skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Wind and solar are the cheapest sources of power. A decades long propaganda campaign has tried, but failed, to cover that up.

Even if Wind and Solar could supply 100% of demand tomorrow, we cannot convert all uses of oil and gas quickly. Renewables may be the future, but they are not today. The attempts of some misguided politicians to reduce Western extraction* of fossils merely subsidize Putin and dictators like him.

* As opposed for attempts to reduce demand and switch supply to clean fuels which are useful.
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Human oversight should be a necessary cost and constraining factor of scale. Can't deal with providing non-kafka-esque support to n-many users? Then you shouldn't have n-many users.
The loud noise you're hearing is the sound of a bunch of old, rusty mechanical gears clanking into place. This explanation makes perfect sense to me now. I hadn't done much serious front-end things since high school in the early 2000's and even then I had no idea what "web standards" were. I just knew how to make pages and display images for a counter-strike 1.6 clan haha.

Thanks for taking me to school.
This is the thing exactly! They built a system that allows infinite uploads but did not build a system to handle the workload of dealing with infinite uploads.

Some people just want to throw their hands up: "Dealing with infinite uploads is hard!" "It doesn't scale!" without realizing the youtube is responsible for the very problem they created. They designed it this way!
Also hearing about shortages (and huge price increases) in fertilizer.
Russia Will Restrict Access to Facebook, State Media Reports
Is there a particular reason for an outsized percentage of the activities being various forms of martial arts?

Is this a common existing training set for example?
I thought "full-stack" implied you understood the front-end web environment?
I should be clear that I was watching YouTube videos as much as reading over those two months. And I was aware from my experience taking Spanish classes that a letter in English probably sounds different from the same letter in $LANGUAGE2.

To be honest it’s hard for me to understand the “Pinyin teaches you wrong pronunciation” line of thinking. It so commonly repeated by so many people that there must be something to it, but not for me.
Xerox, under a fat DARPA grant. If you read Kay's "Early History of Smalltalk", or any of the other writeups on PARC projects, it's a genealogy of DARPA projects:

http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

As for actual innovations, porn still scores bupkis.
Not really, seeing who the certificate was issued to is a good way of figuring out whom the site belongs to (or at least it was, before Let's Encrypt).
Dollars to donuts says they were fed posting and got in trouble for it.
Right? I went in thinking it was about the book because it's been on my to-read list for a while.
Is this an argument for general prolifération of nuclear arms, for defensive purposes?
Cool! Thanks!

Now the only remaining weird thing I've noticed is that when I select a small handful of drive capacities in the filter selection (say, 14TB and larger), I get a nice small list in the main display. But when I try to sort that small list by any of the columns, it throws away the small list of drives and goes back to the full list which is then sorted by that column.

Not sure what's going on there.
What is it you call natural method ?

Have you heard of 'Le Francais par le methode Nature' ?
https://archive.org/details/jensen-arthur-le-francais-par-la...

It is a book that teaches French in French from the ground up.
I'm just dieting down for a second time, and I'll attest to this. Both times what got me to take diet seriously again was recognizing how sluggish I'd gotten, and cleaning my diet up again has a remarkably rapid effect.
Highly recommend Duolingo app, especially for first exposure to a language.
I used the app as a refresher this past year (for Latin) and it was excellent for that, too.
Exactly what I use gron for and my feature request would be to be able to do this from jless with one key. Currently it seems like jless doesn't even allow to select and copy it (on MacOS' terminal app).
What are the prerequisites for understanding this?
Well considering US was ready to bomb India and it was a Russian submarine that saved India, it makes sense. Also don't forget about US supplying arms and aid to Pakistan which Pakistan in turn would use to arm Talibans and Kashmiri insurgents. On top of that, US was pretty vocal about wanting sanctions on India for testing out nuclear weapons. Given the history, who would be an ally in that case?
If they are your team lead, would you have a choice?
i'd been using usb-ethernet adapters. i don't know how much latency or jitter or whatever that added. it was plugged directly into the fiber-modem, which was only 100mbps. i'd love harder data that a mod like this has real benefit.
So are soldiers from both sides, either on foot or in vehicles in full radiation suits??? If not, aren't they at severe risk of radiation poisoning (in addition to rapid on set lead poisoning)?

Not to mention if they continue past chernobyl into other regions, aren't they just gonna carry all that radiation with them?
what do you expect him to do? You are sitting on armchair and making some petty complains? Go to Russia and be vocal and you will know the consequence. Just see Julian Assange life?

Please at least respect people who reveals the insidious evils at the cost of their freedom?
Nothing beats living in a native speaking country and not having English speakers. I learned Spanish in 6 months in the Caribbean. Almost fluent at 12 month.
It the difference between reading a C# book and building an app in C#. It’s best to do both.
+1 for Affinity Designer. I actually prefer it to Illustrator because it can do both vector and raster (they call it Designer and Pixel Personas). At $55 one-time price it's very reasonable.
How many people would an all out nuclear war kill?
Russia threatens 'serious military repurcussions' if Finland joins NATO
Yeah, the post indicates that the author might be Doing It Right, but then there's stuff like:

> Surprisingly, only a few people knew about the dir attribute in my interviews

No. Most of those few people who "knew" it are decent-to-good readers with enough context to figure it out, and in this particular case they probably recognized "ltr", then worked backward to get what "dir" means, and were confident enough about that guess to state it as fact. They did all this in less than a second, because, again, they're decent-to-good readers who had the right context for this particular task. If this had been a made-up attribute you'd have gotten nearly as many people who "knew" it, I guarantee.

This is closer to a web dev reading test than a direct test of knowledge. Which, again, might not actually be a crazy thing to administer.
> The linked article is titled "Cryptonomicon", and written by Will Stephenson, and a book with the same title was written by Neal Stephenson.

> Yet, no mention of Neal or his book in the article. So I wonder where he got the word for his title?

Usually when I run across this sort of questionable title it turns out the editor was responsible, rather than the author.
He pumped money into the seperatists for years, destabalising the region even further than it would have been. There is no excuse for what he's doing.
It's still an effective sanction because the Russian alternative is a half baked approach. It can only handle a fraction of the daily required transactions, only 40% of Russian banks are signed up to use it and it can only process payments during office hours.
Does anyone have advice for learning a rare language, like Icelandic? A lot of the advice in this and other articles assumes you're learning one of the popular languages that everyone wants to learn. While that's certainly a good thing, I think there's a lot of value in picking up these less common languages that give you more of a niche--but obviously that's something that's very hard to get started on.
Some commenters have said it could be that the videos make it easier for Russia to see what the Ukranians are doing, though I'd imagine they'd just take those respective videos down instead of outright banning people's accounts (since several years ago they force tied our YT accounts directly to our Google accounts even though some of us pay for services like Drive storage and Google Domains - and YT Premium for that matter).

Aside from that, food for thought; I know this won't be popular but Google does have ties to JetBrains (Android Studio, Android development used to be done in Eclipse, I prefer Eclipse). JetBrains has offices in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. Google has a strong interest in pushing nginx (formerly (?) Russian made, though I personally prefer Apache) in Kubernetes.
You can absolutely winterize a house. My dad did it in Maine for a number of years when he was leaving the house for the winter. But as I recall it was something of an operation to both winterize it and dewinterize it--which he called a plumber in for.

One of the problems with winter power outages is that even if you're prepared to winterize everything by yourself, you probably don't know that it's going to be an extended outage (which is generally rare) so it doesn't make sense to immediately take drastic steps.
There's a difference between a dietary supplement being overhyped, and it actively causing harm.

Unknowns != Linolenic acid is harmful; and from this study it's at least obvious that it doesn't change genetic expression in the thalamus.
Here in Germany many small independent journalists were able to discover the industrial figures regularly interacting/receiving gifts, trips, stock certificates from Rosneft executives and oligarchs who are essentially actors for Russian government.

but still people seem genuinely shocked and continue to fall back on their myopic cold war view of the geopolitical european landscape by their mainstream media (without any suspicion or question of the narrative) it seems largely the result of being separated by the Atlantic ocean and a bulk of European countries that the average American cannot name.

Already I can see people from Poland and EU countries furiously downvoting and flagging my comments as "Russian Propaganda"

None of this is a surprise to us here in Germany, our relationship with Russia might be shocking to someone sitting in front of FOX or ABC news.

Even more shocking might be how the German elite and the working class view the Ukraine situation. To them, Ukraine was a source of worry due to its cheap labor wages and proximity to Russia would create a competing industrial center.

Even more outrageous might be how many in Germany are actually in favor of Russia's actions to take Ukraine away from EU/NATO.

It's funny to me how people still think EU can last like this.
The Quad is threadbare pseudo-alliance specifically designed around containing China, period. India has long been friendly with Russia and is non-committal on the Ukraine situation and is apparently talking about "how to establish a rupee payment mechanism for trade with Russia to soften the blow of Western sanctions"[1]

It would be wise to assess how much the rest of the world is willing to go along with isolating Russia before we go in sanction-guns blazing and wind up isolating ourselves instead.

[1] https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1497162914586898475
Honestly, I just wish Facebook, Twitter, Google, and even Microsoft and Apple just withdrew. The Russian government has only contempt for them anyway
"Shareholders" and the McNamara Fallacy mostly
>"The "official" news in russian federation are all fake and we believe it is better to shut them down!"

No difference with Fox News, Sky News and most TV channels from Spain, them.

They tried to pass a Chinese explosion (causality) as a war bombing from Russians.
You are overreacting, nothing important should be on Google account is enough.
To be honest high oil prices would be a godsend.
In the past, India had good relations with the USSR and bought weapons from them, but now they are more more tied to the US economy than to Russia's. They buy from and sell to the US much more than to Russia.
I add the keyword "etymology" to searches like this and it always gives me the answer inline. Maybe you're relying a bit too much on Google reading your mind.
I'd say that's legit, considering what he is looking for - full stack. JavaScript is strongly connected to the term WebDevelopment and thus to HTML. That's just basic knowledge.
I suspect that the semi-nuclear option will get pulled sooner rather than later. Ultimately we are seeing a world where the west is extending financial, economic, societal, and diplomatic infrastructure to countries which actively disagree with the security, co-operation, and economic principals required for those institutions to exist.

This situation is untenable in the long run.
If it was another company doing this I'd be in two minds as to whether or not it was creepy. With Facebook doing it, I'm convinced.
Corporations don’t much care what system of federal governance is in use. Heck, it’s arguable that they prefer dictatorships and oligarchies: easier to bribe.

If the West expects corporations to ensure democracy prevails, the West will fail.
> has anyone here read Rust in Action[1]?

I did, and I didn't like it much, but YMMV.

First: sadly, as common practice in the Rust books world, the book devotes 1/4th of the content to an utterly useless Rust guide. This is a marketing device (it's scammy for me, but it's arguable) to illude readers that they can read a book on learning Rust _and_ apply it in a certain context - but it's not possible to meaningfully learn Rust in 100 pages (not even in 400...). Those 100 pages would have been much better spent on-topic.

Rust language sections are also added to various chapters, which again, are redundant. Chapter 10 is entirely dedicated to multithreaded Rust programming, which is not systems programming.

Ultimately, it depends on what one exactly wants to learn and what they intend to do with it:

- if one wants to learn O/S programming, this is definitely not an O/S programming book; just the last two chapters are.

- if one wants to learn interfacing with system components (e.g. the network stack), especially with the intention of just reading without actually applying, this can be a fun book.

I personally don't think that the latter is systems programming, and I find the book misleading.
I really appreciate YouTube's existence, but chances are a communal video streaming site that the entire world can trivially upload videos to should probably be a government run service if it exists at all.

There are a plethora of much more conservatively sized video uploading sites that vet and have specific contracts with their content producers.
The government of China fled to Hong Kong and is still there today... some people say.
My teacher used the following short story:

The negative boy couldn't decide if he wanted to go to the radical party. So he decided to be square, missing out on 4 awesome chicks. It was all over by 2 AM.
India has UPI and Rupay which is getting adopted by other SEA countries. Nepal is as another addition.
It is a cooperative https://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/toonondernemingps.htm...
> The software uses two methods of PKI (public key infrastructure) to sign and authenticate every message, similar to signing a cryptocurrency transaction on a blockchain, such as Bitcoin.

> Signing and verifying messages is computationally expensive, requiring increased CPU utilization.

This is really, really misleading. Bitcoin's environmental impact is because it uses proof of work, not because of how it encrypts and signs things.
Steam Controllers are my primary controllers. Precision is adjustable. They're super effective, in my opinion. From the sounds of it, you just prefer mice. But there's nothing finicky about them.
I can't verify the claim that r/youtube was deleting reports but having regularly used ceddit, I wouldn't be surprised.

However, there's no need for me to argue about the first sentence. Please take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/ and it is literally filled with reports of account bans from the past few hours. 95% of the hot stories. You look in the comments, you find dozens more.

Saving screenshots for posterity (those termination/strike threads on r/youtube are all relevant): https://imgur.com/a/ekqk3B7
Yeah. I would’ve saved a lot of time if I got feedback after the very first lesson instead of waiting a month. I might have been productive continuing to use Pimsleur in that case.
I'm sure he was exaggerating when he said it, but his overall point was that they work at work and then socialize after work, instead of mixing the two.
Mark Kistler’s Draw Squad if you’d like to try a book.
Most modern toolchains are robust, easy to use, and shared between many non-packages.

Go, Rust and Node.js cover a large portion of recent projects, and many others cheat with Docker or the like.
It's mostly just numbers on a computer in a bank. There are regulations concerning what banks can do with those numbers, but it all boils down to people having faith in the system in the end. That's why bank runs can quickly lead to economic disaster.
Well, it is not lazy to use the phrase, "throw the baby out with the bathwater." That is a well defined, well understood phrase of the English language that means, "Discard something valuable along with something not wanted." [1]

If you throw the baby out with the bath water, you lose the good parts of something as well as the bad parts, because you reject it as a whole instead of just removing what is bad. [2]

The meaning is that you were throwing out the clear links in the wiki article due to them being presented at wikipedia.org. Footnote 37 and onwards.

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/throw-out-the-baby-with-th...

[2] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/to-thro...
If your business is impossible to operate at its current scale pro-socially and without negative externalities, it doesn't get to operate at that scale.

Share-holders don't have a natural right to profit off of societally destructive behavior.
Microsoft and Apple perhaps, but I suspect it's advantageous for Facebook, Twitter, and Google to remain otherwise the state propaganda apparatus would only get stronger.
The steam deck has a touchscreen thought. So I wouldn't be surprised if those menus were easier to navigate than with a mouse alone ?
Ahah this! When reading the post title I was wondering if Twitter backend end (or even front end) source code had leaked. As a candidate I would give minus 1 point to the interviewer ;)
Browsers include a lot of crazy backwards compatability stuff. You can basically trigger a whole different experience with the right/wrong doctype line.

I guess it'll disappear eventually and become an opt out rather than an opt-in, but not sure if we're there yet, IE11 has been a major drag on progress.
...in Europe. There was war all over the world, hence, World War. The Soviets suffered tremendously _before_ and during that war (mostly at the hands of their own gov't). They didn't fight for their gov't, they fought for their home.

Please do not try and take an immensely complex topic and boil it down to the point it has no meaning.

Yes, the Soviets defeated the Nazi's with some distraction, tech and assistance from the Allies. China did a whole ton of work against Japan, they fought the longest and hardest.

Also, without the Marshall Plan (of which the Soviets were fearful of and denied themselves participation), Europe would not be Europe right now. Maybe Russia wouldn't be an economic wasteland today, forcing their gangster gov't to use an invasion of a sovereign country to prop up their oligarchy.
Cancelled my account as well.
Simpler in what way? There are efforts to make writing Rust simpler, to make lifetime elision better or have the borrowck accept more valid programs.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect Rust to explore removing language features though.
We shouldn’t be economically sanctioning countries that aren’t threatening us directly. It causes tremendous suffering and death, e.g. in Iran: https://mcgillbusinessreview.com/articles/the-human-cost-of-...
> I often wonder how money is stored.

The Bank of England published a summary of how modern banks work. See
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

> It can't be just a number on a computer in a bank, right?

It can and it is, see the BOE paper.

> So I guess USD needs to be recognized by the US somehow?

This is a complicated question that will start a flamewar, but basically, any bank in the world can create dollars out of thin air given adequate collateral. Read about "Eurodollars".
>Will border guards fire on civilians and commit mass murder to keep them out?
There is no other option... If let in the world pop increases, if not the world pop decreases. We are in a race trying to continuously improve technologically to make up for the very same problems caused by technology. Perhaps mass death events which we defeated in recent years are precisely what is needed for a "correction" in our global hubris. Of course wasteful consumerism in the first world should also be corrected during this period, and hopefully for longer afterwards. As a final thought, although I know it is a false equivalency in many ways, consider the idea that the mass of potential migrants will be looked upon by some countries in the way that Ukraine currently views Russia, the self determination of Ukrainians have put them directly opposed to the Russian invasion, so for many (and likely the majority) of Ukrainians there is no other option but to fire back and employ strict measures.
ironically Putin is one of the best hopes for renewing the legitemacy & belief of the west & the USA in specific.
Doesn't look like it.

https://github.com/robots.txt
Building complex queries in MongoDB is a huge pain in the ass (aka aggregations). For all the same operations you need to figure out how to do, it's significantly easier to do in Postgres. This is especially if you involve MongoDB subdocuments in your query.

Subdocuments in MongoDB are a footgun where I've seen it go wrong most of the time (as in the consequence is more complicated querying syntax is required) that having that data as a subdocument should have been in a collection instead.

The API for transactions in the Node.js drivers has around two variants of how transactions should work, and require very specific conditions to work correctly (for example, you can only create indices in a transaction if the collection is empty), and it's hard to find documentation on a working transactional sample.

I would never recommend MongoDB to anyone, and if one wanted to, then use Postgres with JSON types.
Par2 is always an option, and RAR implements Reed-Solomon error correcting codes and there are many recent implementations of those: https://github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon.
Ohhhh. I see now what you meant.
I was wondering if it was a misconfiguration (or something that amounted to such). That makes perfect sense.

It sounds like genuinely useful functionality - on an opt-in basis.