skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You missed the key point: it’s lifetime-to-date net worth (heuristic: current bank account balances) vs. recent income.

I've now reread the original article several times, and I can't figure out where your getting that from. The phrasing used in the article is "If it turns out that the proceeds from them exceed the total income of the official and his relatives for three years by more than 10,000 rubles", which I can't parse into that and the source for the article appears to both be down and Russian, so I guess I'll take your word for it.
These are Russian propaganda/spy channels. Nice try. I can remember seeing three of them on a new list on Twitter earlier.. did you seriously just stage a conversation with yourself?
Read about the sentient beercan, it's an amusing page turner.
Not that every conversation has to be about Elon Musk :) - but it would seem like the perfect time for Elon to tweet about the benefits of Tesla and EV cars (in addition to or instead of trolling about Starlink). A world with strong alternatives to fossil fuels would seem safer as fossil fuels invariably seem to funnel petrodollars to oligarchs/corrupt politicians/puppet states.

An EV + grid storage world seems safer from geopolitical conflicts, on top of the more commonly mentioned climate change benefits.
Is Ghostery still worth installing these days?
Maybe this shouldn't be branded purely as a security feature. There are plenty of uses for it beyond the whole duress aspect. It could be an elegant way to toggle desktop themes when you log in. Or it could give a bit of peace of mind by killing all open browser windows as you're about to log into your laptop that's hooked up to a projector.
Kidney Stone Cases Continue to Rise in the U.S.
Maybe I'm a sadist, but I love triggers. I can easily compare old and new values with them and call functions that also can do comparisons and if statements. Can I do all of this in query? Maybe, but it would look very ugly (especially if I forego the functions too). I only have one app interacting with the database, but if I had more the triggers would enforce data consistency too.

Triggers are hard to trace, I'll give you that. I try to test them pretty thoroughly via application unit tests though.
I had a similar thought, but this strikes me as a city commuter bike. While I used my daily driver a lot, I wouldn't say I used it hard. This probably has a lot of the same structural concerns as a convertible car...servable, but probably less likely to serve after an accident.
> The problem with this approach is that if any service/spambot does, somehow, get your personal email, you're stuck with crap.

Is this really a problem? I've had my email address for years, am active in the tech industry and have hundreds of accounts set up with that address, and yet I get near-zero spam.

The vast majority of services support opting out of marketing emails and respect that, those that don't are rare and can be dealt with an email rule, GDPR complaint, or both.

On average, I probably get a single email per day that actually lands in my inbox, and those are emails I actually want to receive.
FYI the Easons in that article are now in jail for activities reported in the article. They both got 40 years.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit/1857440.html
Because bike theft is not a priority and there are many apologists for the kind of people who commit the majority of this crime.
Sure, you'd want to do figure out the specifics for a given situation. Their estimate of the savings is for situations where the fuel is trucked in (and thus rather expensive).
Less than 70 years after the last revolution. The USSR was extremely politically significant, but really didn’t last very long.
Can this be explained by where the majority of the population lives or their work? In Sydney you see utes everywhere but the majority are still used by tradies. And I could see how some ute model is the single most sold vehicle. The majority may still be not buying utes, but we have far more choices.

The rise in popularity amongst people who aren't tradies is newish though. The guy in my building that owns a ute is a youngish guy who - not to type cast - looks very white collar. I've only ever seen him drive it alone.
> JS is almost never the right tool for the job

JS is one of the most successful programming languages in history. Millions of JS programmers solve real world problems every single day. It might not be the right tool for you of course but that has nothing to do with JS itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/10/global-h...

Global warming will also increase the prevalence of kidney stones.
Reminds me of this Dash buttons Amazon was pushing a while back.
Sony unveils new gold-plated Walkman
Leaking source doesn't make the code open source. It's still closed source
I recommend The Completist’s Guide to Bike Security https://www.aaronhamlin.com/articles/completists-guide-bike-...
Slow Thinking - How I try to organize my attention - https://davidawindham.com/slow-thinking/
Have you ever read the chapter on Decorators from Design Patterns? I’d recommend that for a full treatment, but basically it’s just a way of letting you add on additional work for a function call to do. If we had a decorator called @log(), and a function add_two, if we added this decorator on to add_two it will log the function call or some other aspect(as we define it.)
Seems like Vodafone will be next, based on their poll
I'm pretty sure that's the mimic board. It's supposed to show the status of each control rod in the reactor.
Try something like this?

fcsh-wrap -static-link-runtime-shared-libraries -benchmark=false -debug=false -o tmp.swf -source-path=src -library-path+=lib/as3-signals-v0.8.swc -- src/core/Main.as

It almost builds for me, but I think since my Flash projects were older than yours my copy of the Flex SDK might be too old.
There is https://ruffle.rs/ , which I think has pretty good compatibility these days.
Wow that’s an impressive array of buttons and dials. I’ve gotta say though I was listening to a 90’s hits playlist yesterday, which I think was probably the peak production budget era, and the differences in production quality from one recording to the next was stunning. All that expensive equipment in the hands of an expert must be good for something!

The ones that stood out most as being good were some Red Hot Chili Peppers songs produced by Rick Rubin. A lot of other 90’s Alternative recordings were dreadful by comparison.
Russia's War on Ukraine Is Dire for World-Hunger
Pearler (RFx, Cyber Reviews) has added a free tier
It is also not impossible that group currently controlling the plant is willing to hurt Russia in retaliation of Chechen Wars. We have no idea if people who consider Kadyrov as a traitor have infiltrated his forces or not. Ukrainians also leaked information that the reason Kadyrov men trying to assassinate Ukrainian president failed was because of a tip from FSB. Now this might be as well a clever ploy to mess with their heads but what if they believe it? Interesting times indeed.
Charter Houses
What I like about email is that it's one of the last bastions that are still under your control and work for you, not against you. It's not siloed in some "app" who wants to "engage" you, it lets you set up rules even against other companies' will (I'm sure no company out there wants me to be able to automatically filter out their marketing spam - or worse, redirect it back to some high-level employee and waste their time) and all your data is still within your control and you can build custom software to deal with it if needed.

I pretty much always opt for email notifications as opposed to some proprietary system - this allows me to decide what to do with them (including turning them back into a push notification by using something like Pushover, while the official app's push is disabled because they mix in marketing spam with useful notifications) even when the sender would rather not have me do that.
Social media at its finest
That's the thing. This is about human behavior. Why are these vehicles in the top 10 of DUIs? Do they represent the top 10 most sold vehicles (not entirely)?

Even if they represent the top 10 most sold, what if the shift in behaviors is one toward bad choices?

Gun sales began increasing in 2003 and spiked in 2020 (and were only a bit less in 2021). This suggests a general behavior. Do we accept a general behavior to be ok because it's general? I say this not to specifically tie guns to trucks, although it is a very common association. My point is that poor choices can be a representation of... poor choices, regardless of the outcome. More trucks. More DUI? More guns?
git. Even if I understand the codebase well, I always manage to get my working branch into a merge conflict.
At same time this is also populist message to Putin supporters among regular working class citizens "see? our grand leader gonna finally shake them pesky rich thieves!"
Antifascism Without Fascism
I've seen courses using some variant of this. It's fine for the most motivated students, but many other students will do better with more traditional grading systems, for two reasons:

1. Grading things in the middle of the course provides a separate incentive for early course corrections. This is especially important for students who are heavily conditioned by the gamification of learning.

2. Cramming hurts learning very badly, and this system increases the incentive to cram. In the extreme, you have to choose between learning (through a more effective approach of distributed practice) and passing the exam.

Gamified learning in general doesn't seem to produce very good results, but they do seem to be better than the results most people achieve left to their own devices.
Because the police can't be arsed to go after the fences, that buy and sell hundreds of stolen bikes every month.
Checkout Flashpoint: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint
> Indications of the virus have been found in sewage samples in the area

Oh this decade is going to be insane. We have the technology to solve so much but people no longer have the education and thinking process to use it. Disease and war back on the front burners.
In his Fascism: Comparison and Definition (1980), Stanley G. Payne argues in his conclusion for the need to get away from the habit of calling all authoritarian regimes fascist.

In surveying contemporary regimes, he could point to only two that fit his definition, Libya and Israel.

...I have been personally acquainted with a few European fascists who admire Israel as the perfect "representative fascist" state, with relative internal democracy but external integral nationalism and exclusivism. Israel is indeed in some respects a product of central-European integral nationalism, is ethnocentric, ultranationalist, militarist, and expansive, seeking Lebensraum and operating on the basis of a Herrenvolk and Untermenschen theory of sorts for the Holy Land. It is also a genuine functioning democracy, at least for its Jewish population, and functions as a Rechtsstaat, with constitutional scrupulosity, in its dealings with Muslims. No fascism there.

A much better case might be made for the Libyan dictatorship of Muammar el Qaddafi. Though riding a wave of oil, Qaddafi is a fanatical Muslim antimaterialist who is trying to establish a quasi-revolutionary system of state semicollectivism, a sort of national socialism. His interest in violence, militarism, and international expansion is obvious. Moreover, Qaddafi has written a book (the Green Book, translated into various languages) to spread his gospel of the Führerprinzip—the bonds between the leader and a united people of all classes, creating a "true democracy" on organic principles, which sounds for all the world like Fascist Italy or Franco's Spain. And yet Qaddafi, in his system of state-controlled popular assemblies and syndicates, seems more likely to reproduce a radical, expansionist kind of "bureaucratic authoritarianism" (the phrase refers to Latin America) than a mass-mobilizing, revolutionary, single-party fascism. At any rate, he comes nearer the style and typology than anyone since Peron.
You might wonder how polio gets reintroduced into Israel or anywhere else. The polio vaccines we currently use are imperfect.

The oral vaccine is a weakened form but it mutates in the neighborhood of one in a million cases to become effectively wild polio and some years this accounts for most of the poliomyelitis cases.

On the other hand, the fully inactivated injected vaccine is non-sterilizing: it prevents poliomyelitis but still allows for gut infection. This eradicates the disease but not the virus. This is why they previously found the polio virus in sewage samples even though there were no poliomyelitis cases.

Most anger at the un-vaccinated (due to the assumption that they are causing the spread) seems mis-placed since those vaccinated by the injected form (that's probably you commenting on Hacker News!) will spread the polio virus as well.
If I Care About the Environment but Am Also Lazy,Do I Get a Nespresso or Keurig?
I'm not sure what it says about me that my first thought upon reading this:

> an independent club owner in San Francisco tried to run a promotional video given to him for a band he’d booked, only to find Instagram’s filer blocked it. He was able to reinstate the video, 17 months after the band had come and gone.

Was "I bet that was jwz".

Indeed, a brief web search turned up this (via a recent-ish Cory Doctorow post on Medium):

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/05/fucking-facebook-3/
> monads are the Aristotle philosophy equivalent of programming. Take care not to study them too closely.

Monads is just a pattern for composing functions that can’t be composed using “normal” function composition (because of incompatible types). That’s all it is. I never understood the fetishisation/worship of monads in the Haskell community.
Yea geothermal can work, but solar thermal is generally the better option in northern parts of the us. They cost ~1/2 as much and generally don’t need additional energy for heating beyond some pumps. The advantages of geothermal is it’s more hidden and it can also reduce your AC bill.
For anyone with some extra time on their hands, Flash games still work on Pale Moon.
Some older articles...

Nov 9 - OPEC Says To Biden: If You Want More Oil, Pump It Yourself https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/11/09/opec-says...

> OPEC and its oil-producing partners have rebuffed President Joe Biden’s calls for increased production amidst rising fuel prices, retorting that if the United States believes the world’s economy needs more energy, then it has the capability to increase production itself. The OPEC+ alliance, made up of OPEC members led by Saudi Arabia and non-member top producers guided by Russia, approved an increase in production of 400,000 barrels per day for the month of December.

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Dec 14 - US urges domestic oil producers to raise output https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2283072-us-urges-domestic...

> US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm told oil executives today the administration was not "standing in the way" of oil and gas production and supported increased output. She noted that the administration has approved drilling permits on federal land at a faster pace than the prior administration, while pursuing other policies that could bring down retail gasoline prices that in the week ending 13 December were still just 10¢/USG shy of a seven-year high.

> The change in tone comes amid growing frustration from US oil executives, who have bristled at what they see as a lack of support from the administration. Biden in one of his first acts in office blocked the 830,000 b/d Keystone XL pipeline and spent this summer unsuccessfully asking Opec+ to accelerate plans to boost output. US independent producer Pioneer Natural Resources' chief executive Scott Sheffield last week said he has yet to meet another oil executive who has received a call from the administration asking them to increase drilling.

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Mar 2 - More oil supply could stop massive price spikes. But US producers won't fill that gap https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/energy/us-oil-production/inde...

> "They can't find people, and can't find equipment," said Robert McNally, president of consulting firm Rapidan Energy Group. "It's not like they're available at a premium price. They're just not available."
As a result, US oil production is just under 12 million barrels a day, 8% lower than in 2019. Experts say the industry is unlikely to get back to that pre-pandemic level this year — and that the last decade's rapid increases in US oil production, typically double-digit percentages year-over-year, are probably a thing of the past.

> Another factor likely making oil companies cautious about investing too much, too fast is 2020's oil bust. The early days of the pandemic drove oil briefly to negative pricing, resulting in a spate of bankruptcies across the industry.
Huawei MateBook E review: An OLED Windows tablet made for media consumption
Well, sure. But the allies bombed just about anywhere for any reason. I'm sure there are many remote fields which could have been holding areas for things that would have made good targets. And if a bomb missed a convoy on either side of a road, it could sink waaaay into a mud bog, not go off and barely leave a trace behind. If that "road" was a temporary detour through farmland for a few months in 1941? Yikes!
Gotta keep that facade on.
Kind of confused why people would try to run/compile/etc. Flash games on modern platforms.

If this game were a native app from that era, you'd think nothing of whipping out a Windows XP VM and installing an era-appropriate toolchain in it.

And really, the same applies not only for native executables, but to any proprietary / non-standards-based format from a previous era that's since been left to the wayside. Want to use a website that embeds a Java applet? You'd better (effectively) time-travel to 2005.

IMHO, at this point, a Flash game (for which the source code is not available) should really be "modernized" similarly to the way the Internet Archive makes old Windows and Mac software available — by wrapping them up into their own little standalone VM images. Like this: https://archive.org/details/chips_challenge_windows_3.x
FFDEC is pretty good - better in some cases than commercial solutions. I've been using it to fix some of the Flash based Rockstar Games websites that are no longer available before throwing them up on my 'museum' site that uses Ruffle to display them.
I imagine you're quite correct.

I usually just like to chime in when people mention stuff like "no one young <does|knows|cares about> $THING", because I've noticed a trend where the fact that there are young people who care is ignored which I think hurts the case more.

Most of my peers don't care however, at least, not as much as I do though I've made some inroads.
Humans remain humans. Blame the systems that amplify extreme voices.
> Namely, even if it's like 40-50 emails a day, with maybe 2-3 from humans, it's not bad when in Thunderbird I'm not preloading html/javascript and I can see all the subject lines. I can just arrow down the "news" pretty fast.

But it's still a time & attention tax you have to pay every day. Implementing rules based on sender & subject would be a one-off task and should cut that down dramatically and have a lasting impact.

In my case I probably have a hundred rules or so for any automated crap, and now I only get on average one email per day that makes it into my inbox and in the vast majority of cases it's an email I actually want to receive (and if not, it gets flagged and left there until I have time to set up a rule, unsubscribe from the list or send a GDPR complaint).
Locking wheel nuts are pretty common as an aftermarket addition. I always got them on my bikes. It's a necessity if you're using a bike in a city.
Most people stealing bike aren't doing it as hobbyist lock pickers. Bike theft is genuinely one of the main issues with cycling as a very real transportation alternative.
In 9th grade c. 1970, I was in a special studies class where, one quarter, we had to write a paper on any subject. My father, an economist, suggested I write about "Oil Import Control" (not a topic to excite a 9th grader, but very interesting when I got to be an adult). He got copies from the GPO of contemporary Senate hearings studying the subject of limiting oil exports for security reasons. (Not exciting reading for a 9th grader!)

So, the federal government was actively looking into our foreign dependence on oil back c. 1970 (and no doubt at times in prior decades). 50 years later and all we've got are "Drill, baby, drill!" slogans and slow movement to renewables.
This is like saying "I cured my alcoholism by throwing all the liquor out of my house". The problem isn't the availability of the stimulus, it's the lack of control over your desire for it.

You can't cure a need for distraction by blocking domains. There isn't a cure. You have to learn to live with it, like alcoholism.

The good news is that major life events tend to be great for breaking the distraction seeking pattern. At some point you'll get married or have kids or change careers, etc. And then your life will be so different that looking back on a dns kill switch button will seem silly.

Until then, just keep pushing the button I guess. We all have to make it through somehow
China is supporting Russia. At the end of day, you want buy "stuff". China makes worldwide "stuff". Yes, they can't but Channel or enjoy netflix, but they are world food producers and near unlimited oil (if you factor in the frozen methane supply will dwarf entire Saudi). For money, China will be the middleman. So you still supporting Putin everytime you purchased an app from iPhone store. It is just a more complicated steps to assist Putin to take down Ukraine. The real question is can you sanction China? Look around you. China ensures decades of low inflation. Take China out of equations, you gonna see BLM rioting on steroid in America.
Personally, I feel like we're on the other end of this trend, and rather then people constantly claiming DL equals AI, there's now always someone who can't wait to explain why DL doesn't equal AI and bemoan the AI hype in the customer-facing side of the industry.
> I'm curious if anybody is working to make C++ faster to compile.

Yes - C++20 added support for modules to the Core Language (both "header units" and "named modules"; header units are an intermediate step between classic includes and named modules), and support for header units to the Standard Library. Compiler/library support is a work in progress (MSVC's STL, which I work on, is the furthest along - see https://github.com/microsoft/STL/issues/1694 for status), but header units are showing significant improvements in compiler throughput (build speed). This looks like `import <vector>;` in your source code (with significant build system changes to build vector as a header unit, producing vector.ifc and vector.obj).

There's a proposal under review for C++23 to add named modules for the Standard Library, see https://wg21.link/p2465r2 . If this is accepted, `import std;` (or `import std.compat;`) will be the one-line way to use the entire C++ Standard Library with (what we hope will be) even better compiler throughput.

The primary limitation of header units and especially named modules is macros: neither can be influenced by macros defined in the source file, and named modules can't emit macros at all. Thus, one will still need to `#include <cassert>` in addition to `import std;` if you want the `assert()` macro.
Final-first exams is a version of this idea that works even better: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2020/09/14/hindsight-is-stats-...
I read the first edition and loved it. Then I read the HLA edition and wish I had never done it.