skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! That would only work though if this affected a non-member or non-permanent member of the security council, given that permanent members have veto power.
It was very utopic to think there would not be another war of conquest ever again. Migh is right will be forever true.
This is untrue. The "rome collapsed because of lead" revisionary history is bunkum.
Covid Can Shrink the Brain as Much as a Decade of Aging, Study Finds
Might be a result of that "power stance" TED talk that was making the rounds years ago.
Yeah you drop the old ones. And then the insight is that nobody ever has time to process the backlog anyway so just drop the new ones instead and delete the backlog. If the work is important, it will come back up as a new request during cycle planning.
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Exactly! Once the bombardment is over, the waiting part, which is the most horrible part of the siege will begin.
I don't want to take away from your post but you are copy and pasting it all over the place in every thread that mentions twitter or social media... That's against the rules of the site.
I'm curious at what point do we decide to continue to serve Russians because the citizenry are still people.

They still need food, energy, shelter, and security.

Just thinking about how far the pendulum can swing before it becomes immoral for other reasons.
Your hunch is right. The "moderate middle" trope is a product of lazy pundits and independent voters are actually all over the ideological map - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-moderate-middle-is-...
Could you elaborate why or how you determined/believe that they are tank shots, for the rest of us?
This was my suspicion too, regardless aws issues will have a knock on effect with a lot of companies anyway.
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/874df281-d3e0-489a-98c0-6b840023b82...

Here is a photograph of New York City.

Here is a CGI of a bunch of boxes with "Ambient Occlusion": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/AmbientO...

You can see that "Ambient Occlusion" ultimately comes down to "corners are darker" heuristic. It doesn't matter if you're doing "Ray Tracing based Ambient Occlusion" (see https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines...), or "Screenspace", or whatever. The heuristic is: "corners probably have less light", and the design of the algorithm works backwards from that.

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Now look at New York city again: a collection of boxes in the realistic sun. Carefully look at the corners.

Its actually kind of rare for corners to be darker in the real world. Every shadow must be calculated. Some corners are darker, while others are touched directly by the sun and have no darkening effect at all.

IMO, Ambient Occlusion "looks good" for the same reason that cartoons / anime "looks good", it instantly provides contrast in a slightly unrealistic fashion, which is more important for high-speed video games. The human eye can see the contrasts and better understand geometry with the "fake shadows" helping out.
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But I only post here because this community is worth interacting with.

Twitter's community is the entire world. (as far as I know)
> I have decided not to think in the way you just did e.g. "where's that study which supports what I already believe?"

I'm not sure you have if you immediately assume what veltas believes because they're asking to be reminded about another study. Seems like projection.

My personal opinion is that it's less noble to close your ears to new information once you've found the information that you prefer than it is to look for more information when you don't like the information you have.
Apple announces low-cost iPhone SE with 5G, faster chip for Macs
To answer your comment by taking the absolute opposite direction, let me share this video explaning what magic is, according to Alan Moore, and why it is a very real thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1qACd0wHd0
Through enough iteration, all problems can be solved. But, how many iterations will be required to reach a solution that works for everyone? At that point, is there a solid business case for the project?
*128GB. I dislike how they omit this and act like it's more powerful than Mac Pro.
$3999 is actually pretty decent given it's supposedly 60% faster than the 28-core Mac Pro which is $13,499
None of these reasons justify the repression of free and open media.
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Yea, I don't tweet. I have a twitter but don't see any point to tweet anything.
That also means I have 0 followers. Made like 3 comments max.

I don't really think about twitter as a social network. For me it's more like complete shitfest which is sometimes informative and/or funny.
Energy independence does not mean “only uses domestically produced energy.” It means “energy is not a significant lever that other nations have over us.”

And that is true for the U.S. today. We could meet our domestic fossil fuel energy needs, but we find economic advantage in trading energy anyway. But when we want to use energy as a tool of policy, we have the option.

This happens in personal finance too. I can pay off my mortgage: I have enough capital to do so. So I don’t fear the bank. But with mortgage interest rates so low, I’ve found comparative advantage by keeping my mortgage and investing my capital elsewhere.
It's really easy to not be "canceled", just be a good person. What genuinely OK opinion are people being canceled for?
Housing increases in price because the market doesn't produce enough housing to go around.

Are you claiming that housing supply shrinking during the exact time of M2 expansion is the main reason that housing appreciation skyrocketed compared to other previous years?

Even if you make that claim, what's your (separate) theory with equities?

As for your link, I read it, it's propaganda and not actual substance. There's no mention of how CPI is calculated with consumer substitution of mind to smooth out increased variance, on top of that this guy completely ignores weighting.

No one gives a shit if suddenly tissues and tic tacs are 1/100th of their previous price when rent doubles along with health insurance.
Neat! A race to the bottom where each country can adopt every bad idea another country has.
> Losses also occur at a much faster rate.

USSR in WWII was losing on average about 5000 (five thousand) soldiers per day. So no.
This is a very American point of view. I don't think anybody here in Europe in the last decades has looked at Germans with contempt for what Nazis did. It's absolutely ridiculous.
> It’s purely a strategic interest.

The funny thing is that Ukraine is actually pretty low as far as american interests are concerned... That's why the USA will absolutely not fight in Ukraine, as it has said repeatedly before and after the war started. Which makes the whole reason for this conflict to have developed into a full scale war - Ukraine's prospect of joining NATO, causing Russia to feel itself existentially threatened as it couldn't defend itself against NATO if that happened - extremely futile. America would gain nothing by Ukraine joining NATO (assuming no desire to actually launch an attack on Russia), but Russia had a lot to lose as they absolutely expected NATO aggression (if we wanted them to believe we didn't mean to attack them, perhaps we shouldn't have continued to expand to their borders in the first place despite their extremely strongly worded protests?!).
Not many. Also awareness is extremely low. Couple it with low income, extremely low number of hospitals and doctors. And when you move away from metros the number decreases from less to close to zero and most of the non metro hospital/clinics are essentially scam shops. Eventually you’d just want to not even consider all this and just settle for really bad.
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Ah damn, you're right. Can't believe I mixed them up.
I'm an open source contributor to crypto, it's not a pipe I can tell you that.
> It's not like the Russian government is being deprived of the ability to express its official narrative. It controls the media in Russia, and can freely express itself there.

"You're not censored, you can always go in your lone cellar and scream your opinion in there".

We're clearly suppressing the Russian side. Not unusual and not necessarily bad in a cold (?) war, but let's not act like it's not happening.
Thomas Midgley Jr can be thanked for this. He also played a role in developing CFCs (Freon).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
There's at least five now: DOM, canvas, SVG, webgl, webgpu. Could maybe make an argument that fonts are an entirely separate rendering engine with quirks and issues too. CSS Houdini might even be another new one.
This feels a bit reductionist. Parent post specifically calls out state-sponsored actors. It's fine to expect and require doors, windows, and locks. It is not fine to expect a commercial business or individual to have their own tanks and military on hand.

Organizations do bear responsibility for their security posture--and many have spectacularly failed in this responsibility--but let's not pretend that an employee being phished is equivalent to something on the level of the SolarWinds hack or any one of the many nasty bits of malware coming out of Russia.

State sponsored attacks are well funded and leverage one more or 0-days, which by definition cannot be defended against. The only way to stay ahead of a 0-day is to find it first, and that requires resources and expertise even large organizations are hard pressed to find in the numbers required.
Speed between internal servers can reach new record using laser light
twtter has about 70 million US users, out of a population of 330 million (does twitter have an age cutoff for users?). One would presume that twitter is like other services, where a small percentage of the user base is producing a larger percentage of the content.

So 'most people don't tweet' isn't really that much of a stretch.
Maybe look into Zoho: https://www.zoho.com/
Of course but if you read closely, I mentioned Erdogan, who purged secular military leadership, started buying Russian SAMs, and bombed US-backed Kurdish fighters. It makes for super awkward dinners back at the NATO clubhouse.

And while I'm 110% rooting for Ukraine to kick Russia out, EU membership for other Eastern European countries has not been an easy road. Now toss in non-military third rail value systems like LGBTQ rights and abortion.

I think "less complicated" is a fair description.
> better path to higher comp

Sometimes yes. In general, probably not.

Development pays better, and there are way more opportunities. Interest and aptitude matter a lot, short and long term, for both domains.

Either way, you won't be poor.

Look at available data (eg levels.fyi). I don't think it will be a shortcut to higher comp, unless you are more interested in product work or TPM work. Or if you're better at it (which you might be after several years, but probably not for a while).

Also, for truly large organizations, an MBA may be useful. In some cases, it may be necessary.

> fulfillment than being a pure developer

Maybe. Hopefully! You'll know only if you try it.

> The strategy side of things feels very different, but the interview process seems much more sane and less broken?

Interviewing for product related fields is also not sane and pretty broken.

Same performance. Just different performance skills.
Spotify works on desktop for me for all songs. Logged out of all the mobile apps :(
There is such thing as propaganda. It's when somebody explicitly controls what you can and what you can't say (among other things). CNN may be biased, sure and I have no problem with that (as with Foxnews), but with RT I have issues with.

But again I'm not sure I support the ban of RT, just on a point of principle and because those bans were already used as rationalizations to close last independent media in Russia.
> What are we actually afraid they will tell us?

It's the wording used... For example "Ban russian oil and gas from our country" sounds like a good idea... "Ban russian oil and gas, pushing energy prices up 50% and costing every citizen $3000 every year in increased prices while causing a real risk of economic collapse" doesn't sound so great...
This is also wonderful (emphasis mine):

> All of a sudden, the buffers, queues, whatever, can't deal with it anymore. You're in a critical state where you can see smoke rising from your servers, or if in the cloud, things are as bad as usual, but more!
In analyzing my personal motivations and looking at "common sense" knowledge and psych research on the topic, I've come to the conclusion that we gain a lot of motivational energy from others. We live in worlds of stories and narratives, and those narratives are strengthened when mirrored and shared by others. If someone notices or sees my work or praises me for my work, it is a strong signal to my brain that it's on the right track.

It was embarrassing for me to admit this, but I've found it to be a running thread throughout my educational and work career. I suspect it dominates my brain more because of early childhood experiences more, but I'm unsure because it seems taboo to admit to craving acceptance or acknowledgement.

Once I began admitting it to myself, it became a big part of what drives my growth. I now know the impact that accountability has on my success. I'd rather feel slightly embarrassed for wanting people to see my toy projects than limit my personal trajectory out of fear. I am mindful of depending on others for validation, and I try to strike a healthy balance between wanting to impress others and wanting to impress myself.

Apropos to the topic at hand, I'm using Twitter and Observable to "learn in public". I don't expect or intend to become an influencer. I just know that I can leverage the dopamine hits of upvotes and likes and retweets for my personal growth. I'm a social animal that needs to have his efforts directed through shared structures of meaning. So far, I've leveraged that in multiple areas to great effect.
> 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.

People really should read the NATO treaty. It fits on about 2 sheets of A4. Article 6 makes very explicit what constitutes an attack on a NATO member, and it's not "an attack on another EU country that's not in NATO". It's on the territory of /NATO members/.
You grew up is all.
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I think you are considering RT journalism, it's not. It is not free to report fact. If it were free to do so I'd agree with you that it is valuable for understanding and for having dialog with Russia. We know RT is not free because of the crackdown of real Russian independent media. The way RT is now just reflects the desires of an autocracy whose stated goals are in opposition to the world order and whose tools are misinformation, violence and terror. Giving them a platform is not helpful.
They won't focus on US war crimes as they are not a signatory of the ICC and even have a law to "invade" the Haag to extract any US service personal facing such prosecution. [1]

I also expect the US to veto (if they have to, China may do it anyway) any UN security council decision that would make some way for Russia to face war crimes as it will eventually backfire. Especially since the US has been the one vetoing resolutions against Israel on multiple occasions. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/19/a-history-of-the-us...
Which market research document did you get this factoid from?

Many have gone on record and said even if they wanted to make them here the engineer volume and expertise are nowhere to be found except in China now. The speed with which they can deploy factories for new processes in China is unprecedented. You can’t match that here in the US. It’s not apples mistake, it’s the governments. And the people who vote for them. Which includes you if you’re American (and sitting in a liberal state voting democrat doesn’t count; if you care that much move to a swing state and vote there).
There’s freedom of opinion and then there’s allowing an enemy state at war with your ally to broadcast propaganda freely in your country. Fighting for and allowing the latter is absolutely idiotic.
Lighter oils get used for gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuels. Heavy oils get used for plastics, petrochemicals, and road surfacing.

I wish there was an easy answer to your refinery question. They're all different, but there are three basic types of refineries:

The simplest is a topping plant, which is basically just a distillation unit. The output you get is basically whatever the natural yield of the oil is. These refineries can typically only process light crudes.

The next level refinery is a cracking refinery. These take the gas oil output from the distillation and breaks it down further using high temperature, pressure, and catalysts. This allows for the breakdown of slightly heavier crudes.

The final level is a coking refinery. This takes all the residual fuel and "cracks" it into a lighter product. This increases the yield of higher value gasoline, which allows a refinery to take in cheaper heavier crudes.

Building a new refinery is a 5+ year process that costs about $7-10 billion. I'm not sure what upgrading an existing one costs, but it's somewhere in that ballpark. Keep in mind that a large influence on the type of refinery is their geographic location. They're built to accept the type of oil that flows in the pipelines.
It is a sign of the trying times we live in that I saw the extra "z"s in your post and instead of assuming a typo, I immediately think of Russian hackers infiltrating this platform.
A weak generalization?
It's also doesn't come across as a position of strength. More like hysterical reactionary thrashing about.
All Ukraine has to do is:

1. Offer immediate provisional citizenship/asylum to anyone who immigrated to fight.

2. Anyone in their prisons, offer them clemency if they agree to fight (bad idea I know but it works)
I would even say viewpoint of not the vocal minority. That is even near majority viewpoint, but if it is one not popular on twitter it is risky...
I've always preferred to build my own computers. It's fun, and you can customize, and with few exceptions, it meant better performance/acoustics/thermals than what you could buy directly from PC manufacturers.

Now though we're at a place where nothing you build yourself with off the shelf parts can come close to what Apple is doing. It's cool for the industry, and incredible how compact and efficient Apple's designs allow their systems to be, but it's also a little sad the way the industry is going. Intel and AMD likely won't be able to catch up. Maybe Qualcomm does with Nuvia, but they'll just take the same integrated approach.
You clearly haven't used the site. It's very much not pure propaganda. It's not even Breitbart level. Quite a wide range of content. Some good balanced journalism even. That's what makes it effective.
Not GP, but I decided against the 13 because of the size and weight. I ended up getting a 13 Mini, despite concerns about battery life. I wish the 13s had the in-button Touch ID that Apple put on the iPad. It would have been very useful during COVID masking, though I understand that sort of thing would've needed to already have been in the works for it to have landed last fall.
From the Russian perspective:

If the country wont agree to NATO neutrality, the next best outcome is destroying it so thoroughly that it will be a humanitarian disaster for decades to come.

The former is a much more attractive option to them because it would pose the lest threat. The second is still favorable to a prosperous NATO and EU member.
The inconsistencies bother me the most.

I use it a lot while driving, and have to reach down to swipe the screen to skip a song. This is a pretty mindless, natural motion. Sometimes though (till I found out you can disable it) it would switch into car mode with no warning, meaning I need to look down, see the difference, and push the skip button with some precision, potentially dangerous. Why the car mode couldn’t use the swipes is beyond me, or why it exists in the first place.

I’ve since turned that off but my frustration is now from the lyrics feature. It’s neat, and interesting in very specific scenarios, but I wish I could turn it off. A diagonal swipe brings it up, meaning I have to check it, swipe down, and then try again, too much for a previously thoughtless action.

Yeah I don’t use it for its “intended purpose”, but these are little ux roadblocks that could improve others experiences. I don’t see why it can’t be slightly different.
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American political discourse involving the uneducated is a cesspool. Social commentary often leads to political discourse which makes that type of speech sadly often one step away from a cesspool. Twitter is simply facilitating it.

Stop following people who post political things or opinions about social issues and the toxicity is much, much less.
Rule of law must never be transactional. If war crimes have been committed is a matter for other courts to decide. If the RT ban is legitimate, the EU General Court will decide.

We in the west do well to remember not to follow the same kangaroo court structures that we protest when other blocs mix politics with justice.
Banning RT isn't what free press is about.

They should handle the appeal correctly and act according to the outcome.

The alternative, selective and unlawful censorship, is much worse.

As proven already in Russia.
>What arguments are they bringing to the table, exactly?

How will we know if we can't see it?
> Afghanistan was not an illegal invasion, they were the aggressor country.

This is wrong. The country of Afghanistan did not conduct the WTC attacks. The nominally ruling clique in Afghanistan would not extradite OBL. If anything Afghanistan was an area of civil war in which the US intervened.

After the Taliban refused to turn over the mastermind of the attacks, Osama Bin Laden, Operation Enduring Freedom officially began 7 October 2001 with American and British bombing strikes against al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-...
In my case Face ID was a significant downgrade, even before the pandemic and masks.

With Touch ID, I can reach into my pocket, place my finger on the button as I'm taking the phone out, and by the time I got the phone out it's already unlocked, played the unlock animation and is on the home screen.

If the phone is on the table/etc I can just put my finger on the button and unlock it - so again by the time I actually grab the phone it's unlocked (that is - if I need to grab it - maybe I just wanted to glance at the notification I just received, or pass it to another person).

With Face ID, the phone needs to be in front of your face just to begin the unlock sequence, and needs to be at a certain distance and in clear view of your face. Masks break this, but so do even pre-pandemic things like being in bed and having some of your face obstructed by pillows/blankets.
This is the beachhead for this kind of thing. We have a state doing something so obviously bad that everyone is ok with any kind of retaliatory action. And now it's been demonstrated that enough pressure will cause companies to pull out, stop buying, whatever.

So next it will be Isreal, or Hungary or Poland ("populists") or Republican states, or companies that did something people disagree with, or a comedy special.

I think it's important to find constructive ways to put Russia in its place, but I'm terrified at the precedent we're setting, and the "problem formulation" we now are defining, of "show that something is bad like what Russia did and the will lead to it being cancelled".