skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wind generation is perfectly predictable. It is just volatile. But with enough storage (electrolyze it to hydrogen, then burn it in the gas plants), you can save the generated surplus for days without wind (and solar).

Additionally, new German homes are required, by law, to be build in a way that will not use 1. Gas for Heating 2. a lot of energy at all.

Additionally local energy storage and production in homes is encourgaged with 45% of funding coming from the German state.
They only created the account to bump a request they had no involvement in. I could understand the original requestor asking for an update, but this is just some rando with no contributions to any project at all.
How to publish Deno modules to NPM
'Things like windmills' are not going to be fit for purpose to power the western world. They produce tiny amounts of energy if the wind is blowing, look hideous and kill a lot of airborne wildlife
Philosophers Rule the Day
this is an interesting topic -- I find it socially curious how some academic coders can have their name at the top of a project, as if it was solo, and then a dozen+ names listed in the "thank you" section.. as an academic outsider, I can say that there are definitely layers to the academic social norms world, where both well-spoken industrious visionary individuals, and harsh thankless abusive team leaders, can end up with "sole inventor" looking attributes even though in fact, no one does that much detailed work completely alone.
Wouldn’t they instantly get stomped by NATO if they declared in any way to be at war with NATO? Or would they still have to attack a member first?

I do realise the risk of nukes at that point but in the hypothetical situation that nukes remain MAD
Airbnb to house up to 100k Ukrainian refugees
Anonymous on twitter claimed it and the sites had memes that smelled like Encyclopedia Dramatica.
Everyone's military spending is ridiculous. As someone who's more of an isolationist, I have to concede that having a large military is very important, or else our country and its freedoms are toast. The real problem is the people in charge of said military. Not the size. The difficulty is in maintaining and responsibly controlling that force.
I often add these too but with a little addition.

My main reason is to signal "there are still people out there in need of this". My addition always is "What can I do to help move this forward?" (unless that is made clear in the thread already, ofc). To signal that my need is urgent enough for me to put time, effort or funding into it.
First off, you've done useful and valid work. Not that you should need me to say it, but I'll throw some kudos.

Explaining that it's not possible to actually 'cash out' would be great, and that would probably help deter script kiddies from trying to defraud the app. There are real people on the other side!

Tokens should be marked as redacted imo, and code sections could probably do to be snipped.

If you wanted a tl;dr, I guess it would be that it looks like ctrl-c and ctrl-v were your primary editing tools. They're great, and I use them all the time, but that w(t) thing took me 10 seconds of scrolling to get through when skimming, which was 10 seconds with none of your own words on screen. Less can often be more! Especially if I'm looking at disassembled gibberish.
After a certain amount of time (and/or some other conditions) the Pacifica hybrid will go into "fuel and oil refresh mode" while you are driving and start using the fuel to run the engine.
The miracle is cheap renewables.
I'm feeling the same. Two of my teammates are in Ukraine right now. Bosses are now talking about hiring new people to keep up with the workload. And this is the same meeting where my boss said we have a lot of work, but nothing critical. All the systems are running fine, no major bugs recently, the work is purely adding new features.
And they're ready to replace them after ~4 days. It just makes me think we are all absolutely expandable. Hopefully no major crisis happens in my life, cos they'll drop me in a heartbeat :(
Corrected link; https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/28376

<https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Ukraine+Russia+Situation+F...>
Most conflicts are murky, nuanced, with two sides to the story. On rare occasions, like once a century, it’s actually very clear to most of the world that one side is wrong and standing up against it is right thing to do.

This happened when Nazi Germany started invading its neighbours, and it’s happening again now with Russia invading its neighbours. Ukraine has done nothing to Russia to justify an invasion.

Ukraine has not fired missiles into Russia. No one from Ukraine has committed terror attacks in Russia. Ukraine has not even threatened Russia, and Russia has no justification for invading it.
I read that methane can be produced at about 60% efficiency - if that’s true can’t we just accept that and build the required storage and enough extra renewable capacity?
Why is Docker an issue?
France doesn't have any good answer on how to solve energy problems. Yes, they currently have a large amount of nuclear reactors - probably the most nuclear industry nation on the planet. However, most of them are aging and so far they fail to build new plants at a rate to sustain their production long term. They have 1 in construction, much delayed and with huge cost overruns. Even if they build another 10 that only delays the switch, they would have to replace 50 nuclear power plants. Their nuclear future so far depends on prolonging the run times of the existing plants.
This happens to me at work all the time. I'll think I can fix an issue faster than I can give a thorough answer about what went wrong and what it will take to fix it. Sometimes I'm right and I'll get back to them quickly to say we're testing a fix. But sometimes I'm wrong and I keep intending to say something but then repeatedly think "oh wait but I've almost found it".
Why?

Wars go on every day, people suffer every day, it doesn't benefit you or them to obsessively watch.

I'd get it for people who live in or have close connections with the affected area, but knowing every update when you're on the other side of the world? What's the benefit?

Keeping up with the general situation, sure, but up to the minute all day watching... I don't get the point or the motivation besides which is ultimately entertainment, and not good entertainment.

Don't you get bored with news sources? CNN just repeats itself all day.
The risk increases non linear with the amount of plants and with the amount of nuclear waste you have. For the waste we have no solution that works, except for storage, which has tons of risk. For the plants itself it is just a matter of possibility when an terrible accident happens. So simply put, there are around 17 meteors every year that hit ground and can cause a disaster, when they hit a nuclear plant of just some storage for waste, not taking tons of other risks like humans, earthquake, war and alike into account. Eventually, a nuclear plant is no more than gambling for your future, because it is guaranteed that an accident will happen, just not when. This does not even take all the other problems into account like the cost. Nuclear powers is unbelievable expensive, compared to solar or wind. They just is cheap on the paper, because you do not care about all the hidden cost.
> also the first target of Russian aggression in this weird neo-Soviet era if Russia decides to deploy nukes

On the contrary, you'll be the last target.

Ukraine is obviously the first, the countries bordering Ukraine in the South, especially Poland are at risk, then the rest of Europe and finally the US.
after decades of studying the German site was discarded, because water was coming in. So where are these places in Germany, that you want to store the waste?
I think it's made a lot of people overestimate their competence and overvalue their 'skill'.

They think being able to Google/SO something is the same as knowing it. Give them a laptop without internet access and most 'developers' wouldn't even be able to get it setup nevermind write 'hello world' from scratch.
The headline is accurate, and not click bait IMO.

No where did they imply Toyota was hit, however to believe it is any less serious because a Supplier was hit vs them directly shows ignorance of how manufacturing works

Supply Chain attacks are very serious and are how a lot of malware is moving because the primary targets are getting very good at preventing direct attacks however supplier are often overlooked as an attack vector, and even if they are aware of the risk, that risk is often very much understated
Implementing Node.js URL Parser in WebAssembly with Rust
I have pretty extreme ADHD. It is very very easy for something like a ticket to just fall out of my mind and therefore not get followed up on. Polite (very important) and infrequent requests for updates aren't bad, they can be extremely important to keeping things moving forward, both for myself and many others.
That's basically what was done the whole Cold War. USA goes to Vietnam --> USSR supports the other fraction with weapons etc. USSR goes to Afghanistan --> USA supports the Afghans etc.

Having Cold War situations again isn't desirable of course but it's kind of battle tested to not lead to further, direct, escalations.
Russia Wants Your Startups
I used to read the Economist and likewise gave it up in 2021 due to the creeping politicisation and simplification of their coverage. I think this is representative of a larger illness that is pervading Western journalism, an ideological illness that has journalists viewing themselves as school marms of the hoi polloi rather than reporters and analysts of fact.

My suggestion is to peruse smart political magazines from a diversity of sources. Four I can recommend for this purpose are

https://jacobinmag.com ("democratic socialist" a la Sanders. Critical of the Democrats from the left. Frequently critiques establishment policies on numerous issues, occasionally including foreign policy.)

https://www.tabletmag.com (Jewish conservative magazine. A useful balance to my other selections in that it is Zionist.)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com (This magazine is one of the few smart conservative publications. It is critical of Republican interventionist foreign policy and free trade ideology. It is very culturally conservative.)

https://unherd.com (This British magazine doesn't have a specific orientation. It leans slightly cultural conservative, but doesn't have a big bias on other issues in my view, and even on cultural topics it publishes feminist viewpoints.)

And then, since these magazines are all fairly contra-establishment, you can wash down their flaming hot takes with a nice glass of neoliberal apologetics, by simply visiting any other newspaper of magazine, and viewing either the headlines or the opinion section--they are pretty much indistinguishable at this point anyway.
Don't trust anyone on Twitter who claims to be Anonymous. The original Anonymous got coopted by the rival group Pseudonymous who just use their name and fame for publicity.
Sorry, it's only 330 miles, did miles/km conversion wrong ;)

Yes, having the possibility of doing a fast charge in 10-15 minutes could do the trick. Still don't think the charger network is really that big here in Spain (what happens in Summer when everybody tries to charge their car in the same charging stations?)
1. It's not all about eyes. The skin also reacts to light.

2. Even though your pupil shrinks, you get a larger total number of light rays into the eye. Your visual cortex adjusts the image so you don't realize that a sunlit scene is a million times brighter than a lamplit scene. These extra rays may still affect something hormonal.
I sure see a lot of Toyota survivors on the road. While it’s not strange to see a 1970s F150 on the road, it is strange to see one from the 90”s or early aughts.

Of the 40 cars on my block, 8 are over 10 years old and it’s 7 toyotas, a vw, a miata and a subie.
Yes, yes, we've heard that, let's close all nuclear plants, buy gas from Russia and planet will be saved. Great time for this post, indeed.

Energiewende is an extremely expensive project that is simply not going to work, what is clarify to some extent for example here [1]. It is economical absurdity, it is as if someone would try to built Perpetuum mobile, but breaking laws of economy. In fact, anyone can find in the internet sunny days stats for Germany and check by themselves if this has any chance to work on a truly large scale without existing efficient energy storage.

In addition Energiewende considers gas as green energy source, what is a joke, and, what is even more ridiculous, "biomas" is also green energy source, no idea how burning wood and corn is not emitting CO2, but, hey, ecologist are not doing something totally nuts for the first time, so not a big surprise.

Fighting nuclear energy for last 60 years worked so well for Greenpeace and others that we are in the today's crappy situation, but still nobody is saying, hey guys it seems you were dead wrong about nukes, it seems that's the only clean and practical, CO2 emission free energy source, isn't it?

If Germany didn't waste all those trillions of dollars for Energiewende of solar and wind power plants, but built reactors instead, they would have practically CO2-free economy now, but former chancellor, Mr. Gerhard Schröder, would not get a nice job in Gazprom in that case.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06...
> How did you keep your focus on working for the last several years, while the war has been raging in Yemen? Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in Yemen, with a millions displaced and starved to death - many orders of magnitude greater than the death and suffering that has taken place in Ukraine.

My question was about recent events - I am not diminishing any other wars ever stated, at all. Disclosure: I am a pacifist.
It's often more a request for ETA, if there's lingering problems you'd like addressed, etc

It can be annoying, but it can also be someone trying to reach out asking if you'd like any help. Maybe it'd be better if they phrased it as "Is there anything I can do to help progress this issue/pr?"

& yeah prodding after a day is silly. But if it's been a couple months then it can make sense
Assuming USB ports, you cheekily plug in another keyboard!
Switzerland adopts EU sanctions against Russia
There are hundreds of “Anonymous” accounts on twitter competing to claim credit for everything possible.

Let me remind you that Russian intelligence services have been waving this very same flag https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news/fancy-bear...
Religions are belief systems that cause all sorts of wacky outcomes in the real world because the beliefs are based on the way they wish things were instead of the way things are. If more people understood that this is simply a novel religion, this would at least start making more sense.
Doesn't seem there is a way to generate curl statement. Pity.
Ask HN: How do you judge if an employee should be retained?
Hi all!
As a disclaimer, this is a theoretical exercise which I want to understand more for myself so that I can negotiate better in the future.

I'm looking at how companies should answer the question: "Should we give this employee the raise they are asking for right now or risk losing them in the near future?".

To do this, I want to know what it means when an employee is 'valuable' to their employer. In a nutshell, if an employee's value outweighs their new proposed salary, then it seems to me that they should be retained for their requested salary rather than risk losing them to another employer who will pay that and perhaps more.

Now the question is: "How do I judge how valuable an employee is to their employer?" I see a couple of variables to start off:

MARKET VALUE
What is the employee worth to another employer? This can be judged fairly easily with some quick googling and job posts.

SKILL SET
How many people with the same skill set exist that could replace this person? Similar question to market value.

HISTORY
With the historical and legacy knowledge this person holds, how long and how difficult would it be to get someone with the same knowledge?

Do you have any other ideas on how to judge whether the employer should agree to an increase in their salary? Or in other words, how can I show my employer that I am worth the increase in salary I propose?
In the last 3 weeks it was quite windy in Europe and German wind power production equaled or even surpassed French nuclear production.
Of course, the wind and solar power capacity needs to be built up considerably, but the amounts produced are not tiny at all.
> But there's no tool to keep track of updates and notify me about any abnormal change

As I mentioned, there are services that notify you of changes, you can define what those changes are (number increases by X, etc.).

It's very hard to define what abnormal is, maybe you run an ad campaign, then your traffic will spike up, which is expected.
They don't look redacted though, I also don't remember reading you redacted them.
This rubbish was believed only in fringe circles and probably only because of Russian propaganda.

Putin also said that he is attacking Ukraine to de-nazify it. It makes no sense hence his further claims will not be believed to be a reflection of reality but only as his state of mind.
Rsync -- Initial release 25 years ago
I am not African nor lived there, but you have to make a distinction between places and people. There is not one "Africa" at all.. it is an old place
None of that is innovative in a way not obvious to any engineer in the field. It's basically a laptop without a screen. Being the first to combine a specific list of features is not necessarily patentable by itself. The combination would have to, paraphrasing various patent laws, surprise an expert in the relevant art with its originality or non-obviousness.
Postfix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_(software)

Seems initially the work of a single person, though I have no doubt others contributed greatly also.
Here you go:

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

Where’s the part where the US caused poverty?
Sorry to hear that. We had an office in Belarus. When everything went down there in ‘20 we did everything we could to help them relocate and now they are mostly in Warsaw. This is obviously different in terms of the right thing to do, but you really wish people would do that right thing.
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> As if the pointless prodding of “any updates? :)” is ever called for. If there were any updates, there would be fucking updates posted.

Sometimes people forget about things. I know I do.
Romania and Poland would be the first hits. You're last.
Wait, what? One week? How much coffee was necessary for that?
This. It's amazing how much "people being uncaring" is just people who are trying to keep their families afloat too when you look closely.
Well, I definitely know the feeling…

But if it is about preparation, then ask yourself what you can (or will) do to prepare for a worst case scenario, then middle scenario, then not so bad scenario. Take care of what you can, and tell yourself clearly that you’ve done what you need to do there’s no need to worry about it anymore.
FYI, last month, 82% of new-car buyers paid more than sticker price.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-brand-of-sticker-shock-hi...
It's the same for passwords.

The advantage is that your private key can't be leaked on a third party website.
None of those tragedies as you call them had the direct potential to turn nuclear based on the threats of one of the parties involved.
Seeing the Ukranians on my team log in for work (even though they have been told there is no expectation to do so given the situation, but saying they do so for the distraction it offers them) simply emboldens my already considerable respect for them.

If they can work from within an active war zone (Kyiv) I can do so from the comfort of my northern european couch.
Fair point, I shouldn't have mention that you can put your stable coins into a DeFi protocol because even if that's interesting is not the point of the answer.

I wanted to address that in the world of crypto there are stable assets pegged to some other FIAT if you want that.

Sorry if this becomes long but I need to explain my point of view. I live in a country that is not as authoritarian as Russia but is not a free economy like the US, people don't trust on FIAT and on banks because it had happened before that they took all our savings [1]. Even if this might seem like an isolated event, it happens every day. For example, if you work remote for a company abroad, the gov will exchange your USD on a wire transfer for the local currency and then not allow you to buy back USD. Our currency had a 60% of inflation last year.

I don't like the speculative aspect of crypto currencies, its volatility creeps me out. I wouldn't want to put my life saving on this. But I can see its value to circumvent corrupt governments and to make a free world. I do believe in humanity, the Putins are an exception and when you give people the opportunity to collaborate, most of them will choose to have a peaceful living.

Now, going back to your Turkish bonds vs DeFi. The difference is you can't buy those anonymously and at any point the gov. or exchange. They actually pay that much because no one wants to buy them, primarly because they don't trust they are going to pay that much. In a way, you can think of DeFi protocols are immutable math functions [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_finance
It's not a "fuck China" thing. It would be a severe short-term tactical blunder to lose Taiwan, not even considering the moral perspective. Modern military cannot function without semiconductors. And yes, we could (and are starting to) move those facilities to the US, but that takes a lot of time to complete. Not only to complete, but to get up to speed and running efficiently. If Taiwan is lost, our enemies bolster their semiconductor supply, and we lose the majority of ours.
Just because they didn't bring up the original request doesn't mean they aren't interested in it having a solution.
Thought the same. Chrome mobile rendering doesn't have a menu to browse by. Hopefully they will fix it soon.
> How did you keep your focus on working for the last several years, while the war has been raging in Yemen? Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in Yemen, with a millions displaced and starved to death - many orders of magnitude greater than the death and suffering that has taken place in Ukraine.

Your entire premise is fraudulent: of course all people do not matter to all people equally the same. Family, tribe, city, state, nation, culture, ethnicity, race, class, religion. People choose to care about other people based on such qualifications as a matter of routine throughout all of history, it is normal and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

If you're in Britain and your family is in Ukraine, of course you're going to care more about what's going on in Ukraine than what is going on in Yemen. If you're second or third generation Ukrainian in the US, of course you're likely to care a lot more about what's going on in Ukraine than in Yemen.

If you culturally relate to Ukrainians far more than you culturally relate to people in Yemen, of course you're going to be drawn to what's going on in Europe more than in Yemen. That's perfectly normal and entirely moral.

You don't have to care about every person on the planet equally, and any claim to the contrary is espousing not only an immoral philosophy but an impossible one: you couldn't follow such a value system even if you tried. Such an impossible value system is only built to drown people in guilt and control, it serves no other purpose.
The US has ground penetrating bunker busting nukes (B61 mod 11). I don't think Putin can expect to personally survive nuclear war.