skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beside the political aspect of it, which is fine by me, this is actively meddling in foreign conflicts. One thing is to express support for one side, but I believe there are other better channels to get involved militarly.

Edit: also if our governments cared as much as keep telling us they do, they would take care of funding ukraine themselves. We wouldn't still be relying on private initiative, which sounds ridicolous to me.
Germans have to pay more for gas because of Putin, not because of this investment. And I'm not saying there are no other issues, I'm saying that this should be a high priority right now.

Germany is a very rich country. It can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Surface to air missiles are a thing.
yeah i love it as well. plus i can buy the premium service in BTC...
It is a bit weird to state it so outright but there is a long history of governments giving more or less official support to volunteer soldiers.
Nuclear also needs to be paired with gas to meet demand shifts. I'm not sure why nuclear supporters are so oblivous to this fact, they constantly mention 'baseload' but it seems like they may have only a vague understanding of what that actually means. The non-baseload also needs to be generated somehow when people are awake and doing stuff.

So how do we reduce gas use the most, building $X Billion nuclear or $X Billion solar, wind and batteries? The expert consensus is the latter.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s 100% about looks. I skip women without a bio because they’re usually the most boring.
are there other studies on animals / mice which have a larger sample size? the one linked in the post has a sample size of 106 which to an untrained eye seems small.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a2069c3ccc5c5325fd05...
It's more likely that you are being naive, to be politically correct. There hasn't been a single time of crisis in the recorded history where donations hadn't been stolen (and sometimes victims even being abused and exploited). From earthquakes, tsunamis, famine, wars...none of the campaigns went without an incident.

Ukraine is receiving military support from the entire NATO sphere. They can't shoot with your donations and they can't make any purchases either, so guess where the money is likely to end up. That's why I said if you want to donate then do so, but don't ask where the money is going because if you do that you won't donate ever again.
This site is hacked and leads to a scam website (accessing from Singapore)
I've always found the best way to stay warm when sleeping, is to wear as little clothes as possible. My best guess is that heat escapes from our hands and feet so all the warm clothes causes this huge difference in temperature in our bodies.

Even here in -20 temps, I typically sleep in a t-shirt and shorts. Heat from my body warms up the little enclosed space under the blankets quite quickly and the overall temp is a lot more comfortable than being wrapped up in multiple layers that restrict movement.
Alas, not so at all -- the treatment he should have had at the moment of diagnosis was simple and much less radical, with far fewer side effects, than the treatment he had nine months later when it had spread.

I correct this story not to be rude or to say he was an idiot (he was not, at all -- just scared because it is terrifying), but to try to counter the unrealistic things people still hear about Jobs beating the pancreatic cancer odds.
I wonder why the Ukrainians didn't fly it out while they had control :'(
I’m not surprised but it doesn’t make it any less wrong or awful. A human is a human and has the right to protection regardless of skin colour, religion, sexual orientation… if refugees come from a largely Christian nation, we accept them with open arms, yet Muslim refugees we spit on and send away to cold tents.
i use it as a backup tool.
thier gui mega is also good.
You sir are a big inspiration to me! As someone also born in EE I can very much appreciate your courage and dedication doing a side gig like this.

I would say 3500 a month is even a median salary for an IT position in WE. From your resume I take it you still work full time? I wonder if that's even worth it at this point unless you make a lot more from your FTE position.

Anyway props!
I picked up a couple of these when they were being closed out, thinking I would find an interesting use for them later, or at least something for the 900MHz modem module. Never did. Gave them to a thrift store when cleaning out for a move over a decade ago.

They were awkward to use, both physically and from a UX perspective. I wasn't drawn into any of the games, but I haven't taken up video games much in a long time now. I had plans to code something up for it but I don't think I ever even compiled "hello, world" or the equivalent.

Something like the TTGO Lora devices would be more fun to hack on in 2022.
I like how aging is explained in "Lifespan: Why we age and why we don't have to"[1]: cells are analog holders of information and just like analog tapes, each copy holds data of slightly lesser quality. After a number of copies, cells become less performant in their job and eventually some lose enough information that new copies cannot function properly enough to survive and/or not mutate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan:_Why_We_Age_%E2%80%93...
The peak for warez communities was right around 2006. I distinctly remember how popular those forums and other sites were. There were ridiculous amounts of pirated software and media being shared, and most of that content was in fact hosted on Megaupload or RapidShare.

If you knew people (from IRC) you could get invited to scene torrent sites which was a much more efficient way of getting what you want. I mean, everything posted on warez forums was coming from scene FTPs anyway, it was just a matter of who had access to them.

EDIT: Hmm, this actually got me thinking. Did OVH ever get in trouble for how much illegal traffic they processed back in those days? If my memory serves, OVH was a very popular choice because of their reliable connectivity and really good upload/download speeds.
To be honest, it was a hot afternoon in first sem engineering maths class where we were discussing bessel functions (actually, the 6 recurrence relations).
The symmetry of it all transformed math in my mind to something more than proofs and computational tricks...
This is it. Ironic considering that EU/US is unwilling to fight a war that will benefit them the most. Ukraine is fighting this war for their country but they are also fighting to save the world from a very possible WWIII.
Let's not forget all the military spending money Biden has given to Ukraine during his time as president, prior to this conflict kicking off. This crisis was not sudden, or unanticipated. Russia has been warning the world for a long time to back off.
Ask HN: Anyone that employs someone with ASD in IT in full-remote?
Not sure how people will react to this kinda post but I'm running out of options.

To sum things up:
- I'm currently at the end phase of an apprenticeship (Ausbildung) in the IT sector in germany, which is basically working at a place, to learn the required skills/information that is defined by the state for that profession.
- Company doesn't employ me afterwards because they are specialized to educate and help "disabled" people (which basically means anyone that has problems and needs help because of psychological or physical reasons).
- Got diagnosed with high-functioning autism (means my cognitive ability is not influenced) while being there
- Gonna move to a different country soon after I'm done with the apprenticeship
- Can start in August/September

Skills:
- Although not having done too much with it I like C++ and Python
- Got a decent understanding of cybersecurity (POC, Blocklists, Firewalls)
- Have worked with VMs before (company: vmware vsphere, private: virtualbox)
- Basic/Advanced networking knowledge
- Advanced knowledge about (browser) privacy (cookies, tracker pixel, js-scripts, url parameters, filterlists, etc.)
- Have done first level support before
- Beginner knowledge of reverse engineering (assembly, debugging)
- I'm absolutely willing to learn new things and can acquire more skills till august.

So TLDR:
20+ year old autist looking for an international full-remote job in IT.

Contact:
Feel free to reach me here for more questions: "gzn35qht784hm3zt@protonmail.com" (yes I like privacy)
That ship has kinda sailed now that Russia invaded Ukraine. What would be the point in trying to make Russia feel less threatened by Ukraine now? And how would that even be possible to do?
Ukraine didn't have ambitions to join NATO before Putin attacked it for the first time in 2014.

Stop swallowing Putin propaganda wholesale.

You can watch this to familiarize yourself with historical context of Russia-Ukraine relationships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK-yJD_fAtk
It's a good starter for today's wordle. But the flaw in this strategy is that the letters can often be out of place, making the final guess much harder.
You'd have to put a vent through the wall. People do this for clothes dryers. But for fridges it's probably not worth it - worthless in summer, and in winter the bad insulation around the vent likely cancels out the electricity savings.
The countries of which many of us are taxpayers are actively funding their military.
The difference between Colour and non-Colour is more precisely expressed as the difference between chromacity and lightness. We must not forget that chromatic vision developed after lightness vision. The former developed as response to the availability of fruit. Effectively, fruit and chromatic vision co-evolved.

At a more experiential level, chromatic vision is an elaboration. It is not required, but in the lives of our ancestors, its presence signified the availability of a rare and pleasurable (carbohydrate intensive) experience.

In design, this principle carries through. Colour is a layer that lays on top of the lightness experience.
And mediafire.com was wiped of nearly everything on the same day, which was also devastating for a lot of niche music scenes that had uploaded an unprecedented amount of material there.
This is a really really half-backed article or half-a__ed experience.. Sorry it's getting on my nerves.

Please, do not ever preach someone that if you cannot do something.
>Ukrainians are Europeans, they look the same

That's borderline racist thinking. By your definition Irish and South-Italians would not see each others as Europeans, and btw Russia is Europe too.
There are 2 loopholes in that one sentence alone.

"British subject" could be defined as "British subject", which is a special type of British nationality that's not even used anymore, and furthermore, strictly speaking Russia is not at war with Ukraine, because there never was a declaration of war.

Of course in 1870 when the law was written nation states still used to declare war on each other, but since the UN decided that war is wrong and laid very strict rules on when you can declare war, nobody has done that ever since. So no declaration of war.
Same. I was thinking about all those movies in the 80s and 90s that show US spec ops taking off their US patches before being dropped into some random South American country. Would NATO powers take that risk though? There's some game theory going now. If RUS found a NATO soldier in theater, would they attack outside UKR? I would think RUS definitely doesn't want to provoke a full on NATO response under any pretense.

Nukes are always the wildcard, but if Putin is willing to use them first at all, we already have much bigger problems.
Oh please.

The german media also does a good job at creating an image of east europeans being criminal and south europeans being lazy.

As does the british media portray germany as a treacherous country.

But those are petty politics on all sides and not hatred. Hatred is declaring war and stating that your country shouldnt exist and denying that your people are a fake people.

Europe can only defend by sticking together. I am 100% sure that poland will go to war for germany in a heartbeat as would ANY country in nato and the eu.

But indeed we need to stop the petty politics of calling each other names and imposing diktats on allies.

Orbans corrupt and polands politics are lame, but no where near the danger we are facing. We’ll sort these two out and germany’s diktats in the eu parliament without tanks and bullets because we dont hate each other we just behave like the siblings that we are.
Show HN: Switch windows of same app with hotkey (alt + `)
>I believe in the church--believe it has made my life better, made me a more caring person. I believe it teaches the truth.
...
>It's totally possible for people who are both rational to come to different conclusions about things based on their life experience.

Kinda says it all.
Comicss – A webcomic about CSS. Coded in CSS
Req – An HTTP Scripting Language
This is great!

I’m a big fan of Clojure and it’s REPL-driven workflow, but most of my day-to-day work is in JavaScript.

I’ve tried to use Quokka [0] in the past to recreate the REPL experience, and while it’s a good tool, it’s just not the same.

Really looking forward to trying this out!

[0] https://quokkajs.com/
One wonderful thing after WW2 is the French-German friendship developed. They are the closest partner and together an important cornerstone of the EU. And of course, in contrast to Germany, France has nuclear weapons.
Is this parody or sincere? You want to lend a receipt for a monkey picture? What does that even mean, why would you want that, and why would they want that?
This smelled like a hoax from day one. Embarrassing that it was so widely reported actually, people on Reddit were having orgasms about it for a day or two.
the famous Phytagoras discovery as he draw 25 squares on hypotenuse of triangle horizontal side with 16 squares and upright sides of 9 squares
It's not just the cost of the network and the cost of transporting energy, it's the capital cost of those generators sitting out on the network that need to be running when lots of people suddenly say "no sun, give me power". Norway is blessed with lots of hydro that can do that, though.
The language I am refering to, is now called the BiZZdesign scripting language. See: https://support.bizzdesign.com/display/knowledge/BiZZdesign+...
The pipe operators are from the original design of the query language. Variables, function, and many other language constructs have been added later.
How does all that compare to continuing to burn coal and gas and dumping humongous quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere?

Maybe nuclear waste storage is not yet solved, but it is a long term problem while global warming is already here. I’d rather work on storage solutions for the next 1000 years than fighting floods, hurricanes and forest fires every day.
When you see all the athletes, politicians, and actors all taking one side then surely they must be right!
It's less about technology than about the treatment a civilian population can expect from an occupying force, largely due to ideology.

Although humans haven't changed that much since then. It's terrifying to contemplate what humans are capable of doing to each other.
Yes, MEGA is amazing.

Unlike Megaupload, I have only used MEGA for personal use and not pirated content download.

I think MEGA being fully encrypted was their answer to them being targeted for hosting any illegal content (with MEGA, they were hosting encrypted files, which they don't have access to themselves because the encryption key remains with the client). Did it take off as the replacement for pirated content sharing because of it?
It's hard to get a sense of the scale of it from most of those pictures, but the one with a person next to it, just amazing
Strictly speaking, yes. Practically - 0 citizens from my country have been prosecuted for joining the French Foreign Legion.

There's only ever been willingness to enforce that law if you joined a terrorist group or the Russian army.
>> In whatever way these terms will eventually crystallize, I think the addition of meta-progression to the permadeath+randomization combo is important enough to call the result a new genre. It’s a very fun and addictive combination.

I see it more as an attempt to balance out the harsh penalty imposed by permadeath in the original roguelikes, like Nethack. I remember when I first played Nethack, I was really annoyed by that, and I really didn't see the fun in having to start all over again everytime my character died, even given the procedural generation (which means that you at least don't have to go through the same level every time). And I was really curious to see how the game developed. But I didn't have the time to grind, Grind, GRIND. So... I savescummed.

Btw, one very popular game that has permadeath and procedural generation, and where the only between-game reward is unlocking new characters, is Don't Starve. But, somehow, I never see it included in the roquelikes even though it sticks much closer to the original formula than, say, Slay the Spire, Hades or Dead Cells, etc. I don't want to use the word "hardcore" but Don't Starve is fucking hardcore, compared to those other games and I never felt like I wanted to savescum in any of the other games, while I routinely savescum in Don't Starve (I even have a shell script to do it quickly).
In the [Japanese] company that I worked for, they had some serious process around evaluating proposals.

Basically, you had to have the project designed, before pitching it. After that, it had to go through a lot of folks, flinging poo at it (They called these meetings "Design Review" meetings, or "DRs").

It certainly resulted in relatively successful outcomes (and I saw failures, where managers let stuff pass without that level of detail), but I think it also killed a lot of good stuff. Some ideas are worth approaching, even if the approach has not been fully mapped-out.

I'm a huge fan of "Evolutionary Design"[0-1]. It has served me well, but is not for the faint of heart (or the inexperienced). If you don't have a lot of experience (as opposed to intelligence and/or education), then I do not recommend this approach.

I am also a fan of "biting off more than you can chew"[2]. Again, I would only recommend this for experienced people, if it is for shipping projects.

If not for shipping projects, then go for it. Knock yourself out.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...

[2] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...
>where that leaves France if Germany "wakes up" militarily

With Nuclear submarines and rockets, same as the UK.
Regressive zoning makes the economy run well, for you and no one else.

Also minimum wages are kind of okay because all prices will adjust upwards relative to the lowest price of unspecialized labor.

The real problem is the ability to slow down economic activity below the speed at which most members of society can survive. Imagine starting a siege against a city and running their supplies down until they surrender.

Since money is a monopoly, is necessary for the division of labor and the division of labor is necessary to live a modern life then the ability to stop all money transactions is equivalent to a siege but it can be done to individuals or entire countries. Since those excluded individuals are by definition at the bottom of society they will at some point revolt if they reach a critical mass. So politicians are trying to keep these people busy. They do so by creating jobs and the money for the jobs has to be borrowed from those who have withheld their money. So from a naive perspective it looks like the government is really incompetent and filled with stupid politicians. The moment a "smart" politician stops the "nonsense" (via gold standard, austerity, deregulation) radicalized people will suddenly pop out of nowhere.

In either case the problem is the economic siege, not the response to the siege. Stopping the siege stops the problem.

However, we consider the ability to coduct economic sieges to be a holy cow, after all capitalism has strict private property at its core and private property is by definition the ability to conduct economic sieges. (excluding people from entering your private property).

e.g. If you own an uninterrupted ring of land around a city you own that city.

Withholding money from A to B also interrupts the flow from B to C and C to D. A lot of economic activity may or may not happen because of a single person. This is why debt is exploding endlessly because we recognized the benefit of ignoring the slow people. All we need to do is to make them hurry up.
Building Java Programs: A Back to Basics Approach, by Stuart Reges and Marty Stepp, was my first computer science book and the first book that got me on the road to programming.

When I was a student I carried it around like a bible. I still keep my copy from school, out of nostalgia.
“No vibe of an occupation”: the UN reports about 350,000 refugees, who obviously vibe things very differently.
Practical Doomsday, the book form of this post from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30466733, goes into exactly some of those kinds of considerations.

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/

Probably significantly more relevant for most people than the OP book.
I'll take the bait and provide evidence on why you should write a programming language.

First, it's technically very difficult, but you will gain deeper insight into the art of the craft. So, if you are a TC chaser or career minded person, then spending half a year writing a language will help you master the coding aspect of the game. I've started many languages since I started college, and each one was instructional. (I'm now 40 and an early retiree)

Second, it's fun.

Third, it may turn into something new. If some people don't write a new programming language, then we are stuck with what we have. This advice basically admits that the status quo is good enough.

The authors saying that the language, as a project, is a lifetime appointment? Well, this reveals everything. I believe if you want to do a programming language, then you must be willing to invest at least a decade or two.

So, here, I am at forty preparing to launch a SaaS around a language that I designed ( http://www.adama-lang.org/ ). The kicker, I believe, is that a project like this requires wandering the desert alone for quite a while.

I'm preparing to launch, and I just started to load test my shiny new production cluster. Low and behold, it sucks. Fortunately, I have a tremendous number of dashboards and isolated it to how I'm interacting with RDS. I've got my work cut out for me which I'll write about.

However, I have a potentially interesting business precisely because I evolved a language which solved a niche use-case. The number of problems that I have had to solve up to this point is not for the faint of heart. Life and reality are harsh mistresses.

So, maybe, yes, you can save yourself some heartache by not writing a language. Perhaps, a better way to think or phase this is "Writing a programming language is a lonely affair that will most likely end in tragedy after a long death march".
It's not the 1950s. Stalin is dead. Russia is not fighting this war to annihilate Ukraine. They want to restore a supplicant government loyal to Russia, and keep funding them to that effect. Same playbook they're using in the rest of their satellite republics. If Russia was in fact waging some kind of imperialist war, wouldn't they have annexed more resource rich neighbours that the world cares so much less about? Like Belarus, or Chechnya? Look at those countries. Russia pours money on them to keep them neutral. That's the alternative.
What, they don't have email? What exactly is being proposed here? What would be the point of face to face negotiations? Since people are actively dying right now, why would you wait for people to be in the same spot?