skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your shock is reasonable :) most midwestern US States are the size of most European countries, but with 1/10-1/100 of the population. Bentonville/Fayetteville are pretty well off the beaten path, both previously being farm communities, though Bentonville was also a trade hub in the western frotier days. Bentonville is famous from being Walmart's headquarters, which is sort of crazy given how tiny the town is. Fayetteville has a fairly large college. The two cities have really only seen extraordinary prosperity in recent years, so there's not a lot of extra money to spend on stuff that's not always needed, given their history.
NATO is a defensive alliance, so there has to be a provocation for them to act.
The end game is policy changes and regulation so they get removed from the supply chain and it ultimately becomes automatic for consumers to avoid them. You need studies demonstrating the danger is real to convince legislators.
Dirty tricks? In war? Unheard of.
I get it, I'm not naive.. I'm saying it looks dirty as in dumb/reckless, not efficient. But I may be wrong.
It's actually not all that difficult to parse ingredients lists while shopping. A good rule of thumb in American grocery stores is to stick to the perimeter while shopping (produce, dairy, meat) to avoid seed oils. :^)
I think that should be self-evident.
Optimising for profit can lead to both massive positive and negative effects.

So the obvious question is how you balance those negative effects against the positive. This is where regulations and governments have to step in, though that certain has it's own massive issues.

Health care has a lot of unsolved problems, from my perspective no group is actually doing well (Just varying shades of bad, I'm from the UK). There are so many ailments that can't currently be treated well (Despite having spent decades studying them, though that seems to be a systematic failure of academia)
Especially important to differentiate given that some people really do mean abolish. There's a thought that it's possible to get rid police because people will do just fine policing their own home. And along with that they think that we also don't need a judicial system because disagreements can be solved through arbitration. I feel it should be obvious to most people why that's problematic (I don't want to turn this into a massive rambling tangent in a day old thread)
The logical conclusion of this is the "first strike" doctrine of MAD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-emptive_nuclear_strike).

Every major power has had 50 years to prepare for it, and it won't work.

You want to respond proportionally, and make it hurt. But you also want to leave room for more pain, to give incentive for the behaviour to stop. And you need to make sure that your adversary believes that you'll keep hurting them. This is why we use some, but not all of the economic sanctions available:

1. If things get worse, we can make the sanctions worse.
2. We're much more likely to be able to maintain sanctions than soldiers in foreign wars.
That's because we're engineers, and we solve problems.
OK. Must have confused with Hong Kong
"It's a great position to hold if you can."

It is a great position to hold and fight in, because the area is pretty empty of civilians. And russia must avoid ukranian (russian in their eyes) civilian casualties, to not loose the little popular support they have for this war.

And neither side will be so stupid to directly bomb the remains of the reactor, but I think it would need a serious direct bombing, for radiation to leak out. I don't think there can be still a major uncontrolled chain reaction. The worst that can happen under normal circumstances, is radiation leaking out.

(but all this is from the back of my head knowledge, about documentaries about chernobyl, I might be wrong)
yeah, there's so much room to extend this work in terms of graph coarsening / sparsifying, especially for progressive / approximate approaches

there's lots of overlap with entropy binning as well and likely some sort of combo for win -- figure out "max frequency" with some sort of FFT / wavelet like meta technique or somehow bin edges based on entropy contribution, etc.

or, lots of pathways to make coontinuous / numerical in JPEG like way

basically JPEGs for graphs -- with big impacts in AI / ML computes
I just had two chinooks fly overhead from the direction of Wright Patt. I see them maybe once a year.
Petition to stop the Ukrainian war gains 300.000 supporters
Whole foods, steamed or grilled vegetables, legumes, butter or olive oil, fish, eggs, or other protein that isn't fried. Fewer ingredients are generally better. Ingredients that have ingredients are worse.
I think people are implying "obviously we'd like to avoid direct military conflict with Russia if possible", so given that there's nothing strongly compelling us to intervene directly (like Ukraine being in NATO), we're obviously not.

(I'm unclear on how true the silent implication is, but seems reasonable).
Incredible how this obvious advice, of firing people who are not doing a good job, needs to be couched as deep insight and a mental trick (reframing it as rehiring) in order to get past the absurd levels of agreeableness among the wealthy, cosmopolitan people running companies these days.
Aurora OS is based on Sailfish but owned by Russian Open Mobile Platform (2021)
Yeah building mountains is not a realistic solution. Thermal storage is probably the best replacement where pumped hydro isn't feasible.
We should be talking about grain, not gas.

Russia is the biggest exporter of wheat in the world with 18%. Ukraine accounts for 7% of the world's wheat.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-...

This conflict will affect 1/4 of the world's wheat which will affect food prices.

In 2010 Russia stopped exporting wheat due to wildfires burning their fields (most likely caused by climate change). This caused a hike in food prices which helped trigger the Arab revolutions in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires
I don't think you can clearly state anything about my imagination based on a handful of comments on the internet.

The scenario that we have been discussing is NATO's response to a Russian invasion of a NATO member such as Estonia. What are NATO's options?

1. Full scale (offensive) war. They attacked us, we will end this in Moscow
2. Repel the attack, take no aggressive action beyond what is required to come to a stalemate
3. Do nothing

I have argued elsewhere with you that I don't see 1. as being at all likely due to NATO's goals, defensive posture, and military superiority.

Doing nothing would only embolden Russia and destroy any pretense of an alliance at all. If not in Estonia, when would NATO intervene? Poland? Germany?

Thus, repel the attack and take no aggressive action. De-escalate and give options for Russia to save face.

We don't have to bet that a single person is not unhinged enough to press the button. There are command and control limitations purpose-built into even Russia's nuclear arsenal. Putin also wouldn't want his historical legacy ruined by the thorough destruction of the present and future of Russia. I'd go further to say that he knows all this, and wouldn't invade a NATO member in the first place.
I agree with your lead statement and argued as such, but was overruled. Last I knew and understood, Heroku Status is static pages pushed out to Fastly, with the internal admin site (that does that work) running in a Heroku Private Space. If you look at the DNS, it still appears to be served by Fastly, and Heroku Private Spaces are generally pretty isolated infra, so I would be curious what the failure mode was here. But ultimately this is the fire you play with when you self-host your status site...
I've heard that repeatedly and I used to believe it to; however I have been recently studying WW1 and found out there were many people back then who said pretty much the same thing. They said that no one would want a war things were too profitable and there was too much trade, they were terribly terribly wrong.

The problem is WW1 wasn't one big "let's go to war" like Hitler and WW2, WW1 was the effects of hundreds of little consequences, edge cases, and constraints upon individuals and nations that interacted in a way no one could see. I believe the same thing will happen again, and it will probably come as a result of a Pakistani-Indian conflict or something from Iran. It isn't something anyone can see right now, but its coming, just like no one would've guessed the assassination of an Archduke would lead to 10 million dead across Europe, in the same way it will be something we can't determine right now that will push upon the constraints, agreements and edge cases to push us towards another global war.
Indeed. Some things are different today. Nukes, cyber weapons, NATO borders being tougher than the League of Nations, the imperial country having a weak economy, and the whole thing is a war without a cause.

Russia invading a NATO country would be akin to walking on a landmine. Putin's not a fool, so it is very unlikely to happen.
> True, but the Russians are also counting on the idea that Ukrainian forces do not want to release that fallout back on to their own territory

Unless there is no Ukraine. Blowing it up is the closest thing Ukraine has to a nuke and it would take out any troops stationed there. It would be a horrific thing to do though and I don't think the Ukrainian leadership has the demeanor to do it.
It's the highest signal question to ask in reference checks as well. It gives the reference an out to be honest and not feel like they're being disloyal. It's a very direct question that is hard to fudge without lying.

"I would rehire them in a heartbeat" = yes,
"I have been trying to recruit them for months, you lucky bastard" = yes,
"If the right role came up, I would certainly consider them" = no,
"Uh.. yeah, I think" = no
Turn to Putin for information then. Same outcome.
So asm! is basically the same functionality, except it's been stripped down to features that are more easily verified for correctness, and some of the syntax has been tweaked to be more understandable. The original asm! macro just passed everything through to the LLVM inline asm construct in raw form, and was renamed llvm_asm! to allow people to keep compatibility while the cleaned-up version of asm! was worked on.

I think the biggest missing features are the more exotic, non-register constraints, but some of the reasons those are omitted are because of unclear coordination between Rust code and the assembly language string.
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‘Normalcy bias, or normality bias, is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

We saw this at the start of the pandemic too.
Serbia is not Russian ally. It strives to join the EU and is neutral in military sense. They declared armed neutrality in 2007 and there was no change since then. They regularly hold exercises with both NATO and Russian Federation.
How do you think about running on-prem versus in the cloud? I can see some users preferring the ease and simplicity of using MutableAI in the cloud, but I can see larger corporations preferring to keep all code in-house. Have you thought about that?
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Russia is who broke this agreement yet you are blaming the others?
That's not quite what's shown in that PDF...All oils tested showed signs of instability when heated, but EVOO was the most stable. But EVOO still had an increase in trans-fats, for example, when heated. Furthermore, in the conclusion, they note

note that the experiments were carried out without food being
cooked. While cooking, the water and steam which comes from the
food being cooked aids the process of hydrolysis. The absence of
food in these trials may have allowed for a greater impact of oil oxi-
dation when compared with other deterioration reactions

They didn't test the affects of water and food contact on stability and note the potential significance of hydrolysis.

But just going by that, I'd avoid all refined oils and heating/frying.
ukraine's population growth and birth rates have been negative and below russia's for some time now, so annexation only makes that worse per-capita.

it's not clear that a flattening of the growth rate is a bad thing for quality of life or economic security, in spite of how it affects an economy on paper
This is awesome haha
Russia has been trying to produce PAK-FA / Su-57 fighters since 2010.

They currently have ~4.

There's a reason Russia invests so much in SAM systems. They expect NATO to have air superiority.
> I'm now thinking Russia is the next country to get a massive improvement in quality of life and infrastructure

That's practically impossible. They could have done in in last 30 years, but almost all the profit went to pockets of Kremlin's pyramid of power and tunneled to tax havens across the world. Corruption, laziness, incompetence of key people, and in some form also in the rest of nation will effectively prevent that.
It is simply not in their favour, why would they be willing to lose their face over something like Ukraine.

It seems that many in the West think they have unlimited power to do anything and interfere in any conflict. Reality is those days are over now.
I'm trying to assess how much of it is a blow to russian empire desire and paranoia, or if there were some more tangible / material effects. I can understand they really don't want a US driven group nearby for multiple reasons.
That's the dirty secret that some don't want to acknowledge: there are plenty of people for whom life has just been unkind to and they aren't slobs just because of their income level. This is doubly true for most poor immigrant families... of all the homes I've been in which were owned by Spanish speaking families, I've rarely ever seen one that wasn't spotless, much less organized. I helped a few neighbors move out of their homes and after we got done moving the furniture, they literally just had to sweep the dust that had accumulated underneath the furniture and they were done with cleaning on move-out.
No, in fact very relevant. Not in the way the OP probably meant it though.
And let's not pretend Russia shooting down a US plane or vice versus would start a nuclear war. It happened fairly commonly during the Cold War, quietly.

This is not the cold war, I don't think anyone can predict what Putin will do if provoked and he needs to save face.
I think they seized it because they need the general area to move their troops. In that case they can't tolerate Ukrainian troops there, but somebody has to be in control and responsible for this site to ensure, among other things, no terrorists make off with radioactive material.

I'm totally condemning the Russian actions, but in this particular case they may be acting somewhat responsibly. Unlike with the bombing of civilians or the whole damn war in the first place!
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I’ve been following this project closely (oshams is a friend and I’m an investor in the company), and to echo Darmani’s comment both the product and the pace of development have been extremely impressive. Congrats on the launch!
Is this just prettier (https://prettier.io/) for Jupyter combined with a bit of hoisting?
Same for UK – sanctions on russian companies but we keep the gas and thus money flowing back to Russia.
Isn't that the punchline of the joke? At least I took it as a joke poking fun at javascript libraries that re-implement basic features in a more obnoxious fashion.
"The memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents."

It is a bit unfair to blame it on US, France and UK only, when russia signed the document, too - and was the actual party to violate it by attacking ukraine already in 2014.

(russia's position is, that since Maidan 2014 the state with which they signed the treaty, does not exist anymore)
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If Putin actually wanted to avoid invading a sovereign nation in violation of international law, all he had to do was... not invade a sovereign nation.
saving face would've been withdrawing and saying "What's this dude talking about, dude's nuts, that was just routine training exercises, there's no war in Ba Sing Se." Instead he did exactly the thing Biden said he was going to do.
And they have been stupidly playing politics and investing in "green energy" while buying ever more gas from Russia and shutting down their own energy independence.

In the middle of the winter, economic sanctions have their hands basically tied. What is Europe going to do? Turn off the gas? I don't think so.

Maybe at least France will stop D%#$ing around and finish their reactor. The only question is can Putin put down the insurrections in Ukraine faster than the rest of Europe can untangle their energy dependence, or will it just be another Crimea where everyone forgets about it in a year or two, and Putin can pull it off somewhere else in another 5 years.
> America will do nothing except 'strongly condemn' what's happening, just like the rest of the world.

People don't want a 'world police' anymore.
>Is there any evidence that something transfers to you if you do touch it? This is the first I am haring about something like this. I thought plastic was essentially a solid.

I recall a few years ago there were a few articles/studies saying that that BPA were in thermal paper (ie. receipt paper). I think the conclusion was that if you were picking up a few receipts per day, the amount was negligible, but if you worked in retail it might be a hazard.
No one said it was legitimate insofar as that means ethical. I am simply curious about the huge wave of groupthink sentiment that makes no attempt to fill everyone in on the context of the situation, and whether this was actually a logical (absence all ethics) move by Russia. One of the replies to my comment offered an interesting perspective. We live in a real world with real events. Just because us westerners have been shielded from war for most of our lives, and because war is immoral, does not mean that it won't happen, or that it isn't interesting to think about it objectively.

Makes one wonder if the fact that most Ukrainians are white people living in an industrialized society has anything to do with the scale of the outpouring of emotion on HN and elsewhere.
Corn is less of an issue -- US has a massive surplus of corn.
and India
You need a strong services based economy to support an aged population, this is not what russia has by a long shot.

Russia has few choices to fix this in timeline they'd have to work with. Population demographics take a long time to solve peacefully.
And risked an enormous escalation with a nuclear power? That would be reckless.

Don't get me wrong - I would also like to see decisive action to this attack. But escalating a relatively local dispute into a conflict between world powers would risk a WW. Moving in troops into a non-NATO ally would also be extremely difficult to explain on the world stage.

There probably is decisive action being implemented behind the scenes right now, it's just not visible to the public.
> FIFA is just the name on the box, but they’ve precluded our ability to be able to branch into the areas that players want.

This reads like a really poor excuse.

EA did release football games in other formats, e.g. FIFA Street, FIFA Manager. They just didn't sell well.
> The browser’s built-in controls are quite sufficient.

What do you recommend for a typeahead/autocomplete? In my case I’m using a third party API for results (geocoding), but even with a static list, the closest option is datalist, which is very limited
Singapore, maybe. China, please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
can't be bothered to look for atrocities they've committed before 2010...

US has its share of bad stuff, too, but I never said they're benevolent. They're a democracy, which means the winner of a beauty contest is in power instead of somebody who took forcefully or has been gifted it. No good options here, but at least in the contest somebody actually wins.
I wonder how resolve would shift if Putin were to come down with a case of polonium poisoning, or other tricks from his own repertoire?
Reading your post I realized that I have not pressed a Home button for years. Now I have a strong Home button (and full sized keyboard in general) nostalgia and cannot sleep!

I will just go ahead and press it next time I see a full sized keyboard I swear!
"In fact, the US has had to tread very carefully simply to place missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear warheads in Poland, which is a neighbor of Ukraine."

This is Russian disinformation. Aegis Ashore (which is the system being installed in Poland) is designed to launched SM3 missiles that are designed to intercept ballistic missiles. They aren't nuclear armed at all. The Russians have been claiming that the silos could also launch Tomahawk missiles, some variants of which are nuclear armed. There have been no plans for this to happen, and the US has even offered to allow inspections.
I wonder if they'll also call the invasion a "peace keeping operation".
Yeah the site is a massive liability for whoever controls it. There's a ton of work left to do to fully decommission it and make it safe.
Not sure why Germany has such a weak stance against Russia now. It can't be just because of oil and gas imports for sure. It must look supremely weak to any strongman like Putin, encouraging him to push for more since nobody ever gave a fuck about some political condemnations or blocking few bureaucrats, you don't store billions you stole on your name in the banks.
> It may just be...your enthusiasm. Which very often wanes with your personal prejudices.

Isn't that the rub overall? The whole reason that it's easier to get a raise by jumping ship than it is to stick it out?
> Tibet it also an example. A little iffy this one, it's actually not benevolent but the West has definitely painted them as such to use as propaganda against China

Or perhaps you've bought on to the Chinese propaganda to justify Tibet's invasion, subsequent occupation and genocide of Tibetans by China.

And, China benevolent, oh please...
> Cause of big financial investment in Russian businesses

And because blocking them from some technology that the West has monopoly over will invite a strong(er) drive from the likes of China and Russia to create a competitor and weaken the West's power in that field.
The issue is not about bombing or not bombing it, also the area is worthless from a strategic point of view.

It's just that somebody has to be in control of it, and the Russians can't or don't want to depend on Ukrainian forces to do that right now.
> The tent cannot fall on your head?

That is a good point.

Tent cities are preferable to poorly built dangerous masonry.
Maybe it's not useful? Or not as presented here? I mean, Malaysia and Japan have both been ruled by basically the same party for all but maybe a few years since the end of foreign occupation. One is ruled a democracy here, thee other isn't. I don't see a good reason why, other than Japan is friendlier with Western values than Malaysia. It's also useless when you look more than about 50 years in the past. In 1835 you were really democratic if every white man could vote, now even somewhere like Iran has suffrage for women and minorities.
Is Ukraine even issuing counter attacks?

I'm not sure what the west is expecting, some sort of massive retreat like when Iraq pulled out of Kuwait? It looks pre-ordained that Ukraine will fall and should we want to stop it, we probably need to strike Moscow or something like that. I don't know how much appetite there is for something like that in the US, Trump and his supporters seem to support Russia here.