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>Western policy risks building up a big Asian military alliance.

I wonder if China's plan is to give Russia enough aid to keep the war going and build a sizeable debt, but not enough for Russia to actually win. In that plan, China would hold economic and political power over Russia.

I don't see why China would want Russia to win. A nuclear neighbor run by a defacto dictator high on the spoils of war? NATO strengthening ties and military forces in response to a major adversary? Sounds terrible. A subservient neighbor without access to any other advanced country's economy, so you can squeeze them on imports and exports, and they also have nukes you can rattle by proxy? Chance of NATO calming down after a few years of good behavior from Russia? Sounds nice¹.

¹Not nice for anyone but China, of course.
Memcomputer chips could solve tasks that defeat conventional computers
How would you explain them to someone who knows the syntax but still finds them counterintuitive?
80/20 solution: People want to use the gmail interface, so the ideal solution is to use a custom domain and point it there. You can still lose all that email but you don't lose the ADDRESS, so all the accounts that you use to login can be redirected to another email platform.
I don't get those interactive learn vi(m) projects. Why not simply use vimtutor?
The "neurobiological effects of physical exercise" page on Wikipedia gets submitted on HN frequently with few votes, but man is it a fascinating read. Beyond the well-known runner's high, you get cognitive improvements in both short and long term. It even slows down Alzheimer's after you get it, allegedly.

Exercise is no panacea, but people really don't realize how many things it (allegedly) can do, even with super short durations you see in these interval training regimens. Don't force it on people with ME/CFS, sure, but most of us really can and should set aside an hour a week (or less, if you do SIT instead of HIIT).
Real world highway range is lower than EPA or WLTP range (the range quoted in advertisements in the US or EU respectively), often substantially so.

EPA range is for a mix of highway and urban driving; unlike ICE vehicles, EVs get worse range on the highway, and typically highway driving is where you actually care about range on an EV.

Weather can also reduce EV range by quite a lot, particularly cold weather and headwinds.

But as others have pointed out, the elephant in the room is towing. Towing can more than double energy consumption. The F-150 Lightning will happily tow a 3-ton trailer, but if you tow that trailer at 70mph the Lightning will barely go 100 miles before needing a recharge.

So for a tow vehicle, an EPA range of 1000km would be extremely useful.
Something can be effective, especially more effective than a placebo, without being a cure. We have many "treatments" for all sorts of illnesses where the treatment isn't a cure. SSRIs for depression are a treatment, not a cure, just as one example. Hell, even Nyquil is a treatment for symptoms without being a cure.

When it comes to mental health we also have these big umbrella categories (depression, schizophrenia) that are made up of groups of illnesses. Schizophrenia has so many different causes, and thus different treatments, that viewing it as a single illness can actually be problematic.

Anyways, my point is that what you're saying makes no sense at all.
You hope you can influence some technical decisions, but it's not just a title of architect that gives you authority, you need convincing and communication skills as well.
Which are basically another way to mix protocols and categories from Objective-C.

No need for Google, as mentioned, I know both languages.

As for protocols not being encouraged in Objective-C, I migth own the wrong NeXTSTEP manuals.
If I am not completely wrong, this headline has nothing to do with the linked article. The article is about "topological solitons" that - according to the article - look "to outside observers" like black holes.
Interesting. I just installed this yesterday after migrating to the 12 Mini.

I like the app, but there's too many features behind the paywall.
The site looks great and I always love to see some Svelte love. But the "Sign in with Google" is a deal breaker for me. Also seems strange to charge $15 for this when so many free Vim resources exist.
First day at work:
- Onboard with HR
- Get the laptop, headphones, etc.
- Credentials and VPN should work.
- Office access (if needed. I insist all engineers MUST BE ABLE to work from the office... if they want, or the neighbour is making renovations, etc).

First week is for meeting colleages (we're remote), and get rid of as much mandatory training (legal, safety, compliance etc) you can. I expect some training yet to be done still on week 6.

The new hire is invited to agile rituals from day 2, but nothing is expected. Just to get used to the vibe.
He/She might pick up things as they appear with the help of a buddying engineer.
But no more than one task at time.

After week 2 he/she can start writing... words, not code.
Code review is Ok, but might be too much for some people.
The point is to make sure s/he knows where to ask, where are some things...

After week 3 should be allowed to code :-)
> - Being frozen in Antarctica, in case medical technology improves in a century or two to the point where I can be revived and cured.

Given that cryonics is currently essentially just a scam, you might just as well. For all practical purposes, it's equivalent to killing. (Legally, you need to have just died though, in most Western countries, so I think you don't actually have this option.)

https://bigthink.com/the-future/cryonics-horror-stories/

Or you meant just traveling there, going on an extended hike from which you don't return because you just purposely one day didn't get out of your tent. That's not a pleasent way to die though, and nobody is going to go there 300 years from now to unthaw you.

> - If none of that is possible, do something interesting and dangerous. For example, if my brain is going anyways, experimenting with drugs and dying by drug overdose seems like a decent way to go.

How do you know that a drug overdose is a pleasant experience? You could be hallucinating the most terrible things in the world for as it may feel like an eternity. Unless you are talking about sleep medication, but then again, just taking a bunch of sleeping pills is not different from a "classical" suicide.
If I am the one who decides what is locked (and not Google or Apple) then "smartphone" security model is good for me.
Many things...

They verify that submissions meet criteria.

They scan for known malicious code/vulnerabilities.

They work with security researchers to take appropriate action on reports.

They enforce CoC and ToS policy to any that abuse it.

They work with the community to address any unrest.

They continuously monitor for suspicious activity.

They respond to active security incidents.

They work across many security working groups to stay current on best practices, latest standards, newest initiatives.

As to your other questions, this isn't "slipping through". These registries act under a "trust but verify" model. It simply would not scale if they had to manually review all submissions akin to the app store(Zero trust). Most of these registries run on volunteers or small pizza teams.

Every single registry has similar challenges. PyPi just last weekend had to halt user sign-ups and uploads due to these abuses.
That's interesting to me. Personally, I feel like you can apply the same mindset to a lot of other activities, which makes them satisfying in the same "way" that programming is.

Putting things in neat little boxes, solving little puzzles... it's kind of hard to describe, but at least personally there are other things that give me the same sense of satisfaction.
What do you want to call it when you do this to millions of vans of people?
Yes, they absolutely do! The “right ones” anyway. I have lived on daily usage for over a decade now, their results are empirically excellent.

I think the trouble most have is consistency, particularly that your diet must change to eliminate foods which work against the superfood additives (junky foods.)

Diet is critical part of mental and physical well being!
I remember as a kid seeing the Tomorrow's World episode where the chap demonstrated it to probably Philippa Forrester and Peter Snow. It looked like magic. What a great idea.
Eh… https://www.europarl.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/en/news-and-pre...

So this is only a classification effort to help with inter-border trade, nothing else, nothing is banned…
Not the poster but probably. There were significant NATO policy decisions immediately preceding the 2014 invasion with respect to Ukraine. Further decisions were taken immediately proceeding the 2022 build up and subsequent invasion.

The first was in 2008 when NATO decided Ukraine could start the NATO membership process.

This came to a head at the start of 2014 when Euromaidan revolution lead to a change of government.

In 2014, the Ukrainian parliament renounced Ukraine's non-aligned status.

In 2016, Ukraine was granted a NATO Comprehensive Assistance Package (CAP), comprising the advisory mission at the NATO Representation to Ukraine as well as 16 capacity-building programs and Trust Funds.

In 2018, Ukraine was officially given an aspiring member status.

2021 NATO reaffirmed that Ukraine will become a member.

Here is some basic information from the right wing conspiratorial outlet NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/29/1076193616/ukraine-russia-nat...
I was disappointed last night when I looked at the Protohackers website and it seems to be on hiatus. Such a great idea, but I imagine it's not trivial to manage.
It's less magic, I think; I'm working in React right now and it's its own paradigm, separate yet from just JS or C or whatever.
There is also the standalone library "tree" from DeepMind: https://github.com/deepmind/tree

It provides similar functionality but is standalone and does not depend on JAX, TF or anything else.
If armed assailants enter my house, I'm going out the back door and running to a neighbor's to call 911. That doesn't mean I'm "not committed" to my house, it means I'm sane.
These things will inevitably be included with the OS soon

Desktop, mobile, even consoles - especially video game consoles where games can tap into the shared resource for their NPCs instead of bundling it in their package

GPU based token generation will be good enough in speed
> When we free memory, we should make sure that if the block we return to the free list is next to any other free blocks, we combine them together. This is called "coalescing."

A little offtopic but the default Delphi 7 memory allocator did this, except that it also merged blocks that it obtained from different OS allocation calls.

This worked fine for regular usage, but if that memory was ever used for Bitmaps for UI stuff, it wouldn't work: Since Windows does some of its UI stuff in kernel mode, before doing anything Windows would attempt to lock the entire allocation's VAD entry to prevent you from messing with it in another thread while it was using it. If the Bitmap you were working on happened to belong to two different OS-level allocations, this lock function would fail since it wasn't meant to handle that case.

This would lead to random, extremely cryptic errors such as ERROR_NO_SCROLLBARS "The window does not have scroll bars." since the lock call was deep in the stack and the callers replaced the error with another one as it bubbled up.

In the end we had to replace the allocator to avoid that issue. That was a fun day I spent debugging that.
It isn't like the org makes a decision to give them severance after they announce their resignation. It gets written into their contract from the beginning. The reason why organizations offer large severance packages is to attract good candidates. At good companies, even junior devs get severance. In good times, it's a good thing to do. Wouldn't you be more likely to take a job if you knew that no matter what happened, you would have a nice severance package to help you find your next position?

Also, there is bloat in non-profits, but it isn't like everything is done by volunteers. Volunteers don't run the servers, they don't handle donation processing, they don't respond to lawsuits from people upset about how they are portrayed on Wikipedia. Then all those employees need HR, IT, janitors, etc., and then there are executives who run the organization.
I’ve thought of this not for AoE, but for Sim City 4. Currently midjourney can produce art for buildings that could almost be used directly in game, but stuff like shading and lighting needs to be tweaked.
Article states that solitions are not black holes but only seem like black holes from a distance. Also they are hypothesized from string theory but haven’t ever been seen, probably because they’d appear the same as black holes except up close?

Title should be updated to something like: “A theorized defect in space time that appears to be a black hole”
More like “I’d rather have minimally acceptable understanding than incorrect and harmful understanding.”

The reason is there are many confounding variables so measuring poverty incorrectly and reaching a wrong conclusion can focus resources toward people who don’t need it (eg, single people making half the median wage who are not in poverty).

I think sometimes you don’t have a choice. But in this case, there is a more accurate measure to use, so not using it makes conclusions less helpful.

I think claiming things as “anti-science” is a gatekeeping function that is counterproductive. Especially when people don’t understand statistical significance and are trying to make conclusions that aren’t accurate. I don’t think things are “anti-science” or “pro-science” as these are imprecise and meaningless statements.

I’m not sure what you mean by saying anti-science. But I think it’s not logical to assume something that is minimally effective is striving for perfection and something that isn’t significant is good enough.
Could also be that dogs are no longer mostly “outside dogs” and live to an old age rather than getting hit by cars early on
Small correction, the active ingredient in Salvia is a kappa opioid agonist.
When I bought my car, I bought it with the sole purpose of doing cross-country travel. I wouldn't need a brand new car with a warranty if that wasn't my intention. I've regularly done 1200+km days of travel with it. I wouldn't be able to comfortably achieve similar numbers with low capacity electric cars today.

A car is rarely if ever the optimal solution for a daily commute. Let people have long-range vehicles.
> Ketamine is a life-saver and has been proven to relieve depression, regardless of the administration setting.

It’s really not uncommon for some trials to fail to differentiate from placebo when it comes to depression studies. That doesn’t make this study “rubbish”, it just shows that you need to examine the body of evidence rather than cherry-picking studies that appear to match the outcome you want while dismissing those that say the opposite.

Ketamine is a temporary boost for some people, but it has also been overhyped in recent years. The single biggest downside is that it’s not a long-term solution. The duration of the antidepressant effect is relatively short (days to weeks) and the antidepressant effect appears to diminish with repeated dosing.

It can be a great help for suicidal patients or for getting traditional treatment started, but it’s not a singular solution to depression for most people.

Ketamine prescribing also got out of control fast. I traveled to a city where Ketamine clinics were advertising on the radio and billboards and competing with coupons and discounts and exaggerated promises of efficacy. Reddit and other forums are also filling up with stories of people who think their ketamine “stopped working” because they weren’t properly informed that it was a temporary effect for most people that needed to be combined with traditional therapy. Way too many clinics and influencers looking to ride the hype train without honestly assessing the situation.
> But it’s a problem for researchers running double-blinded clinical trials, as participants can usually tell whether they have received ketamine or a placebo. [...] The scientists gave the volunteers ketamine or saline as placebo right after they were put under anesthesia, but before their surgery, essentially blinding them to any psychedelic or dissociative effects.

That's a genius way to avoid unblinding. All psychoactive treatment trials have this problem: placebo controlled studies rely on patients not being able to distinguish whether they are in the test group or the control group. I hope future studies (say, for psilocybin) can also use this study design.
What I've found to understand is that Western media actual represents most facts. Ukraine media often understates Russian success. While Russia media always overstates their success. The regular media then usually gets the story right.

Also, video's of fighting and people dying isn't very informing, they are too situational and too local.

Lesson of the day, both UKR and RUS media are not very trustworthy. It's gotten to a point where I've stopped investing in it.
I think the right has seized on trans people because it's become socially unacceptable to go after gay people (at least directly), so going after trans people is a substitute. "Othering" some group and uniting people against them is powerful brain stem stuff, and elections these days are won or lost on turnout rather than changing anyone's mind.

I'm not sure what they're going to do when there aren't any groups left to "other." They might have to argue for their ideas and policies on reason and merit. That's gonna be hard. It's a lot harder to convince the neocortex with reason than to rally the limbic system with outrage porn.

It's gross of course. It's using people for political cannon fodder. At least the left mostly just tries to scare me and make me hate right-wing politicians, which is like striking a military target rather than a civilian target.

I hate the culture war in general. It's a godsend to incompetent politicians. All they have to do is grunt correctly on culture war issues and they don't have to actually deliver anything of substance or solve any real problems.
Better for the bees as well!
There is a similar thing going on with one type of treatment for amputees that suffer from phantom pain in the missing limb. It uses a box and a mirror positioned such that the subject can see a reflection of their existing arm/hand but the mirror spatially locates it to where their missing arm/hand would be.

It isn't a sure-fire cure, but apparently it offers enough relief to enough sufferers.

https://mirrortherapy.com/how-does-mirror-therapy-relieve-ph...
This has little to do with being open or proprietary. CPAN is analogous to repositories we use with pip or npm today and most of what is involved is not proprietary on any of those platforms. The relevant differences are cultural and technical.

I don't think invoking CTAN as an example is very convincing. It's well known that there are only seven people in the universe who can actually program TeX and they probably have little interest in trying to infect each other with malware.
Why is a color laser not suitable for high volume? What is "high volume" in this case? (100 pages per week? day?) Laser printers are cheaper than inkjet on a per-page basis.
That's entirely due to the sector you're in. That 20-30 person company may be small, but it's attached to a massive external bureaucracy. They don't need to invent their own red tape, and all other companies are playing with the same handicap.

In a different sector, 20-30 people is the stage where you should be capitalizing on how much faster you can move than the large bureaucratic incumbent, and if there's red tape that takes weeks to navigate it means someone in the company put it there.
Just update the specification with the observed behaviour and presto - black holes are no longer defective !
Neither really makes sense from a statistical perspective: your number is effectively the true value, and there is no repeatable measurement process you’re evaluating.

Your use of the non-statistical meaning of “accurate” as “free from error” is spot on.
Did you read the article? It explains the study is attempting to narrow down the mechanism for ketamine's effects, not disprove them.

The title is misleading though, unfortunately. What the study found is that Ketamine-while-unconscious is no better.
Show HN: MoreDateTime – facilitate .NET date and time operations
This .NET library adds hundreds of methods to facilitate usage of the DateTime, DateOnly and TimeOnly objects, implicit conversions between them, adds new methods useful for any application that deals with dates and date ranges, holidays, workdays, and much more. One can do set operations on date ranges (union, intersect, diff) and as a bonus the library adds the EDTF specification from the ISO 8601-2 2019 standard to .NET.
> Depression can have many different causes,

Then why this singular focus on ketamine and psychedelics all the sudden? If it has many different causes why focus on activating a single serotonin receptor?

> and people have many different biological variables, so it should not be surprising that a given treatment isn't 100% effective.

Yes, and that is why we need to stop recommending mediation to people without knowing/researching the cause of each individuals depression. Why is there such limited nutritional and genetic testing on people with severe depression?

> With your logic, one might say: the sars covid-19 virus doesn't cause illness because some exposed people showed no symptoms. The families of the dead people would disagree.

If SARS2 does not cause illness in me that is all I care about. And if it does not cause illness in me you should all be interested in me.
Don't 'fake it till you make it': Instead, remember what you know
Curious what people think about this reframe!
> Of course you can argue they are not using enough K at the 0.5 mg/kg mark, because disccociation starts at 1 to 3 mg/kg

Dissociation isn’t necessary for the antidepressant effect, according to studies. In fact, many of the more responsible clinics target longer duration, lower peak dose infusions for this reason.
> and return the Subscription Cartridges to HP as detailed in Section 5.e (“Subscription Cartridges must be returned by You to HP”).

No mention of the printer being disabled, but mention that OP is required to return the cartridge that they didn't return.

If they actually intend for you to return the cartridge HPs position is a lot more reasonable. It's no longer "and we destroy the ink that you didn't use" it's "and we re-sell the ink you didn't use to someone else".

On the other hand if this is basically just a scam where they intend for you to think you have a working printer, when you don't, unless you resubscribe. Then that's despicable. The fact that they apparently didn't follow up asking for their cartridge back makes me suspicious that it is this.
People defending this need to rethink their ethics. This is the absolute scum behavior the printer industry has been known for (and successfully sued over in the past). If you buy a printer and separately get an ink subscription, the subscription lapsing should have nothing to do with the functioning of the printer. Ink subscriptions and printer leasing are old hat in the business space, and in no case does the printer stop functioning (leased or purchased) because you cancel the ink subscription.
I'm organizing something in Dublin, Ireland: https://www.meetup.com/lisp-ireland/events/293582820