skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The historical experience of Chernobyl is not remotely relevant to modern reactors that are (by design) unable to melt down.

Look at the pebble bed reactors, or the smr reactors from nuscale, or the chinese molten salt reactor designs. These are all using new technology to make meltdown next to or completely impossible. Nuscale is calling their smr reactors "walk away safe" in that you could just abandon them and they're unable to melt down.

Saying we shouldn't consider nuclear energy due to Chernobyl is equivalent to saying we shouldn't use airplanes because of the hindenburg. It entirely ignores the massive amount of materials and nuclear science improvements since Chernobyl was built in 1970. I'm ALL FOR solar power (and have 48 x 440W bifacial solar panels aka 21.1kW on my barn), but it is not a holy grail. Safe modern nuclear energy could massively improve Europe's energy situation and end Russian energy dependence.
> What I don't get is the livid emotionalism in this thread

because this in absolutely no way helps to bring out peace and rather stokes animosity. We are seeing more and more divisions in our society with such cringe worthy actions.

The US is now arming the right-wing neo-nazi Asov battalion with stinger missiles and arms to fight Russian occupation. Deja Vu?
Very unfortunate and completely unnecessary to destroy.

Though its price seems at least partially measureable in billionaire-yachts:

https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2022/02/27/9...
Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes
> US (Unit Separator), RS (Record Separator), GS (Group Separator), and FS (File Separator) are the only 4 remaining of the 8 information separators (ISi) (or data delimiters) that I put in in 1961 September.

And I'm thinking — why not one separator and the byte that follows indicates Unit/Record/Group/File/etc.?

Amazing though that we know the moment and the person (and the reason) that specific ASCII characters were added.

Were we defining ASCII for the first time now, I suspect the BELL control code would be gone — perhaps replaced by the smiley-face?
It's interesting how everyone quits Russia over this invasion (which is good, I agree with), yet no one quits that much over climate change, which threatens and kills people all the time.

I wish more people would quit BP, which has done an insane amount of damage over time. Remember Deepwater Horizon [1] ? Hard to believe the company still exists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
> "But nobody was interested."

No, no one took the PE exam for software engineering because it was effectively impossible.

To become a PE, first the candidate has to pass one of the Fundamentals of Engineering exam to become an engineer-in-training. Except, whoops, there wasn't ever a software specific FE exam; the most relevant one is the EE/Comp. E. exam. Take a look at the list of topics: https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/FE-Ele-CBT-specs.pdf. Most developers aren't going to pass that even with a CS degree.

Secondly, you need 4-8 years of job experience while supervised by a licensed engineer. Again, whoops, there are barely any software developers with a PE license, so who would they get to supervise them?

Only then do you get to take the PE exam for software engineering and become a licensed professional engineer. Frankly, the situation was so absurd that one has to suspect that NSPE didn't want to certify software developers as PEs.
Belarus Hackers Allegedly Disrupted Trains to Thwart Russia
Freezing accounts is definitly not unprecedented. For example accounts of Gaddafi and his circles. But what I think is a bit unprecedented is the speed. Usually Swiss politics moves in months and years, not days.
>But i don’t believe they’re doing that job for the pay. Or, not primarily for the pay, they probably wouldn’t do it for free.

Perhaps I misinterpreted you post. If that is your position, than I totally agree.

>So, it’s being put to a vote and they could deny it, and if they do the question is will he walk?

I think that all depends on the alternative proposal. I think they most likely outcome if it passes is that Tim Cook will be offered more money but with a longer lockup schedule. If they came back and said "hey richie, you have enough in the bank and should work for the average salary", I think it is likely he would walk, even if he is not primarily doing it for the money.
Yeah I think this is all valid - i really mean it more as a product line and the lack of practical substitutes before recently (especially on the server side), not the specific details of the instruction set v others. They were basically the only game in town for a while. Had they licensed it, yep, it would have been different.
Extra cannisters of diesel (or petrol if that's what your car uses). I have 100L in five cannisters stashed under my stairs. It'll be useful to give me extra range, but I also imagine that it might end up as some form of currency.

Also think about a gas bottle and burner. You need to cook on something.

Sleeping bag? Tent? Basic medical supplies?
Perhaps it’s a bit of an unfair/vicious cycle, but I found doing interviews at my previous company was enough to keep me feeling practiced enough. While I have studied up a bit before previous interviews, I’ve never used LeetCode.
https://archive.is/xHc3z
https://www.ans.org/news/article-1392/robert-anderson-antinu...
In our globalized capitalist world nothing matters more than the economy, money and inertia takes care of everything, no matter which party you're from. You need a literal war at your door to slap some sense in them.
Should the west be doing more to prepare for a possible gas shutoff by Putin?
Most of the articles about this seem to just summarize now dependent everyone is on Russia. I haven't seen much discussion about actual preparations for this possibility. I assume operators of the natural gas network in Europe are trying to estimate how they might cope somewhat, but I think Germany and Italy had good cause to hesitate on approving SWIFT removal. Biden also included in his announcement of sanctions that they would try to work on increasing oil supply from other nations at least to help Americans somewhat at the pump, but I haven't heard much from Europe on how they'll deal with potential fallout of natural gas supply from Russia decreasing or shut off completely.

With tougher sanctions and everyone sending weapons to Ukraine, this has to be something Putin is considering, shouldn't we be trying to mitigate this before people's homes go cold?
Putin has 69% approval, 50% blame 'NATO' for this issue and 5% think Russia is the cause.

It's literally an invasion and they don't realize it. Putin is using the term 'limited military operation' to 'liberate Ukraine' effectively from a 'Nazi, drug addict corrupt leadership' - and they buy it. It's the only source of information they have.

It's really easy to mislead people if you can control they information they receive.

I don't think Russians quite support the 'incursion' but they'd be fine with the outcome, and probably wouldn't think of the puppet/client state leader as being subjugated.

Putin murders his political opponents and journalists, but because he can't be implicated or investigated, the citizenry just goes on roughly believing the propaganda at least to a certain degree.

Regular people don't have the time to parse through this complex world. 'Good' news is so important.
You failed to insert "woke" somewhere in your post.
That's interesting, thanks; with a GC language one would raise a runtime exception instead.
I still don't see how this is an argument to say that it would benefit "women" instead of "parents" in general.
That's because of Zelenskyy and what he represents.

Usually, you'd expect a state like Ukraine (ex Sowjet) to be corrupt and run by oligarchs with no support by the populace. In that situation, Russia would waltz in, the old depot would flee the country, Russia would isntall a puppet and the populace would be indefferent to it, since it's just more of the same shit.

But Zelenskyy was serious in cleaning up the Ukraine, he is not fleeing and he is uniting the nation.

This was Putin's big mistake. He believed he could scare away a greedy despot to replace him with another one. Instead, the Ukraine has a true leader and developed a real national identity.

For Putin, this is a nightmare. For the west, we finally have someone worth supporting (often we have the issue that we don't know how is the bad and the good guy, see Syria, Mali).

I have nothing to prove it, this is just speculation, taken from some tweets I saw. It makes sense to me, but I have no social insights.

This whole thing could have looked very different under any of the former leaders of the Ukraine.
After the end of legacy G Suite was announced, I tried using iCloud+ to forward my personal domain to Gmail. However, because iCloud does not seem to support ARC for forwarding, Gmail was sending too much to Spam.

I tried many other mainstream forwarding options and settled on Pobox as the best overall option, and moved my personal domain over. It's working pretty well, flowing to my regular Gmail account and having aliases set up in Gmail.
Apple's biggest problem is that there is probably no one at Apple today who can replace Tim. The only person with the skillset to replace Tim is Elon, but Elon's temperament is a poor fit for Apple's shareholders.
I have a strong suspicion Ulysses would fail miserably checking Ulysses. :)
> The United States military is the most powerful military on the planet. Any suggestion that they will be defeated in Afghanistan is wishful thinking.

The US is not Russia and Bush/Obama/Trump/Biden is not Putin. While no one can predict what he is thinking, the Second Chechen War could be a template if the Ukrainian leadership does not yield.
I don’t doubt this at all, but I suspect it will extend to all aspects of software, including the OS — it is the inevitable state of full decentralization. However, I expect also that the usage of software in being metered will also be countered by in-kind contributions, in that the power you feed back to the decentralized grid will compensate your use of the software you need.

Disclaimer: I am working on exactly this notion of a decentralized PaaS
The specifics of the situation are very different.
> Watching an Octopus effortlessly change colour, size and texture to camouflage themselves might lend to this.

Yes -- I was thinking about this bit myself.

I don't know whether it has been demonstrated that they have any kind of conscious control over this texture control, or whether it happens as a sort of evolved feedback loop, but I did wonder.
By faster de-dollarization I meant that China may speed up their work to voluntarily depend less on the dollar. It sounds like you might have interpreted me as meaning that other countries would sanction China out of being able to use the dollar. That's not what I was intending.
Unless your an L1 transfer, you can still change jobs fairly easily on an H1B, because everyone else in tech is also willing to do H1B transfer paperwork. So you can quit, it just takes longer...

And even as an L1, you can still apply at other jobs, because they will apply for the H1B for you and if successful, hire you then.

So yes between the waiting periods you do have to keep it up, but the barriers are not that high compared to citizens otherwise.

And this is my personal experience as a visa worker.
haha.. my disappointment was more around why there is no meaningful discussion in any of the forums - did all anyone get from a 2 hour long interview with one of the brightest minds and most successful person of our times, is that he looks and acts like a robot ? Just because he has a billion dollars it is considered cool to bash his physical features and get upvoted.
According to independent Levada polls over 90% of the population approved Putins politics after the occupation of Crimea in 2014.

Last August "only" 61% approved his politics, mainly because of the masses getting poorer and large failure to fight the pandemic.

While 61% would be a good figure for most Western politicians, it was obviously a worrying trend for Putin. So he changed the agenda from a domestic one to a war. In January while he was still threatening support had indeed gone up to 69%.

Whether it is possible to get and publish any trustworthy polls in the current situation I don't know. After all the words attack and war are censored in Russian media, protesting against the war is illegal. They only have a special operation...
Let me translate your comment:

1 - The young people are just annoying and don't know anything
2 - Nothing will ever change
3 - Nothing will ever change

Needless to say, I disagree with you. Life is constantly changing, and in a few years, likely you will be able to buy almost anything with crypto.
It’s a knee jerk reaction to Fukushima.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-ge...
Heck yes! Thank you!

/me proceeds to tell literally everyone about it
I’m not against nuclear power but can anyone explain why a similar sized investment in solar+wind+geothermal+battery storage would not work?
What makes you think it hasn’t worked out? Leaving Twitter seems like a pretty good start.
Keep in mind that this persons appears to be a pro nuclear industry lobbyist. So the number of objective nuclear opinions on this twitter account is 0.
Not to mention recent funding for small modular reactors (SMR) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-backs-new-small-nuclea...
Switzerland risks backlash from the rest of the wealthy countries if they do not quickly come on board with the generally accepted response to Russia's actions.

With the many financial laws and agreements that exist now between countries, Switzerland has less financial value (secrecy) than it once had. So it cannot afford to lose ground now.
Restating your claim is not an argument, even if you tack on that it is "inevitable" without any evidence or actual argument to support that claim.

The answer to future shitty software that sucks ass is to use or write different software. I understand that lots of companies use Outlook/Exchange and won't switch anytime soon.
> Also part time devs might not commit to daily meetings

Daily meetings kill flow
Thanks to HN user eswat, you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHLU0Uej1WA&ab_channel=Tooth

I recommend waiting till nighttime and turning up the volume for extra effect.
I don't think anyone in Russia thinks that Fox News or MSNBC are owned by the American government. Like, RT and Sputnik are government-funded foreign propaganda organs; a better comparison might be Radio Free Europe.
The actual quote is "whether it actually exists is a matter for 21st century physics," so he was completely correct. It was, indeed, a matter for 21st century physics: the Higgs boson was proven to exist in 2012: about 9 years after the book was published.
> I would add that engaging with my own problems creates room & energy needed to deal with those bigger problems.

Yes. It's like in a plane; if the oxygen masks pop down, get yours on before helping someone else with theirs, or you both wind up in worse shape.
Also to be found out there, and which would need attention, is use of 0 as a sentinel

if time = 0
// handle missing data case
else
...

The kind of thing that makes you wonder "what sort of a day was 1 Jan 1970, actually?"
Yes. I'd argue that it already is a world war... we're just in this Czechoslovakia stage where people are pretending we can stop this without more war.

There is only one way this ends, and that's with Putin dead. He knows this. And he's exactly the sort of psychopath that is willing to nuke people in order to not lose. It's not a good position to be in.
There are two issues here:

1. The threat of war

2. Anxiety about the threat of war

The first relates to the actual facts of the situation, whereas the second relates to your thoughts and feelings about it.
The range of answers in this thread should tell you that different people can have different reactions to the same events. This should give you the idea that your reactions could be changed.
After all "what one man can do, another can do"

The key to understanding anxiety is to realise that it involves thought-looping -- ruminating on the same negative ideas in an escalating spiral.
The answer to overcoming anxiety is to find a way to break out of the loop.
The actual thoughts themselves are not as interesting as you think they are. You are caught on your thoughts and feelings.

If you have the time, a great way to overcome anxiety is to do a sort of body-scan meditation.

Lie on the floor with a book under the back of your head for a little support, knees up or flat to the ground as you prefer.
Pick an area of your body that feels tense, stiff, painful or just uncomfortable. Focus your attention on the area for as long as possible.
The feelings there may start to change. If it starts to feel relaxed, move to the next most tense area.

The aim of the exercise is to focus your attention on the internal muscular sensations of your body, rather than your thoughts.
If you aren't used to relaxing, you may find that this increases your anxiety at first, but that is all part of the response.
If you can keep on returning your thoughts to whatever muscular sensations you are aware of, over and over for half an hour,
you will find yourself becoming much more relaxed. Once you are relaxed, you will find that anxiety doesn't really make sense anymore.

People don't just respnd anxiously to stressful events out of the blue. I bet this isn't the first time in your life you have found something overwhelming and it has taken over your mind.
Did you feel in control of your life before this started, or were you already on edge? Did you feel like you were succeeding, like all your relationships were going well?

These things tend to come in clusters. People who are happy and relaxed are not easily perturbed by events that don't immediately affect them.

The threat is real, and I wouldn't like to say what the probabilities of different outcomes are.
I'm worried, but then I know that a part of me just enjoys worrying a bit. I easily get anxious if I let myself, but I have learned to control it with the technique I outlined above.
Because it's a single company in an industry infamous for an insane boom-bust cycle, insane levels of fraud, insane levels of criminality. I don't want to develop on a platform whose finances rest on something so shaky. For me it isn't about the morality of crypto "tainting" Nim somehow; it is a simple perception that Status might disappear tomorrow for any number of reasons, and then what happens to Nim?
Thanks! I moved it to the top.

(Just to conserve space there, I detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492698 and marked it off topic.)
Sadly, you’re wrong. It’s about censorship. If they wanted economic embargo they would pull the plug or Nord Stream.
My ikea has a staircase going up into the maze. Under the stairs is a door to part 2 of the maze (ground floor)... if you turn left. Right is a shortcut to the warehouse (not the start of it, but aisle 31 or so near the cash registers).
Imagine if you were a country that wanted to buy something from another country. Now imagine if they refused to ever take your money. So the obvious thing to do is to get a bank account with their local currency, right? But none of the banks will allow you to get a bank account, and no one will give you any way to get any of their currency. But you have existing bank accounts all over the world, so you'll just pull that money out, right? Nope, those accounts have all been frozen and you have zero access to them.

Now imagine that all of those places also shut off their airspace to your country. I suspect this also goes for shipping. It basically causes you to become a hermit, and that's very challenging with the current global economy. Unless you embrace something like North Korea's "juche", you're going to be really hurting.

That's more or less what is happening to Russia right now.
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Half way across the continent? Lwiw is closer to Berlin than Paris. But its not about the distance but the impact on the energy supply as the trade with Russia is falling apart. Yet, I don't think there will be a major swing to nuclear. First, it is very expensive and secondly, nuclear doesn't work well in combination with renewables, as nuclear power plants are very slow to change power output. Thats the big bonus of gas. The most reasonable solution is, to source gas elsewhere and push for renewables.
The hardware will probably have the capabilities to do so, but I can see consumer software reaching a point where much of the compute is performed remotely, and we're just being streamed a rendered interface.
In other words, computers will be sold like printers and software will be sold like ink cartridges.
But Debian/Ubuntu are resisting Flatpak.
The US is now arming the Azov battalion with stinger missiless

Source needed, please.
There's a (far right) movement in Germany that believes the current Germany is not the successor of the Third Reich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsb%C3%BCrger_movement This article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Germany does into many legal details but it can be similar summaries as: yes of course it's the successor.
I doubt this will happen for regular consumers mainly because per-second billing is overly complicated and potentially easy to fake by editing the amount of seconds downward; and also because companies often have subscribers who never touch their software each month but remain subscribed, and those customers would be worth nothing if we switched.
Russia is like a rural town with a gang occupying the city hall. The gang can't allow a neighboring town with democratically elected administration to look more successful, because the citizens might unite and revolt. So the gang does only 3 things: it tells citizens that their neighbors have it much worse with their 'democracy', it tells citizens that their town is encircled by enemies, and it swiftly punishes anyone who publicly questions the gang because those questions might dispell the lies and unite the citizens.
VisualPolitik EN has a take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYagGAgHfQ0 (12 mins)

And there is this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_Germa...
I think this could help a lot with companies that clearly abandon some of their apps and let code slowly accumulate hundreds of tiny bugs.

Maybe projects that aren’t sexy and won’t get anyone promoted would still be fun to work on part-time.

If the big platforms let people with experience go tackle a few issues in their spare time without chaining them to a desk, maybe they could finally fix all these dumb bugs they’re accumulating.
Just a guess, but modern readers often forget how precious memory was at that time — an extra byte per record would potentially have been a costly amount of extra storage.
This is definitely true of some of his methods, but not all. His 3-ingredient mac and cheese was a game-changer in my household. A recipe that simple has no business producing such good results.
There's some recent evidence that exercise can convert white fat to brown (in mice), I believe it was mediated through irisin? Don't remember source.

Edit: found the source https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33882700/