skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, fast reactors. The reactors that contain a ton or so of plutonium fuel. Fuel that has to be dense because the fission cross section of fast neutrons is much smaller than thermal neutrons. Fuel that doesn't need a moderator to achieve a chain reaction. Fuel that, in an accident, might melt and move around into a configuration where some small part, maybe 5 or 10 kilograms, is prompt supercritical on fast neutrons.

You thought Chernobyl was bad? Wait until your reactor really does become a close analogue of an atomic bomb (except with many times the long term radioactivity). Even Edward Teller was famously cautious about fast reactors for this reason.

We might see fast reactors widely deployed, but if we do I think they'll be molten salt reactors where this sort of rearrangement would be much less plausible.
>Windows terminals mercifully had simply white-on-black for decades,

Ahem. Linux' actual HARDWARE terminals were green on black or orange on black.
Ukraine is fighting our war right now, as an united nation. Huge respect.
I tried moving off thunderbird to just about every graphical open source client I could find but they were all missing some key threading functionality that I use heavily. Particularly either 1. Show the discussion tree in my inbox and 2. Pull up the entire thread for a message in my inbox (or search or any other folder).

I've stuck with Thunderbird because it doesn't have an major flaws. But it is definitely slow and clunky.
The comment where I mentioned it is also part of the whole tree, so you just need to look above a bit. If you mean a link to the actual law on the Ukrainian government website, it could take a bit. I don't speak Ukrainian. Then again, it seems kinda lazy on your part to just not look for it yourself. Also, considering you are taking part in the discussion, you should know the necessary background and be informed. I also remember one article in English looking at the racial law, although from a different perspective (it still covered what is written in it though).
> so Merkel and Putin

You mean Scholz and Putin?
Yes, but that behaves just like fast swap. You can do the same on Linux with zram.
The russian army is propaganda and nukes. Putin’s psychological warfare triggered images of the soviet army in us making us think they are unstoppable. Seems like we were wrong. Sure russia can do damage but its nowhere near the image it tries to project. Furthermore, russians aren’t monsters and they are against such a war.
>Did you see those tanks rolling over civilian cars trying to escape?

There's one famous video of an APC going over a car, and it's not clear, but some people have mentioned that it was an Ukranian APC (in any case, the crash looked like a mistake). I don't know whose APC it was, but without having deep knowledge it's really hard to tell just from the footage.

Also, for the record, there are many videos of american tanks rolling over iraqi cars, even one particularly notable video where they were doing it on purpose as a punishment.
He definitely has an agenda but what is he doing? He does talk a lot, that’s true. Right now he’s only achieved rising energy prices (before the Russian invasion, through co2 tax increases) and stopping KfW-Bauförderung.
Beware, it's criminal to fight in a foreign army for most EU citizens.

Edit: There is no such thing as "willingness to prosecute" in EU, all crimes must and will be prosecuted here (the officials of many states even said so). This applies to French foreing legions too. People with dual citizenship are treated specially, each state has their own rules for that situation (sometimes approval of the other state is needed, sometimes not). Dual nationality without dual citizenship means nothing.
Canada and Australia have tons of uranium. Magnitudes more than Russia

No one is saying a country should run on Uranium till it exhausts. It is there to supplement renewables till we can have major breakthroughs there.

It is not like burning gas doesn't come with its challenges of handling waste
> Putin has said if any other country interfers there will be consequences never seen be before. Remember, he has nuclear weapons to destroy the planet many times.

NATO can make nuclear threats too. They are too classy to make them publicly like Putin does, but who can say they aren’t making nuclear threats and declaring red lines of their own behind closed doors?

Also, while Putin can make these threats, is he sufficiently suicidal to actually act on them? If he did, the likely end result would be both Russia and NATO reduced to smouldering wastelands. Even if he was suicidally insane enough to give the order, the Russian military might refuse to carry it out, they might turn on him instead.
Where does the keyspace come from? rot13 has no keys.

Of course you could do rot2 - rot24 and all the other combinations. Is that were the factor 25 comes from?

The deep inspection needs to look only at the first couple of bytes of each new a TCP connection. So it's not that disrupting. After 2 bytes you can already skip for a vast fraction of other traffic.
I believe it could be also an excuse to justify ( internally ) why the war is going so slow. "It is not that Ukrainians don't want to be saved and are fighting hard, it is because we want to give them opportunities for diplomacy and we stopped the hostility for a day"
At first glance: Very intriguing way to look at it. On second thoughts: The analogy doesn’t seem to hold. People who put their phone away for the weekend actually report feeling happier and more relaxed. I don’t think that would be true of a baby if you take its pacifier away (provided the baby is conditioned to use one for emotional self regulation).
10 years ago the Feds shut down Megaupload
I credit teachers more than books but a partnership between teachers and books makes education great.

I found "Introduction to Algorithms" [1] very accessible for a CS student and also "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation" [2] very complete.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-3rd-MIT-Press...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Automata_Theor...
Will Chrichton at Stanford Uni argued for targeting Rust rather than LLVM to get the benefits of a safer intermediate language and a standard library for free.

It is interesting to consider the trade-offs even if you go with C or LLVM:

https://willcrichton.net/notes/rust-the-new-llvm/
One person who upgrades their insulation can make the equivalent difference of several turning the heat down, and when they tell their friends what their new bills are inspire more to upgrade
There are some tweets now showing it burning inside a destroyed hangar so it's most likely gone :/
>but there's also a reason the nato quota is calculated as a percentage of GDP

Which reason?
Since when is money spent a measurement of effectiveness?

Some companies will just make more money but the people are fucked. Rotting infrastructure and overloaded social security systems.
In the end this will lead to better armed extremists.
Not who you asked but I'll reply anyway.

>And as far as banking is concerned, Bitcoin was never designed to solve the actual problems created by the banking industry, only to be the new medium by which they operated.

Bitcoins original goal was to try and solve the trusted third-party issue. "A peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." So definitely not be the new medium through which banks operated.

> Peter Thiel, who also went from wealthy to ultra-wealthy off the Web2 boom via PayPal, loves crypto, and is friends with a bunch of eugenics advocates who promote cryptocurrency as a return to “sound money” for a whole bunch of extremely racist reasons because when they start talking about banks and bankers, they mean Jews.

Guilt by association isn't an argument. You tried to use the same trick on me by calling me a shill, so maybe that's why you don't recognize the logical fallacy. Either way, it's not valid. It's a staple in any propaganda handbook though. Web2.0 was coined in 2004, two years after Paypal IPOd by the way.

We're on quote number two and the "arguments" are already at rock bottom, I'll stop here.
do what is right, not what is legal
Mostly because of two reasons:
1. China has the largest and most complete industry systems in the world. If you know what ever you need, most likely you can get it in hours if not minutes in some industry hubs, even in rural areas, you can still get it in days. I would say for most of us, such thing is hard to imagine.

2. China has a centralized and powerful government in the mainland managed by a single party, when the supreme leader says "I want something", deem it as done. It cannot be worse when going in the wrong directly but vice versa, nothing can beat it when in right direction. Renewable energy is one example. Other examples such as high speed rail systems and fiber network rollout were almost exactly the same story. China's first generation CHR was not that good at all but after decades of massive deployment, I really cannot see any high speed rails system better than China's. China's national fiber rollout started around 2009 which was after Australia's NBN plan, when most of China's telecom infrastructures were actually copper. Now China's fiber networks has covered around 95% of the population but much of the NBN is still on HFC or VDSL.

For reason #1, no country can compete in short term. For reason #2, hard to say good or bad now. I used to hold a negative view on that. But recent COVID responses around the world just showed me a different perspective.
These are some segments from the French far right backed media, mainly CNews, BFMTV (The French version of FOX News)

Translation (as best as I can)

- We clearly see what they're [Ukrainians] fleeing and it's out of the question to say: Are you really refugees?

- We are in the 21th century, we are in a European city and we have missile attacks like if we are in Iraq or in Afghanistan, can you imagine that!

- In the other hand, it will be, without a doubt, a high quality immigration. They will be intellectuals...

- ...because they are Europeans of culture even if they are not from the European Union, they are a nearby population, very close.

- We are not talking about Syrians fleeing bombardments of the Syrian regime backed by Vladimir Poutine, we are talking about Europeans [fleeing] in their cars which look like our cars.

- There is a difference between Ukrainians which participate in our civilized space, and peoples from other civilizations.

- We will have a high quality immigration, from which we can profit.

- We are not confronted with immigrants which will be dealt with in an immigration logic.

- The last guy was talking in English
"Back in the 1970s, when France decided to switch from fossil fuels to nuclear energy, the climate problem was not even on the agenda. And yet, within about 15 years France had almost fully decarbonized its electricity sector and had electrified a lot of other stuff (such as electrical heating and high-speed trains). Countries like France and Sweden have demonstrated in real life that it is possible to eliminate fossil fuels without sacrificing economic growth and prosperity. The reason why the carbon intensity of German electricity, even after two full decades of Energiewende, is still more than five times higher than that of nuclear France is [...] because anti-nuclear environmentalists [...] have more political clout in Germany than in France and have convinced their political leaders that it’s an excellent “climate policy” to abandon atomic energy and close down all of their remaining reactors.

https://quillette.com/2022/01/27/why-environmentalists-pose-...
They'd need a flying DeLorean to make it. It's 3:24PM there now.
Given the speed of german bureaucracy the money will be available to spend in 8...10 years.
I can't find traces of E-95 models, was part of Cassiopeia line ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Cassiopeia
Is there any legitimate way to fund armament as well?
It's a bit more complicated than that, actually I produce (far) more energy than I consume from solar (200m² home, 5kWp domestic plant) BUT I produce it just during sunny days witch are many here (south France) but not all and in all case not in the evening/night.

Having a reasonably big water heater I heat water from electricity [1] during the day and get it hot enough in the evening and next morning without extra energy needs, so actually the time-limited daily production for hot water can be shifted enough to cover 24h, actually if I do not use that much or install something bigger even around two days.

Something similar is valid for some other energy needs, for instance cooking, washing cloves, dishes when the Sun shine means full self-consumption witch does not cover the total, but heavily reduce grid usage. In the summer, at least here, I run air con almost full-power without consumption from the grid, in the evening and night temperature drop far more than enough to not need extra energy. Being on mounting in absence of sunlight I do not normally needs air con also during the day.

The real issue is another: grid stability. While I can easily produce enough energy in most days of the year when a load start solar inverter react slowly, when a load drop there is an excess of energy for a little time. ALL kind of generators do like static or slowly changing loads and do NOT like spikes. That's the real issue. In a large enough, but not too large, grid loads tend to remain stable enough, changes are more like "background noise changes". On a microgrid things are far different. until we found a way to waste excess energy, for instance to heat water, with something that can be feed with any amount of power p.v. and eolic generate stability issues and alone can't work enough in a microgrid. Smart grid AND devices that are able to slowly load and unload would be of help, but we do not have many.

In infrastructure cost IMVHO if/when we can solve the stability/load issue costs are still lower because any issue is still local and can easily have local backups. Cutting the need of quick restore cut the costs enormously enough to compensate.

[1] yes, is LESS efficient than classic solar BUT I still need electricity for other things and since production is enough during the day it's a nonsense for my needs have two kind of plant just for hot water.
Enjoy! I recommend you start from the oldest videos and work your way forward. He often mentions to past videos and some his content builds on top of older content. It is time well spent. His demeanor/cadence & carefulness on choice of words is very clear and appreciated. His videos also have bookmarks so it is easy to find things in the future if you want to refer back to something.
A really great comment that brightened my day and made me think. Thank you.
The method is interesting as a mental exercise and its archaeological interest. If you are a company employee be careful about trying these or any other type of tunneling or deep packet inspection circumvention methods.

Some companies mention in their employment contracts these type of circumvention activities, unless explicitly allowed, are a firing offense.
Although European NATO members have been underspending, it's also a question of 1-2% of what.

For example, UK's ($59.2b) and Germany's ($52.8b) spending alone was almost as much as Russia ($61.7b) [1]. The combined economies of EU Nato members is so much larger than Russia's that even with 1-2% spending, their military spending outnumbers that of Russia by a large margin.

That said, I agree that all NATO countries should spend at least the required 2%.

Just want to counter the wrong impression of military power. Even the European NATO members have vastly more military power than Russia, let alone the full NATO including the US.

Of course, nukes change the equation, but once nukes start getting used, we are all doomed. Furthermore, neither the Russians, Ukrainians, Europeans or Americans want a nuclear war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
This idea of 'word count' that an Author can use to hold themselves accountable is intriguing. I wonder if a 'lines changed per day' metric (purely as a personal motivator) would be useful for side-projects that we all procrastinate on.

There's got to be some way using git log to get a rough approximation of 'lines changed per day' that you could represent somewhere like a histogram.
Double-edged sword for the US here if Europeans finally start to build up their own capability.

Also, not sure where that leaves France if Germany "wakes up" militarily.
It's not that the grid is reliant on gas, it's that if people switch from gas to electric for heat quickly, the grid might not be able to handle the sudden extra load.
If you mean a Domain Specific Language, i think that's precisely what the author is advocating for. If you can make a good library or DSL, there is no reason to invent an entirely-new programming language: you'll spend less time reinventing the wheel and more time delivering on high-level features.
You'r right, the rot13 command is a shell wrapper around:
`
exec /usr/bin/caesar 13 "$@"
`
Forcing the key to be 13. You can obviously invoke /usr/bin/caesar with any of the 25 keys.
Germany has money for all of that, it doesn't have to neglect healthcare to afford a working military.

Merkel has starved the Bundeswehr of resources relying on assumptions that have revealed themselves to be false. Historical alliances can be unreliable (Trump) and historical rivalries can be reignited (Russia). I fully support this move by Scholz.
> renewables allow for local and hyper-local electricity generation. With any system, there will be transmission loss

Not only that, but democratizing energy production creates resilient communities. This is a necessity in a world facing climate change, increasing inequality and social unrest.

On the other hand, centralizing production creates centralization of political power and systemic risk. Nuclear fission and fusion are the worst offenders in this.
I'm currently on Etifoxine. I've noticed when combined with caffeine & magnesium supplements in the morning, it gives me a super calm laser focus for about 6 hours; no fog or sleepiness.
Agreed. I'm guilty of scratching my own itch and inferring dark themes and interactive sessions, but it's nice to build things in a manner that may allow for a better integration with something else.
Sure, Trumps statements had nothing to do with selling US weapons and LPG.

Didn't see Trump cutting the US oil imports from russia.
yes, and also thanks to Biden, energy companies are now making record profits once again after being in the doldrums for years under trump; we are also now burning almost 25% more coal in the US under Biden than Trump.

People need to stop believing what Biden says he is going to do, and watch what what he actually does.
The dependence is true, but I feel like this was accepted by most with the hope that economic integration of russia would avoid war in europe. Losing so much business would be a deterrent.

I and many other, probably mistakenly, believed this would keep putin in check.
You have to remember that for the US russia is far away, but for us it's a neighbor and our history is bound together for centuries. East germany was part of the soviet union for decades.

We live, lived, in the longest stretch of peace on the european continent and maybe it was NATO and a common enemy but it was also because of diplomancy, compromise and economic integration.

The US is also importing $25bn of crude oil from russia while telling germany to cut down on gas imports from a reliable parter at that point.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...

Putin is a whacko, damn.
The reason I don't want a European army is that I don't really see Germany def ending a couple of countries that hate it.

Germany demilitarized after WW2 and decided to use diplomacy and economic integration to ensure peace, instead of war. And they tried to play nice with Russia, after they killed 27 million Russians in WW2.
Now everyone is acting like Putin going mad is Germany's fault. Now everybody wants Germany to be a military power again. The last two times they were, the world burned.

And yes, the German approach to reign in Russia failed. But so did the US approach of treating Russia as an enemy forever.
Source? I don't understand what you're referring to.
I assume that both parts would want Chernobyl out of this war and remaining stable.

In principle.
How to measure.. capacity to suffer or intelligence? Both are a active fields of research, the former in the neurobiology, animal welfare, ethology space.

I should add though, I think the science on the nature of sentience and suffering is not quite at a point to support some of the recent proclaimations made on the subject. There's enough there though that I reckon the precautionary principle is defensible though.
It is like a crime against all of technology that there is no equivalent of this today.

We have smartphones, but battery life sucks and they have no real local mesh support, and no expansion port.

We have lots of dev boards, but no real finished products without exposed PCBs, and with a proper app-capable OS. And the ones that are reasonably polished are far too expensive for a semi-novelty.

The closest is maybe... pwnagotchi? A graphing calc?

I just want like, a little ESP32 handheld, with an m.2 slot or something in the traditional place for cartridges, and the ability to run apps from files on SD cards(Even if they're just MicroPythons).

But somehow all the "Hacker's handhelds" and the like seem to go nowhere, and are basically just an Arduino with a screen, meanwhile phones never get the expansion pack and local mesh capabilities the cybiko had.

Cybiko was a lot of fun. It would have been better with some AAA games, but it was still awesome.
We don't have an international pact triggered by historical experience around handling refugees, or infectious disease control. We have one like that exactly for the purpose of military support. So yes, we expect NATO members to step up for protection of other members. We have joint exercises so that the forces do have common approaches and plans.
Putin wouldn't have allowed them to become members. And this is effectively what is happening here: Putin is unfortunately destroying Ukraine, and effectively making sure that any possibility of joining NATO is long gone. This would have just happened earlier if Ukraine had tried to join NATO.
Can't they just block the roads and wait outside the city until the javelin operators run out of food?
Last I read was 4500x a few hours ago.[0] I agree it's hard to place faith in the figures. However, one would assume the majority of the fighting hasn't appeared online. Browsing the mediaverse today I did see a few (like 3 different) videos showing what appeared to be unique columns of disabled Russian vehicles. Apparently these were unique, owing to different surrounding environs. That could easily have added to 300 casualties in itself... IIRC one column was a failed Russian push in to Kiev, one was outside Kharkiv and a separate one I can't recall the location. Widely reported were 200 dead Russians at yesterday's airfield. And there was subsequent fighting there too. So it's roughly in the anticipated order of magnitude.

[0] Similar report https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFMmXu6eWYAMOSUB.jpg
I don't know, I've instinctively done this for a really long time, and it has brought me a lot of heartache. Maybe one should occasionally pick easy stuff just to feel better about oneself.