skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Donate airline miles and credit card rewards to Ukrainian refugees
"if Russia could've been called that"

Yes, they could have. For a long time, they absolutely were. In the sense that their arsenal is still operational and capable of mass death, it still is. But that is the only way that they remain a super-power.
I'm on Firefox on Windows and found it a little difficult to use because I kept clicking and dragging the buttons on the wheel
I read that Russias manufacturing capabilities were already suffering before the war (possibly due to the covid supply chain issues, not sure), and that they are likely a few months out from being able to get manufacturing capacity to a level that could replace current losses (and may not even be able to due to sanctions).

Also, there are videos going around on twitter of Russian trains loaded with civilian cars and trucks supposedly headed to the front line. Assuming those videos are true, that means Russia is running out of military equipment. It is certainly possible that they are doing this for strategic reasons (maybe civilian vehicles use less gas, so easier to support logistically, etc..). But either way, this doesn't look good for them.
Major issue, velocity of the scroll seems to be consistent ignoring how fast you scroll/rotate the click wheel - I love the idea but it doesn't truly represent the joy of using the original thing.

On the iPod you could scroll incredibly fast but with incredible control, stopping at just the right place. The UI would give you a little scroll bar indicating your position and I think some versions gave you an alphabet to see where you were in the very long list.

So, I like the idea and the homage to a beautiful and iconic piece of UX design (possibly the best bit of UX design ever), but the implementation is lacking the finesse of the real thing.

Oh and that beautiful little "click" sound you would get through your earbuds, speeding up as you scrolled faster, really needs to be represented. I can hear it now, it's the sound of a iPod click wheel.

(Also the demo really should show how you can use the buttons, there seems be be support in the library, they seem to do nothing)
We don't refine waste because it costs more than refining mined uranium. Which itself costs a lot.

Everything around nukes is massively expensive -- building, fueling, operating. To the extent they steal money from building out renewables and storage, everything spent on them only adds to the climate crisis.
I'm still stuck at "wait, sets can contain other sets, and sets can contain themselves?" part of Russell's paradox, and I'm close to retirement!

I don't want to study math. I want to know enough of it to solve some well-understood problems I've wanted to solve for decades. Simply learning how to diagonalize a matrix (and how to use such a thing) meant more than understanding a bunch of complicated matrix theory.
It’s both. Pyramid schemes generate wealth for a subset of the pyramid.
It seems like it would be a bad business move by setting such a precedent. I could see him perhaps turning off ota updates but shutting the cars off means that future buyers in countries like China will have to think twice about risks of losing use of their vehicle if their countries relations with the west turns sour.
Need the keys to the castle? Just ask!
A well-trained athlete can achieve about 33% efficiency in terms of calories used (not 'consumed' - we're talking about energy coming from glycogen and fat, in addition to whatever is eaten. The human digestive system can only process a couple hundred calories per hour before it starts diverting blood flow to the digestive system, which impairs athletic performance significantly.)
How to clean jeans stains from white seats of your Tesla Model S, 3, X, or Y
Looking at the docs for that, it looks like they had to redo most of the assets for exactly this reason. The person who put it on the web may not had to redo them, but someone did. https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/wiki/Assets.md
Thanks for posting this; I've had a lot of trouble trying to figure out how Putin is justifying what seems like obvious aggression against another sovereign nation.

The tl;dr I think is simply that - Putin does not consider ukraine a soveign nation -- he (and I guess many russians) consider it part of russia; e.g. a wayward child that needs to be brought back into the family.

Anyway, thanks. I don't agree, but I think it's extremely important to understand both sides, otherwise no conversation can ever happen.
If you have a solid background in calculus, I'd recommend Zill's Advanced Engineering Mathematics, which is pretty much basic math for physicists and engineers (aka for people who need to "use it").
Fixing APL’s Trigonometric Notation
I think, in the final reckoning, a people are always complicit when evil is done in their name, by their leaders and countrymen, & with their money.

Few wish to hear that “people aren’t to blame for their governments” while Ukrainians die for precisely their right to have such responsibility.

Moreover one may destroy a war machine by ruthlessly starving the economy which funds it. The prosperity of Russians correlates to the Russian army’s ability to make war.
I've done enough bike wrenching to have raised an eyebrow on that.

What you need is two gears on the flywheel, rather than one, a gear rather than a friction wheel on the generator, and some way of tensioning the second chain which you run between them. This isn't the kind of harder to build that should stand in the way, although I will grant that the single gear was already on the wheel and changing that does involve, well, changing that.

This gets ~10% efficiency back, which for a generator is huge. It's probably the only efficiency gain left, other than a gear cassette to optimize power to a target voltage.
> Sometimes I wish there was a Linux kernel security advisory process, but this would need funding or a dedicated volunteer.

This is already happening https://osv.dev/list?q=Kernel&affected_only=true&page=1&ecos...
These are all excellent epistemological questions.

> What causes it to not be personal property?

My baseline is that things are not property, so justifying the absence of property is a foreign concept to me. I'm curious why people would tend toward assuming property and then rationalizing away property in certain contexts. The assumption of property has consequences so enormous that I cannot authentically assume it as my default. Again, really interested to hear what made people chose that as their default.
Texas AM has a program that gets somewhat close though it definitely has a computational focus. Here's a list of their recently offered courses:
https://www.math.tamu.edu/graduate/distance/openletter.html
That may be the point, but it sure is annoying behavior that I don't particularly want in this use case!

I'll often click and close out of a thread just by trying to get focus back on the window so I can scroll down, and its annoying as all hell.
I took a cruise with a large group of friends once. We all had the drink package and prepaid gratuities, but we tipped extra for all of our drinks at the two bars that were our favorites. For only an extra $0.50/drink, I was getting 2-3x the alcohol and the wait staff would ignore other patrons to go straight to us. It made me feel kind of bad, but the service was outstanding and I knew the money was going to a good cause since many of the workers on these cruise ships send money back home to family.

TLDR: It’s remarkable what tipping and basic human decency can do to the quality of service you receive at a bar.
i second this.
there should clear distinction between academic math and "real world usage" math.
No man has been slandered more than Trump, in his own country, while he is alive and in power. Among the most slandered by any reckoning, largely because of telecommunications advances and the impunity with which slander can be carried out since the last Supreme Court ruling during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Believing the most slander in history leads directly to the belief he is the worst person in history.
The purpose of a false flag is to drive a certain narrative, so it's always accompanied by incessant media coverage. That is not the case here, the attack is likely for genuine tactical purposes.
It's not black and white. I can build and take. Taking allows me to build faster and better. Look at Rome.
Philip Glass, Buckethead, Pink Floyd, Thierry de Brunhuof Chopin recordings.
Morgan Stanley Says Russia’s Set for Venezuela-Style Default
If it comes I don’t think we will have a choice will we?
If you're not fixated on this particular skill set but use it as your edge, then you will have a lot more options. You can find a company or a team that has a demanding problem to solve. Note the keyword is _problem_ instead of technology. You may not get to immediately apply your expertise, but you will spot plenty of opportunities fairly soon. Software engineers are really in an extraordinary time when many problems are screaming for efficient solutions and capable engineers.
I sort of had the same experience, dropped it for a decade, and came back around. It's a lot more robust these days. Also the btfsmaintenance tools take a lot of the load off of an admin. I just use the default settings and don't have any issues.
i've been addicted to Logitech MX wireless keyboards for a long long time because they have a nice jog dial. For a while I was using two at once as a split keyboard thing, but eventually I got a Kinesis Freestyle split keyboard & my beloved Logitech's have fallen out of favor.
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just curious where you get the 30% figure. usdc borrowing on aave is 2.83% right now, which is practically reduced a further 0.97% by the AAVE incentives. most other stablecoins are in the same region.
Any experience on how BTRFS works on laptops, without ECC and maybe even one drive (copies =2)?
>> having messages on your phone about it could get you into trouble if stopped and searched by Moscow police

> Sounds ridiculous, like a half-fake unnuanced broken-phone twisted misrepresentation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578125 "Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages"

Read the comments, not just the headline. It sounds like what many people would expect in any country tending towards dictatorship. If it's not happening, then of course, great. But it doesn't sound ridiculous.

>> There are by now many reports of people in Russia who simply don't believe that's what's happening

> And this, kids, is the exact reason why we need a real pluralism of opinions and shouldn't rely on one-sided biased sources, as you can't even do a reality check.

And thank you for contributing your own opinion. It could have done without the "that's ridiculous" etc. though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60600487 "My city's being shelled, but mum won’t believe me"

Parents say things that children see are contradicted with their own eyes. The parents are, like your writing, dismissive, laughing it off, saying the other person is silly. Understandably, the children are distressed and think their parents are out of touch with reality.

In the West we all know large numbers of people who think naive things. So it's reasonable to think there can be plenty of Russians who think in that way too.

>> If I were in Russia and asked my view,

> This image is cartoonishly ridiculous. Do you actually unironically believe in some sort of secret police, asking for your opinion on war?

Russians leaving Russia in a hurry have said they were questioned at the airport by border guards about their views on the war, and being very afraid that if they give the wrong answers they won't be free to leave. There is certainly some asking about opinions on war going on.

Maybe it's too much to worry about secret police in some countries. But at least parts of Russia have a long history of secret police and good reasons for paranoia during the cold war. You cannot dismiss the re-emergence of that out of hand. We still remember the polonium-204 and recent Novichok poisonings by Russia in the UK, so we're inclined to think of Putin as still thinking that way.

So with that in mind, we were talking about "independent polls". That means phoning people at random, or similar. It's not that I'd expect some poller to be secret police, it's the 1% possibility that my answer might get processed somewhere with extremely bad consequences if I were frank and vocal with my answers. What would you think if someone you've never met or heard of phoned you at random, in Moscow, to ask your views on the war in the last few days?

The recently enacted anti-protest law with ridiculously long prison sentences shows there is a crackdown happening. We know the authorities like to hand out long sentences for holding the "wrong" views. Remind me, how long has Navalny been imprisoned so far?
"Alexei Navalny faces 15 more years in prison as new trial starts" (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/alexei-navalny...).
It's baffled me for years that Russia is making such an obvious geopolitical mistake by not becoming an EU style country aligned in that direction. Culturally, Russia and China are dramatically different and Russia is going to end up as a glorified North Korea under its current leadership. Putin and his cronies just want to loot all that they can while they can.
That’s a great question, I do see your viewpoint.

I agree that low-end corruption is more regressive for the common person, both in that they are more forced to pay up, but also that it comes from a smaller wealth pool.

High-end corruption is lobbying and think-tanks. While low-level bribing is for pettier things like paperwork, the rich and powerful aim to influence public policy to their benefit.

While the common person might not have to visibly participate, these changes affect their lives. Taxes are only progressive by design, but in reality are disproportionately paid by those who can’t afford to evade/game the system. Moreover, the non-rich people are the ones who actually really need the outcomes of tax money.

As more and more of it that is siphoned away by high-level corruption, you end up with decaying infrastructure. This outcome is quite visible in a lot of developed countries now. Another great example are defence budgets that dominate the entire national budget, but primarily funnel money to the rich military-industrial oligarchs, while being used to murder people in “faraway lands”.
By definition she's not British, she might be a citizen of the UK but she's not racily part of the ancient people indigenous to the island. Some of the people (including immigrants) are starting to understand the problems this causes.
China is going to take all the resources Russia can offer and benefit form it, Russia has just cemented itself as a second rate state on par with those in Africa that China is currently plundering. Congratulations Putin, you played yourself.
I also noticed that digit keys on keyboard in desktop calculators are useless - why would you type in numbers by clicking? It's very slow.
Very cool, Gary. Grabbed some time on your Calendly. Eager to see if your product can work for us and always interested in talking to a founder in this space.
> First was on November 22, 1963, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This was when The Fifties actually ended and The Sixties began. (My great aunt Eva Quakenbush, née Searls or Searles—it was spelled both ways—told us what it was like when Lincoln was shot and she was 12 years old. “It changed everything,” she said. So did the JFK assassination.)

This always amazes me. Things you learn in history class seem like so long ago, yet here is a living person who spoke to someone with living memory of the civil war. Which also means that people living today had direct relatives who were slaves. The last American slave died in the 1970s, which means they have relatives alive today only a generation or two removed from that. I have people a generation or two younger than me right now! The past is not so far in the past.
Crypto is the wild west. They've worked very hard to ensure DeFi isn't categorized as a security so the SEC has no jurisdiction.
Looks very cool, congratulations! Have you tried Emacs Calc? Chalk reminds me of Emacs Calc, but without the symbolic computation (and without date calculations or anonymous functions).
usually I dont read too deeply into CVE because they are too complex but this article made me go holy sh-

wish more would be written like this
Heh, I have a long-forgotten-due-to-complete-lack-of-use-for-15-years-straight background in calculus. Solid, it is not. Thanks for the tip, though.
Right out of a James Bond movie.
Features are a last resort proposition.
Thats because the NRC (and similar agencies) exist effectively to assure that the cost is such that no nuke plants ever get built. Not a single NRC approved plan has ever been built, and its in no small part because of the billions of dollars in paper pushing politicians/etc getting in the way of people who actually design and build stuff. Nuke plants are hardly more complex than a combined cycle gas generator, and those are pretty inexpensive. (see also Korea for an example of building plants for less than the entire GDP of a country)

If solar/wind had 1/2 of the regulatory overhead to assure that say the thorium tailings from rare earth mining (neodymium/etc) never got into the drinking water/air/etc then you would never see a single new solar/windmill either.
Yes it really is as simple as what you just said. I find it funny and sad when opponents of Trump do all these weird mental contortions to explain why he won, from “trump voters are brainwashed rednecks” to Russiagate. Turns out some people do want lesser taxes, lesser regulation, don’t care for abortion and simply don’t mind trumps buffoonery. And no, not all of trump voters are racist. I might even say a negligible fraction are actually racist.
Another point for Abbott is that it was one of the ~400 books Springer made available for free download near the start of the pandemic. I remember there were a few scripts here on HN back then to grab all those books, so many here probably already have a copy.
I thought this was going to be the sovereign citizen attempt to avoid the court system.
FYI, not necessarily permanent damage:

> The effects were more pronounced in older people and those hospitalised by the disease, but still evident in others whose infections were mild or asymptomatic, the research suggested, which was published in the journal Nature.

> Further scans are needed to determine whether these brain changes are permanent or partially reversible.

> “The brain is plastic, which means that it can re-organise and heal itself to some extent, even in older people,” said Prof Gwenaëlle Douaud at the University of Oxford.
The ransomware protection (Controlled Folder access) blocks write to controlled folders. The admin specifies folders to be protected, which by default includes a bunch of user profile folders like "Documents". At that point no application can write to those folders unless whitelisted.

The downside is that for a while after you enable it, you will need to keep granting applications write access to those folders, until eventually all apps that need write access have it.

In a corporate environment, IT could pre-configure the white list to include any approved applications that need write access to those folders. Most companies claim that installing unapproved software is a fireable offence, so only the execs (who are immune to such policies) and developers are likely to notice.
> Russia didn't do "“invisible hand” and optimism", they did laissez faire "no rules" capitalism and rapacious (eventually oligarchic) cronyism at scale.

Can you tell me what the difference is?
BBB.org in the US. IIRC, businesses need to pay to respond on the platform, so it sort of feels like extortion.
> Our attention and those resources would have been vastly better spent shoring up the new, fragile democracy in Ukraine than on an Afghanistan that was very unlikely to have a positive outcome.

The sad part is that you didn't even gain an ally at the end.

The kind of money you invested in Afghanistan, spent wisely in Ukraine, would have yielded a nation of ~45 million people eternally grateful to the US.

In an immensely strategic location in the world. A Western power controlling Ukraine really does control Russia and these days the Middle East, too.

And that's from a base that is culturally and stability-wise much better than toxic allies like Saudi Arabia.
Maybe my thumbs are too big but I was never able to stop "at just the right place"

Invariably I was unable to remove my finger from the wheel without it scrolling a few more items.
You're thinking of agnosticism. Atheism is the assertion there is no God. A-theism.

But it's a highly debated topic itself (as most things are in this realm).

In general though, people mean it as they don't believe in God, and use agnosticism to indicate they do not believe one way or another.
That just isn’t true. Solar is among the cheapest per watt to build [0] and produces very cheap electricity [1] even if you remove subsidies. It isn’t a perfect technology but that is beside the point. Further, every other technology for producing electricity has subsidies: wind (similar tax benes), nuclear (the gov acts as the insurer of last resort in a catastrophe, unpriced externality of waste heat), coal (unpriced externalities for carbon, soot, heavy metals, waste heat), natural gas (unpriced externalities for carbon, waste heat for combined cycle), hydro has all sorts of hard to price externalities and they are usually built with the help of the government (financing, dislocating people, rights of way, building new shipping lanes, etc).

[0] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/assumptions/pdf/table_8.2.p...

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....
The price is still in the $20k range, which I guess shows the power or benefits of decentralized governance.
This doesn't appear to work at all in Chrome on MacOS
It wasn't Facebook ads. It was an army of trolls creating, sharing, and upvoting "fake news" articles tricking gullible people into thinking that Hillary molested children underneath a pizza parlor and tricking other suggestible people into thinking people said the problem was Facebook ads. I was on Reddit at the time, and 90% of commenters believed that the Correct the Record PAC was illegally astroturfing Reddit, despite lacking any evidence, or were trolls pretending that they believed the PAC was astroturfing.
Reading the comments, apparently the Valve Index uses one of these chips. Supply is so bad nobody is selling this chip.
Oh don't think I am under the illusion it will go perfectly, I think it will have grave disasters. I just don't think it will have a significant impact on their warmaking ability, and that eventually they will mostly recover.