skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not think it is an issue about (re)branding. Each of those things that people refer to as confusing (.NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET Standard and now standalone .NET) are distinct and separate parts. I think it's more that .NET spent the best part of its existence Windows-only and to transition to being cross-platform requires some hefty changes that necessitated clearly defined stages (windows-only .NET Framework, then early-stage-cross-platform .NET Core 1/2/3 and then end-result .NET 5/6+) and a clear way to write library code targetted such that it can be used by certain cross-sections of those stages (.NET Standard).

They've managed the transition well on the technical side of things - as you can see there are plenty of people who are happy with the end result. But it's clear from comments that pop up here that they've really missed the mark when it comes to actually describing the intent behind the whole project, because a surprising number regard it as just an unnecessary exercise in rebranding.
> bid to join NATO because they feared Russia expanding into Eastern Europe

the true root cause, imho, is that the leadership in russia imagines themselves to be the superpower and have the natural right to influence in the region (and the exclusion of other superpower's influence).

I think they must give up this notion. If russia turned into what germany is today after the fall of the USSR, they'd be prosperous. It would mean capitulation (to the "west"). Of course, this would mean that the oligarchs do not get their wealth, so there's no impetus for this course of action from anyone. The US is also not keep to have a "marshall plan" like they had with the post WW2 period to rebuild.

So perhaps this war in ukraine is "inevitable".
I am pretty amateur at cooking, and I use three burners most of the time that I'm making a proper meal. I'm pretty surprised to hear that this wouldn't be very common for the average cook.
Can you provide some links to some sample user creations that are possible with your service? Or even just a video of somebody making a simple site.

If it’s there I’m not seeing it.
This is likely to lead to a run on the bank as everybody rushes to exchange their money for gold. Eventually the peg collapses and we are back to non-exchangeable currency. Gold standard only works as long as everybody believes that the exchange rate will not change.
None of that stuff would bother me — except maybe the audio and video recording. But it’s not like they’re just recording me, it’d be thousands of other people too and there’s no way I’m the most interesting of the bunch. The issue I’d have would be the bandwidth adding towards my cable ISP’s data cap. But if they use some other network, whatever go nuts.
We will need to wait and see.

It might end up cheaper to ship in ammonia synthesized from solar in the tropics. Most likely it will be a combination of several: normally, delivery by transmission line because cheapest, but with geothermal held ready for strategic backup, and stockpiled ammonia for load peaks.

Shipping will get cheaper as fuel does, but is already astonishingly cheap.
Go watch American Factory to see what conditions/mentality is like in Chinese factories.
Absolutely. My high heat cooking produces a good deal of particulate emissions and always sets off the kitchen air filter, but it's all from the food in the pan. It has nothing to do with the burner technology.

I know this because it doesn't happen when I'm boiling.
Why is it difficult? You know how much they cost so they must be available.
What you're describing is a combination of electrolysis and the Sabatier process [1]. And as I explain before there are major obstacles to actually converting electricity to methane at scale. It needs a source of carbon, and extraction of carbon from the air or exhaust is not feasible. Furthermore, massive electrolysis of hydrogen is also not something we have been able to do. Almost all hydrogen is produced through carbon-emitting steam reformation [2].

In short, converting electricity to methane and then back to electricity again is not a presently available option and it's unclear whether it'll ever be viable at stale. Grid-scale energy storage remains an unsolved problem

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
A study found that range hoods don’t actually provide a significant reduction in NO2, but air filters helped.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909253/
In that case we need to proxy, but only the wanted requests.

Though in the case of a smart TV, you would want to block everything except for whichever streaming services you're subscribed to.
> I make a point to open the doors as hard as I can to get them jammed open or bend the hinges a bit.

You literally said you open them hard to break them.
> Russia could sign a massive peace and disarmarment treaty with NATO today

LOL, are you serious?
It was probably his downfall. "Why is the Pharaoh, who's supposed to be a god, bragging about having a weapon from the gods? Shouldn't he like, be able to buy them on god Amazon.com? Clearly he's an imposter..."
Ultra-wealthy Russian oligarchs have called Greenwich home for decades
Russia Is Now Claiming the US Trained Birds to Deliver Ukrainian Bioweapons
> people like cooking with gas because it's primal and sensual? Really?

Yes, really. I personally love the aesthetics of flames on the stove, and this might lead me to choose a gas stove over the alternatives despite minor downsides like being slower to bring water to a boil. On the other hand, the air quality issue seems like a much more significant downside, though I haven’t researched it much. (I haven’t personally ever had the opportunity to choose the type of stove for a place I’ll be living, so it hasn’t come up. Someday.)
his book came out a couple days ago. highly recommend it.
The amount of value exchanged in an economy changes over time, the value exchange between two separated economies trading with each other changes with trade imbalances. The inability to control this because you're pegged to the amount of gold available has significant consequences.

Growing populations and economy increases the demand for gold but there's not much that can be done to increase supply. You get deflation where people who already have money get progressively more spending power, not by investing but just by existing so there's a lot of idle capital, this trend increases hording further reducing available gold increasing deflation.

The average person would be faced with regular pay cuts to keep up with deflation and an extra source of volatility with no recourse for nations who would from time to time just go bankrupt and be overthrown because they run out of money to spend and have no out.
It is terrifying that you find that strange.

Catering to all regardless of political affiliation is a good indicator of the populations freedom of political thought.

Where are you from that such a thing is unusual?
>> south, particularly in a Brahmin household, you will have one sambhar, one rasam, three vegetable currys

> This is not even remotely typical.

Digress!

What is typical?

It is always good to learn about people's lifestyles....
I was hoping someone would take this data and calculate an approximate Big Mac index.
I big difference is the price of poultry vs beef, perhaps indicative of the industrialisation potential of poultry farming vs beef farming that has since been realised.
They didnt, but they sure build great PR story around it over the years.

Microsoft was involved in a lawsuit after paying one of Apple contractors to steal QuickTime code. "investing" in Apple was part of the settlement.

https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_...

"David Boies, attorney for the DoJ, noted that John Warden, for Microsoft, had omitted to quote part of a handwritten note by Fred Anderson, Apple's CFO, in which Anderson wrote that "the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple." The payment was $150 million. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5TdqfNE1QU
The price of every type of fossil fuel is a gigantic lie that future generations will pay for. So what if the downpayment is lower, when it’s such a minuscule portion of the loan?
Sorry, I wrote 'So the real concern is about global population vs global gold stocks.', but I never addressed that.

So for your first question: there was lots of global population increase during the time when many countries where on a gold standard. We can have a look at how they dealt with it.

Basically, in the long run you can dig gold out of the ground. If gold prices get too high, more mines will become profitable, so people mine more. If gold prices drop, fewer gold will be mined.

Empirically in the long run the price of gold compared to eg the price of labour had been really rather stable in the past.

It helps that the global population and the global stock of gold typically change much slower than individual countries'.

> What happens if you live in a country where you can't just dig it up and people are poor.

Almost by definition a poor country has less economic activity. So they would need less gold.

Instead of me writing a lot of hypotheticals here, have a look at how 'dollarisation' works in the real world. That's when countries abandon their own currency (either officially or de facto) and run their economy on eg the USD or the Euro or so.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_substitution

That happens mostly with poor countries, and just like they can't dig up gold in our example, they can't print new USD either. They have to get their hands on them via exporting more than they are importing. (Or in the short run they can also take out loans; but those need to be serviced eventually.)
Does it have something to do with Apple being FoundationDB's lead developers.
> all the allied bombings

Not all. Many of those had the explicit goal of at machine factories and industrial centers (sometimes the whole town) for airplanes, ball bearings, etc, (at least in 1943/1944) although there were carpet bombings and there were a fair share of generals in favor of the “indiscriminate” aspect
From your link: the US made up 28% of manufacturing in 2002, dipped steeply, and then rose back to 18%. That's a huge loss of manufacturing. Especially when you consider that the manufacturing activity in China is, in large part, US companies gutting their own operations to save a buck. The short-sighted, "well educated" Harvard MBA bean counters aren't taught in school what comes next. After they gut and globalized, China steals their IP and floods the market with clones under a dozen shadow brands.
They are saying each individual hospital would have to choose a domestic manufacturer for atleast part of their supply. This would cause more domestic manufacturers to start up and compete for each hospitals business. The rule would affect the hospitals directly, not the mask makers.
Yes, the thing that ended was pegging currencies to specific amounts of gold. Central banks / nations still hold large supplies of assets to "back" their currencies. It is just quite a lot more efficient to be able to manage the money supply.
> Why is the round bottom so essential that without it we can't call it a wok?

you need the round bottom to be able to scoop up the food and churn it. Try using a spatula on a flat bottom "wok" and flip the food to churn it - it doesn't work very well.

There's also an edge between the flat bottom and the round sides. This causes food to get "stuck" there under high heat - leading to burning. A wok is round all the way, so the spatula scrapes everywhere evenly, and you leave no burnt bits.

A flat bottom "wok" is just a pan with high edges.
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kenji just released his new book (700 pages) on woks. while OP is correct about the heat deltas, it makes no difference in practice if you have the right technique. if you want to dispute that, you're going to be disputing someone who wrote a book about this over 4 years and made thousands of recipes.
Likewise. Mind you, that'd be more pleasing.
Thanks for this.

I'm curious how many scandals are involved with similar projects taking twice as long to complete in Europe. Or projects taking 4 times as long to complete in the USA? Fewer scandals? More scandals? Worse scandals? I have no idea.
My understanding is that a lot of the US' manufacturing output is an artifact of how agencies do statistical adjustments for improvements in computer chips.
I remember an obvious case of cheating when I was teaching college students (a boyfriend and girlfriend who sat next to each other turned in identical test papers). I remember telling them that it was obvious that one of them copied off the other and that they couldn't sit next to each other and when I started to complain I told them that filing a formal cheating complaint was a lot of work and I'd really prefer not to do that but if they'd prefer that instead of sitting apart on test days, I could do that too.

They sat apart on the next test day. I forget which one of them was the one who failed the next test, but both stopped coming to class after that (I'm assuming the one who was providing the answers was only in the class to provide the answers to the cheater).
Nuclear is over 4x safer than solar [1]. As far as "not having the time", we'd still be using natural gas to accommodate wind and solar's intermittency unless some breakthrough in storage technology happens. Batteries are mostly going to go to vehicles, not grid scale plants. Other storage solutions like thermal batteries, compressed air, or giant flywheels remain in the prototyping phase and aren't even proven to be viable at scale.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
It doesn't even have to be asteroid mining. Simply more investment in digging out reserves in countries that have gold to be mine could create imbalances. Those reserves could be in countries that we are in conflict with (e.g. Russia, perhaps China), creating issues in power dynamics (do we want to give Putin and Xi a seat at the table in dictating US monetary policy?).

Well, going on the gold standard would also make Australia much more important, so it isn't all that bad.
A part that stood out: https://www.epi.org/blog/powerful-government-policy-segregat...

> The great African American poet, novelist, playwright, Langston Hughes, wrote in his autobiography that he lived in an integrated downtown Cleveland neighborhood; in high school his best friend was Polish and he dated a Jewish girl—it was an integrated school in an integrated neighborhood. But the Public Works Administration cleared part of it to build separate projects, one for whites, one for African Americans, creating segregation where it hadn’t existed.
Cannot use copper bottomed pots.

I got a nice collection of copper bottomed pots when my mother bought her induction cooker....
UEFI boot: how does that work
They don't always support the DRM apps want for 4K streaming.
There is yet a fourth theory which suggests that, if the prior three theories did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them.
HTTP 0.9 was incredibly simple. There weren’t even any status codes or headers! There was not much “protocol” to speak of.
> although you have to use a heavy iron wok which sits still.

but you need a flat bottom for such a "wok" to sit - otherwise a round bottom wok isn't close enough to heat up evenly.
He claims he was $WHACKD, but he's not a credible source.
> I suspect the only places Snowden can avoid US prosecution are Russia, China, and North Korea

Those countries could still exert pressure: work for us, give us secrets, etc. or we’ll send you back.

He presumably could also be used as a bargaining chip in some other spy/business negotiations.
Does anyone honestly believe Mark Zuckerberg has principles?

He's never demonstrated this in any way shape or form.
Unsafe driving by itself is against the law in Germany. Even if no one was hurt.

You can argue that the law is bad and just be repealed, of course.

(Or like the guy in the article, you can have your lawyer try and argue in court that the law doesn't apply in this case. As a competent lawyer should in a fair trial.)

Not sure any politician was involved in the first place? Though of course politicians might utter opinions on the whole thing. As they should, so that voters can decide who to vote for, if they are in favour or against this law.
A micronation in Belize, the Central American nation too sketchy for John McAfee, although he may have gotten away with murder there just the same. What could possibly go wrong?
I've had co-workers like that.
I have bad news but we already get yearly boosters for respiratory diseases. And in pretty much every country except the US, people wear masks when they're sick.
There wasn't so many mask makers in China before Covid. And after Covid there won't be as many either - in fact, they're just going to shrug it off and make something else by then.

People are talking about Shenzhen electronics all the time. It's that impressive because the supply chains are there.

Yiwu, the Shenzhen counterpart for everything else is less mentioned: no matter its masks, toys, clothes, furniture, or MAGA hats, or Ukrainian flags (or Donetsk flags, or even RoC flags, they don't care), they make EVERYTHING and it's the place the world put orders to. It's the kitchen sink of the light industry, so that companies stay afloat instead of making masks for life.
sounds like a vibrant economy. maybe even worth donating if they can just pack their bag and leave for the prommised land
Almost immediately after you left, they promptly lost the admin password, Phyllis in accounting said, "why don't we just go back to copy machines and filing cabinets, we know how those work" and they unplugged all your computers.
Btw wrt "sleuth of Ukrainian accounts", I think you meant slew.
Given its attitudes towards Taiwan, Crimea, and even Catalonia, I'd say not much.
Huh, it's strange that they'd consider the EU a "single" manufacturer for the purposes of that list.
Would it be possible to run light weight apps/containers based on Wasm/Wasi? What are the limitations of UEFI?
> they don't care if

Bold to speak for the group of devs likely to have the most variety. Personally I hate twiddling with build systems and will happily write worse code to avoid it so what I do know.
Didn't know that, awesome!
Glenn Greenwald somewhat appears to support it https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-about-ukrain...
Yes, it's a valid spectrum. Definitely!

About your other example: I would expect self-driving lorries in a few decades to look very different from current human-driven lorries.
It is odd how so many of these consumer advances take a generation longer to penetrate the USA.

Bit harsh to call it a "back water".. Corporate advances in malfeasance often originate there!

Gotta love the pop art too, real inovators
> some idiot, interjecting in this imaginary conversation: sir, may I interest you in our pamphlet, superbowl ad with a QR code which later precipitated a fight with one of the best ad agencies in the world when the crypto CEO claimed to come up with the idea all by themselves

True story
Russia-Ukraine War – What Happened March 12
Please don’t toss old SGIs! They’re going for a shocking amount of $$ on eBay, even non-working.
That's the Infinite-Probability-Drive for ya.
With Ballmer it's chair throwing.
That would definitely be an awkward topic to address at a party. I can imagine some Russians coming up to Snowden and asking him how he feels about the Ukraine invasion. If he is like any other expat (or foreigner) in any other country not completely politically aligned with the USA, he would probably just chuckle and change the topic quickly (as I've done many times before while living in China).
There are no heroes, when it comes to politics.
didn't russia try to join nato?
I’d go with porn, but your point is good.
"some" shoppers? Who are the ones who like it? It's a blood nuisance to have to open the door to see if the claimed product is actually there. It's especially bad over the last two years when stuff unpredictably goes in and out of stock.

Is there anyone who actually likes these monstrosities?
We have one of these.

It is a nice flat surface in the kitchen, and too many things in my household have been burnt by being placed on it.

They are easier to clean....
We have one of these. For some reason it wasn't replenished after some outbreak in 2012 (H1N1, I think?)
so long as you applying your open flame to metal is more efficient than a natural gas plant is at converting it to electricity and an induction is and applying that to your cookware. I'd be curious to see the numbers there... but if I were a betting I'd think induction would be better.
My experience is completely different. Due to the lack of record and a lot of both personal experience and trusted accounts I deem such exams completely untrustworthy.

The bias is both ways. Some teachers/examiners decide on the spot which questions to ask. Not all questions are the same. Some are easier and depending on the sympathy one can get one.
Sometimes due to lack of accountability I even experienced complete dummy exams - a reason for which I decided to drop off from one. In college there was known strategy around one exam to not take part in written one as it was hellishly hard but instead go for oral one, where exam consisted of simply showing up.

This goes other way around, too. E.g. powerful member of exam committee of exam I took long time ago commission was infamous for failing people if not bribed in a very specific manner (not cash to hand but require buying specific set of services from family member). I dismissed that as malicious rumors but it proved to be true. I wasn’t failed but was scored inadequately which slowed my career progress for next few years.

I was told by academic staff foolproof strategies for failing students on oral exams. Like provide quick series of questions from various areas of topic, when they stumble due to stress finish them off with few extra ones. Other - ask questions so deep and profound they’ll either omit the details or start argue on ambiguity which are both enough reasons to fail.

There was small scandal about PhD exam recordings (which are obligatory) being purged 10 days after the exam, even though one of failed student decided to fight the result. Due to lack of evidence the exam result was held valid.

It really depends what kind of person is doing the exam. I’ve been always told that if one wants to skip exam they should go for oral instead of written one. Currently many are recorded but as they are widely used there’s minuscule chance they’ll ever be reviewed, and I recommend reviewing any piece of video if you think it’s easy. Find 3 seconds on 90 minutes video where student hands envelopes to the committee.

People on generally aren’t nice and while there is a sentiment for the teachers they aren’t any more special than and other group. You get lazy, power hungry or simply malicious people there too. And thus written record is a safe two way.
Most of the water used by nuclear is used to run the heat exchangers, and gets dumped straight back into the river it's drawn from. This looks like it's the source you're quoting [1]. It's pretty clear that nuclear power is a tiny fraction of water usage [2]. Furthermore, in water-constrained areas nuclear plants can be cooled with wastewater [3]. And lastly, plenty of nuclear plants are cooled with ocean water, which obviously has zero shortage.

The notion that nuclear power is going to significant affect water supplies is without merit.

1. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/styles2/#:~:tex....

2. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/styles2/images/...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_...
That 90% claim sounds like a bare-faced lie to me.