skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The environmental impacts of cryptocurrencies have been discussed at length here on HN and elsewhere.

The environmental impacts of cryptocurrency are not worse than any other economic activity, because any human activity requires energy. You are picking and choosing which activities are "bad for the environment" for purely political reasons.

> reining in war crimes is a public good, and sanctions are not yours to violate

Every war is a crime. These "sanctions" are also a crime and they are ruining the lives of innocent civilians who have nothing to do with the decisions of their government.

You are willing to give up your own freedom and comfort for the war effort and trying to enlist everyone else into your war.
True, I just think apple doesn’t want to be the cause/enabler of these kinds of things.
I just skimmed the paper. Right in the end of the discussion, the authors write:

Our model provides a rigorous demonstration that continuous thermal power can be supplied by a Brownian particle at a single temperature while in thermodynamic equilibrium, provided the same amount of power is continuously dissipated in a resistor. Here coupling to the circuit allows electrical work to be carried out on the load resistor without violating the second law of thermodynamics.

I don't find this very clear at all, but it appears to contradict the claim that the setup could be used for energy harvesting.
I know you think you’re making a “cynical but rational” kind of argument here, but man, this comment is a huge fucking bummer.

You’re acknowledging that you have the both the ability and the knowledge to change (your small part of) a shitty system, and instead you’re pulling up the ladder behind you. That sucks.

You should not let yourself feel good about that, even if it’s “economically rational” or whatever.

You’re making things just a little worse for everyone but yourself — actually, even for yourself, too — and trying to excuse it with “well, that’s just the way things work!”
Dear Sergei (and Sundar),

I'm sure you wouldn't want anything to happen to your nice friends, relatives, and Google/Alphabet employees. I can assure you that they will remain completely safe, particularly if they are in Russia. If you could put in a good word to restore our propaganda channels, it would be greatly appreciated.

-Vladimir
Maybe you can see changes but you can’t see the actual number. The people being polled and the pollsters themselves are incentivized to lie.

They poisoned Navalny and then killed the doctor who treated him. If I am Russian living in Russia and I am asked by a stranger if I support Navalny, I don’t see any problem lying.
Now if only they would fix TIMESTAMP: https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=1872
Given the example quoted, not all that far. One article talked about Strasbourg having some minor wobbles, not the entire region. They would have surely seized on the sensationalism of reporting a wider impact.

Of course, there's no clear border. Wobbles will be biggest at the epicentre and get smaller further out.

In any case, you just do the actuarial math, and figure out how much it would cost to wobble-prove buildings in the area in question, and stick that into your cost benefit analysis. It's not like other forms of energy generation are completely without downsides either.
and then apply that information on-the-fly to questions they won't know in advance

But that's the whole point of LC grinding: to claw your way through enough of these problems until, lo and behold... there ends up being an 80 percent chance that any given "medium" problem thrown at you -- is one that you have in fact seen and worked on, already.

I'm just guessing at the 80 percent figure. But it seems pretty clear from the cult of LC grinding that one of the goals of this strategy is not just to learn general techniques for solving these problems -- but to get a significantly high percentage of these problems under your belt already, or nearly so.

While also learning to deploy the just the right grunts and moans and pauses to make your interviewer think you're seeing the problem for the first time, of course.
> The Ukrainian representative to the UN actually threatened the safety of Indian students in a sneaky manner when India abstained during the UNSC vote.

What a load of bullshit.

Russians are literally bombing residential districts, this is what he was obviously refering to when he asked India to vote against the invasion.
This is by far the best solution but too many game devs think keeping the source secret gives them a competitive advantage.
Sure, so we have it better the North Korea, for now. I should just count my blessings and allow authoritarianism to creep in?
Coreboot 4.16 Released – Fast, secure and flexible open source firmware
Can you give us a few examples of the twitter accounts banned for being anti-putin?
Borscht is Ukrainian, not Russian!
Not sure what your point is. Futures on currencies are basically spot aside for some interest rate differences.

The point is, if the future goes down 30%, the spot is basically down 30%. Any other affects are like 3rd order at that point.
>I took my first programming in C course despite having done some python work in the past.

Most stuff isn't done in C anymore. C is waay less safe then python and that's despite type checking.

Most jobs don't require C or C++. I would say because of this most programming jobs are easier now.

>You can see that its actually pretty difficult because brand new junior devs can take upwards of 6 months to be useful,

This means it's easy. 6 months is incredibly short. Mastery of anything usually requires a couple years.
"Mainnet" is a well established technical term, universal across the blockchain space.

The chain names (e.g. "Beacon") are basically version codenames - think of them like the "Buster" in "Debian Buster".

"The Merge" is the (arbitrary) name they gave to a specific future event, because people like to be able to easily refer to things they're talking about. I assume the previous name was discarded due to political correctness.
> You don't have to stan for Putin to see that US and NATO (i.e. the US) have a huge amount of responsibility for what's happening right now.

Woah - how huge an amount are you talking about ? Higher than Russia / Ukraine ?

The Russian elites seemed to be doing great - they own Aluminum companies, soccer teams, Putin built his new palace - why the need to invade a neighbor country ?
Ask HN: What happens to Russia if Putin disappears?
What happens if suddenly he realizes that he is losing the war and decides to disappear?
One thing to note here is that the ratio of the (distance to nearest galaxy)/(diameter of galaxies) is much smaller than (distance to nearest star)/(diameter of solar system). This is why galaxy collisions are significant but stellar collisions mostly are not.
According too this article:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russians-withdraw-2413-...

Russians withdrew 111 billion rouble ($1.3 billion) on Wednesday and Thursday. That's a marathon.
How so? Isn't it just converting the effect of thermal energy to electric energy? Presumably, there is no Brownian motion at absolute zero, and the actual output would drop well above that temperature.
longevity research is 30 years of total garbage.

healthspan research is clear.
1) inflammation is a natural process that results in wear on your body
2) lower inflammation
3) doing so is different for everyone. behavior is at the core of this process. including eating, sleeping, living a life of non-excessive stress, avoiding and treating major disease, maintaining healthy mouth, and moderate exercise.

so in a word---a lot , but not all , of chinese and eastern medical philosophy has been epidimilogically confirmed.

all the new crap about 'caffiene' 'metformin' and other bullshit being good for you is just that, garbage.

what isn't , is that sometimes some people do have deficiencies of insulin sentitvity, or vitamin D, or other things---like they used to have scurvy ( vitmain C defficiency) -----so these things have been figured out and in no way relate to logevity only healthspan.

the annoying stupid thing about longevity idiots is that if a set of practices and health observation and treatments coudl guarantee living a life of perfect healthy until 100 years old----(assuming any rich person coudl afford this) ---this would yield a total revolution in human affairs for the rest of civilizations existence.

longevity is the dream of fools
guaranteed healthspan is the dream of realists.

no one on hackernews is over 60 yet, and this is why all you idiots think with your brains, instead of your hearts. you dont' talk to 80 and 90 year olds, and if you do you dont' empathize with the path towards aging sickness and death. but you will if you don't die healthy and young, because that is what happens to you . guaranteed.

and you will only realize how stupid the idea of living forever is, when you eventually get sick and just want to live healthy one more year. you will realize that feels like forever when it's you. but it's only one more year.

virtually no one lives past 110. focussing on pushing that limit is stupid and longevity research has yielded very little interesting results applicable to other areas.

suspended animation and metabolism research , are , however , intereseting and they are fundamental biological areas of exploration and not 'goal oriented' towards the philsopher's bone. cause that's what it is. a skull bone.
China's only surprise out of this is seeing how weak Russia's military is and how lacking it is operationally and in terms of tech. It's a mess. Putin made a sizable mistake in letting the world see it; it would have been far better to retain the fearsome mirage (ie he should have just focused entirely on taking Donetsk and Luhansk, concentrated the attack solely there; their military could have managed that).

Russia's military being in that condition opens up interesting opportunities for China in the next decade or two. 10-15 more years and China will be far beyond Russia militarily.
How often do you reboot linux? I go months between reboots, and that's with crappy hardware.
To be specific there is no exchange or benchmark price for forex. When you trade forex you are directly dealing with the provider of the other side of the price vs a matching engine provided by a disinterested third party.

There are multi-dealer platforms that abstract this but you are still directly covered by your contract with the partner counterparty.

Most direct api integrations and multi-dealer platforms implement circuit breakers but they aren’t regulated like equities or futures exchanges.

Compare that to the link which is a forex futures exchange which is subject to cftc regulations around circuit breakers.
The difference with AWS (eg
EC2) is the people who run their workload in a few hours on an instance is the minority. Most people are going to have a base amount of servers. The hourly billing tries to encourage customers to spend more to scale their resources with demand of their service. Maybe having an extra N nodes on stand by isn't affordable for a customer, but you they could afford those extra N nodes during peak hours.
Nope, the quantum dynamics of individual atoms of carbon cause the buckling, no gradient needed. It doesn't make macro sense. I'm leaving the door all the way open for some alternative explanation, but so far the science seems solid. It needs to be replicated and scaled up.

The weird bit is the cooling while not passing current. Does the system as a whole have a tendency to cool, and why does removing energy as electricity not cool it down? Is the quantum buckling effectively separated from the heat of the system? Particles are weird.
It looks like this it is great for FPGA.
You wouldn’t actually notice anything. When a large object is far away, all the light coming from it is concentrated into a smaller area than when it is up close. This means that the actual surface brightness of the object doesn’t change as it gets closer: the light appears brighter due to the closer distance, but spread out over a larger area. The Andromeda galaxy is already spread over an area of the sky wider than the full moon, and you’ve never noticed it; only the core is visible as a very faint star which turns fuzzy when you look at it in a telescope. You will remain essentially invisible for most of the rest of that 5 billion years. The shape of the visible portions of the Milky Way may slowly change over the last few hundred million years (and for long after), but if you’re nearsighted or live in a city then you’ve probably never seen that either. Obviously even if you could see them, the changes would all be spread out over such a long period that you would have trouble noticing anything. You can find some sped–up simulations on Youtube though.
The steam deck has the potential to be huge. I want to game. I have a mac book and I don’t have a dedicated to desk to play on even if the game selection on mac was good. I don’t want a bulky console cluttering my living room. The steam deck fills this niche perfectly, just like the Switch, but with a different catalog. I hope they can iron out the bugs.
FGM-148 Javelin Missile
I'm surprised by how little small (civilian) drones are used in general. Simply having the ability to see much further than your troops are at seems like it would be very useful. Perhaps batteries are a problem?
I think the point was avoiding exposing things to the public outside of your lab. If everything has an ipv6 address, you need to concern yourself with firewalling things off yourself.
I've been playing with it for running PowerShell lambda, which is maybe even more unusual than running it for just C# or F#. The only thing I don't like is that the runtime really starts choking with less than 256m of memory. It can still complete, but it will be much slower. Slow enough that it's actually cheaper in memory-seconds to just give it the extra memory.
I think losing both would be a net positive.
Which statement are you referring to?

I do agree with the commenter who said that we don't need to earthquake proof agricultural land itself. Especially not against minor wobbles. Fields just lie there.

(Just to avoid confusion: any buildings close to agricultural land need to be considered, of course. I am talking purely about the fields.)
Well obviously they spent a while coming to this conclusion so it's nice to tell people about what you learned. This article serves a couple purposes for a number of different audiences:

- For themselves, It documents their rationale and represents the first time they articulate this design decision to the public. It may help them calibrate how they talk about their engineering choices.

- For their customers, it signals something about their product. Rust has a reputation for being a language that can create memory safe systems, which increases reliability and robustness of software. This article serves the purpose to signal to their customers that the company values memory safety as part of their engineering practices.

- For their current and potential employees they signal about their corporate culture. They mention soon into the piece that they choice this particular piece of technology is welcoming to trans individuals, which might be interesting to know if you wanted to work there.

- For other CTOs it provides an anecdote about their experience and decisions, so hopefully other companies can make better decisions. Creating a climate where business decisions are communicated openly and honestly I think is a positive for all businesses.

I dunno, seems like a fine article to me with plenty to say and lots of people to say it to.
Not to enforce border patrol. They are used against enemy combatants. If you are against weapons that kill at a distance, you might as well complain about the invention of rock throwing. Regardless, that is an entirely different situation.

I don't see a problem here. There are remote controlled cameras surveilling the border. That's a long way off from remote controlled guns patrolling the border. And an even longer way off from autonomous guns patrolling the border.

The only reason guns have been legally used at the border is when an agent's life is in danger. Agents can't just shoot a migrant to stop them from crossing the border. So what good is a gun going to do on a drone dog? You're just making up non-existent problems.
I don't know if Ukraine will win, but I can't see this as anything but a blunder. The only reason Ukraine is getting this much aid is because of these blunders. If everything went well, they would be receiving a fraction of the military aid.

Instead, you have the EU giving Ukraine fighter jets, among other things.

So, maybe this was their plan. But it's still a blunder since I doubt their plan was to coax the EU into giving multi-million dollar pieces of military equipment to the Ukraine. And if it was, I don't see the upside here.
I agree with you, but for me, maybe because I don’t have much hair on my head, adding a knit cap certainly helps.
The total hashpower of a coin adjusts to the point where the total cost to deliver that hashpower is just below the total mining reward.

Thus, a coin that issues $50k worth of coin per day will have $50k/day worth of hash power. If difficulty goes above that, mining becomes unprofitable.
Calling them “neutral” is a mistake. At least from Putin’s perspective.
Nothing about this makes sense. You have misinterpreted the comment you are replying to.
Can we truly know how much Putin is popular when protesters gets violently reprimanded and oppositions poisoned? Asked under those conditions, I am pretty sure I also would "support" Putin.
It's also just not a matter of cost but supply. Even if you had the money for enough batteries to meet storage requirements for a fully green grid there is almost no chance you could manufacture enough cells.

For the forseeable future all cell production is going to go into cars because Tesla has fat enough margins to absorb increases in battery costs while utility scale storage can't.
Because to truly own something, you should also be able to modify it to do what you want.
Yea as others have said, it's a shared nothing request model, but also single threaded, with built in memory and time limits, basically exactly how lambda runs (you can of course share memory, and multithread if you want to but its pretty uncommon practice in php).
> another good analogy is vampirism

No, that's a great analogy. I can neither condone nor dispute it on rhetorical grounds, but aesthetically it is rad.
Zelensky would probably press it for you.
For some engineers that would be bliss. They just want to churn through tickets and not have to talk to anyone (or very little).
(2010)

I was wondering what Google Buzz was :)
Yes, clear, they were occupied already, just not officially.
Yes, I specifically mean in excess of what CISA is already doing openly.
I used to love Adobe FrameMaker. I was surprised to see it is still available. We were using it for tech pubs writing 30 years ago, if memory serves. I thought it was much more usable for that purpose than Microsoft Word.
Have you followed the events at all? He is high on his own propaganda and surrounded by incompetent yes-men, their tactics and logistics are a joke, long-term strategy is 100% bad news for Russia. At this point it's even questionable that their nukes work.
Not the OP but our product falls into the 'specialty engineering software' category. We build an enterprise ready tool for teams working with Apache Kafka (https://kpow.io) and offer an hourly price.

The deliverable is a single docker container (not a desktop app!) and right from the start, nearly three years now, we've been selling on the AWS Marketplace for 0.16c/hr:

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-5jvke6codhrsm

We have a couple of pricing models, but on the consumption based model we stick to that clear, transparent hourly price. It's good for customers that choose that model, and good for us because we're engineers and we don't care for opaque enterprise sales practices.

We do a fair number of enterprise sales too, they require a negotiation because metering usage at an enterprise level is rarely practical. Even then the price is some calculation of usage/value + support. Keeps it simple, lets us attack a big market as a small team and stay focused on technical delivery, shortens the sale/negotiation time, and our customers know they're basically paying the same price as anyone else.
Al Cap had it right. Al Capp did it well

This reads like a bag of cliches that a high school student would come up with while trying to mimic mad magazine.
Food for thought.

What would be the endgoal when it comes to energy supply for Europe if sanctions keep mounting up?

Do you think Europe will innovate and join hands together with come up with better self contained sustainable renewable energy solutions? Or would you think this will ramp up arctic drilling?

My opinion: Let's first go beyond Europe. look at COP(s). Since the Paris agreement, developed country has failed to provide funding for the climate funds but more surprising is that they failed to show initiative to transfer technology for renewable energy production in developing and developed country. This shows the European and the US government has a tendency not innovate or not to share. The developing and LDC countries governments are bound to invest in fossil fuel plants.

Coming back to Europe we see the entire continent significantly reliant on one single country for their energy and fossil fuels. There is only one 'viable' and immediate solution, Arctic drilling.

If the effectiveness of sanctions have taught me anything, get them hooked into capitalism then use that as stick. Controlling arctic energy resources will essentially make Europe less reliant on Russia if both the United States and Canada starts heavily investing in it. It might not surprise you when it happens, but when it happens we will convince ourselves this was the right decision.
After another wave of sanctions, many Putin associates remain untouched
Horse shit. It is not irresponsible for a leader to motivate a country's populous when that country is under attack. Are you saying that any population should just give up when someone else wants to occupy their home? No matter what might happen to them and their families anyway?
A direct conversion of thermal energy into electric energy would cool down the entire system. Since electric energy carries no entropy, this would reduce the overall entropy of the system. This is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics.
The argument is clear, if any country on the Security Council thought Russia to not be the legitimate successor to the USSR on the Security Council then they would have raised the issue. Not only was it accepted then, its' been accepted for 30 years.

Only now do you have some idiots on social media trying to start WW3 by suggesting they be removed.
What existing sane license would be free comparably to GPL2 level for "normal users", while also preventing the case of Amazon and MongoDB?
He might be more rational than you think. He would rather suffer severe economic damage, have some mild military losses, and see Ukraine destroyed than have the last remaining buffer country between him and NATO end up as part of the NATO/EU/US order. He may also have correctly calculated that despite the media theater and economic sanctions, the US doesn't truly care about Ukraine.

It is unfortunately the Ukrainians who will suffer the worst of Putin's aggressiveness and the West's foolishness.
About 4 and a half years.
And what is the argument for forcing that change? Master has nothing to do with slavery, so what is the argument?