skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I'd linked you an article that said the Russian people wouldn't be hurt but that the sanctions were likely to change Putin's policies, then would you feel the opposite?

Of course.

> It seems like you're trying to play both sides of the coin here.

It seems like your telepathy machine is broken.

> There is no intervention on Earth that would guarantee the changing of Putin's mind short of a gun to his head.

That might be the case. But if you think that is the case, why are you suggesting a different, ineffective but cruel intervention? An uncharitable interpretation of your proposal is that you want to hurt ordinary Russian people because you want to see someone suffer for Putin's actions.
Vaccines and Freedom [video]
Dreaming Spanish is awesome! Totally recommend his YouTube but also his website - few £/$ a month to support him and have access to thousands of videos!
This is really cool to read, but trading volume of btc went from 20M when it was 3 years old to 170M over the years, so that happens a lot less frequently.
Far too many points in one post to reply properly.

I'll pick JUST vaccine mandates.

This is what I want to see: everyone that the vaccine is authorized for use in, should be required, under penalty of detention in quarantine bubbles, to be vaccinated.

Exceptions: 1) Medically infirm to the point of specialized, dedicated care which states on a record to the health departments that this individual is medically compromised and ineligible for a wide range of medical treatments, not just this latest vaccine. 2) Individuals too young for current vaccine approval ranges (E.G. emergency use authorized, but not wide approval). 3) Hard core anti-medical religious exemption, full DNR, Do-not-medicate, natural care people. This also includes end of life hospice care (which is a bit more sane IMO) as well as anyone that wants to live like it's 1600.

A reader might note I've made a distinction between people that only refuse the pandemic vaccines and still want all other 'normal' medical care VERSUS those who either already have abnormal medical care or want only non-life-extending (E.G. pain management) care.

The intention here is to promote herd immunity via as prolific application of vaccination as possible while retaining fairness towards edge cases not caused by insanity but merely unfortunate circumstances, and fairness towards legitimate religious exceptions rather than some 'want to feel special' misuse of that tag. Anyone else can be arrested, detained in a drunk / quarantine tank, and while under supervised authority standard medical care applied (I.E. having been found guilty of endangering the public through lack of civil responsibility, incarcerated for... say a month and during that month they'd be given both shots.)
I just read that exact reason; Lots of tanks and movement kicking up top soil.

Scary situation all around even if radiation is like 999 on a list of 1000 top concerns.
I'd really want access to essential sources such as wikipedia, a whole bunch of survival books, manuals, governments stuff, patents etc.

Access to internet-level knowledge in a pocket-sized device when the internet is gone is going to be a massive advantage.

Could go with a specialised solar-powered e-ink device for power concerns.
He told me that armour is not protection.

It is instead a death trap:

It is loud, valuable for the enemy and if they shoot at you using shape charges you'll be roasted alive.
Putin thought he could have Russian troops enter Kyiv without resistance, quickly overthrow the democratically elected Ukrainian president and government, put some of his sock puppets in place, then wait some time for things to settle to normal, and withdraw letting Ukraine slowly transition itself back to a de facto Russian colony.
But Ukrainians are fighting back, and although they're no match for the Russian army, the risk of a blood bath of both Ukrainian and Russian people pose some dangers for his already not stellar public acceptance. Let's not forget that many Russians have relatives and friends among Ukrainian people; a lot of them don't want this war; that's why he is sending peace messages: if shit hits the fan then he'll say "it's the Ukrainians who didn't accept it, not me". For the first time he appeared in trouble.
If Ukrainians heroic resistance lasts enough time, the consequences could very likely undermine Putin's position. I don't have many hopes sanctions alone will obtain serious results; they're crafted to be just above a minor nuisance not to encourage Russia to either close or overcharge their supply of natural gas, which Europe totally depends on.
And of course any military response is pure fiction: Russia has nukes, and that's it.
I apologise if I am too direct, but cannot help it, but say, that these are extremist ideas. Why should relatives or friends be held responsible for actions that are not theirs. In my former communist nation, if one person went against party line their entire family would be prosecuted. The statements you made are unfortunately not hard to find being drawn in the minds of many, however, they are a bitter memory for those who have lived in times when this kind of thought prevailed. The past should serve as a teacher. Unless there is actual proof of their wrong-doing they are innocent until proven guilty, and as such merit the same treatment as anyone else.
Chemical elements are defined by the composition of their atomic nuclei. Specifically, the number of protons in the nucleus. This isn't something that can be changed chemically, you need nuclear reactions (it's called transmutation). These would be extremely uneconomical for recreating natural natural lithium, and the yield would be tiny.
Those numbers are 17 years old. I think we need newer data than that to come to a conclusion.

The number of protests in Hong Kong has plummeted in the last two years. Even annual events have been cancelled because of the new laws that can land people in jail for even being near a protest site, or a historically/politically significant location at the wrong time.
> That would be effectivly the same as launching nuclear missiles? Mutual destruction economically.

No. Nuclear war potentially would kill many millions of people. Let's keep matters in perspective.
> 100% of Uk based Muslims think making homesexuality illegal would be ok

Well, that's a lie. And what the hell are you on about, starting to compare Nazis to this.

You are saying that hating gay people is muslim culture?

I am not apologizing these acts either, merely saying that hating other religions is not a muslim-only thing.
Right, Wirth's group used to build their own machines. The previous Modula-2 machine (Lilith) was a microcoded 16-bit system built from SSI/MSI 74-series TTL components whereas the Ceres family of workstations used different CPUs and support chips from the NS32k family - the final version (Ceres 3) used a low-cost embedded version of the NS32k without an MMU (you don't need one for a type-safe language - that was at least the motivation for this...). It could run diskless and boot over a proprietary network, which used the same hardware (Zilog Z8530 SCC) as Apple's Localtalk in Macs (but a different protocol, I think).

An FPGA reimplementation of the Ceres would be great to have. Someone already did the hard work and implemented a NS32k soft core - http://www.cpu-ns32k.net/index.html

The old edition of the Project Oberon book that described the NS32k version is a bit hard to find. But it's interesting to see how little has changed between the versions.
> whatabout

Yes, that's what that's called.
I support OSINT but this particular person has repeatedly been wrong and alarmist - plus he toots his horn for being right even when he's wrong:

https://twitter.com/badc0fee/status/1495914223427276804

This particular case is likely armor kicking-up radioactive dust, and since the ground is wet it's not much of a problem:

https://twitter.com/badc0fee/status/1497253041854025728
It does have specific requirements. It just doesn't meet them.
It’s the code you see when you view source
Germany invaded Poland on 29 Aug 1939, and France and Great Britain declared war on Germany on 3 Sep 1939.

If a major power declares war on Russia on Monday, we're in World War III.
You should connect with your country's leadership to put the pressure where it belongs here. You are a citizen showing interest in supporting your nation. So they need to be able to offer you training starting from the basic frameworks, usually the "why" and "what" and later down to the "how" and "when".

As part of that training, they should be showing you which skills they want, how they can be acquired, and so on.

This is also important because you need institutional legal support and an objective ethics framework to affiliate with. Otherwise one misstep and you can end up looking like a vigilante even though you had the best intentions. Or you could end up ready to take action yet without the infrastructure or other resources that would be needed to carry out your work in a wartime environment.

If they can't meet that minimum bar it's a non-starter IMO. You are left to your subjective estimations of what is needed and are without formal support. Contact your representatives and hold them to it.

Edit: Is op from UKR? I can't tell--if so the first priority is connection with community of experts no matter how small.
You just spent paragraphs virtue signaling while turning up your nose at people less harmful than your own. Clearly you care enough to keep coming back you glutton for punishment :P
What this means is that the universe is solving a fixpoint equation: find a history that is self-consistent. The question this raises is, which one does it pick? There are infinitely many to choose from, and no clear criteria that I know of. You can have a fixpoint where someone is their own parent, but what chose this fixpoint over any other? I don't mean "woah man, who get's to decide?", I mean "this description of physics is incomplete; to complete it you need to specify the method of selecting which fixpoint gets chosen".
Perhaps stop watching Russia Today and/or Fox News.
No good side, but one is better than the other.
Another reason why those gas heaters are still there is because even with those wind and solar numbers, it can’t replace the amount of energy those gas heaters are using - and Germany is already charging insane rates for electrical power. And those numbers are peak, during good conditions. There will be lulls in the wind, clouds, etc. coming over and over again.

What then?
On average you're not wrong but it's still more effective than liking a random tweet.
> This is my observation as a German looking into the West's mindset, its riddled with hypocrisy and self-contradictory ethic system aimed at distracting its citizens from the truth that their comforts are at the cost to this planet and rest of humanity.

I think people are reading this, perhaps incorrectly, as you considering Germany and yourself to be on the outside of this phenomenon, rather than a part of it.
The Russian goal _is_ to flip the apple cart of the global order. The global order, as Russia perceives it, sucks for Russia, and they’ve been pretty loud on that point for a long time.
Good question. Relatedly, could a cyberwar with Russia or China take down our grid? A cyberwar almost seems inevitable at this point. And would the answer in regards to keeping tech running be different for apocalypse vs cyberwar?
HN's new pet word; footgun
Good. Sort out those more interested in money, guns or sharia law and put them together. This way, it’s easier to avoid them…. Sucks that many of these places are the warm spots, so maybe parka and toque donation drives might have to be organized to help out. But then, the bad weather might get ‘em.
Consider joining intelligence agency and working there for some time to learn.

Probably the best education you can get anywhere.

Other than that, working as a pentester. Again, you can learn from online sources, but if you are a competent programmer, why not cold approach asking you would like to work in cyber security
Germany phasing out nuclear was announced after the Fukushima nuclear desaster in 2011. Thunberg was 8 at that time.

Also nuclear energy is mostly CO2 neutral so I don't see how this is related.
To expand on the others, unlike in TS/JS, Python etc you can cast to the `Any`-trait but cannot use it as if it is any value, you need to convert it to the type you want and then handle the errors. A function that accepts `&str` will never accept a `Any` value, unlike in TS where you can override the type checker using `as`. Worth noting that TypeScript's type system is unsound [0] too.

[0]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...
> It takes an incredible amount of evil before the US people are roused into action.

Fair enough. Which is why the world stood with you after 9/11. And this is a far larger event.
Tech is really important. But there is also all the little things that you just interact with on daily life. Things like cutlery, soap dispensers, and so much more. Sure the US could make all this stuff but the country deeply relies on the cost imbalance to maintain the standard of living they have had for decades. Thats most people's entire lives.

I am reminded of this Purism phone that you can buy as a US made or China made version.
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
China: 799$ (now 1200$ due to rising supply chain costs)
USA: 2000$

I guess we are lucky in that most of our food and infrastructure related items seems to be local.
If it makes you feel better, there's no data being collected other than the images and annotation fixes (and that only occurs if you click 'agree' on the consent page).

You also don't need to be signed in Facebook or anything to use the demo- there's no way to link the uploaded images with personal information about the artist/uploader.
Вижу горы и долины, вижу реки и поля.
Это русские картины, это родина моя.
Вижу Прагу и Варшаву, Будапешт и Бухарест.
Это русская держава - сколько здесь любимых мест!

Вижу пагоды в Шри Ланке, и Корею, и Китай.
Где бы я ни ехал в танке, всюду мой любимый край!
Вижу речку Амазонку, крокодилов вижу я.
Это русская сторонка, это родина моя!

Недалече пирамиды, Нил течёт — богат водой,
Омывает русский берег! Русь моя, горжусь тобой!
Вижу Вашингтон в долине, Даллас вижу и Техас
Как приятно здесь в России выпить вкусный русский квас!

Над Сиднеем солнце всходит, утконос сопит в пруду.
Репродуктор гимн заводит; с русским гимном в день войду!
Вот индейцы курят трубку, и протягивают мне -
Все на свете любят русских, на родной моей земле.
What don't you like about this question?

The author isn't looking for exact right answers and just wants a discussion about the technology to gauge your skill.

I enjoy interviews like this.
Could they be deploying nukes? Chernobyl would be the perfect cover.
The time to start a campaign against Russia on behalf of Ukraine was weeks ago. It’s too late now, like calling up the national guard hours before a massive shock and awe blitzkrieg campaign. Zelensky should have been making these appeals a long time ago but was delusional.
That's innovative. I don't see why they wouldn't use carte blanche to act with impunity outside the wording of the flimsy privacy policy.

Perhaps we'll never find out.
It happened due to reasons independent of CO2.

Repeating this doesn't help the problem Germany is in right now. Independent of it Germany did push a lot into solar
> They like to think they are free and above the hypocrisy of the west.

This statement shows you have no idea what Russians like to think. Better stop embarrassing yourself further with such opinions.

Source: I'm actually Russian.
I'm afraid a lot of people have no clue. Their only idea is action movies and FPS games.

I don't have much more myself.

But I do care deeply and this - while tragic for the poor souls and their poor parents back in Russia - isn't that bad.
Related [0] and [1].

[0] https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...

[1] https://adventisthealthstudy.org/studies/AHS-2
Also, if global Bitcoin demand increases because it’s used to circumvent Russian sanctions, the more likely it becomes that Western governments will simply shut down exchanges within their reach. And that would certainly have a chilling effect on Bitcoin price.
And yet you're repeating narratives of russian propaganda. Which is 100% lies and bullshit. But it means that propaganda works.
Most, not all.
Why would anyone pay for that?
How many countries were bombed by NATO?
The good thing is... it's not that hard to get your level back. I went from A0 to B2 in German in about a year, 9 years ago. After that I lived for 1 year in Germany then left the country and didn't use nor practiced any German again for 8 years.

A couple of months ago I booked a Lingoda sprint and my first German B1 class was embarrassing. Had to go back to A2. I had forgotten so many basic words, but it took only a few classes to go back to B1 and only a few more to go to B2 (I knew it was time to go up when I felt my classmates were speaking unbearable slow).

I feel like my grammar is still worse compared to 9 years ago but my understanding and speaking are almost back to where they were before. Definitely good to know it only takes a couple of months to get your level back. Oh and I think this time my English hasn't suffered that much, since I'm not a native English speaker.
That is a scary paragraph you put down there.
I just pushed a fix for this. You can try again! :)
Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser
CNBC: Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser is worth the price tag, if you're willing to let loose and play.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/25/disneys-star-wars-galactic-starcruiser-review-let-loose-and-play.html
I Wanna Go Fast: How Many Pwned Password Queries Can You Make per Second?
Is there a single such which you cannot disable by compiler flags?
I’m far from a fan of natural gas - I’m a realist.

Have you run the numbers on capex to switch everyone to heat pumps, or looked at available grid capacity required if everyone switched?

I’m not saying it’s impossible period - I’m saying no one is being realistic about the cost or trade offs, and seems to be under the delusion that some (most of the time) fanciful faceplate capacity number and cheap price for one part of the story means everything is solved.

It’s time to do the math.
My usual reminder that I have a Django-ish template for actix-web that I maintain: https://github.com/secretkeysio/jelly-actix-web-starter

Now that actix-web 4.0 is out I should be able to finally resolve one of the open issues/PRs, which I was waiting on 4.0 for.
reliable electricity generation, transmission, and storage would be step one.
If there's a non-political topic that HN should consider banning, it's QKD. It has been, is, and will continue to be crypto snake-oil.
Many of your points aren't true at all. You appear to be trying to make a false balance (a term I learned today) by casting doubt on the censorship and brutal repression of protests we know China performs. We have a bounty of evidence that WeChat is heavily monitored and censored. You can in fact test it today. We know that the recent anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre was heavily censored and dissidents detained and silenced. We also know that public figures who speak out against the regime are disappeared. Of the very many, I will mention Peng Shuai who spoke out against her sexual abuse by a senior Party member.

So you don't appear to be making much of an argument at all, as even a cursory glance in the history books of the last year will reveal your false balance to be as empty as your accusation of its absurdity.
Right, but this process takes time. The nutrients we're upcycling is coming from a repository of millions of years worth of decayed plant matter, originally coming from dead microbes leeching minerals from solid rock. Digesting rocks is a very slow process.

Historically it hasn't really mattered, as human agriculture has been small compared to the rest of the biosphere, but right now we have so much cultivated land it covers a significant chunk of the planet. At this scale, nutrient depletion absolutely does matter. Nutrients don't just appear from nothing in the ground.

Go on Google maps if you will. Pan over to somewhere in middle of the United States and look for anything that isn't a city, a desert or cultivated land. Forests do exist, but they are really not common.
You have pointed out a few caveats, but LN works well for the vast majority of transactions. What point are you trying to make?
Training When They Don't Understand You (2018)
"Combat skills" include medical skills, communications skills, planning, coordination, and effective teamwork skills. None of the training I've ever been involved with has been focused on turning a single person into Rambo, but more along the lines of turning 4 or 12 people into an effective team, able to accomplish specific tasks under decent amounts of stress.
to check twitter to see if anyone found a source of drinking water. ;)
>Have things changed so much that knowledge of meta tags is specialist now?

Yes. More or less all web development now involves generating HTML with a language that compiles to javascript and a framework. No one even looks at, much less directly interacts with, fundamental web code anymore, and HTML has become esoteric "low level" knowledge like assembly language.
Perhaps it’s time to make a European force that can share assets with nato but is independent of the whims of the us. They’re too willing to play their own game or just take their ball and go home.
I know this might be perceived as a flame-inviting response, but who are those "most Russians" that "support war".
Even pretty patriotic people in my social circle don't support it. Now, of course, it might just be me and my circle, but the "majority supporting war" might also be someone's circle, and not really representative of reality.
In any case, from what I see, most people are just afraid. Withdrawing cash, some stocking food. It's not like the west is watching a horror show, and the people in Russia are watching a comedy. Everyone's losing. I honestly don't know who's the winning party here.

I don't really care much about the state of Russia, and maybe, just maybe the sanctions will have some positive effect; just wanted to say that "most Russians support war" is a very shabby argument in support of approving of punishing "most Russians".
A good example would be are we seeing articles getting flagged or dropped organically by the community or artificially by bots.

But yes for sure there is a big grey area between the two
I'm wrong. I disagree with the government decision that led to this but I'm still technically wrong.

>In 1985, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognized rapeseed and canola as two different species, based on their content and uses.

Biology by Bureaucracy.
They are using MuZero to tweak encoder settings on a codec your computer already supports. It is decoded with existing decoders.
This seems to be closer to the right approach to interviewing over the leetcode grind, but it's the wrong example. The head tags are trivia and have changed a lot over 5-10 years (not to mention Twitter doesn't include the head tag which is just wrong, IMO, though every browser since the '90s is flexible on this and everything else to do with HTML). Many front end devs haven't touched the head tags because that's a separate team. Or it's the lead devs that set that up. It's also the kind of thing you set once and never touch again and every site will use different head tags.

A better approach is to drop into some code and ask the candidate to explain it. What's the code doing, why is it doing it. Maybe even show some code with a bug and have the candidate fix the bug. That's like 60% of most jobs right there. Reading code, understanding what it's doing, and figuring out how to make changes to it.