skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 98 didn't allow gradients on 256 color (8-bit) modes. You had to use at least high color (16-bit). (Win 95 didn't have gradients.)
> They have a price of "How much can you afford?"

That's actually a "normal" question when thinking of it in terms of one saas company to another, but I actually think that question is almost nonsensical when thinking of it as a company selling to a major government. "Err, what is this 'afford' word you use? I do not think it means what you think it does."
"Give us Poland, or we'll nuke you."

"Now Czechia, or we'll nuke you."

There comes a point where that bluff has to be called, and we're approaching it.
For how to attack a city, see "Urban Operations", the U.S. Army/USMC doctrinal publication.[1]

The two documents view different kinds of war. The USMA pub describes historic WWII city defenses where the defenders held out against armor for long periods, at the cost of high casualties and destroying the city. That is, Stalingrad. The US doctrinal pub describes US-style modern wars of taking over a city without too much collateral damage, followed by "stability operations". That is, Baghdad.

[1] https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN6452...
> Lower your temperature by 1 degree right now

Not wishing to open a(nother) can of HN-worms, but what happens if you share your home with members of the opposite sex?

My wife and my daughter are the two members of the household who complain about feeling cold. In the winter they each want a hot water bottle to take to bed.

My sons and I just don't seem to mind .. and all the bedrooms are at the same temperature!
Great! My body doesn't adjust to that. It's only a minor hindrance in the grand scheme of things, but it sometimes does annoy me (and others whose comfort zone starts at a slightly higher temperature than the majority) when people think the problem is purely one of lack of acclimatization or grit.

I can adjust to higher temperatures just fine, but not sitting still (even with regular active breaks) at anything below 21°C. Our company used to rent office space when we were a startup in a place that didn't turn on the heating until temperatures outside dropped below a certain threshold. Sometimes this meant 19°C or 20°C for weeks: I don't get used to it; it just stops me being productive (and nice).
Belarus could join NATO, but it would really require a successful revolution.
Reverse transcription of Pfizer's mRNA vaccine is happening in human cells
I was surprised by the assumption of ANSI and no mention of $TERM.
> The most relevant question is: how defensible is potential NATO entrant X?

That's... not the point at all. NATO isn't an attempt to maximize the utility of a "fortress" in western Europe, it's an attempt to deter aggression by expressly recognizing an attack on one member as an attack on all.

If war is inevitable then we'll all be fighting on Finland's side anyway and NATO membership doesn't matter. The reason to join is to make it as clear as possible that attacking Finland is off limits, and thus prevent the war.
>They literally are calling Ukrainians Nazis

This is propaganda BS. The Russian government tries to paint itself a protector of Ukrainian people oppressed by a small number of neo-Nazi and the puppet US-controlled government. Luckily, it's not only words. Not only they a really careful to minimize civilian collateral damage, they haven't even bombed living quarters of the Ukrainian army on the first day of the invasion in the hope of increasing rate of defections.
It is, because Ukraine, while not a state party to the Rome Statute, has acceded voluntarily to ICC jurisdiction for war crimes on its territory.

OTOH, ICC has no practical power to bring Russian personnel (other than those captured in combat by Ukraine) before it for trial, and the US “invade the Hague” law on the ICC might prove a model for Russia should the ICC gain custody of Russian personnel somehow.
This seems like an incredibly bold assumption to roll the dice on, you know, given you’re talking about almost all life on Earth.

I’ve also never heard of a defence system that can pluck that many missiles out of the air. The closest I’ve heard of is the Iron Dome - which would not be able to stop what you’re talking about at all. I would think the nation that has that capability would make it known for geopolitical reasons.
Much of the core kernel elements definitely follow Linux kernel conventions as well. For example the `eventfd` api was copied from Linux and is quite handy. The POSIX compatibility layer constants match those in Linux, etc. The style guide is also borrowed from Linux.
What is your experience when it comes to drawing?
It also does a great job of making it easy for people who chair urban warfare studies at West Point to provide advice to a global audience.
People don't read the article, especially when it's a PDF.
As I said in my other comment, of course Russian media and gov is untrustworthy, but so is Ukrainian government and media. Both have incentive to push specific narrative: Russians wants to be seen as chivalrous liberators, which requires them to blame civilian casualties on Ukraine as much as possible, while Ukraine wants to be seen as putting up strong resistance in order to keep morale high, and point to civilian deaths as proofs of their invaders savage barbarism.

This means you cannot take any sides claims at face value. At the same time, you shouldn’t just ignore them and close your eyes to propaganda, as you’ll miss important nuggets of truth that are sprinkled throughout the narrative. The more information you get, from all sides, the more likely you will be to be able to piece together what actually is going on.

Hence why the comment above said “Russian media reports”, without five paragraphs of disclaimers that this is not gospel truth, as it assumed that people are able to think for themselves, and take Russian media reports for what they are, which is, while obviously an aggressor’s propaganda, not necessarily a falsehood.
One dictatorship invaded a democratic country to reinstall a puppet dictator that the people kicked out.

I'm sorry, but what the actual fuck man?
But in that specific example (Wolfram on both podcasts), Carrol asked questions that clearly demonstrated a deep understanding of not only the subject matter (he is a theoretical physicist comfortable with advanced mathematics after all), but he also probed Wolfram on areas where his theory might be challenged. Lex did more of an 'everyman's' take on that conversation, which is fine, but certainly not at Carrol's level.

I did enjoy both, but mostly because Wolfram did most of the talking. Even with Lex's less-targeted/knowledgeable questions, Wolfram knew how to steer the answer to what he thought the actual question should have been.
Roman Abramovich cedes control of Chelsea FC to charitable foundation
I can only speak for myself and extrapolate to others, but I think people really hate the conspiracy crap that emerges. There are enough conspiracy people that it falls into the "this is why we can't have nice things" camp. As someone who rejoices in truth, I can relate to this a lot.

However I really hope people move toward skepticism (even of the official narratives) because I fear the effects of censorship more than I do the disinformation. Conspiracy crap has been around a long time and most of those people were considered crackpots, but since the major ramp up in effort that started about 6 years ago, the conspiracy stuff has exploded and is absolutely everywhere now. I think it's because the censorship (in some cases for clearly political reasons) actually makes the conspiracy theories seem more credible, because if they were wrong why would anybody waste effort trying to fight it? (I'm not arguing that's solid reasoning, only that it seems a reasonable argument to most people). Once you can't trust that most people operate in good faith, you have to question everybody's motives with extreme skepticism. Combine that with human nature to look for patterns/explanations in everything and you get a mess.
Citation needed...

As far as I know, no country today has a viable anti-ballistic missile defense system that works well enough to stop even a small percentage of the number of nukes that would be triggered by a MAD style endgame. What technology are you talking about?
Do you have a reference for the Patriot missiles? I guess Russia could see that as another major escalation. Or do you mean Stinger?
>You can only do this as long as you are able to convert fiat to crypto and back.

>You can also only do this as long as crypto is so small that its not getting banned.

Killing cryptocurrency is impossible if people value it and can exchange it for fiat in-person.

>And for everyone who doesn't has this issue, crypto is actually bad: the overall benefit of anonymous money transfer benefits who want to do illegal things which are illegal for purposes.

Governments can make anything illegal for any reason they want. I've lost a ton of trust in the Canadian government after they deemed it illegal to donate to a cause they disagree with.

>Would you like to know that others are doing tax fraud and you are the fair citizen? Knowing that they do not contribute to schools and infrastructure while using your schools and infrastructure?

>We do not benefit from tax fraud. The mafia does.

The mafia has far better ways of committing tax fraud than using cryptocurrency.

Only the rich will benefit from banning cryptocurrency.
PhD is a degree, professor is a title, two different things.
No; we've tested this numerous times. Turkey shot down a Russian aircraft in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shoo...) without a world war; there've been US on Russian engagements in Syria as well.
I STOPPED USING JETBRAINS. All fake profile responses can try some other sites.
Pretty sure intelligence comes from the quality of your compiler optimizations. If you compile better subroutines that wastes less effort then you get vastly better results. A normal person might run on python while a genius runs on C, it is the same hardware but one is 100 times faster than the other in many cases.

Also explains why the concept of being smart is so elusive, as these optimizations are hard to reproduce and don't generalize to everything we think about. For example, a genius isn't better than an average person at filling out forms, there you are forced to think using unoptimized paths, you can't run those paths 100 times faster.
Regardless of who is actually responsible, we can all agree without Russian aggression, we wouldn't be here.
Off the top of my head?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting
Yes, and no. Yes you are doing exactly that, but also no, because remoting into a physical machine and controlling the desktop remotely is not the same as using some vpn like nordvpn for instance to do your 'thing' on the internet, whatever it may be. This is akin to calling something like Magnet files and Torrent files the same thing. Yes they both use the same underlying programming for the most part. The same protocols, etc. But they both serve separate purposes while doing the same overall task in a different way.

Again, both remote desktop and the usual vpn's that most people use, use a virtual private network to do their job; but VPN's as sold on the internet are not an exact 1:1 of what I am referring to. Remote Desktop is just one of the many functionalities of computers that uses a virtual private network to do its job.

And as for that 200 code; that's cool. I guess I missed that particular comment when I was writing mine? Doesn't matter though, since ultimately my suggestion would have gotten them the exact same results ... or better... (Having physical hardware inside borderlines would be really nice to have, right? Imagine the possibilities if you can get a few trustable agents using it physically now and then too?)
Who are they going to nuke? Finland and Sweden in exchange for Moscow and St Petersburg? Doesn't seem like a win.
>They wouldn't be blacklists. You only learn after the fact so its more about the analytics.

I mean, that goes back to my original question, why would they do this? Does bestbuy run analytics on the cash they receive to see how much % of their cash purchases were "fraudulent"?

>Well that's nice but if you get paid with stolen money, you don't just get to keep the money and tell them to fuck off. Steam would be liable to return the funds.

IANAL, but I thought this only applied to stolen goods, not cash? I heard of authorities seizing cash when they raid a drug house, but not randomly seizing people's cash because they happened to carry a bill that was involved in a bank robbery.
PM from GitHub here. I’ve been wanting to do this since I joined three years ago! Happy to answer any questions about where we’re going with open source security.
Your change from Russia to Putin is key here...
I wish I could get windows 10/11 to look like that. Seems like the last version of windows that would let you use that style of window decorations was Windows Server 2008.
There is no indication that that’s what happened in this case. This stuff is just non-trivial to cryptanalyze , and there’s not that many people who can do it.
I was under the impression that PREEMPT_RT in being merged into mainline piece by piece already. If you look at the patches, 4.4-rt patch is 987864 bytes in size while 5.15-rt patch is only 369182 bytes. So, crudely estimating 2/3rds of -rt has already been merged to mainline between 4.4 and 5.15.

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/rtl/blog
> Of course trust is a pre-requisite to a healthy team
it is hard to rust someone on the team with technical tasks when that person is not technically capable for a developer.
Ukrainian “Snake Island” Troops Reportedly Alive
Ukrainian troops that were considered dead at the hands of a Russian Warship have reportedly surrendered according to the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service.
It arrivinh spring soon, so it's a problem until next Sept-October 2022
Thermal mass and thermal conductivity also play a role in this example. Two more reasons a wooden ladder is better in this scenario. For ladders at the same temperature, the aluminum one would conduct more thermal energy, quicker, into a user's hand then a Wooden one. Making a wooden one more usable for longer in this scenario even though the aluminum one would technically last longer.

This is why wooden sauna seats work well, aluminum seats in the sauna would not go over so well.

Lots to consider when solving thermal problems, it's not just about turning up the dial to be able to withstand more heat. Sometimes it's about the nuance of moving the heat efficiently and putting it where it's wanted, and not where it isnt.
That's a shocking development. I wonder what he knows in order to preemptively cede control, he must be expecting worse than that.
I see, that's a pretty unique case, good to know. Yeah the water situation is unfortunate, so best of luck for you!
Interesting read. I guess it's self-evident, but not having thought about the topic, the utility of rubble and repurposing semi-destroyed structures, as well as how important snipers are, were new to me. Maybe the importance of snipers makes civilians being handed out guns in Kyiv now seem less futile.

Would be interested to read a basic explainer along these lines on "How to Rebuild a City" -- I guess one divergence from urban planning/development literature would be on how to reuse rubble? Given the many destroyed cities through history including this century which have been at least partially reubilt (perhaps Grozny was first of this century?) I guess there must be plenty written on this topic.
Ah yes, the “NATO will deploy nukes in direct vicinity of Moscow”, completely demolished by the fact that Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are already NATO members on border with Russia and just as close to Moscow.

Now the only question remains: are you spreading this propaganda intentionally?

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"Very impressive performance. Now we can initiate the interview procedure."
If you are very familiar with his podcasts you know it's the former. Naive genius is kind of his niche
Are you complaining here that experts on particular subjects are talking about their areas of expertise publicly?
So a transaction using cryptocurrency has third parties, who do just the same thing and require trust, but which you don't want to call "defacto" because...?
He mentioned in the past several times he had the connections with Putin entourage. In current situation I imagine It will be really hard to pull off but who knows.
Can anyone comment on how well he is perceived in Ukraine, and how the people felt about him say 6 months ago? He seems like a solid leader here, I'm curious what the history is.

At the same time, I can't imagine my country's "leader" giving such a brave sounding speech. There must be national pride in being in a country that would take up arms and fight back, I'm embarrassed to think how my country would behave under a similar threat.
I cannot recommend Outer Wilds enough. It is a game-defining game. There's a little caution in the recommendation: some people complain a bit about the controls (they're a bit realistic and therefore unforgiving), and it's playable with keyboard and mouse but a controller makes things a lot easier.

A lot of the value in this game comes from discovering things for yourself, and it is easy to get spoiled. If an exploration game (in the true sense of the term--not the "we have a big world and will send you on pointless fetch quests" you see often) where the only inventory you have is your own knowledge sounds anywhere near interesting to you, you should play and also not spoil yourself with reviews that might tell you critical concepts that are best to discover yourself.
If you think Eric went crazy, he went crazy a long time before you heard of him. He's been pretty consistent.
> which have a runtime costs

As monad is just an interface, it doesn't necessary cause runtime costs. Identity is a monad too. Effects may not always require sacrificing performance, but as they can be used to implement exceptions they are not just free compile time annotations. Also the differences discussed there: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3nkv2a/why_dont_we...
Thank you for your expert confirmation and no less from such a reliable source as BBC.
Making those assumptions about IndrekR isn’t very fair. Like him/her, I brew my own coffee (using locally purchased beans) but I go out of my way to support local businesses. I haven’t bought anything from Amazon since 2010 and the only online purchases I’ve made in the last three years were FFP masks (I couldn’t find a local chemists who stocked them for some strange reason), RAM chips and an SSD drive (the local PC shops are gone). Having said that, I regretted paying €20 for a bicycle chain from a local bike shop (who weren’t particularly pleasant to deal with) when I could have purchased the same chain from an online retailer for €5.
If Putin really wants to go down in history as the man who wiped out the Russian population (and a large chunk of the rest), so be it. I think he's bullshitting.
Do you have the same sentiment for Nazi's?
Ask HN: What messaging tool should I use for a local affinity group?
I’ve been invited to join a couple dozen non-technical people who live in the same area who have started a group for events and meetups and want a better messaging solution than email. Facebook not an option, I’ve been told.

I’m tempted to suggest free Slack, we don’t need a searchable archive that goes back long.

But honesty I haven’t tried half of the currently popular messaging tools, and don’t have time to try them all to form an opinion.

What do or would you use for this type of thing?
FYI: Lex Fridman mentioned on multiple podcasts how much he admires Putin, and how one of his life goals is to interview him. Which apparently will happen soon.

He also didn't condemn the invasion, just basically said that "war is bad", as if both sides are equally to blame.
That last sentence does not improve your comment.
these systems remind me of when i think it was volvo put on a demo press event thing to promote their new auto-breaking systems and the car just straight up drove into the back of the semi truck under ideal conditions. either it was a thing to drum up some news stories under the "there is no such thing as bad press coverage" or they demoed it way before it was ready.
03:03:2033 Baltics RSVP then…
The API is good enough to write some Python code that does this way faster. Some autoclassification based on keywords helps a lot too.

I made some scripts to do this, but would have to extract them from beside the user data in the repo.
> Germany isn’t going to do anything that will harm long term relations with the state they will need to buy 40-50% of their gas from.

Germany is now supportive of cutting Russian banks from SWIFT.
MOST telling, media runs them uncritically.

Every article I’ve read has been heavily couched in “allegedly”ies, “claimed”s, “reportedly”ies, etc.

Can you provide examples of the uncritical stories you’re alleging?
Thanks for posting this. Excellent.
> And so if you asked people from that time first consuming that media what they imagine the world (in terms of space) would look like 40 years later, us looking at somewhat higher resolution pictures from Mars would sound skeptical to the point of absurdity.

As such a person, I do in fact concur. We really expected a moon colony fairly soon, and by now, a thriving colony on Mars.

We were wildly naïve about how hard it was. To have a self-sustaining colony on Mars, you would have to re-invent every single piece of technology we use on Earth to work in an environment of complete scarcity.
> Neither do you.

I'm not claiming to be anything.

> Why should they not?

There's no rule against it, it's just a red flag

> But it gives context.

Not really anymore than going into the details of explosives.

> That's your opinion.

Yes it's my opinion, I never claimed it as fact. That's why I used "seemed".
> but what happens if you share your home with members of the opposite sex?

No reason to bring sex into it. My girlfriend complains that our home is too warm meanwhile I sit under a blanket with a hot water bottle.
These types of internet attacks amount to nothing but advertising revenue for media companies, as mentioned by many commenters; however, they occur during war time which means they are considered a direct attack, just as if a rocket had been launched, which makes the offender state an enemy engaged in the war. Everyone must consider the risk factor of such attacks as retaliation is imminent and much more severe.

I am more than sure Putin’s army has been preparing for all scenarios for years.
While I agree that anti-missile technology is extraordinarily unlikely to be as effective as hoped for upthread, if it did exist at that level of capability, the owner may still wish to keep it a secret. If it becomes known that your enemy possesses the capability to neutralize your primary weapon, you are likely to take counter-counter-measures, which could undo the advantage.
Thanks for the additional context. Agreed, manually approving and filtering is not efficient here. Spamcheck suggested in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480296 should be the path.
in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with using numbers and there's nothing that can't be quantified. The problem is when important metrics which are hard to turn into numbers are ignored. or, when metrics aren't reevaluated to combat over-fitting.