skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "population" hasn't been armed. A small amount of people in some areas were armed. And fighting age men have been conscripted. If the goal of the invasion was to destroy infrastructure, that would have happened last week. Armed population or not.

Taiwan is completely different from Ukraine culturally, and I don't think simply blanket arming people is a solution there either. Big difference being that the Ukrainian standard of living, even under Zelensky has been bad. If you are simply surviving, taking up arms is a much easier sell. If you are comfortable and well off, you have a lot more to lose. If Xi is smart, which he is- he will attempt to take over Taiwan via political means. I don't think he will attempt to repeat the Hong Kong approach with an entire country, when he already has pro Chinese political entities within Taiwan.

> teach them that killing invaders is the only way to keep their freedom and not fall under the totalitarian

First you need to convince people that the value of freedom is actually worth the cost. Based on what I've seen for the past two years, many people do not value freedom, even in the United States. They'd rather be comfortable than free. The cost of freedom is often everything for those that actually choose it. The benefits are only realized by the next generation.
This seems to be heavily driven by the difference in their PE ratios. Intel's PE ratio is ~10, and AMD's is ~40.

For context, AMD's quarterly revenue is ~5B and Intel's is ~$20B.

AMD's quarterly net income is ~$1B and Intel's is ~$4.5B.

I'm surprised that AMD is valued higher, despite their revenue and profits being so much smaller. The financial markets are in essence betting that AMD will be able to achieve revenue/profit parity with Intel, despite the huge lead Intel currently has. It will be very interesting to see if that comes to pass.

I remember the days when AMD seemed to be on the verge of bankruptcy, and there was talk of Intel simply buying AMD since it was so cheap. Presumably that didn't happen because Intel feared anti-trust laws if it purchased its main/only competitor. Kudos to AMD for the turnaround - this competition is sure to be benefit the wider industry.
That sucks and I'm sorry you had to endure that. If it happens again, I would encourage you to just tell them "we are from Ukraine!", they might realize how stupid they are being and hopefully be a bit more careful next time they want to pass judgment. It's hard, but it is possible to change (some) people's mind, even with small interventions. Worth a try IMO.

I wish you and your relatives the best. Long live Ukraine.
My acquaintance escaped via bus to Estonia yesterday.
Also - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAVNKdk9gA
Dot files are one thing about Linux that seems to be truly timeless.

We might not see them directly anymore, we have GUI settings tools, but I can't think of any better way to manage local app settings.

Any kind of registry model seems to always require you to learn even more stuff than just some dotfiles.

Normally old UNIX stuff doesn't really fit the modern way of doing things, but dotfiles are still standing.
Good point. And the people who decide what the newspaper front page will display for a given day are constrained to some degree by newsworthy events on that day.

That thought does does cast an additional possible funny interpretation on a photo I took of the adjacent street newspaper vending boxes of the two major Boston papers one day. The Boston Globe main headline was of a serious major news event. The Boston Globe above the fold was mostly filled with a photo of some political or sports figure, and a lowbrow muckraking headline about them. A funny (highly implausible) theory is that the Herald editor/publisher had needed to determine the front page for a paper issue, days or more into the future, such as for faking proof-of-life on/after a date, and then had to run that front page. :)
As someone who's also suffered from poor sleep, related to nasal issues, I'm curious what you've tried. Have you tried mouth taping, chin straps, or breathe right strips? How about dietary changes to reduce congestion? What about breathing exercises and exercise in general?

I've personally found mouth taping to be the most beneficial, along with breathing exercises (and general exercise) and eating a cleaner diet to reduce congestion. One thing I do is get in bed a bit early so I can do some breathing exercises and get my nasal breathing really dialed in before falling asleep.

I lay in bed on my back and progressively slow my nasal breathing, focusing on very long and complete exhales. I roll over onto my side when I'm ready to fall asleep. I've tried box breathing, and 4-7-8 breathing for this purpose, but I find the extended inhales to be energizing, and not conductive to falling asleep.

I actually did have a septoplasty and turbinate reduction back in 2015 before I'd ever even heard of empty nose syndrome. When I first listened to "Breath", by James Nestor and he talked about empty nose syndrome I recoiled in terror. I had anxiety for a bit, imagining I may have it and not have noticed and from imaging how my life could have turned out if I had a bad surgeon. After a few, I realized those fears were silly, and thanked my lucky stars that I didn't suffer that terrible fate.

The surgery helped my nasal breathing slightly, but it wasn't dramatic or life changing. Knowing about empty nose syndrome now, I would definitely try all other possibilities before going under the knife. I think the surgery can be life changing for some, so it may just depend on how bad your structural issues are and how good the surgeon is.
It seems especially egregious that AWS claimed their hosted offering was a partnership with Elastic when they launched it: https://twitter.com/kimchy/status/1351534454154543106
On paper I like this idea. But I can't shake the feeling that every non-text based format I have ever encountered sucks.
It's called the fitness & health industry, not charity. It's in their financial interests to exaggerate or oversell the health consequences of not doing exercise. It comes down to genes. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are both in their 90s and do not exercise and have crappy diets yet both are healthy and productive. Another example is William Shatner, who is also obese and just went to space at 90.
The facts they choose to print are probably true - which again is part of the alt-right playbook.

Cherry pick the facts that helps you muddy the waters enough to instill doubt and create false equivalence in the mind of the reader between there being Nazis in Ukraine and indiscriminate murder of civilians plus turning more than a million people into refugees in less than two weeks.

So I'd ask you - do you think that there being Nazis in Ukraine is justification for indiscriminate bombing of civilians?
I can agree on many issues regarding the Iraq war, I think we all heard about the "weapons of mass destruction" that turned out to be false (well, never proven at least). It wasn't the only reason, though [1]. A very important quote from there:

> UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan described the war as illegal, saying in a September 2004 interview that it was "not in conformity with the Security Council"

However, I find comparing Ukraine to Iraq simply unconvincing. The latter had a recent history of aggression [2], which largely fueled the suspicion about the "weapons of mass destruction".

Comparing saddam husein [3] to Volodymyr Zelenskyy also fails spectacularly.

The comparison to the Cuban Missile Crisis is a miss too: in Ukraine the opposite happened, the nuclear weaponry was removed which was the Ukraine's part of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances [4]. However russia doesn't respect its part:

> 1. The Russian Federation [...] respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.

That's why I call it symmetrism: on one side there's an aggressive country, run by a tyrant with proven crimes against humanity, on the other a democratic country that wants to be free and independent and choose its allies. But putin considers it aggression.

It's one thing if it's a valid casus belli - people thinking so I consider to be unreasonable.

Another thing is, that putin calls a lot of things an aggression against russia. Recently he called sanctions such aggression. So now pretty much the entire world, in this madman's mind, has attacked russia and *IF* we accept the casus belli used against Ukraine, we have to accept a cassus belli against any other country putin attacks next. In other words, the idea behind cassus belli corrupted to the point where it's useless. It's like defining "cold" as colder that a quadrillion °C - now everything is cold, even the center of the Sun. The word became useless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Saddam_Hussein
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
this is what the page claims to do:

snippet from;

view-source:https://redirectrussia.org/
==================================================

<h2>How it works</h2>

<img alt="Screenshot of redirect page" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2841780/156524271-..." class="screenshot">

<p> When someone from Russia visits your website, they'll be redirected to a page that looks

<a href="https://redirectrussia.org/?from=example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">

like this</a>. </p>

<p> They can find information about how they can help Ukraine and make change from within Russia. </p>

<p> The script is asynchronous, meaning that it shouldn't affect the page load time, and it uses a combination of timezone and IP address geolocation to identify traffic from Russia, so we don't make too many IP geolocation API requests. </p>

<h2>API</h2>

<p> You can configure the redirect URL, location detection method, IP geolocation API, and whether or not to add your domain to the redirect URL using the configuration generator above. </p>

<p> We also emit an event <code>redirect-russia</code> which you can listen to, for example to set up analytics: </p>

<pre>
<code>document.addEventListener("redirect-russia", (event) => { /* */ })
</code>
</pre>

<p> The code is open source and available on
<a href="https://github.com/pabio/redirect-russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub
</a>. </p>
===================================================
I wonder nowadays if an Apple watch and the AutoSleep app could tell you the same thing. It is such a great tool for tracking your sleep.
From the Hacker News Guidelines on commenting (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
> I'm an American, and I've spent a lot of time in Mexico. I'm a bit surprised that Ukrainians would want to come to the US from Mexico right now. Mexico is a lot more distant from the current conflict than the US

It’s more distant in the sense that it is more committed to good relations with Putin. Why Ukrainians or Russians fleeing because of Putin’s aggression (whether because they are targets of it or dob’t feel they can safely oppose it at home) might not prefer that is... hardly mysterious.
But why would you but anything but an LG OLED?
What makes you think Russia would invade Finland? I seriously doubt that would happen.
When Google wants a feature implemented in Chromium, it gets implemented, pretty much regardless of how buggy it is. When I want a feature implemented and Google wants it not implemented… tough luck.
There’s merit on both sides here. I think the key is that OP was making a personal
Point about their own reflection. However well documented in academic texts or small newspapers thinking about how the US has meddled and more is not mainstream in the US, especially on the centre right. 911 did something similar for a number of my friends too - they started looking at some of that history in more detail, and it became important in their decision making.
Multiple Dispatch: Common Lisp vs. Julia
I don't think there are any really big changes to the lens design recently... All the effort has gone into multi-camera setups, and different types of lens for macro, wide angle, telephoto, etc.

To my understanding, there is still only a single set of moving lenses in an iPhone 13 lens.
Financial markets almost always tend to price future growth in, it's not really a surprise.
Assuming you raised this with the services, what responses did you get - if any?
i had read somewhere that, while the green part may be poisonous, you'd to need eat like 2kg of pure green part "at once" to be in danger
Yup Russian propaganda. Try finding that from any normal / neutral information source.
I don't know about 'fluid intelligence', but due to 40 years+ of neglecting education, I wouldn't want to bet on 'better critical thinking'. Just looking at any social media site, will show you how many people (of all generations) will believe things without any confirmation or critical thinking applied.

edit: that goes for myself as well. I'm lazy enough not to verify stuff unless I think its 'important'...
Do you mean the revenue loss of Apple's business, or Apple showing ARM is so capable in desktop and auguring the end of x86 dominance in server/desktop?

In five years or so (ok maybe 7 or 8) Intel turned a two year lead in fab technology to being behind by two years, so there's that too.

Utter inability to break into the mobile market, ARM or otherwise.

Failed attempts at discrete graphics and not having something ready for the rise of crypto/AI.

XPoint was basically a failuer, SSD dominance taken from them.

It shows both an empty cupboard of in house talent and technology and a zombie management structure.
I find that if I get eight hours of sleep at night, I can move mountains. But if I only get 7.75 hours of sleep or less, my eyes feel tired all day and I'm only half as productive. I've never understood why there is such a marked difference between eight hours of sleep and almost anything less than eight hours. There's something chemically going on inside that I don't understand. The problem I'm having now is that I can get a good five or six hours but I wake up after that fifth or sixth hour and can't get back to sleep long enough to get that ideal eight. This problem is seriously affecting my career and I don't know what to do. I do do moderate to vigorous exercise five times a week but that doesn't always help.
Why is it called an "engine"? Is that some new type of gem or package in Rails?
Correct, this is totally different than having a smart gas oven or stove. I too would never have plumbing or gas appliances hooked up to the internet. But my Nest thermostat is totally safe.
If you have the time, please share a bit more detail about the modelling approach + assumptions used for the DCF. I'd find that pretty interesting and suspect others would also.

Whenever I've tried to run my own DCF analyses, I've found some parameters and modelling assumptions have a major impact on the resulting estimate. Discount rate parameter is one. The model and assumptions used to estimate revenue and operating/net profit when extrapolating 5 - 10 - 20 years into the future also make a large impact.

Suppose in our DCF analysis we aspire to forecast company performance over a 25 year time horizon and then discount the profits back to some NPV. Then we need some way of extrapolating the company's revenue for the next 25 years. One way to do this could be to put together some kind causal model where we identify the major factors that contribute toward generating revenue -- maybe this could break down revenue by segment or major product line, and attempt to predict supply, demand, price points, production capacity etc for each product line, using knowledge of how the industry works. Then we'd have to figure out how to forecast all of those drivers of revenue, e.g. forecasting the capex used to build new plant to increase capacity & so on. Another way could be to ignore trying to build a semi-plausible generative model for revenue and instead just do some kind of simple empirical model only -- e.g. fit a regression model to the trailing 5 years of historical revenue numbers or annual revenue growth rates combined with some kind of prior to force revenue growth to decay toward something unobjectionable the further into the future we project.

I've got some code that automates calculating a DCF. I've adopted some form of the latter approach to forecasting revenue -- fit a simple empirical statistical model to historical revenue -- it isn't very intellectually satisfying as it doesn't incorporate any real world knowledge about the causes of revenue in specific industries or companies. So, many forecasts of revenue generated by this approach will be quite wrong, leading to quite misleading DCF estimates. But on the other hand, I can run my kind of dumb DCF analysis in a completely automated way using inputs that are reported in company financials in a standard format, which is much quicker and easier.

When i run my crude DCF analysis over INTC and AMD -- using a somewhat arbitrary 6% discount rate -- I get the estimates

INTC -- priced by mr market at $48.07 / share

quantile 0.2 $87 / share
quantile 0.5 $140 / share
quantile 0.8 $196 / share

AMD -- priced by mr market at $108.41 / share

quantile 0.2 $42 / share
quantile 0.5 $77 / share
quantile 0.8 $121 / share

the "quantiles" are different scenarios of assumed future revenue growth trajectories. quantile 0.2 assumes relatively poor revenue growth. quantile 0.8 assumes relatively great revenue growth. quantile 0.50 is some kind of midline.

market valuation for AMD is either based on something that isn't discounted future earnings, or market's forecast for how future earnings will evolve is very different to my crude backward-looking model.
What international law are you talking about? The Dublin agreement stipulates something like that, but that’s a EU internal contract and would bind neither Mexico nor the US.
> If Xi wants to invade Taiwan, 90% is based on his power fight within the party, not the geopolitics.

Citation? Which part of the communist party does NOT want Taiwan back if it could get it without massive geopolitical consequences?
That's hilarious. It was an engineer trying to be fake safe. Losing control over your device is going to be less safe than just letting the user open the door during a clean cycle if the power drops.
Does it not periodically bug you if you do that? That's what happened with mine until I eventually relented and started getting bugged by their "notification" advertising instead
Evolutionary Road: Darwin’s great theory was years in the making
Boy, that page is Comprehensive on lens design - that's an awesome resource.
Unveiling the anonymous author: Stylometry techniques
> Speaking of which looks at this post by Edward Norton!

Specifically which parts of that post do you take issue with?
Interesting that you mention FB, considering it's just had a 40%+ drop over a matter of weeks. Compared to other FAANG, the drop is massive. FB is now only up around 30% compared to early 2017. If you'd bought GOOG or AMZN during the same time, you'd be up over 200%.

What warrants such a huge drop if the market was correct about FB? Seems to me like it was indeed overvalued, but the market just came to that realization a few months ago. Even though we're experiencing a broad selloff in the market FB has been hit way harder than comparable companies.
The article links to writing your own router in less than 100 lines of javascript. This is based on outdated code supporting old browsers like IE11. For modern browsers, I was able to reduce it to less than 50.
Kinda weird that most media outlets don’t have foreign correspondents, local news rooms, or even reliable sources on the ground. Look at what talking points are used and who they interview. I suppose something encouraging is despite the massive effort people don’t want the war.
"what's the point of laws so complex criminals can't understand them? They'll be broken anyway"
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html
It is though. The west does shove their grubby hands into the bank accounts of ordinary citizens - all the time - to steal their money, resources and taxes.

- A few weeks ago it was Canada freezing bank accounts of their political opponents.

- The US still allows for civil forfeiture of arbitrary assets with no presumption of innocence or conventional due process.

- A little while back Cyprus arbitrarily stole private funds from innocent civilians who had committed no crime - just because the gov said they needed it to bail out their bankers

- The EU has had negative nominal interest rates for some time stealing money from savers for the benefit of central bank policy

- Nearly all western governments have had negative real interest rates on savings for some time. This is a conscious policy to inflate their currencies through money printing in order to more easily manage their national debts.
> I think your comment does what the OP complains about, regarding gatekeeping etc.

Oh absolutely, that's how I intended it. I don't think that preemptively calling out people's reaction gives the parent comment a pass on gatekeeping.

Your concern about poor background... it's only a problem for people who are jumping into things without the prerequisite background and they aren't learning fast enough. But modern deep learning is much more empirical - there are a few building blocks and people are trying out different things to see how they perform. I don't get why we need to look down on people for not knowing things that they don't need to know. If there was some magic that comes from knowing much more statistics, then the researchers who do would be outperforming the rest of the field by a lot but I don't think that's the case.
Rails has the concept of “engines,” roughly small Rails apps that can be embedded in / composed into larger Rails apps.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html
If your point is that nobody can be truly 100% free in this world, and it is all shades of grey - then, yes, i would agree.
It is at least nice to hear that the touchscreen experience was nice. Recently I had 2 experiences where I longed back to older tech. A Siemens oven/microwave in a rented cabin that had an awful menu filled with options and took 4 steps to get to the function I needed, whereas my 10 y/o AEG I hit the function I want (key with icon immediately accessible) and then start. And, my own 2006 Ford has a BT module (aftermarket) which just starts when I start the car and it connects and works. My parents Dacia has a fancy system that takes 2 min to boot and then I need to try a couple of times and then it connects, really annoying, yeah it has a large touchscreen but I much prefer my ancient 1 line LCD display.

Now that I think about it, my oven has a one line old glowy numbers display. Maybe the limited displays force much more thought into how to make funtions accessible.