skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not doubting your experience, but I don't think we can project that to the larger situation.

> At least up until the pandemic food as well as many manufactured products, which are relatively unregulated, were quite affordable even for the lowest incomes.

The data shows otherwise, that many people haven't been able to afford food (think of school lunch programs) and especially quality food. Also, large 'food deserts' exists in poor communities where food is unavailable beyond very expensive small stores.

> There's a large enough market of low income people so that companies like Walmart, dollar stores and even Amazon can make money serving that market.

I've thought that, but it turns out that they don't often don't serve low-income people. I've also spent plenty of time in low income areas, and retail options are very slim. I've been in the best grocery store in the neighborhood, where fruit scales were rusty, and it stunk of something rotting. It was packed.
> So now if the database is exfiltrated by a hacker without anyone noticing, he still couldn't produce tokens to log in as a user.

Why not?

With TOTP, you type in a short code. The server needs to also be able to generate this code so they can verify that your code is correct. If it only has the public key then it must be able to produce the tokens to login as the user.

If you want a more complex setup where the public key can only verify that the code is valid but cannot be used to create valid codes then the codes themselves (and the protocol) become considerably more complex and aren't going to be managed by a "type six digits into a web form" UX.

I also don't think this really matters in a major sense. If somebody pwns the credential database then continuing to rely on authentication to prevent further harm is a fool's errand. "The adversary only got to extract the credential database and achieved nothing else" is not an especially common scenario today.
Yea, but that was weak at best https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...

Also the wording is fuzzy when it comes to conventional war, but maybe the wiki has wrong wording. Either way, that is nowhere close to full defense pact which NATO is (with forward allied military bases and such).
One thing I would like to support in your statement is (A)The Extrinsic Costs. This was not accounted for in China and is shaping up to be a very volatile national issue for them for their Railways.

https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/chinas-high-speed-rai...

https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat13/sub86/item1848.html
It's not a chamber for deliberation in the way the UK House of Lords is, because it has a role in creating legislation rather than just amending it/discussing it.

As I understand it in the USA system, you can get legislation starting in both houses that often get merged.

Whereas in the UK (apart from the one single form of the veto) the Lords can only delay or offer amendments to legislation, and the Commons can reject them.

It puts the Lords much more in the service of the Commons than the comment I was replying to suggests. People outside the UK might see an unelected chamber making law, but it doesn't and can't. It can only offer reflection and advice.

The US system, I'm sorry, but your Senate is wilfully obstructionist in its roles in federal appointments and judges, the majority abuses procedure to suit it, and it is abusing both the two thirds majority rule -- by simply refusing to even sit when things won't on the face of it won't get past strict party loyalty -- and the filibuster.

Look at how unseriously it treated its role in the impeachment
or Obama's supreme court picks; the whole world sees an unserious, childish organisation.

There is party representation in the Lords but it does not work the way it does in the Senate, because nobody is running for election (there are also many "crossbench" peers who have no affiliation).

Second, the way your system elects senators is by no means impervious to the MTG types. John Kennedy, Josh Hawley, Kyrsten Sinema -- these are not serious people; they either act in bad faith, play up to their base or don't turn up. Hawley is actively bad, John Kennedy is a fake and a disgrace, and Sinema is wasting her seat. (Let's agree not to talk about Rand Paul or Ted Cruz.)

Because of how the Lords works, almost nobody is in that sort of position, and the Lords functions in a genuinely more collegiate way. I mean someone offered to resign -- in good faith and all seriousness -- from a ministerial position in the Lords for being late.
Only recognized states are given federal voting rights by the constitution. Puerto Rico is designated as a territory. That’s the logic at least.
Could you elaborate?

The parent makes a reasonable point. Cuba, an autocracy, has invaded no one in its history. North Korea is a bit of a special case as it's maintained a de jure state of war, but it has not invaded anyone new since the war that created it. Vietnam, an autocracy, has invaded no one since the war that created it and is doing quite well.

There are numerous old (multiple generations) autocracies in the world that are indeed stable. There are plenty of old democracies that have invaded no one and are stable, and plenty of democracies that have performed plenty of invasions.

It seems to me that there are enough counter-examples on both sides that claiming "democracy is stable and invades no one, and autocracy is unstable and must invade" doesn't fit with much of anything.
Usually ideas arise out of frustration. I'm trying to accomplish X, but the tools to accomplish X are clunky, slow, ill-suited, etc. So I start to think I could build a solution for accomplishing X that others might find useful as well.
who else said yesterday they would quit the news?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430041
And when the orange man came and said we should bring it back, I laughed at home and call him an idiot!
There could very well be HeNe lasers used as an interferometric length standard in lithography equipment. There are some solid-state lasers that could substitute for that role, such as NPRO lasers, but they're much more expensive and not widely produced.
The big downside is that datalist will only show exact matches of what you've put in. If you're doing a fuzzy search somewhere (or the user has a typo) and want to offer search suggestions, a native datalist doesn't work. I wish there was an attribute that forced all options to appear when filtering happens elsewhere and options are dynamic.
Curiosity is such a wonderful trait.
The US is a democracy, but it's not a fair democracy. All non-proportionate[1] democracies are unfair in one respect or another. On a macroscopic set of trends, it's been getting more fair over the centuries.

[1] One can make arguments for why non-proportionate elections might be better than proportionate ones, but those arguments do not include 'non-proportionate elections are more fair'.
Maybe if the permitting process wasn't just a device for grifting in LA county.
The comment about price was less about this application and more just to explain why Elide Fire Balls are not at all common in the real world... the company tries very hard to justify their higher cost but the advantages they point to are not especially convincing. Dropping them from above might actually be a pretty convincing use-case, but they're spherical and it takes seconds (Elide likes to say 3-5 but it seems often longer in practice) for them to melt through and activate. That means that in probably 8 cases out of 10 they'll roll away from the fire before activating, making them pretty useless. You can see in the Rain demo that they seem to have built up extra wood around the fire... I think this was to stop the balls from rolling off of the fire before activating.

In a drone system like this you're probably better off dropping the powder suppressant directly from very low. But that would require more complex custom fabrication of a delivery system. I think "Rain" just used the Fire Balls because of the simplicity of building a mechanism to release them, and not really because of any actual analysis of efficacy.

In their intended applications they're supposed to be hard-mounted where a fire is expected, or lobbed at a fire like an old-fashioned fire grenade... but the slow activation time just seems to rule that out as a good option much of the time. The only really compelling use case I see for them is mounting inside of electrical and equipment enclosures for automatic fire suppression, but there are other, cheaper products on the market for that use.
It is pretty wild. When engaging with the same people downvoting you, they do not even seem to disagree with this take violently, but think you are pro-Russia just because you bring up problems with how NATO/the West reacted to this.
Dogs experience a form of mourning when another dog in the household dies
It's not a standard yet, but you can try it out in Firefox Nightly. https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb/blob/master/Readme.md#pro...
‘Project Tinman’: Peloton’s plan to conceal rust in its exercise bikes
I work full-time as a subcontractor on commercial projects in the SF bay area and am fairly familiar with the costs associated with insurance, workers comp etc. We utilize union labor to install our projects. And you are right, it does cost a lot to follow the laws. But those costs are not nearly high enough to explain how 400-600 sq/ft units are being built for between $1,100-$1,400 a square foot.
My guess is much of the cost bloat is "administrative" and has nothing to do with real construction costs.
Business are still run by people. Nobody was forced to see someone else doing something shitty and then say "well I just need to be a bigger asshole than that guy! Must be okay 'cause it's not illegal"

People have far too simplistic models of how things work, this is the consequence of a lack of understanding and shortsightedness
I would have agreed with you 48 hours ago. Not so sure today.
This view is wrong and that is the primary cause of problems with antivax.

The studies show that giving better information helps to undecided. Whereas vaccine mandates do not help much for staunch antivax.

The real world example (for example, the UK) also shows this in practice. No vaccine mandates are really needed to ensure high vaccination rates.

Vaccine mandates may have improved vaccination rates in certain groups but those groups are not most at risk. The total impact on vaccination rates and public health may even be negative as with more elderly have refused vaccine due to mandates than without the mandates.
Russia’s economy is interesting. Russian debt is 14%. It isn’t like the UK which requires external input. Their availability cash and balance sheet is quite vast. This limits the immediate impact of sanctions?
Challenges in Package Management
Many designers I have worked with got into UI design from a graphic design/art/print background[1]. Many I have worked with had never read so much as a word from any OS platform's human interface guidelines and were, indeed, ignorant of HCI fundamentals.

[1] graphic design is a completely legitimate field and a good way to get into UI design, but if that's all you've got, you still have quite a way to go
"Sesame oil has a balanced ratio of omega-3, omega-6"

This is not true.
Even Putin wants to live. And he probably doesn't want to go down in history as another Hitler - even to his own people (the remaining ones, that is).
That's why China is trying to build out domestic chipmaking tech.

They're fine burning the rest of the world's supply chain down as long as it leaves them a monopoly.
> The risk of NATO intervention is high, right?

This is a classic game of "chicken", and NATO has basically told everyone they wouldn't get directly involved.

All your arguments happen to apply to NATO commanders too.

Here I am, head of a NATO member. I see Russia invade a country that we don't really care that much about. If we intervene there's a chance the world might end (and I will die). If we don't do anything except say some stern words online we'll lose some face but our money and lives are safe.

Do I intervene?

In a game of "chicken" the side with the most to lose and the side that believes they are most "rational" will lose. That losing side seems to be NATO now. Putin's image of being an irrational dictator willing to win at all costs is why he's winning this "chicken" game easily.
> There really are no good options.

You can in fact strangle these regimes and it's very effective. We did it to the USSR, we did it to Cuba, we did it to Venezuela, we did it to North Korea. The outcomes were excellent in fact: those regimes were largely held in check and their ability to maneuver was made far more difficult. Crippling regimes like Putin's and making it difficult for them to function at max power, is a very reasonable outcome. Putin isn't going away whether we make it hard or easy on Russia most likely, so the rational choice is very obvious. Containment and strangulation is just fine.

The best options are what should have occurred over the prior eight years, for which it is now too late.

The good options going forward are to topple Lukashenko in Belarus (civil war, flood the nation with weapons, arm the resistance at any cost), aggressively move on Moldova and Russia's interest there (immmediately; as in eight years ago), and generally take Russia's few proxies away from them to weaken Putin's dreams of a new empire, that includes declaring a proxy war on Russia's off the books military activities in Africa and elsewhere. We have drastically more resources and reach than they do, we should kill their proxies anywhere we find them by funding it appropriately.

Very aggressively target Russia's currency and any international use of it. Attempt to destroy their economy. That includes by working with Western Europe to build nuclear energy and move away from Russian energy. This isn't solved in a day, but it can be solved over 10 and 20 years.

Cyber attack Russia's interest anywhere and everywhere they can be reached. They do the same to us, stop pretending we can be their friends. Russia isn't interested in being a liberal democracy or a pal to the civilized world, Putin's Russia is interested in power and conquest.

Blockade Russia off from the global Internet, which would be relatively easy for the US to accomplish. Enhancing their isolation that much more.

Remove them from Swift and make them a global pariah economically ex China and select few others.

Return the people of Russia to the conditions they enjoyed under the Soviet Union economically by strangling the nation, until or unless they get rid of Putin and return to the civilized fold and give up their ambitions to conquer more of Europe. It's probable that only the people of Russia can stop Putin, that includes people nearest to him (which is always an outsized threat to dictators; I assume Putin will do some purges if the pressure gets too great). Russia is well acquained with revolutions, our task now is to squeeze Russia until another one occurs. We outlasted the USSR trivially, the next task is to end the Russia that exists today (prompt revolution and see it broken into numerous smaller nations).
And today CEQA exists for nimbys to stall housing and infrastructure while polluters remain unaccountable.
> I blame the governments mostly for this, I completely understand the businesses needing to do what’s best for business.

How do you blame government for businesses running around with planning models that miss wars and pandemics, the two most common causes of ruin and disruption for the entire duration of human history?
"What if he is actually mad? Maybe terminally ill and not minding the scorched earth he'd leave behind?"

So the solution of the OP is to be madder than him and start nuclear war first?

I wish there were someone to replace the mad tzar, its long overdue
Neon is used in excimer lasers that generate ultraviolet light. These lasers are used in photolithography and for annealing amorphous silicon to polycrystalline silicon in flat panel display manufacturing. Laser manufacturers and users already faced a Ukrainian neon crisis during the last round of fighting and made changes to reduce consumption of fresh neon:

https://www.photonicsonline.com/doc/how-one-light-source-man...

https://www.gigaphoton.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_E...

I expect that neon price spikes this time are going to impact laser users less than they initially did back in 2015 since lasers now require less fresh neon.
Ow man, tomorrow exam :/
In Brazil, dictatorship created problems by lack of planning with fast urbanization for 21 years. During the rule, they kidnapped and killed dissenters. When social and economic problems were about to explode, they handed the government and the country entered a democratic period. To this day there are people who blame democracy for the problems that exploded after the dictatorship ended and spread lies about the dictatorship being a better time. Elections of 2018 was partly a result of this thought.

My best counter argument is: "Are there more democracies among developed or underdeveloped countries? Are there more dictatorships among poor or rich countries? We can see that dictatorships are more related to empoverishment and democracies are more related to development."

I think something similar happens in Chile.
> Which is all irrelevant now

I'm not the one you need to convince of all this (especially the "everyone in the West is cool just making money" part). Putin and the Russian people are. From where I sit, they aren't convinced.

> I just do not have sympathy for the point of view anymore

Considering that Russia's history for many centuries has been one of having to deal with external invasions (it took them three hundred years to learn how to deal with the Mongols, for example), and that Europe's history up until World War II has been filled with wars, I have a hard time having sympathy for a point of view that thinks that half a century of so of Europe apparently behaving itself must be sufficient to outweigh all that and convince Russia that they can chill because everyone else is ready to play nice.
Have to say I’ve not been following this in any detail, but it was also disabled in 1.52.1, has it been re-enabled again in the meantime?

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/05/10/Rust-1.52.1.html
As I type into a regular textarea on this site I'm wondering where these textarea replacements on websites are? I'd love for a few examples of this happening. "Many" JS programmers recreate the textarea? Show me.
Archive: https://archive.md/tpcGl
Luckily, SB9 and SB10 are massive pushes in the right direction for California, accompanied by incandescent rage of my local NIMBYs.
Stardeus – space colony engineering sim game where you are trapped in a computer
Yea but it's great marketing. It fits a few usecases of mine. And I think they reeled me in
Until running into an agent that does exhibit collaboration on large-scale, long-term effects, that uses these economic principles against countries foolish enough to hold on to them.
Agreed. It exports a large amount of wheat.
Absolutely not. Democracy can be fair and open elections, not crowdsourced legislation.
Yeah, more just surprised that Soybean specifically so ubiquitous. Felt like last time I looked it was a range of weird oil name (corn oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, etc.) Just astonishing how the huge CPG conglomerates have engineered such highly processed food all in the name of price efficiency. I love brands like Primal Kitchen and how many others like it gain popularity as they're one of the few brands whose ingredients are just normal and easily identifiable.
The invasion of Poland by Hitler actually was the UK and France's "problem", because they were bound by treaties to help Poland, exactly like the NATO countries are today bound by a treaty.

That is why UK and France were forced to declare war against Germany.

Unfortunately for them, after declaring war they did nothing, hoping for some miraculous solution without actual war.

Their inaction allowed the splitting of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union and then Hitler had plenty of time to prepare for the attack against France.
I think there is a hacker news law that says that any post about a feature of a language or framework will eventually devolve into a general argument about whether that language or framework is good or not, and have nothing to do with the specific feature :D
Yup... and another result of that is climate change.
Yeah, there was a definite "Trump said it so it's wrong" zeitgeist among the left that led to some uncomfortable moments. Tribal politics is a hell of a drug.
For some reason, referendum-soaked Switzerland is governed somehow more sanely.
> Generally for most goods markets work really well. There's two intrinsic failure cases: externalities and monopolies.

I agree, but you are omitting two other cases: Equity and availability.

Again, markets are built to serve those who provide the highest profit. That's fine for iPhones, but not for health, safety, education, basic food, and basic shelter. Everyone should have those, regardless of how much profit they provide.

Markets also depend on 'creative destruction', businesses fail and their goods and services go away. That can't happen with healthcare, food, education, safety, and shelter. There are 'food deserts' in poor communities, where people can't get anything but expensive corner-store groceries. We can't have a safety, education, shelter, or healthcare desert (or a food desert).
“necessity-induced focus”?
Here are some mutterings https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-putin-pretty-sm...

>“He’s taking over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart,” Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to New York Times reporter Shane Goldmacher and video footage obtained by the pro-Democratic group American Bridge. “He’s taking over a country, really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, just walking right in.”
Yes of course it was funny that a conman got millions of idiots to believe he would do something that might hurt the balance sheet of his biggest donors.
In Grad school (and as someone who had no idea about the western diet or macros for that matter at the time), pizza everyday seemed like a low cost option. I got fat. I've spent the last 5 year undoing all that damage.
Since you can become "senior" on paper with a few weekend courses, I'm not surprised. Maybe require actual years of working experience instead and ask applicants to name the company where they gained that experience.

That said, when I got my first team lead position, I had no experience actually working, but only a lot of hobby projects. So make sure not to discard the "senior" overmotivated hobbyists.
Unless I'm confusing my programs, Section 8 is a voucher that is used to rent market units.
"Subscription required"
Sounds more like too much direct democracy, and needs to slide further towards representative.
> Because the economics literature is quite clear that international trade is beneficial to all involved.

If you narrowly focus on economics, yes. But what are other consequences, outside of economics? By outsourcing everything, you lose control. You allow uncontrollable external factors to affect you. You open yourself to be blackmailed.

So in a way yes, those principles are weak because they are incomplete. They do not take into account the full range of possibilities that can happen in the real world.
I suppose you could also pre-render to an atlas on the GPU.

I would also say, personally, there is something aesthetically pleasing about rendering vector graphics (fonts, SVG, etc.) on the GPU. “It’s a graphics processing unit, shouldn’t it be handling vector graphics as well?!” :)
When the US threatened sanctions, Putin threatened something like "a painful response to sensitive areas". I heard that as threatening a cyberattack.

So this may be Biden saying "You don't want to open that door".
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