skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our ~200 member group is fine. There are controversies of course, but they rarely derail anything. It is private, of course, and there's no up/down arrows which helps enormously. It is also no longer anonymous of course since it was moved to FB. It makes an amazing difference when you can see someone's face.
I try to think about this by putting myself in Putin's shoes but i keep drawing blanks. I only see downsides to the invasion and no upside from the perspective of Russia. I must be missing something huge that has a value > than the cost because the cost, in all terms, is very very high.
Basically, we’d be better off if the government had done nothing. Seems like that happens a lot.
I'm having a brain fart on the word/phrase to describe this but it'd be really interesting to see how "split" accounts are when commenting on the technical articles vs fluff articles. It may well be different groups commenting on certain posts often and others not as often giving a strong rise to a real difference in tone/analysis. There may not be things like "subreddits" here but that doesn't inherently mean you can pick a random political topic and expect the same userbase is participating.

This wouldn't rule out the above, both reasons can coexist even, but it'd add to the understanding significantly.
Nothing is impossible.

Remember that 2.5 years ago we all said it would be impossible to stop international air traffic and close all borders between free countries. Still, it was possible. Some reopend earlier, some later. The US opened up for Europe just a couple of months ago. Australia opened only a couple of days ago.

The question is what price people are willing to pay. The sad truth is that the Western people value their own energy bills or comfort much higher than Putin invading Ukraine.
Coincidentally, I've been thinking about this as well recently. Especially your second major question:

> If you completely don't have an idea, but want to work on one, how do you look for ideas?

(But also the one before.)

My line of thinking was there oughta be a community online where people can pitch their ideas and get opinions on it or look for collaborators, also cross-discipline. Like "hey I have this cool idea for an, idk, gardening app but I don't know how to code, wanna help?" or "I'm working on this thing, any ideas to make it better", etc.

From what I've seen, there are some forums like that on Reddit but they look more focused on momentary thoughts and whacky ideas rather than projects people are actually attempting. And it doesn't help that Reddit is mostly focused on recent posts (like HN or Twitter), so your post would only really be "active" for a few days.

GitHub could work like that in theory. You can push an empty repository with your idea in a README and people can use discussions to, well, discuss it. Tags could help others discover ideas to work on. But I haven't really seen anyone use GitHub like that, especially not people who aren't involved with IT in any way.

I guess what I would like to have is some kind of "Product Hunt but there is no product yet" (and with more useful discussions). Is anyone aware of anything like that? Or is this perhaps a niche that's not filled yet?
Are their life conditions improved by having homeless people all over the place?

There's a price to pay for living in an organized civil society, because people have learned the hard way that having an organized, civil society is better for their families and life conditions.
At least you're important to them. Which is a nice sentiment, as they struggle to find a way to be in compliance with a three year old law. A law that just require them to respect the privacy of their visitors.
About right, might be saving closer to 35%.

Land cost was $500k in 2018, but its 3 acres, had existing utilities, and I can re-build another existing structure on the property what was red-tagged and will be 2 bed 2 bath, ~1800sq/ft primary dwelling. The one currently under construction is technically the accessory dwelling unit, but it really is a stand-alone house.

With just the new ADU, we will be in ~$850k but appraised value is expected to be $1-1.3m. When we spend another $350-$400k re-building the primary dwelling, it will probably be worth $1.6-$2m with ability to rent one unit.

The metric I care most about is my sq/ft build cost which will be around $300/ft. This is incredibly low for a custom home which ranges in the $400-650 ft range for a decent quality custom and $1000+ ft for higher-end residences.

The sqft size of units in LA is not mentioned, but based on the video, they are between 400-600 ft. $837k / 600 sqft = $1395 ft. Wayyyyyyy too high for "affordable" housing.
> Sure he’d like Russia to be economically stronger, but his own situation will always be fine so it’s hard to care about a few sanctions.

Mussolini certainly didn't expect to be hanging by his toes either. Stalin didn't expect someone close to him to dose him with warfarin. Hitler didn't expect to be cowering in his bunker, ending with blowing his brains out. Gaddafi didn't expect the rebels to capture and shoot him. Saddam didn't think he'd end up hiding in a rat infested spider hole and then hung by his adversaries. And so on.
The people control zoning, and thus, where things are built.
If only there was a way to serve HTML over HTTP :-(
Show HN: Programming Time - Playing card game to teach your kids Python
At polyglot.network, we have been taking a much more direct approach: Hire us, and we work like a typical agency on open issues that you care about. It's in our best interest to work with upstream maintainers, but if for whatever reason, that's not practical, we work with either remote freelancers or in-house developers to get the job done. In the end, we solve the actual problems you have, in a sustainable way.
My wife and her friends are progressive in many ways and vote as such, but they too do not like this term. I think it has to do with feeling pushed aside from an innately important, defining thing she could call her own as a woman, when she has felt left out of so many other things throughout her life as a woman. TBH I'm not 100% sure if that's the reasoning though.
Well, that doesn't explain why it would stand out as such a hit because that explanation would apply to tons of songs that weren't hits or celebrated like that one.
Springtime for T-Rex and dinosaurs
I don't think you'll see "soybean oil" as a product on a shelf you'll see in any grocery store anywhere in the world.

It's an ingredient in pre-made foods.
on windows their Opengl performance is horrible compared to Nvidia but on Linux their open source drivers are way better.
> Russia's been sanctioned for nearly a decade. They're probably the most resource-rich nation on earth and have a nearly fully self-sufficient economy. What little they need they can get from China.

It might look so like we have a self-sufficient economy, but it's not true. We have lots of resources, but to mine them and produce things you need technology. We're mostly importing needed technology and it's not something that can be changed fast. And things didn't change much for the last 10 years. China is a good partner, they can produce and export all needed tech things, but I doubt that in the current world is a good option to depend on one partner.

I'm Russian and I don't understand the reasons for the invasion of Ukraine. And I don't agree with our country leaders' decisions. It doesn't look the peace could be brought by war and aggression. And I'm feeling that we already lost. We lost opportunities to partner with Ukraine and other countries. We lost momentum to grow our own economy.
Germany leading the way in demonstrating how spineless the Eu is. Go ahead and issue your stern warnings and finger wagging.
You couldn’t prevent the Ukrainian people to predominantly prefer a western orientation, and to vote for a government with western values. The only conceivable way to really satisfy Putin would have been for the Ukraine to be controlled by Russia-aligned propaganda and media, probably with rigged elections, similar to Belarus.

Of course, Putin may have hoped that the Ukrainian public would "see the light" and realize that they are really Russian people (as Putin seems to think they ought to) and align themselves accordingly, but that would have been a pipe dream.
It can be also tied to bespoke equipment, hard-to-transfer expertise and experience. If consumption grows relatively slow, it makes sense to expand single installation, rather than duplicate it with 'copy exactly (which might take too long to pay off).
That's a good observation. I don't currently do any partitioning and I think I have to read up a bit on exactly how Lambda executes Go functions. If they keep the program state between executions there are probably some cleanup I should be doing. If not, I think I'm safe as script code and everything related to a new script execution gets sent as parameters in the Lambda invocation.

Edit: I'm going to add some cleanup regardless.
That mechanism is totally absent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice

That is precisely why these things happen.
There have been sanctions on Russia since 2016, and they got harder in 2017. The marginal value of additional sanctions is now greatly reduced. In retrospect, imposing sanctions in 2016 and 2017 was a bad idea.
Curiously enough, this was an actual question on SO:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41425511/aws-api-gateway...
>But it's hard to de-escalate.

It's trivial to de-escalate for WFH companies at least; We agreed last century that forced medical treatment was wrong. Don't do that and people can hold whatever opinions they like about the vaccine individually.
More like, we'd be better off if voters didn't demand short-term actions with negative long-term effects.
You're right, writing stretch text with current HTML authoring tools is not practical. My MMP system was practical but the MMP server side software was a challenge to implement and now it's gone. But it will rise again!
Every few years Hacker News has a discussion on research ideas. If anyone can find links to past HN idea-lists, that would be great!

"Factor Tables" (AI), "Dynamic Relational", and a stateful GUI markup standard are my pet suggestions. They are based on practical needs I observe, not pie-in-sky. (Desktops aren't going away, so let's stop making them a 2nd class citizen per UI's. Mobile is more "sexy" right now, but desktops get the real work done. Office Space's Milton probably does the real work.)
Become a better data engineer on a shoestring (free resources)
> Did you arrive at that conclusion driven by observation and evidence? If so, then that means you notice this behaviour only on the politics threads

You second sentence does not follow from first one. It is quite possible for HN to have that behavior in more then one topic while OP making the first observation in politics.
If you don't want freeloading from big companies, why not simply using GPL or AGPL, and offer the possibility of dual-licensing?
The word socialist was added to the constitution because of Indira Gandhi, the only dictator to ever hold power in India. So I think you are making my point for me

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-second_Amendment_of_th...
Many Endpoints per AWS Lambda
> It's a shame that these big companies seem to suck at making usable websites.

The Reddit and Twitter web apps are actually great on mobile, but they lock you out after a few minutes. I used to use both all the time until three or so years ago when the constant app pushing made both unusable.
Display options -> Rotate globe
About 25% of that, so 1500 give or take. This is subject to signed treaties, what those are still worth I don't know.
Depends on how you define "linear algebra." Representation theory, lie groups, and grassmannians can all be considered "linear algebra" and are active areas of math research, but it probably isn't what you are looking for.
> I use tags extensively on my Mac...

In other words, you have developed a disciplined habit of tagging your files. If I had a penny...
Moderna: Covid is entering an endemic phase, but annual vaccines will be needed
There's some real vitriol here and comments bordering on being open discriminatory attacks ("Russia is a wasteland of civilization and we should just nuke them", "stop drinking Vodka, Sergei"). I hope that folks remember that the state isn't the Russian citizenry, and even if there is a minority support for this in the country it doesn't represent the people... _especially_ when the leader is a murderous autocrat.

This is a disaster and heartbreaking for everybody on the ground, Ukrainian and otherwise. We shouldn't forget that when the USSR fell, folks had moved all over the place. Friends and families are very blended in the former Soviet Union, and there are many, many Ukranian-Russians as well. My wife was born Russian-Estonian, with a lot of Russian-Ukranian family, and it's unhelpful to have one half of your heritage bombed and the other half being called the wasteland of civilization.

Don't make the situation for everyone even worse, no one needs that.
A lot of people in Eastern Ukraine identify themselves as Russian (source: a friend of mine near Poltava). They speak Russian first, Ukrainian second. Trying to argue which came first is rather moot, the tug-of-war between eradication and strengthening of the Ukrainian identity has been going on for more than a century (see [1] and [2]). There's nothing obvious about that cultural conflict, except perhaps to Putin, who is clearly more interested in Rusifikatsiya than in Korenizatsiya.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainisation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification
Christ, stay safe man! If you can go West then do.
Trying to level with you here - what makes you so sure?
That is why for 20 years SSR frameworks have supported components.
The main difference is the direction of the heat though. Top down rather than stove top. More or less the same deal otherwise.

"Seared" and "sautéed" we do use! It's just we also use "frying" for that, and "frying pan".
We’re seeing this with lithium. Canada and the US have significant amounts in the ground but the mining and refining infra simply isn’t there.

Neon distillation does seem much simpler and cleaner, from my layman perspective.
It's actually the land which goes up in value. Houses go down in value, like a new car.

Sometimes this is masked, by regular maintenance, retrofits, and repairs. But if left to pot, a house is eventually worthless, then even a cost, for the new owner has to tear it down and rebuild.

Land appreciates. A house costs.
(VictorPath first talked about Syria, before editing it to Somalia. That's what globalise83 was referring to with different continent)
> so how much of the $800k goes to the mental health etc services?

Is it clear that any of it is meant for those services, or could they all be extra costs above and beyond it?
If you want to serve a list of lightweight web services, is it too much to ask to do it in a way where the people who might benefit from those services can benefit from the list?
Actually there is a toggle in the settings (under content) to bypass this, seems like this is an issue that Piped avoids as well which I wholehearted recommend for desktop or browser use.
Microsoft has their Surface Pro X. It's a convertible tablet so it has s touchscreen. (Is WSL available on ARM-based Windows?)
It's true, but I tend to think humans are pretty bad at threat evaluation if the threat lasts for years and years.

Kind of like the IT admin that doesn't check backup integrity often enough because there's never been a data loss issue in years.
Did the firearm make warfare more or less brutal? I would have said less, if you discount the scale at which they allowed war to happen in by the transitive property that they allow reliable control of a population.

Similarly, I don't think advanced weaponry make fighting more brutal. Also, MBTs are going out of style pretty fast, and some of those other things are outdated too.
Nuclear response means escalation to global nuclear war. That's every worst nightmare come true and puts civilization itself at risk.

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Nope see my reply above. It has no relation. Nation has a very politically precise modern definition that is independent from race/tribe.
The problem is the government bidding system is completely borked. Especially in a state like California.

The government would do better if it only acted as a buyer. "We will pay for any new units that are constructed that meet these qualifications" and let the thousands of independent developers and contractors do what they do.
Django has these same limitations in my experience, but to me the issues are largely caused by the common usage patterns which are encouraged by the official docs and community, and lead to absurd amounts of coupling/ball-of-mud apps.

you can be disciplined about clean architecture/DDD/hexagonal architecture, etc, but you have completely ignore the patterns encouraged by Django, Django Rest Framework, etc etc.

Hide the ORM behind Repository interfaces

Marshall ORM objects into true Domain objects

Do not call to the database in the HTTP adapter/validators

Etc etc
You can use constant expressions in const generics in many cases.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
> OK, so units may cost $837K.

That's not what it says: It say only 14% cost 700K+ (i.e., 86% cost less than 700K), and one project might cost 837K. In other words, the 837K are a small number of outliers (unless it's a really big project, of course) and based on a projection.

> Is that all inclusive of all necessary services

Yes, I agree that should also be considered, and I think those services are essential. However, it's important to keep down construction costs too.
Precisely this. In LA there are constant referendums about homelessness, in CA massive budget increases, and yet, nobody will allow a shelter or multi-family unit to be constructed in their neighborhood, lest their soaring land value peak.

In CA, it's my firm belief that people have a tad too much power over the minutae of government operations. What did we even elect people for if we are going to try to solve everything with referendums and protests?
The advantages of large, long-running pull requests
It looks like they consider the US to have become a democracy in 1921, which would point to the 19th amendment as the thing that made the US "become a democracy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...). The term "electoral autocracy" hardly seems to fit, whatever failings the US might have had prior to that time. Nor does the term "closed autocracy" really seem to make sense referring to the administration of George Washington. While Washington was unanimously elected to be President (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...), the President had relatively little power at the time, and the other government officials were not unanimously elected.
PlanetScale increases plans to include billions of reads
As I understand it, it could be that air separation occurs elsewhere, at different places, and that only purification to extract semiconductor-grade neon is done by Iceblick in Odessa.
The linked article even mentions "electoral autocracies", precisely for your description.
Uh-huh, ask the Sailors of Kronstadt how that went: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_rebellion#Aftermath
Example: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Vegetable-Oil-1-gal/1...
I am pretty sure Heroku has a Linode box or something for their status page. I may be wrong though. They may also have moved it but that would seem like an incredibly dumb idea.

I worked there and I vaguely remember something like this but it's been a long time.

If I had to guess this is probably a DNS issue (it's always DNS).
Just like JSF frameworks, with Prime being the best one.
Don't see many Producers references on HN, bravo.
> If their property taxes had risen with the rate of the area that they bought a house in as we grew up, we would have been unable to continue living there and forced to leave. The same thing goes with my grandparents.

We're ensuring stability for the older generation, at the expense of a younger generation who couldn't possibly afford the same neighbourhood they grew up in.

Those with millions in real estate equity can use that equity and financial engineering to defer the property tax increases until their death.
Even if you believed it, most people don't have the luxury of just uprooting and leaving until it gets bad.

The government still isn't recommending fleeing. They want to stay and fight--not preside over refugee flows to Poland.
Well, what should have been done is enforce laws (and pass legislation if necessary) to prevent the SROs from being allowed to decline into slums.
If you look at the graphs for both Denmark and Norway it's clear that the nazi occupations "reset" the count for the sake of those maps - they're mapping the amount of time since the latest emergence of democracy. It'd be interesting to do a map with short-lived occupations excluded too, but it'd be a different thing.
I think one of my bosses used to say that the ideal meeting size was 4.5 people. Meaning you needed a pretty good reason for number 5.

And two people can just meet at a desk. If cubes were still a thing you could do three people without even getting a room.
Voters didn’t order the SROs in bunker hill destroyed. Follow the money. Who stood to gain in the time when that SRO was raized into a parking lot then turned into the hotel Bonaventure in downtown LA? It wasn’t voters, it was a handful of politically connected people.
The laplacian of a matrix also has cool applications in computer graphics, if anyone is curious (about further connections). Think of the mesh of an object as a graph and compute the lapacian. (You get natural unsupervised segmentations of the mesh for instance if you look at it as a spectral clustering problem.) Look up resources by Keenan Crane. If you've played with 'smooth normals' in blender I believe it uses techniques like that as well.
He will only be stopped by swift and decisive military action from the entirety of the free world.

Things get complicated when you go toe to toe with a nuclear superpower.

What outcome do you expect when an authoritarian dictator with nukes is cornered and being bombarded by Western military from all sides?
The Flynn effect has been observed to have reversed in a number of nations in Scandinavia and elsewhere. [1] Scandinavia is the typical test bed because of have compulsory military enlistment paired with IQ testing. And the declines are quite substantial with Norway seeing a 5 point decline between individuals born in 1991 compared to those born in 1975, and a 3 point decline compared to those born in 1962.

Big meta studies may miss this because its a relatively new trend, and IQ is full of a million biases that can just generate noise when combined. When people are young, their IQ is significantly influenced by environmental factors, but as they age genetic factors become dominant. And in countries without some form of compulsory testing, sample biases abounds.

As for the past gains, look at height! Height is reasonable proxy for nutrition and globally it's just skyrocketed [2]. Japan is one of the more extreme examples, with their average height increasing by about half a foot since 1896!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...

[2] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-height-of-men?tab...
Related "Ask HN: How are you helping employees affected by the war in Ukraine?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450365
90%! Did we really let ourselves become so reliant on Ukraine and Taiwan for computer chips? Taiwan being the next country most under threat.

In fact, Reuters just reported that "Taiwan warns Chinese aircraft in its air defence zone"

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-reports-ni...