skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US seems capable of weathering large sanctions against Russia. Can Europe? Will the people of Europe stand up and be "economic soldiers" by taking one on the chin with gas prices or cold winter, in order to fight the Russians?
Then I’m still frustrated that better interviewers don’t get to talk to these people.
Yes, absolutely. Does that mean we shouldn't make them safer? Car manufacturers don't have a say in urban planning.
It's surprising how often that movie comes up, especially given how it's often accompanied by a note that it's not good. I suspect it's hit a pseudo-cult classic film status. The last few times I've seen it mentioned I've had the desire to seek it out and watch it again since I only remember bits and pieces.
I'm looking forward to the first "reality tv" shows produced on other planets (including the moon).

You can probably fund a moon colony just on tourism and entertainment.
No my argument is based on NATO members being perfectly able to join up with non-NATO members to invade another country without needing to do it through NATO. Ukraine did not need to join NATO to join with them to wage war against Russia, if that is what they wanted. They only wanted to join for defensive reasons, and with very good reason as it turns out.

There is no reason to join NATO except for defense. Zero. None. Yes, NATO members do sometimes gang up to invade other countries, but they would also do so if they weren’t NATO members.
if powerful countries / economies are attacked that have a very low appetite for any form of risk then the media will treat it differently. Also the sad thing is it's not about human casualties but how much wealth is lost. If everyone would have their wealth tied up in Azerbaijan then I bet a war there would be reported on very differently.

I guess HN treats it also differently because of the real risk to nuclear escalation.
This reminds me a lot of my experience reading man-pages. Usually I end up at Stackoverflow to help me solve the problem at hand, because there's just too much to read through for some docs.
Early adopters tend to make out big if they time the sell right... Just like any ponzi scheme
«Strana» (страна, country) is a Russian word. The Ukrainian word is «kraina» (країна).
Because if a EU country wanted to actually defend Ukraine, they'd just do it. They don't need to play that sort of ridiculous game. They can literally go in there with military assistance and start shooting.

That they aren't doing that, means they don't actually have the will to defend Ukraine against Russia. Ukraine trying to play a little land border game isn't going to change that reality.
Who leaves their heating on at night?
You are inferring that which I am not implying. I clearly said this was aside the parent and grandparent posts, as it was not in line with the original intent or content.

You're using HN guideline wording ("uninteresting") seemingly in preparation to flag my comment if I step outside of your box. And your final sentence can have a chilling effect on intellectual conversation.

If this is a "trivial truth" then why do so many people fail to grasp the connections between the work of fiction and the modern realities? Your world view perhaps takes it as a given, but people should be afforded the opportunity to reach realization well after the point that you yourself achieved it.

I was pointing it out because not everyone is aware that this is possible, and it hopefully creates an interesting perspective for someone on an otherwise flamebait comment. It's past the point of usefulness now, however, as the other post has been rightfully flagged.

edit:
To go a bit further, my original comment does feel a bit off-topic on reflection. That is, of course, why these sorts of posts should simply be flagged and just move on. I should've avoided trying to dredge up some interesting conversation.

Additionally, I feel like your post would've been more interesting and encouraging of conversation had you simply stuck with the question "what evidence is there that this is occurring NOW though?"

I personally have no evidence this is happening, but the conversation would at that point be open to a third party contributing evidence if there were any.
If only they did it a couple of weeks ago :(
No. Russia supplies around 47% of imported gas, around 41% of total gas. Shutting down only electricity power plants reduces gas usage by 12%. Not using it for electricity reduces it ~21% (going to be hard, because of combined electricity & heat plants). (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480589, all numbers for EU)
That’s pretty incredible - I could never get used to 55F indoors other than when I’m sleeping.
Anybody who has spent some time with simple model rockets knows that even they do not always go where they are expected. I have seen model rockets do some pretty remarkable "surprise" trajectories. It is very easy to understand how a far more complicated SAM launched in an urban environment could fly off course and into a building.
So then if Russia continues to invade Ukraine anyway, what is the EU going to do?

Is it going to fight Russia?

That leads to nuclear war.
I always want this when I'm close to home. I know where I am once I'm within a mile or so of my house, shut the hell up and let me drive. (Usually, I just stop navigation once I'm on a familiar highway, but it would be nice if I didn't have to manage it.)

Similarly, I'd like to be able to say something like "get me to I-71 North" or similar and have it take me to the nearest exit for that direction.
This makes sense, and it helps a lot when conversation is focused and concise (while also allowing for a small amount of redundancy: people may acknowledge and display their receipt of previous messages by repeating them in their own words).

When you mentioned communication becoming harder: were you referring to audio/video discussions (in-person or otherwise) and/or also text-based messaging?
Literally “climate repair” and “climate restoration”. Some NGOs to check out include the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge and Foundation for Climate restoration.
> The microwave beam is hot enough to evaporate rock, and the vaporized rock is pumped back to the surface.

Is this part harder than it sounds? Do you need to keep it as hot vapor until it gets to the surface? What do you do with it then? Presumably a 12 mile column of rock turns into a whole lot of vapor. Is it toxic? When vaporized rock cools, does it become just sand, or are there interesting/concerning chemicals left over?

As a lay person, I'm never sure when I read about new tech to address environmental issues whether we're creating a new problem. We've spent generations aggressively pumping carbon out of the ground and into the atmosphere. Would a move towards rock-vaporizing drilling just mean aggressively pumping a bunch of silicon, iron, etc out of the ground and into the atmosphere?
People thought they would be spared if they surrendered to the Nazis. That sure turned out well for them huh? There are many situations in life where it's not worth fighting. Fending off foreign aggression is not one of those times. If they're invading, they have absolutely no care for your safety and they have no higher authority to fear for anything they do to you.
I liked it a lot, but I'm not an Apple user, and apparently the iOS app was (is?) not great. For me, it's like a vastly better version of NNTP, while slack is more of a slightly improved IRC.
I think if you are talking at that time scale, the imperative for humanity in particular to be the one to make that advancement is just anthro vanity. The history of humanity is such a relatively brief thing on the cosmic scale you are talking about, and yet in our brief time we have screwed things up massively for ourselves. But not necessarily for future species and human-like life.

Its ok if we don't make it guys, there was species before us, and there will be some after us. The universe is vast. We are probably not even that special, but we can do our best and enjoy life and try to minimize the suffering that will certainly happen from our mistakes... to want to "win" anything beyond that will just cause more suffering.

Its ok to admit we messed up, we couldn't know at the time that a global capitalism predicated on an unlimited nature would not end up great, the timeline of scientific discovery was not in out favor there. On all accounts we are most likely too late, its not anyone in particulars fault, its ok.

Time is very vast, that can scare you or humble you.
Meanwhile Russia is threatening military action if Finland joins NATO: https://ria.ru/20220225/nato-1775114040.html
I am not saying from defensive posture -but from a posture to prevent further escalation and aggression. Russia is able to do what it does is simply because it thinks it can get away with it. It is not fair - so ring fencing at the cheapest cost to force NATO to trigger Article V will give pause. will Russia cross the red line?
Germany announced weapons assistance just a few minutes ago:

https://twitter.com/bundeskanzler/status/1497638225200001029

Massive miscalculation by the looks of it.
that reminds me of Canada, which was in a state of martial law over a nazi insurrection of its parliament. of course, they werent nazis, but theyre in jail now just the same. its just never been fashionable for the western media to demonize canada the way it has "the communists"
Stocks pay dividends, or have the potential to pay dividends in the future.

You're right that if you look strictly at the now, it resembles a Ponzi scheme, but there's an underlying intrinsic value that supports a given price. If there's not intrinsic value, price usually collapses in the longer run. E.g dotcom, many of the 200x price sales companies over the last year.

Many growth stocks with valuations far detached from fundamentals are very crypto like. Trading on likeability/goodwill rather than anything real.

The lack of intrinsic value is why Crypto is probably doomed to volatility forever.
Have you had a look at gas prices recently? A transfer costs between 1$ and 2$ depending on the time of the day.
It's still much higher than it should be, and let's hope that will change soon with the merge and L2 adoption, but that's not what I would call stupidly high costs to move the ETH.
I'm not aware of any threats by developed countries to ban citizens from interacting with cryptocurrency networks. It seems like the trend is quite the opposite, actually: Most countries are clarifying and tightening up their regulations to ensure legal cut-outs for exchanges and other crypto related money service businesses.

If anything, countries might want to ban mining due to its environmental impacts, but as you illustrated, there are plenty of countries for mining operations to move over to, resulting in a game of cat-and-mouse that at its very most impactful might help catalyze the move from Proof of Work cryptos to Proof of Stake cryptos. I just don't see any future where all crypto is largely banned.

Where is this threat of legal action I'm not seeing?
Is there a high level overview of how this is supposed to work? Is there anything to keep people from just lying? E.g. Oh this deepfake of a politician eating people is totally real. See the C2PA content provenance metadata says it was filmed by a BBC journalist’s cellphone camera!
>Someone in Russia will have to deal with it,

Yeah? And? So? What? Western business IT personnel have to deal with this on a daily basis from Russian based operatives. It doesn't really mean too much, as they are staffed for this anyways.

I think it's all funny, but nothing serious. Any attempt to promote this as anything more than an annoyance to people that have no importantance to the actual matter at hand of a bully invading another sovereign country is just juvenile.
> The new process [ls -l] gets the desired data, sends it to the shell and terminates.

> The shell sends the data to the terminal through the STDOUT side of the pty

Unless redirected, ls inherits the pty file descriptor from the shell¹ when the shell forks it. But after that, it's writing to the terminal emulator directly, not to the shell; that is, the shell doesn't forward `ls -l`'s output to the terminal.

¹(or really, the child inherits whatever file descriptor the shell has for stdin, stdout, stderr for its stdin, stdout, stderr, respectively, unless, for each of those, there is a redirection specified, in which case the shell replaces the file descriptor in the child as specified by the command give to the shell. stdin/stdout/stderr might be a pty in the shell, or they might not be.)
This HAS to be a joke right?
So because your grandfather chose to fight Nazis, everyone who doesn't want to fight in any war is a coward and is to be mocked?

Look, good for grandfather, you should be proud, but don't piss in people making rational decisions in a completely different situation.
People on HN downvote twitter posts, but that is much more informative than the raw picture. Given that pennies are 19mm in diameter, that suggests a width more like ~12mm for this object.
Yup, and he got an amazing hire. But he wasn't looking for an investment hire, he was looking for an operating guy, and he wouldn't have had the same level of interest as he would now.
But it would be a totally different conversation. Sean Carrol and Lex have both interviewed Wolfram, same discussion but done in a different way. I quite like that sometimes you get to hear Lex actually work through the implications or understanding of what the interviewee claims, rather than just being a listener.
There are a lot of misunderstandings and shallow information in the article (and in the comments).

I used the RT_PREEMPT patches in 2012/13, so my insight is most certainly rusty, dated and might even be wrong here or there. But still:

First of all, RT_PREEMPT is about realtime as in "hard realtime" for control systems. This has nothing to do with "small latency" (the cycle time could be minutes), but with deadline guarantees, allowing control loops over (realtime) network protocols, etc.

Then, almost all important additions of the RT_PREEMPT patches were mainlined one after the other. The last bits were never mainlined although essential for full preemptive kernel AFAIR, but:

Most "modern" (>15 years) OTS-platform (x86, x86-64) is increasingly unfit for realtime - no matter what kernel/OS you use, because your CPU is not in control. Beginning with DMA, later also "management engines", modern platforms might dethrone your CPU on the lowest ring entirely and for as long as they want, to serve a request/interrupt, e.g. fan control, while your CPU wakes up 500ms later realizing that it missed quite a few deadlines. (Fan control is a bad example, but DMA is not. Also Intel ME!)
This makes almost all Linux PCs inherently unable to reliably keep these guarantees.

This puts the whole "hard realtime on Linux"-project in a pickle - since it requires full control over the platform. And most shops that go this route, will take the small additional step of using something well tested and with vendor support.

And the rest buys platform and OS with support from a trusted vendor.
> my second bet is that it belongs to Ukrainian Military since it's not taken yet, or wasn't at the moment this was posted.

A widely circulated video showed a Ukrainian jet that was shot down in Kyiv at night by Russian AA less than 48 hours ago. The odds are not great on your second bet.
Doesn’t matter. If you’re a business associate, you’re liable (both criminally and civilly) for violations of the privacy rule, and if you share HIPAA covered data with other businesses, those businesses must also adhere to it.
Strength to you there!
In the US, heating energy loads are calculated on degree-days.

This captures the expected dT on days when heating is required and ignores days when heating is not used. In the summer for example...

...except in the US cooling is also common so it actually captures both heating and cooling and involves multiple energy sources in many locations...which brings up that degree-days are highly variable at the local level -- consider the difference between Norway and Greece in the EU.

degree-day https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/units-and-calculators/de...
They're going to open a second front in Northern Europe with 1/3-1/2 of their army locked up in Ukraine?
Looks like it shipped in 14.8 (4 days ago)

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/admin_area/reporting/spamche...
"Winter War"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
For a simple sale/loan the land would remain Ukrainean.

Just like if an American buys a house in Russia, it won't mean now that USA can militarily defend it.

Every piece of land has actually two owners: the sovereign nation and the civilian/company "owning it" as understood in regular speech.
Unites States of the America
this now makes him eligible to appear on the ellen show
For hackers, not missiles. Thanks.
I think the point is more "the world needs people who'll stand up to this sort of thing".
There's only one God actually. Not believing in anything mean that you have no basis for absolute morality.
“Boring” is subjective. I find interplanetary geology very interesting.

You don’t know that Mars is dead, and we are also looking for previous signs of life.

I am excited about us learning about other planets, their mineral composition, what technological advancements we must make to create habitable environments for us, what robotic advancements we must made to study and build remotely. What protocol enhancements must be made to streamline high latency communications.

And then later stage stuff, once functioning, self sustaining civilisation is established, how is it governed? What are the economics of trading in high latency scenarios? What’s next after Mars?

There’s so many interesting things to discover and areas to be excited about.
Tim provides a walkthrough: https://twitter.com/timbray/status/1486770745841577989
> Putin may now also qualify as a war criminal, according to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. War crimes include willful killing and extensive destruction of property “not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.” The term has been inconsistently interpreted and unevenly applied to leaders or countries—including to the U.S. and its officials—who have initiated aggression for reasons considered unjustified. In Ukraine, Putin’s “war of choice” has clearly violated international law through his invasion of a sovereign country and attempt to oust its government.

This is what the title refers to. The rest is just reiteration of current facts and his bloodthirst and delusion.
> even if there's nothing untoward about the purchase itself other than the payment instrument.

When you make a purchase with a credit card, you claim that you are an authorized user of the card, and that you will pay the bill in accordance with the account agreement.

If that's not true, it's fraud. You've knowingly made an untrue claim in order to receive something of value.
The whole thing is a botch. Sadly, his happens time to time in many standards. More in software than hardware standards in my experience — I wonder why.
As it says there, the membership process itself would be problematic. Russia would use maximum pressure before Finland joins.

One possible solution currently considered is to ask Article 5 protections from NATO for the duration of the membership process.
Because they can revoke your game from your steam account if the transaction doesn't get picked up.
Yet another bluff that the west needs to call.
Wow! He said he's going to interview putin! that made my heart skip.... Fuck zuck, i wanna watch that one.
FM Haavisto: Russia could be ready to use nuclear weapons
I used to work in aerospace, but not in defense so I don't actually know much, hence the warning in the end. (that's a problem with confident-looking comments on the net - people are always assuming you are competent when you're just a random guy speculating on the limited knowledge and information)
what is EU going to do if Russia invades Poland anyway? Thermonuclear war? Are you saying the whole security apparatus and international institutions are all bluff? If so, Russia would have figured out the bluff by now.
I think it’s hardly reasonable to equate saying “Russian media reports” with claiming it to be source of authoritative truth.
I used to work there and I can confirm the identities and names mentioned in the article. The mysterious investor is Bernard, originally owner of YouPorn.

I used to work in multiple of these websites, and helped on preparing the plan to hand over Spankwire and other "small tubes" to another company to drive them.
It's far less than the variance of direct solar irradiation hitting the Earth given varying differences in distance from the sun in the Earth's orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_constant#Solar_irradianc...

It looks like direct solar radiance is actually 173,000 TW plus or minus 6,000 TW.
I don't understand how Russia is thinking creatively here. If Ukraine resistance keeps up there's no way Russia has the will or money to maintain an occupation. What has been gained in this invasion?

Europe has been woken up to it's need to spend more on defense.

Ukrainians have been hardened against Russia.

NATO was given a chance to show it's worth
Jason Cammisa did a great video explaining how modern accelerator pedals work and why: https://youtu.be/gKsCHx5NOMM
/s russian ddos attack
And possibly immediately cause NATO action. Russia is really not in a powerful position right now.
The problem is that will get more dangerous the worst the war goes for Russia. There is talk Russia is willing to use termobaric weapons.

"Russian thermobaric "vacuum bombs" launcher seen by CNN team in Ukraine"

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news....

https://twitter.com/i/status/1497519335350452231

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q91yFP9E9Yg
I’m reading reports that the Russian military is far weaker and less resourced than many believed, due in part to corruption. It sounds like the Russians may not be able to take Ukraine without major escalation. If Putin’s assault is fended off, it demonstrates to the world that Russia is far weaker than we were led to believe. Still, they have ICBMs, and I fear that Putin would be unable to bear this hit to his ego and the image of his “empire”.
>and the banks have come out and said “that didn’t happen”

The article didn't say it didn't happen. In fact, it says it did happen:

“individuals and companies suspected of involvement in illegal acts,” such as “influencers in the illegal protest in Ottawa””

What exactly does it mean to be an "influencer"? Why are people being punished for "suspected involvement"? You're using circular reasoning claiming the only people affected deserved it.

>Last, the government ceded its emergency powers after about a week total

What does this matter if they can turn around and re-enact it tomorrow?
I feel like the Ukranian resistance is really making Putin not completely look like a paper Tiger, but maybe a mangy one.
I've been playing Hades the last few weeks. Easily one of the best games in its genre.

I just wish the boons weren't mutually exclusive so that you could get more interesting, emergent kits like you can in The Binding of Isaac.

With Binding of Isaac, there's always a more ridiculous kit out there which makes it addictive to play again and see what unfolds. You can pick up lasers, bouncing bullets, and homing upgrades, and now you have homing, bouncing, lasers. (The code to make every upgrade synergize with every other upgrade must have been a real feat.)

With Hades, you just get to choose between the same few boons that don't stack with each other, so the game never really changes.

Your attack causes frost damage or it crits or it pushes enemies away or it reflects projectiles or it weakens enemies, but—dual boons aside—you never get to have fun mixing them together.
Genocide was an inherent part of Nazi ideology, though, and the NSDAP had openly declared its contempt for many of the people it conquered. There hasn't been anything comparable to Hitler or Nazism in any of Russia's wars.