside you wont have anything ruining your leg's silhouette. Left or right. :-P
There's no reason for a bank to be particularly impacted by GDPR. That makes no sense.
The mental gymnastics to reach this conclusion (assuming you are not being scarcastic) are astounding!
Any set of people who choose to cooperate and work as a group will consistently dominate when in competition with people who act as individuals. It's less human nature and more the nature of any system with actors and competition, and unless you see sex going away the world will involve both. You can drop out of the race of life if you want, but I wouldn't count on others doing it anytime soon.
Indeed. An Electron app sitting there in the menu bar using 500Mb of memory is just a waste. Sums up modern development unfortunately.
O365? Outlook.com is terrible. Crazy a** js that doesn't mark messages as read with no discernible way to reliably trigger that, shows me the email message version from before spell check as I am waiting for it to send, super laggy, arcane hover triggered menus that want to do a million undocumented things, just to get an email address from an email chain, etc. The only two worse online experiences for me are logging in to att.com and trying to shop on homedepot.com. Microsoft should not be in a discussion with those two head-lice.
That's a nice product shot, Jeff.
Philadelphia only has two subway lines but still has this problem because they run roughly parallel, about a mile and a half apart, for a bit. As a result both lines have stops called "Spring Garden" and "Girard" named after streets that intersect both lines.
> It absolutely does work. A little bit, at first, when you have broad consensus backing you - but it does work. People will begrudgingly change their behavior for relatively minor things, and the change in the use rate of racial epithets in public reflects that.

The only change is that you now have a bunch of people who are afraid to use a handful of naughty words in public because they might lose their job over it. You haven't changed any minds or hearts, you've just moved the conversations into private rooms. You can't end racism by just shaming people for using the n-word. It's arguably just as bad now as it was during the Civil Rights era, but you can't easily see it anymore because it's mostly kept within "friendly" company.