skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for that link, though PCE at 6% isn't that far off from CPI's 7.5%

Both support the claim made in the article.
It's not ignored. There's an adjustment called the hedonic adjustment for this very purpose. However, I personally don't really agree with it.
> he is invading on the cheap with expendable conscripts

This is simply not true. We have solid evidence of attempted VDV airdrops and the VDV is an elite part of the army.
Wanted to edit the previous comment, but it won't let me anymore. I usually don't comment about downvotes, but here I'd really like to know the reason?

What is so controversial about giving the right of self-determination to everyone?

If everyone, regardless of the colour, race of gender has equal right, why some people should, and some should not determine if they want to live in one country? You can even choose your gender now, but can't live in an independent state?

Maybe I am missing something obvious. I Would really like a counterargument here instead of simple downvotes.
> On the other hand, there are a lot of jobs to be had addressing climate change.

The environment is real, and no matter how much we pretend to care about it, the artificial economy will continue to take priority as long as capitalism is around.
Spearphishing for Developers
Yep https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/leaded-gas-wa...
Some good points. At the same time, sometimes standardization is good and necessary. Imagine if everyone had to reimplement TCP/IP analogues to communicate over a network; we'd never get anything done!
Sans-IO-First Redis Client for Python
What's the big change that happened in the 60s and started this trend?
Your comment is toxic and offensive to me.
- micro plastic everywhere, water, food, ground. Majority of American women breastfeed their children with their own milk containing plastic
- cancerous substances from cars exhaustion, cigarettes and such going inside people every day of their lives
- toxic and cancerous chemicals used for processing foods and drinks

we are breathing, drinking, eating and staying in contact with cancerous substances 24/h day. I'm surprised the human body is so resilient and we don't have 80% of under 40s with cancer tbh

the fix is to:
- stop burning fossil fuels
- stop producing and releasing in the environment plastic and toxic waste
- switch to a sustainable diet and ditch intensive farms using chemicals to boost production

the technology is here but it would require the innovation of many industries, and without governments pushing for it a profit driven industry obviously wouldn't never change

Then you have to add the mental and physical health that is going down the drain. Lonely and depressed people stuck in bad jobs that can't have a decent life. Suburban sprawl, car-centric urbanism, alienation and isolation of communities and such
How badly will Russia's war torpedo hopes for global climate cooperation?
> It is all part of her mission to stick it to the man, one case of tax avoidance at a time.

What state of mind do you have to be in to write something like this about a tax avoidance loophole for the 1%. She's not sticking anything to "the man", she's just helping rich people abstain from contributing to society.
Yes, americans share a solipsism when it comes to envisioning walkable city life. City life without a car cannot be imagined, mainly, because we are trying to integrate a vision in our imaginations that rejects the fundamental premise of requiring cars for personal transport.

What we cannot comprehend is that walkable city life is aspirational; the luxury, the tactile beauty, the convenience, a sense of safety. Rather, we see parking problems, small living spaces, and waiting for busses. Or carrying groceries, like a peasant. Or the brutal concrete jungles of NYC.

Instead, the paradigm shift requires imaging the calm and splendor of walking in Bruges or Amsterdam, the quiet grandeur of Madrid or Vienna on a Sunday morning, the verdancy and fragrance of a Japanese suburb, Oxford's accessible country side, the convenience of having your kids and parents be independently mobile, ...

There are even stellar examples closer at home. Imagine Savannah, Charleston, Asheville, ... All tourist traps, and really expensive. Some people know what's up, but not enough. It will get better, as more and more people travel more.
Yes, I was contacted regarding some Cloud Architect position, shortly after GCP opened their region in Warsaw.
Ties are absolutely relevant when the guy is doing stuff like removing Ukraine aid or Russian sanctions from the Republican platform. Look up Paul Manafort.

Nobody is claiming Trump is a genius. The Russian ties are all out there in the open. The only open question was whether they rise to a criminal level. Trump apparently thought they did when he panicked and fired James Comey to halt an investigation. I don’t think the connections were necessarily criminal, just un-American (that of cozying up to corrupt dictators while denigrating allies).
This article is proof that you're deep enough into crypto, you lose the ability to see any event through any other lens.

Putin's actions in Ukraine are not a great mystery, and do not require a conspiracy to impose a CBDC to explain. Putin and his circle are in complete control of Russia and Russian politics and face no meaningful domestic opposition. He has no requirement to manufacture a war or other crisis to change economic policy, no requirement to impose a CBDC to exert pressure on his population, and no requirement to exert mass control of his population at all, given his wide popularity.

Regarding Ukraine, Putin judged that the Ukrainian government were pro-West and hostile to his regime, and that this was unlikely to change without some external factor forcing it to. He observed the sanctions situation following the Crimean annexation and judged that sanctions were 1) survivable, 2) not likely to be elevated to the point that they risked European economic growth and energy security, and 3) not likely to be relaxed without significant concessions.

Most recently, Putin observed the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan and concluded Ukraine was an analogous situation: As he saw it, the government was corrupt, it only survived due to Western backing, and its members would flee when faced with rapid defeat (and likely execution). This would produce a power vacuum, and neither the armed forces or the civilian population would offer serious resistance to a new regime. And, presented with a fait accompli, the West would agree to recognise new government in the same way they had with the Taliban despite having fought against them for 20 years.

Based on this, he saw little downside to what he genuinely believed would be a swift and decisive operation to replace the government of Ukraine. After the plan's initial failure, he has no alternative but to try to save some face by completing the conquest or forcing an uneven armistice.
It's still "Russians knocking off their leadership".

People aren't expecting Russians on the street to get rid of Putin. They're expecting that it will cause pressure on other Russian leaders to side with Russians and the West over Putin...
Destroying Ukraine is orthogonal to establishing a Russian digital currency. Putin is not crazy. He's outlined in great detail his problem with Ukraine, but people don't want to believe him and imagine they can find the real reason. This war is exposing that some people have no analytical skills at all and write up dumb takes. Here's another one:

Putin is Devastating Ukraine to Send the World a Message

https://eand.co/why-putin-is-unleashing-slaughter-in-ukraine...

Trust me, the world doesn't need your ill informed opinion because you have a deadline and a fan base that you need to write for
Yes, those are good examples on how having data is one thing, cleaning the data is another thing entirely
I don't get it. Isn't there some sort of convention or international law prohibiting providing weapons in armed conflicts?
Is there any reason to believe that post-boomer generations are more empathetic? If anything, it feels as though empathy has been decreasing across the board amongst all age groups as time goes on, right up until the present. Maybe the Internet is stronger than lead.
At this point Russian Interpol participation is corrupted. They are known to try to extradite dissidents on false charges... which are ignored by the Interpol officials.

That's the kind of behavior I'm seeking for a host country.
Once again pundits turn an economic issue into a social one.

No one is entitled to anything. Are you "entitled" to subsidized healthcare by virtue of being born in a European country?

No, you're not, it's just a consequence of your birth. Maybe its not fair, life isn't fair. I bet every single individual on earth could identify some feature of themselves or their lives that they dislike that came about by chance as a result of their birth.

Not too mention that total income doesn't really matter as much as spending power does. I'd rather make $50k a year in Poland than $100k in SF Bay (at least, hypothetically, I don't actually want to live in any European country).
It was not sarcastic. I meant it. I believe that every day is equally valuable.

Life is not an optimization problem, where we maximize happiness. I prefer to just let life flow in its natural waves, sometimes correcting course to achieve my goals.
The difference back then appears to be that while there were different philosophies (e.g.capitalist vs socialist) neither saw the existence of the other as an existential threat other than through war.

Putin (And perhaps more Dugin or other Orthodox "influencers") now seem to think that the mere existence of a liberal ukraine (say, Gay parades in Kyiev) is an existential threat, regardless of whether it would ever spread to Russia proper.

That changes the balance between a "them" and "us". To Putin this means there can be no status Quo. The russian Empire can't be humiliated by having a liberal /"westernized" part that also happens to be a historical cradle of Russian culture.

If the premise of Russia(n leadership) is that it's better that there is no world at all than a world where Russia isn't an traditionalist empire including Ukraine, then the situation is MUCH harder to defuse than anything during the Cold War.
That would make it seem more suspicious! Phone company logs, remember?
The US controls Dogecoin?
>How much GHG was emitted to build them, and how much GHG is expected to be saved

While this is a fair question, I love how these types of questions seem to only pop up with solar/wind/batteries (and by proxy EVs).

Nobody ever askes how much GRG is used to produce an engine block, cooling tower, reactor vessel, etc etc.
This suggestion amounts to letting Ukrainian citizens die to avoid a miniscule chance of getting a Russian citizen arrested.
Well when the original comment is flagged (and not merely downvoted) on a topic that is just a call to activism (which, honestly, why is this here?), it's almost proof positive that in fact there are "sheeple" attempting to prevent anything that questions their narrative from entering the discourse. I image the wisdom of "I don't automatically trust my TV" will AGAIN only be judged as wise AFTER the fact. For now, it's unwelcome trolling of the typical hacker news user, who is barely distinguishable from the average reddit user.
https://wgpu-py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guide.html :

> As WebGPU spec is being developed, a reference implementation is also being build. It’s written in Rust, and is likely going to power the WebGPU implementation in Firefox. This reference implementation, called wgpu-native, also exposes a C-api, which means that it can be wrapped in Python. And this is what wgpu-py does.

> So in short, wgpu-py is a Python wrapper of wgpu-native, which is a wrapper for Vulkan, Metal and DX12, which are low-level API’s to talk to the GPU hardware.

So, it should be possible to WebGPU-accelerate SciPy; for example where NumPy is natively or third-partily CUDA-accelerated

edit: Intel MKL, https://Rapids.ai,

> Seamlessly scale from GPU workstations to multi-GPU servers and multi-node clusters with Dask.

Where can WebGPU + IDK WebRTC/WebSockets + Workers provide value for multi-GPU applications that already have efficient distributed messaging protocols?

"Considerable slowdown in Firefox once notebook gets a bit larger" https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/1639#issueco... Re: the differences between the W3C Service Workers API, Web Locks API, and the W3C Web Workers API and "4 Ways to Communicate Across Browser Tabs in Realtime" may be helpful.

Pyodide compiles CPython and the SciPy stack to WASM. The WASM build would probably benefit from WebGPU acceleration?
Diesel is 10 USD/gallon in Sweden last I checked. I know you really can't "translate" prices with exchange rates but you know but whatever, for reference.
Column-oriented formats such as Parquet can be awful too. For example, if you have five columns of numbers you want to multiply together, Parquet is going to be the worst option available because of the extreme cache thrashing that the CPU will encounter.

Structure packing[1] and consideration of locality of reference[2] would need to be applied for high performance applications where a computer scientist has considered the algorithm needing to be implemented and the most efficient data format that the source data would need to be provided in.

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality_of_reference
They also promote NFTs, so I have lost my respect for them.

https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1436364868131586054
Not sure why people think that Putin would make himself look weak delibrately. The military is failing because of years of being a corrupt state. It should not be that surprising.
As someone who has watched a few parliamentary sessions, I smile at the thought of training computers on those recordings. Ever look at a Markov Chain output and think "those are paragraphs of text saying nothing at all"? Well, maybe it's closer to the humans they're emulating than we thought.
Also the part about how Russia's just burning through less valuable conscripts is absolutely untrue. Very much the opposite actually. Conscripts are being held back, apparently because while families hate when their sons, brothers, fathers get killed, families REALLY hate it when said person was forced into the military
Depends what you do the analysis with. The state of the art is a neural network, and the best there are transformers which do parallelize (as opposed to the previous generation, LSTMs which don't parallelize as well)

The limiting factor is usually parallelism, to utilize a GPU well you need to be running something on the order of 10000 threads in parallel.
Another rung down the psyops tier, perhaps it's intended to make "near-peers" think there's next gen aircraft that is being obscured.
Similar lines of thinking have made me curious about nihilism
We're definitely smarter now though and know better...or are we?
Combining multiple GraphQL backends with schema stitching
The author addressed this in the comments.

> What’s to prevent the system from bouncing between “1 task in processor & 1 task in queue” and “1 task in processor & 2 tasks in queue” while maintaining 100% utilization?

> Nothing! That could totally happen in a queueing system. However, the arrival process would need to be tuned quite precisely to the processing rate. You would need to watch the status of the processor and, when a task finishes, only then insert a new task into the queue. But this implies a shell game: if you always have a task ready to put into the queue when it needs to be padded back out, then isn’t that task in a sense already “queued”?

> Instead, in queueing theory we usually assume a random arrival process: sometimes a minute may pass between arrivals into the queue; sometimes only a second. So the system can’t bounce for arbitrarily long between 1-in-queue and 2-in-queue states. Eventually, one of two things will randomly occur:

> 1. From the 1-in-queue state, the active task finishes processing before a new task arrives, bringing queue size to 0.

> 2. From the 2-in-queue state, a new task arrives in the queue before the active task finishes, causing the queue size to grow to 3.
Thanks for sharing! Twitter thread formatted in a single page: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500495309595725831.html
That's all you've learned about, eh?
GHG emissions are the single biggest driver of climate change, which is the most significant environmental impact we are facing.

Steps taken to reduce GHG emissions (reducing fossil fuel use) also reduce other pollutants like local particulate pollution.
With a heatpump it can be as cheap.
It's absolutely amazing how much we shovel sugar into our kids even at school, then wonder why they can't pay attention.

Sugar is our generation's tobacco for sure.
Er, “employer” should read “employee” in the last paragraph.
There is huge room for efficiency improvements. What we need is cheap, large-scale production of 24+ SEER heat pumps.
If you have files which have lyrics already embedded I believe BlackPlayer does a pretty good job (and it's a very awesome and well customisable music player in and of itself).
Probably the CSS property background-size [0] with cover value.

[0] https://www.w3schools.com/csSref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_p...
This is great!
We should start to call other countries about what is happening in Yemen right now.
There are no 'other russian leaders'. Putin's political theater before the war was clearly aimed to make any russian official of note into an accomplice, publicly supporting the invasion. They have all made their bones and are all sanctioned by the EU and world countries now. So this course of events is highly unlikely.
One request for the author: Please don't hide the scroll bars on websites you make like this!
It's thin, and the screen is awesome, and it does massive things with not a lot of drama, and dear lord the SOUND it makes.

It's the same design if you want to overlook one dimension, but really, so long as you have more senses than just sight, it's changed a ton.
> If Americans had faced consequences from having elected Bush once, and responded to that rationally instead of emotionally, they probably wouldn't have elected him again for a second term.

True, but most people respond to most things emotionally, most of the time.
The lead hypothesis is supported by particularly strong evidence: there is a natural threshold experiment where school children with blood lead levels over a certain amount are treated to remove lead from their home environment (and their bodies) while other children just below the same lead level were not treated. The difference in later life outcomes are stark.

There is no such natural experiment for abortion. It's just an idea.

https://ftp.iza.org/dp10872.pdf
Actually I would point out that most of the time HN would be tremendously supportive of such a narrative - although they would not call themselves the 1%
It is also a gift to China
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-08/china-con...

Least surprising thing ever.

The future dictionary definition of cutting off our nose to spite our face but banning Russian oil will make Twitter happy for the next 8-12 hours until the next move with zero thought given to the long term consequences.

China might be our only hope to avoid WW3. It was just a few days ago that banning Russian oil was not going to happen but Twitter gets what it wants in 2022. Twitter wants a no fly zone and WW3.
But then there's been a huge rise in crime. The murder rate in some cities is dramatically higher than just a few years ago. But it's not like the gas suddenly became leaded again.

This makes me think that we just can't be too certain about these things.
That's a good question that people use badly to sidetrack discussions about solar. The answer is that most research accessible online places the EROEI of PV solar at around 10. That places it in a firm "can be used" position, but too low for explosive growth, so any fast conversion into solar will need a large investment from some other energy source.

But notice that most research accessible online is old and solar is improving fast (while the fossil fuels can do nothing but get worse with usage).

There's a comprehensive comparison here that is interesting:

http://newmaeweb.ucsd.edu/courses/MAE119/WI_2018/ewExternalF...
>Same UK that said it would back Ukraine if Russia invaded?

The UK was always very clear that the backing to Ukraine would be in the form of the supply of weapons to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia. Nothing more was ever promised.
I'd assume that the majority of foreign calls are wiretapped and automatically converted to text for keyword searches. Russia gets to go directly into the server/networking rooms to install their black boxes.

So self-censor certain keywords... as you normally would on the internet.
The title would be better if it didn't include an acronym I've never seen before.
Coronal Loops Might Not Be Loops at All
My depression comes less from climate change (a future problem) and more from the climate denialism, which is a very present problem.

In my experience, there is a huge overlap between climate change deniers and COVID deniers. It's hard to pin any particular deaths on climate change, but you can find people admitting as they die from COVID that they were wrong. The link is direct and obvious and we still can't fix it.

There are so many current, serious problems where we don't get to hold sincere discussions of solutions because they're drowned out by the outright denial of reality. It's not just the world in 2100; it's the world today.

I'm not sure it really helps you to replace the vague, distant dread of climate change with an immediate horror. But maybe it will push you in the direction of a more direct action with a more direct consequence.

I'll admit that I haven't been very effective, either. Answers like this one are about the best I've come up with, and you can already guess what kinds of replies I'm likely to get to it. But if I can help make your perspective clearer, perhaps I'll have done some good.
Kyiv should sign the agreement of not joining NATO, since it can now keep it's leadership and prevent decapitation occupation. Sign whatever makes Russia happy and have them leave. Then rebuild the city. Then pack the country completely full of millions of Western troops and material. Then join NATO. If Russia thinks the violation of the agreement is worth starting a global war over, let them shoot first.

Show russia what an agreement is worth, when they say "humanitarian corridors are opened" followed by bombing them.
For managing python dependencies, nix avoids all the headaches of pip, poetry, etc. Builds always work, and one has confidence that they have exactly the same bits as everyone else. nix-shell gives you a virtualenv that also has all your non-python dependencies as well. Instead of dealing with 10 different package managers across a codebase, there's just one.
"A quick Google would recommend you turn router on and off again."

It's not a router issue, but thank you for assuming that I am unable to do basic internet searching. I have debugged this issue in the past as it occasionally occurs (for specific tweets only, twitter itself works well), and my conclusion is it's something on twitter's end.

"Why don't you do that if it's so necessary?"

I'm not the one submitting this on HN, am I? If I were, I wouldn't have linked random tweets. I wouldn't be tasking the commenters to compile the information into a usable format for me.

There's nothing actionable here, this just looks like some tuesday morning drama.
I wonder how different the rice tastes from traditionally grown rice. Do I still need to use as much salt in the boiling process?
Alternative take: This is the next step in work from home movement - investing in office space outside of world's most tech-heavy megacities.