skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still winter. Much of Europe relies on Gazprom directly for natural gas and perhaps more pervasively, for a lot of low cost natural gas to maintain market stability.

Indeed, Gazprom's recent inaction to stabilise supply has seen wholesale prices rocket. I can't imagine the chaos if Gazprom were ordered to cut the supply off.

By which I mean to say, Russia has bargaining power here too. It's not just pointy sticks.
Microsoft did it as well last week when announcing return to office by February 28. Lots of little companies around Seattle followed suit.
We required everyone to get COVID treatment. (Especially in california)
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Well, that's the point. Ukraine never behave well, and its master seems to ignore numerous warnings and refuses to listen. Go file a report now.

ps: the good thing the master is safe and fine. he will adopt another one just to annoy the neighbor again.
I was at Target in the sauce aisle and I couldn't believe how literally every sauce I picked up had Soybean oil as the first ingredient.
> But now they are different. Most big companies aren’t focused on creating things out of nothing. Someone else made the magic money-making machine, and they assume that it will just keep working. With the one thing that actually matters taken care of, they care about luxuries like making sure as high a percentage of the company as possible feels included in the planning process. Or creating performance review frameworks with an ever-increasing number of boxes and categories. Or something else that matters even less than that. This lack of focus is a luxury and a disease.

Absolutely brilliant paragraph, couldn't have said it better. I wonder if this is some function of "idle hands do the devil's work": that is, people with not enough work to do find some moderately useless thing to do that feels like work and seems like work but is actually wasting time or even counterproductive. Perhaps a properly lean company always has a bit more work to do than it has the capacity to do it.
You misread what I was saying.

I am not saying abortion doesn't have an impact, but Roe vs Wade did not. There were a lot of abortions prior to the legalization in the US. I am not positive, but it may have been legal in some states just not nationally (didn't want to look it up to confirm).

This is why the date of legalization of abortion did not seem to have an impact in Europe and also why restrictions on abortion in some countries did not have an impact.
Anyone who has gone to a recent security conference and walked away feeling secure wasn't paying attention.
This is Putin‘s excuse but it’s so damned tragic. NATO and the EU have precisely zero interest in preemptively invading Russia and haven’t since 1991, as he well knows—in fact he’s counting on it. All of Russia’s “security” issues are of his own making. This is about fulfilling a dream of reclaiming lost greatness.
"Vegetable oil" is likely to be partially or mostly soy, as it's the cheapest vegetable oil.
It’s not even about that.

It looks like Putin is making the correct calculation that the west would suffer more.

Look at the Chinese reaction, it is very unlikely he would be making this move without at least tacit Chinese support. He has an outlet for all of that energy and grain.

Where will Europe recover that supply from?
Arguably, a country without a fair, equal and representative electoral system is not a true democracy. This excludes the us and most Commonwealth countries, except new Zealand (since their electoral reform a decade or so ago).
No, AWS is not down.
You are apparently utterly unaware of the reality on the ground in Russia, which I can't fault you for but it makes the discussion a bit tedious. FWIW: your 'average Russian' may well grumble at Putin, the hardships the country is operating under and the effect that sanctions will have on their already fragile economy. But they're likely not going to act, this has to do with living like that for the last 75 years or so. That does not mean that they support the invasion of Ukraine, but it does mean that when asked about this they are aware that whoever is asking it may have an agenda so of course they will say that they support it.

But it's not as simple as support vs a lack of support, the third option is apathy, something that Russia has plenty of.

I tried to show you - apparently that didn't work - that verbal support for Putin's safari does not necessarily equate to actual support, the alternatives are probably not even on the radar if you haven't lived under a repressive regime: you are very careful to toe the party line in public, no matter what you may think in private, and bitching against the state is a cottage industry in Russia. Given all this, what is surprising is that plenty of Russians are actually quite vocal against this invasion, which I consider to be a very positive sign.

https://www.voanews.com/a/moscow-warns-russians-against-stag...

and

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-arrests-anti-war-prot...

> Is it Putin acting as a dictator against the will of his people in a desperate attempt to retain power

Yes

> or is it just that the Russians support those in the Donbas region?

Yes.

So there: false dichotomies are false, reality is a bit more difficult than you can imagine.
I believe you meant "with limited impulse control." What you wrote could be considered somewhat offensive.
> there’s a legal requirement for accessibility

In the US I'm fairly sure there's only a requirement for accessibility if you're building something for the government. I'm certainly allowed to build a website that isn't accessible and not have it taken down.

Edit: Guess there's precedent to require some businesses to do it as well. Looks like I'm mostly wrong here.
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I currently use peanut oil, but it's still 30% PUFA. Presumably if PUFAs are bad (again, unproven!) then there would be something better.
> January 23, 2020
Keep a list of “why can’t I X?”

For example, “why can’t I hail a taxi from my phone?”. At some point, all the ingredients were there but it didn’t exist. Uber answered the question.

Things that you wish existed, especially if they are a combination of existing ingredients.

Then you have to ask “so why hasn’t someone already done it really well?”
Indians in India have skyrocketing diabetes and obesity numbers in recent decades. 20+ years ago you would struggle to see a single non thin person.

Drastic increase in quantity of ghee (and sugar since a lot of Indian tests are a lot of ghee and sugar) consumed and reduction in labor (trading strenuous, perspiring work for air conditioned, sitting work) could be relevant factors that make ghee consumption from the previous thousand years not comparable to today.
Well the artist can do it, they don't have to do it.

If the majority of artists are like yourself and don't care if others use their work freely (from another comment not just assuming) then copyright allows them to sit and smile as people enjoy their work.

If they do care, then it's lucky we have copyright :)
Be aware that all these oils contain a lot of omega-6, and very little omega-3 fatty acids. So if you consume a lot of that stuff, you also need a good source of omega-3 DHA/EPA (fish or supplement).

Also, there's quite a bit of controversy around the purported health benefits of coconut oil. Personally, I'm rather skeptical about it.
Is there any way to fix incentives with government contracts, so that the product that is purchased is the lowest price for the highest quality? In the free market, there are generally incentives for that because companies have a brand, and if you deliver poor quality, consumers eventually catch on, your brand suffers, and you lose business to your competitors. How does this work in the government? Where is the disincentive to keep contractors from delivering the shoddiest product for the government check? This mechanism seems totally absent.
Slightly less damaging. High heat processed oils are probably not great in general.
Russian Government Websites Are Currently Down
It's not that it isn't an extreme position, but I think you are right that many(most?) designers don't appreciate the usability tradeoffs they are requesting in doing so. Most designer I've had this discussion with have come around to not doing styling like this after having the tradeoffs explained to them.
This is wild, but also would explain a lot of the obesity issues in the west.
jodi.org is still active and pretty cool, IMO
And I'm saying that as a former engineer at an IDP, the shape of the crypto played a major role in the forms of 2FA we favored, causing us to specifically de-emphasize TOTP in favor of public key schemes.

The calculus is different if you're just a regular website, but the question was pointed at Google, an IDP in their own with many forms of public key schemes implemented.
What makes Downdetector unreliable? It's showing a huge spike right now.
But they'd just get downvoted by the same "fans" that are there (any given subreddit) because they like said thing.

you have basically the same problem with any user driven site, IRC, Forums, Facebook, Reddit... hell even the 'zine culture, most usergroups, clubs.

Its not reddit's problem or fault, we all want to belong to a group where we get excited in the same ways about a thing.
His drawing abilities were awesome, he probably would stick to paper, assisted by modern inventions like ballpens and mechanical pencils. People like to shun paper, but I think that happens because most of us have awful drawing skills, so it is used as a medium for verbal thinking, but not for "crankshaft-thinking", as Feynman called it.
Only the House of Commons is democratic, and it didn't become the more powerful house of Parliament until late 19th or early 20th centuries.
Contrary to popular belief, that is only a small consideration in geostrategic security politics.
Yes, but olive oil has a low smoke point and is not used for the same applications. Otherwise I'd happily use it for everything.
Me wishing every UI/UX person understood this.

In fact, the more bells and whistles I find on the requirements for individual form inputs, the more annoying it is the work on.

Simplicity is god for most of front-end.
C. Northcote Parkinson, in his book "Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress", discussed the evolution of the British cabinet. Don't remember the details but each institution that served as a Cabinet inexorably expanded and was replaced by a smaller one that the King, and later the Prime Minister, used as the inner circle. And five was about the right size for that inner circle.

Here in the United States, the official cabinet has over 20 members, obviously too big to serve as such an inner circle.
ICON’s 15.5-foot-tall 3D printers can build the exterior and interior wall system for a single-story house in a week. The method cuts 30% off traditional construction costs and has been proven to produce homes for as little as $10,000. Compare that to a recent effort in Los Angeles to build 117 pre-fab tiny homes for the unhoused for $5.1 million. Compared to the LA efforts’ approximate cost of $43,590 per home, ICON could print homes at a 4x cheaper rate. - we wrote this for a story back in October. ( https://news.youexec.com/briefs/texas-startup-will-build-100... ) The fact that it costs them $800,000 in some cases is just ridiculous.
I'm gonna take vote hits, but truth is needed here. Python Decorators and C#/Java "attributes" are a sham. If their OOP model were powerful enough, they could just use OOP composition to get the same thing and not have to invent a new kind of thing: it would all just be objects referencing objects. They are a sign of poor or obsolete language design.

True, it's hard to just throw everything out and start over, but at least recognize the problem so that next generation of languages can solve/avoid it.

Removing or softening the distinction between object and class is perhaps a start.
I'm sure an exception could be made
> it a model designed to support the educational mission of the university.

Except for the small problem that research contracts with orgs, some for profit, that don't have an educational mission, such as SRI, BBN, etc, follow the same model (absent the donated buildings).
"User reports indicate problems at Amazon Web Services"
User reported outage sounds like people confusing the Heroku outage with AWS.
Shitthatneverhappened.txt

I don’t believe this headline for a second
I think in these cases to receive contributions you must ask people to sign a CLA that transfers the copyright to the you/project. Otherwise it's not possible to relicense the contributed parts.
No one is going to risk a nuclear war under the stupid assumption that their ABM systems will be 100% effective. Also Biden mentioned missile deployments in Eastern Europe were a potential bargaining point, although I'm not sure exactly how those talks went.

Regardless, the only thing Putin has to fear from NATO ABM systems, and NATO membership for Ukraine in general, is an end to their ability to conquer Eastern Europe militarily.

I'm sorry if that explanation doesn't suit Russian paranoia, but I see no upside to tolerating said paranoia either. And neither, apparently, does Ukraine, despite standing to lose the most in this situation.
There's a nice iterative process called Customer Development from the Lean Startup methodology. Use this to validate your initial assumptions, to fine out the Business Model (Value Proposition and the target audience) and generally understand pain points of your potential customers (how much does the problem currently cost them, how they solve it currently, what are the possible alternatives, etc.).

Hard to give a complete advice im just a few sentences, but basically this framework gave me the understanding necessary to quickly build out (validate) business ideas before anything is really developed. To oversimplify it - try selling before building it. That will give you a very good understanding of the potential market size, the actual needs of people and so on.
There’s no reason why you have to couple storage interface to business logic.

I’ve done this before. Develop business logic as a separate gem and then include that in a Rails project.

ActiveRecord is actually entirely optional in Rails, it’s just the default.

You can also use POROs as presenters and mixin ActiveModel if you want things like validations.

Then couple that with Sequel as an alternative to ActiveRecord to run data access objects.

Sequel is often regarded as a more permanent alternative to ActiveRecord. It’s not a drop in replacement though so that might be a consideration for team skills/support.
because RFN has a nuclear umbrella from US. Hungary does not have one.
I need to stop using HN until this whole conflict ends, reading these posts is killing my brain cells at an unprecedented rate.
> United Kingdom governed much of the world and non of those people had much say in the government that governed them.

Yes, and important point. India had a pet parliament, but the prime majority of Indians had no option to vote. In fact, it was mostly Britishers themselves who sat there until mid-192X
This is a false equivalence, Ukraine and Taiwan are completely different geopolitical theaters. Different histories and different oceanic alliances.

USA has gone on record saying it will fall on the sword for Taiwan. [0]

USA never said any such thing for Ukraine. The closest commitment is Biden saying "we will defend every inch of NATO territory." [1]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59005300

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/biden-warns-russia-us-defend-21054732...
Indeed, America drones people instead. Orders of magnitude more people.
Well, it's mostly saturated fat. It's good for frying. Also not bad to rub on dry skin.
Rust's crate repository (crates.io) seems to be down too. I wonder if they're connected...
Because adapting sucks, but we adapt well to many things. The fear of change can often be worse than change itself.
We thought about that and actually decided against a dedicated feature doing exactly this. The reason being that we do not want to hurt podcaster's ability to monetize their content.
That being said, with the automatically generated chapters in our app, you do already get a good sense of where the ads are.

I personally am hoping that some of the podcasting 2.0 features will make it easy for listeners to tip podcasters directly. Once we have that, we could implement an ad-skipping feature which is then only activated for listeners who have tipped the podcast creator.
In some states (probably a minority) it is permitted to not have your license on your person while driving. I think you get some kind of summons to produce it as soon as possible.

This is not to say that I am on board with the face scanning. Just a related point.
Hunter Biden already has an Other-than-Honorable Discharge (IIRC) from the US Navy, because of his well-known drug problems. Age can be waiverable but I doubt that drug discharge can.

Just some minor amplifying info to the thread.
Interesting irony that the page containing the list itself has a 2 Mb payload.
To be fair, multi selection is a disaster on any platform.

It is a hard concept that isn't completely solved by any of the standard GUI widgets.
Neat! Wish you had a clickable demo rather than just screenshots.
If there is a private-sector vaccine mandate, and there is an adverse reaction, they will be sued. If there is no private-sector mandate, and there is an outbreak, they will be sued.

So the employers are between a rock a hard place. Government needs to do one or the other.
Does the US have a history of doing this or is it more likely someone in Europe is doing this?
Its because they don't actually want to house the unhoused. They want to make it seem like this impossible challenge to provide affordable housing that doesn't cost the average person in LA $1M+
What’s so special about PS1? Fun with customizing Bash command prompts
The heck is this? Eat a pound of coconut butter a day?

Eat more than a few tablespoons of any edible oil in one sitting and you'll definitely feel a difference.

Edit: using only added coconut oil in cooking is, upon reflection, a more probable interpretation. Sorry.
> Am I wrong in thinking there can be a democratically elected socialist government?

Yes, if a socialist government is democratically elected it's overthrown shortly afterwards by the CIA.

(sarcasm, but this is basically what happened to South America, and there's longstanding questions about some of Italy's postwar politics)
All our applications are still down.
Russia’s Sandworm Hackers Have Built a Botnet of Firewalls
> Get out of your parent's house. It is a daily reminder that you're not facing life as an adult.

This is complete bullshit. The US is a major outlier with the societal pressure to move out for no reason. It makes for poor family connections, wasted money, and wasted resources in general.
Specifically for Asian cuisine, all the typically used oils are high in PUFAs. Otherwise there is EVOO.
We don't pay the majority of it and we gain a considerable amount of leverage for it.
He would have wasted his life posting food pics on Instagram.
At first the heroku status page was still all green for me... although took 30 seconds to load. I guess when the status page takes 30 seconds to load, that's an indicator!

I did figure, okay, a 30-second-to-load status page probably means my app outage is a heroku platform problem.

(Also an indicator the status page is sharing too much platform with the platform it's supposed to be reporting on? Also in this case an indication that the platform problems are pretty deep?)

Interestingly, my app logs (via papertrail, which is still up) show that some traffic is getting through continually through this current outage, although I can't (and my monitoring app can't either, which pinged me).
I would follow Dr Tyler Black, https://twitter.com/tylerblack32 for data on that.
He reviews data (with source links) from multiple sources and provides interpretations, and imho a pretty good job of breaking down nuances in the data, how it is grouped and summarized vs the ground conditions.

The CDC data was reviewed by him on this thread. This is perhaps the simplest summary:

https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1470785676316663820?...

Edit:
There is actually an interesting presentation of data on this and other school mental health impacts on a even more macro basis in the Urgency of Equity website data packet which tries to provide a scientifically backed set of recommendations for schools going forward on Covid. It is biased to taking more specific actions than the anti-vax/anti-mask crowd, and even the current Covid policies of many governments.

http://urgencyofequity.org
And what if Russia detonates a nuclear bomb over these incoming NATO troops?
> olive oil is great but if you're frying stuff with it you're turning a lot of it toxic

Do you have a source on that? What is toxic about it? Really curious, because I cook a lot with olive oil.
I would try one of those keyboards that work with Layers. There are many of those, the one I use is the Dygma Raise (damn, I talk so much about it here that I am expecting someone to flag me as a corporate account any time soon). I think you can also look at Ergodox and Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, they probably support layers as well.

So the thing about layers is that once you hold the "layer key" (typically in your thumb), all the keys change what they do, and you can choose what it is. So you could have, for example, the first row be QWERT, but once you hold the layer1 key it changes to YUIOP, and then if you hold layer2 it becomes []\arrow-up. And so on. I could probably learn left-handed-only typing like that.
Coconut oil is very high in saturated fats which some people may want to avoid.
None of the files in the 1997 tree have a file date anywhere near that old, the drive they are on wasn't created until decades later.

For me, there is only one durable, universally supported tag for those files, which is the folder structure. Due to the way cameras number photos, for any given photo file name, there are likely 5-10 other different photos with the same name.

You might be tempted to then call for a standard tag that would be supported, but what about files relating to things of unknown dates? Fossils, antiques, draft x of the Declaration of Independence, or of things planned in the future, with dates still in flux?

Having one canonical path and filename for a given collection of bits is a really effective tool, that I doubt will be surpassed any time soon.

However, the next best thing, in my humble opinion, is to use a cryptographic hash of the file in question, as Git does internally. You could map a filesystem interface to a data store based on Git, as long as you don't expect high speed writes to work with performance. (because new checksums require computing across the entire file, even if only 1 bit changes)
Interesting - thanks for the links! I suppose now I need a fully configured remote-server to use it with.
>> If that worked, they'd get their war for free.

If that worked, we would see a new war every month.
I completely get that. See my comment above why we decided against having a dedicated feature for this. I'm hoping that tipping (or similar forms) will get more popular in the future and be supported by more podcast creators in their RSS feed.