skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Negatore to the resin.

It really can be considered more like varnish but it doesn't come from the alcohol itself.

Chemicals like methanol and ethanol do not polymerize whatsoever in your fuel system.

The varnish at the bottom of your tank is the result of long-term gum deposits from the less-stable olefinic content of the gasoline hydrocarbons. These are the reactive components which are subject to self-polymerization and oxidation over time.

The gum which is already formed but still dissolved in the fresh gasoline is known as the "existent gum", and that is measured separately from the additional gum that is expected to form as the fuel ages known as the "potential gum".

If the fuel is not allowed to evaporate very much or be in storage for very long almost all of the limited gum content will never separate from pure hydrocarbon fuel which acts almost as an ideal solvent for these hydrocarbon by-product polymers. The very small amount of the heaviest gums which do end up having a number of grams build up after literally tonnes of gasoline consumption are the varnish that can fully coat the bottom of your tank and it can look pretty ugly, while not causing a problem since it's been largely engineered around for decades.

The fuel pump and fuel filter can handle little pieces of varnish that come loose and the coating can stay harmlessly there, until you add alcohol for the first time.

The alcohol has stronger solvent properties for the varnish and a lot of it can all come loose at once and make the whole tank cloudy, then clog up the fuel filter leading to starved engine performance and low power.

So you change the fuel filter and you get the cleanest tank you've had in a while.
> From reports, most Russians seem to be against this war already.

Where did you get that from?

Putin has an 70% approval rating and the war about 50%.

The I don’t knows and againsts are a minority.
I'm not sure about other companies, but in Amazon a $1M engineer tells you how to build a VM called firecracker, another $1M engineer single-handedly implemented a distributed log service and made it the backbone of multiple AWS services. Another $1M engineer convinced the company to build EC2 and SQS. In Snowflake, a $1M engineer spearheaded the Apache BEAM initiative and wrote the best book on stream processing when he was in Google. In FB, a $1M engineer lead the RxJava and Hystrix projects for years until functional reactive programing turned from a niche into something mainstream. The list can go on.
Humility Is Extinction of Desire
Google Translate says:

Dear Russians, your media is being censored. The Kremlin is lying. Thousands of your soldiers and Ukrainian brothers are dying in Ukraine. Find out the truth on the free web and on the Telegram app. Time to overthrow dictator Putin!

Not bad, but I would put it differently myself.
I feel dumb even bothering to post this but that is not what the article is about.
A starving man will eat anything, even an Electron app.

Windows and Mac users aren’t starved though and won’t quietly accept being fed junk apps.
As someone who decides such purchases at a large “traditional” company there is a lot of truth to this. And yes, having a subscription (or one-off price) that flies below the radar does absolutely help. To further encourage this: please, please, please put videos, feature lists, and screenshots of your product on your website! These people do not want to go through a big process to buy your product (this is the whole reason they do not involve the purchasing department!). Hence, make it easy to understand what your product really is and easy to buy it. No, I really don’t want to call your Sales for USD 500, because I also don’t call Amazon to buy a TV from them

Edit: this is actually also true for those multi-million dollar deals. I want to understand your product before I have a call with you because I want to be able to ask the right questions. The craziest are those companies that even during sales calls only show buzzword slides and not a single screenshot
> Technically true, practically false; AGPL is 100% FOSS and FAANG won't touch it.

Just offer a DUAL FOSS and commercial license. Who cares what FAANG use, FAANG have stopped significantly contributing back to open source.
Are you replying to me or just spamming links?

I watched the fox news clip with the colonel and find it frankly offensive. All Putin wants is a nuetral Ukraine, Zelensky should just hand over all his weapons?

Tell me, do you believe Ukrainians preferred the government they deposed in 2014 ? That would see them never joining EU, never joining a defence pact to protect from Russian invasion?

I see people fighting for their country, as if they know that if Ukraine is without an army, there will not be a Ukraine for long. I trust their judgement, not that of thinkpieces and fox news guests.
My DYOR is: Russia invaded for no good reason its neighbour, is murdering civilians like there’s no tomorrow, and uses poor propaganda to try and pretend it’s otherwise.
"This conflict is incredibly complex, so let me link here some Russian propaganda"
I’m in no way arguing that point.

That point has been carefully argued by other people.

What I’m saying is that when you’re wrong (and he was) and you apologise (and he did) then don’t leave your (wrong) article up there encouraging other people to take up the same (wrong) views that you previously had.

That’s acting in bad faith.

I don’t care what you believe; believe whatever you think is appropriate.

…but he said that he thinks that his own article is wrong.

If you think that the article is right under those circumstances, perhaps consider:

You’re being suckered by a lazy click bait article.

(Not convinced? Actually go and read those Twitter threads I posted. It’s pretty damning. Wtf, “the NYT made this diagram that shows…” <— nope, that was from the paper, he was just being lazy and didn’t read it before writing an article about it. It’s just click bait to rile people up and get page views with random plausible but unsubstantiated crap)
When i was recruiting i saw salaries of shanghai engineers at the same level were higher than in europe but lower than usa for same level. It was something like this

USA > CHINA > ISRAEL > EUROPE/INDIA.
European cost to company was higher but net salaries of indians at same level for experienced developers were higher than that of europe. Entry level salaries in europe was higher than their indian counterparts.

Executives were surprised when we told them that it would not be straightforward to expand overseas as salaries are at par with the salaries in europe.
It's a drink for (Italian) children. I remember it from when I was a kid myself (1970s).
>The name “Anastigmat” literally means “non-astigmatic” lens, since it corrects astigmatism and its cousin the field curvature. Which is funny, because astigmatism means “non-stigmatic”), where stigmatism is “an image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space”.

>I love the word Anastigmat. That means that “Anastigmat” can be translated as a “non-non-stigmatic”. I guess “Stigmat” didn’t really have a good ring to it. Nowadays, almost all lenses have the basic aberrations corrected, so we don’t have the need to call them Anastigmats anymore. Sad.
Please be honest with yourself, do you really think they invaded for no good reason and murdering civilians like there's no tomorrow. Do you really think that is the case? Why would anyone do that? Please be rational, we need to be rational now.
>Covid has killed an order of magnitude more people than atomic weapons.

so far.

Current events point to a possible future that remembers covid as a footnote to the events this year.
From https://www.plivo.com/sms/coverage/ru/:

"Due to extensive operator-level filtering in Russia, all messages with URLs will be subject to filtering. It is recommended that if you do not have a registered Sender ID and your messages contain URLs, then you must reach out to us to get the message content whitelisted to ensure better deliverability. "
To keep the information together, 5th March 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted about a further shipment of Starlink terminals for destroyed cities [0]

"Talked to @elonmusk . I’m grateful to him for supporting Ukraine with words and deeds. Next week we will receive another batch of Starlink systems for destroyed cities. Discussed possible space projects . But I’ll talk about this after the war. "

[0] https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1500246977086373891
We have used it to run different CPU bound tasks on worker machines (to not run them on the app server).

For example imagine you want to receive a file from the user and extract data from it.

Using such system also allowed us to horizontally scale by adding more worker machines.

All this, of course, depends on the tasks you want to schedule.
Ukrainians flood plain north of Kyiv to slow Russian advances
Omg - I just said check alternative sources and think for yourself, I am not saying believe them, but as Elon Musk said understand that propaganda is everywhere.
Problem I have seen many times is one engineer can only do so much work.
Where in the world is $150k entry level?
I would suggest you don't, here is why.

Many Russians, especially younger generation are against this, but 2 days ago a new law was passed that first time you get arrested and second time you go to jail.

Still even after this law there are protests. Those who protest are brave people, they risk to end up 15 years in jail.

You will likely get people who have no say in this in trouble or in jail.

"To hide the truth from its own citizens, Russia’s censorship agency has shuttered independent Russian media outlets, blocked social media, and restricted access in Russia to international news outlets. We condemn the move by the Russian Federation Council to approve a law threatening prison sentences of up to 15 years for journalists and ordinary citizens that would spread so-called “false” information about Putin’s unconscionable war in Ukraine."

Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
Obsessed? Frightened? Wakeful? War in Ukraine sparks return of doomscrolling
Interpretation is a crutch, gives nothing extra, and only obfuscates things; it should be discarded.

Let's just accept that (1) we don't know the objective reality, and (2) there is something that ensures consistency of information across fairly large distances -- entanglement experiments have been done up to 1000+ km's -- maybe even across the entire universe, though the latter has never been tested.
interesting... whats that look like? I know of VB script that can manipulate tables... does that let you do custom GUIs too? Any API where a webform could interact with excel?

I might like to get into this field, solving business problems without building a whole app sounds great.
It's good to check in with other countries. Quality and quantity of alternative transportation is influenced by gas prices.

Development of the US highway system changed how towns and transportation were organized just like I'm sure $9 US gas prices would do the same. After all, the current situation (in both US and Norway) are partly a result of specific choices the respective governments chose to invest and tax over decades.
Jerry Cans: The True Secret Weapon of WWII
I don't care about the finish, but I find the touchscreen to be stupid, unusable and reckless or even dangerous choice, despite being a big fan of EVs.

A touch screen is only ever the optimal user interface for general purpose computers and sometimes navigating through virtual 2D/3D space. In every other use case, dedicated controls are superior in every regard.
It's not that bad, every year you must take all cars through the Shaken ( 車検 ) process. It's exhaustive but they also help you resolve some issues at the Shaken workshop so it's not like they are antagonists unlike in some other country's roadworthiness processes. The rules aren't outrageous, and modified cars can make it through. It's certainly less strict than where I live in Australia.

There is also no requirement to junk your car, if you can't be bothered with getting a particular car through Shaken anymore, you can still sell it to someone who will.
spin? things go one direction or the other in a magnetic field
You are right. Spain basically destroyed itself between the late 19th century and the early to mid 20th century.
The Art of Assembly Language Programming (1996)
India officially follows a three language policy in schools.
OK but history shows us many occasions when countries have done both these things - so it's not exactly stretching one's credulity.

I think GP's ever so slightly overstated things. There is a reason (albeit one that is unjustifiable) and "slaughtering civilians" isn't currently the main activity (which is not to say the current civilian death toll isn't awful).

However - Putin's actions are almost completely indefensible on both moral and long-term strategic grounds.
Thank you! Amazing example!
Your last link is propaganda straight from Putin. Here’s a contextualized summary of that message:

>How is Russia trying to sell its invasion?
Essentially, Nazis and NATO. Ever since Russia seized Crimea and backed separatist enclaves in the Donbas region in 2014, Putin has claimed that Ukraine is led by a Western puppet government of Nazis committing "genocide" against Russian-speaking Ukrainians. When he announced his "special military operation," Putin said the goal was the "demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine."

https://theweek.com/news/1010919/the-russo-ukrainian-propaga...

It helps the oppressor to make people think that the issue is “too complex” to form an opinion on, so that they withdraw their energy and attention.

This information war is part of a military strategy for global power.

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/149805668654801306...
The blame is squarely with the authorities in China.

There was a virus, they knew there was a virus. They held a massive party with the virus, it got out to the world. Then they locked down.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/02/06/wuhan-ne...

This is the (well documented and well known) event that should be the focus of ire towards the authorities in China.
That photo of a rivergoing ship is incredible, I've never seen anything like it, short of Noah's Ark!

Apparently it is so large because the building material is the cargo, they are deconstructed on arrival:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belyana
Biden had control over this particular version of inflation. Chose to exacerbate the problem x1M

Outside of that, we're doomed anyways

So we got that going for us
I strongly disagree with the approach of avoiding complex numbers because its "so complicated that most scientists and engineers can't spare the time to learn or use it". Full disclosure though: my training is physics, so I'm pretty biased (and will use 'i' instead of 'j' with great prejudice).

E.g. frequency mixing without complex numbers is a mess of trig-identities, and (at least to me) it's not clear at all why multiplying various terms should eventually result in the desired outcome. Whereas with complex numbers: exp(2pi i f1 t) exp(2pi i f2 t) = exp(2pi i (f1+f2) t). Other concepts are similar.

In my mind the beauty of DSP is one can work directly with complex base-band signals, rather than splitting into I and Q and then doing all sorts of shenanigans which obscure the underlying modulation/demodulation schemes - which are often quite simple but appear complicated once physical components are required (vs doing it all in software). From a historical perspective of course that stuff is all very interesting, but less helpful if you want to learn the core concepts.

The author also says most textbooks do use complex numbers which I don't doubt, but most of the resources I've found online avoid them, I usually find I can understand what's going on much better after converting it back (and hence eliminating 3/4 of the maths).

If this interests anyone - I started making a little tutorial on GMSK out of frustration about this issue, currently no actual notes, just implementations (which may not be perfect! I am not an expert) https://github.com/gabi-a/DSP_SatComms_Tutorial/blob/main/Si...*
I am all in for listening to a different point of view, but the last link you provided is terrible.

in terms of logical fallacies, after 4 minutes of watching, there was The use of Bandwagon Fallacy and The Non Sequitur

please provide better content, this is HN.
I like your analysis and discussion, but the speed issue isn't about peak speed or speed between easy matching points (which of course mainly means time to go from one BART station to another by bus or by BART since BART can only go between BART stations, and that's a test that BART will always win and that the buses don't optimize for precisely because BART handles it better, including factoring in the walk from STC to BART in the analysis). The real test as a passenger is actual travel time from one's starting point to one's destination. If your start and end align closely with the details of a rail route, rail will almost always win, but most of the surface area isn't close to a rail route or station (at least in the Bay Area) and bus systems are able to reach more points and adjust routes more frequently than rail systems, enabling them to do better optimizations for better total travel times for more passengers, particularly as demographic and land use patterns change.

SF has BART. It should maintain it and make the most of it, but I'm far from convinced it would be the right place to put that amount of transportation dollars if SF didn't have BART and were trying to define its future mass transit system. That's the scenario the planners described in the article were trying to consider, and I'm very willing to believe there were much more legitimate reasons for favoring bus systems than the author of the article implies.
I think the Russian government will argue that they are completely willing to repay the bond within Russia's borders. But that the bondholder can't take that payment outside the country.
Highly unlikely that they can stir up anything that far away. Another fact working against this theory is that B&H has EUFOR and NATO bases and is surrounded by mostly NATO members.

I think the recent situation around Ukraine actually diminishes the possibility of turmoil in B&H because Western powers are now more eager to use the Office of the High Representative to remove from power anyone who works against peace in B&H.
It also doesn't enable anything that a person needing it wouldn't already have a browser extension for. The whole idea of sites implementing their own accessibility menus is misguided...
I am making 18LPA INR(23.5K USD), and just got an offer for 2x the amount(48K USD approx). I have an offer being negotiated with another one, and am expecting 1-2 more offers. I still have interviews lined up, and probably need to be more selective now to avoid interview burnout. I have <2 yoe.

This puts me in top 2% in India and top 5% in the world by income. While I am aware that I can get 4-5x this offer in US, I can't demand that offer here because 1. It's not trivial to immigrate to US, unless I am willing to spend 2 years on (another) Masters degree or spend many more on a PhD. 2. It's a supply demand issue, where at some point, they will be willing to hire someone else than pay me 4x more.

For now, I am hoping that after a few years, I'd be able to immigrate without having to first study in west, or having to take the huge financial risk of immigrating first and then looking for a job. If (political) shit hits the fan though, I might get desperate enough to try one of that option.
So the basis of the theory that virologists would do everything to hide a lab leak is, hold fast, that virologists don't want a long commute.

That is what it looks like whem you run of straws to grasp in order to maintain your favorite theory...
You would still have to solve a lot of other issues, it's usually a huge process. You'd need to import a correct-side dashboard ensemble, a correct side drivers door card and electronics panel, sometimes move your master cylinders across, get a different sided steering rack.. etc. Wiring harness may not even match up for different sided cars. There's a lot of parts you would need, and I'm not sure what types of cars they're bringing in, but JDM parts are getting harder to find.
I don't think the computational complexity has been a significant problem for at least half a century. Aspheric lenses are described by simple polynomials and ray tracing is just elementary geometry. You only need to analyze a hand full of rays to get the relevant parameters of an imaging system. Probably a few thousand floating point operations in total.

The problem is that it is extremely difficult to manufacture surfaces with optical quality that are not spherical. Even today, aspheres tend to be more expensive than spherical lenses and have significantly worse surface quality. This is the price you have to pay if the objective has to fit inside a phone.
Americans should call on our government to stop forcing NATO membership on Ukraine.

We should also stop supporting the Saudi war on Yemen.

And Israel's war on Palestine.

And...
> In the same way, there is a habit of mind which is now so widespread that it affects our thinking on nearly every subject, but which has not yet been given a name. As the nearest existing equivalent I have chosen the word ‘nationalism’, but it will be seen in a moment that I am not using it in quite the ordinary sense, if only because the emotion I am speaking about does not always attach itself to what is called a nation – that is, a single race or a geographical area. It can attach itself to a church or a class, or it may work in a merely negative sense, against something or other and without the need for any positive object of loyalty.

After reading the first few pages of the essay I think Orwell is describing what I've heard others call "tribalism", for example in https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

There are certainly good things that come from this, but overall it sure seems like an aspect of human nature that can do a lot of damage in what should be a positive-sum world.
Why not? How else would you make geopolitical judgments?
>somewhere else

Could you be more specific?

Russian MIR isn't even supported in some places in Russia.

Chinese UnionPay isn't really relevant outside of China.
Thank you for taking the trouble. I didn’t consider how that would matter. How does it figure? Seems disproportionately CA (Bay Area) to me, perhaps just my own filter.
When I was poor and eating out of Dumpsters someone gave me some cans from a grocery store that were five years past their date. It was Aldi sugar-free strawberry custard, which would have been horrid when it was new. I feared eating it, but I was hungry.

I can tell you what tin cans of food five years past their date taste like. They taste like tin can. That's all you can taste.
This is more of an American thing - the slow and subtle ceding of autonomy and power to corporates, with the expectations that they should behave like country states and be political. It's a very dangerous idea that Americans are being slowly brainwashed into, to repose more and more faith on corporates than their own democracy! This is the kind of thinking that lead to imperialism, with the Dutch East India Company being the poster boy of the idea as the world's richest corporate, with one of the largest private army in the world conquering and even ruling colonies.

The idea that foreign companies shouldn't submit to the laws, rule and regulations of another country is a retrograde colonial idea that reeks of both racism and greed. CEOs are not elected representatives nor seasoned politicians.
Did, prior to sanctions. Now even though oil and gas aren't sanctioned, Russian oil is going without buyers.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084448619/russia-lowers-its-...