skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had not heard about that, but I'm glad for it. I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I try to throw money at them, in a somewhat haphazard way. I'd do it a lot more consistently if I could just push a button in the app.

Being able to skip the ads would be a nice bonus, though I'll admit that I use the existing features to skip ad breaks extensively. (I still end up hearing enough that I'm familiar with the products, and even try to patronize them. In fact, I need some new socks...)
I think this is mainly a psychological move. It has people talking about nuclear fallout, radiation etc. That's the point.
The Black Sea separates Russia and Turkey while an invasion staged from Ukraine could cut Russia off from the Black Sea in a few days. Very different security concerns.

(Of course “Turkiye” becoming a member of Nato in these times would have been a joke considering Erdoğan. But maybe I’m just showing my naivete.)
Because their airspace extends over mainland china...
That having nuclear weapons is literally the only way to prevent a neighbor from annexing your country.
My favorite thing about rust is that it has no magic "don't look behind the curtain and your programs will be safe" guard - instead, you define the guard yourself; it's just unnecessary for 99% of code, and within the 1% where you are defining your own curtain the borrow checker et al still try to uphold outside guarantees, making it difficult to shoot _anything_ besides the correct target with rust.
EU and US response to Russia is totally ineffective. They should have moved troops in from the beginning.
Hate it when articles don't expand on abbreviations.
Yes, I want to read this. No, I have no heckling what IPFS is.
I think the last part of what you are saying is actually maybe closer to why the comparison seems apt to me. Trivial patents are another comparison. There's an Emperor has no clothes aspect of it to me, a focus on appearance of scientific prestige or rigor over actual substance. Ioannidis' "Why Most Scientific Findings are False" is maybe the best-known reference point, although I think that's maybe slightly different from, if related to, the underlying phenomena I have in mind.

HN maybe isn't the best forum to explain all of this but I'm quite jaded at this point with academics.

I don't want to come across as too negative either, as implying nothing works or there is no progress or something like that, but there's a huge disconnect between what I see personally in scientific circles in actuality vs the nominal narrative in terms of how ideas are taken up, how consensus is reached, what happens to accurate but dissenting perspectives, and how credit accrues. Some of it is common to our time, but some of it I think is amplified or something in the academic community.

I also realize at some level my experiences are not universal, but that there are a lot of people who feel the same (apparently) maybe just underscores my point.

When someone like Peter Higgs is saying he wouldn't be employable today (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...), scientific institutions should be paying closer attention and doing something about it.
Loved the audio. I thought this was a serious library and was wondering why anyone would use it for something so simple until it started to play music.
There should always be plenty of doubt in your mind if you're saying that the US will use nukes in any situation short of someone else using them first.
Except on AMP pages or on weird custom front ends. Long love plain html and css. Please don’t override the platform default scroll acceleration either!
https://i.reddit.com is easier to type
True, but the Russians are also counting on the idea that Ukrainian forces do not want to release that fallout back on to their own territory and that European forces do not want radioactive particles wafting back over into continental Europe.

Russia has calculated that while an attack would be bad for the Russian forces at Chernobyl, it would actually be much worse for the allied forces.
Any way to have the map update Russian positions inside Ukraine’s borders? I assume it’s difficult to differentiate the belligerents without a constant video feed.
Define "opposition". In any case, God forbids homosexual relationships. Whether the harms of such relationships are apparent to us or not is secondary.
> Ukraine is not a member of NATO, so options are somewhat limited

Ukraine not being in NATO means we aren’t obligated to intervene. We regularly intervene in various things without a treaty requiring it.
> I do however think its newsworthy that AMD has gotten to the point where it and Intel are trading spaces based on those fluctuations.

This is the point.
The EU and US have made serious mistakes in the process but it's hard to disagree with that conclusion. Either you have a fairly short(By necessity, since Ukraine is going to remain crossable with armor for maybe a couple more weeks before the entire country turns into a giant bog in spring) proxy war in Ukraine that kills a few thousand and transfers the territory from one bickering cabal of oligarchs to another or you risk global nuclear war with boots-on-the-ground intervention. Putin has been pretty clear that he'll use nukes in the event of a full NATO intervention.
Do you really understand the implications of that statement?
If I understand correctly, your central thesis is about deterring EU from attacking. It misses the point that Russia already has a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons to deter EU from attacking them. So, why would they rely on an 'offchance' 2nd-hand threat of fallout when they can just threaten to use their guaranteed-to-deter stockpile of weapons?
Why Is New Housing So Expensive?
Neon is a byproduct of producing liquid nitrogen, oxygen and other gas products.

Many other plants could start producing neon pretty easily. They just haven't so far because neon isn't profitable to produce and sell. But with a relatively-large but globally-insignificant price increase it would be.
> I don't buy the argument SROs were removed to get rid of Slums.

"Criticizing hotel life was one thing; effectively controlling it was another. By 1910, reformers had established the idea that hotel housing was a public nuisance. From 1900 through the 1940s, interlocking groups of reformers and landowners transformed objections about hotel life into practices to control living in hotels. For the goals of the culturally and socially reorganized new city to succeed, aberrant forms of housing had to be prevented and removed—slum and hotel alike. Yet gaining control was neither automatic nor preordained. Hotel housing was entrenched in some areas and in others, still expanding (fig. 8.1). A few handfuls of reformers had to do more than galvanize public opinion against the notion of living in hotels; they also had to establish whole new governmental organizations and procedures to give cities and states the necessary legal and bureaucratic power."
https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft6j49...

"As with the SFRA's applications of blight and nonbuilding, the actions of other hotel-closing agencies were not (in their own minds) aiming the wrecking ball at the homes of the poor but "eliminating dead tissue," "applying the scalpel," "clearing away the mistakes of the past," and building "an attractive new city." About a Norfolk, Virginia, hotel district, one planning journal editor reported in 1961 that "progress had reached the demolition stage." Local agents crowed that they had "reduced to rubble . . . scores of flophouses not renowned for adding luster to their city's good name."

https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft6j49...
All the "tags" systems I have seen rely on some underlying store -- like in database-based methods, there is main table data (K-V store) and indices (another K-V store); or in symlink-based tags, we use underlying filesystem as data store.

So the fundamental filesystem abstraction is K-V store. For efficiency reasons, based on common access pattern, this is often (but not always) implemented as a special kind of a tree.

The tags system builds on that and thus is higher level -- even in the Didgets, the main primitive is "open by id", an example of K-V store operations. The whole tags thing is a way to query that store.

The hierarchical filesystem also build on that -- but this time the key is (almost) arbitrary string, and the search operator does /-delimited prefix match.

There is no real abstraction change when we move from hierarchical files to tags. There is still same old underlying K-V, but we just added an alternative to readdir() (and maybe also forced every file to live in root directory)
Neither Iraq (1991+) nor Bosnia and Herzegovina (1993+) were NATO members, and it served its purpose there.

And hence declaring it before Russia invaded. Which forces Russia to choose to shoot down NATO aircraft, or operate outside those zones.
> Russian economy is in decline since 2014.

The vast, vast majority of the growth in US and EU economies since 2014 (really, much earlier than that, though) has been in fundamentally non-productive sectors like finance, real estate, entertainment, social media, and hospitality.

This is all well and good in peacetime, but the GDP calculation changes dramatically when you're on a war footing and need to produce actual tangible things. Russia looks much, much, much better economically than GDP suggests in the context of its ability to produce theater materiel, power that materiel, and man that materiel.

It's going to be a fun day for us when our pathetic "service-based economy" workforce of ad spent optimizers, real estate agents, attorneys, starbucks baristas, ReactJS programmers, UI designers, Buffalo Wild Wings servers, twitch streamers, instagram influencers, and "hustlers" of all kinds get drafted to fight hardened alcoholic roughnecks who've spent the last 20 years actually building things, backed up by Chinese rangefinders, optics, and target acquisition systems.

Good luck to us.
It does pose the question what would actually happen should someone bomb the sarcophagus.
> while the west sits there and debates.

What's the west supposed to do ? Send NATO forces and start ww3 / a nuclear war ?
I should have added heat as well. Having a motor rated for twice what you actually use helps keep things cool and running longer. Luna Cycle is a great company BTW.
Just skimming for what I was interested in, I don't see anything to suggest that a thicker atmosphere would provide support for a large land animal.

That would require structures in the animal kept at below ambient pressure. e.g. heated air sacs
I agree.

But it's better to have one kitchen for several units ("single rooms"), than none at all, and not even a single room.

Back to the beginning: I don't think that decrepit SRO buildings had to be perpetuated. But I suppose that moving people out of them should have included an offer of some other affordable housing, back in the time they were being removed, I need to find out what has been done.
I don't feel my question was rhetorical at all.

And if OP wishes to answer, and contradicts me, declaring themselves willing to go to jail for material not posted by them, but by a user of their forum, I will have to accept their perspective. I just stated mine.
Because... humor?
canola is probably the best out of the bunch but it's still too high in omega6s.

PUFAs - as cooking oils - should be totally and utterly avoided. People should be using butter, ghee, beef tallow, coconut oil, avocado oil (which is a little higher in omega6s that i'd like but it's mostly a monosaturated fat), duck fat, emu oil.

Macademia nut oil is higher in monosaturated fats than olive oil and has a higher smoke point, but it's expensive. Tallow, butter and coconut is where it's at for high heat cookiing.

Most seed, nut, corn, and vegetable oils are trash. Cottonseed, soybean, corn, canola, grapeseed, peanut, etc..
Russia has nuclear power. That’s the main reason.
We are also feeding those beans to cows, pigs, and I think chickens? People have been complaining about lineolic acid rising in these meats too.

In a way I think this gives some ammo to the vegetarian philosophy, but I'd like to know the lineolic acid content of tofu, since bean curd is not exactly equivalent to whole beans.
Thanks for replying!

Will definitely join the discord.
If we wipe ourselves out within 100,000 years, I'm not sure "intelligence" is a particularly advantageous trait, evolutionarily-speaking.
Why would they get out and let Ukrainians to recover and then continue active military opposition? It takes so much effort and money to even get in. Invasion shows commitment, Russians are going to stay just like Warsaw pact did in Czechoslovakia after 1968. They will attempt to install new puppet government and start draining out Ukraine's economic output.
They will definitely defend Poland. They won't nuke, not even tactically.
Well he invented fighting, and he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honour.

Then he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on Earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one...
Russia and China have developed their own equivalent of SWIFT, so again this is a sanction which will benefit Russia just like the oil price going up will benefit them because Russia has the largest oil reserves in the world.

Plus with Chernobyl, some of the fuel rods may well be weapons grade still, and Chernobyl almost bankrupted Russia, it certainly helped break up the Soviet Union according to Gorbachev, its also on the border with Belarus who are aligned with Russia, and uranium fuel rods are not cheap to make, it takes tonnes of Uranium, so grabbing Chernobyl would seem sensible.

So at this stage, I'm now thinking Russia is the next country to get a massive improvement in quality of life and infrastructure, a bit like we have seen with China over the last decade or so, whilst all the while the West is kept in the slow lane for other less developed countries to catch up.
"the right wing" where?
It's nice to see the anti seed oil discourse ramping up lately, but I'm sort of pessimistic about this. Like what is the endgame, exactly?

Seed oils are in basically everything. Trying to avoid them is like trying to avoid endocrine disruptors by not touching plastic or eating anything that has touched plastic. It's sort of an absurd thing to even attempt, it would drive you insane.
> Yeah but it's symbolic.

The US alone provided $2.5 Billion of aid [2]. That doesn't include Biden's $200 Million military aid package in 2022 [2].

[1] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/can-jaw-jaw-in-the-west-r...

[2] https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2022/01/25/200m-in-jave...
You're right. I'm totally more fine with using these measures against Nazis, as opposed to, say, non-Nazis. Thanks for helping me to clarify that!
That's exactly it. One of the reasons that the US (and other representative democracies) have limits on direct voter rule explicitly to prevent a "too democratic" situation yielding "mob rule" outcomes.
Volvo ditches PC and gives service engineers iPhone and Apple Watch instead
It's hard to view the events unfolding with an objective gaze. Virtually all of western journalism condemns Russia's attacks unilaterally, which seems reasonable, considering people are dying to grow a dictator's empire. But then I read about the history of the conflict and see that Ukraine has had separatist states and civil war for years. It isn't like Ukraine is a stable, peaceful, and unwitting nation, like, say, Denmark. It's more similar to NATO "protecting" their national interests in Syria or Iraq. Not that I supported those interventions as ethical, either -- I just acknowledge the potential long term geopolitical motivations for doing so.

Any Ukrainians or Russians have an alternative perspective to offer?
> We definitely want to be looking at technologies that have a high ROI for emission reduction in the next 10 year span, mixed with longer term projects.

This... is my point? So I think you do see it. "Fusion can't save us now so we shouldn't invest in it at all" is short-sighted. This is not an either-or proposition, and frankly people have completely out of whack ideas of the scale of money that's been invested in fusion. Tens of billions of dollars are nothing in what's going to be a trillions of dollars problem.

We need to be building out renewables, and ideally fission too, now. We need to get to carbon zero asap. And then comes the project of getting things back to where we need to be, and we are just not ready for the energy we're going to need to do that.
>consumer level raman spectrometer

so you can distinguish between genuine Maruchan and knock-off brands?
Intervening militarily invites a counter response from Russia and could lead to outright war between NATO and Russia. It's one thing to assist Kuwait, quite another to send troops to fight a nuclear-armed adversary.
Wheat is pretty easy to ship, and globally is usually 'overproduced' due to farm subsidies. People won't be going hungry just because one countries production stopped.
History is pretty clear, go check it out. Nobody wants to be ruled by a single individual that operates with impunity.
I would treat threats of nuclear weapons as bluffs. He doesn’t want to perish in an inferno and a first strike is hard to justify over a mere military humiliation on foreign soil. Rather more likely are cyber attacks on infrastructure here in the US and attacks on US bases in Europe or abroad.
We had a good run. Time for some small reptiles to try their hand at civilization next.
in my small data point experience in real life - the offender was using vpns and burner phones to post and to harass with different numbers in one case here locally.

I've also unfortunately discovered that there are services that handle this kind of thing; using a stolen ID from a different country to do these things for you - trust me when I tell you that those who really want to bypass all the auths / payments / hashes - will find ways to do it again and again.

I've also tracked down some of these folks and was very plainly told that "the army of my country was not going to invade their country to harass them" for harassing someone here - and they were right.

After spending months putting together verifiable evidence to hand over to agencies in neighboring countries and countries abroad, zero people were arrested.

I did get one person's VPN account disabled once though!

They did return the next day using a new vpn service. So yeah, there are jerks out there that will spend $10 a week, or $50 a week to harass people, I've witnessed it many times.

Anyone you would catch doing something like this (using their own credit card and phone/computer) would already be caught with basic ip logs - no need to set all the extra hoops that make it harder for the average user, because those hoops are not stopping those who are extra shady in the first place. imho, ysmv.
We optimize for price so you cant align with something that price doesnt capture. Taxes and subsidies allows us to take those factors into consideration
Halflife is the word you're looking for, but they're not so different in terms of halflife. Although a nuclear bomb would be way worse.
Putin would have never invaded a NATO country.
It is true. Anyone who followed Russian politics from the mid-late 90's to ~2004 remembers Russia trying to "join" the west. Geroge Bush famously talked about looking into Putin's eyes...

But the west was more concerned with encircling them and "winning" the Cold War than actually having good relations...

Being of Ukrainian descent and interested in where I come from, I've followed the politics there (Russia and Ukraine) since the late 90's... I remember when Putin and Bush cooperated after 9/11 too. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/09/08/t...

Getting to where we are today was a long road where the US chose to antagonize Russia many times...
The US-led invasion of Iraq was an unprovoked, aggressive war built on lies. I.e. a war lead by the so-called constabulary.
> Why does being a dictator automatically make you more irrational?

People, including leaders, are influenced by those around them.

A sane leader has advisors, which they trust to provide rational arguments, which sometimes may differ from their own.

A dictator on the other hand is only surrounded by yes-men since anyone else would be thrown to the lions. So, there is no one to provide a counter argument to the dictator's own viewpoints and makes them believe in their supreme power. This is what makes them dangerous and act irrationally.

Pick any dictator/supreme leader and you'll see the trends.
tablespoon says >Germany sent Ukraine 5,000 hats for its defense.<

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the helmet offer had left him “speechless”: “What will Germany send next? Pillows?”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/27/a-joke-germany-mock...

There's a good joke in there somewhere: I'll settle for "Hats off to Ukraine's new [if short-lived] fearless leader, Vladimir Putin!"

"THE BEST 68 PUTIN JOKES":

https://jokojokes.com/putin-jokes.html
The emperor can also be your representative, and so is Putin to russians, and the slightly more complex US system. The slider is democracy to tyranny, just because we dont yet have democracy in most or all countries doesn't change anything here. We just have twisted its meaning to describe some decision power when choosing tyrants. Either all decide equally-democracy , or fewer to very few or one-tyranny.
The West is determined to fight to the last Ukrainian!
Plasmic (https://www.plasmic.app) is a WYSIWYG visual page builder + headless CMS that's built for Next.js and other modern SSG frameworks.

It lets non-dev teams freely create and edit content, optionally using your React components, and publish this back into your site as optimized static pages.

Is this at all what you're looking for? (Disclaimer: I work on this)
This looks cool*

I can't tell from the website, but what I would absolutely love is if this could turn the notebook into a "train.py" with argparse to parse the arguments and model / program output saved on completion. This is a definite pain point for me, there are things I'd like to test interactively, but I default to trying to get out of a jupyter notebook as quickly as possible because all the code ends up having to be rewritten "properly".

For ML in particular, I bet there are cool integrations you could do with pytorch lightning (and other frameworks) to take me from trying a forward pass in the jupyter notebook to having the datamodel with dataloaders declared and then set up in a main() . There is lots that could be automated.

*(except the SaaS model, I have a really hard time supporting "api call" limited services that seem to just be charging me a subscription fee for the priviledge of running code, but I don't want to get into that.)
> Even if they were

You would have to weigh how things would escalate if NATO got involved, vs how things would escalate if Russia found out NATO isn't actually a thing any country intends to honor.
It is still an independent state and a member for a long term of un. Can one just take one like japan say if it is not part of nato.
Since they're already shelling Kyiv, they obviously have more options than tanks to take ownership of the governmental apparatus.

I can't see how Ukraine can put up any realistic defence given they now have no radar tracking or air support.

If your point is "it takes tanks a few days to get to Kyiv", then, yes, that is technically correct. If your point is "Russia needs to invade the whole country", no. They own the country when they control the governmental apparatus in Kyiv.
Unless the prevailing winds are really blowing towards the west, this would harm Russia and their newly conquered territory much more than it would harm the EU.

It makes more sense as a bargaining chip with Ukraine than as a chip with the EU.