skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's fascinating to watch the West impose its own culture into everything - even warfare.

By this I mean the West's addiction to immediate gratification. If Putin hasn't conquered every last inch of Ukraine within 72 hours then he has "failed" according to Western media.

To some degree I don't blame them. In Iraq for example, the war tempo was intentional rapid. The US decided that maneuver warfare[1] would be the doctrine to use and it worked out okay only because they largely dealt with demoralized forces - but in areas where they encountered a willing opposition, it crushed the tempo.

Then, less than a year after "victory" they had terrible battles lasting months where the US lost and public sentiment flipped[2].

I keep two things in mind: in war, the first casualty is the truth.

The second: that it was only a year between "freedom fries" (because the French did not want to help invade Iraq) and "no blood for oil". What will US sentiment be a year from now when the crushing energy and food prices caused by this have worked their way through the system and the Democrats and their media go into the elections with full weaponized Russia-paranoia all over again?

When China is now even stronger because the West weaponized the financial system against an enemy that didn't warrant it?

When China leapfrogs the West even further because they benefited from the sanctions while not having deal with any material suffering?

Could Putin maybe have had an iota of a point about the enlargement of NATO suffocating Russia and backing them into a corner?[3]

Is there perhaps a shred of truth to the claim that there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine - some even trained by the West - even if its understood that this is just an excuse?[4]

These are questions that will inevitably be visited, but not today.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Fallujah

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO

[4] https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/far-right-extremists-in-ukraini...
> never will

And from which time traveler did you get this information?

The future is pretty hard to predict accurately, especially in such definitely terms like "never".
Terence Tao published an idea that one could maybe prove ill posedness of the Navier Stokes equations by modeling a liquid computer… build
a
machine that focuses energy in such a way that the solution jumps out of a particular function space at a desired point in time.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-fluid-new-path-in-grand-mat...
Behind what schedule? In my previous comment I asked for a schedule posted before the invasion. Has the Pentagon or MoD published such a timetable for how they expected it to go?

What assets have they lost and what are reasonable expectations for losses? The kind of stuff I'm seeing here seems like half an analysis. "Russia has done X" okay, but what should we be expecting? How do we know if X is good or bad? I just haven't seen it. How much was this expected to cost Russia?
Literally nobody seems to care about whatever Saudi Arabia gets up to in human rights violations, for example. People sometimes bring up its repression of women, and I think I've heard people bring that up more than Yemen, for example.
Why would anyone buy something with no positive expected cash flow? That's the same as buying into a greater fools scheme
My personal preference is deeply in the natural ventilation camp, and the typically delicious air we have in the Bay Area is a boon to my wellness. I leave the windows mostly open 24/7 three seasons, and in the winter I partially open them during significant portions of the day. It’s wonderful.

But during the worsening wildfires seasons, I must tightly seal and air purify my apartment for weeks straight, and had to buy an air conditioner that I run during the day. The stale air is unpleasant, but unavoidable.

How idiosyncratic are my preferences and environmental circumstances? Are any architects working on house designs for me?
There was a really similar mp3 player that had been out for a while. It was too expensive for me to buy one, so I don't remember the name
Especially when no environment variable tells you whether to use light or dark.
Iraq saw lots of Civilian casualties and we are not seeing it in this invasion. As someone who opposes this invasion 100% it has been quite stark to see cordial behaviour of Russian soldiers until now with the local populace. They are not hostile. Infrastructure is intact, electricity and internet is working. There is no vibe of an occupation. There are no massed artillery barrages. Civilian casualties are probably lower then Russian Army’s. There seem to be no embedded journalism from Russians. (I don’t follow Russian propaganda outlets and have avoided the tankie echo chamber). Contrast this with so many blue ticks and Ukrainian media outlets spreading outright lies and going viral. If US was directly invoked, 10 fact checking orgs would have propped by now and started warning on game videos being spread. At the end it is still an invasion and Ukrainians will be killed and come under an occupation, but US is more ruthless with its occupations. US media machine can whip anyone into a frenzy with their reporting. I absolutely don’t support sanctions on Russia, only Russians are going to beat the brunt of it. On one hand we are seeing visuals of Russians protesting and want them to stand up against Putin and Western governments seem to be ok with brutalizing those same people, even if in minority.

War is a nasty virus on brain for people away from all this. It is a privileged take but mental faculties are overloaded with the emotional language being used. A TV station was showing how to make Molotov cocktails to non-Ukrainian audience. Is that helpful at all?

So much thoughts on this invasion. Have seen maybe 4 conflicts (Kargil, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine); numerous military mobilizations and small scale strikes between sworn enemy nations. It is just bile churning to see the whole events play down with no accountability.
Unknown but India and China are most definitely not tight
The less you know about them, the higher the abstraction. A program can distribute meaning over colorN in any way it wants. Any fixed semantic mapping would prove insufficient in the universe of all possible programs.
I think the author is going for more of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_topology, just with the special case added that you're simplifying a bipartite graph rather than a general graph.
I think he was at MIT working on AI stuff? So lots of connections from there.
They say air conditioning settled the west.

Desertification in that area is starting to roll that back though. Never-irrigated ranches are drying up. Without argiculture, the towns die. The ecosystems don't recover, even in places where the people are gone and the buildings have rotted to dust and blown away (too hot / no rain).

This must have been how people felt when the Sahara turned into a desert. I can't believe it's happening so fast. (Towns that were populated 20 years ago are completely invisible now.)
There are many MLMs that are legal despite being thinly disguised Ponzi schemes.
I've been using this on Debian 11 on an HP ML330 G6. It has dual xeons.

The main reason is that there is a bug in the normal Debian kernel that prevents that specific machine from booting with a kernel panic. The bug seems to be fixed in later kernel versions, hence Liquorix.

That machine also boots fine from a debian 10 kernel which is how I was able to install liquorix after the debian 11 upgrade went sideways.
Such as? The Pirate Bay still exists as do thousands of other websites listing torrents.

BitTorrent traffic went down as streaming services increased.
i think you underestimate combination of people whole ready to die for their country and modern anti-tank equipment that was shipped to Ukraine (javelines and nlaws) in past month or two
Dealing with a Cybiko Classic in 2022
> - The suggestion of signing the timestamp means that any web site you log into with this can log in as you to any other web site you log in to

This is a (privacy) feature, not a bug. It forces you to use a different public key for each website.
I don't think anyone at Google is incentivized to fix this. Because fixing it will probably increase fraud, decrease revenue, and increase operational costs.

I think the only realistic path to fix this is through Federal legislation that gives new rights to users of online services. Google will fix this, only if it is legally forced to fix it.

The second possibility might be through a class action lawsuit of some kind. But I think the current Supreme Court is ideologically hostile to giving power to human beings over mega-corporations, so I don't see that going anywhere.

The third possibility might be a consumer led migration away from Google that hurts their bottom line and forces them to deal with it. But the number of people who are willing to do this is probably minuscule, so I don't think this will happen.
Nope, it doesn't. I've honestly found tabula is pretty limited in its use. When it works it works well, but when it doesn't you're still stuck writing a lot of hodge podge code. Not sure why there's not more criticism of it.
Yeah sorry I should have qualified: average consumer users.
This seems likely. Eastern Ukraine is where bulk of the ethnic Russians live and Putin's justification of the invasion is all about protecting them.
Is this analysis mostly sourced on social media posts and Ukrainian gov statements?
>If it costs more, well damn that's the price for freedom I guess right now, still acceptable given circumstances.

Without Russian energy supply Europeans will be heating their houses with freedom. And European industry will also be using freedom as fuel. There is no alternative to this in any foreseeable future.
This times 1000. The reason that central heating systems are so popular is because they are a million times better (from the human's perspective, not necessarily the environment's) than old "point heating" systems.

Last year when the electrical grid in Texas failed, we could heat ourselves by our gas fireplace, but our central heating was out. It was fucking miserable. Similar to what the article pointed out, basically any part of my body was either too hot or too cold, so I was constantly turning like a spit roaster trying to keep a "nice even bake" on all sides.

The solution to poor energy efficiency of heating is not for us to all invest in hooded chairs, it's to ensure homes are appropriately insulated.
Grepping anything that has ANSI color codes would, I would think, be awful. Same for lots of other tools: sed, awk etc. So agreed, piped output should default to no color, and not just for the log file situation.
Possibly because the established default is colored output, and the absence of a boolean environment variable is generally treated as "false".

It might also be that COLOR is already used for other purposes by some software.
Any plans to include fixed versions of software in the data so users know what to update to?

Also, are there plans to include data from before 2017?
This is not how history went.

Android being worked on is very different from Android being anything at all like what it ended up being.

It literally took years before Android was in the same league.
You have endured something like extraordinary circumstances. Great that you R out of coma.
Well, they didn't.

Renewables are on the same clear exponential trend for decades. There have been some small deviations, but they always correct back.

At some point the article pulls out the monolog graphs where you can clearly see there was no trend change and people expected that since the 70s. Yet, there's that surprised tone all over it.
The technique described by the author is also known as Pimpl (or
Handle Body) idiom if you want to look into it further.
> If you track the timeline of the Russian developments versus against something like the Iraq invasion, Russia is actually ahead of schedule in many ways.

Iraq had a much larger military in 2003 than Ukraine does now, the US wasn't able to come at it from all sides, and was doing it from the far side of the globe, with a smaller force than Russia deployed in and around Ukraine. And Baghdad is 350 miles from Kuwait, Kyiv 70 miles from Belarus.

So, yeah, Russia is expected to be way ahead of the Iraq War schedule.

> People are claiming it's a victory when Russia hasn't totally taken over within 72 hours, but is that really any kind of victory?

Yes, when the decapitation portion was expected to be much shorter, with Russia’s problems expected to be more guerrilla-ish resistance after the lightning-fast takeover that the massive paper imbalance of forces suggested, it is, especially when there is evidence of serious logistical and morale problems contributing, which will also make the phase after a takeover harder than they would otherwise be expected.

Kazakhstan rebuffing Russia’s request for additional troops, and a number of previously relatively pro-Russia governments not aligning the way Putin might have hoped also is a complication (Hungary, one of the more pro-Russian EU/NATO governments, coming down hard against Russia on this is particularly significant, and the pro-NATO swing in Swedish public opinion is a hard backfire on Putin’s attempt to capitalize on the invasion with further threats.)

While it is still very bad for Ukraine, this has the early signs of a massive debacle for Russia.
> given that in a not so distant past the bulk of energy was produced from fossil fuel.

80% of energy used is in the world is from fossil fuel, and fossil fuel usage is still growing.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/global-fossil-f...

Renewable are cheap when you have a coal/nuclear plant nearby for the days without wind or sun, and because solar panels are built in China. It's wrong to think that they could replace fossil fuel and still be cheap.
That seems more likely, Ukraine does not have unlimited reserves of munitions and only so many ambushes it can spring. That said, I don’t think the paratroops that have allegedly been shot down / defeated are usually replaceable, but are usually some of the better trained / equipped.
Those are the exchanges I mentioned. But no, if it's widely enough used, it can be an entirely self contained system.
Audio! I'm not sure I've seen this tag (sorry for the attempted invention of something new)
> I don't quite get the desire to have just some color (prompts but not applications). Can someone with this opinion explain their rationale?

The more sparingly you use colour, the more effective it is as a means to highlight important information. Different users think different information is important.

I'm not sure how widespread it is but I work in the mining industry and I've seen a trend on newer installations towards keeping the general appearance of the entire interface to a couple of modestly contrasting neutral greys. Only parts of the plant which require operator attention are shown in colour (I think plant that's not in the normal automatic operation mode was yellow and alarms were red). The information's still all there and easy to read if the operator wants to, but it's not screaming for your attention unless it actually needs it.

Compare this with the usual visual confetti of brightly flashing colours that a SCADA system devolves into, especially after a few years when a lot of 'important new features' have been added 'which the operator needs to see'.
My two cents; If you look past the false rhetoric meant to galvanize the population it is about the ability to maintain coercive influence over their neighbors for economic reasons. To do this they employ intimidation and if all else fails military force. Russia is run like a mob crime family where the oligarchs appeal to Putin to solve their business/economic issues using the power of the state and they presumably give him a cut of the profits which is where his reportedly vast secret wealth comes from. Ukraine becoming closer to the EU economically over the past 10 years is what this is ultimately about.

People saying this is mostly about NATO expansion are missing the real issue. NATO aspirations are symptom not the cause of the dispute. If a country is in NATO it limits the means Russia has to coerce them. ie: it takes military intervention off the table since they would not be picking a fight with only one country but the alliance.
Sanctions were a factor in ending apartheid. Likewise they can play a part in ending a mobster takeover of nations. Democracy must be kept. Dictatorship must be ended.
> but Iran Iraq war

The quick two week land grab by Iraq that turned into an 8-year slog that they got nothing out of?

Yeah, I can see that.
Agent Orange isn't toxic (colloquially speaking) if it's manufactured properly and free of dioxins.
They get to gain Ukraine, the pipeline and resources. Ukrainian Oligarchs are in favor of the war because the Ukrainian democracy is a threat to their wealth, they want the same setup as in Russia. Ukraine's wealth in large part comes from taxation on transportation of Russian fuel. This is all about securing Russian / Eastern European dominance in the fossil fuel market while North America is effectively sitting on the sidelines until we get a pro fossil fuel Administration back in Washington.

They want to show a secure pro fossil fuel position and attract the international industry. The US became the leading world power 100% because of our industrial utilization and becoming the center of refinement for fossil fuels.

All of the "green propaganda" has been effective and even though there is not even remotely a variable alternative to meet the world's energy needs the US is voluntarily reducing it's number one power asset and Moscow needs to cement their position now before the US can recover.

Look at Germany, the largest EU economy and their hesitancy to go forward with sanctions. They need Russian fuel, as does the entire EU and in a few years these actions will be overlooked in the face of solid and stable supply. All Russia needs is to create enough Ukrainian turmoil to install a subservient regime that doesn't interfere with fossil fuel projects.
What is the factual difference? The similarities being that both rely on finding an ever greater number of people to buy in so that early investors can cash out.
I imagine if you're hopping on and of dozens of different systems daily, it might help to have the host and username pop out at you even if everything else is greyscale.

It's sort of how I always set VMs to have a dark grey flat background. Makes it easier to see at a glance whether you're in a fullscreen VM or the host system.
on russian side it seems to be combination of conscripts that were ordered to march in and they afraid to disobey the order (while understanding that it's wrong thing to do) and of contract force that believes that ukranians are ruled by neo-nazi junta (with jewish president ?!?) and they come to free them. and those that don't want to be freed they are simply brainwashed.

* based on a bunch of videos of captured solders and general communication between russian and ukranian sides on internet in last couple of days
I think that was meant as a figure of speech.
I would also really like to use Pharo more. I tried it for Advent of Code last year [0]. However, I just can't get over the unmanageable custom windowing system going on within the main window. Their isn't an easy way to iterate through windows, find windows, close windows and stop them from overlapping with each other all the time! It would be great to have some kind of Jetbrains/VSCode/modern IDE style layout where all the ancillary structures become panes that are always in a particular position and can be toggled on and off.

That and the lack of a vim editing mode (sorry, but I find it very hard to write code in an editor without vim style bindings, even though I don't use vim itself most of the time), make it a pretty painful experience.

In general, while Smalltalk the environment is a great idea, I think its UI could use some improvements and be much more keyboard driven.

Also, namespaces/modules please.

[0] https://nikhilism.com/post/2021/experiencing-smalltalk/
' “So… do we have enough gas?” “Yeah, we have another hour left, I stuck the tanks before we left.”

“Sticking” means plumbing a wooden dowl through top of the wing, into the gas tank, judging the gas level by the height of the resulting wetness. '

I am not a pilot, but I thought you better also check if there's any water or other non-gasoline substances in the bottom of the tank before setting out.

I was expecting to see something about that with the way the story started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di3fPj0pUbQ
Didn’t France help the Revolutionaries because they hated the English and wanted to bleed their Continental power?
It sounds like any steel smelting operation can start capturing the fumes and pull out the neon. If it was lucrative others would start doing it
... but which colours?

Windows terminals mercifully had simply white-on-black for decades, but thanks to the various Azure and .NET Core teams, Microsoft has been invaded by Linux and Mac users. Now everything has to be CoLoUr all the time.

Random colours.

Colours that make no sense.

RED ERRORS that are actually just titles.

GREEN OKAY that's actually just a table header.

Etc...

I had the misfortune of being forced to use some Node and NPM tooling recently, having come from Visual Studio and C# programming.

It was strangely nostalgic, like... stepping back in time to the 1990s and almost childish user interfaces. The spinning |/-\ symbols (with colours!) just killed me. I hadn't seen those since DOS 6.

There's something perversely conservative about Linux. There's all this talk of how it's the best development environment, but to me all this "colors in the terminal" stuff just seems like a throwback to the days when I had a 486...
This is not particularly affordable, but most things that cost more will be a waste of money. If HVAC balancing fails:

Replace the furnace with a heat pump with a variable rate fan and compressor. The unit will run constantly at low speed.

It will also be super energy efficient, so there might be tax incentives.

You can get a hybrid gas or resistive heat model, which will fall back on conventional methods of heating as appropriate.

As upgrades, you could add a central (de)humidifier, air exchanger, and forest fire smoke air filter, depending on what other problems your area has.

You could also try getting a two zone system (separate temperature control and blowers for upstairs and downstairs), but that probably means tearing into walls or something. The always on slow + quiet fan is a much better solution.
I like watching people play Slay the Spire online. I can see that it's very deep and sometimes quite suspenseful.

It's weird to me as a NetHack and DCSS player that people view it as a "roguelike" (though I think "roguelite" is more common). I've spent thousands of hours playing those games and won at both of them, though not anywhere near a competitive level. And Slay the Spire feels extraordinarily unlike them to me.

Like, it's turn-based, and has hitpoints, permadeath, and a randomized map. But (apart from the graphics question), it has no grid, it has a discrete combat mode, almost everything dangerous occurs only during combat mode, your inventory is only useful during combat mode, you access different parts of your inventory at different times due to the deckbuilding mechanism, you can't usefully retreat to a cleared area or otherwise cause enemies to move or not move on the map, and you have no character stats, skills, or intrinsics except max HP (although relics could be viewed as providing an equivalent to intrinsics), and there's no equippable armor, melee weapons, or ranged weapons.

Is "roguelikeness" enough of a flamebait topic by now that I just ought not bring this up?