skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid, my parents took me on a tour of the Seabrook nuclear power plant. The thing that impressed me the most was the control room. I just couldn’t fathom how anybody could know what all the different buttons and dials did.

Growing up and watching Homer in his role of safety inspector on the Simpsons only further reinforced that feeling.

Now I’m a computer programmer and I feel like some of the projects I have worked on could make a nuclear reactor feel simple by comparison. I also have had many an occasion where I have felt like Homer Simpson.
Precisely, but those weren't the people on HN telling us Russia wouldn't invade. So here we are again: 'this war is already over'. I can't believe I'm reading this, I'm sure the Ukraine high command would roll right over if they were told that they are fighting a war that is already over and done with, that any chance of escalation is now off the table and we can start rebuilding. /s

You really can't make this stuff up. Sure, let's not panic. But there is serious potential for escalation especially because Russia is losing, on the battleground, in the public eye and even within Russia itself, it doesn't take a genius to figure that one out.
In my country you break it you own it. You can't just return to sender your adopted kid like a goddamn Zalando package.
To me this was one of the best features, a lot of things in Duolingo are not well explained but when you go into the forums there are people who have taken great lengths to explain things.
Android alphabetical names seem fine.
Yup, I also hate this in the Linux world. Debian Bullseye? Ubuntu Focal? WTF? Ubuntu 20.04LTS thank you very much please cease and desist with the "cute" names that force me to consult a chart every time I encounter them.

iPhone 10, Galaxy S7, RX470, such product names are significantly easier to keep track of.
It's the first thing I disable in VMs because of what a resource hog it is.
Show HN: I made a mobile-first Prolog editor
This completely sucks and I'm sorry for you. One if the goals of these sanctions and other actions is probably to snap the other 90% out of their trance. If all the daily things they take for granted don't work maybe they will ask why. Will it work or backfire? Who know but meanwhile Ukrainians is rightfully demanding as much pressure as possible.

I am sorry for everyone in this mess, but the faster Putin is forced to stop in Ukraine the sooner it can return to normalcy.
The lack of direct support for Windows prevented me from using tarsnap. Restic allows me to use shadow volumes.
Well pretty much everyone who works for a corporation has a responsibility to protect confidential information. However it's not really all that James Bond because the problem of international travel is normally solved by having code among other things not stored on laptops.
You used quotes around "execution" a lot. I think a better term would be control. SQL, regex literals and so on work similarly, they are declarative while avoiding explicit control.

An opposite would be something like an FSM, or one of these DAGs that people do visual scripting with. These are declarative ways to describe very explicit control.
Honestly it's too bad that Putin's obsession with the Soviet era isn't at all focused on the things that were good about the Soviet Union.

Things like this, or its space program. Instead, it's all the bad parts (territorial conquest) with none of the good.
The 5-foot gauge used in Russia is much narrower than Brunel's 7-foot gauge, and only 85 mm wider than standard gauge. 5-foot gauge was actually used a fair bit in the South until May 30 and June 1, 1886, when they converted to 4'9" gauge.
They could say they have won the war by destroying a lot of military infrastructure and then leave Ukraine.
Why the WHO approval of Mosquirix, the first malaria vaccine, is a big deal
How is the rest of the world supposed to distinguish between 10% who sit at home but are against it and 90% who sit at home and are for it? And why should it?

Choices have consequences. Always.
That may have been the case for the original poster, but the discussion has been about tracking generally.
rt.com is still there and it is working fine. Now it is under a DDoS protection service; rendering predictable script-kiddie DDoS attacks completely useless.
> I mean you can't even write an allocator in standard C.

I might be missing something, but I don't believe this is true? The type aliasing rules have an explicit carve-out for `char *` aliases of other types, which is intended to solve this exact issue.

Similarly, C99 and C11 both allow aliasing through a union of pointers without violating the strict aliasing rule.
From someone else who shared it here:

https://github.com/nuvious/pam-duress

So insane that something like this isn’t available natively on all of our phones
https://kopia.io/
Isn't sexuality obviously objectively not binary? The mere existence of bisexuals seems to punch a hole in this idea.
I wasn't even thinking about the ATM's limit — all of my bank accounts have had limits around $200-350 per day.
War is not pandemic, but it’s recent life changing event we are all living through. I find it telling nobody even mentions it in this thread. There has been some scary moments, feeling that things are globally off the rails, lots of casualties, lost loved ones, major inconviniences to normal life, but overall we have adjusted. I think long term there will be lots of issues caused by pandemic, but day to day it’s hard to keep panicing about it.
I've actually had decent experiences in the last few years. The vast majority of services have a clear opt-out link, and pretty much everything else has an unsubscribe link in the emails that works. I think legit senders are terrified of getting spam blacklisted, so they have to offer than option.

The only exception I found was the democratic party mailing list. No idea how I even ended up on that as I don't live in the US, but NEVER give them your real/main email address. The spam is relentless and impossible to block because they are continually setting up new domain names.
I thought the Italian luxury stuff had actually gone now. Prada etc are withdrawing.

At this point I don’t blame anyone for sanctioning first then Reviewing later. What is happening in Ukraine is obscene. If there is the smallest possibility that any sanction makes any Russian more likely to protest or question putin it’s worth a go. We can check again in 6 months and see if all are still needed ir likely to be effective.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's not the control rooms' fault that Putin is a warmonger.
TIL that they're alphabetical. I always hated them before just now but I guess that's slightly more tolerable. Really though, please just stick to numbers if you ever have to name a product lineup. It's immediately obvious to anyone that Firefox 77 came after Firefox 76.
Dick Cheney.
Horrific, but I'm not surprised this happens. I have four biological kids. I know that parenting is hard. That's actually an understatement. I've often wondered how much harder it is when you don't have the biological connection and evolutionary drive to help slog through the hardest parts. To be very candid, I have moments where I feel like having kids was a bad decision, but I know that I'd still give my life for them. I can only speculate about how adoptive parents might feel at the hardest times.

Edited to add: I guess biological parents are the ones putting kids up for adoption in the first place, obviously. So the biological connection and evolutionary drive doesn't do much for some people.
You must live in functioning democracy? Sadly, that’s not like that everywhere. Not living in Russia but I know very well how it feels when your country is ruled by a dictator with no free media. And these authoritharian governments don’t relly just on media, they also put pressure though employment, business, police, arrests, beatings, and every other instrument available. It can feel like occupation.
Is that related to the Chinese WeChat?

I'm a little paranoid about avoiding SAAS out of China.
I typically just unsubscribe from the news.
Not any authoritarian or totalitarian dictatorhip is fascist. Russia is getting there if they get the right energy going.

Robert Paxton (author of Anatomy of Fascism) points out that one feature of fascism is it's flexibility with doctirine and truth. It provides raw emotion and sensual experience.

>Fascism rested not upon the truth of its doctrine but upon the
leader's mystical union with historic destiny of his people.
The fascist leader wanted to bring his people into a higher realm of
politics that they would experience sensually: the warmth of
belonging to a race now fully aware of its identity, historic
destiny, and power; the excitement of participating in a vast
collective enterprise; the gratification of submerging oneself in a
wave of shared feelings, and of sacrificing one's petty concerns for
the group's good; and the thrill of domination. Fascism deliberate
replacement of reasoned debate with immediate sensual experience
transformed politics, as the exiled cultural critic Walter Benjamin
was first to point, into aesthetics. And the ultimate fascist
aesthetic experience, Benjamin warned in 1936, was war.

>Fascist leaders made no secret of having no program. Fascism
radical instrumentalization of truth explains why fascists never
bothered to write any casuistical literature when they changed their
program as they did often and without compunction. Stalin was forever
writing to prove that his policies accorded somehow with the
principles of Marx and Lenin; Hitler and Mussolini never bothered
with any such theoretical justification.

Paxtons short definition is pretty good:

a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with
community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory
cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of
committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective
collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties
and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal
restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
> Valuable assets like real estate and sometimes cars is mostly denominated in USD and sometimes EUR

More made-up BS. Go to cian.ru, avito.ru or any other real estate or car dealership website, right now, and all you see is rubles. It's been like that for over a decade now. Why would you just make stuff up? Maybe because the last time you were in the country was 00's or never?
How likely is that none of those has been modernized?
To be fair, US reactors control rooms of that Era don't look too much different. https://mn70s.tumblr.com/post/32703269620/prairie-island-nuc...
Poutine not Putin: classic Quebec dish off the menu in France and Canada
One of my favorite Alexa “hacks” was just someone shouting through their wall to order shit from their neighbor’s Alexa while they were on vacation without Internet access and stealing them from the doorstep. They never saw the order confirmation emails.
I still don't fully understand which parts of the various .NET frameworks I can safely use with a fully FOSS stack on an arbitrary Linux distro or a Mac or whatever and which parts are effectively limited to Windows. The entire thing is incredibly confusing.
> So really monads are essentially an abbreviated syntax? Chaining functions, where (some of) the arguments are hidden from the language syntax and inserted by the compiler?

That's a part of it, for instance see:

https://philipnilsson.github.io/Badness10k/posts/2017-05-07-...

I recently wrote a note related to this that had a useful exchange:

>> When you see a "do" block, where do you look to figure out what it's actually doing?

> If you need to know, you look at what consumes the result. If it's abstract (say it's a top level binding `... -> m a` where the m is abstract) *you don't _need_ to know "what it is actually doing" - it should be correct for any choice of* `m`.

The behavior, and the "laws" or perhaps general far-reaching properties, are the more important part of Monads I think.

> How does that relate to “pipe operator” as in https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

The items in the pipeline don't have a set of laws that let you know what's going on for sure without looking at the implementation I guess.
> People that have never used the Oracle RDBMS give it grief because of Larry, the rep of the company, etc

It’s also not developer friendly, like at all. Starting with licensing, that insane installer, arcane configuration, documentation, error messages, standards conformity, column name limits. Our team hated every second of using it.
> I observed first hand that disabling sending telemetry also disabled the history for win+r.

1. Okay, but how's that relevant to my original question? Is the history being broken supposed to be smoking gun evidence that windows is sending your "history from Windows R (run)" to microsoft?

2. I just tried and failed[1] to reproduce this on a VM with a fresh install of Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 with "telemetry disabled". There isn't an universal standard for "telemetry disabled", but at the very least I have the "Allow Telemetry" and various search related group policies activated. I suspect what's happening is that you ran one of those "disable telemetry scripts", and that unintentionally broke it.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/WkbnBlM.png

>It’s also quite easy to observe that when you type anything into the start search interface you are steered or defaulted to searching Microsoft internet services.

but we were talking about the run (windows-R) dialog, not the start menu?
Foreign adoption agencies are usually a nice income for poor countries. Turns out the "orphan" has parents who are still very much alive.

Parents want cute babies and toddlers to adopt not 10 year old local kids from abusive homes.
They likely have computers in there now, but why mess with what works?
This is all of very limited value and could be fan fiction or exactly what the title says. So take it with a kilogram of salt.
> Buying stuff like fleshlights
I agree. I don’t want to overstate it. But I guess im also squeamish about people into Ww2 merch too(it’s a thing in the uk… people dress up in 40s dresses and pretend the war is on). It seems a weird period to be rosy tinted about.
Maybe less so if prepared and preempt the hoards getting in their cars. Almost anyone else is going to be indecisive, packing their car, going via the shops.

An example was when the pandemic first hit the news in China. Colleague and I were talking about what would happen in Australia. As a result, we both stocked up on non-perishables. A month or two later, the supermarkets were bombarded and shelves were bare.

A stocked car and backpacks that could go in the car or with you on foot covers two reasonable options at minimal expense/waste. Worst case, it's easier to go camping.
I'm not sure this makes sense. My wife is learning front-end development now as I did 15 years ago and holy shit, to get an actual job you need to basically somehow magically become a mid-level engineer. Unit/automated testing, myriad of FE frameworks, OO and FP, CSS/Less/Sass (grid, flex, cascade, etc), multiple build tools, and this just to get your first job.
WIP Catalogue of Ukraine related nonprofit organisations
> You can't share values if you tolerate people thinking other values are better.

It seems like a toxic, dystopian, totalitarian nightmare to live in a society like that. I want dissent. I want good debate. I want people to be able to call bullshit when it is. I want to bring down people that have posted up themselves to these unproductive positions, dogmatizing their ideology by force and by shame, not by good intent, listening to each other, and seeking truth and fairness.

Culture is "pull", not "push". You want to pull people with empathy, not supress them. No one is forcing people to wear British invented shirts and pants. They are because people choose to over their native dress. It is utilitarian, comfortable and superior.
This is probably the meanest thing I've ever read on HN.
I didn’t get the sense that he/she was gloating. Just citing their expertise.
If they know how their campaigns are doing -> they can target better and earn more money and in turn give you more discounts.
So it’s just good karma to let them run the tiny js script which does no more harm than 100 other services running on your machine, which you never used either.
> I learned a little APL & J, and enjoyed doing anything mathy or with matrices. I didn't like them for generic office stuff.

Really? I found the boring stuff and things like web programming to be the most interesting in J.
Depends, how big of a deal is it when they break?
I have no issue with clients browsing inventory. But for privacy reasons that inventory should be very well controlled. Preferably in person. So no online access.
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Because being returned your phone with the fingerprints of a police on it as a bonus, could backfire in a spectacular way for the agent
Debian, Ubuntu, and Android names are all alphabetical, so you can tell which versions are newer and older. That's all version numbers are really useful for anyways.
I'll let my teammates at standup tomorrow know we are fake!
It is not.

https://about.wetransfer.com/

https://opencorporates.com/companies/nl/34381002

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/wetransfer-owner-werock-nv-t...
I thought the phrase "COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY" in most open-source licenses would make it clear. But obviously no one reads licenses or EULAs.

However, I would let people file issues and would just let them sit there if they are not a paying for it. This way at least the known issues are documented and there would be less duplication.

Letting people fix their own problems is a good strategy. However, if you are encouraging people to send PRs, then there is a maintenance problem. Especially if some eager people decide to add major feature or refactor the code.
Having an opinion - which you can justify vaguely logically - about subjective matters and sharing it isn't 'spreading misinformation.'

There's a very toxic current of censorship spreading which involves redefining opinions (inherently a subjective matter) as information (inherently an objective matter) in order to justify them being censored on the grounds of 'combating misinformation.' People are free to be wrong and to spread the word of their wrongness.

If you take the random words - on a subjective topic! - of a weirdo on the internet to be 'information' then you're a bloody idiot.
An Australian bank I used has used their 2FA phone number to send me marketing messages about loans. I was absolutely furious about it. 2FA numbers should not be used for your marketing team’s sleazy trash.
We adopted two older kids (age 3 and 7) when we were in our 40s/30s.

It was very difficult and life changing in many ways. We sacrificed a lot to bring them into our lives.

But - we knew that going into it. It has caused stress and strain and high blood pressure. But I also got to carry my son off the field on my shoulders when he ran in the the finally touch down to cap off an undefeated season. To hear my daughter sing like Beyoncé.

We knew going into this it was going to be difficult. But we did it intentionally to save two lives from what was a life of poverty, instability, and abuse. We purposefully adopted through the State because we knew those were the kids in dire straights.

I want to say I can’t believe people would “return” adopted kids, but we saw a lot during adoption training. Parents in it for the money (you get a monthly payment if your kids are classified special needs). Parents asking questions about restraining and hitting kids. Foster homes filled to the brim with kids because there is a constant shortage of homes.

I hope most parents are improving the lives of those they adopt. But that 5% number is just devastating to see, but reflects the reality of who we are as a culture and a race.
A common one is noticing that targeting works so well they see ads for things they've talked about and assume their phone is listening in on them. Though I wouldn't say they're okay with it.
If you can recognize your own bias, you can try to work to counter it. Or, not.
As many people have pointed out these are for tracking the performance of ad traffic. Savvy, "privacy minded" businesses may listen to this sort of outrage, and pull the pixels off their websites. But you are kidding yourself if you think you aren't being tracked because the frontend JS is all first party.

The same thing can, and is happening server side. Every platform out there now has an event/conversion API [1]. If you are logging in to Uber Eats with a email/phone number you have used elsewhere then you are going to be tracked full-stop.

1. Here is TikTok's for example https://ads.tiktok.com/help/article?aid=10003669
How does Web 3.0 attempt to solve for this?
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How Russian Invasion Is Playing Out on English, Ukrainian, and Russian Wikipedia
> If nuclear war happened, assuming I survived I'm not sure I'd be able to cope with the real suffering that would follow.

You don’t need to worry about this. It’s called Mutually Assured Destruction for a reason. There are enough nuclear weapons between the US and Russia to literally destroy every inch of the world 20 times over.

So don’t stress yourself out about your post-apocalypse skills. Anyone making prepper plans for actual nuclear war is living in denial. There are very few scenarios where life isn’t wiped off the planet.
Russia Prepares to Disconnect from the Internet
It’s funny how everywhere looks similar these days.
I like the unintentional? intentional? irony of putting Z on the funeral home van.
The situation in Taiwan is different. There are polls in the past indicating non-negligible amount of Taiwanese (I forgot the numbers, but IIRC it is closer to 50-50 split than only a small fraction) support “merging back” to China. (That was before 2019 Hong Kong incident though.)
Yeah, I worded my comment poorly - I agree that the actual process of installing a hot rivet is very difficult manual labor. What I was getting at was that the concept of a rivet is fairly simple, and would not take anywhere near 10 full working days to train. One of the issues is that a rivet is pretty intuitive: the metal rivet holds together two other pieces of metal. Is it in the hole and does it have a head on both sides? It'll hold. It'd be intuitive to a child. But a weld is not as intuitive: you can make a nice looking weld that doesn't penetrate deep enough and fails easily. This can obviously be catastrophic when welding ships, so I can understand training taking 10 days.
The program which supplies the ISS and ferries US astronauts, uhh cosmonauts, you mean?

What about it? Or did you mean Afghanistan?
Bitcoin surges 9.3% over demand from Russians and Ukrainians
That doesn't help when people like to refer to the version by its name only, omitting the number, which forces you to do a lookup against wikipedia or whatever.
People interested in this might also enjoy 'Inner Loops' (1997), an excellent book that covers optimizing x86 at that time but is instructive in general and the concepts are still applicable today.

https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Loops-Sourcebook-Software-Devel...