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Ask HN: What can I do with 48GB of RAM?
Hi HN,

After a mobo upgrade, i have ended up with an ungodly 48GB of 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM. This is a ridiculous amount to have on a personal machine for me. What are some cool things I can do with this much RAM?

All ideas are welcome. Video/audio editing?, databases, run an OS off a ramdisk??, anything.
Appreciate the explanation, thank you.

I was imagining it was something on the line of drug cartels and human traffickers laundering money through trading game assets.
And even if it did, SWIFT access is in large part a quick way to impose a lot of sanctions. It essentially limits imports/exports which could be done in other ways (and have been, E.g. Nordstream 2) but which would take a lot of time to do effectively.
The UX sucks sufficiently that it shouldn't affect their bottom line.
The article hints at it through the "investments" angle but doesn't come out and state the importance of political will.

One big reason renewables became so cheap is because around 2008 Beijing Olympics, China decided that they were done with air pollution in the cities. IIRC at that time coal power and other industrial production had to be stopped for a couple of months in the surrounding provinces to make the games happen and people (importantly top bureaucrats who lived in Beijing) decided they liked the clean air.

China doesn't have any substantial deposits of fossil fuels that give get clean air (like gas that US has) and Oil and Gas has to be largely imported leaving them at the mercy of international market prices and currency fluctuations. So they started heavily investing in renewables production capacity, first in wind (China's installed capacity started doubling yoy around then) and then Solar from 2010/11 even if they were expensive then and it wasn't clear how much of a learning rate benefit there would be. Similarly massive electrification of public transport and introducing subways later in the decade again to reduce pollution in the cities. Now i believe they have 3X the installed base of the next biggest country (US) and still accelerating.

Later on the Paris Climate treaty just added extra momentum with the climate change and carbon reduction angle. But it was originally a political decision that took political will - to get cleaner air in the cities even at a possibly higher cost.
The downside to diplomacy is that if it's ineffective, by the time you get to other means, it can be too late because the victim is already dead.

And the fact that Russia made very little effort to justify its invasion to other countries (internal agitprop is very different, by the way!) tells you all you need to know about the effectiveness of diplomacy that is not backed by real and credible threat of force in this case.
I'm not an expert, but my understanding of the space is that Dependabot shows vulnerabilities in direct dependencies of a repo.

After reading greysteil's sibling comment, though, I wonder if something like Snyk does everything I mentioned. Operate at the level of container images and also detect vulnerabilities in indirect dependencies.
I generally prefer waterproof dry bags for that reason. Fabrics need to be burly to remain waterproof for any significant use. Better to dry quickly, sustain wear, and protect a (more easily replaceable) waterproof liner.
That’s interesting and pretty outrageous
Could benefit from +(podcast) in the title (like video submissions) since there doesn't seem to be a transcript.
Is that a strategy to make money long term or a necessity at this point? I kind of understand stock buybacks companies do but I'm not familiar with currency buybacks.
We'll see.

I'm not convinced that he's quite the buffoon he's being portrayed as lately.

This is a shrewd ex-KGB officer who's held onto power for more than two decades.
I still wish they would accommodate security conscious users who avoid running JavaScript by practicing progressive enhancement. IIRC all of the tickets about it have been rejected though. I note the UK government uses this web development methodology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-prog... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12538144
Now see the real money is on the hiring end. Integrate this into your HR systems and receive applications tailored to your company!

See this is only half a joke, it would actually be kinda cool if an AI could eliminate all kinds of misc bias by taking everyone’s information and generating the best resume for that specific hiring manager.
It plummeted pretty hard right after the war started.
"[..] entire countries register days where all their energy needs come from renewables and even overproduce energy [..]"

I think you mean electric needs. That it's around 30% of the needs of the average country. It's important to be very clear about those distinctions. I think, in this issue, overselling is so dangerous as underselling.
If anything, the invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated that all the countries clamoring to join were right all along.
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anesthesiologist

I remember quite a few small utilities and sites I've seen over the years were written by anesthesiologists, not career software developers. I wonder why.
OP (and everyone else) should probably donate directly to the special account set up by the National Bank of Ukraine for this purpose:

https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...

Just for clarity, just like the account number (IBAN UA84 3000 0100 0000 0047 3309 9270 8) is the same for all currencies, so is the SWIFT BIC (NBUAUAUX).
Currency exchanges in Europe no longer accept the Ruble, they are selling for well below current official exchange rate.
SpaceX Starlink Internet Now Live in Ukraine, Says Elon Musk
Personally I have a contractors that work for me in Russia. We pay them via a wire. If this goes through I’m not sure how I’m going to do that.

Have to look at running them through a different system maybe? Any ideas I’d take them.
Bro, i meant, Zeek.

Wrote a lot of fancy packet captures in that language.

Most favorite capture was Quantum where some unknown source tried to hijack one of my TCP connections, and Zeek caught it and reported it … dutifully.

https://zeek.org/
Russia is not self-sufficient. They require Germany, Finland, and China to keep sending them resources. It is a matter of time before they are simply incapable of continuing the war. Simply from a resource depletion point of view.

Unfortunately, this desperation will not open up diplomacy, it will likely be at the cost of the people. They are not in a situation to take on such a large military force if they attack EU or NATO.

The point of these damaging sanctions is to not need war ever again in the future. If Russia, a nuclear power, cannot take Ukraine and cannot weather the sanctions toward success. It will tell the entire world that war is not needed anymore. That is a thing of the past for humanity.

Additionally, there's some very unusual resistance to Russian troops. It was Spetsnaz blue berets who airborne dropped to take this airport: https://news.yahoo.com/russian-forces-attack-airport-outside...

But were routed so quickly? The probability that normal Ukrainian troops could do this is quite low.

The probability that many other countries have their special forces operating in Ukraine is 100%. Obviously nobody will admit to this. The Russians probably don't realize this and is suffering these massive casualties because of it.
Will support for the OSV format/language be added to the "languages" section that's normally on the right?

I'm mostly joking, although I do look at that immediately for any new repo because I'm starting to realize that the interest level of the project is directly related to the language(s) it uses.
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because us gov operations are totally divorced from the civilian sector?
But from the point of veiw of the russian leadership they have less to loose now.
That said i think we should cut them off and give all the aid to Ukrain we can, the west is doing it a disservice after they voluntarily gave up their nuclear weapons on the condition that we protect them.
Miners can set their acceptable minimum fee levels and orphan the blocks of miners who accept transactions with fees that they think are too low. This is essentially cartel behavior with an incredibly strong enforcement mechanism. There should never be a “high fee environment” due to an artificially low block size cap.
The US wasn’t at any kind of risk that Russia is.
Doesn't apply to Gaza apparently
If you look at the past hour on Hacker News, there are mostly only new anti-Russia posts. The same is true across all media platforms. To me it looks like the Ukraine(and her allies) has intensified a censorship campaign against Russia. Which I guess isn’t terrible but lets call a spade a spade shall we?
You can fairly reliably double spend regardless of replace-by-fee, you just need to coordinate which nodes you broadcast your transactions to.
This is a very good and thorough article. The truth is I am clueless - it seems the writing was on the wall for a very long time for anyone who was paying attention
We do the same inside portage packs up here in Minnesota. I’m sure there is a better way (at least there should be) for securing the opening, be we always just tie a knot.
I probably should have clarified, the mods can flag. But there's only one publicly known mod, presently, and dang is one man. He's not everywhere, so if you're seeing flags on posts they're probably: 1) users or 2) automated (dupes and certain domains). Flags on comments are the same, though I'm not aware of automatic flagging of comments (aside from shadow banned users, and that is an admin decision, I'm not aware of automation based on comment content).

Pointing at the mods when you see flagging has a high chance of being wrong (just by the numbers).

And are you certain it was administrative? Did dang respond to your comment and say something? Or did it just quickly get downvoted?
My main workstation has 192GB of ram (also running twin 20 Core Xeon Golds plus a shed load of SSDs/HHDs/NVMes... Anyway, long story boring, I run VMs for Dev/Test as required... That's the main reason I got such a machine. [EDIT] I am running Windows Server 2022 on this box, not a standard Windows Desktop OS, and use Hyper-V for the Hypervisor...
I don't really understand how they could have expected that, since Ukrainians had been told in NOVEMBER that the operation was coming. (And I'm talking about the laypeople, just watching TV, Ukrainian officials were likely given much more details from US intelligence than just what Blinken said on CNN…)

Expecting to catch your opponent off-guard with a quick assault might work, but not if you give them a four-month notice beforehand…
Plans are already underway to divert gas to Europe https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/25/us-europe-ru...
I just use Reader Mode
Wouldn't surprise me if he had God on his podcast one day. I understand why people go on JRE, it's a huge platform. What's surprising is the quality of guests Fridman gets on his podcast, even when the podcast was relatively small. Who is this guy?
Show HN: A Brand Guidelines Online builder for owners and managers
Hello HN !

My name is Satyam, i am a french startup founder (currently building a pos for restaurant), localized in The Caribbean and was struggling centralizing all brand and design assets to communicate with contractors, PR execs, collaborators and partners.

In fact, In the same day, my Sales guys ask me for an email template for prospecting, marketing agencies i was putting in competition asked me a ton of details on my branding that i HAVE but takes couple of hours to search, format and send, i have noticed also that my dev made subtle colors variations of red through our app on the different buttons,... I have searched for a dead simple tool for centralizing, in an effective way and sharing brand assets and i finish by building it myself. think about the "Design / Brand guidelines" section of big internet brands websites, i was searching for an online creator for that kind of pages.

Every tool i have found was big BAM (Brand Assets Management) tools for big corps, or arty tools by and for designers. Not the startup founder / CEO / CMO / PM dedicated tool i was searching for.

So after 2 weeks of coding here is bwandy. I will be very pleased to have some descent feedback to know if i was the only one to have the problem. You can sign up free without credit cart (find the corresponding link in the start trial page). Thanks you a lot guys !!
Neuromancer (1984)by William Gibson, the original cyberpunk novel

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, where Metaverse came from

Rainbow Bridge by Vernor Vinge, lots of AR stuff

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, book is different than movie
They have Javelins, too. But, conversely, Russians aren't going to just send their armor ahead without infantry and let it be slaughtered.

I think the most salient question is whether Ukraine can maintain the effectiveness of its anti-air long term.
Doesn't help when half the staff at CNN are the subject of the tabloids themselves.
75W halogen, but my laptop can dissipate 170W. As long as you don't have fans blowing air around/over you, it's fine. your basal metabolic rate can be captured with clothing and especially caps, like a thin fabric cap and then a wool beanie/cap over that. Plus ~200ish watts of heat where you need it, head and hands.

I do have to use more heating if the temperature stays below 4C or so for more than 24 hours. That is, my indoor ambient temp was 11-12C on the night it was -15C outside - had it remained that cold for longer than a night i would have had to raise the indoor temp with electric heat, as mentioned, the split-air was woefully inadequate. I was just trying to avoid the central electric heat since it smells bad the first few times you use it in a season and it always wakes everyone up.

all this being said, people are different and my wife and son would have been miserable in the exact same situation. I was speaking directly to "fingers get too cold to type" with the laptop thing.
I keep being annoyed that people keep throwing ponzi at things that really aren't that. Words has meaning and Ponzi describe certain kind of scheme. Not a scam in general...
You're making a lot of assumptions. Size of roof, type of solar installation, climate, geographical location, how much the person drives, whether electric heating is resistive or uses a more efficient heat pump, whether their house is well-insulated, how much hot water they use: all of these effect whether or not someone can achieve an energy surplus or not from solar.

It's quite possible for someone to produce enough energy for their regular use from rooftop solar, even if they drive an EV and don't have natural gas. If they're using an electric resistive furnace to heat a large, poorly-insulated house and have a small solar installation that's partially shaded by trees and they drive an EV long distances on a regular basis, then no, they probably aren't going to break even.
Putin can't do much if other people aren't convinced that their least-bad course of action is following him.

You seem him calling on the Ukraine military to overthrow the government (which is probably not a great sign of how well his “demilitarize Ukraine” operation is going)? That option isn't available on only one side of the conflict.
My account is with first Ukrainian.
Oil and gas payments are not affected by blacklisting the already sanctioned banks in Swift.
Yup, sandboxed google play works fine on graphene.

And everything is neatly locked into individual user profiles.
A measly 6% in relation to USD (0) since this started. Shockingly little, I was expecting to see it cratered when I first check, like their stock market (1), i.e. ERUS at -34% (bottomed -42%).

Think you're right they must've been buying it up. Would make sense to bid up the currency and not the stock market too, can only imagine how bad the bank runs would be if the ruble craters on top of all this.

0: https://www.google.com/search?q=ruble%20to%20usd

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=erus
I think the most blatant example is the story of the island garrison, that supposedly held out until death after defying the russians with a cool one linerthat was circulating yesterday. It turns out it was most likely false, and there are tons of videos of the entire garrison safe and alive after surrendering to the russians. That story in particular really was so widely circulated and believed that it makes any news from the war hard to believe without double or triple verification.

It's really amazing how easily propaganda can be spread and circulated even in an age where we are supposedly more aware of disinfo/manipulation.
Agreed. As a teacher, I'd love to see more teachers in the political mix, too.
An IT Army for Ukraine
Fuck.

I predict this will bring 2.4€/liter gas, 1.5€/liter heating oil and 0.3€/KWh electricity and 2,5€/m3 natgas in my little corner of Europe.
It's to keep the exchange rate stable. Although that can't happen if the FX reserves are frozen.
It's about whether there is a legitimate state of emergency. Therefore, the context of millions of people dying is relevant. But, you're right, their cause does seem rather counterproductive in this light.
Is he really being portrayed as a buffoon, though? In my experience most people seem to respect that he is quite good at playing the power game. Lately he's definitely being portrayed as evil, for sure. But I wonder if maybe he miscalculated how this war would play out. Even skilled operators f*ck it up once in a while.
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Ruble? More like rubble...
It wasn't flagged. The points were still highly in the positive. I only knew something happened because the points stopped skyrocketing abruptly. I looked at the same thread in an incognito tab, and my comment was strangely gray and at the bottom.

This is a PR outlet for a startup incubator. If things like u/spez & u/maxwellhill can happen on reddit, they can happen here.
When CNN became just like Fox, it caused the left and right to completely cleave into parallel factual universes.

The left-right factual chasm is to be blamed on CNN? That’s a bit much.
In other news, PG&E in California is asking for $3.75 million per mile to underground 10k miles of power lines to avoid fires and that whole manslaughter problem.

There is more to power delivery than V=IR
> Electricity transmission costs are really negligible.

Transmission losses are not negligible. Power goes from generator through transmission lines through multiple substations before it reaches a customer. There's a lot of loss that just gets rolled into the retail price of that power.
It's nothing specific about Elixir itself, it's just that I don't use it for literally anything else (nor do I see that changing). So, for me, it's just another tech stack to keep up with when I could have just stuck with the tech stacks I already know and work just fine.

I still think Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView are great technologies, but I don't think they offer me anything professionally that the current stuff doesn't; at least not for my use cases.

There was an opportunity cost to making the switch too, and I feel like that was a poor use of time.
It's a scary world we live in when countries with nuclear weapons start to fight with eachother. I wish Biden and Putin would try everything to make a new deal instead of stopping trading with eachother.
It's very much worth it in the long term. I'm in a cold northern European country (Sweden). Heating houses will be really costly next winter, but the extra cost will be so worth it. I assume the government will step in to even out costs.
there is also "tldr" https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
How does this clean the money? Now it’s just associated with the gambling addicts unless the drug dealer owns the betting shop himself.
Idea: Divert some CPU generated heat to the keyboard and wrist rest of a laptop. Code outside in any season.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/italy-could-revive-c...
>Ukraine, even with volunteers from other countries, cannot take Moscow.

it definitely can't now. The destruction of Kiev, if it is to happen, will change a lot. Many more Russians would want to get rid of Putin, including many in the army. Ukraine and allies may not want to invade Russia, yet they may have no choice as leaving that regime in power would be a threat to their own safety. Similarly to how in WWII USSR couldn't just stop at the borders and had to go all the way to Berlin.

Has just heard on the Ukrainian TV, channel 5, "We're going to win. And this is our chance to destroy Russian Empire, and we're going to use it. .... That self-proclaimed genius strategist and strong man whom the leaders of powerful rich countries are so afraid of is getting beaten by just a good guy who recently was just a showman. We Christened Russia, and we're going to give it the last rites." - it is a very significant change of tone from the previous days.

Definitely change of tone - they are having a blast on TV - "To see Kiev and die. Looks like you're insisting on doing it in that your own peculiar way - well, be my guest."

>And why do you believe that an authoritarian regime will hesitate to use nukes on its own soil, if its survival is at stake?

Nuking those Russian heavily populated areas there would definitely be suicidal, even if somebody manage to press the button.

Again, we aren't at that point yet. And such a scenario isn't given. Instead Putin can pause/freeze the war - pull away from Kiev, and keep the several beachheads they've gotten so far. The promise of frozen (in reality slow burning) war instead of hot would as usually calm down the Europe/NATO and will make it a local Ukrainian problem again ... for some number of years until some new development ...
Forgive me but I’m not understanding the example. Would you mind explaining why this comparison is valid for renewables but not fossil fuels?
RIP Ruble.
Sketches During the War
Floor heating won't go from heating temperatures (30°C? I don't know exactly) to freezing across 8 hours of sleep, even if it's -25°C outside.

The advice also doesn't have to be "turn it off", just "turn it down to 5°C" which would be safe indefinitely. There has to be another reason why the advice is to keep heating 24/7.
I don't know about that, but if that happens, I do know that Ukraine will definitely, and unfortunately assume responsibility for Russia's sanctions.
> And China? They're dealmakers and they will sell out Russia if presented the right deal, it's primarily a question of what they would want.

No, they want Taiwan and US wouldn't consider that. China wouldn't sell out Russia for anything other than World domination, they are Chinas only friendly big neighbor and their best companion against the US.
Donate directly to the special account set up by the National Bank of Ukraine for this purpose:

https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...

Just for clarity, just like the account number (IBAN UA84 3000 0100 0000 0047 3309 9270 8) is the same for all currencies, so is the SWIFT BIC (NBUAUAUX).
Last I saw, China has 97% of the world's electric buses, and probably a similar figure for taxis.

The scale and transition is crazy and rapid. The savings on fuel alone easily made the upfront cost worth it; growing a new industry and cleaning up the air were nice bonuses
And the semantics matter. When we are using words that mean specific things. Other wise why even care what words we use? Just throw something and expect everyone automatically understand.