skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many NATO members have strong enconomic links with Russia. For example Russia is building nuclear power plants in Turkey and Hungary, which are in very advanced state of construction for example.
250W pedal-assist only is all you can (legally) get as a bicycle in Europe.
I have only one friend that can sustain 250W for hours (on a road bike), and he's a serious everyday "bicycle is the default vehicle" type.
250W is plenty for casual rides. Not judging the choice here, though, must be quite a beast ;)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450026
The best part of early WoW for me was working through the PvE quests with a few friends and especially taking on the 5 person dungeon instances while leveling up to 60. The combination of needing to form a group of mixed tanking, healing, DPS and crowd control to take on the dungeons was amazing.

Are there any games out there since that capture this as well? Most I've seen since don't seem to capture the need to work with others nearly as well, usually as all classes can do too much.
Yeah I remember noticing that too. I use it but will have to deal with some rewriting if I move my current sqlite stuff to another db. I'm not even sure what the best way to do it is.
From https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

"The Btrfs code base is stable"

And https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status is exactly what I said in the GP. Besides quotas and RAID56, everything is stable.
``In the case of James Clear and I'' -- the implication being that it were
grammatical to say ``in the case of I''.
That's all very nice, but, unfortunately is not how the world works.

What about the Donbas region, do they have the right to decide in an internal debate?

Instead of trying to be pro-Russian or pro-West, Ukraine have lost a chance of become Switzerland and make a live getting presents from both sides. Now, I think, it's going to be split.
Oh nice, thank you ! Looks like someone is going to loose another hundred of hours.
Automating Spreadsheet Tasks with Openpyxl
> Arseniy Yatsenyuk is not in power since 2016, what that has to do with invasion of Ukraine?

It has to do with the fact that the country has been in a civil war [0] since he came into power after the "revolution of dignity", not only him, but literally Americans who were fast tracked Ukrainian citizenship [1] so they could act as minister.

But a whole lot of people in those East Ukrainian territories liked the old government, they voted for it, and they saw their votes burned in a revolution to be replaced with Americans and people sponsored by them.

Which prompted them to do the same in their parts of Ukraine, leading to the separatists territories and a low to high intensity civil war that has by now been lasting 8 years.

> And only power he got was that in autumn of 2014 his party got a fairly good numbers

In elections where the old party was not even allowed to be voted for anymore, consequently, those elections were boycotted in territories that voted for the old government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Jaresko
Unrelated, but seeing Bugzilla reminded me, I was recently delighted to learn that there's been (slow but) steady progress on a 9-year-old ticket.

Implement the WebMIDI API - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897
They did acknowledge that, albeit subtly,

> After a string of production incidents in early 2021, we realized our existing SSR system was failing to scale as we migrated more pages from Python-based templates to React.

Apparently their old server-rendered Python app (not called SSR though for obvious reasons) was scaling just fine before the migration.
And China interestingly does not want Russia to build the pipeline that would enable that.
The catastrophic global warming you mention is not a boolean. It can always get worse, with the planet becoming more and more inhospitable, up to the point where mankind can't survive (wet bulb temperature permanently above 35c --> everyone dies without air conditioning) - and beyond.

Even if it's too late to avoid it completely, it still makes very much sense to work on not making it even worse.

Suggesting to abandon efforts in something because it will anyway not be ready in time, or to stop restrictions because "anyway it's too late" is just the next step in the strategy of the deniers - or, rather, their agitators, motivated by immense profit.
I wouldn't make this too much about Putin as a person. Russia has had plenty of leaders with similar ambitions, both in Soviet times and in the empire before it. If leaders like Putin persistently arise in Russia, there must be deeper institutional issues behind them.
Be willing to work with the military.
That is what I'm proposing; use an integer representation in the CPU as the source of truth, then convert it to various floats as needed in the shaders, passed in as an argument to the shader on each frame. I haven't touched GPU code in a decade, but that's a reasonable thing to do on each frame isn't it?

```
float periodic_animation_sec = (now_ns % periodic_animation_period_ns) * 1e-9f;
float fog_sec = now_ns / 1000000000; // or use a power of 2
```

Regarding the acceptable level of approximation for human perception, I think my point still stands. My assumption is that the frequency content of fog is low enough that pixel colors won't change appreciably over the course of a second. Want 30Hz? That will give you a few days before the precision degrades. 10Hz? About a week or so. Or, find a different solution, like using the CPU to reset the state of the shader every so often. Figure out how to do that seamlessly, or just make sure there's an in-game sunny day every few hours.
The anti-paperwork movement begins
> Naming files well becomes much more important than where they are located.

Aren't you just exchanging the location of relevant metadata from the path to the filename?
indeed this news was already published a few days ago.
To note is that these 250W are a relatively weird "continuous/average power" rating. There is lots of leeway in calculating this and peak power can be a lot higher, so a legal pedelec might easily deliver 750W while you accelerate or go uphill.
I opened bug #337051 in 2006 and it got closed in 2016. While I can't take any credit for the actual squashing of the bug it feels good having contributed to an important and very long-term project like Firefox.
Sounds realistic. Maybe Putin will repeat the process with more regions if he can garner more local support. It would be interesting how prevalent the local disposition towards Russia is. Separatist in Donezk begged Putin to invade, I would think at least the urban areas think differently.
which is plenty because the winter is ending, so even without gas nobody should freeze. What would the industry do is other question.
China doesn't allow Google devices today, Android the open source operating system is allowed but the Google services that make up Google devices are not. China allows Apple devices because Apple collaborates with the CCP, as do all businesses who operate in China.
> Mobiles have shown that it's possible to remove the concept of files entirely from the user facing side of an OS.

I think the way Android does it is completely the wrong way around, as it makes it completely centered around apps, not documents. Making you a slave to the App, which in turn gets used to force you into using cloud services. It goes so far that you don't even have control over your files anymore, if you delete and App, the files created by that App will get deleted with it, you don't even get a warning.

I rarely use Android, but every interaction with it has been god awful. And from what I hear new version of Android will start making tools like SSHelper impossible, so you can't even workaround the madness anymore.
What is there to discuss of substance? Do you want to discuss this conflict from strategic, or tactical point of view? Comparatively, lets say to the Shock and Awe attack on Iraq, Syria, or NATO in Yugoslavia, or any other? Do you want to discuss the legality of things from international point of view, and how that law itself is enforceable only selectively? Should we discuss it from which point of view (USA, Europe, or Russia, China)? Can you even argue coherently the legitimate interests in this conflict of each of these global players with factual clarity? Im not sure there much to discuss, and whether the talk about WW3 is pure exaggeration.

However, I do see clear benefit for online site avoiding radicalization of opinions based on utterly incomplete and what ever else skewed information is available.
In Swedish schools you get free lunch as much as you want. Though that didn't stop the bullies from finding some other reason to bully you.
Perhaps bi-phasic.
> We don't close bugs just because they are old.

I SO much appreciate that simple offhand comment.

Not, it's been three days, lets use a bot to remove the bug or close what might be a very useful thread for others that get hit by it (and that can comment of a bug is still extant).

Though I could see the point in a "dormant" tag, or something that let's other users know that the dev is probably not thinking about the bug now.

And I appreciate that Mozilla is still going through them on occasion to see what is still relevant.
Amazing, there are still people out there believing the Russian Bounty hoax?

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/liz-cheney-lied-about-her-r...
As long as you know exactly what's in the pile I guess? A good folder/directory structure tells you pretty quickly what you've got available and makes it easy to browse and explore even if you've got no idea what you might find going in.
It was not a bug. It was a feature request.
It's depressing when some maintainers launch a new version of their program, then immediately mass-close huge swathes of bugs with a "if it's still a problem, re-open a new ticket" kind of message. I mean, I get why this is done, bug databases are huge and and always growing, but as a user it is immensely frustrating and makes me less likely to report issues in the future.
Never. Storage space is getting cheaper and Apple has been nickel and diming users for ever.

The iPhone 11 Pro Max, a $1100 phone from late 2019, still had 64gb as base storage...
I guess we could have "Emacs files" and "gcc files" and you could transfer one to the other using a Downloads folder or something? Pretty convenient.
By the way, I don't mean that American citizens are special in this. We are all brainwashed in supporting what was already decided.
Then invading Ukraine wouldn't make Russia getting more borders with more NATO members whose now would be very angry about russia and will do whatever they could to make things difficult?
> What is top3 on HN right now:

> * Indian chess sensation * Nuclear-fusion reactor * NewPipe

How does it mean that "nobody cares about Ukraine"?
It does but I doubt many users end up using it as a habit. The predictions are not available in all apps and the prediction popups aren’t located right where you are both looking and typing like on iOS. So, the user is not nudged to use it as strongly. I forget the feature exists.
Ask HN: Modern Alternatives to HOIC/LOIC?
See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Orbit_Ion_Cannon
The US rather prefers to vassalize countries instead of straight up annexing as it used to, like with Hawaii or Texas.

Already got enough states trying to take care of and some territories existing in weird places, so I doubt there is much incentive to add even more of that, except maybe Cuba.
Steam Deck supports onscreen virtual keyboard, the screen is a touch screen!

Fun fact: you can customize its look: https://twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1496663324246695937
Sad that JET is still the premier fusion machine in existence. Forty years! Fusion is always x years away because nobody has been building anything of significance for so long. All eggs in the ITER basket. Big mistake.
Yes, well that’s your opinion. Maybe justify/source it if you want to make sweeping generalisations of countries?
Ebook formats are interchangeable anyway - and why wouldn't they be? There is only so many ways to represent the same text with the same metadata, the only marginal differences are compression, organisation and the possibility for digital restriction management.
IMO (I’m no expert by any means): I think this is about Putin wanting to leave a legacy. He’s getting long in the tooth now, and wants to be remembered for reshaping Russia’s borders.
If Putin will take over Ukraine and the army will be in next to Hungarian's border, who will invest in Hungary?

This is extremely short-sighted. I hope you will kick him out in a month.
Your point about the Ottoman grand viziers is well taken.

However, I don't agree with some of the distinctions you're making. Tribes are nations. Like, literally, "nation" is the Latin word for tribes that weren't one of the the three tribes of Rome. "Race" is another synonym; Webster defines "nation" as "A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock." If a tribe or a race is roughly coextensive with a state, that state is a nation-state. So race has everything to do with nation-states; this is one of the main reasons I think it's important to point out that countries like the United States are not nation-states, despite the efforts of groups like the Ku Klux Klan, and that nation-states are something we can do away with.

Consider ancient Greece. Classical Athens was considered to consist of four tribes, and the state of Athens only governed a tiny minority of Greeks, so the political division into states just didn't coincide with a division by common descent, language, or institutions even very roughly; and Greece remained divided into such city-states until being conquered by the Romans. Mycenaean Greece was far more politically unified, but much more diverse in terms of ethnicity, language, and institutions; archaeological evidence confirms Homer's hearsay on this count. Biblical Israel was classically divided into twelve tribes, and the myths of Abraham and the Exodus was used to falsely claim a common descent for what archaeological evidence tells us were Canaanite people who spoke the same Semitic language as their neighbors but began to distinguish themselves by the cult of Yahweh; and we have both documentary and archaeological evidence of their subsequent divisions and reunions, continuing through the intertestamental period.
WW1 was a war everyone wanted (partially due to the dismantling of Bismarck's complex systems of alliances). Austria-Hungary wanted Serbia (and looked for an excuse), Prussia thought war against Russia was inevitable (no idea if that's true or not) and that such a war couldn't be won by Prussia once Russia started to modernize (kind of true, as Prussia utterly defeated Russia in WW1 and Germany was utterly defeated by Russia in WW2) and thus wanted a war against Russia now. Some French wanted revanche for the war 1870. Italy had some territorial interests against Austria-Hungary. And everyone came from a world were those wars were normal (as bad as the Napoleonic wars were, they were mostly fought between armies and less severe on civilians, and decided by decisive battles with treaties after those). Everyone thought they could easily win, and fast. The trope "it's over by Christmas" comes from that period.

WW2 so, was different. That was, from the beginning, Hitler's idea. He wanted it, he took what he could without a war, and then with a war. All with the goal of defeating Russia and exterminate the Jews (and all other undesirables). Everything else was just excuses, and thinly vailed ones at that.
One of my pet peeves is auto closing bug reports due to “lack of activity”. It just hides the problems.
> In hindsight, I actually kind of blame the Germans a lot for this. Germany has been very successfully sucking in business and talent from the rest of Europe, building their economy while completely avoiding the 'responsibility' that comes along with that power. Partly military, but definitely geostrategic issues of security.

The complete lack of historical awareness is impressive.
Genuinely glad to hear you've changed your mind.

> They can't expect to occupy Ukraine

Who's going to stop them? No one in the US – Biden won't go to war over it, and 3/4 of the Republicans will listen to Trump and believe that this is an admirable move by Putin.
> Upgrade to Monterey helpfully tells you that a lot of your apps aren't going to work, after you have upgraded.

I stopped using the word "upgrade" in reference to Apple's updates a long time ago.
Why is this bad?
How do you do that? The reason europe needs russian gas is precisely because renewables are very intermittent, and they use gas to compensate. More renewable means more reliance on gas, unless you build nuclear plants. And if you do, you might as well not build renewables because the cost of nuclear is pretty much the same whether you use it or not.
This has now gone offline for no apparent reason.
I'd say not for the fact, but rather they don't like the timing.
Unfortunately countries like Germany have made completely idiotic moves in the past months in the exact opposite direction.

Hopefully other sanctions will also help. Cutting them off from the international banking system, for example.
To be exact, either: adding more vdevs to your pool, or substituting ALL your drives in a vdev with a bigger size.
Is a RFE technically a bug?
Focus Became More Valuable Than Intelligence (2018)
The problem with this analysis is that it's not 24 hours ago any more and Russia has started shelling Kyiv, which only makes sense if Russia is planning to take control of the entire country.

Also let's drop the propaganda line of "protection". Luhansk and Donetsk may have declared independence but we generally don't tend to recognize such claims unless they are affirmed by the host nation. It's also an open secret that the separatists include a significant presence of Russian soldiers posing as Ukrainian "volunteers".

Would you be okay with France attacking Spain to "protect" Catalonia? Ireland invading the UK to "protect" Scotland? A shared language and culture does not grant the right to annexation either, or are you arguing Germany and Austria should reunite and annex parts of Switzerland?
Wanted to comment about this but couldn't remember the name.
JWZ calls this the CADT development model. Not linking to his site, as he’s prone to redirecting HN-referred traffic to weird places
> modern army and it was a total massacre

You don't get it.

Look, nobody has any doubt that USA is very powerful. But that doesn't mean they must annihilate the world.

And Russia is no slouch.

Diplomacy is the need of the hour.

As somebody who lives far far away from Europe and North America (in a country that's supposed to have no skin in this game), I don't want to get killed because Uncle Sam wants to show who's boss.
1. Create and evangelize over-engineered solution (React, Kubernetes...)

2. Watch potential competitors chase their tails & burn budgets adopting hot new thing

3. Quietly drop or sideline solution a few years later
It is out of respect to those that have to fight the wars that those that are not on the front lines should do everything to prevent it from breaking out in the first place.

I agree that there are difficulties in developing arms in peace times, war can be a driver of innovation. But it is not the only one and there are preferable alternatives, even if arms suppliers see that differently out of egoistic ambitions.

A civilian population rejecting involvement in arms manufacture is preferable to one that calls for a war.
Article 4 was done in 2014 too and it was hardly news while again in reaction to Ukraine which was experiencing its own civil war against a pro-Russian puppet leader that resulted in regime change aannnnnnd.... nothing else.

The military operation by Russia is alarming.

The Article 4 invocation is not.
I just asked in a separate thread. Previously Anonymous used "Low-Orbit Ion Cannon" - basically a denial of service tool, that many people could run in order to take down a website. Unfortunately, it seems to be outdated.

A modern replacement would look like AdNauseam ( https://adnauseam.io/ ), except instead of clicking ads it would click random links on target website that lead to itself. Perhaps making a fork of AdNauseam is the fastest way to develop one. I have way too little experience in extension development, but will probably try doing exactly that tomorrow nevertheless.

A tool like that could be used (if coordinated across many people) to DDoS Russian state media websites and services, government controlled social networks, etc.

Another thing more on the hypothetical side (my expertise in comms is non-existent) is trying to disrupt Russian military communications. There is some information on the Internet about the satellites and the frequencies they use. Theoretically, they could be jammable from the ground by sending a strong flood of unrelated data on the said frequencies directly towards the satellites. Note, that doing that from Russia has risk to end up in jail for many years to come.
There have been energy crisis in the past and most people survived it, albeit with major inconveniences. I would say that is a small price to pay for peaceful resolution.
Yep, that's basically what glyph caches do.
It's even behind cloudflare
“Computer says no.”
A tour of V8: Garbage Collection (2013)
He sure is. Russia is pretty consistent with its view on NATO expansion to the East so, ever since the 90s.
They care deeply. China is >10x in pretty much everything. They don't to be a vassal state of China. Russia has lost the independence twice - threat from Asia and threat for united countries between Moscow and Berlin.

I'd speculate the whole action is to force the West to a new deal with Russia, so they can balance China.
OTOH it's not cyclists that require roads to have extensive groundwork and be ten metres wide
These look almost there (I know, I know, "almost"):

https://ambri.com/ (liquid metal battery)

https://www.hydrostor.ca/ (compressed air)
People have been using tables of contents and indices for books and other printed materials for a long time, but those are redundant in the era of CTRL-F. At best, they're useful only as an adjunct to searching digital content.

Likewise, imposing archaic methods of organisation on modern storage is sub-optimal. The argument is to move toward something that makes more sense given the capabilities of the medium.
I really can't watch the 'popular' content of the internet, not personalized to me.

I don't want to manually subscribe to channels. It's a lot of manual work intially and later in new content discovery.

Is there a 3rd party open source recommendation engine where you might plug in content browser such as NewPipe that would register my clicks, searches, watch time, and could filter content for me and pick suitable channels or other content groupings (like searches, or feeds from my yt accounts) to present me with my personalized feed?
Grinding to $1M in revenue over 6 years
If haven't already, you'll lose yourself in so many mods for RimWorld :)