skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They inherited the military of the Soviet Union, which was overhyped but large and not obsolete. They have invested money into keeping up with tech in principle, i.e. a few demo units, but they don't have money to actually equip their military with the new tech or to train correctly. So the Russian military has Soviet nukes and otherwise it's a Potemkin village. It may be that the nukes are also a Potemkin village, but it's dangerous to check.

Russia has been doing asymmetric operations, e.g. buying the US republican party was a lot cheaper than winning a war against the US but effectively was almost as good. Helping far-right, anti-democracy, anti-EU, anti-NATO politicians worldwide has been destabilizing. Organizing both the racist and the anti-racist demonstration at the same place and time has kept people and governments distracted. They do a lot of mafia style things to bribe, intimidate and kill people into doing what they want. Turns out going after politicians is more effective than going after military officers because counter-intelligence is more hesitant to act when they suspect a politician of working with/for Russia.
Only because everyone else is paying for enforcing those licensing fees. That copyright makes things easy in a society built around copyright doesn't really say much.
Amazon is reportedly using Chinese suppliers with ties to forced labor
Beacfex helps to manage, track and maintain your assets from anywhere and anytime.

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Some people say that Russians are spent and incapable of supplying themselves and their efforts will collapse due to lack of food and fuel.

Some people say that Russians are holding back and preparing winning push.

Some people say the Russians will just try to hold what they gained so far (which is few minor cities, despite maps colored red) and try to achieve their objectives in negotiations.

Hard to say what will happen.
A name is just a sound other people make when they want your attention.
Yes, I did. I'm not denying the validity of the case here.
My concern is related with the core risks of the procedure.
I am curious what the difference is in property value and general perceived desirability between external-facing and internal-facing apartments in these superblocks in Barcelona.
NATO isn't ready to start WW3 for a "de facto ally". In theory, they'll do it for a full paid-up member.
Great, it's on version 0.0.1. It's hard to get stable API right on the first try for projects of this magnitude, so I think it's great they keep the room for adjustments before going to 1.0. /s
>I'd dare to say that a not-so-phisically-active moderate-smoker living in a less polluted environment has way lower cancer risk than a bio-vegan athlete buddhist monk living in a polluted industrial hellhole.

I always heard of general phrasing like "increases likelihood of cancer", but this sentence gives me the impression that there have been multiple conclusive studies on the direct contributions of urban pollution to individual cases of cancer. Can someone here who looked through such studies comment, or at least point to them by any chance?
> Russia can't make all of that at the same level as the rest of the world combined.

They are still trading with China, India, Brazil, Mexico and a few other large countries... it's not exactly the whole world against Russia (if you include China and India as at least being neutral, that's already more than half the world population NOT against Russia).
The deciding factor should be, is it in the US interest to become more deeply entangled in European affairs when we can barely manage where we are right now?
I've been staying with PC for 2 decades now because of foobar2000. I hope Mac gets something similar, but it's becoming less and less likely to happen as time goes on.
No, it's not totalitarian at all. The same as not accepting slavery, murder or cannibalism.

This is totalitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
Do you think the stock will go 10x or 100000000x. Every single human on the planet needs only what only u can provide. Do the math again. Also its not 1 in 50 but 1 in 50000
> Ukrainians will die over the unwillingness to just take what ever demands Russia has now instead of in what ever time it takes to install a puppet regime in the rubble. And while some are forced to stay there due to conscription, quite a lot seem to be caught up in a nationalistic fever and delusional belief that "the West will stand with them".

They don't want to submit to tyranny and they don't want to be ruled by Moscow, let alone Putin. I wouldn't either, and i don't get who would. Why would they submit to the invader actively slaughtering their neighbours, friends, countrymen?

Most of them are aware that Russia cannot win. They cannot hope to occupy and rule Ukraine if Ukrainians don't want them to. Why submit then?
The certified small SAD lights are probably ok at short distances for the 20 mins or so they are recommended for.

I have a couple of soft boxes for photography with these corn lights that I bounce from walls if I want a bright room. If you are bouncing the light from a wall you don’t even need a soft box, just some type of reflector to aim the direct light at a wall. I don’t think I’d want to be staring at a naked bulb for long periods
"...Until the disintegration of the Soviet Union its C3 system was built on the principle of launch-on-warning [LOW]. This posture remains in effect, and procedures are regularly exercised. The Russian command system is poised to obtain nuclear weapons release authority within 10 minutes from the President, the Defense Minister, or the Chief of the General Staff, through the Cheget nuclear suitcase. Physical control of the unlock and launch authorization codes resides with the military, the General Staff has direct access to these codes, and can initiate a missile attack with or without the permission of political authorities..."
Ambient occlusion is a horrible hack from twenty years ago. You don’t need to measure pixel values from photographs to know that it bears no relation to how light works in the real world. Just don’t use it.
She must've listened to the pro-PUFA crowd on Hacker News.
Plus a great deal of UK housing is semi-detached or terraced housing. European home energy usage is about a third of the USA's on average per person.
The vaitheeswaran kovil is known for Nadi Josiyam an ancient way of predicting future with just your thumb prints. https://www.sriagasthiyanadi.com/
I think you are overestimating the amount of jobs that can be done remotely.

Things that can never be done remotely: agriculture, construction, manufacture, hospitality, a big part of health/elder care, a big part of education, anything that requires expensive equipment (research, ...), artists/shows/events, the list goes on.

A lot of these sectors were either closed or running slow during COVID, which was not sustainable (you can't maintain the purchasing power of an entire population for decades if suddenly half of it stops working - it only works for a short while if you expect to be able to repay the debt you incurred to keep non-working people afloat).

So even if every single person that can work remotely does so, still expect big cities with transportation issues.

And that's without counting all the jobs that can be done remotely but are better done in office.
I thought it was £50bn and was the total allocated budget of NHS Test & Trace to include PCR testing and contract tracing, as well as LFT distribution etc. It has not been spent yet and with the current rolling back of testing the final cost should (hopefully) be well under that figure.

I still agree it's a gargantuan sum that could have been spent in many other important areas, but pandemic response is important too.
He is right though. Chrome isn't memory bound... yet.
Nix has no problems installing a specific version of a software. You can either override an existing package or just build your own:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays#Overriding_a_version

With Nix flakes it's even easier and you can just mix and match inputs as you want. For example if you want to replace libfoo with your own fork you just do something like:

$ nix build --override-input libfoo /home/juser/src/libfoo

And the best part is that none of this requires any changes to your system. If you need multiple different specific versions at once, Nix can just do it, as every software is sitting around in /nix/store/{HASH} and there is no risk of anything colliding.
"expelling Palestinians" please provide facts. You may mean "Sheikh Jarrah", which got sued by the owners, since they don't pay the rent.

Just building settlements. So providing homes for people does't justify rockets and violence in my opinion. Settlements can be removed later if it is unacceptable for a Palestinian state to have some jew's
Tbh Unix programs don't handle non-ASCII text very well, in my experience.
If my NATO homeland drafts me, I'll go. But where were going with MAD we won't need soldiers and you won't be safe either.
> For SAD you can buy these cute little light therapy boxes that are supposed to help, but they don't, because they are not bright enough to make a difference. Waste of money.

This is completely false. There are multiple studies that show the effectiveness of light therapy. I myself have been using it for years and it makes a huge difference in my mood. If the light is less bright, you'll need to use it for a longer time each day to compensate.
Shell announces intent to withdraw from Russian oil and gas
> all it needs is politicians with guts

Good politicians are of no use to a country where half the people can vote for Trump.
Do you know what happened to Goebbels children at the end of the war? Killed by their own parents. There is a wikipedia article about that.
So we can't be certain what can parents do even when their decisions affect their own children. (sadly)
> So what else is the goal? How many dead Ukrainians to achieve which goal in which way

For Russia to leave them alone, and however it takes. Russia's economy is falling apart, and their army is in brutally terrible shape. They couldn't possibly occupy the country, even if they manage to conquer it, which they don't seem to be able to do. So victory for Ukraine is certain, ultimately. It will take time and cost a lot of blood and destruction, but the alternative isn't great either - being subjugated by a brutal tyrant who has no qualms murdering those who oppose him isn't a walk in the park either.
There are some truly memory-bound problems, but I believe the parent comment is correct on average. A lot of common speed issues can be helped by: adding a cache, adding an extra lookup index, memoising calculated values, adding a new denormalised data projection, etc. I think "usually" was a fair description.
Imagine eating French fries all day and then exercising to burn the calories. It would be better to not eat them in the first place.
Ask HN: How will war in Ukraine impact the web development market?
> Everyone is talking about how difficult it is to invade cities. But it's trivial to destroy cities if you have no regard for civilian casualties.

Even a destroyed city can fight on - Stalingrad is a great example of that.
>If you write C# code you're tying yourself to a closed product that is restricted to a single platform.

I've been using C# on Linux for well over a decade. And on embedded systems. Mono has shipped on various Linuxes for well over 15 years at this point. I've been able to write a single binary that runs on windows and on Linux, no recompile needed, for this long.

>You're just believing in MS propaganda.

Yes, one of us certainly has drank the koolaid.
There are many cultural practices that are still kept despite them being provably bad for profit, even by the most extreme capitalists. For example: despotism and gender discrimination.
Do you know about Cog[0]? It's available via homebrew [1]. I found it to be a suitable replacement for foobar2000 on the Mac. YMMV, of course.

[0] https://cog.losno.co/

[1] brew install --cask cog

Edit: I'm not affiliated with the project in any way.
Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans
> Every Israeli citizen is allowed to vote.

The rhetorical sleight-of-hand that you are obscuring is that most Arabs living in Israel are not, and will never be allowed to become Israeli citizens. This is despite both being born, and living on a territory that is very clearly under the military control of the Knesset.

It's either an indeterminate military occupation, or its apartheid. I don't care what you want to call it, but you have to pick one or the other, because in 2022, Palestine simply does not exist as a free, sovereign nation. It's either a civil territory of Israel, or occupied by Israel.
The sad truth is, it's practically unfeasible to have pure renewables.

Even most wind/solar plants have a peaker gas plant somewhere, for when demand surpasses available resources. Sure batteries are nice, but you need huge amounts to smooth out the grid.

That said, it's possible to use excess electricity to create some form of gas (like hydrogen or hydro-carbon).
stimulating/activating mTor and IGF-1, needed for muscle growth, will encourage cancer growth where applicable.

overabundance of protein could certainly be at play.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6611156/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91dVi6W6N4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg6tvKxS9FE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RMUFOvcUB8
You know what else is common, logical fallacies. You don't have to be one to know one, to know Putin's actions have brought poverty, misery, and death. Writing your name in history books 'just because' is not a well thought out motive, neither was the assault. Its irrational because it lacks rationality.
> we average 2.4KWh per day

Unless you're living on 5 m2 you're not including heating, which is the biggest consumer of energy.
This has more value than education. I wish that I could use this as an editor to put finishing touches on images so web pages go faster for people with less bandwidth. Photoshop, GIMP, and ImageMagick can't do this. The quality slider is a blunt tool that applies to the whole image. It should be possible to define a quality mask, since things outside the field of view can safely be compressed more. But classic algorithms aren't good at determining what that is, plus jpeg isn't conventionally thought of as being the canvas.
"The world" is not. The US and their allies are. The rest of the world is sitting this out at best. Go check some Indian, African, and South American coverage. It's very eye-opening.
Kinda nonsense article. Of course China isn't a fan of NATO: they literally fought a hot war against NATO[0] (Korean war) within living memory. It's unsurprising that they don't want pro-NATO talking points gaining popular currency. It's unsurprising that they're using authoritarian measures to achieve this - they are, after all, an authoritarian state.

[0]: I was wrong, it was the UN.
Yes - parquet tooling is non-existent compared to CSV particularly on the command line. And the cross-language/platform support is a mess - good luck reading Pandas generated parquet on .NET or in a (non-spark) JVM environment.

There are many reasons why CSV is flawed for the purposes of storing tabular data (e.g. loss of column type information) but the alternatives are just so unergonomic that CSV remains a viable choice in many situations.
There was a 2020 report. Haven't looked for a later one.

https://www.bondcap.com/report/onw/#view/1
> The problem is price spikes have a much lower impact on people who are reasonably well off, which is a lot of people with high consumption. ... Meanwhile people on low incomes get absolutely hammered, and they probably have low usage anyway so there's not much they can even do about it.

That sounds like an argument for a progressive pricing structure with an even more extreme increase at the highest consumption tiers? E.g., would 10x increase in marginal cost affect your consumption? It would probably affect mine.
apartheid-like regime Palestine, ok now I understand..
Why wouldn’t they be okay with uploading an IPA? Wouldn’t they already be uploading IPAs to distribution platforms?
Why? I find slow and janky websites insufferable.
Some other webcomics I remember from that time:

- CFRH or College Roomies from Hell, still ongoing although at a much slower pace: http://www.crfh.net/

- Sabrina Online, started 1996 by Eric W. Schwartz of Amiga fame: https://www.sabrina-online.com/

- General Protection Fault, like the name suggest, this one also has an IT setting: https://www.gpf-comics.com/

- Roomies! and It's Walky! - A teen romantic comedy: http://www.itswalky.com/

- Argon Zark, this was the first web comic I discovered, seems to be going back to 1995: https://www.zark.com/
It's good to hear you're working on this, it's a hard problem to solve for sure.

In my experience, the metrics you've sampled aren't particularly useful for hiring. Some of my thoughts:

> 1. 7/10 unit tests passed

Automated unit tests are table stakes on all platforms like HackerRank, LeetCode, etc. Might be useful to classify/clarify the failing ones? Or even add an option for the candidate to clarify their thought process for those.

> 2. GET:/api/v1/vehicle/{id} OOM'd out at 1.5M records in the DB

As an engineer, I see the appeal of OOM checking. But as a candidate, it would be important to have the same information available during test-time, so I could fix it. Could be as simple as an accidental N+1 ORM mistake. Otherwise, hidden performance testing would make the experience very stressful, as then I need to double-check everything and over-optimise for perf.

> 3. Linter returned 10 warnings, 0 errors

I would argue that linting should be out-of-the-box and automated for the candidate. Or even if not, there should be heavy filtering of linter warnings. Every company has their own style guides, and candidates shouldn't be expected to learn that for an interview.

> 4. Cyclomatic complexity counter returned max of 24

While I do understand the concept of Cyclomatic complexity, I have /never/ seen this used IRL in any company (startup, mid-size, FAANG) that I've worked at. I would much rather judge code complexity in terms of readability and decision making.

> 5. 5 new commits, shortest commit message 3 chars, longest commit message 45 chars

I appreciate clean git commits, but these are enforced by company's internal policies during code reviews. Easy to learn once, and continue doing. But definitely not a deal-breaker in a time-constrained interview assignment.

Are these raw metrics you shared what constituted the grading from V1? I would definitely reevaluate most of these for V2, as they seem a little nitpicky than insightful.
Fitting that in my room would be an issue though.
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A lot of the small dams are also very old and would require a lot of money to keep them running so just tearing them down often turns out to be cheaper long term.
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It's not just cars, standards matter.

Have a look here. https://waqi.info/#/c/29.217/70.608/3.8z

And that is just the things we regularly monitor, think of all the toxic crap several industrial process may be releasing.
Does your project include smashing high energy protons? If not, you should be clear to go.
To go fully off grid you would need more solar and batteries rather than just more batteries alone. Panels produce some energy on cloudy days, suppose your deficit drops from -80% to -40%, now the battery which would last you 1 day lasts you 2 days, double your batteries as well and 2 days becomes 4 days. More critically many days that are moderately overcast go from a net loss to a net gain.

It’s just an optimization problem based on your local climate, the cost of equipment, and your willingness to reduce remain after multiple cloudy days.
Blaming the user is also what the incompetent do.
there is tons of reasearch about this, one of them is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81499-8
Putin's stated goal is total destruction of Ukraine, including the people and the culture. His Soviet predecessors have a few genocides in their name.

Imagine yourself saying the same thing to Jews and WW2.
You're right. Each car is like one mini factory spewing out its exhaust into the air.
> Mined by whom?

Sorry, but even suggesting, that Ukrainians mined evacuation route for their own people is plainly disgusting. I and multiple of my friends, were on the border and helped fleeing people. They told me first hand how they escaped. There was ZERO critique of their officials or military.

I'm checking both sides - what they're saying is usually completely out of touch with reality and blunt, very poorly prepared propaganda.

And finally - Russians are invading independent country. There's nothing they can say to change that fact.
At the time that the article was written, SSAO was usually way overdone in games. It's an effect used because it's cheap, okay, but then it should be toned down, not turned up to 11 and drawing attention. I do remember the ridiculous fuzzy black bars in corners.
> Postico - It's weird that I like a single DB UI. But it's nice over just pqsl sometimes

You might want to check out pgcli sometimes if you find yourself using pgql on occasions. It does the same but includes various quality of life features such as tab-completion, syntax highlighting and improved table views
Libya and Kosovo and Iraq all say "hi!" (All three were subject to, ahem, "special military operations" by explicitly NATO troops in the last 30 years.)

But you're right of course: NATO is supposed to be purely defensive. In practice, though, not so much.

In fact, as I write this, NATO members are providing weapons to Ukraine despite no NATO member being attacked, or threatened with attack. Yet another "special military operation" for NATO in the last 30 days. At least it's for a good cause…
for hot countries, yes

But "heat pumps" (which is exactly like AC, but in the UK 3x more expensive because its "renewable") need to run for heating.

So I agree with you, solar and AC are perfect for cooling, heating might need other sources of electricity.
also non-meat diet like vegetarian or Mediterranean diet is proven better for health.
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On paper, NATO nations should all be protecting each other. Whether that actually happens in practice against an adversary having nukes is yet to be seen. Its a valid open question.
It's one of the most serious Bulgarian publications ( Financial Times level, somewhat focused on business etc. ( as the name, Capital, implies)), and it reflects the sentiment of many ( probably most) Eastern European people.
The universe does not owe you anything. You do not owe the universe anything.

Of course some things/actions have consequences and of course some things just happen, but overall nothing cares about you except maybe yourself and some other living things that like you.
Mmm, have you got any more of these [pre-]2000's webcomics? I love them, they're like a snapshot of a totally different era.
tl;dr: Google the thing you want to learn about.
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I'm not really much of a Beijing supporter in general but:

Why is it that the western narrative is primary and Beijing rewrites it? It's all narratives. They're all primary in their own sphere. The idea that the US has a history of objectively writing the narrative is laughable, so so what if Beijing is full of it too.
also stop eating meat, specially red meat.
Release engineer would own up to it.
There would be a trail, with no attempt to hide it.
If you have central heating / AC, running it in fan mode also helps a lot in reducing CO2 in a room.
I guess that you don't cook a lot. Then you shall maybe take into account the energy used to produce the food that you order and to deliver it to your home.