skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a modern sealed automotive fuel tank gas isn't going bad in 6mo. Most fuel injected cars will run on years old gas well enough.

Your lawn equipment with its poorly sealed fuel tank and carburetor is a different story.
How does just-in-time prepare for a fire at the the steering wheel supplier? How is a 30 day supply not sensible?
If I understand correctly, this legislation isn't about the government issuing certificates; it's about the government granting inclusion privileges to the same kinds of private companies that you're worried about.

I distrust private companies too, but I trust Mozilla more than I trust companies like Camerfirma, and we have a pretty long track-record that shows us that governments are typically slow to address misconduct in private companies they're partnered with.

I'm not sure I understand why this is being treated as a private company vs government debate; in my mind this is a debate over whether we should all be required by the government to trust private companies that Mozilla claims already today don't meet their security standards. It feels odd to claim that a government telling me I have to trust a private company fixes corporate incompetence or malfeasance. You don't see a potential for abuse of corporate privilege or for exploitative behavior when a private, for-profit CA can't be distrusted in browsers without them first petitioning the government?
Ignoring the primary issue Uncle Sam has with this logistics solution, be reminded why laws and or regulations exist for things... there's always someone (right or wrong) that will circumvent the rules with shall we say... creative solutions.
Thank you for that link. They've summarized their analysis into a YouTube video as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9m9WDxmSN8
Climate Change: What are stranded assets?
Ukrainians are highly educated despite the poor situation of the economy. The main blockage for nuclear weapons is getting uranium enriched to weapons grade. If you have that, the next step to a bomb is much easier.

Japan does not have nukes although they possess a full enrichment cycle. But they are the only country that does to my knowledge and have their reasons for a moratorium.
Is it somehow weird to be, as an European, more concerned by internationally escalating Russian invasion warfare in Europe than by civil war in Yemen? Of course war is shit always, but I don't see how "oh, there are other bad things also" is a helpful analysis of the situation.
China said: We give money to each and all Chinese companies, that want to do solar cells.

Germany's conservative government then just ignored the German's companies cries for help, costing 200_000 jobs. Why? Well that were moslty voters for the greens, so their jobs weren't of interest.
Nice touch, is the demo¹ of this colorgradient-picker tool using the national Ukranian blue-yellow colors.

Might have always been like this, I never looked at it until today. But still nice detail.

¹https://insky.github.io/vue-gpickr/
Also the Instapaper browser extension adds a plain-text 'instapaper' link next to the 'x comments' text when you visit hackernews.
You should try ReadMe :) we do all of that, plus let your APIs play with the API right in the docs. And a billion other cool little features!
The Cyberspace “War of Ink and Internet” in Chiapas, Mexico
Where's the Universe where there's an Android version of this app?
> they are going to offshore most of their energy-intensive manufacturing to china, india, ASEAN, etc.

Why?

A watt is a watt, and renewables are cost-competitive with carbon even before taking into consideration geopolitics.

But, more importantly, renewables don't even have to be cost competitive to keep manufacturing in Germany while transitioning to renewables.

Ukraine has opened up political space for subsidy that may not have existed a year ago. Germany just doubled their defense spending. To say that this was unimaginable even three weeks ago, if anything, under-states the case.

I highly doubt there is political will in Germany to offshore manufacturing, and I'm pretty sure there is newly found political will to transition off of natgas. In particular, subsidizing energy prices to keep German manufacturing competitive while weaning off of RU natgas is likely an easy sell.

I think it's much more likely that Germany shifts off of natgas and in the meantime subsidizes energy for manufacturing, than that Germany allows manufacturing to offshore as a result of energy price spikes due to renewable transition.

> One thing european countries excel at is producing great PR.

Not at all surprising when you realize that the entire political economy of the west -- democracy and consumer/financial capitalism -- is almost by design dominated by people and institutions who are good at PR.

A major geopolitical theme in the 2010s was the fact that open societies have major weaknesses in open information warfare.

The next decade of the global info war will be interesting. I think we'll learn that, although you can easily cause petty chaos and divisiveness in the west, the institutions and core values are very robust. After all, those institutions and values are subject to -- and always have been subject to -- constant and open assault.

I think we'll also learn that authoritarian states have almost a mirror opposite dynamics of the west -- fueling petty divisions in much harder, but once you gain a foothold the whole system is much less robust to total collapse.
I have been using Insomnia for a few years now but was blown away when a colleague told me i could right click the send button and get some additional features... Crazy UI anti pattern. There is no hint that this button has a secondary functionality.
The Origin of All Humanity
As an eastern(-ish) European[1] with fuzzy memories of experiencing a small war as a ~4 year old kid, this has been extremely hard to watch. Even though I live in USA now, I don’t remember ever being this affected by a news cycle.

Wednesday evening when the news of totally-not-invasion first broke was tough. Thursday was basically a write off. Friday was luckily so busy I didn’t have time for interneting.

Ultimately what worked was to remind myself all this is outside the sphere of my influence, there’s nothing actionable I can do, and following minute-by-minute news is just giving someone else free reign of my mind. Don’t need people’s hot takes and armchair analysis. A daily balanced report from a proper journalist outfit is enough.

edit: What has also helped was deciding early on that should this go beyond Ukraine into the rest of Europe, I’m flying my family out immediately. There’s only 918 miles by road between Kyiv and where my family lives. Making that decision in advance and with clear pull-the-trigger criteria makes it easier to stop stressing.

[^1] Slovenia
It's wrong to characterise gas as "peaker plants", the UK has an enormous fleet of CCGT that would once have seemed like an obvious fit for baseload, but today they ramp maybe from 10% to 90% performing the same function as the Open Cycle turbines in a "peaker plant".

Coal normally makes no sense to back wind, which is why Britain has been shutting coal plants while building ever more wind farms.
I can see that, basically a blitzkrieg. But if it doesn't work, you have an invading army bogged down surrounded by a population that's getting armed to the teeth and hates you, and every motion/position/point of rest is watched and communicated.

One of the tricks of an army besieging something is to constantly attack and not let the defenders rest. I would say with good internet intelligence and a very motivated and armed populace, insurgency could do the opposite to the russians here: deny them sleep, deny them warmth, and destroy their ability to fight.

That's not just "bad morale": bad morale is a rational influence on conscious thought. With enough sleep deprivation there is no military discipline, no will to fight or follow orders.

If you are a defender with the back against the wall, that can strangely motivate you. If you're a Russian young adult freezing in the cold and pissed off over an obviously frivolous war, it makes for despair.

If the Ukraine and NATO were smart, they'd setup and advertise a POW camp in Greece on the beach. Surrender? We're sending you to a vacation.

Ukraine is a weird situation. They are RIGHT NEXT DOOR to the EU. This isn't like supplying Afghanistan rebels from 4000 miles away. Russia has no idea what resources will be supplied from the EU, what capabilities will be granted on any given day.

When will the US start providing drones? Will the US supply a huge drone fleet remotely operated from the US, and conduct night bombing operations when it is daytime in the US? Then just hand off daytime operations to the EU?

If the US/EU do that with sufficient numbers of drones, then conventional air superiority (my fighters are unthreatened) doesn't protect the ground troops, and the ground troops are toast.
Those are usually for the baseline models. But, other than meager storage, I think it's still a great deal.
If I leave my door unlocked by accident, and someone leave a note to tell me so, I'm shocked, but happy that I can lock my door and fix the problem.

If I accidentally leave my door unlocked, and someone comes in and steals my TV, I'd be upset. I made an honest mistake, and had to pay for it when I wasn't expecting to.

If ..., and someone makes a blog post to tell the world that my door is unlocked, my dwelling may be in a permanent state of disrepair by the time I notice. I'd be incredibly unhappy.

Mischief doesn't need to cause misery.
You want this https://github.com/bayne/dot-http
How do you know they weren't keeping an eye on the issue before creating an account?

Or maybe they just ran into a case where they need the issue resolved, but aren't sure if they should wait or if it's likely to take long enough that they should find an alternative or a workaround.
I understand that, but even without analytics, it wouldn't conform simply because it's hosted in the US and the IP can be stored there.

The way routing works, you can't prevent the IP from going to the US if it's just hosted there.
News of international affairs has never caused me to solve a problem or reduce an anxiety in my own life or the life of thiose around me (quite the opposite), so I do not give it much weight in my mind.

Throughout the pandemic there have been genocidal actions in Ethiopia and China, Duterte in the Philippines has made an incredible number of “extrajudicial killings” and brought total tyranny on the populace, and I’m sure there have been many other atrocities of which I am unaware.

I might question why you are giving so much mental weight to this conflict. I understand nukes are involved via Russia’s involvement, but this isn’t Russia’s only military action in the last number of years. Could it be that you have been primed to take this particular conflict Very Seriously by a news media which regularly downplays conflicts with more casualties and cultural significance?
On the other hand, I use a Windows on a Intel m3-6y30 machine and the fan hardly ever runs despite it being a fairly anemic system by today's standards.

One has to think that all these users who can't seem to configure and operate Windows properly are probably not configuring and operating Linux (which exposes much deeper control and complexity to the user) properly either. "It's a poor craftsman that blames their tools", after all.
African wild dogs cope with humans using skills they use with other carnivores
I admit to not having a solid grasp of the numbers in play, but if my limited understanding is correct, a 30 day outage is significantly cheaper than the problems pre-JIT supply chains faced.
Which breeding reactors are available to burn the existing waste? France had some decades ago, but shut them down. Germany never finished its breeding reactor. As far as I know, only Russia has operating ones. Normally I might comment on how Russian nuclear technology might not set the benchmark for safety, but in the current situation, any possibility of nuclear cooperation with Russia seems to be rather small.
The Swedish translation. I had to switch to English to figure out what some buttons did. For example one of the buttons at the button show "Jaktplan" (fighter plane).

Also there are a lot of extra spaces inserted in words with dashes or colons in them and some strings are simply not translated at all.
I am not African, either, nor have I lived there, nor do I know much about its history, cultures or peoples, but I'm going to express my opinion about it anyway.
Bayesian statistics?
> why weren't European states interested in the war occurring in Donetsk and Lugansk starting from 2014?

They were; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during...

Now, you could certainly argue that the response that time was far too light-touch.

> I mean, some articles I have seen so far call Putin an aggressor right in the title and then there is only one side considered.

I mean... who invaded Ukraine? Putin's Russia. That seems like a very clear case for Putin being the aggressor; outside of Russian state propaganda I don't think that's terribly controversial.
Almost certainly.

Just like you don't need to become an expert in cryptography to add auth to or accept payments in your app, you won't need to be an expert in machine learning to make intelligent content recommendations or add contextual search.

As an example, we do this for object detection; you add & label a few hundred example images and we train a model and stand it up as an API endpoint (and have SDK's for running it locally in a Docker or web browser).

That abstraction & separation of concerns enables hackers to build a computer vision powered app in a couple of hours[1] just like Stripe lets you accept payments in a couple of hours or Auth0 lets you add auth in a couple of hours.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzh_R8u0hNc
> As if “any updates? :)” is ever called for

have to disagree here - it's entirely possible that somebody just forgot to deploy something and actually might appreciate the ping.
Mise En Place is very helpful as anyone who begins to practice it can attest.

The other critical part of cooking (which IMO applies to other jobs, roles etc) is cleaning as you go - one of the first things taught in cooking school.

I personally hate cleaning up after I finish eating so I try and clean and put everything away before I sit down.
I absolutely hate running. Hate it... but I do it because it helps me solve problems. I have to think about other things to forget about the running, so my brain wanders off and does the hard work that it (what I'll call) subconsciously didn't want to do. Unfortunately this led to a stress fracture during one troubling sprint.
Similar mistakes being made today on different scales. For instance, 3G cellular service is being removed in many places to free bandwith for 5G services. My 2015 automobile has a 3G cellular modem embedded for several services including on-the-air updates. So backwards steps my include plugging in a USB card if updates are needed.
There is not a single one of these "small modular self contained" reactors commerically available or producing power for the grid.

These are called "blueprint reactors", because designing a nuclear reactor is easy, but building one is hard.
North Korea has a big brother watching their backs. The country is used as a shield to ward of aggression.
I think he's saying one is years old, the other is centuries old.
I too would like to see Africa talked about more on a country by country basis instead of as an amorphous continent, its such an odd standard reserved exclusively for Africa.

There are a lot of similarities between many country’s circumstances but there are a lot of nuanced differences too, with many on separate, interesting economic paths to prosperity.

Its just such a large place.
Could/should there be a recommendation to add the suffix "(paywall)" in the title to offset this? (similar to the way that year-of-publication is recommended when posting less-recent content)
Again, wasn't trying to suggest EVs lose. It's obvious they don't. But we need to be realistic on the amount of mileage taken to reach parity.

The ideal scenario would be to just drive less. I put around 3k miles per year on my car and having been trying to reduce that.
> subsidizing a useless polluting industry

I don't see how you can claim defense is a useless industry while the world is watching a sovereign nation defend itself against an invading army.
Toyotas are unkillable. But OTOH, with 3-4x the running costs compared to electric, I don't think over the span of 200K miles it works out favorably for any ICEV, even a very efficient one.
Four Years On, New Experiment Sees No Sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’
So you had issues but it isn't true,....
Industrial civilization is already in a state of collapse, plenty of people on HN have done a great job doubling down on the "this is fine", but even prior to the Ukraine invasion, it was hard to put your head down an work for brighter future you know doesn't exist. The immediacy of the war in Ukraine is just harder for most people to ignore.

But just today we got another update from the IPCC [0] confirming what many people paying attention have already known: “Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.” Key phrase there being liveable future Most people on HN don't believe climate change will be that bad, but for those paying attention we're already on a ticking clock. In 2014 I saw all of this, 2020 onward being progressively worse was something I knew was inevitable.

End of the day you realize that you have to eat, pay rent, etc. so you have to work. Tech workers have had a really great luxury of possibly enjoying or even loving their day job, but that's not why people have to work. We've always lived in a kafkaesque world, tech workers have just been shielded from it.

The only advice is to try to cut out the news and twitter a bit. It's mostly disinformation on there anyway, nobody really knows exactly what's happening and plenty of people have an agenda to push.

Spend so more time consuming "slow" media. Read a novel, some philosophy, or just spend time listening to music. The world will be getting increasingly stressful over the years, it's a good idea to start figuring out how you are going to life in a world of loss.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/28/ipcc-iss...
On the FAQ at the bottom, could you add links to the recent decisions from the German and other courts?
That doesn't make the issue any less legitimate. If someone pings me for problem X and I don't solve their issue, if someone finds the thread on Google and bumps it that's still one of my users having an issue.

Above all, I much prefer this to people that find my email/LinkedIn and pings me there. That's where I draw the line.
I enjoyed an Elegant Puzzle but often felt it was targeted at a step above first time management, with topics on having interview pipelines, org design, etc. But it was still a good read.

His follow up book on Staff Engineering I think is a good read for first time managers. It lays out the other leadership path, which is helpful both for understanding where you fit in and the other leadership path you can guide your reports towards, based on their trajectory and interests.
The discussions in the Bundestag streams the last couple days were pretty unified in their decision making. Germany is now going to up their military defenses, and that seems to be the highest priority.

The dependency on gazprom kind of put us in "Schach", so we as a country can't do anything (as the chancellor kind of admitted in his speech).

Historically, Schroeder has always been the direct bridge to Putin. And he knows how to hold the mutual respect that Putin expects from others.

It seems as the current ruling parties don't realize that this is a game of strategy, not a game of moral or emotions. You can't win against Putin with moral code, so I kind of fear that they make it worse and he'll hold a grudge against Germany.
Are you talking about Clippy? ;-)
Companies would also quickly find the cheapest country to do trials in - and we can only wonder what would make it cheaper to run trials in one country vs. another. Less infrastructure, less government red tape, fewer regulations? Someplace far from watchful eyes?

Fiction, obviously, but there was a John Le Carre novel where a evil drug company did secret trials in an African country because it was easier to cover up the deaths of participants.
> Hope in few days I'll return to your problem.

Context sure adds a lot of meaning to these words. I hope you return, too.
Satellite Imagery Helps Pierce Through Fog of War in Ukraine
How do you approach former Russian colleagues?
I worked for nearly a decade with a remote team that was mostly Russian.

We never discussed politics. They were all very smart, so I suspect that at the moment they are in shock.

How are people approaching their Russian colleagues at this point? I want to message them on LinkedIn, but I don't know what to say.
As long as they don't register users, accept payments, etc - just serve content - I'm okay with this interpretation.
Maybe, maybe not.. shops are probably not engaged in currency speculation.

And it's certainly possible that fest drives some people to buy crap jewelry at high prices..
I understand your frustration, but to me the 'any updates' is a signal that someone actually cares and is impacted by an issue, which can help for prioritization when the backlog is long.

There are ways to do it properly of course, and I understand that this kind of pings can be annoying, but people usually have no ill intention/expectations. Take it as a lame way to put a +1 on an issue
You've never referenced documentation while writing or programming anything?
I think it's clickbait. I immediately thought Toyota was hacked.
Why even do that in the first place, I thought the whole point of cryptocurrency is to have possession of your money. What's the point if you let some exchange do it for you?
Maybe don't, like what do you want them to say?
Tools to Stop Russian Propaganda
That is basically the plan. Build up renewables, and as soon as there is enough capacity, produce "green" gas - either methane or hydrogen (personally I think methane wins, because it is easier to handle).
Which also was the point why there was such a large push for gas in recent years. Not only is it cleaner than coal, but facilities built up for gas can be used for green methane and also possible use with hydrogen was considered.
“For all the talk of ‘Society's Will’ we are teetering on the brink of abdication of all human will, at least with respect to the digital technologies before which we bow.”

Because we will lose control over/ability to understand the decision making? Because limits to growth will force austerity? Because increased technological complexity leads to incomprehensible stochastic risks? Because…?
I feel you.

I have been a subscriber for the past 20 years. Before I go further, I would argue my consumption model has changed even more than The Economist has changed. My consumption model has changed because the sources of deep and specialist coverage have increased. FWIW, I still find The Economist immerse-worthy, and I do enjoy it a lot. I have, however, increased my signal sources by subscribing to Financial Times, The Information, etc.

I like the long form articles produced 1843, a sister brand of The Economist.

All said and done, you and I probably are getting older, more cynical and The Economist is one in a long list of casualties :).
Once you switch, it's hard to imagine ever going back. No more gas stations, dramatic drop in fuel cost, always ready to go fully charged each morning. I'm addicted.
Faces along the bar

Cling to their average day:

The lights must never go out,

The music must always play,

All the conventions conspire

To make this fort assume

The furniture of home;

Lest we should see where we are,

Lost in a haunted wood,

Children afraid of the night

Who have never been happy or good.