skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assertion that there are spillover effects because other companies see the companies they target comply and suddenly want to follow the law is strange causation. Most likely this is because "cookie compliance" is outsourced to a firm or open source software. Once a company has been threatened, those will get fixed - the company is unlikely to maintain a private branch. And then those fixes will migrate to wherever else that firm or software touches.
> This would require military action by Moldova/Georgia/Ukraine because the territories you mention are ethnically different and do not want to be part of those countries to start with.

Curious that, at least in the case of Georgia and Ukraine, those territories only decided they didn't want to be part of their countries when Russian troops rolled in and made totally non-threatening offers.
My memory might not be exact but how does your finding make that "misinformation"?
It’s a supply/demand issue exacerbated by the fuel price rise. Now that inflation is setting in, the next wave is the psychological change in the market. When people start making their price adjustments in advance because they expect inflation, that’s a tough one to change.
I recently came across brilliant.org, which I think aspires to be this. I didn't stick with it but it might be what you're looking for.
Currently every country in the Euro zone should make as much debt as possible if it is working in their interest. There are few incentives to not generate collective debt. I don't think this is in any way sustainable and there was a reason for the general uses.
Is your favorite brand open for business in Russia? Should they stay?
> Where the large scale storage clusters shine is when the sheer scale of data won't fit in anything else, i.e. there's no other (sane) choice.

And when people say "won't fit in anything else", do explore your options before! RAM storage can be very, very, very big and the cost for using it is minuscule compared to what it used to be!

On that note, there is this great website for seeing if there are servers that can handle fitting all your data in RAM: https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

Systems like Power System E980 can handle up to 64TB RAM, which is a lot of data. Just like parent said here, do try to fit things on machines like this before even trying out large-scale storage clusters, because they are a hassle to deal with and generally not worth the cost.

Edit: For the Cloud-hosting crowd out there, I took a quick look at https://instances.vantage.sh/ and sorted it by memory. Largest instances you can get at AWS is "U-24TB1 Metal", which comes with 24TiB of RAM (and 448 vCPU so the computation itself gets as fast as possible too [granted you can parallelize it]), which should fit most cases of "big data" I've seen in the wild today. Unsure about running costs though, but I'm 90% sure it's cheaper to have that instance for a couple of hours than the cost for having to deal with storage clusters, which are also slower.
Speaking only as an American, I don't think we really know what Crimeans want. Russia isn't well-known for legitimate democratic voting, and the Crimean referendum has never been acknowledged by Western Democracies.

I would not be starkly opposed to Crimean independence, nor even Russian-integration, but in essence it looks like Russia took Crimea and then held a fake referendum to legitimize it.

But the question always goes - where do we draw lines. Should we support the concept of the Confederate States of America seceding from the United States? If California or Texas wanted to secede, should we support it? Wales? Okinawa? Quebec?

How should governments determine actual stake and determination over a specific part of land?
i would agree the methods seem different, but the western forms of propaganda are likely more effective. to me far more dangerous, since they work brilliantly.
I don't think they're obvious, and this comment strikes me as baseless innuendo.

What precisely are the incentives for multinational corporations to censor news about American cyber malfeasance, especially given how acute and prolonged a regulatory headache unchecked American surveillance created for them in Europe?
I think one should quote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I don’t remember the exact quote, but the gist of it was “how could we possibly think that abusing substances would lead to some sort of the experience of elevating humans to another level”.

I find a lot of people who actually seriously took drugs are very wary of suggesting other should do so too. Most of the people who are so trigger-happy to share this experience with either seem to not every had an experience to manage someone having a panic attack while hallucinating or anything along those lines.
There has been wars non-stop since 1945. It's only a crisis when you're supporting the underdog. Israel has been doing the same thing as Russia for decades.
It wasn't given to the Soviet Union, which is why the Soviets refused to sign the San Francisco peace treaty
I'm cautiously optimistic about SPARC, but I don't believe it's going to be more than a footnote in the overall energy storage

At a fundamental level, our lowest cost energy options are really simple - wind blows and makes stuff spin, dig a black rock and throw it into fire, inject gas into fire, let sun shine on a blue brick, chop wood and burn, make water flow and spin stuff

Now compare that to - keep superconducting magnets 250 degrees below ambient temperature, inject high precision beams of deuterium and tritium into a vacuum chamber, capture escaping neutrons in blankets of pure lithium and berylium. Eventually, capture the generated heat in a primary-secondary heat exchange loop of pressurized water, generating steam and spinning a turbine. All of which requires thousands of highly specialized scientists and engineers to design and operate

I doubt it will ever be cost efficient. And we're not even talking about the cost of fuel. Tritium is mind-boggingly expensive - we need deuterium-deuterium fusion, tritium is just an experimental stepping stone
One aspect that I think is crucial is to the stagnation of Mac software is the lack of good documentation and books. Most of what you find about developing apps with Swift is focused on iOS. If you ask anyone about good resources to learn, they point you to scattered WWDC videos and personal sites of cool developers offering video courses and tutorials.

This is very different than what I remember from when Mac OS X was introduced. I remember getting big fat books from Big Nerd Ranch and having wonderful documentation to me as I learned the basics of Objective-C and Cocoa.

I've been trying to get back to desktop app development after more than 10 years doing web stuff, and if feels like a totally different place. Heck, there are stub pages at Apple that only list the function signatures and nothing more?! WTF! There are no recent books about developing for macOS.
And another:

> "STRIPPED OF THE inessential matter from which they are made, paintings are just clever patterns of pixels."

Dude - no. That's very much not what paintings are.

Art is about creating accessible representations of psychological/emotional states and experiences. It's all abstraction, even when it's figurative.

Consider how stylised and unrealistic most paintings are. Even the supposed classics of representational accuracy like the Arnolfini portrait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolfini_Portrait

The poses, the lighting, the setting, the symbolism of the objects in the scene - they're all abstracted and distorted in unrealistic ways to highlight a message and create an experience.

It wasn't until the 20th century that you started to see very plain photorealistic painting, and it was always a very niche genre. All other art relies on distortion, not accuracy.

So "Woman with pearl earring" -> "Another woman with pearl earring" is missing the point. They're only related in the most superficial ways.

They're both psychological studies, but the content of the Vermeer is much more captivating and ambiguous. Which is why it's famous while the Mieris the Elder isn't.

Expecting a professor of evolutionary biology to understand this is like expecting Andy Warhol to be an expert on mRNA vaccine design. It's pure Dunning-Kruger - someone out of their depth having opinions about something they don't have the first clue about.
I don't think that having control over machine learning systems must necessarily mean AGI. For example, suppose I train an image classifier to learn to identify dogs in images. And suppose I find that my classifier has learned to label all images that have a dog collar as "dog" and no image that doesn't have a dog collar as "dog". That means my classifier has learned an over-specialised definition of "dog" that doesn't generalise to dogs without dog collars, and at the same time an over-general definition that may accept, say, a fetish model with a dog collar as a "dog". That is not a system that performs as I want it to perform: I wanted a dog classifier but I got a dog collar classifier. What I want is to be able to control my system to learn to identify a dog as a "dog" rather than a dog collar as a "dog". That's "control" and when I achieve it my system is still not an AGI, just an image classifier that generalises well.
Let me make that clear, the only "correct" response had to be "that's nonsense!", she did not say that.
Yes, the UK is generally welcoming of foreigners, which is why millions of them have flocked here in recent decades, and immigrants and their children can be found integrated at every level of British society. Which UK are you talking about?
Watch the movie “first reformed”
Mmm maybe DuckDB?
what do you mean? i'm curious to learn more about this
> Nothing is more frustrating than having a slow experience while browsing the web.

This seems a bit tone deaf with a war going on?
Obviously the EU is not a country legally but one of the things that makes this invasion into a spectacular geopolitical backfire is that Putin's war in Ukraine seems to have suddenly made the "EU" kick into life over defense.
15 min?
Hey, I never had that significant of an experience but I spent some weeks in the hospital myself in my 20s-early 30s and I can relate at least somewhat. It does get depressing. For me it was being next to someone in chronic pain crying out for hours every day and that's all you're around the entire time, in addition to the lack of sleep. The food thing doesn't sound silly at all to me. Hospitals are a depressing place after a while.

Anyway thanks for sharing and I hope you're recovered.
> This entire paragraph is three assertions given without evidence. Feel free to own these ideas as if they are truths but arguing axiomatically from them is just wrong.

Sure, morality and the purpose of life are generally axiomatic. The notion that society should elevate personal choice, instead of impressing upon people expected behaviors, is also axiomatic. But there’s also an empirical element. In North America, virtually all population growth will come from Latin American immigrants who have more traditional notions of family. In Europe it’ll be Muslims. Individualistic culture is at the height of its power, but there’s a good chance it’s on the wane.

> Finally, I’m in about the most liberal, urban, educated environment you can live in the US and I can’t imagine how much more engaged the community could be in for parenting. It’s a source of constant joy to me how engaged my family is with our community and vice versa.

Except there’s no kids! We’re down from children being 36% of the population in 1960 to 22%. In places like San Francisco it’s 13%. There’s network effects to parenting and being a kid that disappear when the concentration of parents and kids decreases. Parenting is a lonely experience in a modern American city, especially if you have kids in your 20s. You may know other parents, but you have to “organize something” to see them socially. The “roving band of neighborhood kids” is a distant memory. (I’m reminded of the show “Hey Arnold,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Arnold!, which depicts urban life full of kids in a way that seems almost anachronistic.)
For the record, my stance is U.S. will not "help" Taiwan at all, except selling them some outdated fighter jets.
I have two identical laptops, one with 8 GiB and the other with 32 GiB of RAM.

The former lasts over 2 weeks in S3, the latter not even a week.
The Sowell diet! You guessed it! I can't help it if he's the best source to cite for many current social issues. It's not like diversifying my sources would change your mind.

https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=111
There you go. Another author explaining how FDR only made things worse.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-obama-recovery-took-so-...

Here's another author explaining how Obama damaged our economy. And of course Biden is damaging it even further.
'...and that's why we're buying Mandiant.'
Good analysis.

> With trusted partners in Russia, and organizations relying on Eastern European talent, blocking all traffic from Russia is simply not the solution.

Agree that anomaly detection is better than blocking IP ranges of entire countries.
Advantage of a democracy (nitpick: nominally democratic republic) is that it offers a bloodless way to replace the government.
Pedantry is seldom useful or interesting.
no doubt, this played out extremely well; especially for Russia.
Kaliningrad is of strategic importance for holding the Suwalki corridor, a.k.a. NATO's most vulnerable choke point. It doesn't matter whether it's poor or not.
>It baffles me how the US has no shops / restaurants / convenience stores in residential areas and nobody questioned it over half a century.

Because it's pretty much impossible to allow business like that without also allowing the more loud and unsightly commercial activity that white collar folk get their panties in a massive knot over.

It's very hard to allow general commerce without also letting the plumber pave his back yard and use it to park his fleet of vans. Yes you can play whack-a-mole with specific requirements but anything comprehensive just approximates onerous zoning.
The American public believes that Saddam had WMD and was collaborating with bin Laden. In that bubble two of those wars were a success.
Yes, unfortunately, there is still a risk. Just a few months ago a bomb was set off in the center of Munich at the train station during construction work.
S.e.p.i.a. – Digital voice assistant
Appeasing murderous dictators is also a good way to set back human advancement, on the ground and in space. Giving in just because your opponent might do something stupid is equally bad diplomacy.
Hydrogen may have a role to play in aviation, but it has clearly failed for passenger cars and likely trucks as well. The Shell station next to my old office in San Francisco closed for maybe 9 months to be retrofitted for hydrogen. Those lost revenues will probably outweigh the entire revenue from hydrogen over the remaining life of the station. Essentially the only hydrogen cars in California are a small fleet owned by the state itself, and unlikely to be replaced when they reach end of life.
The Tang Dynasty held the territory we now call Afghanistan. But thats ~1500 years in the past so I don't know if it counts.
I used to install loads of apps - but now I tend to keep things as osx only as possible. One reason is I switch machines so often and my early macs we're customised to the hilt and I've never achieved that level of greatness again. The other is simply I don't trust the 99p and Free apps to do the job as well as the 'old apps' Things like little snitch, disk inventory x theres so many clones that never quite do what you want so I just don't bother.

Things like macheist we're great back in the day because you knew you were getting (reasonable) quality but most importantly safe apps. The closest thing now is setapp. I don't subscribe to it but it sure is useful as a first port of call for finding an app that does what I'm looking for thats probably been through some sort of quality control. I've found a few apps through there.

Apps I use daily and install instantly on any mac: AppCleaner, AppPolice, little ipsum (random strings of lorum impsum), colorslurp (colour picker), itsycal (calendar in your toolbar) disk inventory x, betterSnapTool (mimics window snapping from mac but lets you drag and drop to custom sizes) Rocket for emojis, and licecap for gif screen recording
It's just a declaration of core claim, it's not like Japan will actually do something about it at this point. When Japan is finally free from the shackles of western hegemony and able to build up militarily like it used to, then it might do something about it. Remember, geopolitics is about perception of power and "alliances", nothing to do with morality or freedom
It's pretty delusional even in Japan, nobody seriously expects Russia to return them. Early in the post-Soviet era there were some serious-ish proposals about Russia handing them back in exchange for massive financial aid, but ever since Putin took the reins it's been obvious that this is just not going to happen.

I don't think even the Japanese government wants them back at this point, Hokkaido (the nearest big island) is already rapidly depopulating and having to administer a bunch of semi-frozen islands with random Russian pensioners and no resources aside from fish would be a logistical nightmare and permanent drain on the treasury.
Yeah. A 1 square meter rock can grant 125,000 km2 of EEZ. Hence island disputes.
Have you tried reading the article? Because he literally gave himself severe brain damage / trauma from the operation:

"""
At first the procedure that Kennedy hired Cervantes to
perform—the implantation of a set of glass-and-gold-wire
electrodes beneath the surface of his own brain—seemed to go
quite well. There wasn’t much bleeding during the surgery. But
his recovery was fraught with problems. Two days in, Kennedy was
sitting on his bed when, all of a sudden, his jaw began to grind
and chatter, and one of his hands began to shake. Powton worried
that the seizure would break Kennedy’s teeth.

His language problems persisted as well. “He wasn’t making
sense anymore,” Powton says. “He kept apologizing, ‘Sorry,
sorry,’ because he couldn’t say anything else.” Kennedy
could still utter syllables and a few scattered words, but he
seemed to have lost the glue that bound them into phrases and
sentences. When Kennedy grabbed a pen and tried to write a
message, it came out as random letters scrawled on a page.

At first Powton had been impressed by what he called Kennedy’s
Indiana Jones approach to science: tromping off to Belize,
breaking the standard rules of research, gambling with his own
mind. Yet now here he was, apparently locked in. “I thought we
had damaged him for life,” Powton says. “I was like, what have
we done?”
"""

"""
Kennedy’s recovery had continued to go poorly: The more effort
he put into talking, the more he seemed to get locked up. And no
one from the US, it became clear, was coming to take the doctor
off Powton and Cervantes’ hands.

"""

From that description:

- Motor control impairment
- Extreme language impairment to the point that subject is unable to write coherently
- Literal fucking seizures
- Possible prefrontal damage

While it was just "postoperative brain swelling" and the brain "can heal". It's unlikely that he made a completely full recovery, indeed later in the article it is alluded that he has permanent motor damage:

"""
When I meet Kennedy there one day in May 2015, [...] Kennedy says
with a slight Irish accent [...] “The retractor pulled on a
branch of the nerve that went to my temporalis muscle. I can’t
lift this eyebrow.” Indeed, I notice that the operation has left
his handsome face with an asymmetric droop.

"""

And likely, prefrontal damage from his inability to refrain from commenting the first thing on his mind[0]:

"""
Kennedy said when we first started watching the video. But now he
deviates from our discussion about evolution to bark orders at the
screen, like a sports fan in front of a TV. “No, don’t do
that, don’t lift it up,” Kennedy says to the pair of hands
operating on his brain. “It shouldn’t go in at that angle,”
he explains to me before turning back to the computer. “Push it
in more than that!” he says. “OK, that’s plenty, that’s
plenty. Don’t push anymore!”
"""

The reporter later refers to his "garbled answer", indicating that he still has language formation problems, and that actually seems well-indicated from the snippets of quotes we see from him.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobe_injury
"Germans effectively left" makes it sound almost voluntary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_East_Prussia#K%C...
Way more than a fraction. The true proportion? I have no idea, but the losses seem to be way too high for this to be just a few guys who were sent to Ukraine for a laugh.

Some of those losses are the Russian military revealing itself to be incompetent and quasi-unequipped, but the number of losses is just too high.
I'm glad I can amuse you with satire that isn't. I challenge you to read one of those books and open your mind a little. If you aren't blind, the authoritarianism and arrogance of the left is visible everywhere. And Sowell is anything but the typical Harvard grad. So there is nothing funny about my citation.
This recent Science Friday segment talked about that (among other things) https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cyber-warfare-russia-...
Another tip is using wget2 instead of wget if you're mirroring a site (but this is more I/O tip than computationally heavy) https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/wikis/home

Sadly, wget2 doesn't support WARC last time I checked, but wget2 comes with a `--max-threads` parameter that together with `--mirror` and `--tries` makes it trivial to mirror even the slowest websites out there.

Edit: your parallel to `parallel` made me think of wget2 as I often see scripts that use `parallel` together with `wget` when `wget2` can be much better to use alone instead of pairing the two. Just wanted to add some context.
Exactly, it sees them as mini-Taiwans with Russia playing the part of the USA. If it wasn't for the fact China hates the west more than they do Russia they'd be much more vocal about it.
Because they don't have that tech as it is currently only used by Israel, the U.S. and Germany.
Another good example is Hans island. Though the two parties are arguing in a quite civilized manner.

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

"In 1984, the Danish Minister for Greenland planted the Danish flag on the island and left a little message saying "Velkommen til den danske ø" (English: Welcome to the Danish Island).[12] It is also said he left a bottle of brandy;[12] however, this seems to have been Schnapps,[13] which, unlike brandy, is a traditional Danish spirit. It is commonly told, internally in the Danish Navy, that it was specifically a bottle of Gammel Dansk, which translates literally to 'Old Danish'. The Canadians have reciprocated with their own sign, the flag of Canada and a bottle of Canadian Club.[14]"
BTW, Ukraine "re-wrote" their story of the Snake Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Snake_Island
Ok, all I have to do now is to find a way to automate answering the interview questions
First we need honest and mutually respectful dialog from the Russian diplomats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov#2021%E2%80%9322_...

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/minister-lavr...
Is that list of tech stacks complete?

Personally I am looking for such a tool but have a hard requirement for native compiled languages (C/C++/Rust).

I know that there is some transfer - a good developer that does a decent Python/Go exercise likely could also be good in other languages. But candidates might not want to do that transition.
Are you referring to seasonal depression, being depressed because of current weather, or being depressed because of what you see in the media? I can't quite tell from the title.
Google purchasing and expanding its Warsaw office for $700M