skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're basically applying enterprise level pricing to a consumer product. You ever try and check the price for a SaaS service only to find that you have to contact them?

They will explain they need answers to a bunch of questions to know if the product is a good fit for you. What they're really trying to do is figure out the max you will pay.
Who the heck is going to be able to stop China?

No-one will be able to cut them off even if they side with Russia openly.

China sells $2.5 TRILLION per year to other countries, half trillion to USA

USA would collapse if China stopped selling here.
The Glasgow Coma Scale: https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/ef...
The road to success is paved with rejection letters
The same way the sun warms you when you walk out of the shade. Air temperature is the same but you feel warmer. Long IR is completely different than conventional heating elements that can only heat air.
> IIRC at that time coal power and other industrial production had to be stopped for a couple of months in the surrounding provinces to make the games happen and people (importantly top bureaucrats who lived in Beijing) decided they liked the clean air.

I think this undersells the demand for clean air. It's a huge political issue in China, one which animates people on the street even though the people of China are legendarily passive on political questions. If the government saw any way to clean up the air without impoverishing the country, they'd be all over it. You don't need to face reelection to appreciate a free win.

A brief experience of clean air in Beijing is a small thing compared to the constant massive demand for cleaner air everywhere.
I mean, I applied for one despite my lab being very well funded, it was maybe 30 minutes worth of work?

But that was merely a note for "How this could have gotten on Nvidia's site" that isn't "Nvidia paid for it all."
The problem with Gaza is as one of my friends from the Middle East summarized it: no government*
really cares about the Palestinians.

Sure, they'll use them for propaganda purposes, and to rail against Israel, but when it comes to taking actions with limited resources? Well, they don't care that much.

* Except maybe Iran. But there are a lot of mixed motivations (and religious baggage) between Hamas and Iran.
Opera on Android solves this by forcebly reflowing text blocks to fit screen whatever zoom you use. Can't live without it, and have no idea how others do
That's alright, we're all taken for a ride every now and again.
You have to break it down by the parties involved: Russia, NATO, and Ukraine.

1) Russia. Russian power is waning, and at the same time Ukraine-NATO integration is approaching the point of irreversibility. Russia sees the potential for a NATO armed Ukraine with US tropps, missiles, and possibly nukes 5 minutes from Moscow as an unacceptable security risk. From the Russian perspective the window to stop Ukraine is closing, and they have to act before NATO armaments has made Ukraine is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

2) NATO. NATO and the US would like to have the additional leverage over Russia provided by bases in Ukraine in the long term. Each additional country in NATO adds to it's strength, and removes a potential threat in the future. NATO wont give Ukraine full membership today, because it does not have full control of it's territory and widespread corruption within Ukraine. NATO, is willing to provide a slow path to membership because it is a Win-win situation. If Russia doesn't act, NATO slowly gets more leverage over Russia (NATO win). If Russia invades Ukraine, Russian forces, economy, and relations are damaged (another NATO win).

3) Ukraine. Essentially stuck in the middle, with no good options. They can grow closer to Russia or the EU, and each has downsides. Russia is a waning power and offers less economically. EU is more prosperous but they must join a military alliance against Russia. If they ever get full NATO membership, the Russian threat is greatly reduced, but NATO application is an extremely long process during which the threat is greatly increased.
It can be proven that they work perfectly, i.e. cannot be improved on, under certain strong conditions. They work less than perfectly otherwise. But most markets are never near those conditions and empirically work quite well for the set of thick, widely traded markets with good[1] information.

[1] Not perfect
While I don't disagree at all on the broad points you are making there is definitely some nuance there.

I personally believe that the US military is an outlier in terms of it's professionalism, but it's not completely and uniformly professional, there are lots of people coerced in to joining to avoid jail time and what not. Many standards were lowered to increase recruitment during Iraq war. Recruitment targets disadvantaged communities, etc. But I tend to think that there are other forces countering ill-discipline such as training, esprit de corps, "fighting for the guy next to you." I don't know about the disposition of the Russian military but am skeptical of the notion that it's a rag tag bunch of drunks and fuckups :) I guess time will tell.

As for the excessive violence in Iraq. A lot of the excesses came directly from the top. Shock and awe was apparently a fireworks display with no military rationale. It was violence purely for entertainment value and how it would look on TV. It doesn't seem comparable to the Russian approach which, while everything they do is a war crime, they still need to be conscious of all the international scrutiny they face. I don't think they would be able to start levelling neighbourhoods from the air while boasting about how it would terrorize the population without facing severe condemnation from all sides. Shock and awe was condemned by all sides, but the US seemed completely immune to it and carried on regardless. By all accounts, the distrust built up by the acts of terrorism turned Iraqis quickly against the invasion and made the occupation much more costly than it would have been otherwise (of course, other factors contributed hugely, eg. the corruption and incompetence of the CPA, etc.).

While I agree on the race and culture thing, it's also hard to ignore the fact that a large US political movement is committed to wiping out or overpowering roughly half of their own population based on their political beliefs. The events of January 6 should really have opened up peoples eyes to this. We are quite capable of dehumanizing people of the same race. We've been doing it for as far back as the fossil record goes.

Edit: fixed grammar/brainfarts.
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If English was more like Latin the "said" in the second sentence could be deleted all together and made implicit with declensions.
I don't think you're following the actual dispute on this subthread.
You seem to have a basic misunderstanding of what was happening here. It had nothing to do with money laundering. Steam was accepting transactions before they were confirmed by the bitcoin blockchain. Its like accepting a check and handing over the merchandise before the check clears. It is also why most places don't take checks anymore.
I was in an induced coma for a couple weeks, and intubated in the ICU for a total of about 30 days. When they deintubated me my breathing muscles were so weak I thought I would die of asphyxiation. They sent me home a few days later, as soon as I could climb a staircase (there were stairs leading to my front door).

Several days after returning home I got stuck in the bathtub: I couldn't lift myself out, my wife couldn't lift me. After several false starts, we got me out by me lifting up a couple inches, and my wife shoving a pillow under my butt, several times. :-)

I was back at (office) work 2.5 months later, and biking to work 3 months after that.

All of which to say: 100% agreed -- do absolutely nothing and the body just wastes away.
“So much bandwidth”? It was an edge device in a 3g world. It relied on Wi-Fi for location service when high end phones had used 3g towers and gps for years.

In so many ways the iPhone was a poor high end phone on paper.
I tend to be cheap, not even just frugal, but it's worth it to me. During my first winter in my own place, I set the thermostat to the low 60s F to save money. After about two weeks I concluded that feeling perpetually uncomfortable in my own place wasn't worth whatever money I was saving. It felt like trying not to drink water when thirsty to save money. Warmth is just such a basic human need. Better to save in a number of other ways. I definitely wouldn't do this to my wife and kids now.
The bigger risk is to the end-users. See this thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1497745011932286979
If you're using SQL Server, I'd just use SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). It does the job handsomely, it has first party support, and it provides full schema management. I've never heard of OpenDBDiff but SSDT is very popular.
I remember one of the spoof commercials (on MadTV perhap?) when the iPhone was first released that described all the awesome features and wrapped up with a battery life of 5 minutes (or some such small number). The other thing that we forget about now that was expected back then was that fingerprints would render the display unreadable after a short time. Also turned out to not be an issue (largely thanks to a combination of glass design and a strong backlight).
In the US, insurance rates certainly cannot vary by race.
It's tricky to get a bead on what it is people think I'm arguing here. My argument is simple and narrow: if it's an attack discovered independently that can break a cryptosystem with realistic parameters over a weekend on a laptop, it's not an NSA backdoor. NSA backdoors are trivially exploitable by NSA, but not trivially exploitable by anyone with the relevant mathematics background.
...like...Bitcoin?
I was in the ICU for a month after a motorcycle accident in the '90s. I didn't see all the bills, but one of them was for over $300K.

I had the "bad" insurance at work, which had bigger co-pays for day-to-day stuff, but happened to have no max on coverage. I paid nothing.
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I wholeheartedly agree, economic sanctions (including IP blocking) damage the populace far more than the regime. And it only increases resentment towards the powers that imposed the sanction.
>The big thing here is that blockchain is a solution in search of a problem and none of the applications that have been mooted have made sense.

People and countries who are prevented from accessing the banking system or making money transfers would beg to differ.

>I have no doubt that it's going to collapse, but I wouldn't dare to put a date on it. I was pointing out the absurdity of it 10 years ago and it's still sucking people in.

The same can be said about every fiat currency. Which will collapse first? Or, more importantly, which will collapse faster?
No, it hasn't. It's in 21 states. It's also not a federal mandate or anything.

From the article:

> "While the United States government has not issued a federal digital vaccine pass, a national standard has nevertheless emerged. To date, 21 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico offer accessibility to the SMART Health Card, a verifiable digital proof of vaccination developed through the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), a global coalition of public and private stakeholders including Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle, the Mayo Clinic and other health and tech heavyweights."
https://www.cdc.gov/masstrauma/resources/gcs.pdf

Glasgow Coma Scale

Eye Opening Response
• Spontaneous--open with blinking at baseline 4 points
• To verbal stimuli, command, speech 3 points
• To pain only (not applied to face) 2 points
• No response 1 point

Verbal Response
• Oriented 5 points
• Confused conversation, but able to answer questions 4 points
• Inappropriate words 3 points
• Incomprehensible speech 2 points
• No response 1 point

Motor Response
• Obeys commands for movement 6 points
• Purposeful movement to painful stimulus 5 points
• Withdraws in response to pain 4 points
• Flexion in response to pain (decorticate posturing) 3 points
• Extension response in response to pain (decerebrate posturing) 2 points
• No response 1 point

Categorization:
Coma: No eye opening, no ability to follow commands, no word verbalizations (3-8)
Head Injury Classification:
Severe Head Injury----GCS score of 8 or less
Moderate Head Injury----GCS score of 9 to 12
Mild Head Injury----GCS score of 13 to 15
There's such variety in comfort. Being too warm on one side and too cold on another is one of my favorite ways to be.
Update: they hit a fence. The facilities are intact.
it also feels a lot like haggling where knowing the price is key. without knowing what everyone else is paying you don’t know if it’s a good deal or not
I used to top leaderboards with a couple of friends in the 6 years between 98-2004, mostly with RTS and FPS games. What really ruined 'competitive' games for me was World of Warcraft, i think. even though i logged over 800 hours in games like COD4:MW, All the Battlefield games from 2 through 4 (including 2142 and BFBC2, which IMO is the best one), and the like, i wasn't ever able to break top 100. My wife did manage to become either the best or top 2 worldwide with the M249 in bf4, having played about 3 times more hours than i did.

Because of all of that, and the general burnout from Wow 13 years ago or so, i have a hard time caring enough about any game to play it through legitimately; i also no longer play any competitive games at all. I read this article and have added the game to my wishlist for a future purchase, even though, in general, deck building games have never interested me. Since there's thousands of hours of gameplay and banter about the game online, the 'hook' of the article actually got my attention.

I'll never be #1, or top 10, or even top 100 of any game again. I'm mostly ok with that.
On iOS you can press the aA button to do the kind of zoom you want.
A whole host of things :) You can’t get rid of the truth, only ban it for a moment.

Funny thing is religion and monogamy were built to solve this tinder problem. Society has known about it for a long time
Compressing XML files is not exactly uncommon. Microsoft Office does it too.
You seem like you have some in mind, why not get them out?
> I think this may be a nuance that is often lost in discussions about eating meat between people from different cultures.

Definitely. USA meat culture is so gross I have rejected it all. And I really like the vegan diet! I really direct my criticism at my own country and culture, and generally don't have much to say about other cultures.
Ah the goals are shifting I see
Insurance premiums are based on massive tables of probable risks.

E.g., I'm a redhead living in the Southern Hemisphere who has been active in the outdoors all my life and who smoked for 30 years.

So to get insurance that paid out in the event of terminal illness, I had to either pay a massive premium, or agree to exclude melanoma and lung cancer.

Makes sense - redheads produce minimal melanin, and there is far more UV exposure in the Southern Hemisphere due to the ozone "hole" that forms over Antarctica every year and drifts north onto southern South America / southern Africa / Australia / New Zealand. So as a ginger who had spent a lot of time outdoors under a harsher sun, I'm definitely in one of the rows in that actuarial table that's coloured red in Excel.

(And smoking is self-evident).

Now, back to Tinder. Are they charging based on risk? No.

They're charging what people will pay. And I'm willing to bet that they consider a recently divorced 48 year old man is able to pay more, and if I'm being uncharitable, desperate enough to do so.

So your comparison is very much apples and oranges.
The US can certainly back down. They would much rather lose Ukraine (and perhaps even more of Europe) than start a nuclear war.

Also, "things will proceed to nuclear" means that you think Putin will initiate the end of human (and most plant) life on Earth.

I don't think the richest man alive, who seems to desire material possessions and power over almost anything else, would want the world to end completely. He could leave office now and have an incredibly pleasant life.
If everyone involved oversaw the escalation to where it is now, they certainly have it in them to escalate it much further.
I am an author, and years ago I was invited to participate in an event at a bookstore where local authors were gathered to meet their fans and autograph books. Toward the end of the book signing, a fellow came to my table and said some very kind things about my work. He asked me to sign a copy of my book for him, and I obliged, asking "who should I make it out to?"

Turns out that fellow was Brandon Sanderson, by far the most famous and successful author participating in the event. It was around the time he published his first Wheel of Time book. Everyone around me knew who he was and they were all starstruck, and horrified that I was so oblivious. I felt silly for failing to recognize him, but he was totally cool about it. He was gracious and kind, and very supportive of this small-time author. In spite of his success, he was so down-to-Earth that his advice is probably worth heeding.
Baalor is great at sts and ridiculously friendly. His ladder challenge was immensely fun to watch
They've got a typo in there
Excel online (Office 365)
Do you think they could be prepared in advance for this kind of attack? Maybe, but you are not the man in the arena. I don't know for certain, but I know at least one engineer on the youtube team and I'm willing to bet that they're frantically writing software to match a new and painful set of assumptions about how the world works.

How are you helping?
Hi everyone,

I'm the author of this post. I'm not sure who shared it and it is a little bit embarrassing that my first blog post which ends up on hacker news is about how I stuffed something up. I'm sure we've all had similar experiences at one point or another.

Cheers to learning from our mistakes.
“It was out in front in a lot of ways but not witchcraft.”

I’ve been running Linux since 14.

Had all the great smartphones of the age.

At 19 I purchased the first iPhone.

It was fucking witchcraft.
Environment variables are fine when used for things that usually don't change once they're set. For example, XDG_CONFIG_HOME or GOPATH. They are, however, absolutely awful when used to configure values that will probably change inside a session. A good example is BEMENU_OPTS from the bemenu program, which is used to change colors, font etc. Should I relogin into my session just to make a program use dark mode colors?

https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu#environment-variables

In such cases, environment variables lose their intended purpose and they need to be stuffed into wrapper scripts or overridden on the command line before executing a command, which is extremely annoying.
I also live in Jersey City and would use this. Which station is this relative to?
It may not be unfair, but is certainly undermining market dynamics. Normally, the price is fenced by multiple factors involving the entire spectrum of that particular market segment. With undisclosed personal pricing, prices aren't fenced anymore by known factors and the market isn't "well informed" anymore (if you believe in such things). We may think that being subjected to an essentially uninformed market may be deemed as unfair.
I'm reading this at something like 150%, so yeah.
Excellent writeup!
Have you ever had any sort of reasonable range with a cybiko? I remember articles noting that connections struggled after 30 meters
As a counterpoint to this, a lot of the Chinese air improvement has come by moving factories downwind of the major cities. While Chinese air has gotten better, the air quality in Korea (on days when prevailing winds come from China) has gotten much worse since 2009, as coal is still the majority power source for them.
> There's no possible way where this invasion would not result in Sweeden joining NATO.

Rewriting this for clarity sake:

It is absolutely that this invasion would result in Sweden joining NATO.
Putin has clearly stated that he does not believe the Ukrainians are a separate people. That should tell you everything you need to know what this is truly about. Putting that aside for a moment, Germany's economy is almost three times the size of Russia's. The UK's economy is twice as big. Russia's economy is smaller than Italy and is just a bit larger than Spain. Russia is simply not powerful enough, nor important enough, to expect a buffer of satellite states like they had 50 years ago.
Slay the Spire is a really hard game because you rarely get immediate feedback on your decisions. As human beings, we thrive on rapid feedback loops and can very quickly learn to do a task when they are present. It takes an entirely different sort of thinking to look back and say "all those attack cards I took in Act 1 just ended clogging my deck in Act 3!" when the two situations may be an hour and a half or more apart.

Another really challenging aspect to StS is that the immediate feedback you do get may be entirely unhelpful or even counterproductive. Taking all those attack cards in Act 1 can make your deck feel a lot more powerful... in Act 1. But essentially you've sacrificed the long-term viability of your deck for short term strength.
I watched all of Sanderson's lectures on YouTube for his creative writing class he teaches at BYU and honestly a ton of his advice is very useful for programmers. I have absolutely 0 desire to write a book (although admittedly that class had me thinking about trying it), but his general advice on how to work and how to think through things was rather useful and a really neat insight into one of the most efficient people I've ever seen.
WOOP! We got it!
I too thought this was an important issue that seemed to be missing from the article. That and the risk of burns.
It's not that they're better-off, but rather that the movie theater discovered that a movie the child wants to see often forces the parents with them. By discounting the child, they increased the sale of at least 1 ticket for the parent, and therefore, they make more money. If the child wasn't discounted, the parent might choose an alternative source of entertainment (because face it, adults tend not to want to watch children movies) and the theater lose out on that adult ticket!

this is why you don't see a discount for couples usually - coz they were going to pay even without the discount.
How cold is cold?

When our gas went out in the summer, taking a 'cold' shower was bearable, some days even enjoyable.

In the freezing winter? Tried it once, never again. I'm not even sure it would be safe to shower in water that cold for any long periods of time.
Elon Musk Says SpaceX’s Internet Service Is Now Available in Ukraine
This is incredible. I've been dying to go to an event and meet him and I'm hoping with Covid potentially winding down I'll get a chance soon.

P.S. what is your book's title? I'd love to check it out!
Only if Ukraine somehow also quickly recovers the territory it lost in 2014. NATO requires that new members have zero disputed territories before they join because territorial disputes could immediately force NATO to intervene.
Not off.
Throttled down.
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You're right, 5ms updates aren't really any more useful than 20ms updates. Although for the current esolangs `React.memo` serves most 5ms use-cases, I'll be happy to implement fixed-rate updates or debouncing when a visualizer gets too complex for simple optimizations.

Theoretically, the visualizer window can show anything I think - as long as the required props support structured cloning[0], it's really just a React component. Performance is the only limit, but the above methods will help when that limit is reached. A Leaflet.js map for the Taxi[1] esolang will be interesting to implement, for example.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...

[1] https://bigzaphod.github.io/Taxi