skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd add Dishonored and Deathloop to that list. It helps that they too have somewhat open worlds, cleverly gated. So there's a feeling of progression without feeling like you're on rails.
> Russia wants some independence in its decisions from external influence

Can you give an example of where Russia cannot take independent decisions?
Probably it's the NSA dressed as Anonymous, but honestly who cares. Keep DDOSing, whoever is behind this.
Just look at Wikipedia founders and CEO are Russian.
Apple Maps does actually provide directions like "go through this traffic light" and "at the stop sign, turn left". It's significantly better than Google.
What are the system requirements for a personal setup? I mean

> 4GB RAM is the required minimum memory size and supports up to 500 users

How far down does it scale to just a handful of users though? (usual free vps are about 1GB, and are normally used to run other things as well)

EDIT: found it, unfortunately not as much as I would have hoped (but not unexpected)

> Minimum 2GB of RAM + 1GB of SWAP

> You should be able to run GitLab with up to 5 developers with individual Git projects no larger than 100MB.

https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/memory_constrained_...
As a side note, for extremely small files, the actual file content is written directly the $MFT entry, the size limit is around 700 bytes for 1024 bytes $MFT records and around 3750 for 4096 bytes $MFT record.

Some reference, JFYI:

https://www.forensicfocus.com/forums/general/mft-resident-da...
Journey into Generative Art: Follow the Algorithm
While I agree in principle, the main issue I've seen many times is this usually rolls down to apply to engineering only. "Oh you devs can't fix that bug or refactor that without talking to 'the team'". "Why is that architect suggesting and interfering with 'the team'"? etc, but then UX and product have their own planning, initiatives, roadmaps, etc that are totally off the books and never discussed by this so called team.
In theory you could connect via Ethernet directly to the Hue Bridge and turn the lights off that way, but at that point you can as well fix the other issues.

My main argument for Philips Hue instead of alternatives was that they can be controlled even if AWS or some other networks are down.
My team went to gitLab after phabricator maybe 2 years ago. Works great here
chess.com

there is also a 4 version gameplay which is fun
I like reasonably-paced RPGs and strategy games. Some of the recent good ones I've played:

1. Civilization 5 (I know it's not too recent but I haven't gotten around to trying Civ 6 yet.)

2. Pillars of Eternity 1&2 - a party-based RPG with a great storyline and several hours of gameplay.

3. Darkest dungeon - turn-based RPG with really challenging and very different gameplay. Mindless slashing and magicking won't get you through this one.

Sometimes I also go back to the console-era classics of the RPG genre. My favourites - Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger and the Shining Force series.
I suppose Ukraine invaded itself, too?
That isn't really the case. Jains are of all kinds. From monks to businessmen. He was probably hired because of his IIT + Harvard degree, not his surname.
The West could win the war in Ukraine in three moves:

1. Provide any deserting Russian soldiers with refugee status and $3,000 in cash

2. Enable willing fighters from accross the world to reach Ukraine to defend it

3. Provide Ukraine with real SAM systems like patriots

Thats it, thw war would be over in a week without NATO firing a single bullet.
Generally speaking, yes (but again this is only Poland's perspective). Tbh you can't take anything for granted, being a NATO member does not guarantee that another member won't stab you in the back one day, but it makes it less likely.
There is a lot of pressure put on Germany right now regarding SWIFT.

The exclusion from SWIFT will hit Germany hard, as it will also mean the end of gas delivery. The resulting outages, rising gas prices, the profiteering of the new gas vendors will also have an affect of public support for the sanctions.

It will also be a boost for the alternative systems, that China already built.

In the end, this might backfire really hard.

I do however also not have any better ideas. I'm happy that I'm not the one having to make that decision.
But in all likelihood Russia still wins easily from Ukraine. Even if at a slightly higher cost than hoped
Or when it's framed as "global competitors playing dirty games"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt3Zv-e4n1M
It sounds to me like you want an inexpensive basestation and a fully-open source software stack (at all layers) to run on it. And you want to set it up to run in a open band like 3.5 GHz. I like this vision!

BTW, WiMax is obsolete :-)
Why should we be productive?
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.

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.

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.
What's "deserved" is subjective, but I'll bite. People from countries that are fiscally irresponsible and have tight capital controls "deserve" access to an asset that, while volatile, gives them a better hedge than hyperinflation and can't effectively be blocked by their dysfunctional government. See Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and citizens of any country that has a black market exchange rate for dollars/euros(Argentina, Lebanon, Turkey). You could make the case that this is something for international organizations like the UN/IMF to solve, but, they don't on any timescale that's meaningful to the person whose weekly paycheck buys less bread every week. They already have access to the same information and websites we do(with a VPN), accessing a globally distributed and decentralized ledger is as fundamental as their right to access twitter/facebook.

Americans and Europeans have very limited experience with hyperinflation and volatile currencies, plus we have robust banking/fin-tech sectors so of course we're more prone to scoff at the problems cryptos will solve.
Either go with a hosted solution or take the time to learn linux server admin. Linux hasn't changed much in the past 15 years, and I don't think it will change much in the coming years either. With web stuff you have to keep up with new developments, but linux is very stable and boring by comparison. There's a learning curve, but taking the time to understand how linux really works is totally worth it.

You'll want to follow some linux hardening guides, set up a firewall, set up fail2ban, set up full disk encryption, backups, and some other things.
While I agree with the sentiment that at the end of the day none of this would've happened without the Russian aggression, it does still matter because intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. I'm not saying that's what happened here but let's be clear that actions have serious meaning in war. This line of reasoning reminds me of the idea that we shouldn't care about the origin of covid because it's out there and the origin isn't going to make much difference at this point. But I think a lot of people do care about these details because they might have great historical significance.
The idea of drilling deep geothermal to repurpose existing fossil plants is an elegant one. I imagine others have thought of this before, but it was new to me. Being able to take over the existing equipment (turbines, power transmission connections) seems appealing.

Of course, it all depends on how expensive the drilling process is vs. the existing capital asset in the turbines, but maybe you could hit a price point where the repurposed geothermal plant is way cheaper than new solar / gas builds in the 2030s? This would be a transitional tailwind, just when we need it. Down the road, these plants would become more expensive because you'd also need to build new turbines/transmission lines. And at that time maybe solar or fusion is a cheaper solution (or not, who knows). But this could really help with the transition away from fossil fuels, if it was delivered next decade or two.

A question - does deep drilling like this have any downsides, as fracking does? I'm guessing it's less bad since you're not pushing pressurized fluid into the bedrock, instead you're just making a pipe that contains the water.
At least on cars there's usually so much mass and aggregate mechanical sloppiness present you probably wouldn't notice.

The R1 didn't so much as accelerate as it teleported at wide throttle angles in 1st gear, combined with no squishy rubber isolation bits adding mechanical latency to the system. The phenomenon was very apparent and nerve-wracking in the right conditions.
> Yet, with the exception of FAccT, I have seen practically no serious discussion in the ACM community of its relationship with surveillance-capitalism corporations. For example, the ACM Turing Award, ACM's highest award, is now accompanied by a prize of US$1 million, supported by Google.

Indeed. Let's take a look at who sponsors the some of the top ACM conferences:

The Web - Facebook[0]

CHI - Facebook[1]

KDD - Facebook[2]

CCS - Facebook[3]

You get the drift...

This one is especially amusing: The AIAA/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society - Brought to you by Facebook[4] and Google Deepmind[5].

Not to mention how much money Facebook gives to academic research labs. Funding PhD students and academic research is laudable, but the things they've funded over the last decade have gone directly to improve their surveillance efforts. It's been said that the greatest tragedy in computing during the 2010s was the number of brilliant minds devoted to ranking ads on web pages.

And it's not just that it's a few of them, and that there are enough resources to multitask and research all the things. No, it is a zero sum game. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon etc. suck up all of the available oxygen in any room. Their concerns are what everyone focuses on, at the exclusion of other things that could serve us better.

[0] https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2021/index.html

[1] https://kdd.org/kdd2021/sponsors

[2] https://chi2021.acm.org/for-sponsors-exhibitors-and-recruite...

[3] https://www2022.thewebconf.org

[4] https://www.aies-conference.com/2021/

[5] https://www.aies-conference.com/2022/
> My guess is he’s flawed in many areas…

That's a dead giveaway of being human.
But which bank are you trusting in a time of war? We've seen countries have the power to subvert savings accounts, e.g. Greece limited bank withdrawls to £5000/month. Do you trust these banks more than a distributed ledger? This is a question that needs real thought and evaluation, and crypto might be a useful option. Diversification is important.
You really have to define 'good enough'. E.g. Can handle 1000 Hz interrupt rate, and the time from firing of the interrupt timer to the time your first instruction executes is xxx microseconds. (this is important if you are doing e.g. velocity estimates from position information -- you need accurate 'dt'; therefore this time should be minimized. There are other ways to deal with jitter, but minimizing this is best.)

I turned BSD 4.3 unix into RT on a VAX 780 by using an external KW-11P clock on highest priority interrupt, have the RT code run in the kernel, and otherwise, timesharing was still going while we were running the robot -- although it was pretty sloooow. There was a big memory pool in kernel space that stored robot variables, so when the robot fell over, we would press a button which would 'freeze' the circular buffer, and then the user-space code would do an ioctl() to receive a copy of that memory pool (it was too hard to share the same pool between kernel / user space -- or maybe I was too lazy, and the solution found was 'good enough' ;-) )

You can see this in action here: https://youtu.be/mG_ZKXo6Rlg?t=34 yes, I'm sitting 'driving' the bot.
Right so other crypto is just as good if not better for this?
https://translate.google.com/?sl=de&tl=en&text=Pullis%20gege...

> Sweaters against Putin

XD
For more context I believe this is the article the quote is from: https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/11/240379-the-benefits...

At my company, Zerocracy, we practice a #NoAltruism policy. We, quite literally, think only about ourselves and our personal profit. This might sound a bit harsh. Isn't it better to play nice and try to appease your clients? In an ideal world, maybe. But here's what we have learned about clients: they also practice #NoAltruism.

Clients want to keep costs low, and if they can, they will pass costs onto outside companies. That's why we decided to "get lazy" and only do what we are paid to do. We won't go out of our way to improve a project, refactor, or fix code unless we are getting paid for it.
Is your main goal in life not to maximize stockholder profits? How strange!
With the amount of chaos happening around I don't think anybody knows for sure. It's not taken yet, that's all I know from my brother who lives in the neighboring area (he has more important things to do than missile identification though...)
Hello from central Kyiv, Ukraine. I have had zero internet disruptions.

The Ukrainian government has specifically announced today (in response to Russian propaganda)they will not disconnect any internet or communications - if there is an outage, don't be concerned - it will be repaired asap.

Because, Russia is indeed losing what they have started, and Ukraine is winning.
There are videos today with Russian Pantsir-S anti-defense in Kyiv.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1497532522556624903
I think it's quite silly to turn off nuclear power plants, rely on Russian gas, and sit in the cold when we could simply not do that.
I think these comments get downvoted for the same reason that comments that "don't fit the official narrative" about the moon landings would get downvoted.
> maybe it wasn't squeezed out by an embargo, but it shows that people can overthrow a government.

Absolutely, I don't question that. And economic issues can be a powerful force toward revolution.

But foreign sanctions always seem to strengthen the regime and provide a convenient excuse even for economic issues that aren't caused by the sanctions. Sanctions seem to make revolution far less likely, which isn't the desired outcome at all.
I think assuming money laundering was a fair assumption as the article only describes fraudulent activity and nothing else on the matter.
Google removes search results because it goes against scientific consensus
Forgive my ignorance, but does, for example, ransomware payments in, for example, bitcoin make the bitcoin "dirty"?

The only context I have heard "dirty" coins in is if they have been stolen from a crypto platform, or I think stolen by a influential crypto bro.
The worst thing you can do during a war is suppress communication between the two sides.
How can a Bitcoin transaction be fraudulent?

They are irreversible and if the Bitcoin is stolen that's not the merchant's problem.

The whole point of Bitcoin is to eliminate the possibility of chargebacks and thus the need for merchant to care about whether the buyer is in good faith and whether the money is stolen.
You have literally no idea how wide the geological destabilisation would reach.
Since the OP fixed their post to include units, 3ºC seems like a lot depending on where one's starting off.

E.g. we keep our house at ~15ºC. So 12ºC / 54ºF would be really pushing it.
The adverts are at the beginning. Just skip forward if you don’t want to listen to them.

These podcasts are actually very dense with information once you get past the adverts.
That rate is for the 4WD version. The 2WD version has a fatality rate of 28.

Now I'm going to assume that adding the 4WD option to your sedan isn't that good at increasing safety. Yeah, more driving wheels does improve control and will probably reduce fatalities. But from 28 dpm to 0 is going to also be attributable to statistical noise. (Case in point, IIHS' 2014 statistics have the 4WD version at 25, and the 2WD at 11).

Also note that the death rate is in terms of deaths per million registration years and only includes the driver of the car. So for the C-Class, which sold about 80k units in 2014, one driver death in a 3-year span would be a '4' on the rate. The intervals on this data are very wide, and every year relatively low-volume cars will score a '0' just by statistical chance.
What is the point then?

White collar workers just flee the country: See Venezuela, Iran, etc. Even Russian Revolution itself is an example of this trend.

When white collar workers become "inconvenient" they get purged as enemies of the people. See Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia. He had brutally purged roughly 25% of his own population, far more in relative numbers than Stalin, Hitler or Mao did, yet he still had been in power for decades, even after Vietnam invaded after massive refugee crisis.

Iran had violent protests in the past few years, but the protesters just got killed and that was it.
Why do you assume the missile is AA and not air-to-ground or ground-to-ground?

(genuine question - are there not other kinds of missiles in use?)
The problem is if you pay Google for "it," you're still treated as a statistic, same as the non-paying customers. It's deep in the corporate DNA. Google Workspace isn't free, and neither is the rest of GCP.

I've had multi-million dollar engagements with Google, and you're just as vulnerable to this stuff as the free ones. I've had things escalated through one of Eric Schmidt's direct reports, and I was still vulnerable.

And as a footnote, I do subscribe to Google One on my soon-to-be-terminated Workspace account. I'm not sure why Google is terminating a service I paid for.

If you pay Google, you can talk to human beings, perhaps, but they're no more empowered to solve your problem than their web pages.

Microsoft and Amazon have always provided real support. Things get escalated to engineers who fix things if need be. Things also don't get whack-a-moled for no reason; they're aware that bankrupting my business isn't good for their business, even if the short-term ROI on sustaining a legacy API or something is negative.
There is a point where "simpler" is so laughably inadequate when compared to the alternative that dismissing the comment makes sense. You lose code review, integrated CI, and will need quite a lot of time to manage this entire solution anyway.
No, you are advancing a right wing position while trying to distance yourself from the political alignment that represents and got mad I called you on it.

The reasons for the quick and pervasive spread of anti-vax positions on the right are complex and nuanced but "it's just a reasonable response to things progressive say" is so insufficient an explanation it's comical. Like it doesn't hold up to even a couple seconds of scrutiny, so there must be some other reason you're presenting it?
ENergy conversion equipment can't easily be re-purposed for geothermal. The temperatures are usually much lower, and the working fluids are often hydrocarbons instead of steam.
To complete the economic picture, it would also be helpful to know how much gas Europe imports from Russia every year, and how much more expensive it would be to buy that same amount of gas from other suppliers.

For example, if other sources of gas are twice as expensive, then Europe might want to import half as much from alternative suppliers as it does from Russia currently. If, on the other hand, other sources are only 10% more expensive, then reducing consumption by about 10% would produce an economically neutral result. (The only difference would be that people would have X amount less thermal energy, and would be Y degrees colder on average as a result).
i don't know about ukraine, but i live in venezuela and i can't do an international wire transfer here. so some people can't rely on banks, but i probably can rely on someone around here wanting to take my cash or car or house and give me bitcoin if i needed to go away. i use localbitcoins a lot of buy local currency in exchange for bitcoin... and i'm not a "crypto person", but it happened to be super useful for me here in that way
These are too broad areas of knowledge to event start answering your question until you provide clear goals — what do you need it for?
Just wanted to note that the acute accent over the и (in both Russian and Ukrainian) indicates the stress and is only used in fairly narrow contexts such as dictionary entries.

Normally it's just Киев/Київ.
Then what's the point of an "Anonymous" Twitter account?
The cars I've driven with this feature have also been quite quick to retard the throttle and quite slow to advance it.

But things like this are certainly just one more reason that I do not ride liter bikes.
Your setup could also have a security issue.
If you sell lipstick or Gucci bags to Russia you probably get paid 30-90 days after delivery.

Same for iphones or cars.

Even if you sell Steam games it might take few days until you receive the money (assuming you dont park it in Russia for tax reasons).

An Iran style ban on sales is much better than this SWIFT blockade.
Show HN: Req, an HTTP Scripting Language
Makes me a bit uncomfortable that it just uses my machine to start the DDoS:ing without asking first.
Author here, I wrote up a blog post explaining what the language is and why I created it, https://andrewpillar.com/programming/2022/02/26/req-an-http-....
Startups and Macro Risk
Soldiers do not go into action with their phones. That's OPSEC 101.

That's why we see so many smartphone recordings made by civilians, but not by the military.
Makes me wonder whether the original comment was satirical but I doubt it
Thanks, I was just wondering about that.
From what I've heard it's a Buk-M1 with a failing guidance system that was used to intercept a Russian missile attack on military infrastructure. Why it failed is guesswork but missing maintenance/deterioration is rather likely.
Women can't have military training unless it is compulsory? And all women in the Ukraine are born there?

Your attempts to explain away bias, are not very convincing.

Not to mention the fact:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/12/27/ukraine-requi...

and

https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/meet-ukraines-gun-toting-femal...

But yeah, sure, it's never sexist to think a woman can't possibly be doing something, right?

Women are not vulnerable. Stop with the shifting sands, attempt to reframe the statement.

Women are not vulnerable.
The Russians say: It would not have happened when Ukraine was not turned into a potential NATO country.
The Russians genuinely see it as a security issue. Ukraine is becoming a threat once part of the NATO. In some ways understandable. In the end we are talking about two enemies ,the west and Russia having a pretty serious conflict. Neither is good or bad. Unfortunately propoganda is extremely efficient these days. Either side have full support.
You should start by checking if the flow temperature is set correctly

Many EU gas boilers are set too high, such that the boilers don't operate in condensing mode. You could save 6-8% gas by doing this:
https://www.theheatinghub.co.uk/articles/turn-down-the-boile...

Octopus Energy has some further tips:
https://octopus.energy/blog/winter-workout-gas-saving-tips/
Telegram is based in UK and UAE. One of the founder is now a French citizen. Telegram has been blocked in Russia in the past : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_Telegram_in_Russia
How do I drive my gas boiler with nuclear power?
Yeah a prize like this will be close to 50%. If you’re w2 remember that your employer covers like 25% of your tax burden. So when you self employee or win an award like this you end up paying that tax plus the tax your more used to.