skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about how to phrase how I feel about this topic for a while and it's hard because there are so many nuances and facets to it.

Ultimately I think it is absolutely crazy to think that making earth's life multi-planetary is something we should start now for any other sake than inspiring our young people; because by any other measure, we could do something else to solve the long tail risks multi-planetary life solves starting with living deep underground or under the water and powering everything with nuclear reactors. But nobody wants to do that for obvious reasons. Furthermore, there are many other long tail risks that we can invest in to decrease the likelihood of extinction.

But Elon Musk knows this. In fact one of his other businesses is devoted to helping stop climate change! So what is this really about?

I think it's about history books and status. Nobody will read about the billionaire that funded think tanks. They'll read about the one that got people to Mars first. That's my best guess, anyway. Because it's so clearly obvious that going multi-planetary in 100 years will be vastly cheaper for us and there is no way any of this math makes sense to do it now unless you just want to do it for coolness sake or maybe, MAYBE, inspiring young people will get us to 100 years from now faster.

Doubt it though.
Agreed, with a remote job, this gets much better. But still, even in many remote jobs, the expectation is that you spend 40h at your desk.
It's easier to run LCD production lines if all the panels are produced on the line at the same aspect ratio. Given the prevalence of 16:9 video panels, this made it easier to produce 16:9 panels for laptops. (So, you're essentially correct.)
Can you distinguish burned or blown up Ukrainian tank from Russian tank?

Not to mention that Spanish media even used footage from video game to "illustrate" the fake news about the war.
Prior to all of events in Ukraine, I actually been to the museum of strategic nuclear forces like 20 years ago. Guides there were actual ex-officers.

The launch sequence was very simple, but the procedure to "turning the missile on" was highly manual, despite some automation allegedly being there "but not usually working reliably."

Most of the gear in the silo was actually comms gear. There were no fancy computers in it, and missiles were programmed offline. The provision for "online" reprogramming was there, but the officer said "we never ever tried it, except on a simulator in the academy."

Officers were never told what targets were programmed into missiles, but he said that as targets were almost never updated in his near 14 years as a launch officer, he assumed these were cities, and not military targets.

His jobs as a launch officer was basically to do nothing, but sit and wait for a command using all comms gear in his disposal.

Once the missile is "switched on," and ready, the launch was done by 2 officers turning their keys without any extra ceremony.

The "codes" were employed, but only to check the authenticity of launch, or online targeting data.
For me is the opposite, time to head south and leave Vilnius, got Minsk at only 100mi from here
Anything Putin says is worthless
> Those pictures come from somewhere and I believe the Wikipedia article touches on it. The Intel community testified that while this intelligence was provided, it wasn't necessarily an indicator that they were being produced.

If the intel community didn't say that saddam had those trucks, then Colin Powell must have lied when he presented those schematics to the UN as something that saddam totally had... right?

> I did what paid the bills and what allowed me to live a life with credit defaults.

Makes sense, I understand and apologise for my snark. That must have sucked :)
No, I appeal to observation, take another one, for instance: https://www.energyintel.com/download?issueId=0000017e-2c65-d... about Kazakhstan, is this Russian propaganda? Does it tell the same story of our "pravda"? To me it clearly state that Kz energy system is in western hand thanks to a local dictator, himself also voted, formally, like another dictator name Adolf, like another one name Erdogan or another more named Orban, or another one named Kaczyński just to name few of them.

Some are just puppet, some gain power and became dictator but no dictatorship born strong and powerful and very rarely born alone, without external help of some interested actor.

Long story short if you consider actual Ukrainian government a Democratic one, and even one that act well... That's not Russian but USA propaganda and that's hold the same level of truth, around 0... I told you another story: while living in France I'm Italian, actual Italian government formally is a Democratic one, and following the press it acting well. Following many Citizens believes, mine included, as a nephew of two Italian Partisans from WWII is that's actual head of state is a dictator that must be arrested for high treason, embezzlement, participation in crimes against humanity, along his public-private entourage. ANY civil servant that do not act accordingly must be considered partner and so at minimum banned from any public office for life. Did you have any suspicions about that? Or, following the press you read you imagining a Democratically elected (he was not, but that's by law, to avoid directly voting head of states in a way a power of the State can remove the other and they surveil each others avoiding the need of a civil war in case one try to grab power) and well acting leader?

We ALL live in some propaganda and the sole way to know what's "true enough" and "false enough" is summing different propaganda eliciting what can be true and what can't. Just to talk again about Italy: there is now a right polemic about a cut scene from the game War Thunder published on the main national headline (TG1 and TG2, like BBC in UK, formally) as a filmed scene of Kiev bombing. Some photos of crying mothers in tear is published saying they are Ukrainian mothers now while the source of the image came from 2014/Euromaidan massacre, so from the opposite side of the front.

Since I'm not there, nor I know people there I can't say what's really going on, but I read enough to know what's our propaganda and the other side one, also I see the effect. So I form my opinion and suggest anyone trying to do the same before fighting for their own enemy, against their own interest. I know many will never been able to do so, but on HN I hope there is a cohort of people who might be if at least pushed a bit to look for some information instead of blindly drinking the headlines of one or another side...
Russian Invasion of Ukraine Highlights Rising Tide of Crippling Cyberwarfare
The entirely of the nuclear waste produced by the United States since the beginning of its atomic program could fit in a couple of olympic sized swimming pools. And water does such a good job of stopping the radiation that is actually a pretty good way of storing it.

And that's without considering fuel reprocessing, which would not only drastically reduce the raw fuel need (and therefore increase the green value of nuclear power), but would reduce the final waste product to something that could fit in a broom closet.

The scale of the nuclear waste problem is seriously, seriously oversold.
No it's not. In the non-free world text itself is censored. Nobody prevents you from sending News article links via Whatsapp, who cares. But people constructing SEO-optimized fakenews links is really bad and IMHO there is no way to prevent that without putting in the work that actual journalists and publishers do. People can still visit the news sites (in the "free world") directly. In fact maybe this would stop the bankruptcy of the news outlets that's been going on since more than a decade
Behind the 'power law:A forgotten venture capitalist kick-started Silicon Valley
Yeah. Russians aren't stupid to send most of their punch in the beginning. Russian actions are perhaps of lower success than expected, but strategically they are correct. First there has to be the phase of measurement and taking out the most dangerous elements, preparing ground for the majority of troups. When roads are safe, the real invasion will come in.
I believe the webinterface signs with the icloud.com domain and not your own.

Happy for you to update the article, no need for credits.
Historically, all terrorism was created and funded by USA. USA subsists on chaos in other countries. There's no benefit for Russia in this fictional terrorism, also we don't have it in our cultural code.

For the US and UK it was always a preferred modus operandi: to make other people and nations fight for them. Like before WW II they explicitly stated that they would be happy to see both USSR and Germany mutually annihilate themselves, so that US can come to what is left and occupy the remnants.

Islamic terrorism is also a child of USA.
>> Why wouldn't the Russians want to use this plane in the future?

Russian-owned and operated transport aircraft arent going to be flying much internationally for a while. Many of the an-225's customers are on the other side of sanctions walls.
I agree with a number of the comments here that this is a false dichotomy in terms of the technology itself (as mypastself says, Nanofabrication and fusion reactors are both “cool” and “cozy”), but understanding that people's motivations probably are dichotomous is important – if we can find technology that is both "cool" and "cozy", the incentives for both groups to work on that technology are increased, and I would guess this increase is probably multiplicative, rather than additive. Bernie isn't going to persuade Elon not to build his cool stuff and work on cozy stuff instead, but if he can find applications for what Elon is building to help with his cozy motivations, then more people will benefit.
I was just about to share [Postwoman](https://postwoman.io) but it shows this:

Update: 16th August 2020
Postwoman is now Hoppscotch
Russian Space Chief Says US Sanctions Could Lead to ISS Crash
You don't need type inference to handle this correctly, you just need to wait until you've parsed the rest of the file and seen the signatures of all functions.
I wouldn't expect that to last long; Switzerland have said they're planning to join the list of countries sanctioning the Russian regime.
I voted with a blank vote to make a point against "advisory" referendum. It in my eyes weakens the system where I vote on parties to make informed decisions on behalf of me.
We built Django-Garnett at Aristotle Metadata because we had a monolithic Django app and wanted to backport multilingual support for our clients in, without having to change references to fields in our templates and code in potentially thousands of places.

It allows clients to add and remove languages on-the-fly and means app developers only have to add a middleware and don’t have to change their Django ORM code very much at all.

We’re going to do a big engineering post on it, but in a huge code base, apart from the effort of building this library, and some UX design for the language switcher, it was a relatively painless process converting a monolingual app into a multilingual one.

We have a fun demo site that shows it in action here: https://django-garnett.herokuapp.com/
Agreed -- some resistance, because military investment can easily break out of proportion. Right now though, I believe for the most part, European investment is not sufficient. Considering the NATO target for countries to spend 2% of GDP on defense.
Maybe offer a ten-year guarantee of no NATO entry, swapped for sped-up EU accession. Call it a draw.
But then over the long run, a westward-looking Ukraine is the end of Russia's obsession of an empire to abuse and exploit.
Impressive, kinda proofs that CSS is becoming its' own profession by the state of complexity that is involved
That's pretty nice. Was that a single exposure, or multiple? Did you need to use a motorised tracker?
Raw oscilloscope data over USB sounds like a simple but bad idea. This is almost exactly the situation I'd expect to benefit most from realtime lossless data compression e.g. Huffman coding.

It's the nature of scope measurements that you're measuring something mostly predictable and continuous. Virtually all adjacent samples will be within +/-10% (especially as sample rate increases) so only very special cases would need beyond 12 MB/s to reconstruct the original 48 MB/s data while staying no more than one 64 byte packet behind.
I cant find it again but I read an article about how brightness goes up with technology and human spend roughly the same proportion of income on light. Kind of disproving the led efficiency is good for the environment argument.
Not revolutionary, better to break that pattern.
Maybe I never appreciated the power of Postman but I never understood why they thought it would be a good idea to charge monthly for a tool that's just a gui on top of curl (or Invoke-WebRequest for those of a Windows persuasion).
Show HN: Letter Jumble – A daily word puzzle
Here is my latest word puzzle hacked together this weekend. Hope you like it!
This is the third classes css framework I've come across on HN. Please everyone realise this is a great tool for prototyping or projects you want to deploy, deliver and forget about.

Any serious application that you expect to expand on, that needs some level of customisability or needs to import/use third party components(!) like a datepicker should not use classless css. it's a prototyping tool. It's highly incompatbile with everything besides what you write yourself, because it overwrites the defaults, it's inflexible.

Having classless styling has been possible for as long as css has existed, and it's for good reason that this is not in widespread use in usual application development.

Having said that though, I really like how this one looks it's an improvement without going overboard on anything, good job.
Some more overlay networks:

Pinecone: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/06/introducing-the-pinecone-...

Katzenpost: https://katzenpost.mixnetworks.org/

Nym Mixnet: https://nymtech.net/docs/stable/overview/nym-other-systems/
Presumably Bernie just doesn't want US governmental capital (via tax programs, etc) to be going to SpaceX over - say - welfare programs.

I don't think the tweet is addressed to Musk himself.
We equally have huge amounts of evidence that NATO aggression leads to turmoil and chaos.

Those paying attention to NATO's wars over the last twenty years see the writing on the wall, very clearly. Iraq lost 5% of its population to NATO members' aggression .. NATO never prosecutes its war criminals, and neutralizes anyone who points out the very real evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

If you're not factoring this into your assessment of the Russians' position, you're doing yourself - and anyone who reads your point of view - a massive disservice, and should remove any references to 'morality', since it is clearly deficient in your argument.
Does that apply across sizes?

I'd expect laptop screens, having a different pixel density, to be manufactured on different lines so that having the same aspect ratio as some other size wouldn't count that much.
I've been using org mode to maintain a personal work log for around ten years.

General structure is a file per month, a toplevel outline heading per day, and a global hotkey that takes me to 'today' with a single button. I use a private git repository to archive it to a secure place and replicate across different machines if needed. (Not common.)

Code here:

https://github.com/mschaef/.emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/orglog....

It's worked well, but generally speaking the key to logging is less the code/system and much more the discipline to write every day. I'm hit or miss on that front, but still find it useful to both formalize my thoughts on things into english and also occasionally go back to look at previous things I've done. (Oh, and it makes developing lists of accomplishments for annual reviews an easy thing.)
It’s really hard to pay in rubles internationally right now as a Russian. Like, your bank won’t let you.

In addition to the fact that Russia’s biggest import is heavy machinery which makes it very difficult for them to actually access said raw materials, Russia must import many raw materials required for modern industry. Aluminum Oxide, plastics, and chemical feedstock are major imports for Russia that they no longer have access to. To say that Russia has raw materials essentially ignores anything that isn’t energy.
Show HN: Prig – like AWK, but uses Go for “scripting”
I agree with you, but am somewhat uncomfortable about it. My respect for Sachs verges on idolatry.
> I believe part of the problem is that nuclear power proponents were claiming that nuclear power is safe before Chernobyl. Then Chernobyl happened.

Because it was and still is safe. Planes crash too, does that mean they're not safe?

Nothing is 100% safe, that'd be ridiculous. The point is that nuclear energy is the safest, by a huge margin.

> people are not willing to take the chance that they're being lied to again.

Well yes, the general public is irrational. We need politicians with balls that will do the right thing regardless of the ignorant public perceptions.
You cannot base opinion on online media, it's heavily biased! Even though I agree with the sentiment that Ukraine is doing better then I expected. I would not say things are going well.

The bombings and shelling looks really, really bad.. Kharkov will be nothing but rubble.
Exactly. I would be very suprised if this is driven by anything other than pragmatic self interest.
Ask HN: Moscow Exchange
A Google search for "Moscow Exchange" list this as this official URL:

https://www.moex.com/en/

That URL just times out.

Anyone know what's going on?

Is this a DNS attack?
Using APIs with Low-Code Tools: 9 Best Practices
How about bitcoin? It's not so much an idea as a piece of software, but being predicted on wasting energy it's going to do a lot of harm. That's an example of this class of game-theory based ideas.

I believe that there are other ideas like that, things that set up spirals that are a lot worse than just "destroy energy to make money". Obviously they're not going to be universally compelling, an idea that's dangerous like that in one context might be perfectly safe in another. It depends on the target audience.
Setting the default size to 300 should strike every web developer as questionable—outside Apple’s ecosystem (where it’s more likely to pan out), it’s just narrowly tolerable in some fonts, but in most it’s outright painful on (as probably the most extreme example) Windows with a low-DPI screen. For typical meanings of 300 weight, I’d generally say flat-out don’t use it below 20px.

200, on the other hand, is unquestionably bad for body-sized type, and no one sane will disagree.

(Useful related research work here: Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm, APCA, is being developed to replace the old and terrible contrast ratio calculations used in WCAG; and it takes font weight into account! https://www.myndex.com/APCA/ lets you explore this and see it visually. I said a minimum of 20px for 300 weight; APCA will tend to be a little more lenient than me, and declares a minimum acceptable font size of 17px for 300 black on white.)
Dictators rarely go quietly.
> Then I realized that it doesn't really matter if I get my dream job or make a ton of money, the only thing that matters is living fully in the present.

Yeah, your future self is going to hate you for this.

I mean you (hopefully) don't smoke and drink everyday, because it feels great at the time, but it will shorten and/or reduce your life in a number of significant ways.

A bit of both is probably the best strategy.
Wow, I love it. Postman and Insomnia disappointed me, it became a mess and push towards sync makes it a bit dangerous to use. Thunderclient seems like something to really fill my that void.
Why don't you use an ad blocker of your choice?
Well, he was directly responding to a Musk tweet, but you’re probably right about his intention.
It’s main purpose is simply to avoid WW3…
That is largely because due to green lobbyists making sure that nuclear is subjected to greater regulatory oversight and financial barriers than other sources of energy.

I'm sorry that I'm not that familiar with the German regulatory situation, but here in the USA for example new nuclear plants are required to pre-fund their decommissioning costs upfront before they are ever turned on, and have insurance against accidents, etc. Which is probably a good thing and I'm not arguing against--except that literally no other source of energy is subject to the same requirements. And so when people say "nuclear is expensive!" they are comparing apples-to-oranges.

A coal or natural gas plant generates literal tonnes of environmental waste that they don't need to pay to clean up, and they aren't required to have insurance or bonds against the much more likely industrial accidents their workers and community members will suffer.

Same for solar, which would be a heck of a lot more expensive if solar installation companies had to insure millions of dollars against their workers falling off roofs, or pre-pay the costs of smelting solar panels that reach end of life so their parts don't end up in land fills.

Nuclear isn't expensive. The nuclear energy and regulatory environment is. As it was designed to be by people who don't want nuclear power.
> How long does it take if we look how long the berlin airport took or Stuttgart 21 will take.

Pointing out outliers isn't productive. What's the average time to completion of projects on that scale in Germany?
Fundamentally I've really given up on tools like Postman.

A Jupyter notebook with python and requests is a much more flexible solution which turns into your actual automated test suite much more easily.
No, that just pushes the opponent to throw all of their stuff at you.
This is something that scares me. Since linux had a large dominance on ARM, it was common to vendors to make drivers for their devices. By making drivers, I mean get the driver properly mainlined. Of course, there always existed the mostly proprietary and closed board support package but it was to their disadvantage and there was a huge incentive to write drivers.

My fear is that, with windows becoming popular on ARM, this incentive will disappear and linux support on these machine will be weak.
Both the earth and sun are about ~4.5 billion years old. 7 billion is completely off the charts.
I know nothing about money except how to save and how to spend them. Can someone explain the gist of what "securities" are and what the goal of blocking specifically sales of them is?
In case someone doesn't get it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
The EU is also a mutual defence alliance, Article 42.7
This is completely untrue. I had a Asus laptop in 2003 in which everything worked out of the box under Red Hat Linux, save for video acceleration, but mine was a unfortunate model since most colleagues had no problem with their much better laptops. A couple years later I bought a (much more expensive) wonderful Fujitsu Siemens P7010 which supported Debian Linux out of the box 100% after I provided the firmware for the wireless card (a few Kb download). That machine lasted almost 10 years and was one of the most beautiful machine I ever owned. Then I purchased another Fujitsu i5-something laptop, and again: everything worked out of the box under Debian, and now my girlfriend uses it under Manjaro. Then I purchased a X240 i5 1080p Thinkpad with additional bigger battery for a whopping 8-9 hours of continuous use, again 100% working under Debian Linux, plus 4 or 5 netbooks, all 100% supported. I could count other models I installed to friends, colleagues and relatives, all perfectly supported.
Linux supports a lot of hardware if you don't rush to buy the very last model, which wouldn't be advisable anyway for other reasons.
I think this is the correct link ("tm" got stripped): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131216142310.h...