skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took about a year for me to fully switch. Even now, I haven’t deleted my Gmail address - I just forward everything to my new address at my domain, and whenever anything appears in my Gmail address which I would like to switch over I make it happen.

I even recently did the switch from one mail provider to another while keeping my email address, since I took the advice of people years ago to choose a provider who supports custom domains and use them. Although I spent a fair bit of time researching, the process itself took about 2-3 hours. When people say it’s easy to switch between providers when you own the domain, they mean it.

It’s not an easy task at all, but you don’t have to do it in one hit. Just take your time - in the meantime you hope that your Google account doesn’t get axed, but even if it does you’re in a better position than if you stayed.

On forgetting a random site: use a password manager; then, you have an effective memory of all the services you use as well as their logins. This is something you should do whether you use Gmail or not. (This might be a bit redundant if you use Google to log in everywhere at the moment, but you’ll thank yourself later if you start this now.)
I’m still wondering at which point diplomacy started to fail so spectacularly?
Interesting. Got more details on this? Which bank?
Tell HN: Kasparov's 2015 book should have been a must read for many
Garry Kasparov - Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Coming-Vladimir-Enemies-Stopped-ebook/dp/B06XCCZJ7D
I wonder how large you could take this strategy before it turns into a NATO intervention. Could you have 3 full battalions of British troops all take time off and decide to go fight for Ukraine on their own?

Could you have a full armoured regiment take 1 month PTO and go fight for Ukraine and then suddenly have some British armour dropped off for the Ukrainian army to use?

Could you say a drone command group is taking a month off then lend and lease a fleet of drones to the Ukrainian air force?

This feels like a very Putinesque salami tactic, maybe we should be hitting back the say way he's hitting Ukraine.
> Most days, you can hopefully leave the windows open during the day and/or night. On smoky/hot/cold days you can run filters and ac/heat.

I'm in Toronto, Canada: our winters are -10C and our summers are hot-humid 30C.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto#Climate

Leaving windows open is not the preferred option for most of the year (though I grew up in a house with A/C, and only first experienced an abode with in in my 20s).

Further, more places are getting bouts of extreme weather:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave
> The home furnishings giant enlists a maze-like layout, cheap food, ... to get you to fill up your cart.

Thank you, captain obvious... the motivation for the store layout can hardly escape one's notice I would say.

But the less-obvious point, to me anyway, is the use of _decoy pricing_. Indeed, I never feel I can figure out whether the price of some IKEA product is high or not.

> The Billy bookcase — a product so beloved that one is sold every 5 seconds

You know what they say, a sucker is born every second... or 5 seconds. Those infernal pieces of rickety cardboard! People should be liable for bringing guests into homes with Billy bookcases.

> one-way path

Actually, more like two paths, because (at least in the stores I've seen) you can get to the "market hall", the latter half of your visit, without going through the showrooms.
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I'll save others the click - Pricing is 2 €/month(!) with a 7 day trial.

All for the low, low price of your WhatsApp phone number.
Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her own bodyguards.
I installed a whole-house fan in our place in San Jose. That plus ceiling fans in each bedroom meant we could go all year without A/C. This was the Bay Area though.

I had remembered whole-house fans when growing up in Kansas — many of my friends had homes with them. They could be noisy but really did make for a nice house breeze in the evening.
We have a much more recent example of a crazy president that would threaten nuclear war than Nixon.
We have triple-glazed windows and they condensate on the outside. The inside is always bone dry.
With respect to your first point, I'm reminded of Peter Alvaro's comment "the only good reason to design a programming language is to shape your understanding of the problem". He points out that he was the only user of his first PL, but he had no regrets of about that, because it shaped all his later thought in his research.

From http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5569 - Three Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Languages. Alvaro's talk led to an HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19428433
I think it is the same with articles like this article: people don't like to assign importance to the banal things, so they come up with all kinds of "clever tricks" explanations.

The banal thing is that IKEA is cheap for this level of quality. (and that this quality is good enough for most people).

> once an Ikea product hits the shelves, the company is militant about maintaining, or even reducing, its retail price

aka Jeff Bozos "your margin is my opportunity".

Being able to run the company with low margins are the best defence against competition.
I’ve been known to look at what I want online, check the store inventory and where it’s located and go in through the exit to get what I want and leave.
>fighting our war

Which group are they fighting for? It's a former Soviet state fighting Russia. Part of being an independent nation means being diplomatic and not pissing off your neighbor. The CSA attacked a US fort and now they don't exist either. That's just the way it goes.

If by "our" you mean free democracy, eh, Ukraine wasn't exactly the bastion of free democracy you think it is. There were plenty of coups and illegitimate governments in its short life. There's nuance here but a lot of people are ignoring it and just eating up propaganda.
Are you sure you’re actually following life extension research as opposed to some “quantified self” hacks?

I’ve personally starved and seen worms live much longer than they normally do, and regularly found worms in plates months after they should have all died. There’s nothing unnatural about an organism going into “survival” mode when food becomes scarce. It’s clearly something that benefits a species survival.
You disassemble them to move them? No wonder they don't last — I've found that IKEA products are solid & sturdy until the fasteners are removed and/or work their way out on their own (which doesn't happen too often, but can and does on frequently moved/shaken parts such as drawers or desks.
Where do you get that from? There's a large interconnected grid that helps balance production imbalances over many countries and regions. During hot summers, when the water level in French rivers is low, Germany exports renewable energy to France (Germany, btw, exports more electricity to France than it imports). In the winter with low wind, Germany imports electricity from France.

Why the hell do we have these highly polarized discussions whenever Germany, France and electricity production comes up?
Going on offense: Ukraine forms an ‘IT army,’ Nvidia hacks back
>For example, UK's and Germany's spending alone was almost as much as Russia

A lot of it goes to salaries, so in practice UK and Germany militaries have much less effective spend.
Don't they teach in business school to pay suppliers late? That's universal of any company with enough size (buying power) to get away with it.

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/suppliers/food-and-drink-manufac...
Putin is full of hot air.

I believe with how this is going, one of his advisors or generals will kill him before allowing him to actually fire nukes and initiate MAD.

These people might be ok letting him play war in the Ukraine but inviting annihilation from the rest of the world? I'm not so sure.

But then again, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of rational behavior coming out of Putin's Russia.
I agree 100%.

Ukraine deserves all the money that will go toward building back their economy when they finally win this war.
I think the excuse is economic. That’s a pretty big investment of time to please probably a very small subset of their users. That JS isn’t exactly hostile..
What exactly is 'too simple' about planning for the future? Do you also start shopping for homeowners insurance once the house catches on fire?

Last few decades have been 'relatively' peaceful for many parts of Europe, but given the almost 2 thousand year history of on and off warfare in Europe, nobody should have been surprised for the need for a country to defend itself or its neighbors.

What is 'simple' is assuming that because it is peaceful today, it will always be peaceful.
One can reason that engaging in an arms race is not a good idea neither. It may, on a systemic level accelerate things, and you may end up creating the world you wanted to prevent.

Moreover, everything seems obvious afterwards. But what if Putin had not started rampaging? The opportunity cost of spending 100B on defense if it wasn't needed, is huge. Integrated over decades, that sort of money is (part of) the difference between having a German economy and a Russian economy.

Also, investments age. It may make sense to make upgrades only when you need them.

Those are all maybes. I don't have the answer. But I think it'd good to have in mind that the world is more complex than that.
I'm with you.

We sometimes have no choice but to go to Ikea (in some furniture categories, in this country it's difficult-to-impossible to find options in between Ikea and excessively expensive) but we view it as a necessary evil, and always take the same approach: do a speed-run through the store (taking all shortcuts) until we hit the exact section we need. Sit, recline, feel, examine, decide... and then continue on the the next section.

The only area that sometimes defeats us is the kitchen-ware.
Not only did they lie about it - that's par for the course for that vile regime - but they put the perpetrators on national tv so that they and the hosts could smirk about the murder. That was my personal damascene moment realising the sort of people were in charge there.
These weapons need to be ready to retaliate with few minutes of advance in case of a first strike and Russia is engaging in an active war directly on it's border. Additionally, they are fully aware they are provoking nuclear powers right now and Bombers have been patrolling in neighboring countries since the war started. If they haven't been in alert until now, I don't know what Russia is doing.

Obviously I'm not an expert, but this looks like a symbolic gesture at best.
Yes, better late then never - but hopefully a lesson to remember down the road when it also doesn't seem important.
Decades of conditioning on moral superiority, and dehumanizing the "enemy" and people are ready to jump on command. Yes they have gone insane, but then again there have been plenty of people here constantly defending using nuclear bombs as a device of peace.
I think the working one was in that hangar (and is likely destroyed) and the incomplete one is elsewhere in Kyiv.

No official update atm: https://mobile.twitter.com/AntonovCompany/status/14979035254...
I went once during COVID and they had closed signs on all the shortcuts…
They wouldn’t, that’s the whole point of Russia demanding negotiations be held in Belarus. Russia doesn’t actually want to negotiate, they want to be able to blame Ukraine for not negotiating to strengthen their domestic case for war.
Agreed to cryptographic snake oil, but in regard to Russian-controlled would encourage to read on the biography of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov and him opposing Putin and how Telegram has tried to just outrun any state control.

In that sense, I believe Telegram is much more independent than fully undermined FB/Whatsapp... but for what does it matter? Any public group will have leakers And can potentially be undermined by any big enough actor... either you are in a small fully trusted and encrypted circle, or you are in a big and always public group with potentially enemy actors?
Zelenskyy said anywhere that isn't actually firing missiles at Ukraine right now. Which is a pretty big list.
Doesn't seem like your opinion on sweaters makes for generally applicable advice, given your health condition.

Prefacing every bit of advice with, but if you have a serious medical condition then please modify this advice to suit, will get pretty tedious after a while.

In general, many people could stand to lower their thermostats in cold climates by 2⁰ or so by wearing appropriate clothing.
>> stays warm thanks to the neighbors below me heating their apartment.

So you're basically stealing the heat from your neighbors :) You can see how that strategy falls apart if everyone starts doing it?
My daughter just told me the other day she wanted to try to make a Kotatsu. I had no idea what that was. I see the article mentions them!

Looked them up, priced them on Amazon (for a good looking one? ouch!), and then decided I will build my own version of one this year before next winter comes (I like woodworking).

And I will also build one for my daughter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu
Five years ago you would have been right. Today, many corporations in neighboring countries will gladly accept a million dollars in bitcoin as payment.
During the Finish Winter War (1940) the Soviet Union attacked Finland, a neutral country, after a false flag operation which they used as an excuse to attack. My grandfather, together with 8000 other Swedes went to help the Finns with the explicit support by the Swedish government. [1]

He was part of the Swedish Voluntary Air Force F19 [2], as an airplane mechanic. I still have some of his winter war gear and the medal he got.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_intervention_in_the_Wi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Regiment_19,_Finnish_Ai...
Given that we seem to have a nuclear accident every 10 years, which was always supposedly impossible to happen, it seems like we still haven't figured out all the edge cases. Combine that with that currently only ~500 reactors exist world wide, it paints a pretty bleak image.
At home, with my wife and kid.
This is more serious than you think. Putin thought that, by now, he'll be already controlling the capital and setting a new puppet government. He is clearly losing the war (he was looking for quick toppling of the government).

Putin is in a very bad situation right now. And having his nuclear "deterrents" in high-readiness doesn't help.
This is genius. I work in Logic and for whatever reason (right brain left brain prejudice?) never thought to look at the source files. Wondering is anyone has done similar things with Logic?
In the past we took such warnings seriously. I think that was wise.
One great part about their layout, however, is the placement of their grocery section — you can bypass everything, zip over there, & get out of the store quite quickly. And the grocery section is really the best part of what they offer, at least in the US, where many flavors, and some items, are all but unavailable elsewhere.
To be clear, this denazification stuff is russian propaganda.

>Also perhaps noteworthy is that the Proud Boys in Australia

To be extra clear, the 'everyone is nazis' stuff really falls apart when the supposed nazis are not possibly nazis. Ukraine's president is Jewish...

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Tarrio

That's the leader of the proud boys. He's very obviously not a nazi.

Feel free to disagree with their politics but there's absolutely not a shred of evidence this guy who isn't white is a nazi.

You did confirm something with me today. Australia's media has been infiltrated by Russian spies.

I must admit, I'm not really familiar with Australia's media besides this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlIrI80og8c

So what media do you follow that makes you think everyone is a nazi?
> it’s real people out there dying as you write this comment. A country sticking its head in the ground ignoring this to focus on internal matters is not a solid long term strategy.

ppl die every day, it's the quantity and reasons that should inform a strategy. (saying this as about 60 ppl died in a mining accident the other day)
>When we use the ac it lets hot air from the attic in, and worse all winter it is letting cold air from the attic in.

The one in my relative's house had louvers that would open when you turned the fan on and then close when you turned it off, so it sealed itself off when not in use.

They saved a fortune by not having to run the ac all summer.
Why pivot? Because during the pandemic especially their competition (existing and new) did pivot and now people expect smooth online ordering for things they never ordered before.

Long time friend of mine is an engineering director @ Article Furniture (hiring BTW), and companies like that seem to be doing well out of the transition. If I am now used to buying almost anything online, and can now buy sleek modern furniture online without hassle and with excellent logistics, why would I drag my ass to an IKEA?

I don't feel like COVID is much of a threat anymore at least not right now, but the thought of sharing stale air and maneuvering a shopping cart around a rats maze of junk still fills me with dread. The only thing that would get me there is the free EV charging, just cuz.
The owner could have exchanged it for crypto first before sending it, but maybe a buyer in the future pays more for the NFT now that it was used to support Ukraine. So it might result in them getting more money than they would have otherwise. The jury is still out on this.
I also love and hate Thunderbird. Feature-wise it's king but the biggest pain for me is lost folders. It happens once every couple of years but it's very frustrating, especially if the lost local folder is the only archive left from an old email account.

What I've learned is that the mbox format used by Thunderbird is not reliable for long term email storage. If something seems wrong with a mailbox in Thunderbird (e.g. a few lost or corrupted emails), do NOT compact it, or you will lose your email forever.

The alternative storage format, maildir, is in my experience much more reliable. I've used maildir and TUI email clients for 7 years without incidents, the only downside is the steep learning curve. Thunderbird has support for maildir but it's still experimental and I wouldn't advice anyone using Thunderbird+maildir for storing emails long term.
That's an interesting observation. I've often been amazed how bad Ikea's online purchasing system is - and maybe you're right, that it's designed to incentivise you to visit their stores.
Writing a programming language is easy, when compared to making an actually useful programming language, which again is easy, when compared to actually maintaining and developing a programming language.

My heuristic is that the difference in work required is around three orders of magnitude between creation, usefulness and maintenance.

That being said, I think every programmer would benefit greatly, just by attempting to write a language.
Truly depends on your expectations. If you hold being morally right above all sure, but in this case they will all take plenty of refugees and lives will be spared. That's a good thing to me.
I wonder if the size of the warehouse has some effect. In that size space, things look smaller and less substantial so you buy more or subconsciously feel more need.

I know I bought a TV and thought it looked ok / a bit small but then when I got home it was huge. I had measured prior to going and was between two sizes.
Ah, in that case that's true!
Wow, so you don't see any difference between man-babies protesting having to wear a piece of cloth on their faces and literal aggression by a foreign power?
I don't even know what you're talking about.

Russia created a gray zone war in the first place. Support in that area for Russia was reduced from 54% to 14% over the following 8 years.

That's one of the reasons they invaded instead of continueing the gray zone conflict.

If you are suggesting that Ukraine is at fault, you are ignoring basic facts.
> Russia-UK relations are extremely bad right now.

no wonder with Bellingcat ready to diminish every effort by Russia ... from the time RU shot down MH17, to when Brits harassed those Russian tourists who wanted to marvel at the spire, and most recently the whole Navalny poisoning where they stalked the assassins. This sort of attitude by UK isn't exactly helping relations :) /s
Mmmm, a cooling system and keyboard that blows warm air up through the keys would be fun.
Most people will not need or want to design or implement their own language.

However, it is not as hard as the author suggests. First, there are excellent tutorials, textbooks (Wirth, Dragon book) and tools available (lex, yacc, LLVM, CUP, Jflex, Lemon, ...).

You should give it a try just for the fun of learning.

You will not often _need_ to do it, as most capabilities can perhaps be realized as libraries (including network and mobile functionality mentioned by the author).

Once you design something useful, other people will likely chime in and advertise for your, write documentation etc.

Most complex software system incorporate compiler techniques or Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), for parsing configuration files or as a basis for building higher-level functionality (AutoLISP -> AutoCAD, ELISP -> Emacs).
Identify the really hot rooms, see if the windows are modern. If not, replace with double-pane, low-e windows.

Sorry, all I can think of that's maybe affordable.

As other's say though, closing off vents and such you might be able to manually re-balance the house. My last home had two "zones" and therefore two thermostats. But it required also some complicated baffles in the ventilation system to open and/or close the two zones independently. I didn't install it, it might have been pricey to do so.
it can be argued that more education would reduce the number of ppl that go along with "suboptimal" leadership and hence would make the world a better place, no?
> Edit: There is no such thing as "willingness to prosecute" in EU, all crimes must and will be prosecuted here (the officials of many states even said so).

What? This is nonsense. At least in Ireland, prosecutors have plenty of discretion not to push a case "because it is not in the public interest". And I'm quite sure other European countries don't all prosecute every alleged crime equally.
Just like germans were shown a better path and became undeniably democratic and a kind nation once their own despotic system was put to an end so can russians be free.

Russians for the most part simply dont know better. They are told by politicians and religious figures that and injustice has been made, that everyone hates them, that we are coming for their resources and that they are the only ones that can save them.

Their systems are clogged by putinist criminals, their courts are infested by mafias, while their culture is ideologically hijacked.

But the russians have it in them. They are part of european culture and have proven time and again they are.

Just like with nazi germans they are the first victim. I hold no grudge against russians. I think russia should be a developed, have a powerful economy and become a democratic free country. One can only hope.

Edit: grammar as i am writing this in a rush.
How wouldn't it be balanced?
Yes, they both play exactly the same. You just touch drag cards around. It's turn based, so you can take as much time as you need.
> avoided moving with any effort to online shopping

That's a strange thing to say, I've bought multiple pieces of furniture from them online, I thought they were great.