skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phone call is sort term, high effort, and maybe even annoying to those pro-Russians.

Just a thought: I been viewing the evidences of Russian war crimes (photograph, video) that people posted on Twitter since the very beginning of the invasion. A lot's of them are real and fact-checked.

Maybe it could be a good idea to setup some sort of online and physical memorial to show the timelines of how each single innocent people lost their life in the invasion, completely neutrally and uncensored, only tell the story, no decoration.

My rational is this: it is just impossible to convert the entire Russian population to be peace-loving, let's just face it, it won't happen as long as the regime needs brainless tools. But for the curious ones who really wants to understand, the memorial can plant the seed in their head. Every 0.0000001% counts.
> There is no left wing media in the US.

Yes, there is, it's just not part of the major corporate media.
I always try to bring to opposite view. The dude started from little, was lucky or tasty enough to start highly successful personal computing thing. That said he could have exploded a thousand times per year every year. Even when ousted he made next. He came back and turned apple around. You can't just luck all this out. Even with deep pocketa (remember duke nukem 2 fiasco ?) How many ~jobs fail on the floor ?
> Forests are recyclable.
Forests, like many other ecosystems, take hundreds of years to stabilize and mature. Clear cutting an area destroys far more than just the trees in that area.
I would listen to the person's arguments and say what I don't like about those arguments.

I find the symmetrism you represent ridiculous.

How do we know the Earth isn't flat? Maybe flat-earthers are right? How do we know if santa claus exist? Well, we gather data and apply reasoning to that data...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
I understand the rule not to add Ukraine flag to the social media profiles because they need to show that they are unbiased. But to modify the language to suit Russia is no longer a neutrality but supporting an aggressor.
I don't think you get to decide for someone else that they should be proud to be in prison.
You believe that there is an international law that states that an oppressor should be left alone?
From TFA: “chatting with friends can bring closure when they help you reconstrue an event, rather than just recount it. What does that look like? Asking why you think the other person acted that way, prodding to see whether there’s anything to be learned from it all, and just generally broadening your perspective to ‘the grand scheme of things.’ Unfortunately, this type of meaning-making is far from common outside of therapy”
Indeed. One issue we have today is a glut of scientific information, some of which is high quality and some isn't. Also, some will later be shown to be false, and some correct, in any given context.

It's not enough to say simply that a study exists (even if it is a large meta-study); it's necessary to actually read it in full and critically appraise it.

But ain't nobody got time for that.... which is a problem!
WebGPU is not based on Metal. Apple did an experiment several years back in Safari which they called WebGPU at the time. It was effectively a thin wrapper around Metal, and so that's caused some confusion, but the actual W3C WebGPU spec has nothing in common with that experiment. It's a carefully selected set of features that are feasible to run effectively on Vulkan, Metal, and D3D12 and structured to feel like a web-native API.
The study in the linked article found that lead reduced the IQ of exposed Americans 3-6 IQ points.

A New Zealand study found that persistent cannabis users had a 6-8 point decline, even if they had given up cannabis: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1206820109

Here's a meta review that found a 2 IQ point drop across a wider range of usage types: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici...

There's a lot less known about cannabis at this point, but what we know so far isn't very positive.
America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do we import crude?
DaLI: Data Loader and Input Generator for RP2 (Open-Source US Crypto Tax Calc)
A while ago I built RP2 (https://pypi.org/project/rp2), the privacy-focused, free, open-source US cryptocurrency tax calculator: it handles multiple coins/exchanges and computes long/short-term capital gains, cost bases, in/out lot relationships, and account balances. It supports FIFO and LIFO and it generates output in form 8949 format (so that tax accountants can understand it, even without being crypto experts).

Now I uploaded to Github and Pypi a new project, called DaLI (Data Loader Interface) for RP2: it reads crypto data from exchange/wallet CSV files and REST API endpoints and it generates an input for RP2, thus removing the need for manual data entry. Just like RP2, DaLI is also free, open-source and it prioritizes user privacy.
Here is a clip from the BBC showing the Z Machine in action, pushing 26 million amps.
The Z Machine - Can We Make A Star?
https://youtu.be/eaopaLJk3-Y
I might be remembering wrong, but wasn't Encarta mostly offline (or at least, it required an offline installation)? I vaguely remember my family having an Encarta CD among all our CDs in the computer desk drawer; it must have been the late 90s or early 2000s, so I was still pretty young, so I might be remembering wrong. Did Encarta ever try to go fully online? I feel like that's one of the big reasons why Wikipedia was able to grow so fast; being web-based means that anyone can access it with software they already have installed and share links with their friends/family with very little effort. Maybe there was a way to share entries in Encarta, but I have trouble imagining it had as little friction as just sharing a URL.
This sounds plausible but I'm not sure it's quite accurate, because in my experience, zooming in also affects the size of things that use px units in CSS.
Are These Chimpanzees Using Insects as Medicine?
"depends on your objective, doesnt it? "

Sure, thats why I said "probably".

Anyone who wants the most performance and raw power needs to get to the source.

But most people using WebGPU are probably fine with a framework, that hides all the details. Like threejs did for webGL.
I feel like I wrote a pretty concise and direct comment, and you didn't really read it. We agree that living life to maximize personal self-gratification isn't a moral good, and that it's bad to valorize doing so. Where we part company is your belief that choosing not to have children is evidence that someone is living a life for their own gratification; clearly: no.
That's extra funny considering `<!-foo` is an extraordinarily useless expression.
> That is to say, an occupation.

I don't think it is an occupation as this word is defined.
I didn't know about it :) thanks
Inflation propagates unevenly
> I would be curious if there are any surveys or even statements by somewhat authoritative bodies (something like NIST?).

Hmmm, I'm not sure if anything like that exists, certainly nothing from a standards body. The closest might be recommendations to not rely on things like Linux containers, or to be wary of kernel vulnerabilities. But usually official bodies don't make comments like "this software is bad".

> I haven't heard anything that suggests security researchers as a collective have taken it personally

I assure you that they do, I know many people who have been active in Linux kernel security for decades.

> It seems pretty meaningless and unhelpful to categorize all C software as "garbage".

Oh yeah, what I meant is that all of these things are factors. I'm sort of hand-wavingly justifying the "garbage" description. There's a lot of problems that are all interwoven. C is one of those problems.

> To deserve the "garbage" designation, I would expect some supporting evidence that the Linux kernel development process lacks rigor.

That's fair. I would probably point to the lack of testing/ coverage, the lack of code review, the huge LOC:maintainer ratio.

> Moreover, "secure" is relative, so if you're going to call the Linux kernel "garbage" then it seems like you should have some kernel which is not "garbage"

I'd have to disagree here. I don't believe I need to have an example of something better in order to point out that there's something bad.
That makes sense, but it also doesn't really support the article's overall argument about the perils of "standardization without understanding". If what you're saying is true then it could very well be that the approach to standardize the queuing would have worked perfectly well had the senior dev chosen a different technology to underlay his library (ie not Kafka), right?
On Safari/Firefox I'm able to "pinch-zoom" with the trackpad which behaves just as OP was expecting it to, while Command '-' and '+' works as you described
Bottlenecks of Scaleups
"Please reload the page, something went wrong."

I'd say, no.

Edit:

"TypeError: navigator.sendBeacon is not a function"
> The government sanctions are relatively well targeted at the Russian powers; it's all these companies running around and doing "virtue sanctions" that are hitting civilians.

Virtue sanctions? How do you expect those companies to operate in Russia with the rouble in freefall and SWIFT cut off?
How We Built Evervault Relay
2020 was really bad for sure, pandemic started, riots/protests, fires in western US.

2021 imo was worse due to pandemic being worse than 2020(delta), and now you have shelves bare, ships backed up off the coast of California. Inflation going very high, housing skyrocketing.

2022 was omicron wave(worse than delta) inflation getting worse than 2021, now war with Russia and gas spiking(prices at pump at levels never seen before)
As someone in the process of setting up a pipeline and currently using pandas.to_csv as my output, I'm curious what makes you recommend parquet in particular? How does it compare to HDF or Feather?
what a selfish mindset

venting produce effects, it make the reader understand other people's feeling without knowing them

if makes them learn about people and their frustrations

ultimately, it gives them the opportunity to come up with a direct or indirect response to them
In a walkable neighborhood, the result may be different. For instance, NYC has a lot of local shops, enough that NY state as a whole has the lowest per-capita rate of fast food chains in the US. And I see multiple local coffee shops here for every 1 Starbucks (though Starbucks is still quite common; far more likely than a McDonald's). I think it may be related to walkability since chains are more common in NYC's more car-oriented neighborhoods.

Outside that, I still don't think you're most likely to get a McDonald's in the middle of a residential neighborhood: it'd most likely be a corner store, since that's what walkable areas are most full of. At least in NYC, it's uncommon to have fast food outside of a busy shopping street. The shops embedded in the middle of residential neighborhoods are largely corner stores and delis, and to a lesser extent cafes / bakeries and barber shops / hair salons.
We are at war.

> You are no better than the FSB itself then.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> documents show a pattern of promises US negotiators made to their Russian counterparts as well as internal policy discussions opposing NATO expansion to Eastern Europe.

I like how you admit that there was no such treaty, just vague promises to a country (USSR) which doesn't exist anymore. Usually, you russian bots say that NATO was bound to not accept new members.
Minor nitpick: this translation happens in separate libraries/tools which just make use of the SPIRVTools library for some SPIRV processing tasks, but not the actual translation to WGSL.

Tint (Google, implemented in C++): https://dawn.googlesource.com/tint/

Naga (Mozilla(?), implemented mostly in Rust): https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga

Both are a bit similar to SPIRV-Cross, except that they also support WGSL.
Poker tournament is often called the microcosm of our own capitalistic "democratic" world and as I learn how to play it more and more I realize how true this is.

As you've said luck is a very very important factor. As you get lucky, you tend to continue getting lucky because the more chips (capital) the cost of failure or unlucky runs is a lot lower than somebody about to be knocked out of the tournament.

Playing tight (risk averse) or loose (risk tolerant) or mania (risk indifferent) can yield very different outcomes and often professionals adjust their appetite for risk throughout the tournament.

Similarily, yes Steve Jobs got lucky and because he kept getting lucky he was in a position to make other bets without really suffering vs someone who bootstraps their business and exposed to the fluctuations of the market is going to have a tough time.

Nassim Taleb explains this better but to me the biggest shock when I started playing poker was, how much of an impact it's made no my perception of randomness and risk.
i find pink noise more relaxing than white noise when i want to focus.
Between the marketing for children, the many "sugar holidays" (Valentines, Easter, Christmas, Halloween, etc), the widespread use of processed foods in children's diets, the fact that every single grocery store in America puts sugar products on loud display, and that some restaurants only serve sugar based drinks, I would argue that it is not possible for American children to avoid sugar.
On the spot, at a checkpoint? I mean it's obviously possible but is it likely to happen on random inspection? (Serious question, I don't know in Russia, definitely not in other places)
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-kno...
> what happens after the bomb depends greatly on the assumptions you make about damage to structures, weather patterns, the size of the bomb used, the altitude at which it is detonated, and a host of other variables.

All of these concerns are addressed in the article. There are uncertainties in predicting the extent of the firestorm, of course, but the author's point is that these uncertainties aren't any larger than the uncertainties from the blast, which we purport to understand with some precision.

Rain, for example, is thought to only have a slight mitigating effect. Intuitively, that seems pretty reasonable – the water will evaporate instantly, and whatever remains will become fuel for the fire. As the article notes, the bombing of Dresden resulted in one of the worst firestorms in human history, and that fire raged despite the ground being wet and covered in snow.
Can't the same argument be made about the past? The measurement of mass and energy is very much a measure of the present.
Common in Oak Park, too. You came out and visited this area, Rayiner! Not our fault you decided to move to an exurb. :)
Org-mode supports evaluating code blocks though org-babel.
https://www.orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-...
YouTube, please help stop the war in Ukraine
There are plenty of Russians on Youtube commenting under pleas posted by Ukrainians asking them to help stop the war. And there are plenty of videos taken by people on the ground in Ukraine that show what's going on. But due to the way Youtube works, the Russian users are not very likely to come across those videos.

Ukrainian Youtube users are trying to interact with them by replying with links to the videos.

If somebody from Youtube is reading this, I understand that you need to curb spammers who post a lot. But if you could somehow help with this effort, it might actually help change the public opinion in Russia.
The value systems & vision of the people leading the R&D have a huge impact on the final design.

Nokia phones went one way, iPhone went a different way.
Direct combat involvement would lead to WW3. As bad as things are for Ukraine a nuclear wasteland is worse.

Nuclear armed states don't fight eachother directly.
I think the opposite is true. Everyone can see that the west is just and it is not bulling small countries but is stepping against big bully itself.
Never Mind the 1 Percent. Let’s Talk About the 0.01 Percent
the iron dome is mainly used to shoot down shitty rockets traveling around 200 m/s, and at great relative cost. ICBMs are going about ~7 km/s at reentry. it would require an entirely different level of capability to achieve any reasonable kill probability against those.
But I don't really see the message the caller is supposed to relay once they dial in.

You are supposed to relay stories about bombed hospitals and shelled houses that you've either picked up from the media a day ago, or just from the web site's caption text. Are you ready to answer the question "what were you doing in the last 8 years"? Are you ready to even understand it? What about Alley of Angels, are you ready to talk about it?

I would expect there would be some "weaponized" facts at a minimum, or you may be losing in that artillery duel quite fast. Because Russian TV and state media does supply a lot of weaponized facts of its own.

Consider telling your counterparty that Russia prevents civilians from getting out from besieged cities, and they respond "I've just saw on the TV that Ukrainian far-right batallions are not letting their civilians out to use them as human shield". How are you going to reason from that point? I'm honestly interested because I don't know whose truth is there.
U.S. will ban Russian oil imports
> Edit: That struck a chord with millenials, ha! Tell your friends that bitching does not help, voting does. Boomers seem to understand this and so they have a disproportionate amount of influence. You want it to stop? VOTE.

There is, still, a statistical bump in the boomers, hence the baby boom.

There is just more of them, and they vote. They've only just started dying in big numbers.

Plus the older voters get the more they tend to vote, for various reasons.
> Parking requirements are there to prevent businesses subsidizing themselves by snapping up all the free street parking.

This really shouldn't be a suprise, but the "market forces" solution would involve charging for street parking. That works perfectly fine.

> The reason you don't have a corner store is your neighbors don't want it.

You're sort-of right, but the reality is that walkable & dense mixed use neighborhoods are in high demand in North America, that's why they're so filthy expensive. Ultimately, this needs to get handled by local politics. People need to be able to talk about what they want their spaces to look like and go out and vote.
TIL (last week) Chrome DevTools understands $$ as document.querySelector [0] e.g. $$('div[role="img"] img')

[0] https://javascript.plainenglish.io/an-easy-way-of-accessing-...
But we still do have studies that compare cannabis users to non-users.

The concern for marijuana is less about the toxicity of it as a substance, and more the psychological effects of being high.
- Hey stop this train!
- I can't its very heavy it will kill me if I try
- Ohh, then you are on the train side!

That's how I see request to Russians to stop Putin.

Also hey Russians, we rob all you money in online services and stop those services to work for you. Stop this train!
Lead exposure isn't over by a long-shot.

Anywhere there is an airport with prop aircraft there is leaded fuel/exhaust spew for miles around it.

Can't believe we just don't have the care to protect people, write it off as their problem and then let the poor/ignorant suffer in "pollution zones"
Is the U.S. Descending into Recession?
Won’t alternative forms (e.g. good old fashion barter) spring up if the existing government back centralized method of value exchange becomes too repressive?
Of course, if we really have no control then we also can't control whether we regret the past or worry about the future, so why bother telling anyone that they should not do it?

But of course you had no control over whether you would tell anyone that, so I shouldn't question your decision.

The whole notion of 'should' is absurd under such a philosophy.
> a desktop computer used 1kw

Desktop computers didn't use 1kW on average back in 2000. That would have been an insanely high-end machine and nothing like the average home PC. A lot of components were passively air-cooled or had a tiny heatsink with a small fan, you're not running 1,000W on something that may or may not even have a fan. Most computers I had back then had 200-300W power supplies. Add another 100W for a CRT monitor and that means each desktop really used something closer to 400W max. Usually you don't run at the max rating of your PSU, so really something less than that.

EDIT: The TDP of a Pentium III (released 1999) was 30W. Add another 20W for a hard drive, another 10W for an optical drive, and 100W for the motherboard and RAM, and that's ~160W for a basic home computer in 1999. AGP allowed for ~50W of power, extra power connectors on GPUs back then was pretty much unheard of so even with a fancy GPU you're only looking at ~210W of power for a decent 2000s era PC.
> Venting anger is like using gasoline to put out a fire.

There could be some truth to it. Since I started venting on HN about how bad ads, drm, social media, and patents are, their prevalence has increased!
My reading of Seeing Like A State was not "central planning bad". The author explicitly acknowledges that there are many benefits to what they refer to as "high modernist" projects which we all enjoy on a daily basis. My reading was more that large scale projects designed to entirely change the way something is done in order to make it legible to a central authority necessarily throws away an enormous amount of local information and this leads to a tradeoff. You end up being able to build much bigger systems, but those systems are not as flexible.

In the context of microservices that seems like a pertinent point because the purpose of a microservice architecture in the first place is often to allow an organisation to be more flexible and accommodate local knowledge.
Honestly, I don't want TikTok like content on twitter. But they want to capture attention more than create value for users...
This much is clear. Scheduling MJ is extremely unwise. But I would also extend this to everything in the psychedelic / hallucinogenic category. They do no psychological harm and an increasing body of evidence indicates that they, in all likelihood, do a significant amount of mental good for responsible users.

An acute example of this is a psychedelic called “DMT”. This psychedelic is nearly everywhere in nature, including our own brains. When inhaled, it lasts less than 10 minutes, give or take. After that 10 minutes, a user is completely sober without any indication that they were not, and no physiological side effects. But during that 10 minutes? It is an acute spiritual and existential experience, possibly the most acute non-normal experience possible for a human being. A true exploration of altered states, and possible contact with a different form of life unbound from our reality.

And for some reason, this substance is scheduled. It does no harm to a user, to third parties, nor to society, is short lived, and offers true spiritual experience but it’s scheduled. The scheduling as a whole is archaic, oppressive, and if nothing else, misguided.

This is also in top of the fact that it discourages addicts from seeking real treatment due to fear of being criminalized.
Maybe US media was different (I wasn't in the US in 2003, and too young to read foreign media at the time), but here in Europe the media was pretty clear that it was a case of "The UN inspectors didn't find any WMDs but the USA insist they're there". There was a significant protest movement here to ban the US air force from our airports because they were using them as stopping points on the way to Iraq.

I don't think the rest of the West took the US invasion of Iraq as uncritically as you think they did
I'm only talking about the pilots' description of that part of the video, where the zoom level changes and Fraver says something like look at it accelerate here.