skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be the first to mention, something that I think is of supreme interest: How adaptable are the refineries? All oil must have variations in its properties, and every refinery must be able to cope with a certain amount of variation.

If you have a refinery that's built for heavy sour oil, how much lighter and sweeter can it handle without any modifications at all? And how much time and money does it take to broaden its range further?

What are the heavier grades used for, I'd imagine stuff like bunker fuel and asphalt? If the prices of those end products went up, wouldn't the market adapt to a certain degree, say using more concrete and less asphalt, etc?
I didn’t know Amazon owns an entire forest.
Sorry, no, your claims and summary were definitively and unquestionably false.

There is a large, large difference between 'Americans' and 'adolescents'. Vast.
You own the physical media but not the data (song) that’s stored on it. That’s literally what copyright is: the right to copy. You don’t buy that right when you buy the CD.
"Oil" isn't one product. It differs widely in chemical and physical properties (viscosity, how much sulfur and arsenic is present, etc.) depending on how/where it was produced. Different refineries are setup to refine different grades of oil and the oil is often blended before shipment to meet the specs the refineries expect. It is often cheaper for the US to import the right grade of oil than it would be to reconfigure the domestic refineries to process all the domestically produced oil.

This is also why there are several oil "prices" that you will see quoted, the most common two being WTI and Brent.
Baseball is a very popular sport in many of these countries, especially Mexico, Japan, and Puerto Rico. I’d posit a guess that they continue to roll it out to other Latin American countries next.
Sure, but many at least expected a tick type M1X. Though maybe that's what M1 Max was, they just didn't name it that.
There's no way Intel did for their CPUs, it'd be on their roadmap. They're not going to say "oh here's a new uarch" out of nowhere. Like, the Sapphire Rapids CPUs are all being sold about now to the corporate accounts.

Maybe their GPUs that they keep teasing but even that's a stretch, IMO.
> can’t get over the fanless MacBook pros and the battery life

Only the M1 Air is truly fanless, the Pros do have fans, they're just silent most of the time.
Many reasons:

Because the market is bigger and demand is greater

Because Quebec is powered by hydro and doesn't need oil and doesn't want the pipeline going east because they sell power.

The eastern provinces get oil from offshore locally or from Saudi/middle east so the cost doesn't make sense.

The oil is going south anyways on trucks. The pipeline took so many trucks off the road.
Why did they ever allow them? It's not a new revelation their wealth is largely built on "ill-gotten gains".
13 mini battery life is far better than 2020 SE battery life. I bought both new, and frequently had to charge 2020 SE more than once per day, but I do not recall 13 mini running out before bed.
Working fine right now.
The Mac Studio looks like a chunky Mac Mini. There I said it. Not sure how modular it is with no internal slots.
> At least Sweden's potential membership is less complicated than Turkey or Ukraine.

You do realize that Turkey has been a member state of NATO for 70 years now, yes?
Anecdotally, I live in Ireland and a number of locals have mobilised to gather food and medicine to send it to Ukraine. Then I came across this article and now think this is happening across the country: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0308/1285137-ireland-ai...

I wouldn’t be surprise if many other communities in Europe are doing the same. The problem might be getting the aid to the right place.
Every one of the stories you link make it clear that the reports came from Ukranian sources.

Nowhere in these stories do the news outlets claim that the Ukranian reports were independently verified.

So I'm not sure what you're complaining about. These news outlets are reporting what Ukranian sources say, just as they report what Russian sources say.
The operational excellence has allowed them to make every version of computer. It's wonderful from a profit perspective, and it's nice that everyone can enter the Apple family at whatever feature set/price point needed.
Really? It looks like the complete opposite happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/me...
Do you mean the TPU in pixel 6? Can you link some article about the shitshow?
The SE2 absolutely requires a case, too. The glass exterior is far too slippery. The rounded edges make a firm grip even more uncertain. The protruding camera makes a case required as well if you don’t want to be mildly annoyed every time you put it on a table face up.

If the thing is built to require a case that would increase its thickness by the amount of the camera protrusion, why not just make it that thick to begin with.

I really pine for a flat back (despite any thickness that would add), square edges, and a back material with a higher index of friction. The SE1 frame was like this.

Good phone otherwise though, fast, battery ok if you charge regularly, etc.
yup! lets not also forget that fan attendance and TV viewership have plummeted (and not came back like the NFL's fan base) for MLB.

Stadium avg attendance - https://www.statista.com/statistics/235634/average-attendanc...

Viewership down as well - https://frontofficesports.com/mlb-attendance-hits-37-year-lo...

Contrast that to the NFL which is seeing record viewership now - https://sportsnaut.com/nfl-tv-ratings-viewership-numbers/
The scriptwriters for colleen could have dialed down the hype a tiny bit :)
I hear there's currently a sale on The Pirate Bay too.
> There is no harm in this in itself, propaganda is as much part of the war as any other part

Huh? War is incredibly harmful to civilian infrastructure, and propaganda is similarly harmful to our ability to communicate.

Putin's propaganda loves this trope: "we can't know for sure, it's all propaganda, you have no choice but to pick a side. We're totally the good guys though, so be a good little soldier, spread our memes and ignore all other sources".

Contrary to what some people would like you to believe, you can know things without first-hand experience and you can be certain without having 100% proof.

Listening less to known liars also helps.
> That's just flat wrong. A global solution can solve global concerns and also allow for local conditions.

Past a certain level of complexity, that's no longer true.

_Seeing Like a State_ is a great introduction to this, but I think Carol Sanford's work goes much more into detail. The main thing with the high-modernist view that James Scott was critiquing is that it comes from what Sanford would call the Machine World View. This is where the entire system can be understood by how all of its parts interact. This view breaks down at a certain level of complexity, of which James Scott's book is rife with examples.

Sanford then proposes a worldview she calls the Living Systems World View. Such a system is capable of self-healing and regenerating (such as ecologies, watersheds, communities, polities), and changing on its own. In such a system, you don't affect changes by using direct actions like you do with machines. You use indirect actions.

Kubernetes is a great example. If you're trying to map how everything work together, it can become very complex. I've met smart people who have trouble grasping just how Horizontal Pod Autoscaling works, let alone understand its operational characteristics in live environments. Furthermore, it can be disconcerting to be troubleshooting something and then have the HPA reverse changes you are trying to make ... if you are viewing this through the Machine World View. But viewed through Living Systems World View, it bears many similarities to cultivating a garden. Every living thing is going to grow on its own, and you cannot control for every single variable or conditions.

For similar ideas (which I won't go into detail), there is Christopher Alexander's ideas on Living Architecture. He is a building architect that greatly influenced how people think about Object Oriented Programming (http://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee.html) and Human-Computer Interface design (what the startup world uses to great affect in product design).

Another is the Cynefin framework (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework). Cynefin identifies different domains -- Simple, Complicated, Complex, and Chaos. Engineers are used to working in the Complicated domain, but when the level of complexity phase-shifts into the Complex domain, the strategies and ways of problem-solving that engineers are used to, will no longer work. This includes clinging to the idea that for any given problem, there is a global solution which will satisfy all local conditions.
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Thank you!
Apple events used to be something I really looked forward too but they are kind of boring now. The hype they give in their events is starting to feel almost a parody of itself. I don't know, I can't put my finger on it, but for me the magic is gone and they should just announce at CES along with everyone else.
I've busted my ass on webgl a few times, and I am not really seeing how WebGPU is a substantially better API looking at the samples in the wild:

https://webkit.org/demos/webgpu/scripts/hello-triangle.js

The advantages of WebGPU vs WebGL probably make sense to experts in this area, but I still find most of it to be completely impenetrable at first glance as a relative novice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yDKeya4SU
> Interested in price…

Not cheap, that is only certain. Probably starting at >$7K for M1 Ultra
I am curious what makes people keep directing things at ordinary people in Russia. Imagine WWII, except with the world trying to shame people in Germany instead of actually fighting. We'd probably live in a world with very different history books.
Apparently they compared it with a 3060TI. It's not a 3080, but still nothing to sneeze at.
Biggest reason for me to upgrade from my Mac Mini to the Mac Studio is the ports. I can get rid of this CalDigit hub.
> if we go back to isolationism, one of the main deterrents to international conflicts, interdependence, will be weakened, which can't be good for peace in the coming decades.

On the other hand, if you completely ignore tensions and keep up the supply in the case of war, interdependence ceases to be a deterrent at all. The real problem here is that somebody started a war; the isolationism is just one of the many bad consequences.
EU membership is only possible if certain economic metrics are met, IIRC, and that is impossible to achieve while under attack or even soon after in the rebuilding phase. So to me EU membership is looking pretty far out. Why does it look realistic to you?
Only the reactors 5 and 6 were shut down, 1-4 not.

I never heard that the control room was on fire, only that Chechens attached explosives to the reactors.

The shelling was at the training reactor building, and the administrative building was shot at and set on fire.
I have the iphone SE 2020 modell, and it serves me very good and the battery is enough for me and i charge every evening, like i have with any other phone before this one. The size and home button is a win forme and the cheaper prize.
One thing I've realized in my life is that I'd rather be alone and mildly unhappy, than to be with the wrong people and be constantly miserable.
Nice that they've included 2x USB-A ports on the Mac Studio. As much as I wish all my peripherals were available with USB-C, I still see USB-A dominating categories like HDD, thumb drives, etc. I know there are docks, but it's nice not to have to worry about choosing and paying for one.
> There are footages going around them turning (you can tell from the patches they wear) citizens away from checkpoints as they try to leave

Do you suppose that may have something to do with things like

https://www.newsweek.com/evacuation-route-offered-fleeing-uk...

and

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/06/europe/ukraine-russia-inv...

?
Media reporting falsehoods then later correcting them doesn't mean the media isn't reporting falsehoods.

Retractions always - ALWAYS - get less attention than the initial story.

They aren't in the business of spreading truth, they are a business with incentives to gain people's attention.
His background is well documented and legit though. The 'Russian agent' idea sounds neat, but it's not plausible enough.
Yeah, looks like they're targeting the creative market. Which makes a lot of sense. The one I was wondering about was ML workloads. Looks like that's not their primary target, but I had also missed that 128GB video RAM is a pretty big deal that you can't get elsewhere.
Wartime price controls don't help the consumer -- they help the government keep the consumer from consuming goods and services needed for the war effort, and they do so by discouraging consumption.

There is always a sense in which price controls work. It's just never the actual publicly ostensible sense.

Prices are too high! -consumers

Ok, we'll set a price ceiling -government

Yayayayay! -consumers

Hey wait a minute! Supply has vanished! -consumers

<crickets> -government
> 5800 dead orcs

please, grow up, this is an actual human war we're trying to discuss. live in reality. there's no orcs and hobbits and wizards here.

i can only stomach about 30 seconds of reading the comments section on reddit before running into mindless stuff like this.
I heard some nice tweets today. It was sunny, I was in the park, and the birds tweeted just beautiful!
We perpetually rediscover this, and we're perpetually astonished.
Twitter is a cesspool and it seems like the people who are disproportionately influential are all on Twitter.

I think it’s a bubble that should not have any political power, because it’s a cesspool!
As a non-Albertan, I'm baffled by why Alberta thinks that building east-to-west pipelines to prop up their economy, while saddling their neighbours with all the risks is good policy.

I mean, I understand that may be a good policy for an Alberta, but there's no reason why anyone else should think it's a good policy for them.
If the fighting had been a bit more intense at Zaporizhzhia, a repeat of Fukushima would not be out of the question (reactors shut down but not cold, unlucky shots take out backup power, cooling lost, meltdown from decay heat from fission products).
I feel like it's really just a sort of existential dread about being reliant on anyone for anything, other than oneself. It's like being afraid that if there's a zombie apocalypse then you won't be able to listen to the same old songs on repeat like a scene out of I am Legend
Would a Mac Studio running a windows VM be faster than a big Threadripper system?
of course https://status.cloud.google.com/ is all green
I don't engage on Twitter out of fear.

I sometimes see posts that I like and want to retweet but I don't because it means I'm endorsing everything the author has ever said or ever will say. It's not worth the risk.

People in my demographic face significant exposure to "cancelling" or ambushing for wrongthink. So it's best for me to avoid it entirely.
The lofi hiphop (aka lofi girl) radio station on YouTube is another example of non-distracting music. It's there, but not something that draws attention.
Yeah, I ran into this and was was shocked to see information not just berried, but firewalled.

I wanted to understand the situation and searched "Ukrainian troop locations" in google, bing, DDG, and Yahoo.

One of the first times I have received no results in google. Absolutely blatant censorship.

Ostensibly, google doesn't want to provide intel to Russia, who has ample satellites and combat reports.

It seems a little too convenient that the major consequence is that Americans cant get any information that doesn't support the public narrative.
No, but when second growth or plantation forests are cut down for heating/electricity it puts pressure on more mature forests for timber products, wood pulp, etc. The plantations/farmed forests could be instead used for these products.
There's no way we'd be able to use Linux. We might be able to make it work, but we'd be then kissing vendor support goodbye. That's suicide.
Mac Studio, I dub thee "the Lunchbox"
Nope! Not using any tactics. I'm sorry you felt so much cynicism in my commentary though, it's good to be aware of how good-faith discussion can be interpreted like you have mine it seems.

Leadership is a science, most people suck at it without training except for the very gifted few. The good news is you can train on it.

Because a norm exists of believing leadership is a "have it or not" vs. a "have it or train it" skill like any other, second order effects like toxic leadership being mistaken for difficult but acceptable genius are common. The whole industry suffers for it.

In the same way a horrible design pattern might work but will make your app a nightmare to maintain, in the soft sciences like leadership understanding these
"architectural differences for similar outcomes" come down to understanding the semantic differences - well what really is "toxic" in a toxic leader. What are the traits of that? Are they repeatable? Doesn't make it any less true to state though as the science is sort of settled on a lot of this.

To mirror some of the snark in this response, once you start looking, you'll see clear leadership style, which can be taught, and their impacts everywhere you look (transformational leader, servant leader, toxic leader, transactional leader). I'm not saying the OP is playing semantic games, but I'm saying the OP doesn't understand how leadership works under the hood and as a science.
That’s rich, but I would do the same.

It is very easy for me to compartmentalization legal realities.

Everything is like a virtual machine, it doesn’t matter to me if I use a different rule set or contradictory paradigm in another one, simultaneously.

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We've all come to accept random outages for so many of services we use. I wish we didn't have to because for some of these services I really don't have a backup. Given how infrequent they happen it's not worth my time to invest in having a ready backup for music streaming, when I'm not at home with my NAS. Other forms of distribution didn't have "outages" like CDs but these days when a cloud service outage happens it's like half the internet goes out. These types of outages are quite impactful.

From another perspective living in the US I'm pretty grateful that the power is super stable because so many things I rely on need power and they almost always work. In India it's common to have rolling blackouts so people are quite adapted to outages daily.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Russia doing something to disrupt GPS? NATO switching GPS to combat mode? What?
It's not pretty, IMO, and I don't like the new monitor designs either.

On the other hand, if I needed that level of performance, esthetics would no doubt take a back seat.

Edit: I'd be happy to live with the uglier display design, given the extra flexibility in adjusting height and tilt.
I was curious about this so I looked around. From what I can tell it looks like what you're saying is part of a political disinformation campaign started by Kirsten Gillibrand.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/apr/16/kirsten-gi...

https://www.lsu.edu/hss/english/files/university_writing_fil... (Page 5)

If I understand these summaries correctly:

1. Countries in Latin America are developing and therefore using more oil so they have less to share with us.

2. We are consuming slightly more oil.

3. Oil obtained from hostile and unreliable regions should be replaced.

The effects would be that oil consumed from the pipeline would be cheaper, it would be more reliable, and while not being totally for domestic use would make a significant dent in our oil consumption in the right categories.

Edit:

Opposition to the Keystone XL likely would have been more effective if it focused on (potential) environmental impacts as well as the spill that occurred in 2017. I think that's what the Biden administration focused on when it cancelled the permits.
So complying with sanctions? Someone upthread said you guys weren't residents?

Anyhow thanks for protesting, hopefully it's all over soon.
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Putin signs decree banning or restricting exports from Russia
Was wondering why I was logged out all of the sudden.
As a Ukrainian whose relatives are being bombed and whose friends are currently enlisted - I sure hope they won't consider that at all. The only actions performed outside the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine should be in aid of stopping the invasion of Ukraine. Bombing troops and launch sites - yes. Attacking Russian servicemen wherever they can be reached - yes. Occupying even an inch of Russia - hell no.

Ukraine should even refrain from retaking Crimea militarily if things go well, unless it's virtually bloodless. This war has to end ASAP, and it won't end ASAP if Russians suddenly have a non-absurd reason to defend their land.
I think they were talking about how you can plug in your own screen LOL
When I lay down for bed I play a track called Pink Noise for Sleeping on a loop and set a 3 hour alarm that shuts off the music when it runs out. https://music.apple.com/us/album/pink-noise-for-sleeping/111...

When I'm awake I play Lightning Bolt, Oozing Wound and Discordance Axis on repeat. I guess they're so loud they're almost like noise lol
You quoted the law they are breaking, then you moved the goal-post to include enforcability. That is dishonest and wrong, and I think you should delete your comment.
Well yea, but it does implicitly encode a definition of normality and that's a political statement. It's just so deeply ingrained it is not perceptible as nearly everyone involved in creation and consumption has that assumption.

EDIT: As I pondered this there are two more angles to consider. (a) Baby Shark is a product of South Korea is at war with North Korea and arguments against nuclear family structure are laid out in the Communist Manifesto (b) some people consider that nuclear family structures are not merely co-existing with other healthy structures, but that the nuclear structure is harmful and other models are superior.

I'm not trying to debate these points (not totally sure where I stand myself), but it's helpful to break through the bubble and see what assumptions cultural forces are embedding in media. You can imagine a Baby Shark that talks about the network of relations that care for baby instead of a hierarchical biological lineage.
https://perl.plover.com/BTree/article.html is an introductory article about how a b-tree is implemented. It has example code for it in Perl.

It doesn't actually match low level implementations for a number of reasons. Such as the need to fix the page size the block fits in rather than the count of things in the block, and locking for concurrent access. But the data structure itself still looks the same.