skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US and EU are also placing sanctions on the Russian central bank. Experts quoted by the Financial Times seem to believe that this is more impactful than the SWIFT disconnect:

’Josh Lipsky, a former IMF adviser now at the Atlantic Council think-tank, said earlier the US imposing sanctions on the Russian central bank would be an “extraordinarily significant and damaging move to the Russian economy”.

’“A G20 central bank has never been sanctioned before. This is not Iran. This is not Venezuela. So to shut off their central bank from the international financial system, or at least the dollar and euro economy, is a massively destabilising move potentially,” said Lipsky.

’Edward Fishman, a former US official now at the Center for a New American Security, said it would present a “devastating blow” to the Russian economy that would eclipse the significance of a ban on Swift.’
That's literally what I've been wondering next. The question marks where genuine, not rhetoric.

(I can't claim that this is always the case with my question marks, so I'm in no position to complain if they are not taken at face value)
Why do you mention Chernobyl and Fukushima together? Fukushima basically only did some economic damage, Chernobyl was a catastrophe.

Also given how densely populated Germany is, it's wildly irresponsible that they operate so many coal plants, it's literally killing thousands every year. Even if they had a Chernobyl style disaster every 10 years it would still be a lot safer than the way they're generating power right now.
Because I want to find out whether Oberon+ (see http://oberon-lang.ch) is fit for real-world projects, or how I would have to extend it to be fit. I think that one day complexity of present programming languages will blow up in our faces, and we will therefore have to focus on simpler (but still safe and very efficient) languages.
These cost a million dollars a piece to Americans. I'm not sure how much Russia pays for each Caliber cruise missile, but the (short-range ballistic rather than cruise) Tochka-U is somewhere around $150k.

Also, for what it's worth, Russia used 26 Caliber missiles on a single day in Syria back in 2015.
Does the analysis include those same costs in the fossil fuel price? It takes a lot of oil to find, extract, and process oil.
I hear what you say, but I'd like to add that as an employee, I'd like the option to make my performance data, salary, etc public -- even if it that is not the organization-wide default.

The reactions that people have to their own data being public are partly a result of the current hidden-by-default model.

I'm not a great developer: I'm experienced, but I make the same mistakes that any junior would. I'd prefer to share the kind of feedback that I receive and how those discussions proceed, so that juniors can look ahead, learn, and avoid repeating the same mistakes (hopefully leading to a much more advanced cohort of future developers).
> How much would renewable cost if it wasn't supported by fossil fuel (e.g. for extracting and processing the resources needed to build solar panel)?

I find your comment pointless, given that in a not so distant past the bulk of energy was produced from fossil fuel.

Thankfully, the world is transitioning away from that, and at a considerable speed. We went from propaganda selling the lie that renewables were a passing fad to a point in time where entire countries register days where all their energy needs come from renewables and even overproduce energy, leading to negative energy costs.
Heat people, not spaces (2015)
The move to renewables in Germany slowed down drastically since the mid 2010s. Largely due to bad policy, not cost development.

In German, but look e.g. at the third graph in https://www.wind-energie.de/themen/zahlen-und-fakten/deutsch... . Shows the total and newly installed wind power (better than the second graph showing the number of new turbines, because turbines have gotten bigger).

For solar, look at: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29264/umfrage...
the numbers for 2020/2021 unfortunately are missing. They're better, but by far not back to 2010-2012.
For greenhouse gas emissions and this situation with Russia
Reddit.com/R/CombatFootage
That is what 5 year olds around you understand?
You can see some of that metadata in the UI for the database: https://github.com/advisories
Is there any proof this is a true story?
If you like racket try out bigloo https://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/ and gerbil scheme at cons.io

Erlang has been my favorite for over a decade. Feels like its own operating system: spawn many processes, kill/pause them, send/receive messages async no problem, add service introspection. It feels kubernetes/microservices architecture way before its time, except without the cgroups constraints or language options :o). Downside is slow text parsing, number crunching, no efficient vectors
https://twitter.com/zelenskyyua/status/1497340787280920581?s...

Macron had the wonderful pleasure of being the one to tell hero president zelensky.
Given they've had 8 years warning, no, probably not
No. Read "Orwell, the Lost Writings", in which he discusses his job during WWII - translating the BBC news into Simple English for broadcast to the Colonies (mostly India and Hong Kong). He discovered that translating to Simple English required pounding out any political nuances into plain language, and that doing so was itself a political act. That was the genesis of Newspeak in "1984".
No. The war has small number of civilian casualties [1], given the other commenters emotional tone I would say he's biased.

[1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/02/1112732
Yea, they can do that but i think it is a war crime. Not sure thou im not lawyer.

Anyway it probably confuses soldiers so they start shooting civilians.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30482565
Even more interesting, if you search that string of characters on DDG, the results are mostly Russian...
currently on the frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30482565
I wonder what's the actual use. As far as one can tell from news, they have ample of weapons - there were shipments like these since 2015, and now there were crates of machine guns placed on Kyiv streets for anyone to take. They lack the manpower in face of the attackers, and on this front the West will not help.
Or use alternatives.

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/IAPonomarenko/status/149768180498...
on frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30482565
Good luck to all of us.
One of the first jailbreaks gave you a shell to the file system IIRC
Russia had said a lot of things. If you take everything at face value you’ll simply be conquered.
Yes, China is watching carefully what's happening in Ukraine as I'm sure they'll apply any lessons learned for when they finally invade Taiwan. we must support Taiwan, economically and militarily.
SWIFT disconnection is the WMD in the finance world. If you are American, imagine not being able to use ACH or checks anymore.
Nuclear power can offer consistent base loads to power grids.
Fukushima was the latest but hardly the only incident. One of them caused fallout all across Europe. Hint: it was just occupied by Russian forces.
Chechen anti-tank teams were facing very poorly prepared and motivated, and almost entirely conscript, Russian army in 1994-96. With tanks in particular, inexperienced commanders who were given orders to "get it over quickly" would often send them without infantry screens, making them easy pickings for RPG teams. And in urban areas especially, RPGs were used from basements of apartment buildings - low enough that Russian tanks cannot depress the main gun to lob a shell in there, or use the co-axial MG.

None of this is likely to apply in this case. Russian armor is still likely to take heavy casualties in the cities - that's just the nature of urban warfare - but I don't think it'll be anything like Chechnya in the 90s.
> Another obstacle is that simple vocabulary is a turn-off for some people, no matter how elegantly it is used and regardless of the content. Sometimes it comes down to a fear of sounding “childish”.

A related objection: I imagine that if I, as a native English speaker, were to speak to a non-native speaker in minimal English, it would seem patronizing. I wonder what the actual intended applications of this are.
The text-ads-that-look-like headlines on the homepage don't do much to help the credibility situation, either.
How does Hugo compare to Inform?
Here [1] is an example of Elon helping.

[1] - https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1497701484003213317
Not for want of making it legal. The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (ACDC) has been proposed to the House of Representatives several times. It would make retaliatory hacking legal under some scheme. It has never made it out of committee.

In US terms, that means one or a small group of Representatives (in this case 18) proposed such a law. It got referred to the subgroup in charge of vetting proposed laws in that specialty area (in this case the subcommittee of Judiciary called the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security). From there, he wasn't able to convince them to even green light it for a full vote in the House of Representatives, let alone going to the Senate or becoming a law.
>Now stop buying Russian oil.

This is precisely what will happen. How do you buy russian oil if you cannot transfer money to Russia?

That's what SWIFT removal does. Effectively means Russia cannot import or export anything. China has made 1 exception, they will still import russian wheat and that's it.
I find it really distasteful from Twitter that they still put up this screen nagging to sign in, and preventing reaching this important information.

Twitter - you end up like Facebook. Blocked on the router. Bye.

To be on subject, as pointed out to me lower: very good to read that this decision has been made. I hope that the physical military support reaches Ukraine in time.
> ...escalating an invasion which now leads to more civilian casualties because of it

Do you have anything that would suggest Russia has retaliated against Ukrainian citizens for an attack they didn't carry out, or is that just conjecture? I fail to see how a disruption of Russian infrastructure by a completely unaffiliated party would somehow lead to them being more capable of attacking Ukrainians, especially when their own government has explicitly asked help on this front[0].

Your comment is borderline incomprehensible, and also violates the site guidelines. You've already garnered a bit of a reputation online, and being so overtly confrontational doesn't do much to clear your image around here.

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/ukraines-government-asks-hackers-help...
I think generally, when you start from scratch we put a higher weight on language than mature ecosystems of libraries, framework and tooling. Newer languages have learnt from history and are often nicer to use (at least subjectively, this is usually the selling point). I remember seeing the SO surveys of work vs non-work and Java was the most extreme example (basically all work no play).

Some of the new languages survive and mature, like Go and Rust. Eventually, those become the new Java or C++. Some will fade away.
Agreed here. I do this type work for a career, and if you need safety critical + real time (which really just means known and bounded time) guarantees, anything with an ME type device that can usurp the cores is generally a no go. Especially if the source for the firmware for said ME is not accessible.
Google Users Locked Out After 15 Years' Use (2020)
> Why do you mention Chernobyl and Fukushima together? Fukushima basically only did some economic damage, Chernobyl was a catastrophe.

Both Chernobyl and Fukushima were disasters.

It just so happened that Fukushima also was the final straw.
I’m more than happy to pay more for energy if that’s the price of peace
Interesting. A combination of HUD and voice help might work better than what we have now. Of course, a good HUD would likely be ultimately better but much harder to implement
Not if they are using electric air/water heating and driving an electric car.

Edit: I take this back. It depends at least on where you live
She's listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_awoke_from_..., in case that helps.
Black Lives Matter, which by the admission of its own leaders is a Marxist organization, caused more than 2 billions dollars in insurance claims during the George Floyd protests.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/22/fac...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/2020-protests-changed...
Fascinating stuff. For anyone interested in learning more and also technics for working with code, the Programmer's Brain [0] is an excellent book.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57196550-the-programmer-...
Well, honestly this is another no man no problem situation, solution is clear..
It will have next to no effect on Russia because they have their own currency and, unlike Iran, are not dependent upon imports.

The fantasy of the dollar hegemony is a western myth. They are about to find out that they are completely irrelevant.

If nobody is selling anything to you then you don’t need to settle in foreign currencies.

However Russia could demand roubles in payment for its gas and then ban foreigners from holding them. Which would mean the EU couldn’t settle its gas bill.

And we all know what happens when you fail to pay the gas bill.

Always remember that a country only exports to obtain imports. If there are no imports to be had then there is no need to export anything.

The gas will stay in the ground and the world will have even less supply than it does now.
Renewables are cheap per kWh, but they are only intermittently available, and since storage is basically nonexistent at grid scale, these kWh are only worth anything if there is demand for them, and are useless when there is demand, but sun is not shining or wind is not blowing. In effect, you still need to have some other way to produce electricity on demand, when there is no renewable supply. What’s worse is that if these more flexible sources of electricity (typically coal or gas) cannot compete with renewables when they do produce, they need to charge much more when renewables are out, in order to stay profitable — otherwise, they’d close, and we’d wouldn’t be able to meet the demand at all times. This would result in customers getting disconnected with very little notice, making them very unhappy.

To sum up, it’s more expensive, because even as renewables grow in installed capacity, we cannot reduce installed capacity of fossil sources on 1-1 parity, and also we pay more per fossil generated kWh than we used to in all-fossil grid. Cheap grid-scale storage would solve this, but it’s no going to happen any time soon.
Imagine we as humanity dedicated that kind of enthusiasm, resources energy and logistics to climate change.
There's also recognition of the valid circumstance in which you're presented with choosing a lesser evil. If all choices are bad, choose the least bad, and those contexts change radically over different time frames.
The internal buses are basically true highz buses with multiple drivers and latches hanging off of them.
Need non-paywalled version of this if possible, please?
Yet is where the information is. Twitter and Reddit have been very valuable in this war, annoying patterns aside.
Also, some of the parts are mature technology. We already built lots of steam turbines before building them for nuclear plants.
Velo (full-stack development platform) by Wix
There is a real tension between the leverage of a niche language and the FOMO of it not adding anything to your resume.

I love Haxe for its power and the number of targets it can deploy to, but it doesn't do anything for my career unless I want to work as a game dev (which I don't).

So, I'm leaning more into Python with mpypy (and mypyc for iOS) and trying to focus more on the problem domain rather than the programming language.
the core protocol implementation is 90% there but in a way that prevents the entire project from functioning? time to refactor an unrelated state machine for the third time.

literally a decision I made on a side project a few weeks ago.
I work in the Fintech industry. I'm only a platform engineer so take this with a grain of salt.

SWIFT works by giving banks a unique ID (SWIFT code) and transactions supply a swift code and an account number (IBAN).

Removing a country involves removing any bank that happens to be in Russia. The system itself doesn't care where in the world you are.
It could be a Russian S-13 unguided rocket [0] used by Su-25 close air support airplane. They detonate on impact and have up to 33 kg (73 lbs) warhead that can cause the damage seen on the photo.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-13_rocket

EDIT: typos
Russia has the Donbass separatist militias, which would make for a perfect occupation force - they are ideologically motivated, but also, they know that they'll be treated as traitors by any Ukrainian state with more than a semblance of independence.
Shout out to the author for remembering the Shakespeare Programming Language exists! [1] Next on the list, which I am tempted to do, is build in support for LOLCODE [2] and Piet [3], though I'm not sure how the latter would work.

[1]. http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/

[2]. http://www.lolcode.org/

[3]. https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
In the US eggs are washed prior to being packaged for sale, so they must be refrigerated. Elsewhere (and in the US with yard eggs/local eggs) i guess you wash before use? I wash yard eggs because they were on the ground.
Yes. There is some footage from cities, but army asks people not to film their preparations so russian forces can't get intel from social networks.
Pumped storage has a serious problem: you can’t build it just about anywhere. There is very limited number of sites, and the most practical ones are already built out. This also ignores the issue of environmentalists being almost certain to block destroying entire valleys or mountain ranges.
You can sort of divine them from how the undocumented instructions work.

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=39

It more or less falls under true classic highz buses with multiple drivers.

You have three options I can see

1) treat it as a spice simulation that aggressively optmizes to synthesizable logic most places other than the problem parts.

2) hand replace the problem parts with synthesizable logic sorta like how Nvidia replaces graphics shaders with had written replacements in their drivers

3) just throw the whole thing into a spice simulation
Something like https://chartbrew.com or other graph-generating platforms?
Doesn't this mean the ruble will collapse? They only have $12 billion in physical cash and $140 billion or so in gold.
Whitehouse's statement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

Specifies that selected banks, not all, will be removed from SWIFT. And more restrictions on the central bank.
LOL. Zero chance :)
Nitter add-on gets around that behavior. [1]

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...
Can't even execute this on my local machine.
Why bundle this with a web server and then distribute the code to run locally? Also is this written on ruby or java? Make up your mind.

1 star, won't even try it.
SPAC Startups Made Lofty Promises. They Aren’t Working Out
Kenya made a speech against Russia, I wouldn’t say África doesn’t care. So did Lebanese government which is in Asia.

I would say the world is certainly watching and people in general don’t like war
Well he did stop doing anything that you could classify as research, and decided to become a youtube talk-show host instead.

It's almost as if he was there just long enough to associate his name with the school as an ends to impress dumb people.
IL2CPP runtime performance improvements in Unity 2021.2
Pennsylvania (particularly western and northern PA) is right on top of the Marcellus shale, which is loaded with frackable gas. Your renewables are competing with cheap gas, locally sourced with low pipeline cost, that isn't being charged for CO2 emissions.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1497701484003213317
Thanks for the insights. One doesn't need a Matrix style port into the brain.

Valve and OpenBCI have working Index headsets with EEG and bio-feedback data. Reasonable use cases are fine-tuning game play based on the players stress and enjoyment of different experiences. Today you can buy widget [1] that allow you to control objects in VR (if that game has used the SDK) with your mind my focusing attention on them [2].

Cambridge Analytica used just content and click data! (to build the most accurate map of various countries voting populations and identify key cultural fissures to exploit)

[1] https://www.next-mind.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMXfyZc_Gvg&t=221s
This is not going to buy peace.
Thanks! Hopefully that means that, if renewables keep getting cheaper, then the economics will keep getting better.
It has been sooo cringy watching gamers try analyse actual military operations with zero competence, self-awareness, humility or respect for what is really at stake.
Yes, I violated eli5 rules. Sorry
BCH is trying to keep 0-conf alive by eliminating the artificial block space constraint, removing RBF (which is really dangerous when you have an RBF-flagged grandparent tx that maybe your wallet is t looking for), and implementing double spend proofs to warn tx recipients as soon as a double spend tx appears on the network. It’s obviously impossible for an unconfirmed Bitcoin tx to be guaranteed secure, but the risk can be minimized, which is nice for everyday, low value transactions.
And those that are coming are state-of-the-art. It is quite possible that they're going to be effective enough for one kill per weapon and the volume flooding in is going to go through the Russian armour like the clap.
I'm not denying that's where the information is. But it will be very distasteful to read after the next quarter that their stock went up because so and so many people signed up. Yeah, but why have they signed up... I guess it doesn't matter when you count $$$$.
The same nightmare over and over again. Are the people who can change this (not thinking of devs, but maybe managers?) reading these news? The HN topics? The Twitter threads? What do they think?
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/05/ajit-...

The phenomenon is that consumer prices for broadband go up, even as the wholesale cost of bandwidth (what Comcast is reselling to you) goes down. The cause of this is a mix of two things:

1. Cable companies have regional monopolies. Without a choice, they can raise prices on consumers without losing customers

2. Cable companies face ever increasing 'infrastructural' costs, such as environmental review, trenching, construction, permitting, easements, etc... These costs are well established as going up in excess of inflation (part of why we can't build new infrastructure anymore) and therefore even while the product itself (internet access) gets cheaper, the 'last mile' of distribution keeps getting more expensive.
That idea is far removed from the debate of a meritocracy vs employment quotas based on ethnicity. Thats the real discussion here.
When I interviewed people I asked questions like this in their domain, and the responses were quite valuable. The answers immediately highlighted how experienced the person was, how long have they been in the domain, and what kind of approach they used in their work.
NOT a bible verse:

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil;
For I am the meanest son-of-bitch in the valley.
It's perfect on mobile. You can zoom, there's no cookie popups, there's no prompt asking you to sign up for a mailing list, and the whole article loads at once without needing to click a "continue" button. There's no ads. It's just a clean site that you can zoom in on to read.

All sites should be this good.
Sousa, like the composer.