skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extrapolating from bits I've read online (which means, this is probably completely wrong... but possibly not!)...

Most of Russia's income is from oil and gas. And the profits from oil and gas are received by a very small few people. Those people probably do not pay a lot of taxes.

Therefore, it can be assumed that the Russian military and related systems are not well funded. Russia has for decades had a brute-force approach to military - simpler, less efficient systems which are more robust and which can be field serviced.

If numbers found on the internet can be believed chuckle, in 2017 Russia spent 66 billion USD-equivalent on its military. The US spent $646 billion. Now maybe the US is much less efficient, with grifter middlemen contractors, but still... 10x the expenditures.

As for China, they want the energy and mineral resources from Russia. They are treading carefully to appear supportive of Russia while not alienating the rest of the world (their major trading partners).
smartphones were taken from troops before they were sent to ukraine (there is a bunch of stories of conscripts calling families telling that they are forced to sign contracts (in military operation can participate only contractors) and phones are taken from them. otherwise internet would have been full of russian tiktok videos .

>And to the commenter below: nobody dismantled road signs on the Russian side on the roads to Ukraine

Yeah, sure. It's like when you need to get to bakersfiled but the last road sign its arrow pointing to general direction of california in utah.
You solved the puzzle I think. The wording was designed specifically for browser apps. They didn’t anticipate non-browsing apps to be using webview. Also I was exaggerating when I said hundreds of apps. Seeing it on PayPal is what threw me off
The answer is super easy: I want JSON to be shown with syntax highlight but when I pipe it elsewhere I want porcelain output. $NO_COLOR is an additional indicator that the output might need further processing and it’s not for human consumption (in a terminal)

What you might be missing is that “color” on the CLI is actually extra characters before and after a colored word. If the viewer does not interpret them (for example a web UI), they will just be extra characters. This is akin to printing `<strong>8000 bytes</strong>` and expect it to be rendered correctly everywhere it’s shown.
That psychological aversion to genocidal murder cerainly doesn't spread to Russian general staff.

They are continuing bombing the Kiyv dam.
Plus companies are outsourcing to reduce development costs. They get what they pay for, regardless of country.
Households that don't want to conscript every possible family member into the workforce wouldn't reap as many of those per capita benefits. And even those that do are probably gaining less advantage than when a single breadwinner was more common.
Who’s Lying?
wow, and here i am coding off and on since i was nine years old (port scanners, bots, blogs, ezines, chat servers, simple games, apps etc) cd and feeling like an imposter, so i don’t bother applying to tech jobs because i think i am not good enough and yet guys like the guy you worked with are getting all sorts of positions. maybe i should push myself more. having social anxiety sucks
Yes, this looks like it's just a worse version of passwords.
Little to none I hope.

Nuclear weapons are their most powerful when not used.
> The goal is to topple Ukraine's leadership and install a puppet who will be more aligned with

So like the western-backed Euromaidan basically (without Victoria Nuland handing out cookies in Maidan square).
I have HN on 200%, using a 21.5" 1080p monitor myself.
As usual, this legal trick "it's not mine now - it's my wife/son/friend" etc only passes when relevant regulator wants to look the other way. Most countries have laws against donations and transactions that are fraudulently done just to avoid the law.

And now, everybody looks.
Putin believes in the old Russian nationalist philosophy of “gathering the Russian lands”. Basically to reform large parts of the ex-USSR into a Russian empire. Because of reasons - he wrote a long article on it but the Kremlin website is being DDOSd
If the west keeps supplying when with weapons they might actually hold at least way past the point where Russia can continue the fight.

Bellingcat reports that the orders are to take Kyiv by Monday regardless the losses if Ukraine can hold out for longer they might just be in the clear.

It’s also clear now that the Ukraine is getting direct intelligence from NATO especially from the global hawk drones and the sigint/elint aircraft it’s been flying their ability to avoid Russian offenses, hit key targets and to mount effective counter attack seem to indicate they do have map cheats enabled.

The training they got from NATO forces seem to be paying off in spades too.

Russia seem to be closer and closer to the point where their only winning condition is a Grozny scenario and if that happens then there is no chance that NATO would stand by.

Conventional warfare with limited civilian casualties would be tolerated leveling cities wouldn’t this isn’t Syria.

The EU and NATO knows that even if Russia takes Ukraine they won’t be able to hold it it might take another decade but it eventually would be free again even without major insurgency.

Puppet regimes don’t hold and Ukrainians have been far more interconnected with the EU especially through Poland than say Belarus.
I find myself scaling text down slightly a lot (without scaling images)…though I did go through and increase the base size on my own site recently.
Exactly. There is just no good motivation for fighting neighbors or family.
Russia has about 145 million people. The US has about 340 million.

The Russian economy is about $1.7tn and the US one is about $29tn. Yup, you read those figures right.

For comparison, the USSR had 286 million people in 1989 to the US 248 million.

And their GDPs were $1.7tn for Soviets (yep, same amount after 30 years of inflation, plus the Soviet one was most likely inflated...) and US about $6tn.

Russia is the world's biggest banana republic. More like oil sheikdom, actually.
I really hope there will be a wave of innovation in this area. The heat pump offerings are really slim pickings in the US as well.

My idea is that augmenting with heat pumps is the most sensible step for most people. Such a system might provide a portion of the heat, and could be used for smaller heat zones (eg, some downstairs living room and/or bedroom) rather than the whole building.

My thought is that the advantage for augmenting is that it makes the geothermal setup much more affordable. You'll not end up needing to go super deep, or to install sophisticated insulation barriers.

That way, your geothermal setup can be pretty primitive.
Why would Russians be setting up roadblocks?
I'm pretty sure if Ukraine survives this, they will be NATO members quickly.
I lived in an Australian house on the shady side of a narrow stream valley, temperate climate. If you didn't heat in winter, dew would form on the walls inside at night as temp fell and mold would grow everywhere
What do they stand to gain? The entire oligarch angle doesn’t pass the smell test anymore these are billionaires that have billions on the line and nothing to gain from Russia which is still the main source of their questionable wealth becoming a pariah state.
My iMac from 2000 had 128MB and ran OS X.
USA withdraw from NATO. Europe can afford to pay for their own defense. My family in USA should not be obliged to pay for it anymore.
>In that case at least Saddam really was a tyrant.

You should research a bit what life in Iraq was like prior to GW1 under Saddam's leadership. Most - in fact, nearly all - ME leaders are 'tyrants' according to Western standards but some are rewarded with arms and some are struck down.
Someone should invent a way to check whether software is working correctly. Call it "writing checks" or "check driven development" or something.
USA can leave NATO.
Mostly I just want websites to have some internally-consistent set of sizes so that I can Ctrl-scroll to set and then Firefox will remember what's the right size for that website and then I don't have to edit that setting again. (I view HN at 90%, for what it's worth.)

But if the user has set a preferred default font size, why on earth would you want a website to override it?
> For what it's worth, I'm not looking at user-agents or anything: it's cutting off at the point where the display starts looking awful.

I went to the site on my 27" iMac and got the 'Desktop Required' message.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.3 Safari/605.1.15

Resolution per Panopticlick [0] is 2560x1440x24.

[0] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
My definition of basic human kindness includes NOT shilling and trying to defend and justify get-rich-quick pyramid schemes and fraudulent scams, under the pretense of not wanting to pay your taxes.
Yep, and this is link to disease that people often miss - when we attribute conditions and diseases to "genetics", what is implied is that it is due to some environmental exposure or detrimental pattern of behavior that hasn't been identified, causing some gene expression/mutation that ends up being harmful.
What was with the gray text on websites? It was absurd, I chalked it up to designers using Mac screens at the time?
Cool, styling is slick.

A good friend of mine has pretty much everything you built, but as an elaborate excel sheet (he's quite the wizard). I for one don't care to track individual transactions.

I'm building something similar (more along the lines of your forecast page), and also opting to do without a backend server. Love the flow of no login and everything private.
I've opted to use uPlot as I'm not using React, but "starred" Victory for consideration someday as it looks nice.
This is so funny to me. So many websites have ridiculously large text and I have to zoom out to 66% or 50% to read them comfortably. I want to ask the opposite question: Why are fonts on websites so large?

HN is one of the few sites left that seem to have a normal font size.
As someone who teaches basic programming type things, and enjoys hacking away at things solo, I really like this reframing and reconsideration of that good ol' "Unix Way" type of thinking, and why I'm a huge fan of Bash for everything, and it makes me wonder why it isn't more "text everywhere." In the back of my head I don't think I'll ever be convinced that those reasons aren't mostly arbitrary. (i.e. language/tool developers for other developers subconsciously fomenting lock-in)
> Tusker actually uses Migra to power its functionality: https://github.com/bikeshedder/tusker#how-does-it-Work

What a twist! Might we ask what field you work in? Seems niche
While this might work for an individual, or a group of adventurous hacker news readers, I doubt this would work for a significant portion of the country. It's certainly not big enough portion of the country needed to make a noticeable dent on energy demand. Also, think about how such a migration would affect the local economy. Once all the knowledge workers (ie. the people who can work remote) leave, their spending will dry up, causing local business to shut down and non-remote workers to lose their jobs. The economy will enter a downward spiral.
I was into indie hacking but it is a tough sell to me these days. You spent your weekdays staring blankly at a monitor, and you come back home spend the rest of your free time blankly at a monitor but without getting paid.

Moreover there is no guarantee of gratification of what you are working on. You expect people to like what you are deeply passionate about while hoping the marketing algorithms surrounding the internet take pity on you to give a slight bump in web traffic.

Indie hacking essentially becomes make things you like to build for yourself and hope people will like it.
Lots of things are easier than webauthn if you don't provide the same guarantees.
Honest question - how do you guys move away from Gmail?

I've been trying, twice, to download my (120 thousands of) email from Gmail. Both failed.

It'll download only about 500 emails per download, then I have to stop for like 10 minutes.
Otherwise Gmail will block it.

Even then it'll still fail - after days of downloading, suddenly it'd only download the newest emails.

Any hints?
Yeah, but is that sort of discomfort worth the energy usage of heating the entire room?

An alternative is also, as it is mentioned in the article, to warm certain spots in a room instead of the whole of it.
I agree, I'll think of something more suitable to replace it. There's already good feedback in this thread I can work with.
It’s different the US was actually attacked whilst not by Iraq ofc Saddam well was Saddam…

Also a key factor here that most Americans don’t get greeting cards from Iraqis over Easter you’ll be hard pressed to find a single Ukrainian or Russian family that doesn’t have relatives across the border.

An analogy to this situation would be if the US decided to invade Canada tomorrow it would be much harder to explain to the troops or to motivate them.
Nuclear is an industry in dire need of a disruptive startup. The fundamentals of building a plant aren’t so insane that it should take 20 years of impossible to recoup costs to build one. It feels like “old space” where a very small number of companies basically milked the customer indefinitely because they have an effective monopoly.
I've found quality wool garments to be very helpful. Examples: A thick wool "cable knot" sweater is both warm and highly breathable, ideal for hiking. Wool socks (and/or wool felt slippers when it's very cold) keep feet warm without any of the clamminess (or smell) associated with cotton or synthetics. Merino wool underwear has similar benefits.

The price is higher compared to cotton or synthetics, but it's possible to find good values by shopping sales. The daily rewards of wool (in every season) are worth the extra effort.
Only evidence I've found of this is it's unfortunately fake. I hope PH catches wind of this though and actually does it. And I'm sure if it were true they would have made a public statement about it too, but no such statement appears to exist on their official outlets.
SRP, PAKE, and OPAQUE. More generally, zero knowledge proofs (ZKP).
> Are there US/British/etc. nationals in Ukraine, doing their own protective sabotage/engaging directly with the enemy? I find this very difficult to believe, for the reasons stated in the previous comment.

Why do you think black ops in Ukraine is beyond the pale (technically even intelligence support kind of drags NATO into this)? I agree with you that they are probably instructed to not directly engage with the Russians, but sabotage and training doesn't really seem that far fetched to me, although..

> including that Ukrainian soldiers don't need months of training to operate the push-button munitions that NATO has dumped on them

..this is actually a great point. With Javelins and NLAWs that just about anyone in this thread could use against tanks and helis effectively, maybe they don't need any on-ground assistance.
> Android source code is publicly available, with time stamps. You can read it and see how little had to change to make it a touch first ux.

> Android had to add multi-touch events, make the default controls bigger, and add inertial scrolling to the list views. They didn’t even have to add a soft keyboard, because the first few gens of phones had physical keyboards.

Whether or not it was a lot of code, multi-touch was a revolutionary new UI paradigm and a beautiful symbiosis between well tuned hardware and software. I don’t think its importance should be trivialized and the iPhone was undoubtedly the catalyst that brought Fingerworks’s invention to the masses.
Then there's the issue of the email client - I'm using Linux. I heard Thunderbird is a mess.

Sylpheed is so old.

Claws email is supposed to be better - but everytime after downloading email, it will lock up for a long time, while it's going through the filters.

With 120 thousand emails, and need for GUI / modern email client, it seems my options are ather limited.

Thinking of using Eudora with Wine.

Any ideas?
In high latitude Australia I reckon this is seems to be the norm. A lot of prison colony age houses still and not great insulation so attempting to maintain a warm temp in the entire house would be expensive, plus it typically doesn't get that much below freezing even if that. If you don't have a wood burner stove it is common to have a couple panel heaters in strategic rooms, use hot water bottles in bed, etc.
Another really nice feature of Go is that the language preserves backwards compatibility. If you built a hobby project in some other 1.0 languages, you’d be pretty out of luck (ahem, looking at you, Dart).
> but doesn't rise to lies

Those schematics of the WMD-factory-trucks that I remember seeing on TV and the assertion that saddam had a bunch of them churning out WMDs sure seem a hell of a lot like lies. Maybe someone can explain to me how they weren't.

> I was raised never to trust the government. I served in Afghanistan under two different presidents

These two statements would seem to contradict each other.
thanks. that is a great idea. Sweet that this can be run for cooling too. (I sleep horribly in the summer because it often doesn't cool down enough and I feel bad about running the AC for too much time.)
Missile Defense Agency
Do you have a link to one you recommend?
I think the context here is trying to imply most: "While some developers ..., many users don’t."

It's that 'many' is comparative to 'some' here.
Crazy Theorizing About Hair Loss
It's looking at the width, so that some fixed-width elements don't run into each other and wreck the display - if you expand the window a little it should work as expected.

For what it's worth, I'm also running Firefox on MacOS, so I'd expect that to work given the right window size.
To add to this, I got some unconfirmed reports from Kyiv and Lviv of “very obviously American operatives” supplying intelligence, training, etc. to Ukrainian forces.
That’s not really the culture problem here. The problem is that if they outsourced it to a team at $9 an hour someone at Boeing thought they made a killing.

While the offshore team gets $9 an hour, the engineer itself gets a fraction of that. And those engineers are very well aware that you didn’t choose them because you think they’re amazing. They know you chose them because you don’t value engineering.

So regardless of whether they are good or not they’ll do the minimum work possible.

I remember a bigger automation softwares CTO telling me about a bigger enterprise that offshored their database change management process.

The process was defined as putting a word file put into a jira issue. At the end of the approval process some person in India had to paste it into the database shell. If word auto correct messed it up the whole process gets marked as failed and it started from 0. That person pasting into the database has no interest whatsoever on making any recommendations even if they could.
Alternatively there are a bunch of more updated videos of russian solders looting stores for food and gas stations for disel
I found this to be a compelling take on Russia's motivations for invading Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE

The narrator argues that it's largely about fossil fuels.
Oh yea people still suck anywhere they go
Or just humans breathing. And plants. Pets too.
The rise of Trumpist political forces is extremely alarming. But they stem from somewhere: mistrust in institutions which correlates hugely with support for people like Trump. If people cannot trust their leaders, they cannot trust institutions, they cannot trust reality itself, it leads them to exhaustion, defeatism, and towards supporting personalist rulers. When Trump lies he says "well everyone else is lying, the media is fake news, the government is the deep-state, but when I lie, at least I am honest that I am a liar" and that gives him a legitimacy in the eyes of his followers because all the complex issues boil down to "do you trust big brother or not?".

So yes, the new era is worse than the old Bush era where Rumsfeld was a circus clown feeding us bullshit, but behind the scenes the institutions basically functioned properly. Because in that world that we have left behind now, we still had wars of aggression, we still had robber barons, but the institutions had a veneer of legitimacy which the public, and the people in the institutions believed in enough that you had countervailing political forces that could protect you from the worst excesses. But that past was a mirage, because during that time, the leaders were draining out that trust like siphoning gas out of your tank (eg. in the Iraq war, NAFTA, on and on..), and they were trading it for political power and dollars.

Now the tank is empty, and US institutions are extremely vulnerable to collapse. And I think that Trump was just the last drop of gas escaping.
If he doesn't cut russians off from the internet there is no way he can control the narrative to Russian citizens. I am completely surprised he hasn't ordered that yet.
Sight, Owner of several Intel Edison projects here, what a waste!
So, what should Ukrainians do if they want to live in a society not controlled by Putin? Do they just have to leave? Do they need to get enough non-Slavic residents to immigrate so your racist policy no longer applies?

It's reprehensible that the West is standing by while a fellow Western country is overrun. We're so scared of some hardship (or convinced that only Anericans have the mental stability to not shoot nukes) that we're allowing Ukraine to be demolished by Russia while we have the equipment to stop the whole thing in its tracks, just standing by all around Europe.
133% here lol
What are the mechanisms used to flush out saboteurs? Some sort of explicit web of trust amongst locals? Automatic detention of loners?
This has nothing to do with trust; China would back Russia if it were in their interest, but it looks like they are hanging back, probably because it looks like it is blowing up in Russia's face.
Thanks for bringing the contrast with the Iraq invasion up. I was discussing this with a friend today and brought up how a comparitive analysis of Iraq and Ukraine against the US and Russia would look. I don't have the answers and maybe my intuition is completely wrong, but it might look a lot more favorable for Russia than the media outlets are lettibg everyone believe. I recall similar stories of ambushed convoys happening to US troops in Iraq, too.
The “dragon book” turned 36 this year
>Is he just a crazy person?

The reason people are saying platitudes about solidarity while watching people die from a safe distance, is because the nuclear threat is credible.

And the nuclear threat is credible, because the leader appears crazy or at least inexplicable.

As long as everyone else is not that crazy and cannot appear so, MAD is inoperative.

So in that case, why not take over the world? It just has to be in small enough steps that none of them justifies nukes individually. That's it, that's the constraint.
These are depressing numbers for Russia.

I think within 5 (maybe 10) years we will see a regime change in Russia and a big shift in policy.