skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a likely scenario. Rather than avoiding escalation (thus, given Russia a free pass as it is now), we should prepare for the worse and feel more comfortable for Russia's (almost) inevitable escalation to nukes.

For one, the Cold War bunkers in the United States can be replenished and ready.

The weird thing about nuclear deterrence is: the deterrence is only as strong as one's willing to use it. By showing unwillingness to escalate (as the United States now), it may give false impression that further nuclear escalation (particularly with tactical nukes) is OK.
Plus the longer you stay, the more the value of ruble, and exchange rates drops and stocks/etc of those affiliated w/ the sinking ship that is Russia, the more likely you are to be holding the 'hot potato' and lose the most money when everything drops....in other words better to get going while the going is good.
I think the Bible could be considered a document detailing hallucinations like the burning bush.

Something I have noticed when reading reports of people on their death beds and accounts of people using hallucinogens is there are "patterns" or characteristics to the different types of hallucinogens consumed, like DMT machine elves is different to lsd visuals.

The brain on the death bed will release chemicals and those chemicals will cause different hallucinations, so I wonder if things like cadaverine might elicit some sort of hallucinations.
Not trying to be whataboutism, but why did this one war give rise to such ideas while others have not? Should we include the others suffering from war and aggression in the movements to help?

Either way there is a lot of hypocrisy in the information side of the war. Do we want to indulge or apply our values consistently?
Agree with the others: SwiftUI is a long, long way from being ready for prime time at this point. In practice you're going to be stuck using a nasty, ugly mixture of SwiftUI and AppKit/UIKit for anything beyond the most basic design, and that way lies madness (at least for me).

But I also agree that SwiftUI is very promising, and I like what I've seen a lot. It's just not there yet.
Dishwashing hero, featuring aerosmith and whirlpool
Buy used, pre-"smart" appliances that are 100% under your control. There's a huge aftermarket of parts availability and repair information for them, and they tend to be reliable and simple to fix if they do break. Every time I read about something like this I'm happy that all of mine are roughly from mid-century and dumb.

Countless dumb appliances are scrapped all the time; it's not hard to find one for cheap or even free, and that only needs a minor repair and cleaning to continue working for many more decades.
Those complexities seem to be central to how you view graduate degree holders as less trustworthy. From what I understand, you're stating that these institutions are not trustworthy for some reason, which seems to be that they are trying to hide something that is true. Could you elaborate on that?
A little background on why the cards won't stop working in Russia.

After first sanctions due to Crimean & Donbass conflict started rolling out in 2014, Russian gvt saw the writing on the wall and gradually strong-armed Visa & MC to move all the local transaction processing to НСПК (National System for Payment Cards).

Here's some more info on this (you can use Google Translate):

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE...
This is another reason why people are interested in Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc. It's sickening to have arbitrary governments and entities decide on a whim to freeze or steal your hard earned money.
Desktop apps today are just such a huge regression compared to the past. I was recently looking at software for PDF reading and note taking. I tried all these Electron apps that ran like crap and made the fans spin up on my 2020 MacBook Pro with 32GB. Meanwhile they have far fewer features than a 1990s shareware app. I used Scrivener for a bit but it’s pretty crap about sync so I switched to Emacs with org and pdf-tools. It’s a total hack of elisp and C but it’s vastly more functional than any of the $10/month SaaS note taking platforms out there. Do you remember the essay “worse is better?” Web apps are a manifestation of that.
The problem isn't seizing donations, it's freezing the entire bank accounts of people connected to donations.
How many of them were either financed by Chinese programs such as the Thousand Talent Plan [0], or one of their students or advisors or department?

Can they all claim, and prove, to be free of foreign influences and allegiance?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan
Watching the space over the last decade has been fascinating, like watching a continual slow-motion train crash, where the occupants of the train insist that nothing is ever wrong. I would say that the anarchocapitalist part is the core and foundation of the community, around which everything else grew. At least they had a consistent mental framework about it, even though it was driven by a weird wistfulness about the gold standard.
Do you live in the US? This would be part of circumstantial evidence in conjunction with a response of why the statement was removed.

by itself there is nothing to debunk, it is a fact, the statement existed before, now it is down. That clearly warrants an explanation.

i feel like the word coincidence is abused like the way the word conspiracy is abused, to shut down the conversation. The circumstances of these two events together absolutely are relevant to any lab leak investigation.
Giulia Tofana, professional poisoner in 17th century Rome
> if the last 2 years have not convinced you how much they are all dim wits then I don't know what will.

If you have specific problems with my suggestion as proposed I'd be happy to discuss the details, but "I don't like Biden" is not a convincing argument against the concept of regulations.

In my view, an oven that needs wifi to operate correctly crosses a line from creative business strategy into corporate abuse, nobody wants to live in a world where you need to login to a corporate website to cook your meals, but this is a completely plausible reality that we have the power to avoid if we agree that we don't have to live that way. I think regulation works well here too because the undesirable behavior is clear and easy to target legally without much possibility for unintended consequences. Further, this is a new trend that hasn't become widespread (yet), so getting rid of it now won't be disruptive to existing businesses.

For microwaves and toasters this kind of thing isn't a big deal because they're small and cheap, but stationary appliances like stoves and ovens are appliances that can't simply be replaced on a dime, they are investments meant to last many years and in practice they often operate as part of the home itself and can see multiple owners throughout their lifetimes. Not to mention, the rental and housing market is absolutely insane right now and for the foreseeable future, the vast majority of people do not have the luxury to quibble over the type of oven installed in their home assuming it is otherwise functional and sanitary. Or, more likely, they won't have any idea about this detail until its too late.
> Media is and has always been propaganda. All of it. You have to start from there to make sense of the world.

How does any amount of critical thinking get around this, assuming it is true? If you hear the same bit of news a dozen different ways from many outlets, it must be true? If all media is propaganda, you can't trust anything that you have not experienced personally.
Great, they can ban Russians when forced to anyway? So much for no censorship on crypto tokens even a South Korean crypto exchange has done it. [0]

We both know the writing is on the wall and crypto will end up being useless for Russian users.

[0] https://cryptopotato.com/south-korean-crypto-exchanges-block...
This title is horrible. I clicked through expecting something interesting with let's say PostgreSQL parameterized queries. This has nothing to do with parameterized queries, this is some kind of standard SQL injection issue on an intermediate layer.
Can’t tell if GP is talking about amphetamines (fat loss) or steroids (hypertrophy).
You don’t need to be a scientist to recognize when a group of people are circling the wagons. I don’t know whether on not the virus leaked, but I don’t give much credence to claims by the wagon circle-rs.
Nicotinic acid aka vitamin b3, but your will get the prostaglandin "sunburn" flush and it is also a perfectly food statin, but it will destroy other parts of your body so use with extreme caution.
No,

You might have the best developers around but using electron will always make your app worse. It bundles all of chromium which is an outrageous waste of space. Chromium in itself is really ram intensive and the new contributions of Microsoft edge to chromium aren’t even added there anyway.

If you need a web front end make a progressive web app and use web assembly technology. Or use a lighter framework like neutralino or tauri JS. You do not need to bundle chromium in every single application.
Most of American companies, indeed - Hehry Ford even got a medal from the Nazis. Bank of America, General Motors, and many others also supported them - just like they worked with the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.
2?

It's pretty close to 222 years.
Radially symmetrical lenses are extremely simple to calculate for and discontinuities are rare, so any gradient descent algorithm could find this pretty easily. A 3 lens system can probably be optimized with less computation than a single frame of a modern AAA game.

How they manufacture these is what I'd like to know.
I have faith in the third way: somebody takes down Putin, Russia goes into chaos, Ukraine Gottes back free and Russia breaks into even more sub states.
What does this have to do with the post you replied to? Two wrongs don't make a right.
The non-profit media is made up of the same human beings as every other endeavor on the planet. Just without an explicit profit motive. One of my favorite shows, On The Media, has done a few segments breaking down coverage on controversial topics like lab leak or ivermectin. How they became controversial and how some coverage was overly zealous in dismissing evidence too quickly.
It doesn't really matter how many Mir cards are—they're just a home-grown Russian brand of a card.

The real issue is that all transactions inside Russia using Visa, MC or Mir are processed inside Russia by the same entity that runs Mir brand, and therefore won't stop working.
Die immediately or die by a thousand cuts.
The West is erroneously acting from a viewpoint that the majority of Russians support democracy. Thus they think that actions like this will cause popular discontent with Putin. In reality, this reckless action will only strengthen Putin's support.
Middle managers are desperate to get people back in the office so that they can justify their jobs by looking busy. Constantly interrupt the productive people with meetings, stand ups and other BS work.
I was hoping for an oligarch uprising that enlists the help of some other former-kgb taxi driver resulting in Putin being suicided.
what are the applications for non rotationally symmetric lenses?
If apple exited China, it'll be America that will no longer have iphones.
43% of Americans–140M–have had Covid
Shell to put profits from Russian oil trade into Ukraine aid fund
And deprecating is not the same thing as breaking or removing. It does signal the preparation to remove. However, Objective-C (last I checked) still works very well.
I just don't see how you can trust "what makes sense to me". Personally I don't pretend to think I have a deep understanding in most topics to be able to tell true from made up. It's too easy to get fooled by your own confirmation bias.
Performing a legitimate performance benchmark of even one piece of enterprise Python software — much less across a representative survey — is well beyond the reasonable scope of a comment board reply.
This publication (based in Bulgaria) seems to publish fairly pro-Russian articles, which should be a red flag for news like this. A quick search for Kireev's name returns a lot of contradictory information. I found an article from the Sun [0] (UK-based, not sure how reliable) and from an Indian paper [1] that seem to confirm the news. I can't really comment on the reliability of any of these papers, not being familiar with any of them.

[0] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17857369/ukraine-peace-negotia...

[1] https://www.ibtimes.co.in/ukrainian-delegation-member-killed...
How about, it’s thin enough and lasts long enough and Apple needs new features to sell new watches.
You can read all about 'their' plans in many places. I would start at the WEF's web site.

The only thing I would suggest, is that you consider that when they are talking about stakeholders etc, you need to realise that they are not talking about the people - they are talking from the perspective of companies. (You are the steak, they are the steakholders, lol.)

The same companies that pay lobbyists to write legislation etc, for the governments that purport to serve the people.

These companies are owned by someone - who they are, we can't know. Unfortunately for us, a lot of the ownership details are hidden by offshore tax-exempt vehicles, etc.
This is very much me to a T, even including waking up far too early and having difficulty getting back to sleep. It's absolutely bizarre how it seems like difference in 15-30 minutes can have such a negative effect. Hope you can solve your sleep issues!
Not true. Now those that were taken down are too low in their position, so can not be Xi' political enemy. Why do they want to be Xi's enemy?
They’re crazy, and still no match for DSLRs
Be careful when reading news articles about the war. This one makes it seem like he was executed without trial. Here's another one that paints it in a different light:

https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/75617/

Seems like he tried to escape arrest and was shot. There's probably a lot more to this story than either of these articles show.
I honestly don't see how company pull outs that hurt citizens have any negative impact on Putin. Feels like we should be focusing on the oligarchs and Putin himself, not the average citizen.
the assignment of semantics to a sentence isn't the imposition of some kind of subjective interpretation of some words that we shouldn't get bogged down in

its literally the assignment of meaning to those words. which is really pretty close to arguing about the truth of the sentence

just to argue semantics
We are on it. TypedOM for colors are coming very soon.
I mentally applied the 5 Whys to each of these explanations. I suggest others do the same.
All the new apps I use and create are utility apps.

• rcmd for faster app switching (https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd)

• Lunar for adaptive brightness on monitors so I can stop fussing with monitor buttons (https://lunar.fyi)

• Soulver for converting between units/currencies and testing math formulas

• Cleanshot for annotating screenshots (because showing people what button to press to solve their issue is faster than explaining it in words)

• TextSniper for copying uncopyable text

• HyperKey for turning that useless caps lock key into some kind of global modifier

• NotePlan for writing stuff down while still being able to back reference it by day

• MateTranslate for super fast menubar language translation

I guess I have a bit of compulsion to always make my every day work more efficient, while in fact I spend quite a lot of time testing these new apps and readjusting my workflow for them.

Now I feel that they’re an essential part of my workflow, and I feel like everyone’s life would be better if they’d use them.

But actually I have mostly met people who, like the article author, rarely get out of their work routine and don’t need more apps because they don’t encounter new annoyances.
Worth bearing in mind that the author has himself admitted to and apologized for factual errors in his article that could change some of his conclusions.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1499465032547061767?...
How many places have virology labs in China doing this kind of research? Now many places have wet markets?

Now calculate the probability that a virus would happen to naturally mutate in a wet market next to a virology research facility.

A lab leak has the highest probability of being true. It takes a mountain of evidence to overcome that very simple probability calculation.
> But her actual tweet notes "To have the virus originate at the lab under any circumstances, the lab has to have the fucking virus!" That seems to be a logical conclusion, which your framing dismisses.

No, it doesn't. The point I was making is that she can't know what she's claiming to know (and also that she was being incredibly rude).

> Rasmussen continues by stating "Not only did they not have intact, infectious, replication competent RaTG13–which, again, is not SARS-CoV-2–at WIV, there’s no evidence they had any ancestral proto-SC2 virus." The first point was explained by the tweets above that one

The tweets prior to this one in no way support that assertion. In those tweets, she makes a hand-wavy claim that RaTG "is not ancestral" to SARS-CoV2 (this is Not Even Wrong -- it's just a fundamental misunderstanding of phylogeny), and further, that it could not become SARS-CoV2 "even through engineering", which is a truly bizarre, bold claim. Then she advances that the Laos viruses are somehow better in this respect, even though they are also separated from SARS-CoV2 by many mutations, and have the same basic problems.

What Rasmussen is doing here is trying to assert that because "there's no evidence that they had RaTG13", it means that they didn't have it, and Yglesias must be wrong. But that's the whole question. It's a truism.

Did they have it? We don't know. The Chinese aren't saying, and as far as I know, Angie Rasmussen didn't work at the Wuhan lab, so she can't pretend to know either.

> The abstract clearly states: "Together, these analyses provide dispositive evidence for the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 via the live wildlife trade and identify the Huanan market as the unambiguous epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic."

Yeah, abstracts say lots of things that are unsupported by the data below them. They don't prove those claims, and the use of the words "dispositive evidence" is the sort of phrasing that should make any scientist skeptical, unless said evidence involves a warm body and a smoking gun.
You can always send a rebuttal to a relevant journal
> West is erroneously acting from a viewpoint that the majority of Russians support democracy.

Sanctions have nothing to do beliefs about the presence or support for democracy.

> Thus they think that actions like this will cause popular discontent with Putin.

No, the West believes that the sanctions limit the productive capacity of the Russian economy, and thereby Putin’s capacity to maintain and expand the war, constraining his practical options

(They also think that targeted sanctions on oligarchs put pressure on their support of the regime, which may alter Putin’s choices and prospects, but that even more clearly has nothing to do with democracy.)
spot on.

russia started the war. this war is a response to steep development of ukraine-nato relations in 2021 and complete disregard of the minsk accord by kiev (suggested or sanctioned by the us).
It might have been this trial (https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/americas-alleged-trial-ag...) which someone had confused with the earlier trial, which is what I was reading on a blog.
That's provably not true. The vast majority of Canvases don't do getImageData or toBlob/toDataURL/etc...
So it is good that the network is congested?

I don’t think you would want to wait for hours for a payment to settle only for it to fail later because of the gas fees.

> Crypto exchanges have not blocked russian users.

Yes they have and they can.

> call it what you want, it's not like other kinds of money are ideal 'currencies'.

It isn’t money if it is loses 60% of its value in a couple of hours with additional fees I didn’t agree to.

It’s a distributed casino that only speculators use, and it would certainly won’t be useful when it all comes crashing down.
" it would be an odd coincidence for a lab-leaked virus to have its first big super-spreading event at a live animal market,"

A good explanation for this that "used" (and thus infected) lab animals were sold at the market. Anyone who has ever been to China would not be surprised by this happening.
What happens if Putin has a terminal illness and drops dead from natural causes?
> God no please stop with getting the government involved, if the last 2 years have not convinced you how much they are all dim wits then I don't know what will.

Haha, tell me you're from the US without telling me from the US. Government regulation in this sector is exactly what it needs. Hell, it's one of the main reasons we managed to standardize on micro-USB for mobile devices; it was a flexible enough standardization that the industry has been able to switch to USB-C as a whole without running foul of it.

Right now there's clearly an incentive for companies to push these shitty features, whereas many consumers would consider that a downside. Regulations don't mean the complete removal of the free market, but rather the incorporation of that kind of externality into the market.
It doesn't work this way. For decades, media had been talking about how the collective West hates russian people and want Russia go down in flames. Now everybody sees it's true. I predict Putin's rating will be sky high in the upcoming months
The $12B Fab which TSMC builds in Phoenix, will be outdated when it will open in 2024 and it is too small for AMD or Apple. It is likely it is mainly build to secure chip supply for the US military in case China invades Taiwan and the US does not have access to the TSMC Fabs in Taiwan any more. Apple and AMD will probably not be able to sell products for 1 year till they migrated to Intel or Samsung production in case TSMC fabs in Taiwan are not available for them any more.

The TSMC fab in Phoenix is build for 5nm and will open in 2024. The TSMC 3nm process should go into mass production in 2023, it is expected that the 2023 iPhone will use a 3nm SoC.
The fab will only produce 20k Wafers per month, the TSMC gigafabs in Taiwan produce 100k Wafer per month each.

Details about TSMC Phoenix fab:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/16/tsmc-taiwanese-chipmaker-ram...
Why is this being discussed now? Matt Yglesias has publicly admitted that this piece is flawed. This is critically important context that is being missed by everyone in this discussion:

‘…SIGNIFICANT factual error in my newsletter.’

‘…we knew specifically that RaTG13 samples had been brought to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and studied there.

That is not the case for this Laos virus.

To me that discovery really does meaningfully detract from the plausibility of the lab leak story and I apologize — I simply missed this when it came out and failed to update my views.‘

https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1499467534202...
Sorry to bring bad news, but you may be in trouble with Bose as well: https://lwn.net/Articles/775238/

The talk is about how the Smart Speaker 500 cloud infrastructure works. Every button press gets sent to the cloud over websocket, and the device's state is shadowed in a Cassandra cluster. Even the current volume setting.

I just checked the manual and it says you can disable Wifi or Bluetooth, but that if you disable both networks the device goes into standby. Maybe if someone owns one of these they can chime in if there's some way to use the app without it phoning home?

Even if there's a workaround for now, the way they're architecting makes clear the direction they're headed.