skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be so pro-science, but the more you follow it the more you see the stumbles (Folic acid causes cancer, but doesn't stop it) and just how much studies are funded by big corporations and can be easily killed if results start turning out unfavorably.

Older I get the more hippy-dippy I feel about food. We should probably have simple food, vegetables and grains, as our main staples. That's what people used to mostly eat and people that do eat that are healthier.

The next big scare about this or that oil, or tofu (which is a staple in many populations which are healthier than the US), come and go. And if they ever get contradicted you won't ever hear it.
Yep. I am absolutely sure that 'world leader massively shorting stocks' would be instantly noticed and plastered all over the news. That's not a great thing to do right before an invasion; kind of tipping your hand.
US and EU are superpowers. Superpowers fighting would have caused WW3.
Apple rejected expedited app review over previously reviewed marketing materials
Depends if you consider Tibet as a country or not.
If you're American, try to imagine America partially breaking up and Washington, Oregon, and Idaho have joined an alliance helmed by China.

You're not loving it, you want to make some sharp moves to prevent more states from considering it, and you'd like to get those states back somehow in the long run.

This is a wildly imperfect analogy, but...
Probably a long and slow game to win economically (as in the First Cold War).
The fuck are you talking about? It’s already escalated to something much worse than Crimea. Lay off the state-propaganda.

- Russian that lives in the states
Grass is greener. I spent the last 2 years wishing I had someone to be with.
When importing files into Didgets, the program automatically gathers information from the source file system and attaches specific tags to each file. For example, the file name is attached as a 'name' tag. Each folder name in its path is attached as a 'folder' tag. The file extension is attached as an 'extension' tag. In addition a SHA1 hash is created from the data stream and attached as a tag. You also imported them by dropping the files or folder onto a 'drop zone' on the create tab in the GUI. Any tags attached to that drop zone are also automatically attached to any file dropped on it. So dropping 100 photos on the 'My Wedding' drop zone might attach the tags 'Event = Wedding' and 'Year - 2022' to every photo. Searches for files that have a tag 'Folder = Microsoft' would find every file that had 'Microsoft' as a folder anywhere in its path.
From a philosophical stance, this is history repeating for the same basic reason. 2022 AD and risk of war is still the same as it was in 1022 AD, or 22 AD. That reason is the accumulation of power (or by proxy, wealth) in a small set of individuals, or in this case one person. No realtime access to information changes this; it just makes the story of the horror unfold faster.

Persisting with the concentration of power in individuals has shown throughout history to have dire consequence. We continue risking civilization on the mental health of those who already show significant issues with their obsessive clammer for power. The cult of the leader is toxic and, as far as I can see, illogical and lacking evidence for benefit.

Where are the voices that seek a structured shift away from personality cult politics? The innovation we all need for the future are those voices.
thank you for your support Dhruv :)
One thing I've wondered for some time is why don't the Linux developers modify the compiler to suit their needs better.

At that project scale, wouldn't it start making sense to start solving problems like "If it were possible to write a list-traversal macro that could declare its own iterator [...]" by adding the functionality you want to GCC?
exactly right. fx levels, bond sales, gold stockpiling, this was planned for years in advance, in anticipation of financial sanctions. he has a very, very assymetric risk/reward in this war.
> Russia were forced to shore up their vulnerable flank

Russia wasn't forced to do anything. They could've merely quietly dropped two of their delusions:

a) NATO was never going to attack them, unless it literally went crazy, or someone framed Russia so badly that a nuclear response was preferable to any other option. The West doesn't want to trigger a MAD scenario, and are keen to keep the post-WW2 peace and (in the case of the US) bomb less defended countries for their natural resources. Any claims or beliefs to the contrary are a projected reflection of their own priorities.

b) buffer zones outside of the neighborhood is getting more crowded. Big deal, if you are really so keen on a buffer zone, then maybe sacrifice a few square km out of the ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE part of the continent that they already control. Does that mean risking important areas? Oh noes. Security has a cost, so if you're not willing to pay for it, quit whining.
Per Einstein: 'A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler'. I think people tend to overcomplicate things than oversimplify. A true understanding of something can be hinted by being able to explain it in a simple way.
> Shutting down atomic power in Germany was such a brilliant move.

What's done is done. Europe has enough wind potential to power the world [1]. Add solar [2], batteries, transmission, pumped hydro, remaining operational nuclear, and electrify everything (EVs, heat pumps, etc). Fill the remainder with LNG shipments from the US in the short term [3]. It's a national defense/security/sovereignty issue now to get off of Russian gas, and it should be treated as such with regards to allocation of resources to speed the effort.

[1] https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/europes-onshore-and-o...

[2] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/solar-seen-clai...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europe-remains-top-d...
As a disgruntled climate scientist, I think Europe needs to get off natural gas by 1990. It’s not as if the security benefits weren’t obvious when we all were buying from the Arab world, or the wider global security destabilization caused by climate change.
What astonished me is that it has been shown that the vegetables and fruits of today, at least the commercially available ones, are substantially less nutritious than what was available in the past.
Also the cost of wasting interviewing resources on people who, knowing the job is on-site, will interview solely for practice with zero intention of joining.
I think I read here on HN that Apple holds a patent for that functionality.
Why can’t they spin up a blog? Also, as an American, I don’t think those FAANG places are a safe space for “expressing opinions freely”. The boys (bots) will come.
sources you link to seem questionable
Green energy is fine, it actually reduces the total amount bought from Putin (and thus invested into Russian army). The problem was disabling the non-fossil-fuel baseload (meaning nuclear powerplants). It was criminally idiotic. I hope Germany finally wakes up because this is making the whole EU project look less and less feasible.
Submarines have been using gravity gradiometers for navigation for decades. Tom Clancy revealed what was then classified information about these in The Hunt for Red October. They can serve as passive collision avoidance systems or let the navigators use geological features to correct drift in inertial navigation. The later application requires gravity gradient maps. They are useful for submarines because they are completely passive, unlike active sonar that produces a signal others can detect.
We are not confident that it will be possible to get money out of Ukrainian banks. (Due to attacks physical and virtual on infrastructure.)

Edited: added sentence
Apple and dropbox are two companies that come to mind with major headquarters investments Relatively close to the onset of the pandemic.

Any other Notables?
Even if that’s true, Putin straight up announced he’d be sending troops into the two rebel controlled regions a few days ago. That’s a pretty obvious sign that this time was different.

Like, I get that the previous buildups could be dismissed as saber rattling and training exercises, but Putin literally announcing, "HEY I'M COMING IN, I'M SENDING IN TROOPS TO UKRAINE NOW", how do you dismiss that?
This list makes me realize how much I appreciate design. For all the ones I tried I much prefer the "heavy" versions.

It's probably different on a slow connection so it's good the lightweight versions exist, but for me downloading a few MB's is not at all a problem and totally worth it.
Your F35 price is set by the market. Their FC-31 price is set by the CCP.
I prefer working in an office, and I dislike working with people remotely. I'm just glad that things are going back to normal, and that there are also many people at my job who also prefer to show up in office even though they have the option to work from home.
Ukraine hasn't requested any foreign military aid so far.
>Why would I not want to work for a CEO who cares about public health, as well as the welfare of others and myself by mandating a proven safe vaccine? This is what leadership looks like.

It simply boils to if you think the ends justify the means. Does having the power to compel someone mean that you should compel them. I get that people have different opinions on what is the appropriate use of power and influence over others. I tend to favor leaders who try to inform, enable, and change people's minds rather than use punishments to make people do something they otherwise wouldn't.

That is to say, I like being offered the carrot opposed to the stick.
Strange, then, that they are building more solar and wind than fission.
Sam Jones, a co-founder of a nonfungible token start-up, Honey Haus, said his company had been renting a four-person space within WeWork for $1,850 a month since October.

“I am just way less productive at home,” Mr. Jones said. “People are definitely, I think, realizing that physical space just has something special to it.”

We have articles like this one with quotes like the one above that run counter to other research and discussion in this area like this article from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/work-from-... which offers up stats that ~33% of people want to be fully remote and another 20% want to be home more than 3 days a week.

Why do people have to ruin this for the rest of us. No, I don't want to go back to the office (I don't have to; my team is now fully remote forever) and I see it as a huge perk and a MASSIVE boost to our productivity to be at home.
Personally I think more than 3 people starts to get out of hand
He was forced to invade Ukraine because he didn’t get what he wanted. /s
I think it's very naive to think that us invaded afganistan to protect itself or prevent similar attacks. It was pure irrational vengeance by bush.
It may follow their protocols but by no means you can consider invading and occupying a foreign country for 20 years as defensive.
In effect u cannot call nato a defensive organization by their involvement in wars where no defense was required
The reference to moving into C99 is kind of interesting, given the security work paid by Google to remove all uses of VLAs, I thought they were already using it anyway.
Fusion researcher here. Yes, this piece is sensationalized, as are most pieces about fusion, and about science/technology in general, unfortunately. It's depressing that tokamak performance hasn't improved much in all that time. The only two ways to scale up the gain are to build the device larger (like ITER) or with higher magnetic field (like SPARC). The existing devices have been around for many years and have been pushed basically as far as they can go, the only way forward is to build new devices. There's really no reason to expect a breakthrough on tokamak performance that will suddenly change the game. The only really positive news for tokamaks in the last ~30 years is the advent of REBCO superconductors & the success Commonwealth Fusion has had so far in capitalizing on this technology.
I think the problem starts with eating canned food here.
How can I bet against them?
What would be some good stocks to invest to capitalize this? Perhaps some trading in Russian/Ukrainian Stock Exchange? Is there any significant US company listed in Nasdaq or NYSE in this space?
you can and should take US out of there. every single one does that.
Zero mention of any actual numbers for the decision — price, convenience, improvement compared to existing fleet. How's this outrage propaganda relevant to HN?
The difference between a defensive response and an offensive is not how long it lasts.
China is testing and prodding the US, and you'd better believe they're paying full attention to the (lack of) response to the Ukraine situation.
They won't blow up Chernobyl. Ukraine is a top grain exporting nation. Without wheat, Ukraine's economy would be even worse and there would be no way to feed the people.
This is wrong on so many levels, it's almost right again.
Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter
By the time kids are old enough that suicide starts to become a serious risk (6th grade and up, mostly) I'd need to see some serious data to convince me that socializing at school isn't net-harmful. In fact I'm surprised rates might have dropped, because kids were still able to socialize over the Internet. But, possibly, that gave them more ability to avoid the worst of it, and that was enough to make a difference.

It's really, really hard for kids to avoid a handful of super-toxic students in their class, when in person. Your options are much more limited than an adult's are under similar circumstances.
Spectral and Algebraic Graph Theory
I saw a link posted to a rather short note on graphs and linear algebra. I thought I'd better do some advertising for the real deal!
I wish that your comment were taken better here (other than the "poking the bear" analogy; I don't agree Russia should have worried about the NATO alliance or taken it as a threat). No one should be rushing in to fight a war, we need to figure out how to make such things as this invasion impossible in the future, and figure out how to fight at a higher level than using violence and weaponry. Until humanity realizes that, even in the face of violence, violence is not the answer, we won't get anywhere, we'll just keep fighting. I feel for the Ukrainians, but I also feel for dozens of other groups of peoples all over the world who are oppressed or who have lost their independence (even some in the "enlightened" Western Democratic sphere), and I don't advocate war in those situations any more than here.
I'm one of those people who think OS kernels should stay as portable and simple as possible (i.e. C89 or some other easily-bootstrappable language, to avoid Ken Thompson attacks), so this isn't great news to see "the ladder being pulled up another rung". Then again, Linux has already become immensely complex.
I very well might, but my particular observation is with government behavior towards most projects, not just the one in this headline.
I find it scary that most modern infrastructure eventually relies on C, and C from decades ago at that.
Can anyone comment on PlanetScale vs Supabase? I'm not their target, because I'm just a random individual that wants a free database for personal projects. I could try both but would be nice to hear about someone's experience.
That would be a pretty terrible escalation in the spy game. There is an uneasy balance where government officials and their families are off limits for any physical harm. That means that CIA officials can live relatively peaceful lives just as FSB agents do.

If you let that genie out of the bottle, it better be a prelude to a winnable war, or you had better be happy to have all your government officials, diplomats, and their families on permanent lockdown.
Prop 13 is bad policy as demonstrated by every single area of the world that gets by without it. Most cities assess property values on a lagging window basis where your value for property taxes is set every few years based on the value from a few years ago. This generally gives you time to prepare for the increase or make whatever financial decisions you need to. One thing to keep in mind is that percentage property tax rates are necessarily set higher when some people pay taxes on values far below market. My region has a 0.63% property tax rate which amounts to about $6,300 a year on a million dollar home. That might be larger than one month of a mortgage payment but it's a reasonable price to pay for all the services the city provides. I live in a city where this includes garbage, mail, police, fire, transportation and sewage infrastructure and a number of other important services. The idea that someone who bought a house in 1963 should pay less than 10% of the taxes that other taxpayers do means that someone or several someone's are footing the remainder of the bill. You pay a substantial price for that as new homes become less affordable with the higher % rates of property tax. It's also not clear that being forced to sell over high property tax bills is a bad thing as it creates new supply on the market. Most people selling a single family home could easily afford to live in a condominium in the same neighborhood without losing touch with the people they care about. Keep in mind the necessary condition for selling is the property has gone up by enough to make the property tax bill unaffordable. This means whomever is selling their home is making a substantial profit and portraying them as low/middle income people who are hard done by is doing a disservice to anyone struggling in the artificial market created by prop 13 and paying the higher base rates associated with it.
Yeah, I wish there were a way to scroll to the bottom too, i.e., double-tap the top of the screen/bar. It would come in handy quite frequently for me.
I'm not a compiler expert here but when clang was new and one of the BSD distros was making a lot of hay about moving to it, I remember one of the arguments in favor being that the GCC codebase is a mess and not easily extended.
I wouldn't be surprised if engineering remains flexible and sales/executive roles require more face time.

I imagine an NFT startup is 100% sales/marketing and 0% engineering/science/innovation, so going fully in-office might make sense for them.
Thank you for the correction. It's not official policy. Just an idea being pushed by a former PM.
WinRAR/rarlabs is a German company.
I don’t know about the analogy since it’s like the former chess champion promising to return, which has at least happened in women’s.

There is a catalyst, which is a top engineer returning to restore a focused engineering culture and remove those unhelpful management layers thats slowed them down.

They are also pursuing new fab business they have a chance to win and learning from fab partners where they have conceded they need external help.

They also are to an extent playing a financial game and appear to be extracting strategic investment from the US and EU.

I’m not saying Intel’s going to succeed, but it’s not quite more of the same.
F-Droid: how it weakens Android's security model
Wow. What a useful comment.
Cloudflare customer communication in regards to Ukraine conflict
Going to slip this into prod real quick
Exactly, every knows a company is run on good feelings from managers.
I wonder how many Gemini sites are also served as HTTP(s) and could be directly added to a list like this. What's a tech stack like Gemini good for if the contents you host on it aren't broadly accessible using standard tech?
Just like a real elevator!
See, when people sit elbow to elbow and can smell each other, they collaborate more. They use those headphones all day to keep their ears warmed up for the next Impromptu Collaboration Session. Really, the biggest problem is the fire dept keeps complaining about having too many in too small a space and we're all like, dude, do you even collab?
Russian military generally played wars with an assumed unit cost of approximately zero. They still appear to do so, despite the declining birth rate (there's a reason russian roulette is called as it is)
Innocent Russia protecting East Ukraine from Nazis in Kiev. It's so surreal.
Alibaba Posts Lowest Growth on Record After China Crackdown
Transfers to you? There are microparticles of plastic in every liquid you drink, floating in the air, in the digestive systems of practically every animal in the food chain.

When you wash a piece of polyester or microfiber in a washing machine you are sending millions of little microscopic pieces of plastic into the water supply.

Ever drink from a plastic water bottle that sat in a hot car and it tastes really funny? Enjoy your plastic.

If you google "plastic in the air", "plastic in food", "plastic in animals", "plastic in water", it's pretty much impossible to not find evidence. It's incredibly depressing. It's in the Mariana trench and on Everest.
Don't put any money into both stock exchanges right now, especially the russian one.
Isn't this partially why armies are routinely sent out on "war games" or "joint manoeuvers?

You're never sure whether the Chinese submarine is "exercising its rights to international waters" or is preparing for a strike; or the US-Swedish troops are just making friends with each other or getting ready to invade.

That's totally apart from the obvious "sabre rattling" bit.
Similarly, people may not realize that the largest animal to have ever lived is alive right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale
We should be talking about human lives.

My Ukrainian colleague was terrified for his family today.
Because you won't be able to buy your third Lake Tahoe vacation home with that attitude.

Remote work eliminates a lot of career climbing opportunities and a meaningful class of tech workers depend on that.
Actually PG and JL live in the U.K. currently.

And I am no HN founder, but I live in Eastern Europe. NATO planes and helicopters kept flying overhead all day and my house doesn’t even have a basement.

So I bet we are closer to the danger than you are. And I also bet that the ones doing the flagging and burying are other brave "class warriors" and "eaters of the rich" who can’t accept that their beloved ideology has created monsters like Putin while the capitalism they despise has given the world prosperity, (relative) peace and Elon Musk (the last one's a mixed blessing, I admit).
Yes, but looking at this only from the perspective of a consumer seems rather limited. One additional consideration, the one we're talking about here, is the importance of being somewhat self-reliant when shit hits the fan.

And even if only consumers matter, what you're saying only hold in theory, given a 'perfect market'. In practice, consumers have imperfect (read: atrociously bad) information, and big corporations hold many unfair advantages.
I hate working at home and I have been back inthe office every day since it's been open. Even if I am the only one there.

Even today in the snow, I kitted up and went in. Working from home really makes me unproductive.
How does age restriction work? I wanted to watch a video (I forgot which one and no, it was a normal video.) But I got an age verification in my face. I'm 27 years old.
The above formula only holds for diagonal FOV, which is higher than hFOV/vFOV.

The formula for e.g. PPD in the h-direction, assuming uniform pixel distribution, would be hPPD = hRes / hFOV. With a uniform distribution, 2448px at 100deg FOV would be 24.5.

We don't have uniform pixel distribution, as the human eye cannot resolve well where it can't gaze. So we magnify more wherever you can actually point your pupil at, and less towards the periphery. That way we retain eye-acuity while allowing us to "waste' less pixels where they aren't required.

We maintain >32 PPD within +- 15 degrees of eye rotation, which accounts for 86% of eye rotations.