skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is such a thing as a water tower, but that also is probably not practical utility-scale energy storage.

The sound idea is water stored up an existing hill. On flat land you store your energy some other way: underground hydrogen or compressed air, or iron-air batteries, or liquified air, or any of various other choices that are more expensive and less efficient than pumped hydro. Or just run a wire over to someplace that does have hills.
While Russians are shelling and hitting civilians, that particular tank incident is debunked, it was actually a ukrainian vehicle that was making a really hard turn and accidentally ran over him, also the guy survived. Was just a crazy accident. I think it was used as propaganda earlier on as "russian tank rolls over civilian car". There is a video of the old guy in the car getting rescued, and there is another video of whole incident from a different angle, and it looks pretty clear.
same with help forums :(
I spend couple of days/nights each week in my cabin. It is poorly isulated so when the stove goes cold the temperature drops quickly. It could be 15C (59F) after few hours and 4C-6C (39F-43F) in the morning. On the other hand it is small cabin and with a stove I can get to 30C (86F) in 15-30 minutes.

I have read the article couple of years ago and I do not burn stove all the time, just put a sweater on or turn on electric blanket.

Frankly I have got used to 'cold' and it just doesn't bother me anymore. I sleep much better when it is cold inside the cabin but warm in my bed with electric blanket (20W). As long as the temperature doesn't drop below 12C (54F) working on a laptop or reading with a sweater on is comfortable. I do not enjoy excesively heated living rooms in the city.

The other article on lowtech magazine mentions that the average temperatures in our houses have been raised over last couple of years significantly (due to better insulation, heating etc). I do remember that when I was teenager no one had been sitting in a living room with a t-shirt on but rather in a sweater as in winter the normal temepratures in a living room used to be 18-20C and in the sleeping room 16C. Nowadays it is more like 24-26C for most people I know.
See also: What is code? (2015), https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...
what do you mean. if russia has US$ in hard currency, how can that be "rendered worthless"? what about reciprocity? if you render my reserves worthless, do you think i would continue to unhold my debt to you? if i owe you money, consider that also gone and same for my allies. where would that leave you? or say world bank or IMF for example?
I will recommend books that I have and books that I heard of:

Books that sparked my interest in all of Mathematics (BTW, I'll be glad if you recommend any Abstract Algebra books):

- Calculus, Howard Anton.

- Calculus, Spivak

- Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Erwin Kreyszig

- Elementary Number Theory, David Burton.

Computer Science/Engineering:

- Data Structures and Algorithms, Adam Drozdek

- Digital Design, Morris Mano

- David Patterson and John Hennesey's books

- Mastering Embedded Linux Programming, Chris Simmonds.
That's a pyramid scheme, a Ponzi scheme is a subset where earlier investors are paid profit using money from the later investors, giving the appearance of a functioning business.

In the same way you can argue that investing in gold is a pyramid scheme (since it relies on its price going up), you can argue that crypto is too.

(Note that there are some real Ponzi schemes in crypto too, but they're not real cryptocurrencies either.)
Xkcd: What If? 2: The Book
FWIW, I've seen a few stories of people - nobodies - sending a letter as a thank for the knowledge provided, the inspiration or what not and getting a genuine letter back. Obviously not a whole spiel, but a sentence or two indicating intent. Despite their massive notoriety, I wouldn't expect he's getting swamped by letters (tho I could be wrong) so I'd find it quite plausible and in-character he'll take the time to read a handful a week (a lifetime of 10-Ks would make anyone a proficient reader) and write back (I guess with some templates to go off from). I'd be surprised if sending a letter to Meta reaches Mark - tho maybe, I guess he receives fewer thankful ones - but that lean HQ culture of Berkshire seems rather unique with a measly single and modestly sized floor to manage one of largest balance sheets out there.
Again, from my unparticipating 3rd country vantage point, both are either dictatorships and democratic countries depending on your standards.

From another comment here I learnt that there were targeted attacks on Russian population inside Ukraine and racist laws. Not something a democratic country would do (if true)

> that the people kicked out

People don't organically get together and _successfully_ kick out a regime without foreign support.
Gist

> Moving to MZLA Technologies Corporation will not only allow the Thunderbird project more flexibility and agility, but will also allow us to explore offering our users products and services that were not possible under the Mozilla Foundation. The move will allow the project to collect revenue through partnerships and non-charitable donations, which in turn can be used to cover the costs of new products and services.
I really admire and appreciate the engineering that Unity has put into IL2CPP. Mono has a full AOT option[1], but I believe that IL2CPP predates it. I just remembered that on an episode of The Changelog[2], Miguel de Icaza (the creator of Gnome, Mono, and Xamarin) mentioned that Unity hired a developer from the Mono team to develop the first version of IL2CPP for them after Apple suddenly stopped allowing JIT on iOS[3].

[1]: https://www.mono-project.com/docs/advanced/aot/#full-aot

[2]: https://changelog.com/podcast/275

[3]: https://changelog.com/podcast/275#transcript-54
The whole stock market is just a speculation game now. With no real value defined behind it's price. All software and strategy is defined on finding stock at a higher price due to any reason. If you can't find a reason, make one. Like CEO's buying more stocks to limit the supply of their stock and propping up the "value".

It's all about the "sugar rush". Doesn't matter if the commodity is worth shit. The GameStop fiasco demonstrated that amply. It had no real viable plan, so it shouldn't have been worth a lot but you could artificially increase it's value.
Windows. Even nice double pane windows ice heavily in your bedroom overnight if it's 58F in the house & you've drawn the curtains.

Later, the ice slowly melts. Drip, drip.
I wonder if that cultural problem stemmed from Boeing’s 2001 relocation of their headquarters to Chicago, a decision made explicitly to separate their financial infrastructure from their existing operations.
Last I checked, Tinder has the largest userbase compared to the other apps.
One concept I've toyed with for a while is a laser blanket. A ceiling mounted infrared camera measures the temperature across your body, and an infrared laser automatically goes and "paints" any part that is insufficiently warm. No idea if it would be comfortable at all, but fun project.
my collection of palette generators of every stripe here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#pal...
This reads like an article written by lowest of the human social hirearchy who have such low status that they don't even understand it (I don't mean conceptually, I mean experiencially)... or maybe it is just crafted for that audience.

In any case, I don't want to constructively criticize it because they'll just learn more... which they will then use to pick a clown they control and install them as leaders, CEOs of large corporations etc. much more than they have been doing already.

I can add one thing though... which may or may not be related. If you want to support a politician, make sure you have listened (preferably watched) to them in a long unscripted unplanned conversations with several people. These people can teach them how to stand, how to talk, how to use vocal inflections etc. and give them talking points and reharshals... but watch them for long enough and they'll break character. The anti-dote to fake leaders is long-form podcasts.
They have to do it because VCs aren't going to stick around years for your organic growth. It was supposed to be a proof of viability and then proper quality product. With this model of money making, it's just the PoC.. no need for quality.
Reach out to any news organization than. They love selling uber is evil and this would be breaking news for them.

I don’t believe you because I hardly believe anything i read in comment sections. People are normally under informed or being malicious.
I have no idea if this actually happened, but just hypothetically... they could just ask people to do it without necessarily compelling them legally.

I think lots of people would just comply with the FBI if asked to do something "for the good of the country". Especially right after 9/11.
How is that any different from some 19yo kid from a opioid infested family in Midwest going to Europe or Middle East in the name of democracy? Do you think those kids know what they are doing?

I think the point of having a serf like population is to allow having a growing military with the elites of the society making the decisions. It goes for ALL countries.
> I have to admit I don't really get this. I personally like colorized output, and I can't even think of situations where the colors chosen by a developer were so bad I wanted to disable them completely.

Colorized output really sucks when the output is displayed in a terminal that doesn’t support it. Visual Studio’s build output, online build terminals like CircleCI, log viewers, …

(Unsure if the ones I list above actually do have an issue with colors, but absolutely sure that I have seen it many times.)
AFAIK, these two are not related inspite of similar names and functionalities.

AWS Textract is a cloud-only service that you can use either on the console or through the APIs. You cannot run this locally.
I see that you have completely abandoned rational argumentation and are just making shit up, so I leave this here.
One of the things I respect about Sanderson is that he's very aware of this effect and factors it into his advice (or at least tries). :)
Women are staking their claim to Web3 and the metaverse
I’m pretty sure that was pitched in an episode of Silicon Valley, except microwaves
There can be situations where the output intended for an ANSI terminal is shown as a raw text, including the color control sequences. Being able to switch off color should help with these situations.
Weren’t Chernobyl’s remaining reactors shut down on 2000? That would presumably make the risk from an accident similar to that from dirty bomb (so localised) not a nuclear meltdown.
Or they utilize underhanded guerilla marketing techniques to push propaganda all over the web that the app is more useful than it actually is.
Since you're using lasers, how would you keep from damaging the subject's eyes if they accidentally get their face in the path of the beam?
AMD and Intel halt chip sales to Russia
I think Plan9port’s nobs command does this. It is my default pager when using acme or 9term (also from P9P).
That way off what happened in the real world.

Russia literally signed Ukrainians independence in 1991, although they didn't have much room to despute that.

Ukrainians wanted deeper ties with Europe in 2014 and now they are literally fighting for it.

NATO explicitly mentioned that no countries are allowed that have border disputes, that's why Russia started a gray zone war immediately after in 2014.

And now they are in full war mode, trying to force their will on a country that wants to be a democracy with the 2nd democratically elected president.

Biden wasn't even elected president in 2014 and Yanukovych ( who got overthrown) was literally a member of the Russian communist party, born in Russia. And not at all democratically elected as you are suggesting.

That is all known history.
You can definitely generate a large percentage of the electricity you use - there are diminishing returns for the last portion because it isn't worth paying for extra panels etc that you will only need for a couple of months of the year. It's a significant percentage more expensive to be off-grid then to generate 90% of your electricity say. It is hard to estimate when a system will have paid for itself because any estimate depends on electricity prices but you are looking at about ten years. So you probably want to be fairly confident you plan to stay in the same place for that timespan.

The advice given is to check that your roof isn't going to need repairs before you get them installed. But a roof usually lasts decades and decades so doesn't feel that is a big factor.

Our panels definitely don't feel like hassle! There were lots of decisions getting them installed (no permitting where we are for they size of system we have), but now they are up there, they just do their thing.
Niiiice.

-Austin, GateBoy guy.
Yes, I don’t agree with everything in the article, but it points out some sticky problems that can make things complicated.

One example that’s related to programming languages is the evolution of an abstract syntax tree. We often expect new compilers to work with old code when a new kind of AST node is added, but to what extent should existing tools work with new code that has a node type that it doesn’t understand? Also, if your AST datatype is a library, does adding a new node type immediately cause compiler errors in every tool that uses the AST, or do those tools compile fine and break at runtime when given new code?

Sometimes as a workaround, “metadata” gets put in specially formatted comments, as a way of saying that most language tools can ignore it. Alternately there can be general-purpose annotations (as Java has).

Also, often an intermediate representation gets used as a “narrow waist” but they are tricky to design because “lowering” code will often discard high-level constructs.
Long time thunderbird user, recently switched to Postbox. No regrets.

If they hadn't screwed with it, I'd still be using thunderbird. I don't know why they became so anti-user.
it wouldnt be unheard of to call in Sanderson to finish a fantasy novel series someone else started.
Future Intel Systems to Be Even Less Friendly for Open-Source Firmware
That is fiction for you, it has amazing people in it.

But in real life this would be impossible medically, one person simply could not keep such a body functioning.

And more importantly mentally impossible.

And setting yourself up against fictional stories probably isn't good for you.

Fiction might be good to push yourself as a better person, but not to these ridiculous saccharine extremes.

With anything real, like palliative care, get support as soon as you can, by the time you are overwhelmed doing the paperwork and the waiting periods will be impossibly harder.
> An issue with keeping yourself warm with clothing is some hotspots get too warm, and others too cold. Like the armpits usually get too warm, but your exposed hands too cold.

We can sit and imagine problems with every course of action, and never step forward.

In my life, I've never had the quoted problem and I've never heard anyone else say it's a problem. On my list of things to worry about, this ranks near the bottom. No clothing I know of has special cool spots, beyond outdoor recreation equipment (e.g., mountaineering gear with pit zips), yet somehow we all do fine. I expect our bodies adjust fine to such variations.

> While if the room is all one consistent warm enough temperature, you don't get these cold & hot spot effects.

That doesn't add up: No clothing (with the exception mentioned above) has such cooling spots. If our bodies couldn't adjust, a constant temperature would be the same, sweater or not.

EDIT:

> If your slippers have sheep's wool in them, like ugg slippers, then they often sweat a lot or feel a little wet while simultaneously feeling cold at times, or warm enough.

It's incredible that Ugg sells any slippers!
...Keep your enemies closer aside, one does not hop into bed with a hostile power and just expect things to go well. They will not hesitate to pull out of the arrangement when it hurts the most. In fact, one can practically count on it in most cases.
Removing Russia as gas supplier doesn't have to happen until next winter. It's a long term strategic decision. With proper incentives Europe could probably cut it's gas imports in half in the next five years through investment in renewable energy and become completely independent of Russian gas shortly after.
Their relatives in Russia probably already disagree with what Putin is doing, but can't do anything about it; anti-war protestors in Russia are getting arrested in large numbers.
if sides was balanced whole thing would be over in first few hours
> we could all live like the hero of To Build A Fire

That (and 45 degrees) are strawperson arguments against turning down the thermostat a little and putting on a sweater (and let me recommend shoes). My sense is that many people generally (I don't know the parent commenter) shoot down any individual action, because it's individual action - it's reactionary, ridiculing any 'liberal' idea.
The headline lead me to believe Ableton Live actually includes a Ruby gem in the "Ableton Live Set". This is not the case, the article discusses a Ruby gem for parsing these live set files.
Slightly off topic, but when I was debugging a release pipeline in Azure Devops I discovered that they do a surprisingly good job of keeping secret values out of the logs: I was trying to dump a connection string with inline powershell but found that it was always masked with **. I had to resort to base64 encode the connection string to get it to print. I suppose they scan the output buffer and compare it with known secrets before printing.
>There is no vibe of an occupation.

you should tell it to ukranians in general, they seems not to share your sentiment. or to my wife's family and friends who sleep in shelters in kharkiv. or to old neighbors of my wife who discovered leftover smerch stuck in ground between buildings.

i guess they should they wake up and realize that this is actually russian spring comes to free them from occupation by neo-nazi benderovzis that are chaired by jew president?
We had a whole-house fan like this in Sacramento. It worked especially well there because (1) it was not humid, and (2) the temperature at night was much lower than in the daytime. It might be 100° during the day, but it would be in the 60s at night.

Fans like this aren't nearly as effective if either of these conditions is not met — then you're just pulling in air that is somewhat less uncomfortable each night, instead of getting truly refreshed.
As the introduction to Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters (craftinginterpreters.com) says:

"Classic compiler books read like fawning hagiographies of these heroes and their tools. The cover of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools literally has a dragon labeled “complexity of compiler design” being slain by a knight bearing a sword and shield branded “LALR parser generator” and “syntax directed translation”. They laid it on thick."

My thinking is similar (at least for undergrads and most people who want to write a compiler): avoid the dragon book, and stick with simple recursive descent parsing.

(I do kind of like Wirth's Compiler Construction though. Wirth also likes recursive descent although he describes other methods as well.)
Bitcoin is so liquid you can cash out millions within seconds. Source: I've done it
You must consider, it does telegraph a certain desperation to bother to write a bio. Tinder is 100% about looks.
That seems suboptimal for app size, would be better to just offer links to the source in the same place as links to the binary.
Is there an underlying reason as to why you're asking this question?
Russian soldiers are from mandatory conscription though.
I'm in UK (south east). I work in tech, working from home. I very rarely put the heating on. The best part of not putting the heating on is that I've had my garden doors open almost every day through the winter. I mostly work at my laptop, just inside sitting on a comfy sofa, right next to the outdoors.

In December I was mostly opening the doors about midday just for the afternoon, but since mid to late January I'm back to opening the doors mostly from about 9 in the morning again, right through to the end of the working day.

To do this and remain comfortable I have to put on extra layers. When I go out the extra layers come off.

Weirdly, this is the first winter in a long time I've not really felt cold at all. I think it's because previous winters I've been working in an office heated to 20C+, and this year I've acclimatised slowly from the summer.

When I have put the heating on, I get hot real quick unless I start taking layers off, and actually it's easier to turn the heating off.
Everything W. Richard Stevens
> the US will suffer from shutting out Russian oil.

The US is a net exporter of oil. Some say it's a temporary effect of COVID, but the switch happened in November 2019, before COVID hit, and if you look at the graph, net imports have been in a decade long decline.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42735
Pick a bunch of different languages, seek out open source projects written in them and try to contribute back fixes for each project. Eventually you will be able to work on projects in all those languages.
I didnt said it is, what I've said is - becoming, there's a difference
and it isnt a propaganda but my own opinion
Hmmm, I don't understand the appeal. The electric version of Clinch Mountain sounded like MIDI from the 90s.
Is not that the exact same thing as global variables vs constants
The Origins of ‘Planetary Realism’ and ‘Whole Earth’ Thinking
>Except, you know, 100% of the energy obtained by fossil fuels also eventually becomes waste heat.

And? Where did I say it doesn't?

>All of our electricity consumption and production is a rounding error to the earth.

Agree. But I'm talking to those who believe solar is the solution to global warming... when what solar does is capture more energy from the sun and turn it to heat.
> Yet it doesn't feel as scammy because of the real world event that's involved.

Well, yes… Buying a season ticket is primarily for the perks, events, etc - not as a long-term average Joe investment.

You can’t just call anything that can be resold as a Ponzi.
What legal rights and obligations does a military give to an enemy citizen who picks up a rifle and attacks when they are captured or surrender?
Depict.ai (YC S20) Is Hiring Engineers
You mean the CIA. But I guess people like the tooth fairy and satoshi as monikers better.
The noto emoji font is usually all you need, just having it installed is often enough for them to show if your terminal emulator supports fallback fonts (I think st doesn't, but most do).

I support the idea of a NO_EMOJI env var anyway. I think theming should be left up to the user in nearly all cases and we shouldn't have colors or emoji forced on us. Devs could have something like alt text to show when emoji aren't there for cases where they're showing a meaning that the text doesn't.
Seems that it's mozilla.com backlinks that are important for them. Other than to Thunderbird's blog, there's only a donation link pointing at thunderbird.net. It's about money not promoting the product.

I appreciate no malware on that site though. Mozilla is so scummy nowadays that they infected their "we value your privacy" sites with Google's Analytics/TagManager spyware and force Firefox to open this crap post-updating. Thunderbird would open such sites, too, and you can't use uBlock Origin to block malware sites in Thunderbird.