skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it curious how interconnected the "sins" of humanity are. Failing to do the "right thing" often seems to result in consequences that come back to bite us in unexpected ways:

We know we shouldn't be burning fossil fuels because it's bad for the planet - but it turns out it's bad for ourselves too, because fossil fuels fund cruel and corrupt regimes like Russia and Saudi Arabia.

We know we should provide social safety nets for people, as a general moral principle - but it also turns out that people on the edge of survival can't afford to follow government guidelines like "stay home and isolate" during a pandemic, so we all collectively suffer.

Our aesthetic sense recoils at the destruction of the ecosystems of the natural world - but it turns out that we also rely on them in subtle ways that science is still unpacking, and their destruction leads to tangible negative consequences like the collapse of seemingly unrelated food sources (for example the near-extinction of whales has resulted in a huge nitrogen sequestration problem in the world's oceans, leading to a collapse in krill population, leading to a collapse in many species of fish).

Our aesthetic sense also recoils at factory farming, and the clear moral issues with keeping large numbers of animals suffering in close proximity - but it turns out that this also leads to less nutritious food, food packed with antibiotics (leading to resistance, leading to superbugs), and even an increase in zoonotic viral transmission events (leading to global pandemics killing many people).

It's as if our sense of ethics and aesthetics is in some sense pragmatically correct. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised - they evolved for a reason.
If we converted all energy production to geothermal, would it be possible to significantly increase the cooling of the Earth's core?

The flow from the Earth's core to the surface is estimated at 47±2 terawatts[0]

The total energy supply for 2017 was 162,494 TWh[1]

World energy demand is expected to grow 27% by 2040

Currently, heat escaping from the Earth accounts for only 0.03% of Earth's total energy budget at the surface which is dominated by the 173,000 TW contributed by solar radiation[0] What effect would it have if the vented heat were equal to the amount contributed by the sun?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum...
I see MacPorts includes the following clients (I took the liberty of removing servers and proxies from this list):

$ port search gopher
bombadillo @2.3.3_2 (net)
Bombabillo is a non-web client for the terminal, supporting Gopher, Gemini and much more.

kristall-devel @20211120 (net)
Small-Internet Browser for Gemini, Gopher, Finger & HTTP

phetch @1.1.0 (net)
A terminal client designed to help you quickly navigate the gophersphere.

vf-1 @0.0.11_1 (net, python)
command-line gopher client
> Geothermal heating provides unlimited fuel for people in houses, staying still

This sounds like the beginning of a great sci-fi novel.

A future where Earth's core has cooled because of excess draws to power humanity. Now, the planet is losing it's magnetic field.

To save humanity, humans need to re-heat the core, build biospheres, or leave the planet.
There's not much money in it. But some people are working on search:

https://kagi.com

Having used the beta, I can say it's pretty good.

Will normies use it? Probably not. Normies will use The Google until the end of time because The Google has done a remarkable job convincing everyone that they have a unique omniscience. But if you know better, then give Kagi a chance. In my disillusionment around DuckDuckGo, Kagi has been a breath of fresh air.
You're underestimating the effort and dedication that it took to move sufficient quantities of freight by foot over mountain trails.

"Plan A", this was not. That would have been motorized transport, which was effectively interdicted.

That North Vietnamese logistics was able to smuggle sufficient tonnage to supply even a limited insurgency in the South wasn't inevitable. And probably couldn't have been duplicated by most other military forces.
Rooting for leaks of info/keys/specs that allow nouveau to legally evolve.
I've done that. In my office I have a 27" Mac from 2011. I keep it around as a 32-bit machine, and I decided one day to try using it as a video conferencing computer, because it has the biggest screen out of everything I have. The camera, on its default settings, makes me look like I have a skin disease. It's really horrible. But Macs from that era could have their video stream intercepted and tweaked by third party systems, so I desaturated it to black-and-white.
The thing is, the only difference between a crazy ideology and one that works is whether it works.

The Ukrainians have been independent long enough that "crazy" seems to be a reasonable adjective to apply, for the following reason: Putin seems to think that Ukraine will join Russia, rather than launch a years-long insurgency in the best case (let alone win the war in the worst case, apparently).

Ideology only works if you can pull it off. Otherwise, is the world really mistaken for attaching labels like "unhinged"? Almost every fanatic believes they're acting for good reasons. They pretty much have to believe it by definition.
I’ve seen this narrative start to pop up a lot attacking “the left” about the Ukraine situation.

The odd part is I have yet to say anyone saying the things that they are told they should stop saying.

This all seems like a really aggressive attempt to preemptively narrow one side of the window of acceptable discourse.
Given enough time, yes. But I'm pretty sure Putin doesn't have the luxury of this war lasting too long.

He'll want to force his adversaries on their knees within a week and considering the snail's pace at which the Russian military are gaining ground that doesn't seem likely.
This. It’s particularly good for my home country, Poland, which is extremely homogenic at the moment.
This is such a random post right at the top: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/message.html

Warren Buffet really is a 100 billion dollar door to door salesman
How does this compare to Magma?
Indeed. This is war and at war nobody is interested in telling truth - that would only help the enemy. So far Ukrainians have been really good at propaganda, churning out high-quality memes at a good cadence and achieving almost total "social media superiority". Later their reports turn out to be exaggerated or outright false (it is crazy, but they posted a dogfight clip from a video game like it was a real thing), but people just want to like and retweet what they want to believe, so they accept it uncritically. By contrast, Russian trolls have been relatively quiet.
Bad news for Yuri Milner? Or, at least, worse news than the Paradise Papers?
When the talking heads went from "the vaccines are rushed for political reasons" before the election, to "the vaccines are super effective, lets mandate their use" ... that showed pretty clearly that the politics were overriding any science.

Changing the definitions of "vaccination" and "vaccine effectiveness" to keep the narrative going wasn't great for anyone's credibility either.
> Putin is not “crazy”, he’s just following through a system and a doctrine that had been put in place years before

Consistency doesn’t absolve delusion. People have believed in transgender space alien conspiracies for decades. That doesn’t make them sane.

> whose mind was negatively affected by the pandemic (as the Western press is sometimes alluding)

Nobody serious claims this.

Putin is doing what every despot does. Consolidation among cronies leads to inefficiency, inefficiency to slower growth. Falling quality of life leads to a doubling down on consolidation, weakening the country, but only in ways that will manifest later (requiring bolder grabs). It’s a classic death spiral totally independent of the pandemic.
> perhaps those on the Russian side of the front line don't really fancy being involved in this ?

I think that's definitely the case, Russians are very close to Ukrainians culturally and ethnically. They were on the same side on several wars.

I think this may explain why things are not going full on bloodthirsty kill-everything-that-moves yet... but just wait until coffins start piling up on the hangar. Seeing your mates being killed has a way to make you de-humanize and hate the other side, no matter who they are. That's how you end up with entire cities bombed to the ground in later stages of a war... I don't think any war starts that way, that's how it usually ends though.

Let's hope they'll find a way to stop this in time.
The Fox Toolkit [0] always looks like Windows 95, and is still getting updates.

Its lack of themeability is presumably one of the reasons it's so fast and lightweight.

[0] http://fox-toolkit.org/
Is this a legitimate, poorly executed joke? Or a legitimate offer from Google. Fucking disgusting.
FWIW, interviews with what are supposedly Russian soldiers thinking it was a continuation of the recent exercise: https://mil-in-ua.translate.goog/uk/news/ya-v-plenu-bat-shho...
> It's interesting that he's losing the war, too.

I would certainly like to see Ukraine prevail, but by what measure is he losing the war? Ukraine is a large country, and moving through urban centers takes time.
The Orders are composed of persons all hung up on authority, security and control; i.e., they are blinded by the Aneristic Illusion. They do not know that they belong to Orders of Discordia. But we know.

- The Military Order of THE KNIGHTS OF THE FIVE SIDED TEMPLE. This is for all the soldiers and bureaucrats of the world.

- The Political Order of THE PARTY FOR WAR ON EVIL. This is reserved for lawmakers, censors, and like ilk.

- The Academic Order of THE HEMLOCK FELLOWSHIP. They commonly inhabit schools and universities, and dominate many of them.

- The Social Order of THE CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CONCERNED CITIZENS. This is mostly a grass-roots version of the more professional military, political, academic and sacred Orders.

- The Sacred Order of THE DEFAMATION LEAGUE. Not much is known about the D.L., but they are very ancient and quite possibly were founded by Greyface himself. It is known that they now have absolute domination over all organized churches in the world. It is also believed that they have been costuming cabbages and passing them off as human beings.

A person belonging to one or more Order is just as likely to carry a flag of the counter-establishment as the flag of the establishment-- just as long as it is a flag.

Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton.
Had it no been for the strategic pivot to Asia containment policy of China, that have created a de facto China Russia alliance, then Russia likely would have assessed the cost of invading Ukraine too high.
We have a ground source heat pump and one summer we were away and did not use out air conditioning that year much at all. Mid winter our return loop temperatures (the glycol being brought in to our heat pump after circulating in the ground) was at one point 3 degrees C cooler than it had been any other year. Quite a noticeable difference. For reference, our loops are 8 vertical at 250ft.
Analysts expect occupation to be the hardest part for Russia. Ukrainian resolve is at legendary high levels at this moment.
They were so worried about "Russian interference" in the last 2 elections, you'd think maybe they'd have done this before?
It also depends on whether you think everything should be measured in a political context?
>Eastern European migration is not seen positively by many British people

Which is incredibly ironic.

I love how Jimmy Carr put it: "These damn Romanians and Bulgarians, coming over here, stealing the jobs of our Poles." LOL

Or that British TV show 'Benefits Street' or something like that, where the only house on the street who's inhabitants were not on welfare and actually had jobs, was full of Romanians.
That's not open source, and probably not inexpensive either.
I don't mean to imply that I don't have the utmost sympathy for the Ukrainians . . .

The Russians were not told that it was a war of aggression; many probably did not realise it until they got there. Is desertion truly a reasonable option? Where are they going to go?
If the witnessed info matches the news in different parts of the city and country - the reported numbers are obviously close. Sure there is some exaggeration but in this situation it must be supported as it helps reduce aggression and lowers invader's morale. We will of course find the true numbers later, but now is not the time for that.
Portugal is 900 years old and its borders are virtually unchanged since the 1297 Treaty of Alcañices.

England has had mostly unchanged borders since 927!
There’s no such thing as “shortage of labor”. What you are thinking of is shortage of wages.
Let's all change our profile pictures, join hands and sing kumbaya too.
Now we just have to stop giving passports to Russian oligarchs..
> Download some censorship-free mesh networking communication apps to organize protests

Russia is sadly beyond resolution through protest. Join a resistance or get out, unfortunately. It won’t be long before the second becomes impossible.
> Another major concern is that NVIDIA will now have to ensure that their services and the software they are providing to end-users is entirely free of any viruses or malicious code that could affect them.

I don't know, things like this just show how great it is to put unknown code into your kernel.
Lightnings seem to be rare on Mars. If this one was caused by it, what are the chances it would have been discovered?

https://www.space.com/mars-lightning-weak-thin-atmosphere.ht...
> I'd wager that as we speak ~80% of auditing staff in all EU institutions is junior or inexperienced staff

Given that the public service sector tends to pay shit, I'd tend to agree with you - and that worldwide, not just the EU. Not really surprising that any kind of major government-run project ends up in some form of clusterfuck - be it nuclear plants, major IT overhauls, construction of new roads or railroads, construction in general... wherever the erosion of the tax base following the rise of neo-liberalism hit, in-house expert staff able to exercise oversight of projects was the first to be let go and replaced by externally hired staff.
Exactly.

We have a rotten political system (and political class), but many cannot fathom their surrounding and thus we end up blaming immigrants and the poor as per usual.
Amazing that they could imagine touchscreens and voice recognition, but not a built-in address book. They imagine you speaking the full telephone number into the phone, and you have to remember it! They allow that it could store "the last 200 numbers you dialed", but the concept of permanently attaching it to a name seems to elude them.
I suppose if people could provide actual quotes of people, rather than “let me tell you what people said”, we could have a better discussion.

I’ve found that people tend to take comments completely out of context for political reasons.
Is nitter.net blocked too?
Russian authorities, they realise how badly it is going, scared of an informed populace.
You have to make sure it's straight, drop sheathing in to the hole, and then cap it if it isn't going to be used right away.

More importantly, geothermal/ground source is rarely 1 well either, in our case it was 8.
It's a fun ritual. I go with my wife to get a coffee in the morning twice or three times a week. I pay with my watch, and we sometimes talk about astronomy.
> Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc actually do /something/

Big if true.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... Even without the Ponzi scheme and market manipulation; Proof-of-Work based cryptocurrencies are an ecological catastrophe. Other Proof-of-Something™ currencies do not bring much to the table either.

At some point it's only normal there's a push back against cryptocurrencies.
Interesting — can I assume you're not on a high-pixel density (aka "retina") screen? We've experimented with forcing staff lines to start on a new pixel, but that can result in an overly digital look.
It's good, though like things that have done this since the end of the 90s, the details are quite there which leads to it not looking like Windows 95.

Especially, the spacing around the text labels on icons, the spacing on text around menu controls.

With a bit more work on details this could be really hard to tell the difference.
This raises the most cynical of questions for me. Is "protesting"
even a thing any more?

I grew up in an era when the Greenham Common Women were on TV nightly.
Month after month they protested, until eventually their demands to
remove US nukes were heard. Protest was not merely acceptable, it was
a middle-class duty from the heart of Britain.

As a young adult I marched in London with a million people against
Iraq II. The result; absolutely jack diddley squat! Lots of drums,
lots of face-painting but I most remember row upon row of police
photographing the crowds, intimidating peaceful families trying to
express their preference for not bombing a city full of civilians. The
media coverage was muted and dishonest, and our government were
intransigent.

Since then there's been a slow and steady war in the UK, against
protest. A trickle, then a torrent of legislation and surveillance
measures designed to make the most law-abiding and upstanding citizens
feel afraid.

From talking to my students I know that 20 - 30 year-olds simply do
not believe in street protest as a worthwhile endeavour. They live in
a culture of learned helplessness, in fear of the face recognition
cameras, the drones and helicopters, and what that might mean to their
job prospects. We've stymied our own liberal values more than some
tyrannies have, and now the West would benefit from great spectacle of
opposition, who will come?
I suspect that some people are knowingly playing along with the Ukrainian social media strategy. Perhaps that is even the right thing to do.
> As to how the mere presence of a nuclear attack submarine can scare off an entire carrier group, I still don't understand. But then again I build web apps not submarines.

Escalation concerns - USA and Russia both really want to avoid direct conflicts to avoid escalation into nuclear war (and sometimes - as in this case - use that as a shield).
> but by what measure is he losing the war?

He isn’t losing, but his strategy clearly failed. He attempted blitzkrieg. Paris fell without resistance [1]. Kiev’s will remains unbroken.

Furthermore, Putin has failed to achieve air superiority. He’s bogged down in urban warfare. All of which gives the West time to grow a pair.

[1] https://judymccarver.com/2017/07/a-timeline-of-nazi-occupied...
I'm an ex Big4 auditor and you're right. I know HN likes to bash these kinds of companies but they're full of highly competent people that are managed by idiots. These tests are bullshit internal things, think "Phishing awareness" with some stupid 20 question quiz on if you should open an email attachement or not.

They're also working absolutely insane hours, especially during "busy season", and are expected to complete the training in their spare time or time off. It's usually tied to your bonus too, if you haven't done the yearly training you've worked for nothing. Anyone in their shoes would have looked for the answers to save 40 hours of bullshit training on top of an 80-100 hour work week.
A couple of years ago my first child was born. I agreed with my wife to watch him first thing in morning while she worked out at the gym. That hour always teed me up to be very productive afterwords.

During that hour my mind drifted to the code it wanted to write. I’d begin to think about the classes and methods I wanted to make progress on.

Now when I’m blocked I take an hour, play with my kids and after find myself very productive.
In this context, they are. Not every facet of society has caught up to idealized equity. There is compulsory military service for Ukrainian men, and it should be fair to say that those without military training are objectively more vulnerable during a conflict.
Exciting stuff! I'm especially excited to see where this area will lead in regards to strings; I have yet to hear a sample string library produce a decent sounding classical symphony, at least without a lot of dynamics finessing (which, as a composer, I don't want to do; that's what human players would do naturally).
> Its not very different here.

It's very different here. On paper those certifications junior auditors get make the difference between "guy with hammer" and "engineer". These juniors are sent in as capable auditors as soon as they get those certifications pinned to their chests. At best they have a lead auditor checking up some of their work.

Very few builders intend to use "guy with hammer" as an architect or engineer with the purpose of introducing flaws in the result. While in audit it happens in so many cases because the audit report more often than not is intended to miss on several findings under the cover of "junior mistake" if ever caught.
Names are hard, because it is common to name something with what looks most like it, even when there are differences.

There are two separate phenomena that give it the appearance of a Ponzi.

First, a Ponzi works by taking the money of new investors, and distributing it to past investors that cash out with “profit”. Similarly, BTC investing (as in, intending to make a profit from the difference between the buy and the sell price) works by taking the money of new investors (in an exchange) and distributing it to past investors that cash out, yielding a profit that, from a systemic perspective, will eventually cause someone’s loss. From that viewpoint, successful investors are unwittingly taking the money of people that may not afford the loss.

Second, a Ponzi works by making up assets (typically financial instruments) out of thin air, and selling them to victims (some of which will profit, many will lose), making a profit out of thin air. Similarly, the creator of a cryptocurrency typically puts itself in a position where they either premine the coins, or create an algorithmic schedule where most of the coins are created in the first few years, making them out of thin air, and giving themselves a significant advantage, as they will give themselves a generous chunk. They then sell those coins to victims, making a profit out of thin air. Even Nakamoto famously was flagged as an intensive miner in early years, and clearly did not expect to be deanonymized by the coinbase counter, since they changed it once it was found out.

It is true that there are dissimilarities as well. The largest one is the failure mode. A traditional Ponzi fails because people that did not get their “guaranteed profit, whisper past performances is not a guide for future performance”, are unlikely to reinvest, leading to a breaking point where everyone takes their money out until none is left. In the types of cryptocurrencies described above, people are often willing to reinvest even when they lost substantial amounts.

The failure mode typically comes many decades later, when lost keys (deaths etc) cause a slow deflation until no coin remains in use.
It has nothing to do with a general attack on "the left". Bilous himself is a leftist. The point is criticizing a specific part of the western left which understands itself as anti-imperalist but by fully concentrating on the west and NATO totally lost sight of quite real non-western imperalism which manifests itself in Ukraine right now.