skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the idea of this mirror that sits outside, and moves with the sun, to reflect more sunlight in through your window: https://solenica.com/

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of confidence in it... the company has been looking at building this product since about 2013 (same founder created a similar product on indiegogo called "Lucy") and neither product seems to be on the market yet (uncertain if the indiegogo product shipped).
Rationing is prone to corruption, this is how scalpers usually get their goods but this also means they are just symptoms.
True in almost all places.
I can’t find it anymore. I gave it a good 5 searches it seems to all be tax related articles on tax shelters. I think maybe it’s because of how google deprioritizes old content now.

It was from around 2014-2015 if I recall correctly.
I guess? The basic concept of a tank is you take a bulldozer, put a gun on it, give it to a bunch of sleep-deprived teenagers, then tell them that if they stop moving at any point they're going to be hit by a RPG and burn to death.
It's legal, but if you're too successful, a lot of casinos will show you the door, sometimes preventing you from converting your chips back to money. See https://youtu.be/rjfLuM-Pqr8
I saw an attempt at a similar thing posted on Hacker News in the past. Rather than use many standard lightbulbs, he used one massive 30,000 lumen "corn cob" bulb: https://www.benkuhn.net/lux

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660718

However, there is now an update on the blog where he seems to have independently switched to the "lumenator" system as described in the links on today's post:

> Update 2020-11-16: For my home, I ended up switching from the corncob bulb to three 7-way splitters and 21 100W equivalent 5000K Cree bulbs from Home Depot.
Have you seen any options that don’t require a fat tube running through the house?
> One thing is clear to me: both sides of the conflict actively use propaganda, fake news and other dirty methods to nudge people in doubt in the right direction.

Where social media is always going to result in the spread of disinformation and propaganda on both sides of this crisis and such content from there should be taken with a grain of salt and scepticism. Even the original Russian proverb of 'Trust, But Verify' is flawed here in this case. Instead:

Don't Trust. Verify.

> One thing I find a bit strange is that there is so much focus on Putin's actions now with huge support from Europe, but I don't remember seeing this level of solidarity back when the US did similar things (in my opinion at least). Isn't that a sign of double standards depending on the country?

Possibly? At least a news source suggested that point. [0]

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/27/western-media-cover...
They are deliberately firing on civilian houses, so yes, I would be surprised if they were taking prisoners.
Not just emotions. Lives and democracy. In Ukraine, and extension, Europe.
Yes, cultural and geographical proximity matters.

We're not robots.
The Ukraine crisis is now a nuclear crisis
I almost responded without reading the article, assuming he was talking about moonlighters. Meaning hiring developers who have already put in 40 hours somewhere else. Many responding here seem to be making the same assumption. That's always been a disaster (as the employer).

But he is actually talking about offering his first 20 hours to a client, which is what I do as a consulting CTO. It works out exceptionally well for my clients. And I have had few issues when I hire contractors who juggle a couple part time clients. If you do that full time, you quickly learn time management.

He's also right there is no market for this for programmers beyond Upwork or Toptal. Companies rather pay a premium to get 4 productive hours, 2 hours of email and meetings, and 2 hours of coffee and socializing.

One exception might be DevOps, which is more project based.
This is a nice _description_ of why Amazon is a catastrophe, but not a
_prescription_ of what we can do to mitigate its harms. In many areas
of tech analysis we're stuck at a saturation point where we know
what's not working, but fail to answer "what is to be done?" so that
moral tech critique cannot jump the Humean gap of turning what _is_
into _oughts_ .

Beyond naive knee-jerks like "Don't buy stuff from Amazon" and "They
must be broken up and regulated", what mature systems-theoretical
wisdom can be brought to problems like this? It's not like we didn't
see it coming. The trajectory of Amazon toward captive payola and
race-to-the-bottom "crapification" was writing on the wall 10 years
ago. It seems that "economics" has failed as an instrument to manage
such matters. Descent into entrenched libertarian or authoritarian
politics is unhelpful because it's obvious that neither free markets
nor regulation are sufficient.

Something is wrong with how we're building these entities and the
conditions by which we allow them to grow out of control. It's time
for radical alterations at the protocol and constitutional levels in
order to disfavour agglomeration.
Learn the Cypher query language in 10 days
Believe me, don't get me wrong, I would gladly trade 50% of my salary to work part time. But...

That don’t need to spend lots of
time getting context. They can figure
out how to solve problems matching
your team’s coding style without
extra meetings.

I've worked a variety of enterprise-y developer jobs, and I don't find that to be the case at all. I mean, that context is the job.

Coding bits of functionality for an existing business is not a matter of "matching the team's coding style."

Heck, there are often not even engineering "problems" to "solve." It's a matter of figuring out integration with existing systems and processes, understanding the business itself, etc. That's why part-timers don't make sense. They can't just walk in, sit down, and code.

And if you could tee things up for them, to the point where they could just sit down and code, then 90% of the work is already done. And your part-time coder will take longer to deliver... why would management want to wait 2 weeks for a part time person to complete 40 hours of pure coding work, versus 1 week for a fulltimer?
I have decided for myself and made it clear in the original post. I am against all kinds of aggression. That said, do you think that there was the same level of global support for Iraq when the USA decided to invade?
I think you've made a lot of assumptions about what everyone in the article said.

In the article, Stewart ("Whole Earth Catalog") Brand talks about the Gaia hypothesis [1] and some debate and refining of the idea. Gaia consists of biological systems integrated with nonbiological systems. There is nothing anthropomorphic in that Gaia.

> . . . as if Gaia would care about . . .

They don't mention Gaia's feels.

> You will never hear them talk about how CO2 levels have been much much higher before . . . that is not the narrative that is convinient[sic] to their bottomline[sic]

Higher CO2 levels damage the life that exists, thus Gaia.

> Gaia knows that humans are not the "final" species.

Nobody claimed that Gaia "knows" things. Except who killed JFK. (Kidding!)

> I am not saying there is a definitely a coherent super-intelligence in life . . .

Nothing in the article claimed "coherent super-intelligence." I just checked again and don't see it.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci...
> "Likewise, prisoners of war must at all times be protected, [...] against insults and public curiosity."

>Having them state their full names on a YouTube video with comments certainly isn't protecting them against public curiosity or insults. What sort of mental gymnastics are required to reconcile those two?

No mental gymnastics required. The writers of this weren’t thinking of youtube or even newspapers, this is about parading your prisoners through the streets and exposing them to hostile crowds.

And besides, simply not letting the prisoners see social media comments about them protects them against insults and public curiosity. If you can’t see it, it can’t hurt you and therefore you are protected.
Here's a respected UChicago professor that offers an alternative hypothesis than the dominant 'Putin bad' narrative https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2014-08-1...
EU leaders were honestly just in shock for a day or two as were almost everyone. I watched my old countries leaders press conference and they looked like they just awoke from a nightmare. Right now the National mood has turned to anger - ergo arms are flowing in very quickly.
> no one is paying $1000+ for some bright bulbs

That $30k Coelux thing they mention is quite a bit more than “some bright bulbs”. Their lighting casts sharp shadows. If you look into it, you see a bright sky with an image of the sun (https://www.cepro.com/news/coelux_the_40000_fake_skylight_ev...)

I think rich people will easily pay that for such a thing.
I don't support Putin. His invasion of Ukraine is putting a more or less functioning democracy with reasonable protection for human rights (despite significant corruption) in danger of becoming just another impoverished Russian puppet state that harshly represses dissent. This is appalling.

However, your suggestion that his popularity in Russia is fake is completely unfounded; polls consistently show very high domestic approval, often above 70%; it hit 87% when he invaded Crimea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Vladimir_Putin https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-ra...

I do not think Putin is legitimate, but I think it's even less legitimate to confiscate people's assets because they disagree with me about that.

George W. Bush literally invaded two other countries, Afghanistan and Iraq (incidentally, Ukraine is Putin's third, after Georgia and Chechnya), and got re-elected — in a country with, unlike Russia, a functioning bipartisan system that is at least marginally democratic. I didn't support him either, but I didn't go around taking away other people's property by force because they did. Bush also arguably invaded Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, and Kenya. Obama also literally invaded Libya and Daesh, and arguably Uganda and Syria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_invasions

Would you argue that they were therefore not legitimate presidents? Would you support confiscating the investments of US oligarchs in China and Brazil if they supported Obama's invasion of Libya?

But that's not really the point. Even if you think confiscating other people's assets because of their political beliefs is an okay thing for a government to do, you probably still don't want it to happen to you. This may be a reason for you to put some of your savings in Bitcoin instead of buying real estate in Sheffield: if at some point it disagrees with your politics, the UK government may at some point confiscate your real estate with its Kleptocracy Cell (I still can't believe they actually chose to call it that), but it can't do that with Bitcoin unless you give it the keys in an interrogation room, which is very unlikely unless you live in the UK.

And if it can happen in the UK, which has a tradition of limits on government authority and legal protection for human rights going back 807 years, where actually Hume and Locke invented the idea of human rights in the first place, it can happen anywhere.
Gandi (https://www.gandi.net/en/domain/email) is another registrar with free email for each domain with them. It gives you two 3GB mailbox.
A major use for Russian gas in Germany is heating. Nuclear power doesn't really help with that. The second important use is in peaker plants that go online when there is no wind. Nuclear doesn't really help with that either.
I think nihilism provides value in the same way that "rock bottom" does for an alcoholic. On a practical basis my life is mostly habit, obligation and pre-framed viewpoints that I accept unreflectively for entirely pragmatic reasons.

Which is fine, otherwise you spend a lot of time wondering what a table is, why do anything, etc, but stripping back your beliefs to as close to nothing as you can is an experience worth going through at least once in your life - there's no way to viscerally understand axioms except to think about why they are there, and why they can't be different.

Yes, nihilism can prompt personal crisis or even suicide. But the experience is fundamental even if we don't name it, so the idea provides utility to society because it gives us a vocabulary and a framework for processing the experience of rejecting and understanding meaning itself. You can't have true agency without understanding that meaning itself is a construct. A culture which recognises crisis of meaning is a deeper culture than one which perhaps recognises that some situations are "sad" or that sometimes things are tactically difficult ,or that some people might have conflicting interests (looking at you Disney).

Personally I think nihilism is a key stage in moral development "for people who think real hard about stuff". Yes, everyone doing this at the same time would have bad outcomes.

The (shared) social utility of nihilism is a kind of "looking in the eyes" of people who are experiencing the absurdity of life, seeing through the words and looking at what is there. The currency of the idea promotes an acceptance of that and therefore I believe that a vigorous society should embrace the experience of nihilism for those people that are ready for it.
This resonates a lot with me. Very good advice in this article, in fact, this may be life-changing advice right here:

> How nice would it be if someone came up to you and just gave you a warm smile, said hello, and asked you a genuine question about yourself? You can be that person for someone!

This right here could do wonders! Try it.
I had an iPhone at that point. I remember playing with Windows Phone 7 at a store and my gut feeling wasn't great about it.

Perhaps it was a combination of that text based tab control or it was the black & white + flat + text design they adopted for live tile and for the UI controls.

It's been a while, so it's possible that it wasn't as bad as I remember it.
It’s a press release. Looks indeed like they can’t sell today as the stock market is also just.. closed
In six years, most places, though places like Chile and the UAE are already seeing the benefits.
Leonard Nimoy, the son of immigrants from Iziaslav, Ukraine
On February 27th, per the article: "The fire at the hangar was detected at 11:13 a.m. on Sunday, according to the NASA data, which is obtained from a number of NOAA and NASA satellites."
Youtube will close access if requested by a particular country. Eg. I think Youtube in Ukraine (and Poland?) don't show RT anymore.

Also countries can ask ISPs to remove rt.com from their dns-gateways; quite common where I am where a number of pirate and gambling sites are removed in this manner.
Any chance we get to see that book? I constantly trying to improve my company process (we are small, < 10 people) and I like to see how others are handling operation.
And there's a lot of smaller galaxies in between: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_galaxies
There are only a few photos here and there over social media. I hope that Ukraine is able to resist the Russian military but I would wait to see whether these Unweighted Claims of logistical incompetence actually deliver on effect size. I do fear that Kiev will be lost in a matter of days.
Russia’s Uran-9 Robot Tank Was a Disappointment in Syrian Combat Testing (2021)
> I don't think there will be any concerns with blowback terrorism by equipping the hell out of the Ukrainian army and volunteers/populace

This is an important consideration. Already, EU is not reluctant to pour weapons into the region.
> By their very nature efuses can be programmed only once. You can never overwrite the old values with arbitrary new values.

My understanding is this: you cannot overwrite the old values, but you can blow an additional fuse. If you have five fuses, then you blow the first fuse for the first key, then the second fuse for the second key. When you blow the second fuse, the system will only look at the second fuse, then the third, etc.
Definitely the problem to solve. I thought about splitting this up into hundreds of optical fiber filaments. These could fit in wall elements or next to other pipe elements.
As for the those who travel it would be very different and perhaps more clear cut. For the cyber, what they could do is provide a rough guide about where to focus their energy on, how to pick targets, some opsec lessons, some legal disclaimers.

I doubt they will give them a detailed list of targets and say hit Sberbank & Rosneft please, but more of a guide to fighters to assess their own capabilities and risks. Then based on that self-assessment which targets to self-identify and select, and also where to report to on a regular basis. I doubt it would be a collaborative environment where people who've never met share communication with other operatives. But it might become one if the war drags on (it probably does and in any case there is strong incentive to keep building on this afterwards)

This is just speculation. In reality they might all be thrown into a couple of telegram channels and hope for the best. In fact maybe this could also be a great idea, because if you compartmentalize 1000 people with potential 20 Russian-friendly lurkers into 5-person chat channels you might get some sabotage but the benefits of team-work might outweigh the sabotage. Also your chances of people staying on because they're part of a team is bigger.
These energy companies are easy to value and countries need their products so they won’t go to 0 unless Putin is completely deranged
> Neither will installing a puppet regime

This has already failed previously. No doubt it will not hold now, after the invasion.
When you are taking a new course/learning a new thing what keeps you motivated to continue learning new things? Is it pure curiosity or the fact that you need to learn something to get the job done?

In e-mail based courses I like the fact that I get new content that I should learn until next e-mail. This reminds me od deadlines in Coursera based courses and this creates some kind of obligation in my mind that I try to fulfil.
There's a comment below yours with a link to a video where a youtuber solves that problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30497038
He also created a version that simulates sunlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw
No problems with eyesight. No glasses or anything. I see the light as basically replacing the brightness I would be getting if I wasn’t sitting inside my office instead of outdoors.

And sleep: I don’t have any trouble sleeping, no. But as I mentioned, using a such a bright light in the evening will fuck with your day/night rhythm. If I’m not diligent to turn off those lights at sunset, I’ll easily be working up until two or three in the morning. If that happens, the problem isn’t that I wouldn’t be able to sleep (I will) or that I would sleep badly (I won’t). It’s just that it shifts my rhythm out of sync with everybody else.
Simplication is evil, I agree. I don't know why trying to criticize false dichotomies is perceived as support for aggression or war.

As you said, it doesn't require a lot of intellectual efforts to attach simplistic labels and be satisfied. I am not, however,satisifed with definite answers whether it's in software engineering or even global events
Russia just now is claiming air superiority. How much of that is propaganda to bolster spirits of ground troops is questionable.

https://twitter.com/afp/status/1498196443865452545?s=21
Adam Nimoy, son of Leonard Nimoy, tweeted yesterday:

> Though Dad left us seven years ago today, he’s still very much on our minds. May we embrace his memory and Mr. Spock's message of logic and peace. Love to all, Adam. #StarTrek #LLAP :Spock:[0]

And Adam added:

> Leonard Nimoy, the son of immigrants from Iziaslav, Ukraine. #IStandWithUkriane :UA: :Spock:[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/adam_nimoy/status/1498014318742282242

[1] https://twitter.com/adam_nimoy/status/1498055729210482698
The only connection between 9/11 and the invasion/occupation was made in the media.

Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and US leadership was aware of that at the time.
As a frontend developer I can confirm that you do not, in fact, need any of these things to make a UI.
At this point, I think everybody should be worried about everybody.
Russia: Why SWIFT closure did not make sense
Fun fact: Anopheles (the only genus that contains malaria mosquitoes) if from the Greek for "without use".
even with that loophole the trend of buying 20 units will evaporate
If someone is interested in this PC scope due to space rather than sub-$100 price tag, I've had a great experience with the Digilent Analog Discovery. Disclaimer - I'm not an Electrical Engineer, so YMMV; I got mine at a significant discount ages ago, not sure if it's price competitive these days.
Seems like all that could be unnecessary. Europe wants to at least make it through the winter with heat. Unless their Central Bank has something brilliant lined up the Russian economy will have a heart attack within a few days.
Yes, there are no atomic upgrades. Even when a static binary is replaced, there are many instances of it running and the processes aren't restarted atomically.

However, in a protobuf-based system within a single organization, you can at least say that every deployed binary expects an API that was defined by some version of the same protobuf file. At Google there is (or was - it's been a while) a linear history of this file in source control somewhere. That limits the possible API variations in existence.

By contrast, in the acko.net article, he describes the ad-hoc variation that happens when many organizations make their own extensions to the same protocol, with little coordination with each other. (And yes, the web is like this too.)
Two years ago I used MENACE to introduce students to machine learning approaches: it was the final example in course of programming for lawyers.

https://pypi.org/project/lex-game/

The code uses excel files instead of matchboxes... It was in fact an example intended to explore further the use of some libraries for office automation. It also allowed for easy seeing of the weights for different choices, still in a structured way even if outside the program itself.
Because the rich owners of media companies can pay your government, the only entity with a monopoly on violence to act against your interest.

I don't condone piracy and I think the people infringing on an EULA should be punished if brought to a court by the infringed party.

This doesn't mean that the government should do the job for the, spy on you or even just make the job easier for them.
Persecuting piracy is not convenient because the company involved is selling a lot of copies of their work, and therefore making money.

There is no reason for society to bear the cost of this exercise, if not corrupted government officials.
Curently have 570 lambda's in .NET and know many people using them, feedback from AWS we've had is there's alot of people using .NET. So who really knows.
IIRC that refactor came with Vista (and 7 just polished it up).
First off, I don’t care. Ukraine vs Russia is about Ukraine, Europe and Russia. Why should Ukraine suffer for things the US has done? US is only a part of this because they’re the largest member of NATO.

And secondly, the first Iraq war was a just war from US’ side — Iraq invaded a small friendly neighboring country (Kuwait.)
I would not bet on this. Purchases are made by department leaders based on beautiful Excel spreadsheets which have little to no relation to reality.
Tail recursion, but modulo cons
Minutes to build, years to unspaghettify
I bought dso-138 for $30 or so, and while it is better than nothing, the UI is terrible. Adding 5 encoders (offset, scale x, scale y, gain, trigger) would cost maybe $2 extra but it would made it significantly better.