skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There honestly probably isn't two hours worth of news worth following each day unless you're involved directly.

Yes, you can get lost in the hour-by-hour coverage of individual battles but you won't come away comprehending much about the situation from that low level view. You can spend all day doing that and at the end of the day all that becomes a footnote in the larger war like "mechanized forces attempt to move into outskirts of Kharkiv but have stalled".

There are various think tanks and groups that do just that, trying to digest the flood of disjointed reports and propaganda into something resembling a coherent analysis. They don't know anything not covered by CNN or The Guardian though -- such groups are where the news organizations get their analyses. The Guardian for example has been linking the Institute for the Study of War's coverage a fair bit. Of course, the ISW is funded by American defence contractors so it helps to keep the bias in mind.

At this point I'd suggest background reading. Post-Soviet history has other examples of urban warfare and helps explain how we got to this point.
The older population knows exactly what's going on and already keep their savings stuffed in the mattress. The younger generations are now having to learn the hard way.
Then whatever Western nations are left will apply crushing sanctions.
You need to back up Sun and Wind with either some type of Battery or Nuclear/Carbon based solution. If not you have no energy reliability when sun/wind conditions are bad. More sun and wind renewables won't help in this case as they have this built-in problem.

Apart from that, it is not like big windmills and sun farms have zero impact on the environment. In this case a nuclear factory might be big and ugly, but globally its immediate impact on nature might be a lot less than the aforementioned renewables.

1 kg of natural uranium gives 45,000 kWh of electricity; so the extraction of raw materials for nuclear has less impact on nature as well compared to many other solutions (e.g. for the same amount of electricity you would need nearly 10,000 kg of mineral oil or 14,000 kg of coal). [1]

Of course with nuclear you have problems with storage of waste and possible accidents, but its positive impact on climate change, great capacity for producing electricity and lower impact on nature than many other solutions, might make it the best solution we have at the time being?

[1] https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/fuel-comparison/
At the famous El Bulli, there was speculation and accusation that they were using toxins and poisons. Vigorously denied of course, but perhaps the small sizes allowed for this level of discretion.

When I read in this article that the author was for sure they weren't using magic mushrooms or some other kind that would cause a more immediate effect, I was thinking “for suuuuure?” I’ll allow it
It's in all profiles. If it isn't, there's a bug.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html has a description.
The Clojure programming language was a single person effort in the first years and all of the design and implementation was done by Rich Hickey in the first version (2 years of work, not counting previous experience).

He was burned out from the state of commercial programming around the time and funded a sabbatical with his pension savings to work on Clojure. He had at least 3 attempts to bridge Common Lisp and the JVM or CLR runtimes and he had formed strong opinions on the need for Clojure to be hosted.

He kept up doing 90% of the work with the next few versions and even today it he calls all the shots on its development, it not being a "bazaar" style open source project. Of course it being open source anyone is free to write their own patches and make forks, but generally contributions are more likely to be accepted by the community as libraries, not language changes.

The whole story has been submitted here a few times and is quite interesting:
https://download.clojure.org/papers/clojure-hopl-iv-final.pd...
Ask HN: Should I use time-series DB for real-time chat app?
I’m working on a side project (Slack clone) and am not certain if using a time-series database is appropriate for a chat based app.

Even though messages are chronological in order (time based), people might want to start a new thread on a previous message that isn’t the most current message. So the hierarchy isn’t just the time a message was sent, but it’s also based on the message that it’s being responded too as well.

As such, I’m not certain if using a time series database is the appropriate use for a chat app.

EDIT:

Question - What do you believe is the most appropriate data-store to use and why?

(Eg relational, nosql, document, time-series, etc)
Bitcoin jumps 8% after Treasury imposes sanctions against Russian central bank
That's another point of sanctions; they aren't one-way. It's to show others that while cooperation is ideal, if your partners act in bad faith you can survive just fine without them and are ready to accept the loss of their contributions.

If you're talking about a MAD scenario, it's safe to assume russian weapons are just as highly-maintained as their military. Given last week's battle performance, they're likely to blow up on launchpads.
Blame the state governments for publishing those records in the first place. Everyone knows that once information is published on the internet there is really no “undo” button. If judyrecords goes down another, perhaps less scrupulous, operator will release another similar site.
I'm a crypto skeptic, but I don't feel exceptionally informed of the other side of the argument(s). Can you recommend any posts/articles/summaries about the mistakes you're referring to?
Ask HN: Curious about Ansible but afraid or blocked on getting started?
Are you curious about Ansible [0] for your CM, IaC needs but afraid or blocked on getting started?

1. What are some of the blockers
2. What will (significantly) improve for you if you became proficient in Ansible?
3. Are there some things that you just can't do right not but would be easuer if you became proficient in Ansible?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible_(software)
Lithium mining destroys the environment. Sure, oil does too. But so does lithium.
Ted Chiang is a great author. Link to the story: https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freed...
I think the method given here is also good at uncovering where a spec might be subtly unclear. I'm not sure how to do this and as I break it down farther and farther I realize part of that is because a signficant (but initially hidden) aspect of it has not been specified.

Now it may be that it's my job to specify it as well as implement it, which is fine, but those are two different problems.
> cURL (still single person AFAIK)

That person is Daniel Stenberg. He's been the main driver[0] (esp since its been called "curl"), and is still the majority committer, but the project has ~1000[1][2] commit authors (disclosure, I'm one). I'm in no way trying to diminish Daniel's work. It is excellent. Curl has however taken on a life of its own to an extent, with a few other heavy lifters and lots of occasional contributers. I actually think this speaks well to Daniels leadership; he seems to have a loose grip that guides the project and keeps things on the rails with minimal perturbation. He's still a heavy lifter, but not entirely Atlas[3].

[0] https://curl.se/docs/governance.html

[1] https://curl.se/docs/thanks.html

[2] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/30/1000-commit-authors/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)
Peak minimalism
Chris Latner's LLVM compiler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM
Isn't there a Rust version of the Linux Standard Library as well?
Without transparency, including public records, how do we hold the powerful accountable? Court records are public to prevent secret government courts from abusing people (among other reasons). How do we operate a democracy, which depends on citizens controlling their country?

And most importantly, who does get access to the records? That exculsive access will give them a lot of power.
The fonts are so thin, what is wrong with you
Alt+tab
it works just fine in PowerShell and the new Windows Terminal but yeah, I doubt CMD will do auto-complete for you w/ forward slash
Isaac Newton: His work on calculus, optics and gravity was all done in isolation (the university was closed as a precaution against the plague).
This is very slippery slope. It is not my friggin job to figure out the "spirit of the law". I can read letter of law and follow it. If law makers lack mental capacity to "stress test" their creations and incorporate "patches" when bugs are discovered they should find some other job.

Otherwise everyone will be on the hook for some imaginary "not following spirit". Might as well hire shamans
How is this better than the Kinesis Advantage2 which has been the gold standard in ergo keyboards for a very long time?

https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/
Ah, you are right about "2". Thank you.

"1" is debatable (it was US-backed).
please recall a basic motivation for the formation of the United States of America, versus the Kingdom of Britain under George III. In the legal system of Britain, all Crown records are SECRET unless cleared. Under the Federal Laws of the USA, all Federal records are PUBLIC unless classified.

get the idea?
I'd recommend Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager. She's got a twitter https://twitter.com/joulee where you could check out her sharing of managerial wisdom to have your own gauge.

This book focuses on the practical side like sharing useful feedback, smart recruiting strategy and meeting optimization, all towards the goal of greater outcome and amplifying team success, instead of just more activities entailed by conventional manager model.
On the other hand, even his Minister of Defense in times of war speaks to him from 10 or 15 meters away. Putin is paranoid and only select few ever come close to him. He had 23 years to select the most loyal people.

I bet Putin did consider possible coup scenarios.

If anything, I think it's more likely that people of Russia change their mind. Soldiers can surrender. Ordinary people can sabotage what they're doing. State officials and riot police can resign. All of that is unlikely, it requires to undo years of propaganda, and it has never happened in 23 years of Putin reign, but the situation is not ordinary either.
It's not the interview that counts but the interviewer (or, in some degenerate cases, the "hiring committee").

A good interviewer can assess a candidate's competence even with crappy questions / question bank. A bad interviewer will often make wrong hiring decisions even if they asked good questions.
Nobody can be trusted with data.
I've used both Postman and Insomnia, but recently I've been using the REST Client plugin (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...). It's not a feature-rich, but I honestly like the workflow of not having to switch apps and work with files in my editor (as well as put variables in a .env)
On a related note, the California Bar website employs dark patterns that mislead members into paying inflated annual dues.

When you renew your membership, there are a variety of addon payments you can opt into by checking boxes for these items. Then, on a later page, there are various addon payments that you have to opt out of.

Making things even trickier, these aren't pre-checked boxes, which might lead the user to realize he needs to uncheck them. Instead, there is a list of "adjustments" with a dropdown menu for each. The dropdown defaults to "none", which would lead users to think that they are not paying for an extra item. But when you click on the dropdown, you see the option to "deduct $x" if you don't want to pay the additional fee.

I've never seen a dark pattern like this anywhere else. Perhaps the folks who run the calbar website could spend less time finding ways to trick members into overpaying and more time securing private information.
I think this is an impressive example of technical writing for the average person. The metaphors are good, the writing style is clear and without jargon. Public incident reports are often written so that they can hide behind technical complexity. Writing clearly does a lot to build trust with the audience.
That's the only thing? `find / -iname "hello"` doesn't do it for ya?
Surprised this site isn't managed by CDT (https://cdt.ca.gov/)
> The existence of unelected political appointees does not make the EU non-democratic.

not alone, no, but when combined with:

- a parliament made up of directly elected representatives that can't legislate, modify or repeal previously passed acts
- the ratcheting of transfer of powers in direct opposition to what the people of Europe want (ignoring No referendums on the Constitution of Europe and passing it through regardless): the "Monnet method"
- deliberate "degenerative proportionality": a Maltese voter has 30x the representation of a German (makes no sense in the organ that's supposed to represent the people)
- the concentration of executive power via the mass transfer of power from elected national parliaments to the council

it's beyond a joke to say it's democratic

> If you don't like it you should push for reforming the EU into a properly democratic single country.

I don't have a problem with the idea of a federated Europe, as long as the people voted for it

the problem the EU has is: the peoples of Europe wouldn't, so it's being done by slowly by deception instead

and by design it's impossible to revert (unless you leave entirely, which is extremely difficult)

> Also, if you think the EU is entirely undemocratic, then let me ask you: when was the last time you voted for anything in the World Trade Organization, NATO, or the United Nations?

I don't remember these organisations pretending to be democratic (let alone having legions of fans online stating that they are)
When you sell chicken in the EU it cant be washed in chlorie. That does not mean that the EU have banned anyone in the world from bathing their chickens in chlorine, but if you present your goods to the block it must comply with the laws of the block. Likewise when you present your website to people within the block, you must comply with the laws of the block.

btw when you factory farm animals 10 high and they live their entire lives covered in the faeces from the 9 layers of chickens above is actually a good idea to give them a wash and disinfect them.
The only actual guarantee of fiat currencies is to be acceptable for taxes payment. That's all. No one - in theory and except some cases like "national interests" - can be forced to sell something for dollars or else.
> A taste or smell can unlock a memory you thought you lost forever.

Here for a related personal anecdote and a movie reference.

On a conference trip to Chicago I managed to snag a reservation for a Michelin-starred restaurant (Alinea.) The first appetizer was an unusual-looking canapé sprayed with a white foam, featuring salmon and dill as key flavors. It took me back to my 10-year-old self sitting at my grandparent's Thanksgiving table which included shrimp with grandma-grown dill. The meal tab was pricy, the recall of a grand moment was something akin to priceless.

The movie reference is 'Ratatouille,' where the antagonist restaurant critic has such a moment.
Because renewables alone don’t replace nuclear or fossil fuel plants. Renewables with enough battery backup could, but then it’s no longer as available or cheap.

Nuclear is much better suited for base load power than solar and wind. Take a look at this graph of German energy by source and Tw/H.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/Fil...

For all their good intentions of replacing nuclear with something cleaner and safer, you can see wind and solar grow, but not enough to offset the nuclear decrease. Natural gas consumption grows more to replace it. “Solar and wind instead of nuclear” is a false dichotomy because one can’t just swap out one with the other, at least not until grid batteries are far more available.
That's one read on it.

Another read is that people use 1Password to safely secure their passwords and other credentials, and it's not 1Password's job to decide what they store. But it is their job to make sure the experience is safe and simple, and that's what they've done.

I don't even like crypto, and this article is crazy.
Yes, I checked for all. I don't have any endpoints ;)
If you give them a name, they cease to be Anonymous. Is it not?
> "Here begins a new period both in ideology and in the very model of our socio-economic system."

Well, at least they got that part correct.
Richard Hollins Murray is somewhere in my ancestry (Murray is a family name), probably a very distant relative. God forbid someone mentions the cat's eye at a family party, though, because all of the great-aunts and great-uncles get up in arms about how Murray's idea was "stolen" and how Murray was the true inventor of the cat's eye. I don't think any of them really know the history (I didn't know his name was Richard before I saw his this post) but I'm not going to argue with a gang of riled-up octogenearians.
I think it's meant as a system to ensure consistency and limit the rate of change.
> Russia orders people and companies to sell 80% of their revenue in foreign currencies, forcing them to buy the ruble

We have headlines like this running today and HN is still on its anti-crypto kick? Like there still isn't any chance of self-custodied digital bearer assets having any real utility?

Hate to get flamey on here and I hope that's not how this comes off, but at some point it verges on caricature (and I say this as someone who is also disheartened by all the financial grift in crypto).
Just an observation here. Our experience is within spacetime, but some discussions indicate there are processes outside of spacetime. Some say dark energy, for example, is the expansion of spacetime and not the motions of objects inside it. Maybe MW is not operating inside either, while conservation and locality are.
Meat-eating extends human life expectancy worldwide
Hopefully that other airframe could be finished? Some say no and I'd believe them given the age of the technology.

https://simpleflying.com/second-an-225-economically-unviable...
As I commented upstream, I've recently switched to this and really like the workflow - sometimes less is more.
Yes, though it is not a huge quantity of content. If memory serves, there were four writings made exclusively for the book.

The publisher really was a pain in the ass. In addition to what I already mentioned, they insisted that I be listed as the book's author, despite the fact that I only wrote about half of the content. I argued for the author credit to be "The [name of the website] Editors", but they ignored my input, claiming that books sell better when a single person is named as the primary author. In so doing they drove a wedge between me and my fellow authors.
Interviewing for trading jobs. It's the leetcoding of prop shops
This hits the heart of the issue: how would you know if it's "just theater"? And if you did somehow find out, holding a random site legally responsible (I'm assuming you mean suing them?) will be dicey...even notable European sites don't comply with GDPR (the one example mentioned elsewhere in this thread was https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/, but I'm sure that's not an isolated instance).
What does "showdead" do?
Lithium mining destroys local environments just like most mining activities.

Oil creates a global antropomorphic environmental cataclysm.

The two are not the same and this is weak whataboutism.
In consulting, I have had to train myself to not give specific answers in a sales call. Any number for cost or delivery date that you give a customer will become stuck in their head, and you will have to fight to change it to match reality.
This is a mistake similar to when twitter expanded tweet size.
This website, the app's visual design, and that old plastic-chromed iPhone all harken back to a simpler time when there were funny one-off apps just for the hell of it.

The time of $1.99 quantum splitters, $0.99 iBeer, and $1.99 Lightsaber apps is long gone. Most of those apps didn't really do anything all that amazing, but looking back on it I think I miss when app stores were flush with "we could use the hardware to do this" rather than "we could get in-app purchases and subscriptions like this"

Not that there wasn't monetization as a goal back then, but just that there was a lot of weird paradigms being experimented on where we now have a solidly 10-year norm instead.
Exactly this. All justifications for nuclear are always qualified with "if done properly|safely|correctly..." and no nuclear reactor incident was predicated with any sort of warning about safety or impropriety.

The reality is that our world is inherently too unstable for the half century commitment necessary for each reactor. External influences always drive risky decisions which ultimately result in less than completely safe outcomes for both the operation of the reactor and the containment of the waste.
At the API level, both '/' and '\' have been accepted since sub-directories were added to DOS.

It was only ever at the UI (command prompt), and in how some programs converted inputs and outputs where '\' was necessary, as the knowledge about '/' being usable wasn't all that widespread.

What used to peeve me was C source on DOS development environments with lines like:

#include "path\\to\\file.h"

When the following always seemed to work (with the compilers I used):

#include "path/to/file.h"

Or at least it did with Borland compilers.
Keep while the gain from keeping someone exceeds the cost of keeping them. This could be money, talent, impact on the work environment, ….
Doesn't really matter compiled or interpreted, people would probably start by observing network traffic.
as if iran hasnt been hit enough and yet they are limping gladly
The Sistine Chapel?
The principal error is that we - the world citizens - allow single individuals to amass too much power.
This is censorship.
It's good for enhancing the overall mood of the person. That feeling of being depressed is reduced.
I think the reality is if a nation state wanted to they could shut down 80%+ of infrastructure (water, power, internet etc) and any domestic manufacturing by attacking something in the supply line. There's terrible security everywhere, you literally have ransom ware groups taking down key infrastructure on accident its so bad. Our insane military budget does nothing to prevent this and it honestly seems almost as bad to me as a few nukes could be.
Feels funny that the original 30 mile trip was above board. The new trip is clearly exploiting a loophole, but maybe both trips should be forbidden.

Why is there an exemption for trips by rail?
Show HN: I Created a Chrome Extension for PG: TRAB (Tweet Reporter and Blocker)
A few days ago I saw this tweet from PG: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1496549841912094733
...and guessed it shouldn't be too hard to make a chrome extension to do this (I had never made a chrome extension before)

So I took a stab at it - took me a bit over a day to make it, and it was fun to put together.

I responded to his tweet with the link to the extension but I'm not sure if he would've seen it.

edit: Looks like I missed the approval notification for the listing of this extension on the chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trab-tweet-reporte...
>The only difference: a government could force someone to exchange something useful for some paper.

That's a rather big difference.
That's the difference between money and monopoly money.
This appears to post fairly straightforward assessments of the conflict, though I can't vouch for their inherent biases which may or may not be present:
https://www.understandingwar.org

Each day is about a 5-10 min read.