skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the geoengineering we might do is totally unproven and untested. If the alternative is a calamity then yes, of course we'll do it. As things stand, it seems like we should be putting as much effort as we can into the thing we know works (reducing greenhouse gas emissions).
Instead of blocking, I recommend using the opportunity and attention to provide visitors from Russia with objective information about about the war to counter lies from the Russian government. Russia is engaged in a shameful war and they are hiding its true extent from their population.
Forget ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’
I’m not sure if I like or dislike this, actually. On one hand, this feels like the same boring old case of “every language wants to be an operating system”, which is perhaps most apparent in build systems (see Ant, Rake, Grunt, etc.), and I don’t think that’s generally a good thing (even if it might be forced upon us by the realities of current operating systems). On the other, I have a certain affection for the clarity of MLton’s ML Basis[1] approach (essentially, “allow people to use filenames in let statements”), which is, on reflection, a (declarative) build system embedded in a language.

[1] http://mlton.org/MLBasis
I was buying my morning coffee today and the person in front of me paid with their watch. Things are pretty amazing, you just got to keep looking for it.
I don't see it happening.
If someone cuts internet it will be Russia.
Portugal is such an awesome country. I love going there and wouldn't mind staying there a bit longer at some point.

More countries should do this; Germany and my home country the Netherlands in particular. I live in Berlin currently as a foreigner (perfect place for that). Lots of people from all over eastern Europe live here, lots of companies here outsource all over eastern Europe, lots of people that I know either come from or have friends/family from the Ukraine. Also, about 200k people of Russian origin live here that chose to move here after the wall fell. And I assume quite a few Ukranians.

I remember meeting refugees from the former Yugoslavia in the nineties. I think 25 years later, a lot of those people did pretty well. I actually visited Bosnia for work last summer and met a guy that went to school in Munich. Likewise a lot of Syrian refugees that ended up in Germany seem to be doing OK. Quite a few ended up here in Berlin. In times of war, people are generally grateful if you accommodate them; even if it isn't always with open arms.

It's usually the smart, free thinkers that need to flee. Incidentally those are also people likely to find a way to make it in life; start businesses; or otherwise be generally successful.

The US is full of such people that emigrated there after various wars in the last century. Now is not a time to be xenophobic about this sort of thing.
Congress declares and funds wars, it's been incredibly stable in the past few decades. Most people who have left have retired due to old age and somehow as inexplicable multi-millionaires. The vice president for 8 years of drone bombings is the president now.
Excellent news; I live in PT and already offered my house to UA friends but they were worried how to stay here longer term. There we go. Unfortunately most of my former colleagues cannot leave; they are men under 60 so they have to stay; the families that got out are looking for space.
Yeah there was this post on here yesterday "Here comes the tiktok war" presuming there was going to be all this media spraying out on socials but then there was just nothing. All the gawkers are asking "huh? Is this war even real?" then I see apparently Russia blocked twitter (and presumably other sites) on all the ISPs around there -

https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1497523148362862593
Tell HN: Some financial institutions report on “dark web” client ID appearance
Of all the financial institutions I have been dealing with, there is only one, so far, but interesting, nonetheless, with their ongoing monitoring of "dark web" (their definition of such being "The dark web is a network of unsafe websites where people can trade and sell your data anonymously.") and reporting on any activity associated with my identity. The process of reporting started sometimes in Sept of 2021, with maybe a report every couple of weeks, but the reports of activity detected increased 100+ times since Feb 23rd, 2022 (for obvious reasons).
It might cost them a job - they’ll be your enemies the next day. If you are not doing anything bad and just trying to survive, then injustice like this will instantly outrage you.
Not the same imperialism. The US was clearly never planning to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan. They grossly miscalculated.

For Russia this is a war of expansion.

I think under those conditions Israel could be cut off though.
Today people who need Github and Stackoverflow for their work are not without influence, so this heuristic is not without merit.

If we are discussing getting a city's PLCs to stop pumping sewage in reverse after a cyber attack then access should be open. If it's about Yandex server farms then it's different.
My company had the marketing department design a few abstract backgrounds with company colors / logos, which look fine on their own, but incredibly weird when there's a blurry and badly cut-out person with a window behind them. Basically it looks like there's a challenger approaching in Smash Bros. We only have to use them when talking to people outside the company, but most people just leave them on all the time.

Personally I'm not a fan of background removal/replacement unless it's done properly, but I do like blurring. I use a good webcam and I mounted a soldering light above my screen as a ringlight which works surprisingly well. Plus nvidia broadcast for noise filtering and background blurring, which makes the task easier for teams to blur it some more without cutting into me. Overall I think it looks fine. My home office looks too messy and unprofessional when in focus, but has nice colors when blurred heavily.

My boss often sits in his closet with lots of suits and shirts behind him, which confuses the filter enough to replace all his hair with the company background.

I think people should just decide for themselves what to do and just learn the basics of how to do lighting. Nothing fancy, just make sure the light comes from the front, not from the back, use a proper webcam (or maybe your phone, that might have a better camera+processing), see if you can do something about your background to make it presentable or easier to blur. Of course some people don't have the luxury of a separate room in their house for nothing but work and the money to turn it into a movie set. Maybe they are forced to work in their bedroom / kitchen / closet and don't want everyone to see how they live. I think in that case background replacement is the lesser evil.
Something interesting I guess most people don't know, the pro-ukrainian mobilisations in Poland (I can only speak about Poland) is amazing. My FB wall is full of people providing their apartments for free, giving jobs etc. There is over 100 cars long queue at a border willing to transport Ukrainians escaping war where they want. They can travel by train for free in Poland.

Now not so good tidbit. Just few months ago we had a lot of people lured into Belarus by Lukashenko trying to come to Europe. Poland treated them really really poorly. Catching them after crossing border and pushing them back. The society was split among pro-refugees and anti. The political parties almost all focused on "protecting our border".

I was afraid that this natalist sentiment might repeat, even though Ukrainians are one of the closest people to Poland. I am very happy to note I haven't heard anyone speaking against refugees from Ukraine, not on twitter not on facebook not by far-right parties, altough I am sure some people are silent about their opinions.
Yeah: don't hold your breath on that.

This is why self-hosting is the ultimate best solution and is a big criterion when i choose software.If you have moral/ethical problems towards an entity: you can solve them, because you're in control, not some "magical cloud fairy" you have to beg to stop providing useful resources to a regime(yes, ultimately even normal well-intended citizens become part of the regime, like it or not) that kills your family or close ones.

As stated previously in my comments, the corporate western world is either personally fetishizing russian or totalitarian regimes (there >are< other examples besides russia/china from the past 10-15 years), or they/their higher-ups are too invested into those countries to be able to do something meaningful without hurting themselves and their own financial well-being.
the whole point of the the Monroe doctrine and over a century's worth of misadventures in cuba and latin america is that we haven't and wouldn't.
Ask HN: How to get GitHub Readme downloaded, converted to PDF
How do we get GitHub Readme or other Git text files downloaded and converted at once into PDF?

Although if it'll require rather long steps it'd be fine
Russia is embarking on a war of territorial aggression against its weaker neighbour in an effort to establish its own regional hegemony (see: Eurasian Economic Union and Commonwealth of Independent States). But no, you’re right, the real injustice here is locking Russia out of SWIFT.
All cryptocurrencies and related transactions are illegal in China
Those who can overthrow Putin and those affected by Github block are not the same group. And even combined they are just too few to cause any immediate course change for Putin. So it has nothing to do with feelings, it’s just useless (if not harmful longterm).
It works surprisingly well! I started using it for the noise filtering, which is even better.
Both wind and hydro convert kinetic energy into electricity and heat. The heat is from the moving parts in the turbines and the power conversion electronics. Heat is a product of just about every energy conversion you can imagine.
Techno-independence movement: China wants to insulate itself against sanctions
While enacting a substantial change does not appear possible you can protest and people do, at least in larger cities streets become full with people holding banners. (Photo galleries were posted on HN and FWIW I have supporting information from someone who is directly there.) Protesters are selectively detained, but there is no mass murder or vanishing of people unlike what I imagine would happen in China (or Hong Kong now) so not sure if 'totalitarian prison' is entirely descriptive.

Blocking is a trade-off. Take Google access as another instance. On one hand, it lets sane people not be limited to just state propaganda by watching live the destruction their government is enacting, as well as communicate to the outside world that they do not support it by protesting and sharing photos of protests. OTOH, it lets bots mass-report YT livestream watchers, causing automated ban waves. If we block access, we address the latter, but also eliminate the former.
Nickel is 4x as abundant in the Earth's crust as lithium.

Peridotite, a mantle-derived ultramafic rock that's widely available around the world, can be 0.1-0.3% nickel. This rock has been considered for CO2 sequestration, as it has large amounts of olivine, which is one of the most easily weathered silicates for mineral carbonation. One concern of mineral carbonation is all the nickel that could be released.
Just to add, it is possible to gain weight while doing intermittent fasting. You just have to eat more :) Maybe add a meal so you don't eat 3x a day but 4x. The other tactics is to add 50g of some nuts to 2-3 meals a day, like walnuts, almonds, cashews...
Zwift bans user for exposing 'weight doping' hack
The Netherlands (my birth country as well) should indeed do this but basically every other country has more and cheaper space to house them. I worked with people (100s) from the UA for the last 30 years and I think this is good for the EU even outside war.
In all probability he received atleast some basic military training as a conscript.
The largest port on Black Sea is in Russian province of Krasnodar Krai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Novorossiysk

The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought up a question of headquarters relocation to Novorossiysk. In September 1994 Novorossiysk Naval area was reestablished, three years later it was officially reorganised into Novorossiysk Naval Base.[62] To ensure its modernisation and development the government initiated special federal programme 'On Black Sea Navy Fleet Base at the Territory of Russian Federation in 2005—2020'. [...] The naval base is equipped with 5 berths (including floating dock) capable to receive up to 100 vessels from 1500 to 30,000 DWT. The submarine base shelters all 7 diesel-powered submarines of Russian Black Sea Navy.[citation needed]
Guess I'm a bit of a fool then because I was definitely saving uncompressed haha.

Maybe I'll give it a try at some point, but right now, I don't have any need for it. It'd be work without a clear payoff. I'm starting a new job at the end of March, and I'd rather concentrate on some features that help me run the site between now and then.
It is worth noting that GitHub is not, and has never been, free software.

It is likely an error to assume that GitHub's operators have "foss philosophy", especially given that GitHub is owned by the people who sell Windows and Office and Xbox.
https://archive.is/sMU8F
Is anyone else completely shocked that our Ukrainian friends seem to have stable high speed internet?

I have two friends there, and I've been talking to about a dozen others. Not one of them have disappeared, or said "My internet might be spotty; there's a war here after all."

I don't know how long it can last, but this feels like a modern miracle. Who are the unsung heroes keeping the internet up? There must be some sysadmins somewhere that are really taking care of business, even though tanks are almost literally rolling down their street.
Poland has a collective memory of Russian oppression and aggression
Yeah, not wanting to revisit it fits with the “didn’t remove random other footage”, I can entirely understand them thinking “I’ll just uploaded it how it was because… I don’t want to think about trying to watch this again to edit it”

It’s also surprisingly good quality too. I really was surprised at the zoom and focus on early into it. Gives me a distinct impression it was shot on what was probably quite a good portable video camera for the period.
These are good. I've going to be difficult to make an exhaustive checklist as each of us will only have identified certain problems

To a large extent it's about trying to see the issue from the other person's eyes, which has two parts: try to remove your context, and try to understand their context.

Your context: it's easy to assume that someone else has the same information and motivations that you do, and understand the underlying strategy. But actually as a leader it's your responsibility to make sure all these are in place, one the one hand recruiting someone with the necessary background and motivations, and on the other making sure that they understand the strategy behind what the team needs to deliver and that the team shares and builds it knowledge. So look at all the things you are assuming - in the context of the problem - that they know or understand or are motivated by, and check whether they might be missing and what information, strategy, and incentives you might have failed to convey.

You also need to look at your own behavior from the perspective of someone who doesn't have your context. If you saw someone acting as you are, without knowing why, what would you think?

Then there is their context. They may come from a different cultural/class background. They might have different personal priorities. They may be at a different life stage. They may have less/more savings. They may need to take less/more risk. They may need different things as part of their career (for example, one boss I had assumed that 'working with famous person X' was a huge thing for me. Nope - well, it's cool and all but its not going on my CV, as an engineer. Whereas for a designer it's totally going on their CV).

All these things play into what information a person will have, what they find motivating, what they find reasonable, what understanding they will have about you and what you are saying/how you are acting.
You've understood me perfectly. No counter-arguments from me; what follows are just some thoughts that your comment inspired.

> In the same way an apple tree apples, the universe peoples. It also dogs, and weathers and softwares and cows. Of it emerge these beautiful structures, including plants.

I love this framing.

> If I was capable of surviving the endeavor, cherishing and protecting every single one of those things that the universe expresses would be my ultimate ethical goal.

Whenever this thought comes to my mind, I can't help but think about the Christian idea the human beings are inherently sinful (I may not be getting this exactly right -- I'm not a Christian). As you point out: we're forced to "destroy" expressions of the universe in order to survive. Maybe this is OK, and their destruction is part of that expression -- or maybe we're inherently sinful, and the best we can do is damage control.

> The thing that re-embodies me is the Buddhist idea of bodhisattvas. They are beings who have reached enlightenment, but then rejected paradise in honor of the work still left to do on this plane of existence.

This is fascinating. I'll be doing some reading on this.

> So, if plants do experience something that increments the universe's suffering counter, which I leave as a possibility, we would have to imagine some other form of communication. Language and thought extrudes from the human body.

Fully agreed. Something I was trying to express in my first comment is that I find this conclusion perfectly acceptable (i.e. that we exclude plants from our moral framework, because of their incomprehensibility), but that it's important to recognize that it's grounded in our own ability to comprehend the experience of others (as opposed to something inherent to the "other" itself).
>Also: I have yet to see such suggestions directed at the US or Israeli population

Then you can't have looked very hard because there's a plethora of boycott movements against Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sancti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycotts_of_Israel_in_sports

There's even a Github example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200923222519/https://github.co...
I don't have any personal experience with politicians.

But it all sounds very familiar when reading it as "Psychiatry and Architects (or any other technical persons voted into power by management)".
> True geothermal energy is truly green

Reminder: few energy sources do not add heating to the atmosphere during the whole energy lifecycle!

It's the ones that *subtract* energy from the environment in the first place: solar, wind, dams, tidal energy.

Other sources (including geothermal, nuclear, oil ...), even if we could produce a 100% efficient power plant, are still extracting energy that would otherwise stayed "locked-in" somewhere.

Keep in mind that virtually all electrical energy produced turns into heat released in the atmosphere.
Not much there, just a chart implying that Ukraine’s military spending is about 20% of Russia’s, after adjusting for some “military purchasing power parity” formula, rather than 10% as numbers might suggest.

It doesn’t go as deep as trying to estimate or break out Russia’s spending on nuclear weapons vs conventional forces, which would narrow the gap even further.
I don't have anything to add about those posts; they're making actual points. Often good ones, with reasoning.

But this thread was especially to point out this this sort of policy-by-literary-allusion is stupid and also exactly the sort of thing people would try once Dickens quotes get flying.
Russian gas is currently one of the least climate friendly gas options due to methane leaks in production.

A simple, fair, carbon price that included those costs (as well as the costs of burning the gas itself) would hurt Russia, give them a clear path to improve in future under more democratic rule, shift investment to insulation, heat pumps and other boring cheap tech.

The only part that is needed in the short term is to redirect some of the tax money to poor people and businesses affected by the sudden price increase, which we should be doing anyway, it's a no regret strategy.

In particular, the way electricity markets are organised, high gas prices mean we pay more to nuclear, coal, wind and solar producers too. We should just capture that as a windfall tax and use it to roll out more gas alternatives. It's just an accounting fiction, not a real cost increase and it's foolish to let politicians in foreign countries (or domestic producers as happened in Australia) dictate the price of electricity to their benefit when it's not linked to real world factors.
Or all their talent made itself scarce when they saw the writing on the wall and what they have left is scriptkiddies who are capable of defacing a website when given a target to take down.

It's bad to underestimate the enemy, but also bad to overestimate them.
I totally sympathize and agree it doesn't sound fair but you will see more and more embargos and boycotts directed at Russia and Russians the more this Ukrainian murderous invasion continues...
> "see, someone signed here and said everything was fine!"

But that's fine. If you have a crack in your foundation you want to know about it, not to be forced to fix it or for the whole world to know about it. You can decide for yourself having the full knowledge of the situation what you need to do next and take responsibility for that decision. Or you can pretend you never knew and whatever happened is not your fault. This is the critical role of an auditor, to point out the reality so you have to be accountable for whatever comes next.

And this is exactly why many companies pay for or hire junior/inexperienced auditors. So they can go through the motions without the accountability.
Interesting that two of the cases discussed mention a prescription of amphetamines, which they describe as harmful. Did these differ substantially to the doses we prescribe for ADHD nowadays?
There is a subtle difference between cutting border fence and going through border checkpoint. During Belarus crisis those who went for asylum request were considered. Those who hid in forest did not. Some were not granted asylum as they came from stable country. Simple as that.
Meta to bar Russian state media from running ads, monetizing on platform
Too many people are missing the point of actions like this. You want to make lives of everyone in Russia more unpleasant to send the signal that a war can’t be an easy PR win. If you start a war, it should suck for your citizens, even if they are watching the news from a safe distance. If your leader starts a war, your life will become worse and you will be poorer personally. Sure, this is less effective for authoritarian countries, but is still useful.

Of course most Github users from Russia aren’t guilty, and many of them are already against the war. Good for them! But that’s not the point.
I can confirm this with a couple of Codepen demos. MediaPipe's selfie-segmentation model[1] seems to give much better results than TensorFlow's body-pix model[2] (which is the model I most often see talked about for this sort of background removal work).

As much as I admire ML models (and I remain in awe of people who know how to build them), I still think there's room for more conventional chroma key filtering - for instance identifying part of a video's moving display so you can add some UI to it[3].

[1] - MediaPipe demo - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/PopBxBM

[2] - TensorFlow demo - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/ZEeoZaP

[3] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/canvas-027.html
To be fair, its also no moon.
Great idea. Could be still cheaper than most TOTP devices.