skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I know that I could live spending less than 50% of my monthly income on food. Ignoring other subsidies however my rent would cost over 80% of my monthly income, so if I paid my rent, as people are likely to do first, it's true that I wouldn't have enough money for food.

So what I am saying does not contradict the claim that many people can't afford enough food, since most of their money is going to rent.
The CCP won't democratize. It was heading in that direction under Hu, now under Xi Jinping things are consolidating back towards a centralist power.

I do agree that to China, Taiwan isn't about TSMC. TSMC is the reason why the US cares about Taiwan but not the reason why China cares about it. If it was the main reasoning why doesn't China go after the Dutch? The dutch have ASML, which manufactures the more critical components involved with EUV lithography. But China never made a single move against ASML.

There is deep history between Taiwan and China, and it is this history that is the main reason why China eyes Taiwan. Think of it like if California rebelled and became a separate country from the US 50 years ago. How would the rest of the US think about California?
Not great advice, probably, but an answer to your question: I stubbornly try to rebuild the same thing ("a search engine for food"), over and over again, and each time learn slightly more and have better (software) tools and experience available to call upon.

https://www.reciperadar.com/ is the current version of the idea, and I'm fairly happy about how it's developing. Previous iterations have included a Java-based web application (using recursive common table expressions in PostgreSQL) and dabbling with a Prolog-based web service implementation.

The current containerized architecture (which is ridiculous, I know) provides for a migration path towards Rust or golang for more resource-efficient microservices, if & when that's ever useful (or enjoyable to work on).
Do not take this work seriously unless you are a male inbred mouse of the C57BL/6N persuasion.

This is a classic N=1 study of one sex and one genome of mouse. As such this work is of almost no know relevance to other strains of mice, let alone to humanity.

If you want an example of how mice dietary studies should be done then look to the National Institute on Aging and its Interventions Testing Program. They use both sexes and mice that are as genetically diverse as humanity.

N-of-1 studies should be deprecated by journals and by NIH. Embrace diversity before making broad translational claims.
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There are already underground storage caverns for hydrogen, and more planned. It works fine.
EU is incapable and the US doesn't have near enough assets nearby

in any case, Putin would likely respond with a nuke (he already basically hinted this), this is an endgame for everyone, Ukraine, Russia, Putin...there will be no de-escalation or peace process. Putin already said Ukraine "does not need to exist"...either the Ukrainians can fight him off or not. Probably not. Sanctions won't matter. Scolding Putin at the UN won't matter. China will golf-clap the whole thing. By the end of 2022, the only issue will be when the West just recognizes the new borders or not.
Obesity is the consequence of growth seeking in the food production and distribution industry.

Market pressures ended up selecting a diet made of poisonous food that lies to your tastebuds and satiety center.
I've found the reason (I think) 90% of the world's semiconductor-grade neon production is concentrated in one country. Per this German government whitepaper about the noble gas industry: the USSR massively overinvested in neon capacity in the 1980's, in order to build space-based excimer laser weapons. Ukraine's extant plants date (probably) to the 1980's; they're responsible for a global oversupply that's persisted since the Cold War.

- "Neon was regarded as a strategic resource in the former Soviet Union, because it was believed to be required for the intended production of laser weapons for missile and satellite defence purposes in the 1980s. Accordingly, all major air separation units in the Soviet Union were equipped with neon, but also krypton and xenon, enrichment facilities or, in some cases, purification plants (cf. Sections 5.4 and 5.5). The domestic Soviet supply of neon was extremely large but demand low."

- "Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, global crude neon production was approximately 500–600 million l/a (= 500,000–600,000 m3/a). It was dominated by far by large-scale air separation units associated with metallurgical combines in Russia and Ukraine. Simultaneously, demand was estimated at around 300 million l/a (cf. Section 4.2). In the years between 1990 and 2012, therefore, most crude neon was not purified, but released into the atmosphere, because there was no customer base."

https://www.deutsche-rohstoffagentur.de/DE/Gemeinsames/Produ... (chapter 5.2)

For context, this would have overlapped with Energia/Buran's launch of the Polyus weapon (which was a megawatt CO2 laser).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft)
Your moral certainty is laudable and impossible to dispute without sullying one’s own ethics with hypocrisy, and inviting charges of moral and literal cowardice.

But. Nuclear weapons are far beyond the ken and capability of humans’ intuitive game theory, the hueristics we apply in escalatory conflicts of all scales. Applying such intuition risks thoughtless apocalypse; MAD is a novel idea because such weapons required either an entirely new paradigm in power politics, or humanity’s rapid suicide.

Nuclear weapons are a deus, or devil, sprung from the machine of human civilization.

The possibility of their use, even by a bully who wields them especially to intimidate us, must inspire some cowardice in any soul who cherishes humanity’s potential.

The west must find its moral courage within the contraints of antiquarian post-Congress of Vienna style Realpolitik, as others have stated. Partition of Ukraine and many decades applying a new strategy of containment is the most realistic ‘victory’ that can be sought.

We might hope that Russia’s once promising liberal civil society will revolt and save this decade for peace - in vain, I expect.
Gene expression >>> epigenetic changes.

Epigenetics is just one of the mechanisms that regulate gene expression in some organisms, but there are many many more mechanisms at play. All cells of a given cell type don't express the same genes at the same level, or even maintain the same expression profile from hour to hour.
Anecdotally I can agree with this. I recently had to euthanize one of my dogs who tragically suffered complications from anesthesia that caused him to waste away over a couple weeks.

This dog was only 2.5 years old and my older dog (6, both Great Danes) spent a couple months in a deep funk, not eating, sleeping all the time, always at my hip.

I'm a life long dog owner but I have never lost a young dog/puppy. It was very hard all around. Usually its the younger dogs experiencing the older ones passing and I like to think that they understand "the circle of life" in some intrinsic way.

Previous experience has shown me that older dogs tend to let us know when their time is near in some way or another. So we usually introduce a 3rd puppy around a year ahead of this time. I believe this helps survivors cope.

I wish there were some tools and techniques to learn to help my dogs cope in situations where we can't prepare and the loss is devastating and immediate.

Humans have tools for each other, what inter species tools do we have to cope with death?
> Two, a gun to the head of Europe. They could threaten to destroy the containment, and/or to bomb the reactor building to aerosolise as much radioactive material as possible.

Does the wind only blow west? This seems pretty far fetched.
I couldn't find any news about Microsoft dropping their vaccine mandate. Can you please add a reference?
Why are you still there?

1. Keep your passport on you at all times. It's your best protection against official soldiers (from every side), although it may not help against unofficial militias. Stay away from them.

2. Make sure your embassy knows where you are at all times. You are their problem.

3. If you can, make your way quickly and quietly out of Ukraine.

4. Avoid posting things like this publicly. It draws attention to you and puts the people around you in danger.
That's a good blog post, thanks for posting!

I do not think "moving away from activerecord" is an accurate summary of what you yourself quoted, "extracting critical functionality from our main application… mostly addressing the pieces that need to run faster and more reliably than what we can accomplish with Ruby."

Anyway, ruby and python are indeed pretty close performance-wise, for whatever reason python has become more popular (and it clearly has), it's not performance! Yet people always bring up performance when talking about why ruby isn't more popular... doesn't seem to be hurting python much.
You wollen haven be a temporal grammar enthusiast, I see.
I like Phoenix, I really really do...but you are correct regarding docs. The documentation in Phoenix is fine for "what does this function do?". However, if you want the Rails Guides experience - it's just not there.
Leaking a pointer occurs when you take a raw C pointer from one of the safe templated C++ constructs. This happens far too often because there are so many C APIs around that are still used from C++.
>In retrospect, imposing sanctions in 2016 and 2017 was a bad idea.

Why?

Russia's response to the global Magnitsky Legislation shows that hitting the power structure in their oligarchs' assets works.
No, that's what'd you'd do if you were the US because China is your rival. This is what you want from a foreign perspective.

If I was Taiwan, or in other words a shareholder or OWNER of TSMC, I wouldn't want something I own being destroyed. I would rather fold into the new regime and keep my original ownership.
Not technically required, but required for many workplaces. I do applaud an end to mandates even though I support vaccination and am vaccinated and boosted. And therein lies the problem.
This was I believe one of the major goals of TSMC. Even if it wasn't (and my memory isn't serving me with a link) it certainly has that effect now.
No, that was a jobs play. Steel is well diversified, and we get our steel from a variety of largely trusted producers. The largest import source of steel was Canada. We also produce and export a lot of steel.

Steel is important but it’s not similar at all to something like Taiwan’s unique situation
Any Taiwan invasion would be spearheaded by surgical strikes against those fabs via some type of special forces. Whether those forces would be able to successfully secure the fabs before they get blown or not is anyone's guess, but China isn't stupid enough to think this is something they can just throw their standard troops at.
Then those aren't what I talked about.
Just curious, have you gotten 4k@120Hz to work on the desktop?

My impression is that with nVidia's drivers, 4k@120Hz is only possible in Wayland, not X.org. I haven't had a chance to test that theory though.
economists have a certain tendency to disregard tail events, which happen much more often than they think, as they don't follow the normal distribution. there's been a plethora of six sigma market movements in the past few years, and six sigma by definition should happen once every 3 million observations or so...
Plausible deniability is a good reason not to use nukes. They could have a military accident, or blame a saboteur for some sort of weapons cache exploding in-situ and claim it was not intentional.
intercepting few (up to few dozen) missiles sure.

Intercepting hundreds potentially thousands ? Not really.
A conservation think tank issued a report saying Denver spends about $400,000 per year per unhoused person.

https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/the-economic-footprint-of...

But drilling down finds 10% of that is direct budgeted other other 90% indirect like the cost of police sweeps, mental health, etc.
Virtually all "vegetable oil" you see in stores in the US is soybean oil.
It gives some deniability. "In desperation, the Ukrainian government has shelled the Chernobyl site."
True, only starve them to death and let them die from neglect and lack of shelter if you slip up.
It'd be easier to cover up by claiming it was an accident or they were fired on by the Ukranians. You don't really have the same leeway when you drop a nuke.
How did Intel leverage the acquisition of Altera? And why would it be different for AMD?
In leaked comments, EA says FIFA license is holding back soccer game design
Seconding this choice as a go-to. I've really found I can't go wrong with it.
Then you're just back to where you began -- a situation where government is going to need to takeover, because nobody can make a profit selling flophouses to indigent single men if they're required by law to make them as nice as middle-class apartments.

What modern Westerners seem entirely unwilling to acknowledge or accept is that if you require by decree that all accommodations look like middle-class accommodations, then you'll absolutely be able to get rid of all those worse accommodations, but you won't have done anything to address the reasons they existed in the first place.
If China has to eat the cost of the TSMC being destroyed, it’s probably less likely to invade. China in a large part depends on TSMC whether it “owns” Taiwan or not.
The larger NATO allies are among the most well-funded, well-trained and technologically sophisticated militaries the world has ever known.
It is so disgusting to me that we allowed our oligarch class to de-industrialize our country and ship all of the jobs and everything we built overseas.

100 years of industrialization and worker movements gutted, abandoned, and disassembled with the help of our two-faced neo-liberal[0] government.

And for what? 40 years of profit for the 1%? And then encountering the fact that we have outsourced ourselves into a profound strategic weakness in the international markets.

0: As in: Both sides, globalization. Not as in Dem vs Republican.
the web is really a horrible platform to build any kind of high fidelity app. you can say it works despite of itself.

and this is by design, web as a platform is pretty much owned by tech giants like google and apple who have a financial interest in keeping the web from becoming a rich platform which would cut into their app store hegemony.

ironic when you consider iphone and the html 5 back story. in some respects microsoft with IE back in the days was more interested in developing the web as a platform but also saw the web as something they could monopolise whereas now apple takes a more nuanced but just as much devious approach.
True they have lots of nukes but simulations seem to favor US slightly in nuclear exchange. And definitely US by a large margin in a non-nuclear one.
It's a side you can't really bomb/air attack.

It's a side both EU and Russia are worried about I think.

Putin is afraid that Ukraine will somehow put together a form a nuclear bomb and use it "in desperation", and remainders in it could be used to build a dirty pseudo atom-bomb (or maybe we should call it radiation bomb).

It's also is a nice path into the Ukrain with no civilians/camera etc. around to get in their way.
in both examples where you claim this doesn't work it worked for me. clicking on an empty space next to the form element and hitting tab focused correctly for me. Also tabbing then starting to type worked as well. I tested in FF and Chrome. Are you sure the options exist in the select box when you type? That would make it seem like type completion doesn't work. I Tried the checkbox and radio buttons example in FF and Chrome both auto select the field and using arrow keys to make options selected worked just like native. I think the error is somewhere between keyboard and chair.
I can't say that I fully understand the concepts, but it does seem very much like it's a realm of philosophy. Annaka Harris has a pretty accessible book that introduces the idea and Philip Goff has some interviews and presentations that goes much more in-depth.

>there's not enough evidence to test scientifically.

This aligns exactly with what Chalmers says, that explaining subjective experiences is the "hard" problem precisely because we don't have a way to gather data. Gathering data is, almost by definition, an objective measure and can't give much insight into subjective experience. To a certain extent, if feels like defining or measuring subjective experience can't be looked at with traditional scientific inquiry. Unfortunately, that can also lead to a bunch of quackery.
Luckily, this seems not to be true.

As of writing this, the twitter post is 5 hrs old; however, a 3 hrs old Facebook post from the director of Antonov states that the plane is intact, but has been taken by Russian forces.

Wikipedia links to the post:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
Ukraine isn't part of NATO, I think it's a big reason why troop deployment hasn't happened.
I believe it was the browser extension to copy passwords irrc.
You don't want to bomb the Chernobyl exclusion area.

So it's a perfect place to station troops and military arsenal
Exactly. A few months ago, Russian higher-ups were claiming that it was moving troops around for military exercises. They're blatant liars and you can't trust anything they say, nor should you believe that they have any particular set of morals.
This should really be mandatory for any mall or office block website
.. Can you put a reminder in your calendar? So you re-up before expiration?

Leave the automated charge for a backup, but do the important stuff yourself.
TorchRec, a library for modern production recommendation systems
Good tip on the embassy, but beyond that, you should know "getting out" isn't exactly easy right now. There are no flights, a curfew is in place in several cities, all trains and buses are fully booked. If they don't have a car, repatriating any time soon is probably beyond the realm of their possibilities, Canadian or not.
This is a meaningless nitpick. Spending "over $700,000" to house an individual is just as insane as spending "up to $837,000". Its embarrassing and ridiculous either way.
> If the other option is living on the street, why not?

That's a big "if." Surely not a significant portion of this $800k or the cost of any "luxury" apartment is due to it having a kitchen and bathroom.
1 - I agree, I've been fighting too many battles on too many fronts and my optimism has been taking a hit.

2 - I see, I'll look into presenting more professionally.

3 - I believe Ideas should be evaluated on their merit, and what people think about the idea or myself isn't going to change the physics. It will either work or it won't
You can do it quite easily without Therapist by typing "enable autolabor" into your dfhack console window. All job assignments basically get turned on for every dwarf.
Weeks? JFL.

You can't build LNG transfer depots to replace half of your pipeline deliveries in years, let alone weeks.
Ukraine is not part of NATO. It’s not our job.
> Still a wonderful country to visit, just respectfully not a place I would choose to emigrate to. :)

Christ. I was born here and I wouldn't emigrate here.
You might benefit from some better monitoring!
The US and Russia long had a treaty which prohibited the development of anti-ballistic missile systems with narrow exceptions. While the treaty agreement effectively ended in 2002, it did effectively stop most ABM work in both countries for an extended period of time. Further, the problem has proven to be exceptionally difficult. The Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as "Star Wars," was an effort towards a comprehensive defense against nuclear ICBMs that was famously declared to be beyond the realm of the possible by some technical groups. While US ABM work as resumed in earnest over the last couple of decades or so, it remains an extremely hard problem and progress has been slow. The prominent GMD system, for example, has the ability to counter only "tens" of warheads (and at tremendous expense, having to fire many interceptors per inbound missile in order to raise the probability of success). Other systems like Aegis are generally even more limited.

So while various countries do possess ABM systems with varying levels of efficacy, in general we could expect only a very small portion of inbound ICBMs to be successfully intercepted... if any. These types of systems have consistently under-performed expectations as field conditions prove to be more challenging than expected, and that's with limited knowledge of the countermeasures an adversary like Russia might employ.
The problem is that Taiwan is 20 miles from China and 5,500 to the U.S. (6,500 to the lower 48). It's easy to say that we will defend Taiwan now when the war would be a quick victory. Less so as China continues to close the military gap making it a difficult war. Even less so when victory becomes questionable or impossible.

The US made their commitments when their opponents were at their nadir neglecting that they'd be challenged when the opponents were at their strongest. Walking back those commitments to what the US is willing and able to defend will continue to be the challenge of the 21st century. There needs to be a strategic re-evaluation of what the US should defend and what they can defend.

IMHO, ultimately the either should not or can not defend Eastern Europe bordering Russia, The Caucasus, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan. How to wiggle out of those commitments without giving Russia, China, & Iran ideas is the tough part.
Preventing serious illness and death has always been the stated goal of COVID-19 vaccine development and distribution.
Yes! Well worth remembering. Get your best pen out and write a complaint letter to President Putin. For sure it will stop the invasion dead in its tracks. Genius!
Additionally, Russia has a significant nuclear arsenal. The word on the tweets is that NATO going head-to-head with Russia would mean two significant nuclear powers fighting directly, making a significant risk of escalation. (NATO contesting air superiority over Ukraine would mean launching attacks on Russian air defenses over the border, for example.)
The sooner we stop attempting to fool each other that DOM + CSS is a suitable model for composing user interfaces which were previously implemented as native apps, the sooner we will get past the web era and on to something better.

(25 years later... still trying.)
Fair enough.

I don't quite care about obscure and beautiful theoretical problems. I am looking for new developments that have shown promise to make big practical impact.

For what it's worth, I am no linear algebra definition police so feel free to list what you think is reasonably relevant.
No idea

I tried an Ask HN with my idea, but nobody cared.

Another time, I booked Facebook ads for people to subscribe to a pre launch email list, but nobody cared.

So mostly I just build stuff that me our my friends want. Or where a prospective customer comes to me with their project idea.
There was a missed opportunity to seriously prevent war.

NATO should have been requested to by Ukraine and declared a no fly zone for military aviation west of the Dnieper, before Russia invaded.

An inability to use aviation would have severely slowed Russian plans.
Really? To me it seems very well planned, but with tons of disinformation to make potential opponents hesitate to act as much as possible.