skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, of course. But an open source implementation of ElasticSearch is (based on my experience of open source generally) likely to end up in core distributions again, and have longer support lifetimes/more backports. Plus it makes it easier for SaaS platforms in a lot of ways.
Also, we should be solving global warming, disease, racism, homelessness... how could we possibly work on a single cause when there are so many problems in the world
> playing chicken ...

So many very serious people gravely explain that we must stand by and watch residential areas get shelled and rocketed to smithereens, creating a million refugees in the first week, as a democratic nation gets overrun by a mad dictator.

Apparently we have to do this because otherwise the mad dictator will irradiate Europe and maybe North America too.

But somehow the mad dictator won't split the atom if we only crater the mad dictator's economy and provide the weapons that kill his troops.

> ... with a lunatic

Do mad dictators have clearly demarcated red lines like that?

Seems like a truly mad dictator would unleash doomsday if he's losing the war, regardless of which side of the red line we're on.

It's well known that the secret to winning the game theoretical stalemate is to pretend you're irrational.
The Israeli's have managed to hold territory by force. The difference is that worldwide support was in favor of them instead of the Palestinians.

I would say that you cannot hold a region by force alone unless you commit to multiple generations of occupation AND manage to maintain when superpowers oppose it.
As someone who lived under the Islamic Republic of Iran for half his life, what ends up happening with the "voting with your feet" strategy is that the country ends up with a "brain drain". This worsens the situation because the only people remaining are the ones who either had no means of escaping or have been indoctrinated by the government; thus making the change from "within" even more difficult.

That being said, it's hard to blame anyone. Staying and fighting leads to bloodshed, for example when the "green movement" started in Iran in 2009 [0] after the election, the government immediately started firing live rounds at people, arresting protestors and blacking out all communication from the outside world. Both my cousins were beaten in the Evin prison[1] for months and we were without any news from them for months.

Meanwhile, as a Middle Eastern living in the west, the hostility I experienced were enormous during those years and I expect the same to happen to Russian people now. Just look at the comments in the thread, much civility is already lost (and HN is one of the better communities).

Living under a dictatorship is suffocating. My heart goes out to all those suffering.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Green_Movement
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Prison
> I'm strongly considering paying a "streaming friendly" VPN to black hat subvert these reputation schemes

Nothing "black hat" with that, at all.

...Unless you're referring to that those "streaming-friendly VPNs" are (acquiring residential IPs in sketchy ways from sketchy providers, such as compromised smart devices and other customers).
It has a color screen, but it's focused on health sensors. It does support other things though like "find my phone", alarms, text message notifications, music control, weather etc. Lasts 14 days on a charge.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D2RJ2RP
Wait until a lawyer notices
It's a good, if horrifying, book; you should read it. But no, the point of doublethink isn't that people don't know that they're doing it; it's that they betray themselves and support the Party.
In ilovaisk it was ukranian troops who were marching armed through the exit corridor. It's clear that this could escalate quickly.

The exit corridors now are for civilians and there is at least the red cross who is monitoring. I find it hard to believe that russian army would attack civilians in open daylight. That would be a grave war crime and impossible to hide.
Would you mind sharing which Apexels do you recommend?
> That's probably why the West has just enacted a law that whoever talks about the war in Ukraine in terms of war will face all kinds of trouble. Oh, wait.

Right, in the West, we'd never do something like ban a news outlet. Oh, wait.
You are looking to buy a Coke in supermarket, but Pepsi has some promotion going on in tie up with that supermarket so they have a huge banner right near the Coke section. How is it false advertising? If anything, it is true advertising. You want Coke? But you can have a cheaper Pepsi, wouldn’t you want that?

By the way, same thing happens in iOS appstore as well when you search in some popular category.
>Europe outsources defense to the US, but the prize for the US being a top military power is also having the top currency. Almost all world banks have to report to US inquiries about account information, but no US bank has to do that for abroad.

Europe's failure to spend sufficiently in its defense has absolutely nothing to do with the US dollar's role as the global reserve currency.
It goes both ways. The current supply chain crisis already demonstrated how reliant EVERYONE is on Chinese manufacturing. No politician would dare to sanction China when it means immediate runaway inflation.
Sony only make the sensor, it looks like a bunch of companies manufacture the lenses (sharp, lg infotech, and another company I forgot from my googling 10 seconds ago).

But as the linked thread says, apple designed the lens itself (as it has a patent on it, which is apparently common?)

I am curious what the Samsung lens system looks like given it has real optical zoom
Cool! For years I had a box with the parts of a Sony walkman that I had disassembled and was going to put together again 'one day'. The box got lost during a move and I was secretly relieved. It went real well until that one screw and then 'sproing' instant Japanese puzzle.

I got better at that sort of thing over the years but this camera looks extremely fragile and sensitive to dust once you get to the guts of it, you'd need a very clean environment to work in.
Can you point me in a more specific direction? Are you referring to events before, during or after the dissolution of the USSR? I already read the Wikipedia article on Estonia-Russia relations [1] but nothing really stood out between their separation from the USSR and 2004. Some back and forth over the treatment of the Russians remaining in Estonia. I will also check the other Baltic countries.

The other thing I would argue is that you can not use the current war in Ukraine as a reason why the Ukraine should become a NATO member if it is indeed true that Russia attacked primarily because Ukraine wanted to become a NATO member.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia%E2%80%93Russia_relatio...
Happened in Canada not even that long ago, and many people cheered about that too.
China's anti-corruption campaigns have nothing to do with corruption and are just populist pretext for removing political enemies.
Sony also made the AppleColor 640x480 monitor in 1987 with the release of the Mac II. This was quite likely the most fantastic monitor available in this size in this year. It was rumored to be a regular Sony Computer monitor without an anti-reflective coating so it could be brighter and clearer.
The Lego Microscope That’s Capturing IBM Research
I’m not convinced by the new lab leak debunking
Use nitter.net.
What's wrong with scrolling on this website. It keeps jumping around as I am trying to read.
Possibly it’s a mistake. Maybe something mixed up at Google.

Possibly the Washington Post has an agreement with CNN.

Even if the Washington Post were deliberately trying to infringe on CNN’s trademark (unlikely), it would be a civil matter. CNN would have to file a lawsuit to stop them, it’s not illegal in the sense that the cops are going to be looking for it and proactively arresting people who infringe on trademarks.
That's fair, except that I routinely program in:

- Go

- OCaml

- Python

- Lisp

I think I have a reasonably good sense of what each language offers and what it does not. But OP goes beyond saying "Go does not offer some features that other languages offer"; he effectively says that the language causes severe problems. Where are they?
> "this wouldn't have happened with us in the White House"

Trump is 100% right, it would not have happened with him in the White House because he was doing everything he could to break the NATO alliance. He was doing more on that front than Putin could ever have done himself. 4 more years of Trump and NATO would have been even worse off than it was in 2021. Imagine if the alliance broke or that the US left NATO. Then who knows what Putin could do?
There is going to be big protest rally tomorrow and I’ll be there. My friends in police told me they are on full alert, even Putin’s guards (ФСО) will be on streets tomorrow. I don’t care. Many Russians are evil and full of Putin’s propaganda shit. I’ll go to streets tomorrow to meet other Russians who are better than that. I hope to see many of them.
Not missing anything at all.
I wish the same effort that people put into companies like this were instead put towards fixing the system instead.

Even places like interviewing.io acknowledge the problem (Example: https://blog.interviewing.io/you-cant-fix-diversity-in-tech-...) but their whole business operates on the basis of making sure the technical interview never changes.
Read it again. I'm not "mocking the person I'm talking to". I don't even know the person I'm talking to. I'm mocking the statement they made, that DNSSEC is fine, and when it blows your whole site off the Internet because you dared turn it off after it immediately caused problems the moment it was turned on, well, you were just holding it wrong. It really is funny! Read their comment again, too!

I suppose I could be less snarky, but my snark here is substantive, and I'm comfortable with what it says about my seriousness. You're going to have to do better than trying to work the refs here.
You're not wrong, but that's still what needs to happen.
> The 'off' setting on a thermostat is no different than when it is not calling for heat and it does not make any other failure mode any less likely nor does it reduce the risk of fire.

You're completely ignoring the difference between an unattended vs. attended fire. The former has a much higher risk of being destructive and spreading to the structure.

The "off" setting explicitly won't trigger in response to temperature change unattended, which is a similar concern to internet-connected thermostats; unattended operation. For those living in freezing climates they obviously must weigh the relative risks. That first use of the furnace in winter was always a monitored event back when I lived with parents in the midwest, and it was often accompanied by a burning smell we'd investigate and verify was just some dust and nothing serious.

Even if you refuse to acknowledge there's a difference in unattended vs. attended fire risks WRT the furnace, unexpected energy costs from continuously heating an unoccupied home can break the bank for some.

Even my Harman/Kardon amplifier's manual advises unplugging it when going on vacation because of the risk of it spuriously turning on wasting electricity and being a noise problem. Its capacity to waste energy (~1kw) is nowhere near that of a gas furnace, and it clearly doesn't utilize combustion as part of its normal operation.

Fortunately I no longer live anywhere burst pipes are a concern, and I'd never leave a heater setup to automatically run in my absence. It makes zero sense for my situation.

I find it amusing that you're qualifying statements with "well-maintained", which amounts to a tacit recognition of the risks. Well-maintained isn't the default, ignored and neglected is, especially for systems out of sight and out of mind.
Adobe stops all new sales in Russia
We do it everywhere:

You'll hear teenagers talking about their generation in the third person: "I recognize that my generation has a lot more to deal with than previous generations". College students in a similar way.

You'll hear us paint the enemy, as you described with "the Republicans" and "the Democrats" - although each will use other terms less endearing.

Politicians always talk about what "American families want .."

The recent culture wars as well, whether it was about Covid stuff, or the racial conversations that were prominent up until recently. Am I a "privileged X" or a "member of the community"? Either way, I will start the sentence with, "As an X, I want to say ...". Are "they" "anti-maskers"? Or are "they" "triple vaxxers"?

It's almost like people have internalized sociological statistics as identity, and internalize the language used about us, but from the outside.

It must be a great time to be alive if you work in a marketing department of a big tech company, given how easy it is to "target the market segment"[1] or perhaps engage in state-sponsored information warfare that pits right against left and left against right.[2]

1 - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/market-segment.asp

2 - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/2021/0...
Yes which was very different from what we did after ww1
Farming is a way for folks who work with their hands to achieve some degree of self-sovereignty and freedom — laudable goals. Unfortunately, this is often accomplished through gross ethical violations.

All we can do is educate consumers about the benefits of a whole food plant-based (WFPB) diet.

I challenge anyone to watch both The Dominion [1] and Forks Over Knives [2], and not walk away from the experience at least semi-curious about WFPB.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtnlwqEii2I
Let's have your list then of news outlets the West has banned.

Even all of Rupert Murdoch's shite is still operating last I checked and until last week Russia Today was spouting its propaganda 24x7. Fortunately that one has now been squelched but let's not pretend that it was news.

Or was that not what you meant?
Same topic, older post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30565985
I want to be clear here. I tried to replace Elastic search with OpenSearch. However, besides it's just s fork I couldn't run in. OpenSearch requires a lot of configurations that basically are automatic on ElasticSearch. I had spent so many time trying to fix bugs just to run in on my local machine that made just give up and keep with ElasticSearch.
This is so depressing, wtf are we doing
So it’s effective in those environments?
mathematically, yes. In practice, NaN!=NaN just kills any hope of having any amount of sanity for operations that don't care about floating-point and just want to generally compare things. It's not very nice to say "sorting, hashmaps & hashsets containing NaNs cause the entire operation/structure to be completely undefined behavior", especially given that NaNs kind exist to allow noticing errors, not cause even more of them.
The problem is an artifact of size constraints and plastic lens having far less variation in optical density, that means a lot more work to correctly direct light to avoid various types of distortion.

https://www.pencilofrays.com/lens-design-forms/#mobile has a much more in depth discussion on the how and why if the lens system design (someone referenced this in a reply to the linked thread)
> It's such a piece of shit it only lets you play mp3s from a directory on flash drive.

That's doesn't seem a big problem if you use an external Kodi box. I'll be relocating in months and will likely buy a signage display if I can't find a new bigger enough non smart TV. I only use my current non smart TV for RF channels while everything else comes through a unlocked chromebox with Kodi. It plays everything and doesn't contain spyware or ads.
” I've been finding it very easy to empathise with Russians in this.”
This is somewhat against Google’s policies:
https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6118?hl=en

WaPo might claim - “we’re not pretending to be CNN, we are accurately stating that we provide breaking news about CNN.” And with CNN often in the news these days, there is some validity to this position.

In general, you can’t even use ‘Coke’ in your ad if you’re Pepsi, as in ‘Tastes better than Coke - buy Pepsi.’
It's incredible to me to that while this, a slightly older DSLR, and a classic SLR film camera all have similar silhouettes and ergonomics you can watch the digital technology replace the insides over the last 25 years.

It's a stark comparison to see the ribbon cables and stacked daughter boards under the rear panel here where the film reels used to live. No greater takeaway here, just incredible to see a common form stay similar in many ways externally, yet have it's internals so totally overhauled.
Agree, but this assumes humans would ever had used it for anything else.
I'm not an American, but I don't see how an argument is valid or invalid based on who makes it.
You're projecting a problem that doesn't have the implications you imagine.

As others have said, originally Fedorov Mykhailo, a Ukraine vice prime minister, publicly tweeted a request for Starlink service and terminals [0] and later thanked SpaceX after they arrived in-country [1] and today, in Ukraine media, the mayor of Kyiv is pictured with terminals about to be deployed [2]:

"“Friends! StarLink global satellite Internet stations are already in Kyiv. Two stations were provided by the Ministry of Digital Transformation. I and Volodymyr [Klitschko] agreed on provision of ten stations with international partners and friends," Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko posted on Telegram.

According to him, StarLink will help ensure the critical infrastructure of the city and the defense of the capital."

[0] https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/14975436332932669...

[1] https://twitter.com/fedorovmykhailo/status/14983925152627466...

[2] https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3421352-starlink-statio...
That would be a tough fight according to this poll reported on the 23rd February. Probably a disturbing result for those who think the Russians are not broadly in line with the government. However at that time only 13% thought it likely for the Kremlin to initiate military action towards Ukraine.

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/02/europe/russia-uk...
True, but you won’t be able to sustain any moderate physical effort later in your life if you never did anything for your fitness when younger.
Links to an ad-free streaming service
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I have no opinion on how Ukraine deals with an internal situation - that's for the people of Ukraine to decide.

I definitely don't like fascists or Nazis, which is why I find it peculiar that you're spending time contributing to a discussion by posting supporting "evidence" for an article written by a guy with a fascist agenda.

Right now I'm more worried about the fascists that try to justify Putin's war crimes.

Ukraine is not run by Nazis and Putin is responsible for the murdering of civilians in an unjustified invasion of a democratic country.

If you're also against fascism, then maybe you should stop helping them when people spread their propaganda.
The article (by Matt Yglesias) is more nuanced than the title may suggest. Here’s a quote that gets at the gist of the piece:

“The evidence really does show pretty clearly that there were one or more superspreader events at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. I just don’t think that’s really what the lab leak debate is about; it’s about why there was a superspreader event at the market. Did an infected animal pass it to people there or did a person who got infected at the lab pass it to people there?”
I like what the Qubes developers have done with a short script adding current headlines and bitcoin block hash to their warrant canaries:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/canarie...

edit: and the script itself: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/utils/p...
The US is not picking up its diplomats; it has expelled Russia's diplomats.
The quote is relevant because it demonstrates that it is widely understood that history (“facts”) is not an absolute truth, but a collection of ostensibly-true pieces of information disseminated by one party.

To say that Wikipedia is not representative of its editors, is to say that history is not representative of the victors.

To pick an example of a group that is somewhat insular: if the majority of Wikipedia editors were Chinese, would Wikipedia look as it does today? Would Wikipedia be an equally-as-accurate reflection on the west as Wikipedia is today?
> The Mediterranean is technically part of the North Atlantic.

I'm not sure this is true. What actually happened is that NATO countries realized expanding NATO is in their interest so they ignored the "north atlantic" part of the treaty. While I doubt taiwan will be invited any time soon it wouldn't surprise me at all if Japan or even South Korea is.
I suspect that's mostly down to sensor design (big pixels, reflective layers behind the sensor so the light goes through twice, etc) and software.
If you respond well to exercise it might be worth a shot checking for tense muscle
related causes. Physical exercise (esp. heavy weights) might inadvertently work as
a relaxation technique for tensed muscles (similar to the way PNF works [0]).

Some causes for tension I know:

- Neck -- c0 to c2 joint related issues; esp. with the Forward Neck Syndrome,
can tense neck muscles and cause headaches. It's even speculated that
this might be a common cause for migraine [1]

- Dental. If not everything is aligned in the "zero" position, muscles actively
work and overwork to compensate. They are commonly called Temporomandibular
disorders (TMD) [2]

- Eye. Eyestrain can develop, if an eye works too much for too long, hunts for focus,
it can tense forehead and other facial muscles. [3]

and so on, down every joint in the body.

You might have built up some high pain resistance through the years and not even be aware this is happening. This can lead to physiological stress, which in turn interferes with the deep sleep phase (cortisol and other stress hormones keep us half awake for scanning the environment for danger).

[0] https://mediphysio.com.au/pnf-stretching-technique/#:~:text=....

[1] https://www.caringmedical.com/prolotherapy-news/chronic-head....

[2] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas....

[3] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tmj/symptoms-...
This may be a naive tough but the unfolding of the ukranian events had me wondering again and again if more attention should be used when buying items coming from China and TSMC. The rise of the Ryzen CPUs had me switch to AMD from Intel after many years. Next time I could actually prefer the worst CPU as long as it is built in the west.
Is this an oversemplification? Am I wrong? Anyone here share similar toughts?
I enjoy the definition of investing as an act of thorough analysis promising safety of principal and an adequate return, and all other behaviors otherwise bring speculative.

If you’re paying $42.14 per dollar of earnings there is a likelihood that more often than not you’re overpaying.

If you can’t pass simple mechanical litmus tests you’d better be damn sure, and frankly there just aren’t many exceptional companies where I feel damn sure about them.
Cameraphones have gotten to the point where I should probably consider getting some external lens gear. It didn't really make sense to me when there were so many other compromises with respect to image quality but offering some additional options when traveling with just a phone is probably legit useful at this point.