skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Something, mostly likely financial in nature, has happened to trigger the invasion into Ukraine.

I think he believe parts of his rhetoric. Of course the majority of what he communicates is posturing and lies but we can see recurrent themes in his speeches and articles. My understanding is that he really sees Ukraine as part of the Great Russia empire he wants to build and saw an opportunity to take action following events in the Western world from the past decade or so: instability in the US before and during Trump, Brexit and other fragmentation of Europe, NATO seen as weak and useless, US switching its focus to Asia instead of Europe, the way US left Afghanistan, rise of US and European isolationism, etc.

Regarding the ideology driving the Kremlin you can see those two Wikipedia articles:
- the book "Foundations of Geopolitics ": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

- its author and "philosopher" Aleksandr Dugin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin

Those people aren't just cynical crony capitalists who want to make money for themselves. They have a clear fascist view of the world, with an ideal based on a "natural order" of the strong dominating the weak and dreams of a lost glory of the past. They developed a historical, spiritual, and political view of the world that defines their culture as the one that should dominate.
I’m not the poster, but here’s just one of many I found with my first Google search:

https://blog.getintocollege.com/how-home-equity-affects-fina...
I wasn't suggesting to extend the comparison. I was saying that for the comparison done they were ignoring the environmental impact of driving the EV.

Obviously EV comes out on top over a very long period of time. I'm just suggesting that period of time is longer than suggested by the parent.

Personally I'd love to buy an EV but in our climate battery life is reduced by 30%, renewables are a low portion of our electricity, EVs cost a lot more than ICE vehicles, and many aren't built to drive in snowy/icy conditions. I've been patiently waiting for these variables to change before my next car purchase - driving my current ICE into the ground.
This morning they defaced multiple Russian and Belorussian news agency websites, replaced their pages with an anti war message, I caught it live.

The biggest affected sites were https://www.onliner.by/ and https://tass.ru/
I think one of Germany's most significant mistake of the past decade was destroying its own energiewende and not creating incentives to invest in long term storage.
I don't glue myself to the news. What's the point? Do you really need minute by minute updates of every operation or event? What actionable difference will it make?
> Think hard about the problem for a few weeks before typing any code

I have always thought the "subconscious mind" was a bit of a myth. But the more I have learned about it, there is a lot to be said for having some simple unstructured time to let your mind process. No music. No podcasts. Just a walk.
Asking "who are anonymous" is like asking "who flies the jolly Rodger." It's useful given context but in general has no answer.

In the context of the Ukraine conflict: Given that most of what I've seen anyway is 100% propaganda and no memes it's likely US government agents.
Russia is doing the entire planet a favor by removing the CABAL from Ukraine. Yes, those who do not do much research believe Russia is attacking Ukraine for a very different reason. When the smoke clears Russia will be seen as a HERO. Many do not want to believe this. They are somewhat brainwashed by a lying media that is owned and controlled by the same CABAL. I have been researching this CABAL for more than 40 years. Most of the people of this planet have only recently began to 'see' that something is wrong with, not some, but almost all of those who sit at the top level of corporations. Like the CDC, Facebook, Twitter etc. There is a group taking a stand against the CABAL. Russia is part of that group. That does not mean that Russia is not guilty of crimes against its people and/or against humanity. It means that they are on the good side of this conflict.
It's definitely tricky and I find myself doing the same, refreshing Reddit, BBC News, Twitter and Telegram channels.

It sucks, and I bet the closer (geographically) you are to the conflict, the worse it gets.

Trying to do your routine helps sometimes, but I don't think it's feasible to completely forget about what's happening.
Someone that calls them self Anonymous.

" I am anonymous"

look I am part of it.

Mainly this started on the 4Chan image board because you could do anonymous posting of content. Then it moved forward doing various other hacking / social culture jamming or mainly just trolling people.
Humans can be irrational and poorly quantify/action risk.
Yes we all have an addiction to food and shelter. But somehow people think that others should work for free for their enjoyment.
this is actually immensely helpful as someone in the middle of a renovation.

We're planning on having a combination of 'direct' light from bulbs and cans as well as dimmable (and tunable color temp) LED strip lighting that throws indirectly into the ceiling. The frustration with residential dimmers (really all residential versions of things) is so true.

Before we moved out for demolition we did some mockup testing and were just blown away by the effect of adding light to spaces. The house already has a ton of windows but the mockups had what would be considered and 'unreasonably high' amount of light by most design standards. That being said, we were so happy with the results, especially in the morning and early afternoon.
Rouble plunges against US dollar as Russia doubles interest rates
Paywalls are fine as long as there's a workaround, it's even in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html I do believe though some submissions get upvoted simply because of the headline, in hope somebody else with add a summary or in hope there will be interesting discussion regardless.
Anonymous i knew of were 14 year olds with LOIC synced to IRC server
Yeah right. Let me guess. The current politicians will have retired by then.

This is a worse joke than nuclear fusion being 10 years out. They should be aiming for zero new installs (including ICE cars) by 2025, and zero emissions by 2030.

Any idea how to set up a ballot initiative like that in California? We’ve also pushed the internal combustion engine to zero emission vehicle transition out to 2035.
I wonder if that heart emoji counter is an int32 or an int64. I guess we'll find out soon...
"...an absolute joy to work with" I agree. I used zig to make a game in WASM and had a blast. I also had some spare Arduino Nanos laying around and so I build a simple firmware in zig to test it. It worked great, so you can use zig for your embedded projects as well.
The German economist Hans-Werner Sinn made a presentation a few years ago in which he shows how crazy and futile Germany's mad embrace of renewables really is. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm9h0MJ2swo (in German)

Germany needs to start building nuclear TODAY. But good luck trying that with the Greens in the government coalition.
Originally “Anonymous” was mostly a 4chan meme, a loose collective of internet trolls doing nasty things for laughs.

Later it was co-opted by the “Moralfags” i.e. people motivated by various moral causes who attracted tons of clueless people and drove away the real hackers.

This is a sort-of good source on the pre-anonops history of “Anonymous” https://archive.org/details/partyvan-wiki-20111223.7z
Got to read the list of claims in the patent. It's got a single USB Type C port, a built in touchpad, some sort of additional capacitive touch controls, an internal fan with two vents, and an internal power supply. I think that means it has a battery inside as well since you can't plug Type C directly into the wall without an external power supply. Way more than just a regular keyboard running some sort of software on the microcontroller.

I guess this seems like an interesting idea. It's like a headless laptop which could be good if you only ever want to use this at a desk with a Type C monitor and maybe a docking station. Maybe good for hybrid work situations where you've got a home desk to work at but also can hop on a hot desk at the office. The downside is that you can't work at the coffeeshop or anywhere else but at a desk with a monitor. Maybe there could be a way to output video to an ipad when not at your desk but now you've got to carry that around. It would be cheaper than a normal laptop since no screen but at what cost? The thicker case and active cooling could allow for discrete GPUs alongside a max spec M1.
A UN empowered to do what?

The UN isn't a war-fighting organization. It sometimes sends peacekeepers into tiny, local conflicts, but that won't work on superpowers.

Getting rid of the veto would do nothing in Ukraine. Even if the remaining powers decided to send forces, those leading the vote would be precisely the NATO powers.

The UN already serves as an important force in peace among superpowers -- not with weapons, but with words. It's a place where ambassadors talk to each other, daily, to smooth over conflicts and prevent them from turning into crises. It creates a world where cooperation and economic, rather than military, competition is the way to get wealthy.

It has worked well so far. This is the first time in decades that Russia and the NATO forces have come close to direct war. And it's bad, to be sure, but it won't be fixed by turning the UN into a warfighting organization to oppose them.

It has broken down because a superpower has decided to threaten its neighbor in a way that the rest of the world finally sees as a prelude to even more violence. That isn't fought by simplistic measures. It's being combated with economics, and via an incredibly uneasy reinforcement of that neighbor.

The key decision-makers are exactly those NATO countries who are most directly threatened. If Peru and Guyana and other countries would like a say, they're welcome to participate, but the countries at the forefront are exactly the NATO that you're so worried about.

The UN is not magic. It's not a world government, and nobody really expects it to be. It's a place for jaw-jaw to be better than war-war. When that breaks down, the best option is to use as little force as you can to drag it back to jaw-jaw.
Union of Concerned Scientists still did the most in-depth analysis I've seen, and they agree with the ~6mo-18mo time period to offset the more-intensive manufacturing. And it's so old now that I think you can assume the transition to cleaner grids has progressed further in some cases.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/cleaner-cars-cradle-grave
I listened to a talk by David Deutsch and he talks about creating an quantum computer based AI and then asking the AI if there are other worlds - (hope I'm not remembering this wrong)
The 1% analog is redundancy in traditional currencies. Outside the developed economies a huge chuck of transactions is still done with physical cash.

I imagine it would be a lot more convenient to have some hard currency at hand when fleeing a conflict zone. One might need to bribe border guards at some remote location with unreliable (or non-existent) internet connection, to get to safety.
> England is not part of the EU.

So? Stuff like cookie consent banners are the EU's doing, and they happen worldwide now.
This is involving NATO in the war and is casus belli. Don't do that.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that cryptocurrency lets you ignore the state. If all the major exchanges in a country don't accept your tokens, your tokens are worth less.
Just like you did get work done when there was war in Afghanistan, Syria, …
As usual.

That's cool ! Might try to do a submission.
IIRC, The kalman filter has a state-space formulation, in which it is clear that it is equivalent to an LTI filter (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_filter). However, I believe updating the statistics of the system in response to updated measurements breaks the "time invariant" part.

This is precisely the classic concept of an audio filter, which is, I believe, the inspiration for the term "filter" in other contexts. Bloom filters and selfie filters don't have much in common in a technical sense, but if you squint you can see the connection.
It's calculated through. It will work.
This and the widespread tradition of german NIMBYism do that to your power infrastructure.
I live in Hamburg, Germany.

the reactor near Hamburg was either broken or not running for some other reasons.

Also after 40 years of nuclear plants we still have not a good answer to the waste it produces.
The open source crowd didn’t whine about closed source software. They created their own alternatives. Instead of clamoring for others to give their stuff away, work with like minded people to create your own.

Or is your time more valuable trading labor for money like most people?
But also URLs in the extracted/reverse engineered source code are prefixed, doesn't make sense. It's a bug from archive.org...
I've never seen the hearts raise so quickly in realtime...
Nice one! Back in 2012 I built the (now defunct) Freakonomics Experiments site[^1] that used had the same A vs. B premise using John Walker's HotBits[^2] from Switzerland.

In case of interest, Steven Levitt published their - albeit single-Universal - findings in "Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness"[^3]

[1]: https://www.freakonomicsexperiments.com/home/faqs/

[2]: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/how3.html

[3]: https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...
General relativity, they haven't found a dent in it yet.
“Any update on this” should just subscribe you to the issue without actually leaving the comment
Things like this make me love the programming community so much. <3
Back online ! for the last time I hope :')
Also strapi take soooo much ressources...
In other words, they are going to offshore most of their energy-intensive manufacturing to china, india, ASEAN, etc.

Just like how europe "recycled" their garbage by shipping it to china who just probably dumped it god knows where.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-recycling-china-trash...

Just like how norway is "environmentally friendly" because they buy so many electric cars, but they are just behind saudi arabia in oil production on a per capita basis.

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

One thing european countries excel at is producing great PR. Saudi arabia's PR campaign should be : "Saudi Arabia, we are just as environmentally friendly as Norway".
1 shipment from Mozah LNG carrier could supply 0.055% of all Europe's natural gas needs for the year. There are 15 similar ships.

Round trip from US / Canada is less than 1 month.

(.163922÷.73×15×365÷24)÷379 = ~13.5% of Europe's natural gas consumption.

Mozah carrier 163,922 tons LNG.

1B cubic meters of NG = .73M tons LNG.

EU used 379B tons of NG in 2021.

Round trip from Germany to Canada with loading and unloading is ~24 days.

Realistically, it would probably make most sense to ship from the gulf for the US. So the travel time would be longer.

It takes 3+ years to build a container ship. There are 12 under construction in China right now - these all carry about 40% more than Mozah.
NATO forces directly engaging with Russia troops, whether they’re in the Ukraine or elsewhere, would dramatically escalate the war.

Right now, it seems NATO strategy is severe financial sanctions while providing arms to Ukrainian forces.
yes, I would say both safety and health issues suddenly revise your "priority list" in life
Read the claims. Did any of those have internal power supplies (battery?), a touchpad, active cooling, and a single Type C port?
To get the full benefit of Arch you should try it the whole way: not just installing packages, or installing pacman to get stuff from AUR, but also making your own PKGBUILD to understand the different steps involved in getting a "foreign" source code to turn into a usable software in an automated, reproducible way.
An individual teacher is not the same as a body that represents the collective interests of teachers, and neither of those are necessarily aligned with the interests of children. For example, it would be in the interest of that body to make it as hard as possible to fire hopeless teachers.
Before.

I'm not that crazy.
It's ok to take a few days for your mental health and recuperation. Talk to your manager.
The lines blur between creation/discovery for some of these. Additionally, the historic nature makes it impossible to determine if these were all the work of a single individual, but I'll go with:

Joseph Shivers - Lycra/Spandex

Albert Hoffman - LSD

Anton Köllisch - MDMA (was killed in WW1)

John Pemberton - Coca Cola (significantly different to the modern drink)

John Baird Glen - Propofol

Percy Spencer - Microwave Oven
This looks like a "quantum" coin-tossing machine.

I fail to see the point, even if it is connected to some quantum device; it won't make any difference to me, whether my decision is made on a coin-toss or a wave-function collapse.

I can't imagine anyone using this app more than once.
You're absolutely correct, it's not needed. I guess it's more like an addiction at this time I can't overcome (yet).
Apologies for what is basically off-topic hijacking, but I've been a reader of the Economist since ~2005, when I was a uni student the first time. I've got pretty diverse political views, but neither Dems nor Republicans would claim me as their own, nor indeed would anarchists, fascists, or just about anybody else. I suppose I'd be classified as an independent, but the point is just that over the past 2-3 years the Economist has basically become unreadable for me, not necessarily because I find their political views increasingly obnoxious (which I do), but because it seems like their views have become simplistic to the point of being naive - their recent pieces on Putin and Ukraine being Exhibit A in this regard. Didn't The Economist used to have deep, or at the very least DEEPER analysis than they now offer? Just wondering if anybody else feels the same way and has found anything else that works for them. The closest thing for me has been Foreign Affairs, but of course along with very deep analysis on foreign policy is the fact that oftentimes one is reading a very biased opinion from a career civil servant (notwithstanding that the articles are invariably well written and well argued). One might even argue that knowing the writer is biased makes for more interesting reading because you're constantly questioning their claims; reading the Economist, as the saying used to go, was like hearing declarative statements from God. The Financial Times and WSJ are both too 'shallow' and financially focussed for what I'm talking about - if I just want headlines and news synopses then any of the NYT, the WSJ, and WashPo will do, but I'm talking about consistently in-depth discussions and analysis of current issues.

Any ideas are very welcome!
> bonding foam

Is that maybe to reduce the spread of fire? I know Tesla put a lot of work into that. Others too, I hope.
They are concerned that the name could introduce trademark violations. But they continue to ape the UI pixel for pixel?

HN gets upset when the Winkelvoss brothers do this sort of thing with website, but it's ok when it's OSS?
Why are you so angry?

People have been doing what they can to help. That includes anonymous, who have been hacking various Russian targets and releasing databases.

It doesn't seem like bullshit.
This may help you

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
True, but statistically the average HN user with a beat up car won't be a McDonald's employee buying the only car they can afford, but more likely someone working in tech that's aiming for FIRE or whatever they're calling it and saving a ton of money.

Highly unlikely the average HNer can't come up with $1000 for an emergency (nota bene: for sure some can't, that why I didn't say "every HNer").
I work for myself hence my time is unregulated/untracked - there is no manager :)
Is there a pricing page?
I mean, it's not like they're short on cash or anything. Patents like these cost nothing to them, so it makes sense that they would try to protect an unfinished project or wild idea.
Do you have a cite for this? I'm interested in studying that.
I'm watching the emojis climb in realtime.
Ask HN: Am I the only one having AWS issues? (SQS mostly)
Hi,

Two of my services are experiencing downtime out of the blue, and the issues reported by Sentry all points toward AWS SQS having troubles.

I took a look at the AWS Status page, and all is happily running, whereas I'm pretty sure it's not the case.

For instance, one of the issue I'm having is:

EndpointConnectionError =>
Could not connect to the endpoint URL: "https://eu-west-3.queue.amazonaws.com/"

(I haven't made any changes to my code nor to my AWS account)

Am I the only one?
Kind of insane that they get 100x more flak for having 25% coal and declining than Poland next door gets for having 75%.

Germany is doing better at decarbonization than most countries, in fact, but still attracts a disproportionate amount of flak for "not doing enough".

My cynical side says that this is precisely because they're slowly proving that nuclear isnt a necessary component of decarbonization. They are setting an example that threatens the industry's survival.
The richer you are the more you can donate to assist the victims of war. So check the news only a few times a day and work hard to be in a position to help. I should follow my own advice.
No we don't. We need to build storage and electrolyzers.
Sure they can. If they declare war and officially enter the conflict. That wouldn't be a NATO action though, it's a defensive pact.

And it won't happen. Although... the last few days have shown extraordinary events that I never expected. The EU approving 500 Million for weapon purchases for Ukraine, countries supplying fighters after two days delay, officiaks saying that their are fine with their citizens volunteering to fight for another state army (illegal pretty much everywhere), plans to supply troop movement intelligence... That's all just a very small step from active participation.

This is the most significant shift in European politics since the fall of the Soviet union.
This tired trope needs to die. Just because you encounter a viewpoint that is not aligned with what you were told to think about things by the talking heads on the television, doesn't mean there was a Russian agitprop campaign involved. Try to actually expand your understanding of the world, just a little bit.

I'm simply a civilian member of a 5-eyes state, have traveled extensively around the world including eastern Europe and the Balkans, speak multiple languages, have a great deal of interest in cultures not my own - including those I've been told by autocrats that I should 'hate', and as a result of decades of applying constant, vigilant attention to the Wests' war crimes, I am simply quite well-informed about the very real, actual war crimes and crimes against humanity that have been committed by NATO member states in the last twenty years, as well as the criminal actions of Western governments in suppressing any attempt to prosecute the very real war criminals who committed these crimes against humanity, in my name. Informing myself about the crimes committed in my name is something I consider of vital importance to existence in the modern world.

Why aren't you equally informed? What investment do you have in the Wests' ability to commit war crimes with impunity?