skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The optimal thing would be to push the Russians out of Ukraine with military force, though that is also going to leave many dead.

And the primary victims will be Ukrainian. Even considering that Europe has its arms open to this particular class of refugee, the country that they left will be a smoking crater. I wish we'd stop pretending that we're arming the Ukrainians for the Ukrainians' sake; we're trying to extend the war as long as possible in order to economically destroy Russia. The end stage of that is Western and central Ukraine being reduced to dust.

Russia has committed something like 15% of its military so far IIRC. This is just a matter of time. Ukrainians are being pushed through jingoistic nationalist propaganda (which is enforced at the borders if men who are old enough to carry a weapon try to leave) to destroy their country, and letting extreme-right minorities of the population (who are basically Banderaite lost-cause Nazis) lead. Those groups are happy to burn their country so the disgusting muslim commies won't rule it, and to die in glorious battle against them.

The disgusting thing is Americans are parroting the Azov rhetoric, too. Fat slobs sitting on a couch watching MSNBC/FOX/CNN all day and yelling at the television are calling Ukrainians traitors for leaving, and demanding that they be armed and sent back in.

The optimal thing is not to push the Russians out of Ukraine with military force, it's for Ukraine to give up. The world has shown it's willing to take white refugees, so those that fear Russian persecution can escape. Plenty would have happily emigrated without the Russian invasion, but the doors to Europe and the US were shut to them before. NATO re-promises not to put their alliance whose animating premise is anti-Russian on the borders of Russia. Ukraine rebuilds and normalizes.

What have they lost anyway? They were dominated by the Russians (and hopelessly corrupt), then a Western-incited and funded coup used the extreme-right element to install a (hopelessly corrupt) puppet who left office with a 5% approval rating, so the public elected an actor who played a president on television (also fully owned by an oligarch), which is an act so desperate, it would seem insane if the US hadn't elected a guy who played a boss on television to be president, or Italy hadn't handed its politics to a comedian playing the wise fool, or Boris Johnson hadn't been. Russia and the US trashed Ukraine, and we're cheering them on while they finish the job.

Even better, maybe we can push Russia into using some tiny nuke that we can't justify destroying the entire world over. Because the fact is, if they nuke Ukraine, we're not going to do shit. They know it. Lets make them feel so victimized to the man that they do it to reclaim some face, and piss the average Russian civilian off so much that they feel like there's nothing left to lose but their pride.
Ah, for illustration purposes this is showing a "one-shot" button. Notice the "fire" state is a double circle -- this means that it's a terminal state for the state machine, meaning the state machine is "done" once it enters that. In practice, the fire state would be wired up to the start state of another state machine, which would be wired up to the start state of the button machine to get things going again. The "Click to Reset", notice, isn't part of the state machine itself, and instead it's modeling the stuff that happens between firing and transitioning back through "start."

A button that has no "on click," so to speak, could be represented by having the fire state transition immediately back through "start."
You could use unsigned ints, whose arithmetic wraps, to deal with the overflow.

I'd still be curious about any theories of storage.
British greed for dirty money emboldened Putin’s Russia
If you want to support MDN, donate to OpenWebDocs.org. That supports open web content documentation on MDN for everybody.

Personally, I have the repo locally, so Plus isn't tempting. But if it adds something that is of value to you, giving money to mozilla isn't a waste I don't think. That said, Open Web Docs is a good investment. I think it's even tax deductible, but either way, it can be written off as a business expense.
One problem with nutritional studies is that they don't control for all of the other things the patients eat or drink.

How can you tell that it was the artificial sweetener that led to cancer? And not one of the other hundred things people consumed during the day?
As with all of these things, it depends how much you can research what you are doing and what risk you want to take.

When I first had a retainer, they put this hair-thin wire in the clips and it didn't make any sense to me, it was so thin, it seemed pointless until the next morning when my teeth were really sore.

The dentist knew that because they are trained. They know when to adjust wires etc. same with invisiline: sure you aren't going to die but that doesn't mean you can't do some damage to your teeth or jaw.
The obvious objection to almost every study of this sort is that associated with doesn't imply causality, and it could be that some third factor like "propensity to consume highly-processed food products" is responsible for the observed correlation. But from the abstract:

> Associations between sweeteners and cancer incidence were assessed by Cox proportional hazards models, adjusted for age, sex, education, physical activity, smoking, body mass index, height, weight gain during follow-up, diabetes, family history of cancer, number of 24-hour dietary records, and baseline intakes of energy, alcohol, sodium, saturated fatty acids, fibre, sugar, fruit and vegetables, whole-grain foods, and dairy products

So I have a more interesting question here: how effective are these sorts of statistical methods? Is it plausible to start out with a highly-biased population [1], adjust for twenty or so distinct factors, and get results that are actually meaningful?

[1] As I understand it, the study population consists of 102k French adults, self-selected via finding the relevant website and their willingness to go fill out a bunch of surveys. As TFA notes "[...] 78.5% of the participants included in the analysis were women, which could be considered a selection bias. Additional biases noted by the researchers were that participants were more likely to have higher educational levels, and to demonstrate health-conscious behaviors."
>Will you be a 100% independent doctor after getting free presents?

>Maybe you will. But industry probably found its profitable if they spent millions on these kinds of conferences.

So... theoretically the industry putting on the conference is also pushing the state of the art pharmaceutically and believe that they have an improvement on the existing standard of care. I don't think it's got anything to do with the presents as much as the message.
Depending on who you talk to, what links reason with the structure of the world, a meditative principle that connects the nature of the mind with the organizing principles of physical reality, Jesus Christ, an outpouring from the Absolute or One to your essential being, etc. It's the source of lots of deep spiritual experiences.
Birth control metrics are almost always phrased as "X % couples having regular intercourse won't get pregnant." So pill and IUD being 99% means 1 / 100 heterosexual couples will get pregnant every year, on average.
Exxon Mobil is using excess natural gas to power cryptocurrency mining
You seem to think these people stupid instead of stubborn humans who don’t care about what your definition of “self aware” is. I’m sure these people think your way of thinking is odd as well.
If I swap out my car's engine with a more powerful one and screw up the drivetrain will warranty cover it? If I load broken firmware onto my device that screws it up, why should the company be on the hook? Replacing firmware is no different than replacing any other component.

What countries force companies to provide warranty when users load faulty firmware onto devices?
They are made in a lab and not from an actual fruit or plant?
> I'm curious, in normal conversation do you always talk about the political hot topics?

Actually yeah, I keep track of my parents' immigration process, which is a political hot topic because they come from a non-european country and therefore their immigration status is always at risk here.
Human behavior must be very confusing to the animals who observe it. The strange situations we create by (for example) dropping nets and catching dolphins, only to let them free. (Do they know we put out those nets, or are we just helpful monkeys that sit on the evil loud floating net monster and sometimes save them?).

And I wonder if the animals that we run these intelligence tests on know the humans are behind the tests. Maybe if crows achieve a culture with legends and stories, they'll have the a trickster god -- white coat, glasses man. For lab rats I guess white coat glasses man would take a more malicious aspect.
I think I'll stick with low sugar or Monkfruit for now
"an interesting game, professor falcon. It appears the only winning move is not to play."
As far as breast cancer is concerned – they said that there is an overrepresentation of women in the study:

> Debras highlights that 78.5% of the participants included in the analysis were women
I always wonder at the thought process behind these questions.

Yes, Mozilla (.org) is a non-profit, and Mozilla (.com) is a regular corporation. Yes, Mozilla has commitments about transparency. Yes, exec salaries are insane.

Do folks who ask this question scrutinize every purchase or business they make to this degree? In the laundry list of entertainment, learning, and professional subscriptions, what portion of spotify, github, or other popular subs end up contributing to just the feature or service you like as opposed to the entire organization and other initiatives that the organization supports?
Ignoring that intelligence when you don’t need it is actually a very intelligent decision imo. That makes these folks smarter than I am.
Windows and macOS solves this by the much hated "user tracking" (aka analytics).
I mean... That's very productive!

"Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure."

An whole album with millions of melodies in just one morning is quite efficient :). Meaningful or deep, maybe not. But productive... yes!
Yep, it's survivor bias to assume Satoshi's methods were effective, because he could be incarcerated or kidnapped or traced with his methods and it would not be general knowledge.
There usually is a mod framework available, and in paradox games you often use the base game's script files as a starting point.

The point is generally irrelevant though, as a condition of uploading a mod to Steam or the game's mod system will be to give unconditional usage rights to the publisher which is incompatible with FOSS.
Indeed, both the algorithm in the article, the rust suggestion, and even the naive solution compile to the same instructions[1].

[1] - https://godbolt.org/z/1P98ss37P
I feel like this was true before streaming as well. smaller artists would say 'the label takes so much of the record sales, touring/swag is where I make money'
> powered vehicles that can be tweaked to go very, very fast

I was referring to e-bikes
It just sounds to me like a good story to introduce the project. I suppose he is kind of saying "how can they charge this much when I can build one of these at home".
The self-congratulatory nature of the article and quotes actually betray a self-reassurance, because in reality, record labels are rapidly becoming irrelevant. They're scrambling to figure out how they fit into the TikTok era, where artists no longer require years of financial incubation to succeed. The music industry is growing because independent musicians are finally figuring out how to navigate it without any need for those traditional industry services. They deserve the credit for (most of) this, because they are working their asses off (including bringing new streaming users to the fold) and getting no recognition whatsoever from industry reporting.

Sometime in the next year or two, we will see the first truly independent music superstars achieve household-name status. Once that veil is broken, then the jig is up and labels are going to be panicking -- if they're not already.
Uh... I am pretty sure that Windows 1.0 was never released (or "launched"). Windows 1.01 was released in the US on November 20, 1985.
Did he tag the crows? Otherwise, how was he sure that some of the tree crows didn't convert to grass grows?
I'm not sure they have looked at it, and I'm not sure they'd even examine this from an ROI point of view.

Camera makers (even camera divisions in more "high-tech" companies like Sony) are very much traditional hardware-first companies, I'm fairly certain he idea of opening up the cameras is just alien to them.
That's what I was looking for, too. With the proliferation of low-carb diets, sweeteners like erythritol, monk fruit, chicory, and allulose have seen significant increases in popularity. I'd really like to see some study that treats them as first-class subjects rather than just retreading the aspartame and acesulfame-k questions.
I've been feeding the crows around my house since near the beginning of the pandemic. Since we were home we started noticing them. In fact, there are several bird types. Blue Jays and others I don't even know the type.

Unfortunately, our neighbors got angry because the crows would wait for feeding times and sit on the power lines and ... crap on their cars. And the squirrels grab the peanuts and hide them and once I was coming back from a walk and the neighbor walked up to me and said "hold out your hand" and then dropped a peanut shell in my hand. Really frustrating, because it's not like there are a lot of them. Usually they fly away with them and leave them elsewhere.

Two stories related to this:

1. I was talking with a neighbor for a good while. We were talking and heard a sound like metal dropping near me. I said "did you hear that, too?" ... I looked around and there was a bottle cap a few feet away and a crow above it on the power line. They were impatient and wanted their peanuts.

2. I was walking a few blocks away from my house and an empty peanut shell dropped right in front of me. Looked up and a crow on the power line.

Right now a couple of crows are building a next. One of them looks much bigger than normal and seems to fly slowly. Crowlets incoming??
Basically every camera I have had has a "bulb", which is pretty much as-long-as-you-want exposure. Never heard of sensor overheating even after hours of exposure.
Here in the Netherlands there was the case of two corvids trying to harass a small owl so that they could use its nesting hole.

This in itself shows team work. They failed to get rid of the owl in time before the breeding season.

Next season they tried again. This time, together they stuffed the nest hole with so much stuff that the owl couldn't get in anymore. The owl would try to clear it but soon gave up as it was two working against one. With the owl permanently gone, they cleared the hole and seized it.

Isn't that stunning? This demonstrates memory as the previously failing tactic was not repeated. The idea of stuffing a nest surely isn't intuition or a skill learned from parents, it's a spontaneously formed idea for a highly specific problem.

They also have very complex social behavior where males exchange favors. Every bird knows of every other bird they commonly interact with whether they are owed or in debt. So that means they have a currency.

We should lose our arrogance and look at wildlife with new eyes and with new respect. And not just for wildlife superstars like crows or dolphins, do it across the board. Case in point, earthworms drag leaves into their underground lair and feed on them. When you give it the wrong type of leaf, it will reject it. When you give it the right type of leaf, yet wrongly oriented, it will turn it around. We're talking about a creature with a handful of neurons, figuratively speaking. It's one of the most stupid life forms and it can do that.
You can do all modifications that do not involve things banned in the second quote?
At the very least don’t task your principle engineer with solving human problems then. I stand by my initial comment that that is a waste of a good engineers time and mental health.
but is it web scale? like mongodb? :)
Based.

Okay, fine, I suppose I should actually respond.

The problem with this view is that truly high quality art requires time and attention that few can afford without some level of compensation.

If we lived in a non-capitalist society where people didn't have to work to survive, I might agree with you. Heck, even a basic income could make a life as an artist possible.

But that world doesn't exist.

So your idea would do one thing and one thing only: it would relegate the creation of art to the domain of the wealthy. And that is not a world I'd want to live in.
In most cases swapping two variables with a temporary variable will be either zero-overhead -- because you've just changed the names you're referring to those variables by, and the compiler knows it -- or very, very low-overhead. You're not actually saving any memory with the fancy tricks.
I'd pay if I could get the old theme back.
Nestlé: Anonymous Can't Hack Us, We Leaked Our Own Data
Not for long >:B

https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/

(Just kidding. I hope they stay "desktop apps" but wrapped in a browser-ish runtime for max crossplatformability.)
I vaguely (I think) remember buying the ethernet adapter in the US on a big sale. And as far as I know it worked great with Phantasy Star Online (I could be misremembering). I suppose it's also possible I was just doing dialup with one of the free providers at the time.

You could also buy an official dreamcast keyboard which plugged into the normal controller port which was HUGE for online games at that point since voice chat was non existent. Trying to trade with people using a controller was awful. A keyboard made you amazing at it.
> Or how about GitHub? If they were obligated to provide phone support to anyone with an account, their only option would be to disable all free accounts.

That's not necessarily a bad thing.

Sure, it's convenient to have a free github account. I get it, I have one.

But what motivates github to give out free accounts? It is most definitely not that they are a benevolent company doing it as a free community service because they're nice. No, they do it for three main reasons:

1. Get individuals familiar with and hooked on the service so they'll promote it as a paid service at their workplace.

2. Build the network effect that helps them. "Everyone is on github", so you must be too.

3. Build a moat against up and coming possible competitors. If the baseline is free, it's harder for a newcomer to build revenue in that space to compete.

All of these are self-serving interestes, they help github (which is fine) but they also hinder potential competition (not good) and build a tendency towards monopolistic services (very bad).
This is still a major win for smaller artists though as exposure is the main thing they are missing. Pre-streaming/internet they would have only had local scene, fan clubs, etc. They always made all their money via fans buying things. All performing musicians (as opposed to studio musicians) make the majority of their money this way, the recording industry was always primarily a way to get promoted, it was never a good way to make money.
Unfortunately, it just is not that simple.

It's up to you, but you have a choice between either letting go of this idea, or continuing to hold slightly wrong beliefs. (I am a scientist, but this is not my specific area of expertise)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the...
Honestly I don't think this is the reason. I'm a web developer and more than once have chosen the web for a target simply because it....made more sense from every angle. There was just no incentive to build a desktop app that wouldn't offer anything the user couldn't get by going to a web app. There are plenty of use cases where this isn't true, but for a lot of apps it is going to be the case.
The fact that it is a show doesn't make it negative towards basic needs. Like people that can't afford to fly aren't going to go hungry because of the TSA.

I wouldn't be surprised if slightly discouraging business travel is anyway a net positive (it's going to take more than an irritating line to inhibit necessary travel and some amount of travel is almost certainly waste).
The imagery equipment is one thing, the other is the skill to interpret what you see. Sure, a bad fracture might be obvious but there are many very subtle things that are not so easy to see or understand. The radiographer will know the equipment but will usually have to defer to the Doctor for expert advice.

Mobile equipment does exist, however it is usually used at smaller hospitals who don't have the space or money for a permanent unit.
Does the same apply to other mediums? What if I generate all possible 64x64 images? (Extend that to every resolution in theory)
It’s on my bucket list to read through these lectures and grok them. Maybe it will be a retirement project? While we are talking about this, I feel like I need to brush up on my math. Does anyone know what level of math is required to work through these?
I don't disagree, but streaming services have dramatically exacerbated the problem. Any artist that's been around before and after streaming will tell you that they make far less money, now, than they did when they were selling records, even after their labels and publishers and distributors took a cut.
I would say you "need" rationals, when there is no reason to give an incorrect or imprecise result and performance is not that important or input size is not too big.

When you need that kind of precision for irrational numbers, you can opt for symbolic calculation, where important irrational numbers are simply symbols or terms and you can transform them at the end of the calculation into a number of as much precision, as you need. Of course there are always edge cases, where finding a good solution is difficult. For example, what if you need performance and as much precision as possible? Cannot use floating point numbers, cannot use rationals with same performance as floating point numbers (I think), cannot use symbolic calculation, also because of performance ... Not sure what to do then, but I have not hit such a case ever. I imagine, that perhaps space operations need that kind of precision. Perhaps they simply have clusters run for a few days or so, to get to that precision.
How do you expect artists to keep doing what they do and put food on the table?
I just noticed the title says "Open-Source Airflow Alternative" but Airflow is already Open-Source, so shouldn't you describe it as just "Airflow Alternative"? Otherwise you make it sound like Airflow isn't Open-Source but this is.
Those bounds are fairly wide. Also, my other frustration was an article that has provocative headline, great for sending to your friends, but doesn't do anything but link the study. What are the odds someone is going to read the study? What are the odds they are going to go and learn what HR rate is?

Seems to me all good things for this article to do.