skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I intentionally separated extracting fossils from fossil demand reduction. We should definitely reduce fossil demand for too many reasons, and investing in renewables can help by switching demand.

However, the attempts to reduce fossil extraction don't help the climate (the West just imports from some dictatorship which doesn't care), and ironically have their own negative externality.
You can also run it in a Docker container and connect the LanguageTool VS Code extension to it. Works great for Markdown documents!
As opposed to random commenters on HN who are likely SWE and not experts in finance or geopolitics?

I hate this trend of "well he's an expert so he might be wrong". Okay, sure, we are all human and make mistakes, but, he's also an expert and you don't become an expert by being wrong all the time. Not sure how many people here are qualified to comment on these events instead of him.
Kind of confused how this work, doesn't my browser have to support this compression as well? Like watching it on deepmind's website, doesn't there have to be another layer of compression for me to watch it?
Can anyone please tell me how things are in Izmail? My son's sister is there but we have not been able to contact her.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220225160516/https://harpers.or...

https://archive.is/QD1uO
A reminder that two of Western Europe's militaries are nuclear, which hardly makes them "a joke". You seem to be projecting the state of Germany's military to all European forces, which is... questionable.
Hi dkaleta I'd love to chat with you about your product Obstino a bit more. I've reached out via LinkedIn, but feel free to send me an email (my email is in my profile).
Just an anecdote but quite recently it seems to be much less reliable at catching spam.
Yeah, China isn’t going to side with the US/EU, and the rest of the Asian countries are too small to matter, including Japan/Korea.

In fact, China has stepped up their efforts to aid Russia.

The next few weeks will be history in the making. Pay attention.
Ah, so Bitcoin is just Goldbug-ism for the Age of Information.
Breaking deaf stereotypes and normalizing sign language through gaming (2020)
It's never too late to de-google. Use it as a good excuse to switch to a password manager if you aren't using one. If you are then it is much less painful to switch.

Internet identity is too valuable to trust to a company that demonstrates they are willing to fall asleep with an armed grenade in their hand.
Yeah but assume that public park with ID verification was previously filled with sewage. A sewage filled park is also quite dystopian.

(if it's unclear, Facebook is the sewage filled park)
It turns out that many tech users are idiots. It also turns out they get very mad when you tell them that and will go on a 10 minute autoriatrian rant on why you are wrong.
> International conflict seems to bring out the xenophobes and overly political actors

Yeah, it really does feel like it. It seems to me like a lot of europeans and americans have a pretty warped view about africa/middle east.
Why does someone believe it is disinformation? Is the western media and politicians saying truth? Just curious to know the truth.
Related:

Ink/stitch: an Inkscape extension for machine embroidery design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16074346 - Jan 2018 (20 comments)
If a government forces it's people to use particular software, it has a duty to provide that software to the entire population. If a parliament decides to pay $X billion to Microsoft, for a lisence for all of UK, well, that sucks, but they can fight over it like they do with all other random spending they do.

If it's not willing to pay the cost, it is basically creating a monopoly for that firm, and I have to pay for it. The potential for lobbying and corruption is off the scale here.
Raspberry Pi 400 – Your complete personal computer, built into a keyboard
In the Feds, stamps are the unit of money. On our yard a book of 'compound' stamps was worth $8 of 'value' but it took a lot of work to keep them at that price. For a book you could get one dip of chew. I think is was two books for a 'square' of spice, a tiny sliver of paper enough to get you high. You would also need to include the price of an AA battery to use as your lighter to get high. Don't do drugs, but especially don't do spice, I saw it make guys crazy and guys just dropped dead from it. A jalepeno pepper was 3 stamps if things were good. A five pound bag of cheese was 2 books to the store guy. The price fluctuated daily depending on how many people were getting them out of the kitchen. Dirty pictures were 3 stamps(no porn allowed in the Feds). Decent tattoes were three books. A haircut at the free prison barber shop was 5 stamps, or free if you wanted a poorly done buzz. For a book a month someone would clean your cell for you every day. Or someone would drop off and pick up your laundry. For 10% of your commissary bill you could get bumped to the front of the commissary line. A brand new uniform from laundry for visiting (you were issues used clothes) was a book, but then you needed to pay to have it tailored and pay to get inmate tags printed and sown on. New prison issue boots were a book to the laundry guys. A prison cheese cake (made from coffee creamer and lemon juice) was a book, or four stamps a slice. Minimum bet on a sports gambling ticket was 3 stamps. A book a month to the kitchen to get extra portions on your tray (say 2 slices of roast beef on roast beef day). I don't know alcohol prices but it was a lot and normally all sold before it was made, and if it got busted I think you were just out. Every section had a couple of store guys. You could the things from the commisary for their price + 1 stamp if you replaced them next time you shopped, or a couple stamp premium if paying in just stamps. A cold soda was 2 stamps. A candy bar 3 stamps. Home made taffy made from coffee creamer was 2 for a stamp.
As someone who "can draw" by most people's standards, but who never had a formal art education, I benefited a lot from Draw a Box. I liked that it focused so much on the actual, literal mechanics of drawing a good line with your body, which is not something I had ever focused on.

I think it builds sort of slowly, and you need commitment to get through to the part where you're drawing "the rest of the owl" so to speak, aka the fun parts that aren't just endless pages of boxes in perspective.

But, there really isn't a shortcut anyway, and it's worth it, and this course is presented really well, for no money.
Conflict in Ukraine (2014)
> in 2022 sanctions are to international diplomacy as a tantrum is to a toddler. theyre effectively meaningless

This is just straight up wrong. This is why the Magnitsky Act got Putin so rattled. It is also why Putin has said being cut off from swift is an act of war. If it's meaningless, why does Russia care so much?
> The universe hadn’t decided what the value would be before it was measured,” said Colbeck. “That’s the origin of the security.”

My naive security architect view is, I get the impression the people doing quantum engineering and those working as cryptographers have a very narrow overlap.

Reading about quantum key agreement/distribution (QKD), it's different from cryptographic functions where you have things like convolution and substitution functions, or using hashing to to distribute the information over a very large finite field. The security in quantum appears inseparable from the encoding and implementation itself, which implies there is a proof and description of entropy-in vs. entropy-out that I haven't gone deep enough to locate and read yet.

I'd speculate there would be some interesting unification of the Shannon information entropy of a plaintext with physical state thermodynamic entropy of the "enciphered" Qbits, given transmitting quantum keys like this sounds more like encoding bits into a physical quantum function than a keyed "encryption" scheme for data for the purposes of security.

To do the data exchange, it's not encrypted to a key per se, but it sounds more like a lookup table (LUT) over a field of qbit state probabilities. Doing certification of the security of such a system is different from a normal NIST algorithm candidate because it reads like you could write and evaluate the encoding scheme as a proof.
Id bet the median YouTube view count is zero, in which case the real gains would be from accurate inference of which videos fell into that class.
I sympathize with Ukraine, but I question the utility of having a “No to War” banner on my website.

What exactly would such banner achieve in helping Ukrainians? Or is it just to make me feel like I’m doing something when I’m really doing nothing?
You need to run “Borg check” once in a while to check and fix backup integrity errors. S3 egress fees will kill you!
I use it, but only as a suggestion.
> Why not try to attack their internal infrastructure instead?

Because that will attract international law enforcement, and ruin your life if caught. DDOS is pretty safe cybervandalism that everyone can join with a couple of clicks. It's also pretty low impact besides a few stressed IT workers, but that's mostly what anonymous does.

The days of LulzSec made us think that was the tip of the iceberg of Anonymous, but it was peak Anonymous and we didn't know it.
It took me 200 hours of reading and doing some Anki to be fine with reading just about any German text last year, there are words I didn't know yes, but I by the time it felt I have climbed the steeply hill of getting a hang of the language. What's 200 hours? Not much. You can do it. I started with a few mins daily. Increased. Point is, see for yourself.
> I have not seen Russia post-USSR be interested in expanding and swallowing territory.

It might pay off to regain parity with current affairs then.

And maybe read a bit about Chechnya while you're at it or any one of the pages linked from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Post-Soviet_conflicts
"Not even their website is available in Czech language."

Very interesting.
While outrageous, that's not quite the same.

What you described in your simile is a violation of Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it is public (as in John Q can walk in) business practicing discrimination based on a protected class (race, in this case).
TikTok is not western though
Does anyone have any resources for doing mousekey emulation outside of xwindows, say, by simulating a uinput device? The xkb settings get me partway there, but I want to use four keys instead of having to use eight for diagonals.
The side that already has the power, is unjust and is winning.
> The reality is they do not care for Ukraine.

I've been thinking about this all day and feel incredibly upset when I see what's going on.

What can we do? Have you seen what the Russians did to Grozny?

It all boils down to the fact that EU simply can't start a war with a maniac that has thousands of nukes. I'd say let him have it and Ukrainians refugees are welcome here by the millions.

Putin's now threatening Finland and Sweden should they dare join NATO and there's talk of the conflict spilling over in to Moldova and Georgia. That would change things drastically. As soon as EU or US forces take military action against Russia we have to assume he'll retaliate and then it's basically WW3. If that's what it takes to get rid of this maniac then so be it but the consequences for everyone will be severe.
Makes total sense but my use case - and from what I can tell, this is very common - is sitting on the couch with the wife in the evenings while she's/we're watching something. There is a couple of hours after the kids go to bed where I could spend that time in the office, or I could be on the couch with her. I don't know if it's a woman thing or just my wife, but she definitely prefers I'm close to her, even if I'm on my phone. Since I like making her happy, I don't spend a lot of time on my PC playing games anymore. The Deck will allow me to play games again, and I'm really looking forward to it. Throw in the ability to play while on vacation/traveling/in bed, plus the cool features like instant resume from sleep (which my PC definitely cannot compete with) and gyroscopes, and I can't remember being this excited about a new gadget.
Gold and silver coins are not fiat though.
Need help with Cloudfare and DDoS atack defence expert voluneer. Anyone?
Second question: Is TextExpander a key logger as well?
Ukraine banned vkontakte since 2017. Just to add some perspective.

"This is different" I guess.
I think we can agree that people who mistreat others based on their religion are just assholes in general, doesn't matter if they're extremist muslims, christians, atheists etc.
Terraria gets around this with a dual mode aiming system. Holding the button to mine without holding a direction methodically selects each nearby mineable tile in your field of view one by one, but holding the joystick to aim lets you target freely.
You can already solve this quite trivially with Dropbox.
The only catch with this is that it's neo vim only. It works incredibly well and can fuzzy find lots of things not just files.
No, these are always the tools used to convince people to go to war, and later to justify the results.

They are part of the ways power maintains power. Every first king is just a warlord, a thug more brutal than the rest, and after defeating their enemies they suddenly declare the role of king is ordained by the god(s) and to challenge it is heresy. They set up the notion that rulers are more noble than common men, which is why they should rule over them and control the land. In later years they will use these tools to again convince their people to fight for them in the name of "country" or some other such notion.

And what peoples are against "freedom"? Do you really believe terrorists attacked the US because they "hate our freedoms?" No, it's because the US systemically destroyed their homelands, denied them of their own freedoms, and forcibly took their resources. But when you fill your gas tank you aren't comfortable recognizing that a hidden part of the price of the gas is the civilians murdered so you could have it.

I'm endlessly surprised to see educated adults buying into the stories will tell children about how the world works.
But don't underestimate the importance of reading as a skill! It's incredibly frustrating to see devs make stupid mistakes and spend time trying to get something to work when the answer is right in front of their nose.

I see this too often. A developer (usually more towards the junior end) who think they can just chug through any problem. Trying this, then that, then google, then that again. When, if they would just stop and think through the problem - and use their eyes - they would see the solution was there all along.
> Given this, it surprises me that Google is going after the enterprise cloud business. It is pretty well known that such businesses scale fairly linearly with sales and support staff. My understanding is that they know this and are attempting to scale the business this way instead of their usual strategy of ignoring the issue and hoping it will go away.

GCP can't get their act together to get a consistent enterprise sales model done....
There hasn't been a large change in imports of russian gas in Germany since the start of the Energiewende. [0] Gas is largely used for heating, electrical heating was never widespread and would not have been a viable alternative, even with keeping more nuclear power online, since it is uncompetititve without major subsidies.

Anyway, gas consumption as a percentage of the total mix has been stable since before the start of the Energiewende. [1] Germany replaced some coal and nuclear with renewables and kept the rest stable while also substantially increasing total energy demand.

Since your are quoting one of the worst people I've ever had the displeasure of having to listen to, it is curious that you ignore that the US is a major importer of russian resources, too, and is now silent now about boycotting russian imports. [2] It was all fun and games when the trade-off was that Germany would have to import expensive American natural gas, but biting in the sour apple yourself doesn't seem to be on the table, at least for now.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/exports/germany/mineral-...

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

[2] https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...
Because Russia is waging a war in ukraine as we speak and western media were very open about the lies of america. Iraqi WMDs have become a Meme in itself, Mr. totally not suspicious new account with only a singular comment that obvious whataboutism
Went ahead and purchased the book used. Thanks!
Russiagate has been handily debunked, and its premise was always stupid. No country on Earth has meddled in nearly the number of foreign elections as the USA. This is universally understood history. It’s not up for debate. Only the propagandized American domestic population would have even considered Russiagate a newsworthy scandal. And only the propagandized American domestic population would have interpreted it as anything short of a failure on the part of America’s own leadership and commercialized election system.
Verified, authentic, checkmarked and vetted people still post false, misleading, or otherwise deliberate propaganda all the time. Truth claims from popular users fuel the fire of public opinion, whichever way the wind may blow.

Dare I say I don't think insistence on authentic identity will improve things.
> upgrading screens happens less frequently than upgrading the mobo/cpu

Heck, I have a 2009 iMac that I'm using as an external monitor right now.
I suppose what OP was arguing is, when bank A transfers to bank B, does bank B check with the Feds that the money from bank A is "real"?
And is a transfer from A to B really a transfer from A's account at the Feds to B's?

In that case, why would the US have to act "indirectly", threatening bank A not to work with bank B? They could simply deny any transfers to and from bank B's account at the Feds, which would make any transactions impossible?
The 'finicky' is from the default settings meant to work in as many games as possible. (Almost) Every game I tried I found some community-maintained controller profile that had near-perfect settings. I really love Steam's community. :D
Forget the recording, I wanna see a video of it playing on an actual TV showing that it's actually displaying free-to-air signal.
Maybe I speak for myself, but more than anything, this introvert prioritizes the right to choose his own fate.

How often and where I choose to socialize and go out should be my own choice based on my own reasoning and values, and I absolutely despise and detest to the core of my being that others think its reasonable to try and impose their risk-management decisions on me.

If I feel scared or un-social, I stay home. If not, I'll go out. Easy.

That decision should always be up to the individual.
In 2022, I made a resolution:

> I should focus on doing well what I know instead of badly doing what I have no clue about

Geopolitics is one of the thing I have no clue about. I won't take part in the pissing contest between USA and Russia that's been happening in Ukraine for the last 10 years.

I'll keep focusing on the tech, dev and ops. Because that's what I know.
I definitely feel trapped where I am.

In my case it's because of the kids. They're half way through primary education, and I don't want to uproot them from a school that consistently gets high marks for its education to go to the kind of places where I'd be happy, but the schooling is a substantially lower caliber.

Yeah, when the kids go off to college it frees me up to move, but that's almost a decade away. In the meantime I just hunker down and deal with it.
burner-inserter loops aren't a bad way to dispose of wooden power poles after refactoring your early base. I usually just set up a logistics chest to request some and then feed them into the burner inserter loop.
Yup. It shattered the illusion I had built up that our relationship was worth anything.
Well we are approaching half of americans having a chronic disease and a large part of that is from what we eat along with lack of exercise. it does seem like we have a degradation of the nutrients in our food supply as well.

https://www.fightchronicdisease.org/sites/default/files/docs...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/vanishing-...
Grammarly seems insidious to me. Not only does it intercept the final versions, but all drafts of what users write. I know they sell a plagiarism product to schools[0]:

> Grammarly's integrated plagiarism checker instantly catches plagiarism from over 16 billion websites and ProQuest's proprietary databases.

So it's pretty clear that collecting and processing lots of semi-private writing is part and parcel to their business, which seems like a recipe for trouble sooner or later. To be clear, I have similar reservations about grammar check in e.g. Google Docs, so this is not limited to just Grammarly at all.

[0]: https://www.grammarly.com/edu
The approach that has seemed most effective for me (for Dutch and Spanish), and I can also rationalize it from my logical side, is "comprehensible input" method.

The idea is that you're learning like a kid, but in a more focused and efficient way. E.g., someone tells you a story, and while doing so, they'll motion or point to the things they're talking about, but they do so entirely in the foreign language. However, since they're doing so in a comprehensible way, you can easily figure out what they're saying.

It's meant to trigger the connection in your mind between the objects/actions and the corresponding words in the foreign language, and it's meant to bypass the translation phase which language learners often start with.

This is the YouTube channel that really opened my eyes to the model:
https://youtu.be/t4CAdmquJsY
For the most part yes.

It is true that many batteries today use rare earth metals like Nickel or Cobalt but there are plenty of good alternatives that don't.

Companies start using chemistries like LFP which relies mostly on iron, which is low cost and abundant.

There are development when it comes to Sodium-ion based batteries which should be very scalable and cheap.

There are magnesium-based chemistries that hold a lot of potential as well.

As for recycling, it should prove financial for some batteries as the materials can cover the recycling cost.
Even worse: entirely new language primitives based on 10wpm mobile keyboards.
Betting Like a Trader: A Superior Betting System (2021)
The first few chapters of 'The Number of The Beast' are some of the most amazing chapters ever written but then the book degenerates into senselessness which is really too bad.
These ISP blackboxes central command should be a prime target now.
> My naive security architect view is, I get the impression the people doing quantum engineering and those working as cryptographers have a very narrow overlap.

Correct. It's also the difference between theoretical security for infinite time vs security for something like 10^30 years. Is it really worth changing tried and tested algorithms and implementations already in place?
Came here for this
Everybody is doing lots of mind reading when it comes to Putin. What the piece outlines though is that Putin didn’t have a big problem with the NATO expansion while it happened (provided that the depiction is factually correct ofc), while he clearly did have a problem with Ukraine becoming democratic and losing its pro Russia leadership. Also, as is explained, there was no risk whatsoever that Ukraine actually would have joined the NATO for the foreseeable future. To me, drawing the conclusions that the piece draws appears to be more than mind reading. It’s rather putting one and one together.
In the area they show in their video it doesn't look like it'd take much for the trees at the edge of the clearing to go up in flames, and pretty fast too.