skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure why NATO would sanction NATO. If your country wants to sanction a NATO member then they certainly have that right to.

I was discussing the principle of it - would UN sanctions against NATO countries be justified, especially if they were to target the population of NATO countries?

Note that my country is in fact a NATO member.

> If we actually eliminated nukes NATO influence would only expand.

My point was exactly that eliminating nuclear weapons entirely would in fact be a boon to NATO, since for example in the current situation it could have actually considered some limited military aid without risking nuclear Armageddon.
> I'm sure they laugh at our nuclear energy use

I'm sure they chuckle at how primitive it is, compared to whatever ridiculous tech they're using.

But they're laughing a lot harder at the fact that we have an energy source able to provide one person's total lifetime supply of energy from a lump of fuel smaller than a golfball, but we're so scared to use it that we're wrecking our climate by burning trainloads of coal instead, just as we've done for the past couple hundred years.
anecdotally - yes. We bought and brought some stuff following that https://www.facebook.com/lnyuz/posts/5490539337642083 (drop-off in San Jose, some people order stuff from Amazon with delivery right to there), and while i don't see food among the list of requested item, boxes packed with donated food were pretty prominent there (and even though food wasn't mentioned we actually brought food too - long term packaged high calories low weight, we thought that probably that may be needed too and it happened so, seems like many people do that).
This is the only reason I'm tempted to get an Apple machine, tbh - those sweet, sweet compile times.
"It seems the Russian invasion is crawling"

During WW2, the siege of Leningrad lasted 872 days. Ukraine has only been under attack for 13 days.
> But then why are posters above pretending that many countries, which signed up this IP regime under threat fo being cutoff from trade, didn't do that under duress?

Because most people reserve "duress" for a threat to one's rights. In the case of nations, these rights are generally territorial integrity (basically, the right not to be invaded or attacked) and political independence (the right to self-govern, including to choose with whom and under which terms a nation engages in trade or other treaties and alliances). While there are certainly powerful incentives for cooperation, it's incoherent to argue that exercising one's right to self-govern is coercive and thus out-of-bounds.
So lowering the general IQ in a society by a few points means an explosion in crime?
Assist doesn't do it for me. I find it near impossible to believe that were Finland attacked, the Central European militaries would be doing anything different from what they're doing now. Assist would equal hand them some equipment and root for them.
There are disruptions in GPS signals in Eastern and Central Finland as well. [1]

No prizes for guessing the most obvious culprit.

[1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12348237
Cloudflare is working fine for me.. even Discord's CDN is behind it and working fine
EU lawmakers to push for ban on new 'golden passports', visas for Russians
As a long-time PC user, I remember going to CompUSA and seeing the Mac section of games which was laughable.

Back then you bought Apple if you were a sound engineer or into graphic/media design.

I used to tell people I’m a die-hard PC user simply: Mac sucks!

Fast forward to around 2009 and I’ve been a happy Apple user since then for all my software engineering needs.

Is the platform perfect? Nope! And nothing is.

Is it expensive? Yes, but the quality is fantastic and if one really wants to can get 5 years easy out of any Mac computer…I’ve got 11 years out of my family’s Mac mini that I was able to upgrade a few times.

Which brings me to my only real gripe: the lack of upgrade ability and the obsession with “thin” design.

Please address that because everything else I can mostly get over.
Harsh Noise Wall is where it's at.
It is an enormously complex factory with a high probability of going boom if you do something wrong, so not really, no.
> Reminder that the goal is hinderance of aggression by the Russian government, not punishment of the Russian people.

The goal is both. You can't meaningfully punish a government without also punishing its people. The current sanctions are absolutely crippling to the Russian domestic economy. Their exporting businesses are dead in the water. What remains of their industry completely depends on imports, which have no stopped.

In their personal lives, they are accustomed to buying foreign goods, as basic as furniture. Russia currently doesn't manufacture enough furniture to meet its domestic needs... And doesn't manufacture enough manufacturing machinery to build said furniture factories, even if it wanted to.

So, you tell me, does mass unemployment, inability to buy basic consumer goods, and a collapse in purchasing power do - does it punish a government, its people, or both?
Not shockingly, support@spotify.com is rejecting messages:

550 5.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that prevents additional messages from being delivered.
I listen to the “radio” soundtrack from The Sims for the same reason. The songs have lyrics but they’re too indecipherable to be distracting.
India are very wary of US led wars, they do not have a good track record and when this all blows over and everyone forgets about it, India will never get support from the US against Pakistani sponsored terrorism. So why should India fight its wars for them?
Apple probably has 0 interest in entering the server market. Anyone who wants a bigger CPU than the M1 ultra would probably be better served using a cloud. My company gives everyone a $2k macbook, but guess what, all our development still happens on our cloud, because laptops will never be able to compile as quickly as build farms.
> The USA at least subjects itself to elections, free press, democracy.

If you drink the kool aid and choose to believe that, sure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30497171
Time to lay off the Hacker News it seems.
It's two sides of the same coin. In your example management only adds more cashiers if the queues have become unacceptably long (they've tripped a soft limit). The queues are serving to accommodate irregular shopper purchasing patterns because shoppers don't arrive consistently throughout the day. So really they are serving to smooth over bursts. Adding more cashiers is simply a response to queues hitting an unacceptably long length. If management had infinite cashiers and you could add them instantly then you wouldn't need queues. But, and this is especially obvious if you consider the scenario where all registers are staffed, then you still need queues to handle bursts. Costco is a good place to experience this.
You think this will be the low then? It seems that things could fall a lot more depending on what happens
This is why you should just say NO to DRM.
As I've said before: Spotify / Tidal / YouTube Music is great for discovery, IMO. Just not consumption. I use them for checking out new artists, or albums by artists that I haven't heard before. But once I've passed from the "Huh, that was interesting" stage to "Yeah, I think I'm gonna listen to this album again in the future", it's time to buy it, rip it to MP3/FLAC(if I bought a physical copy), and get it into my media collection backups.
How doesn't it? I've lived in a world of coordinated microservices before, where a nice linear progression of queues only happens at the atomic level; when you zoom out you've got a digraph full of cycles, nodes that come & go in response to various events & schedules, and the transitory nature of those services entering could cause a smooth-sailing pipeline to suddenly seize up because some downstream dependency is servicing higher-priority requests.

The only way we could stay sane was aggressively following Ferd's rule – nobody got to surface an API unless it surfaced HTTP 429s on overload[1], and if you called a downstream API without checking for and responding to a 429, tough noogies, your requests got dropped and you had to figure out what to do to fix it.

Funny enough, at the time I did software for a manufacturing facility that did high-throughput manufacturing for many varying products. I was lucky enough to do a "gemba walk" where they made us engineers put on hard-hats and eye protection and reminded us who actually made the company money, and by god those guys were doing exactly what we did: they had JIT delivery of raw materials / sub-components to assembly lines, and the delivery of resources to the line was always constrained by a fixed buffer, quite literally "how many units you could put on a shelf". You couldn't just toss more product at a line that wasn't ready for it, it would literally not fit.

Sure, they used different terms than we did – muda and muri and value-stream mapping – but the outcome was very similar. Their version of the NOC was a team of managers who watched the cycle time of each line, how long it took material to be transported, which areas were bottlenecking and which were at risk of running into resource starvation, and they had the ability to balance the hot spots by bursting product in, caching upstream components into hold docks, releasing held work product to downstream lines, or even turning on a flex line to work around longer-term constraints. They rarely had fixed, static bottlenecks, because they optimized the life out of them. Their bottlenecks arose when a shipment didn't arrive (and you better believe those were tracked just as aggressively), a machine broke down, an operator got sick, things like that.

But at the end of the day? Same principle: downstream components would only accept as much as they could process from upstream components; you asked before you pushed.

[1]: and if you said "I swear, you can't overload this service, we don't need to send 429s" a swarm of senior engineers descended upon you and only left until you convinced them they were wrong, or – way more likely – they convinced you.
I would buy that.
That only makes sense if you're looking at a snapshot in time and try to make sense of it. It's too simplistic to explain this situation if it persists over time. Which, well, it's too early to tell. US domestic oil production ha so only matched import volume for the first time ever in 2020[1]. I expect that if the US keeps production high, eventually the cost of domestic production will reach an equilibrium and the benefit of locality and less transport costs will force the US to use its own oil.

[1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/US_oil_p...
Mac Studio: ”Complete transform studio workflows everywhere.”

Hopefully it lives up to the promise. It really packs quite a punch into a little box.
I hope every single ambassador said "they're on holiday".
The painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.
Apple’s Mac Studio is a new desktop for creative professionals
They just announced the "totally new" Mac Studio, which honestly just looks like a Mac Mini, but significantly taller, available with the new M1 Ultra (2x M1 Max).

While they claimed that modularity was a goal, I honestly don't see how that could possibly be the case given the form factor.

There's also a new Studio display going along with it.

EDIT: It may be that their understanding of modularity is having -- what they consider -- a lot of IO, i.e. a bunch of Thunderbolt 4 ports.

They claim M1 Ultra is up to 60% faster than the 28-core Xeon in the Mac Pro. Color me sceptical. (I'm sure it's true for certain workloads, but I doubt it holds across the board).
Yup, the Mac Studio.
That probably means that the main reason for the crime rate spike since the 60s is not lead but something else.
Perfectly valid standpoint, but USA and Vietnam is not Russia and Ukraine. Geography, culture, history - all of this. We can hardly guess what the hell is in Putin's head and what those plans really were aimed at. We are guessing thoroughly, though.
It’s been consistently rumored since even before the iPhone 13 that the 13 mini would be the last mini, due to (unfortunately) lower-than-expected sales of the 12 mini. If Apple didn’t have such a long internal lead-up time for new models, they may even have ditched it right after the 12. The 14 will be four models, two 6.1" and two 6.8" (“Max”), each in a Pro and a non-Pro variant.

I hope that Apple will make another attempt at a small iPhone before/when the 13 mini becomes end-of-life.
You might be a good candidate for the new Studio
Could not have put it better. Doubt you will get any answer though.
> till the union dissolves and nukes start being divided up amongst a dozen Russian "oligarch" mini states and all the corruption that will ensue

you've just described almost exactly Russia in the 1990's.
In the UK, physical media can be got for pennies from charity shops (our name for “Goodwill”) - It’s not a bad idea to stock up on favourite films, tv or music if you’ve got the space while it’s still possible.
Definitely. Right after watching an Apple event, it is a custom to get into a tank to blow some eldery people.

But seriously, did it ever occur to you that there are a lot of Russians who are against Putin and this unjust war he started?
Pixel #a series also are simless. The iPhone SE requires a sim card unfortunately.
Studio looks like the garbage pail Mac Pro re-incarnated into Aluminum.
+1 in fact there are situations that definitely call for price controls. For example wartime price ceilings to prevent gouging. Or COVID vaccine pricing. Price controls work in these cases if companies have some reason (e.g. governmental mandate) to not seek the highest price. Successful deployment of price controls just have to come with a host of other policies to mitigate downsides. For example, if you enact a price ceiling, you get shortages. You deal with it by employing things like triaged distribution (e.g. early COVID vaccines go to medical professionals, N95 masks go to hospitals, etc, gas gets rationed with much of it going to the military in wartime).
Current local parking example is a new apartment block - ~500 units, ~800 spaces required, developer thinks ~600 is enough because the building is adjacent to a subway stop and across the street from a massive mixed development. This is an area with almost zero on-street parking - there's no risk of tragedy of the commons here because there's no street parking to "steal".

Why is the county requiring more parking than the market value? The developer has no incentive to under-build parking - nobody would rent in the building if there wasn't enough parking available.

Edit - Des Moines has 19.4 parking spaces per household. Seattle has >5 per household. Other stats about parking density in the article...

https://www.fastcompany.com/90202222/heres-how-much-space-u-...
One more thing: Apples’s turnaround was one of the most unexpected things in modern computing.

Also, never have I ate my own words harder with the “Mac sucks” thing.

At the end of the day I’ll use what works.
The fact that vaccination rates remain as low as they are is one of the most convincing arguments I've ever heard that we, as humanity, have done messed up.

Wars between autocrats and an inability to conceive of the damage your actions will take on long future generations (it's more immediate now but a lot of folks are still stuck in this mindset) all pale in comparison to "Hey, we just discovered that you'll die if you don't eat a baked potato in the next week" and getting the response "Hey - what's with all these free potatoes all the sudden, is the state of idaho lobbying the government? What is the hidden tuber agenda? My friend ate a turnip - that was enough for his grandfather! I've heard that potatoes can be used to power world-ending test executing AIs - I don't want that in my digestive system!"
Not true at all...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/apple-macbook-air-2022-r...
My music is still streaming on speakers in the other room but I can't log in to pause it. Really annoying.
You can’t rebroadcast it for a profit, for example.
Will the M1 Ultra GPU be able to compete with high-end discreet GPUs?
You're describing Hitler. Not Putin. The situations are very different.

There is no hatred of a people in Putin (just fear of Nato).

There is some superiority complex sure. But in Putins case it's the superiority complex of "Ukraine is actually Russia", which is enormously different from the hate of the nazis.
It’s self serving, but also the correct course of action under the law.

If someone robs a bank the bank can’t unilaterally confiscate their money if they had an account with the bank.
Show HN: Security Monitoring for Your Domain
Rumor is Intel bought TSMC's 3nm capacity. I suspect they've drawn up something pretty spectacular.
Regarding doodling, it seems that any active productive study method is at least somewhat beneficial. I've found this in my own personal experiments. For example, testing myself with cloze deletions, creating Anki cards, generating mind maps, Cornell notes, inline annotation/marginalia, doodling, generating questions, generating mnemonics, mind palaces, etc.

An interesting one is reading and reciting out loud: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2017.1...

Another non-intuitive method that is helping me a lot is pacing around my house slowly while I read. It goes to show that cognition is an embodied phenomenon. It's unintuitive when intelligence is viewed from the traditional split mind/body paradigm but just take a look at an image of our nervous systems. Those wires to and from our brain and guts wrap around every part of us.
Same, it logged me out and can't log back in. I have dozens of hours of music downloaded on my phone for this exact reason... And I bought Spotify premium for this exact reason, to listen to offline music. What a shame.
Auto generate IQ tests, so cannot be learned by trying many times / cannot learn by heart. And have people in the next generation do the same auto generated tests.

This won't be perfect, but, using mathematics, Id think it would be possible to know how (im)precise the comparisons would be (confidence intervals of the differences).

Also, might not work for really bright people (they'd learn how the auto generated tests get generated? They might sort of "disassemble" them and find the answers quickly?)
The incident with the nuclear reactors seemed to involve an administrative building, not the reacor(s) themselves (As far as I can tell, hard to determine the truth from my chair in the USA)
This naturally human response thats existed for longer than commerce needs to be suppressed because it doesn’t further your career. Yup. Makes sense to me.
How about some space noise? https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia079...
Here's a video showing heavy weapons damage to elevated walkways connecting the reactor buildings, showing damage to what looks to me like wiring conduit running through the walkways.

https://twitter.com/gbrumfiel/status/1499799810609668106

The focus of the fighting was elsewhere but some projectiles made it very close to the reactor buildings.

Based on comparing the shot out the window with a look on Google Maps this is between units 2 and 3 of the 6 at the plant
> Sorry, do you have a citation for this?

How about every standard economics class you can find at a reasonable school? This is covered in high school and university economics courses. Oh, it's not usually stated as "price controls don't work", but it's covered.

It's quite simple: forcing the price of some good while allowing supply and demand to adjust accordingly necessarily causes them to adjust accordingly. Set prices too low and supply shrivels, leading to shortages. Set prices too high and demand falls off and searches for substitutes.

The ostensible goal of price controls is always just that: to set the price of some good so as to alleviate the burden on some class of people (either the producers or the consumers, depending on whether the price is set too high or too low).

The actual goal of price controls, if it's anything other than propaganda value ("look! we care about you! we're doing something you want!"), does get met. So in that sense price controls may work, of course, if the target of the propaganda is too dumb to understand they've been had or if they have no way to reject proposed price controls. But that's not the sense people want -- every consumer wants lower prices, and every producer wants bigger profits (which often, but not always, means higher prices).

All that said, you can make price controls work. Like, if you enslave some people (generally that would be producers, when you want to set an artificially low price on some good or service). Or maybe if automation reaches such levels that marginal costs are zero for most goods in most goods baskets -- I'm not sure if this has been studied.
Yeltsin to Putin.
So is 1 basically rubber ducky debugging but for social situations? Because I do this pretty often by myself. I feel it does require a certain level of self-honesty and I've often used good friends (the ones who I know will call me on my BS) as sounding boards to double check my conclusions.
Ports on the front? Crazy!
Did it ever occur to you that the point you're making is obvious?
I'm not saying you're wrong but I'm wondering. What actual law, that they recognize, are they breaking? They don't recognize the ICC, they didn't appear at the ICJ, what's the legal recourse here?

Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter says "All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State" but is that enforceable?
So do people who mistakenly blow through a stop sign or make any other potentially fatal mistake.

I regret to say that I don't see the point of this remark.

As a licensed driver you're required to know what to do when approaching an unguarded intersection where you clearly do not have right-of-way, and not interpret the lack of a stop sign as a green light.

Some countries have a more finely developed concept of right of way than the USA and Canada. They have signs which indicates right-of-way paths through intersections via map-like diagrams. Also, signs which indicate a change in right-of-way status of the current road.

Removing a sign which negates a road's right-of-way status will likely cause an accident.
that would be me. I go elsewhere where the grass is greener.
I’m glad that it looks properly cooled but it seems like a very un-apple design.

It looks very weirdly sized with the ports hanging out at the bottom.
> To this day, When I listen to his old interviews etc. I'm hypnotised by the clearness and the flow of his mind.

He certainly spent a lot of time thinking about his own thoughts; trying to express them, trying to revise them. Like he was his own life's work in a way. It's a skill in itself isn't it?
> If you cache a new submission (message) locally before submitting, you just keep re-submitting until the server returns an ACK for that submission; and your local cache is empty.

This has terrible resource use and offers no visibility into how many clients are waiting. And yet it's still a queue. Why would anyone do that?

The rest of your post I can't parse at all.