skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't conceive of a valid reason for shelling a nuclear power plant.

The classical excuse (see Operation Opera) is that it is part of an enemy weapons program from an enemy intent on nuking you. It would only be a small step from current propaganda for Russia to make this claim, having recently added the claim of an offensive Ukrainian nuke program to their propaganda.
I've changed the title to the current title of the article now. It sounds like Reuters might have updated it?

Submitted title was "Europe's largest nuclear power plant on fire".
Why not sign a pact saying "Nuclear Power Plants are Off Limits. Anyone caught messing around will be court martialled."

It's quite naive I know but if you make the consequences very clear and extremely bad for the troops, it might really deter them.

Or Russia is implementing a something similar to a scorch= the-earth policy.
Eurodollar accounts are essentially deposit accounts at a non-US bank denominated in USD. They are, as are all deposit accounts, debt instruments issued by that bank.

These accounts, as you point out, are not subject to US regulations in the sense that US laws regarding bank deposits need not be complied with. A domestic USD checking account at Bank of America is regulated by the FDIC with insurance against fraud etc. For Eurodollar accounts these protections don't apply. (Other protections provided by their home-country laws might apply though.)

However, if you were to actually try to transact in USD with that account, the transaction path would still touch an institution that has an account with the Fed. And hence be controllable by the US government.

For example if you were to withdraw $50 in cash from your eurodollar account, the bank would still have to purchase the dollars (or more generally acquire them in some way) to give them to you. They cannot print the dollars themselves. The same thing applies to electronic transactions, except that now, there will be a corresponding set entires in the electronic ledgers of some US bank that has an account with the Fed.

So for the purposes of sanctions-busting, Eurodollar accounts are no good.

Eurodollar accounts are, of course, extremely useful for international trade. Most exporters will need a Eurodollar account to keep transaction costs low. Expats often hold a Eurodollar account with banks in their home countries to insulate them from exchange rate risk. There are a myriad other uses. But evading sanctions is not one of them.
If we equate Saddam Hussein with Zelensky, then sure. I'm not so sure the parallels are actually there, though. Intelligence tells us Putin's actual reasons for invading ukraine have a lot more to do with restoring the glory of the Russian Empire. Putin's "denazification" and "liberation" rhetoric seems more like a bone thrown towards those who are fair-minded and want to believe in an equivalence between Putin and W. I get that impulse, but I also think the just world fallacy can take us to some strange places and drag us all down to hell. Sometimes people are just evil.
If they destroy the containment buildings, which might take more than mortar fire then the reactor would probably SCRAM since it's a PWR. There might be a steam explosion, and maybe some localized radiation leak. Really heavy arial bombardment could, if it broke containment, spread fissile material around the immediate area, cause a huge fire, and throw some radioactive debris into the air. That would all be quite bad, but not Chernobyl bad.

Chernobyl was a graphite pile reactor with no containment building, and none of those exist anymore fortunately.

I should aadd that VVER's like the reactor in question have missile shields for precisely this reason, and a bunch of other passive features. It shouldn't explode.

2nd Edit: what I’m concerned about is artillery hitting spent fuel containment. I don’t know if they used hardened casks, or if they’re using pools that might be in a less hardened building. Whoever is shelling this thing is insane, or very stupid.
> I really don't understand the Russian military strategy

I thought about it and this is the best explanation I could come up with basis the info we have right now https://twitter.com/elSidCampeador/status/149942182647656038...
Those look like flares, not shells. Still a fire hazard, but less destructive.
I strongly believe for some kids, acceleration to Universities is the best thing. For some, it ends up poorly. It really is kid dependent.

Can you elaborate on your experience? What's MIT like as a 13 year old? Did you ever live in the dorms?
Apparently Ukrainians have surrendered now.

What a nerve wrecking situation. In the heat of the moment deciding when is the right time to surrender. Probably the smartest decision of the day.
Russia pretty much spit in Musks face, so I'm 99.99% sure he's not dependant on them at all. Does he need other foreign suppliers, no idea, but I do know most of their engine components are milled/manufactured here in the US.
What would be the difference if Putin invaded a NATO state and NATO was forced to defend? What would be the difference if he starts losing the war and needs to kick it up a notch? Is there any less chance he'd use nukes? Serious question. Threatening nukes is a rational move. Actually using them is not.
I'm skeptical that long term ethnic displacement is Putin's endgame. The Chechnya stratagem seems more likely — savage pacification followed by installation of a Kremlin-friendly regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya#Post-war_reconstructi...

> [...] Russia installed a pro-Russian Chechen regime. In 2003, a referendum was held on a constitution that reintegrated Chechnya within Russia but provided limited autonomy. According to the Chechen government, the referendum passed with 95.5% of the votes and almost 80% turnout. The Economist was skeptical of the results, arguing that "few outside the Kremlin regard the referendum as fair".
"How do you out-will the singular authoritarian leader and/or his small group of oligarchs?"

If the Russian people are unhappy enough, regimes change from within. We can see that with some of the Russian soldiers surrendering.send me to Ukraine? OK, I'll just surrender so I don't have to fight and die for a bogus cause.
>I don't understand the people who object to these tactics.

So after 9/11, should we have sanctioned all Muslims? When a black man commits a crime, should we round up and sanction all blacks? We are all entirely responsible for what we do as individuals and not responsible at all for what other people do.
Bandwidth per frame is interesting metric. We need more computer power. (I don't know we should call low latency as power)
https://archive.ph/NTefh

http://web.archive.org/web/20220304012532/https://www.reuter...
Greenpeace wrote a report about nuclear power plants in Ukraine two days ago.[0] The short summary is, that a npp needs to be managed after shotdown, and the most likely scenario is a loss of offsite power like happened in Fukushima. Additionally, there is quite a bit of spent fuel on the site outside of the containment.

[0] https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stat...
War is between oligarchs. The weak just switch to whom they pay taxes to. The weak don’t benefit from a war, quick or protracted.
no, a valid order only means it came from the president, has nothing to do with testing for sanity
Certainly, I didn't claim to have anything conclusive. I think it would be interesting to see some research and data. It's pretty much established that the Russians have been seeking to sow discord within Western democracies for years.

Or it could be the collapse of western democracy from the inside. After all, the alternative is a bunch of people genuinely believe for 3 weeks that Trudeau was Hitler because he waited 3 weeks, asked people nicely to stop unlawfully occupying the capital and stopping international commerce, then had the police move in and as peacefully and quietly as humanly possible, removed them. Last I checked, this is not the behavior our mustachioed friend was known for. So that would leave politics in a sad state indeed.

Your so-called take-down isn't the victory you think it is haha. Either I'm right, and we lost recently, you're right, and we lost a long time ago.
Some low primes above ten are slightly pointier than I'd expect them to be (not sure where that expectation is coming from...), but that trend doesn't continue for very long - stops way before triple digits. I think it's likely a characteristic I've assigned to those numbers after repeatedly encountering them in a context where I needed to know they were prime, rather than some innate sense I have for detecting which numbers are prime or not.
That's not true--the examples I gave in my sibling comment are all decades-long insurgencies (which is why I can remember them).

In general, the more likely reason is that most people tend to be resolutely incurious about foreign politics. There are, IIRC, 150-ish ongoing armed conflicts in the world right now (and this count is far lower than it was 50 years ago!). I suspect that even reasonably well-read Westerners would struggle to identify even a dozen of them. So people selectively remember the ones that involved the major powers (e.g., Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam) while completely ignoring ones that don't (so, how about that rebellion in Aceh that failed...).
I was very anti-screen time, but Number Blocks changed my perspective. My kids have really accelerated their ability to process numbers just by watching this show.
I'm not sure the US has any control, do they?
The World, and the 1.4B Chinese people, can’t afford for China to experience the petit mal seizure Russia is experiencing. Russia and Ukraine are small enough in total population for the Rest of the World to keep their people from starvation through humanitarian interventions. Compared to China/India, they’re cute.

China has 10 times the population that would need to be fed under a similar scenario. The stewardship responsibilities of the Chinese government, from a planetary perspective, are ten times greater. Nobody would want a replay of the great Chinese famine (三年大饥荒), but it is unclear how the Rest of the World can address feeding (up to) 1.4B people on short notice. And nobody wants to find out.
It was linked as [1]. Your own source states a range of 0.15-1.0333M and clarifies "all estimates of Iraq War casualties are disputed."
My kids were both excellent eaters until we began to indulge their pickiness too much. For both of them we chose “eat more of the stuff you like” over “eat more variety” because we were more concerned with weight gain (as in our kids are both at the bottom end of the weight charts). I’m pretty sure that we created much of the problem. Most kids go through some picky phases but parents can definitely magnify them.

And sure, there are kids who are perhaps picky to the point of disorder. I don’t think that’s my kids.
Intel, AMD, Arm, Qualcomm are listed to UCIe Promoters, looks good but lacks Nvidia.
As a Muslim.. I can lmao
Related ongoing thread:

How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased from 1990–2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30546995 - March 2022 (142 comments)
There's a really surprising amount of confusion in these comments about how copyright (at least in the US) works. More confusion than I expected to see on a site like Hackernews. Emulators are legal, including emulators for current-gen systems. Switch emulation is exactly as legal as Gameboy emulation.

You can argue current-gen emulators are irresponsible, you can say they're mostly used for piracy, but Nintendo doesn't have a right to stop people from talking about emulators. Taking down videos that talk about emulators is not Nintendo protecting its IP, it is an abuse of the DMCA or other non-DMCA tools in Youtube to shut down conversation that Nintendo has no legal right to shut down. Nintendo does not have the legal right to demand people not talk about emulators or share how they work, that's not a right that IP law grants. To say that they're protecting their IP is just false, they're claiming IP rights that they don't have.

Of course in this scenario, no one is going to challenge these takedowns because no one wants to get sued, and the stakes are ultimately unbelievably low. But a video about how to install an emulator is probably not copyright infringement, and (IANAL), I would be very surprised to see Nintendo get a positive ruling if they actually sued someone over showing how to install an emulator on a computer. Again, IANAL, but I'm not even sure you would claim fair use in a case like this. Fair use is a defense for violating copyright, and emulators don't violate copyright.

Discussions about the morality of emulation and the proliferation of piracy are fine, this can be a complicated subject with moral ramifications. But legally speaking, at least in the US, emulators are not piracy and talking about them is not copyright infringement.
"profits massively from all the resources"

Like what? After a war everything is bombed, destroyed or polluted. Iraq didnt even have running water. Economy was in ruins. Its not the dark ages any more, microchips are more valuable than gold and even oil needs serious infrastructure.

Every war is extremely expensive - for the amount if money spent in iraq US could have bought every homeless person a penthouse. On the moon.
So would I. But that was targeted at fuel production, not power generation, and also to my admittedly imperfect knowledge involved no artillery fire.
A civilian elected government has been running Iraq since 2005. US wasn't "pushed out" by insurgents but rather left in a planned gradual transfer of power. If anything, militant groups in the region (like ISIL) actually extended US military presence there by many years.
Complete laggard questions:
* Did SSD exist in 1993?
* Why using an "approximately equal" sign (as opposed to a real = sign) between e.g. 1000ns and 1 micros ? (I would undersatnd between binary and decimal multiples of bytes...but decimal fractions of seconds don't work this way)
I haven't followed the company for some time, but their site now redirects to https://raytrix.de/, which seems to sell industrial light field devices. That might be a better application for the technology.
Does Hanlon’s Razor apply in times of war?
> Russia is as morally entitled to invade Ukraine as the US was to invade Afghanistan.

Absolutely, unequivocally not.

My framework does no such thing.
With a clickbaity title like that, I knew this would be Veritisium before I clicked it. And now, having verified that it is, I share this information with you.
Point the kids to hacker news and call it a day ?
https://archive.ph/htL2l

http://web.archive.org/web/20220304012409/https://www.nytime...
What you must know about Memory, Caches, and Shared Memory [pdf]
Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act
I expect if the invasion is protracted, Putin will at a minimum detonate a demonstration nuke. The downside consequences for Russia are modest at this point, and it'll be very terrifying to the people of Ukraine (and the world generally).
What if I told you that multiple 0.25% interest rate hikes are unlikely to meaningfully counter 7.5% inflation?

The last time the US had inflation this high Volcker had to raise rates to double-digits in order to break the back of inflation.

Also, don't forget that 20% of all USD ever printed were printed in the past year and the Fed has made no claims that they plan to taper the money printer anytime soon.
> You were against the Iraq war; you are not pro sanctions against the US people because their government committed war crimes. That's the entire point.

You have no idea what my positions are, and you're doing a bunch of wild finger pointing.
Like smoyer said, I strongly suggest split hands. Way more ergonomical. I have two Mistel MD770's, one or work and one for home. I really like the keyboards but I think as long you get something that splits you'll be fine.
Fukushima was explicitly a beyond-design-basis accident. (The design basis was insufficient, granted.)

On the other hand, I don't know whether the VVER design contemplates shelling, either.
My weekend plans have changed.
This is nothing at all like Iraq.

- A million Russian children are not going to die. Not even 1,000 will.

- Putin, unlike Hussein, has thousands of nuclear weapons.

- Russia, unlike Iraq, invaded a sovereign, democratic country in order to subjugate it under a violent dictator.

> In my opinion, thinking collective punishment is valid is a sign of moral bankruptcy.

Economic punishment for Russians is better than death for Ukrainians. Those are the options.

If Putin were unchecked in his conquest of Ukraine, he would take other countries and kill thousands more people.

You say you think collective punishment is morally bankrupt without saying what a more moral alternative is to stop Putin (or perhaps you think tens of thousands of Ukrainians should be left to die instead?)
I've formed multiple teams of technical Cofounders, starting on the business side. His initial offer seems extraordinarily low and naïve, unless your technical skills are not considered essential by them(at which point you may want to run on this alone). If you have faith in the opportunity and not your fit with it, invest your money, not your time and reputation.
And I don't support it. But that has nothing to do with the current situation in Russia or the Ukraine. Focus please, one problem at a time.
Given that the potential effects of intervention run up to nuclear war -- never.
> guerrilla wars to expel an invading power that hasn't been successful

Palestine?
If you’re in the market for an ergo keyboard, I’ve used and liked the Kinesis Freestyle for years now. It’s a fully split keyboard with a staggered layout - I use it in a tented setup, and the ergonomics have been good while it’s similar enough to regular keyboards to not make switching back and forth too difficult.

I’ve tried the mechanical (red switch) version, but actually prefer their membrane version because it’s quieter and I like the tactile feedback better (I haven’t tried the brown/blue switch models though).
I changed the year to 1998 per https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.pagat.com/beating/..., which is pretty cool to see.
Reminds me of my current job, but with general communication rather than specific projects. This convo has come up several times between us:

Him: "You don't post updates and I don't know what you're doing about [Project A]"

Me: "I post updates every day in the daily update list where you told us to. I'm one of the only ones on the team who does it consistently"

Him: "Yeah, well you need to tell the project manager of [Project B] the state of the project"

Me: "I did in these places over a couple of days, pinging him directly each time."

Him: "Well you need to do it more. It's not his fault that he's too busy to look when you mention him. You need to keep doing it to keep him in the loop."
More recent IAEA tweet citing Ukrainian regulators contradicts this.
> it felt really linear, a series of set pieces delivered on a conveyor belt

I’m confused. Isn’t this exactly what original Doom is?
People arguing with you are not serious.

Excluding NYC and Silicon Valley, definitely easy to spend $40-50k depending on where you live ... a lot harder to spend the rest ...
Europe's Largest Nuclear Power Plant on Fire as Russia Attacks
I've had my Leopold FC660C for I think 5 years now, it was very expensive but completely worth it IMHO. Capacitive sensing is just so much better than electrical contacts, due to the programmed in hysteresis, chattering just isn't a thing with Topre. I put the Hasu controller in it too and made my own custom layout with QMK.

If I was looking at getting a new keyboard I would also consider hall effect and optical key switch design keyboards.
Ok I was waiting for someone to say this.

Taleb’s ideas on this would be very interesting. But is a nuclear war a black swan? Think about it. (Hint: have we ever observed a swan of this color before? Have we ever observed countries engaged in total war? Have we ever observed countries deploying nuclear weapons? Yes and yes)

Now a stronger form of what I think you’re saying is that, even if modelled all of the ways we think a nuclear war could break out — there are ways we would never think of. And the consequences of failing to account for those would be catastrophic, unlimited downside.

I agree with that whole heartedly. To that I would say — having nuclear weapons, allowing them to exist, exposes us to an unlimited downside. No matter how remote the chance of nuclear war seems to be, the only course we can take is complete nuclear disarmament. Global moratorium on nuclear weapons. End of story. We can’t foresee why/how a massive war would unfold. But we can say that it has unlimited downside. Immediate international cooperation on total banning of nuclear weapons is the only way forward.
A problem with ECT treatment in the past is that they are pretty much aversion therapy - the patient is conscious in such treatment and in the US, with the exception of "conversion therapy" (which is absolutely intended as pain based aversion "therapy") it it performed while the patient is unconscious and with a muscle relaxant to avoid convulsions.

The modern ECT protocols have very high success levels with treatment resistant depression.
My visualizations are definitely heavily base-10-centric. I did some experiments with visualizing numbers in other bases while doing this writeup, and I've come to the conclusion that I just convert each digit to its base 10 equivalent and add. My mental representation for 0x6a, for example, takes on the same shape as (6 * 16) + 10 in my head.
At all times there are submarines just floating around out there in various oceans waiting to nuke someone with a ballistic missile. They can operate underwater for 3 months without surfacing. Someone can get a call and press some buttons and just vaporize a town filled with people they have never met. I lie awake at night thinking about this a lot.
The weak benefit from a victory, and which side wins usually makes a lot of difference for them.

Also, the weak just do not command a lot of wealth and might. It's not that they are stupid or indifferent; they can be incessant, ultimately effecting serious changes against the will of the mighty.
I don't understand the disk I/O numbers here. As others have pointed out, SSD
metrics before ~2008 or so are not meaningful, and IOPS on pre-SSD-era machines an order of magnitude worse, but this time traveler doesn't seem to show that.
They’d have to have built up troops while the Olympics were being held.
> I remember kids in school complaining about math, "we're never going to use this!" Analyzing ancient literature is something you're actually never going to use.

Just like any particular math course, you probably won't use your analysis of ancient literature directly. But school isn't training; it's not about learning direct skills, like a training course in a new application at work. It's about learning how to think critically, using may different tools, and about learning about the world.

By analyzing ancient literature, you gain several things: You gain ability in thinking critically about texts - possibly the most essential skill in a post-truth Internet world where we are deluged by texts of varying intentions and truth. You gain skill in writing, by studying how the best authors before you wrote. And not least, you gain exposure to a culture and ideas far outside your own, giving you context and perspective on humanity and on your own culture and ideas.
But hands, manos, does not even appear in vámonos.
Russia signed a pact guaranteeing Ukrainian sovereignty in exchange for their portion of the Soviet nuclear stockpile [my misremembering, this was incorrect: and a large amount of money]. You can see how much signatures are worth with Putin.
This piece has been translated by Meduza, one of the independent mediums in Russian language and I thought it brilliantly described the whole situation, as well as what is going on in Putin's mind and where it can lead.