skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The source you gave me refers to these A, B, C as 'registers'. Yes, you are correct that they are encoded inside the Lua instruction and can not be accessed globally.

Will make it more obvious that these registers are part of the instruction itself as it may confuse people that are familiar with more traditional VMs.
Germany currently uses about 530 billion kWh of electrical energy a year. If we assume that is evenly spread across the year (it isn’t), and we’d only need a single day to cover worst case needs (really you’d want a week probably), that is a billion kWh of storage, or $600 billion at $600 kWh. Hard to say real costs, I see numbers from $200 to $800 depending on what would be included.

If you convert natural gas heating to electric (using efficient heat pumps), that adds roughly 9x the energy needs. So $5.4 trillion. And that is just to cover average ‘overnight’, with a little buffer. If there is a problematic couple days during winter? People would freeze to death.

Energy needs would likely be more ‘peaky’ during winter, so these would need to go up a bit to deal with the spikes, but it’s probably order of magnitudeish correct.

The current German population is about 83 million, so that would only be about $65,000 for every man woman and child in Germany for the minimal best case storage needs.

For realistic ‘no mass casualty events due to lack of available heat energy every other year’, it would probably need to be 3-4x higher at least.

To protect against a 100 year storm or the like, 7-10x is probably a better idea. But I doubt anyone would ever pay that.
Could simply have been a hoax, to attract attention. (Having the video, I mean, not the attack).
It's extremely fast and aggressive because it is desperate. Putin doesn't have any time and he knows it, the West was slow to formulate a response but it is getting there, sentiment is turning and before long there will be a different wind blowing.

Internal support for this war is already wavering - see the video of the Russian security council meeting -, it won't take much in terms of deviation from Putins plans as communicated to his lieutenants before his own position becomes untenable. And that can't come soon enough because at the moment that is the only way forward that is still left to us without major bloodshed.
It's clearly an alien hand reaching out of the ground.
My linux and freeBSD desktops at the time were faster/more responsive than my win2k one and I have plenty of choice for apps that would use less memory.

It is silly to compare to todays requirement. Nowadays system use more memory because we have more available.
Shops aren't required to take the old local currencies anymore, but they can still be swapped.

Here for instances the information if the German Bundesbank, where you can still swap with the official rate of 1.95583 DM/€.
https://www.bundesbank.de/de/aufgaben/bargeld/dm-banknoten-u...
(Currently there is a restriction of in person service due to corona, but if you trust mail it works, else you have to wait for that Corona restriction to be lifted)

That exchange works without limits or anything.
Why do people trust middlemen to handle their crypto in a safe manner? The whole idea behind crypto is that it's decentralized. Interacting with exchanges, investment platforms, etc is asking for trouble. Assume any exchange is another MtGox waiting to happen. Assume you no longer own your funds once you interact with any crypto platform. Fraud is rampant in the crypto scene and has been since the beginning. And for those crying 'But Coinbase!'. I don't trust them either. Coinbase must have a really hard time sleeping knowing they're the custodians / middlemen of so much wealth.
When Mario Cuomo ran against Ed Koch his slogan was “Vote for Cuomo, not the homo.”
"Diplomacy":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
> I've also heard of servers getting ddosed if they are known to pirate paid addons.

That's certainly an interesting way to police copyright violations. It's funny how the communities you describe might have foreshadowed NFTs. What I wonder is, do people no longer view these item as... just data?

I don't feel remotely old enough to use that phrase, but "back in my days", we were proud that data is a new kind of thing that can't be locked up or limited the way physical items can. I wrote little scripts to extract sprites from game files all the time. A "right-clicker", as you might say, only that little actual clicking was involved.

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that there are now "underground" communities who will happily do the exact opposite.
this probably could use a warning, this isn't just a writing about joining, the page actively floods requests; can't imagine ISPs will not take notice considering there appears to be no rate limiting locally -- while I understand that limits the ddos impact, it'd be far easier to help and get away with it if it wasn't likely to get flagged for abuse
The original 5GC codebase hasn't seen much activity recently - there are more active forks which are moving to newer 3GPP release levels - for example, the ONF's SD-Core project: https://docs.sd-core.opennetworking.org with code here: https://github.com/omec-project

Full disclosure: I work for ONF, opinions are my own (especially on HN).
Pinto Currency?

http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1...

Scripps-Booth Bi-Autogo Currency?

http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1...

Bagger Currency?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
No, that's just one way that it made at least a little bit of sense.

> Throwing men into the meat-grinder would be the most retarded strategy ever.

Yes. But that has been the Russian way for the longest time.
Apple and AMD aren't even in the same scale? Apple truly has more money than it can count. AMD should have had something useful to invest it to slightly match Intel's recent investments. I find it bewildering AMD could not find anything more useful.
> BitConnect operated as a Ponzi scheme by paying earlier BitConnect investors with money from later investors. In total, Kumbhani and his co-conspirators obtained approximately $2.4 billion from investors

That $2.4B is real money they stole from people. The monopoly money would start at the first penny after that number.
Oh, they rarely take down English content in the US either. When I deactivated my account I had an inbox full of "This does not violate our community standards" notes.

(Conveniently for them, they don't put the thing you flagged next to their reply so you can't collect screenshots of fascist agitprop in juxtaposition to their apathy.)
Portal I and II. Puzzle games. Great plot, great voice actors. Lots of humor. Challenging. Nearly no violence. Superb aesthetics. Great soundtrack.
SWIFT is just a messaging system, they can probably still use Telex which is the precursor to SWIFT.
He might, though that would also cost russia dearly because all countries like germany that are dependent on russian gas will a) be royally pissed and b) make sure they lower their dependence on russian gas in the future. And russias economy is really dependent on their natural recourcess export
This seems a bit useless to me. Its trivial for Russian networks to block out foreign requests before it reaches the sites. So effectively those sites would not be accessible from outside of Russia but inside , business as usual.
Is "keming" a graphical pun on "kerning"?
An apt comparison for the NIST standardization process would be the World Wrestling Entertainment. Except Vince McMahon just likes making money, whereas the NSA has the objective of interecepting all communications, forever.
> If we need to compose these errors in a larger program we can simply wrap previous errors in a bigger sumtype

This approach is being adopted in GHC itself to compose errors happening at different stages of the compilation pipeline: each stage has its own error type which later becomes a branch of the global error type.

Another interesting post about errors-as-values in Haskell is "The Trouble with Typed Errors": https://www.parsonsmatt.org/2018/11/03/trouble_with_typed_er...
Sure - and this is where there is marginal use for value stores like this, but two thoughts

1. You are dealing with "family friends" who have a clear social connection (and reputation!), helping to mitigate the risk that they simply run off - not the case for sending digital coins to a person you've never met.

2. You are in a situation where you're choosing to avoid government enforcement because of legality issues (in this case, immigration status). This is also why bitcoin worked for dark markets - No one cared that the government wasn't going to enforce your bitcoin transaction, because that lack of enforcement was already a given based on the goods being traded (illegal/black market items)

In both of these cases - basically any asset can fill that role. Shiny metal, food, expensive clothing, jewelry, guns, drugs etc. Bitcoin is appealing for basically one reason alone - it weighs nothing (and as a side effect, can be digitally transferred). Since usually the limiting factor in barter is literally how much weight in goods you can drag away.

The problem, and this is genuinely where I become annoyed, is that the speculation the above poster is so happy about actually degrades the usefulness of bitcoin in this space. No one wants to hold an asset that might lose 25% of its value over night, and no one wants to spend a currency that might gain 25% of its value over night either. This run of "get rich quick" fools and "pump and dump" fan boys have been a plague on the usefulness of digital coins since people realized bitcoin shot up in price any time the media mentioned it, way back in 2012. Then they harp on and on about how digital coins are the next finance, without understanding the current system, because their incentives aren't aligned with actually using the thing as a currency, they're entirely aligned with getting more suckers on board in their speculation scam.

So yes - if you're in the (very small) minority of folks who either won't or can't use governmental recourse anyways - there was at one point in time some usefulness for bitcoin. But unless you're planning on buying drugs or guns online, my current advice is to stick with gold.
Why do you think that drilling is one dimensional? Drilling at an angle, and even at gradually changing angles is common.
> I wish this picture came with a scale. Is this formation a millimeter wide or a meter wide?

A few millimetres, according to this Twitter post: https://mobile.twitter.com/abbyfrae/status/14973756989855211...
Pathologizing your political opponents is a two way street[0]. Your opponent might be insane, yes, but it can also be all too easily deployed to dismiss your political opponents and a lost opportunity to learn something, if not in the substance of what they're claiming, then at least about the causes. Even assuming that the various conspiracy theories peddled by both the Left and the Right are bogus (and they are), the fact remains that their exists widespread, politically useful grievance that makes them attractive to many people. If you just say "oh, they're all just mentally ill", you haven't learned anything, even if the grievance is simply a manifestation of envy and ressentiment. Even if they are all mentally ill, you haven't learned why they're all insane. Maybe you don't care, and that's fine, but someone has to care because unlike the occasional neighborhood eccentric, these things are political gunpowder. So first we debate, and only later do we embark on something like psychoanalysis.

W.r.t. Putin, I think that flippantly accusing him of mental illness is lazy and shows a lack of political imagination. That's only a conclusion you reach after you've exhausted all other options. Historically, Americans have been notoriously bad at understanding Russian political motives and the Russian political mind. If you contextualize what's happening in the geopolitical context, it's unclear, at least to me, that what Putin is doing is through-and-through insane. All evil is insane in the final analysis, but in the immediate sense, there may be a method to the madness. If you don't know the aim, and you don't know the constraints, you can't really understand the means. I'm not interested in cocktail party conjecturing or the pretense of knowledge.

[0] https://americanmind.org/salvo/woke-ideology-is-a-psychologi...
Britain already had some railways in 1843. The 1840s were the time of railway mania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

(Compare also the earlier Canal Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Mania )

But, yes, obviously 19th century Britain didn't have anything like the modern American car-commuter suburb.
> They can never go home again.

Beats being buried.
Was Carlos indicted as well?
I've long wanted to put some money into an eco terror fund.

It would buy controlling interests in all the companies that make some critical, specialized and heavily patented piece of modern internal combustion engines or coal turbines. Then, it'd wreck the factories, and patent troll everyone else into not producing.

Money is speech, and that would be protected political speech, right? :-)
Seems like Putin missed a trick by not kicking this off in November. With a whole winter of gas supply issues in store the EU would be walking on egg shells even more than they have been.

Regardless, it seems like a small price to pay for solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
>You need some sort of heat engine running a cycle. All those require temperature differential.

I lived a long time before I figured this out. It is important
The inflation adjustment was made for Britain as a whole.

You might want to do a cost-of-living-in-London adjustment?
Interesting that there is no mention that he has been charged of being involved in a Ponzi scheme in the headline - just "Cryptocurrency Scheme".
The biggest part is for onboarding. The second biggest is for lower fees. The third biggest is because it's easier.
The same way the Soviet Union paid for Western goods. Shipments of gold, or exchange of goods of equivalent value.
You did not read the letter or look at the financials.

Apple makes up about half of the equity portfolio, but there are also massive private ownership stakes (bhe, BNSF, insurance and many more) and ~$144bn in cash
Yes I think that's the idea and the reason why it's taking a while to set up. Maybe they'll take bitcoin? It will be a test of whether this can really be a backup form of payment against the will of states.
It's really interesting to me how so many people, including in these comments, instantly decided that the vaccine was untrustworthy based on politics, and just... left it at that. Even though their own lives were on the line in many cases.

Why would you let blind trust or distrust in some political talking heads determine whether you, yourself, live or die? ... Why not check out the evidence for yourself, or talk to your doctor?

Even after watching people die terrible deaths regretting their choice not to get the vaccine, they're still rationalizing this choice based on politics.

I guess if the Red Tribe says something is bad, one must believe it as a matter of identity in the Red Tribe? Even at the cost of one's own life? Maybe the trust in the tribe's information sources is so absolute that it would never occur to a member to seek out potentially contrary sources?

This is definitely not just a Red Tribe problem, but it's one of the most tragic and pathetic manifestations I've ever seen.

For more information on this phenomenon, I highly recommend this introduction to "coalitional instincts" https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27168
> And russias economy is really dependent on their natural recourcess export

Russia has been described as “a gas station run by a mafia masquerading as a country that happens to have nuclear weapons”, which isn’t far from the truth.
Angola was a colonial possession back when Portugal was a dictatorship. Obviously, the people that were in power back then were not very nice. Once the old regime was overthrown, one of the first things that was done was ending the colonial wars. Still, I'm not sure how this is relevant right now?

The point here is that the Portuguese government (the current one, not the one in power during the dictatorship which ended over 40 years ago, and which you seem to be confused about) has done a good thing, and for that they deserve praise.
> That means 27%+ of people are making minimum wage. It's not abnormal.

Though, of course, that doesn't say anything either way about whether minimum wages should be higher or lower, or whether they are a good idea in the first place. (And neither does the somewhat incoherent comment you replied to.)
Funny how both "Cryptocurrency Derangement Syndrome" and "Trump Derangement Syndrome" are both un-ironically used to describe critical people who are strongly against both of those scams, when they much more accurately describe gullible people who are deeply fooled by both of those scams.
The blockchain will still need to be audited.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I'm building https://regattapages.com right now with a similar philosophy to what you described. The majority of my users are highly educated, technical, and over the age of 50 on average. They're not afraid of some monospaced text and a console-like input, when it makes sense.

The majority of my layouts are plain text, HTML tables and forms, and some SVG charts spruced up with a little bit of JS if it's enabled (everything should still work without it).

Performance is fast and it looks modern enough so long as I use modern CSS and some reactive design, but makes people feel at home because it doesn't FEEL like big tech.
Yes and no. County politics and politicians can be a little unintuitive. Because there’s almost no reporting of things that get done by county government - and there’s so little accountability, compared to city state and fed, an unbelievable amount of corruption and patronage occurs. Therefore personal connections are more important and ego plays a disproportionate role (where the baseline is already overinflated egos).
The only mechanism we would have for significantly increasing the cooling of the Earth's core would involve heading the atmosphere well past the habitable band.

Ultimately if heat isn't radiating from the atmosphere, it isn't leaving the planet.
When I first started to look into this Berkshire Hathaway company and this Warren Buffett person, of course the first thing I checked out was the website. I was immediately sold. Damn, the world would be a much much better place if all websites are built like this. (And text.npr.org)
Yes, with trustless IoT oracles validating the accounts, brilliant!
seems to work fine without as well, could it be related to the platform "medium"?
I don't think it's a trust issue. They stayed neutral for a while and were criticized for not doing enough by mainstream media, the logical outcome is that they remove and ban more content.
No, twitter is working fine right now
epic remix:
https://youtu.be/e5nyQmaq4k4
Russia supposedly stopped the offensive yesterday for negotiations and it's now back on. Makes sense considering how calm the front was yesterday and how we are seeing tons of movement today. But of course that could be pure BS, it's hard to even get verification that things were actually calm yesterday since both sides have a pretty solid opsec... at least compared to what I got used to with the syrian civil war!
I do wonder just how much German sentiment has shifted.

From the leaked clips of a high ranking German officer saying "Putin just wants respect" before the war. Now seeing a large shift amongst those I follow on twitter in German who were previous anti-action.

Assuming SWIFT access is cut, and then the Natural Gas supplies are turned off is there another escalation back? Assuming the US/EU can rally their resources how do they mount a quick recovery from the loss of natural gas which will certainly be devastating. Even if the Nuclear plants in process of decommissioning are reversed(if possible) I'm not sure how the EU gets through the next six months without a ton of pain.
Yes, Thank you.
Cryptocurrency is the solution for a very valuable problem. How do you commit financial crimes and frauds in a way just new enough to confuse people that what you're doing may be valuable?
No, I think they'll have to go a bit more back to the past, and carry gold in chests using coach and fours.
Bach is a good example of music that's both simple and complex. He'll take a few (often just one) fairly simple theme, and weave variations of it into a lush fabric that's coherent and natural (yet always surprising) -- the nearest thing to justice one finds in music.
If I had to choose a favorite among the 20 or so contenders, for me nothing matches the original X-Com: UFO Defense. The graphics and UI were utter trash even for the time, but the tension created by that game was unreal.
Ask HN: Tips for Dealing with Corporate Processes?
My company has grown a lot in the last few years and the IT org has added a lot of processes and procedures. Some kind of make sense to me, others don't. My manager is new to the company and is one of the people pushing for all the new processes. I've advocated against a few policies with some success, but I feel like I'm just delaying them by six months. Does anyone have any stories, tips, books, or advice on how to handle situations like this? I can't decide if I should be even louder advocating against all the changes or just go around the policies and do whatever I think is best or just give up and go along with it.
If anyone is interested to read more on this, read the enforcement action reports from the relevant national regulators: Canadian Public Accountability Board [0] and the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) [1]

These were internal training that could be used to satisfy professional accounting designation's annual Continuing Professional Education (CPE) requirements to renew your profesional membership (so you could continue using your chartered accountancy / CPA letters after your name).

"The Firm has designed its training program to serve multiple purposes, including to provide Firm personnel with technical instruction, to further their professional development, and to satisfy some of the continuing professional education requirements imposed by the accountancy boards that grant CPA certifications to the Firm’s auditors."

It was not just the juniors. Even partners are involved:

"Improper sharing of training test answers occurred among junior staff, managers, directors, and partners at the Firm."

I am surprised that this was self-reported, and I applaud them for that.

[0]: https://cpab-ccrc.ca/docs/default-source/enforcement/2022-en...

[1]: https://pcaob-assets.azureedge.net/pcaob-dev/docs/default-so...
I’m sure there are other channels but I’m pretty sure cryptocurrency markets have enough liquidity to prop up gas payments.

If this goes through and BTC price starts spiking, I’d interpret that as a signal that it is happening, which would be a validation for Bitcoin playing a significant role in avoiding banking restrictions.
Once it had demonstrated enough success to instill fear in the hearts of wall street bankers, I think it could start turning a profit. It would announce targets ahead of time, tanking the stock. On the way down, the companies would reinvest the money they make selling themselves for parts back into the fund.
In a mobile network, there are a lot of parts. This is a "core" implementation handles the "control plane" - authentication of client devices, user accounting, etc.

There's also a "RAN" which manages the radio portions, and a "user plane" that manages the data flows and protocol conversion between devices and other upstream networks.

These all talk to each other and work together to make a 3GPP wireless network.
good.
Then shut down the airspace for all Russian planes in EU, close ship waters and seize money of all Putin's friends.
What will EU get for this?