skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the same one, no. I was referring to a passage from chapter 4 of March to the Stars by David Weber and John Ringo[0] where the character Kosutic attempts to explain how a version of Satanism became the majority religion of his home planet, which had originally been settled by mostly Roman Catholics, following a religious schism.

If you're interested, you can find a free copy of March to the Stars in the Baen CD which accompanied Storm from the Shadows, available here[1]. (These CDs were issued along with certain printed books, with a license from the publisher to redistribute them, as a means of advertisement.) Unfortunately there is no longer a direct link to the book available on this site; you have to download the full CD.

[0] https://www.baen.com/march-to-the-stars.html

[1] https://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
> they sure can’t do much against an enemy many times smaller than them.

Neither could the US.

Another factor here is that Ukraine isn't Afghanistan or Vietnam where natural barriers offer chance for insurgency to hide out, regroup.

Russia here can absolutely level cities and buildings and it is impossible to construct underground tunnels in flat lands known for its ability to soak up water (the tunnels would not be structurally safe), and it is far too late now in this stage of the war.

An incompetent large army vs a competent large army makes little difference when the fighting environment is against the defenders (no mountains or jungles to hide out in).

The best chance at insurgency would be to start digging but again the soil in Ukraine makes this a challenge, my prediction is that we could see something similar to what Hamas is doing in Palestine in the form of human shields, swaying public media through casualties, urban warfare at best but unlike IDF which does to a certain degree exercise in minimization of collateral damage (ex. calling occupants in the apartment building to evacuate before bombing Hamas launching rockets) where as Putin/RF has zero qualms about collateral damage.

The Western sanctions have only esclated tensions, have emboldened Putin even more, as they've given him nothing to lose. When you corner a wild animal like Putin you will get bitten.

There's just no way out for him except to escalate from what I can see since Ukraine has rejected giving up DNR/LNR/Crimea. Neither side is willing to budge so this will simply continue to lead to human suffering on both sides.
> The concept of the algorithm is named for the person, al-Khwarizmi, and not for the place, Khwarazm. Why would you remove the al-?

Well, the word does not refer directly to that person, so the fact that its etymological origin happens to be the nisba suffix of that person's name doesn't mean it's not a mistake to include the article. Of course, we can presume that most of the people involved in the gradual coining of the English word "algorithm" (via the Latin translation of his Arabic book, followed by some mistaken association with the Greek arithmos) never even considered the etymology at any step along the way.
>instead of making better phone than Nokia he would make something that no one at Nokia or anywhere else even dreamed of.

Aka Blue Ocean product/market strategy.

Basically, rather than being a shark swimming in a ocean that is colored red from the blood of all the other sharks competing, you leave and find a blue ocean.

Sounds good on paper but sometimes that market is much smaller, and/or just being the first-to-market doesn't guarantee you'll be successful.
Is that necessarily a bad thing? By all accounts he was a terrible person to work for and with.
I design sites and this is exactly what is happening. This is also partly to cater for all the different screen sizes, and partly because zooming and DPI are broken beyond repair. W3 broke it first by specifying in CSS 2.1 that DPI is fixed 96dpi, then freedesktop botched HiDPI, and browsers made it even worse by trying to fix it with window.devicePixelRatio and implementing it badly by lying about screen sizes, especially on mobile. And not to mention sites that abuse viewports.

Ctrl +/- does not zoom, it changes the fontsize and devicePixelRatio.

Using a base size (the font size) and scaling everything relative to that using em solves many problems. Sites handle this differently and it is getting progressively worse, confusing screen readers.

https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/04/a_pixel_is_...

https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/sessions/a-pixel-is-not-a-...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/devi...
NATO is with the good people tho so it can't do wrong.
The Russian government knew there would be sanctions no matter what happened. They had already decided to accept those even in the event of victory.

They aren't in a no-win scenario either. Kyiv cannot hold out forever. The Russians have an overwhelming numeric advantage and they can simply wait out the defenders, using that time to fix their supply lines.

It's tempting to exaggerate a Russian setback into a total collapse or a defeat. That's wishful thinking.
Someone needs to automate this
I've noticed situations on the job where I've had little issues with management on my own, but experienced going out with drinks/coffees with gossipy venting colleagues and me internalizing their anger. This prima-facie seemed like the primary reason they did it.

If venting is instead a coalitions/tribal consensus building exercise, the psychologists might need to wait until after the revolution to retest the subject's well-being.
It's not like marketing like Apple is easy. They build a brand over decades. You can't "just" copy that. Apples brand is absolutely the most valuable thing Apple has.
+1 for mentioning the ever enlightening Robert Sapolsky
Forbes is garbage. It should be banned from HN
Are you trying to run your own business? Me, my friends, and all of my coworkers have to live in the shadows because recruiters hunt us. Like, my buddy posted on Indeed and not has 5 unsolicited phone calls and 12 emails a day.

If you really can't find work in this market, you should really try fixing your resume since you most likely aren't selling your skills or have a red flag. Some of my older coworkers only put their last 12 years experience, or don't list dates on them to avoid age discrimination at the resume filter stage.
I agree with this to some extent, but I think when I get to the point of externally venting I've already pretty strongly internalized the thought. My larger concern with venting is that it seems to encourage bad next step coping strategies for me. I vent that "X is terrible so it's hard for me to get anything done" and oftentimes this gets validated in a way that encourages the "not getting anything done" part, which isn't helpful even when X actually is terrible. There's a fine line between recognizing that you're in a difficult situation and giving yourself an excuse to fail, at least for me.

Like a lot of things, venting is probably good in moderation, as long as you are able to keep it in moderation. The most recent situation I was in I had trouble telling how much of the problem was on me, and then by venting to some coworkers I pretty quickly discovered that nearly everyone felt the same way about X. This was comforting at first, but the more we vented the more I felt justified in blowing off work. I didn't even replace that time with anything personally productive unfortunately. I've regrouped now and am working on getting out of the project the right way, but I wish I handled it better in the first place.
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Yes, that particular study may have flaws in its execution. But that doesn't prove that studies on venting are necessarily self-reporting.
A huge number of US households install or replace a central air conditioning system each year.

The difference between a heat pump and an air conditioner is small (flow reversing valves, defroster on external compressor fins, some different control software).

Those air conditioners should be replaced with heat pumps instead. At the very least, it provides summer cooling and a secondary backup heat source. Think of it as plug-in hybrid heating.

The problem is that there are relatively few contractors offering these, and they are mostly targeting the luxury market. Similarly, manufacturers have positioned heat pumps as high-end devices, rather than reversible A/Cs.

It is not even a skills gap issue. For the same reasons described above, if a technician can install an A/C they can install a heat pump. We need more technicians and more HVAC contractors willing to install them, which requires more consumers to demand them.
> Please elaborate on what else the West can do? No fly-zone is a non-starter

No fly-zones. It's pretty clear that falls into the category of something the West can do, but chooses not to out of fear. Because the West is afraid, Putin isn't.

Stepping down from that: have Zelensky invite the west to bomb certain Ukrainian roads and bridges in Ukrainian territory that the Russians are using, then do it. Maybe even be funny about it and post a notice of emergency demolition due to unsafe conditions on some Ukrainian DOT-equivalent site. Or supply the Ukrainians with advanced weaponry like anti-ship and cruise missiles (perhaps in-fact secretly operated by Western advisors) to attack Russian landing ships and supply lines.
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You'd be surprised. I don't know many people who understand it's actually a carcinogen. And I was unaware it's doing permanent damage to my brain.

It's just so ingrained in society, many don't even question it at all. But it's one of the more dangerous drugs. It destroys a lot of lives.
Probably 80M people are willing to risk it to eat, though... Striking to see cases like this where an autocratic system can back initiatives that would be bogged down in protests from the left about GM and/or the right about conspiracy theories in a more democratic state.
They absolutely ARE.

If you look at Russian groups on Facebook - they are ALL talking about the war. ...very passionately.

Russians with western contacts are overwhelmingly against the war. Russians physically in Russia try to be silent online for fear of arrest but they too talk to one another about this clusterF of an invasion.
Evil=(how wrong you are) * (how sure you are) * (how much power you have)

The two last factors together= (how fast you implement changes)

We should have learnt this lesson from Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao. But here we are, doing the same thing again.
The Bretton Woods Agreement was in 1944, under FDR.
100% agree.

Anger usually stems from a boundary being violated. It's our instinctive evolved response for pushing back against someone who has encroached on us.

When we "vent" to a peer, it is relieving because it transfers that personal boundary to a group boundary. We feel "OK, my peer will now back me up the next time this happens."

Venting is like yelling for reinforcements when you see someone storming your corner of the castle wall.
Regardless, this does seem like a situation where the best time to start that was yesterday and the second best time is today.
Afghanistan was not an offensive NATO operation (being a direct response to an attack on a NATO member), and was supported by a unanimous UNSC Resolution (1368).

NATO never conducted an offensive operation in Iraq, though some NATO members (separate from the alliance) did.
It's not just a matter of building more refineries to process it. The different API Gravities of the oil are used to output different products. Gasoline, jet fuel, etc.

So yes, you could modify refineries (at significant expense) to process different grades of crude, but in order to target different outputs we still need to import the different grades of oil because the refineries end up mixing/matching to get the levels they need. The US produces a lot of light oil, but less of the medium/heavy grades you'll find in Canada or the Middle East.
If it’s a matter of dosage then who knows how many joints they smoked in the 70s vs how many hits today?
Alternatives are available like Avro
This is the correct answer. There is no individual "the world" as a cohesive unit like you can point to "a tree" or "a person". OP is repeating a fallacy of some sort, the name of which I cannot recall.
Open source can be blocked with sanctions, though that's fairly meaningless if the sanctioned entity's host country doesn't care about Berne/TRIPS anymore. Indeed, Russia is making moves to legitimize software piracy[0] because they're so cut-off from the rest of the world that you can't sanction them more for disrespecting basic copyright.

For those wondering this would also mean that Russia doesn't have to care about GPL anymore, obviously.

[0] Which is something I'd be actually optimistic about if this wasn't happening in, well... Russia.
It's no worse than sanctioning the banking industry. I'm all for it.
I've always been confused by people that enjoy white noise. It's awful.

Here is a sample from the wikipedia page on white noise :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWhite...

Does anyone genuinely enjoy listening to that?

On the other hand, even though I don't, I could imagine why someone might like Brown noise (sounds almost like the ocean) :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ABrown...
"backpressure" is an unfortunate term because it's not something the queue does.
"back-off" would probably be a better term, since it's the behavior of the producer. The producer has to be aware of it.
I live in Europe, I am french to be more precise. I feel Russia as an existential threat right now.
Russia’s Mercenaries
Differences are: USA never planned to invade and anexate (e.g. USA never bombed cities to terrorize people), and supply lines were waaaay worse for the USA.

Also, the terrain is very favourable to create a quagmire in Afghanistan (resistance can retreat to the mointains) while Ukraine is mainly open terrain.
Bad science reporting and Slate go hand in hand.

Clickbait is what they do.
Have you researched your assertion about Iraqi support for the US?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/02/da...

> Petraeus: Ukraine is not only bigger but some 50 percent more populous than Iraq, and the Iraqi population included many millions—Kurds, Christians, Yezidis, Shabak, and many of the Shia—who broadly supported the coalition forces throughout our time there. Only a minority of the Iraqi population comprised or supported the Sunni extremists and insurgents and Iranian-supported Shia militia. Though they did, to be sure, prove to be very formidable enemies.
Recessions are typically a few quarters to just over a year in the US. A well stocked pantry can go a long way to helping you supplement throughout the year.
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I'm not Putin's mate and I have zero influence on what he is doing. As i wrote, billions of people who have nothing to do with Putin or his gov or even his country are now paying the cost of Western nations actions. You could say Putin was warned, it changes nothing. Western sanctions are impacting unrelated populations, again who may well be against Putin themselves.

Putin, like the leader of the US and several other nations have poured billions of dollars, even trillions in the US case to showed civilians with bombs and to destroy entire societies. Warned or not, actions that punishes innocent civilians is to be criticised and that's what I'm doing here without discrimination.I blame the west for their recent sanctions, and previous sanctions on other countries, and for their invasions through the middle east and elsewhere. And Russia for its military invasion of Ukraine.

Can't we pause and look at criminal actions and all agree they are illegitimate? Why do we need to take the Western governments side as if our side was more legitimate?
Ask HN: Biden repeated use of “Allies” and probability of nuke disaster
As the Ukraine situation progresses we are hearing statements from the president's office mentioning the word "allies".

This is making apparent that they have put us in an actual war with the antonym of "allies" on the other side _ which puts Russia a lone figure on the other side.

Unlike previous wars where opposing parties had only conventional weapons, what we are witnessing here is a severely wounded lethal party engaged in unbalanced war against allies of relatively unaffected parties.

The current escalation and development of events would put Russia in a difficult situation of not using everything at its disposal including nukes.

Just looking at Zelenskyy trying everything at his disposal to drag US and allies into the war leading Russia into a desperate situation, I would assume Putin would do the same and force Russia use everything at its disposal as the war escalates. This would put the whole region in danger.

Do you think other administration might do things differently to de-escalate the situation?

What's your take?
What are some examples of "propaganda" that proved to be false a day later?
> what IS the consensus on intermittent fasting

That some people find it to be a useful method of calorie restriction, but it's not magic.
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That is not an exageration IMO. Many people are making comparisons between Putin's actions and those of Hitler in the run up to WW2.

Russia is firmly in Nazi territory right now.
>call Putin's nuclear bluff.

And what do you think would be the outcome?
I don't think you got the right idea from his message. Tons of people had smart friends. Hell, I do have some smart friends. Yet I, and most other people with smart friends, don't end up doing even close to what Steve Jobs did.
It was last updated on January 20, 2022, so it does not account for current conflict.
Not to be too picky about the details, but it took about three weeks to finally get to Bagdad. The Ukrainian conflict has not been going quite that long.
An open source compositional deadlock detector for Android Java
There are many people with un-diagnosed eating disorders, and they think that their eating habits are 'normal'. I regularly stop doing keto and overdose on carbs for a few weeks, in full knowledge I'm ruining my body, but I continue this habit to my detriment. The trick is consistent keto with a commitment to continue doing it until your last days.
Iraq was a dictatorship with a murderer at the head.

Ukraine is a democracy.

HUGE difference.
On the other hand, if these sorts of cathartic expressions of anger did reliably "work" at dissipating anger, I would expect it to show up in even small samples of college students? For it not to show up, either the effect only shows up in certain circumstances or it's actually not very strong.
> In the case that NATO starts shooting, the sarcophagus over Chernobyl can be bombed (Putin can blame Ukrainians here).

Bombing Chernobyl would make zero strategic sense.
Their point is that in order to get log(n) access speed you need a sorted random access list, not that if you sort the items in a linked block list you can use binary search on it. They go on to explain how a database index constructs such a thing over the linked block list.
I don't like death and I would be in line just as quick as most people if I could be immortal and reasonably healthy.

But is death loosing?

I don't view death as the antithesis of life, more appropriately I think it mirrors conception/birth.

I think of death more as a finale, the conclusion to your story be it grand or mundane. I also wonder if not for death would we cherish the events in life as greatly as we do? Think of the thinks that gave you pleasure as a child that you no longer care for as they have become stale and boring. Perhaps it would be so with living had we not death.
An Investigation of the Facts Behind Columbia's U.S. News Ranking
> It's always fun where the ones complaining about gas prices in the US tend to be the ones who drive 20mpg multi-ton vehicles for fun, as if there wasn't a ready available way to drop your fuel consumption in half.

The number of people who drive the 20mpg multi-ton vehicles "for fun" are eclipsed by the people who are driving the same vehicle they've had for the better part of two decades years because it's all they can afford.

"Just buy a hybrid or electric car" is not a solution to someone who has to decide between filling up their tank to get to work or buying vegetables that week.

I know it's fun to pat yourself on the back and make fun of the people driving gas guzzlers but when you ignore the reality that many in this country face it just seems out of touch.
Music with words distracts me as I like to 'understand' songs and just enjoy the message.

I tried electronic music and as a European it really makes me want to dance, hah.

By far the best music for me is classical music. It literally makes tedious things like writing emails, documenting and coding much more enjoyable.
Be careful buying kids toys from china. Many of them contain lead. In fact, it's probably best to not buy anything from a culture of people who hate you.

Also, get a lead test for your child at every checkup, not just the ones where they offer it to you. The finger prick doesn't bother them nearly as much as the vaccinations do.
Such is the interpretation by the Russian media of what Zelensky said in a recent interview with ABC.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/zelenskyy-interview-david-mu...
He's probably referring that if not having a job is going to get you into starvation in only three weeks, you should get better with your savings and your financial decisions

But anyway, we know too little about OP to make assumptions about his economy
McDonald's closing all 850 restaurants in Russia
about:config, set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to -1, and Firefox will autodetect your screen DPI. I believe this works on at least Windows and Wayland, possibly other environments.
Bring back the old lend-lease program. It was basically a way to remain officially neutral while arming your allies.
NATO did not operate in Syria.
Black children had an adjusted 0.73 to 1.41 µg/dL more blood Pb (p < 0.001 respectively) and a 1.8 to 5.6 times higher odds of having an EBLL ≥5 µg/dL (p ≤ 0.05 respectively) for every selected risk factor that was tested. For Black children nationwide, one in four residing in pre-1950 housing and one in six living in poverty presented with an EBLL ≥5 µg/dL. In conclusion, significant nationwide racial disparity in blood Pb outcomes persist for predominantly African-American Black children even after correcting for risk factors and other variables.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084658/
It was done by users. They were correct to do so, because the comment broke the site guidelines.
>I really don't think Steve Jobs was taking shots in the dark. He had remarkable foresight and an uncanny ability to see where the puck was going.

I think it's impossible to say this confidently. Like many successful people, he simply could have made a series of fortunate decisions that mostly boiled down to luck and timing.
The Lead Exposure Elimination Project (https://leadelimination.org/) is an organization that's working to solve this problem internationally. I've been giving money on a monthly basis and have been blown away by their progress.
Marijuana is very different from psychedelics in this regard.
Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556)