skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd posit that more important to longevity than diet, is the relation to retirement and work. It may not be much of a coincidence they're working and living until their nineties. I've noticed too many people decline precipitously after retirement when there was nothing in the way anymore of TV and sedentarism, which is the natural state of things in modernity.
My hands get cold at 18,5 C, I tried to set it lower but I'm really not comfortable. I used fingerless gloves to work with the keyboard and this helped me to go a bit lower, maybe 17,5 but it's not ideal. When I'm moving it can be colder and when I'm in bed or sofa I use a blanket or anything so it can also be lower, but for using the PC I really need 18,5 C.
I always wonder if the Weinstein brothers can even be in the same room. Seems their egos may be too big to be together in an enclosed space.
A mildly wider change would be to look up all the things that your local equivalent of the energy saving trust recommends:

https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/energy-at-home/

They usually recommend turning down the thermostat in rooms you aren't using, and setting a timer to fit your schedule but there's a bunch of low hanging fruit that will make your home cosier, save you money, help save the planet and annoy fossil fuel oligarchs, all without any cost to yourself except using this media coverage to spur you into action.

One that they might not list, but which is interestingly geeky and so might appeal to HN, is short term rental of infra red camera to find where homes are leaking heat (best done during cold weather).
Again, that's because credit card companies and/or merchants eat the cost of fraud. That's not the case with cash. The FBI isn't going to be raiding bestbuy's stores looking for stolen bills.
I wonder, is there any legal precedent for that? Analogy with other transactions could support either interpretation. (Spending stolen cash is not fraud, but using a stolen credit card is.)
The Ukrainians choosing whomever they want is the best outcome. There is still the possibility that they could choose someone terrible, but that is their prerogative.

The perfect president does not exist. I’d settle for one with whom you can have a discussion and who does not see the world through the prism of an imaginary past.
High CO2 concentrations have other effects too, including ocean acidification and cognitive impairment.
> loved the War in Afghanistan

Nobody "loved" the war in Afghanistan.
I’m not advocating for surrender, I’m simply pointing out the reason why it’s complicated.
Assuming ill-intent is not an argument. Engage with the argument. This is HN.
As a Canadian myself, 17°C would be very cold for an indoor space. The standard recommendations (for offices at least) are much higher than that.

> Canadian Standards Association (CSA) and ASHRAE standards are used for thermal comfort and ventilation in indoor offices [....] These standards are a good resource to use when considering the thermal conditions in indoor office space.

> According to CSA standards Z1004-12 – Work place Ergonomics – the comfort level at work is determined by temperature, humidity, wind and work-rest cycle. The optimal temperature range for office comfort should be 23 to 26 °C with 50% relative humidity in summers and 20 to 23.5°C at 50% relative humidity in winter.

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/servi...
> wireless networks are all closed and proprietary.

From a software and modern open source sense, yes. From the literal sense, No. The standard ( Core ) is open, and freely available. Their implementation are not, and subject to royalty fees.
German politicians have occasionally tried a friendly approach towards Russia/the SU starting with Willy Brandt in the 60s. Those diplomatic efforts led to Gorbatschow having enough trust to dismantle the SU peacefully.

There were some business interests involved in the issue of SWIFT, mostly the fear that oil & gas deliveries will seize immediately. Beyond that, nobody believes that any meaningful trade will happen going forward. Only some drastic event, specifically the end of Putin, will allow for a reset of the relationship.

Besides, it doesn’t really matter if Germany send these arms. Germany is part of the EU, which has authority over trade, and is also seen as a block by the #russian government.
I have a 2017 crv and do notice that it has some edge cases in the collision avoidance system. Usually this is when changing lanes along a curve and there is a wall it will sometimes active for a moment or in a curve and I'm a few feet back from a person in the other lane it seems to detect that has being in front and triggers the warning. Only once have I had it forcibly try and stop, and that was with good reason. Otherwise, I've been very satisfied with the crv in general.
RT seems unaffected at the moment. Was this a temporary outage?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/17/skygrabber-ame...
>If Putin fails this, it is over for him.

Does not have to be the case. If the loyalists around him don't topple him he can sell this one way or another to the Russian public. I think a lot of people outside of Russia think it's some heavily censored, propaganda-fueled place. Most Russians are actually very skeptical of what their government says, it's very common to roll one's eyes at official statements. However, this does not change the wish to remain powerful even if just in a self-preserving image. If that does not work, the victimhood card also is often used successfully. If Putin can remain popular and the cronies around him don't replace him it would not have to be over for him at all.
I thought it was always really big news whenever someone even attempted a double spend, regardless of success? So if that’s what he meant, we should have been seeing those cases in the news back then.

Edit: I guess not? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480133
HN is a place for civilised discussion, so please do not refer to this site without a huge disclaimer. Read why at [0].

Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenta.ru
I'm not sure that our hypocrisy is too small to support that.
Dec-Feb is better cause the ground is frozen so the heavy machinery won't be stuck in mud. Currently is warm, Russian army has a problem and have to use roads for tanks, which means they are easer pickings.
Putin will use this as a pretext to invade the Baltics. This has already started; yesterday a Kremlin spokeswoman threatened military consequences if Sweden or Finland join NATO.

In his big speech last week, Putin said it was "madness" that the Baltic nations were allowed to become independent nations. Their re-conquest is next on his list.
Russian forces are mostly conscripts, so it's not that much better. They probably have marginally better training, but they're less motivated. Also, there's military service in Ukraine. The average civilian probably has a decent understanding of weapons handling and basic tactics.
There probably aren't 50,000 Stinger missiles across all military inventories globally, never mind just Germany.

Most countries do not maintain a massive inventory of MANPADS, there is no use case for having that many. There have only been 70,000 Stinger missiles produced globally over the last 40 years and quite a few of those have been used up in various conflicts or are well past their shelf-life. Most countries with decent militaries have hundreds or thousands. Due to the shelf-life, maintenance, and obsolescence issue, it is rather expensive to stockpile a massive number of MANPADS if you don't expect to need them soon.
I wonder if this sort of thing would add polish to the Steam Deck

(beyond basic game compatibily etc)
In my opinion, it is naive.

First of all, the average yearly temperature means nothing for indoor heating. Suppose this average is 20°C: it could be half of the year at 5°C and half at 35°. It's even more complex, for instance if cold days and hot days alternate they have very little impact. The heating is mostly needed when the temperature stays low several days in a row.

Then, there are external sources of heat, like sun or human heat. They can increase the indoor temperature for a few degrees. I worked for years in an office, facing South, with no heating even when it was freezing outside, and it was okay.

Finally, the formula does not imply what you said. In plain words, it means the energy (heat) is proportional to the mass and the temperature difference. The factor depends on the material. So it does mean that increasing the temperature of 13° instead of 16° uses about 23% less energy. But it does not mean that this much energy is needed to keep this temperature inside a building. Suppose that, with an external temperature of 7° (the average for my city for February) an insulated building at 20° would lose 5° a day. Then dT=5 in the formula above. Whereas the same building at 17° would lose 3° per day, so dT=3, a 40% decrease in the energy needed.

In my opinion, there are too many factors to give a simple answer. It know it's possible to estimate this for a single building, given a proper model of the weather and sun exposure, but it is hard to generalize from an individual response.
It does, and Finnish President has asked many times a clarification what it actually means, see [1]. It's his favorite hobby horse, he keeps asking about it, but not getting any clarification from other member states.

Problem is apparently with it is wording, it makes requirement to help any ways available. But apparently it can be interpreted like "give humanitarian aid" or even "send troops to help", depending on reader. It's not clear it's defensive enough.

[1]: https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/niinisto-vaati-suoraa-ke...
The problem I have with this is that both the reddit post, and all or most of the comments, all seem to levy non-specific criticism against Lex. Non-specific criticism is not helpful, and it borders on the ad hominem. I'd be much more interested in seeing debate and discussion of specific ideas.
In a sense that's the problem with this kind of site, it turns you into a commodity, and so people end up painting large groups of contractors with the same brush because they don't have enough information to do otherwise. In my mind, being a contractor, and hiring contractors is about networking. If you go on a commercial site where you're part of a big pool that appears homogeneous, expect to get treated as such.
I agree, there is a big defeatist and regressive narrative. But some of us do focus on the positive -- we can fix this, and fix a lot of other problems at the same time, and it's not even that costly if we do it right, gradually switching our energy sources over time and gradually changing our living habits where we're willing. People always talk about a carbon tax, because it's a really, really good idea: it is very economically efficient, is targeted like a laser at the real problem, and will have huge benefits even just in terms of reducing premature deaths from particulate pollution.

The reason I think stopping use of fossil fuels is really the only reasonable solution, or is at least a necessary part of any solution, is that anything else is like trying to fix your car accelerating out of control by just driving around with one foot on the brake. Trying to balance the increased greenhouse effect by blocking sunlight might work a bit, but there are all sorts of ways it can go wrong -- it creates a moral hazard where everyone will have less incentive to stop using fossil fuels and thus continue making the root cause of the problem worse, and we have to keep doing it forever -- stopping means a sudden massive amount of climate change that people won't have time to adjust to. There are so many really easy ways that we can cut our emissions massively, with technology we have available today, with virtually no impact on our living standards. The rest will take some time and technological improvements, but it's all doable!

And I've not heard of any sort of heat dissipation geo-engineering ideas -- the only feasible way I know of to get the earth's heat dissipation back to normal is to take off this extra blanket of greenhouse gases we've put on it. Any sort of heat dissipation would have to transfer heat to the upper atmosphere without being absorbed by CO2, and I don't think there's any way we could do that at the scale required to have a noticeable effect.
It's hard because there are so many concepts to understand. After reading one Python book you can write solid programs in Python. Not so in Haskell, you would need to understand also the extensions of the language which are popular and understand the best practices (what to use to compose I/O and in which context for example), on top of all the basics. That and understand how to work with complex types in libraries: that require time. That would be too much for one book.
Ok that’s fine. That freedom comes along with consequences for your actions. So don’t complain when they manifest
Yep, I did, though I didn't take an OS class. What's significant about the article (imo) is in pedagogy. I've never been particularly interested in OS implementation details or shell programming, but just because it's around I have some level of curiosity and have wondered something roughly like, "why doesn't anyone ever just say what a shell/terminal is?"—basically I was looking exactly for a concise architectural breakdown like the author gave, just as a brief answer to a quick question, and hadn't come across it until now.
Isn't this worse for the US than for Germany? Isn't it in the interest of the USD to keep swift as the primary method for moving money and not let any other system rise?
For anything that already has a CVE, yes. You can add information about CVEs that are currently "unreviewed" by the GitHub curation team. By doing so, you'll bump those to the top of the stack for our curators to review (and help them review them). Once reviewed, they'll trigger Dependabot alerts, show up in npm audit, and be more usable by anyone else consuming the data.

For anything that doesn't already have a CVE, no. We don't want that disclosure process to happen in public - we recommend you reach out to the maintainer privately. (Currently we don't have an on-platform way to do that, but we're planning one.)
Not too many news about my country, Moldova, immediately responding and providing similar help see e.g https://twitter.com/ruxanda_romana/status/149763007804540519... and https://twitter.com/Fisher_FCDO/status/1497671470952194048 (last one is British ambassador to Moldova) etc.

Also, the President's Twitter account https://twitter.com/sandumaiamd

Poland, Romania and Moldova's response has been immediate.
That's just crazy, motorcycles require smooth and predictable acceleration. I like to rip on my bike but a sudden surge of power could really screw you up in certain conditions. That is why I always say when you get a new bike ride it like a beginner for a long time and slowly build up how aggressively you ride it. They all seem to have slight personalities so going slow is the way to go at first.
Russia can't hold Ukraine and they know it. This is a punitive invasion and they will be out after crippling the military and getting the NATO neutrality concessions they want.

Russias power is waning, and at the same time Ukraine-NATO integration is approaching the point of irreversibility. From the Russian perspective the window to stop Ukraine is closing. Finland has no such window right now unless they create one
What about incorporating Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, and Russia into NATO?

Ukraine gets the Donbas back in return for international recognition of Crimea as Russian territory.

Fanciful, I know. And questionable whether Article 8 would hold up. But advantages:

1. End to the conflict
2. Security guarantees for all of Europe
3. Repurposing of NATO from anti Russia alliance to anti China alliance, ie pivot to Asia
I'm seeing tons of reports of preventable malfunctions of all their equipment. Damn it, their tanks are running out of fuel mid-way to battle!

Their bombs are rusted!!! What kind of operation are they running FFS? https://twitter.com/ukrpravda_news/status/149767369139567001...

Seems like the most likely course of their nuclear attack is, they blow up themselves because the doors rusted shut.
The dreaded CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N strikes again.
The other choice is a siege. See the Siege of Sarajevo [1]. A dramatically numerically inferior force (by 5:1) laid siege to a numerically superior, but poorly equipped, force that was intermittently supported by the UN/NATO. It lasted just under 4 years, and ended in a stalemate and some absolute horror stories from survivors.

And of course if a city under siege cannot get sufficient resources in and is not self sufficient (let alone while under siege), then a siege can end a conflict extremely quickly.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sarajevo
You're just only classifying relational data as data. YouTube's petabytea of data is mostly video and audio. Perhaps some of its data should be stored relationally, but definitely not most of it.
When a human does something stupid, it's the humans fault. The human has to accept responsibility. When a computer does something stupid, who is to blame? How are they held accountable?
Really, googling around, average transaction fee looks about $1.70? Which is much more than I pay through any other service.
Do you think that reheating the core of Mars could reboot life there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30476002

It's even more interesting that you mention the magnetic field, could we use solar panels to draw more energy from the sun to power a tesla coil and microwave the core?
You must be joking. Any sources to prop up that dubious assertion? How many mass shootings or bombings in the last 20 years in either Europe or North America were done by self-proclaimed communists?
Cynically.. "everything else is a move designed to foul a market and disrupt a potential competitor that is then cancelled as soon as it's no longer needed."
Monad transformers are different from monads. Monad transformers do have runtime costs, they are adding indirection at runtime.
idk, it looks like they're holding their own.
If enough Russian troops die, what do you think is the most likely outcome?
Is freedom worth dying for?
Is denying others their freedom worth dying for?
I don't think SWIFT is bound to USD, since it's mostly messaging?
This actually great advice. There's always been the idea that we should heat people, not places. With improvements to battery technology I'm going to have to investigate heated clothing. Any recommendations?
In Praise of Middle Managers
and that discredits him somehow?
Structural engineers please explain how can a tall concrete building collapse when hit in the middle?
impressive work at 15 nice job! you know with recordrtc.js you could specify 'type: video' and 'mimeType: video/webm' and serve a .gifv - or are you explicitly trying to support very old devices?
AFAIK The Chechens were ex soviet military and had been operating a large scale black market for weapons - so they had plenty on hand. Towards the end of that conflict Russia started using AA guns on the tanks to counter the ambushes. I’m pretty sure they learned a lot from that experience.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit...
Back in the last century, we had these levers called emergency brakes. Then they went to parking brake pedals. Now parking brakes are on a button. I want the lever back.
IIRC from my drone days, the antennas were spiral (not linear) for FPOV flight on the 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz spectrum. This a) basically prevented interference from WiFi and b) gave good clean LOS signals for miles. There was still interference, but it wasn’t bad. In Afghanistan (where there were basically no competing WiFi signals) I could get consumer WiFi to go about 2km LOS on the 2.4Ghz bands.
Consider all 4 dimensions of the battlefield. You cannot be aware of every direction, at all times. Especially in cities, which has 3 spatial dimensions of potential hostile infantry positions. Therefore sheer numbers do matter.

Especially in the cities, all insurgents have to do is wait, and rain down bullets. Many will miss, but some will hit.
Heh. You can really tell in this thread who has grown up with guns and who hasn't.

I remember my grandpa taking me under some bridge somewhere and letting me loose off a few .45 rounds. I was about 8.

It was supremely stupid. In fact, I have a vivid memory of it almost being a disaster. My grandpa lived in a bad part of Alton, IL. His house got broken into on a regular basis. So he kept a loaded pistol right next to his bed.

Somehow I found this thing at around the same age, and started fooling around with it.

But then something interesting happened. The thing my grandpa taught me: never to assume a gun wasn't loaded, and always check it. So I checked it, and sure enough, I did not squeeze the trigger that day.

My point is, it doesn't take much training to be safe around weapons. Military tactics are an entirely different matter, of course. It's not a great idea to have random people running around with guns.

But they're not random people. They're defending their home. If SF was under attack by Japan in an alternate universe, wouldn't you do the same?

Seeing Kiev unfold makes me feel a strange kinship with Washington, of all people. There too, people had very little combat training, and were pretty much arming the neighbors. But it turns out that armed neighbors can sometimes be effective.

Here's a fascinating piece of propaganda for you: https://twitter.com/peedutuisk/status/1497310882069581824

It's propaganda, but it's very good propaganda. For a brief moment, I was actually crazy enough to wish I was out there helping them.
Yeah, I'm not buying this. For three years China has desperately been searching for an animal reservoir for the virus. They have found nothing at all. This report wants me to believe there was one infected animal at the market and that was it?

Or is it more likely that the lab, which had numerous coronavirus samples, did gain of function research and had a history of accidental leaks, was not involved at all?
My apartment gets to 17C all the time, I live in SF and never use heating. I do wear a sweater or hoodie during the day and use a thick comforter at night, but it's not bad (the cold air temp actually is really good for my sleep). You do need to make sure not to drink large amounts of cold liquid at once though.

I could see someone living their whole life in a tropical climate not being able to tolerate these temps, but in almost all of Europe this is a normal outdoor temperature. In the parts of Europe that actually get cold enough to need active heating, it's nothing. You would get used to it pretty quickly.