skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was moreso referring to the pieces of queries that Calcite may have to execute itself, often because they are not supported by the underlying data source. That piece of Calcite hasn't been very highly optimized. There's definitely ongoing work in that area though.

For example, I have a former student who's been working on an adapter to Apache Arrow. Beyond having a fast execution engine, this should also eventually enable Calcite to work pretty seamlessly with other systems using Arrow without serialization overhead.
> It's true that I'm an extreme liberal! But I think the Wikipedia article gives a neutral point of view.

Shouldn't this opinion be a hint that maybe the article is liberal too? ;-)
Modern Ukraine created by Russia’ – read full text of Putin’s speech
It maps troop movements, though. All of those initial bombings have happened from Russia, Crimea and Belarus.

Apparently this phase won't last long because it can't (Russia according to analysts in the Guardian doesn't have many guided munitions in this range).

So we will perhaps see this map change very quickly as troops move in.
And that's what the invasion is being called in headlines on Russian news - "operation to protect Donbas" [1].

1: https://lenta.ru/news/2022/02/24/nonazi/
I've gotten a fair amount of grant money from different Canadian research grants, some retrospective, some prospective. I've also written grants as a side thing. Probably all summed together I've helped pull in around $1m–$2m.

I don't know about the academic side, but for corporate grants this part:

> sprinkle a bit of fad-ish topics into your research if even if it's a stretch to do so.

Does work, but only if the core thing you're tackling isn't as meritorious as what the reviewer is used to seeing. So, for example, one grant I wrote for a hardcore AI startup that had huge data engineering issues on a shoestring budget. Former Stanford, Google, etc folks. I didn't need to pull in anything. I just straight wrote the claim (retrospective grant applications are called claims) and we got a big cheque. Most of the work was meticulously going through their pull requests and estimating hours that were research vs traditional software development.

As an aside, I make around $5k per day with this type of work because I get pulled into the most technical claims and I'm very good at it, but I don't enjoy it as much as software development so I only take stuff that I think needs my help.
In German, you say "Ich habe hunger", which literally means I have hunger. In my experience Germans are much more thin. I'm also inclined to think that it's (to some extent) because hunger is something they have, versus something they are.
Life may flash before your eyes on death
This isn’t really a fair comparison though. More than once I’ve encouraged my team to take chances and break rules and skip processes because “nobody will die if we get this wrong”.

That is not remotely true of flying a plane.
If you can’t see a distinction here, then Tencent was “acquired” by Naspers of South Africa in 2001 by your logic.
Turtles all the way down: AI’s cult of objectivity is dangerous
>New York City medical examiner determined recently that his heart gave out from a fatal combination of ketamine, oxycodone, and 3 HO-PCP, a bespoke hallucinogen.
Yeah, I played for about a year during the original release and haven't played since but I still go back and listen to some of the tracks as ambient background music while programming and often times they trigger nice memories.

It was just one of those games that mixed together all of the right things at the right time, very similar to the original Diablo II in the early 2000s.
A far-right website created 36 days ago is more popular on FB than Wash Post
Cyclical history as theorized by Spengler and other is a fringe type of historical analysis rejected by historians. And it is actively used as a neo-fascist dog-whistle. That’s not a way to show my moral superiority, it’s what they do.
The business scenario on their landing page is... take a loan to buy a piece of clothing... Instead of making the clothes cheaper for end consumer, now the consumer can indebt themselves to buy something sold with 5000% markup. Here is your 1 year payment plan for 50ml bottle of Schramani perfumes.
And a way to achieve this is to make friends with your neighbours and enter mutual beneficial treaties....

Or you can just beat them up any time they look at other options.
You can paste a YouTube video page URL into VLC and it will stream the video (without ads etc).

For the video downloading feature, you can use youtube-dl or one of its forks (command-line, but maybe there is a nice GUI somewhere?)
Because money, in the end, is just a proxy for labor, energy, land and raw materials. One can print money, but cannot print factors of production
That's one thing. Chinese companies can't be seen as different from the government. You can blame the US for a lot of things, but it doesn't come close to the atrocities the Chinese government commits on a daily basis.
We would be doomed? Somebody should have told France who had a clean green grid 40 years ago.

If everybody had simply done nuclear we would be 10000x better of now.

The false promise of solar/wind held up by fossil-fuel and anti-nuclear people prevented green energy grids for literally decades.

If anything we are doomed because it took so long to actually bring solar/wind practically into being.

If we invested in nuclear and its advanced reactors decades ago, like we did in the 60s/70s we would also have high temperature reactors that could do things like provide industrial heat for chemical processes such as water desalinization, synthetic fuel production and so on.

You could even do very high temperature reactors if you wanted to decarbonize even chemical process that take 1000C without going threw inefficient electricity production and heat generation.

But coal plants were cheaper to build and that's why id didn't happen. Imagine a world where the US had build 100s of nuclear plants. The amount of nuclear engineers that would exists, the amount of knowledge and innovation that such an industry could have.

The problem is in the 70s what mattered was price, that coal plants were horrible to human and the environments was not considered.

So please explain why depending on fission would doom anybody. Germany could have replicated what France did in the 70s and simply started to build nuclear reactors when they started their green revolution 20 decades ago. In fact had Germany done so they would like be closer to fully de-carbonized now.

Literally any country that wants to be 100% green can right now call South Korea and order X reactors and within 10 years all but the largest industrial nations in the world could be 100% green power.
In Europe after the last autumn when for months there were little wind and cloudy sky there is a realization that energy based purely on renewables will require much bigger storage and much more solar or at least significantly more expensive solar that works under clouds. Doable, but cost is non-trivial.

So if any of fusion startups can make operating plant within the next 20 years, it can be used. But if that takes longer, then I agree that large-scale fusion will not happen.
Not hate, fear. (IF OP's assertion is valid).
Canari in the coal mine – Nuke map is currently down
Wow, thanks for that investigation. I'm pretty sure I looked at this at some point, and realized shields.io was using some esoteric NPM package that I would not find (or maybe I actually searched) the equivalent of for Golang, so I had to do something simpler.

I looked at the anafanafo package now and one of the first things they say in the presentation is "Built with Shields in mind"... So this package was custom made for shields.io, apparently. From a very quick check it seems to be a non-trivial amount of code, so not super simple to just port to Golang.

I don't want to have to start running Node and NPM packages, but would be very interested in any way to get this kind of functionality in a Go program.
&lt;p&gt;Zero-day XSS vulnerability in Horde webmail client can be triggered by
Side comment, but IMHO Blitz/fast-format/online is good for the game. Superstars playing it creates interest, and a young up-and-comer scoring one off Magnus creates interest.

Photogenic, media-savvy folks like Magnus or the Bortez sisters, or plenty of other examples are obviously attracting some views due to celebrity, but more people watching serious chess is just that!
Really nice!

Is reduced motion a good use case for this?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
Anyone know the radar altimeter make and model? I can't seem to find anything when I do a search. All that pops up is the aircraft model number. Aren't the altimeters manufactured by companies like Honeywell. There should be a datasheet on the model available somewhere
I received a DMCA takedown request from Reddit for a YouTube NFT video
VIshwanath Anand is a Hindu
I've had my first run-in with the UK's test-and-trace system yesterday.

I did an LFT on Tuesday, and registered it - but hit the wrong box, said I was positive, clicked send, panicked, didn't notice that there was a link to fix it, tried to use the back button, etc.

Long story short, I ended up registering another LFT just so that I could mark myself as non-contagious - but that wasn't enough for the Test and Trace system. The next day I was hounded by text messages, and then called by an operative at the end of the day.

I told them the mistake, and they told me there's nothing their system could do - I needed to call 119 (they didn't tell me which phone system options I needed - It's a horrendous phone system) and get them to mark it as a mistake.

But before I abruptly ended the call with this operative, she told me that until I do this, I'm not allowed out of my house because my phone number was being monitored. I was not polite about the end of that call (I was not rude, mind - not her fault they she has a script to follow - but I was a bit angry)

And once I finaly got bounced around 119 and found the right person to talk to, she said: "Well, self isolation rules end tomorrow - so don't worry about it".

I picked the right time to make this mistake, apparently. But yeah, software has far too much control and extra-legal real-life consequences.
Oh boy, web3 really is back!
An alternative to this is to just use youtube in the Brave Browser on mobile. No ads, you can't play in the background but you can play picture-in-picture mode.
The EU cannot function without russian gas for the near future, so it will be out of it. However, Intel, AMD, and everything remotely high-tech and with possible military use might be included.
The difference is that if a file isn't sorted in a file system, it just sits on your Desktop or Download folder and is still easily visible. If you use tags and your file doesn't get tagged properly it just is lost in the pile and impossible to retrieve.

I find tags work very well for discovering other peoples content on the web, but really don't help much with organizing your own data.

One operation that seems especially problematic with tags is copying. If I want to modify something on a file system and keep a backup, I just copy the directory tree before I do my modifications. If I copy something with tags, I end up with two things with the same tags, which is not very useful for keeping them separate.

Also how do you deal with removable media (USB, DVD) in a purely tagged system? What if the tags on the media conflict with your own tags? Once you allow filtering by device, you are just reinventing the file system again.
This doesn’t stop tens of millions of people taking it in as truth.
I dont think CNN ever reported something like this.
Done. You ponder this now: https://twitter.com/i/status/1485729483151880194

What we did was immoral.

By leading Ukraine like that and controlling it subconventionally, we wrecked them.
Paradox of tolerance is what degenerates many functioning groups (including organizations, companies, nations). It should have never come to this stage...
>I'm not sure what distinction you think you're making. They bought a lump of the company at whatever valuation and that's termed an "investment". However my point is that I don't suspect they're strictly after a return on investment here.

The distinction is that "acquire" means controlling interest. Investing $497 million when the valuation is over $1 billion means... (doing the math) ... Tencent has less than 50% ownership. At this point, Tencent only has an investment and not a controlling interest. Therefore, Tencent did not acquire Scalapay (yet).

This isn't being pedantic about semantics. Instead, it's being very clear about who controls Scalapay based on how much ownership percentage was purchased.

Another example of the difference... in 1997 when Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple, it did not purchase enough ownership % to consider it an acquisition. The $150m is a lot of money but MS didn't acquire Apple with that transaction. (https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+invests+%24150+mil...)

EDIT reply to: >Valuation has nothing to do with controlling interest. They are unrelated.

Setting aside a multi-class stock arrangement with 10x voting rights which would be unusual for non-public company at this early stage because it requires approval by the previous investors & founders, the post-money valuation is mathematically related to the ownership percentage purchased -- and therefore determines if there's a controlling interest.
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is neutral, I am not
You are right about large majority of Russians being complicit, and right when saying "what seems to be a dictator going mad". Because it's not a dictator going mad, in fact Putin has quite clear goals and is quite predictable. He repeatedly was warning the West about the balance of power being skewed in their favor and Russia's interests being neglected since 2007.
I'm not going to get into much details, and I feel I will be downvoted no matter how I try to reason Putin's behavior, but there are clear reasons behind it. I think with right political moves Russia could achieve the same goals, however looks like Russian diplomacy is in much worse shape than the army, thus there's this conflict going into hot phase.
Western media again as always are portraying Putin as a crazy dictator who just needs more blood, however I hope YCombinator folks being critical thinking and curious enough will dig a bit more into the history of this conflict and try to understand the motives of each side. As usual in this world there's no bad guys vs good guys, there's hundreds shades of grey that are actually interesting to research if you wish to.
Similar problem is Taiwan by the way.
I am genuinely curious. Did she not trust Biden's warnings? Or did she think the media was overblowing it?

The "media" gets a bad rap, but I think we have reached a particularly bad place if the general public is so distrustful of it that we can't use it to communicate about very serious public safety matters.
Truecaller has a disturbing privacy flaw that leaks your friends’ numbers
I don't know much about stock markets, but the question I'd ask is whether it is in any way feasible to build up a short position that is "massive" on a scale that would be of interest to a Russian oligarch, as opposed to you or me, say, and whether it would be feasible to build up even a fairly tiny (for a Russian oligarch) short possition without it drawing a lot of attention.
Where can I find 'brave browser' in Fdroid please?
> Giving up everything trying to avoid a nuclear war is the surest way to get it.

Nobody is giving up everything, what is given up at the moment is a strip of land in East Europe that could be claimed back via diplomatic arrangements as soon as Putin is gone.
Google translate of his previous statement regarding war in Ukraine:

> Very upset by Putin's decision to abandon the possibility of a peaceful solution to the dispute with Ukraine and go to war instead. This is a crime against the Ukrainian and Russian people.

I want to wish everyone security, although I know that there will be no security.
EQ doesn’t have the boat anymore! It’s still around and free to play on steam (both 1 and 2).

Playing those games in first person perspective makes them seem gargantuan. It’s pretty cool.
Why can't it be used on a small screen? Also, many phones don't really have small screens...
I am the 1 percent. Yay.
I keep passports, degree certificates, deeds, health insurance docs.. the things I would grab if I was running out the door, in a single box file.

Everything else is basically unsorted, maybe vaguely sorted by date of putting on top of the pile, by placing things together after searching for them once, or by 'I think I know where I saw it'.

I have tried putting everything in themed folders, it's a waste of time. The time spent searching for something is much less than the time spent organizing everything in advance. The modal piece of paper will be thrown away after a few years without ever having been needed.
"Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bqzwsM6eoQ
"My troops are merely passing by"
Curious about VR resolution in general. How much resolution is necessary to be very close to "perceived" human eye resolution? Are we close to getting this over the next few years?

What I am speaking of here is say in motion picture we get some movie quality using 24 fps and you get some hyper realism after about 30fps. Given combination of resolution and fps, are we close to point of VR world being indistinguishable quality with reality?
Astonishing what it can do

Also reveals the enormous chasm between what it can do and what I sort of intuitively imagine it should be able to do.
I think in this case the yearly average load might be misleading. On low wind times the reliance on gas can be much higher.
Listen here, a hot take incoming.

There are two absolute genius inventions in computers so good and timeless that the sliced bread pales in comparison like a stupid troll comment on HN.

1. The keyboard

2. The hierarchical filesystem

Everything and anything else in input devices and data storage builds on these and the best solutions ever always are going to augment these, never replace them.

A good tag system will build on top of a filesystem and coexist with it, and offer value like stupidly fast search. Anything else will be lucky to survive a weekend of dubious fame on twitter, or up to a few months if you actively market it.
No doubt the Russian strategy will be to establish a strong presence on the western side of the Dnieper.
The time has come to replace <enter whatever you dislike just now>
Ask HN: Is JetBrains Russian? Is it safe to use?
JetBrain is company registered in Prague, Czech, however it was created by three Russian developers and currently is hiring a lot of people for their Russian offices[1]. There was also some allegation of malware being embedded in their tools[2].

In the light of recent development is it safe to assume that JetBrain products are not use for Russian espionage?

[1]https://www.jetbrains.com/careers/jobs/

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html
Chinese companies can't be seen as different from their government, US companies can't be seen as different from their advertisers.

The Chinese ones are arguably worse right now, but that's due to a difference in current attitudes of their censors, not because one of them is somehow free from pressure.
One should have only listened to Putin's speech of recognizing DNR/LNR.

He told "we will prosecute those responsible for the terract in Odessa!"

This second it was crystal clear to me the invasion was planned and going to happen in a matter of days.
Strong people with attitudes to match!
I 'm watching RT to try to understand the russian propaganda, and it seems even the reporters are caught by surprise by the scale of the invasion. What you said does not justify launching a full scale attack against the entirety of ukraine. It does seem like a madman doing mad things thinking this is the 1930s again. As if occupying ukraine would solve the problem you re mentioning...
Sometimes a bad idea comes back from the 1970-90s and people here are on average young enough they start falling for it again.

But the last serious shot at this was recent enough and a big enough disaster (Longhorn's WinFS), and/or a few years into iPad ownership when people started wanting to use it as a more serious computing device with an awkward few years until it got "file management" (it always had an FS). Both are too recent. Try again in another 10 years.
I think the defences would be useful against countries will very limited nuke arsenal. For example Iran. The is probably no defence that would protect you against hundreds of nukes. In a real nuke strike the attacker would probably fire many simultaneously, accompanied with decoys.
It's an idiom from Shakespeare (though nowadays we reverse it, since light is more desirable than heat). https://blog.editors.ca/?p=3435
Now imagine if China decided to annex a few nations...
Literally nothing would be done beyond some meaningless squabbling. No politicians would sacrifice their career and likely life to make that point
The last time I checked the sun is shining 24/7.
American firms like Tiger are starting to back off these crazy valuations.

This is not a very big company, this is one of those huge multiple type valuations we've seen of the 'SoftBank' type.

Tencent also put $50M in Kit a while back at a sky high valuation.

I think this is really about a lot of excess Chinese owned US/EU currency looking for a place to park, and so valuations are still lofty in this way.

Tiger Global et. al. have said they are pulling back from the later stage huge buy ins and this is the opposite of that.
I'm more worried about what information may be leaving my phone if I install the app.
The work ethic in Italy is … interesting. In my experience, they get their shit done when they say it will be done, not when you say it should be done. They enjoy time with family, and time away from work (when I say enjoy, I mean they will make time for it, even in the middle of an American defined work day). I’ve never had an issue with the Italians I’ve worked with and I’ve truly enjoyed spending time with them.
Thanks, you just got me all the docs from Samantha the Plumber and Amit the Plumber too!
It is a old Roman adage "Si vis pacem, para bellum" which held true for centuries
Agree, I looked and looked for anything that would make it a backdoor.
I don't think Russia is willing or able to occupy Ukraine. They most likely want to "poison" the region and make the country undesirable in NATO.

No superpower wants the enemy right at their border. The US didn't appreciate Russian missiles being put on Cuban land 60 years ago, Russia certainly doesn't want NATO forces and weaponry being put on Ukrainian land now.

It doesn't take a strategist to see that all superpowers want a buffer and if you take away that buffer spark will fly - whether a blockade or a full out war. I'm certain Europe (EU) saw this outcome the moment Ukraine was considered for joining any Western alliance or union. But different continents have different interests.
That the attacks are unjustified is arguable. The problem is not the attacks on them, but the politics. If Europe is still consuming fossil fuels they could still produce them and source it elsewhere and not buy it from Russia.

In addition, without renewables, the situation would be similar as Europe would still have near 100% fossil fuel energy production (except France).

Nuclear could potentially have changed things, but that's not related to the attack of fossil fuels. That's again politics and perception.

I agree than many times the "greens" cause more trouble than solutions, and that, again, is politics.
Thank you! Someone else also mentioned Transferwise. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30453538) Apparently there's a $200 limit, but usually that's enough.