skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate that everything has to devolve into some kind of "this generation sucks" debate. Whether or not we can blame boomers does not matter, at least not until we have a time machine to go remedy stuff. The fact is that the decisions have been made, the damage is done, and we need to figure out what to do now, regardless of whose fault it is.

It seems like so many of these conversations end at the "who is responsible" part, without the understanding that we really shouldn't care.
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I was quoted more than $25000 to have one installed here on Vancouver island.
The effect will necessarily appear weak when incidence of HPV is over 80%. At 95% it would appear weaker yet. That any signal shows up under the circumstances means the effect is huge.
This philosophy, all queues have explicit tuned limits with a drop log and increment a metric on queue full, was used thoroughly at AOL in the 90s. It worked very well, and let us use hardware at much higher loadings than is popular currently. Our goal was ~90% CPU at peak (systems I have worked with more recently start to die around fifty percent). Also of course there was a meeting each Friday to look at all queue depths and queue latencies and to see where we needed more capacity coming up. We did have so many subscribers that traffic was fairly smooth over all.
It might be a good plan if one wanted to create 'noise' for FSB so these random calls overwhelm their surveillance capabilities.
You list a lot of things that aren't healthy. Can you give an example of a typical 2 meal day that doesn't include oils, fat, meat, dairy, or whatever else isn't healthy? I'm genuinely curious.
I have a simple rule: If it has processed sugar in the ingredient list _anywhere_ I don't buy it.

If everyone did this, less processed sugar would be in our food supply. (corn syrups especially but also weird stuff like stevia, sneaky stuff like maltodextrin, etc..)
...are you sure about that?
At my company, productivity has close to doubled. I know for myself that I’m more focused and more tenacious from home. Our profits are through the roof.

I think people are delighted to skip their 2+ hour commutes and double down on work instead.
If you want to help the protest movements in Russia, support the russian opposition, NGO's that provide help to people arrested during demonstrations (13750 as of today) https://ovdinfo.org/ , and independent journalists who are currently escaping the country to continue their work abroad in relative safety.

Calling random people, messing with the russian internet, targeting the russian opposition/journalists escaping the country who just had all their cards turned off because of the visa/masterkard decisions is simply counterproductive.
Home solar. Reduces a huge (or all) of the grid need. It can be more organically rolled out than the cheaper but longer lead time of utility server.

Especially if the EV's massive battery can serve double duty as a "powerwall" type buffer as well. And if you have a two-car family, you'll have two buffers.

The military will use ICE/fuel if they need to. Or hydrogen + fuel cell would apply to them? Or methane + fuel cell? They'll do what they have to do, and there will be oil oversupply at that point.
BUILD file evaluation is very similar to nix expression evaluation. I think the bazel 'analysis' phase is equivalent to the nix derivation expansion step

Maybe nix is more lazy, but I would be surprised if nix ends up doing substantially less work than bazel when a single target in a large graph is built.
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So far there have been no such sanctions, and there doesn't seem to be any plans for it. Foreign airlines are allowed to order parts into Russia for their own use just fine.

In the worst case, the airlines will have to transport the parts to Russia themselves, which is not much more costly than getting Boeing to do it.
The fundamental problem with this approach is the difficulty in quantifying many of these things. How do you objectively determine maturity, ability to react properly under various intense situation, intelligence, even certain physical elements are difficult to quantify. The arbitrary limits at certain ages are meant there to filter out the 90%+ that is known to fail these tests in general, at the detriment of the remaining percentage, knowing that the benefit of allowing the remaining percentage is insignificant compared to the risks and costs. On a case by case individual basis you can make moral arguments for sure, and the justice system and regular life tend to accept these up to a certain point. But some hard red line is required. As a final thought, why not let 12 years olds consent as well? In my view that is where the authors logic tends towards.
I think we're very fortunate in the UK to have a great mix of wind/solar/tidal to utilise for power generation (although I don't think solar is as appropriate for our situation as wind or tidal). TBH I really wish our politicans would actually do more to advance both wind and tidal generation in this country.

But it still doesn't significantly help countries like Belgium or the Netherlands, or even Germany.

I'm actually very interested to see how Germany tried to decarbonise over the next couple of decades, as I think they've managed to get most of the low hanging fruit (for example, from what I've read, I don't think there's really anymore space for them to install offshore turbines without quite significant difficulties).
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This is predominantly a problem in the US - in other countries tertiary education is way cheaper per capita and in many countries (predominantly in Europe) it is free. In some countries (eg Norway) it's even free for international students.

In the UK (where I live) things have been sadly moving in the US direction over the last 10 years, with tuition fees and student loans now ubiquitous although university education is still nowhere near as cripplingly expensive as in the US.

It's a little hard to gain signal from university league tables, but US universities make a strong showing, but do not dominate to the extent one might expect given how much more expensive they are than universities in other countries. See the THES computer science rankings for example https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...
I don't agree with the characterization that it was "feigned" (which implies the person is intentionally doing it), but I do agree that it's a meme that blew up in popularity, and people suddenly felt the need to do something, anything. I mean, we had namecheap canceling russian accounts, of all things. I definitely wouldn't have imagined that happening a few years ago (eg. for xinjiang/hong kong/syria).
Also, Russia has lost a ton of equipment. This has been extremely costly even if we ignore the devastation the sanctions have caused.
Is this a rhetorical question? Leaded gasoline.
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The WebGPU spec is currently edited by two Google employees and one Mozilla employee. I am not sure how to make sense of your accusation.
and in this case, an organization.
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a meta study showed the effect to be minimal to zero

https://greyenlightenment.com/2021/08/02/the-effects-of-lead...
Im excited for Bevy engine too. It uses wgpu, which has many backends, including webgpu.

https://bevyengine.org

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bevy
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There is a push-and-pull because the ideal of how the web should work slammed head-on into the reality of how the worst actors will exploit the ideal.

Ideally, the web is a fabulous location-destroying architecture. The common protocol for both communications and content rendering really flattened the universe of data sources; doesn't matter if you're on CNN, Fox, Wikipedia, Google, or Hacker News, they all "feel" the same. Common top-level UX metaphor (underneath which customizations can be built), common language under-the-hood; the web really became a sort of global operating system for transactional communications.

In practice, letting arbitrary actors run arbitrary code on your machine at the speed of the web can be arbitrarily bad, so we tacked on a permissions architecture based on data source (delegating to the domain name service plus secret certificates to tell us who the data source is). And because the proper level of paranoia for strangers online is "zero trust by default," every domain you visit is a new trust relationship with its own security story to wrangle.

So these two features (flat experience where domain doesn't matter and zero-trust security model where domain matters a bunch) are directly at odds with each other. Sucks but it's the best we've got right now (how to improve? Hypothetically, we could add a meta-trust layer... "Here's an allow-list of sites that are trusted, so sayeth Goodsites.com". But nobody's written that spec yet).

GDPR-compliant cookies, as a concrete example, are a huge pain-in-the-ass because we retrofitted them onto site internal code itself instead of adding the concept of "required" vs "optional" cookies to the cookie jar design, which would have allowed user agents to put optional cookies behind a trust barrier like your microphone or video. But cookies are a legacy web feature and making changes to the implementation is hard (and, of course, there's the human element... I'm not 100% sure the people who hold the reigns of the W3C are on the same page with the people who hold the power to create and enforce the GDPR vis-a-vis goals).
Surprisingly at the moment for senior positions in Warsaw it is:

Open positions offering more than $7k at the current exchange rates in Warsaw:

https://justjoin.it/warszawa/all/all/32k

Some are in USD.
I am from Czechoslovakia, trying to imagine what would happen in 1980s if people then were getting unexpected political calls from unknown foreigners. They would mostly assume it is a secret service provocation and react accordingly. Yes that's hard to believe for westerners that your own state would do such nasty stuff to you, but it was commonplace then.

Shortwave radio station that is possible to tune to in Moscow and beyond, where they can listen to people they have known before, would have much bigger impact. Like Radio Free Europe did.
Life is what you make of it. If you go around thinking nothing fucking matters because we're all dead anyway, then it won't, and your life choices will affect what the rest of your brief existence on Earth will be like.
It's not even comparable. You an ignore the fact that far more people use Alcohol regularly, that it has countless other deleterious health affects and just look at pure death rates directly attributable to Alcohol. It's just not even in the same universe.

>(I'm pretty sure you'll find studies arguing for both sides, so we can only go on personal wisdom.)

This is blatantly false. Find me 1 study that shows definitively that MJ is worse than Alcohol for society.
The more likely explanation for rising cancer rates for young people are: better detection, and other diseases/causes of death being dealt with. Not lifestyle or environment. A better example for lifestyle/environment would be the fates of Japanese people who switch from Japanese diets when moving to America. Significant distributional shift in types of cancers.

When all other causes of death are removed, only cancers will remain.
We can allow fear to turn us all into slaves, or we can take simple acts like this to defend our freedom.

Acting together, we can reach out to hundreds of thousands of individuals. The Russian police cannot arrest all who are contacted, and even if they try, all of that time, money and manpower that they pour into policing is time, money and manpower that is taken away from brutalizing people in Ukraine.

So even if someone is arrested; even if they are imprisoned -- they can be proud to know that they have done something tangible and significant to help save lives.
Perhaps if the typical American was paid better and had more hope for the future then less would use such things to escape from reality.
And loss in WWI which was considered unfair along with wish to report it and win this time again. Stab in the back myth, the militarization of all government services and so on and so forth.

The antisemitism was not unique to Germany. It was all around the Europe for centuries.
Yes, NeXT was in fact a notorious failure by 1997, which had a lot of us scratching our heads at Amelio paying $400M for it. (And that the x86 version of the OS was slow and fragile. But, yes, unlike BeOS, you could print. And that still mattered at the time.)

The lessons Steve learned at NeXT enabled the huge success of his second tenure at Apple.
This is a wonderful way to make some poor Russian have to explain to the FSB why he got calls from the United States.

Or maybe they don't even bother asking and just gulag him.
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There always is someone willing to cut a deal to save themselves... And the west will facilitate it.
I’m a teacher. In very clear and obvious ways, my works “matters”, and I have the privilege of living my values every day. Paradoxically, I am increasingly sad and angry (which is not my natural disposition) about my work and very well may be on the path to burning out.

My wife and I are actively planning what will happen if I don’t return to teaching next year. What’s our runway? What will I do? (UX? PM? Sales? …?). Would it be possible to find a position where I can work 20-30 hours per week and be more present for our young son? Or - should I try to maximize income to make up for years of never making more than 45k?

I have strong emotions about all of this, but having a higher purpose is only so sustaining.
I am not! I have no styles that should affect scrollbar visibility. What browser & OS are you on?
I don't assume that Steve Jobs thought of the iPhone when having a shower or anything.

As with every idea, it must have evolved as people worked on other stuff. In the case of iPhone, we know how it came to existence, it is a story told countless times.

Didn't Nokia had R&D department? Of course they did and I'm sure that they also had brilliant designers and engineers who did amazing work. They simply lacked a Steve Jobs to weed out and steer their work to make it whole. In my opinion, Nokia failed due to poor leadership but not poor talent. Once Nokia was gone, the talent pool in Finland transformed and once again managed to do great things and be a hotspot.
Maybe Woz was just a social guy who was getting a lot of invitations to such events, as the vintage/retro movement grew? He certainly appears to enjoy talking about things he did in the past, in a way that Jobs did not.
Is WebGPU ready? It's been a bit, but last time I looked it was pretty unstable and not well supported.
The inverse is happening right now, Russian citizens are calling Ukraine searching for family that happened to be a part of the Russian army.

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2022...

I could see a spambot calling thousands of numbers a day from europe with a recording versus an actual person. We laugh about the car warranty scam calls we get everyday, but we're all aware of the messaging.
>We are already seeing studies that show regular marijuana use is correlated with permanent decreases in intelligence, memory loss, motivation, and mental health.

I can maybe believe it but I am yet to see a convincing Meta-Analysis or at least a large RCT. In general, people seem to recover from a lot of drug usage if they stop for long enough and weed isn't one of the heavy ones. Can you share what studies you are referring to?
Can we? Everything I understand about the public tells me otherwise.
A well publicized example is EA mandating all its studios to use the Frostbite engine
I'm confused, do we expect end-users to install a language package manager to use software? Nix would only be used wherever the software is built.
Apple kicked Jobs out, but they acquired NeXT years later because Apple really needed a good OS to replace Classic and Jobs just so happened to have hired some incredibly good OS people and they had built a very strong OS. Apple was also churning through CEOs at the time and losing the ability to innovate on hardware products. They apparently needed someone to revitalize the culture and Jobs, a co-founder, was right there after the acquisition. So it sounds like the choice actually made lots of sense. In fact it seems like it was a very smart move by the board, and I guess the only question was, is Jobs sufficiently mature now to give him another shot.
I tried it on Linux and it appeared quite buggy, and unpolished. Although it may have been the fault of Debian patches (it's quite obvious that it's not the vanilla version). From videos on YouTube, it seemed that ACDSee is quite polished and exactly what I want on the other hand, so I'm going to try that - first with a trial version and then if I like it, I'll buy it.
Would another Steve Jobs personality have a chance at today's corporate environment?

I have doubts: leadership is a hot iron where laissez faire approaches are favoured. The cite from Kawasaki that he was "unpleasant and always scary" would surely give a today's Steve Jobs a date with HR.

A leader like Steve would be today called "toxic" and probably never promoted at all.
Would you care explaining?
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Classical misunderstanding of queueing. If you have a perfect control over an arrival, you can consider it as already queued. I.e. bank customers or grocery store checkout customers or online http requests for a service all arrive at random interval. You don't have a control over their arrival timing.
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It explains a lot...
Here's the gist of the article:

> The nuclear option that has been most frequently discussed in the past few days involves Russia using a small nuclear weapon (a “non-strategic nuclear weapon”) against a specific military target in Ukraine. Such a strike might have a military purpose, such as destroying an airfield or other military target, but it would mainly be aimed at demonstrating the will to use nuclear weapons, or “escalating to de-escalate”, and scaring the west into backing down.

> Some analysts have questioned Russia’s ability to actually carry out such an operation, given its lack of practice. Unfortunately, this isn’t the only or even the most likely option available to the Kremlin. Based on war games I ran in the wake of Putin’s 2014 invasion, a more likely option would be a sudden nuclear test or a high-altitude nuclear detonation that damages the electrical grid over a major Ukrainian or even Nato city. Think of an explosion that makes the lights go out over Oslo.

> Those war games indicated that the best US response to this kind of attack would be first to demonstrate US resolve with a response in kind, aimed at a target of similar value, followed by restraint and diplomatic efforts to de-escalate. In most games, Russia still responds with a second nuclear attack, but in the games that go “well”, the United States and Russia manage to de-escalate after that, although only in circumstances where both sides have clear political off-ramps and lines of communication between Moscow and Washington have remained open. In all the other games, the world is basically destroyed.
Note that the GH repo is just a mirror, development happens elsewhere. From the copyright notes there is another main developer involved, Charlie Gordon.
That went as well as could be expected.
> Any analysis is worth considering.

Respectfully disagree.
WebGPU is not significantly more "bare metal" than WebGL is. There are still going to be several layers of abstraction between user code and the GPU in all cases. No operating system implements WebGPU or WGSL directly so there's always a translation and verification layer in the browser, and then there's the OS API layer, and then the driver layer (and probably multiple layers inside each of those layers). In fact, on operating systems that implement OpenGL, WebGL is actually closer to the OS/driver interface than WebGPU is.

WebGL has been around for a long time and the feared exploits never materialized. It's been no worse than other parts of the browser and better than many.
Economics has a term for this: negative externalities. A buys a snowblower from B, gaining 4 health for not shoveling and reducing everybody's health by 3 from pollution. B buys a leaf blower from C, gaining 4 health from not raking and reducing everybody's health by 3 from pollution. C buys a lawnmower from A, gaining 4 health from not scything and reducing everybody's health by 3. Each seller gets 4 health from the money. Every trade is beneficial to both parties by 1 health unit, but now, everybody is worse off by 1 health unit than they would be had the trades not happened. In practice, we're usually D-Z, who participated in no trades and get a net reduction in health of 9.
I havent bought bread in probably 4 Years now. Investing half an hour of work (distributed over the day) every other week for a 2kg Bread. Half of it goes in the freezer.

Also buying fresh vegtables and cooking instead of buying ready made dishes helps.
Its also a great danger. I didnt aim at giving a summary, i just called out the frame the author created. Something that "fao_" pointed out well when coming to the authors conclusion as well.
I've been interested in whether technical work actually hurts social skills. Maybe not for everyone, but for some. I've found that when I really throw my mind into stuff for extended periods of time, I think my social skills do digress. Maybe it's just in my head.

It also seems like many engineers start neglecting their tech skills and their social skills get better. Of course, that's often part of a concerted effort to improve... but often it does seem that the technical skills suffer at least somewhat. Sometimes it doesn't even seem that they're doing different work (more management stuff).
As I said, most European countries don't have an ADIZ, and a number of those reported cases are of actual violations of national airspace. Not ADIZs.

I agree that media reports that mistake the Taiwanese ADIZ for airspace are wrong and should be strongly criticised, but you're wrong to assume the same context is true for Russia and Europe.
* The west didn't annex any of those (except for Kosovo).

* Libya was given a no fight zone at the request of the people. It was a mistake, but the intentions were noble.

* Afghanistan started as a fair war. They gave aid to people who attacked a NATO country. It was completely fair to invade. Trying to nation-build it was a mistake though. But again, noble.

* Intervening on the side of the muslim terrorists in Kosovo was a mistake and some people in NATO (like us Romanians) opposed it (although our government supported it).

* The Russian occupied areas are hell holes. Transnistria is literally soviet.
Would you rather deal with someone high on cannabis or drunk on alcohol?

To collect data, visit all the hotels, restaurants, bars, police, security guards, and entertainment venues in your area and ask all the front line employees this question. Or even who you would rather drive around.

I guarantee everyone would rather deal with someone high on cannabis, who might ask for extra snacks or drive slow and be unlikely to go on a belligerent tirade or get physical.

In terms of other societal risks, I have not heard of a cannabis addict beating their spouse or children yet.