skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While true the extreme low volume and high complexity and large size make it very expensive. There are just not enough of them built even if its older technology.

Nuclear will never be cost competitive unless they can use the same turbines gas and coal plants use. And that is of course what most GenIV reactors do.
Also considering Stripe for my modest needs and have used it at day jobs. My biggest concern is entrenching them further. Competition is good. And being too reliant on one processor is bad, especially once a business gets into millions per year.

Still decoupling recurring subscriptions from the payment processor, or at least supporting more than one, is a challenge.
20,000 people have died of overdoses in Canada since 2016.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

While that is a lot, it's far fewer from the number of people who have died from COVID.

It seems like you're over-dosing on misinformation.
The consequences will be long term, while the people here will not reap any benefits.
Thanks. I wonder how many of these videos are legitimate and current. I've seen people posting a lot of fake stuff, such as the ghost of kyiv photos. I tried (probably naively) to view some image exif data to determine legitamacy but I assume the big sites like twitter, reddit etc all remove that meta data.
And why can't miners do this on BCH?
What isn't Ponzi scheme then?
You gonna need to explain how a region with a population of 2 million will occupy a country with a population of 44 million.
Also managing to give 5 temporary variables names of the same length makes for a day well spent.
"Norway's border with Russia for example is a narrow sliver of mountains."

Wrong. It's fairly flat, mostly tundra and swampland.

"Additionally, Ukraine's position is even more significant because it potentially threaten's Russia's access to the Black Sea and the occupited territory of Crimea."

Wrong. Just look at a map.

Given this is already a pivot to sharing a "significant" border with NATO, perhaps you should be a bit more discerning with your statements.
I’m not blaming it in CNN. I’m observing that for a long time CNN striving to be better kept that disconnect somewhat in check. When CNN became Fox it grew into a chasm.
> Does Russia control the airspace or are the rumors true that Ukraine still has aircraft?

Hard to know for sure, since this is an information that really affect morale on either side (Knowing that you still have airplanes and that the Russians don't control the sky is really good for Ukrainian morale, and vice versa).
The problem is that Germany replaced nuclear with (more) gas. Renewables, if anything, made them a bit less dependent.

Every country in the world is moving to renewable, Germany is not special at all.
> But from the point of veiw of the russian leadership they have less to loose now.

They are paying a hefty price with every single day this situation goes on. The goal is to reach the point of "too painful to continue" as quickly as possible.
I'm looking for a decent compact duffel bag, which can double as a oversized backpack. Ballstic nylon sounds like the stuff!

Good for taking on holiday when you don't want to store a suitcase till the end of time! :D

What's an IKEA bag made from out of interest?
it might also keep your corner yours. weaning off putin's energy should've been done ages ago before it came to this. for the record, typing this from eastern europe, thus getting some vaseline ready for when the gas and energy invoices come.
Hard to see them losing a ground war to take the territory with such numerical superiority but it's been done before in Israel.

Even if they lose the ground war initially a long term insurgency will develop and Russia will have trouble swallowing it.
If he fails militarily, which he still might, the result of all this commotion will be that Ukraine will have much tighter ties to EU, NATO will be strengtened in the east, and Russia's economy will tank, for no geopolitical benefit.
Dependabot and Dependency Graph do detect indirect dependencies in repos (and create alerts and PRs for them) if they’re specified in a lockfile. So if you’re using bundler, npm, yarn, pipenv, composer, etc., and are committing your lockfile, you’re already covered. It’s cases we can’t scan (complicated cases like Gradle, where we really need to execute code to understand the dependencies) that the new API will help with.
I don't quite agree there. Carrol clearly has a deep understanding of physics while Lex doesn't and was able to probe in deeper ways on that front, but the opposite is true when it comes to an understanding of computation.

Lex was very interested in the universal substrate rewrite analogy to a turing machine and all of the implications of that, while Sean kind of glossed over that.

Carrol seems to be the overall more educated of the two, but at the same time has a more sophomoric understanding of the theory of computation.

Come to think of it, overall it seems to be a weak spot amongst well known physicists, Wolfram excepted.
To those having created languages, should I target LLVM or is transpiling to C a viable way (like I intend to) ?

Transpilers to C seem rare, maybe for a reason..
Just in time for that supply pipeline to dry up because there are no more new coal plants. :) There are still steam turbines for gas fired combined cycle, but I'm not sure those are suitable.

What nuclear needs to do is go to something radical, like supercritical CO2 turbines. But that involves a large cost and delay to mature those, and it may be too late. Perhaps it can be combined with the CO2 turbine technology for the Allam cycle (oxyfuel combustion of gas in CO2 for zero marginal cost CO2 separation.)
Thank you, this is awesome to hear. Sadly (to my own detriment) I've gotten slow to investigate the alerts because 90% of them are false positives.

That said, this offering is amazing, and IMHO a huge value add of using Github, so even if you left it exactly how it is it's still appreciated. I especially appreciate that you support many different languages (on that, would love to see Erlang and Elixir added). An app server that runs an older PHP service got exploited and was mining crypto currency. The investigation went way, way faster because I happened to notice the security warning on Github. I was able to get it patched pretty quickly thanks to that. Even though updating deps is one of the first things I do, I may never have actually figured out where the vulnerability was without github, so thank you so much!
Poisonous gas was banned in 1925; most of the victims were soldiers. Yet we can't get rid of residual landmines?

The majority of humanity is fed-up with tyrants. Anyone capable of planting/spreading landmines that will cause indiscriminate civilian death can also be hung by the neck until dead. The belligerent will respect that option if its certain enough. If the penalties are severe enough, most countries could handle that leadership problem. Ask Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Ukrainians are selling NFTs to get money for humanitarian help
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And what's the chance Putin has a massive interest in SPFS. Almost certainly, IMO.
Most business stuff I do is in high level languages, so with my fun projects I like to try to spend more time caring about clock cycles :)
> Is he really being portrayed as a buffoon, though?

Yeah - for example the Economist cover on the 19th.

https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2022-02-19
or you can keep your cheap gas and start learning Russian
True! Smalltalk's weakness has always been not prototyping.
Mrustc Bootstraps Rustc 1.54.0
> I.e. what do you do when phone/internet systems collapse?

I suspect the wired network in a city to be quite strong actually, since most of it is buried. For sure, you'd have lost connectivity to the rest of the world and internet, but setting-up a local telephone network using the copper wire network still standing doesn't sound that hard actually!
https://web.archive.org/web/20220226230400/reuters.com/marke...
just a little salt here. the reason Lipsky doesnt want you to consider Iran, Venezuela, or even Cuba is precicely because these type of direct sanctions couldn't kill these countries. these sanctions alone didnt drive the capitulation of the CCCP either.

eventually globalism wins out. the idea of an untapped or taboo market is simply too offensive not to engage on some level. US companies get persistently caught with their hand in the $axis(evil) trading cookie jar and ITAR generally rewards them with a slap on the wrist.
Odds are that Gabe doesn’t even actually know or remember the reason.
What you're describing is the North Korean playbook: completely cut yourself off from the rest of the world and let your people starve in order to hang on to power. North Korea shows that it is possible--in North Korea. But is it possible in a country over a hundred times the land area, between five and six times as large in population, with many different ethnic groups, run by an oligarchy of businessmen who depend on, well, business, that now will have to deal with a never-ending Ukrainian insurgency without any exit plan to speak of, and, most importantly, without China willing to spend the vast resources necessary to prop them up? I'm extremely doubtful, as is the West, and that's why the sanctions are being imposed.
Interesting documentary, can you help explain the use of the term `neo liberal` here? I thought liberal meant progressive. Progressive as in more government safety nets
> Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?

The answer is China (well, Asia, really).

Now that we've answered that, let's pose a new question:

Why is China capable of such investment but not the United States, even though the United States has more money?
Seriously, everyone wants to legalese this and determine who is at fault, but for a minute let’s just enjoy the fact that a bit company was able to quickly retaliate against hackers.
> Replace "Ukraine" with "Afghanistan" and "Russia" with "United States"

Or just Russia with USSR, after all they lost a war in Afghanistan 3 decades before the US.
Yeah, I thought that the Russians wouldn't want journalist embedded with them as what they are doing is nothing to promote. Kind of expected there to be some of the more battle hardened journos like Frank Gardner types to be embedded with the Ukrainians though.
Isn't there a chance that it could be problematic (or at least challenging) to reduce employee performance to a single numeric value?

To me it feels like employee performance is an ongoing, continuous, qualitative and subjective measurement that only a person's peers can really describe -- probably in their own varying and approximate terms.

In other words: less "NPS 6", and more: "would consider as a code reviewer during my quest to sort all variables based on string length ... but appears to make poor choices regarding bringing aromatic food into the cubicle farm".
I did AML for wire transfers in SWIFT. Not an expert, but can confirm that they can route it as you describe. Presumably, they will ban more banks and the whack-a-mole game begins.

At least when I did it (15 years ago) there are also tricks like removing from the wire the originator details or where it passed through. Nobody really cares as long as the money gets to where it was supposed to go. There may be new rules in place, but I assume there are more loopholes as well.
It reminds me of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, widely used in aircraft technical documentation by Boeing and Airbus. For easier understanding by technicians, use of words are carefully controlled to reduce ambiguities.

For example, instead of saying "before acceptance of unit, carry out the specified test procedure", you should write "before you accept the unit, you must do the specific test procedure." Also, the word "close" should only be used to mean "to move something to a position". Instead of writing "do not go close to the landing gear", one should write "do not go near the landing gear."

It's a special-purpose language and not meant to be a general writing standard, but the basic idea is similar to this project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Technical_English
We did a programming language for a project. It was a clinical rules language.

The distinguishing features of it were the data model (it had first class access to the temporal data model we had on the back end), and that we kept the tri-state model of SQL with values and NULL.

Other than that it didn't have any real structured types, and just few high level actions.

It was a straightforward project, ALGOL-esque, basic control structures. It compiled to Java source code, and the resulting classes loaded in to the app server.

We used a "compiler compiler" tool, rather than doing it ourselves. It gave us an AST that we then walked. First time doing anything like that, especially with a tool like that.

Especially in an ALGOL like language, getting the expressions to work is the "hard" part. That's where your "napkin to white board to syntax file" falls apart with reduce errors and what not.

But when you get it to work, it's magic. When you get "a = a + 1" to work, and know that where 1 line of code works, 10000 lines of code will work, it's an amazing feeling. You just build the things a piece at a time, testing all the way.

In the end, we had an unresolved precedence issue (as I recall), but we never bothered to fix.

The funniest unexpected outcome was the classic SQL model of using NULL. Simply, 1 + NULL = NULL, and we expanded that to all expressions.

It kind of fell apart in something like: IF A = 1 AND B = 2 OR C > 3 THEN...

If any of those variable (A, B, C) was NULL, the entire expression evaluated to NULL, which was false. It took me by surprise when it happened, but, "duh", of course.

I simply changed the NULL rule to no apply to boolean operators. Instead of evaluating to NULL, I had them all evaluate to FALSE, and that fixed that.

Looking at Wirths work (Pascal, Oberon, etc.), you'll see that compilers can be simple. They're work, but they're simple work. We obviously make them more and more sophisticated all the time, but your compilers don't need to be that way to be effective, productive, and useful. We created thousands of lines of code using that language, it solved the problem very nicely that it was supposed to do.

Runtimes can be hard, but that's a separate problem.
i love Crystal too!

one downside for me is the development speed, compile time is definitely noticeable if you come from an interpreted language
It took me a bit of pondering the duotone design, when it hit me. "Hey it's that solar-powered website!"

Really cool to see the article, thank you. The leather hooded chair in particular caught my eye, what a find.

Reading one of the follow-on articles I appreciated the idea about opening the windows for hopefully-improved air quality being more of a doable thing with localized heat, since the air is not the primary heat transfer medium anyway.[1]

Thanks for posting!

1. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/03/local-heating.html
I feel like that doesn’t quite count as a secret, if the aim is explicitly to show people a fully expressed idea as opposed to something theoretical/conceptual.
Anti-aircraft weapons are inherently dangerous to the cities they protect. Shells are fired upward and many follow a ballistic path back down to earth, missiles are fired and quite often miss. Successfully deployed weapons cause airplanes, and all their fuel and ordnance, to fall out of the sky onto the landscape below. All of this is understood by the militaries who rely on these weapons.

These are just the basic facts. No special expertise needed, of the sort the "I can tell what kind of missile this was by observing the smoke it makes" guy must possess. Shifting moral responsibility for collateral damage from the aggressor to the defender based on the limitations of the defender's arsenal does not seem right.
You can devote 1/3 of it to CISA's Malcom, which has a minimum requirement of 16GB: https://github.com/cisagov/Malcolm

As for the other 2/3... ZFS, Google Chrome, or Electron apps maybe?
I presume by "renewable" you really mean solar and wind. Hydro is generally pretty cheap, but also mostly tapped out. With that in mind, renewables are often more expensive for consumers due to a combination of a few factors:

1. The sun doesn't shine at night and the wind doesn't always blow strongly
2. People want to use power at all times of the day
3. Fixed costs in fossil fuel electricity generation are non-trivial
4. The utility scale electricity storage story is dire

The result is that renewables need to be overbuilt compared to their nameplate capacities to make up for less-than ideal weather and expected daily and annual weather cycles. I've heard those renewables produce something like 30% of their annual nameplate where a coal or gas plant will produce 90+%.

This overbuilding then ruins the wholesale price of electricity during high production times. For example, on a bright sunny spring day solar might push wholesale spot electricity prices negative. So the generating companies don't make as much money as you would expect from looking at average wholesale prices.

But people still want to use power after the sun has gone down and even if the wind has stopped blowing. So those generating companies need generating capacity to fill in that several hour long gap. Utility scale power storage in batteries isn't anywhere near being able to affordably store several hours worth of electricity. Also a cloud can roll across quickly or the wind might die suddenly. Therefore that backup generation is almost uniformly natural gas turbines because they can spin up and down quickly.

But even if no power is being sold by those plants, they need to be kept running to be instantly ready. So they are constantly burning some fuel to keep hot and spinning. The maintenance hours still keep racking up. There still needs to be people working 24/7. The costs of all that "idle" time need to be made up in the twelve hours of active generation.

So you end up with essentially double the generating capacity, half solar/wind half natural gas, and are continually paying the costs for both. Obviously that's going to be more expensive than simply burning a bit more fuel to run the natural gas plants near capacity full time. Or even build more efficient base-load plant types like coal or nuclear which have troubles scaling up and down quickly enough to balance out changeable renewable generation.
> In the end the only thing that matters is how the rest of the world reacts.

But what exactly do you propose?
Russia doesn't want to make a deal.
Wait a sec... this is from the feature request[1]:

> Just because I don't think I said it explicitly anywhere above: Because we are using an obfuscated, non-free component (the preprocessor), we can't include spamcheck in CE (users of CE expect no proprietary code to be included in the pacakge), but only in EE.

So... is it available in the current version of gitlab-ce or not? I don't want to waste time trying to get it running only to find out you've only made it available for enterprise editions and gitlab.com.

1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/issues/6259
'Mania' etc.

There is nothing special about crypto apart it being digital and new... Art, collectibles, real estate... Many things have been overvalued with basis that prices have always gone up and being paid by those acquiring them later...
To make sure nobody thinks it's a typo.
No gas service. We produce roughly 50-60 kWh daily, depending on the season. 1:1 net metering. Would have to pull consumption from Grafana.
I can understand that from the Polish perspective. From the American perspective, I know that the United States is one of the only countries that is more aggressive and interventionist then Russia in the world. I don't want our military bumping up against Russia any more than it has to. I think there are risks to Poland from this as well.
UNSC vote from last night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UN_Security_Council_Resol...

Half the world seems about right, and I'd assume a fair proportion of the grey would be green too if they were participants.
So your NATO-to-the-rescue movie plot is how reality works?

I'd be glad to see them beaten back, but you're living a fantasy.
Crystal is great!

After ~10 years with Ruby, I decided to try out Crystal for my latest weird hobby project (a modern style bbs) and I have enjoyed it so much!

Considering the relatively short lifespan of Crystal, I was positively surpriced how good the documentation was and how fast, easy and stable the language it already is :)
One approach that's been considered: https://awesci.com/microwave-room-heater/

Then there's the Active Denial System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
> Macron is fighting a difficult reelection race

Difficult ? This is one of the less difficult election in a long time, Macron already won this election before it even began.
All the top candidates (JLM, MLP, Z) were preaching Putin a few month agos and blaming NATO/EU here an there (It's not a secret there campaigns are financed by russian banks). And they are now trying to keep a low profile about the situation in Ukraine.
A few weeks ago Macron was already far ahead, but in a few days It won't be even close.
He can only suffer a major failure once. Being an authoritarian is a tough job. Sharks are always circling.
Iran, Venezuela and Cuba are and were shitholes compared to todays Russia. The immediate QoL impact on the average Russian will be far bigger than it was for the average citizens of those countries.
Well researched.

Now its high time for websites to display a user-defined label to one of their many phone numbers and not to display any phone number.
With Activation of NATO Response Force, U.S. Military Ready to Provide Forces
Nope. Just the kit has become easier and easier to use.
As a 12 year old I was quite surprised I could handle a MILAN missile simulator and just hit almost all slow moving targets. The instructor was less surprised.
I can only imagine the current software has gotten so good that most monkey could down most Tupolevs...
The dislike for nuclear goes further back and is related to the cold war and nuclear weapons.

And they are very non rational about it. Arguments are based on emotion, not reason.

Turning of existing working plants and replacing them with more coal is borderline insane.

In my opinion Germany would be much better of today if they had invested huge amount of money in nuclear plants instead of transitioning to renewables.
Sanctions on Iran worked pretty well until Trump torpedoed the nuclear deal. They're understandably leery of restarting it now.

Venezuela's economy got pretty well demolished.

Cuba's only blocked off from the US; they've been happily trading with pretty much everyone else.
Joe Biden signs order to provide $600m military assistance to Ukraine
I would love to use a niche language, but I am targeting the web with my side project (along with ajax and websockets), which relegates me to javascript one way or another.