skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started smoking pot later than a lot of my peers. All through high school I was cringy and weird and judgemental and adversarial and entitled.

Then I started smoking pot. And I experimented with a ton of hard psychedelic drugs. And it absolutely took a toll on my cognitive abilities. But it had a much more profound effect on my personality. A positive effect. Especially LSD.

It was like a light switch went on in my personality. I suddenly was much more "tuned in" to the world around me. I became mindful and considerate. My judgement faded. My outlook had changed to one that was seriously more healthy. Today I don't drink or do hard drugs. Just Marijuana. And I'm happy with myself.

I don't know what to make of that but I do know that I've seen things and felt things and understood things from perspectives that people who have never taken drugs can literally not imagine. You couldn't even dream the things I've seen.

I believe there could be clinical uses for taboo things like psychedelic drugs. I hate to think that without them I probably would have eventually been red pilled or turned into a fascist. It was that much of an eye opening experience for teenage me.

So while it probably did cost me about 15% of my cognitive ability, it also gave me 100% of my critical thinking ability.
I've seen this article before and still consider it valid, especially for one-offs. Another similar and valuable resource is "https://datascienceatthecommandline.com/" Data Science at the Command Line, by Jeronen Janssens. Free to read at the link.
Would you let another guy to paint your fence if that other guy just happened to rent a flat from the torturer and having no means to move out? Because that's the correct analogy, if you just cancel Russian that can't affect government in any significant way and stand against war (and de-facto most likely go to the prison if they are brave enough to just mention that).

Or how do you feel about being canceled out yourself because you live next to the torturer and not preventing him from torturing your neighbours at your own expense?
If you have the sort of influence or resources to make something like an assassination or war happen, then it's really easy to make money on those things already, for example by shorting certain stocks. And I'm sure that's already been happening for a while to some extent.
They are also coming from much further away, so we have a lot more advance notice. They don't really have a way to defend themselves in flight and are pretty heavy, so a smaller missle going a shorter distance with a smaller payload should be able to outmaneuver it easily.

I'm sure it's not perfect but I'm certain the capacity exists.
The logistics of taking a country that is thousands of miles away are very different from taking one you share a border with.

It took 47 days to take Kabul, counting from the first day the CIA agents were sent to prepare the invasion. Furthermore, the objective was to find bin Laden, not to take cities.

The war in Ukraine isn't really comparable to Afghanistan. The US mostly "softened" strategic objectives with air strikes, whereas Russia can't/won't do that in Ukraine.
Lots to think about here, thank you for sharing.

I'm no stranger to depression, but thinking of it as aggression turned inward seems like a useful tool. Long term, I'd like to be able to befriend my aggression, or at least understand it, so it doesn't seem so inscrutable.

First step is probably just to recognize and accept that part of me.
I'm going to get this guy's back here for a minute, because I've been there. 3 weeks is likely a bit of an exaggeration, but I myself went 8 days without a meal - I had food (small bits of bread, a little popcorn, but not much else) throughout that time, but not an actual meal - back in early 2008 (Great Recession).

3 weeks is 21 days, which is about half the time you'd need to die of starvation, assuming no other nutrient intake (and no water insecurity; you'll die in only a few days without water, even dirty water). That's likely not really what happened in this guy's case, since - and I speak from experience here - when you get that desperate, you get remarkably resourceful. Old multivitamins that you forgot were in the back of the cupboard and have sat there for at least 3-4 years? Yep, eat 'em. That freezerburned leftover scalloped potatoes at the bottom/back of the freezer from last year? Yeah, not the tastiest thing but it sure beats nothing. Out of everything else? Go see people at Sam's Club or Costco, or anywhere they give out free samples. Even a small bite can sustain you for a remarkably long time, much longer than you might think. The human body is _incredibly_ efficient; as a culture, we in the US eat just way more than we need (most of us, that is, myself included); so what passes for a "meal" for most of us, in a starvation context, could keep you going for 2-3 days.

So no, I don't think he's making this up, nor do I think it's sarcasm. I've been there. And take my word for it, because I hope you never have to find out for yourself, but the worst part of that scenario - being homeless or near-homeless, having no food - isn't the hunger. It's the fear.
Weird that this is framed as a negative thing.

The US is a leader in oil refinement technology, such that there are oil rich Latin American countries (Venezuela and Mexico) that rely on exporting crude and importing refined products from the US to meet THEIR energy needs.

This isn't about the US going full 'no import oil', it's about finding the entire west non-Russian sources of crude.
I think, they should do the exact opposite. Join EU on a quick path and call Putin's nuclear bluff.

I'm not happy about it and can't sleep right for days anymore, because I fear a nuclear escalation. But I don't want to live in a world where such a situation could happen again and again. There are many slavic countries this fascist hungers for.
Thank you. That's the missing piece— especially the last sentence.
Any guide to diet and nutrition that is dozens and dozens of pages with heavy emphasis on calories, tracking, numbers and restriction without even a _single_ mention of disorder is frankly massively irresponsible and harm waiting to happen to another poor soul.
> Because if we can buy it, and use everyone else's oil up first, we'll be the last to have it, instead of the first to run out.

Furthermore, the US has pricing advantages as oil is traded in USD.
In case anyone doesn't recognize it, this is sarcasm.
How many bugs in software result from forgetting to handle an edge case?

Not surprising the same thing can happen in contracts; they're both written by humans. And you can't unit test a contract! (ignoring smart contracts for now)
What might work is Russians living in the west with family in Russia, call their family, ask them how they are doing with all the chaos/sanctions/etc.

Care about the people there. THEN you can tell them that you've been watching the footage showing Russian convoys are being ambushed and bombed in the roads - that the advance has stalled. That you've seen videos of Russian kids surrendering and dead - Russian losses are much higher than the Russian media is claiming. Ask them if they have any friends and family with men fighting and convey your concern for them.

You are trying to convince them of your authenticity and shared values - that is how you influence someone.

Then tell them that the Russian generals have become frustrated and started mass bombing of the cities - killing many thousands of civilians.

The real villain is Putin and his dogs. Wish them well and pray for them. We are in this together with the majority of the Russian people. You guys should hear the Russian moms calling the Ukrainian helpline crying for any information about their conscripted sons.
If you have kids, good luck defending that.

None is superior to their guerilla and sabotage tactics
NATO was not involved in Iraq, though many members were under the banner of the "coalition of the willing".

Afghanistan was not an offensive war but mutual defense invoked over article 5. We can debate whether that covered the duration of the war, but when article 5 was invoked it was not seen as controversial nor viewed as an offensive war.
Hunh. Interesting.

As a worker I would find this very invasive and lame and cringe worthy. I'm not at work to talk about my feelings about world events, let alone revisit what's being blasted at HIGH VOLUME from every news and blog. I know what's going on, against my will. If I want to know more I'll look it up. I'm an adult.

I'm at work to work. If anything I see work as a lovely little oasis away from the world and my life. Then again, I'm not at a non-profit that serves world interests.

So, I guess the need for these kinds of interventions would modulate based on how internationally connected and connected to empathy the business is. Like everyone at Doctors Without Borders and nurses is general are probably talking about it.
Same. I've been doing IF for almost 4 years now and I love it. I only do added sugars on the weekends. I do have to take salt while I'm fasting to not get headaches but aside from that it's great.
Life and Death in the Warehouse – the terrible true cost of online shopping
Putin is dumb or desperate (maybe trying to score a quick victory because of some more pressing matters). All he needed to do is to assemble a big enough chunk of his army at the borders, do some maneuvers from time to time, pepper it with threatening rhetoric to keep everyone stressed, but never attack. This "psychological siege" would tank the economy of Ukraine and he could demand progressively bigger concessions. The west would've only expressed a "strong disapproval", but ignored the situation otherwise.
Tamping down emotions and keeping them wrapped up has always worked well.
It comes down to choosing quality or quantity. You can't have both. Obviously lots of people think like you and choose a lowest common denominator solution.

And you are seriously underestimating the cost of Electron (which isn't an option on some relatively big platforms like Apple Watch). Memory consumption, CPU utilization, and battery consumption are the key factors and a well written native app will always beat a well written Electron app usually by more than 20%, especially on battery consumption. If you are lucky and have millions of users, then multiply that across all the users and it's a tremendous amount of waste.

I can see why you might choose Electron if you have very few users or the app is essentially a web page.
A more general version of this:

You, being vaguely competent, are where you are because it is a local optima.
Always, to progress to a better state, you are going to take at least some steps down a hill to get there. Sometimes a lot of them. We end up in situations bc the paths past/out of them are not obvious or easy.

Don't let an obsession for every step being 'improvement' prevent you from taking the messy up and down path to get somewhere better.
You can trace the iphone back to, concretely, the newton but even further back if you check out the concepts that got them to the newton. There is a 1997 book called 'Apple Design 1997 The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group' that shows a ton of concepts and a few 'communication device' concepts (video and audio phone integrated computers). Sadly out of print, and quite expensive for a paperback 'coffee table' style book https://www.amazon.com/Appledesign-Apple-Industrial-Design-G...

Some pictures from inside, including one concept integrated with a telephone handset: https://twitter.com/jamesthomson/status/798542140435480576
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30602966
I do think it is the example I think it is. Their deflationary pressure is so strong they’ve been “printing money” for years before this, are doing even more now, and price inflation has barely happened.

What matters is if the money is spent past supply limits, not if it’s printed.

Although, if you go there the quality of life is high enough that it always seemed like they’re just sandbagging the numbers to keep everyone else away. It’s not all leftover 80s investment.
The Russian government intentions being what they are, still:
(i) This news can also be read as "Russia prepares for the possibility of being cut off from the global internet"
(ii) Having access to important services (government agencies, banks, etc.) without being reliant on private, foreign companies is not that bad of an idea, even for the most democratic of countries.
I'd like to second waffleiron's opinion.

I'd pay twice the yearly cost or more if it was a one-time purchase.

A subscription model is an immediate pass though.

Edit: Dev clarifies elsewhere that the license is perpetual and subsequent payments cover updates. If a nonrecurring payment option exists, then I would happily make use of that, and quite possibly return to pay for updates.
You have a point, maybe the bad hires can be detected in weeks instead of months, but you still waste the same amount of time on the HR side. And if you only have one position on your team to fill that year, you may be cautious how you assign it.
Nobody is chopping down old-growth forests for firewood.

Fuel wood comes from farmed forests that re-plant every tree they take down to recycle the forest every 25-30 years.
2023: 1 second to midnight if we get a third world war (WW3), third year of the continued pandemic with more variants, a global financial crash and no progress in climate change all in a single year.

After all, '3' sounds like the magic number.
I mean, this outcome would be pretty close to the status quo belle ante. It doesn't feel like a L for Ukraine.
People who say it's just the font size are dead wrong. Zooming in changes element sizes, border widths, padding and margin sizes, the scale of effects like shadows, etc, etc, etc. It changes image sizes as well, unless you counter it with CSS.
This and all the cancel type activists seem like an extraordinary case of “do-something-itis”.

How does it impact Ukrainians if a cat competition bans the breed “Russian Blue”[1]?

As others on this thread have pointed out, an anonymous call from a foreign stranger is extremely unlikely to change minds on a political issue (we can’t even change the political opinions of family members at Thanksgiving Dinner). Seems like a waste of effort.

Doing something meaningful is HARD. You can’t just make a phone call or a tweet or TikTok or put a Ukrainian flag emoji in your social media profile. Acting out like pouring out Russian vodka may actually be harming people who support your cause; maybe the CEO of the vodka company is a Putin opponent. Maybe the vodka isn’t even from Russia [2](most isn’t). You don’t know. You can’t know how your virtue signaling is going to harm people, but I promise you it’s not going accomplish your stated goals (prove me wrong with a counter-example showing how this stopped a war). At best, it will make already like minded people like you more.

You have to obtain political power which is mostly done by organizing other like minded people and/or donations to influencable people with power. You have to amass enough power to make the change you want effected. Then you have to wield that power effectively, and hope that your opponents aren’t more successful in their opposing activities.

There’s no short cut.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/chinas-social-media-obses...
[2] https://www.newsweek.com/officials-pour-out-vodka-protest-wa...
sure, if thats a serious curiosity, the best analog to that would be web3.js API docs, which is for Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVM).

It was made for the main EVM called Ethereum, but other EVMs use this as well, things can be slightly different on other EVMs

https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js

https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/v1.7.1/

The web3 concept extends beyond EVMs, as the term has mostly begin meaning “connect to nearest nodes instead of your own backend server” and so other distributed networks have their own equivalent but not typically with the web3.js library, but some other way to communicate with the nodes via RPC

You can get grants to contribute to development for making libraries like web3 (but thats probably the least lucrative thing to do)

The more lucrative thing would be to contract with projects that need their frontends built, or smart contracts deployed to these nodes (that the frontend interacts with)
Yeah, having to wear a mask is definitely comparable to 15 years of gulag for calling war a war. Wretched.
> There are footages going around them turning (you can tell from the patches they wear) citizens away from checkpoints as they try to leave.

Another side of the story is that Ukrainians claim they couldn't reach agreement of ceasing fire and humanitarian corridors with Russians.

I believe people are leaving Kharkov and Kiev relatively freely.
Obviously the extra gets exported, so it doesn't actually work that way.

Also Peak Oil doesn't seem like it's going to happen anymore. It looks like we'll phase it out long before we actually run out.

Demand will decrease at an ever quickening pace and investment in oil extraction will pretty much die. Most of the cheap to extract oil has already been exploited, so that could lead to oil becoming pretty expensive, pretty quickly. Despite crashing demand.
> The insurgency in Iraq was also a minority- most supported the US

Russians also think that most Ukrainians support Russia, it doesn't mean it's true. Same with believes that most Iraqis supported US.
Give up? No.

I grew up on a 30 acre farm. Dense cities are the antithesis of what I want to see.
Imagine if, when a guy looked at any woman, he saw big grey blobs that obscured part of her face and the shape of her body. Probably most guys would say that was not very attractive.

But, if a guys spends time getting to know her, the blobs disappeared and he was able to clearly see how attractive she looked.

This is basically how attraction works for many women. Factors other than physical appearance tend to be relatively more important for women than men. So the “total package” of attractiveness is not entirely visible at first. It takes time to get a clear picture. This means that at first, using only physical appearance, yes most guys will look unattractive. There are a lot of metaphorical gray blobs.

Don’t take the wrong lesson from the stats. The lesson is not “most guys don’t have a chance with women.” The lesson is, “seek matches in situations that involve more than physical appearance.” Situations where people can talk and get to know each other.
It's back for me now (Canada)
> And yet Flash persisted across the web, until a giant like Apple decided to de-platform them in favor of its own lock-in solution.

Flash was a proprietary technology that bootstrapped the early web but was doomed due to a combination of ongoing security issues (which pushed browsers to move it to a plugin and disable autoplay) and poor support for emerging platforms.

> Consumers for the most part have no idea what tech lies under the hood for the websites they visit.

The vast majority of of the tools and languages that lie under the hood for websites, especially on the frontend, is built on open source tech.

There are plenty of shady things that Apple has done, but it is ridiculous to blame Apple for single handedly taking down a doomed technology. This is an example of Apple's prescient side, not it's nefarious side.
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Do other WebGL 2 demos work well for you? Does it work in Chromium?

I haven't tested the code extensively so I'm sure it's broken in some configurations. It's just a proof of concept demo for now.
>have properties its parts do not have on their own

That could already be the root of the problem. The properties don't come out of nothing. They must already be in the parts.

The mind is already in the genes and in each cell. We just lack the tools to notice the entire thing in the parts.
what on earth is the explanation for that?

Edit:
Okay from the summary it says...

"Russia accounts for about 10% of the global nickel supply, mainly for use in stainless steel and electric vehicle batteries. Nickel was already rallying before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as robust demand from the stainless steel and battery industry drained inventories, which now stand at 76,830 tonnes in LME-registered warehouses, their lowest since 2019."

Still surprises me that the increase is so much higher than other metals.
Sanctions are pinning-down the Russian Economy
On the other hand, everyone having a random call from a US citizen would provide a lot of cover for other traffic.
To paraphrase Bill Hicks, if you think marijuana/drug use has never had a good effect on society, take all of your favorite music and throw it in the trash. All of the musicians recording that music were "reaaaaalllll fucking high".
Not be a fucking hypocrite like the west is being.

There are 125 armed conflicts happening right now in the world.
Hell we just started bombing Somalia again. Nobody is saying a word about that.
Rich countries need to put up or shut up and negotiate to pay these countries to protect the Amazon.
I think the point of my comment got lost a bit. It's like when I start diving deep into technical work, my head spins. I get zoned in, later fatigued, and I think there's some behavior change.

I notice this even in the short term. Sure you could work on both (and most devs are now), and it could just be how people spend time developing their skills, but I feel there was something more there. I felt a growing disconnection from normies that went away when I changed my habits.

In the short term it would be like an acute thing that wore off in a few hours to a few days. If I was doing it long term, it would last longer. Maybe it's in my head. I don't think everyone is effected.
I just have no confidence that we can really know anything for sure one way or another. The media so far (in the West) ranges from tangibly self-conscious to overt propaganda, much of which is proven false a day later. There is no harm in this in itself, propaganda is as much part of the war as any other part, I get that, but I at this point I wouldn't be surprised that Russia is doing much better than what is being reported, or the opposite. I don't know, this is not a bet I would take.
I hadn't seen the meta-analysis, thanks. 2=3 IQ points drop is pretty significant and enough to be worth consideration but it's not too worrisome.
Supplying the Ukrainians with food, water and weapons is a good start. Supplying them early warnings about troop movements from satellite imagery and cracked Russian communications would be a second, and it would be very deniable to boot. Sanctions will reduce the ability of the Russians to keep up the offensive in the mid-term, and there is indirect pressure to be exerted via the Chinese (who are miffed at the lack of warning they got from "close friend" Putin about his plans) and other diplomatic means. And finally there are of course all sorts of black ops you can do in an active warzone, similar to how Russia deployed "little green men" in Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014.
The spirit of the tool is great!

Not sure how long it takes today to start up and load classes on a JVM. The idea of using a java program regularly in the shell immediately makes me worry about slowness.

Also, the eventual goal of supporting more formats means slower startup time as the feature set grows.
I have a hard time deciding if the nokia 61xx era phone were the pinnacle at the time or the motorola star-tac flips.