skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like cool tech, and the re-use of the existing generation assets is clever, but just running costs of the steam part of an existing plant struggles to compete on a financial basis with wind turbines and solar PV so it'll probably only ever be a niche thing.

Shared ground loops connected to heat pumps are a more boring tech with more potential to have a global scale impact.
It have trickle down effect, if that person owns >=50% of some other business, it is also on sanctions list automatically.
Haha, the memories :D nicely done.
Wouldn't "409 Conflict" be more appropriate?
For a while now I've thoroughly enjoyed using with the q4os w/Trinity DE:
https://q4os.org/

I hope MS gives us Lindows (anyone remember that catch song Lindows Rocks lol) ... Linux + Win2k DE ...
Electric stimulation is clinically proven to improve cognition. Like literally put clapms on your ears.

Caution: adverse effects.
Ban SWIFT get CISP. I wonder how printing USD will look then.
I hope that investors did the math to ensure that the energy used to dig such a deep hole with microwaves doesn't end up consuming more energy than the hole will generate over its lifetime... Will the hole crack irreparably after a few months?

Nowadays, there seems to be an epidemic of engineering neglect in terms of capital allocation. A lot of wealthy individuals who have the capital to invest in such projects do not seem to have the engineering mindset (or no longer do) to see through greenwashing BS.

"It's all about the people" is BS. These days, there are charlatans everywhere and they seem to have monopolized all the billionaires.
Meta Dissolves Team of “Hundreds” of Employee
A good example of this is one’s cancer risk, versus one’s cancer risk after a radiation dose.

One is non zero, and the other is non zero + X.
People who have to actually get work done on a computer are almost always good with using a mouse and keyboard, so we understand how to move with precision and speed.
Study the lyrics of songs in the language you want to learn. Songs stick to your head so you get repetition automatically.

I learned English by studying Beatles songs. Excellent material for studying
This could also have good use for ground source heat pumps - they're the most efficient, robust and consistent source of domestic heating we have, but require fairly deep (60m ish) boreholes. If digging could be quicker, easier or faster these heat pumps could be installed everywhere.
It's also a bit more difficult to diffuse out of classrooms and such with 400+ ppm background vs 300ppm. At what threshold it affects alertness, cognition, or motivation is disputed.
Selling gold in Word of Warcraft, especially classic that doesn't have the built-in mechanism, is quite a big market und these lua unlockers enable bots for farming.
> It sounds like you are opposed to them coming into existence because it means they exist in existential agony.

No, I’m opposed to stupid arguments where you justify being a carnivore because you’re somehow doing these creatures a favour by farming them. You’re not. If you’re going to eat meat, and I have zero issues with being a carnivore, then you have to reconcile the fact that what you’re doing is immoral for the animals but you’re doing it for your own personal survival. At least call a spade a spade rather than creating these stupid mental paradoxes where you’re the hero for breeding docile animals and then cooking their flesh.

It’s all about taking responsibility for your actions and respecting the consequences they have.
Well put. It is easy to forget that the actions of governments do not necessarily represent the will of the people.
I accidentally clicked it. I do hope that this does not make me a target.
This is what I do too! I do only dinner two days a week, no other meals on those days. Must work, I built fastcomments this way :)

Also naps! 20min naps are a nice reset to fix concentration issues. I wrap my head in a blanket so I fall asleep fast and set a timer.
The Evolution of the Florida Bubble Cam
My Experience Working and Living in China
It makes me feel rather old when only your comment and another one are the only references to fvwm95 among 92 comments.

It really shows how much current generations have lost from Linux early days, or how old some of us are.
Esc ? Never. Got so used to Alt-l
Not really. If it was, why would they still see a penalty after a first positive test?

More condoned? Yes.
There was a poll done in December (YouGov) that showed that more than half of Russians thought NATO/The West was to blame for this situation.
NATO members have started many more war than any others

When they defend call themselves NATO, when they attack they change their name to 'international coalition'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_i...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_military_inter...
Chrome had a bug in how css animation values would get serialized, where you'd end up with "5,43" instead of "5.43" in many European locales.

It took surprisingly long to track down, partially due to this all being dependent on various ambient Information (env vars, browser config, arguments passed, what exact function is called, etc).
You can try to game your mind. Set a timer and say, I'll do this in 20 minutes. It works well for me.

Also having people code on a second monitor is somehow inspiring, like Andreas Kling :)

Discipline/schedule helps! But don't let the schedule prevent you from taking advantage of when you're feeling creative.

I also posted advice elsewhere in this thread.
found the Russian spy
A few keywords to search for: Russians in Ukraine, Maidan, Minsk protocol, neonazis in Ukraine, NATO and Ukraine.
i don't care for the aesthetic of the aws icons you posted, but i agree they serve their purpose much better than the gcloud icons you posted.
Bad timing.

Now that every European country depending on Russian natural gas needs every alternative they can get?
No no, this is far worse. Major Ukrainian cities have always been considered a part of the Russian world. Russians bombing Kyiv sounds as insane as USAF bombing Philadelphia. There's no support for the war whatsover this time around, only horror and shame over what's happening, because it's touching those deep images from collective memory. The silhouette of an Orthodox church over the backdrop of a burning city[1] is like something straight out of countless movies about Nazi and Mongol invasions of Russia[2]. We see the Russian equivalents of "the smoldering wreck of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor" coming from Ukraine and it cuts much deeper.

[1] https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1496976867064270858

[2] https://youtu.be/er3kGojjH5s?t=6021
is Canada invading a neighboring country?
This looks like it could have been caused by water penetrating a softer substance, causing it to harden, and then the surrounding material was removed by erosion.
> Customers also use Convoy as a broker for inter-service communication.

Very cool product! But this part threw me off a bit, wouldn't a distributed message broker like Kafka be a much better option for this use-case?
I definitely get how looking at someone else's vimrc could be considered interesting but someone else's config is an expression of their own circumstances, that are very likely to be different from yours. Yes, picking up something that makes sense for you and that you understand _can_ be a win, but a) it doesn't replace actual learning, and b) using someone else's vimrc wholesale is not. All you get is a damn black box that you don't understand better than Vim itself… and yet more commands to learn. That's a losing strategy.

As for Ben McCormick's vimrc…

- line 18 is useless and its comment is misleading

- line 30 is a matter of taste so it has nothing to do in that context

- the comment for line 33 is wrong and shows how much the author cares about "new vim users" and how much he knows about the subject

Building one's vimrc from scratch is an integral part of the learning so shortcuts are to be avoided.
That depends, on windows multiple standard libraries (even libc) can cohabit in the same process (but you have to be careful to, say, not free something in a different dll than the one which allocated it). If you are careful with that and aren't exchanging standard library types across library boundaries there won't be issued.
Exceptionally fine outcomes. One day I hope for similar from subsequent Mars missions too.
Nice, yeah I should clarify that this was written by the fellow I corresponded with
> I like MacOS. I liked the old Unity. I like Gnome 3 except for the fact that it's consumes a lot of resources. I shy away from KDE even though I hear it's now more efficient because it reminds me of Vista from certain angles.

Same. Definitely don't like gnome/gnome-shell 3+ dropping the global menu, featuring a useless file picker, and overall just wasting a lot of space on my favourite notebook sizes of 13.3" and 14", though preferring dark themes I could see that gnome maybe wanted to get rid of those cheesy non-scaling, always-black-on-white icon menus as leftovers from the 90s. Regarding KDE (Plasma) though, I've learned you can customize the hell out of it to get back most of gnome 2 + Unity [1], so that's something I'm going to try next when I get around to it.

[1]: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-look-like-unity.h...
AMD announces $8B stock buyback program
Russia’s Road to Autocracy
it can be summarized as Putin want more power and access to a warm sea
Why China Keeps on Targeting Its Technology Giants: QuickTake
"if we confine ourselves to the Earth’s surface, we exhaust solar potential in 400 years"
-- https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/

Equally interesting:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last/
“Computer chip industry”?

I don’t see China doing any of the sort.
A conventional drill can be cemented as well, the technology is already existing but mishap happened anyway

Another town near Strasbourg is devastated like staufen Im breigsbau: Lochwiller. With the same issue as staufen, except that in this case it was a family who drilled to heat their home.
I made the mistake of buying one once. It was basically the repacked language documentation without adding anything of value. If they would publish that, the will publish anything.
For espresso it’s vitally important. One extra gram of coffee takes it from smooth, sweet and acidic to being extremely bitter and unpleasant. It’s not just people being snobs, it’s just espresso is very sensitive to tiny changes.
Already been there done that. Asphalt roads and roofs do this en masse and create some slight overnight heat storage in urban environments. Solar is just a marginal addition I believe.
Very nice article, although the jabs at zero cost abstractions are out of place.

Bjarne has always used the expression to mean it doesn't cost more than if the same code has been manually written by hand.

An Assembly written version of iostreams, with the same architecture, would perform the same.
The goal of the plant was to provide heat for Strasbourg, so it has to be near the city.
This is a great plugin. I'm using this to have background blurring with the Linux MS Teams client, which for whatever reason does not support this natively.
X is some state. What needs to be true or false for X to be true?

Someone might propose that Y is true. What minimum conditions exist for Y to be false?

And so on. Time does not need to be a variable in inductive reasoning.
Servant of the People
The fast.ai videos are good though very long. Expect to spend a lot of time on the exercises, and you will need an nvidia gpu-equipped computer unless something has changed recently. Those are available as cloud rentals of course though.
I think they just had campaign. I never clicked on it and had tons of grammerly ads at around same time.
20 km is 0.3% of the way to the center of the earth. It seems unlikely that anything we do there could affect the core in a meaningful way.
They've got breached yesterday.

https://cybernews.com/news/anonymous-leaks-database-of-the-r...
Do you think we drill to the very core to get thermal energy? Well, I have disappointing news for you: The earths radius is 6,371 km; for thermal plants, we dig like 5 km.

While the core is 5000 degrees celcius, the point we dig to is more like 150. Concentrated solar power can generate 1000 degree celcius. If we pump this down when we have excess, the area remains hotter than it would otherwise be... letting us use it when the sun sets. This can also work through much longer timescales, like you could dump energy heat down in the summer and harvest it in the winter.

The post I was replying to was worried about gradual loss of core heat. This will be minimized if we pump heat in.
This is really neat, and oddly it makes me wish that there were people walking around on Mars looking at these things, taking samples, etc. And generally figuring things out in real time.
Hmm. Trying to think of an instance when history reflected kindly on a li’l lite persecution of an entire population. Someone help me out?
I don’t see how sanctions will pay for energy independence in EU. The timing of closing the nuclear plants in Germany played right into Putin’s hand. Money is not the issue. We need time for “alternative” energy to come down in cost.
Algorithmic Qubits: A Better Single-Number Metric
Probably a rock or mineral deposit:

https://cosmiclog.com/2022/02/25/martian-flower-blooms-in-a-...
Thanks! This works with one exception - when two links in a row are from the same domain only the first one is removed.

I don't know any javascript, but this is my attempt at modification:

let domains = "twitter\.com|\
cnn.com\
";

(function(){
'use strict';
var links = document.getElementsByClassName("titlelink");
var owners = [];
for (var link of links) {
if (link.href.match(domains)) {
owners.push(link.closest(".athing"));
}
}
for (var owner of owners) {
owner.nextSibling.remove();
owner.remove();
}
})();
> You can't, on the one hand, claim that the Western allies were a malign influence in Afghanistan

Did I? I don't think so.

> also claim that Western aid is the only thing that can keep Afghans from starvation.

I didn't claim that eiter AFAIR, but since you are bringing it up : sanctions were imposed, aid was halted and the economy collapsed.

I am not saying that, the US admin is saying that : https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/us/politics/us-sanctions-...

I am not sure what your beef is, but you sound like a neocolonialist.
Russia and Swift [video]
I guess the poster may have meant that concentration is a skill you develop - an internal quality - and any seeker should keep in mind that there are no excuses: you have to "actually do it", not e.g. attempt getting it from the outside while internally remaining alien.

When you learn acrobatics, you may research about the shoes and haircut etc. that hinder the least and facilitate the most, but it will remain an ability, a skill, not a prosthesis, not an externally enabled state.

Moreover, it may have meant that since concentration is also a negative state (to gain concentration avoid its disturbances), you have to declutter, not to add further - to remove elements, not to pose them.

Moreover, it may have meant that to learn riding a bicycle, you "do it" (you climb the bike and attempt action), you do not «rely[] on science». The "science" is inside (natural cybernetics, feedback based skill building), not explicit outside.
Application-Oriented Performance Benchmarks for Quantum Computing
Lucky you, in Europe I have plenty of fun working in projects where the files being parsed for ETL are written in the local language, or not, while the host OS might be English, or not.
Pro-Russia parties got less than 10% of the vote in the last election. It is hard to imagine that the sentiment moved in Putins favor since then.

Putin is invading a country that nearly unanimously opposes him with troops that thought that they were just there for an exercise and don't really want to invade their brother country.
It’s not about “today”, it’s about Linux vs Win/Mac. The former is a lot less consistent than the latter and this was just as true in 1995 as it is today.
My dude. I have worked with quite a few really smart engineers whose grasp on the English language was imperfect, though quite capable of communicating most points well enough. I would prefer it if I could take a little less time in my code reviews on copy editing, doing things like fixing plurality disagreements and false cognates.
Spellchecking by humans is more expensive and not instant. Grammarly is something between the classic software spell checkers and professional human spellcheckers.

Producing well-written documents is essential if you want to appear competent and professional. Using tools is helpful, especially when you are not a native speaker.
the primary usecase of OBS is for twitch/content creation streaming i think and for that use-case it's pretty good.
however as the system resource usage is pretty high i don't think this will see adoption for much compared to chroma keying.
Imagine spending your whole life preparing for war and then having to sit on the sidelines. This guy must be watering at the mouth for a chance to get in on the action.
Sounding like a bot is improvement for most high school essays. And the fact is, without someone or something correcting you, your learning to write will be much slower.
I'm being using <dialog> for a few years, and I don't find any problems. Except for requiring a polyfill for Firefox (and this will be not necessary anymore).
Agriculture relies on stable water supply…
Citation/details? I just used it for the first time today... :)
Couldn't agree more, Goa trance/Goa psych is great for this. I usually throw on digitally imported [1] for listening and discovering new genres. My recent favorite is psydub and melodic house.

[1] https://di.fm
I use Grammarly and Github Copilot to write technical documents in VsCode (with vim mode). It's actually great. But the documents are very far from being confidential.
Looks like people over there are using Signal more https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1496933418197651461?cx...
Ask HN: Who takes over in Ukraine if Putin kills Zelensky?
Who takes over in Ukraine if Putin kills Zelensky?
Ask HN: Stripe or Paddle?
I want to implement payments in my mini SaaS applications. What is your favorite payment infrastructure? Stripe or Paddle?
Why do you prefer it?
I am curious to hear your thoughts.
I don't use it, but people I know who use it claim it helped them a lot. So, clearly, they found a lot of value in what it is doing.

Even in this discussion, most suggestions for "better" is completely useless advice of "learn to write".
Here in Switzerland it's even worse because it depends on where in Switzerland you're formatting the number (French parts have different rules from German parts) and whether you're formatting a number as a plain number or a monetary value.

if it's money, you use the . as the decimal separator everywhere.
if it's just a number, in the French parts, it's , in the German parts the .

The thousands separator is ' everywhere
The AWS icons are better, but still pretty bad, using only 1 colour.
Twitter already took down their tweet. Looked like emails and names. Probably will help doxxers.
It's a non issue. But suppose you had a localized gigawatt leak into some wetlands. That would be trouble.
Because it's designed by a Pi specialist retailer

> In honour of Raspberry Pi's 10th birthday

And possibly also because rp2040 is readily available these days. Are esp32 stocks - and therefore prices - currently in the same good shape (honest question)?
>What happens when Americans stay in the same house forever?

I would say they grow deeper roots and can build more reliable generational wealth compared to the more transient residents.
Vladimir Putin is an ex-KGB officer. The country has a system for monitoring all phone communications, and the major email providers are affiliated with the state.

Also, 100% of the media is spinning the "we're liberating Ukraine from the Nazis" take, and unless you spend very considerable effort doing your own research, you just won't find a single information source telling you otherwise.

And if you get anywhere close to organizing a protest with a non-trivial number of participants. They will figure out who's in charge, and will put you behind bars as a warning to others.

That, and people generally don't trust each other, don't trust the system, and are mostly busy trying to survive, find cheap food, and not get caught in a crossfire.
Psychiatry and politicians: the ‘hubris syndrome’ (2018)
Yes, infact a distributed broker will be a better option. But some of these users like the visibility Convoy's UI provides and since they currently do this inter-service communication with a HTTP Post, they prefer to put Convoy in the middle to provide visibility and they can perform retries with Convoy.
Reflection sure, but do you do when someone pulls out their Ayn Rand to explain to you their views on economics?

Fictional works can highlight some issues but there's a limit to how good an argument they can make.
> Because most people only choose to start a family once they already have the financial stability to support one.

US GDP per capita is four times higher than in 1950. People did not have trouble supporting families then. If you want to have a very high standard of living by historical and global[1] standards that is indeed difficult.

> If the average 20-something male without a family earned more (or there was a drop in the cost of living), he'd be more likely to start a family, do it earlier and have more (and healthier) children.

That might be true if women couldn’t work but with two income families it certainly isn’t now. Greater wealth gets eaten up by positional goods, keeping up with the Jones, good schools as detailed in Warren’s Two Income Trap[2]. Wealthier countries don’t have more children.

[1] Only one US state has lower GDP per capita than Germany, Arkansas https://www.stockingblue.com/article/830/per-capita-gdp-by-u...

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/28/book-review-the-two-in...
> Let's assume (and I don't know since I don't work for these guys but we need numbers if we're going to guess at things) that their "drilling" with microwaves technology leaves behind a 12" diameter hole that is > 6 miles deep. And we can drill two of those holes in such a way that they meet at their maximum depth. I'm imagining holes that start on the surface 100+ yards (or meters) apart drilled with a slight angle to meet when they are 6+ miles deep.

I'm doubtful that any drilling process can be that straight and accurate unless straight lines are inherent in the drilling process (e.g. lasers somehow). Just think of how much trouble they had drilling to those stranded Chilean miners to rescue them, only 700m down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Copiap%C3%B3_mining_accid...
I'm surprised that i didn't see Musescore on there. Of all the Linux engraving programs it has become my favorite for getting a idea out of my mind and into my ears when its to complicated to play at speed.

Such as this: https://youtu.be/IsNzHpYnIPk