skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India has over 100 million poor people, and a lot more in lower middle class who will plunge into poverty because of the higher oil prices, and the resultant increase in the cost of food and goods due to higher cost of transportation. The import bill will be $60 billion higher, leaving less money to spend on social welfare and the military to deter China's aggression.

The choice is not simple like in the west, if they don't get cheaper gas millions may die.
China backs Russian allegations about US biological weapons ahead of Rome talks
https://archive.ph/6GmhY
Are these plants sterile? Could genetically enhanced trees on one heavy-metal soil site pass that trait on to other trees elsewhere?
I certainly can see that behavior from the media companies with a linear TV background, and potentially Amazon with their growing Ad business. As long as Netflix stays clear that should keep competition in check, once they start doing ads, I think that would signal the good times are over (squeezing the consumer).
Oh, and a friend of mine told me that Bob Mumgard (CFS CEO) mentioned the hope to break ground for ARC this Fall during a seminar last Friday.

https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=6566
Just curious who would be reading that documentation. The kid?
That's a ridiculous system design.
Aka B-Corp (a la S-Corp or C-Corp), which is what Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's is. It allows corps to shield specific non-profit activities from being sued by profit-seeking investors.

I think Costco considered it for a while but passed on switching.
Gas prices rise up by 40% in a matter of days and no one you know is concerned about gas prices? You must know a lot of privileged people then.

> My teenagers still drive around the city needlessly with their friends. My brother still drives 30 minutes away to his "favorite bbq place".

These are you examples? Just because people are living their lives doesn't mean they aren't concerned. You can still drive 30 mins to your favorite bbq place and still be concerned it takes $40 more each time you fill up your tank.
In addition to the Voyager calculation described in the article, there’s an additional calculation that you may find interesting: the number of digits of required to calculate the circumference of the universe to within the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

It’s discussed in the JPL article that this article links to: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimal...
Well, subreddits were initially a way to move content off the main page, not necessarily to indulge it. So the first subreddit was r/nsfw followed by r/programming and r/politics.

I can't find anything that says r/obama was an early Reddit-created subreddit, but if it was, then they would have done it to have less Obama content on the homepage rather than to celebrate Obama.

Source: https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-first-subreddits-and-how...
>The power efficiency of M1 is vastly overstated. Reminder here that the M1 Ultra is almost certainly a 200W TDP SoC

114 Billion transistors are going to draw some power.

An RTX 3090 is 28.3 Billion transistors drawing 350W or so for just the GPU portion of the system.
Look into Islam.
It is, and you must set aside your personal feelings and treat it as public info.

If people think these digits are like some secret password, they will be treated as such and used to gatekeep access to even more restricted info and accounts. Which would be a disaster because many people have had these last four digits exposed over time. Knowing them does not prove identity.

They are public.
Yeah, I think this is personal preference at this point.

I find TS to be pretty great, especially in how you can use the type-system to help you build your code. If your goal is not that, then we'll be aiming for different things.

> is heavily discouraged both by best practices and by the api

On this though, I'm unaware of generics being discouraged? Given they haven't even been released yet, and the amount of effort that's been put into building them, I don't think there's any reason to believe they're discouraged.
IANAL, but you will need to get opt-in permission from EU users to transfer their data outside of the EU unless you can apply standard contractual clauses (SCCs) or get an EU representative.

Source: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-44-gdpr/

Example of an EU rep for hire: https://edpo.com/
I don't know but for the past 2-3 years Google has been on some crusade to reduce its storage usage/customers.

For me it started in 2020 when Google announced my Firebase storage usage would go from maybe $20 per year to something like $800 per year, for a single app. Apparently they had forgotten to charge Firebase users for egress, for years.

But then also Gmail stopped adding more storage at some point so I was forced to get a Google One subscription or migrate 15 years of emails to some other service.

Etc.

I suspect Google has realized it's better to reduce its storage customers and just keep the ones that are ready to pay more, instead of expanding their storage capabilities ad infinitum.
What were humans doing in the Yukon 24,000 years ago?
> you'll miss out on a decade of fuel efficiency improvements, safety features, etc.

So... those who can't afford the ideal miss out on things? [obvious]
It is just unnecessary breakage for minuscule reward
oh man thats not fair
You are presenting it as an exclusive "or" question, when in fact you just do both.

You add a variant, and the compiler will lead you to all of the places where you need to handle that variant.

Or you remove a variant, and the compiler will tell you about all of the places where your made assumptions about such a variant existing are now invalid, including the tests that you wrote when you implemented the variant in the first place.

Welcome to compiler driven development.

Of course it helps when sum types and pattern matching are a first class feature of your language.
So many comments on this thread.

edit: I AM THE CACTUS MAN
Yes, I think the real takeaway is that people are not rational actors and people in positions of massive power even less so.

I think there was an assumption baked into globalism that heads of state would behave in the best interest of their citizens, but that's only even approximately true when the country is a functioning democracy. In an authoritarian state, what's good for the leader may vary wildly from what's good for the people. One could argue that the entire point of autocratic power is for the leader to be able to do what their people don't want.

And once you have someone with that level of power and no obligations to the masses, there should be no expectation that they will be have rationally or in the economic interests of the entire country. As long as it benefits their perverse psychology or isolated offshore bank accounts, it's on the table.
Heroku: PostgreSQL Public Certificates Beta
> If it comes to preventing the end of the world or protecting Ukraine, NATO has already shown it would rather prevent the end of the world.

That's because NATO hadn't committed to protecting Ukraine.

If it had, Putler wouldn't have dared attack.

Again: How is that not clear?
Nitrogen is extracted from air (which is 78% nitrogen), and combined with hydrogen to create ammonia. Doing this is doable with renewable energy, but it is significantly more expensive still vs using hydrogen from natural gas. As cost of natural gas has gone up (due to Russia not exporting as much), price of ammonia has followed.
Is boycotting Russian energy a realistic strategy? The German case
We are in the same case. Our servers are in the US hosted by gcloud, from what I could find, until the end of the year at least, it is not mandatory to have your servers in EU as long as there are some additional securities (source : https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/inte...)
But our client keep asking for the servers to be in Europe anyway
Can you share more about what Quaker meetings are like?
I feel like there’s a middle ground to be had here. You obviously don’t want to be over leveraged, but I don’t think a small amount of debt is inherently bad. I have a mortgage and some student debt, but they are a modest amount of my household income. You work to pay them off and save up an emergency fund, but the reality is that most Americans would never own a house without a mortgage. At a certain point, debt is essentially inevitable.
It is not as silly as it sounds. I am working for a big manufacturer (of products that don't require any spare parts) and the warehouse space is minimal, sometimes raw materials from the suppliers are unpacked and weighted directly on the production line, not going through any warehouse; the finished products are wrapped at the end of the line and loaded directly in the trucks, not going in a local warehouse.

That means if a new requirement appears to add something in the warehouse, space needs to be added. In some cases space does not exist around the plant, so you need to get some space in a warehouse somewhere else, most probably managed by a third party with higher costs, then integrate an inventory management software with that third party warehouse. This is already very complex for a manufacturing plant with zero budget for IT projects and the cheapest IT people needed to keep the lights on.
> I know this comment makes me sound like the stereotypical "boomer". But this malaise cannot be normal.

It does, but it's incidental.[1] The sentiment is perennial. As cultural values and norms change[2], older folk tend not to adopt new values and norms. The result is a perception that their norms and values are fading away from society and a perception that there are no norms and values to replace them[3].

The idea of places as a essential part of people's lives is also fascinating. The very concept of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places are a product of a particular time and place, namely the couple hundred years of urban[4] workforce organized by capitalism. Consider how foreign the idea of places would be to a cottage industry worker in the 1500s whose 1st and 2nd places are one and the same and whose 3rd place had an entirely different social texture to ours today. They would be entirely justified at having a sense of loss at idea of moving to the city and organizing their life around separate physical places.

While I don't expect that 58 year olds[5] to adopt new ideas of place, I do expect them to act with the maturity their years have given them. We all must understand that while the conceptualizations cultivated in our lifetimes, while appearing timeless, are themselves a product of a time and place. And for those who look to others for wisdom, we must understand how their time and place shape their conceptions before adopting ourselves.

Just as there existed a way of social organization prior to the 1st/2nd/3rd places inhabited by urban workforce, there now exists a multitude of digital places just as real to internet natives as the bowling alley, barbershop, cafe, pub, and beer garden. We can expect that the march of social organization will continue progress beyond into spaces that have yet to be created and the same anomie we have today will adapt. In the future, only old people will congregate on Twitch.

Briefly on the concept of expectations, these have changed too. There is an ongoing massive shift in how social labels are attributed, from 3rd-party ascription to 1st-party ascription. There are inklings of change in how interpersonal conflict is handled that is starting to formulate in the minds of youth. Finally, cooperation amongst students rather competition is now a dominate paradigm[6]. All of these come with social expectations that would be foreign to a person 40 years older.

1. And fairly benign :)

2. And when don't they?

3. Why would an older person adopt a younger generation's perspective? They don't have the life experiences that shaped these values.

4. "Without such places, the urban area fails to nourish the kinds of relationships and the diversity of human contact that are the essence of the city." - The Great Good Place (1989) Oldenburg

5. The youngest "Boomers".

6. I've heard this attributed to the rise of high-stakes testing environments, but it could also be any number of other factors.
Moon is bright, and the telescope has a much larger aperture than your typical camera lens.
I find it curious that you mentioned the us banning Russian propaganda, but no mention of Russia going full great firewall the past few weeks
Scientifically speaking this work is mighty interesting and desirable, there will be, I suppose, plenty of new discoveries/updates at the micro-molecular level about the photo-syn. processes. Two thumbs up and more power to you, we will learn a great deal about leaf tree photosynthetis on theoretical level.

Having said that, the naive and (forgive me for saying) faulty science behind the idea of using these for "stabilizing" climate is alarming. Ecology and the processes responsible for climate stability is infinitely more complex, and most importantly CO2 does not play central role in it per se. The amount of information processing by micro-biota to render the service of climate stabilization against equilibrium thermodynamics is unreachable in any foreseeable future by humans (ie. there is not even a hope to begin modeling this from first principles -- ignoring the fact for now that no theories exists on the hierarchical correlations among the ecological levels).

Of cause I understand the "advertising" element this work needs to attract funds and investments. That is why I would not unleash my criticism in full scale here (also not appropriate here), but (humbly) I would like to see that you attract real ecologists under the umbrella, and update the narrative to account for the dominant role forests play in on-land water cycle at least on the rudimentary level. Sure, I do not mean to uproot your efforts focusing on details of photosyntheis, but climate stabilization (mean for real, not just advertisement statements) is worth to acknowledge to come as a system. At the same time, I have anxiety that with all the good intentions we can easily cause more harm (as has been done many times prior , eg. corn-ethanol additives, palm oil, etc).
Thank you!

I will connect via rocket chat.
I never understand that criticism from the user point of view. A modern OS runs a lot of threads and the M1 isn't exactly a slow poke, and the M1 Ultra has a lot more cores to run all those threads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oijEsqT2QKQ
Imagine me, with a flashlight under my chin, as I recount the story...

It was an email system; before what's-his-name-The-Nanny's-husband "invented" it.
The difference is that GCP is a distant #3 (going on 4). It’s much easier to find engineers and tools for AWS and a fair amount of the cost historically was working around gaps. That doesn’t mean there are no reasons to use it, of course, but it undercuts the amount of pressure they can apply. Given the well-known internal deadline for profitability, I’d be surprised if didn’t give some current or potential customers pause.
An expensive lawsuit is a no go.
Texting and driving is just as dangerous as drunk driving yet the legal penalties are not close. I see people texting while driving all of the time.
I don’t know about needing, but the only place I actually preferred not owning a car was NYC, and I wouldn’t want to live there now that I have kids.

I think a lot of people just prefer to live in their own house with their own yard where they can’t hear their neighbors. And those people prefer to travel in private transport that can hold a few kids and is protected from the weather.
I wonder what the case precedents look like around things like telemetry and BI data.

I've working for someone who has had a hard time expanding outside of NA, so it feels like I'm living on a mountaintop, and I'm still not clear on what data can live say in a central accounts database.

Sharding is a solution whose scope has been diminished substantially by consistent hashing, but with all of these provenance laws it sounds like we need something that is a hybrid of the two. Irish users' data can be stored in Ireland, Germany, Greece, and Spain, but if they're sitting in a hotel room in Chicago realizing that when people said, "it's cold in Chicago in the winter" they meant, "don't go to Chicago in the winter," not, "pack your scarf and wool socks", and so they're complaining to their friends online instead of going to MoMA in the sludge, we can't pull their user data from Ontario, we have so schlep all the way back to Cork or Brest to get their account information. Which means you have some sort of hashing of shards or shards of hashing...
Come on you guys - users obviously do that because they want to be helpful to readers. If you look through mitchbob's comments it's not hard to find perfectly legit posts on other things, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30435861
One thing not mentioned with k-means is it requires your data to be in Euclidean space. You can't just come up with a distance function and do clustering with it. That's one reason the other techniques often make sense. In fact, those techniques often don't care what the data actually is, they only need the distances, and even then they don't need all of them.

Still, k-means is enormously practical despite its shortcomings.
Alternatively, you could use a $2000 - $4000 (used price) C14 telescope on a $4000 AP900 (used price) mount, with a $1000 planetary camera. Still a chunk of change.

The only thing you can't buy used is the apparently killer atmospheric conditions he enjoys wherever he shoots.
A powerful code size optimization for LLVM
Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (2018)
I'm not sure where you are located, but in Philadelphia there is a service, you sign up and they give you a bucket to put out for collection once a week.
https://www.bennettcompost.com/weekly-composting
Agreed. If the West would really be so concerned about Ukrainian civilians he'd pressure Zelensky to accept the fairly reasonable Russian demands: neutrality and a military exclusively for self defence. Just leave the door open for strictly economic integration into the EU like Switzerland or Norway and Ukraine had a clear way out of this mess. But this isn't the goal, the goal is NATO stationing nuclear ballistic missiles pointed at Russian population centers in Ukraine. Just like we have them Turkey today. So the killing will continue.
Destroy as in ads are no longer part of our daily experience, or just reduced to a reasonable level? I think we'll always have ads to some extent, and people disagree on what is "reasonable".
On my system right now:

% du -h --exclude=site-packages /usr/lib/python3.10 | tail -n1
41M /usr/lib/python3.10

The amount of savings seems to be about 0.83M:

% ls -l \
**/*aifc* \
**/*asynchat* \
**/*asyncore* \ \
**/*cgi* \
**/*cgitb* \
**/*chunk* \
**/*crypt* \
**/*imghdr* \
**/*nntplib* \
**/*ossaudiodev* \
**/*pipes* \
**/*smtpd* \
**/*sndhdr* \
**/*spwd* \
**/*sunau* \
**/*telnetlib* \
**/*uu* \
**/*xdrlib* |
awk '{ print $5 }' | paste -sd+ | bc
877283

This excludes the "msilib" and "nis" packages, which aren't on my system (I guess my distro excludes them?), and you should also really round up the files to the disk block size (usually 4k), so let's round it up to 1M.

Is that significant? You decide. It doesn't seem all that significant to me given that the stdlib is 41M, so for space-constrained use-cases you're still not going to be able to copy/install all of the stdlib in the first place as it's still not even close to fitting on "devices with just a few hundred kilobyte of storage (e.g. BBC Micro:bit)" that the PEP mentions.

I do think that removing these packages is a good idea, but "space savings" seems like a very weak argument.
> The content of the comment is much more important to me than whoever posted it

I agree with this sentiment. I mostly did this for fun, however I will point out that occasionally people get mixed up about who they are responding to with regard to which comments in a thread came from which author, and a random avatar can help to prevent those mistakes.
a usb-c to displayport cable works well/reliably, with full resolution support for the 6k pro display xdr (windows).
For added stability, make sure it’s statically compiled (which it might be already...)
The situation in Ukraine is unfortunate & Russia is squarely to blame. But there are other factors India has been calculating IMHO in keeping its long-term interests intact. I will add some more to the answers by <manojlds>:

Tracking diplomatic relations, US has blown hot blown cold with its strategic partners time and again. Some people are old enough to remember Donald Rumsfeld flew in meet Saddam Hussein, CIA trained Bin Laden in Yemen & Pakistan was a SEATO member with a huge military & financial backing. None of it holds today. Rather the very opposite. I think that scares Indian polity. They aren't dynamic enough to see the country as foes after enjoying decades of friendship, where they rely on US framework solely. At the same time, they feel independent enough to not be toeing the diplomatic line like S Korea or Japan for continued support. The ramifications & outcry from the Indian population can be quite severe. Western friendship has always been treated with a spoon of skepticism. This creates a terrible fix for the politicians.

That probably has been the premise why India was always gunning for NAM. They have wanted to position themselves between the two poles, maintaining cordiality & enough economic exchange. It gives them a sense of failsafe. Given their size, they see themselves as a regional power. But even today, they have to depend extensively on external support - on military & scientific projects, mainly.

Indian polity sees it in their interest to keep their ties to Russia for these reasons. They have an oversized dependence due to all the military hardware & industrial setup going back several decades. They are gradually transitioning to French, Israeli & US technology but they are still reliant on Soviet machinery in military & heavy industries (steel, shipbuilding, plastics etc.) That factors in their decision to act somewhat of a "friend in need".

EDIT: I will add in something my father, an ex-diplomat, mentioned the other day. This is chiming in the diplomatic chatter going around:

Ukraine apparently never supported India's position in several UN resolutions. From not supportong WTO-related pharma patent disputes & not endorsing India's NSG membership to not providing spares for the ageing Antonov transport equipment (instead, Russia provides the franchise version), Ukraine either was passive or voted against India. Much to India's diplomatic displeasure, they also sold & equipped Pakistan Army with T-80U tanks. When this war happened the bureaucratic / diplomatic mandarins have been non-commital about doing anything significant in support. In his words, "we aren't enemies, but Ukraine isn't a favored friend either".

EDIT2: I read some of the China related discussion. Frankly, with the border tussle, Russians have been non-committal so I don't think India is supporting Russia as a quid pro quo. In the event of any escalation, US would be more interested in keeping the balance of power in India's favor. Russians are reliant on Chinese consumption - and they know that to be the elephant in the room.
>And that's true always and obviously.

Is it obviously always true under arbitrarily different laws of physics?
Well one example would be a node that outputs HSV as seperate (greyscale) outputs, you could then operate parallel on all these strands and merge them together in a combine node that has 3 seperate inputs for HSV and gives you the full color again.

Practically nodes make it easier to deal with more complex operations than layers (e.g. operations wherebyou have multiple source images and/or multiple target images, like e.g. in compositing, CGI etc)
I love JLG but it doesn't excuse putting out wrong information. He should fully retire if he's not going to do the work properly.