skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"ERoEI is unimportant and is being used incorrectly"
https://bountifulenergy.blogspot.com/2016/06/eroei-is-unimpo...

> In this article I will show that ERoEI is unimportant by itself. It usually does not matter if ERoEI is increasing or decreasing. ERoEI provides no guidance about which sources of energy we should pursue, nor does it offer any guidance about how much net energy will be available to us in the future. By itself, ERoEI is a useless figure, unless it is lower than 1, which it almost never is. Although different sources of energy (such as coal or solar PV) have different ERoEI ratios, this means nothing important.

> What is important to civilization (and to us) is the amount of net energy obtained from a source of energy. It is an amount of net energy (not a high ERoEI) which allows us to drive cars, fly airplanes, and so on. If we obtain 1 GWh of NET energy, then it does not matter if it came from a high-ERoEI source, or from a low one. What matters is the amount of net energy.

> In turn, the amount of net energy depends upon two things: ERoEI AND the amount of gross energy. BOTH of those figures are required to determine the amount of net energy obtained. ERoEI by itself tells us almost nothing.

> Let me provide an example, to demonstrate this point. Suppose you have a solar PV panel with an ERoEI of 3, which returns 1KW on average continuously for 30 years. In that case, the net energy provided by that solar panel is 175.2 MWh ((12436530)(1-1/3)) over its lifetime. If, however you have ten such solar panels, then the net energy returned is ten times higher (1752 MWh), despite no change in ERoEI.
So we use the junk rating as a political tool now. In other words, it means nothing objective anymore.
The fact that dictatorships have nuclear weapons doesn't change the fact that their ambitions must be resisted, at the cost of war if necessary.

The West has called Putin's bluff, and will continue to do so in the future.

If Russia wants to start a nuclear war, that will be on them.
Dota2 cosmetics can cost much more than that figure, depending on if you buy it outright or grind for it.

https://win.gg/news/how-much-does-the-drow-ranger-arcana-rea...

Oh, and most of the additional battlepass rewards are just temporary.
please. this is not the same thing. a similar thing might be to consider mexico allying with brazil.

there’s no sense in attempting to understand putin’s motivations. the KGB/FSB are number one with regard to disinformation and confusion. every armchair geopolitician will have their own pet-theory about the motivating factors for the aggression on ukraine.

in time, we’ll find out, i’m sure. the best anyone can do right now - if at all possible - is to help those displaced from ukraine, and put pressure on our politicians to invoke tougher sanctions on russia.

as tough as it might be for all the regular humans, i’m happy to see russia cut off from SWIFT.
Ukraine is/was on track to become a petrostate for Europe, which is a big threat for Russia. Add to that all the other points and he has somewhat „good reason“. Russia is also kinda on a decline polulation wise so he must act sooner rather then later. One thing no one notes is that Crimea gets most of its sweet water from Ukraine (which was cut off of course). That was quite the issue, but it seems they advanced now to the location where it was cut off so that’s solved I guess.
China has corruption which they try to keep under control. The US has bureaucratic incompetence which is not under control.

When highway construction offers bonuses for fast construction, things go quickly. When governments have no idea what something should cost and offer cost plus contracts, the costs skyrockets and the gravy train rolls slowly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/us/02ramp.html
> Because I can't get a job writing Haskell without having a PhD and some 5+ years of experience in the language even though I've been in the SWE field for 10+ years

I got a Haskell job and don't even have a degree.
GUERILLA WARFARE AND SPECIALFORCES OPERATIONS

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Yeah but they verify that you pay before giving you the food. That's exactly the opposite of what op was talking about.
Why is this posted here
FWIW, my point isn't that crypto is doomed and entirely useless - I have a more nuanced opinion (tho no position) but that's not why I'm commenting. I also don't mean to be giving advice to anyway, just sharing opinions while it's on topic. My point is that a whole damn lot of my age group peers have drunk the Kool-Aid that crypto is the only game in town and that there is no alternative, which is silly to be respectful, and foolish to be less so.

No one rational would argue there is no opportunity there, there's tremendous trading opportunity in any market and it only goes up (as well as the risk) the more volatile and unregulated it is. There's also tremendous opportunity to make money in the Turkish market, Russian ones these days I bet will mint millionaires. That doesn't say anything regarding if it's a good idea or not to partake, let alone to buy, pray and hodl.

>that is what most retail are buying.

That kills your opportunity, going to the crowded asset isn't exactly good for you, it just increases your cost basis and reduces your earnings or dividend yield (not that you get one with most cryptos). It's good if you're trading and have an edge in that game tho, but that's not what people I know do when they buy crypto for the long haul or gamble for the short term.

>if i invest in stocks, at best i will get 2x after 5 years, at worst i will be buying at the peak of the everything bubble

That seems to be the general theme. Pessimistic outlook on the best case for stock with an optimistic outlook for the best case in crypto while ignoring it's worst case. Also while ignoring the monumental amount of fraud and open scheming in crypto (CC: all the influencers and their literally worthless NFTs, the rugs, the thefts, the bot-phishing), doesn't exactly scream "rational, not a bubble market".

Why not realistically looking about the worst case for both rather than focus on the best case for one? For crypto it's possibly getting offramps rugged by governments or even simply the market changing it's mind - with no intrinsic value there's basically no floor. In both cases you get wiped entirely. For stocks there'll always be a floor as they represent stakes in the actual economy, real companies with real balance and earnings sheet. Worst case historically is a -90%, but that went with the great depression and famine, you'll have bigger worries. A 2008 style historic crisis is a mere -50%.

I think owning crypto makes sense, but I can't understand the rationale behind being all-in crypto with significant life savings which I see a lot. If it's really gonna overtake the entire fiat system, you'll be just fine even without risking to lose everything you own in the even it's a dud and doesn't overtake the financial system.
And yet Russia would not get that money for their gas, which they seem to have in abundance, if they did not export it. All their surplus of gas would not get them anything.

Russia may be able to do its own thing inside Russia for a long time, but in the meantime the world moves on and leaves them behind. It would be unwise of Russia to let it come to this. But then again a madman is a madman ...
Almost certainly the latter. The economics of distribution are extremely harsh. Fixed cost per site per day has to be covered by all parties and a profit. Say it costs USD$30 for a van stop at a place, idle the vehicle, unload the goods, and pay the driver then you need to sell a whole lotta newspapers to break even. The solution, if you enjoy print as I do, is to purchase longer term periodicals. Weekly news magazines are good. The New Yorker, Economist, etc. Smiles from China where we have no such options.
I'd avoid the meme that Putin is acting irrationally or crazy.

He is looking at the west build a fortress around Russia through NATO. Look at US reaction to Cuba and now imagine Cuba having a 100x more tactical and strategic geography in relationship to the US.

Months ago Russia asked that Ukraine and Georgia be excluded from NATO. We ignored him. A better approach would have been to negotiate and demand that they become permanently neutral countrys. Now we're here. Yes Putin owns all this bloodshed but it is naive to say that we the west did everything to avert this situation.
This is just about as likely as the EU switching from social safety net spending to actually being able to field a military that can defend their borders.
El Salvador Bitcoin: Tether buys itself a country; and why Chivo sucks
Completely agree ; Personally, I think this was all about Odessa, and really Putin's plan was to seize the eastern territory along with Odessa, as truly he is after the port, and believed that he could turn immediately to negotiations and "peace" so long as he keeps Odessa (the Crimea playbook)

and it COMPLETELY backfired on him...

Which I think ties to my other theory ;

What if the reason it is backfiring in such a spectacular way, is that, perhaps, Putin was not playing along with the WEF great reset agenda. While Putin was planning the Crimean Copy for grabbing Odessa, the NWO took this as the opportunity to knock him out of the way?
Actually <nextid> is.
OK, there are many places where extra clothing isn't enough, but I think most people are accustomed to an indoor temperature far higher than is necessary or healthy. It feels comfortable, but then so does morphine.
Whether it's -40 or +5 degrees centrigrade outside if the temperature inside is kept at 21, reducing it to 10 will have the same effect on the people (and water pipes) living inside. Elderly & ill people need higher temperatures than the rest of us though.
I wonder how much crypto currency Russia has. That would get around some of the SWIFT restrictions, but even Bitcoins doesnt trade as much currency as SWIFT or the VISA network. In fact I think there is only one crypto currency (not Bitcoins) which can match the Visa network's ability to handle a massive number of transactions. The Visa network reportedly can handle more transactions than anything else, but with SWIFT I would imagine that handles fewer transactions of the highest value.
there's a good chance that any form of military retaliation could lead to an action that the Russian military might confuse with preparations for a nuclear first strike, leading them to want to do the same.

such confusion doesn't arise with economic retaliation.
That's half the world? Asia alone is almost entirely either anti or apathetic towards NATO and Western sanctimonious BS, and that's 60% of the world's population.

Baffling you'd assume Africans, who unilaterally despise American and Western colonialism and primarily align with China, would also be on your side.

The fact Americans continue to assume this some great battle between Good vs. Evil is absurd. Russia is fighting for what America took from them - and winning.

NATO invaded multiple Middle Eastern countries for nearly 2 decades for oil. Americans thinking they're the good guys in any way is a joke.
With only 48 GB of RAM? Unlikely.
Electricity is already 30c/kWh here in Belgium, at least. I suppose it will get to 50c or so then.

Edit I'm not complaining, we should never have accepted to buy Russian gas in the first place and I've always been opposed to the current "ecologists" plans to build more gas plants.
1,000,000 is the rough count of their total armed forces. It includes air, naval, and logistic personnel. Actual ground troops is about 280,000 plus maybe 50-100,000 special ops and missile forces. 150,000 of those are said to be stationed around or inside Ukraine. Even if not all 150,000 are committed, they can't be removed in their entirety without leaving supply chains and what not exposed to irregular warfare; the troops on the front lines, whether in advance or occupying the territories gained, will also need reinforcement and relief. I think my numbers are correct!
Transpiling to C is certainly possible but the infrastructure for things (e.g. DWARF data for debugging) is much better when using LLVM IR directly. IIRC some operations are more pleasant (as in LLVM's definitions are more consistent/have fewer gotchas).

That said C transpilation is certainly a viable root (e.g. Idris does this)
Tough question, there are a number of nuclear plant engineers on HN that should be able to give more clarity.

When Pickering shut down in Ontario because of the powerfailure the shutdown took less than a minute, the restart took more than two weeks. And that was with a fully fueled operationally ready plant.

Refueling is a month or so normally, but what I am wondering about is if you leave a plant like that powered off for a while without the express goal of restarting it (besides the removal of the fuel) how much of it will require refurbishing before it can all work again. I would expect that the whole plant would need to be recertified before it could be operated again.
Super curious about your personal server setup, mostly how you're serving content directly to the open web?
What’s political about a country’s ability to pay its debts being based on a country’s current sanctions?

This is a consequence of the sanctions, not itself a sanction.
Don't claim that fighting to defend your family, city, and nation is irrational, even when the odds are against you.

Some people have strong values, that they're willing to risk their life for even a chance to preserve. Some people don't. But if you're not, for God's sake, don't spend your time trying to dissuade and condemn those who are.
I agree with you on both points, I was just trying to present some possible motivations from Putin's perspective.
the old, "would you rather be forgotten or hatefully remembered?"
Open a second tab in chrome
Uhm.. for me it helps, and A LOT. Surely there are more factors involved, which I'm not aware of. I'm talking from Fortaleza, Brazil. Maybe the sea is bringing cooler air. I really don't know, I only have these pieces of empirical knowledge and my experience is very narrow, basically limited to this city.
A whole new country is worth much more than whatever sanctions they'd get for this.
Agree with the OP that it is a dopamine hit to find something that's niche, which also agrees with your sensibility or mental model, or to find the "sweet spot" to use a sport analogy.

For day job I code in high level languages like: javascript/typescript, python, and back in the day: ruby, perl, and php. Never was comfortable in C/C++ but always wanted to get more proficient. And felt like to be honest programmer, I need to know a systems language.

Lately I've been learning Zig https://ziglang.org/ and I'm quite happy with the developer experience, despite it's only at version 0. It's kind of a whole new world I didn't think even possible: C level performance, but with great ergonomics and just basically: it's fun to develop in! Like C, but fun and safe(er).
One of the bigger problems of transpiling to C is inheriting its oddities, such as the definition of overflow (or lack thereof) depending on the signedness of integers, etc., etc. Personally, I'd argue that transpiling to C combines most of the downsides of a new language with most of the downsides of C. I will admit, though, that the zero-effort FFI support of the approach is quite enticing.
US: $392,328,128.10 (She was not in network)
> What is so valuable there to him, I really still don’t get it.

The gas pipelines. Gazprom is a key element of his kleptocratic rule. I don't think it's a coincidence that he waited so many years to "solve" the Donbass, but a few months after it became clear that NordStream2 will likely never become operational, suddenly he went balls-out. From a security standpoint he could have simply deployed in the key regions and dared anyone to fight back, like Erdogan has done over the Syrian regions he wanted to annex. Instead Putin is trying to take the whole thing, because he wants to control the pipelines all the way.
When somebody drops out of work to pursue a beneficial community passion, does GDP decrease? Economists would disagree...
Well this is the End of February and Spring is in a month. Decent chance the timing of this invasion on Russia’s part is for exactly the same reason.

So, the question as I see it is: will this war continue into the next winter?
I’ve had my eye on gerbil since it was announced. I’m very interested in it’s goals
North Korea fires unidentified projectile eastward: South Korean military
> I think when you're calling bullshit, in order for it not to become a he-said, she-said situation, you should provide any sort of source.

You have it backwards. I'm saying there's no difference. The person making the claim there is a difference is the one who needs evidence.
Plus they're actually able to ensure the rightfulness of their ownership in said stock, unlike other participants which can get expropriated should they decide it is in their interest [0]. Would also expect insiders won't be blissfully scamming a shareholder if said shareholder is the state (or a friend of).

0: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffe...
You could compile to C in the first revision of the compiler, but write it so that you could change to a LLVM back-end in the future. That is, unless your language does something that isn't a good fit for C, such as exceptions or continuations.

But do also look into other parts of the LLVM frameworks, especially MLIR.

Historically, there have been many compilers that produced C code, but some may have done so because of lack of compiler frameworks.
The first C++ compilers compiled to C. Eiffel compiled to C. Nim compiles to C. I've also used a compiler framework that compiled to Java.
2 chats at the same time? I've always wanted to do that man
Highly preferable to a total ban from SWIFT. Because giving the perception to the dictator of a nuclear state that all his money reserves have been totally “stolen” may not be the wisest move.

I’d personally not take that risk and work on other fronts.
I'm guilty of spending hours of paid time laboring over pedantically correct variable and function names. Often, old dictionaries are involved, archaic words...
If you like playing with different things (Operating systems, misc software) - virtual machines are fun.

I allocate 32 of my 128GB to 'hugepages' - basically reserved areas of memory for the VMs (or other capable software) to use. It helps performance a bit.

Aside from that, I make pretty liberal usage of tmpfs (memory backed storage) for various things. When building software with many files it can make a big difference.

Fedpkg/mock will chew through 40-50GB depending on what I'm building/the chroot involved
Yeah, that for sure remains to be seen. I really hope they can pull it off and repel the invasion before neighboring states get drawn in.
He has to keep his fellow oligarchs happy not joe public.
I've been enjoying learning some new niche languages over the past year, Nim and V, using my favorite types of hobby projects to do so.

I started learning Nim a few years ago, and came back to it last year after seeing it had improved in a number of areas. I started working on a practical utility, a self-contained document uploader system that could be customized for certain departments at work. Eg, take a Word document, convert it to PDF, upload to a specific location on our company website. Not truly a hobby project, but no one asked me for it, just playing with an idea I came up with based on frequent help desk tickets I get. I guess one of my hobbies is inventing programs that someone might find useful, without having an actual target audience. 8]

Since then I have written a handful of graphics programs in Nim which are more in my hobby area. I wrote a nice version of the Reaction Diffusion simulation that generates fascinating tile patterns and naturalistic forms. I also plan to make a version of Pickover popcorn.

More recently I started working with the V programming language and have been playing with the Mandelbrot example they provide. I added a 256-color palette, higher iteration options for more detailed images, and am working on a system to create a catalog of favorite points and images. It will also save and load simple text files describing a particular point and zoom level that people could share in a chat or text message. This kind of thing has all been done before, but these are just exercises in fundamental aspects of the language to help me learn the basics and determine if it's worth pursuing it further.

I am playing with these languages particularly because they make smallish executable programs that can be easily distributed. I'm working up to developing simple GUI CRUDs with them to see how practical the process is. I'm still looking for something that will replace what I used to do with Delphi.
Thanks, that's very useful. I will disseminate that link wherever I can.
I think this sort of behavior could only be advocated by somebody who doesn't understand actual tyranny; if you think that you're a slave to the 'elite of the modern West', than you have no perspective what being a slave is really like. Nor why anybody would fight against it.
14 nations have been added to NATO since 1994 [1], most of them former Warsaw Pact countries.

It's hotly debated but alleged that the US gave verbal assurances NATO wouldn't expand east in discussions about German reunification.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Adriatic_C...
Rclone works well with OneDrive and others on Linux.

AWS S3 bucket and the aws s3 sync CLI is easy, can be scripted or used with a github action.

Use the glacier option on S3 for really old stuff you would only want in an emergency.

I also use an old LTO2 tape drive. Its surprisingly fast and on Linux is well supported , although I just use tar as my back up software for that.

Linux has a lot more options than windows, at least thats what I found after I switched full time a few months ago.

I've never used time machine though.
I just cannot see why outsourcing this way is sustainable, and it probably isn't. Some are great, and some are absolutely abysmal, an internal joke in the company was that a senior engineer was the same a junior engineer or worse. I had an a senior engineer who couldn't change a string to another string in a code base. I don't even exaggerate I had to prove to my manager that he had no skills at all.
This isn't supporting evidence. It says nothing about the impact of lower temperatures on your immune system. It's a correlation with total mortality which could be caused by many other unrelated things.
Is that enjoyable?
Yes, but a larger buffer between NATO and strategic assets like Moscow.
He's done pretty bad things before. Georgia in 2008. The endless attacks on his own citizens, institutions; poisoning dissidents and hunting them down across the globe. This is not overnight. I'm not sure why some people are giving him benefit of the doubt now for his long legacy of ruthlessness.
A Minecraft build can be used to teach almost any subject
I believe we're a long way from the global optimum programming language and associated tools. I've been brainstorming ideas for improving programming languages for years. Dawn is my attempt to distill all of that into a new language.
Victory of civilian militias, guerilla groups, etc. against imperial powers is usually because occupation of the former's territory is a sunk cost for the latter. America, Haiti, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. are not really comparable to this present conflict, in which the imperial power is adjacent both in terms of land and history.
It gives you the commit history for one thing. And if you download for archiving you get the whole thing, all the branches etc. rather than just a current snapshot of the main branch. But sure if that’s all you want, zip is fine.