skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from Argentina. I've heard this before and I didn't really believe it, and maybe I still don't. Like, there are so many things you might do that could be a spanner in the works for this scheme. What if you hang up on them? What if you refuse to answer the door? To my knowledge there are no laws that require one to open the door for police; if they have an order from a judge they don't need to knock. What if you refuse to unlock your systems to allow them to inspect them?

Do you know where I could get more information on this?
A large part of loading delay, either initial load or between levels/areas, in some games is getting high-res textures and other bulk data from storage into the graphics memory. You might think “just cache it in RAM, my 6GB graphics card is far smaller than the 32GB sat on my motherboard”, but there are two issues there:

1. People who game alot or are just well off might have 32GB, but game publishers need to support much lower configs than that (the recommended minimum for GTA5 is 8GB and it technically supports 4, for the newer Cyperpunk 2077 those figures are still only 12GB and 8). Last time I saw Steam hardware survey results less than 50% of machines surveyed had 16GB or more RAM.

2. Even if we consider with 16GB to be the minimum for a serious gamer, you aren't going to use most of that for caching assets. Even if you could use 10GB worth, with a massively open play area¹ how easy is it to manage which 10GB of the assets do you load? Both the games I've mentioned weigh in at about 70GB. If the user skimped on RAM and GPU to get a nice large fast NVMe drive, being able to stream data as directly as possible between that drive and the graphics RAM is going to be an attractive optimisation, both from initial load and as new assets are needed mid-game.

The core game engine not taking full advantage of 16 cores with of CPU when they are present[2] doesn't mean that more direct transfer of data from storage to GPU, keeping CPU use to a minimum³, can't be useful. Having spare cores lying around is nice, but someone with only 4 might not have that luxury, and even if you have some cores otherwise doing nothing that doesn't mean skipping the CPU as much as possible³ can't be noticeably better than using a fast core. Even if the CPU does still have to be involved, APIs like this could massively reduce user↔kernel transitions which can be pretty expensive.

[1] this is less of an issue for games that can be easily split into more manageable chunks

[2] again, think about the larger part of the market: 4 cores is still very common

[3] let the game logic running on the CPU decide a transfer should happen, then have the transfer go directly over the bus instead of via the CPU and/or main memory at all
not all voting is created equal.

There are plenty of examples of puppet governments with much higher ratings than 70%.

In reality, alot of governments are puppets to some higher power in this globalist economy we've found ourselves in.
Ah yes, good old fashioned what-aboutism. The staple of Russian foreign propaganda.

Of course we understand, until Russia has killed and maimed at least as many people as the entire west combined, then it’s done nothing wrong. Anyone who suggests otherwise is clearly a hypocrite.

What a pathetic argument, surely you’re paid to come up with something better than that?
Unfortunately, Wikipedia has a vague and misleading summary of the actual agreement. The signatories agreed not to use force against Ukraine themselves, but did not agree to defend it against aggression.
Yup, deterrence theory is quite interesting and every country has different strategies. One doesn't need hundreds of nukes to deter an enemy from nuking them.

For example is a large difference between massive retaliation [1] which the US uses to deter North Korea, and minimal deterrence [2] used by China (during the cold war), or Pakistan currently.

Secondly it's not just the amount of nukes that influences deterrence, it's how one says they will use them. For example China has pledged "no first use" from the moment they got their first nuclear weapons, whereas the Russia and the US both adopted official policies stating the right of first use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_retaliation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_deterrence
I've read a lot of history and I haven't seen one. I can go as far back as Aristotle to see my same observation being made: "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."

The founding fathers designed the US as a republic to avoid the issues we see today.

> There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it."[0]

[0]https://constitutioncenter.org/learn/educational-resources/h...
It's always been the case that men are enslaved for war. The last 100 years of feminism didn't stop it and another 1000 years wont either.
> Brexit is certainly national self-harm, but that’s the right of voters.

Are people really not aware that the brexit referendum and last two US presidential elections were heavily manipulated by Putin to weaken NATO and the EU so he could do exactly what he's doing right now?
Rightfully so, I want to say.

There's been a lot said about Poland since the start of the crisis comparing 2015 to today. I always think that such whatabboutism doesn't serve any purpose.

The fact that and how Poland is stepping up to the challenge is an inspiration for other countries for sure.

I am not Polish myself, just my opinion.
> Obviously Russia would not start a nuclear war.

Oh no, that wouldn't be their objective. Which would be rather 1) military (obliterate resistance) and 2) political (show the resolve to use whatever means they deem necessary).
So, you're saying the UK governemnt is in truth welcoming of refugrees, immigrants and asylum seekers, contrary to what I said?
Yes, there are different standards for western powers vs totalitarians. Because the former are mostly good (at least about as good as you can generally expect from flawed humans) and the latter are bad.

Yes, the West does all kinds of bad stuff and I'm not excusing that.

But sitting on the sidelines is not always an option -- unless you are covered by U.S. military power. It's like being in a gated community with private security and criticizing police.

If you follow moral equivalence far enough, it's self-defeating. Because the totalitarians and tyrants don't bother with such nonsense.

That being said, it's good to reflect once in a while to make sure you haven't become the enemy. But we shouldn't sit in front of the mirror all the time and never bother to look out the window.
But is it a problem, or just a bit of annoying paperwork? It's a new visa type created for the situation, not some 'stand in line with everyone else' sort of thing.

The church/community group sponsoring to place with a volunteer family option seems novel too.

Otherwise as a refugee fleeing a war in Ukraine, I'm not really sure why the UK is a great option - there seem better, easier European choices, and as per up-thread we might do better to support that (even more).
You must accept that your adversary is rational if you aim to avoid nuclear war because if you believe that they're mad and can't behave rationally then you have only one logically-consistent option remaining.
The market for defense services over the past 70 years has consolidated similarly to what’s happened in other markets. If you look at defense spending in NATO member countries as a percentage of GDP it has steadily declined since WW2.

What’s basically happened is the US is now AWS, providing cloud defense services via NATO membership, and is paid back via purchases of military tech, favorable trade, and cemented US dollar and cultural dominance.

The US military’s economies of scale mean adding another country to the alliance is a trivial cost. When you already have enough nukes to cause human extinction, it’s not like you need to build more.

You can of course attempt to self-host your own military.

However, self-hosting is cost-prohibitive for a small country, so I would argue it actually makes sense for all parties to outsource to the US, and is a good deal for everyone involved.

While it’s cute that a tiny country might pretend to have a military, if you’re Latvia with less than 2 million people, you have to know there’s no amount of spending you could do that would protect against invasion from a 70X bigger country like Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment

Read up for yourself, but I don't think that merely leaving a bike unlocked would be entrapment in any jurisdiction. The law generally requires something more, like a police officer inviting someone to go steal a bike for them.
Note that with this version, the expected number of calls to `predicate` can be 1 more than strictly necessary (depending on n). This happens when n is one more than a power of 2, e.g. if n is 65 then `bit` is 64 and the first call will be `predicate(64)`, which is basically useless in reducing the search space.
I certainly agree that you don't want to declare it over at this point but is there any counterpart in the German example to the logistical failures we've seen so far? The Russian army seems like they didn't just start with less but are losing a significant amount of equipment and are struggling to use what they have in the field effectively in most of the battlefield. Nothing we've seen so far looks like they're going to be able to pick up the pace, especially since the attacks on civilians they've made seem likely to have increased rather than reduced the number of Ukranians who are willing to fight.
From what I see on Liveuamap they are proceeding steadily. Ukrainians for sure might hit them here and there but that's not going to stop them. The Russians do not really have the man power to support a full scale war so that was what I said in the post that their initial objectives are errornous. They underestimated the resources needed.
This is great. In terms of real-world uses, I'm currently working on enabling DuckDB as a backend in Splink[1], software for record linkage at scale. Central to the software is an iterative algorithm (Expectation Maximisation) that performs a large number of group-by aggregations on large tables.

Until recently, it was PySpark only, but we've found DuckDB gives us great performance on medium size data. This will be enabled in a forthcoming release (we have an early pre-release demo of duckdb backend[2]). This new DuckDB backend will probably be fast enough for the majority of our users, who don't have massive datasets.

With this in mind, excited to hear that:
> Another large area of future work is to make our aggregate hash table work with out-of-core operations, where an individual hash table no longer fits in memory, this is particularly problematic when merging.

This would be an amazing addition. Our users typically need to process sensitive data, and spinning up Spark can be a challenge from an infrastructure perspective. I'm imagining as we go forwards, more and more will be possible on a single beefy machine that is easily spun up in the cloud.

Anyway, really just wanted to say thanks to the DuckDB team for great work - you're enabling a lot of value downstream!

[1] https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink
[2] https://github.com/moj-analytical-services/splink_demos/tree...
Yes. And, there are other possible expansions, e.g. Gates William.

This is likely no different than the MZ in the DOS exe header. Nobody actually knows (and says!) what MZ stands for, but it is believed to be Mark Zbikowski.
Faster transportation technology can lower the cost of moving. If you can travel 600mph reliably and cheaply, you can move 200 miles from your job and still enjoy a 20 minute commute. Families could relocate to a shared community without people changing jobs.
Poorer, less-educated white voters overwhelmingly favored Trump.
>Using a series of (violent) smut novels as a guide for complex human dynamics

That's a straw man argument. I don't suggest for guidance of society by Lord of the Rings novels.

I don't know if I should reply to you, that's very low quality conversation here. What's next? Name calling? Maybe you should consider the possibility that you are not one of those serious people and try reading a book by Charles Dickens.
It's easier to reach down the proverbial ladder and pull someone up. If you see yourself in someone else it's hard to look away. Today you, tomorrow, me.
Your last linked article, which specifically tests the idea that wearing a surgical mask protects the wearer from airbourne disease, concludes this:

>The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point

The others, which consist largely of wide-ranging statistical analyses with low n values, mostly analyse the overall effect of public mask wearing and have very little to say on the cause (for example, the long list of articles on the CDC page). Are you able to point to any in particular that do say this? As the person making the positive statement ("wearing a mask protects the wearer"), I'm sure you are fully aware where the burden of proof lies.
OpenMP and OpenCL support GPUs as target devices -- this is the fastest way for AMD GPUs. Nvidia has CUDA, which is faster but only for Nvidia cards.
FAQ: https://community.upwork.com/t5/FAQ-Suspended-Operations-in/...
I live two hours from Toronto and a house in a bad area of town that I personally know was a crackhouse 2 years ago, sold for slightly under half a million and is getting gutted and renovated into a duplex.

Last time I was in the house, crackheads were shitting in buckets. Literally.

And there isn’t a lot of good jobs here!
"Might Makes Right", as they say. Sovereignty, when you boil it down, just means who is strong enough to back up words with action.
"every former Soviet occupied country fled "

This is not really how history worked. It was NATO, the EU and the US deciding where the cards fell, who was placed in power and where the dividing lines were.
Because of her ethnicity, she isn't allowed to be really British to racists, and especially not allowed to be a Tory. By masking that racial attack in sarcasm, you can say it without identifying yourself with it.
I think Julia would be a great choice for this. It's features like @code_native to get machine code are great for doing this sort of performance analysis. Also, it has many of the algorithms mentioned already implemented in the language, so it would be relatively easy to translate.
How does Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, protected by Russia under Sochi agreement, constitute as "rubbish justification"?
Modern ballistic missiles have multiple independent warheads. For example the French M51 has "6 to 10" independently targetable warheads. The submarine carries "only" 16 of these missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta...
You could claim that Putin was bluffing, but he recently said that if NATO tries to take back crimea, he will use nukes and it will be bad for everyone.
Agree. The places I go on the web have become more and more centralized/limited. I think projects like this that help to surface and aggregate interesting content from the web (which is really what I come to HN to find) are great.
>> How did you overcome perfectionism?

By being imperfect, I guess?
This is a great idea! I want to temper the enthusiasm of potential buyers, though: although this might prevent your bike from getting stolen, it won't help against vandalism, and I've spent hundreds of dollars on vandalism. The last time my bike was vandalized was two months ago, and it cost $200 to fix (they twisted the handlebars around until the cables snapped).

I wrote a blog piece about how to keep your bike locked up overnight, outside in San Francisco for years, [0] and the take-away is this: it averages $80 - $100 / month in repair costs, and you're much better off getting a bike rental membership (e.g. Citibike, Bay Wheels) for $15 / month.

BTW, good locks are really important.

[0] https://briancunnie.medium.com/how-to-lock-your-bike-overnig...
As someone who did all of those things (except I didn't have a house to sell), I feel you've left out one of the biggest barriers: Immigration laws.

Imagine if, to switch from AT&T to Verizon, you had to shell out ten grand to Verizon and wait six years, with Verizon being able to add extra hoops and fees at any point in the process? If you fail at any point, Verizon will sign you back up for a contract under AT&T's worst terms. On top off all of this, you still have to pay Verizon's worst rates until the six year period is up.

AT&T could probably send someone to your house every month to punch you in the face and you still wouldn't switch. After all, for the first six years after you switch, Verizon will do the same.
The Russians were there at the request of the Syrian government.
It's obviously not there as a NAS filesystem, ZFS drop-in replacement, etc. But if what you take away from that is that BTRFS is no good as a filesystem on a single drive system, you're missing out. Just a few weeks ago I used a snapshot to get myself out of some horrible rebase issue that lost half my changes. Could I have gone to the reflog and done other magic? Probably. But browsing my .snapshots directory was infinitely easier!
Everyone with a brain can see these sorts of double standards.

Only people with a spine are A) willing to accept them as necessary/good/whatever to achieve the desired outcome on an issue by issue basis B) able to have frank discussions about death and destruction and act like an adult while doing it in the absence of a biased selection of the facts. (B is a necessary prerequisite for evaluating whether A is the correct course of action in a given situation or ever and if so to what extent)

And brains are much common than spines.

The events of the last 2yr have brought these selective information issues into the public conscience. The "concern trolling" is just a way to make a buck off of this.

I'm on Ukraine's side in this or a variety of reasons but it would be nice if we didn't have to do the whole double standard song and dance about this sort of thing. Russia is gonna kill a lot of people here. They killed a lot of people in Syria. I wasn't pissed off when they did that because <laundry list of reasons>.
A choice under duress is not a choice.
Just a bit of a nitpick (or issue for non native speaker) maybe, the answers are confusing in relationship to the title.

Title: Don't build (or build) that feature

Answer: Yes

I think the way I selected the questions (high impact, low effort) it should tell me to build, but as I read it, the tool tells me either to not build or answers an OR question with yes or no.
It's just so annoying to read a condescending tone of a cool mathematical and computational tool to the degree of almost ridiculing it. It happened before and it caused the first AI winter, which was unfortunate. Maybe they are annoyed too that it gets overhyped and misrepresented.
War With Russia, by General Sir Richard Shirreff (https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/general-sir-richard-shirre...) is an excellent, prescient novel written by a NATO general, warning about an imminent war with Russia, with Latvia as the flashpoint.

Lots of highly informed, realistic speculation, and he nearly gets the year right too.

The Baltic states will never accede to Russian rule, and their guerilla tactics would eventually prevail. Just look to Winter War in Finland...

(BTW, now is the right time to retake Karelia. Are you listening, Finland?)
Disconnection raises fears over safety at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
Avoiding perfectionism requires accepting flaws and failures. This requires keeping a sense of proportion about the impact of those flaws and the likelihood of those failures. Suppose you notice that your decision-making habits would work well for living a humble good life but would fail you if you were a head of state deciding whether or not to go to war. It is likely worth accepting that flaw because the likelihood of being in that situation without time to philosophically prepare is quite low.
Most people understand, if they're being honest, that we're not a xenophobic nation in the slightest.

I think the UK's anti-immigration sentiment is basically driven by chronic overpopulation in the South East. House prices won't come down despite near-constant development and congestion gets worse and worse. This is why the Scottish (for example), just don't get it. They simply don't have these problems in other parts of the union.

Young professional couples are stuck in an extortionate rental market or, if they're lucky, can spend most of their income on a mortgage on a fraction of the box they live in and still pay rent on the rest.

All that said, as a resident of the SE, the door should be open to Ukrainians. They're fighting a war on The West on behalf of all of us at this point and our problems are comparitively trivial.
When push comes to shove, it's D.C. they call, not Beijing or Moscow (definitely not in this case, haha).
Years ago, before browsers could parse arbitrary XML, I wrote a tiny little XML parser in JavaScript. A naive, non-recursive parser that was quite fast (and had a weird renaissance in the era of Web Workers, ending up in WebEx and a couple of other packages for some reason).

I started a Sourceforge and Freshmeat project and called it "XML for <SCRIPT>", out of amusement.

And that is when I learned how many open source listings/aggregator projects did not escape their output. It was difficult even to get the name changed.
Polish Families Open Their Homes to Ukrainian Families Fleeing the War
Asking nations to accept Ukrainians on a piecemeal basis is unfair to both sides.

If Ukrainians are scattered around the world, they will vanish as a people.

The entire nation of Ukraine will eventually be resettled unless they wish to be citizens of Russia living in rubble.

Bring them to central Canada or Texas or some other wide open place as a nation. The UK isn't big enough.

If you scatter them, you destroy them.
Greg Whitten still lives in the area and brings one of his Ferraris to the Microsoft charity car show every year (last time it was a LaFerrari!). I hope that happens again this year.
Europe may need an army, but many in Europe prefer US leadership. Some of us don't really want to give into german dominance in that area as well as the EU. If it weren't for the US and UK pushing for sanctions against russia, certain countries would still happily trade with putin while he's invading european sovereign states.
"According to international laws" what can Poland do when 5 million people show up at the border? They can't handle so many.
Fantastic news. We should be doing this in the southwest. I do think we need to come up with a better system for stabilizing the power supply on cloudy days than just having coal plants running in the background, though. Some kind of very cheap batteries with very long lifetime. Weight is not important.
The USMC works hard on cross-training to reduce costs, meaning that they can go out and complete short term objectives using fewer guys than other groups might need.
Why is Tesla intrinsically better? Is it because Elon Musk hangs out with Joe Rogan?

Tesla is as toxic as any FAANG. Every Tesla employee I've talked to has been treated worse than I get treated at AWS.
Secured Perimeter with Electromagnetic Detection, Drones, and Cameras
I found this article insightful (was posted here a while back): https://arunkprasad.com/log/unlearning-perfectionism/
This was the dose that my doctor recommends as well. I didn't start taking them until doc said "your vit d levels are pretty low". They wanted to give me some of those megadoses but I just agreed to start supplementing. I took 5000IU daily for about a month and then switched over to 2000 and everything has been normal since.