skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And that’s to move towards a negotiated settlement.

This is, unfortunately, half the problem. Western intellectuals are working under the assumption that they are dealing with a state that thinks in modern terms. Ukrainians know that Russia thinks in 19th century terms, but this simple fact seems to be lost on the West. There cannot be a negotiated settlement to an old-style conquest; Ukraine is literally fighting for its existence.

It's like living with a psychopath. He knows exactly what to say to placate or distract or sideline everyone else, and give himself room to abuse and torment his target. And since Russia's propaganda machine is so effective, they actually have the elites in many places (for example Italy) parroting the party line. Hell, they even have the venerable and respected Chomsky playing their game!

To put it in perspective:

- Since when is it acceptable to invade another country, flatten their cities, send tens of millions fleeing as refugees, block their ports and threaten the world food supply, giving "because there are nazis there" as your reason? How in the hell did this ever become a valid talking point?

- Since when is it acceptable to invade country X because country Y is allowing it to join a treaty? Shouldn't country X be allowed to decide with whom they ally themselves without getting killed over it? That's like beating up your girlfriend because some other guy hit on her.

The Western intellectuals have been thinking in imperialistic terms (USA vs Russia), when in fact it's about UKRAINE, a sovereign nation with a right to exist, a country that did not threaten its neighbors or build up troops on the border like Russia has done (and then invaded). All they want is their territorial integrity back and to live securely. And no negotiated settlement with Russia will bring that because allowing Putin to "save face" will involve giving up territory, blocking any potential future defense pacts, and then sitting around waiting for invasion #3.
"doesn't fit architecturly" is not a good argument. We have never built temples in the same style as houses. The dating is rejected only because it doesn't fit the author's worldview.
I laughed out loud at the caption of a photo of a much younger site;
"structure more primitive than Gobekli Tepe, thus older."
So why can't they grow this same berry outdoors for 1/4 the price?
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet [1] :)

[1] https://www.audible.com/pd/Zen-and-the-Art-of-Saving-the-Pla...
Biden administration lays out plan for four carbon-capture facilities
Interestingly, Rwanda, a black country in the heart of Africa, merely 30 years after a horrific genocide, is much better off.

(As was Israel, a nation founded by Holocaust survivors in a very hostile region, or Poland, bombed to shreds in the Second World War.)

In our compassion to the permanently weak, it is easy to overlook the ones who started out in similar position, but eventually outgrew their problems.
It's not just luck, Sam Altman mentions being born lucky. This is more related to topics about family socioeconomic class and other factors, which is important to acknowledge because maybe instead of telling people simply to work hard or have a good mindset, we should be pushing to level the playing field.
Can someone explain to me why M1 Ultra doesn’t scale ratably compared to RTX? It seems it should perform at about 1/2 of 3090. Is it because Apple locked down what you can do with the GPU?
There is a need I think, Wren is the only one. Lua and javascript are king of the hill, but both have their quirks. Though Pike isn't on ARM either (from what I can see), so probably a bit of work.
OK, but in Ukraine, this is actually a genocide. Research it yourself, by any means, and see if you can come to any other conclusion.

It's the opposite of nuanced.
The technology has progressed. But have humans progressed?
Ok but I didn't intend my comment to be about HN readers; it's basically educated humans in western anglophone countries I'm criticizing. People just love giving scientific-sounding diagnoses to their problems in their lives, even totally nebulous things like children behaving badly or not doing well academically.
https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.2514/3.48057
> It is found that the Nitinol heat engine
capital costs per unit power generating capacity are approximately $0.15/W, and that the cost of produced
energy for the Nitinol heat engine portion of the power plant is approximately 0.74C/kWh, including operation,
maintenance, Nitinol replacements and the cost of capital for the heat engine. It is concluded that Nitinol power
plants for the conversion of low grade thermal energy may have a significant economical advantage over conventionally fueled power plants.

It seems like it has a huge potential in nuclear plants
Don't you think that with Dogged determination we can get through the Ruff times? Or are we Barking up the wrong tree and need to go back to the Lab?
... and when there's enough of you for this to represent an actual, realistic target market you will then find someone who will sell you one.

Personally, my perspective on this is that it's a lot like the kind of complaining that gets a lot of play in the motoring press about the disappearance of the manual transmission (like Car and Driver's "Save the Manuals" thing). Lots of people will claim they would like the choice, but virtually no-one actually buys them when they're available on mainstream models.
On a related note, I have created the SPike daemon: git://devel2.cuci.nl/spike .

It's written in Pike, is being actively maintained, with roughly the following featureset:

- Meaningful error messages on compiled modules.

- Smart auto-recompilation of modules (mtime based).

- Auto-fallback to last-known-good modules on compilation failure.

- Two classes for module development: Spike.Base and Spike.Site

+ Spike.Base implements a log() and listenport() primitive.

+ Spike.Site adds filesystems, databasepools and a configuration system
per site.

- Live configuration reload through SIGHUP (no downtime).

- Integrated HTTP and WebSocket dispatch engine.

- Transparent proxy support.

- Auto-gzip compression on both static and dynamic content.

- Integrated and configurable logging mechanism to syslog.

- Completely Shuffler-ised (maximal offloading of communication overhead to
pure C and the kernel).

- Less filling: 29KB of source code (single file).
> His points on Ukraine are nuanced.

Probably they are. I suspect I need to witness them firsthand.
In the case of graphlib, I somewhat agree - graph functions are necessary for many modern applications, and the choice of functions supported by graphlib is... interesting. It would probably make more sense to either extend them or just replace it with a more useful library.
It is explained in the FAQ:

There was a bug in early Pentiums called the f00f bug, it would cause a deadlock if you provided an invalid operand to cmpxchg8b while using the lock prefix. It was an important vulnerability at the time, and I thought it would be fun to own lock.cmpxchg8b.com.
I'm a bit nihilistic when it comes to geopolitics and war.

Those debates are a bit dry and a bit pointless, good and evil don't matter, only influence and power matter.

I'm for Ukraine but you can't deny that Putin still has a lot of people rooting for him, even in Ukraine.

If you ask Russians, they will easily answer that Irak was illegally invaded (the lapsus of bush did not help), so it becomes difficult for the west to be seen as the good guy, and it's cynical to say it, but opinions of the masses matter.

So of course that comparison is unfair, but this comparison kind of matter in geopolitics.
Apple can trivially comply with Right To Repair by just selling parts, documentation and any software needed to pair new parts.

They don't have to provide tools, just like car manufacturers don't provide tools when you buy parts.

This repair programme is purely a PR move to maliciously (attempt) to comply with Right to Repair and try to prevent actual regulation all while putting the spotlight on how complicated, dangerous and time-consuming repair to discourage people from ever trying it.
The second thread is quite good, but I wonder if its author understands that he just described why all his buddies' efforts towards building the "non-imperialistic benign Russia without the color of the war" are doomed since the beginning.
I really don’t mean to say they were liberal and democratic at all. They perhaps just that compared to other their predecessors and some autocrats we’ve seen since, they both showed different tendencies. Above all of course, they were singular leaders and the reason the family was overthrown was exactly that.

I think the parent comment’s question of how autocratic it was is relevant though. Things had changed. Emperors from previous generations had been far more autocratic and ruthless as I recall.
299 comments (original HN post)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18992914
I would disagree that this is a fine interface. It's not clear with the "Etc/UTC", but what is the offset of datetime.timezone.from_tzid("America/New_York")? You need a datetime to go with the TZ id to answer that question. And experience has shown "Just assume the current time" is a bit of a footgun.
That was my little boy dream, to play the Bird vs Magic basketball video game. I had an Atari 2600 back then and was buying used computer magazine and when that was released it looked amazing compared to the stick figure basketball on the 2600
Why is the trackpad offset to the left?? I can't stand that.
I'm working on GlosSurly - a strongly opinionated take on text markup / aka Annotation. The basic idea is to toss out HTML, and actually have layers of content that aren't interleaved with their markup. Markup will be layers on top of the text. (In a separate file, even) I've got lots of "pie in the sky" application ideas which rest on this.

I set out the main ideas for basic text structures a few days ago, and wrote up some test cases. Last night I had a vision of the test GUI I wanted to build... did the GUI, menus, etc... then started writing code to load the test cases, and parse it. Then the testing engine, and finally the actual code to be tested.

It's all a big hack right now, but I've got it up on GitHub - https://github.com/mikewarot/glossurly

Most of my tests pass... ;-)

I'm just happy to have something I can now build upon up and running. I was feeling pretty depressed as I've had eye surgery and have limited vision... this helped, a lot!
Are we working to live or living to work?
People can just buy a Fairphone if they want one with a detachable battery. It is however bulkier, heavier and not waterproof.
Very sad tale, the huge and totally unjust 'reparations' = an ongoing shameful 'bribe' the French imposed to make the now free Haitians pay an ongoing egregious tax. Like most slavers, they feared education = prevented lest in help them get out of their economic trap. So Haiti fell prey to generation of dictators with guns whose only wish was to extract $$ from the populace. The part of the island occupied by Spain eventually threw off the Spanish and had a troubled history with similar dictators, but eventually established a rep democracy and has done very well with over 5% GDP growth. They both have certainly had a rough deal with their colonial history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic
One hopes education in Haiti will be prioritised and they are now going to do better going forward!!
The top comment was misleading. Of the number of people who practice anal sex, some of them are male. Of those, some are gay. Not all gay men practice anal sex.

Anal sex does not require a penis, and it does not imply bare sex organ contact. A better classifier would be "prostate stimulation" or "prostate orgasm", which all males can experiences and does not imply a particular sexuality.

My point is that there are far fewer power bottoms and gay men who want or enjoy another's penis in their anus than popular media suggests. Also, being gay doesn't imply indiscriminate sexual promiscuity. People who are that way will have sex with others regardless of their or their partners' sexes. Gay men are at higher risk of and when encountering these people because of smaller partner pools in any given area.
Apple also provides a set of fancy torque drivers to make sure you don’t screw down the phone’s tiny screws too tightly, but it’s a bit of a chore. I must have dropped Apple’s incredibly tiny fasteners a dozen times

My God this guy is insufferable. You asked for professional tools, you got professional tools. Between this and the How to Build a PC video I'm beginning to wonder if the Verge staff rode the short bus to school.
Your topic used to seem much more conscious before this comment has appeared. Time to use my "flag" button for a first time ever.
Consumers don't know any better. Someone has to explain the problem to them first.
It's an huge leap to go from world foreign politics to "control".

> Self-determination and agency is only available to those who have the means to fight for it. Ukraine has none, it has whatever the nations providing 10s of billions in military aid allow it to have.

Self-determination and agency is available to those who have the will to fight for it. Clearly they do have the means to fight for it based on their ability to secure vast military support from the west.
Existing home sales fell in April to lowest level since start of pandemic
How did you ascertain which countries were in similar positions?
A friend who is a material scientist told me about another interesting TiNi application. I don't recall the precise details, but some sort of medical "device" that only assumes its final configuration once inside the body. You can tune the temperature response of the alloy, and so this was made "small enough" to fit (maybe through blood vessels?) and after a short time would "expand" to its intended shape. Wish I could remember more.
What is a fact is that Ukraine is caught between the geo-politics of US and Russia because of incompetent Ukrainian political leadership. Unlike the Ukranian and NATO propaganda that tries to portray the current Ukrainian President as a hero, anyone who has a good grasp of politics can see that the man is clearly politically incompetent. He is foolish enough to believe that he can stay in power and derive political mileage by siding with one power while openly snubbing another (clearly showing no understanding of geo-politics and spheres of influence and their own standing in the world order). While Biden and Putin's ego in the conflict are understandable because of their superpower rivalry, it is incredibly sad that the amateur politics of the current Ukranian leadership has plunged the country into such a disaster.

Ukraine is just another Iraq or Afghanistan because of similar incompetent and selfish leadership who care more about politics than the suffering of their fellow citizens.

I have no doubt that by the time the conflict ends, US and Russia would have balkanised Ukraine, and the war will turn into a stalemate prolonged low-intensity conflict with proxy battles between the superpowers in this region. Both Russia and US want to prolong the battle, as it is in their interest to do so, and the incompetent Ukranian leadership is totally blind to this.
"they appear to be just as dogmatic and just as monstrous as the fascists."

I can't understand this claim. Fascists are dogmatic because they are unwilling to even listen and attempt to oppress opposing viewpoints. They are monstrous because they use violence and threats to eliminate whoever they consider as undesirable or as an opponent. Which of the two did Chomsky do?

"frankies"

What does that mean?
Reading bluffs and calculating pot odds are unique skills to poker that translate well to real-world situations.

Surprised this article mentions neither.
I don’t know if I wish I were this naïve, or glad I never was.
Because Windows 11 sounds way sexier than 20H2. The "last Windows" is an all-round superior approach, except when your marketing department is looking at all the fuss about the new MacOS version.

People like new things.
The sentence was constructed in a facility where humour is processed.
The Evolution of Linux Setups
Pipewire to replace Pulseaudion on Ubuntu 22.10
Non-intervention is all well and good but it is also the policy the West followed towards the Nazi’s in the 30’s.

WW2 could have been stopped before it started if Britain or France marched into Germany (ad they could have won at many points) at any time between 1933 and 1939.

So by arming Zelensky et al, maybe we are creating a monster (unlikely) but maybe we are stopping a much worse monster from starting WW3 (more likely).
add "to see what happens", possibly before "lust"
Came here for fried pig face and not software. Great book comparing the regional variations: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Country_Scrapple/se3FwA...

I’m in goetta country myself.
Tinnitus is a difficult topic because it’s a catch-all term for several different conditions that cause ear noise. There’s even a category of tinnitus for sounds within the ear that can be objectively heard by someone other than the sufferer - This is known as “objective tinnitus”.
There is no purpose to speculating what someone else would or would not do.
Fine, but you didn't address any of my arguments
My theory is that there’s already a lot of existing content using $ and $$ that GitHub wants to start rendering without requiring any changes.

I agree the code block approach would be less ambiguous, but there is an advantage in going where people already are.
Serious question do you even know what I am talking about? Sometimes it is more than meats the eye.
It's how Github already handles Mermaid diagrams, so there's precedent, although you're correct that logically there should be a distinction between "display highlighted Mermaid source" and "render Mermaid diagram".
gitignore the .elc's
Mathematics is a language, but then why are you saying there was no Mathematics before Pythagoras? Obviously Pythagoras didn’t invent language! Long before Pythagoras people had been using language for doing and expressing computation.

Pāṇini did it. The Babylonians did it. It then took us a few thousand years to mechanize that knowledge and invent computers as we know them.

As for physics being “understandable” - I think you are conflating the ability to exploit nature with the ability to understand it.

Physics isn’t something “out there”. Available to birds and apes. It it is the body of knowledge (texts, ideas, concepts, formulas, narratives) instrumental to humans navigating nature.

There would be no physics without humans inventing it just like there would be no language without humans inventing it.

I am not at all concerned about the contents; or the structure of the pyramid. I am simply expressing a fact about the pyramid. That which people call science is not founded upon science. It is founded upon the liberal arts, humanities and social constructs (logic, philosophy, mathematics, computation, language) - the pyramid is founded upon human invention.
I agree with everything you said here.

I've been severely disappointed with the psyche of man - we've discovered a large chunk of humanity doesn't believe in science and cares only about themselves.

That doesn't feel like a recipe for long-term success.
Okay, and the Tatars?
How to Connect an External Microphone to an iPhone
No because I wasn't just making silly puns.
> The right question is: What is the best thing to do to save Ukraine from a grim fate, from further destruction? And that’s to move towards a negotiated settlement.

That's a frame, that Chomsky knowingly pushes forward, and it sweeps a number of significant issues under the rug (trusting the Russians, freedom, future deportations, threats to other countries, all of which are addressed in the open letter). And the facts might have proven him wrong. He's been saying so since the start, but Ukraine seems to have been rather successful in repelling the Russians.

> It would be nice if open and honest debate was possible before we made major geopolitical decisions.

Tell that to Vladimir Vladimirovitsj.
Did you even research the program? Apple’s SSR store will happily sell you the parts without the toolkit if you want to improvise and use the iFixIt method of repair. You are not required to buy or rent any tools when placing an order.
Computer Science is classified as a liberal arts degree at William & Mary: https://catalog.wm.edu/content.php?catoid=24&navoid=3884.
...of course. Roman numerals held us back for centuries. Sorry about that embarrassing brainfart.
> ... and when there's enough of you for this to represent an actual, realistic target market you will then find someone who will sell you one.

Probably not, considering the very high cost of entry in the target market, it is unlikely to be offset by the marginal amount of additional money people are ready to invest into such devices. Markets don't produce goods out of nothing. Especially if that person specifically wants an iphone for whatever (objective or subjective) reason, the market cannot deliver that.
Everyone is an unreliable narrator - they often don't notice the problems they themselves bring (if they did, they might try not to). That also means they don't remember those details/problems or think them relevant. So although the author remembers it as being a point of curiosity, it wasn't necessarily as clear as that.

But also, on the flip-side, it's quite possible for a non-malicious comment to seem like (via rumour/hearsay) an intent to undermine others, especially if it concerns information considered to be private.
Glad to see the upgraded version, I hope they'll open ordering in Italy soon!
Referendum may happen soon in Kherson, and other Ukrainian cities.

Would it be valid?

Theres a reason the Crimea "referendum" is not accepted, and the issue is far from settled.
If it was, say $40 more or even $100 and was marketed as being repairable, I bet a lot of people would buy it. They would after all be actually likely to get that money back over the lifetime of the phone, and it’s much more environmentally friendly.

This isn’t a case of “market doesn’t want it”, this is a case of Apple don’t want to offer that choice because they make money off of the repairs.
It is a device that every millimeter-cube counts so it's highly optimized in many ways and packagef tightly, well, because of battery life competition (to fit more battery at every bit).

Now Apple has been obliged to provide repair tools, and they are simply providing what they probably provide to authorized repair shops, and people are still complaining.

What's wrong with that? It's not a device that's designed to have it's battery replaced by the user anyway, and if you really want to, this is the kit. Simple as that.

It's impossible to make some people happy these days.
Another related note, I created Remixml, a descendant of RXML in Roxen, but now Javascript based (client side or NodeJS):

https://www.npmjs.com/package/remixml
I think Camus' answer is the best - "Absurdism is the philosophical theory that life in general is absurd. This implies that the world lacks meaning or a higher purpose and is not fully intelligible by reason" [1] though others have different opinions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism
I noticed recently that authoritarianism is on the rise during this crucial generation in which we may produce the first AGI. The values and power structures we have now may end up being baked into the fate of the universe forever.

Even without AGI, though, we are reaching a point where governments can realistically demand that all computing devices contain TPM chips that limit which OSes (and thus which software) can run on them. That seems like too great (and too subtle) a power for even ostensible democracies to want to give up once they have it and inevitably start abusing it.
Looks like we’re boned unless we can dig up a new solution. Mother nature keeps tightening the leash and our water bowl is getting dry.