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> Nukes aren’t the trump cards you seem to think they are.

The idea that NATO would invade Russia on its face is ridiculous, as you know, especially considering it’s a defensive arrangement. The idea that nuclear weapons don’t protect Russia from such an attack is also ridiculous, as you know.

But if you believe that they do not protect Russia, it doesn’t follow to then antagonize a far superior military force and risk invasion and destruction.

> Not very long by European standards.

Not a relevant point

> It is obviously an ongoing concern for Russia having an enemy military alliance next door and that is also not a controversial statement.

It’s an ongoing self-inflicted concern, to be certain. But you can choose two options: countries can decide their own security arrangements, or might makes right. If you remove agency from Ukraine you simply give license to other countries such as China or the United States to act as they see fit.

> However, this is a long term strategy regardless of NATO and they have been executing it systematically for decades by gradually capturing the defensive geographies around Russia. They see it as existentially necessary to do this and that’s why they have to be stopped in Ukraine.

If this is what you and/or Russians believe then the United States should immediately go to war with Russia, especially since nuclear weapons aren’t trump cards and they should invade before Russia secures these natural borders you speak of since the two nations are adversaries and there is no reconciliation. Although I’m still wondering what the point would be.
1900 works too. I was omitting an explicit mention of slavery, but a woman’s right to vote might be a better base.
There isn't nearly enough content about drum memory. I'd kill for a Technology Connections video about it.
> The only [satellites] who don’t have [to expend energy to stay in orbit] achieved escape velocity

... and are therefore no longer satellites. https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-... https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-...

Some Lagrange points are stable and therefore will not decay toward the Earth outside of other factors. (Because these systems are never sufficiently isolated, in the eternal view, therefore, also still require energy, though much, much less.) Though, of course, an object at a Lagrange point may still not technically be a satellite of earth. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/faq/88/what-are-lagrange-points (though by the NASA definition above I'd argue that they are)
Because going forward the only thing the verified badge will be verifying is that twitter was able to charge your credit card $8 within the last month.
That's very disheartening to hear.

I can't help but wonder why anyone would go into a graduate program today, given the conditions you describe and the seemingly widening perspective that graduate degrees aren't worth it.

Perhaps we're heading back to a time where the "gentleman scholar" from a monied family is the only person who can survive in that system. That would be a shame.
I can't help but think -- what if it is from people that work from home, don't exercise as much when they went to work, or are getting older post-covid
Across how many dimensions?
It’s not nearly as bad as 2008, you’ll be fine
I'm not saying they can be mitigated, I'm saying that casual users have the illusion of security through settings that seem to mitigate security concerns, but don't.

The disappearing message timer history could absolutely be mitigated by simply not retaining that information or timestamping it.

If you could export/back up single conversations, you would have much more granularity than exporting or backing up your entire message database. Other people could also get a message that the conversation had been exported. there are lots of cases where you might want to do this by mutual agreement, but it isn't possible.
Two years ago, I did nanowrimo in Vim with a whole suite of plugins:

- https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil

- https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim.git

- https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim.git

- https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

It was fun, and the setup is almost identical to iA Writer which I appreciate. I even had it all on my phone with Termux!

Last year I just did it in Markdown in VSCode in "zen mode" which also worked pretty well. It was definitely easier to setup than Vim and had better highlighting of bold/italics/etc.
Weather is an underrated reason. India perhaps has the best suited weather conditions for humans to thrive. 80% or more of the land have non-extreme weather
I had just started reading Mearsheimer's book (The Tragedy of Great Power Politics). It's quite depressing to say the least. My plan is to finish it and then read a critique or a competing viewpoint. What would you recommend as a follow-up as a critique of Mearsheimer?

Thanks in advance!
> Focus on the stuff we can control and ignore the noise? Isn’t that one of the hallmarks of supposedly high IQ people?

Isn’t the opposite usually held to be the case? The groups you would typically associate with impractical learning for its own sake (university professors, public intellectuals, novelists, etc) are seen as smart cookies
You mean an anti-semitic fascist? Oh yes, apt comparison.
This seems to be a government tax, not a fee made up by the hotel.
They still line up (when rendered with correct double-width), the east-asian characters just take up two “slots”, as if they were two normal characters. I don’t know if you see a problem with that, or if you’re talking about renderers and/or applications that don’t correctly handle this double-width logic.

My point is that if handled correctly, e.g. in terminals, there is no problem with that, as long as the application is double-width aware. For example I use Mutt as a mail reader in a terminal, with Vim as an editor, and mixed latin and east-asian characters work fine with them and line up on the terminal grid.
IIRC, in the 90s there was a Subway in the same complex that housed the Kentucky Arcade, but maybe it was a Blimpie's. Maps show it as a seven minute walk to the King Library. My hope is that I crossed path with this genius at some point in between epic battles of Tekken 3 or NBA Jams. I grew up in Lexington.
I think you're confusing the warning California requires on products with traces of lead on them with the warnings that are required in every state on cigarettes.
Parent should have been more specific then.

Also do you realise that sadly the UK (where the you can actually purchase a Framework) is no longer a member state of the EU due to the moronic Brexit disaster. So is that five or four?

I guess (as a relatively new entrant) they're hitting up the obvious EU targets, Germany, France, Italy and Spain to provide in-country support. And then working out how to provide the logistics for the rest of the EU.

I was surprised I could order one in the UK to be honest.
Germany had a trade surplus with China. I guess Mercedes wants it back.
I find most "2700K" LEDs sub-optimal. Helped someone set up their office recently. It was too dark with 1 bulb in each of the 3-bulb ceiling fixtures (48" fluorescents). We found 48" 4000K LEDs in the ceiling fixtures. She found 3000K tubes (GE? Feit? Philips) at the home store. They're quite pleasant, much better than other 3000K bulbs I've been around.

I have some Citizen "CITILED Amber Color COB" on top of my kitchen cabinets. They have a little hump in the blue portion of their spectral graph, but are fantastic. Rated at 2200K

https://ce.citizen.co.jp/cms/ce/lighting_led/dl_data/COB_Amb...

Also have some Amber Philips 2000K bulbs, which are quite nice.
I don't get it, the signature still returns `Type | Promise<Type>` how that promise doesn't spread through your code?

Still, the other comment about using await on plain values seems like a better option than parent comment
Right -- emphasis on yet another. This one's been sitting in my closet for at least 5 years. The PSU is a wall wart from an old phone.

Of course, maybe it'll all stop working in a couple of weeks, at which point I'll break down and buy the doohicky. We'll see!
It's just taught as an assumption that you will do this in a business school's bachelors curriculum. For different countries they'd just treat it as a different market with different pricing but a lot of times it's done by acting like something is a different product through packaging and branding. Like the 150 dollar lip cream is probably chemically not that different than the 10 dollar one but they just make it feel more premium and sell it under a premium brand name. Or even just the way consumer electronics include or don't include features at various product levels is also price discrimination. (Which is why sometimes the low tier product includes a physical ability to do something but it's turned off with software or something. To nudge people willing to pay more to the one aimed at them.)
I never said anything about intent. If it's an oversight then maybe they should be thinking a little harder and listening to feedback from beta testers, of which I am one.

Backing up to the same device on which are running out of space is an extremely obvious problem, to which the solution is to just ask the user where they want the backup stored instead of deciding for them.
Jeez that Robert guy really has a lot of talent. I don't know how to write the AMD64 version!
> Do you want to become a professor? Forget about.

Unless you want to be a professor of computer science. There, everyone is hiring.
> To prevent usage of malloc() and free(), it is best to remove any heap definition in the linker file, to cause a linker error.

Really? That is the best alternative compared to:

- create a linker warning against malloc, calloc, realloc, ...

- get the symbols of the compiled image, and fail the build if the above are referenced

- other ideas: eliminating the allocator code from the image? (Why have it there if it's not called?)
Any software engineers or other tech workers on HN who went on to get graduate degrees in degrees unrelated to CS/SWE/CE/EE?
I think i know the buffer you are talking about and there are at least two insights I’ve learned from it. 1) it can contain any sound, and it de-coheres when you attempt to make meaning out of the sound. 2) you can train yourself to expand the length if the buffer, to the point of recalling sounds that have occurred several minutes ago, without focusing on them, like rewinding a tape that runs despite your awareness.

You’ve trained yourself already, to an extent, so that your tape rolls as far as it takes for a full sentence to fit and error-correct for the parts you don’t know. Notice the boundary of meaning and non-meaning you have to tread on when experiencing speech you’re not completely familiar with.

I’m also bilingual so perhaps learning a language is one of many ways to deconstruct our perceptions.
On a bare metal system, the heap is just a bunch of values in a linker script.
WTF, no. In what universe was this ever true? 40 - 60 are the prime earning years, and always have been, except for maybe mercenaries and pirates.
VotingWorks is doing so much good between their risk limiting audit software, their voting machines that use many off the shelf parts to lower cost/maintenance, and of course the open source nature opening up the potential for a competitive market without rip and replace.

Since the article didn’t mention the RLA stuff it is here: https://www.voting.works/risk-limiting-audits

A favorite part of watching their journey has been their case study videos which were produced after they ran their first elections in small Mississippi jurisdictions: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvehCClJUfizMrg5vyBKpqUVu...

For those in San Francisco they are doing a pilot this year: https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/2022_01_25%20PRESS%20R...

disclosure: I am a donor to VotingWorks and previously a member of the SF Open Source Voting Technical Advisory Commission.
From the bodybuilding literature I’ve seen weight and body part circumference changes are a little more linear than what you’re suggesting. Though there may be some people who you can model as spheres.
there were HUGE amounts of MDs purposefully not doing the right thing and running pill mills.

And yeah, distributors for sure have experts and resources to hire experts. And they were repeatedly warned/directed to stop the insane volume. They knew of this. They weren't ignorant, even on purpose.

The opiate lobbyists slyly got the law changed so the DEA couldn't enforce with stop notices.

IIRC In Gibney's documentary they interviewed some of the Congresspeople who voted for it and they thought the bill did the opposite.

pharmacists also had the right to refuse and some did! but Purdue often intervened and pressured them to fill the scripts. I think that was shown either in gibney or maybe the great hulu purdue miniseries?

wapo "THE DRUG INDUSTRY’S TRIUMPH OVER THE DEA"

https://archive.ph/VYOeM
> From my experience, they are a non-optional part of socializing

I must not have much of a social life then, since I've apparently managed to go 9 years without having anything to do with them. Maybe I'm just getting old.
You either compare absolute numbers or pure percentages. Not both in the same sentence.
Can you post the research articles covering PUFAs?

Your conclusion is surprising considering omega3 and 6 fatty acids, both PUFAs, are essential for the human diet
Texinfo 7.0 released: LaTeX, ePub 3 added as output formats
100% Agreed. To make matters worse, the economic value of the data modeling / computational skills one can learn in graduate school has vastly eclipsed the typical graduate student stipend. Having recently started a graduate program after many years in Tech, I was a bit surprised to learn that most people in my department are implicit data scientists, or at the very least, data-science adjacent.

The monetary opportunity cost is not great for society. In California, typical graduate student stipends are roughly on par with the state's minimum wage ($15 an hour). Good luck trying to buy a house with that money, or trying to recruit anyone who is not straight out of college.
PHP isn't the issue here. Repeatly posting to any page normally would result in no security issue. If the balance is checked before each withdraw each request would be processed. Better method is a request is written to a transaction table and processed in sequence.
>has deep philosophical implications, but even that I wouldn't say has implications for "the nature of reality."

what would be an example of "deep philosophical" implication that has no bearing on the "nature of reality"
You can use resources after releasing them in pretty much any language. That's maybe not as dangerous as reinterpreting arbitrary memory, but then you can also use object pools for everything in C, which is what some very high performance code I used to work on did.
It was someone impersonating Daniel Radcliffe. Weird Al made a joke around it as if it was Daniel impersonating him. Elon is just doing what he said he would be doing with impersonators that don't specify that they are parody accounts.
Under "Digital Storage Capacity", it says 1024GB (or 1TB), and under "Hard Disk Size" it says 11000GB. All of the other comparable drives have the same values for these 2 fields.

So I guess it could be a higher-capacity SSD where only 1TB is usable. Misleading as hell, of course. It would be sort of fun to buy one of these "high capacity" SSD drives, run a disk test on it, send it back for an exchange, until Amazon or the vendor deletes the listing. Except that would probably flag me as a bad customer and make other returns more difficult.
I wonder what this says about the brain, and how it could be applied for AI. It seems to me like we have an innate knowledge that we exist in a 3d space, and that this model somehow can pull data from multiple sensor modalities - at least vision, hearing and touch, oh and the vestibular system (accelerometer). Maybe not smell? (it's both very disimilar from the others, it's also wired up differently, not passing through the thalamus - though that may be a red herring).

Edit: Another neat factoid is that there were experiments done where subjects wore glasses that turned the world upside down or mirrored left and right. After about a week people could function normally while wearing those. The brain knows what the world is supposed to look like and is able to figure out the correct transform, and once applied previously learned motor skills are once again fully available. This shows that there is some kind of stable higher level representation that sight feeds into in a flexible way.
This doesn't really seem to do anything I want. I have a channel with my extended family called "Baby Pictures" which is a "subscribe if you want to" channel for sharing pictures of my son without blowing up the other channels, and this seems like a use case for stories...but that 24 hour timer is kind of way too short for it?

This would be much more interesting to me with more options - namely: I'd like to be able to setup an untrusted client somewhere (Syncthing can do this, but its not a social app) which would archive the stream of content into a story in encrypted form for me, and let people with channel access recover it without keeping it fully cached on their phones. That way all those photos which I would like to keep would go somewhere where I could get them.

Obviously none of this is necessary, I do other things right now (Syncthing and not using inbuilt camera apps in applications).
Composition over inheritance, not only useful in CS but also in linguistics. It makes sense not because both use languages but because both manipulate non-physical abstraction and thus come up with similar paradigms.

Composition is akin to agglutinized languages where there is a base and affixes are added to convey concepts like subject, object, plurality etc, such as Chinese or Thai.

Inheritance is akin to fusional languages, like Latin, where each word is a root and changes (or declines) based on the aforementioned concepts by for example changing the word itself.
If you’re making a site using canvas to render UI elements you are taking it upon yourself to implement a lot of standard functionality yourself, similarly even basic text entry, let alone editing, is much more complex than people seem willing to accept.

At google’s size/cash implementing these things might be achievable, but I recall many people/projects over the years that decided to do in canvas rather than using the available engine (often times a belief that their desire for pixel perfect positions was reasonable, and more than made up for needing to draw everything and manage text entry themselves) always looks easy at first glance, typically because the authors don’t use accessibility tools and most who I interacted with were English-first devs who believe one keypress event == one letter. So you end up with yet another English-only (and I really do mean English specifically here, not Western European) and inaccessible rendering engine for a web page, that typically could have achieved 95-100% of what they wanted, with a bunch of the remainder being stuff that doesn’t work for people with accessibility issues.
Literacy is a lot more relevant to most people than academia.
I beg to differ. I think you and the paper are committing another falacy: getting hung up on relative instead of absolute hazards.

Myocarditis and pericarditis (at least the reportable kind studied in the paper) are rare — all groups had incidence well under 0.01%. That’s 10 per 100k for those who prefer those units. The study enrolled almost 200k COVID patients and over 500k controls. This is a lot of power to bound the absolute risk, but it is indeed underpowered to get good bounds on the hazard ratio.

The paper would be substantially improved if it said “the absolute risk of myo/pericarditis in COVID patients is <10 per 100k with confidence 99.9%” or “the increased risk is <9 per 100k with confidence such-and-such” (I made up the numbers, but the analysis is easy.)

So yes, a 2x increased risk would be consistent with the data, but an actual substantial risk would not be consistent with the data.
Even without logging in, posts of Twitter remain readable to the outside world if you have a direct URL to the Twitter post.

A paywall would mean that you can't access the content without logging in.
Tuition is not fake. It's not like that's monopoly money or something. That's real money that is actually paid for real resources that are consumed by the student on the campus that need to be paid for (instructor time, instruction space, etc).
Vietnamese is similar. Aside from the pronunciation it’s a fairly easy language to learn.
and why did this rando get banned...?
How does one spend $500/mo on Apple services?
Yep. The only way I've ever been able to understand generator/coroutine-based code is by desugaring it into iteratees into my head. (Before I learned about iteratees, I simply couldn't understand them at all).
This whole theme is sort incompatible with movies. Most people like to relate to the characters in the plot. The "genius guy" does something we can't understand has very little appeal as a story.

Same thing goes for mathematics that is too "deep". Most people could not care less about prime numbers. Yes, they drive important cryptographic procedures. But we care about cryptography. We care that the message gets to its destination "safely". If its done using prime numbers, imaginary numbers, geometric numbers or fantasy numbers, it does not matter.
> We get a lot more than that from other tech companies

This is why I don't install apps
I’ve looked it up and wished I had not.

( Interestingly, every summary of the case in media and Wiki stops listing the evidence against him at his secretly taped confession to a girlfriend - confession that included some things absolutely not confirmed. The most convincing evidence to my eyes is the victim’s DNA in the blood found under the carpet and elsewhere there it has survived cleaning efforts. This is not mentioned anywhere except in the court recordings: https://news.wttw.com/sites/default/files/article/file-attac... . Kinda sad what is convincing these days ).
Physics is limited by having to represent phenomena in our physical world simply.

Mathematics is not just a small integer multiple larger than this.
> I got a Ph.D. in computer science a long time ago, and I think it was the worst mistake of my life

I can't tell you how many PhD's I know the resemble your remarks. Quite a few of them (most?) are not doing anything related to their field of study. For example, one with a PhD in Physics owns a small vocational school teaching nursing and some IT courses.

The following is going to sound horrible. Over the years, having worked with thousands of people over a career spanning about five decades and across a range of disciplines, I developed this strong belief that if you need to get things done you should not hire PhD's.

In fact, speaking of technology, some of the most creative and talented people I have worked with were university dropouts who, for the most part, got tired of the slow pace and wasted efforts (i.e., having a year of general education coursework for an EE or CS degree) and went off on their own. I am talking about people who had a direct hand in delivering millions of dollars of revenue for the companies who employed them and doing so at breakneck speed. The going joke at one place where I used to work was something like: If you need it done right and in 6 to 12 months, get a college dropout with enough schooling to be able to do the job. If you have four years and don't are about making a prouct, hire a PhD.

I know, harsh. I did warn it would be.

That said, I have met many brilliant PhD's. I just don't know how the skills, capabilities, creativity and productivity metrics distribute in that population. No clue at all.
I had so many Russian mathematics professors. They dominate the field, for obvious historical reasons.
Or even the currency being used