skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that Ukrainians know, that they will not have independence as a country, if they lose this. They don't want to be governed from Moscow by the Kremlin. It is not over until it is over. As long as they resist, they inflict a cost on Putin and they know that. They might suffer lots of losses, but they are aware of that and still fighting. Every Russian tank, helicopter, other vehicle they destroy costs a lot of money to replace. For Ukrainians it is a cost of lives, for Russia it is a severe financial loss. If they manage to make it a disaster for Putin, then we might see Putin being replaced and this whole offensive collapse.
two of the most astonishing things I learned about humanity from a very early age:

different people have different capabilities, thus many people are not able to read or write at my level or to handle higher level of abstractions, but that doesn't make me any better than them because I am not able to deal with visual information as completely as they are (which may be related to some disability)

when you announce that you are not very capable in something there's always somebody who has to talk shit about it.

on edit: fixed grammatical error entered while writing and dealing with hyperactive 4 year old.
I think he got offended because he understood "plant-like" in a functional sense (e.g. that it uses photosynthesis), maybe "plant-shaped" would be more accurate.
You don't need to "walk the IKEA maze" if you know your local store. I used to live near the one in south London, and knew all the shortcuts - the first was to walk through a passage by the cafe, then through a set of doors directly opposite, and so on. They're not forbidden to customers, just not obvious because they want you to walk the whole way around. There's definitely something that happens to most people when they walk into an IKEA, as if their conscious mind disconnects and they just blandly obey the behavioural hints in store, like arrows on the floor. It reminds me a bit of slaughterhouses, where the object is to keep the animals as calm as possible right up until the moment that they're killed.
I use http://homebank.free.fr/ but I also don't need too many features.
I think part of that was that the graphics layer on the iPhone was GPU accelerated from the start, and the first few versions of OSX were not.

One of the things that Microsoft got right and Google got wrong was that Microsoft copied the concept of using GPU accelerated graphics with Windows Phone and it took Google quite some time to catch up.
Not really.

While the threat of violence always underlies the balance of power, countries have to form some basis of civil agreement in order for things to work.

In your example, imagine if you had to personal carry a gun to ensure your own safety and the fulfilment of contracts. That's not going to work.

Russia has every right to lament treatment of Russian minority, at the same time, it was created by them.

Russia has been very, very directly interfering in Ukranian politics and trying to turn it into a vassal state for the last 30 years.

The Russian occupation in 2014 definitely created the 'permanent line of violence' in Donbas, which they are now using as a pretext for invasion.

As the commenter noted: Russia can fuck themselves. In a world where nobody is perfect, they are 'bad actors' and particularly they have a lot of weapons which they throw around in that context. Screw them.

US/EU options are limited because of NATO, WW3 outcomes, but we should take every other opportunity to help Ukraine.

What the Ukranians have been doing in the last few days is nothing short of heroic.
Still think it silly to think that will make any difference - if I heat my house now with natural gas or oil, am I really doing the environment any favors by switching to electric where in some regions a very high percentage comes from coal (and natural gas and oil)? and the more people that switch to electric, and the faster they switch it will increase even more the amount of coal being burned - it just gets burned in someone else's neighborhood instead of my own.

IMO, money and effort would be much better spent modernizing and insulating homes and replacing really old appliances (including furnaces and boilers) and thus reducing the overall demand for energy - regardless of the source of the fuel. Reducing the need is hard to argue with - changing where it comes from - when very little comes from renewables doesn't even move the needle.
Because it's been a long standing tactic of fossil fuel booster to make a big deal about how we need to give up stuff in order to fight climate change?

Because they know people won't like that message. Whereas, buy an EV or an induction hub, or underfloor heating with a heat pump, insulate your home and your life will get better at the same time as fighting climate change and fossil-fueled dictactorships?
I created a language without lots of trouble. The trick was low expectations. I named it “lila” (limited language), so they were right there in the name. It did very little, it had no compilation phase, but served its didactic purpose. It showed how to build a language using ANTLR.
Showing me more items I want at a price I think is acceptable is not the same as tricking me.
Yeah the current government seems quite popular "Zelensky won the second round with 73.22% of the votes"

I imagine that's one of the things Putin is worried about.
FYI, this is configurable via System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Keyboard → Move focus to active or next window.
Depends on IKEA/country I suppose?

I recently tried to order a chair (it was in stock when I ordered).

On the delivery day I got delivered two other items in the same order and later I got a call about how they couldn't deliver the chair because it out of stock.

Got a full refund for the chair price (without any action on my part), a coupon for smaaaal amount and a 1/3rd part of the delivery fare as a 'compensation'.
Yeah that was the case back than too.

This is the reason why we should always reduce the fuckup tools in peace times and that goes not only for nuclear weapons. Things like huge data sets could end up being your next Holocaust for example.
We really only go when we need something that Ikea specifically has a good product and price for. En route through the store we pick up any of the other basic or clever stuff that we need (I like their crockery and various kitchen utils), and end near the cash registers in the second-hand section to fill a bag with a selection of special screws, bolts, and those clever nuts they have for €2. For someone into woodworking those bins are a treasure chest.

And of course pick up some Swedish food in the little Ikea supermarket beyond the cash registers.

I've never understood how people get stuck following the designated route. Much faster to just take the shortcuts and stay of the (crowded) main path.
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Absolutely, many examples of that historically. Revolutions, mass strikes, protests and elections are all ways in which public opinion has had influence on high level politics.

> In my corner of the US (more Republican than one might think) majority opinion is that the Ukraine is an intra-European matter that US/NATO would be well advised to stay out of.

That's for Putin to decide, like it or not. Just like Hirohito decided to bring the United States into WWII.
Low Light Image Enhancement AI
+1 to Theory of Computation. It was the book that got me excited about computer science as being a field bigger than just “how to write programs”.
Is he mentally stable? I hope he isn't and people around him have the guts to execute a coup..
I think the report is explicitly assessing France’s readiness for a large conventional war in eastern europe.
I do not understand. What does this add, that my desktop environment does not already provide? Why should I download and use this instead? Most desktop environments I know already allow me to set a key binding for this task.
Twitch and OnlyFans block all users from Russia due to sanctions
In articles downloaded per 1000 citizen (roughly):

China: 17
USA: 27
France: 84
Brazil: 13
India: 1.5
Indonesia: 5
Germany: 17
Singapore: 170
Mexico: 8
Iran: 12

That paints a very different picture from the absolute numbers.
I’ve been using a third party piece of software called witch from many tricks to do window switching!

Wasn’t aware this is natively supported in OSX, and doesn’t seem to be working.
Have to link the relevant Simpsons clip: https://youtu.be/FRK8uPlXOYo
We are made of a bunch of atoms and a bit of solar energy.

If you take volcanic rock like basalt or granite + water there is every atoms you need to make a human. The rest is a bit of energy.
I wouldn’t throw one profession under the bus, probably a team effort, designers are rarely in charge
Then why aren't children affected, each generation becoming more damaged than the last? Are reproductive cells special in some regard? If so, can we make normal cells more like that? (I know about older parents having a higher risk of giving their kid Down's and autism but that only happens for a small percentage and the rest of the kids are fine.)
Hello, maybe a stupid question but why complicate your setup with Infuse? I've only tried to use jellyfin once, but it seemed like a complete media center that takes care of transcoding. What am i missing?
You are referring to the 1970 MIT LtG model which was updated in 2019 and still predicts a global collapse?
https://medium.com/predict/2040-the-world-will-collapse-this...

Or the depleted global fish stocks?
https://www.fao.org/NEWSROOM/common/ecg/1000505/en/stocks.pd...

Or the fact that if everyone went vegetarian we could free up 80% of the farmland in the world?

Whilst resource are not fixed, like lab grown meats, supplements which can alter people's diets like histidine will reduce red meat consumption, I am aware some businesses have also kept some resources under wraps from the public so I agree they are not a fixed notion, but in ten years the US lifestyle has increased its use of resource from 4 planet earths to just over 5 planet earths.

Sure anything can be a resource, we might even be able to use plate tectonics as landfill waste disposal because everything came from this planet so is technically from the Earth, and who knows what resources could be mined from the planets core, or do we get into mining Helium13 from the moon?

there is a still a problem and that is quality of life, being kept in smaller more expensive livestock pens called homes.

What price do you put on having rolling pastures all around your home and no manmade noise around you?

With a global population set to peak in 2100, we still have 80's years of declining quality of life to put up with.
Metro Simulator Beta 3.17.1
The lambda the ultimate link doesn't work anymore; is that site still alive??
> You are writing as if Putin is a rational actor.

If he is rational or not I do not know but there can be a great deal of difference between what he wants to do and what he can do because of resources and capability.

The nuclear threat only takes you so far since it’s understood as a last resort response. Even an irrational actor realizes the minute he unleashes nukes he…and everyone else loses.
> different people have different capabilities

Yes, that's why shipping an unassembled furniture works for the most of the folks just fine.

BTW, shipping more units per truck is all green, eco and saves the world.
One of today’s words appeared recently. I don’t know how many 5-letter words there are, but I feel like the optimal time between appearances should be a bit longer. (Not to mention this word is an alternative spelling, which may be frustrating to some.)
Yes, I wrote about that:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide/

Too many madmen with power on this planet.
Using Zig as cross-platform C toolchain
I love the "adult disney world" analogy. IKEA gets a lot of (well deserved, I guess) hate in my circles, but I love it. It reminds me of my childhood, going there with my mom, eating meatballs and assembling the furniture in the afternoon. Plus you can walk through the showroom and imagine all the different kind of paths your life might play out.
Evolution looks neat but for me a huge problem is the lack of crossplatform-ness. I use windows as my main desktop OS simply because I like to play a lot of games in my free time, but at the same time I use Linux for development (at work and at home), thus it's quite important that I can use certain programms on both machines.

Thunderbird seems like the only cross-platform open-source mailcient that that is at least somewhat alive.
Appeasement prolongs suffering and death.

Violence is the last resort for peaceful nations to stop further, more brutal violence of others.

Russia is making it harder and harder, reducing available options to resolve that war.
https://mobile.twitter.com/marcbennetts1/status/149792334576...

“Huge motorcade just left the Kremlin at speed”
i saw this plane flying over my home

never going to forget how big it looks in the sky
Precisely, World War II urban warfare is over romanticized in retrospect. It was apparently gruesome. High attrition, inhuman conditions, really nothing for the people on the ground fighting or defending or just living neutrally.

Any "gains" fall to the brass, the people who would likely never see real fighting, but readily order battalions of men to "take" a town or city to play the probabilities game of death with the objective of "winning" the objective.
https://readup.com

It helps to read the articles/blogs clutter-free. Tracks the % of reading, you can share your thoughts only after finishing reading at 90%.
I believe it first happened after cleaning the demo to start from zero. But the apps is quite buggy in other ways. For instance, trying to add the GBP currency fails silently, but it's apparently due to using a free API?

> "The *demo* API key is for demo purposes only. Please claim your free API key at (https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key) to explore our full API offerings. It takes fewer than 20 seconds."
Some languages consider (or used to consider) "ch" as a single "letter".
The clearest indicator is that Russia suffered major losses in the first Chechen war when they opted for a short siege of Grozny. The second Chechen war under Putin saw a longer siege with more shelling, more civilian deaths and minimal losses for the Russians. It’s unlikely they’ve forgotten the lesson.

To prevent their atrocities from being broadcast they’ll probably prioritise cutting the internet.
(2018) - the issue has since been closed, the links to the modifications are now dead.
Yes, it’s very easy to spend cryptocurrency.
Very irresponsible headline. It is a drone manufactured by Turkey and operated by the Ukrainian army.

If it were really a Turkish drone attacking Russia, that triggers a NATO vs Russia war.
Why normalize by population and not scholarly output? I suggest number of published academic articles, and even that isn't a proper metric, but it does paint a very different picture than yours.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/20-countries-publishing-...
Millions in Bitcoin pouring into Ukraine from donors
Another Time magazine “Person of the Year” at the very least.
I think it’s 2011 when NATO flipped on Libya. That’s the exact moment Putin stopped being friendly to the West.
Impressive work. Seems very thorough.
Before war started I was absolutely sure Putin is bluffing. But after listening to his TV speech, the realisation that he's delusional had creeped in, which was further strengthened when he did launch an attack.

Now, with this war going badly for Putin, with his soldiers not really willing to fight and Ukrainians resolved resistance, I am really worried he might order a launch. If someone would want the world buried with him in his tomb, it's him.
Show HN: Messages for Macintosh – a classic Mac iMessage client
It would be nice if Nature noted that there should not even be need for Sci-Hub as scientific literature should be open for everyone.
In the short term the two are interchangeable, we cannot build enough solar panels and batteries to help the people being killed in Ukraine today.
I don't think per capita is a good metric either. A better ratio would divide by number of researchers, college students, number of published papers, etc
The author mentions that writing a programming language entails writing your own GUI (which language doesn't need an IDE). Surely writing a plugin to an existing IDE is what most people would do in that situation, and I can't see many arguments to the contrary. This alone made me question the author's advice somewhat. If they are such a perfectionist as to care to have a custom IDE for their language perhaps a more reasonable person wouldn't get so deep down the rabbit hole
Remzi was my favorite teacher by far. His OS class took me from being somewhat interested in computers and CS because I knew there were good jobs on the other side, to being fully interested in computer science and learning everything I could. Truly a wonderful teacher.
I built an application for interacting with Apple iMessages on classic Macintosh systems via a modern Mac. I've tested the software on System 2.0 through System 6.0.8, but it should work on Macintoshes running up to MacOS 9.2.2.

In addition to the github repository, I wrote an introduction blog post about it here: https://henlin.net/2022/02/26/Introducing-Messages-for-Macin.... I've also outlined the development workflow on to other posts at https://henlin.net/2021/12/03/a-simplified-guide-to-developm... and https://henlin.net/2022/02/26/Messages-for-Macintosh-Develop....

Let me know if you have any questions or decide to try it out on your Macintosh, I'd love to hear about it.
Ukrainian border guards may have survived reported last stand on Snake Island
I actually did for little while as a five year old because it was fun watching trash get squished... The dream didn't last long though
Ukraine is not a dictatorship, their most recent election was widely recognized as fair by international observers.
But still pretty much one-man work.

I admit, it’s a true work of love.

However, its bus factor is 1. I would love to see some effort to make sure it has a future beyond that.

Humans are volatile.

(What’s up with projects maintained by the late Jörg Schilling?)
You might want to print it out instead.
The Common Lie Writers Tell You
Of course they are. It's so far beyond our current understanding of aging that there is no way that you are going to turn this into applied science today. These are at best open research problems and they will likely be so for many years to come. Assuming we don't collectively kill ourselves first.
You’re so scarred by iTunes you didn’t even realize they got rid of it years ago.
Colorado to become first state to accept cryptocurrency for tax payments
>aka Jeff Bozos

I don't know if that was typo or deliberate. It's the first I've seen it, but I love it to the point I will forever spell it this way.
A professor who beat roulette
> if I heat my house now with natural gas or oil, am I really doing the environment any favors by switching to electric where in some regions a very high percentage comes from coal (and natural gas and oil)?

Yes.

The precise details will vary by location, but for example this was a very common argument used against EVs, they're just coal powered cars! So the Union of Concerned Scientists did reports on exactly how bad an EV in specific locations would be, and even in highly coal dependant areas, it was still better, today, and would only get better as the grid gets greener.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmuth/are-electric-vehicles...

Lots of people seem unaware that heat pumps are about 4x the efficiency of even modern gas heaters, so just burning the gas in electricity generators would be enough for us to cut out all Russian imports and more.

You are right that insulation, and efficiency are important (e.g. it makes sense to insulate your house properly when planning a heat pump install, and the oldest and least efficient boilers should be targetted first for upgrade) that was part of my point, see the link to the Energy Saving Trust who have in depth details on exactly which things help the most and cost the least, and look up your local equivalent.
>"Outside of British jurisdiction"

Are you saying that Brits can kill anyone outside of their country and not be prosecuted in Britain if found? That would make one nice supplier of murderers for hire to other countries. Come for a day, kill someone, get back and get paid.
Things like "When you catch a glimpse of yourself in an Ikea room, you’re primed to believe you belong in it" and "Familiarity encourages purchasing" are surely among the long list of psychological effects that won't replicate.
How could someone tell who is operating the drone?
Thread on Twitter discussing the same thing. IMHO not an issue yet.
That's why I always reinstall VPS from the official ISO using disk encryption to prevent hoster tools interacting with VM in any automated way.
I apologize if I'm misinterpreting you, but do you honestly believe that China is a more attractive location to a young ambitious scientist than the US? Or is this some sort of a joke that I'm not getting?
Same. Use the time guide provided under the video, makes it easy to skip ads or sections you are not interested in.
No, you understand perfectly well!

This is the same conversation I had with the new hire I mentioned. And as the other comment here mentioned, it's JavaScript. You simply overwrite the object method with the mock at runtime of the test, then restore it after the test finishes running.

Most JS testing frameworks do this under the hood I believe, without any change in how you write your code. It's a fundamental difference in how JavaScript handles things versus something stricter like C#.

It's a dangerous footgun if you use it carelessly, of course. But a useful language feature when applied carefully.
The great fear is that Russia will simply use artillery to flatten the city bit by bit.

That said - Ukranians have not (yet) lost all the ground. Russian forces in a large country are quite vulnerable to attack from all sides if it can be sustained and coordinated.

The Eastern 1/2 of Ukraine is largely still open even as the W. is partly contended - this gives a lot of space for Ukraine to manoeuvre and regroup - and most notably - to be reinforced from Poland.

Currently, the Russians are paying a heavy, daily price that is completely unsustainable to them.

The question becomes - can they get into a 'grinding' position in which they are wearing down the Ukranians, while at the same time minimising their costs and loses? It's hard to say.

West is also taking note and the frankly heroic and effective acts of Ukranians is encouraging giving them more gear. The Javelins etc. are being used very effectively, I mean, the US can do serious damage to the Russians just by handing off Javelins and not even putting their own soldiers at risk? That's the 'deal of the century'.

As the war prolongs, then more complicated equipment that requires even a bit of training can be deployed to similar effect.

Specifically, artillery is vulnerable to radar and rapid counter attack, so long as the equipment is there. If the Ukranians have access to this kind of tech (there is some talk of it), they can use it to disable or at least degrade any kind of 'siege artillery'. Russians have a limited supply of rockets, and they can't use their close air support (Stingers), and even fast air is a bit risky.

Ukraine is also a big country. Chechnya is 1.5M people and that was a painful mess. Ukraine is 45M people with support from the West, that's a different range of calculation.
Plus china probably has chinese mirrors behind its firewall that are not being counted. From what I understand many people in china work as translators their main job is to translate scientific papers to chinese.