skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, it was pretty clear that Russia was willing to go to war to stop Ukraine joining NATO. They said so multiple times since the first time the objective was announced, in 2008 I think, which was followed by the Russian war on Georgia for the same reason... and the annexation of Krimea also had the same root cause... so I am convinced the war could have been stopped, but the West made absolutely no effort to do so. Do you remember when Russia sent the "ultimatum" to the USA and the answer was that none of the Russian demands even merited consideration? They knew then that this response would lead to a war.

Therefore, I believe there's reason to believe the West willingly allowed Russia to enter this war, perhaps with exact this goal: causing Russia to go broke (similar to what happened to the USSR in Afghanistan, which was also assisted heavily by the West at the time) over a gigantic conflict (and sanctions), forcing a regime change in Russia, finally, at the cost of a totally destroyed Ukraine. Maybe the West thought the cost (thousands of Ukrainians and Russian dead, two destroyed economies, another generation of people who can't trust their neighbours anymore, increased military spending) was acceptable?
Man, I was for seconds in a brainfart loop: "What the heck is Amazon Rainforest? Do they have a new service?"
CPU, GPU, and Memory are all in the same silicon package so my guess is that any modularity would be limited to upgrading storage. PCI cards are very un-Apple and IMHO, I don't see them supporting them beyond current gen Mac Pros.
Axios Wants Us to Read Everything in Bullet Points
I should probably do that as well, but I listen to so much music that it would be really painful to back it up.
Clearly it is not enforced, which tells everything about UN...
It looks really bad too. Like the whole balance is entirely thrown off. At least it has front USB ports...
Thank you! There's a very long list of topics to write about so I'm not too worried about continuing. :) Always open to ideas as well.
You won't hear a peep one from me in that regard, because I am of the same line of thinking.
Haha.

Maybe after Russia answers for war crimes the EU top court can focus on RT ban.
I won’t comment whataboutism in this thread or any other.

> what moral grounds do Americans have to say anything about it?

Interesting question, but even if every American shuts up billions of us can still speak up.
I enjoy some noise, like fan, AC, but get auditory hallucinations from most ‘noise generators’ (apps). I start to hear voices, orchestras tuning etc. Very strange and distracting. I’m thinking it’s my mind trying to make sense of all the random frequencies? Any tips to counter this? ( I could record my fan and play that... in a loooooong loop ;)
I just listened to a podcast this week regarding perfectionism: https://changeworklife.com/is-perfectionism-holding-you-back...

Some excerpts:
- Don’t forget celebrating successes
- 'done is better than perfect'
- ‘if you're not embarrassed by the first iteration of your product, then you've shipped too late…’
I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to draw here. Obviously the Russians do not recognize any law that would prevent them from invading Ukraine. If they did, they would not be invading Ukraine. The invasion is illegal whether or not they recognize the laws that render it illegal.

With respect to the UN charter, it's enforceable in the sense that any international regulation is: if you care enough you can get your guns and shoot the other guy if he doesn't follow the regulation. But otherwise, no.
I took high school and university economics, and they talked about rent controls and a few other price controls, and I agree that generally they probably aren't a good idea, but they never said that they could never work in those classes. Maybe I just went to a shitty school (Florida State University) but it wasn't a diploma mill or anything.

That said, your big rant isn't a citation, and saying "LOL IT'S IN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS YOU GOOFBALL" doesn't really count. I'm looking for one prominent economist that has stated the price controls can never work.
September for the M2 I reckon. The Apple Silicon chips have been on a regular one year iteration cycle for several years now.
This is an important case. Precedence as to whether or not prejudice against freedom of opinion is ok or not is at stake.

I hope the EU will think seven times before making a decision.
> Unlike previous wars where opposing parties had only conventional weapons

The American-Vietnamese war, the Korean war, the Angolan civil war, the Lebanon civil war, and the Soviet Afghanistan occupation can all be thought of as proxy wars between the US and USSR. There were even a handful that can be thought of as a proxy war between the USSR and China, like the Sino-Vietnamese war.

Some of these directly involved Soviet and American soldiers and equipment. Soviet pilots in Soviet MiGs with North Korean markings dogfighting over Korea with American pilots. Soviet and Chinese "advisors" directly engaging American soldiers in Vietnam. Much how American "advisors" engaged with Cuban forces in Angola at one point, IIRC.

Of course everyone was at the time, and probably correctly, worried those conflicts could spiral out of control and lead to a nuclear war. Indeed in some of those conflicts, you see a sort of unwillingness on both sides to just use overwhelming force, even when they could, so as not to escalate and freak out the other side. Unfortunately that means this kind of conflict tends to degrade into a long guerilla slog, with a steady but relatively small stream of equipment keeping the conflict going for years and years, neither side willing to actually push to end it militarily.
No, Russia is likely jamming GPS. It’s a somewhat frequent occurrence even before the war.
Same with me, the music I normally like distracts me while I work. To fix it I open up a youtube tab with a "cafe sounds" loop running (while also playing my music). Then it sounds like there's some nice music playing somewhere in the distance but I can't make it out. I also open up a "train sound" loop, which really dials in my focus.

It's a bit of a cacophony, but it got me through grad school!
I realize this is totally off-topic, but has anyone else noticed how wide-stanced all of the presenters have been? Like your legs don’t stand that far apart normally; the announcer right now seems to literally need to constantly shift her legs to keep her standing stance so wide. I’ve noticed this a couple of other places too; is some body coach teaching the weirdest crap out in California right now?
25% of Americans sometimes tweet? That seems very high. I only know a couple of people who use Twitter...
> I think the question is - is food being mobilized to Ukraine?

Is the problem with food existence or food transport? My impression is the food problems are in besieged cities.
There are many genres of electronic music and only some are dance-oriented. If you want to check them out, try non-vocal playlists on https://www.di.fm/playlists or on YouTube or Spotify.
>Information from either side is to be taken with a grain of salt, although Ukraine is winning the social media ops-game hands down.

At lest in the west where our information is censored to provide a Pro-Ukrainian perspective.

I can only guess at how the social media ops-game is playing out in Russia and China within their own propaganda bubble.
I think the point is that 13 mini is still available and likely will be for a few years, since Apple usually sells old models for that long. This remains true even if there is no 14 mini.

My guess is that when 13 mini is no longer available new, Apple will have another small-phone solution available. If not I will hold on to my 13 mini the same way other folks hold on to Touch ID. This mini size is perfect.
Why do manufacturers sometimes set retail pricing, aren’t those price controls? AIUI, some products have minimum contractual prices that retailers have to sell for.

I’m not an economist, and I tend to see economics “laws” more akin to social science than physics. Ie, economists describe plausible mechanisms and principles, but they are not very useful to make predictions.
I kept Twitter to "advertise" when I write technical blogs which I do very little of these days due to time.

I follow a bunch of tech type stuff I'm interested in, but honestly, it's become more of a place to vent and whine about this or that.

When I step back and look at it from afar, it's kinda what Facebook was when I left it a decade or so ago; people whining, and any subject worth commenting on is too controversial to do on the likes of Twitter where nuance is easily lost in so few characters.

I see no real need for me to be on Twitter anymore. I'm not on any other social networks aside from linkedin, which also seems to have lost its professional focus.
I might be wrong, but from what I can tell, the current MacBook Pros all have fans. Though judging by my experience with a 16" (2 days) they never seem to come on.
McDonald’s to Shutter 850 Russia Stores After Rising Backlash
I feel like it's different when it's a scheduled, planned release, rather than losing control in the moment.

Like, my overall emotional regulation is way better on the weeks when I've been more active, with cycling, lane swimming, taking walks, etc. And I'm certainly not doing those things "in anger", but it's still absolutely a kind of release.

Of course, the article is mostly talking about venting as a scheduled, planned thing too, so I don't know.
I saw it more as a modern reincarnation of the G4 Cube.
Usually this points to something like a fiber cut or backbone misconfig. Sometimes it can also be a data center issue with some trickling effects on other parts of the network.
If anyone wants to download their Spotify playlist (actual rip) offline I found this tool very useful https://github.com/eviabs/downtify-premium
Where is that law enforced is all I'm asking.
With the display I hope.
Difficult or "gated" specialties (like automotive) command higher bill rates --- so hardware, automotive, cryptography, maybe some kernel work (I don't know anyone that has a formal specialty practice in "kernel", it bleeds into other stuff).

IR is a huge practice area, lots and lots of people do it, and the line-level consulting work here is stuff that isn't at all difficult or specialized (log file analysis, imaging). There's specialty work in IR too, of course (there are firms that specialize in memory forensics, for instance), and that bills higher.

Mandiant is like the PwC of IR firms; Mandiant can get contracts that bill basic log file analysis out at $3k/day, because they're Mandiant. That doesn't mean the person doing that work is seeing proportionally more income themselves, or that a team of people striking out on their own from Mandiant are going to be able to bill comparably.

On the other hand, a team of cryptographers or hardware reversers at a big firm probably could expect to see comparable bill rates after starting up their own firm.
True, but you could still have a TouchID button on the side. I get price is the main reason, I'm just saying that I personally wouldn't want to be rocking a device designed in 2014 in 2027.
Is there a link to a podcast or article that I'm missing? The authors throw out this big claim

> It turns out, you're right. We dug into the data and found that, in fact, most Americans are friendly, donate time or money, and would help you shovel your snow. They are busy, normal and mostly silent.

then follow it up with a couple disjointed statistics and then ends with

> The bottom line: Every current trend suggests politics will get more toxic before it normalizes. But the silent majority gives us hope beyond the nuttiness.

What?

The entire premise around how often people _send_ tweets also doesn't seem like a good foundation. Misinformation (to pick only one relevant thing about social) comes from _consuming_ media. The median user story is probably people skimming endless content (memes, news, etc.) not tweeting everything out.
Is there any downside whatsoever to joining NATO? Even military expenditure shouldn't be an issue as most countries don't actually fulfill their military spending obligations.
Yup that's not valid polyglot HTML5/XHMTL code. In HTML < (and &) aren't special (except at the end tag). But in XHTML < is treated as a tag. Here's the link to that part of the spec for anyone interested:

https://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/#raw-text-elements
Shape Up [1] (from basecamp) rejects the notion of backlogs essentially for this reason. We've leaned into adopting it without using basecamp software specifically and it's pretty refreshing.

[1]: https://basecamp.com/shapeup
I was at my 3rd grader's outdoor field trip and saw a puff of vape come up from a trio of kids. Someone had gotten a small juul cartridge and they were puffing away on it. The dispenser makes it much easier to hide, but it is not a new phenomenon. My mom started smoking cigarettes when she was 10 years old.
You didn't buy these songs, so they won't let you enjoy them if you can't log in. What a wonderful world!
"let's not fix slow software, just pump more hardware at it"

it is scary how delusional and inefficient "modern" developers are
> The page you’re looking for can’t be found.
>Ukraine aims at short-term luring them into cities (e.g. preventing humanitarian corridors,

In what way is Ukraine "preventing" humanitarian corridors? Ukraine is requesting them daily, but Russian troops keep bombing them and disrupting the evacuation of civilians, daily.
It is extraordinary to me that we in the free world consider that censoring the Russians is how we are going to 'bring them to heel'.

If we can't hear their arguments, how can we convince them of the errors of their ways?

We are either cowardly trying to hide from what they are saying, or the narrative is being controlled in order to make sure only "the official truth" is told. Which is as good as having martial law declared - on ourselves.

Given our own proclivity (the West) for telling lies and then murdering millions of innocent people, I think this cynical move is very telling. We are not as free as we think.

Why are "we" the ones who can tell the world "what the Russians want", when we are in fact censoring them at every outlet... why don't we just listen to what the Russians, like - officially, want? What are we actually afraid they will tell us?
Very ironic for a country that has banned almost any form of independent media that isn't RT, to then complain that the EU has banned RT.
Well, what's the alternative? Surrender everything to Russia and hope they decide not to nuke us anyway?

The west has drawn the line in the sand at military intervention and at some point we have to draw this line.
RT spread misinformation and propaganda for 10+ years without any major consequences, if any at all. Are they really expecting the EU to let them go on? This seems like a marketing stunt rather than an actual challenge.
Did Apple just imply that buying a faster processor from them levels the playing field for underrepresented minorities? Did anybody else hear this or am I hallucinating?
Yeah in the US I recall in 1991 or 92 the pumps had "UNLEADED" in great big letters running up the side of them. My dad's '77 chevy had a gas gauge near the center console that said "UNLEADED FUEL ONLY".

There's been another push to get rid of leaded gas in aviation but studies show that it's virtually undetectable in the environment.
Since the dawn of the liberal world order and international law?

Or throughout human history? We aren’t condemning Russians for atrocities even 50 years back we are talking the past 2 weeks or possibly the past 8 years.
> Independents — who are somewhere in the middle

This seems factually wrong? Maybe most independents are in between the two parties, but not all. Look at Bernie Sanders for example, I would say he's to the left of the Democratic party.

I thought maybe the Gallup poll they are referencing had a weird definition of an independent requiring it to be between the two parties, but I'm not seeing that either.
Ok but what does any of this have to do with Spotify?
NATO is on the side of democracy and human rights. That's why it includes countries such as Turkey which has never waged an aggressive war on the pretext of protecting its own people, and then continuing the military occupation until the present day[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus
Web Browsers, because they do so much. Looking at how all the components work in tandem is always fascinating to explore. The Brave browser is excellent and challenging surveillance economies and they're doing a great job on privacy, even baking in Tor and crypto features. It's a modern marvel of innovation IMHO.
Hah, expecting status pages to be honest.
This is exactly the effect economic sanctions are supposed to have. It's no secret that businesses respond to fear and greed rather than calls for moral courage.
Watching the Apple event brings up a question for me. I know nothing about sign language. They have to make new words for different technical fields as new words and technologies get created. I am curious to know how difficult it is to come up with a new sign, is there enough "entropy" for it? I also wonder what the process is. How does one agree upon the sign for a word and how it's codified and disseminated?
"Never pass up a chance to keep your mouth shut"

Words my Dad taught me as I was growing up, but only really sank in the last 5 or so years ago.
Oh good. Glad to know I'm not the only one :)
It's a power stance, they are asserting dominance over the feeble audience to whom they are selling $5000 computers
What do you do when the queue overflows? Block work on backlog capacity? Drop the new item on the floor?

The problem is that people add things to the backlog during their ordinary work, so as you scale up the number of workers, the pressure on the queue increases.

That said, my experience in doing bug triage is that some large percentage of tickets are never going to be done. Those should just be dropped on the floor.
Russians DDOSing various services and jamming communications.

Dunno if "combat mode" GPS is a thing anymore with GLONASS etc.
Becoming more physically attractive will surely help with confidence too.
I think the USA can outperform Amazon here, they can offer same-hour delivery of advanced missiles.
> tbody is genuinely optional in the spec

IIRC optional in the HTML spec only. Not in the XHMTL one and not in the polyglot syntax.
> Kyiv cannot hold out forever.

They don't have to. They only have to hold out longer than the Russians.

In the north, the Russians are running out of supplies and their logistics is halted so they are not going to get more supplies any time soon.

In the south, Russia appears to have better logistics and they are still moving, but slower and slower. Their southern logistics is the railroad through Crimea - that is a major weak point. They have been trying with all their might to take Mariupol which would give them an alternative (albeit road-based) logistics path but have been fought to a standstill there too.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has an open logistics path through Poland all the way to the front lines (uncontested by Russia, unlike Russia's logistics paths which are long and vulnerable) and military supplies are pouring in.

Ukraine is getting stronger and the Russian troops are running out of men, diesel, food, and probably ammunition.
apparently not a permanent bricking, you just have to call cloudflare and get the keys to unbrick.

>>The second measure is the addition of a forceful configuration on all servers located in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, to automatically brick in the case of a power loss or internet connection disruption.

"All data on disk is encrypted with keys that are not stored on site. Bricked machines will not be able to be booted unless a secure, machine-specific key that is not stored on site is entered." - explains Cloudflare<<

so this seems to say that when a RU or a UKR server powers down or no longer has a heartbeat the server is encrypted, and you need to go through whatever is required to get the keys from cloudflare
Not to mention misinformation is across most media outlets. Not only RT.
About tree-fiddy.. thousand..
> most supported the US.

is not supported by

> the Iraqi population included many millions ... who broadly supported the coalition forces

"Many millions" !- "most"
Here [1] is a list wars from 1500 to 1800. A year without a war was quite rare, and these were often conflicts between large developed powers, some lasting for centuries. This was true generally before that time period, and certainly true after it as well.

And the wars kept getting deadlier as technology increased. During WW2, about 3% of the human species was killed using conventional weapons. But then in 1945 everything changed. Since we demonstrated the unwinnable situation that war against a nuclear power is, there have been exactly 0 unrestrained conflicts between nations with nuclear weapons.

So this formula is not so simple. Nukes are a catastrophe waiting to happen, but they are also the reason we've lived in this bubble of relative safety that is the only reality most of us have ever known. The promises and formalities of nations (as an optimist might like to declare the UN the reason such wars ended) are nothing new. The UN is a direct descendent of the League of Nations that formed following WW1 with the goal of ending such war, and there were similar organizations prior to the League. Nothing worked, until nukes.

Without nukes it seems likely that we would have almost certainly have long since seen WW3 and perhaps even more of its kin. One can only imagine what this would have translated to in terms of impact and our lives.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars%3A_1500%E2%80%931...
What does that have to do with Spotify being down?
Nice chip. Its only problem is that you pretty much have to run macOS on it.
I noticed this too with a couple of the presenters. I wonder if it's some advice from their presentation consultants.
Apple has enough margins to make the phone in US. They make it outside to increase their profits.
Cognitive biases and decision processes are deeply rooted in our biology