skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did not condemn it but they also did not signal support like China did - I suspect Modi expected Putin to stop at Donbas and sees his best option right now as a ceasefire, which is what he's openly asked for as well.

Unlike Russia's allies other than China, India cannot afford to be shut out of the US and supported by Russia, and unlike China, Europe and the US can impose fairly strict sanctions on India in the short-term.
This is unfair. It's a cyber attack on Youtube, and I'm sure the people at Youtube are frantically working on mitigations. It's an ongoing battle and hopefully Russia is burning their bot networks over this.
The main reason _this_ house (in Germany) still heats with gas is because it's nigh-impossible to book the professionals who can install a heat pump and modernize the rest of the heating system in a sensible time frame.

As mentioned by another comment: even if we were to send all that gas used for heating into gas turbines instead and use the generated electricity to operate the heat pumps, we'd use less gas (because it's using environmental heat energy in addition to the intrinsic energy of the gas).

That brings the bonus that we could look into alternative power sources (of whatever kind: I'm sure France would be more than happy to assist bringing up nuclear reactors again, although that's unlikely to happen in Germany for a whole bunch of reasons) when gas is difficult to obtain because electricity is electricity.

But apparently we don't have a sufficient number of people who could do the installation, plus it'd be expensive, and even discounting that, I'm not sure if "We need 12 million heat pump systems. Next quarter?" is something that could _possibly_ work even under normal circumstances (nevermind the supply chain issues we're currently dealing with globally).

That's why I brought up the 150k installed units per year: There's probably room for improvement (I've been thinking that there must be a very profitable career in heating installations), but even if we can install 600k a year, we're still looking at 20 years before we get all the old cruft converted.
Isn't that what blocking them on SWIFT actually is?

Or do they have another way?
There is absolutely no chance you can heat germany on solar in the middle of a cold night in winter. None.

According to the analysis, the price of electricity in Germany, adjusted for purchasing power, is 45-dollar cents (39-euro cents) per kilowatt-hour. This not only puts German electricity costs as the 15th highest of all the countries included, but it also means Germany has the third-highest electricity prices in the EU... The data included in the study refers to the second quarter of 2021, and so does not take into account the surge in prices consumers in Germany are currently facing.

or look here:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Can snap get any worse? It’s a comedy of errors at this point.
Show HN: Playtest – Party Games with Friends
Hi HN, my friends and I wanted to play party games but didn't want the hassle of dealing with physical games so I made a mobile friendly website with a few common party games.
It's a method to exercise control over a large slice of the population and rob them of the means to challenge their position. I don't think too may see it necessarily as a fair measure that must be imposed on those people for the protection of them or others.

On the other hand you have egregious cases where such a measure would completely make sense but is ignored because of larger interests. One of them is how EU public institutions screen all their employees and filter out felons. And then a public institution like the European Central Bank names Christine Lagarde president, just 3 years after she received a criminal conviction of negligence in allowing the misuse of public funds.

A freshly minted criminal can be named president of an institution in more or less the same general area as where she committed her crime. But a someone with a minor drug charge can't take a dev job... Both are a stain on modern society.
HN: Would you consider donating your Russian website traffic?
Just another reason green energy & climate change can't be ignored.

I'm more of a hawk on CCP and Russia

But I'm a mega super hawk when it comes to spending painfully NOW to stand a chance against the worst of the worst of climate change.
This is kind of one of those issues that can really cut both ways. I don't think it's the best attitude to say, "it's been working for years, so it's fine"; there could be subtle bugs, and areas rarely exercised. Still it often holds true. We all remember times we've meddled with something and messed it up. It seems that some of the low level code has been really heavily used in many different ways, and seems to just work. Especially if it's not safety/security critical (and maybe even if it is), it could be a poor use of resources trying to fix something that isn't broken.
You describe money as if it’s just numbers being moved around: yes, the technology is just numbers moving around, but money is a social construct not a technology, the use of technology is a very small part of what makes money money.
> If not, aren't they at severe risk of radiation poisoning?

The Chernobyl exclusion zone extends miles outside the reactor, and gets tourists. I think the danger level is more like "don't live here or you'll get cancer" than "don't walk here or you'll die". And don't pick up sketchy looking things because they might give you cancer. Inside/near the sarcophagus is a different story (that I don't know, but assume is much worse).

For example, the local wildlife is apparently doing better now than it was before the meltdown, because of lack of human activity. Not counting right next to the reactor where things died.

Hopefully the Russian troops don't interfere with ongoing cleanup efforts...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone#Radio...
Well, I think part of the problem is that the kind of people that were in the german army after the war were Nazis in the literal sense, and the kind of people that prospered in the environment these Nazis created were Nazis in the contemporary sense. This is amply illustrated by the endless slew of scandals that come out of the Bundeswehr around this issue[0].

I imagine these days it's a little better, but it's still a bit of a magnet for the hard right in germany, for all the obvious reasons.

[0] https://ctc.usma.edu/the-insider-threat-far-right-extremism-...

PS: I think in general it's germany's ongoing far-right problem that makes nationalist-adjacent careers and institutions far less attractive to normal people, so it's sort of a vicious circle.
For what it's worth plenty of nationalists did actually flee to Hong Kong. Had a friend whose family was from HK, his grandfather was a banker and supposedly a personal friend of Chiang Kai-Shek and he hid under a pile of dead fish on a fishing boat to escape the communists and go to HK.
PyPI in a Box (2020)
“From the age of 6 I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was 50 I had published a universe of designs. But all I have done before the the age of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 75 I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am 80 you will see real progress. At 90 I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist. At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my self 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.’”
I run the local server works well as a spelling/grammar checking when using the ngrams. About ten gig in size total. The browser extension is just so-so, I don't love the UI even now but considering the privacy and quality it is hard to be disappointed, there's nothing else out there.

If anyone wants to get set up fast on Windows:

- Server Doc/Download Link: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server

- ngram Doc/Download Link: https://dev.languagetool.org/finding-errors-using-n-gram-dat...

I've had success with Amazon Corretto jre8 64x for my Java[0][1] and I use this bat file to launch it upon reboot (put it in the same folder as languagetool-server.jar):

SET PATH=C:\program files\Amazon Corretto\jre8\bin\
start javaw -cp languagetool-server.jar org.languagetool.server.HTTPServer --port 8081 --allow-origin "\*" -l en-US --languageModel "C:\LanguageTool\LanguageTool-5.4\ngram"

Set path just adds jre8 to bat's path context (there are multiple other ways to accomplish this). "start" just hides the black cmd window while the server is running. --languageModel must be the fully qualified path to the ngram.

You can automate executing this script either using Windows' scheduled tasks or just putting a shortcut to it in the Startup Folder (Win+R enter shell:common startup).

And don't forget to re-configure the browser extension. The setting is in Experimental Settings -> LanguageTool API Server URL -> Local Server

[0] https://corretto.aws/downloads/latest/amazon-corretto-8-x64-...
[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/do...
Apologies this wasn't more clear and I am sorry I didn't get back to you sooner; I have never been a consumer of octopus or cephalopods more broadly. I rarely eat meat in general - maybe once a year - and when I do, I only eat meat that has been raised on a small farm humanely and is likewise slaughtered humanely.

The closest I get to regular meat eating is consumption of eggs and dairy. I get both from small, local farms. The chickens are free range and the farmers avoid industrial egg farming mechanisms that result in unnecessary death of grown animals. The cattle are not pumped with grotesque amounts of hormones nor are they milked on factory-like rotating milk pumps that maximize output and ignore the unneeded stress placed on the animals.

Hope this makes sense, as I agree with all the concerns you raised.
"but no one could be fagged to do", could be really misinterpreted across the Atlantic, and possibly be a black mark against you in 'the future'..thank goodness for anonymity(!)
I use LanguageTool daily since some years and it’s been an absolute pleasure with both English and German. Add to that, the bugs I reported for both language were fixed in mere hours.
Founder of Svix here.

I don't know if I'd call us SaaS first, though we definitely spend a lot of time, money and attention making sure our SaaS offering is as reliable as it gets if that's what you mean.

FWIW, I've been an OSS developer and maintainer for all my life (my previous business was also open source), and open sourcing Svix was always the plan. It was literally one of the first tickets I opened for the team, and our first public commit was in Feb 2021.

We've indeed recently announced the open sourcing of our webhooks dispatcher[0]. It's written in Rust, so also a single binary with no third party dependencies. We do NOT however offer in memory storage. This is on purpose, as persistence is a requirement for robustness.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347858
Like Iraq?
What you describe here is a full blown escalation that leads to the WW3 in the end.

Of course there is diplomacy after the war is started and during the war. It’s the only way to achieve any peace barring a total defeat of one side, which didn’t happen in last 75 years.

Heck, it was diplomacy that allowed US troops to pull out of Afghanistan orderly, without diplomacy there would be a bunch of dead soldiers.
Enterprise. That’s a cost that just doesn’t matter.
I'd say a Raspberry Pi 400 (or several) and a shoebox packed full of USB drives and other flash storage. I would also use read-only optical disks for redundant copies (along with a couple of USB optical drives). I would also get a USB-powerable travel router.

Basically, the massive prevalence of USB over the past couple decades is your friend.

I would store local copies of the standard fare like Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, instruction/repair manuals, and textbooks (especially math and science ones). For particularly important stuff, like survival guides, I'd even look at paper copies. Perhaps even laminate a few maps and navigational charts.

I'd also try to have several copies of complete Linux package repositories or at least all of the packages that I know I'll need. If/when backbone infrastructure starts crumbling, it'll cascade. Even downloading a text-based browser could prove an impossible task.

Even just having a hand radio could prove vital. Just be aware of how you might power it (and any audio equipment it might need).
> It does if you hold the view that teaching someone to speak and write is teaching them them think.

I don't hold that view. at least, I don't think effective communication requires mastering the formal rules of a natural language. I'm not even sure communication itself is that closely tied to complex thought. I've known a few brilliant engineers whose english was barely sufficient for work. perhaps they were quite elegant in their native tongues; I wouldn't be able to say.
Well, it's Grammarly, not Vocabarly or Spellarly
One dollar now holds value relative to your tax bill. If you're subject to US taxes then you have to hold dollars. The IRS doesn't accept precious metals, and if you fail to pay in dollars then they'll seize your other assets. (Technically the IRS might accept official US minted gold coins at face value but that's not really something that happens in practice.)
Electricity prices would be 50 cents+ if germany converted to all electric now and banned gas generation of electricity. This is on the order of a few trillion in extra cost per year (even assuming amazing efficiencies in going electric).
nice!

check out “Steerable discovery of neural audio effects” paper

https://csteinmetz1.github.io/steerable-nafx/

i’m compiling a list of research papers for our GuitarML project, feel free to open a pull request/issue when your papers are published!

https://github.com/GuitarML/mldsp-papers
I actually use direct APK downloads for myself, and F-Droid for my mother, who is far less technical and therefore benefits from the easier end-to-end UX for the update process. Even with delayed updates, having NewPipe unavailable for two or three days is preferable to using the official YouTube app in the Play Store, which doesn't have the features she relies on at all, or a direct APK download that may expose her to the risk of malware.

That said, I should really set her up with a third party repository for updates.
What do you mean only point in it's history? I agree that bitcoin is mostly good for drugs but it's still being used for that as we speak. Some markets are starting to only take Monero, sure, but you can still get around with just BTC. Silk road wasn't the last dn market or even the best, not even close.
> permission-less distributed ledger like Bitcoin is a completely unnecessary waste of resources.

it certainly is when it immediately de facto centralizes! which is in the event what has happened
Sweden and Finland is NOT joining NATO, if that is what you think.
Why do you think that it is a 10-90 split like that? I think it's 90-10 the other way. I have no proof but it sounds like you don't either.
If you want to know how curious I am, ask me. If you want to know how disparate my knowledge is, ask me. If you want to know how good I am at guessing from context, ask me. If you're asking about meta-tag trivia, all you're going to find out is if I know meta-tag trivia. I know myself way better than any interviewer possibly can. If you don't trust me to evaluate myself, then you shouldn't be hiring me into a creative, professional, self-directed position.
Find a system or a piece of software, use it a lot (look at source code if you have it) and then ask yourself how you can break it. That's the key to becoming a great hacker.

If you don't understand a piece of software (and I mean really understand it) you probably can't break it in a meaningful way. You may accidentally break it, but your lack of understanding how it actually works will prevent you from further exploiting it.

Just my 2 cents. Hope it helps.
I started thinking about this a bit after Sept 11th. Technology was the only think I knew, so I decided to diversify my skill-set. I started by reading Phil Gingrey books and building a metalcasting foundry as step 1. From there, I built a crude generator based on a lawnmower motor, a pulley and an automobile Alternator. This coupled with an inverter provided power for as long as I could fuel the motor.

Securing fuel for the motor, let me down the dark side of thought which is either protection or "just take it". I bought guns and learned how to use them (safely!).

Of course, later I learned about gardening and self-sufficiency and being off grid. While I've never been off-grid, I started to do thought exercises and preparation. I was never a "prepper" per se, but I learned the basics because the early 2000s created a lot of global uncertainty.

Circling back to tech, I started to learn morse code so I could HAM.

Power + communication + protection and food are the basics (not necessarily in that order).

I have some survival books and Wikipedia downloaded on a disk in a faraday box, but I'm not sure how long I'd be able to access it - it largely depends on the type of event.

A significant power outage is all it would take to simulate technology life in a disaster scenario. My servers/homelab wouldn't be of much use in a disaster, but being able to read would be tremendously useful and valuable.
> wanted me to use it as a sort of proof reader.

I can't imagine working in a place like this. I often write with some unusual but perfectly valid grammar constructions that are a result of being well read. Running what I've written, the codification of my thoughts, through a statistical homogenization machine is dystopian in a way I had never imagined. What kind of business was it?

Imagine running famous writers through this thing, even if they're just journalists. Gross. I'm gonna run Moby Dick through Grammarly later and see what it has to say.
I'm not ignorant of the ISAF / Operation Enduring Freedom if that's what you're referencing. And I do think that's a good point you bring up.
I wish it had a feature in the admin section where one could disable different 2FA methods. For example, in my family everyone has SMS as a 2FA, as well as hardware tokens and device prompts. SMS was there from the beginning, so everyone has it activated. Only one account is not using hardware tokens.

So what I'd like to do is to set SMS to off, and all the accounts which already have something like device prompts and/or at least one hardware token added, get SMS deactivated without user intervention.
How to stay anonymous.
Flutter has some performance issues on the web but it's much better when running natively. There's still some jank caused by shader compilation but they have plans to fix that. It's not inherent to the design of Flutter - it's actually an issue with Skia.

That said, I've only used it for smallish apps. Would be interesting to see how it works for a whole desktop.
> As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

Wow. Powerful.

Ukraine, keep fighting. You are fighting for the ascendency of justice over injustice in the affairs of mankind.
Try https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...
Didn't retaliate? Was the killing of the top Iranian commander by drone before or after this rocket shelling?
For building up vocabulary, I've found parallel text very helpful. For French, I've used:

Penguin Parallel Text French Short Stories 1 and 2.
New Penguin Parallel Text Short Stories in French.
Dover Dual Language Great French Short Stories of the 20th Century.
Candide, ou L'optimisme.

These give you enough vocabulary to transition to French-only text or speech without constantly having to refer to a dictionary.

The Penguin series also covers other European languages: Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian. (It also covers Chinese and Japanese, but for them you'd still need to refer to a dictionary for the pronunciation of Hanzi/Kanji, except where furigana are used.)

For spoken French, I've found the Inner French, Hugo Lisoir, and Mamytwink Youtube channels not too difficult to follow.
Access to internet-level knowledge in a pocket-sized device when the internet is gone is going to be a massive advantage.

In the 1950s, such a thing was created by US Civil Defense. It was a microfiche library of how-to books with viewers that worked in sunlight, and major fallout shelters were stocked with it. If anyone knows the whereabouts of a copy, please post. Not pocket size, but liftable.
Pretty sure it's China using Russia for part of its larger economic game to accomplish the goals you mention.
Kiwix for offline wikipedia with the wikipedia "all maxi" package (87G for English) comes close.

https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content
Ask HN: What are your go-to sources for live news coverage of Ukraine
I find our MSM sources (CNN, ABC, etc) to be less substantial than European live sources on YouTube
such as:
Deutsche Welle English Live
https://youtu.be/V9KZGs1MtP4

FRANCE 24 English Live
https://youtu.be/jNhh-OLzWlE

Even Twitter, if you follow trustful accounts, have more timely and accurate coverage.
Better than rsync is using support for snapshots and replication in the filesystem, such as described for ZFS in

https://serverfault.com/questions/842531/how-to-perform-incr...

Btrfs and apfs also support auto-snapshotting and replication, but I don't have experience with them.
I am a huge fan of comprehensible input as well. I am working on a website that can (in theory) teach Japanese by relying entirely on comprehensible input. I start by defining simple words using Emojis and I build the vocabulary from there through enjoyable stories. The grammar is introduced very slowly in context. You can check it out here if you're interested : https://drdru.github.io/stories/intro.html
Safari is bottom of our compatibility list. It's junk for PWAs and so is basically treated like Opera was.
The truth is there isn’t an awful lot of difference between the artist frameworks. Actix-web was one of the first though, so the reason to choose it over others would be that it’s a bit more built out feature wise.
> I have utmost sympathy for Ukraine but where were the angry people when US attacked Iraq?

"On February 15, millions of people protested, in approximately 800 cities around the world. Listed by the 2004 Guinness Book of Records as the largest protest in human history". There is a whole page on all the protest for that particular topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War
Macro: that's why the military is over funded. They are the "prep" to keep everything operable.

Micro: ham radio
Trying to drag it in ways it thinks best (such as the Middle East) or threatening to leave entirely like the Orange guy was mentioning. The battleground is in the Polish or German plains so one would think they have the most to lose (again). Recall, Germany was only united in 1870, and Poland was both huge and missing in Central Europe over the centuries.
Here's a Project Oberon emulator in Go: https://github.com/fzipp/oberon

And a Go port of the RISC compiler: https://github.com/fzipp/oberon-compiler
Also spreadable across multiple downloads (or base64ed Usenet posts...), which was very useful to some sectors back in the days of 28.8kbps connections.