skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is it actually possible that it is really a decentralized collective?

Always has been. Wikipedia is pretty thorough[0]. Anonymous arose from 4chan, and while subgroups have certainly organized (of which Lulzsec is probably most notable), the "Anonymous" moniker is used by the folks who frequent(ed) 4chan, Something Awful, YTMND -- it was never a stable group, never had a leader. It's just whoever was around at the time and felt like joining in (... often, for the lulz).

A majority of "participants" were script kiddies - downloading tools someone else wrote, naive DDoS attacks, and things of that nature. But there were also some who really knew their shit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(hacker_group)
Stop amusing yourself with stuff that you don’t actually enjoy.

That’s all following Twitter “news” is. Entertainment.
As if the pointless prodding of “any updates? :)” is ever called for. If there were any updates, there would be fucking updates posted. I frequently get comments like this in projects they I maintain, sometimes less than a day after the issue was opened, and it does nothing but annoy me and make me not want to resolve their issue. Why is there an expectation that maintainers have infinite amounts of time to fix whatever problem you’re having? Extremely frustrating and makes me hate working in open source.
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no the MSRP is simply doubled in regions they do that, and effective prices are exactly the same as elsewhere. Like a midrange model might be listed as $4999.99 stricken with an "up to 65% off launch celebration offer" and a "bonus" 15% off auto-applying coupons, and all combined the price might line up into e.g. a $1045.69 for an i5/16GB. That sort of BS. It's actually one of aspects that had improved about ThinkPads since the Lenovo handover.
> You can test this yourself with a $1 pair of diffraction glasses.

I'm reading between the lines here: I think you want to see as continuous a spectrum as is possible with LEDs, not three discrete bands (R, G, B)?

I know LED are not spectrally continuous like incandescent (black body) radiation. Maybe the phosphor coating excites in a more continuous spectrum?

> I don't think there's a business model here, though.

I disagree. I would pay a premium if a company could offer a line that hit the mark on all points: temperature, brightness, spectrum, non-flickering.

My alternatives today appear to be a kind of roulette. And a lot of money is wasted at roulette....
IMO there is no solution that is so much better than MIDI CC to give up the backward compatibility and universality of MIDI.
The thing is, even in the US this is changing:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/cars-on-american-roads-keep-...

> The average age of a car on U.S. roads rose to 12.1 years in 2021, according to IHS Markit. The average age had been 11.9 years in 2020. In 2002, the average age was 9.6 years.

And in most of the rest of the world, it's even longer, as the vast majority of the rest of the world is poorer.
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If Putin already has decided to end the world in a nuclear war, then there's not much that we can do about it.

But if Putin would be seen as a brutal murderer by many russians, then chance are that there are some who could try to assassinate him, like there were many assassination attempts to Hitler.
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To expand on #1, the presence of a paywall is a rough equivalent to proof-of-stake on a blockchain. Professional news organizations and paid reported have a built-in credibility (though sometimes not deserved.)
Recently in Canada police went to visit Ottawa residents based on supporting the trucker protests with Facebook messages. It’s unclear how they got the addresses from the names, presumably the phonebook and hope for the best? In any case you can see how the UK would love to have your identity connected to your social media posts. South Korea has had national ID as a mandatory online identity for over a decade IIRC
I once wrote up about this thought experiment and some of its variants. I particularly recommend the discussion it generated on Reddit for may interesting viewpoints (link towards the end of the post).

https://www.thoughtexperiments.net/quantum-suicide/
Also check out the "sequel" https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/attapl/. Pierce wrote the first book whereas this one is a series of articles edited by Pierce. However Advanced Topics covers a few areas that I have been hard pressed to find covered in other places. Row types, dependent types, linear types, etc.
As always, it has to be noted that pertains to ELECTRICITY only. Quitting fossil fuels for all other uses is decades away, at least 2060. It will still go a long way though and probably bring TFS share of renewables from ~19% today to about 45%, so shouldn't be discounted, but it is not in any way "quitting fossil fuels" as the article says.
You dont mention if you live in Ukraine, or if you have relatives there. If you don't, why are you glued to the news / Twitter? Why do you need a constant stream of updates?
Not disagreeing with your conclusion, but the casus belli is already there.
- dumping 150 bil into war machines in a knee-jerk reaction, subsidizing a useless polluting industry (but we just print the money so no worries)
You're right in theory. In reality, though, allowing citizens to call him President Putain is a casus belli, as far as Russia is concerned, so I'm not sure what actual difference it makes.

For the record, Russia also said sanctions would be considered an act of war. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Russian warship - go to hell!
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I think windows 10 ARM requires uefi, so probably
So the guy who worked with Russian intelligence services recommends an app to people Russia are fighting against?

I would maybe not take that recommendation that easily.
If it's any consolation you're not the only one. I know that it is not helpful to check news sites or scroll through twitter ... and yet it's hard to motivate myself to focus on actual work knowing what's going on.
I am not in Europe, but American, and this war does affect me, since we are the largest member of NATO, but also the first target of Russian aggression in this weird neo-Soviet era if Russia decides to deploy nukes (a low, but non-zero, chance).

I give the news 15 minutes of my time every day. Even when events like this happen, 15 minutes.

I, nor you, can meaningfully change the course of events; even if we could, neither of us can tell if we would improve things or make them worse. The only people who can change this now are the Russians starting a civil war in their own country to overthrow their leader to save their brothers and sisters in Ukraine, and I wish them all luck.
"Dear Nia" from exurb1a on YouTube tells a similar story
The point is, I am not doing it for my amusement - it's something else. More like a need/urge to stay in the loop. I had the same sensation when Covid hit in 2020.
I live in Russia, and I am really worried. De-professionalization of the defence and foreign affairs ministries are obvious to anyone with a bit of critical thinking. Just look at our negotiators: it's led by the ex-minister of Culture, a "historian" with a fraudulent PhD thesis, and manager of the military history society, which invents it's own reality.

The foreign affairs speaker constantly uses insults, just as the minister Lavrov.

Russian space agency is run by a PR and foreign relations guy, who never managed anything more substatial than a modest political party, and now is just doing freak show on Twitter.

My major hope is that the elites alliance will start to rattle and falls apart, and maybe they dispose Putin, like Khruschov in 1964.
It was a joke but your comment was interesting nonetheless.
OP's site seems to focus on where servers are hosted, not about how or what data is stored or whether or not violations are enforceable.

A European could order delivery in the USA for a friend. The business (website) would happily accept money for this.
I'm curious if you've run into any issues (Or worried about) cycling gas that long. I know that gas can "go bad" over the span of 6 months - 1 year. Do you ever intentionally run the gas, just so you can burn some and put new in?
> Thus, if implemented, these plans could mean that browsers would be forced to give special treatment to TLS certificates that have been issued by entities held to a lower standard than the other certificate authorities.

I'm not clear on the "forced" aspect of all this EU regulation. How does the EU force Firefox/Mozilla, Google Chrome, or any software in existence to recognize the EU's list of certificate authorities?

Sounds like compelled speech. How the EU plans to force somebody to write source code to open source projects is an amusing idea... Would I break the law if I forked Firefox, and chose not to include the EU's certificate authority? IF yes, how are they going to compel my speech outside the EU?

Sound like the EU will have to create their own web browser.
"for profit" that's what I say in the article.

But reality is different, I didn't earned money on this.
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how do you think the American people would feel if the college elected someone that:

- hadn't won any primaries
- hadn't attended any debates
- said zero words about their plans for office
- and hadn't even run for president

because that's exactly what happened with Von der Leyen's appointment
Not German and I have no doubt this is all true. But in light of current events a lot of people who previously objected to things like windmills may see them as a necessary evil vs being reliant on Russian gas.

Energy security is likely one of the most paramount issues in europe now, I expect there will be big changes.
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Maybe paywalled links should be tagged nofollow since they break the spirit of the web and shouldn't be rewarded.
The previous version of this:

https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12#issuecom...
First of all, all of this was decisions by the previous government, which indeed did not do enough to sustain the switch to renewables. The new government would have changed this anyway, the energy scarcity gives this an additional push - now everyone can see how much cheaper renewable energy is over all.
The payments from the EEG-Umlage are not stopping, it is just the financing of them. One problem of it was, that it was paid mostly by the consumers and small businesses. Basing it on taxes ensures a more fair financing.
I am sure, next will be a lot of law changes to facilitate a quick build up of renewable energies. Especially as now the FDP is also pushing for this, before they were quite reluctant.
I think you're confusing what works in theory vs the current state of affairs. At many companies if you speak of "you're dealing with humans" and "way people think and act" in a hiring process you're automatically inviting interpretations that can be used to justify the reason you didn't hire someone was because of discrimination. Simple as that.

If you really want to see change in the world stop preaching truth to believers, but instead root cause the problem and find solutions that address them. In this case, legislation.
Project Dynamo has caught my eye and I donated to them. They're helping citizens evacuate and flee to other countries. It's a registered non-profit and claims to be ran by military veterans.
I just checked out some reviews and apparently the author didn't even bother to try and contact Lowtax. If one were to write a book about Something Awful, the only way that's not step one is because you got the idea today.
Don't understand German. What are the main points? What does he say about energy storage and hydrogen produced from renewables which have gained hype in recent years?
@cx42net are you using a VPC endpoint to connect to S3 or routing to the public endpoint?
Germany's per capita GDP is 3x that of Poland's and has been for quite a while. This is why commentators expect better performance from them than they do from Poland.
The world is going to need some low-cost energy breakthroughs by 2035 if mere existence is going to be affordable, imagine the cost of living. Housing, food, medical, etc.

I assume Germany/Europe is having or will have the same housing rental/ownership price explosion as USA? Or is this just a US money-grab kind of thing?

I can't see what will change that cost spike except cheap energy.
It's not easy, doubly so for Ukrainians like me. I've decided to take hours-long breaks from touching my phone or using my browser for anything but work. I like to take impromptu 5 minute breaks while working if I'm stuck or frustrated with something. Have to end that and become more disciplined, otherwise the news and the sadness and the fury just consumes me. Thursday and Friday were write-offs, I'm determined to make today different.
How can you be so concerned about Russia and the Ukraine, two countries privileged enough to own weapons of war, when there are children dying of starvation in Africa?
> why write like this? This comment makes no sense to me

> transmission-poor

You're insulting their communication skill, but some (I'd say possibly many) people actually enjoy reading/listening to this kind of communication. I actually really enjoyed it and found it funny and witty, and satisfying especially because it made me google for ~30sec to find out about Thucydides and Melos to be able to decode "old Melian", and then more to solve the puzzle of the "Piper" - although native Enlish speakers are more familiar with the The Pied Piper of Hamelin I'd guess or at least with the "pay the piper" expression.

I actually find regular low-density conversations excruciatingly boring so tuning the density way up and sprinkling some puzzles in there improves my ability to focus and not tune out as I do in many conversations. It's a form of communications that helps AHDHed-techno-creatives like us follow and enjoy conversation and reading more actually, not transmission-poor but on the contrary more like transmission-enhanced, but probably only for a subset of people with brains wired a particular way. (Now that I think about it, even the sci-fi literature that I enjoy reading, eg. Charlie Stross, Vernor Vinge is a bit like this comment, although way more diluted probably to appeal to a greater audience... and yeah, I guess conspiracy theories are the lower end trash version of "sci-fi appealing to ADHDed-techno-creatives", so it kind of makes sense.)

...come to think about it, I'd pay an arm and leg for access to a news outlet that would summarize latest news in this writing or talking style + a subtle injection of dark humor into it, and I'm probably not the only one! ...I imagine it with a Tom Lehrer background intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs :)
There are a large number of prolific inventors whose technology we still use today in some form or another: There's a lovely little book "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" about Harrison's marine chronometer.

Others like Gutenberg's printing press, Franklin's lightning rod, Whitney's cotton gin, Jenner's smallpox vaccine, Nobel's dynamite, Edison's phonograph, etc. etc. etc. are available in lots of lists.
The Culture Code was the most impactful book I read when I first made this transition, particularly since I was coming from smaller, more unstable companies at the time
It's such a cognitive dissonance for me that in the same week I saw the new pictures from the James Web Telescope something like this is happening.
I can't disagree more. They should thank him if he actually reached out to help, even if only to say "look how bad this is; you're easy pwnbait, kthxbye". Based on this article we don't even know if they are opaque (or worse, belligerent).

I've tried to be as careful as possible in my wording to avoid demonizing the poster. I still see absolutely nothing indicating maliciousness or ill intent and I would just as strongly disagree with anyone trying to do that. My apologies if I have come across as being hateful in any way.

I prefer to champion a web that goes back to a "hacker" culture I learned from in my youth that predates Internet culture: we believe DO owe each other something, somewhere in the positive gradient: basic decency, an assumption that we're all worthy of respect (unless proven otherwise), and that you never try to "score points" at the expense of someone else.

But that is just what I believe and what my preferences are. Certainly "do no harm" is the rock bottom line.
Technically true, but a bit click baitish.

Article says a plastics supplier was hit, which isn't the same as Toyota being hit.
>And it won't happen.

We'll see what happens if Russia continues to indiscriminately massacre civilians by using MLRS into dense urban centers.
You’ve clearly never worked nor lived somewhere high on the list of places a hostile would want to destroy. When I worked in a very tall building (tallest for thousands of miles) I would keep an eye towards the news “just in case”. Right now any such place is probably on high alert regardless of whether it would seem an obvious target to randos on the internet.
> I think it's funny to try to earn money like this

A lot of us think it is unethical and would take it as a huge red flag.
> I give the news 15 minutes of my time every day. Even when events like this happen, 15 minutes.

I'll try that. Do you use pure self control for that? A timer?
I don't know their project, but personally I don't have anything against people "bumping" a thread that has gone cold without an actual solution. I am busy and I don't take my open source project very seriously so things do fall through the cracks from time to time.

EDIT: This is a small scale project and the user waited 19 days before bumping. To me that's perfectly reasonable.
Yes, in the extreme if no exchange accepts your token, the token is likely worthless. However, if you happen to own a token and you happen to live or are a citizen in the wrong country and some exchange blocks you from accessing your tokens, that could be resolved by owning your keys. First, the exchange won't be able to confiscate the tokens. There also may be exchanges in your country that aren't blocking access. Finally you can trade them informally or transfer them to someone else outside of your country.
Software is a pretty incredible industry because it allows a single person (or small group) to be responsible for something that so many systems are dependent on. Pretty incredible. Look at any modern package manager and see how many packages there are that enable massive businesses and operations that are written by one person and maybe a few contributions here and there.

It's a humbling experience to see people like that.
> " they're proving nuclear isn't a necessary component of decarbonization"

That remains to be seen. We would need to see what their progress is 5, 10, and then 15 years from now. I think the 2035 target would take a miracle to actually accomplish without Nuclear Power.
My entire team of software engineers are Ukranian, residing in Ukraine (I'm not in Ukraine, nor am I Ukrainian).

For the past few weeks our "water cooler talk" has been almost exclusively about the rising threat of invasion, if not directly about the ongoing conflict in the SE of Ukraine. A number of the team signed up for the volunteer defence force and have spent countless weekends training with the army.

The morning of the invasion I received early morning messages from a few of the members to the effect of "Russia has invaded. We are going to fight."

I have never sent such an emotional and heart felt "Good luck, stay safe" in what is such a vacuous and empty medium (i.e., a messenger client) before. I haven't been able to produce anything since the invasion began because I am constantly watching the news and various social media feeds for updates on the invasion, and it's really hard to pick up a full (now absent, mostly) team's efforts without metaphorically dropping bits all over the place.

My work, and that of my team, it just.. doesn't matter in comparison. My boss is asking for progress updates and I'm just responding "Nothing. The guys are focussing on staying safe, warm, and well stocked right now." (with a small side of incredulity.)

I've brought it up with leadership and they are going to parachute in some agencies from other places and I can't help but feel we are just abandoning my team members. The people I have, on average, spent 5x8hr days working with for the past few years. My comrades. My friends. Just so expendable in the eyes of my employer.
Except many of the databases released by people claiming to be “Anonymous” have been straight up fakes.

> Why are you so angry?

Because while others actually work to help Ukraine, there are some attention-seekers getting vastly more attention by pretending to do something.
Across the entire of Europe there should be enough tidal, offshore wind, solar to provide plenty of power. It's rare that the north, baltic, biscay and med are all becalmed

For storage, there's overbuilding capacity and using excess to generate hygrogen (and thus convert it back), storage from cars, potential for hydro storage in the alps and pyrinees, and in the short term gas provision from UK/Norway for top up, should be more than enough to maintain independence and resilience.

But there's more money in burning fossils.
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The plan is to use the overshoot energy to electrolyze hydrogen and store it via pressure increase in the extensive German gas network… for use during the "Dunkelflaute" in the gas plants.
I'd say almost anything by Joel Spolsky[0]. Smart and Gets Things Done[1] was one that I enjoyed.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/06/05/smart-and-gets-thi...
Because like it or not, organic free range chicken breasts are a luxury, and producing them take substantially more resources than conventional chicken.

I see you're going for the corporate greed/income inequality angle, that's orthogonal to this issue. Those might be important issues to address, but even in an economy with zero inequality, I would want the ability to choose between low-end basic product and high-end luxury product. That's especially the case when the negatives of the low end product are unclear. I don't need sashimi-grade chicken if I'm going to be braising it for 2 hours.
> ... and update the article once I have an answer from the company

I look forward to the update and will be very curious to see how that goes. Best of luck!

[EDIT] Also I think it worth adding one more thing. I think the poster has demonstrated an openness to feedback that is wonderful. Coming back to the keyboard to read "let me give that a try; I'll update things" is really cool.
I'm a supporter of nuclear, but this trope is overplayed. This winter Germany derived 5-10% of their electricity from natural gas - and even that is mostly due to cogeneration of heating, not for electricity needs. This cogeneration runs even if renewables provide a surplus. Calling Germany's electricity grid is "reliant on Russian gas" doesn't reflect reality
That's like asking what color is black.
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Somewhat off-topic, but maybe someone knows.

There's one thing that worries me about EVs: local pollution.

So, ICE cars release CO2 + they release local pollutants (NO, CO, etc), particulate matter, that kind of thing.

EVs obviously don't directly release CO2 nor do they release those local pollutants.

However, EVs are on average much heavier (probably 200-400kgs heavier), which means that they probably need bigger tires and they wear them out faster. They probably also wear roads faster.

For local pollution, is the extra tire & road wear and tear equal or worse to the ICE tire & road wear and tear + exhaust gases?

Does anyone know any studies about this?