skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would Russia want to even get out of those contracts? If Europe is willing to pay, they will gladly supply gas, as they have done for many many decades. Even at the peak of the cold war, they were reliably supplying gas to Western Germany for example. It is very lucrative for them. And in any case, why do contracts between Russia and Europe even matter at this point. Any party can just do whatever they want.

Then explain why Russia had already cut off the supply of gas for clearly spurious reasons. And why Russia has used shutting off gas as an economic weapon before, including against Georgia and Ukraine in the past.

I’m not convinced Gazprom would’ve done this to get out of penalties, but your statement is incorrect. Contracts still matter because this isn’t an all out existential war where nothing else matters. Relations will have to normalise at some point, and Gazprom is still selling to other countries and can’t show itself to them as an unreliable partner that doesn’t care about delivery contracts.

Sending a message is not just about demonstrating the capability, as you’ve focused on, but showing the willingness to actually do it.
OK, now I understand why OCaml's Float.compare function compares NaNs as equal to each other: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/assertions-involving-nan/10762/4
It's the same with Linux desktop. You need a 800lb Canonical gorilla to make things move in OSS. And then, they'll insert Amazon ads in your desktop search bar. So we're back to square one — no different than Microsoft Windows shoving telemetary on users.

I, for one, would love a sexy Linux desktop experience. Elementary OS is getting better but it is no match to macOS.
This is business model of closed marketplace.

Closed mean, client need something fast, but for him accessible only employers.

For example, my friend, have lot of side requests, working as engineer in isp with few thousands clients.

Clients just say him, they want to pay for example to install them wifi at cafe (for which they already bought internet from isp).
It also cost peanuts for the Taliban to defeat NATO and the US.

Meanwhile the US and their NATO allies spent, what, a trillion on that war?

Dedicated defense seems to be very good now at defeating foreign troops.
They didn’t write 100K dead, but 100K killed or wounded, which doesn’t seem implausible. Obviously the large majority of those 100K is merely injured, not dead.
Deep Learning Is Epistemologically Novel
Epistemology of deep learning is philosophically novel, cannot be reduced to familiar epistemic categories that justify belief in the reliability of instruments and experts.
Ok, we've changed the URL from https://github.com/HelenOS/helenos to the project homepage. There's a link to the FAQ from there. Thanks!
Renting these within the city centre was banned in Copenhagen a few years ago.

You can still own one yourself, or rent one outside the centre and drive all the way through.

But it immediately stopped all the clutter. Now it's just rental bicycles — somehow, every tourist on a normal bike manages to lock it appropriately in a bike rack, but paint an e-bike Lime green and people just drop them wherever they feel like it.
Read it even if you don't like science fiction. The science in it is much less important than the politics or anthropology; actually this is true of quite a lot of the best science fiction.
> Fwiw the US has given about 25% of it's 155mm shells to Ukraine…

Which doesn’t matter.

When I was on active duty (during the Cold War) at the end of the fiscal year they would send us out with obscene amounts of ammo to use because if it didn’t get used the budget would get cut for the next year.

Don’t you worry about the ammunition manufacturers, they are doing fine.
Right. And the chattering classes spend such a disproportionate amount of time on Twitter (like some of the journo and other intellection/writerly types spend all day on it) that the things they tend to say and think about it are typically very much exaggerative and divorced from reality.
Firstly, those were just examples of commonly countable structures, even if they're not universal (which is debatable). Discretely countable structures are literally everywhere and fundamentally inescapable, which is why I mentioned physics. I didn't presuppose physics, the discrete structure of physical reality is directly observable, it's not some fiction we made up.

Secondly, what we know must be bound by what we've observed. You can imagine any sort of being you like, but that doesn't make your imagined creature logically coherent or physically realizable.

Any physically realizable intelligence must:

a) Be differentiable from its environment: that means it must have some enclosing boundary separating an inside that's different than an outside.

b) Have internal structure: intelligence by necessity is structured thought. Structured thought entails differentiable physical structure to hold structured thoughts. Such structure by itself is necessarily countable, being made of matter.
In Java, the primitive type double uses the IEEE-754 semantics and java.lang.Double uses the bits by bits comparison semantics [1] so List<Double>.remove() works correctly.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/docs/api/java.base...
And wouldn't averting the war have been even better support for Ukraine?
Yes, you're right, it would cost us peanuts to help negotiate how much of a peaceful country should be turned over to barbarian invaders in exchange for a (doubtless temporary) ceasefire.

Sometimes "peanuts" isn't the bargain you think it is.
No idea. I suppose if I had to guess, maybe it's more efficient that way? I suppose looking at someone else's follower list isn't the most common use case.
World generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up
The median Hispanic is a generation younger than the median white person. His statement that young people care more about the environment is accurate. But it’s a youth issue, not a “people of color” issue.

And just because people say they care about the environment in the abstract doesn’t mean they place a high priority on it. You can see this in actual voting behavior. The candidates that focus the most on the environment, like Elizabeth Warren, have less support from minorities than ones that focus more on the economy, like Biden.
> China is a strange hybrid, that is neither fully communist, nor "fully" capitalist

Typically this ‘strange hybrid’, where the people serve an authoritarian state which exerts arbitrary power over ostensibly capitalist industry, is referred to by the term, ‘fascism’.
So you're saying there are roughly 2.5 hectacres per hectare.
Twitter Tumult
There's honestly such a clear bias in how they're handling this whole thing. I see the tides turning slowly though. I just don't understand why they're handling this with kid gloves when you see other people absolutely torn apart for much less.
Sadly this is true. People do not learn until they feel pain. And that means this has to keep going until the pain is felt by whoever loses, at the highest level.
The old one was good for keeping your previously learned skills sharp, because you had to periodically revisit older lessons to keep the icon from showing as shattered.

However, when all you’re doing is revisiting old lessons, you stop making significant progress…

So it’s a bit of a double edged sword really.

One thing is certain, some people will complain no matter what. Do you cater to the vocal minority?
Seems like you can’t define it, and without a definition your criticism of the article is meaningless.
>You look at the stats about penetration of Tesla cars and it's basically none, nobody is using them except for rich people in rich areas.

I'm not going to directly contradict you as I don't have data to do it (and I didn't look up the data you claimed here) but I will point out that the average new 'car' in the US is an SUV with a price of around 50K. That is more than the price of a base level Model 3.

In other words they're not 'rich people cars' due to their price. A market penetration to a wealthier demographic must hinge on a different variable that correlates. Maybe interest in the environment, or technology, or geographical area, or something.

I'm starting to see Tesla taxis, so it's getting somewhere.
At least he only quit to become a chicken. Better that than to become a pig!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
Yeah, DDR does have a synchronous clock. One of the points of calibration is making sure the signals are actually sampled correctly wrt to the clock signal since the bit times are so short even small differences of trace length matter. The length matching is just to get it in the ballpark that can be corrected with per pin delays.

Ironically perhaps, at bit times like these it's easier to not have a clock signal and simply perform clock recovery like PCIe does, but that comes with higher latency for the interface.
I'm in a role that is very similar (different field though). However, I know enough about academia to know that alot depends on the culture the PI fosters. Also, I spend a lot of time learning the field.
100 billion dollars in one year is apparently peanuts now
The problem isn't getting hit so much as everyone's headlights being level with your rear view mirror
I can hear the officer's testimony already...

"We received a tip that a drug deal was going down in this area; it's just a coincidence that one of the cameras happened to be able to see inside that house."
Good thing, if you like to work in such corporations. This scheme is not working well if you are just have friends there.
I think he addressed it right in this excerpt!

> Cluckity cluck Cluck-cluck-cluck Bwak pukaaak Bwak Cluck. Cluck-a-buh-gawk Bwak Waaak Bok Waaak Cluck-cluck-cluck. Cluckity Cock-a-doodle-doo!
It didn't cost peanuts. A lot of them died. Same with the NVA. We lost 58,000, but they lost well north of a million (Vietnam -I suspect the ratio is even higher for Afghanistan).

Much as I dislike their philosophy, I have to have respect for their dedication and discipline. It has to be pretty damn difficult to keep fighting against a military machine like that, when everyone around is in a hundred pieces.
The human cost of Russia's aggression would happen regardless. Ukraine wants to defend themselves and wants weapons. The US and allies send weapons. Everyone wins except Russia.
This is the same tired response I get every time I point this out. The Linux kernel exists, and with this single fact your entire argument is dismantled. It isn’t. Linux is the last example of open source software that is good enough to compete in the market. As soon as Linux dies or retires, Linux will decline and eventually be replaced by a commercial product. The only reason it hasn’t happened yet is because computers were too new to be seen as viable by capital and businesspeople.
> The price of a Lexus is nowhere near that of a Ferrari.

This is exactly my point. Lexus is sold as a "luxury" car.

> A Mercedes is also essentially a Toyota with nicer interior and more gadgets - if you want to put it that way.

You missed the point - which is Toyota and Lexus share the same owner and are literally the same platform of a car: https://www.quora.com/Which-Toyota-model-is-the-same-as-a-Le...
Java has a specific hack for this which I discovered by accident a few years ago. Normally, given (primitive) double values d0 and d1, then boxing them does not affect equality testing - i.e. d0 == d1 if and only if Double.valueOf(d0).equals(Double.valueOf(d1)). However if d0 and d1 are both NaN, then the boxed versions ARE considered equal while d0 == d1 is false.

This inconsistency infuriated me when I discovered it but the Javadoc for Double.equals explicitly states that this anomaly is there to "allow hash tables to work properly".
I don't understand the issue. Is there an ELI5 of what is breaking?
Enjoy the new environment.

I used to be a “competent” vi user, laughing at the Emacs vs vi jokes, until I realized I didn’t really know Emacs. I gave myself a 4-week challenge where I’d use nothing but Emacs, for the challenge, and to learn. Fast forward 5-6 years later, still an Emacs user, I wondered if I could understand vi as well as I’d come to know Emacs. I gave myself a challenge, …

Have since done the same w ex(1), but I didn’t let it stick for many years as a daily-driver.

I’d recommend the challenge to anybody. I did the transition doing “production work”, so it’s possible - you may not have to “wait for the right time.”

Enjoy your editing in good health.
Do you have any insights into how someone should approach a renderer today for HTML and CSS 2.1 rasterization?

Tiled rendering seems to be what all the major renderers use, but the layers of abstraction they utilize to get there are so dense they're unreadable without extensive amounts of time.
No one is going to fuck with the US regardless of how many 155mm shells we have.

Ukraine can't say the same, because unlike the US, they agreed to unilateral nuclear disarmament. After all, we told them we had their backs. What could possibly go wrong?
How much does an Ukrainian life cost the US? I suspect that the answer is actually less than peanuts, being zero.
By what I’ve heard from people who worked there they do have autoscaling but it’s services running on things like Mesos clusters instead of someone else’s data centers. That can lead to some real cost savings but requires people to run, and most of them just left the building.
Which is somehow even more embarrassing.
As many First Amendment auditors have demonstrated, filming in public is a constitutionally protected activity, and their popular slogan, "You can't trespass my eyes," means that if something is visible from a public place (e.g. a sidewalk) it is also legal to film it. That means a citizen (or police officer) can stand on a public sidewalk in front of someone's house and film all they want.

So what makes this utility-pole surveillance different? The cameras are placed in public (outside, on utility poles which presumably involve a public easement). They are not equipped with extreme telephoto lenses or infrared cameras. It is hard, in the abstract, to see how that is any different than a First Amendment auditor doing the same thing.

Where I think it's arguably different is in the sustained, targeted nature of the activity. If one or more private citizens decide to film outside a person's house for 15-30 minutes as part of an audit or similar activity, yes it's probably annoying, but annoying doesn't mean illegal. But if they station themselves outside the house night and day, recording the comings and goings of the residents, I think that arguably rises to the level of stalking. To be clear, I don't think the surveillance cameras meet the legal definition of stalking, but they arguably have similar impact.
Several examples in this article:
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2020/html-and-css-techniques...
What level of chemistry do you need to know in order to benefit from reading the text?
> By now we should have already built a global repository where all digital books ever published or digitized from physical copies should have been available to anyone with internet access

The Open Library is pretty much this... for books in the public domain. AKA many more books than anyone could feasibly read in an entire lifetime, even if one only considered the "Great Classics" of Western literature. If your aim is to expand access to books, the lowest-hanging fruit by far is improving availability, findability (cataloging), reusability etc. of stuff that can be provided on any website with no legal issues whatsoever.
> Ukraine is no Vietnam or Afghanistan for the US, but it is exactly that for Russia.

In some ways it is similar to an Afghanistan for the US; the US supplied arms to Afghanistan in the Soviet-Afghanistan war. The conditions are different here, I think, and I hope this doesn't foreshadow a future US-Ukraine war.
It's odd that HN criticises Elizabeth Holmes less than it does Elon Musk.

* One is a privileged charlatan who pretended to innovate, dicing with the health of innocent customers, and defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

* The other is an African American who arrived in the USA with $2K dollars in his pocket and became wealthy by innovating on the Web, kick-starting electric transportation WORLDWIDE and making America a space-pioneering superpower again.

I always hoped HN was a community of critical thinkers who orient towards innovation, science and truth.

How did we get so caught up in tribal political BS?

The media too - they hate Elon Musk more than they ever hated Epstein or Weinstein.

We can, at least, be better than the media, can't we?
> Currently gas storage is at 100% in Germany
> And this is with a blown up pipeline.

Most of the storage was filled when the pipeline was operational and pumping gas at full capacity (what did you think they were filling it with?). It was slowly filling with Russian gas for half a year.

Besides, gas storage is only a buffer to temporarily compensate for the difference between supply and consumption (typically in winter).

> but it's very far from not surviving the winter.

And then what? Pump Russian gas like crazy just like this year? Oh wait, they turned off the tap. Guess they'll have to make some kind of deal. Oh wait, someone blew up the pipeline!

I feel like people are overly focused on this winter, rather the next, when the storages are drained, and new pipelines aren't yet built.
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Holy hell, $11B? Is that correct?
I have a similar issue with Caprine, the desktop frontend for Facebook Messenger. I have not however messed with my datetime settings, not is it such a big issue that I have taken the time to try to fix it (I don't use Messenger often and on desktop even less).
YNAB did change my life, thank you!
I'm asking about the actual properties of the equations, not if it's hard to do simulations.
This won't help you in a future version of Java where you can write List<double>, right?
I am merely pointing out something we can all see, but pretend not to.

Can you imagine the judge in a serial killers murder case going on about how talented the killer was in cutting up body parts and could have contributed to society by being a specialist amputator. Poor thing just made a bad choice. Now we put away such a talented amputator in prison and the world is darker for it.

Oh woe!
Thank you Miguelazo for the link.

I don't see that the linked article is supporting this particular statement. Namely it does not mention that Germany and Russia were in negotiations about resuming the gas transport before or around the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.

That being said I want to make sure that you don't feel like we are sealioning you.

I think there are more that I agree with you on this topic than what we would disagree on.

I think it is odd that everyone in the media immediately concluded that it must have been Russia with 100% conviction. It seems you also agree with this. (perhaps you would use stronger words than that)

I think we also agree that the USA and the UK had both the means and the motivation. I would also add that there are others with the means and perhaps the motivations. Not sure if you would agree with that.

You seems to be convinced that there were negotiations between Russia and Germany about the resumption of gas transport. I'm not so sure. I just haven't seen proof for it. But! I think it is a pretty safe assumption that there would have been such negotiations once Germany's economy starts to struggle during the winter. So on that we are just disagreeing on the details, not on the fundamentals. (At least that is how it seems to me, don't want to put words into your mouth.)

The fundamental disagreement seems to be in our conclusion. I see your reasoning and I agree that it is enough to warrant a suspicion. But I don't feel that it is enough with what is currently known to say for certain who did it. The tricky bit with logic based speculation is that others can do it too. Some other actor with the means and motivation might have also done the same speculation you just did and concluded that in the case of sabotage the USA and the UK will be blamed.

Not saying that that is what happened. All I am saying is that I don't know who did it. I think we don't know enough. It might come to light soon. It might not come to light during our lifetime. Who knows.
DoH is 100% a good thing. It makes surveillance of your Internet traffic harder, not easier. If you don't trust Cloudflare, then pick a different DoH provider that you do trust.
Just a reminder that classic joke:

"Why did the chicken cross the road?"

"To get to the other side!"

Is not just a stupid anti-joke about crossing the road, it is a dark joke about a chicken going to the other side of life (death).
Russia can't be defeated as long as it has nukes. It's in the US and the entire world's interest(except Ukraine and few european countries) to not make Russia into another North Korea. With Russia's historical ally winter arriving, the enemies of Russia are not gonna have it as easy.
An NYT writer set up "journa.host", got their face flamed off for unleashing a bunch of journalists into a world where there's a strong culture of putting a content warning on your politics, then got further flamed for saying "wow look how many sites block me now" by linking to a "what instances block my instance" site built by Kiwifarms people. And for hosting right-wing journalists under the aegis of "free speech", which a lot of Masto admins are used to seeing as code for "I will do nothing about letting right-wingers emit hate speech, please block my instance". There's also been news articles about this that have more calls for defederating journa.host resulting from decisions to quote Mastodon posts about this without asking for permission, in contravention of the TOS' of the instances those posts were made on.

They would love to turn it into the new Twitter and it is both hilarious and intensely stressful to see the fights over whether this will happen.

I think this was... Tuesday? The past month, and especially the past week has felt like about six hundred years.