skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First cut, I'll edit later because I had to drop my pursuit of graphs a few years ago and paging cache back in:

When I had to build a little special graph system, it was because I wanted to traverse a given graph and, given a set of detail subgraphs return a set of node pairs of type A and B and an edge A->B in which:
* Each node of type A and of type B was a group-by of a small set of patterns of source data nodes. Because each query filters the source data nodes differently, these synthesized A and B nodes are query-specific. A query might return any number of pairs based on the data and the filters.
* Each node of type A and node of type B had as its name the value of a specific attribute shared by subgraph elements (node name was a group-by) and contains attributes that were counts and sums of attributes of the subgraph elements.
* The edge between each A -> B pair was itself an aggregation of patterns of nodes that connected between certain detailed elements collected by A and certain detailed elements collected by B, with attributes related to the count of patterns connecting the A and B nodes.

I was unable at that time to locate a system that allowed queries that aggregate patterns via node constructors and edge constructors.

One of the arbitrary choices in the modeling is when to create an edge and when to perform a retrieval by seach with attribute filters. Realistic systems seem to use a mix of both- why? Now I need to keep in mind the difference between reaching a vertex via edge with the correct labeling/attributes and just reading via an index. And which aspects of things like transaction attributes are attributes and which things need an edge traversal to reach. Being unable to define edges from an edge in some systems is silly. Who says the set of things connected by edges cannot include edges? Some graph systems allow this, others don't. That's arbitrary. It means edge can't therefore aggregate anything via edge relationships.

And, simple things like return count of nodes and sum of particular attribute values grouped by attributes, where the nodes and edges meet some criteria, wasn't available. The systems imposed a need to return nodes and edges. Nothing in set theory or graph theories prevent math from being performed on a graph and reasoning based on the math, and I don't want the database preventing it either.

I'm sure I haven't kept up with the latest developments. Query-specific synthesizing of graph constructs and non-graph data together are probably my main issues, and the DB that makes those convenient is of somewhat more interest.
Author has a point, but it's similar to the "linux makes a very, very good desktop" point.

If you want mass markets to bring down the costs to very low levels, everyone has to participate. Almost all people have to use Windows in order to have very low OS software costs. If we let people use Linux here, and FreeBSD there, and MacOS over here, the overall cost rises immensely.

Same with individualized, "weird" internet.
As far as I can tell, this will mainly have an impact on people trying to leave, because payments within the country will still work (if badly because the substitute system, NSPK, is shoddy), but the Russian government doesn’t allow crossing the border with more than the equivalent of 10k USD in cash (since several days ago) and most other money transfer companies are refusing service as well.

So, for example, previously locals employed by companies that valiantly declared their condemnation of Putin by shutting down their Russian offices had three choices: work for a company that does support Putin, leave, or starve. Now it’s just work for a Putin supporter or starve.

(Not entirely true because at least some of those companies put their employees on paid leave for now, but that’s still probably what it will ultimately boil down to in the relatively near future. Passenger planes being arrested in foreign airports because of sudden lease termination make for a similar one-two punch combo together with Putin’s closure of the land border in 2020: it’s getting very hard—and expensive—to physically leave even if you don’t want anything to do with this [15-year jail sentence] and never did.)

Good job..?
I would certainly rather have a Catalyst app than an Electron app, just from a system resources used standpoint.

Slack, for example, can be absolutely ridiculous.
Estimates vary but it seems the current sanctions include a carve-out allowing Russia to sell $0.8-$1 billion USD per day in oil and gas. I can assure you that a significant portion of these funds is being used by Putin’s regime to wage this war.

I also think it is silly to argue that cutting Russia off from this direct subsidy from the west would be insufficient to have chilling effect on Putin’s war - especially when we haven’t even tried. How do you know it is insufficient?
I know a fair number of people who have internet connected fridges, thermostats, cars, air quality monitors, and so on.

Most of them don't work in tech. Those that do have very few and seek out 'dumb' versions. I count myself in that group.

Next time I need a new TV it will not be a smart one. My current on has Roku but not its showing ads... so now I use TV exclusively through my Apple TV. Sigh
It also helps when the police have very few complaints to follow up.
I address your point in my other two replies. His approach vis-à-vis Putin was to fulfill his wildest fantasies by weakening the NATO alliance and continually threatening to pull out. Every day Trump was in office, NATO got weaker and Putin's profile was elevated by Trump. The timing of the attack is because NATO is only getting stronger from here on out so it's now or never really.

If Putin invaded Ukraine while Trump was in office he would have forced the American political establishment to unite against him. It's far better for him now that there were 4 years of Republicans wearing "Better Russian than Democrat" shirts.

Think about how far Republicans have come on this issue. They used to be the party of the red scare, now they're the party of "Putin is a savvy genius". Amazing what a propaganda victory that is for Putin.
2017 BMW X3. I forget what the module is called, but it's behind the panel in the cargo area on the left side.
It's not that hard to arm a society when war breaks out. That is the same mentality that countries like Switzerland has. The "2A argument" is quite a bit different, and has very few similarities with what is going on at the start of a war.
Turkey is explicitly in the geographic area covered by NATO, though (I would assume North Atlantic, North America, Mediterranean, Europe, Turkey and Algerian Departments of France Treaty Organization or NANAMETADFTO was considered too long of a name).

Taiwan is thousands of miles outside of it.
They are doing it now because the vaccination rate is high enough that the increase in transmission will not translate into overwhelmed hospital systems. Doing it earlier in dense population centers would have been complete madness.
No one is looking at Florida or Texas and thinking they were right then other than people who’ve lost all perspective on the truth.
Kiwi Browser (https://kiwibrowser.com/) is a FOSS Chromium for Android derivative that supports Chrome extensions.
I would not take anything Matt Yglesias says seriously, at all.
Do companies of this size already have the infrastructure built, a kill switch of the sorts, to turn off an entire country’s payment system? I’m thinking not just technology wise, but also things like existing subscriptions and contractual legal stuff between countries, customers, etc. It seems like a monumental undertaking to integrate payment systems for a new country, turning it off seems even more impressive.
Home invasion means forcefully breaking into someone's house where there are people in it. It's very different than a burglary. Burglaries are common, but the former is rare.
Opensearch is Elasticsearch with OpenDistro..

Its not “more” or “less” configuration.

If you mean “paid elasticsearch cloud” is easier to use - I would agree because its well.. a paid service.

After maintaining 27 OSS ES clusters that had to be migrated to OS because OSS ES does not exist anymore, you pretty much have no other option than to use OS, even for security patches only..
Amazon's thing is the network effect, not margins on a particular feature.
I'm a bit vague about how exactly it's used in different places. In Australia, it's the name of one of the major political parties, and it's considered a moderately "right wing" party. There was the classic 19th century liberalism, and its modern version neoliberalism.

I guess the Liberal Party in Australia has some similarities to the Conservative Party in the UK.
Recognition from the PRC that Taiwan is an independent nation or the absorption of Taiwan as a province of the PRC.

The stalemate will probably last a long time.
There's no reason in principle that a Chromecast device couldn't include some local storage to support an offline viewing mode, although I do think they have a much stronger case that it would be annoying and inconvenient to build than for a GE oven.
I don't understand, do you want to stop the blame game, or would you rather have it pointed at the US, because:"the US started it"?

Two wrongs don't make a right, now do they? I find it mind boggling that such an act of agression can be made immune to critique because "some other country did it worse that one time."
Feel free
> Mass gets cancelled out there, ...

Two equal airplanes but with different weight can glide the same distance, same glide angle, but the heavier plane will have higher airspeed to give the extra lift needed for the extra weight.
That’s the plan but I don’t think SwiftUI is there yet.

Even the name gives it away: catalyst is like Carbon or Rosetta — intended to be transitional.
I pretty much think these people are useless wastes of space. If they are still eating, they should consider themselves very lucky.

I'd love it if we were creative enough to prove me wrong - leave them with the wealth of the average Russian and then turn them loose again. Actually, that might be too fair to them. Quite a lot of that wealth is due to their predation on their own countryfolk. These oligarchs are not nationalists at all. I think they could give two shits about being Russian, or Russians, or Russia. If only 99.999% of their wealth could be put into escrow, intended to be reinvested in Russia (including whatever reparations Russia owns Ukraine). So yeah I'm definitely still in the camp of them being wastes of space.
In Russia, all country-local Visa and MasterCard payments are processed by country-owned NSPK system https://nspk.com

So all local payments will work, but no abroad payments (and no foreign cards to pay locally in Russia). Probably, I will lost most of my cloud data and compute resources incl. VPNs. Fortunately, some providers do accept SWIFT payments.
This is related to something on my mind since I read about the impact of the Ukraine conflict on wheat: will the economic impacts of wheat deficits be equally spread worldwide?

I wondered about it because I am lucky I suppose to live in an area with a fair amount of local wheat production. During the pandemic I noticed that the locally produced wheat never really disappeared even though it was more expensive to begin with; the bigger brands totally disappeared from the shelves.

I could see this as making a bigger impact though, because it's affecting worldwide stock to a bigger extent, at the more basic level of production rather than supply chains per se. But if the local wheat isn't really going anywhere anyway, maybe it doesn't matter.

Between this and the pandemic it seems like smaller, local production is being rewarded more, at least where I am. Chains struggled but smaller local shops thrived.
This used to happened to me after I visited a favorite restaurant of mine. After I ate there I was so tired I had to rest for a few hours. It turns out it was the amount of white rice I ate there relative to my everyday. Rice was always a big part of the meal.

It's commonly referred as a carb or sugar crash. Formally, it's called "Reactive hypoglycemia." It can hit anyone. People have different sensitivity to it but it can really tire you out when it hits.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/expe...
I was photo editor of my undergrad newspaper, editor of high school yearbook, and made beer money with photography in various ways. (I was also de facto photo editor of a newspaper in grad school among other things.)

I spent a lot of time on it and got a lot of enjoyment out of it. I also probably got a bit burned out and wasn't really interested any longer once I didn't have easy access to a good darkroom any longer. But yeah, happy I did it, zero interest in doing any longer. Digital pretty much rekindled that interest.

(Also could really not get into video in those days because overhead was just too much. Don't have obvious entry point into creative video these days but at least casual is easier.)
>I’m so stuck in my daily work routine of creating apps that I’m not a good customer of apps

Surely that can't be a good thing?
I don't think this is act of war protest. These corporation know the inside score, they help write the narrative. I predict these companies are giving up Russia for good. This is a signal of a long term shift in world order and these corporate boards know it, because they engineer it with policies and propaganda.
Correction: the Astral Codex article gives a 25% chance that vitamin D might do you good.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/covidvitamin-d-much-mo...
So individuals who recently left Russia out of fear for the regime and may be in very vulnerable positions have potentially unexpectedly lost access to their funds until they can sort that out...

Meanwhile, for The Real Russians, business as usual.

This looks like theatre hurting the wrong people.
I would like to remotely turn on my oven to preheat, but I don't want this enough to get a wifi equipped appliance.
Archive: https://archive.ph/O8VXn

Press release: https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.rele...

Mastercard too: https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/2022/march/mastercard-...
They consider themselves China actually. So maybe the Republic of China would prefer that the People's Republic of China ask to reunite with them.
> shutting down credit card payments will likely impact large portions of online payments.

I can't think of a way to reply to this without being trite or insulting, but genuinely, what do you think is the point of a sanction?
Yeah, I think that's a fair criticism.
None of this and I mean _none_ would trigger it.

Not recommending this or proud/bragging/endorsing this, but I drive fast. Too fast. 100 MPH for me is what most people feel doing 5 over.

I have *never* triggered these alerts unless I was genuinely tired.

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You're talking about a system you don't have the faintest clue about, instead of whipping out irrelevant fantasy situations, ask how it works???

It will *not* react to intentional aggressive movement, it reacts to clearly unintentionally movement that are consistently late and low steering torque.

This is not stuff you can replicate "practicing parallel parking", or driving like you're re-enacting fast and furious!

I expect better of HN, you're jumping from a misleading interpretation to FUD without taking a moment to learn.
Sanctions aren't new, any sufficiently large international company likely has dealt with this before. And it doesn't happen all at once, you start by turning off new registrants, then you go through records of existing entities that need to be turned off and turn them off, then you continue to watch for whatever you missed.
The point is not that any one code formatting style is best, the point is that consistency in formatting across a codebase helps you read code faster. Our eyes and brains are good at picking up patterns - consistent patterns lets our brains parse code faster than if every file is written in a different style.

Furthermore, not worrying at all about indentation, spacing, brace placement, semicolons or not, etc. lets me write code faster, not just read it faster. Type it out with zero effort expended on formatting, save, editor auto-formats.

It’s not that any of this saves crazy amounts of time, but it does make all of code writing, code reading and code reviews slightly faster. When it’s so easy to setup, why not do it?

The only argument I can see against auto-formatters is that people like to put their own artistic touch on the code they write. I get that, but it wastes time, especially when everyone starts doing things in their own style.

I’ve been working professionally as a dev for 9 years, also on teams that use auto-formatters, and teams that don’t. I think they’re a small but clear productivity booster. The only time I’d consider not using one is in languages where the formatter itself is super slow. But fast ones, where you can setup nearly instantaneous “format on save” (go fmt, prettier, etc.), no brainer.
Zelensky was in Lviv, last time his deputies saw him. He hasn't been in Kyiv for day, if not weeks.

Rumors are they haven't seen him for days and he's out of the country now, setting up a government in exile, and continue waging a US-backed insurgency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/05/...
Indeed. They're being unplugged from the 21st century.
Russia has a home-grown card payment network (Mir) that accounts for 25% of payments. It will probably grow because of the sanctions.

Edit: 25% might be false. Maybe 25% of cards are Mir-only? I'd appreciate if any Russian could chime in to clarify the percentages.
If anyone wants to go down the "lab leak" rabbit hole, check out Charles Rixey's Substack [1]. He's assembled a massive database of articles and a complete timeline of events [2] that lead to COVID-19 pandemic. He's one of the members of DRASTIC which is a loose group of researchers looking into the "lab leak" hypothesis. [3][4][5]

Even Moderna's CEO Stephane Bancel does not discount it and say's "it's possible" after researchers found a genetic sequence in SARS-CoV-2 virus which was patented by Moderna three years prior to pandemic. [6]

[1] https://prometheusshrugged.substack.com/

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353547700_SARS-CoV-...

[3] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRASTIC

[5] https://drasticscience.com/

[6] https://youtu.be/YcgE-5a1Ztc?t=436
Biden weighing sanctions on India over Russian military stockpiles
This is not a "rebuttal". This is terrible.

Rasmussen asserts things she could not possibly know (e.g. the Wuhan lab did not have "the fucking virus" -- we don't know what they had or did not have, because the Chinese government is not exactly being forthright on the matter), and focuses on a corner of the article (a side debate about RaTG13 and the physical proximity of it to Wuhan), while completely brushing off the core argument of the piece: the authors of these papers have not demonstrated that the early infections at the market came from animals.

That's the whole ballgame. Rasmussen spends a lot of words setting up and knocking down straw men, but there's nothing else here. To make it worse, she is rude, dismissive, profane and needlessly aggressive. As a former researcher, if a high-profile reporter published a piece questioning my research in a polite and civil manner, I'd like to think I'd be mature enough to engage with that person constructively in a public forum.
fantastical is quite nice
> It's always preferable to counter propaganda with free speech

Except the past few years have shown that not only does not work in practice, it can actually lead to people dying and democracy breaking.

The reality is that a lie takes a fraction of the effort than it takes to counter said lie. People can post dozens of blatant lie about vaccines and COVID on youtube in the time it takes people to fact check and counter a single one. The information war is asymmetric, especially when people can get rich from spreading lies which get clicks and attention.
"Several countries which are historically neutral, such as Switzerland [...] have agreed to sanctions."

This implies that Switzerland neutrality is somehow relevant while in reality it is not. It implies sanctions DESPITE neutrality.

https://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/fdfa/fdfa/aktuell/newsuebers...
No one who is investing cares about option pricing.
...for bitcoin?
Call me insane, but this feels insane.
It would be one thing if Visa/Mastercard were being forced to do this, but for them to take it upon themselves to "pick a side" during a global conflict feels really wrong.
The first article is a rat study.

The second makes no mention of glutamates; rather, it's about ketogenic diets (a well-known strategy for managing epilepsy), which tend to be higher in glutamates (cheese, nuts, meats, &c). There's evidence that ketogenic diets alter brain metabolism of glutamate, but that's not the same thing as evidence that dietary intake of glutamates has an impact.
They chased out the regime not the people. It's clear now that regime change won't work now that there's a resistance. 2014 was like a vaccine; the invasion didn't go far enough and built up an immune response which solidified their identity as a nation.
I’m not pro crypto or pro Russia, but the fact that it’s so easy to lose ones freedom to transact[0] (regardless of the specific merits here) is troubling.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/punk6529/status/14944446246304030...
But that last paragraph is a low pay problem. Raise the pay and you'll get more people willing to put up with the downsides. In any job.
People are not exclusively operating on an independent basis. They form societies, like countries, and abide to democratic elections. People who work together occasionally achieves more than what each independently would.

Same occurs with nations. Small nations joins together to form large collection of nations, voting democratically on rules and decisions. EU is an union of European countries. If a country want to be in EU they will have to follow the decisions on the democratic process. We can eval this further and say that independent individuals can choose to form nations, and those independent nations can choose to form unions, and those unions can form global trade agreements, each however limited to the democratic process which dictate conditions, rules and laws.

Individuals can also choose to leave their countries, countries can leave unions, and unions can leave the global trade agreements. It is a choice. They do however loose the ability to achieve those things that is only possible when people work together.
Containers vs. WebAssembly: What's the Difference?
A contrived example:

we have excess local diesel, which we are willing to sell at a 20% discount, but only if there is enough traffic
The dominant scary company in any category is likely complacent and letting things like customer service slide, which spells opportunity for the entrepreneuer.
If I could run the Slack or Discord iOS apps on macOS I absolutely would, along with several other apps that have both Electron and iOS apps. Are Catalyst apps as good as true designed-for-mac AppKit apps? Not usually, but they’re still several steps up from Electron apps and I’ll take what I can get.

Unfortunately the companies behind these apps have elected to not allow users to make this choice, so once Universal Control is released these apps will be permanently moving to my iPad.
I though this was common sense... first check if it's not really soft, and if it's not, just cut peel and remove the dark spots, and then eat the rest.
But you skipped right past the main part of my question. Who are "they"? Do you have a particular person or group in mind who thinks smart ovens are good because it's important to spy on everyone's oven usage? I ask because I'm worried you've fallen into a common rhetorical trap, conflating everything you don't like into a singular conspiracy and presuming that there must be some group somewhere who's dedicated to promoting it.