skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moldova's President says on Twitter their border is open and there's a large number of Ukranians arriving, among other places, Palanca, which is I think (?) in the convenient direction, on the Black Sea. I know nothing about the Transnistria situation but there is no Transnistrian territory between Palanca and Ukraine, according to the map on Wikipedia.

- "First citizens arrive in , with over 4000 crossings today. The govt has deployed temporary placement centers near Palanca and Ocnița. Our borders are open for citizens who need safe transit or stay."

https://twitter.com/sandumaiamd/status/1496859315122147337

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palanca,_%C8%98tefan_Vod%C4%83

edit: also the Prime Minister's photos clearly show that crossing point is open:

- "In these dark days for #Ukraine, we stand by its citizens. Visited the southern crossing of Palanca yesterday. #Moldova will assist those in need of safe transit or shelter. Вітаємо українців!"

https://twitter.com/natgavrilita/status/1497467502904893447
I actually didn't like (and still don't) Windows in any form, but the one thing I did/do like is the Windows 95/98/2000 UI. I came from an Amiga background, and even though I think of Amiga with fond memories, I thought the UI was a bit too spartan and clumsy (MUI was a step in the right direction though).

Nowadays I use Memphis-98 [0] as GUI theme (not desktop and window decorations). It's is kinda like Chicago95, but feels a bit more modern, not just a straight copy of Windows. There are some layout bugs, and some apps looks overall bad, like Firefox, Thunderbird and BDeaver. I had to manually turn off theming of DBeaver because it's basically useless with the Memphis theme.

For Qt I use the built in Windows look.

[0] https://gitlab.com/hadrosoft/memphis-98
It doesn’t really look like those though. Those look crystalline and repeating.
This is negligence, guy is probably not trained.
From the news reports it seems that going West and then into Poland or Romania, or Moldova North of Transnistria might be the safest option.
>This is why pushback against climate change policies is, I believe, a healthy thing.

No, it's not. In the past we did next to nothing and we now see the consequences.
We may fail if we try, but we are guaranteed to fail if we don't.

And science is like democracy, it's not perfect sometimes even bad, but it's still the best we have. Everything else is worse.
The thing is, I fear I like the coffee oils I get more of with no paper-filter. I assume it’s one of the reasons French press is my favorite method of making coffee.
> so whilst she has never exercised her powers to cancel Govt, she has the legal authority to do this.

Yeah, my point was more on the lines of, she doesn't use that power, making her a ceremonial head unlike the other two. I think this is one of those things, where if she does exercise her power even for cancelling a resolution passed by the commons, it would immediately lead to public outcry. It might even mean eventually throwing away the monarchy.

Even for something major as Brexit, we don't know what she thought of it, there was an outfit she wore that was speculated to show her support of the EU, but I remember that was it.

> British Monarchy as an entity is worth about £70billion

Does this come from the assets they hold? As far as I remember, they don't own some of those outright. They get a share of the revenue those things make.
> but I definitely don't miss how unstable it was

We had NT4 with that same look and it was much better.
I often wished it was used in climate discussions.
From a language features perspective, Rust. Personally I find building up the rigor to do correct error handling in Go's approach or C libraries with seperate error functions is its own kind of complexity, however.
They are not tiny if you run it on a 800x600 screen
Ask HN: How do you diagnose culture problems in your startup?
How did such algorithm make it to the finalist list, passing a lot of steps?!
Pioneer CDJ Guidebook: A Comparison and History of CDJs and XDJs
That's correct but misleading. First because we don't need all this raw power, and as much power as we give our devices, all of it will be (ab)used according to Wirth's law [0].

Second, because this is primarily due to economies of scale and predatory behavior from economic giants: if consumer/environmental protections don't outlaw ethical abuses from the few corporations who capture the market (see also planned obsolescence [1]), the "ethical" alternatives are always going to be more expensive and less attractive.

Third, because there are simple ways to have a strong impact immediately. For example, by forcing all hardware manufacturers to publish the entirety of their data sheets / schematics / research, you'd find a much better OS support for older devices (and new devices too), which would bring a practical incentive (cost) to use older hardware which currently has to be thrown away (for example if the OS does not support newer TLS standards [2]).

The situation is only bad because we let it be. Going with big tech for short-sighted, individualized gains, fails to address the elephant in the room that we as humanity can do so much better and everyone would be better off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

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

[2] https://f-droid.org/pt/2020/05/29/android-updates-and-tls-co...
> It would be fun to make a list.

This is how you get on a list.
From 1000ppm ppl get dumb.
With English subtitles: https://twitter.com/aliostad/status/1497519061554630658
It also doesn't mention SCORE[1], which is apparently still big among the more conservative music publishers[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORE_(software)

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGo4PJd1lng
Not saying this isn't plant-like but lightning can produce these same shapes in sand.
How the Ukraine conflict could redraw the world air map
> this would imply that the most under-investigated-in-industry approaches to deep hole boring would be the ones that destroy the economic value of any oil-and-gas in the ground,

That is only one explanation to why a technology would be among the most under-investigated-in-industry approaches. There are many others, such as:

- It does not work at all.

- It is more expensive than traditional methods

- It is illegal in some way

- It is incompatible with the rest of oil&gas processing.
If someone hasn't yet made an IoT teapot that only returns that I'm officially disappointed in humanity.
The font in the terminal called my attention. IIRC, the default one was the 8x8 CGA font with the option for it to be “Lucida Console”. Also, the icon for the terminal was the MSDOS 3D logo.

All in all, amazing work.
They must have sat nav inside those things.
I liked this

> wouldn’t it be great if subway trains arrived every 2 minutes?

I encourage everyone with a dream like this to visit London where the Tube does come every two minutes, and at peak comes every 90 seconds (just long enough for a train to enter a station, open then close the doors, and depart). Just don’t hold the doors open on the train, there’ll be another one momentarily.
Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Discord
Creative god creates creative world. Converge to happiness and productivity.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/t17w2b/u...

NSFW/Graphic
Yes. Fasting can get you into ketosis, which can enhance focus.

Avoiding carbs and sugar prevents insulin spikes and that prevents "brain-fog"
> ...that comes with exactly 38 bytecodes and a total of 5 registers. The registers can't be used at the same time, because some of them are shared

That's wrong. A, B, C are not registers, but sections in an instruction which reference registers. Registers are identified by an 8 bit number, so there are much more than five registers. See e.g. https://the-ravi-programming-language.readthedocs.io/en/late... or https://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf.
> unless a lot of us have time together somehow

Yes, let's do this. Let's get together and create new, more humane standards. Get involved with an educational/cultural copyleft non-profit like Framasoft, a legal/lobbying organization like LQDN/EFF, a local hosting cooperative that provides GAFAM alternatives with a sustainable model (libreho.st/chatons.org networks), a local self-organized/DIY ISP (guifi.net/ffdn.org/freifunk.net networks), a self-organized FLOSS coop, etc.
“Threshold” implies an on-off response, the various research papers I’ve seen indicated it has a continuous response.
Theater of War Communications Resilience and Opsec Guide
Works for me (Russian, live in Russia)
Anonymous takes down official Russian websites
Don't worry, we were doing nuclear fracking back in the days. Everything that could work has been tried for oil and gas exploration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gasbuggy

Regarding drilling operations that destroy value: you're forgetting that drilling is 1D while oil fields are 3D (technically quasi-2D with horizontal dimensions 100x to 1000x larger than vertical dimensions). If your drilling messes up everything in a 10 meter radius from the drill string, you don't care.
Maybe get an AI to listen to it too? Closed loop system...
Ah MongoDB crashes.

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-532
Linux was NEVER embedded first. Linux was unix for 386s PCs a very expensive machine.

Not sure how desktop orientation is at all strange as any linux distro you are likely to install on your PC has been specifically prepared to install on a PC. If its anticipated to also be used as as server it also provides a minimal install which will almost certainly be less useful.
A green screen also doesn't have to be expensive. Go to a fabric shop with a laptop running OBS (or maybe even a mobile phone that has an app that can do chroma keying), and find a roll of fabric with a color that works well. You should be able to find something that works, and it should not be more than one haircut worth to buy a few square meters of that. I did this myself at the start of the pandemic to be able to record some lectures at home, and it works just as well as a professional green screen (which I got later, its main advantage being easier to set up).
The USSR airspace was also restricted to Western aircrafts and flights between Europe and East Asia were much longer than they are now.

This is what has just happened again to British Airways, which cannot fly over Russia anymore. They may just suspend their routes with East Asia at this point since no one is going to fly with them...
The Case for the EU Cutting Off Its Russian Gas Supply Now
https://web.archive.org/web/20220225112329/http://bloomberg....
Anicka Yi‘s recent exhibition in the turbine hall at the Tate Modern springs to mind. It was incredible. It was like having massive jellyfish flying around you.
Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees
I don't get the obsession with the M1. The Intel 12900h is equal at 45w and substantially faster at higher wattages. Same goes for the AMD 6900HX which also scales really well into lower wattages. Dedicated GPUs of course mop the floor with Apple IGPs, admittedly with more energy. All that with a cheaper and less dense architecture. The fact that Apple - a company with 14 times the market cap of Intel and AMD and exlusive access to TSMC 5n for their PC processors - has failed to beat them is embarrassing.
This would cause huge disruption in Europe.
The SQLite Bytecode Engine
Clearly nobody ever manages to use this Go thing with over 700: https://github.com/golang/go/issues. Or .net, over 5000 issues for the compiler alone: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn. I'd guess stuff like Java, glibc would be similar if they used github
While we don't have a pact with Ukraine, let us not forget that they gave up their nuclear arsenal in 1994 because they were given security assurances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...

It is better that they had trusted themselves than nations that will give up on them.
That and Inconsolation was my preferred blog for years.
Context:

Portugal has a large and extremely well integrated Ukrainian community.
Ukrainians constitute the second-largest foreign community residing in Portugal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians_in_Portugal
At least with respect to Linux and Windows, both suffer from similar problems with consistency. Both have suffered from a great deal of churn over the years. Both have a variety of toolkits that vary in both appearance and functionality. If you compare current software on both platforms, it is difficult to claim that one is much better than the other. (Though I will agree that Linux was incredibly inconsistent in 1995.)
There are certainly cases where a more holistic view is very important. For example a plan to plant trees in the Sahara desert, irrigated by desalination plants powered by solar, at first glance seems like a "reasonable" plan to sequester carbon. But once you account for the fact that the desert reflects a lot more light then trees do it actually looks like it would accelerate global warming. The plan gets kind of "saved" once you consider the effects of the new forest on weather patterns: the trees cause more clouds to form which are quite reflective and bring the plan back into the green, but not enough to be useful.

So not a great plan, but a great example of how some of the solutions can be a lot more complex than just "remove CO2". At the same time any plan that cools without removing CO2 (e.g. planetary sunshades[1]) have the downside that they don't solve ocean acidification.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
It works. I found myself getting distracted and one day I pledged not to switch tabs or panes when a programming task involves a pause, such as getting a new build. I'd either stare at the screen or switch to a related programming task. This brought out a tremendous difference in my concentration spans.
> because while I can thankfully afford to pay for these services with cash, a lot of people out there can't

I don't know where you live, but here in France it's the other way around. You can pay with cash pretty much in any shop, but it's expensive on vendors to provide card payments. And the real problem is millions of people don't have a credit card due to being blacklisted (for debt) or undocumented immigrant. That's why for example Lycamobile/Lebara are the most popular phone service providers among the lower classes in France: you can find SIM cards and "tip-up" cards pretty much everywhere.

Of course, this raises the question on how to pay on the Internet with cash as i know a lot of people who can't buy stuff online. For people who want to pay online (and have a bank account), taler.net seems like the most promising R&D in the field of "digital cash". For the rest, i can't see why we couldn't have a tip-up card system like we have for phone providers, but as a generic means to pay for online services with cash.
Workflowy's mail on my upcoming renewal: all SaaS companies could do this
Each year, Workflowy sends me this mail:

Hi there,

Thanks for subscribing to WorkFlowy Pro. We really appreciate your support. We're contacting you to let you know that your annual Pro subscription will be automatically renewed on March 01, 2022. On that date you'll be charged for another year (at the xxx rate of xxx). If you would like to cancel before then, you can do so by logging into your WorkFlowy account and navigating to the Settings dialog (click the down arrow in the top right corner and then "Settings").

Thanks again,
The WorkFlowy Team

Such a great way of showing trust.
Why can't all saas subscription companies do this?
Sadly the output is flat and could be vastly improved from an accessibility standpoint, for example by using simple definition lists, and date and/or time elements.
That didn't seem to be the case in Crimea.
Locale in library functions in general is an example of solving problems at the wrong abstraction level. It also breaks the fundamental idea of how shell tools are meant to be usable in unix. If they don't have stable outputs, then they become unusable.

(We had to create a set of locale-resistant and consistent versions of shell tools for a system that made heavy use of shell tools to process large amounts of data across thousands of machines. All you needed was one misconfigured locale on one machine and the result would be chaos).

You pay the cost every time rather than when you actually care about it. And when you really don't want locale to interfere it still comes back to haunt you if you don't pay special attention to it. (Remember how Python had locale-dependent XML-RPC that made sure two machines with different ways of formatting floats behaved?).

Locale is bad design. Very bad design.
Lithium-ion batteries is just one, albeit very popular, option.

You have batteries that do not use lithium at all.

The battery market is going to see several different technologies for different use cases.
Putin’s official website is also down, it seems:

http://eng.putin.kremlin.ru/
This also works for annoying APIs like execve ;)
Well, Mac OS Tiger and Windows 95 are perfectly usable, but anything newer than Snow Leopard looks unusable.

To me Amiga OS looks weird and "chaotic", but Windows 95 it's the perfect OS on usability, on par on Mac OS 6 and 7.
The operator is called "smart-match".

When you do:

$a ~~ $b

You are in fact doing:

$b.ACCEPTS($a)

So any object can determine how it will interpret any other object in smart-matching. The core classes or course have all these methods implemented in the expected way. And you can easily do that for your own classes as well:

class Foo {
multi method ACCEPTS(Int:D $count) { $count == 42 }
multi method ACCEPTS("frobnicate" --> True) { }
}
my $foo = Foo.new;
say 42 ~~ $foo; # True
say 666 ~~ $foo; # False
say "what" ~~ $foo; # False
say "frobnicate" ~~ $foo; # True
I really like this pixel-based layout.

But how well would it work on a high-DPI “retina” display?

Has anyone tried?
>So you believe that the attacking entity should always win

Nobody is saying that.
How did you get your job to pay for for the fabric and the time to set this all up?
2000 was pretty much Windows 95 alike with the classic theme and the window colors to an ungradiented one, buch much more stable and compatible.
We’re not currently providing we hooks, but I can see a using something like this if we need to at some point.

I’d definitely appreciate a Postgres options for the queue backend. We currently have an “everything in Postgres” approach for operational simplicity. It works great, and it would fantastic if we could slot this in there too.
a week ago, I came across this user submitted gallery of homemade hiking gear:

http://www.extremtextil.de/naehprojekte/kunden-galerie.html

some of them are quite impressive
The way to get good results from AI is letting it randomly generate stuff, then have a human pan for gold
>they are welcome here to conduct whatever these people do

That's NOT true. If they are searched by the EUROPOL/ICC we hold them as ~anyone else.

BUT we don't do something because we think we don't like them.

It's important and the point that Swiss diplomats are respected to be neutral and often the only remaining and trusted contacts for talks....

Recent Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements#Signatories_2
It’s because creatine is used by the body to convert sugar into adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is what your body actually uses for energy inside cells for things like contracting muscles and nerve impulses (like in the brain for things such as “thinking”).

ATP can’t be made in the brain, instead it is made by muscles. That’s why exercise and higher levels of creatine are good for cognitive performance and memory.
> There's also a bit of the "what is so important to hide?" question.

It's a principal thing for me. My space is mine and work doesn't have a right to see into that. They aren't welcome in my home. Maybe I have a good office setup or maybe not. Maybe my home is clean today or not. It wasn't anybody's business pre-covid, and it remains nobody's business today.
Unfortunately Starbucks doesn't package their cold brew blend as a bean, so I'm not sure how to replicate that, but otherwise here's the recipe:

5lbs of Coffee steeped in 14 liters of water for 20 hours at room temp. Remove grounds and you have concentrate good for about a week. Cut that 1:1 with cold filtered water and serve over ice.

They use a big tub with a giant paper filter, but you can scale it down and do it in a French press or a mason jar and cheesecloth or whatever is handy for you as long as the grounds are submerged in the water and easy to remove.
I hated gradients on Windows. They looked as if the "stepped out" from the GUI.
They broke the "3D layering" illusion.
System7 had clear widgets over flat menus.
Adtech’s new clothes might redefine privacy more than they reform profiling
In Germany you will be hard-pressed to find a place more than 10km/6mi from the nearest village with more than 500 inhabitants. Those people don't like earthquakes or cracked buildings either. Same thing in England.
L-theanine: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175646461...
Urban warfare tips from a former Marine
Pretty much the same order of countries as this list of cigarette prices:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/415034/cigarette-prices-...

I wonder what secret tech Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and other nations at the bottom of both lists have that makes both electrical power and cigarettes so cheap to produce? You'd think their neighbours would ask them to install it for them in order to access cheap electricity and cigarettes.
The point of an auditor is to provide accountability, a person who can say "I took an honest look at these financial docs and they are a reasonable picture of this business". The person needs to be believable, so someone qualified who understands the technical points, but also someone who would raise the red flags if they existed.

You can have that authority while being unable to answer silly exam questions, and you can lack it while scoring perfectly.

What we don't want is a society where we think people are competent and disinterested based on how well they did on some test. That leads to people cramming for tests, cheating, and avoidance of difficult choices.
I find this annoying as well because none of the premade locales match my preference. Why can't I set my prefences, just load the defaults from a local.

Maybe I'll have to write my own locale file. That doesn't sound fun.
It doesn’t get around any regulations. It still makes sense for Ukrainians to solicit cryptocurrency donations even if there is no regulatory reason to do so.
It's part of history and not the only part of it.

From Wikipedia: "Government-issued fiat money banknotes were used first during the 11th century in China"
> The idea that Assad and Daesh were ever allies

No one here said they were.

You're misreading.

"Seems someone likes Assad, maybe X" does not mean "Assad and X are allies".

It's possible for someone to like both Stalin and Hitler although they weren't allies (in the end).
>For anyone surprised that they only needed up to 1 GPU per simulation: their models appeared to be largely based in rate-kinetics; it's not like they were simulating atoms or really even molecules, but rather more like they were simulating concentrations of molecules.

Ah so it's sort of like CFD but with chemical interactions thrown into the mix?
You can say that with randomly generated content, or simple heuristics+random based content, it's not specific from AI
If you’re lucky, you can get some of that here…