skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But... The drama around it as portrayed in Western media is ridiculous. There won't be major loss of life nor any "war" in conventional sense. It would be no more war than it was in Crimea in 2014. I don't justify. It's a political disaster but not a humanitarian one.

Two weeks ago: The Western media is creating fake drama. Russia is never going to invade Ukraine. We're just trying to protect our security.

This week: The Western media is overreacting. Yes, it's an invasion, but it's not really a war, there's not going to be that many casualties.

Two weeks from now: The Western media is exaggerating. Yes, lots of people are dying, but this is a war, it can't be avoided. But it's really exaggerated to talk about "war crimes" and "mass civilian casualties". And we must not forget that this all began because of Western provocations!
For those that aren't aware, there is a fork of Newpipe that implements SponsorBlock, which blocks several annoying segments in youtube videos. I honestly can't believe how much of a quality of life difference it makes for YouTube

https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
Well, all of this has gone down the drain now, hasn't it? Because this tactic requires enough elements within the targets to go along with it and call for appeasement and understanding. The Russian government has shown its true colours today. People who were on the fence have switched sides now against Russia. No excuses anymore.
Prop 19 more or less eliminated the landed gentry problem. Previously children could inherit their parent's primary residence and get their parent's tax base, even if they didn't want to live in the home. Before we bought a house we rented and my landlord was in that position. He already owned his own home in addition to several other properties in SF... yet he inherited his mom's house at a 200k tax basis, a house that would sell for $1.2m. His children could inherit the house from him, keeping the 200k tax base. And their children. And their children. Forever creating a true landed gentry.

Now with Prop 19 children can only keep the lower tax basis if they use the home as their primary residence and it only excludes up to 1m in value.
In terms of real GDP (PPP), Russia is at $4.3T while Italy is at $2.6T. Russia has the 6th largest GDP by this metric. However, I'm not sure how to think about real GDP vs. nominal GDP when it comes to war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Collectively we would be better off but many individuals would not be which is the crux of the problem.
> I dabbled with worker threads in the past. It feels like you are orchestrating a bunch of node.js instances (workers) with one single threaded entry point, which is now your new bottleneck.

Depending on use case/workload, the bottleneck is mostly startup time. Message passing is much faster than most people
think, and the main thread ideally is primarily just doing that and getting out of the way. Spinning up new processes is more expensive and so is IPC. Of course if you don’t need coordination…

> It seems way easier and faster to instead start as many node.js instances as you need and distribute the load via nginx reverse proxy.

Sure. If you’re running a stateless server. To be honest it’s not clear to me whether that’s the case here. But for other use cases where coordination is needed and which would benefit from concurrency, worker threads are often the best solution for Node.

> It's unfortunate that ssr for client frameworks has to run in node.js, which is rather slow. But that shouldn't invite someone to stack more server javascript on top of it. Maybe someday someone is brave enough to write a frontend framework that uses a compiled language (rust, go, java?), that can also compile to javascript for the client, but renders crazy fast in ssr.

There are lots of solutions in this space. Whether they’re worth adopting largely depends on their maturity and your team’s ability/willingness to adopt them.
One pet theory that I've been harbouring for a while is that the different obesity rates in the US and Canada could be party explained by the dominance of canola vs soy/corn oil in various prepared products. Many brands of mayonnaise or potato chips will use canola oil in the Canadian version and soybean oil in the US version. A sensitive palate can taste the difference in the same way that Mexican coke made with cane sugar is distinguishable from the US HFCS version.

Contrary to what many people think canola's omega-3 to omega-6 ratio is actually not too bad, while soy and corn are off the charts in terms of omega-6 dominance.

EDIT: to answer your question on cooking or baking, coconut and avocado are great, mostly monounsaturated, and have high smoke points. As does pure olive oil (the yellow stuff, not the green EVOO, which is preferred for salad dressings or lower heat cooking). There was a recent study, done at UC Davis, that found a lot of avocado oil to be fraudulent.[0]. Otherwise for frying, beef tallow is still the best, and ghee can also be used for sautéing since it has a much higher smoke point than unrefined butter.

[0] https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/study-finds-82-percent-avo...

> Only two brands produced samples that were pure and nonoxidized. Those were Chosen Foods and Marianne’s Avocado Oil, both refined avocado oils made in Mexico. Among the virgin grades, CalPure produced in California was pure and fresher than the other samples in the same grade.
Are you sure? Now Iran suddenly seems more likeable partner for oil trade than Russia. And Europe always wanted the JCPOA deal.
With due respect, your comment would benefit from a better understanding of French 20th century history. Vichy France was not Nazi rule, and it was not oppression by invaders. It was oppression of the French and by (some of) the French, albeit with significant coercion from the Nazis.

To be clear: Vichy was a client state of Nazi Germany, but from 1940 to 1942 its southern portion was not occupied. It was collaborationist, but Vichy was not simply ruled from Berlin.

It would not be accurate to imagine Vichy as an entirely foreign invention. Like in much of Europe at that time, there were many domestic supporters of reactionary conservatism and authoritarianism. As for the strength of democratic sentiment in France, remember that a President of France (and republican) once gave it only the faint praise: "republicanism is the form of government that divides France least."

The domestic political situation was in no way unique to France. There existed significant authoritarian movements and tendencies in every European country at this time. You are probably aware that both Portugal and Spain had adopted authoritarianism, and not simply by foreign imposition. My point is: the Nazis found an existing domestic reservoir of authoritarian French willing to collaborate.

Just to provide a few more facts about Vichy:

Vichy was the French government formed after invasion and occupation of northern France by Nazi Germany. Its head of government was general Philippe Petain, and Pierre Laval was its prime minister. Both had been significant domestic political figures in France. Vichy France was formed after the National Assembly voted to give full powers to Petain.

Vichy had its own paramilitary militia (the Milice) consisting of about 30,000 Frenchman. This was similar to the SS and Gestapo, but considered more dangerous by resistance French.

Of course, unoccupied Vichy adopted anti-Semitic policies and deported Jews to be murdered by the Nazis. Maurice Papon (later the prefect of police in Paris 1958-1967) participated. You can look up yourself his subsequent misdeeds during the Algerian War. Unfortunately, even after the fall of the Nazis, there continued (and continue) to be significant reactionary and authoritarian political elements in France.

If you wish to learn more about this period, you can start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
That doesn’t really answer the question.

You claimed that this wasn’t inevitable. From today’s vantage point, it seems pretty clear that this was Putin’s intent all along.
I was able to get my apps up faster by restarting the dynos
> Do you have any evidence of that?

This is a totally valid question. Wouldn't the overwhelming liberal majority rule in California be evidence in and of itself? I guess there could be liberals in name who enact conservative policy (or maybe little policy at all), but I haven't seen evidence of that.
Alternative headline: "Lockdowns allowed for parents to keep a closer eye on their kids, as a result more suicide attempts were discovered during the pandemic. Actual suicides (and thus attempts) did not increase significantly."

According to this source[1] 1 in 25 attempts in youth are successful vs 1 in 4 for the elderly. That leaves a lot of room for "attempt discovery" statistics to meaningfully change without any meaningful changes in actual attempts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attempt#:~:text=The%20....
Ukraine is totally overpowered. No one will intervene in their favor with troops on the ground (the only thing that would truly make a difference). Kiev will fall in 2 months top, Putin will install a puppet government and maybe annex all of the south and luhanks and donetsk and form the new russia oblast.
I actually worked on that for a bit but, looking at the plain html ugly result, I didn't think anyone would actually want to use it so I never made a proper release. Maybe with a little bit of css and more supported sites it could go somewhere.

I'm using it for one website still, basically cutting out the part from <h1> to the end of article, after they killed their perfectly fine .mobi website, but afaik I'm the only one. (There were two more sites but they broke.) If you're interested in working on this, give me a ping (email in profile).
> Here I am, a Russian oligarch. I ordered the Ukrainian invasion because I bet that NATO wouldn't intervene because of my nukes. But it turns out I was wrong and NATO is pushing back my invasion.

This is just a slightly different version of a Cuban Missile Crisis. It has nothing to do with economy.
I have too many project ideas.
What I do is look on forums on popular products and look for needs and wants of the user base.

For example: Look to see what people complain about with shopify and see if there a product you can make to fix those issues. If you do it well, even if it's a niche solution. You can build on it or let it make you an extra $100 - $1000 a month.

Rinse and repeat.
Scale and geographic concentration tend to push prices lower, even if just fractionally, and relatively low costs of transport for basically anything in the world mean there's no penalty for buying from far away, so there aren't many factors pushing back from geographic concentration. Add to that concentration in other industries - a market with fewer larger buyers means larger average individual demand than otherwise, which pushes towards larger or more concentrated suppliers.

Loosely, there's a lot of economic push towards concentration, and not a lot pushing against it. Geopolitics usually operates on a slower scale than market pressures, which means we get weird things like a vested interest in Ukrainian national security due to it being the only country bothering to manufacture neon in the world.
I think suffrage is a bit of a one-dimensional way of measuring a democracy.

Athens puts all modern democracies to shame in who actually held office, and ensuring that those that did had real skin in the game.

I imagine contemporary politics would look very differently if officials that fucked up risked ten years of exile by public vote.
Thanks! I didn't realize that it required curly braces and only went off of the red squiggly line my IDE put there instead of reading the helpful compiler output.
You argument is that the worst atrocities were committed by the Allies, in a war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan???
...was placed to serve as a Russian puppet to keep Ukraine out of the influence of the West, which the country overwhelmingly wanted. After being tossed out...

Could some trouble have been avoided if Yanukovych had left office via election rather than via coup? How many Ukrainians really considered his negotiation tactics with EU so unbecoming that he should have been summarily removed via "extralegal" means?
The CDC figure shows that it is quite reasonable to change mandates to: you must be vaccinated OR have natural immunity from prior exposure.

With the vast majority of most populations falling into one of those two categories, we no longer have to worry about a large bump in hospitalizations due to people intentionally exposing themselves to the virus. The scientific rationales for maintaining the vaccine-only mandates are dwindling rapidly.
What would a thriving progress movement look like?
Remember these are new units and those median prices are for all units regardless of age and condition. It is really impractical to build new units in the 1st percentile. Those are almost always going to be old units that are poorly maintained.

You also can't just give this money to homeless people and let them buy or rent their own places because the fundamental problem is a lack of supply. Simply giving them money would increase the cost of homes for everyone else and in turn feed into a cycle of creating more homeless people. The city needs to build new homes to increase the supply.
Wow. Read one article from the web and everything else is ‘BS’.

I mentioned that this is for an Indian kitchen. Specifically. Our cooking involves tadka(tempering) and sautéing..we use more pulses/lentils and one pot vegetable preparations than meat..meat requires high heat for Maillard reactions.

High smoke point is not to just guide for deep frying in Indian kitchens. We don’t use oil just for deep frying. Everything I learnt is by sound rather than sight with high heat. With the spices we use, aroma and flavour is an integral part of the cuisine. When we temper mustard seeds, we have to ‘listen’ to the sputtering. With ghee, we have to ‘listen’ to the sound of milk solids caramelising. Higher heat will destroy the food.

Good quality olive oil at any heating point is wasted. Refined olive oil at high smoking point is more trouble than food. Considering I have an actual degree in cooking..of international standard for many kinds of cuisines ..…plus multi generational/multi regional Indian cuisine by experience, I think that I can safely ignore any calls for BS about my food and cooking on Hacker News. Stick to your lane.
That is a balancing equation, not an absolute.
Yes, but that's a dangerous game Putin is playing. If the economy continues tanking and he chooses to prolong a possibly unpopular war with casualties on the Russian side, he may lose his favour with the population.

In a way, something similar seems to be happening with Erdogan in Turkey, whose popularity is starting to wane as an effect of the horrible economic situation.

So, I think that long-term, sanctions may help, even though there is no guarantee (but when is there ever?).
Do you find mentoring and code review boring?
Now that I’m one of the more senior developers on my team, I spend a large amount of my time reviewing and mentoring rather than creating stuff myself.

I love being creative, but it feels like my real job is now to rein in junior developers, and it’s honestly pretty boring a lot of the time.

Does anyone else feel this way? And does anybody have tips to make this type of work more interesting?
Out of curiosity, are there any writeups on how the game specific hacks work? Like, how do they detect the game being run and what kind of optimization are they doing?
Tacos, hackerspaces, museums, Doro wat....
Newpipe can also download. No need for bloated YouTube-App, Premium subscription or ti hassle with a command line tool (in case CLI's are not your thing).

As also mentioned by others, youtube-dl seems kinda dead. However there is a good fork/successor called "yt-dlp" which, in addition to other nice improvements, also somehow manages to work around the enforced heavy bandwidth limit by YT.
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I think you may underrate how much people in the local community hated SROs. It was definitely politically popular at the time to remove them.
if the tech companies "de-platform" Russia on their own does that count as a sanction? I wouldn't think so since it wouldn't have been ordered by a government. I wonder how Russia would react to that, cyber warfare against the company denying them service?

edit: after thinking about it, the above seems like punishing the Russian people more than the Russian government which shouldn't be done IMO
> anyone that has ever needed to style a <select>

No one has ever, in the history of software, NEEDED to style a <select>. You want to style a select. Your users don't give a toss.
Behind the viral KJV Bible app there’s a Chinese gaming company
> It doesn't have all the podcasts yet but it is small and very non bloat

That is a weird statement because a podcast is just a URL. However I can't find anywhere on the site to add a URL (other than the Import which I assume is OMPL and would allow arbitrary URLs?)
> Not quite Prop 13 but you can't have high increases in property values, and simultaneously have affordable housing.

If you means test things, it can work better. If you're an artist or a retiree in san francisco, and then someone goes and invents the internet, prices will go way way up around you. If you don't want to force the artists and retirees to learn to code to keep up with housing catering to newcomers, something like prop 13 helps. But then if they do go and learn to code, taking advantage of the new skyrocketing job market, then they don't need prop 13 protections. Prices went up but their income kept pace, so they don't need the protections.

A lot of these kinds of issues seem to come back to lack of means testing or poorly implemented, non-holistic, perverse incentivizing means testing.
Huh. I had heard about this concept but didn't realize it had a name. Thank you for the tidbit!
I don't buy the argument SROs were removed to get rid of Slums.

In fact, my first apartment, ironically in LA was a very small step up from an SRO. It had a private bathroom, but not much else.

Now the city has effectively made this housing illegal to build.

These units for the homeless are basically luxury condos. It's never been about helping people, Garcerti and the boys just ripped off the people of Los Angeles.

A more realistic plan would be to offer relocation assistance or at the very least relax building requirements.

None of that will happen, my first, my beautiful 600$ apartment is now 1300$. I miss the city LA used to be.

I had the privilege of living in a neighborhood with 3$ bottles of Soju and 4$ Tortas. It was absolutely amazing.
this morning at work we had a database connection issue for a few hours. I work for a school district, which is an organization. therefore, it was probably a Russian cyberattack.

like what
Biden has been presented with options for extensive cyberattacks against Russia
USDC [0] essentially can be used as a multi-chain stablecoin. You can accept USDC with other cryptocurrencies listed on [0]. Here's an example of a user paying with Solana USDC:

Depending on the fees, the merchant could use say, Solana Pay [1] or MoonPay [2] and the user on-ramp is the Phantom Wallet [2][3].

All of that addresses every single bullet point.

[0] https://www.circle.com/en/multichain-usdc

[1] https://solana.com/news/solana-pay-announcement

[2] https://www.moonpay.com/business/onramps

[3] https://www.moonpay.com/blog/moonpay-phantom

[4] https://phantom.app/
I am very concerned about exactly this. I think it would be very well at this moment to visibly increase our support for Taiwan, and our preparations for a confrontation with China.
It was, but I don't know why. I'm curious to hear if Heroku releases any information about how this happened. Heroku's DNS was returning a single 100.64.x.x address which is in a reserved range.
You can drill-down to a specific SRO building to find a unique story, but the overwhelming trend from 1960-2010 was to eliminate SRO because of health and safety concerns.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
Yeah. There's a lot of cause for vitriol, but it shouldn't come out as dehumanizing attacks against Russian people.

Whether or not the Russian people supports the war, using racist slurs doesn't help the peace process.
World War II was suicidal for Germany too, that was part of how it happened, sane observers knew it was idiotic for them to start a war and assumed it wouldn't happen as a result.
The city isn't spending $837K to house one homeless person, they've spent that on housing the first homeless person in that unit. Unless they're planning on these people never improving their situation to the point of moving out and for the unit to be destroyed in the process, the units can be reused. We'll see if the paper writes a story on how the cost of housing a homeless person has been cut in half after the units turn over to new tenants after the old ones move into their self-sufficient lives.
Crotchety Alert

I am progressive and I'm getting weary of the degree to which we've pushed inclusive language. Can we just acknowledge, at some point, that there are some, minimal, practical distinctions between XX and XY chromosome'd people? I thought we'd be fairly safe in considering birth and breastfeeding something specific to one sex, but no - even there we have to watch our language.
Mining (and refining) especially tends to come with some nasty environmental effects that we've been quite happy to outsource to other parts of the world with less empowered citizenry (and often cheaper labor).

Rare-earth elements are the same way - they're relatively abundant, but China is enormously over-represented in the market because the west doesn't like mining and China doesn't care.
Yes I meant the first one, I did not expect it to get misread the other way
I don't think these systems work nearly as well as you do.

Simple example right now:

Go on amazon, and search for "intel CPU" - I see the following:

1-16 of 942 results for "intel cpu"

Now go back and search for "cpu", then filter by brand "intel" - I see the following:

1-24 of 835 results for "cpu"

It turns out the tags are exactly what I said they would be - a hodgepodge of things not correctly applied. For example - searching "intel cpu" actually returns items that include intel CPUs (such as motherboard + cpu bundles) that are missing in just the tagged search. But it's still absolutely a valid result if I was interested in buying a cpu.

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as mostly an aside - I don't really trust Amazon or Newegg to be neutral in their results either, a tagged view is convenient to them as a seller where they can control results.
In the early days I was all for it, especially when it looked like vaccinated people would not be spreading this thing, but more recently we have devolved completely into irrational hygiene theater. The mandates will not move the needle and serve no purpose at this time.
Are your subcontractors fully insured? Do they fully pay workers compensation? Are their employees legally authorized to work in the US? There is a quite substantial price premium in the market now for contractors that follow the law, and government projects are forced to follow the law.
Where do all these numbers and other claims come from? Without evidence, we're all writing works of fiction - compelling stories, but not reality.

> handed over design and construction of the crossovers to a company that builds snowplows.

Who is analogous to the snowplow building company?

> SROs used to be provided by the private market, largely free to taxpayers!

What do we know about SROs and their outcomes?