skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be really nice if the user interface was designed to be more human friendly.

I do wonder how long it would take to stimulate history on a Steam Deck!
X-rays help unlock secrets of King Tut’s iron dagger, made from a meteorite
I am a Pakistani and I do not hesitate to admit that Indians(Hindus specially) have been found quite good at math and chess and now software/IT.

I am not sure whether there is some research about it why is it like that? some diet/belief or some other matter?

Happy to learn more about it.
As someone with ADHD I always thought JWS seemed like another, so, weird term.
A Different View of Viruses
"There is no negotiating with a computer." --Simon Biggs.

At its core I think it's the main reason executives are so bad with technology. Nothing else in life is like a computer. You can not argue, you can not infuriate. It is pure logic.

Unfortunately those of us who know about computers know that the logic is almost always flawed.
Some interesting perspectives.

The last paragraph seemy poorly written, though. IIUC the author criticizes OOP for having a limited view of abstraction as only categorization? Specifically, ignoring other kinds of abstraction mentioned earlier.
According to Smart Company it's an Aussie unicorn.
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/news/scalapay-b...
A guerilla assumes that Russia occupies Ukraine. I think this is improbable, I do not think that Russia want to deal with guerilla warfare and probable terrorist attacks coming from extremists from there. The east part of Ukraine in Donbass, recognized as independent by them, is precisely the part of Ukraine with more ethnical Russians that is against the Ukrainian government and were de facto independent and more pro-russian since years ago during Ukrainian civil war. From there a guerilla would be improbable. This attacks probably are more to send a message against NATO expansion there and to defend Donbass independence, not an invasion for occupation.
> There's a grain of truth in it, of course there is violence in Donbas, but amplifying the issue is the very obvious ruse.

The only reason there is violence in Donbas is because of the previous undeclared Russian invasion of that territory as well as fomenting unrest there and elsewhere in Ukraine. Not to mention shooting down a commercial airliner.

It's about as truthful as Hitler arguing there is violence in the West of Poland in October 1939.
It is extremely amusing to consider that - from an American perspective - it takes "Russian Interference" for Austrian politics to be so screwed up.

Such naiveté begets the truth, which is that Americans falling for this trope really know nothing about Austrian political habits, whatsoever.

Kurz fell because Kurz was dumb and corrupt from the very beginning, and his party simply incompetent, and we are all glad to have seen him in the rear view mirror.

In fact, American agitprop'ers may not know this, but crediting Russia with Kurz' dismissal only makes us more willing to make deals with the Russkies.
I see a few in Dombas, a few in Crimea, but other than that nothing in Ukraine and the most recent from 2 days ago. Is it like that for anyone else?
I'm not sure what distinction you think you're making. They bought a lump of the company at whatever valuation and that's termed an "investment". However my point is that I don't suspect they're strictly after a return on investment here.
I do not understand why Germany opts to get out of nuclear power. With enough nuclear power it would not need to rely on natgas/oil from east.
I always think the Spider-Man maxim needs to be turned around:

“With great responsibility comes great power”

If you need someone to have amazing output, rather than shackling them with a process, give them responsibility and the corresponding power to make decisions and to execute.
I took a look. The rendering code of shields.io is here: https://github.com/badges/shields/blob/779c1ffaadfcd53ac20b5... text width is computed in preferredWidthOf, which computes the width of the text in 11px Verdana, either normal or bold: https://github.com/badges/shields/blob/779c1ffaadfcd53ac20b5... The anafanafo dependency is doing all the heavy lifting: https://www.npmjs.com/package/anafanafo
> Europeans will be sitting around wondering

If you tax away capital formation (or vote for people who do it) it's useless to wonder why European entrepreneurs take foreign capital. Most of them outright emigrate anyway so you don't even get to notice it.
Here's a 2022 The Atlantic article suggesting the same:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/putin-ukra...

And a 2014 blog post also suggesting the same:

https://skibinsky.com/no-russian/
If anything, I'd have thought it's likely to go the other way: China gets to play the relatively responsible global citizen that doesn't send in tanks to resolve its territorial claims. Also new potential export markets.

I thought Putin was doing the show of power for domestic consumption where he'd embarass the West by actually withdrawing the armies slightly after he promised and it'd all end in a summit with both sides claiming they 'won', but he's gone well beyond that now.
There’s nothing to protect them from.

You should look up sometimes the types of characters, e.g. Pushilin for instance, that Russia installed to govern those territories. They are murderous sociopathic criminals, comparisons with territories ruled by cartel gangs are appropriate. It isn’t governments - its no-limit gangs, supported by Russia.
Perhaps this is a useful counterpoint:

Aviation Psychologist David Beaty on the phenomenon of ‘Set’ (1991):

“‘Set’ is a survival characteristic we have inherited. The human brain evolved to help individuals live and survive circumstances very different from our own. It predisposes us to select our focus on that part of the picture paramount at the time – a vision often so totally focused that it ignores the rest of the environment.

Once something is identified […] it takes on a reality of its own and sticks in the mind like a burr which is difficult to dislodge. […] The mind becomes tunnelled on a particular course of action. Add to that the ingredient of fatigue and it is not difficult to see that a ‘set’ as hard as concrete can result. Furthermore, ‘set’ is infectious. There is a follow-my-leader syndrome. So it is easy to see why most aircraft accidents are caused by ‘silly’ mistakes in the approach and landing phase.

[…] ‘Set’ has been a factor in many aircraft accidents. [In a case in 1972 over Florida], the crew of a Tristar were not sure that their undercarriage was down. The accident sequence was begun by a burned out light bulb in the system which is designed to show that the undercarriage is down and locked. […] the crew examined every possible of finding the trouble. The flight engineer crawled down into the nose, while the captain and the first officer tried every combination of switches and circuit-breakers. […] the three members of crew did not notice that the autopilot had become disengaged and the aircraft was sinking […] eventually crashing into the Everglades.

Because they had become preoccupied with an unsafe landing-gear indication, they failed to monitor the critical altimeter readings. Ironically, the air traffic controller noticed on his radar that the aircraft was losing height, but instead of pointing this out simply asked diplomatically “How are things coming along there?”.

The crew, still obsessed with their landing-gear problem, assuming he referred to that, for they could thing of nothing else, replied seconds before the crash, “Everything is all right!”

– Paraphrased from The Naked Pilot by David Beaty (Ch.6)

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Naked_Pilot.html?id...
(all numbers for germany)
Only ~14% of gas used is used for electrical energy. About 50% of the gas we use is imported from russia. 77% of the gas is used by households for heating (and also cooking, but that's negliable) and industry

To not depend on russian gas by reducing gas usage, the gas heating systems need to be replaced with heat pumps or something else and industry needs to shift, presumably to electricity (since it's unlikely that we have enough green hydrogen that's not produced from fossil fuels without depending on russia). This isn't going to be easy and unlikely to happen at a large enough scale in the next 5 years.
>> This completely undermines MAD as a doctrine.

#1 no it doesn't - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_triad

#2 Any other NATO country & non-nato can launch nukes.
Afghanistan under Taliban makes your claim invalid.
You mean, Ukrainians keep wanting to join NATO.
Surely that's the tagging. I use tags extensively on my Mac because it's so useful to me but it's clearly an afterthought for Apple, and I struggle to use it at times.

Making tags a first class citizen would improve things immensely. The search index being a first class citizen again, would also improve things - why should I find Spotlight indexes loitering in the dark corners of my filesystem as dot files? I know there's a file index kept somewhere full of inodes and suchlike, why isn't search index data kept with it?

I also don't know why I have to rely on file system watchers that seem to be external to the file system and thus eventually sucking vast amounts of CPU when a hook into the main index would suffice. I don't write file systems so I can't tell why this is the case, or in fact, if it is the case but appears to me that it isn't every time I need to kill a file watcher.

Most of the suggestions in the article seemed good to me (immutable files, smaller meta data pages etc), I'm sure there are others around, but I'm also not sure why there's a need among some to protect the status quo by relying on good behaviour, of all things.
Cloudflare has been on the front page for how many days now?
>Youtube takes half the ad revenue

Yeah, that's how they pay for the infrastructure. Imagine that.
This just means for every n W of _heat_ injected the fusion creates 10n W of heat. But I'm pretty sure the experiment itself consumes much more electricity than it could theoretically produce (don't forget that converting heat to electricity has an efficiency below 50%). Fusion researchers mislead the public to get more funding when they say ITER will make more energy than it requires. Fusion might be never viable.
I don't know and depends how they proceed about it - e.g. they can just add Russian companies related to Putin's inner circle to the "entities list" like they did with Huawei. That would forbid any business on the US market from selling to the barred Russian companies ( that's why Huawei had to do their own OS, Android was no longer possible due to Google being forbidden from working with them). That would be a fairly benign type of sanction; or they could go Iran style, by blocking them out of the world financial/banking systems, and forbidding anyone from dealing with Russian companies ( a few years ago they fined a French bank, BNP Paribas, for dealing with Iran, so it is anyone, not just American companies). That would be the nuclear option and would harm Russia a lot, but also the EU ( technically they wouldn't be able to pay for the gas bought from Gazprom), and certainly push Russia into an alternative financial and banking system with China, which isn't great.

À propos, Renault were worried about the supply chain for their Russian factories, with IIRC around 20-30% of components coming from places where sanctions could impact them.

PS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30453503 this just popped on my feed so i posted it on HN to discuss
Yes, it seems to be not up to date
If I had to pick one news publication, it would be the Financial Times. In my opinion, they are generally objective because their readers are businesspeople and traders.

Alternatively, you could read a variety of news sources from around the world. That way you’ll get different perspectives.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/23/Nitter-and-other-internet...

Use nitter, libreddit, invidious, bibliogram (is that one dead?) and others.

It's a shame that these big companies seem to suck at making usable websites. They probably chase "conversion" to new accounts at all costs. And that probably works (A/B tested).
Accepting money from Tencent is a shame. No reasons at all to be proud of this.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/28/chinese-tech-firms-fueli...
Call for non-profit tech efforts in Ukraine TechForUkraine
A small correction here, generally the power output of climbers is measured in W/kg, not pure Watts, because their weight heavily influences their ability to climb. I think top climbers have around 7-7.5W/Kg. Even in these conditions, the power output of that motor is orders of magnitude higher than what a human can do.
China needs five to six years from starting to build a nuclear reactor to making it operational. I don’t see why western countries should be inherently unable to do this. They currently don’t want to (because they don’t need to and people dislike nuclear power).

But if they cared, they should be able to.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/396689
There are loads of empty rooftops in much of the populated US which typically has a lot of suburbs with endless stretches of the usual franchises typically housed in boxy buildings and equipped with some power hungry AC units. That's a huge amount of largely unused roof and potentially a massive amount of power generation. These buildings typically have even larger parking lots right next to them. Ideal place to cover with solar. And you get nice shady/dry parking spots as a side effect. Also a great place to put up some car chargers. And lower power bills for the before mentioned AC. Win win.

Walmart figured that out years ago: https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/sustainability/201405...

The US has plenty of room for solar. And that's before you even consider vertical space. Several companies have solar power generating windows in the market already. Nice if you are building a new skyscraper.

And of course you can use good old fashioned copper cables to transport energy around. E.g. California has some nice salt lakes and deserts close to where millions of people live (e.g. LA). After all, you wouldn't put a nuclear plant in the middle of a city either. Nimby's wouldn't allow that. Solar is a lot less controversial.
The EU could have used some nuclear power alternative. But not depending on war-mingering dictatorships is not as important for them as the possible consequences of a nuclear plant going wrong.
Estonia is NATO since 2004. If Russia attacks Estonia ICBMs are launched and all wars are over for a long time.

I expect that in the next days some member of the US government, maybe the President, will publicly remember that Mutual Assured Destruction is what kept the world mostly at peace since the 50s, except small scale wars by proxy or with only one of the USA and SSSR directly involved.

So Russia won't invade, ICBMs won't fly and Ukraine becomes the next Afghanistan for Russia. Fast forward 20 years, Putin is in Lenin's Mausoleum and the new Iron Curtain could start to be lifted.
Meaning, why can't we just spend an unlimited amount on everything we think we might like?
Case in point:

> For Eastern Ukraine specifically, this has included a supposed infiltration by Ukrainian saboteurs into Russia. [2] Geolocation of the footage (taken from the helmet of one of the Ukrainian soldiers that supposedly participated in the infiltration) debunked the story within an hour after it turned out that the supposed incursion into Russian territory was carried out from separatist-held territory. [3] Rather than showing the bodies of the five Ukrainian soldiers that were supposedly killed in the raid, Russia instead showed a destroyed BTR-70M armoured personnel carrier (APC) that was painted in an ill-conceived attempt to make it look like a Ukrainian vehicle. [4] Ironically, Ukraine doesn't even operate the BTR-70M, further showing the attention (or lack thereof) that goes into these false flag operations.

Source: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/false-flag-shenanigans...
Biggest Russian banks could be targeted as west prepares sanctions over Ukraine
> Modern-day NATO is a cooperation platform for joint exercises etc, not some missile club that starts delivering ICBMs every month.

Say that to Libya or Yugoslavia that were attacked. NATO is not exactly just a "defensive agreement" as is being currently propagandized.
their wings arent breaded.

Also, bc of what we feed chickens has changed radically over the years, chickens are themsleves particularly high in omega6s.
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And they store most of it in their skin. A skinless breast isn't so bad.

Wings? Even without sauce or being fried, you might as well be taking a shot of canola oil
Fusion has no practice reason to exist compare to advanced fission. The improvements in energy density are not really relevant factor at that scale, meaning the difference from oil to fission, and oil to fusion doesn't really gain you much.

Fusion fuel cost over the long term is likely more expensive then a fission fast breeder (not to mention a potential of thorium thermal breeder).

Is a fusion reactor going to be cheaper to build then a advanced fission reactor? Not from anything know so far. Advanced fission concept are viable with pretty normal tubes pretty industrial steels or at most advanced aerospace materials. Any fission reactors actually consider would have waste more complex and expensive parts.

The nuclear waste argument is sometimes made in favor of fusion but with the right kind of fission reactor this problem and issue that has very viable practical solutions and storage for a few hundred years is viable.

Its really cool science but don't wait for fusion to solve any of our practical energy problems.

Maybe at some point fusion can build really small making electricity directly (Aneutronic fusion). Then it would actually be relevant. I would prefer fusion research to focus on that problem, rather then trying to build an oversized power-plant style fusion.
Honestly our insane taxation is holding us back. My salary is embarassing, but it's not even the company's fault, I'm costing my company ~2.5x what I make. The job market is perma-bearish and has been so since before I was even born.
I posted it in this thread (I'm GP).

I admit, I think my source was probably HN comments. I tend to trust them more than they deserve.

I did a Google, and it seems a very sketchy claim.
Fantastic, thanks a lot!
I'm going to watch the 2 hour video - by which time this will be on page 9.
Lies spread like wildfire

Disproving them takes far more resources than spreading, and doesn’t spread
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I'm very much still anti-war, and just as disappointed in things as anyone, but I fail to see how NATO bootlickers have done anything BUT promote this situation and create the conditions for our current circumstances.

Yes, I consider NATO an aggressor, and it has finally accomplished the breech in European peace that has been planned since 2008.

Here, I'll spell it out for you:

Russian military in their borders: okay.

Russian military in Kiev: not okay.

American military in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech-Republic: not okay.

American military in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen: not okay.

Get the picture? If so, please color in red crayon the states above that are currently on fire, emitting endless streams of war refugees, and press hard if those states have been that way since the Western coalition started WW3 in 2003 .. speaking of 'being led astray'.
I generally believe that all business logic such as approvals and what-not should be implemented in the user-land portion of an engine. If it's hardcoded that x-process should be followed, then you've now attached the price of a developer to changing that process.

I'm getting to the point where when friends ask me for a project, I implement it in something like Node-Red (a "not-much-code" solution) then give that to them as a dockerfile. I know it's not perfect, but at least they "could" change it with just a mouse.
Compare that to a simple molten salt fission reactor. It will simply never be cheaper.
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How I built my first web3 web page, and what I think about web3's potential. By Dries Buytaert, Founder and Project Lead of Drupal.
from "a lot" to "massively" depending on the terms
The memory of leveling through heavy rain in Feralas is one of the strongest I have about the game.
> Even allowing for hyperbole the worry is that Russia is capable of a zero-warning decapitation strike, combined with remote mass infrastructure attacks and internal terrorism. Any response would be relatively ineffective.

Does this hypothetical Tom Clancy scenario also plan how to deal with all the silo's the US has with missiles in them and the ballistic missile submarines which exist exactly as a hedge against these kinds of wild scenario's.
https://archive.is/5Tkna
Uh, this is missing bombings in several Ukrainian cities, not least Kiyv, Lviv, ~Donbas~ Donetsk.
I think given recent progress from several companies and research institutes, we might be seeing an increasing shift to solving engineering challenges indeed. Fusion has definitely moved beyond the proof of concept stage. It's no longer just a theoretical possibility.

Many challenges still remain of course. But it might be a lot closer than the 20-30 years that people have historically assumed it would take. It seems there are a couple of companies shooting for working power plants a lot sooner than that that are getting a lot of funding. Maybe even this decade. From there to commercialization might still take a lot of time of course.
Live now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60454795
Good way to clean some dirty money
It cuts both ways. The very system that forces people to use four digit years and unambiguous date formats[0] is the same system that leads us all into one giant Year 2038 problem.

I mostly agree about executives, though that's fading. The world got the message that being good at technology is something effective people increasingly need to know. I'm an expert in Excel (Solver, UDF, arrays, custom formats, etc) and even I've picked up some tricks from CEOs.

[0] What fresh hell is the date "12/11/10"?
What we should have actually done is build new and more fission reactors decades ago and not shut the current once down.

That how we could have solved the while issue decades ago.

France had green energy for literally 40 years and nobody cares. Because 'nuke = evil' attitude, specially in Germany.
Everyone has a choice. Humans on Earth are not a proxy for the war between God and Devil.

Ukraine could have become an autocratic republic like Belarus or Kazakhstan easily. But people of Ukraine chose not to.
There is a kind of process that I think is worth it:
a group protocol on how we do things that allows you to walk into a situation and understand what’s being done and how to proceed without needlessly needing to talk to others that where involved before you.

* The documentation will be here and look like this.

* The deployment is done using code that lives here.

* The code would have been in a PR here.

Etc.
Otto von Bismark on foreign policy
> Russia is already bordered by multiple NATO countries

And they aren't happy about it. At the time, they weren't in a position to do much about it though.
I'm in downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine right now (SaaS founder born in Canada). Woke up to explosions at 5 AM this morning. At 12PM still some explosions, can feel the ground shaking, but the streets are mostly calm. Went out to buy some groceries, long lines, but everything still works. Police cars are out patrolling in full force, but no signs of unrest. Church bells tolling nonstop. TransferWise is limited to $200 USD transfers but it worked -- Apple Pay worked at the grocery store. Obviously internet and electricity is still up for now, but water pipes have been shut off in many of my friend's places.
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