skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Ukraine was attacked because Russia wants Ukraine territory a d is not accepting its right to exists as independent nation.

The above is Russian goal with or without talk about NATO. The debate about maybe joining NATO sometimes in future might have speed up Russian plans. But Russia objection to Ukraine in NATO is basically "it would made it harder to annex them".
I reheated cold brew with a microwave and liked it. I think you can get some very tasty coffee with cold brew even with cheaper beans.
What of people that don't use C#? What of teams with libraries already built in Rust? Also I've been on teams building web apps in Java that were more complicated than just CRUD. We had one where the GC behaviour of Java was decidedly suboptimal as the applications would for for minute long GCs due to large in memory caches
> Upvoting because such stuff needs to be discussed

I guess but at this point it's really hard to tell fact from fiction. Already years ago I've read about Neo Nazis in Ukraine in niche publications that sometimes come up with some funny views close to conspiracy theories. (To be fair, The Intercept is not exactly mainstream media either) It's no coincidence there has been a massive wave of media manipulation for more than a decade with Putin now seeming to pick this up.

Anyway, FB has manoeuvred itself into an amazingly bad position. They pivoted from personal and recreational content to online news with a mass of people doubting competence and credibility of journalists and publishers. The negative effects are becoming worse and worse. Probably the smartest move for them would be to move away from news and leave it to media outlets.
> Legislating people's favourite lucky number

Woah, horsey. For most HN readers including you and I, it looks like just a “lucky number”, but to the people it matters it is everything. Financial security is for most intents and purposes the first rung of being happy.

> There are a lot of people who don't have a family.

Social support per child can account for this. It’s a politically vulnerable policy, as it ‘seems intuitive’ for smart people that this would ‘incentivise child-rearing’. But upon leaving the blue sky anyone would realise that a normal person doesn’t calculate their life so coolly in quite that imagined fashion.

To pre-empt a counter-narrative about minimum wage - inflationary effects - it’s worth noting that modern countries both seek mild inflation and regularly enact policy which expect some inflationary outcomes.

Trickle-up benefits are known to be far more beneficial to all of society, which includes incumbents, than trickle-down policy. This also in time offsets the inflationary effect somewhat on the supply side.
So you say that a country, which keeps putting itself into war over and over again, killing millions of people mostly based on lies they tell us, isn't evil?
> they wanted to make the site unavailable

> I've tried using a Russian VPN

I have a hard time believing their genius way of "protecting" the website from the west is to just block western IPs, which can be easily bypassed.
> not well understood and could be catastrophic. Like ocean acidification

Look up carbonate compensation depth, your mind will be blown. Yes, researchers understand the effects of climate change because they have been looking at it for 40+ years. Being extra worried about climate change is a lot like climate denial, in that it doesn’t show trust in our scientists. There is no need to invent trouble — the challenges we know we will face are hard enough.
26 years since the release of Win95 and Linux still cannot make a pixel perfect copy of the GUI with proper alignment and padding.
Did you protest against your government back in 2015-2016, when half a thousand of your men, women and children got shot, blown up or smeared on the sidewalks in retaliation for two decades of your government's involvement in destabilizing countries, hundreds of thousand people dead and millions more displaced?

You didn't? Oh, was it not justified to hold your civilian population accountable for the actions of your democratically elected and re-elected leaders? Or did you just not get annoyed enough?
A steam turbine essentially _does_ use the motion of the water.

In conventional hydroelectricity, gravity causes the motion through the energy differential of the waters' height.

In a steam turbine, the potential energy is from the high temperature of the water, and the energy input to rotate the turbine comes from the temperature differential of the steam cooling.

In theory you could capture the hydroelectric energy of the water on its way down a 12 mile hole, but that gravitic potential energy is negligable compared to the energy difference between superheated steam and water.
"Fluoride is a chemical castration agent..."

Yeah, gonna guess that's not a reputable publication.
There is no information about the hacking tool and its capabilities.

Any link?
“Vaccine spike antigen and mRNA persist for weeks in lymph node GCs”
I've seen a number of these videos over the last 24 hours of Russian soldiers who are confused and out of their depths.

This might be turning into a real PR disaster for Russia.

If that is a good thing or a very bad I cannot say yet.

Edit:Some Ukrainian in the comment ask about the friendly tone, but I think it was brilliant: he managed to both troll them friendly (after all Russians should be friendly to Ukrainians) and he got away alive to upload the video.

Now this tank is a sitting duck and hopefully they will surrender to police troops in short time like so many others who've been sent out on this hopeless mission.

Let's hope the west can welcome every Russian who has the courage to not participate in this madness.
The article lacks a lot of information unfortunately, but it makes it sound like the website (distribution channel) was the only part they are concerned about, which wouldn't be classed as major.

What I'd class as major would be some third party gaining access to NVIDIA's RTL designs and source code for their drivers for current and unreleased GPUs, but this hack doesn't sound remotely close to that. Luckily.
Ah gotcha. Thank you for taking the time to clarify!
> Seriously look at modern C++ it is very easy to develop high performance software in a modern language.

I'm a full time c++ developer that does Rust as a hobby, and I'm asking myself if we are talking about the same language. C++ is a clusterfuck of obscure features, 1 million different build systems and hacks upon hacks for even simple things like include guards, forward declaration of classes to not completely kill your build times and _many_ more daily struggles that are simply none existent in Rust.
What an amazing write up. You are incredibly talented and you didn’t have to go the extra step to blog your findings, but you did.

Thank you for sharing your work with the World Wide Web.
"A few days ago, a peer-reviewed research article was published online by the science journal Cell, one of the world’s top molecular biology journals. The article was authored by pro-vaccine researchers at Stanford University and elsewhere. As part of their research, the researchers tracked how long mRNA from the vaccines persisted in the body.

Contrary to Collins’ previous assertion, the mRNA did not disappear in “a few hours,” a few days, or even a few weeks. In fact, mRNA from the vaccine persisted in a person’s lymph system some two months after vaccination. We actually don’t know how much longer it lasted because the researchers only tracked the mRNA for that long."

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/25/if-he-wasnt-a-swamp-cre...
Geothermal does use the "motion" of the water.
Russia is more dangerous than Isis, says Polish foreign minister (2016)
Ask HN: What's the most impressive simulation of biological life you've seen?
vyvanse
Yet, I've used the same closing line for my emails for years. And Gmail still doesn't suggest it as completion.

"AI powered".
An algorithm is isn't going to be able to clear up miscommunication more accurately than the person who receives the message.
Siege of Melos, the Melian Dialogue
You did good. HN is just toxic and full of know-it-alls experts on war topics.
Somewhat related, if I remember right grsecurity emulated NX bit by abusing the fact that iTLB and dTLB caches are separated.

On tlb miss, it hooked code (trap on a page tree walk?) and tried to reverse if it was instruction or data cache miss. If it was instruction, it performed additional check for the "software" NX bit on a page.
This was... really not good. As anyone who's played around with a grid beatmaker, honestly almost anything you put in there kinda sounds good and groovy, yet honestly most of the stuff there felt less good than average, no better than random.
In my experience, the first step is to get the physical basics right (sleep, exercise, nutrition/hydration). This is already hard for most people, but can bring you to 100% of your theoretical mental performance as the baseline.

To go beyond that, a daily routine of 2x20min meditation is somewhat proven to increase your mental capabilities slowly over time.

Also background Music (like Trance or game soundtracks) have some instant effect, I personally have great results with Endel.io - highly recommend!
The heat is not the problem. It radiates into space quite quickly. The current world energy supply per year is over 160 TWh.[1] By comparison, the erruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 released aprox. 237.5 times more energy in a single incident (~38 PWh).[2] The problem at that time was not an extended (regional) heat wave, but the substances that entered the atmosphere and remained there for several years, causing a global weather change.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum...

[2] Other less spectacular examples: 160 TWh is equivalent of 5 to 6 times the energy released by the Mt. St. Helens erruption of 1980 (~28 TWh) or the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (~30.6 TWh), or half of the energy released by the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (~232 TWh), or 1/4 of all nuclear bomb explosions so far (628 TWh). For this an other examples see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent
Nope, but they are important for the functioning of a society. Not every country can just become a democracy ( there need to be significant civic and educational basics otherwise it probably won't work), but even the flawed ones are better to live in. At the very least because there you could criticise the people in power if you dislike their policies or want change, which are useful things to be able to do.

There's nothing wrong with punishing murderers or rapists, but if the punishments are very severe ( chopping up heads or hands) the downsides for a wrong court decision become enormous. I'm not sure what the crime of fornication is supposed to be though.

For mary your rapist laws:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/apr/14/m...

I never said they are everywhere, but they tend to be more present in religious countries that put importance on the "purity" and "virginity" of a woman. Like with "honour killings", which are also a thing only in that type of country.
And for the "the woman had sex outside of marriage because she was raped", there were a few recent cases in countries as supposedly developed as Qatar and UAE of foreign women being convicted of it.
Probably, but DJing is a fun social activity. The DJ puts a bit of themselves in the mix. I think an AI for music mixing isn't really solving much of a problem. It's just a neat trick in my opinion. Making fun and skill obsolete is sad!
I don't know the ukrainian constitution, but in such cases the order is vice-president and the president of the parliament (rada in Ukraine).
This^

Be ready to and accepting of failure. lots and lots of failure. Trying and failing is the fastest and surest way to learn. Once you let yourself fail lots then the cost of failure drops significantly and the ROI increases sharply.
I'm not an expert and would appreciate being corrected if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression using a neural network after it has been trained typically requires relatively little computation and data. It's training it that takes the big compute and requires lots of data.

I think many services like Grammarly would be perfectly possible to implement without sending your data off device. There are just massive incentives not to.
A common web example is "googling" something on Bing.

But I'm not sure I'd use synecdoche for this kind of usage, even if it's technically correct and a cool word to use. Often it seems people are using the word because that's the only name they know for it, rather than an intentional attempt to refer to the wider concept with an allusion. Like what is TikTok an example of? Is there a suitable word to use that people would understand? But that may just be an irrelevant angle.
My guess is it's Linux user group trying to finally liberate the source code for their graphics card drivers.

/humor
Nah, the blurring is just as bad. In the best of cases I find it to be firmly in the uncanny valley, as I also do of what little I’ve seen of software-based depth of field manipulation or artificial blurring in smartphone photography. In the typical case, it suffers from exactly the same issues as background replacement because it’s doing exactly the same thing, estimating a mask for the areas of interest and altering the rest. Half the hair will be blurred one moment, then one shoulder, then half the chair will flicker between being blurred and not blurred—it’s just as disconcerting and unpleasant.
Hello! I think this will be possible!
What's in French Alsace?

Why so many of them are going there/coming back from there?

Secret james bond villains meeting lol?

You don't hear much about Alsace in France doesn't seems like there is anything going on there usually. it's weird
"It seems unlikely that agricultural areas would care that much."

Why would you think that? Because the peasants are all too stupid to notice an earthquake that damage their houses?

Sure, fewer people would be affected, than in a dense city, but the problem solution of: out of sight, out of mind, is fascinating.
There's no reason to drill for this, and 6 miles down at 1000C presets less than ideal operating conditions for a turbine.

Any peak over about 2000ft should be sufficient for an atmospheric water generation plant to produce enough water for a down hill hydroelectric plant to power the atmospheric water generation plant with single digit ambient RH, and much lower elevations can be used in high RH climes.

I would recommend orienting collectors to the windward side to exploit the local humidity gain, in lower RH climes.

One of my projects is actually a water condensation, hydroelectric and gas liquefaction combined cycle plant.

That said, bores in areas with deep ground water do present an interesting opportunity for pumped storage, with the caveat that the turbomachinery is back in the bore hole and that's a really inconvenient place to fix it when it breaks.
That’s rather inaccurate; yt-dlp grew out of youtube-dlc, which was started by the author of this ticket: <https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/26462>, filed in August 2020, some time before the DMCA in November 2020.
Unplug power
I agree... The first hit on Duckduckgo when searching for "Discrimination":

"Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. "
Fascinating, I'll definitely take a look at it. I've had look at Rust, while it was interesting I couldn't quite get into it. Zig may fill that void within me but we'll see.
isn't that kind of.. debugging?
i.e. digging up the reason why something had happened

although that one is about (past) reality, while OP one is about (speculative) future

maybe more like estimating of impact, requirements-wise, following a traceability chain.. what would break/change if this is changed?
We might get a good idea of the kind of music AI's enjoy listening to /s
Your boss sounds immature, but furthermore why do you care?
Getting an idea out of your head and into notation isn’t “engraving”. Think of it like the difference between using a word processor and using page layout software. The article is also from 2016. MuseScore was around back then, but it was pretty rough to use.
The thing about this comment is that it gets more and more ironic the longer you think about it. Good one.
Roughly 50% of Americans believe what Trump says. They would have no difficulty to choose different media.

In Russia different media do not exist for the average citizen. I have no idea how many percent believe the official propaganda at least in its main message that NATO is threatening Russia. But it's probably significant. Even for those not believing it, saying so or actively acting against is dangerous.
While we speculate, I'm just marveled that we can get an image of that clarity and crispness _from Mars_.
No, a peace agreement won't do anything you describe. It will only cause the same amount of deaths but from insurgency.

There is no rational reason for Ukraine to agree to peace agreement now.
Putin must have plans for you?
Well put indeed.

Some further points:

- Russia is not a regular democracy, it’s not like Putin has a democratic mandate for this war. Who can Russians vote for who is against the war?

- Oddly, “regular” Russians are allies of the West here. Ultimately Putin can only fail due to internal pressures. So ideal sanctions cripple Russian elites and put pressure on the regular citizens, without alienating them.

- Clearly, you can’t have your cake and eat it. If Russian revenues are affected through sanctions, regular Russians will suffer, as a byproduct. But blocking indiscriminately by IP is just a big middle finger for no good reason.
You won't be able to get in via a normal VPN, because you need to be able to get past all the other geoblocking and such that will be in place.

If I understand correctly, you are going to need actual hardware setup in the country and remote into that instead. Of course you will be using a VPN connection to do this, and probably a proxy or two?

Either or. Have fun folks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%D0%A0%D0%B5...

Actually, the blue areas turned out a majority vote for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_Platform_%E2%80%94_...

There are definitely some pro Russian electoral districts.
> Especially since it is so much easier to move to a low cost of living area in this era of fantastic communication and easy travel.

This is a rather glib comment that leads me to believe you've not experienced poverty.
That's also what Xmake chose to do. It uses lua for its build scripts. It also claims to be just as fast as cmake + ninja.
It is not about NATO membership. It is about Ukraine as an independent nation or not. And it doesn't seem likely that Russia will win on that front.

There will be terrible loss of human lives and it will all be Putin's fault.
Looks like there are lots of russian website under heavy ddos. Look at kremlin.ru for example (party thanks to hackernews I guess)
How long until OpenAI comes with an open replacement?
My favorite GTK theme so far is Orchis.
https://github.com/jcs/progman

Someone already has.
One of the commenters suggested that today a $13/hr wage buys you “a lot more house”. I feel that’s very wrong, housing feels like the most it’s ever been.
You’re right. I didn’t communicate that well.
Amphetamines and other stimulants are huge cognitive boosters
Probably because it's the nearest airport to Basel in Switzerland.
That's kind of rich, considering you kicked off a discussion about minumum wage with "Bob Cratchit had it pretty good actually". How did you expect people to respond to that?
This week in KDE: Bugfixing Plasma 5.24
Elbrus 2000
> secret villain meeting

haha don't be silly, does this look like the a secret meeting place for rich people to you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace#/media/File:Neuf-Brisac...

Wait a minute...

The truth is there are many towns and cities which are favorited by elites and oligarchs who may or may not have some security concerns. There is a town near Lausanne full of Thai royals and oligarchs (I'm forgetting the name). Zug is home to some billionaires from commodities and finance. It would be fun to make a list.
100%. My new boss both has a background that is 'our office open plan area but empty' (he must have taken a photo when the place actually was empty) when he's at home. Plus he now has some greyscale or sepia filter so that he looks like a ye olde ghost for some reason. Not to mention he has headphones where you see these slivers of no background through them around his head.

I asked him if he was using some sort of filter and he was like "I don't like the color of my face in my camera". He stands out like a sore thumb in the grid of people in video in larger meetings now too as the only one not in color and with a weird background (others just blur it which I also kind of hate - but less).

I find calls with him with the video so distracting. I would much rather see his living room or whatever he's trying to hide - and it being real - than this weird fake office thing he is trying to do instead...

Maybe it is a sign of privilege though that I have a spare bedroom with a white wall behind me I can use without background or blur. I remind myself not everybody is so lucky...
About 47TW of internal energy reaches the surface and it could take up to 90 billion years to cool so...

No, never with current technology.
umm, depends. you may get a list of options that are correct mathematicaly, but aren't, eh, nice.
There was a cold-war "joke" about "how to avoid enemy submarines" with an answer of "evaporate the oceans".

so, on "no homelessness"...
French Alsace is where the combined Swiss French airport is close to the city Basel.

Since we (Swiss) don't care^M are neutral, they are welcome here to conduct whatever these people do. :(
Not really "pure" politics. It's a fun visualization and tracking project that uses public data. Maybe a reader will want to take it further. Similar to the recent headlines made by the guy tracking Elon's plane.
The sky isn’t falling, nothing to see here.
If you can't tell the difference between a dj and playlist or AI then the DJ is terrible.
This is taking an interesting approach to finding and visualizing data, and for a topic of interesting worldwide concern at the moment. Your comment immediately ignores that and latches onto the politicization of it, flagged.
Newly published 9/11 footage [video]
...writes someone who commented 7 times on two recent political submissions.

I thought it was interesting that this sort of data is so easily accessible.
Disclaimer:

Before going to a water fast, especially for a 2 whole days, talk to your doctor. Not everyone can fast, even for shorter times, and you might not know you are in that group. Ancedote: I have a friend that was hospitalized for doing a much shorter fast - daytime fast for religious reasons. As far as he knew, he was healthy enough for it and he was young at the time.
yes, until now, scientists always can save us. but they just need one time...
As long as the idiots at the top don't push the big button?
Let the soldiers go. They don't seem to be too motivated to go killing -- appreciated!

1941 my grandfather was send to the eastern front. Aged 17. The Russians could have easily killed him in revenge.
They shared their rotten potatos -- all what was left for everybody there. And in the end they send him home, without detention. He got sick anyway, became an adult in war, he had to walk back from Russia and only reached Schleifreisen in Thuringia, were a family took care of him (otherwise he would have died, 200km from home)... but at least the Russians back than showed mercy. Otherwise I wouldn't exist.

Young men shouldn't go to war: party, find love, get too old for war.

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