skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nulcear reactors cost millions of dollars to make. Solar Panels and wind turbines are much smaller and more modular. It's much easier to optimize production if you are making millions of panels than dozens of reactors. Also, some important parts of reactor design involve local conditions like water availability which makes it harder to have a single design that can be widely copied.
This is the entire reason for Air Superiority.
Why would a React developer (and hopefully SME, if they've been at it for 3 years) need to know anything "under the hood" to earn their value?

I work on compilers for a living, but I couldn't build an IC if you put me in front of an EUV machine. Does that mean that I don't have an understanding of how things work "under the hood"?
holy crap, that plays into my theory that he is testing the nato, really the world.
i mean, he can get away with this much, what else are they gonna let him do until they realize he is not interested in talks?

In Germany our freshly elected politicians are making fools of themselfs calling out for Putin to return to the negotiation tables... they say "we are waiting for you mister putin"... while he thinks "keep on waiting then, ill have my way with eastern europe"
You need systems with different performance for different problems. In particular although spin-up time for pumped storage is much better than for fossil fuels (pumped storage may be able to go from nothing to 80% power in under a minute, lots of coal stations take an hour, combined cycle gas might be 20 minutes) you can't sit around for a minute or the lights go out, batteries can do that same-cycle balancing you need to give other systems time to come online.

Pumped storage in particular is also geographically dependent. If you've got lots of spare lakes on mountains, pumped storage is just what you needed, if you're the Dutch not so much.
I mean, India was "poor" because it had 90 years of having everything of value stolen by the British Empire.
China and India can still accept it. I imagine between those two countries Russia can make due for a while
China is backing away from this. In the Security Council they didn't vote with Russia to veto the condemnation of the invasion. They abstained.
It’s easier to understand when you look at profits per employee at the major tech firms. Google, Facebook and Apple generate over $1M in profit per employee. From what I can tell, Software is the highest value/employee industry in the world.
How would this help? Also it's impossible.
China was siding with Russia right up until Russia started invading. Since then, China has been uneasy with this move.

Some of their state owned banks have suspended financing of Russian resources purchases [1]

And they really disliked Russia's declaration of the independence for the separatist regions in Ukraine. As a country with several separatist regions (including Taiwan), China simply can't agree with with the concept that an external country can declear one or more of it's regions as independent.

[1] https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/chinese-stat...
This is psychopath behavior though. I think the feds have a watchlist waiting for you.
I hope you still feel dirty at least! :)
I think he meant sweet as in precious. Fresh water for Crimea came from the mainland and Ukraine blocked it off after it was annexed.
I guess it's not niche anymore (was it ever?) but I'm coding my hobby projects in Rust. I don't get to use the language at my $dayjob but I find it aligns with my personal opinions on how a native language should be, and it pushes me in interesting ways to learn better idioms to write safe code.

Also, does it count if I'm writing a niche language as my side project? :-) Check out EndBASIC (https://www.endbasic.dev/) if curious.
Ugh what? Lol

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-china-unveil-alliance-beijing-...

China isn’t exactly known for its even handed response to anyone who threatens them or that they invade.
Has that actually made things better?
Kim Jong-un hates it when other unhinged dictators get more attention than he does. Even Anonymous is ignoring him with their DDOS attacks (not that it's too hard to disable a /18 network.)
> I want a Pareto Principle-based categorization of most common use-cases so that I can prioritize what to look at.

For some reason I really like this idea ;)

I think documentation, just like literate programming, would benefit from multiple views or learning paths of the same topic.
I think you don't get my point. I'm not advocating for denylisting gmail.com because it produces spam (although this has tempted me on more than one occasion), i'm saying fighting spam in federated environments has decades of experience of various techniques that work well. Open nodes (eg. remailers) have terrible reputation and are denylisted pretty much everywhere, but specific communities/servers can maintain a decent reputation as long as they have some form of moderation/cooptation. By opting into the federation, Gitlab could support various advanced workflows depending on your threat model:

- a new organization using your project? maybe grant their whole gitlab instance "issues" read/write access to the project

- publishing FLOSS in a "community" setting where random people submitting contribution is not expected? maybe we can check the PGP WoT before deciding whether to accept that PR

- running a federation of organizations, some of whom may run their own instance? allowlist all the instances so they can interact across instances

- running a public forge like gitlab.com, codeberg.org, or chapril.org? maybe maintain an allowlist of servers who ask for it and pledge to fight spam

- feel adventurous? setup an entirely public instance and help catch spam and reporting it to denylists

All this is already possible on email level, but pointless as you pointed out as trustworthiness of the mail server is not correlated to trustworthiness of the forge.
It's barely been 3 days. It's incredible how everyone (including leaders, allegedly even "operative" leaders like Putin with a paramilitary background) now expects wars to last a few hours. Even swift one-sided conflicts like Desert Storm and Desert Fox lasted a month or more! To expect less than a week from invasion to regime change in the capital is just stupid, if the Russian generals really worked on that basis they are not fit for command.
It would be interesting to know what the Chinese leadership think about the world's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how that may affect their designs for Taiwan.
Who is ever going to invade a company with nuclear weapons and apparently no qualms about using them?

It sounds like he is stuck in the past and fighting battles in the past and nightmares in his head that don't even exist.
> Wondering when a Russian oligarch says “you know what I think we’d be better off without this guy alive.

And I think that Putin has clearly demonstrated how much more powerful the state is than the oligarchs (anywhere, not just Russia). Look up what happened to oligarchs who opposed Putin. See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
Because they extract more value than that from them. Doesn't make them less fungible.
Who wants Rubles now? Russia needs raw materials, but it’s very difficult to trade in dollars.
As a CEO, if your team sets up a company to succeed, the payoff is likely not for the next decade. You're setting up some other executive's payday. If you burn the co's reputation to get your payday, probably nobody really notices and is likely enough for there to be no real consequences to management until after you leave. The problem you paid yourself with is someone else's to solve.

Anyone suggesting there's an easy answer to that is likely full of it. How expert, competent and interested are the board of directors? How do you know? Some people look and sound plausible and convincing but aren't. Credentials are not much guide, all the board candidates have them including the total self-serving Muppets. Even noting who was great 10 years ago might not care much anymore.

Boeing stock price is up more than 1% on the last day of trading. Not as much as Lockheed and Raytheon.
You have no way of accounting though for the possible cost of keeping old nuclear plants running. A single accident, dirty bomb, etc etc. would instantly change the equation. Even with the current conflict we see how strategic the Cherynobyl site instantly became because of the additional risk factors.
A legislature-ratified treaty would hold more weight but it would never get passed, regardless of the terms.
You're overthinking this.

It's irrational. As simple as that - just irrational.
Interestingly, the articles I find about ventilation are indeed concerned about air quality. However, in my country, at least in the cities I've lived on, the idea of ventilation is mostly associated to cooling indoors (with air quality being a desirable byproduct). Maybe the differences between our climates led to differences between the concepts behind the same word. Or maybe there's a better word in English to express what I'm intending to (sorry, English is not my mother language).
If it’s a red herring then why was Biden so stubborn in refusing to give assurances that Ukraine was not invited into NATO? We are talking about war. There is never an excuse to come short of doing everything possible to prevent it. But Biden refused. How do you explain that?
It's not necessary, but it is beneficial. Why not increase throughput and decrease latency of storage?
[I may be wrong. Hence deleting.]
That's one point of view, yes. Like I said, there are a lot of reasons why poor countries became poor, or failed to industrialize. Personally I don't think India would be America 2.0 (or China 2.0) had the Brits never colonized it.

The partition of India happened 75 years ago, however. The British Empire is no longer a valid excuse.
Did anything prove they needed to be in NATO more than this invasion???
It will certainly kickstart nuclear power in Europe. This is the impetus that was needed.
https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox

Put MacOS and Linux (I recommend Ubuntu Mate for desktop) on there as a couple of VMs and poof, a much less ungodly 16GB of RAM per OS.
Fine anyone doing business with Russia or Russians in euros or dollars. Fine any financial firm caught in any way connected to SPFS.
That’s actually my point in part, Russia can now dictate terms. Russia can sell fuel to China / through China if the EU doesn’t play ball.

Similarly, China can also change what they want to accept. It would be relatively easy at this point (though painful) to force the EU to adopt w.e. The joint Russia-China partnership desire.
I doubt that, otherwise he could back out now and that would be enough to prove that he will invade other countries to back up "Russian interests". Looks like he's all in this time though. Maybe he has a terminal disease and just doesn't care?
I don't understand, do you suggest a VPN is not "physical hardware inside borderlines"? Or that you can't run your normal desktop entirely piped into the VPN just as if it were on the other side of the world (even transparently to the OS with router-level VPN)? Or something else entirely?
because they drive millions of $ in profits and because all the great engineers are already employed somewhere else
Regular fresh water from the river passing through Ukraine into Crimea, which Ukraine blocked the flow of after Crimea was annexed.
PayPal still works as far as I know. But yeah. Bitcoin is the go to. Ironically I have workers in both and I send bitcoin to ukraine because all other means are expensive and get questioned a lot.
Yes, I've been somewhat baffled by the suggestion that Lex is some kind of boy genius. I find many of his questions incredibly inane (asking "What is the most beautiful idea in mathematics?" over and over again). I keep watching because the guests are great, but I don't think much of Lex's ability to really engage with their ideas.
It's a generalization. Regarding Indian SWEs in particular: I've worked with completely inept as well as very competent ones. Writing a headline that promotes a stereotype is not helpful.
> .. Accenture was s/Andresen/Andersen/ Consulting, not Arthur Andersen
The software was not truly to blame for the deaths.

Management was fully aware that a redundant AOA sensor was desireable: they charged extra for it. Management also demanded a product that did not require pilot training. Then there was the whole certification malfeasance.

The software was one piece of an impossible configuration.
They don't have to make anything. Any other business has many more mouths to feed with manufacturing operations.
Makes sense, software is not their core competency - obtaining contracts.

Everything non-core, like engineering or software should be outsourced to the lowest bidder.
My biggest takeaway from that link is: BEVs can't get here fast enough. ICEs are too complicated.

But I should be careful what I wish for. Current BEVs have many user-hostile clown-car features.
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Iran, Venezuela and Cuba had/have a decent middle class too, if you ignore the rural peasants and people in other places that "don't matter".
"Sweet water" is a common English-language (possibly "American old west") euphemism for fresh water.
Sustainability doesn't matter when faced with a quarterly review. You do whatever to get it over the line in time for that and then don't have time to fix the snotball of hacks that is hidden.

I've certainly done this for sprints. I suspect if you examined code quality by when a ticket was started in a sprint, you would find it plummets a few days before the end.
GPU should be able to do digital logic simulation a lot fast no?
Sorry, I tried to be clear. I did see the video. The artist had it online behind a password-protected web page. He went to some URL at his own site, put in a name and password, and played the video. Some of us asked him how we could see the video again, and that's when he told us that it wasn't "public", that he wanted to hold onto it until he could figure out how to best present it or whatever-the-fuck ever.
$9/hour devs in India are less likely to say "Only listening to one angle-of-attack sensor is stupid; you need to redesign this." They are especially less likely to keep pushing until they get management to listen.

I mean, sure, the designers should have known that, too. But by outsourcing the software development, they missed a chance to have the bad design questioned and corrected.
History is written by the winners
Why is now better timing? Last few months I was reading Putin wanted to wait for the depth of winter, so Europe couldn't retaliate without risking angry and cold voters. But the mild winter has meant his plan wasn't working out. Maybe he got mad at the weather and got desperate...
Interestingly chrome on my android prompted me to view the page with 'simplified mode'. Never seen that feature prompted before
Western information war is also related to current events. For example NYT claiming there was no evidence of Ukrainian shelling Donbas when the OSCE reports showed that over 80 percent of shells landed in DPR/LNR even during the escalation. People just off handedly said it was a Russian false flag despite evidence to the contrary.

Current events are complex and tue information war has obfuscated it.
Theoretically possibly by bartering for oil. The EU already has such a mechanism in place for buying oil from Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_in_Support_of_Trade...
Something I don't think is mentioned here is that initially the Boeing designers thought that both sensors were being used for the data but the code written only took it off a single sensor. Whether it was not properly communicated to the coders or what, it is not clear, but someone at Boeing had wanted multiple sensors.

(I don't remember the exact source, I'd written a report of the Max-8 crashes and this was part of what I found. If you're interested in a generally excellent source for the accident/design flaws, the (latter) US Department of Transport report is excellent. I can also share my work if someone is curious, though its quality and depth is of course much lesser.)
Yes, we use [audio] by analogy with the much more common [video]. Added. Thanks!
And the anode! Just responding since I work on Cu anode foils.
The only people in the industry who seemed to get it were the Android team. It took Microsoft 3 years to realise they actually needed to go back to the drawing board on their mobile tech stack.
I was thinking that as well. Ukraine doesn't bring a whole lot to the table from a military perspective and just doing cold calculations. I personally feel like we should be arming them to the teeth and should have been for a while. I'm glad they've been able to hold out so far, but it's still very early
The two biggest problems are unsafe languages and memechine learning. We need a new paradigm for secure software.
Macron isn't running yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_French_presidential_elect...

>and as Germany hems and haws over its own ties to Russia,

No invasion in Europe for how many decades? Long past many people's lifetimes. Building those relationships through trade can be great impediments to further conflicts. They knew the strategic cost of having done this. Unfortunately, the cost to the German people must now be accepted.
It’s interesting to see how easily manipulated people are when they get their news only on social media rather than using multiple sources.
No one is "building a fortress around Russia", least of all the Western allies. The Russian western border is a small part of their territorial limits.

Ukraine is an independent country and can decide who they want to ally with, clearly it's not Russia.

He got pissed off when Ukrainians elected a leader that was not a puppet of Russia. Now he is exacting revenge because he doesn't have a tacit Russian territory like with Belarus any more.

When Finland and Sweden decide they need the defensive advantages of NATO is he going to invade Scandinavia too? Should they be force to be "permanently neutral" as well?
Working smoke detectors would have been useful given the battery fires that the 787 experienced:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Boeing_787_Dreamliner_gro...
Keep in mind this is the tip of the iceberg as the FAA had outsourced safety to Boeing via Boeing employees also being FAA employees.

Very hard to complain against your financial master unless you fly on that plane make daily as a passenger,
ITAR pertains to export/import. I'm not aware of person-specific clearances. In any case it would depend on the specific component or task being worked on.
How about stop working with them and funding the murder of Ukrainians through your tax dollars?

Seriously though if your business is impacted by sanctions I'd suggest consulting a lawyer before trying to get creative with payment methods.
Taliban and aQ were "allies" in the sense that they both fought against Northern Alliance. aQ were (are?) foreigners to Afghanistan, only welcomed by locals they regularly paid, which included some Taliban. Taliban, who themselves were not a monolith, were happy to receive weapons and training from aQ, but it wasn't out of love. It made political sense for American war media to blur the lines between them, but by now we know never to trust what we're told in the first few weeks of a new war.

Did someone in Bush's administration ask some Taliban poobah for ObL, at some time before the invasion? Probably! That would have been like asking for a unicorn pony. They didn't have him in custody, and they weren't going to be arsed to engage in whatever deadly combat would have been required to get him in custody. Unlike today, at that time Taliban weren't really a national ruling entity. They ran the courts and the tollways in some of the populated parts of Afghanistan. ObL was holed up in the hills somewhere. USA military didn't have a great deal of luck digging him out either, once they gave it a try.

The proportional action would have been to occupy only those parts of Afghanistan in which one could reasonably imagine ObL had hidden, and hire both Taliban and Northern Alliance to provide security on the condition they not fight each other while USA troops were around. It's not as though Taliban had created aQ, our supposed ally Saudi Arabia did that. Taliban, just like everyone else in Afghanistan, would have been perfectly happy for aQ not to have escaped Sudan.

Somehow the goof troop that got us fighting a war in Iraq also screwed up the operation in Afghanistan. At this point that can't be a surprise to anyone. But you're talking about mistakes made leading up to and in the first several weeks of the occupation. The point of this thread is the following two decades of pointless brutality.
I usually do it to try out a new language that has my interest to see if it's worth considering for a serious effort, or trying to find employment in it.

Sometimes the language ends up really growing. I did that with Elixir very early on, and now Elixir is a solid choice for new dev even for a company. It's still a little bit niche, but I think it's just at the beginning of major growth. Frameworks like Phoenix and Nerves already make it great, but with first-class machine learning libraries coming and LiveBook, it's headed toward being seriously attractive even for later adopters.
Yeah, also "ate simple foods." These are red flags for me.
Not heating your house will make it uninhabitable within a year because of mold.
Putin isn't going fire a tactical nuke at Europe
The fastest way to kill BTC off is for a sanctioned Russia to start using it to circumvent currency controls.
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But they don’t have warm water naval access, which makes them practically useless in comparison.
Won't the bulk, or minimally a good chunk, of those non-rubble reserves be blocked now?

From the below on response was "$130 bln is gold, kept in Russia. $60 bln is renminbi, kept in China. All the rest - in G-7 countries"

Seems fluid and not totally clear the details yet. But from the below FT reporter. article is slightly vague since sanction rules are still being written. But on Twitter they wrote clearer that those assets will not be accessible.

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A US official declined to say if the US would sanction the central bank by adding it the Treasury’s “Specially Designated Nationals” list, which Fishman described as “the single most impactful sanction that you could apply to Russia, and you could do it with a stroke of the pen.”

“It would render a sizeable chunk of their foreign exchange reserves unusable overnight,” Fishman said.

"The move would ban US entities from dealing with the central bank, which would mean that everyone would be “skittish about moving any assets on behalf of the Russian central bank”, he said.

https://www.ft.com/content/073a37d5-4daf-49ed-b5bc-a4682ef1a...
https://twitter.com/HenryJFoy/status/1497705581817253889
Nazi Germany against the world was irrational but still Hitler did it. Now imagine Hitler having 6,400 nuclear warheads like Russia has them today. What would and who would stop Hitler? I think Russian government took a wild gamble taking in consideration their military supremacy and their ability to survive alone with the help of "friendly" China.
Fun idea you got, but not exactly, in some european languages, "sweet water" refers to drinking water, as opposed to what would be "salt water", water from seas and oceans.
Although the iPhone launched coming into the leopard era, which wasn't that bad.
> Russia is not that threat anymore,

realistically China+Russia is that threat to the West today
OS X at its core, is just Mach + FreeBSD. People were running Darwin in limited resource environments for years.

By the time the iPhone hit the market, there were already plenty of handheld devices that had similar specs that were running full-blown Linux.

Pretending that the iPhone was "at the edge of what was technologically possible" is rewriting history.