skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that sense the Ukrainian conflict cannot be compared with Israel or New Zealand. Nobody new will be settling into Ukraine, it's all about who governs Ukraine.

Ukrainians seem to want to govern their own country, using democracy. Both the ones that have Ukrainian and Russian as their first language. The rest of the world seems to agree with that.

Russia seems to want to go back to the Soviet days where Ukraine is under direct control of Russia.

Make up your own mind in this matter.
Citation needed!
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The same speech actually mentions energy security [0], and the new government is planning to invest a huge amount into renewable energy and a deeper integration of the european energy market.

One thing that is often left out of the international discussion of Germany's domestic policies is that we actually put a law into our constitution to limit governments from making new debt... So if the current government wants to take on new debt for Defense and Energy Transition, it will have to either do some tricks (the 100B for the military is supposed to come from a different, special pot), or change the constitution again, for which they would need the votes of the opposition.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_F1xCKi5vY
Unfortunately you will need defense as long as you have madmen ruling some of the countries around you.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't reverse aging, it merely slows it down, and not by much.
> Because the book is based on the conduct of World War II occupying forces (Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union), most of its contents are politically and technically no longer applicable to the early 21st century. Some of von Dach's instructions remain relevant, however, to current conflicts, such as about how to sabotage infrastructure, construct roadblocks, make and use incendiary devices or hide weapons and ammunition.

It would be interesting to see the tactics updated to deal with current technologies.
Perhaps this is good advice, but perhaps even better advice is: Don't write a Turing-complete DSL to solve FizzBuzz at a job interview.

(Warning - comic gold, get a tissue)
https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-intervie...
The energy we have.

Do you ignore Germany has nuclear power? Renewable energy as well?

And we have our own coal.

What do you think Germany is?
While I would appreciate that, this would be political suicide for the Green party involved in the coalition. While they want a lot less co2 they are also very much anti-fission.
Meh. Most of these descriptions just seem like "lol random" low effort procedurally generated parody rather than something delightfully surprisingly precise
Being Normal vs. Being Crazy
For me, someone who’s “crazy” is someone who’s normal.

I embrace those that seem crazy through the normal lens.

It's a bit rare to find someone "crazy". Most don't want that tag behind their character so they tend to stick to what's normal.

But exceptional people are not normal as the word itself suggests. They sound "crazy" to normal people because they're different.

Peter Diamandis had it right when he said,
"The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea."
And let's not forget the additional money spent over the last two years on pandemic-related measures, that will already burden the tax payer for years.
It's interesting how the pendulum of ideas swings back and forth over history, similar problems arise and similar solutions to them resurface also. It would be great to see that on some kind go graph or timeline.
That's a good idea - hard to believe that I didn't think of "min-width" considering the amount of other CSS that had to go into this, I wish I'd come up with it myself 12 hours ago...

I've just updated it, everyone should be getting an updated version now (clearly there's interest!). Thanks for the thought!
go look on /r/aviation, several threads - one is from a pilot of the an and he confirms it is intact.

That was a few days ago though..
If Putin gets Ukraine he'll definitely stay there forever. He will place his army alongside eastern Polish border and NATO will be forced to fortify the other side.

Germany along with other countries of NATO will be forced to militarize which will cost way more than abandoning Russian exports.

Ukraine is fighting now for less militarized and endangered Europe.

I agree that sometimes it's better to loose a war. Just not this one.
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Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell by George Finlay Simmons is one I go back to from time to time to make sure I have mastery of basic math. Someone gave it to me in high school.

It’s a tiny book but powerful. It helped me a prepare for college. There’s something very inspiring about understanding geometry, trig, and algebra well enough that you can flip through a few pages, follow along, and basically cover the whole of those subjects as taught in high schools.

I later used it to study for the GMAT and GRE and got a 99 percentile math score both times. I’m reasonably intelligent but not a math whiz. The book definitely helped. It is brief but densely-packed with everything you really need to know.
Germany was late in offering armament to Ukraine. Moreover, this move is defensive in nature. I would be very surprise to see Germany getting more involved in this conflict from its current dependence on natural gas.
Advanced Engineering Mathematics - Erwin Kreyszig
Please don’t make me implement multiple color schemes for my shell scripts.
It doesn't appear to be very stable. I keep running into the following error on Firefox and need to empty the memory and cache, then restart everything again:

> TopHat has hit an error, and has ended up in a bad state. You could go back to the home page, or check the developer tools for more information.
I think it’s more that this is difficult. But certainly not impossible.

The problem is that we’d need an even more integrated Europe (and probably language). And a lot of people don’t want that.
Probably to reduce the dependency on Russian gas.
I hadn't realised the link between Library Genesis and Sci-Hub until I read the Wikipedia article on it. Are there any other good sources of info around Library Genesis as a project, i.e. aims, technologies etc. not end-user guides or how-tos?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
Problem is, some of us goes into loops: Check email, check youtube, check hackernews, code a bit or do code review or work meeting, check email, check youtube, check hackernews etc....it can get draining really quickly, esp with the current events going on (covid, war etc).
Biggest boost to productivity at this point is to forcibly shut everything out for a few hours. PiHole helps me with this.
https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html#interface_overview mentions that a binary encoding of JSON was experimented with, but no significant speedup or space savings were observed. If the functions are parsing and caching JSON that might explain why the performance is so close.

> SQLite does not (currently) support a binary encoding of JSON. Experiments have been unable to find a binary encoding that is significantly smaller or faster than a plain text encoding. (The present implementation parses JSON text at over 1 GB/s.) All JSON functions currently throw an error if any of their arguments are BLOBs because BLOBs are reserved for a future enhancement in which BLOBs will store the binary encoding for JSON.
I don’t think English is such that every sequence of letters is a valid encoding of phonemes, either.
The dependence on Russian gas
I don't mean to understate the accomplishment, but the pedigree of OS X was NeXTSTEP. That was released in 1989. I'm sure a lot of bloat was added over the decades, but the underpinnings were running on hardware almost 20 years old at the time.
What is Habeck doing?
It's hopefull thinking. Which is not a bad thing to do.

But now it's time to accept Putin for what he is.
You can import gas via pipeline (from Russia) or in liquid form (LNG) from Qatar and others. You need a terminal to deal with LNG which is under high pressure and very low temperatures.

It will take longer to move away from gas as an energy source. That will happen over next decade at least.
Edge is proprietary and thus completely unacceptable. MSFT has hundreds of billions of dollars, surely they can make a web application work with Firefox. Testing it only in edge is sheer arrogance.

I begrudgingly use chromium whenever there's a meeting in wretched Teams. It's only because I'm using a reasonably new Thinkpad that it even works at all. My previous computer wouldn't even run chromium.
So once the maintainers of the deep packet inspection software read this they will add rot13 to their code.
In most cases only very few have enough time and willingness to analyze news enough to spot non-hyper-evident propaganda, make links between news/depicted facts to form a personal view etc. Having created a fast and entertained and nervous/emotional society do the trick for most.

The secondary aspect is that human life do have a limited timespan, actual rulers know a day they'll die as anyone else, so their target is not master the masses at infinitum but train "new people", some "the masses", will be trained, are already trained, to be like Chinese commoners, Ford-mode stereotypical workers, or ancient Greek "useful idiots" (not an insult, there is really a such concept in classic Greeks, ῐ̓δῐώτης to be more precise), or in practical terms obeisant workers that do whatever they are told to do with the best effort, they talk about whatever they are told to etc. Take a look at comments under most news websites: on usenet users decide topics, now with limited and contained exceptions like HN or Reddit on most platform people talk following a plot. Take a look ad Japanese/Asian TV show with the small rectangle to suggest the listener how to react to what it listen etc.

Very few will be pushed to think about propaganda and ultimately embrace it, since seeing it's effects is hardly imaginable/utopia a really free society where no one try to betray others.

Those cohorts will be the "new man" built by the actual rulers, new élites, new "middle class", ... shaped as they imaging the society.
Don't forget that Ukraine is not a NATO member.
Uhm, did you actually read the whole article or did you have different words than I had? The most relevant part is even pretty early in the article. Also, it's a fact that Hebrew is restriced too, just like Russian, Polish etc etc etc.
The idea is to use these to import LNG from the US and Qatar, so that these terminals together with those in France, Belgium and the Netherlands can be used to supply all of Europe with gas - including the countries in Eastern Europe, that currently depend on Russian gas even more than we do.
>For example LG Solar, a South Korean company, is manufacturing 500 megawatts of solar panels annually in Huntsville, AL cost competitively.

was. LG is shutting down solar panel manufacturing https://electrek.co/2022/02/23/lg-electronics-is-going-to-st...
Full transcript of Ukrainian President’s emotional appeal to Russians
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Green party also was against spending money on the military. So there you go. The situation has changed dramatically since the election.
`In light of this, we agree to reverse the trend of declining defence budgets and aim to increase defence expenditure in real terms as GDP grows; we will direct our defence budgets as efficiently and effectively as possible; we will aim to move towards the existing NATO guideline of spending 2% of GDP on defence within a decade, with a view to fulfilling NATO capability priorities. We will display the political will to provide required capabilities and deploy forces when they are needed.`

https://web.archive.org/web/20180610061817/https://www.nato....

NATO can have higher military power, but mostly coming from the USA spending 4% of GDP in military, while the "pacifist" European countries keep under spending, with most of them at only 1%
> it isn't impossible that there are some

Actually, it's pretty evident that there are many. They surely still are a minority across the whole population, but they are definitely a strong one at that.

The unit you're referring too is the Azov battalion. It's a paramilitary unit that has been condemned for ISIS-like war crimes, mostly against the people in Donbas. This unit has been legitimized and fully integrated into the Ukrainian army. Its leader has strong ties to Ukraine Ministry of the Interior.

Also worrying is that on Jan 1 every year there are very popular marches (10-20k people in Kiev) in honor of Stepan Bandera, a Nazi collaborator and "national hero" in Ukraine.

Bandera and other Nazi collaborators that participated in the murder of around 100k (!!!) Poles, are now glorified thanks to a 2015 law which imposes criminal sanctions (I believe 5 to 10 years) to anyone who insults their name.

I'm on mobile and cannot provide sources right now, but I believe this is pretty uncontroversial stuff which you can corroborate with a little bit of digging.
That sounds like a problem with the palette your terminal is using, and not with the fact that programs use colour.
Agree completely. I managed to make a living with my own compiler ages ago and couldn’t deal with the Dragon book at all (a book by Allen Holub did the job for me, and it was a spiritual ancestor of the Nystrom books).
Well, historically the madman in this part of the world has been Germany. Germany doesn't really have a border with Russia to worry about like for example the Baltics have.
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That's interesting - I haven't seen errors in quite a while (on Firefox), and I've been using it myself for a few months. What are you doing just before it crashes?
Honestly, at least in my country it doesn't take a lot to get a programming job, at least if you can show you've got some skills. Though most companies won't take a look at you if you haven't got a diploma. If you've got the interest go for it. You cannot really lose anything by applying to some companies other than maybe a bit of time.
Because you can set NO_COLOR=true in your shell config and not have to type it ever again.
The Russian armed forces in belgorod? Refuse to go into the Ukraine. Although Russians are told there’s 0 deaths to Russian forces and such, information is leaking into Russia. There’s mass protesting happening there. I don’t believe the war will last long enough for Putin to be able to keep throwing lives at it.

That coupled with Germany, the US, Czech Republic, and NATO supplying supplies, weapons, etc into Ukraine. The longer it goes on the more likely it seems Ukraine will survive.

Unless Putin goes fully insane and wants to nuke Ukraine or something. Let’s hope Putin tops himself in a bunker before then.
This also misses options such as letting COLOR=1 force colours which would be nice when I want to redirect "human" output to a file without bothering to set up a TTY.

But I guess that ship has sailed.
I don't think Ukraine can beat Russia in a regular war and has to eventually shift to full guerrilla warfare, with which the Russians would have to deal with for years.

Some in the Kremlin might have expected the takeover to be as swift as the Taliban taking back Afghanistan with little to no resistance, before other countries can agree upon any sanctions or reaction. If that were the case, I think sanctions from the west would have been much tamer, due to the war already being over and less political pressure from their own constituencies. E.g. German government needed at ton of public outcry first, before they changed their mind.

Also the longer it takes, the more Putin has to deal with opposition in their own ranks and populace.
You can join the effort from https://t.me/itarmyofukraine2022, but I'm not sure "building things" is on agenda.
> That can be understood and accepted, but it definitely shouldn't be celebrated.

If you support the Russian government, then sure.
Could you recommend me some strategy resources? I'm new to the game but want to really understand the strategy
Apologies, I was reading a review of Rigg's work from 1996:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-24-mn-12209-...
Every dictator rules only because the support of his clique. If Ukraine holds long enough to firmly convince oligarchs that Putin will destroy their businesses before he captures Ukraine then he'll be influenced to back off or assasinated.
The greens were not in power whe Merkel decided this.

We also did not should down all of them.

And we still have energy. My flat is warm.

The Russian gas only makes 20-30%.

I'm totally lost on this weird rethoric.

And the greens, now in power, will startup the renewable push, see what habeck said and already is doing. CSU/CDU started it but didn't push through.
Do you have a link for that? Last time I read a preprint claiming that, it was about a few (4?) parts that covid-19 has that are equal to parts of of other virus. But the matches were very short and some of them not even consecutive parts. It's very easy to get matches by chance comparing all the genome of covid-19 with all the genome of other virus, and if you allow holes in the matches it's even easier.
I've been using a DIY air source heat pump (repurposed conventional air conditioner) for the last 6 years and the investment has been quite successful. Roughly the same bill as with gas, but I don't go through annual inspections etc. I paid ~EUR2500 for the whole heat pump installation. Unfortunately, conventional heat pumps (e.g. Mitsubishi, Daikin, LG etc) with the same capacity were priced about 3x that and as other have pointed out, were not economically feasible. Possible explanations for the latter are either marketing gimmicks (heat pumps are for the rich) or a lack of big enough addressable market.

I am not sure how easy it is to repurpose newer air conditioners that have a lot more electronics. Also keep in mind that in order to use a heat pumps efficiently, your heating system must be designed to work with relatively low fluid temperatures (mine runs at ~37 degrees centigrade). What worked best for me was a heated wall + fan convector for the living spaces and oversized radiators for the bedrooms.
you'd say I'm rationalizing it, but I do not believe that death is a problem to be solved

As I take it, that line of thought (that death is just a problem to be solved and that immortality is something to strive for) leads to solving death just before going on to "solve" childhood. Why do we have to be born ignorant of the world and must "waste" some 20 years learning about it (possibly more) before we can go on to be socially productive persons? another 'challenge' for medical science to "fix"...

no, no. I repeat myself, death is not a problem, immortality is nonesense. To percieve death as opposed to life is a consequence (IMO) of thinking with words and only with words; i.e. within language (and logic) these two seem opposite, but there're are ways to think beyond just the logical-linguistic.
> Putin can have his soldiers killed for months and years. And he seems crazy enough to do it.

Can he really? If he upsets too many important and powerful people in Russia, Putin risks being removed in a coup, or assassinated by his own military or intelligence services. If this war drags on for too long, if too many Russians die, if damage to the Russian economy becomes severe, that outcome starts to become a real risk for him.
I always heard things were almost always on a need to know basis. Designing a keyboard kind of requires an approximate form-factor. Like the sibling comment says, "Wallabies" were a touchscreen in a housing. It sounds like other developers were writing software for a generic grey box. To me, that makes sense if the hardware wasn't known even if they weren't trying to be covert.
Which would slow down inspection by a factor of 25 if it were to check the whole keyspace.
That's outright impossible. Not just on the political level - no one aside from the fascist party wants nuclear energy. The closed-down reactors are being torn down as we speak, it is impossible to put them back together. For those still running, we do not have the capacity to make new fuel rods for and to maintain the reactors themselves, they are at the end of their designed life time. And new projects are completely out of the question - the French and Finnish projects are many years and many billions over budget.
That is what it is, however it's not the reason I posted this.

The thing that I find interesting in this situation is this active decision that it is ok to come out in support of specific Neo-Nazi groups, as long as it's for the 'right reasons' and in the right language. And who, how and why (a private company, Meta) arbitrarily decides what those right reasons and language are.
Lots of people looked at it, and they did not conclude that.
Residential solar is largely a scam to game the utility rate structure, where the cost of the network (and having power available from it when you might need it) was rolled into the per-kWh rate. That doesn't work if enough customers install PV and have correlated expectation for backup power.

Utility-scale PV just makes so much more sense than grid-connected residential solar. It's easier and cheaper to install. The objection that it uses more land is without merit in the US, where land cost is largely negligible.
Putin's actions make more sense if you consider the invasion as serving his interests and not Russia's. None of this is going to play out in the favor of Russians, regardless of how the battle goes.

Putin has been characterized, by some in the US, as genius in his timing. I'm not familiar with any propaganda portraying Putin as dumb.
EU wide subsidies for moving off gas to renewables (water heating is downright easy) would do wonders.
> Do you have a link to a fridge like that so I can imagine the concept better?

Large camping fridges are as close as I have seen, but I'm sure someone's thought of one for domestic use.

As for practicality in the kitchen, I can imagine a design where you have multiple medium sized fridge drawers. Once pulled out, you can open their top lid and access the content. This way, you don't have one deep container, but rather, multiple shallower containers. For efficiency, a single compressor can feed all of them.

EDIT: actually I've seen freezer drawers - you just need to dial the cooling down a bit.

Another idea: Vertically long rectangular compartments that can be pulled out individually. Essentially a whole bunch of vertical drawers of different sizes, with meshed walls to allow air to pass through them.

Another silly idea: a horizontally mounted ferris wheel
And now it's Putin.
There is a way out: tax the rich. Lindner will have to see reason eventually.
An insightful summary. Thank you!
Right

But Russia has been encroaching around EU territory since taking Crimea in 2014

and if Ukraine did join NATO, or if Russia makes further threats against other potential NATO members like Finland or Sweeden, why wait until now
The Making of Tupaia’s Map (2018)
I see that you're the fan of appeasement strategy. Worked out well for France and the UK in the past.