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I like "Vlad the Underpants Poisoner" title given Putin by Navalny after he confirmed[1] responsibility for novichok nerve agent in his underpants. Lukashenko's underpants may interest Putin.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/europe/russia-navalny-poisoni...
If you ever wondered what makes LED lights feel great: it's the strategic mixing of LEDs with different characteristics.

Here's a free tool that helps designing such fixtures:
https://www.meerkatblog.com/ledmixing
Fujitsu confirms end date for mainframe and Unix systems
Other options for Russia are always negotiation and withdrawal. It's not like there would be an counter-attack.
No, lux is based on lumen and itself founded on the human perception of light using the luminous efficiency function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficiency_function
This benefits the US who want ship liquid gas into Europe, the US already sanctioned Germany over NordStream2 but short term this will also reduce CO2 and pollution which goes back to my post on heading for a population collapse by 2040
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30488972) yet the global population is predicted to peak by 2100 so things are being done.

UK Pension funds will be hit as they tend to invest in the "blue chip" stocks so alot of people planning on retiring might be drawn back into the workforce against their will.
Comrade from GDR?
In the embedded space I'm still seeing plenty of 2038-problematic code being produced today. 32 bit microcontroller + unix timestamps = future problems.

I think this will bite us hard - way harder than Y2K (which happened when software was far less prevalent). There must be millions or even billions of embedded devices out there which are susceptible to this problem - the only real question is how badly they'll fail.
I remember when the official Google Picasa client for linux was the windows exe but developed and tested on wine
Anyone got a better source for or against the claim the article makes that nearly half of all human deaths over the last 50,000 years were caused by malaria? It seems suspiciously high, and at a quick glance the Nature paper linked doesn’t seem to have any justification for the claim.
The XFS bigtime feature was "experimental" until 5.15, and is still disabled by default in mkfs.xfs. Filesystems with that enabled can't be mounted by older kernels which don't support it, and until 5.15 that causes a big fat "EXPERIMENTAL big timestamp feature in use. Use at your own risk!" warning.
Which changes nothing I said in the logic tree above. In fact almost every modern state runs a debt laden budget.
" there's nothing that can't be quantified"

That is indeed....your opinion.
Wait - are you proposing to study flagging or “censorship” on HN?

Flagging certainly exists. What is your evidence in favor of censorship existing here?

If memory serves, there are website(s) that track which submission get flagged. If you’re concerned about a favored view or topic being flagged frequently, you could start there.

Otherwise you risk exerting lots of effort to simply find out that a favored view or topic isn’t shared by lots of people here. And, well, not all of them are equally important, or equally important to the HN audience.
Quite ironically, people in Russia got a chance to feel themselves like Germans in 1939...
For Russia? Yes. For Putin? No.
I doubt the average Russian is worried of receiving the same treatment that Navalny was given. The same way the average American isn't worried about being treated like Snowden or any other person labeled "enemy of the state".
Please no. I'm not made of money and I'm tired of developers treating my disk as free real estate.
I'd also be interested in this.

I bought a 4-in-1 E27 socket adapter and plugged 4x 16W bright (1400 lumen), high CRI (>97) Livarno Lux LED bulbs into it for my home office and it's been great, but having it brighter would be even better!
Are you honestly claiming that the author believes that Yudkowsky was literally the first person in history to suggest making lights brighter?

Also, you should read anything Yudkowsky himself has written about Roko’s basilisk. He’s never claimed that it could work, or that it’s dangerous at all.

(“Why did he ban it then?” Because he wanted to prevent it from inspiring an infohazard brainstorming session that could produce a real danger, and he apparently hadn’t heard about the Streisand effect.)
Doesn't Russia already have access to the Black Sea ?
Silly excuses. No software team needs 10h/week of meetings, that's just insane.

Fix your management and you'll be able to hire part time easily.
CSS as the back end – Cascading Server Sheets
Thanks for bringing it up, somehow I missed that!

It is very close to what I have in mind, and I am glad to see they are also committing to share revenue with upstream developers.
Nvidia Investigating Potential Cyber Attack Affecting Internal Systems
Kalman filters are used in quadcopter / drone flight controller software too!
I wear varifocals all day even though my long vision is fine and good enough to drive (so they are almost clear at the top). I found putting on my glasses to work disturbed me in a similar way. Somehow wearing them all the time is better. YMMV
Everything is for sale in the UK.
We are talking about spinning up coal and nuclear again...

Natural gas would be preferable to fracking gas, but I guess political reasons will top environmental ones.
The reason Germany so heavily relies on gas for heating is the relative cost of LPG vs electricity for heating. If electricity were cheap and plentiful, new builds and renovations would be using heat pumps. Because of Germany's insistence on closing nuclear plants, electricity is not cheap and plentiful.

Given their recent about-face on several key positions, I am hopeful that they revisit their position on nuclear. Renewables should of course be prioritised, but until mass storage becomes realistic, reliable electricity generation needs to be available. Now that it is clear that Russia cannot be trusted as a reliable source of cheap energy, I hope Germany takes energy independence much more seriously.
I think hiring part time developers is a horrible idea for anything not proof of concept or minimum viable. I've seen it time and time again over 20 years, and the results are pretty similar to outsourcing.

1) people don't account for all activities that aren't programming and far underestimate how much of those things take up crazy amounts of time.

2) part time generally has little to no vested interest, and generally aren't concerned with the long term prospects of employment (and I don't blame them)

I feel bad for the author of the article, if he is foolish enough to stick around a job they don't like in this climate, they are suffering for no reason. and failing to gain the experience and knowledge that will carry them through the rest of their career.

There is a difference in someone with 5 years of experience, and someone who has done the same first year experience over and over for 5 years. And that usually comes across pretty strongly during the interview process. And their tactics seem like a great way to struggle to find advanced positions later in life.
Blogos – Writing an OS in Rust
“Make love, not war” wins Hash Code 2022 qualifications
Yudkowsky claimed that the exact basilisk as described by Roko wouldn't work, but he also believes that something like it would.
> Both Western governments and private parties have been publicly showing extraordinary amounts of intelligence on Russia troop movements, disposition, and likely intentions, and I can only imagine that that Ukraine is getting much more than what is public.

TikTok is world's biggest intel dragnet. On Twitter, I see a vid of the column from TikTak, and 1-2 hours after, of its destruction.

No military in the world has anything as powerful.
There's also the BRICS group which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. All 3 of the smaller countries have squashed any negative comments coming out of the government against what's currently happening.

Their whole goal is an informal grouping of non-interference, equality and mutual benefit.

As a South African I can't say I very much want to be a part of the group, but here we are.
I'm confused - most LED will not make you feel great (unlike incandescent light) - on the contrary, you have to put in a lot of effort to get decent light from LEDs.
Code ownership, stewardship, or free-for-all?
From the article:

>Elevator pitch: Bring enough light to simulate daylight into your home and office.

>This idea has been shared in Less Wrong circles for a couple years. Yudkowsky wrote Inadequate Equilibria in 2017 where he and his wife invented the idea
Will it be equipped with Microsoft Pluton insecurity chip?
Belarus regime being what it is, I'd not think that the referendum actually reflects people's opinion, and the result was not predetermined.

OTOH I suspect that after the events of 2014 and 2022, Ukraine will remain the last country in history to willingly give up nuclear weapons. Many more countries will think about developing an deploying their own nukes, or at least staying one step away from actually producing them.
but does it run Linux?
Pollonium and thermobaric bombs easily come to my mind. Funding terrorism on steroid making Iranian look like absolute kindergartener are something I immediately think of after the previous 2 options. I can probably write a master thesis in an afternoon for possible options Putin can take. Imagine people doing this kind of think tank on daily basis for Putin. Remember when Soviet were dirt poor then they can match USA militarily, Russia now is sig ificantly richer with more sophisticated weapons. Look up who ferry American to space for the past 2 decades. Hint...not Elon.
If these ARM-laptops supports the ServerReady platform, I guess it should be possible to just UEFI boot a plain Debian or Ubuntu Arm64 ISO on these machines, without need to tailor a specific image?

If not, I'm going to be dissapointed.

Edit: According to a reddit-comment[0], ARM ServerReady, UEFI and ACPI are all requirements for Windows on ARM, so if this thing runs Windows, we should be able to assume all those other things are in place too. Unless someone has locked the SecureBoot-settings, these laptops should be able to run Linux too without too much trouble.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/k3av65/when_will_arm...
Yudkowsky says he and his wife did it in 2014, so it sounds as if it was actually pretty much at the same time as said prior art.

(Also, they were specifically doing it as a treatment for SAD; I don't think Yudkowsky claims novelty for anything other than the idea that SAD might be effectively treated by having very bright indoor lighting all the time rather than e.g. a lightbox that you sit next to for half an hour a day.)
Please compare numbers of far right members in Ukrainian and German parliaments, and recalibrate your definition of "nazi problem" of a country.
Not many, but there are some who do believe it. Check out my other post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30497688 . It's opnions that are held by some chunk of russian population.
There was a really interesting article published here, auto-translated from Russian, written by a retired General before the invasion.

He basically said, a bunch of idiots keep saying we can just walk into Ukraine with shock and awe and have it all over in hours (or less) and laid out why that is idiotic.

Kind of amazing that the conversation was so public.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30489422
True, but iCloud is over 10 years old now.
Russia’s Central Bank More Than Doubles Interest Rates in Response to Sanctions
> But in pregnant women using the algorithm tool, there was no difference in death rates between white and non-white ethnic groups, because three out of four deaths linked to placenta problems had been avoided.

Would be interesting to know how do placenta problems differ between white and non-white ethnic groups, and not just "new digital tool, which uses an algorithm to calculate". The only link to a "journal" is just that, the journal. Not the study itself.

It looks like "Personalised care", but depending on the algorithm it can also just be "equity care". Equal to each other, but equal to what?
Even before we closed down our nuclear plants, Germans heated mainly with gas. Electric heating was a thing for a while, it was basically phased out over 30 years ago. The other alternative is oil. Replacing for 80+ million people is a gargantuan task. One you don't start unless there are issues with gas, and there were none so far. Not even now I'd say, except pricing.
People eavesdropping on life underground
I take a hobby interest in lighting as design and art, and probably have more lamps than I should have. My personal view is that it's not really an area that is being ignored. There are a lot of companies in this space developing new lighting.

One thing that concerns me about investing a lot into current LED lighting is that it seems like the tech is still evolving. At least that is my impression. I don't really like tech that gives the illusion that it will last a long time but ends up useless after 2 years. I see some really interesting lighting designs but it's all built into the lamp---does this mean lamps, usually a durable good, are just disposable units now? LEDs are supposed to fade over time---what do you do with a perfectly good standard bulb that's producing 25% less light? It still takes up an entire lamp socket. If it's a whole unit, that's a footprint in your home occupying space producing significantly less output.

Some LED bulbs I bought a few years ago are basically outdated in terms of light quality. I think my favorite bulb that I've tried is by Cree. People don't often believe that the difference is noticeable but when I swap out bulbs of various types they can notice how much better a room feels or the colors pop more.

You also can't buy several 'bright home' sunlight level lights cheaply just to see what looks better, so I wonder if this might be an area that keeps brick and mortar lighting stores or sections relevant.

Then there's also the environmental concern of eliminating any of the gains of reduced power consumption by buying more powerful LED bulbs that consume just as much electricity.

Another aside: If you're bored, playing around with lighting in Unreal Engine 5 is pretty fun. UE5 seems very impressive.
Is BCPL modern? :-)

I looked at https://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Web/syntax-across-langua..., which is a great resource, but doesn’t even mention Algol in that section.
I don’t argue with the performance and bloat issues, but the state management problems you describe are not react specific at all. In fact react helps you to manage these things nicely.
Would probably suggest ECS and docker over elastic beanstalk. EB is little more than a macro for creating an EC2 instance.
If someone wants to start this company get in touch. At shimmer industries we are building the control system to power this kind of thing. I'm founder and CTO and you can reach me at eskil at shimmerindustries dot com
I’m not sure he has enough. If he puts that $2B in a savings account earning the average 0.06% interest, he’d only be getting $100K per month. How can anyone live in so little? And he’d be losing a lot to inflation.
No, it isn't the same as social anxiety.

I'm a really quiet person. As far as I know, I'm not neurodivergent and would generally be "In normal range". But anxiety isn't really part of it. I mean, of course I get anxious, but that goes away over time.

For example: For a while, I worked in a school cafeteria. I generally helped prep, ran the cash register while talking to the children, and afterwards spent time in the dish room. Nothing special. During the summer, I went to different schools (with a group) to clean classrooms. I talked more during the summer, simply because the job duties made it fairly easy to do while working.

"I've worked with her for months, and this is the most I've heard her talk"
"Really? She's still pretty quiet!"

This wasn't anxiety, I just didn't talk much. And this has just been a theme of my life. I'm married to someone who might even have less need for social interaction than I do, and they sometimes remind me to speak up. It just is.

And I've never really felt like it was something that I should get over. Perhaps I've "Learned to live with it", but it really isn't like that because I don't really have an issue with it and it usually doesn't cause issues.
theres no doubt this was referendum where the votes were not counted.
in the prev online-elections the newly elected president got like 3% approval rating.
I agree it's important to understand how linux eco system work, if you are interested.

I don't think LFS does that, it's simply page after page of .configure..make..make install. It would be more valuable to read a sysadmin book on unix/linux and play around with a minimal distro.
I'm talking about the countless US airforce bases, CIA facilities. I lived near to 2 of those here in Germany. Not because i wanted, but because they are everywhere.
That's one of the lessons, isn't it? First the West reneged on the Nuclear deal with Iran, now Russia invaded Ukraine. All the while North Korea is just simply left alone.
IKEA has these backlit fake windows they use in store displays in their curtain section. I wish they would sell the fake windows as well. The light actually looks natural.
Nice. The concept reminds me of Karya, which has a similar (?) structure of arbitrarily complicated nested expressions per note.

https://ofb.net/~elaforge/karya/doc/overview.md.html
I think that's also a key point of difference between the Afghanistan takeover by the Taliban, and the Ukrainian invasion. Afghanistan was an internal struggle, and an Afghan wasn't really enthusiastic about killing a fellow Afghan, even if he was a Taliban member. Hence why that was a relatively bloodless coup. On the other hand, the Russian army is essentially looked upon by Ukrainians as a modern reincarnation of the Soviet army, rather than as Slavic brothers in hands. The fact that Putin may have chosen to overlook this glaringly obvious difference between the two conflicts makes me wonder how flawed his on-the-ground intelligence must be. The irony, considering his KGB background.
Because of inflation, the value of $1K in a decade or so will be way less.
Just wait until after the year 099 and then it might catch on! /s
Rostelecom stopped announcing BGP routes of e-gov platform outside the country
That's an unnecessary inflammatory statement at exactly the wrong time. One would have thought she and her team had learned from Covid.
We could have a nuclear accident every year and it still wouldn't equal the damage we are doing burning fossil fuels.

But as airplane crashes became rarer the more we flew, so will nuclear accidents the more we build and use nuclear power plants. The ones we have are a very old and early technologuy.
I have a friend in the UK Military Police, he has soldiers claim their "right to remain silent" and "first amendment rights" all the time. He has to patiently explain to them that they have neither.
What you're saying is definitely true for the more mature companies (say, 1000+ employees).

I curious if the author has experience with this working for startups and their ilk, which may not have become large enough to have a proper recruiting division.

The challenge networking potentially solves is getting a recruiter to pay attention to your resume, but from that point on your resume has to be impressive looking enough to get you to the interview room. And unfortunately I know (and helped) a lot of engineers who've done impressive work but didn't know how to put that on paper effectively.

That part takes a whole other skill
I lived close to two of those as well, actually even more than two. Most of which were either closed down since or handed over to the Germans (armed forces of BND, depending on the base in question).
Your point about academia studying different systems than industry rings quite true. Lots of the academic recommender systems are built on datasets and techniques that simply don't scale to real world data/applications.

That said, this pytorch work looks to live more in the realm of application than academia. Building and scaling large neural embeddings is pretty close to industry practice these days and this library at least claims to solve some of the challenges in doing so.
Everybody who works in big company knows how much information/details in whatever status report is getting lost by the time that it get's to C level and how much becomes beautified.

Now think about system where this chain is much longer and very kleptocratic. By the time reports get "up there" they show what they are expected to show and do not reflect reality.
You don't look at the surface of the earth?
TL;DR – Hybrid Public Key Encryption
You've captured one of my chief frustrations with the left. There's an overwhlming focus on analyzing what is wrong but so little stategizing to give people concrete actions to take that could improve matters. Too much explanation just depresses people rather than motivates them to make changes. Still, Doctorow's analysis is spot-on here and he does more strategizing than many.
Ghost of Kyiv, Snake Island, recapturing of Hostomel, downing of 2 IL76s full of paratroopers, death of Magomed Tushaev, UKR leading K:D ratios like war is videogame... unending stream of fake memes and unverified suspicious allegations to push narrative that sloppy invasion = end of Putin, when we're only 4 days in and it doesn't appear RU has taken gloves off. Feels like the information war is currently hotter than the real one, similar to the insane amount of biased coverage for the HK/Belarus protests received in western media, but at the end of the day, I surmise we'll find out shitposts that instills false confidence don't mean much in a shooting war, because ultimately, "power is power".
In 1979 Vela incident suspected undeclared joint nuclear test
Scaling Up: The Radical Challenge of Democratic Data Governance
Your take is very surface level, its like you are looking for faults.

Assaults on massive countries are not won overnight. USA had a quick win of a month in Iraq by using shock and awe. Blowing everything up and killing any civilian who got in the way.

This created a massive insurgency, which was fine because they didn't plan on occupying only destabilising.

Russia plans on occupying, to reduce NATOs ability to out flank them over the European plane.

So it takes longer.

Secondly, the young soldiers. Its called training, they are battle hardening the next generation in a 'easy' war, for if they ever need to use them in the future.

Russia is clearly taking the slow and careful approach, he wants these people to be part of the union eventually.
Persuading candidates is where it breaks. I don't have time for that, we need to hire now and if we hire someone then for next 2 years we probably won't hire anyone new, and I don't think there is enough people who would like that 4 hours. I also have to pay for ad that will get most CVs

It would be much easier if I get someone CV and he writes cover letter explaining that he would like to try such an arrangement.

I tried to get part time dev for Kibana/Elastic needs like 4 hours - anyone I approached was not even willing to discuss "why" they just said no. People also don't have time to listen to your persuasion, most of the time it is clear cut and goodbye.
Maybe try working through an agency?

I'm in a similar boat, and I've been doing part-time work through Toptal. You certainly get more opportunities if you're full time, but I've been able to steadily get 10-20 hours a week at a rate that would come out around $300k if I was working full time. For me that is plenty to live comfortably and I'm able to choose to have more free time and not feel "owned" by a full time salary position that would likely be more like 60 hours a week of my time.