skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. A month back Microsoft was exploring this acquisition.

Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity research and incident response company Mandiant Inc... Mandiant shares surged 18% in New York, bringing its market value to almost $4.3 billion.. A deal might also push cloud rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to pursue their own similar acquisitions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-08/microsoft...

And from the current event:

..acquired by Google LLC for $23.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion
How do you know that isn't just measuring that most people keep to 5 tabs because otherwise everything grind to a halt. That's about how many tabs my wife's old Chromebook can handle before she has to start closing old tabs.
X=17mph

https://m.xkcd.com/2585/
Some title containing the words “homotopy” and “symplectic”, e.g. this one
What generals?
MiniVNC Remote Desktop Server for Vintage Macintosh Computers
How are there so many trolls on places like Twitter that go on & on & on about nuclear or coal or whatever... the facts speak for themselves. solar + batteries is the obvious future.

Would be great to see some robots get made that can much more rapidly install solar in big solar farms. I suppose most of it is mechanized already... but maybe robots could help automate it more.
Weirdly enough, Robin Hanson is using the word "bureaucracy" here for something that would more properly be called institutions, or social mechanisms. The difference is that institutions and social mechanisms are explicitly amenable to optimization aiming at better outcomes whilst "bureaucracy" is really a generic feature of some social/institutional mechanisms, usually highly centralized and hierarchical ones.
> sending waves of migration into the richer countries

The richer countries still have the mass transportation in their hands. Its railroads, planes, ships and cars of richer countries which bring the migrants.
It's something that really started mid-XIX century, with the emergence of the concept of ethnic-based statehood in France and Prussia. The process continued unabated for about 100 years, until the populations were divided "cleanly enough" in most of the continent. The end of WW2 was just the last chance for big moves in that direction, and some countries grabbed it with both hands.
It was a valiant effort, but ultimately abandoned.
> we DO NOT tolerate companies using interviews to get free labor.

What does that change from a candidate perspective? In both cases the candidate wastes their time. I'd offer a better solution: the company pays market rate for the time needed for the test, and can then ask for anything they want - in which case an actual ticket is the best solution as it will evaluate the candidate's performance on the kinds of problems they'd actually be working day-to-day.
Did you ever get any insight from your doctors as to why it might have happened? High cholesterol? Family history? Sorry to hear that.
> they haven't sent over the majority of their equipment,

Really? I thought they sent in like 75%. Here's their current reinforcements (see the Z letters): https://v.redd.it/qadkws73hwl81/DASH_720.mp4
Huh. And I thought that cyber security was pretty much a fake threat and fake technology.
In the last decades, no. If they enter a war, it is usually because it is forced upon them by an external power.

But many important Western European countries were at least flawed democracies since approximately the last quarter of the 19th century. For example, Italy was a democracy when it launched an abortive attempt to conquer Ethiopia in 1896.
Yeah, even decades ago my history books in the US were pretty blunt about US' horrible mistakes. The lack of acknowledgement is disturbing. Not that teaching our children about our genocides, soldiers shooting college students, or propping up dictatorships to fight proxy wars seems to change our behavior, but being aware that we are jerks just seems aesthetically preferable to pretending we are perfect, it at least opens the door for growth.
You can start doing some interesting things if the cost of wind/solar is a half or quarter of regular power. Like using it to refine aluminium and then using that in batteries to generate energy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26463249 That can store pretty much unlimited quantities though is not very efficient in terms of energy in and out.
They are also at higher risk of breast cancer though (female aircrew)
I wrote an mp3/ogg/flac/acc metadata parser over 10 years ago, and it was an absolute shower of shit with regards to character sets and compatibility between players and encoders. Has anything changed?
Right of conquest. Remember, in International Relations, might is all.
that maximize HUMAN health & lifespan in economically sustainable ways

Which HUMANs? Only the ones alive today, or also the ones living 100 years from now? And why focus only on economically sustainable, don't you think that ecologically sustainable, socially sustainable or even morally defensible merit equal consideration?
> Stop for a moment, breath deep, and think.

Ok.

> Is it really possible that half the country (or more, according to latest polls) are bat crazy?

Yup.

https://www.quora.com/How-popular-was-Hitler-prior-to-WWII-A...
Scott Adams used to work for Pac Bell in San Francisco before he went full-time on Dilbert.
I feel like there's a joke in there somewhere — something involving asking a developer why they dropped their software price to zero, answer: no more piracy!
Again, you are spreading Russian propaganda, Hacker News is not a place for Russian shills.
I doubt they experience much real choice in the matter.
When efficiency hurts more than it helps (2015)
Pity the Nation
I never sold lawn mowers, I sold automobiles at a ounce shed dealership for a major automobile brand.

There was never, at any point, with more than a dozen lenders, any type of fee associated with taking a loan. We did not offer lower prices for customers paying cash, it was the opposite in fact. We never paid a bank for giving a loan either.

None of the things you keep proposing have any semblance to my professional experience.
Which mystical traditions are you referring to?
I think you are describing overdagnosis, that is a real problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdiagnosis

But not everyone is so lucky. Some cancers may kill you in a few months even with the best treatment currently available.

And there are a big chunk of cases were a good early diagnosis is the difference between dying in one or two years or dying in ten or twenty years, or perhaps more.
It's still visible if you toggle 'showdead' in your profile settings. To your question, I don't know exactly why this particular comment had its visibility disabled - it appears to simply be repeating a claim made in the OP, so it's unlikely this was the result of downvoting.
> Crimea it at least 70% ethnic Russian

So are parts of Ukraine who are vigorously resisting the Russian invasion.

Identity is tricky. Many once ethnic and/or linguistic Russians may choose to identify differently, to be governed differently, and that’s their right. The modern “Russian” ethnicity, as one distinct from e.g. Ukraine, is only a few hundred years old [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus'
> They just take information out of (food-industry-sponsored) horrible studies

Any proof?

> or just repeat the same old stuff they've been repeating since those first studies were published

No. They used to tell that milk was necessary for the health, but now they tell a different story based on actual independent research.
I like the author's solution (always use bounded queues) because it usually forces you to confront back-pressure up front. It doesn't matter how big your queue is, your system must be designed to work at peak throughput essentially without a queue, and thus your system must handle the possibility that an event fails to be processed and must be retried/dropped. Queues only serve to mitigate bursts.

It's annoying but also understandable how often people just dump stuff into an unbounded queue and punt on making sure things work until the system is falling down. Often queues are more of a tool developers and operators can use to navigate unknown performance characteristics and scale later than they are a requirement for the actual system itself.
The loss of life is the real problem for Ukraine.

I don't doubt that once this is over, the US and the EU will launch a generous reconstruction plan. Ukraine may end up with much better infrastructure in place of the destroyed one.

This could be financed from seized oligarchs' wealth. No need to spend taxpayer money. And Western construction companies will like those contracts, doubly so after Covid.
The situation being discussed is an open bucket, with no access credentials required.
Visa/MasterCard suspensions leave fleeing Russians without access to their money
Do you read/consume any news at all anymore?
They rushed to took Russian passports thus they are Russian citizens and can go back to their homeland Russia.

The whole point of their struggle was Russian invasion so Russians could build military bases there (which they eventually did)
Apart from the clickbait headline, there is an important division between restorative and augmentative applications of BCI. The former, when the patient has already suffered serious neurological injuries (or even paralysis) presents an attractive risk/reward ratio. The latter is dubious, even if only for the operation risks such as the swelling the article notes.

Interesting to ponder where that dividing line resides.
Do you know why it didn't work out? I'm curious.
The Damask Rose in Art
Your statement about US agricultural output appears to be incorrect; at least, it hit record export rates in 2021 [1]. And what you are saying about tourism is irrelevant, as the article clearly states that rice production fell by 20%, and tea production recorded a loss of 450 million USD. Farmers themselves are demanding that they be allowed to import fertilizers again. While it's true that we cannot know whether the organic switch was the sole cause of this disaster, it is both logical and plausible that it was a major factor.

Can you point to a single country that switched to organic farming and had increased agricultural output (ie, "better for farmers" as the comment above implies)?

[1] https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2022/02/08/america...
IF the breakup happens (and I personally think this is very unlikely) in the near term it will likely be contracted to oil major that gives highest bribes. Which should be a minor change to the outside world. My 2c.
2003, if I recall correctly ?
Isn’t whey, as a milk base, full of growth hormones meant for baby cows?
Owning the reserve currency of the world matters.
Ask HN: Since Russia needs cellular towers, why doesn’t Ukraine destroy them?
Apparently, Russia needs Ukrainian cellular towers for encrypted communication.
I think so too.

The world is much more interconnected today, so sanctions have more power.
To take this idea one step further, each of those options could be attributed to a colour value. Then, instead of "greying out" the resulting comment would be an amalgam of the received votes, giving an indication of exactly what it was in particular that caused the comment to be downvoted. The stronger hues would then indicate a degree of consensus among the audience.

Of course, the same should be applied the other way, so when upvoting, one could also choose to assign a value for "this is good but could be improved", "I have a different opinion, but the above comment is worthy of consideration", "this is simply a correct take" and "this comment is pleasing to me".

And for the sake of readability, maybe instead of the whole comment being coloured, a marker could be applied before or after unadulterated text so that it remained accessible during the course of this process!

The challenge would be in deciding which colors represent what sentiment, as these days even our visible light spectrum seems to be corrupted by political/moral/tribal prejudgements. So perhaps it would do more harm than good. It may make for an interesting experiment, all the same.
> For example, a twitter poll just found respondents saying 10-1 that the org they know best has been getting more, as opposed to less, bureaucratic over the last decade.

If you believe that organizations tend to increase bureaucracy as they get larger, this is a hilarious poll to cite on “overcomingbias”. More people would be most familiar with a growing organization than are most familiar with a shrinking or shrunk organization. (More people polled would be most familiar with Google, Amazon, or Facebook/Meta than with Altavista, Borders, or MySpace.)
Was there any actual problem besides 15V not being available on many chargers?
> Lots of countries are obviously positioning themselves to (re-)integrate some territory just in case.

Can anybody confirm this? I haven't seen any state official talking about getting Königsberg or Karelia back. Where has this positioning been hinted? I might have missed something.
Yeah, I understand that the photon hitting my eye right now was ejected from the sun 8 minutes ago. And if I could see it, a photon hitting my eye now from the big-bang was ejected 13bn years ago.

But if I have some super telescope here on earth, and I'm looking through it now, the photon that hits the eyepiece of the telescope also was ejected 13bn years ago.

I don't see how magnification allows me to see even older photons.
War is always a good pretext for crushing internal dissent, since critics can easily be branded as traitors. Some Russian observers believe the only reason Putin is invading Ukraine right now is because his position has weakened to the point that he needed a war to shore up support and get rid of opposition. So now is probably not a great time to accurately gauge how much real support and loyalty he commands.
I think the problem is that students don't know these fields exist unless they took an especially strong liking to the standard school math curriculum. Going into college I couldn't have told you what most of the fields mentioned were about even broadly. Truly I had no idea what math was, because we barely talked about proofs through high school. The only reason I swung back around to learning some of it is because my upper level college CS classes introduced me to ideas that then made me want to revisit my math curriculum.

There ought to be some way to encourage late high school/early college students to "survey" the field without necessarily taking full courses in these topics. This could also give some earlier understanding in how the different fields relate - for example you could present a toy graph theory problem within linear algebra as a matrix problem, later presenting the same problem in graph theory section and walk through it using graph representation. I think high school courses struggle with memorability precisely because most units are taught basically in a vacuum.

Regardless though, the point of the survey course wouldn't be to remember details so much as to find topics of interest for further study/be generally aware of their existence in case a relevant problem comes up in the future.
>men and women tend to have different roles

Indeed, this is part of the problem. We have a very high skew on our higher paid level of senior engineering being men, and women in QA or documentation. We have a training program underway for more women to train to take on better paid roles. Education is key, but advocacy is critical: without a female CEO or other high-level woman on the tech side, very few companies put in the effort to do this as it has a distant future payoff. But I believe it's critical. Someone long ago gave me a chance and I'm determined to do the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Invasions_by_the_Unit...
Iraq had a “coalition of the willing” but that was mostly a joke.

One million excess deaths in Iraq as a result. We removed the Baathists and put Shiites in charge instead. Baathists joined up with ISIS and gave them American tanks and humvees, which then spilled violence over into Syria, and other regions.

Invading and occupying was actually better than invading and leaving a failed state like Libya. There, ISIS and Boko Haram were able to establish strongholds and millions still live under violent gangs. At least we stabilized Iraq somewhat — until we also left abruptly.

The last time we occupied land with our army was 2 months ago, when we withdrew from Afghanistan (also extremely abruptly).
Just based on the UN vote. Neutral doesn't mean support in military action.

Russia cannot be trusted because it lied that they will not start a war and then it did.
The Russians confirmed the death of air-force general Andrei Sukhovetsky. The Ukrainians claim to also have killed army major general Vitaly Gerasimov.
Some of the most famous science fiction stories in the world tell administrative stories.

The Dune series chronicles the interlocking machinations of various administrative bodies: governments, religious orders, tribal leadership, activists, company representatives, trade ministers, etc. While they had to make the movie look like action to sell tickets, the books consist primarily of people in meetings talking to each other.

Foundation by Asimov is another one. The book famously features a galactic bureaucracy so large and complex that its offices have taken over an entire planet. And of course it topples under its own weight, giving rise to the titular Foundation. But again, like Dune, many (most?) of the pages are taken up by meetings.
Am I missing some Google-joke here?
The 100% renewable situation has indeed been modeled. Getting to 100% likely requires some kind of long term storage, like hydrogen. You can play with the numbers yourself using real weather data:

https://model.energy/
Property rights are about control and exclusionary rights, not about physical things like land and widgets. This is a common misconception among the public and one of the first things they teach you in your first-year property law course.
Even in the lowest power consuming of sleep modes volatile RAM still needs to be constantly refreshed, so considering a device with a duty cycle like that of a phone or tablet you might find the power being used for memory is more significant than you think. But that refresh is essentially a fixed cost from a software PoV, if the memory is not used it'll still be refreshed, where chunks of modern CPUs can be almost completely turned off when not needed. There are secondary costs of extra memory use though (CPU to populate & later read, IO subsystem activity as there is less free memory for cache, etc.).
This doesn't sound like Barcelona's superblock concept at all. It sounds like you are talking about mere blocks.

The superblock concept only exists in a few places so far in Barcelona. It takes (usually) a 3 by 3 grid of blocks and closes the inner streets to though traffic, instead putting playgrounds, benches, bike lanes, and plants there.
Assessing a Claim: Is San Francisco's Shoplifting Problem Fake?
> I see Russia invading and occupying, not annexing

Crimea was unambiguously annexed in 2014 [1]. The U.S. hasn’t annexed territory since WWII (the Marshall Islands) or WWI (the Virgin Islands and Kingman Reef).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_...
In erlang it is standard to have 5 seconds timeout on queries. So, when many processes start to send to one process and it gets overwhelmed, other processes start having timeouts and typically they have some backoff strategy. Essentially queues are not bounded by size, but by time. Most processes don't send messages in a fire-and-forget manner, but wait for confirmation of execution.
I have a similar issue. I've been using feather files/parquet files for storage, and just using pandas to do analysis. There is an issue where the initial load/convert essentially doubles the memory usage of the file itself as it converts to a pandas dataframe. This can be avoided if you use a feather file and follow its recommendations for a zero-copy conversion (no NaNs/nulls).

I think it's a bit more flexible than using cli tools since you can set some sort of time index and query specific timeslices fairly easily
They appear to be using civilian equipment from all over. And unsecured civilian radio, too.
One thing that changed is that many users abandoned local audio files in favour of Spotify etc…
If mariopol hold a month, you could be able to say they didn't make any progress. Unlikely bit still.
Someone from up north. I am not mad, and I don't know anyone who is. If freeriding was required to enable a major breakthrough, so be it.
What course are you taking? Imagenet is only 150 GB, and Common Crawl is only 320 TB.

Big data is a moving target, but I’m comfortable defining it as data too large to fit in memory. Obviously, you can always get a bigger node, my rule is thumb is that if you need generators, you are working with big data.
We are using our aviation too accurate for conventional war. As result, we've lost some (2..4) of our decent aircrafts. What supply chains do we need to use more (not ~15) bombers on higher altitudes, e.g. sacrificing precision for being protected from almost-dead Ukrainian ADS ("Buk"s or Stingers, maybe some S-300 near Kyiv)?
Over 200 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia – But Some Remain
Considering that wind and solar is already cost-competitive with nuclear (fission) power, fusion power might never be viable (opinionated fusion fans often gloss over this possibility).

Sure, there might be potential savings compared to fission because less safety concerns, but the reactor complexity is an order of magnitude higher, and its far from clear to me that fusion power will even be able to compete with current (admittedly often state-subsidized) fission on price, MUCH less with the price of renewables now (or, worse, in 20 years)...
When addressing the "renewables can't do it" holdouts, demonstrating that a solution (hydrogen) exists is all that's needed. If there's a better way to get renewables to 100%, of course that's great.

Hydrogen will almost certainly be part of the solution, if only as a very dispatchable form of demand to supply hydrogen-consuming industries. And once you're storing hydrogen from that it's a small step to allowing some of it to be burned in backup turbines when very unusual situations occur (like that Texas winter storm.)
Well, just look at any US area, and you'll notice an extremely short USA history, compared to the Native American history and population. And yet, not a single person in the USA talks about Native Americans claiming back their historical and cultural territories. Why? The only reason that comes to mind is Native Americans being effectively extinguished by the USA, while Buddhists/Mongols in Russia are integrated and accepted as a part of the society.
I don't think you've understood what Barcelona's superblock concept is.

Take a 3 by 3 grid of streets, and close the inner streets to through traffic. Then do creative stuff with those inner streets instead.
Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq#Coalitio...
Because people correctly point out that if you had literally 100% solar (or near it) the amount of battery you would need is of completely impractical scale in even the medium term future. More reasonable approaches would include many massive lakes with pumped hydro stations. I personally think it is entirely possible but the scale of the operation is a massive undertaking similar to the sum total of fossil fuel extraction infrastructure built up over the last 100 years. We are talking trillion dollar scale. Can the USA summon the political will to do it fast? Probably not. Building more nuclear power plants for base load is probably easier.