skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old comment here, but I was assuming not just income tax to increase, but also to have capital gains, dividends, etc to be taxed at 70%. Current cap there is 20%, per my understanding, and a substantial amount of wealthy person's income is taxed at these favorable rates.
Great answer. This is related in my mind to the framing of crypto "pointlessly wasting" electricity - it's actually a fundamental part of securing the network by making it prohibitively expensive to reverse or modify mined blocks. I'm open to alternatives to PoW but so far it's been the most successful tool to solve this problem.
(Including Amazon links, but just for convenience, buy wherever you want)

Code by Petzold (https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...) - non-technical (in the sense it isn't something to "work through"), covers a lot of interesting topics. Especially approachable for that age.

Elements of Computing Systems by Nisan & Schoken (https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-second-Pri...) - more technical (has content to work through). I've read the first edition, not the second. Has a companion site: https://www.nand2tetris.org. It's well-written, and a motivated high schooler could work through it.

The Code Book by Singh (https://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptograph...)

The Codebreakers by Kahn (https://www.amazon.com/Codebreakers-Comprehensive-History-Co...)

I was always interested in ciphers and such as a kid so those two books got my attention when I found them in high school/college. I'm a bit fuzzy, now, about which one I was more interested in but both were good books. (I still have them, may give them a re-read next month.)

There are a few others I have in mind, but just can't recall the titles at the moment.
~9000 cycles/sec (displayed in the video), wow! For comparison, the NES ran at 1.8 MHz, or about 200x faster. From the number of frames drawn and time, I'm guessing this simulator is actually averaging much lower than 9 kHz.
If I couldn't use a great / cool / interesting programming language, I wouldn't be programming a hobby project. Whether the language is niche is irrelevant.
> And they didn't think that the operation will be longer than a couple of days,

Why would they think that and more important why wouldn't they plan for a non ideal outcome.

Ukraine is a huge country, bigger than iraq with more people, how could you be so sure?

But then again my expertice comes from playing Command & Conquest.
Nah, I don't think folks should be mocked, that's not productive. Resistance can take many forms, and you'll note that I didn't mention "fighting." He was a soldier before his unit was captured, but that wasn't where he was most effective: what he did was pay attention, strategize, and help others escape with him.

Resist. Whether that involves a Kalashnikov, or simply shitting in a water supply, resist. I won't judge you if you don't. It's your internal critic that you're going to spend the rest of your life with.
https://twitter.com/RihoTerras/status/1497537193346220038
Hmm, heat pumps are certainly attractive..

But if you're building a new house, wouldn't you roll in district heating if readily available.

Agreed, patching district heating into an old house might be hard/expensive.
No but the beauty of this is that Nvidia is absolutely going to deny this and in order for them to get someone to prosecute and show proof that Nvidia hacked them back they would have to turn themselves over for their own crime which they obviously aren't going to do.
Plant-like is bombastic. Sorry.
What would you do now instead?
> The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds.

I think that's the key part that contradicts Bitcoin. Nobody believes that Bitcoin is a business that generates profits, and everyone is aware that when they cash out, other investors are the source of funds.

There's no illusion of a business, and no assets that are promised to exist but don't.
nonsense, they have a price
Putin threatens nuclear war whenever he wants something. Nobody believes it. You think Putin will commit suicide - both for himself and his people - over Ukraine, which by now quite obviously doesn't want him, even to his own citizens?
Lulz - that’s all well and good, except that gets paid mostly lip service even by the professional militaries, who are the ones who have the most to lose by not following the rules.

Civilians do what they need to do to survive and protect their loved ones. If that means shivving a soldier in the back while pretending to be unarmed, so be it.

Having guns is way better than civilians usually get.
...and no mention of Nim, which shares a lot with Pascal, Python, C and Ada and is more innovative.
T72 is a 60s design too
Russia started using AA guns on the tanks to counter the ambushes.

Haven't seen any pictures of these [1] in Ukraine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMPT_Terminator
But the product being sold in this example is a season ticket, not an NFT.

The NFT part of the product has no relevance to why it’s valuable. The valuable part is the promise by the event organizer to save a spot for you.

Every major sports team has had this product for decades. It’s literally the same thing as having season tickets to the White Sox or something. The blockchain has added no value to the transaction.
I'd say that's a #1 thing.

Secrecy is an important part of running any organization.

I worked for a company that was seriously tinfoil. I thought, over the top, but they had certain policies, and I abided by them; whether or not I agreed with them.
There is a great (German) database with heat pump performance. You can switch to English on the right top: https://www.waermepumpen-verbrauchsdatenbank.de/index.php?bu...

There's quite some monthly data on Air/Water systems (extracting heat from outside air, into a central heating system). I suppose good Air/Air systems could be similar. Indeed above >0, or at least >5C it would be beneficial (even more so if you also have PV installed)
There are no profits, the club owes him 1.5 billion ( most likely creative accounting, but still), and clubs at that level of that type ( vanity project with unlimited budget) aren't profitable.
The 6502 unfortunately relies on some effects that can't be described in FPGA synthesizable logic. You might get a lot of speed up over the extremely simplified spice style simulation you have to do that still might get you to real time, but it's not the slam dunk you might think.
Belorussia attacking a NATO country ends at best in it being occupied by NATO, at worst in the same war between NATO and Russia that Putin don't want in the first place.
Ukraine launches 'IT army,' takes aim at Russian cyberspace
Jess you can disagree, but at the time of this writing this is what one of the introductory paragraphs of the war's Wikipedia states:

> Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, then-US President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban, then-de facto ruling Afghanistan, extradite Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the attacks and who was, until then, freely operating within the country. The Taliban's refusal to do so led to the invasion of the country; the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies were mostly defeated and expelled from major population centers by US-led forces and the Northern Alliance.
Context: https://twitter.com/llanga/status/1497516071208816642

"This is one of the Top 10 most prolific contributors to the Python programming language. He contributed more code than any currently sitting Steering Committee member. His life is in danger.

There is no "keeping politics out of programming", tech consists of real people."
What about people who do this 10x a day to play free games forever?
While troops were deployed to Belarus for “exercises”, there were lots of reports of them selling fuel and other supplies.

That could have complicated logistics for the invasion.
They need to act fast while air superiority is still up for grabs.
They could always do a plea bargain for immunity. After all, no one wants corporate scale misbehavior like that.
I'm currently learning lisp dialects. Clojurescript and fennel atm.
Proof of work is an alternative to military spending.

Proof of stake doesn't solve this problem, as the top stakers end up needing to control (or get coopted by) the monopolies on violence. The traditional banking system is effectively an obscured proof of stake system.

Proof of work also has the nice feature that every watt of energy used to acquire and secure bitcoin is a watt that can't be used for violence.

You might like the work of Jason Lowry, a US Space Force Major who's currently studying bitcoin conceptualized as a new kind of military technology, https://twitter.com/JasonPLowery
Every places I lived at in Germany the heating system is turned off at night for the entire building. Same in Switzerland. I always assumed that was the norm?
We could do a lot more by confiscating the oligarchs wealth. They have houses, boats football clubs all over the western world. We should randomly seize some of them every day, to encourage an end to hostilities.
It was (probably) originally my question [1] in another discussion. I turned my heating down yesterday, and will fiddle with it more on Sunday evening to make sure it fits my at-home/out pattern -- it needs adjusting since I've recently stopped working from home.

We should look at insulation (for example, last year there were big protests in Britain pushing for this[2]), but it will take months or years to complete changes. Turning down the heating can be done in seconds.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30479093

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/insulate-britain
Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achieved, process has begun
Odd, I thought I responded elsewhere with this point -- but yes, I'd refine my point by saying Grammarly is probably a bad idea for internal communication, but perhaps fine where writing is the product.
West to cut some Russian banks off from SWIFT
My main devices aren't Apple products, but I've always found them a little... tacky? Besides their overtly commercial look-and-feel, when combined with their face tracking technology it adds a really uncanny sense of movement to them that's always made me a bit uncomfortable. It reminds me of Snapchat's Bitmoji efforts, which felt similarly strange. To each their own, I suppose.
I find it's also a great way to procrastinate. "Trying to fix this elusive bug or design this new feature is becoming time consuming and boring... but I bet I could shave a few cycles off my rendering loop (again)"
Russian logistics are built around rail lines, as they are more efficient. Per Russian doctrine you are going to struggle to supply large numbers of forces beyond 50 miles from a railway line. You need to understand just how much stuff a modern army needs. Estimates from WW2 calculated that for every soldier in theatre they needed over 4 tons of material a month (that's ammo, food, medical supplies, replacement parts for vehicles and equipment, fuel, etc). And those numbers are likely higher in the modern era, with heavier and more powerful vehicles, increased usage of electronics, and munitions like missiles. A US armored division (on the order of 270 tanks and a similar number of other vehicles) on the move would consume 500,000 gallons of fuel per day.

Adding more trucks can even make the issues worse, since they need their own fuel, spare parts, maintanence staff, drivers, military police to provide security, etc. You basically have to use the rocket equation when accounting for logistics
WH, EU target billions of dollars Russian government holds in other countries
I fully agree.

Network effects make this a losing battle, and that will not change until it is forced to - this my advocacy for it to be done via law.

I should not that I have and do occasionally watch content on peertube, there's just sadly not much there.

The conference looks quite interesting, I'll have to try to watch some of the talks this year!
That sounds awesome, is anything about it open-source?
>What can we do to try and reduce "alert fatigue"?

The more you do something the easier it is to do. There is nothing wrong with it no longer feeling like an alert. Patching security vulnerabilities is just a normal part of software development and the easier and more comfortable people are with it the better.
That tweet has been shared a lot but is there any indication that any of it is true?

And even if it is, doesn’t that just mean Russia will move from the quick strike strategy to a more bloody, full assault?
Quite a lot of repetition in the text.

Why wouldn't the learning curve apply to nuclear power? There the fuel cost is almost negligible. I think the large unit size hampers learning - less iterations per decade.
It does later on. A lot of it still touches fb/meta, but I found the chapters about "advice for young people" and "the meaning of life" to be quite interesting. It's a side of him that you don't really see anywhere else or think about. I'd recommend the watch.
It has nothing to do with cowardice. If a hostile nation state is willing to burn resources holding territory that contains insurgent forces we would be stupid to discourage it. As americans well know, it is really hard to maintain an extended occupation without a loss of money, moral, and life.
I suspect it varies a lot by genre and possibly also geographic location?

For house, techno, drum and bass, etc I typically see a lot of Pioneer gear, used with digital storage, not CDs. I still see Technics turntables too, but with real vinyl, depending on the DJ. The vast majority of the stuff I listen to doesn't involve scratching / DMC-style turntablism though.
Isn't that what Dependabot is? Github will already scan known package managers for CVEs for reporting purposes, and if you have the right kind of testing, you can allow Dependabot to manage the toil here.

I worked at an i-bank that had their own version of Dependabot and it was great: New version(s) come out and once a week I get a PR to approve that shows that my code still passes tests after the update.
What makes you so certain? The group is 25% owned by a charity.
Would love for an easier to follow explanation of this
which mercedes c class year? i had a 2008 and a 2010 w amg and they were awesome. i'm guessing you had some option I didn't opt for.
My problem with Apple Maps is in the visual presentation. It's like it changes scale and animation speed as I get closer to the turn, which throws off my mental calibration of map speed and distance to actual, and I end up missing a lot of turns because I am closer than I judged based on what's showing on the map. I don't seem to have this problem with Google Maps, for whatever reason, but maybe it's just because I mostly use Google and that's what I'm used to.
I like GPU programming but lack patience for CUDA- julia's gpu package provides a wonderfully performant middleground
There’s an important note. Verizon (and other American carriers) have no plans on shutting down 4G LTE. Even with c-band and DSS there are still large swaths of the country without any sort of 5G. In addition, devices a as recent as the iPhone 11 from 2019 do not support 5G.

The major American carriers are shutting down 3G. But for that to be a problem you’ve got to go back to the iPhone 5s, which has LTE data, but not for voice (going off the top of my head there, might be a generation off).
FYI the answer in that link is from 2013, not sure how much it's changed since then but I doubt it's the same today.
Wow, this is heartbreaking. I think I would rather just never come out of the coma - the trauma this poor women endured ….
Indeed, clothing is key here. And you need to start off warm: most people probably know the situation of warm socks and shoes not helping for already-cold feet.

- Before having to pay my own energy bill and, honestly, actually being aware at all that this is a choice, I would sit in a t-shirt and just heat up my bedroom to (presumably, I didn't measure back then) 23°C.

- With a cardigan* over the t-shirt, 21°C is just fine as well.

- Add one thin layer of long underpants and put up the hood of your cardigan and 19°C is fine as well.

- Second cardigan (I have a big comfy one that nicely fits over others) makes 17°C be on the low side but still warm enough.

- To go 16°C or lower, I need to add clothing that starts to impair mobility, like a jacket/coat meant for outside. Arms are fine; but fingers, legs, and feet get cold within two hours. This is a bit too extreme for me.

To-dos / failed things:

- I need to look into thicker pants meant to keep heat in rather than just look stylish (jeans) or act as underwear.

- For hands, I've tried fingerless gloves for typing reasons but I couldn't get used to it (it kept impairing my typing) and I ditched that idea again.

- A radiant heat source like infrared lamp is also a thing I'm considering, but I'd have to position it somehow to heat my hands and the one my girlfriend got has a very bright red color (and I'd want to check what the effect of that level/strength IR is on my eyes).

- A heated mouse helps (over longer periods of time it's noticeable, even at just 2.5W USB) but only for one hand, so it's not really a solution. Heated keyboard seems harder to make and has a lot of surface where heat gets lost.

- Intermittent movement, like 5 minutes of treadmill every hour is something I'm considering. Might also help towards exercise in general, since my current exercise scheme is nonexistent, but I wonder if that would add up to be enough or if it needs to be 30 minutes of continuous movement before it's in the realm of reasonably enough to stay healthy.

* Not a native speaker: I had not heard the word cardigan before. As wikipedia says on the sweater page: nomenclature can be quite confusing. What I mean is something thicker than a blouse but thinner than an outdoors jacket, with sleeves (long enough to cover your wrists), a zipper that can be closed, and often but not necessarily a hood. Hope I got the right word.
I use Clojure for my hobby projects because: pervasive immutability applies very well to lots of things I like to work on, I have extensive experience in both Java and JavaScript (Clojure's 2 major host environments), and it's fun.

The other language I really like to work in is Elixir. I use it for hobby projects where the concurrency model fits really well.
I'm not surprised that noncitizen entry queues are backed up at the moment. Disappointed if there's some racist assumptions and bad messaging as presented, but I'm not sure what else to take from this message
I programmed my Chess Position Ranking [1], used to accurately estimate the number of chess positions, in Haskell because of the ease of building powerful abstractions like a Ranking [2].

[1] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking

[2] https://github.com/tromp/ChessPositionRanking/blob/main/src/...
You assume too much about Russia and Putin. Historically, the wests lack of understanding of motives and hard lines for Russia has almost caused several nuclear annihilation events.

People sometimes have hard lines that are surprising, and will cause them to do things that no rational person would do. Militaries and organizations do too.

War causes confusion, stress, anxiety, etc. which magnifies everything.

It doesn’t require ‘sane putin’ to push a button for someone somewhere to THINK it makes sense for him to and push the button in their exhausted and freaked out state of mind.

Putin didn’t start this invasion because he was bored.

Dictators generally do things because their internal power base demands something, but that is rarely visible to us, so we don’t know if a series of hardliner generals need this, or the base of paranoid hardline folks is getting angsty and he knows if he doesn’t appease them he is in trouble.

Near as I can tell, the senior leadership has already seen the writing on the wall re:getting frozen out of the west (sanctions and other stuff), and is seizing Ukraine for it’s strategic importance to Russia - food, energy, year round port, buffer against a land invasion to Moscow.

They probably see this as now or never. We don’t know how desperate the leadership or Putin may be.

Ukraine, like Poland has historically been caught in the middle of these kinds of things, which sucks. it also isn’t their first time.
I often feel like my primary language, c++, is somewhere between niche and mainstream.

It leaves ample opportunities to do something in a niche way. I am often disenchanted after reading many open-source, ostensibly high-quality c++ libraries — namely Apple’s WebKit and a few parts of Google’s Filament. That said, there are a few gems of c++ that I can’t describe as anything but archetypally niche.

Nlohhman’s JSON library (also, the constexpr fork of that library), and the CTRE library for compile time regular expressions are absolute gems.
Sue-see
It wouldn't hurt to point out the supposed "significant factual mistakes and ommissions" to strengthen your argument..
It’s worth saying that the word “tabloid” is typically used to refer to the style of journalism (ie the focus on entertainment) rather than in its historical context of the type/size of paper.
I agree in general, but in the case of CEOs giving public remarks it's safe to assume they are talking their book. Regardless, I don't see it as particularly relevant that people have been pessimistic about technologies that turned out quite successful. For every instance of "they said revolutionary product X was crazy but it turned out to be wildly successful" there are probably a 1000 instances of "they thought revolutionary product X was crazy and it failed miserably and faded into irrelevance." In other words, you have to actually articulate a reason why you think VR will be as successful as Meta claims it will be rather than make a "they laughed at Einstein/Semmelweis/etc too" argument. And with respect to VR I just don't see it. I've played games on the Occulus and they are pretty fun but I just don't see what the value proposition of VR is beyond gaming. And VR gaming can still be a huge industry but I just don't see it being anything more than that. Whereas I think the value proposition of smartphones was fairly obvious. It of course wasn't clear than any particular phone (like the original iPhone, perhaps especially the original iPhone given that it only worked for one carrier at the time) would break through. So it could have been that Ballmer was completely correct if things had turned out slightly differently. But some smartphone would have broken through. I don't think VR is the same. It's not just that there is uncertainty over which particular product will take off, but uncertainty about how big the eventual market for VR products and services will be in total.
> how confident can you generally be with applying your expertise/giving advice, when you yourself learn about the circumstances from secondary sources?

How do doctors know about diseases they haven't had themselves?

Someone who's experienced one specific conflict, even first hand, may know less than someone who's studied a range of conflicts and derived and war-gamed doctrine from what they saw.
The forces fighting in Ukraine are not conscripts, but contract soldiers. Russian law doesn't allow conscripts to be deployed overseas. Of course it's an authoritarian regime so they could do it anyway, but there would be serious domestic repercussions and largely isn't necessary to get the troop concentrations they have
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one of the craziest public performances I have ever seen. and people fell for it. mind boggling.
> Putin will very likely order to shut down cellphone coverage and the Internet in Ukraine

It's easy to shut down internet in Belarus or Kazakhstan, because they deliberately wired their connectivity through single control point.

Ukraine has multiple cross-border connections and exchange points within, so it's not just a press of a button, but a full blown min-cut max-flow adventure.