skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or fasting, in religious observance or a health cleansing strategy. We'll never know for sure unless GP provides more details.
> There is no equivalent of this in this new-fangled electric world. Until batteries become smaller, light and a hell of a lot cheaper, I'll be sitting on the sidelines.

The entire premise of the discussion is a world where we have transitioned the economy completely to EVs. I think it's safe to assume that, in this new energy world, batteries would be smaller, lighter, and cheaper. This has been the observed trend since 1991 [1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
Please elaborate on what else the West can do?
No fly-zone is a non-starter
Three critical 0-days allow RCE and even physical ignition in APC UPS
from the article: "You see, the U.S. does produce enough oil to meet its own needs, but it is the wrong type of oil."
I loved your series on writing a SQL DB from scratch. I also enjoyed your recent SMTP post as well. I hope you continue to do these, they're always good reading.
I'm glad this is the top comment because this is indeed an absurd and ridiculous plan. It's pretty amazing how many people in this thread and in MSM are copy/pasting the exact playbook run by Dick Cheney and his gang of liars, and doing a "Ctrl-F" to replace "terrorist" with "Russian". Notice as well that these analyses are not making a claim that Ukraine itself represents some specific national interest to the US and NATO, security or otherwise. The tone is consistently vengeful and demonizing. The difference between 2022 and 2003 is a matter of velocity in terms of how quickly the fervor can spread via our technology, and how difficult it is to pare back the insane calls for escalation.

Part of Putin's narrative of control is that the west is out to get ordinary Russians and have been since the Berlin Wall came down. Much of what we've done over the last several weeks in response to this crisis is making that fiction a reality in the minds of Russians. This "call random Russians, troll them" idea is part of that same general philosophy that's making it so easy for people to advocate things that would directly lead to WWIII with a rather uncomfortably high probability that we'd see the use of tactical nuclear weapons (a no-fly zone for just one example).
It's definitely a form of fatalism; people who hold views like this are viewing it from a certain state of consciousness, and so they see the world through a lens that reflects the negative (Not that there aren't plenty of negative things going on in the world and the environment, but there is much more to be optimistic about).

From my point of view if you look at the state of humanity objectively, it's pretty obvious that most of us are living our best lives compared to any time in history. Even the fact that we understand some of the damage we might be doing to the planet is a huge leap forward, since understanding the problem is the first step to finding a solution. And we have more tools and solutions than ever before in history: earth observation/space travel, genetic engineering, renewable energy, powerful, cheap and abundant computing, rapid prototyping etc, etc.
But nothing is being resolved...

The article just says it gives completely different numbers.

"We discovered a new spacetime geometry with a wormhole-like structure that had been overlooked in conventional computations," says Goto. "Entropy computed using this new geometry gives a completely different result."

Am I missing something?
You, in combination with the article, are describing an is/ought situation here.

Displacing aggression---biting another rat---reduces your stress. (This is an is statement.)

Therefore, to reduce your stress, you should bite one of the other rats. (This is an ought statement.)

But biting another rat leads to a stack of bad downstream consequences, which may include things that raise your stress. Therefore, not displacing aggression is the better option; certainly, telling other people to do so is probably not a good idea. Even if you are displacing aggression in a safe manner, by chewing on a piece of wood or yelling at a tree, you train yourself to respond that way to stress and will eventually end up biting an innocent rat.
The most useful tool for me is the weight tracking using moving averages. I've been using Hacker's Diet Online since 2008 to track my weight and it's been a very useful way to address my weight creeping up before it got out of hand.
That's when the business needs to assign one Tim, or a team of Tims as dictator(s). Everyone else can provide feedback but isn't the decision maker.
Russia Is Now the World’s Most Sanctioned Country
You should absolutely be using existing frameworks, libraries, and common practices. But a popular framework will allow you make any application imaginable. If you're not making radically different applications every day, you can extend and constrain existing frameworks with your own code to make them specific to your needs.

For example, all my applications have the same look and feel, corporate branding, and authentication features. We use a popular framework but extended it to handle all of this stuff so it's never repeated between projects.
That url just shows a bunch of memes. Can you reupload?
A God of War series might be headed to Amazon Prime
Yugoslavia/Kosovo was illegal, Afghanistan was justified, Iraq was based on a tissue of lies.
The west can do for the Ukrainians what Pakistan has been doing for decades for the Taliban: provide safe havens, supplies and weapons to small insurgent groups doing guerilla strikes against the Russians. The Ukraine is so large that to keep it occupied would take hundreds of thousands of troops and Russia cannot afford to keep up such mobilisation for long. They have a few months at most and properly beating an insurgency takes years if not decades.

I don't really buy the Chernobyl argument either. If the NATO starts shooting the Russians already have nuclear weapons to act directly. No need to crack open an old nuclear plant and hope the wind doesn't change.
Shhhh, don't let people know the Strategy!
So if I understand correctly, US refineries are built to process imported oil, rather than the domestic oil drilled out of US land. Which means that if the US stops importing, it will not have a way to meet domestic consumption demand without building new refineries, or making (presumably) substantial modifications to existing processing infrastructure. What’s the lead time and cost to build that out?
Don’t copy paste your comment on this site, that’s against the rules.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/where-zelensky-is-open-...

> Along with "cooling down" to the idea of joining NATO, Zelensky told ABC News that there's room for negotiating on the occupied territories and unrecognized republics.

Read between the lines.
For the future when intending to be a resource, it may be useful to add some context to what you say when you want to be a resource or jumping off point.

I got absolutely none of what you said here from your original comment and perceived you entirely as attacking them or a troll; but in the nearly lowest effort troll way possible, and it even took me a day and 3 messages to get any real content from you.

It’s hard to distinguish well-meaning content from meaningless content nowadays and I know it’s an annoying bit of extra work, but I hope you can see the value in doing a little more to be heard.
Ok, but perhaps you could listen longer to it, e.g. while sleeping.
Roomies! got rebooted spiritually as Dumbing of Age. That iteration has been going for _12 years_
This is an interesting take. Is there data on this? Maybe at least for MFAANG what the impact would be in terms of crude oil?
Of course, it's the way. It's the only way, other than entering into a direct armed confrontation with Russia.
>The idea of venting can be traced as far back as Aristotle, but Freud is the one who really popularized the notion of catharsis. Most of what we assume about the need to “let it out” comes from his assertions about the danger of unexpressed feelings.

When it comes to 'let it out', it should be traced back even further to the Iliad. At least according to this [1] video by Lindybeige, the Iliad is all about forgiving, after having exhausted every other option, aka after letting it all out.

Having said that, the article seems to make a negation error. The opposite of not expressing feelings is not expressing all feelings but expressing some feelings.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aofPdMbXzUQ The Iliad - what is it really about?
I suppose I'm just optimizing for casting as large a net as possible. Hypothetically I'm looking for a long term partner, but casual dating is also a lot of fun. Of the dozen or so matches I might get in a week, only a couple end up turning into a date.
RedHat (IBM) doesn't make money directly by contributing to open source software development (although they do this). They make money from service and support contracts. So when we see a headline like this that means that RedHat won't maintain systems in Russia and Belarus. Which means that this is a bigger step than this is being downplayed in the comments. Redhat even bought out / absorbed CentOS also.
I think the record is around a year without food, but the guy started at something like 500 pounds.
This is pre-pandemic: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dfWIQljN2_XfKqyO2Kw7G-u4u_o=...

And my bet is that during pandemic, government money printing, housing and stocks rising, this graph becomes 2 times more dramatic.
If that scenario is defined as "Russia and Ukraine are currently engaged in battle" then sure. The United States and NATO are not at war with Russia and I'd prefer it stay that way.
Self-promotion skills for women in business
To be clear, Metaculus is a prediction aggregation platform, not a prediction market. There's no money at stake, only reputation.

https://www.metaculus.com/about/

It's well recognized, including my Metaculus users and admin, that money can provide a powerful incentive for accuracy which they do not use (presumably because this would be a very different, more legally encumbered platform). However, they attempt to make up for this by having many more predictions and, crucially, but weighting more heavily the predictions of people whose predictions have been more accurate in the past.
There's also plenty of room between "transient recession" and "system collapse".
I admit it’s difficult to find exact, consistent answers, but what I’ve seen is generally a roughly keto diet with all eating constrained to a 4-8 hour period in a day is very healthy.

That’s basically what I do: high fat and moderate protein, very low carbohydrates and sugars. One meal a day on average.
In fairness to the Russians they're getting extremely comprehensive propaganda, and we know from the US you don't need such comprehensive and exclusive propaganda to convict a large portion of the populace of non-true statements. I imagine when everything is reporting the lies, and you hear nothing contrary (because people get arrested), its going to be more effective.

But it is astounding that people are refusing to believe their own friends & family who are literally being shelled. It truly is depressing just how effective propaganda can be :-/
I agree.

When I say "shambles" I don't mean "0% functional, can't even launch a missile."

The system would have to be minimally functional to at least launch something. But at that point, even if the warhead is a dud or the rocket explodes immediately after launch, or goes off target, etc - the genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
Maybe NATO could start offering an easy-to-cancel 14 day free trial of their services. It seems like a loophole that you just need to attack a country that wants to join NATO before they've signed the paperwork.
You don't really need full GI. RTAO in Unity for example does take into account direct light and treats it differently to get the described effects, as well as some degree of indirect lighting so some corners do look comparatively brighter in some places.
Just out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say many/most candidates on the market are poor developers? Seems crazy that a majority of people applying for any position lack the requisite ability to actually fufull the positions requirements.
You’re letting your imagination run a little too wild here. Depending on which polls you believe, 20-50% of Russians support this invasion. There is no end scenario where Russians are content being ruled by a non-Russian, even in a newly formed democratic state.
You're arguing the old argument CLI/Terminal vs. GUI. Clicking a button vs. typing some commands is not the productivity bottleneck (or if it is you have bigger problems, eh?)

(I've seen terminal jockeys do things that blew my mind, emitting continuous streams of characters that seamlessly switched between terminals and functions, orchestrating their machine like some virtuoso pianist, moving so fast it was impossible to follow. GUIs offer such folk nothing and I wouldn't be surprised if Fabrice Bellard was of this ilk.)
> Stock up on food

huh? recession is that short?
There is a good percentage on the upper end of the experience spectrum that just won't take a coding challenge as part of the hiring process. You will miss out on a huge pool of talent that will automatically opt-out before the process even starts.
Yes, the bombing of Yugoslavia. I was 5 when that happened hiding in basement like poor Ukrainians do right now. Feel free to do some googling on your own, there are many cases like: Libya, Syria. Who will be next?
I’m pretty sure there is no consensus on keto. And I’ve been doing it for just over 9 years.

edit: Luckily "It works on my hardware" is perfectly acceptable for nutrition ;)
It's easy to point the finger at boomers, but where they maybe killed us with lead, we're killing the next generation with plastics. Sure, plastics were started in earlier generations but we're showing no signs of slowing down in usage.
Thanks for sharing the story. I'm always surprised whenever I read about the time it takes to prepare for these presentations. On stage, it looks absolutely effortless, and dare I say, simple? As though the products are so easy to use, they just whipped up this talk a day or two prior.

This is very much in line with the idea that magic tricks work because the audience can't fathom that the magician would go to such lengths to set up their trick:

> Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest.

From a previous posting on HN about the magician Teller: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/teller-reveals-h...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/964888
"Limited effectiveness"

Even a tiny effect on that much of the population is huge.
The fed has raised interest rates as a response to inflation. When has this not led to recession?
Had to try it! Here is some horror for your day: https://codepen.io/eyelidlessness/pen/abVrjQq
Cannabis opens my doors alright. Not any more or less independent thought doors, mostly the doors related to eating pizza and grilling.
> If a country doesn’t want to operate within the confines of international law, does not honor international agreements, does not honor its word and commits war crimes — then the word “immoral” does not apply to any action taken to punish and stop the aggressor. You cannot have it both ways.

You've just described the USA for the past 100 years here. The level of double standard here is reaching levels I've never expected before.
While you're on fourmilab site, I recommend The Autodesk File ebook:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/

A story about how Autodesk started. If I recall correctly (read it 15+ years ago), a bunch of programmers got together, without clear idea what they'll build. So they started multiple projects and decided to focus on what gets the most traction. In essence a way to test multiple ideas in paralel, thus increasing their collective chances.
Maybe because jobs was a narcissistic prick who knew how to stay in the lime light and took credit from anyone and everyone he could. I personally find it a bit obscene the way silicon valley idolizes him. Lets be honest, if that guy was anyones first level manager, they would gtfo real fast.
Basically what Finland achieved in the heroic Winter War. True, Finland lost some terrain, but I don't think anyone would find the aftermath as a soviet victory, when the original desire was to anexate the whole country.
No. Crypto miners have always been possible and WebGPU does not make them faster than they would be in WebGL 2 which has been available for a long time already.
Reminds me of the time Trump won and I'd "hedged my emotions" - chucked £50 on him winning when he had 1/10 odds, so figured my friends and I could spend the £500 (that I eventually won) drink our sadness away in the pub that evening. Worked an absolute charm.
There are 44,000 game developers on Steam. Who are they?
"Wasn't the C64's 1541 disk drive notoriously rubbish?"

Not that I can remember my 1541 being rubbish.

"Not sure I'd use it as an example of something "magic"."

It had a 6502 CPU in it and when we run code on the 1541 and detached the cable and it did still run, it felt magic to me. Because it was forty years ago, I can't remember all the details but I think there was a copy program on two drives that run without the c64.

"and was almost as slow as a tape deck."

No it wasn't. When I loaded a game from tape, it was more: Start game, have lunch, play game (I really started loading before lunch quite often). With the disk drive it was: Load, Play. Most people used a fast loader on top of that (Can't remember but I do think I had an Action Replay, but it might that I had one for my A500).

"It cost more than the computer it came with"

That was the case with quite some floppy drives, e.g. the floppy drive to my Amstrad CPC back in the 80s costed as much as the computer too (and contrary to the 1541 I don't think it had a general purpose CPU in it).

[Update] It looks there is a fast loader from 2020 that can do 19k/sec just as an AppleII on a 1541, so it doesn't seem like it's the hardware https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Transwarp
Themselves?[1]

1. Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens(2014) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Fair point. Rectors enjoy a great deal of privilege, but heavy is the head that wears the crown.

I don't have the Russian credentials you do so I'm only able to guess at reasons something so unreasonable can be supported.
How long term are you thinking? As it relates to the heat death of the universe... No.
Both factory processed PUFAs and animal products are unhealthy in my estimation.
You're being aggressive. Please stop.

I wouldn't contest that more people die from alcohol than marajuana. That wasn't the issue under discussion. The issue is, which is worse for society.

Part of why I find your comment so aggressive is because you're being very sharp with me, but you don't realize you aren't talking about the same thing.

> This is blatantly false. Find me 1 study that shows definitively that MJ is worse than Alcohol for society.

Having worked in academia as a researcher, I don't actually believe studies can reliably be understood by anyone other than those who conducted it and their immediate peers in the field.

A weaker form of that, which I also agree with, would be, "studies are rarely definitive." But you're asking for a definitive study. That doesn't seem fair.

Anyway, it isn't incumbent on me to do the work for you that you are asking me to do.
People sling accusations about propaganda based entirely on what they already believe. Anything they believe counts as truth, while anything the other side believes or supports is propaganda. This is how the human mind works under pressure. Everyone does it, and it's more evident than ever these days. Unfortunately, it's no basis for moderating an internet forum—or at least not this one.

You need to follow the site guidelines the same as any other user here, and if you keep breaking them we will ban you. You can post thoughtfully and substantively even when you disagree with something so strongly as to regard it as propaganda.

As for "you did nothing to stop that" - if you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. People can let us know about posts that are breaking the site guidelines by flagging them, or in egregious cases by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. However, someone having a different view, even on a passionately divisive topic, does not automatically mean that they're breaking the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> if accompanied with guarantees of no further aggressions

Which Russia cannot provide since they already promised not to invade.
The insurgency in Iraq was also a minority- most supported the US. I like to imagine that Russia will have a much more difficult time in Ukraine where they are almost universally despised.
This is much less of an issue for Sweden and Finland than other non-NATO members, as we're an EU state and article 42.7 of the Lisbon treaty obligates other EU members to assist in case of military attack.

So any Russian military retaliation that occurred between Sweden announcing they intended to join NATO but before they officially did would, in effect, be an attack on the whole EU block. Which is tantamount to a direct attack on NATO.

Finally, Sweden has several bi-lateral defence agreements with countries like the UK and US. It's obviously not technically the same as being a NATO member, but many people in the Swedish defence establishment regard it as closely equivalent.
how they plan to monetize it?
Why Neovim is Better than Vim (2015)
So many companies are making these decisions very quickly. So many that I don't think it has anything to do directly with the war. They are pulling out because their money people, the only people who really matter in a large corporation, are in a panic. Nobody knows whether it will even be possible let alone moral to do business in Russian. How do you get money out when the banks are delisted? How do you get money into Russia without violating sanctions? How many of your Russian "business partners" are the subject of sanctions? Is paying tax in Russia a sanctions violation? As the Russian government struggles for cash, will any of your corporate assets be seized? If they are, will insurance cover such seizures? (No.) The money people also look at the dramatic fall in the value of Russian currency. Therefor, setting aside all the moral debates about wars and violence, from a purely financial perspective these are all prudent financial decisions. The PR statements on twitter about supporting Ukraine are just window dressing.
Perhaps the difference is I am not baffled; Alcohol is enjoyable in moderation and it is one of the few high margin items in the store. Fluids are popular and take up much more shelf space as noted. As for bottled water, my local Safeway easily carries in excess of 20 brands before we count the huge number of soft drinks too?

I suspect you have not been in a dispensary recently if you think a supermarket would stock 10x as much; the range of products in most US dispensaries is truly enormous now across edibles, waxes, flowers, tinctures etc. I would strongly argue we would see a smaller range of products in the supermarket, should it become legal to sell there. This is exactly like alcohol too, where dedicated booze stores often have a wider range. It would still be significant in size though - lots of people like weed.
> This just isn't accurate though, you're using a definition of heat pump that's personal rather than shared.

TBH, that is the definition of heat pump that I grew up with. When people say heat pumps, I immediately think of ground source heat pumps.