skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>if I need to explain in detail all the benefits of increased oil production on North American soil I have already lost

It's not that I dispute there are benefits, it's that it's contrary to my sense of proportion. More maple syrup subsidies would have a lot of benefits too, but nobody's saying that's what we need immediately because of current geopolitics. Because the effect would be small, diluted, and will take an eternity relative to the invasion.

At the beginning of WWII, it took on the order of a month for Germany and the USSR to subdue Poland. Nobody who had pledged to defend them even got there in time.

Doesn't everybody know how Putin got to where he is? Grozny?

Anything taking much longer than a month seems academic to me. How can you predict the next five years now? Is Moldova next?

>I don't have the energy to discuss USA consumption of 700,000+ barrels per day of Russian oil

"Discuss" is too much effort, agreed. I want to try to establish a sense of proportion here.

You're talking about 3 or 4% of consumption, and you're also talking about roughly the same amount the US exports to China.

So Russia can send the oil to China, and the US can keep the oil it isn't sending to China.

Obviously we have temporary shortages, obviously I don't know how bad things will get or anything about exactly how it will be coped with.

All I'm saying is that redirecting stuff doesn't change the overall supply in principle. It's a truism that isn't very relevant to gas prices skyrocketing right now, but I think it is relevant to any plans for the next few years.

>Keystone XL was good for America. Full stop.

"North" America. I mean, who am I to say it isn't. "What's good for General Motors is good for America". It's just a very large benefit for the businesses involved and a minute benefit for the general public.
The people next to Trump did not see everything they had built up in their lives torn down, they saw the opposite. Contrary to Trumps entourage Russian oligarchs in general are not stupid. They can clearly see the writing on the wall and they know that if this goes on for too much longer they can kiss their and their children's futures goodbye. Ditto for the various other functionaries.
'Open possibility' as you stated implied there was open and honest debate about any of this. The absolute shift in what was acceptable to say in the media after Biden's announcement of the intelligence community not being totally decided on whether it had leaked showed how much of a lie that was. Now it's fine to talk about, but I don't really appreciate the revisionist history that it was actually an area of open and honest debate in 2020 and the first half of 2021.
Can anyone recommend a similar rails tool for events management, attendance/ ticketing?
Okay, well accidentally killng people as a result of bioengineering is war crime, if not a crime Alameda County.

Yes, "lab leak" is exactly the phrasing the media uses to diminish the importance, to preclude the asking of more serious questions in light of other evidence. The term is too simple, it does not imply the worse, possibly criminal, involvement. But then, why was it a lab, and not hospital leak? Seems odd place to start for a virus that some guy caught at the fish market.
No my entire argument doesn't ignore that, I said explicitly that NATO and Obama's light touch on Putin after 2014 absolutely is a reason why we are here right now. I think that was a big test for NATO and they failed, and Putin saw that. Obama's handling of 2014 is exactly why Putin was so brazen in interfering with the 2016 election; he knew if he got caught Obama wouldn't do anything about it and he was 100% right. That was Obama's weakness.

2014 should have been a wakeup call. 2014 was Putin dipping his toe into the water to see how the world would respond to an invasion, and IMO it wasn't harsh enough. But I don't think this had given Putin enough confidence to conduct the full-on invasion that he is right now. Then 2016 happened. Before 2016 Republicans were still staunchly very anti-Russia, as had been their traditional Cold-War position. Communism and authoritarianism: bad; Capitalism and democracy: good. That was the Republican party position in 2016. Not after Trump's nomination. At that point they turned from an anti-Russia party to the "Russia isn't all that bad, let's be friends with them" party. They removed military support for Ukraine from their party agenda at Trump's behest, at a time when his campaign manager and family was secretly meeting with Russians in his home. 2016-2020 was 4 years of the American right explicitly signaling to Putin that they would rather be aligned with him than European democracies, especially and in particular Ukraine.

To summarize my entire argument, it's that because of his own personal ambitions, Trump attempted to realign America with an axis of global dictators rather than our traditional democratic allies in Europe, and in doing so severely weakened NATO's standing because America as the largest economic and military power in the world is the key to that alliance.
Well if it's acceptable and you understand now, care to reply to my response to your question?
It was difficult to get some folks onboard. Writing RFCs is not always fun work. I used the Swift lang repo as a source of inspiration.

It's also tougher to think about all edge cases, and details upfront. But, it's best to pay the price early than having to rebuild something that's already done (wrong).
> have an incentive to convince the world that it was not their profession, that unleashed this

I think this badly misses the point. Nobody who uncritically promotes lab leak theories is saying 'scientific hubris must be tempered by civic responsibility!' or the like. They'are using it to argue that China launched a bioweapon upon the world, or unscrupulous deep state bureaucrats/freemasons/illuminati did it to cover up the nefarious goings on of this or that politicians etc. etc.

For those people, it's not a medical/scientific ethics & society debate centered around a spirited but civil disagreement between various nerds about the risk calculus. It's a political football thrown about with the goal of breaking as many windows as possible. To ignore this is to consign oneself to the role of a pawn.
RQ [0] (Python-based with Redis backend) is another option; works great.
[0] https://python-rq.org/
Nicotinic acid gives you a six pack? Where's the reasoning there?
Right behind avocado-pitting injuries.
Yeah, we already know it. The lobbies keep it around. Here’s an 11 year old HN article on ethanol

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817227
Wasn't one of the first things they used this data for was to find people with grow-ops in their basements?
Or Vietnam. Or Afghanistan.
I suppose another way to phrase it is sleeping and being awake on your body's natural circadian rhythm is ideal.

The BMAL1 studies are fascinating in themselves.

https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/6/1/87/5290357
Never going to happen. There's zero time to do any of that while running HN.

pg barely was able to do it, and he cared a lot about whether the world wanted to use arc.

> it would really benefit from having the real latest version (or as close to that as is possible).

I independently implemented almost every feature in HN. But it exists in a repository that gets autokilled whenever I link to it here, so, that's about par for arc's progress in modern times.

Took so much work to get all the features done. Even implemented Dan's thread-local state ideas. Never gonna see the light of day.

The fact is, Arc's progress stopped with pg. It's best to accept that and move on.

It's tempting to think you need the latest in order to understand arc's power. But take it from a decade-long arc veteran: that's not true. All you need is to tug at the question, "why did pg do it this way? out of all possible ways, why this?"

And then realize that HN today could not have happened if pg had done it any other way.

If you care enough about this question, you'll come to respect arc. Especially what was left out, as much as what was implemented. Less is more.

Over the years I've implemented at least 5 different flavors of arc, including a fusion of lumen and arc, both on lumen (javascript-based) and in arc (racket-based).

I always come back to vanilla arc and vanilla lumen as starting points. And there's a reason for that. The more you add, the more you lose. The flexibility is the power, and the flexibility is a result of arc's smallness.

By the way, pg did exactly what you said, in the original release of arc. If you grep the codebase for "defhook", those are all the spots where the secret code was refactored out.
Even wet wipes are a million times better than toilet paper. They feel better, are more effective, and I know for a fact I use less of it than I did toilet paper.
There's a constant, non-zero possibility of a (international-implied-by-the-term) pandemic. And even if this one was a lab leak, chances are extremely high the next will be zoonotic spillover.

So pathologists and virologists see reality as a default high risk of pandemic, with an optional managed risk of high-BSL research labs near population centers. And that total risk is dominated by the former.

But the general public doesn't react well when you run around screaming "Nature is constantly dreaming up better ways to kill us! And the latest creation might hitch a ride out of the forest any day now!" Which leads to some odd pro/con weighing in the public debate.
I'm not sure how you arrive at that conclusion. An individual choosing between two products on the shelf is much simpler than an individual changing government.

For instance if I think scrapping the department of energy would make things work better, how can I get that done?

I can't. It's impossible. If HP doesn't make a laptop I like however, I can buy a Dell.
I really, really hope so. if NATO used a nuke of its own in response to one in Ukraine, this just confirms Putin's rhetoric that NATO isn't just a defense alliance, that we would launch outside of Article 5. that's the "existential threat."

I just wish we were less hawkish, because it seems like we're playing with fire by supplying arms to Ukraine.
Good for you but I stick to a standard apple chicklet keyboard and thin mouse and feel the most productive. The mix of moving your arm but always having it rested flat helps in my experience.
People seem to have no idea how nuclear deterrents work.

It's a matter of policy that the US will launch all its nukes if even one nuke is launched by the other side. It only makes sense that the other side would do the same.

There is no such thing as limited nuclear war. If someone launches a nuke, all nukes are launched.

And that's why nukes work, they take war to its logical conclusion: everyone dies.

The US and Russia have enough nukes to destroy the entire world many times over. It doesn't matter where you are, you'll either die quickly or slowly, but you'll die none the less.
My experience with the discord.py community left a bad taste and I imagine some people at Discord might see what I've seen and not want much to do with it. Suffice it to say I stopped thinking about discord.py and switched to a thin layer with discord.js to python.

This gist doesn't really help my view of the scene, it confuses me more and adds to the drama. The changes look great, the future plans look great, but discord.js already had (at least) slash commands and better documentation. Staying with js seems safer, more time efficient, and more drama free to me at the moment even if it's a bit awkward.
I find supervisor's event listener functionality useful for implementing watchdog processes. I have the supervised process write an event whenever it successfully completes a task. Meanwhile, a separate event listener process has a watchdog timer which asks supervisor to restart the supervised process if it hasn't checked in recently enough.

Does systemd have anything like supervisor events?

http://supervisord.org/events.html#events
Are they not like rats where they "sacrifice" them regardless of the testing done?
>Just tick ‘give anonymously’.

Isn't there still some way to trace the transaction this way? Usually through your bank, credit card provider, or something of that sort. With Monero there is basically no chance of anyone finding out I made the donation. I'm not interested in anyone knowing, including my bank. I like my privacy.

If there's some non crypto way to truly make an anonymous online transaction, I may be interested. Even with a prepaid gift card they can pull up the camera and possibly find me.

>Are you very sure it was a business decision for Kraken to delist Monero in the UK?

This is simply a legal decision in UK to flush Monero from KYC/AML compliant exchange to more anonymous exchange. All UK did was make it harder to find Monero users, with no impact on ability of someone in UK to trade it.
Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Offload Apps > enable

may help slightly
Slightly off topic: I really like the idea of Matrix/Element, but I’ve found I can’t rely on it.

In three instances, I’ve had a long-running chats stop working completely and simply not load. All history/media inaccessible. Just a loading spinner. This is Element on iOS.

I wish it were more dependable, because things like this would excite me much more.
I’m a BBEditer. Have been, since the days of MacOS 7 or 8. Other editors have come and gone, in that time, but I have never found a compelling reason to switch.

There’s a lot of “junky eye-candy” out there. Cool-looking apps that actually fall flat, in their primary reason for existing. I will often try one out, then let it lie fallow. Every now and then, one deserves a place in my canon, but it’s rare.
Well if that’s true then we just shouldn’t try to unseat him.
> C'mon. From your link: "The images were shot using Apple's ProRAW format and then edited using the mobile version of Lightroom on the iPhone itself"

Uh, yeah, that’s standard process for astrophotography. Not at all a “c’mon” moment.

It’s still extremely impressive that a smartphone camera can do this. I say this as someone that does a good bit of astrophotography as a hobby.
> That being said, this project is not "0 framework". You built a framework from scratch to suit the application.

That depends on how you define framework. By this definition, any computer program has an inherent framework and the term loses it's meaning altogether.

This project does not include an opinionated methodology or ideology on how to design features. There is no template nor scaffolding to plan out commonly implemented features. There is no way to estimate work for new unique functionality. There is no framework here, afaict.
If MAD collapses, you won’t be around to say the same things from the smoldering radioactive ruins of your home town. Loss of the ability or will to retaliate at scale means death on a vast scale. Those that survive face demilitarization and slavery, forever.

MAD has protected the peace for 70 years. Going around saying that it’s best to take the morale high ground is a nice sound bite, but it is not reality. Your freedoms and lifestyle is paid for by the mutual unwillingness of a handful of governments to not destroy the Earth. This balance has been in place 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for 70 years.

When you’re out at movies, playing soccer with your kids, or protesting some injustice, the only reason you’re able to do those things are because there are another group of far more serious people ready to glass the Russians and the Chinese if they try anything.
Have you looked into the primary evidence for any of the things you've said?

More often than not, most of the stuff I've read that doesn't pass the common sense "sniff test" tends to be based on ridiculously flimsy evidence.

Raw fish consumption in pregnancy is actually recommended in certain countries (Japan being the most notable one). The salad thing is not something I've heard, but a quick Google search shows sources from Singapore, the UK and Australia (except for NSW, for some reason?) all claiming it's perfectly safe.

Going a bit further, the egg thing is based on a single case from the 1950s, follow-up studies on women who got the chicken pox vaccine while pregnant shows that they had a _lower_ incidence of varicella-induced miscarriage, and there's also no evidence that children will get sick if you make their formula using properly treated tap water from a metropolitan source. People in Spain and Italy regularly have a glass of wine with dinner while pregnant; they just don't get shitfaced and everything is OK.

I don't know why all of this pleasure-sucking, stress-inducing bullshit "advice" is accepted by anyone, but I suspect it wouldn't last long if men were the ones who got pregnant.
It might be a Texas accent thing, like green toad (sappo verde) for happy birthday.
The irony is that Bolivia is a hotspot for lithium production. I love the diconnect. A country to poor to effectively control the import of illegal used cars, where cops can be bought off for 100$, is producting lithium for electric vehicles sold in the richest.
I wanted to listen to some of that "chutocumbia" but Youtube has nothing and searching for it only returns the article itself.

I imagine it as some Miami Bass hybrid with Pan Flute leads and rapped blues lyrics.
There are sources that claim that 300 yards from the we market there was a chinese virology inatitute building. Why this was never followed up baffles me.
My neighbor has never properly setup the internet connection on his hot tub. It's still in access point mode, waiting for anyone to connect and take control of it. Going to guess that it at least has manual controls on the hot tub itself. If he wasn't such a difficult curmudgeon to talk to, I'd warn him about it, but he'll probably just think I'm trying to sell him something.
Genuine question: Has this strategy ever worked? When has economic stress imposed by a competing power turned a populace from being supportive or apathetic to their government waging a military campaign(against an external target or even against an internal target, either in a genuine conflict or a genocide) to them overthrowing it?
The periscope lens has variable optical zoom, doesn't it?
I don’t get the “appeal to authority”? His analysis is some of the best I’ve read and seems to layout the two options the west has: nuclear war or cold war. I hope your outcome is correct, but that choice is really up to Putin. As a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and former fighter pilot, I’m amazed at the naive warmongering on social media. People who ignored twenty years of war in the middle east are now all in for WW3. A no-fly zone means US jets shooting down Russian jets (and possibly Ukrainian jets or we aren’t neutral). And when US jets are shot down what do we do? People want to use NATO ground forces. When a tactical nuke is used against them, what do we do? People want regime change in Russia, when they counter and assassinate our politicians, what do we do? If we want to stand up for our values and Putin doesn’t change course, the best we can hope for is cold war 2. Cut off economically from Russia and any other country (China) that supports them. This will bring economic hardship across the world but it is better than armageddon. Maybe Putin changes course, I hope to god so, but we only have two options to really escalate if he doesn’t: cold war or hot.
if Putin drops dead suddenly? power struggle for succession, the generals either withdraw and place the blame on Putin (like de-Stalinization) or dig their heels in. probably largely to do with how military leadership fares in the shakeup.

if Putin dies slowly? he could become irrational, convinced the West has poisoned him even if it's natural, and seek thermonuclear revenge.

it'd be easy for Russian media to spin it as assassination and rile up the hardliners either way.
That's cool for anyone who has AVX-512 enabled CPUs. Is there anything that works on CPUs supporting only up to AVX2?
If you're aware of any other refugees Ukrainian or Russian, that need a place in the USA, please let me know. My understanding is that the US is not letting in refugees yet though.
I've been running four separate installs of Celery since 2014 or so processing about 10-20 million jobs a day, using reddit as a broker, and with about 100 worker instances per install. It just works, but I don't use Celery results or any esoteric features.
This is a good write up. I identified a similar issue almost a decade ago in a variety of flask apps https://esd.io/blog/flask-apps-heroku-real-ip-spoofing.html
That's great but I'd argue you're not working a site that could benefit from the abstraction that a framework offers. Different tools for different jobs.
It's the "or something similar" that's the catch. For another example, search the post for `scriptLoadingTimeout` — to know how to indent the code after a break immediately after that position, you need to know the indentation of the `.timeout` before it, of the immediately preceding `.then(`, and of the `return` at the top — basically you need to know the indentation level of every parent in the expression tree. That means the graph's states are something like "line break at position x, with indentation of parent expression nodes being …, …, …", and then you have too many states as mentioned in the post. There's a combinatorial explosion of the state space. Using dynamic programming with this large state space is still possible, but approaches the running time of the brute-force algorithm. (I do wonder how extensively it was tried, though.)
It's not a "non-negligible chance" it's guaranteed, that is the point of nukes. Putin would die along with everyone else if he launched a nuke. It's actually unlikely that his orders would be carried out for this reason.
> Wasn't one of the first things they used this data for was to find people with grow-ops in their basements?

And in some cases instead of pot they found crypto mining rigs.
Previously in 6502 vs Z80: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10766006
Gas is essential to the operation of a (gas) stove. Internet is not essential to the operation of any oven, even a smart one.
It actually does change the most salient points of this saga.
As somebody who is firmly anti-toaster oven (they're an inferior toaster and a lousy oven), I'll admit that if you're hell-bent on slicing your bagels this way, you should get a toaster oven. Everyone else can find a better use for that counter space.
Sadly, yes. A lot of people consume and regurgitate manufactured opinions. Manufactured consent wouldn't work if it weren't the case. We've struggled with this problem since Plato and will likely continue to for the foreseeable future.

We still need to remind the lemming that pattern recognition isn't the boogieman that pop culture makes it out to be.
Thoughts on Huey vs RQ?
This article assumes so much of the worst in The West when so far, everything has been done cleanly and adequately. For example, the article mentions calls for no negotiated peace. No such thing has happened from anyone so far.

I guess my point is that every NATO government has been respectful of Russia, while at the same time economically dissociating from it.
Having ridden VTA busses, VTA light rail, Caltrain and BART for years, I’ll always take railed transit over busses any day. Like it’s not a close contest.
That's a weird interpretation of "shit the bed" you have.

It's just going to be a giant problem.
“Is there any difference between them and any other billionaire?”

No.

“an equal argument can (and has) been made to redistribute their wealth.”

As it should be. We have oligarchs just like they do, and ours are no better.
This seems like bs to me. Imagine the investigators of the space shuttle failure or any aeroplane crash behaving like this. After all it reflects badly on the aeronautical engineering profession!

No, it reflects badly on your profession if you don't do your job properly. And I bet most scientists and virologosts understand this.
The wiki entry is pretty short and sweet on purpose and potential flaws.

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