skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One might discuss prolonging the life-time of the reactors still operating and bringing back the ones switched off a few weeks ago. But this might be more difficult to do than it sounds, as their end-of-lifetime was planned long ago so they might no longer be in a state where you just could keep them running.

In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't make sense to go back to nuclear power. It is afterall a very expensive technology. It is much more efficient to go full in with renewables. And nuclear power does not work well together with renewables, as it cannot be controlled fast enough.
Reprocessing as done in France doesn't really help. The separated Pu can be sent back to be used again, in MOX fuel for thermal reactors, but spent MOX fuel can't be further reprocessed, as it has more of the troublesome higher actinides (which dominate the heat load in a repository that dictates how spread out it has to be.) Making MOX fuel is sufficiently expensive that the separated Pu has negative value.

Reprocessing only really helps if you can feed the Pu into fast reactors that can more effectively consume the actinides. And France has given up on its fast reactor program.
The word propaganda means public messaging intended to influence a population, and did not originally connote trickery. The word is roughly a synonym of 'public relations'.

Such messaging is often misleading, which has led to common negative connotations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/propaganda#English
When we say that it is unnecessary to eat animals, we mean it is unnecessary in order to survive and be healthy.

So then using that same metric to answer your question about showers, I think it’s fair to say that showers are absolutely not necessary. Nice, sure. Perhaps necessary according to social norms, probably. Required for a normal life span with average levels of health? Nah.

cheese_goddess, if I ever get you to see the validity of veganism, or at least cede a point, I’ll die a happy person. I don’t see that ever happening though. You are my HN veganism white whale.
It's just another psyop.

The only information you are getting from either side right now is just psyops and disinformation. As expected, it is an actual war, after all.

Russia claimed they had zero losses after the first day. then Ukraine comes out and claims they killed 2000 russian soldiers on the very first day, with like 100 tanks and 500 APCs. All in one day, lol.

All sorts of other wild claims from both sides, and I'd expect this one is too.

One of them is now claimed to be fake by the other side. Alikhan Dasaev is supposedly a long time resident of Kiev and a Ukrainian citizen of 20 years. Allegedly, the video was made soon after Chechens allegedly dispatched 10,000 spec op troops to Ukraine in order to storm Kiev. Chechens are renowned to be fearless fighters, but what an incredibly overstated number, why not one billion gazillion of navy seals?

source: https://novayagazeta-livejournal-com.translate.goog/16360931...
I like the blog but they really need to set up a feed. They recommend subscribing on Reddit but that also has a lot of non-blog content.
They probably can't do much other than trying to keep this rhetoric, but the truth is that at the moment, and probably for the foreseeable future, Putin and the regime "word" lost any worth.

Doing what ever pleases you after saying you're doing something, like saying you won't do something while preparing to do the opposite has consequences. Duplicity has consequences. It might work internally, or against smaller isolated countries (regrettably), which is great for dictators...

Trust was shattered, even if we accuse the West of being naive - still - in diplomacy trust paramount.

I don't see how Putin will set his feet back into this globalized world. Who would trust his word for anything?

So if the goal was to completely isolate Russia, destroy it's importance in the global theater in a time of change, that was achieved.
I am curious - what countries hate germany? And what country wouldnt want to defend germany in case of an attack?

Edit: i dont think projecting this back on the us is the right approach. The us showed its not ready to appease a country that sponsored dictators, assassinated journalists and enslaved its own citizens. I see a few germans here and there feeling guilt for what germany did to russia, but what about what germany did to east europe? It invaded those countries making them weaker for russia to take. East europe forgave german war reparation debts and now germany is barely doing anything. Where it the guilt for that?
In 5th or 6th grade in Belgium (circa 1977) they had a self-paced “programmed math” book where on each page they introduce concepts, with a few questions and you try to answer them, with answers on the next page. If you answered correctly you could move forward, else review. It was absolutely gripping for me and I advanced way ahead of the rest of my class, through concepts like sets, vectors, etc, which in hindsight seems quite advanced compared to what’s in “Common Core US” math today in those grades.

I have been searching for those books online but couldn’t find them, or maybe I am not searching for the right keywords.

If anyone knows the books I am referring to, I would be willing to pay premium :)
> The fact that Ukrainians fight alongside neo Nazis and have done for years, is a key part of Putin's started justification for why it's a moral invasion.

There you go: [0].

> The Azov Battalion has been around for a while and they aren't subtle about their beliefs. It weakens the West when people criticize "state controlled media" in Russia whilst being totally unaware of what's happening on the ground in Ukraine.

That is what this manipulation is all about. Tying many supporters to be indirectly supporting (and funding) a neo-Nazi battalion which Putin is referring to as the 'denazification of Ukraine' and using that as an excuse to invade. Now he will try to fallaciously accuse everyone of supporting neo-Nazis. It is a very bizzare thought process and reason to try to come up with to seize another country but given the evidence of praising these groups by Facebook (Meta) and other news companies, does sort of weaken the west.

The Russian media will try to find (or manufacture) evidence of such support and will just point to this: [0] and the racism happening on blocking non-Ukrainians and threatening to shoot them: [1]. Overall, it looks like a competition of who is the real neo-Nazi.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30487033
There was a lot of good literature that came out of the international brigades of the Spanish civil war
of course it uses language. it's called a protocol for a reason. god this debate is tiresome.
The pictures are grainy but apparently this is it on fire.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/149787666311534182...
It's just not that easy.

The war is a few days old. Everyone was hoping Putin is not lying in there faces.

Ukraine is not in the NATO and you want to find the right balance between total war and diplomatic ways.

And yes Russia has nuklear weapons btw.
(OK technically not EU anymore)

UK has stated you won’t be prosecuted https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60542877?ns_mchan...

Edit: as pointed out below, has stated they will “support” citizens taking up the fight, not explicitly that they will not be prosecuted.
Younger versions of Putin certainly used to match his chess master reputation. However in the light of this war, people will update their evaluations of him. It’s likely that he has simply gone senile.
Ask HN: What are some great resources you know of?
Do you know any great learning resources, interesting website/link, informative/interesting article or anything that can be useful or informative for someone, share it with a little description of it. Or a site you can waste your whole time exploring it. Thanks... For me it is Stumbled[1] (not StumbleUpon, discover interesting and awesome websites on internet) nowadays.

[1] Stumbled.to
>16 years of CDU

>shoots nuclear

>Why would the Greens do this?
Ah, that has to have been just part of it then, as the book was released in 2002.
To put this into perspective: Build Back Better was at its highest $4.5 trillion over 10 years. The lowest point was $1.5 trillion for 10 years. Biden didn't do anything serious to actually pass it. But $700Bln+ for yearly defense budget? EASY!
I’m grateful to see you say this, Ukraine needs help.
The first assumption I make is,“I’m wrong.”

Rather than assume the veracity of my thoughts or approach, or my memory of how things work or how I previously implemented something or solved a problem, I remind myself that I’ll save time and effort if I stop, review and consider what I’m planning to do.

Do I need to do this? Of course not. But when I don’t, I sometimes find myself wasting time, and inevitably returning to check my assumptions.
Clinical trials are ailing
Which is what is so depressing.

They're the "closest", but not remotely close.
Can you clarify what part of this you are disputing? The first half of the 20th century was indisputably dominated by German aggression in Europe and I'd like to see a history book paint that differently.

I'm not sure I agree with GP's broader point but your riposte makes no sense.
So if you contol both ends any kind of obfuscation will defeat deep packet inspection, as long as the same obfuscation is not widely used so that the inspection software can check for it.

But if you do not control both ends, let's say you want many customers or even the public to connect to your server that's not an option.
Google Maps, Apple Maps, and smartphones are at the forefront of modern war
>>It is only prudent to shore up your defenses when a country in your region starts a war

I'd actually say it is much more prudent to shore up your defenses BEFORE you need it, not after. Playing catch up is hard to do when the tanks start rolling in.
Second life is closer to the "metaverse" than whatever facebook is doing but since it doesn't check the VR box it doesn't count.
Some British politicians have indicated they will support citizens fighting for Ukraine.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukraine-russi...
Participation in this war could lead to nuclear annihilation. We have no treaties or commitments to be involved in it, and so we won't. This investment is to make sure Russia doesn't get any wrong ideas about invading any NATO or EU countries.
Rudin's other two books are called "Papa Rudin" and "Grandpa Rudin", seemingly named due to the increasing difficulty of their contents.
To Write Code: The Cultural Fabrication of Programming Notation and Practice
We should have never messed with their country in the first place.
The WebAuthn spec. explicitly tells RPs not to do this (attestation) unless they're sure they really need it.

Even Microsoft's half-arsed explanation of how this works inside Azure AD says you should probably not use it.

And I tell Firefox "No" when it asks me during enrollment if the site is allowed attestation from my devices, there are no public sites I've used where this was rejected as unacceptable, that includes GitHub, Google's sites, Facebook, and Login.gov.
I’d argue that in a professional context you should pick the hard things, if it’s a side project do something easy and get some quick wins before you run out of enthusiasm for it.
is the Azov Regiment actual nazis, or they just managed to select the same ensigns and flags as an actual SS unit by pure accident?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion#Neo-Nazism

"British political scientist Richard Sakwa writes that Azov's founding member Andryi Biletsky, leader of the neo-Nazi Social-National Assembly (SNA) made statements about a "historic mission" to lead the "white races of the world in a final crusade for their survival ... a crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen", an ideology he traces to the National Integralism of 1920s and 1930s"

This one is great too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-National_Assembly
Well put, it's all about making China see how serious the situation is. And this description is closer to how things work in reality.

It's probably not the best way to treat China like Belarus, a middle ground is better for all.
Yeah, net metering is exploitation of those who can not do the same... We really should just do away with that fully and only do spot prices without limit. So make it possible for price to go infinitely negative too and if someone's system pushes power to grid at that time make them pay.
Dependency injection in Go with Uber-go/fx
> GUI programming (your language needs an IDE, right?)

No language needs an IDE.
This was true for UK as well. But apparently UK's foreign secretary is saying it should be alright now

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/liz-truss-says...
Nah, he is just ensuring Ukraine gets support to join immediately, and inflicting enormous damage on Russia in the process. He'll be remembered as "The Man Who Ended Russia in a Week". Russians are going to be embarrassed about their nationality for the next 100 years at least.
Good luck trying to spend it on anything meaningful. Assuming it’s not impersonation in the first place.
You can probably adapt an existing small language to your needs if those are custom needs.
100 billion in renewables balanced by natural gas, to get independence from russian gas. Great idea.
Ask HN: How did you learn to appreciate the beauty of mathematics?
IMVHO renewables do not really became "so cheap" nor so fast. If we see the speed of innovation in the '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s actual evolution speed and outcome are far, far, far slow and almost "broken".

Anything get "better" but we seems to be unable to really produce something really new.

In personal terms: having built a new home (so insulated, airtight and properly ventilated, properly exposed/designed to passive heat/cool as much as needed and possible) with domestic p.v. the "progress" just means that now start to be possible not being autonomous but nearly autonomous and start to be interesting IF it's not much needed and not every day having an EV but that's not much because such systems became chap more than because other systems became far more expensive and hearing many source their higher prices are voluntary made to make renewable cheap enough to push people who can adopting them. In practical terms I'm satisfied by the outcome, quality of my life is improved, resilience also. BUT in absolute economical terms that's not cheap nor really "naturally interesting".

IMVHO renewable can only succeed naturally, not artificially, only if they will be the byproduct of PUBLIC research (not private one more or less publicly founded) producing FLOSS/Open hardware tools and standards for it. So far most products on the market, even the formally "FLOSS for software" are just crappy piles of crap, sold as production ready products when they really are just prototypes.
Is it possible to send them my NFTs to boost morality? I would love to lend it out. I hope Opensea implements a feature like that in time so our NFTs can fight on our side.
https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/

Was sent to me by a Ukrainian colleague that I would trust. Ideally you have to send using direct transfer I think. The details for that are on that same page.
It is true: it's a deep pit you'll enter. But the conclusion is wrong. If you feel it's fun -- then do write your own programming language. Even if you won't finish (which is likely). But you'll think about things that are a lot of fun, and you will have more clarity about what you do not like about existing languages, and why. And you'll learn that there are things you need to solve that you did not think about before. That some things cannot be combined, and that you will have to choose.

It is a very good experience, there is a lot to learn. As long as your goal is not to get it done quickly...
Madmen need a fertile soil to grow in, otherwise they don't get any support from the population. That is no longer Germany, but I can think of another country which has a charismatic head of state with ambitions of restoring the country to its previous level of international standing.
The message needs some wording change. It is hard to send a message for help that reads “We hate you and will never forgive and forget what you are doing, but please go on the streets and protest.”

I know the aim, but it is the wrong wording. Maybe simply asking to go protest against the invasion/war, letting the Russian people know that the Russian government was never asked to do this, that Russian troops aren’t desired, needed, nor welcome. That their government is misinforming them, and that the current Kremlin administration is widely despised amongst the Ukrainian population.
jsonb and hstore are both just an encoding format for the data within a single field and do not affect either the architecture nor the storage model of the database.
I will promote for you!

I’ve enjoyed coming across your website many times

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-damn-interesting-book/
+1

Working with someone else’s assumptions without first reviewing them inevitably leads to new problems. Because someone had a _faster_ way…
Wtf?

Pls leave your comments at home.

We have a stable democracy for over 70 years. We are Europa power house, highly educated, make peace around the globe.

We have better soviel standards than most countries. Are way more social than USA.

You should really educate yourself...
It looks like it was destroyed a few hours ago: https://mobile.twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/14978766631...
Crypto scams taking advantage of Ukraine conflict
Yields on many German bonds are negative:

* https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/germany-government-bon...

10Y bonds have been negative since April 2019, before the pandemic:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IRLTLT01DEM156N

By borrowing money Germany can actually make a 'profit'.
>NATO should have enough guns already

NATO may or may not have enough guns, but some members aren't paying their share, and this has (as we've seen) bad consequences for everyone.
Not hundreds of millions of lives worth.

Part of the problem is expectations. No one was comitting troops prior to the invasion, and the possible commitment of troops was one of the reasons Putin claimed he developed this situation to begin with, so it would have made a possibly avoidable situation immediately unavoidable. (Obviously he just went ahead anyway, hindsight.)

As such it's even more difficult to commit troops now, as Russia committed to its strategy with the information it had, and thus it would be taking an extremely large gamble at massive cost to the world.

However, troops are committed to various NATO members with a reinforcement of more. There is also a clear expectation that they will be defended should Russian aggression expand. Putin would have to willingly decide to bear this cost should he attack one of those nations, and its consequences. That wasn't the case at the time for the Ukraine.

Responding to erratic behavior with erratic behavior does not lead to stability. It's a moral crusade, which you could argue is worth the possibility of World War 3.
In the end I’d say the Greek economic crisis was handled well. The things you mention are very tricky and not guaranteed to have any solutions.
Good chance that Green Party received significant support from outside forces to derail a sensible energy policy. Relying on fossil fuels / gas makes Germany way more dependent on the US and Russia, then otherwise.
https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/23088
I can’t put my finger on it but it seems to me that this is not your domain of expertise.
> Western TV isn't explaining Putin's motivation very well.

Why do you care about western TV? Putin had an hour long televised speech about his reasons to go to war. You can watch it on youtube. If you don't speak Russian you can read the transcript on the Kremlin's webpage.

> I don't trust the RT version but am far too ignorant to trust my own judgement.

Excellent basis to start educating yourself.
Because a non-nato member has been invaded? Or are you referring to something else than the current ukraine crisis?
I believe you're being downvoted because you're referring to something that happened over 10 years ago. Not to justify what he said back then, but Brandon Sanderson has grown and changed his views since then.
Really, even the in the French Foreign Legion ? What about dual-nationals who have military obligations in another country ?
I think more details would be helpful. There isn't enough in the announcement to hold a meaningful conversation.

There is a tiny number of people who can drop everything and hop on an plane to Ukraine to fight. There is a much larger number of people who can do so if it still allows them to, for example:

- pay their rent/mortgage back home; or

- to gain citizenship so they can stay in Ukraine once the fighting stops

On the other hand, I do think there is some number of millionaires / billionaires who would be willing to sponsor people too.
"charitable foundation" is an euphemism for tax dodge, here used to secure investment in case someone gets an idea to confiscate Russian property in UK.
It’s politically complicated of course. But I don’t think our Western European governments have ever looked weaker. We can barely all agree on the right economic sanctions.

1. It may be a few days old but we stood by as Russia took Crimea years ago. We shouldn’t have allowed that in the first place.

2. Many counties have nukes. Ukraine had them and gave them up in exchange for security assurances from UK/US/Russia.

3. The UK gov is now saying if British citizens want to go and fight in Ukraine they support them. Maybe we should send some of the soldiers we’ve spent lots of taxpayer money training instead?
Germany has built out so much renewables, that France now has to build more nuke powerplants to support Germany's erratic grid.

Germany should start building nuclear themselves, instead of bailing out the French nuclear industry. $100bn can build a lot of nuclear powerplants.
I don't remember any direct pirate activity from megaupload.
> And then you search about his views on homosexuality...

Is that something you've done recently?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/7a5x50/on_brandons...
In the UK, section 4 of the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 makes it an offence for a British subject to enlist in the military of a foreign state at war with another foreign state with which the UK is at peace.

Truss seems to be saying that the UK government wouldn't support prosecutions, but that's not the same as it being legal. And prosecution decisions are made independently by the CPS, not the government.
Of any wiki..., of course

Make use of

Quora by keyword finding
React isn't the problem. The React ecosystem is. You can build literally anything with one dependency (react) and four functions (createElement, render, useState, useEffect).

People spend months messing around with all sorts of ridiculous bullshit and then go and post on HN about how complicated React is. But somehow it was just fine in 2016 when the API surface was like twice as big. The only difference is that in the last few years everyone has somehow become convinced that the "best practices" are to spend 6 months inventing a 3D printer at the start of every project while your competitor builds your product in a weekend with just a chisel.
In the US, land usage is just about negligible as a part of the cost of solar. The PV equipment you'd put on an acre of land might cost $100K. The land itself? You can get it for $1K/acre or less in many places, even in the East.
The lensman series for me - wanted to know how inertialess drives worked :-)