skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in Vladivostok, but it seems that all satellite uplinks of Russian TV channels are hacked now https://twitter.com/a_latkovskis/status/1497627592677117952 . It means that all of remote Russian regions relying of satellite feeds for local TVs are now watching documentaries on Putin's golden loo, and Ukraine war feeds.
Cold spots in a heated house and a lack of airflow seem to cause mold. The temperature difference causing condensation, excess moisture with nowhere to go and then mold.

Interesting whether this would happen in an entirely unheated building.
Why Putin’s War with Ukraine Is a Miscalculation
I don't know the details, but it also apparently leveled Grozny.
Worth it for the lobster rolls though, right?
It was at the edge in a few small ways but it was carefully profiled to be that; it had limitations (single process model) that didn't really matter (except the absence of 3G) in favour of performance (graphics, capacitive multitouch) that did.

It was out in front in a lot of ways but not witchcraft.
LOL NATO has every reason to exist as proven by what just happened. They can at least act as a united front and send unlimited arms and supplies to Ukraine.
Escalation with a nuclear super power is not something to be done lightly. Leaving war as the only option on the table is a very bad idea.

This is likely to end poorly for the entire world.
Yeah I have workers in both too. The two I’ve got in Ukraine I've run through Upwork as they seem to have had that handled in the past and we cover the Upwork percentage.

I’ll have to check with the comfort level of my guys taking bitcoin but that seems like an option at least. Don’t want to think about the accounting issues we will have to figure out but thanks for the idea.
The modern schizophrenia of the US political system is making things difficult for the whole world. It used to be that US foreign policy could be considered fundamentally consistent across administrations, on the big topics; now, every 4 years, it's a coin toss.
Sweet tea maybe.. I've never heard "sweet water" but webster does have this,

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweet%20water

> : a sugar solution

> especially : one obtained by recovery of waste sugar during refining
Hopefully nothing more than standard-provocative.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with various Asiatic nations like Japan, particularly with regard to pushback on third parties and deployment of defensive weaponry, now that EUR nations are testing the banding-together approach and shipping weapons to one of their peripheral member states. A new boundary is being explored there and it will very much apply in concept to the states around North Korea and China as well.
Measuring GDP as richness isn't really useful. Russia doesn't operate a war on USD or EUR. This is like comparing income without taking into account cost of living.

GDP is not a good measure of richness of a country in relation to how it will handle itself in a war.
Article: some teachers used Minecraft to teach a single specific course.
When your enemy tells you what he is going to do, it is best, to a first order approximation, to believe him.
Submitted a few times in recent year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21171274 is the only one I can see, after a very cursory search, that got any discussion going at all.
He said himself as-much: he would sleep better knowing that the missiles wouldn't reach Kremlin.
Are you the person who came up with the "delenda" tables at one of my old jobs?
We eat fashionably, we dress fashionably etc.
“Under the hood” is fancy talk for doing more than put text on screen. Whether or not that’s needed depends on the employer.

BTW, nobody is an expert within just 3 years. That is a key indicator of a Dunning-Kruger moment that becomes clear by drilling down just a bit into key performance indicators from research and experience.
The only one poking "the bear" is Putin. He hates that his country is withering on the vine. He can't see that it's his own authoritarian policies that are slowly killing his country.
Yes. I think there was also a severe miscalculation how the invasion would be internationally received. Putin has been extremely successful at distracting and dividing the western world with troll farms and reactionary political movements. But violating long respected international law with an overt invasion cannot be postmodernly relativized away. And Russia going back to doing exactly what Soviet Russia did - subjugate and impoverish client states to implement crony totalitarianism - inflames a lot of cultural memories. The modern world makes the contrast even starker - at least the European countries behind the Iron Curtain had been liberated from Nazi Germany with Soviet Starvation being a step up. This is a direct attack on a modernizing democracy to drag it backwards to the "good old days".
> The new houses are designed with zero consideration about ventilation, designers seem to take for granted that you are going to buy an AC system.

These are two separate problems.

In the ideal situation, you generally want the house to be fairly air tight and condition the air for (a) temperature and (b) humidity. Each of (a) and (b) are taken care of by different mechanical units: one is monitored by a thermometer and the other by an hygrometer. The latter triggers a stand alone dehumidifier:

* https://www.aprilaire.com/whole-house-products/dehumidifiers

For fresh air you have an HRV/ERV, which brings outside air (through a filter) into the house (usually to bedrooms), while at the same time blowing out stale inside air (usually taken from bathrooms and the kitchen), with the two moving through the unit so that the outgoing air tempers the incoming air:

* https://www.ecohome.net/guides/2276/choosing-between-an-hrv-...

You still have opening windows, as they're mandated for emergency fire exits.
Common Lisp has had compile time regexes for well over a decade.
I really was not clear, sorry. Nathalie Jeremijenko was not the artist who had the video. She hosted a seminar where a sequence of artists gave talks. One of these artists presented that video at the seminar.

I really don't see how it could have been a hoax. Computer art and animation was my thing at the time, and I'm pretty sure I would have noticed a fake. 20 years ago, computer animation was pretty good, but it was a rare few who could make truly realistic renders and composit them into recorded video. Not that guy, for sure.
Is there any reason to think he's a geopolitical idiot? I wouldn't exactly go praise his actions at a dinner with political donors (cough cough), but his history doesn't strike me as one from someone who doesn't know how to play politics and power. Is there precedent for stupid actions? Obviously looking at it from the lens of a dictator's self-interest, not my Westerner's ideals of morality. I can see this being a self-destructive mistake from an otherwise intelligent autocrat. Could also be the descent of his sanity but I'd like to know why that'd be believable, and hopefully that isn't the case as it'd make him that much more dangerous with regards to the likelihood of.. well, flipping the table.
Because why should he? Ukraine is a sovereign nation and should make up its own mind. I'm personally unsure why they didn't just declare themselves a neutral country like Switzerland, but here we are.
In areas with coastal fog it can be the case that the cooler months with lower evaporation rates are more likely to allow spores a foothold. This is often seen in older spaces designed with passively vented kitchen and baths.

But good building design following current standards isn't going to be affected by this.
I love this comment, but maybe not for the intended reason. Why? Because I immediately wanted to add my two cents - another analogy by way of deep learning - that intelligence is like adding model capacity, like additional conv depth or or additional attention heads. That's fine and all, but then it struck me.

We're one level from popping the top off it all and coming to terms that we've fallen into a trap described by Ludwig Feuerbach.[1] The choice of analogies says just as much about us as they do about the subject.

1. Feuerbach(1881) The Essence of Christianity https://libcom.org/files/The%20Essence%20of%20Christianity.p... (p. 17)
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> Well, that is simply not true.

I think it's true, for example catch [1] requires IO. Do you mean with unsafePerformIO, or something else?

1: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.16.0.0/docs/Contr...
"Iran-sponsored terrorism", in the US press, is any support for enemies of Israel - even when they are nation states building conventional forces.
I read a story today that Russian soldiers were sending Ukrainian women photos on Tinder. The story alleged that they expected to be treated in a friendly way upon arrival. This may reflect the general sentiment in the Russian chain of command.
Not that I'm an expert on this topic, but my guess is that Putin lives in a self-produced information bubble. He's superficially well-informed but relies way too much on intelligence reports, which can completely misrepresent what's going on when you look at them in isolation. His mindeset is "me against others" and "Russia against the rest of the world." He is surrounded by Yes-sayers as advisers and some oligarch friends who are probably also not particularly connected with reality and more interested in real estate, superyachts and Gazprom stocks. Lack of good advisers is a huge problem.

Given this background and a certain lack of empathy and sense of right and wrong, from Putin's perspective the past actions appear reasonable. He successfully prevented Ukraine from joining NATO and the EU and involved it into a useless war in the Donbas region. Now things weren't moving on from this point and the situation in the Donbas region was a constant source of concern. So he apparently decided to "solve" the Donbas problem once and for all, perhaps as part of his legacy, and miscalculated. From a pure military perspective the decision might seem reasonable. Ukraine's military is badly outnumbered and still has not much of a chance in the long run. He probably thought it's going to be a quick rush into the capital, installing a puppet regime, and he's done. Western military analysts thought the same.

Why he's been so extremely fixed on keeping Ukraine out of NATO can probably only be explained with his KGB background and the corresponding mindset. There are superficial justifications, it is a prima facie reasonable standpoint of Russia to be against this, but nevertheless Putin seems to be fixated on this in an abnormal way. It is clear that NATO membership of Ukraine would not pose a threat to Russia. However, you could just as well ask why Putin hasn't diversified Russia's economy, made the country a close ally and trade partner of the EU, and helped turning mother Russia into a prospering modern democratic state. This wouldn't have been hard, Russia has all the potential you could imagine - rich of resources, longstanding integration into Europe, excellent scientists and engineers (before the brain drain). The answer is probably that Putin is a paranoid poison murderer and filthy rich ex-KGB officer who came to power more or less by accident. He's simply not good presidential material. Normally this isn't a problem (most presidents aren't), but when a "president" becomes a dictator and is surrounded by Yes-sayers in an information bubble it certainly is a problem.
That picture of the "Wallabies" https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/880451736049139712 suggests that the often-repeated claim about the hardware and software teams working in mutual igorance is overblown. The Wallabies really seem not so far from final hardware, especially compared to (IIRC) some other devkits for old mobile devices. It would have been quite clear that the release hardware would be substantially thicker and lighter (assuming those things are fairly heavy, as well as bulky) and if you imagine them so you get something pretty close to the original iPhone (aside from the metal-case flash and sizzle).
Moist air from cooking increases the humidity in the house. The walls of the house are cold, the moisture condenses on the cold walls keeping them damp for the entire winter.
Engineers don't necessarily make good managers. Engineers actually have a narrow view of what a company like Boeing does. They may be the best at designing an airplane, but not at building, selling and flying it. So why not have executives be pilots, or even assembly line workers, they are all just as essential as engineers.

What they do sometimes is have their top executives work every job first. Engineering of course, but also getting their hands dirty on the assembly lines, ordering from suppliers, maybe even fly the plane. So when they finish their years long path, they may be MBA, but they know what they are doing.
I think he/she was being sarcastic.
>Couldn't we encourage people to take converted container ships to the middle east, ie Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco or South America to enjoy an enjoyable warm "winter" ?

you mean get people to temporarily emigrate to north africa?
Yes, I just wrote this to express that even sophisticated investors take part of worthless projects.
Stockpiles of munitions are vital, you can’t simply expend infinite numbers, they take time to resupply. At times even American troops were supply constrained on certain missiles.

The point is, Russia has to be selective, especially since Ukrainian AD is still active.
I wish these had been used as the basis for the set of emoji.
A large body of water near by certainly has a moderating effect on temperature.

I looked up the climate data for Fortaleza, and compared it to my town (random US city, about 35 degrees northern latitude, so not super far south or anything.)

Our average daily highs in summer are only about 1 degree (C) lower than your RECORD highs... your averages are about 9C lower than ours.

Without AC here it would be...supremely unpleasant, and well other the threshold of danger for anyone with any sort of medical issues.
Anonymous prevents the Russian occupiers from communicating
I think the phrase "never get involved in a land war in Asia" was invented in a NATO country. And certainly not in winter.
Whoa. Super interesting!
Maybe even useful for compiling during development ... develop in workspace, use unison to copy over to the ramdisk, then do all builds from the ramdisk dir?

Would you agree with this article's recommendations regarding ramdisk setup?
https://www.linuxbabe.com/command-line/create-ramdisk-linux There seems to be controversy in the comments as to whether tmpfs is a proper ramdisk - although no clear tutorial as to a better method. Interested to learn more!
FE dev here. In my day to day work, I often find there is a communication disconnect between our FE and BE teams. We communicate over slack and in JIRA ticket comments but there is undoubtedly at least one aspect of a UI element I'm working on that has something not functioning as expected on the backend. I feel like if we just had more meetings or somehow cleaner lines of communication this would be avoidable.
Practicing in a highly focused single paradigm language (Haskell/F#, Smalltalk et al) translates well on the resume when you shift to a multi paradigm industrial language (Python/Javascript/C#)
Title is incorrect. It should be NO_COLOR in all caps, like the environment variable.
We had an issue with our migrations at one point where we were using a “create new table, populate, drop old table, rename new table to old table” strategy for syncing data from an external source. Unfortunately our implementation flog this caused issues with indexes and constraints not being correctly propagated to the new tables, which in turn causes issues with applying migrations as a fresh database now had different indexes to our production database.

I used a tool like this to produce a diff of our prod database vs. a freshly created database with our migrations applied. Saved me a ton of time.
I'm a front-end dev and recently started working independently with back-end dev, we look for clients to work for. We're mostly doing MERN. One thing that ended up being the most helpful tool for us is postman because it includes the ability to make very easy-to-navigate API documentations allowing me to quickly jump between endpoints without having to spend too much time finding out what data it's expecting and returning.
https://learning.postman.com/docs/publishing-your-api/docume...
If you're grid tied, then that obviates the argument that you can exist on local solar generation. The grid is subsidizing your system.

And is your solar on the roof? Do you get up their and clear it off after it snows so you can get power? And what happens when you need a new roof? Did you factor in that cost?

When you add in the required extra panels (to account for charging and drawing power at the same time, and for overcast days), batteries, inverters, regulators, permitting, installation, and many other things, you start to realize that renewable power is a lot more expensive than just the panels. And if you have a system on your property, its a lot more hassle than just paying a bill.
Colors.lol (2020)
The only effective method to stop secrecy is vulgarization and evangelization, otherwise nobody's gonna trust that what you do or how you work is the proper way.
Yeah I'm pretty sure with removing Russia as a gas supplier to Europe renewables are going to get pushed even harder there. Other regions too.
ProtonMail is becoming a very promising platform.
Can you please describe an example of where an application might be memory bandwidth bound, and what engineering techniques might be used to circumvent this restriction?
But isn't he creating himself NATO neighbors by expanding his borders up to it? Whereas the alternative status quo is NATO not daring to add Ukraine to it's ranks. Tho I guess the calculation could've been that Ukraine was on track to become more powerful than he'd like it to be, economically or militarily, and thus wanted to cripple it while he was expecting it to be easy, both in terms of retaliation from the West and Ukraine's self defense.
> Why not just set $TERM to dumb or xterm without color support? Or change all color definitions in the terminal to print the same color?

> The terminal is capable of color and should be able to print color when instructed. NO_COLOR is a hint to the software running in the terminal to suppress addition of color, not to the terminal to prevent any color from being shown.

I have to admit I don't really get this. I personally like colorized output, and I can't even think of situations where the colors chosen by a developer were so bad I wanted to disable them completely.

I respect others like no color (and there's already a solution per that, above), but I don't quite get the desire to have just some color (prompts but not applications). Can someone with this opinion explain their rationale?

Normally I wouldn't care,
-- individual preferences are like opinions and everyone is entitled to their own -- but this imposes work on every developer/application. There's certainly ways to implement this that minimize impact, but it's still a non-zero up-front and ongoing maintenance/testing cost.
The temperature of the house is not uniform - areas are colder than others. But when you heat up to 68F - then the really cold areas of the house stay (usually) above freezing. If you let the house drop to 60-55 F - there's no guarantee that the colder parts of your walls and pipes freeze.
Maybe it's a symptom of something endemic to the west at the moment: Fundamentally inept, risk-adverse middle management.
iPhone announcement: January 2007
Android release: October 2008
Windows Phone 7 release: October 2010

Indeed it seems that Microsoft took their sweet time to rearchitect their OS, but these dates suggests Microsoft realized much earlier than 3 years later.
The situation has changed somewhat since I wrote the parent post, at least with respect to Germany: They have now themselves also begun to supply Stingers/Javelins to the Ukrainians. The urgency needs to be kept up, but this is heartening to see.

I have also been thinking about how to meet aggression and to subvert it. Defense must be stalwart, but it may also be worth remembering that many of the Russians attacking are themselves quite young and inexperienced (putting the "infant" in "infantry"). There is probably something more attractive for them in Europe than there is in Russia. Give them a way out. They will probably not be received well in neighboring countries if all they speak is Russian (especially after this), but perhaps they and their families can be accepted as refugees (with appropriate resettlement packages) in other places within the Western sphere of influence, e.g. South America. Take Putin's "human resources" away; let them hang out on a beach somewhere.
>Ukraine has every right to do that. They're a sovereign nation, not a Russian province.

Sure, I totally agree. They are free to make their own decisions. NATO countries are also free to make their own decisions, and I wish that they would close the NATO door to Ukraine. I have no interest in the US and NATO being the world police.
A few days ago.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/doj-white-suprem...
How generally are people dealing with these coloured logs when ingesting them into a centralized logging system? Is there much overhead in stripping these sort of things out.
> Simply, 1 + NULL = NULL, and we expanded that to all expressions.

That's not quite right. In SQL NULL represents an unknown value, so 1 + unknown => unknown.

TRUE OR NULL => TRUE
FALSE OR NULL => NULL
FALSE AND NULL => FALSE
TRUE AND NULL => NULL

Which is also why NULL = NULL => NULL, i.e. unknown == unknown => unknown.
Also there are a lot of renewables just sold on the grid without consumer marketing. The only reason the have a "renewable consumer plan" would be to charge people more. It wouldn't make sense to have a consumer plan with renewables and charge people less than the market rate.
While this is a good standard, I often find myself just doing `somecommand | cat` whenever I want to get rid of colors. Usually they're disabled when outputting to a non-tty device.
> It's not confirmed yet...

But you said:

> ... turns out they surrendered...

So, in essence, you're doing the same thing you were trying to caution people about doing. People may, in fact, be spreading a story that's false, but you're also spreading a false story by saying "turns out they surrendered" when your own citation suggests they're still trying to confirm their surrender.

We all need to be diligent about confirming word-of-mouth stories and allowing time for their accuracy to be verified.
Ultrawide USB-C monitors for the office
In searching for a new ultra-wide office monitor (>=34"), I realized that it was extremely difficult to systematically compare between monitors of separate brands. I also realized that some monitors still ship without features that could be taken for granted (e.g. swivel). I put together a ranked spreadhsheet of 19 monitors across 9 brands with a USB Type-C/Thunderbolt 3 connectivity. My monitor of interest needed to (a) be >=34", (b) charge my laptop through a USB Type-C/Thunderbolt 3, (c) allow for adjustable height/tilt/swivel, (d) have a curvature > 1500R (lower values give me dizziness), and (e) have blue light protection. For the 6 monitors that abided by these pre-requisites, I also included important display-related characteristics and other features to help rank them. I hope that you find it useful and that it saves at least a few minutes for at least a few of you!
> There are cases where you don't want -e enabled, such as when you want to make sure your script makes the best attempt to continue operating even through unknown failures.

You don't let go of -e for that.

dont_mind_failure || true
important_process

add 'true' specifically if you must.
The internet was designed with a narrow waist
It definitely isn't impossible.