skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we forget that Ukraine is not just Kyiv, it is slowly being swallowed up from all directions

Except we haven’t forgotten, news orgs are reporting on things happening outside of Kyiv. Russia seems to have really overplayed their hand because they were barely able to take Kherson after like a week, and can’t even take bigger cities like Kharkiv, even with intense shelling.

Russia may not be a paper tiger, but they sure can’t do much against an enemy many times smaller than them.
I can link you to another bunch. Because I took interest on the subject. I've been told to "vent" almost all of my life and only a few years ago I got exposed to this research.

I'm citing one of the earlier ones and there's plenty of newer studies.

My "allegations" are based in research and not empty words(unlike the accusations in your comment)
This makes about as much sense as "Is Putin's end game to stop global warming by forcing Europe to move to green energy?"
No sense at all.
Not only is it rampant, Russia is looking at making it legal, so I'm not sure how much effect breaking the license checks would have.
https://www.matroska.org/technical/codec_specs.html - it seems that .mka would be perfect, it supports all codecs basically, and so you can losslessly move audio into the container and back out if needed.

You still need players that would understand how to display subtitles for a .mka container.
That's a really interesting story that resonates with one I heard from a friend. Years ago when we were both at Intel, my friend transferred into the corporate demo group. He related a story about the time he had to prep Andy Grove for a few minute segment of a CES demo. My friend was in complete awe of Grove's ability to bring 100% focus and attention to learning every detail of the script, learn it quickly, and never deviate from the script. I guess that goes with the territory for people at that level.
> sometimes I have had to go 3 weeks at a time without a meal

> I have been a web developer since 1995

Something doesn't add up. I don't mean to be rude, but I think the economy might be the least of your issues.
Back in the 80's, researchers also worked on the concept of a "bridge" language; that is, first translating a text into a language with a simple grammar, few homonyms and other beneficial traits, and then translating again into the target language. One of the bridge languages was Aymara, but then Google's statistical model took over. You can almost tell how much material Google has to work with. For example, Mandarin<=>English translations are pretty good, while Thai<=>English is usually unintelligible.
Show HN: Explore Borges' Library of Babel from your browser
I meant that the Western powers should negotiate with Putin.
Is it possible the raw materials to make these batteries are so abundant right now that it’s much cheaper to just make new ones than recycle old ones?
That's a great point - age is a huge factor I'm sure. For reference, I'm 27.
The fortification properties afforded by fluoride are entirely topical, meaning that fluoride-containing toothpaste can be considered beneficial. You use it and then spit it out. Drinking fluoridated water can hardly be considered helpful. Most of the fluoride content of water goes directly into the stomach where its effects are strictly not studied, and if you know anything about the fluoride ion, the effects are most likely detrimental, and possibly horrendous.
People have been protesting; So far, 13,000 have been arrested.[0] Remember: Russia's judicial system is not the same as the US'. It's easy to armchair criticize when your life isn’t on the line.

Is it North Korea's citizens' fault that they have a dictator? After all, they do have a "democracy" where Kim Jong-un is "elected": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_North_Korea

[0]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-police-arrest-1...
So we're for harassing random Russian civilians now?
Thank you for not selling this to the "industry"!
> West destroyed Serbia, ask Serbians, what do they think of NATO

Ask Croatians and Bosnians what they think about Serbs. Basically Serbia tried to do to them, exactly what Russia is doing now to Ukraine. Btw Serbia is starting to do pretty well comparing to when they were under USSR influence.

> There is peace in Crimea, there is a peace in South Ossetia. Nobody is shooting.

Nobody was shooting in entire Ukraine, before Russia decided to start stealing their country.
Good luck managing updates for your entirely pirated software stack.
Elon Musk asks judge to terminate 2018 settlement with SEC
The companies mentioned are NOT cutting off just Russians, they have been cutting off anyone with Russian citizenship, no matter where they may be located.
Thats why I love these types of sayings!

It doesnt always get grease, does it!

It depends on the usefulness of the source of the squeek! For me it translates as 'be worth helping'.

This even works for your couldron, is it worth fixing?
[1] above is a fantastic resource. I highly recommend Markus Winand's book "SQL Performance Explained" if you're in need of better performing SQL queries. It's quite short and small, but it covers all the bases, and uses introductory language.
MJ definitely increases aspects of my intelligence.

Said no one ever about lead.
It's a big lie
What country doesn't have a history filled with blood?
Did you call on Americans to leave the US during the war in Iraq?
This concerns me, as well. I definitely want aggression deterred as well. But at what cost?

It seems like there's too much power in the hands of too few. It will bite us.
An interesting possible long term consequence of this is having top tier free and open source commercial alternatives coming out of Russia. Nationalized piracy would also pour over into the West and we'd probably see people here getting software updates from Moscow.
I'm curious, because I have not heard of wax or tinctures, do you think those are things that more people will use, vs people who would have used some hard drugs anyway?

What I mean is, there will always be some hard drug users, now from the discussion I understand some "hard" THC products exist, will this result in any kind of demographic change like the OP worried about, or is it just a new drug of abuse?

Just because these things exist, I don't think it automatically follows that they will get used by most people, or even more people than would have found some other destructive thing to do in their absence
Makes sense. In my work I've seen this when trying to get developers on my team using certain patterns, styles, types, conventions, or tools (or the inverse - deprecating them).

Suggestions are usually well grounded (e.g., "let's migrate to this `std` class instead of this old home-rolled wrapper), but sometimes there's some nuance to how something is currently done and deep discussion of the proposal can work through these bits.
I agree: we need to remind people to play the long term game. While direct kinetic action would save lives, for like a day, the escalation would be far worse over the course of the following weeks. We're allowing Russia to corrupt it's own economy and enslave itself to China. There's still more we can do: offer Russian businesses a place in the western world, get Europe off Russian gas/oil, and sanction Belarus for being complicit with Russia and a 100 more incentives. Lastly we need to find a way to allow Russia to exit, basically incentivize the offramp.
This is ridiculous, nevermind the fact that you are assuming you are getting accurate information if you are not in Russia. There is massive disinformation coming from both sides.
Unless it clearly provides any medium to long term benefit I guess I'm going to avoid it. Plus it is expensive. Same for alcohol amd cigarette, I avoid them as much as I can. The only thing I need is caffeine but I'm tricking myself by drinking decaffeinated most of the time. I hope one day I can remove that too.
I can't imagine how this could possibly work for them. Maybe there are sticky users who've been on Opera for decades, but it's gotta be niche as hell. I remember Opera being great 15-20 years ago -- it was my browser of choice. As far as I know nothing differentiates it these days from other Chromium browsers.
Much of the Far East was part of China up until recently (or at least, part of the Manchurian state that took over China) so it is very much a thread. Russia and China remain frenemies even today because the Russians are paranoid that China wants that northern harbor that they don't have right now. After all, Harbin is much more populated than Vladivostok.

I don't think, however, that the (very conservative) Chinese leadership is very interested in Russia destabilizing. They aren't very happy about uncertain, and Russia imploding would lead to very uncertain outcomes. In that sense, they probably find the war in Ukraine very annoying but are going along with Russia since they burned too many bridges with the west recently. They would be just as happy with a very thankful Russia as a stable trading partner and military ally. They can (and are) simply colonize the far east via trade and investment.
This is true, I suspect.

Except if you make it funny.

Funny venting -- exasperated joking -- is an enormously effective stress reduction tactic.

The key point really I guess is that you have to have gone looking for the laugh before you let it out; that is likely the therapeutic value.

"HELLO POLLLLLLYYYYY!"
You can play these games within the same language: See, Regina v. Ojibway.
And the psychological effects of consuming a taboo substance.
Here in NYC I average around 3-5 matches/day spread amongst a couple different apps. Back in Toronto it was more like 0-2, so I probably should've mentioned in my original post that location likely plays a _huge_ factor.
I felt really bad when I had to sell my property in India and had to offer bribe to the officer so that I an get an okay to sell the flat. An relative said that I must not done that but I had to go back to work and didn’t have lot of time at hand to fight the system. I feel really bad though. The whole thing is so stacked against the common man who feels powerless against the huge corruption machine.
New information is coming out that seems to imply that the content of the fats we eat have effects on the body. Unsaturated fats seem to be obesogenic and interfere with the body's satiation mechanism, increasing the amount of white fat and decreasing the amount of brown fat (which is more metabolically active and may be the kind of fat that is lost first when people start dieting, which would explain part of the yo-yo dieting lose a lot of weight and then get stuck and gain more back system that plagues the obese), and the American food purity aesthetic has been pushing for the elimination of saturated fats from the diet as they typically come from animal sources.

Once the body hits a tipping point with excess white body fat, the fat becomes a sort of parasite which gets preferential treatment in consuming calories and nutritional resources out of the bloodstream, starving the organs while the body is bathing in an abundance of calories and nutrition.

If this turns out to be the whole story it is really quite insidious!

I don't know of a single-prong approach to solving this issue. Maybe wegovy will come down in price and help people break the cycle, maybe keto is the way to go, intermittent fasting may be helpful, finding saturated fats or supplementing with stearic acids and eliminating antioxidants to help promote fat oxidization... The list goes on for potential cures and we still haven't even begun work on solidifying the direct cause of the disease.

And yes, obesity is a disease. It's not just lazy people shoveling doritos in their faces and reaping their just rewards. The foods that we are provided are not balanced nutritionally and they have been designed by food scientists to not trigger the satiation mechanism so that we will consume more of them.

So yeah, when you eat processed foods your brain is tricked into thinking one more bite will satisfy, but the satisfaction never comes. Then you overindulge, getting lots of fast carbs and unsaturated fats, your body produces insulin, the calories get converted into white fat, the white fat grows, eventually becoming a parasite that eats your food first while you still haven't dealt with the initial issue, you become obese and since your white fat gets to eat first every time you eat you become more fat before your organs and muscles get the leftovers.

That's positively devilish, and right now the solution seems to be to intermittent fast so that your other organs get moved ahead in the nutritional priority list, to eat keto so that your body begins rapidly oxidizing fat, to limit vitamin C and other antioxidants until you get closer to your goal weight to limit your body fat's resistance to oxidization, and to supplement your diet with chemicals that help your body bypass the labyrinth of obesity you've found yourself in.

And despite all of that, we still don't know the full story.

https://fireinabottle.net/category/the-scd1-theory-of-obesit...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-sugar-and-fat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinar...
MIT in general has degraded in quality for decades.

I knew an absolute idiot who got a PhD from the Media Lab for putting a motion sensor and servo motor in a toy bear so it waved at you when a coworker wanted to talk to you and coworkers could tell when you were in your office. A fucking PhD.

The MIT underwater robotics team - backed by defense contractors giving them access to all the latest and greatest toys - has lost to high school teams making their robots out of tupperware containers and bilge pumps.
Possibly the same reason why people like to listen to music while working? The essential feature common to white noise and music you're familiar with could be the predictability. I know for me a good song (uptempo, not too distracting) can help me block out the outside world and make me feel very productive.
It reads like they made some assumptions based on earlier research and did some math.
I wouldn't complain if they were already unable to do anything, but many of them are actively preventing further improvements. Often due to it coming at a cost for them. Their unwillingness trickles down to other generations both in teachings and in pressuring the next generation what can and can't be done, and how to respond. Most of late gen X has also thrown in the towel, leaving the future generations to solve it themselves.

This despite the fact leaders are overwhelmingly at/past middle age, as is wealth required to make moves as an individual.
I think this begs the question in assuming there is just one type of catharsis. In my experience, things like this can be done productively or unproductively, effectively or ineffectively. It's all about the execution, and different people use the same word for different things.
No top tier code when anyone with half a brain and sufficient resources is trying to escape that totalitarian hellhole.
Towards an operational definition of tech debt
And so few capable of nuanced discussion.
Yes, if you can convince your neighbors to change zoning laws, you should. I thought I was pretty clear about that. But the reason it takes a lot of money is because it's unpopular.

Parking is either on street (and therefore a subsidy to the business) or in parking lots. Either parking minimums or street parking requires vast asphalt pads empty most of the time, because you have to account for peak capacity.
Fordle: Lie about your Wordle Stats
Because some people benefit from world wars. It happens that they were mostly powerful figures too.

You know, death could be very profitable.
The trucker protest has absolutely nothing to do with qanon, but I guess that proves he does support crypto for a specific use case. Being against emergency measures and doing away with due process for freezing accounts is hardly something very extremist imo.
If you care about errors you can use

function wait_all {
for job in $(jobs -p); do wait "${job}"; done
}

A lone wait wont tell you if any of the jobs fail.
great writeup!

For those interested, I was only able to get the demos running in Chrome Canary with "Unsafe WebGPU" enabled.
> I understand people wanting to deter aggression, but this is not the way.

What is the way in this particular situation? What would you do?
Simple Booking App for the beauty industry
I focused on the core, simple booking app targeting the beauty industry. Uncomplicated and free to use.
Out of curiosity, will Windows and Mac users in Russia stop receiving OS updates as part of the sanctions?

That would definitely expose them to hacking and malware and hurt them big time.

Then again, that could probably push every user in Russia to use a VPN to get their updates.
The main point the blog makes is that there's a huge discontinuity in the 1970s that doesn't seem to be explained by diet. And it occurs in other countries as well, though often with a delay.
FDS is pretty batshit.

It’s like the women’s equivalent of the incel movement, where each gender finds a way to dehumanize the other (in the case of incels, viewing women as sexual objects).
The huge amount of equipment prepared for the invasion close to the border and no defense line was main give away that Stalin prepared to roll over of Hitler after he has destroyed all other European armies and finalize the commy dream they cooked up with Lenin to concur all of Europe that fortunately for all of us was stopped by Poles after WWI.
Blocked when?
No, its a common misunderstanding of search and tree models. The OS is faster, by a tiny bit, at traversing the file system than my JavaScript application. It is only search that is slower, and dramatically so. I don't have visibility of the OS code so I cannot be certain why that is. I speculate its because the OS is doing too much.

With the DOM querySelectors are dramatically slower than using static methods with arbitrary strings as arguments. This is likely because a query string must be parsed against each child node to determine if the child node is a match to the supplied query. Likewise, modern OSs use ancient conventions to search the file system, such as wildcards, along with more modern advanced search syntax. These are rules that must be parsed against each child artifact from a tree segment. My application deliberately doesn't do that.

To compound matters Windows, don't know about OSX, caches search results so that subsequent searches are a little less slow, which incurs a greater performance penalty on first search. My application doesn't do that either. Each search triggers tree traversal, so its always as fast reading from the file system.

Mentioning any of this during a job interview makes for intriguing conversation with the interviewer. I do detect genuine interest and curiosity from the interviewer. At the same time they know their team will fight to the death at many mention of alternatives to querySelectors and/or JSX, so you have just effectively terminated the interview. Anything there after is purely for the interviewer's personal interests.
How is it inside the webpage? Opera's ads have been in their toolbar for over a decade, themed the way the browser is and obviously distinct from the WebView. This isn't news

I didn't like it, so I don't use it. Most people don't like it, most people don't use it
Nope.

Have seen labor rates across Fireye, and a host of others.
> maximize societal benefit when it comes to internet usage.

How would it maximize societal benefit to make it lawful to access and retain content that the owner didn't intend to make public?

> Intentional access isn't even at issue here. "Knowing" access is all it takes under the law. I put knowing in quotes here because a prosecutor can prove that simply by your violation of the implicit agreement to ToS, even if you never read or knew them.

I do not think this is correct, either under a plain reading of the text, or my experience. I'm looking at CFAA again (18 U.S.C. 1030 et seq.) and I don't see a bare knowledge requirement for any of the enumerated proscribed activities. Can you point to a specific one at issue?

Besides, if you can show that a defendant had knowledge that the content was private and that they wouldn't have had been granted access had they asked the owner permission, yet the defendant proceeded to access the content anyway, how can one not conclude that proceeding further was intentional?

At any rate, if you ever see a case where someone is successfully convicted for unauthorized access without proving an ill intent based on the circumstances of the case, by all means, I'd love to hear about it. But I haven't heard of any so far, and I don't expect to in the future.
what is your suggestion? why don't companies irl improve performance in ways that don't compromising security?
The nongovernmental entities often benefit from the barbaric behavior. If the people of Russia don't stand up to the aggression of their own country then they will live with the consequences. It's not like they are getting butchered in their homes like their neighbors.
Translation: Russia has been absolutely crippled by sanctions so the threat has passed, meaning we don't have to do anything.
> I'll be honest, I don't know how to answer this without rambling about virtue vs consequential ethics.

That’s OK. This is just a discussion on the web we’re both likely to eventually forget. Were we speaking in person, I’d find it valuable to discuss it further, ramblings and all.

Worth noting that of the two points I expressed in my original comment, I find the other one to be the more interesting of the two.

> It seems like you feel like you life a life where you are happy with the choices you make. Not everyone gets this.

I feel confident in saying the answer to the first sentence has no bearing on my opinion on the matter. By that same token, I also agree with the second sentence.

> Some people have a harder time finding that path, and need to remember to check in with themselves more often.

Fair enough. Someone said “it’s never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes”, though (assuming it’s true) that could just very well be because those are precisely the friends who don’t need external reinforcement.

I feel that given more time and a better setting to discuss, one or both of us might begin to tweak our view. I would have enjoyed that. Thank you for a constructive (though brief) conversation.
Yeah, zoom changes page scale factor you can see it's computed value window.devicePixelRatio
and that in return changes everything. Font-size can be also be changed independently of zoom inside browser settings.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/devi...
There’s also no intellectually defensible way to price quite a number of potential negative externalities. Dumping toxic waste in drinking water reservoirs, for instance, shouldn’t be allowed at any price. So I don’t think taxes are the actual answer for a lot of things, you just have to straight up ban them.
Nobody likes Russians. This would quite frankly be the easiest sell in history.
Evil bad guys? Check. Innocent civilians? Check. Fighting far away from your own vulnerable infrastructure? Check.
Not so basic.

Survey with the predictors (humans) being ranked in their impact on the conclusion based on their historical prediction success.
> but the "market forces" solution would involve charging for street parking

Street parking isn't governed by market forces. At least how most people use them. I've rarely heard "market forces" used to refer to monopolies or government services that can operate with a subsidy.
Not a chance, maybe smoking marijuana, but not edibles. I know plenty of people that have done them their entire lives and are in great shape
Given that some countries still seem to run on XP mostly I'm not sure it hurts that much.
I was going to post something v similar about psilocybin. The war on drugs has had such awful consequences and repercussions and costs, it boggles the mind.