skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it seems like waiting for 1 should be more than enough.

Not in bitcoin land, orphaned blocks happen a few times a day:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2170/how-often-f...

If you're willing to tolerate this risk then by all means go for it.

(I'm with you I think steam should be able to tolerate this risk.)
While we are here, https://www.benning.army.mil/armor/earmor/content/issues/201... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30475340) is pretty insightful about the capabilities and tactical limitations of the Russian army’s BTG organization structure.
Nine years ago I started my hobby project in Go (round about when v1.0 came out). I thought the language looked interesting, kind of like C without the hard parts and with the added benefits of concurrency and I was excited to learn it despite no-one having heard of it.

9 years later Go is not such a niche language. Rclone is doing ok too :-)
I thought it would be interesting and appropriate to write the high level behavior code for a home automation system in Prolog so I did. It has evolved a lot, but has been running things in the house for almost 20 years now. It currently sends commands and receives stimuli via MQTT and is running in a Docker container.
Didn't listen to Lex Friedman's interview with Wolfram but I thought the Mindscape episode with Wolfram was excellent. Sean Carol is obviously deeply knowledgable about the subject at hand and managed to ask interesting, penetrating questions without being adversarial and making Wolfram defensive.
These are called "orphan blocks" and they happen very regularly, like everyday.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2170/how-often-f...
I'm in the south east of the UK, but the point I'm making applies almost anywhere in the Western world; it's perfectly possible, and even healthier, to get by at a much lower indoor temperature than most people are accustomed to.
This is great and very thorough! But it's nearly 4 years old, should have a (2018) appended to the title please.
Was hoping the answer would be something like this. I absolutely adore learning about subcultures I haven’t encountered before. Thank you for an illuminating answer.
Anybody forwarded that to the State Department?

Just saying, You'll be amazed the crap that slips by for lack of no one knowing exactly where to look.
People have difference tolerance and comfort levels, some genetic and some health related. We all know people who walk around in a t-shirt in 0 degree C weather, and others who chill easily. Still others who start to feel unwell in temperatures above 30 C, while others thrive.

Any one-size-fits-all policy that makes a quarter or whatever of the population uncomfortable, is a non-starter.
Very interesting. I've never interacted with him on social media, but have experienced people who were spreading the "we know less than we think and let's be humble" vibe be very quick to block when commenting something not 100% laudatory.
Can anyone explain to an HN "technical but not expert in the specific area" audience what this actually is? The press release is leaving me confused.
Exactly. Unless you plan to zizag around all over the place, most of the reservoir won't be in the near-well region.
It's absolutely baffling that after so many scandals, sometimes with consequences so severe that the whole global economy was destabilized(subprime crisis), we still have not found a better way to do audits than to use the same corrupt cartel.
Only focused on Russian information warfare. Doesn't look at US and European information warfare. This article is onesided.
now private companies are allowed to hack? Or?
Except, it isn't. It is a desert at the deep bottom of a gravity well far from the sun. We can build in solar orbit much better than on Mars, and more sustainably.
Clojure is indeed niche, but this is compensated by being able to use Java libraries.
Which, as a sign of the times, doesn't play CDs.
Old tanks as no match for modern MANPADs
So, not fee free?
> Deplatforming revenge porn is a win. Having less revenge porn on PornHub is win.

PornHub didn't deplatform "revenge porn". It nuked more than half of its vast library of legal content under outside pressure and questionable allegations of hosting what may or may not have been "revenge porn". Even when there has never been a law in Canada that has defined in any way, shape, or form what "revenge porn" is. Millions of videos became martyrs for a cause of dubious effectiveness and even more dubious reasoning. On a practical level, the indiscriminate purge of content did nothing but punish innocent users. If you think that substituting due process with such massive collateral damage is a "win", then one cannot conclude your opinion to be reasonable at all.

> The vast majority of civil cases don't even become cases let alone get tried on their merits

For vast majority of cases, civil and criminal, filings fail to pass muster for multiple reasons. Common ones are Failure to Make a Claim or Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction among other legal errors. Many claimants have a chance of refiling, however legal standards shouldn't be lowered on grounds of sympathy based upon hitherto unsubstantiated claims. That only encourages witch hunts and fallacious charges.
> NATO is strictly a military alliance. The UN has never been that.

In practice, somewhat true; in design, well, see Chapter VII, and particularly Articles 42-47, of the Charter.
Google turns up nothing on that concept, but I agree that it is essential. You need a strong leader who can sense when stakeholders don't want to put up with that shit and when it's OK, and counterbalance that with how much of a dumpster fire the codebase is becoming.
I wasn't actually talking about any specific app. I'm not a musician, and while I've touched Live/FLStudio, most of my experience is just with toy ones on the web. I've seen dozens over the years with various level of complexity, but the one I remember the most vividly was a flash one called Tone Matrix, here's a non-flash remake:

https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/

Honestly just clicking random squares, adding and removing as you go can great unlimited good sounding patterns.
The people who live in those countries don't view it any differently when their relatives get murdered.

99.9% of the population of any country mostly just want to live their lives and politically all they do is talk and maybe fill in a circle on a ballot once in a awhile. There's a useful fiction that they're all collectively responsible which is used for various illegitimate justifications.

Just like soldiers fight for the person next to them, insurgencies are born because your family members got killed by foreign solders who parked tanks in your cities. Once you leave the rationalizations of the political theater behind and get down to the reality of where the individual acts of homicide are happening in the war, it is all the same thing.
I've been seeing a lot of videos posted on social media and then posted to reddit.

Check out these links:
https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/
https://old.reddit.com/r/InvasionOfUkraine/
If pseudonymous self-professed US veterans of Afghanistan/Iraq wars commenting online are to be trusted, balloons full of paint are among the most effective anti-tank weapons in urban fighting.
Hardware-accurate emulation in software is typically not fast. FPGAs however can achieve low-level emulation with a high degree of hardware accuracy:

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
Those cost a million dollars a piece.

Russians have serious logistical problems
now. There are Twitter videos of some of their tank crews stuck on Ukrainian roads
without fuel and being taunted and asked if they want for a ride back to Russia by Ukrainian passers by.

https://twitter.com/RihoTerras/status/1497537193346220038
Glad for fuel thieves, and supplies embezzlers in Russian army now.
So I can learn something new in a low risk, low pressure environment.
If there's (1.) only one reply (2.) the reply contains a link to another thread and (3.) the post is flagged shortly after, it ends up as [dupe][dead].

(In a worse situation when the flag is removed, like other users clicking 'vouch', then the [dupe] is never removed adding more confusion).
I'm not really involved in Lisbon's tech environment but from what I can see around me it's still a lot more lucrative to live in Lisbon but do your work for a market abroad. Top .5% salaries here wouldn't buy half an intern in San Francisco. As far as community goes... You'll meet people to have a drink with but that's mostly it.
Oh right. I suppose "paying for it" is necessary, not sufficient. I wouldn't know; I've paid a much smaller company for all my services and such, though they're not super office-y; but website and email related things.
My favourite is The Staring Game, that I used to play with total strangers in public transport as a young man. It sounds a little aggressive and scary but in the few years I played it, there was never any kind of altercation, or really any other exchange, than the game itself.

It is a kind of emergent game where you can only know the rules by playing the game and by an unspoken, but somehow mutual agreement with the other players.

Here are a few of the rules that I learned:

1. It's a two-person game. You can only play with one other player at a time.

2. You challenge an opponent by looking them in the eyes and not looking away at the point where you would be expected to do so. The other player accepts the challenge by not averting their gaze. If they don't want to play, they will look away or ignore you. In either case, they will make their intention clear very quickly. It takes maybe a couple of seconds for all this to transpire.

3. You win if you keep your gaze fixed until the other player looks away.

4. The game is a draw if the other player is forced to look away, for example because it's their stop, or another passenger demands their attention etc.

5. If eye contact is interrupted, for example because people come and stand between the players, the result is undefined. If contact is re-established, a new game must be initiated by one of the players challenging the other all over again.

6. If the other player behaves aggressively, tries to ridicule the opponent, or otherwise tries to disrupt the opponent's gaze, they are disqualified. The only contact between the players must be gazing into each other's eyes.

7. Blinking is allowed, but excessive blinking may be cause for disqualification.

8. It is fine to challenge a player after losing a first round. I found that in that case there is a heavy psychological penalty, though and I usually lost again in that situation.

9. It is a game played by men. A man staring at a woman's eyes can be creepy or scary and so it is hard to make a fair challenge. I've never seen two women play. On the other hand, I also never saw two men play when I wasn't one of them.

Those are the rules I remember. This was a long time ago, and perhaps the rules would have changed now that I'm not a young man anymore.

I became quite good at the game, although I was not undefeated. I played for a couple of years, primarily on long train rides that lasted half an hour or more.

I have not played the game for many years now.
Rust is picking up momentum with industrial use but is overall still pretty uncommon. rayon (https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon) makes it easy to use all your CPU cores. for simple cases, it can be literally a one line change to turn a single-threaded loop into a parallel one.
It's easy to not have seen things in healthy workplaces if you don't have a lot of experience. This is why we have implicit bias against folks who look really young, fair or not.
Would you mind expanding on why you regret it?
Ukranian soldiers on Polish border preventing black people from crossing
Map of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
I am quite confused at the naivety of some of the US / EU social media posters here and elsewhere - it seems like many buy into the propaganda that an experienced military power like Russia doesn't know how to fight a war? That too against a weaker military and an untrained civilian army? One should really ponder what the end goal of such misinformation is ...

Indian generals are already commenting on how the Russian strategy on Ukraine seems to be to precisely avoid urban warfare - "Psychological warfare, avoiding casualties: Why Russians aren’t storming Ukraine’s cities" - https://theprint.in/defence/psychological-warfare-avoiding-c...

If the internet comments romanticising the current conflict and encouraging civilian to pick up arms and become "freedom fighters" are anything to go by, our generation seems to be the least prepared for war of any kind ...
Currently on the frontpage "Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480307) The website times out for me, it seems to be popular today.
I hadn't checked recently. If they're that low then I'm going to pull the coins out now.
Many people fail to asses heat leakage. Often houses are badly sealed - think of a balloon - blow it like a flat tire, and spray it with soapy water and look for bubbles.
Older houses are full of leaks, especially around foundation, corners of walls, windows and attic.
These are often long linear seams that were never well sealed. If you take them as areas and sum them up. many old houses have a 1-3 square foot hole(equivalent) that vents upwards. Out at the top goes all the air you paid to heat and in at the bottom comes cold air, add $$ to heat. There are people with FLIR cameras.
A pack of ideas here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=FLIR+heat+leak&rlz=1C1CHBF_e...

Sadly there are a lot of scammers out there, but the cost has dropped a lot, so many people/groups could buy one, or rent one of the costly ones for a week and test all your houses.
Works best on a cold night where the heat loss shows up well and the sun does not hinder reading. There are also apps for android and ios phone that let you record data. There are also FLIR plugins etc via Aliexpress etc.

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...

At some of the larger (LA, SF etc) swapmeets there are importers who sell them, so you can look-see in advance
> Yellow armbands seem to be the militia indicator.

Not just militia, both sides have the same uniforms and helmets.
We can see right now how much they like it...
Norway supplies gas to Germany by pipeline, see the map [1].

Germany doesn't have an LNG import terminal:

"The current large-scale LNG receiving countries in Europe are Belgium (one terminal), France (four terminals), Greece (one terminal), Italy (three terminals), Lithuania (one terminal), Malta (one terminal), the Netherlands (one terminal), Poland (one terminal), Portugal (one terminal), Spain (seven terminals – six operational), Turkey (four terminals) and the UK (three terminals). Collectively, their overall LNG capacity is 237 billion cubic metres (of gas) (bcm), which is sufficient to cover approximately 40% of Europe’s gas demand. Russia also has an LNG regasification terminal which is supplied entirely by Russian gas." [2]

[1] https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/production-and-exports/the-...

[2] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/lng-europe-2021-current...
He's having trouble taking Kiev.

Germany seems to be smelling which way the winds are blowing and is sending 1,000 antitank arms and 500 stinger missiles to Ukraine.

The question right now probably isn't who else Putin invades, but how long he manages to last in control of Russia.
No, but who's going to prosecute?
Crypto can be moved around the world without requiring SWIFT or other financial services that may be sanctioned or cut off.
The hackers attributed the reverse attack to NVidia but where's the proof? I doubt NVidia is going to put out a press release (if they committed the alleged act.)
I think you mean antitank rockets & missiles. MANPADs - Man Portable Air Defense weapons - are for use against helicopters.
> Yet Bitcoin is still considered the OG token and a "true" cryptocurrency as mentioned above and not old dangerous tech.

The solution to that is to educate people on how Bitcoin is old dangerous tech, not to throw out all other blockchains along with Bitcoin.

> a somewhat usable blockchain which grinds to a halt anytime people share pictures of cats or monkeys

These chains don't "grind to a halt" in any sense of that phrase, they dynamically price a scarce resource (block space). The chain runs at 100% capacity during these spikes in demand.

> we're told to wait for another year or two for an update to whatever protocol is trendy at the moment. Rinse and repeat every year.

Every few years, cryptocurrencies upgrade their capacity using new technology, and every few years, enough new people start using them to saturate the new, higher capacity. There's nothing contradictory about that.

> Also also, every other year a cryptocurrency comes along and professes to be the second coming of God with solutions to problems with don't have.

Every other year a traditional tech company also comes along and professes to be the second coming of God with solutions to problems we don't have. But we don't judge Apple based on the failure of Juicero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

> So no, not interested.

You have a right to not be interested, but you're choosing to share your take, and your take is incorrect.
Maybe the goal was to give the story a scottish accent
Third reason is that since information is distracting. Say there is a 30% chance of layoffs in the next quarter. Should this be communicated down the chain when it's not actionable and will do nothing but probably effectuate itself?
Poll: Thoughts on Memojis by Apple Users?
I've noticed a trend with Apple marketing to opt for Memojis over people whenever possible. As an Android user, I'm curious if Apple's users like them as much as Apple.
Like them
Don't like them
In addition there is being around an elephant under fire. That sounds a lot like making a horrible situation way worse.
> On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, its neighbour to the southwest, marking a dramatic escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014.[0]

N.B.: I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine. Here is my statement for HN:[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395897
What's the ransomware team going to do? Complain to the authorities? Sue?
sorry, generic misused term. In this case I meant javelin and the UK/Swedish equivalent. Both of which have been supplied to Ukraine.
I'd love to see this!

That exact idea has been tingling through my mind for a while. I did some experiments, but Prolog (and anything logic programming, really) is a bit of a pain to integrate nicely with Python, which is what I'm building my system with.

I'm looking to make things declarative as much as possible, but having Prolog manage the automation rules would be next level. I imagine it abstracts away a lot of the boilerplate and unnecessary implementation details.
To actually do work on a hobby project, I have to find something about it actually interesting. Building yet another CRUD app in a standard language and framework for a Business Factory may be productive, but it's kind of dull. Meh unless you're paying me market wages for it. I usually try to pack things that are interesting to me into hobby projects. Maybe the business goal, or using a language or framework that's new to me, or an interesting deployment technique, etc. Maybe I'll learn something actually useful to me, or maybe the new thing will be a dead end. If the end product is useful enough to me and the language etc turns out to be a dead end, I might rewrite it in something more maintainable, rather than just let it die.
If they do, how should the west respond? It is so over the line that we have to do something and yet we can't.
> It's just that I hope the world doesn't learn from this that electing comedians is the way to go.

Yeah. Though this one does not seem to behave so badly in the end. No comparison with Trump or Reagan.

To be fair, whilst not a populist, I am fed up with career politicians and bland technocrats that are killing politics. We need doctors, lawyers, intellectuals, farmers, businessmen, factory workers, and much more (in no specific order) in our parliaments and amongst our elected people. A sweet spot between reckless clowns and psychopaths would be nice.
Man I loved the cartoonish style of WoW. Cell shading in general is a timeless look. I mean, 15 years later and people still think it looks decent.
Yes I have one of the possibly affected vehicles and I concur the anti-collision system is too sensitive. I usually disable it when I drive. It's extremely annoying that there is no way to disable it permanently though (it gets re-enabled when the car is restarted)

It's a huge PITA that these systems work most of the time but have glitches occasionally which are completely unpredictable and distracting. That's unacceptable imo. I'd rather not have it at all
Hey I’m really sorry my previous comment offended it was a poorly judged and poorly written expression of my feelings. Just that feeling of lost innocence and lost security at the point everyone realised it was on purpose must have been incredibly jarring. Pretty terrible to go from carefree to the idea that this could happen at any moment. The British have done enough meddling around the world that half the world bears us a grudge. There were bombings in London quite frequently when I grew up though they got a lot less deadly into the 90’s. Even so, when the train station I used to go to school had a bomb left in it, I had pretty bad nightmares for a while after that. I always had a sense that something could happen at any time from as soon as I was old enough to understand the security posters and the PA announcements about unattended bags. The last big IRA bomb in London was miles away yet it violently rattled the windows in my house. Then there was a break until 9/11 happened and it was obvious that there was going to be a reaction to this. When the wars in the middle east started we knew it was only a matter of time before it happened to us again. So when ~100 people were killed in the Al Qeada train bombings in London. I felt like ‘oh this again’ and there was just this crushing feeling that it was back for real. I remember randomly bursting into tears in a pub that night at the senseless randomness of it.

Whereas you all got yanked into this different awful reality that happens out of nowhere watching this extreme insane next level thing happen on live TV, it’s quite a different thing to growing up with a low level sense that it is normal that someone might want to do something bad to you purely because you live in a particular place in a particular country. I think thats what I was getting at; that my life experience would have meant that when the second one hit it was a feeling of resignation and deep sadness, because I was used to the idea that terror attacks happen. But coming literally out of the blue for you guys it must have been a different emotion, truly shocking especially given how extreme these attacks were and how they played out in full view of everyone instead of in grimy tunnels and smokey pubs like all the stuff that happened when I was a child. Because it was such a shock for Americans I was pretty scared about how you were going to react, I remember seriously discussing with friends wether we thought you would use nukes or if we were all going to end up conscripted to fight with you in some huge war to exact revenge on whoever had done it seems far fetched now but there have definitely been serious global consequences.

This whole Ukraine thing has really reminded me of the nuclear war nightmares I used to have in the 80’s as well. I feel an impending sense of doom about this also. I hope I’m wrong.
You make it sound like it's impossible.