skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And industry. And transportation. And commercial or public buildings. Taking into account only personal electricity consumption and disregarding all the rest that makes society work is deeply myopic

As a rule of thumb - electricity consumption in developed countries is about 1 kW per person, once everything is accounted for. Energy consumption is about 5 times as much
Aren't the islands full of Russian people? I imagine a referendum wouldn't yield a result that was unfavourable to Russia.
95% down the page we have one of the most important ways to reduce cancer after smoking...
That's ridiculous. North Korea is not crazy, there is no conceivable reason why North Korea would use nukes against USA unless regime is attacked. If that was the goal, there was no reason for sanctions whatsoever.

Truly, "nukes against USA" is much more ridiculous than Russia's excuse of invading Ukraine, that it is threatened by NATO expansion.
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Right now Diesel (2.09€/l) here is more expensive than Super E10 (2.04€/l) ... that's like the first time during my 35 years on this earth that that has happened.
Yes. I'm sure some consider Königsberg to have been an exclave for far too long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg

And since Putin is talking about restoring old borders, could the Ru visitors in Livland go home now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire

Putin is not the only one who could play this game, and make demands on historical grounds. More modern problems, like Chagos Island should really be solved though. The way UK is acting, and treating the Chagos exiles is quite ugly. IMHO.
It of course would only happen if the current regime were to fall. Perhaps 'annex' is too hard a word. Maybe 'cover all oustanding debts and throw in some lucrative personal deals for the current Kremlin warlord'?

Napoleon sold a large chunk of North America for "$11.25 million, plus the forgiveness of $3.75 million in French debt".

https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-may-not-know-about...
>One story you could tell - one story I think Putin was telling himself - goes something like: the West is pathetic and divided. The Western-backed Afghan government fell to the Taliban in a few weeks. That’s because the Westernized Afghans were the kind of people who cared about trigger warnings and misgendering, and the Taliban was Traditional Masculine Warrior Types. The Taliban could say “kill the infidels!” and the Westerners would argue over whether considering the Taliban an “enemy” was racist.

What a cowardly way to sell your biases.
In the case that Russia actually collapses as a state ... which is not likely, but cannot be ruled out if they lose this war badly (lost wars are an enormous stress test for authoritarian regimes where the ruler gets all the blame, just look at the collapse of Tsarist Russia in 1917) ... a lot of territory would be up to grabs.

Kaliningrad could transform to a puppet state of the EU, removing a serious gap in its territorial contiguity.

Various Kavkaz ethnicities could vouch for independence.

Tuva (ironically, where Shoigu comes from) is a Buddhist nation that fits into the Mongol-Chinese cultural sphere better than into Russian one.

Vladivostok used to be a Chinese fishing village once, and the Chinese hate the old Unequal Treaties.

Sakhalin is a part of the Japanese archipelago.

Vyborg (Viipuri) and Pechenga (Petsamo) are formerly Finnish territories and even though the irredentism has subsided, they could still be valuable economically. Vyborg is a major port and Pechenga gives access to the Arctic Ocean. Their reconstruction would be a huge money sink, though. Much like reconstruction of the DDR after reunification of Germany.
>>President Vladimir Putin on the next day.[11] However, the dispute persists,[12][13][14][15] no peace treaty has yet been signed, and the islands remain under Russian administration

Yes they are. Japan never signed.
How is Canary Mail better than mail.app on macOS ?
I wonder how superblocks tie into the idea that the World Economic Forum/Davos crowd are starting to push: “in 20 years you will own nothing, and be very happy…”?

It might be more difficult to own your own property (like a condominium) in a superblock?
Spineless. They will be remembered for this.
Yeah, thanks for that link. That's exactly the kind of garbage I was talking about.

They just take information out of (food-industry-sponsored) horrible studies, or just repeat the same old stuff they've been repeating since those first studies were published. That page even has the obligatory "stay active" in a "what to eat" recommendation. Five-star stuff.

No wonder we've all become obese since these studies and articles started to pop up...
Hows that a good heuristic? It means never giving anything up and talking about the issue. Just keep sending troops before they get any older.
From the same reference you provided, a declaration was made and it was
about regulation of trade and other activities.My Japanese and Russian are
a bit rusty. Original is below but do you have French or English version?

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20263/v2...

You reference says

"...no peace treaty has yet been signed, and the islands remain under Russian administration"

Edit: Ok. Per this reference it seems the view of the Japanese government is that they ended the state of war.

"...The Joint Declaration by Japan and the USSR of October 19, 1956 ended the state of war and reestablished diplomatic and consular relations between the two countries. In the Joint Declaration, Japan and the USSR agreed to continue negotiations on the conclusion of a peace treaty after the reestablishment of normal diplomatic relations, and the USSR also agreed to hand over the islands of Habomai and Shikotan to Japan after the signing of a peace treaty..."

https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/editio...

Bit I think we are missing in both desks the paper saying
Peace Treaty.
I'm curious what constitutes "big data" anymore. In an intermediate machine learning course, we train on nearly a petabyte of data using Google Colab and Jupyter Notebooks. Nobody discusses the size of the data requiring any special treatment due to its size... would not 95% of a petabyte be "big data"?
In theory, Ukraine has a agreement with China that China would protect Ukraine from nuclear threats ( supposedly through the one road one belt agreement).

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/7/china-s-unusu...

They also are turning against Ukraine, although they mentioned something different in the past:

> The Chinese Government has constantly opposed the practice of exerting political, economic or other pressure in international relations. It maintains that disputes and differences should be settled peacefully through consultations on an equal footing. Abiding by the spirit of the Sino-Ukrainian joint communiqué of January 4, 1992 on the establishment of diplomatic relations, the Sino-Ukrainian joint communiqué of October 31, 1992 and the Sino-Ukrainian joint statement of September 6, 1994, China recognizes and respects the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and stands ready to further develop friendly and cooperative Sino-Ukraine relations on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine#Fr...
grist? airtable? those types of apps just seem like an evolution of spreadsheets
You forgot to provide the source for Ukraine's argument: https://youtu.be/rUja0J6mMds
I think it's unique to JPEG due to its simplicity. JPEG encodes blocks independently, which makes manipulation of block data easy (also enables progressive rendering).

All later DCT-based formats try to get more compression by predicting future blocks from previous ones, which makes all blocks potentially interdependent, and distortions from such quick recompression could be amplified exponentially.
A micro service to a localhost node application. There is a file system API in the browser now but it isn’t mature and is highly restricted compared to the terminal.
What about USA or UK then?

Or Belgium or France or Spain or Holland for that matter...

I love Japanese people, they paid and suffered much more than deserved for their past mistakes, contrary to many other empires of the past.
China Uncensored is part of the Falun Gong media empire, which is known for fake news and far-right conspiracy theories [0] Falun Gong is a religious organization, or cult, depending on who you ask, with strong anti-communist tendencies, as they were persecuted heavily by the CCP.

Be that as it may, their 'news' on China is completely removed from reality, and they've been predicting the imminent collapse of the Chinese economy for well over a decade.

[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ntd-tv-new-tang-dynasty/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-epoch-times/

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into... https://www.abc.net.au/religion/the-abc-is-right-that-falun-...
I’m a Christian and I’d put myself in the young earth creationist category. It never comes up and even if it did, I don’t feel the need to defend or justify it.

When it comes down to it, how God created the world is an implementation detail and arguing about it is missing the forest for the trees.
"If I know lots of drawers stacked with cash exist, I'll value it less."

Pension funds are stuffed full of savings, and they get bigger with every passing year. Do they ever decrease? If not then when is that going to happen?

Are you valuing your income less because of the ever increasing level of savings?

Because nobody else is.
Her husband being a billionaire is besides the point.

Your conclusion doesn't follow your premise. It's at best a speculation.

Do you think only billionaires in India get diagnosed with cancer, and the remaining cases go undiagnosed?

Both billionaires and non-billionares in India get diagnosed with cancer at an early stage. Sure, plenty go undiagnosed as well, and there are plenty of late diagnosis as well.

(The final outcome in the end is a different question though).
The point is the "Western Narrative" is not a government imposed narrative, it's the result of free, independent reporting, free uncensored social media communication and people coming to their own conclusions.

Take the German government supporting kicking Russia off SWIFT. This was a decision almost entirely forced on the German government by public pressure. There was no government narrative driving that. In fact the Russian and Chinese narratives are widely distributed, published and discussed in the West. We're doing it right now. The western narrative includes all the other narratives too, so there really isn't a western narrative in the same way at all.

As for the US, until literally a few days ago half the US political establishment was very much pro-Putin. They played down the threat he posed and trivialised his interference even in US politics. At the recent Republican conference, which was a few days after the invasion of Ukraine started, criticism of Putin was almost completely absent, although some of them did wobble a bit on the subject. Since then they have quickly reversed direction.

In contrast the Beijing narrative is entirely, exclusively a government narrative. No other narrative within China is tolerated. Hence the linked article points out we don't actually know what ordinary Chinese think about any of this because their narratives are utterly suppressed, only what the government says.
I didnt see where your 40% fossil generation increase was sourced, but if that is being used to replace fossil burning cars and fossil burning heating, then its still a positive. And, if it doesnt actually get used much, thats even better. And, if when it does get used its burning green hydrogen then thats pretty good.
That paper doesn't address the question being asked: are microplastics in fish a particular cancer risk?
Option B is that the west swoops in and installs a western favorable democratic government after the collapse of Russia, putting china and its long term plans in a tough spot.

The world would be such a nicer place if we could recreate the Japan post WW2 success story with Russia.

Or at least, one can dream...
I'm curious if this is actually working for them, ie are Opera users that sticky? Ad blockers are probably the most common type of browser extensions and broswers are pretty easy to switch - in-browser ads would be an immediate nope for many
Ahh. This was a declaration, mutually signed, that agreed to negotiations for a treaty. No treaty was ever signed, this declaration was.
The cost of electrolysers is also falling rapidly, with China exports available for less than $300/kW. Green hydrogen is at the moment cheaper than gray hydrogen in Europe and the Middle East(!), and China.

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/ukraine-war-g...
it depends on the Japan's proposition. If they will propose to guarantee jobs for every new citizen with typical for Japan salary - it will be enough because the exchange rate of Russian ruble is dropped by more than 100% in the last 5 days.
that's probably what happened, i reached out to github and hope to get it changed.
It just left me at unease. The mighty Linus involved in an organization that redirects to a crypto scam? Can't be!
In companies, men and women tend to have different roles. Quoting a pay gap that ignores this is misleading. The research I've seen says that when you control for occupation and employment history (women are more likely to work part-time or stop working while raising children), gender pay gaps are less than 5%.
See also: Rockall, a rock in the North Atlantic which is "25 metres (80 ft) wide and 31 m (102 ft) long" all of which gets wet in a storm. The UK claims it as territory.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockall
You'd also need to take into account that a lot of demand can be time shifted to account for variability.
For your understanding, capacity factor is one of the parameters which is under the control of the turbine designer. If you connect up a huge 200m turbine to a little 3kw generator you can get a practically 100% capacity factor but obviously it's not an optimal strategy given the costs.
> Is it possible that you are getting information from news sources and thinkers that are biased and reflect one storyline; while the other half of the country gets their facts and forms their opinions from sources that are biased the other way and reflect a different story-line?

The thing is, everyone can judge the "facts" that these people consume and see for their own that a lot of what Fox News et al. distribute to their consumers is outright propaganda and lies. Tucker Carlson infamously got away with the excuse that a viewer should be able to recognize him "not stating actual facts" [1], even though a large part of his following seems to be either unable to or unwilling to see through the lies.

In Germany, TV and radio stations as well as newspapers are bound by the law to "independent and factual" reporting, as well as to check the stuff they broadcast if it actually is true (§6/§19 MStV [2]). Obviously, we still have issues with the tabloids sometimes stretching the truth a bit, but in general it can be said that our media follows the responsibility it has as a vital part of our democracy.

> Any conversation is good if not done in bad faith, and I always assume good faith.

While admirable, this inevitably comes crashing down hard when enemy propaganda comes into the mix - both domestic and foreign, in particular Russian. When one side is known for "assuming good faith", an enemy has it very easy to apply disinformation tactics... and for what it's worth, the West has been at war with Russia for many years now, even though many people refused to admit that.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...

[2]: https://www.die-medienanstalten.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Rec...
History of mathematics is a cool and relatable subject in so far as you can imagine the problems of ancient Egyptian worker paid in bread, and land survey/architecture. problems to Nazi code breaking, yeah?
> the responsibility and power

probably it's more like sharing "the COST of maintaining and upgrading it" :)) ...EU Army funds would probably be better spend on tech for urban/guerrila warfare + next gen UAVs, eg. stuff you'd actually end up using in a real war!

Heck Russia would probably have the military capability to actually win this war cleanly and quickly of they didn't have to invest billions in their strategic weapons that will (hopefully) never be used. If the current world leaders are competent, they are probably only pretending to properly maintain and upgrade strategic WMDs while covertly diverting the funds to other secret operations... If WMDs are actually used, we've all lost anyways, so it probably only makes sense to keep a huuuuuge stash of the cheapest + most destructive and suffering-maximizing stuff around (I imagine some hellish bio thing) for pure revenge end-game.
For people who want to read up, this is quite a complex situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute#World_Wa...
Electrolysis was never the issue. The high cost of storing hydrogen and the high level of wastage is the main problem.
The "west" is quite aware that the people of Russia are unlikely to stop this out of the goodness of their hearts. That's why there are sanctions.
It's been the cheapest for a decade, even when gas prices were low.

You need to include health costs etc. in that, but if we're worrying about poor people, then simply ignoring the pollution that will make them sick seems weird.
Japan can't afford to be nuked again too.
At the moment, I see

Left: CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Vox, Salon

Right: Fox, American Greatness, NY Post

Others: The Hill, NY Magazine, Intercept, WSJ, etc.

An example of two current articles: I have not yet read either but would consider reading both:

- The U.S. Constitution Is Trash - Elie Mystal, The View

- A Black Guy's Defense of the Constitution - Allen West, Townhall

At any given moment you should be able to find for/against entering Ukraine, for/against Judge Brown Jackson, for/against Covid something, etc.
A Tour of the Evolution of Minds
Basically every person who writes papers using statistics has taken a course in statistics. Medical doctors do it, psychologists do it etc. And the statistics course you'd replace calculus with would be even lower level than that, basically worthless to everyone. At least calculus trains you to think about rate of change and slopes, statistics gives you nothing practical. It isn't like people remember those formulas so they can apply them in their daily lives.
Lots of countries are obviously positioning themselves to (re-)integrate some territory just in case. Some missing pieces:

South Ossetia and Abkhazia which would probably be reintegrated into Georgia and pave the way for potential NATO or EU membership.

Transnistria integration into Moldova.

LDR / DPR maybe even Crimea back to Ukraine.
While I agree that there are a lot of factors we don't control, we can put that into perspective for evaluating how feasible a "life goal" is.

There's a culture that pushes us to "dream big" (e.g. build a unicorn startup, become a billionaire). That's usually awfully ambitious, and as feasible as winning the lottery for most of us.

We should be pragmatic about our life goals. They should be ambitious, but achieavable.

Even if we don't control a lot of factors in our lives we at least have the power to influence them, most of the time it comes in the form of "trade-offs". So you've got to be prepared to make some sacrifices in the present for making progress towards a future goal.

I also acknowledge that some of us have a head start due to our social/economical background, and we should be grateful for that.
I too have taken Russia's actions as both precedent and the distraction needed to make my own move. I declared the basement of my house (finished, furnished) complete with bathroom, sink and microwave, to be my own sovereign domain. The consequences for violating that territory will be such as none in my household have ever in their history experienced.
Hey, an opportunity to shill my favorite ISO standard!

It's 3. ISO 3, preferred numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_number#Computer_engi...

For your application, I would apply a heuristic which includes the x3 values at some point (256KiB?), and maybe the x5 values near/at 256MiB.

Allocation is so expensive relative to calculating the allocated value that you could use something really complex and it would work. Certainly multiplying by a factor between one and two and rounding to the nearest word would work, there's no way you'd see a performance difference from the calculation.

The advantage of ISO 3 is that the user always gets a familiar number of allocated bytes back.
> but for most users

Define "most users"

Most users who have to tackle actual big-data problems, meaning analysing things on the order of several TB or more?

Sure, they will absolutely benefit.

But there isn't just big data. There is also little data, where what is analysed is on the order of a few GiB or less, and everything in between.

I am not saying "use shell for everything!" I am saying "the right tool for the right job". A 15t excavator is probably not a good choice if I want to plant a small tree in my backyard, and a gardening shovel will probably not serve me well when I wanna start building a scyscraper.
i'd say the leaders were the netherlands and denmark. iirc paris, barca and oslo have started changing things by removing cars from the centers more recently.
Wherever the term might come from, I am inclined to disagree. Many websites today are so bloated with third party scripts and tracking, that those things far outweigh the actual content. Often the content could be a simple text. Instead the websites create an artificial need for transfering megabytes of data and higher CPU load to give me annoyances. Only through using an ad blocker, I can avoid the bloat. Many people will not avoid it and so the website creator shares some responsibility for the energy spent on loading and processing bloat.
"eventually will wipe any individual out."

Sure, eventually. It's one thing if people are getting cancer or having heart attacks later in life. It's a little concerning when a fairly large number of younger people are afflicted. The rate of cancer has risen about 30% for young people since the seventies. So it seems that there's something wrong in our environment or lifestyles that could be increasing risk. That's very concerning in my opinion.

https://www.healthcentral.com/article/cancer-rates-rising-in...

And on the subject of dying from a heart attack in one's 20s. That's "significant", but 1 in 100,000 is pretty rare. Some could be congenital or obesity related, but the majority in that age group is due to substance abuse. That's a factor people can control, and thus not as scary to most people.
>Kaliningrad could transform to a puppet state of the EU, removing a serious gap in its territorial contiguity.

EU is not a country and to my knowledge none of the neighbors wants to join that territory. It's quite a poor region with Russian population... Germans effectively left in the late 40s'
You still have some amount of control.

As a 30-something, it has recently become apparent to me that it is very easy to live a life you don't really care about. You start a job because it's the thing people expect you to do with your degree, chase some promotions because it feels nice to improve your status and win more money and without really paying attention you end up doing a job you rescent to keep living a life you dislike.
Anaconda, with it's "solving package specifications" frequently taking many minutes or hours, is barely usable.