skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia-Ukraine oil spike: EV tactical response
As of this posting, we are one cent under the record average high for gas prices, with higher prices projected to come. I would qualify this as a economic danger to our economy given it's state.

What can we do? The North Dakota shale oil industry was basically killed by Saudi overproduction/dumping a few years ago.

Lean on OPEC to increase production? Biden and MBS do not get along. They will likely reap profits.

Rollout BEV cars and trucks: not enough supply and not enough recharging.

I believe there is a short-term EV strategy though: the electric bike. With spring/summer coming, I believe the US should institute a 500$ - 1000$ purchase rebate on any electric bike. This is a means of maximizing available battery supply for the best result of transportation. It is the maximum number of EVs for the minimum impact on our grid. e-bikes can assume huge amounts of local trips, and with burlys/trailers, substantial amounts of errands for basic goods.

And it would be a way to directly support the Ukraine, by dropping the price of oil that Putin will use to fund it.
> they were ostensibly worse in resolution than CRTs

That fits my recollection too. I remember 1280x1024 being very common on 19-21" CRTs circa 2000.
>The overwhelming problem is the outrageous cost,

The cost of consumer rooftop solar is as high or higher than nuclear, do you also think that cost is outrageous and we should abandon it?

>...and that they don't start displacing fossil fuels for years, if ever.

Solar, wind and nuclear have about the same carbon footprints. A few links:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low...

https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/LCA-2.pdf
The Million-Dollar Gap
The other customer would know it wasn't a one-off issue and feel more justified airing their grievances in a public forum since it may be a systemic issue. If a burger king location served a burger cold once in thirty years of operations yea I still want a replacement burger but it's no biggie - if it does that dozens of times a day their corporate image deserves to be dragged through the mud.

When it's a restaurant we regularly patronize we can offer the feedback directly with confidence about the severity, when it's something we use once in a blue moon (like an airline for most of us) we don't know if that poor service was basically par for the course.
I think GP is saying that an attack that impacted the satellites flying around in space is a large claim, on account of their systems have better security. I imagine the idea of a many millions of $ satellite burning up because someone left a telnet server open is enough to make executives take sat security a little more seriously than say terminal security.

Don’t think anyone is really refuting the idea that satellite terminals being remotely bricked en-mass, just as two countries nearby go to war, is an attack.
Rapeseed oil was used as industrial lubricant and to fatten livestock before selling to slaughter. I won't be participating in the human experiment of consuming CANadian OiL.
check his Wikipedia edit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotrophic_electrode

> In Neural Signals' implantations of six people, only one had a short lived episode of focal motor seizures and brain swelling leading to temporary weakness on the contralateral side of the body.

> That person was me, Phil Kennedy. And here I am writing this addition to the Wikipedia
If sustainably was such a concern then why not have user replaceable batteries and serviceable laptops, at the cost of a few mm here and there?
As part of their efforts to "stabilize" the grid.

ERCOT et al. want to get rid of the night time negative rates that occur when wind power generates excess power over night. Negative power rates end up costing the middlemen money. By offering rate locks for the crypto miners, they are hoping enough of the miners build facilities in Texas that they can soak up all the excess, causing the rates to never run negative. Higher rates fill the pockets of every middleman in the state, and those people line the pockets of the politicians, while costing everybody else.
It doesn't make sense for backfilling the last 20%. That last 20% isn't steady, it's highly intermittent demand, something that nuclear is terrible at addressing.
> Why? The real reason is Russia united with Europe would enable a true Eurasian competitor to the USA to arise.

You have to be joking, have you been in Russia and EU countries at the time? Europe an Russia are incompatible always been, always will be. Ukraine is a culturally European country because for centuries it has been egalitarian autonomous and self sufficient, since the times of Ukranian Cossacks. Russia and Muscovy culture is authoritarian, so it's that simple.
> The last nail in the coffin for me was their utter refusal to remove absolutely abhorrent comments.

Slashdot was the first site that I frequented where I had to take a hard look at it and say, "I don't like what this place has become and I don't want to be a part of it." Sadly, it wasn't the last.
> Are you referring to the use of a commonly accepted initialism, 'UAV', as them 'begging the question'?

I've heard 'UFO' in the common vernacular in this context, but UAV isn't one I'm familiar with. UAV is the common term for a drone, not a UFO.

Meanwhile regardless of how long it takes them to use 'vehicles' a second time in the paper, it's right there in the title.
They think and believe that something is simply a scam.

Why would you expect them to enter into dialogue with the scammers?
Meaning: "our ROI figures assume we don't face any seriously improved competitors for six decades."
Ok, did anyone have evil spirit set free for Q1 2022?
I know quite a few people in the furry community who go by their chosen names without changing their legal one. (Myself being an example.)

As far as I’m concerned, my name is Kayodé. My legal name is a convenient alias to hide behind in the “real world”.

Having the separation is nice because there are many things I can talk about as Kayodé than my legal name can’t. (Mental health for one.)
It's all so ... readable.
I feel so dumb. I literally thought it was broken, I thought I tried everything haha.
Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings (2020)
Nuclear is horrible for the last 30%, since that last part is highly intermittent (if it weren't renewables could easily address some of it.)

Nuclear either addresses just about all the demand, or none. There's not much middle ground.
Most U.S. workers took an inflation pay cut in 2021
I think what game me the impression is that you posted in response to "If civilians don’t want to die I think we should let them chose that." This made it seem like you opposed letting them choose.

0.) this is not a choice where either option is remotely good, both options presented by Russia a terrible and arbitrarily dictated by Russia. 1.) to call for what it is, Russia decided their options are to become Russian prisoners, hostages to use against their immediate family, or die by the Russian sieges.

I fully agree that Russia is providing limited options, and that they suck.

2.) acknowledge that this rewards Russia bombing and murdering of civilians, thus encouraging them to continue bombing and murdering civilians.

What is "this", and who is rewarding Russia here? Again, this makes it seem like someone is complicit and should stop the flow of civilians. Russia is indeed getting an advantage here... but who is letting them get away with it and what you they do instead, if not stop it.

3.) Russia has repeatedly broken their word, promising to allow evacuations only to continue shelling, so any promises of treatment are worthless.

I'm not surprised..

4.) there are other options some better like China stepping in behind the scenes to demand Putin a cease fire that isn’t violated or much worse options like a no fly zone.

Im not sure that any of these are realistic or actual options. A better "option" would be for Putin and Zelensky to hug it out, but that isn't going to happen. Same with China stepping in.
We could revenue share some of our projects with charity's dedicated to refugees and military assistance. Past that and boycotting the Russian government in general there's not much we can safely do.

On another note there's a few Putin sympathizers redirecting attention in the comments, while theyre welcome to their opinion, I think they're a little off topic.
That would be more interesting. :)
Does the FUNDS trick work in this version as well? And, if so, does it cause an earthquake the 4th time you use it?
I don't why the previous account got terminated, because I've no relationship with it.
If my relationship with that account ended 4 years ago, do you think the ban can possibly be justified?
My apps have 2 million users(monthly), I can’t give this up so easily.
Please tell me what information I can provide so you can give me advice.
When is a bad faith complaint not actually intelligence gathering to see what behind the scenes or non public safety/security measures they have in place to ensure they dont fall foul of bad faith complaints?

Social Media is a classic "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" spook ideology turned on the business sector, and various coping strategies are highlighted in this article.
The ideas behind Calculus are much more useful IMHO. The idea of rate of change, or change over time, converging and diverging series, these all have practical application to the real world.

And the basics of physics makes next to no sense without calculus, and even parts of intro chemistry make more sense after having taken calculus.

I remember in one economics class, which didn't have calc as a pre-req, the prof said "alright, for those of you who have taken calculus, this is an integral, you can now leave the classroom and come back tomorrow. Everyone else has to stay."

The ideas of calculus just seem so fundamental to me. It is sad that the American schooling system is so slow, and expectations so low, that it isn't taught to everyone. Meanwhile in other countries, everyone, artists to engineers, learns calculus.
Excel can do this.
Maybe, but this is not so bad, if you realize that the time and the effort you would spend on learning the material from such textbook is in some ways incomparable with the price of a couple of dinners at a restaurant.
This is an incredibly dangerous position to take. Every argument should be taken on its merits, regardless of who else holds that position. Vilifying an argument simply because an adversary holds it is drifting in a direction you really do not want to go in, if you have any love of freedom whatsoever.
Having interacted with older Russian people on few occasions they view themselves heroes of WW2. They genuinely dont know what happened between 1939 and 1941 and dont understand west looking at Russia funny, why USSR fell, or why someone would refuse Putins "help".
"It's a useful metaphor that gets people convicted. You might not like it or agree with it, but that's the way it is."

It's a blatantly false metaphor. Burglary requires intent to commit a crime once inside.
(Author here) Yeah. Much of this activity is pretty consistent with what TAG generally sees in the region and from these actors.
The challenge is that excluded folders/extensions apply to both real-time scanning and manual/periodic scanning.

What we really need is the ability to disable real-time scanning on one set of folders/extensions, while still including them with scheduled system-wide scans.
That sounds like something that would interest archive.org
They don't have exercise for some of the more advanced college level topics. You can see the exercises on the right side of the screen under "practice" for some of the more introductory topics:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra/vectors-and-...
>Last year I was downvoted like crazy when pointing out the fact that Lebanon is actually a buffer country between Israel and the rest of the Arab worlds created by western colonial powers.

You were probably down voted because we have access to maps
>and maybe doesn't even have that much insight on what is going through the pipes elsewhere.

Chrome and their DNS can be used for that.
Batteries are rapidly falling in price, as are electrolysers. When nuclear plants are justified based on four or even six decades lifespans, it's a very dubious bet to think that storage won't be much cheaper long before that lifespan is over.
How most people interact with the technology today, yes. The technology is still very early, lots of startups working on making self-custody easy and safe enough for regular people.
1. This is complicated. From a fThere is a notion of power_level, which you can set to different events. So you can set "send message" to power level 30, and any user with a "power level" of 30 or more will be able to send messages. Those power levels (and the required level to send an event) are granted by the room creator.

There is, however, no power_level associated with reading messages. From a federation/server<->server perspective, every message must be publicly readable (though they may be E2E-encrypted) to be usable. I think you need to be joined to a room to send messages, and to be joined, you need to be able to read messages by design (the messages form a DAG, so you need a node in the DAG to append to it). So the "inbox" model doesn't seem representable to me. But maybe I'm missing something/not creative enough X).

2. Yes. Events can refer to prior events to modify them, e.g. you can "edit" a previous message by appending a new message of type "msg.edit" (made up type, not sure what the exact it), specifying the old message id, and the new text. For matrix-based CRDT, see Matrix-CRDT[1], a Yjs backend using Matrix.
Sanctions? Yes. Cold War
Yes! Combinatorics, graph theory, linear algebra, and even some parts of theory of computation and grad-level abstract algebra and algebraic number theory can be learned without calculus (I think!).

N.b. This is not to say that these are all easier than calculus, and I wouldn’t even really recommend learning say Galois theory before calculus, I’m just saying it seems that one could.
SOC2, which is by far the most common compliance certification, checks for:

1. The presence of a formal threat model

2. A process for applying controls against that threat model

3. Evidence that the process is being followed (for a type 2)

This is actually pretty good. It's just also easy to game. It's totally on you to say what your threat model is, to say what controls you've accounted for, what risks you've accepted, etc. An auditor might call you out like "no, encrypting data at rest doesn't address password reuse", but you have a lot of control over how the whole thing plays out.

That means that most companies basically just buy their way out of SOC2 by having a compliance team that retroactively works to map what currently exists to a standard threat model provided by NIST. What happens less often is that people actually do the work the intended way - starting with a model, creating a process, and then creating an audit trail for it.

If they did, honestly, SOC2 would have a lot of value. It is a very sound approach to security. But, as with all cost centers, the goal is to minimize the cost of security, not to do it well.
From a quick flick through based on that link, the issue seems to be that the forum code is bespoke and written in perl, and the environment (apache & mod_perl, nothing great, nothing terrible) is obsolete and nobody who's volunteered to port it in the past actually followed through.
That was the same song Westinghouse was singing. It ended catastrophically.
> Are you new to politics?

No, but unlike you I don’t default to cynicism.

Also, who the fuck gives a shit about “the remain campaign”…? The “remainers” lost years ago…

The reality is that post-brexit UK is worse off in most sensible measures.
You're confusing generalized contractors with "contract to hire." They aren't the same.
The discussion on that last thread is interesting. Somebody put together a list of all of the marriages that came from people who met on that forum, and it was not a short list.
interesting, yes.
Scientists use AI to decode pig calls
summary: AI analyzed the acoustic signatures of 7,414 pig calls recorded from more than 400 animals, and correctly classified 92% of the calls as positive or negative emotions.

research paper for those who seek more details:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07174-8
Yeah, iirc the ebook formatting made the book difficult to read.
I got the offer and really considered it as well! It was the fear of an acquisition that convinced me not to take the offer. I was a TextDrive customer before they were acquired by Joyent, I was a LastPass customer before they were acquired by LogMeIn, and it was CrashPlan's cancellation of CrashPlan for Home that drove me to find rsync.net.

None of those other companies are rsync.net, so it's not really fair of me to consider them when making this decision -- but it made me think it's safer to just pay you guys regularly for a good service. Worst case, I spend a little more over the life of my account, but that money is going to a company I really like, so it's not much of a downside.
Also, I will say that Doctors like to point to Pharma and Insurance as the problem. Pharma likes to point to Insurance and Hospitals as the problem. Insurance likes to point to Hospitals and Pharma as the problem.

I think the assumption is that the cost of healthcare is probably high because of the combination of all of them. They all have powerful lobbying arms. I would also assume that each of them has a vested interest in the other becoming less powerful... And the US probably would get a lot of value out of all of them becoming less powerful. Probably something along the lines of Single Payer Healthcare would help a lot...
This comment is totally baseless. Anyone who does linux kernel exploit development knows how to crawl the commit log or syzkaller.
Why do countries welcome some refugees and shut others out?
You have no idea. She has proudly admitted that the very laws she wishes to implement (and is doing so) would have prevented her own parents from entering the country.

She is literally unaware of her own fortune is a direct consequence of immigration, or is that sinister and entitled she thinks nobody else should have that access.
> EDIT: Poignant comment from the YouTube video showing an exchange between the FSB head and Putin: "Sergei is giving off the vibes that Putin is the only one who knows where his wife and kids are"

It's a spectacle, most of the stuff Putin puts on video are just smoke and mirrors
I just want to do basic engineering and physics. Understand some of the higher level models we have to describe our world.
> France has been able to operate a grid over 70% nuclear (over 80% at its peak) without issue, so these concerns about nuclear's inability to match shifting loads are demonstrably false.

France is a perfect example that things can go south with nuclear, too. They operate 56 reactors, of which 17 (!) went unexpectedly offline last winter. Some had deferred maintenance due to the pandemic, others showed micro-fractures in pipes forcing other similar designed plants to go offline as well [1]. Not to mention their EPR projects that have been plagued by cost and time overruns that put Germany's infamous BER airport to shame.

To make it worse, France always is proud of their nuclear technology and its supposed "green energy" mix... but the reality is, the nuclear plants are too slow to follow the demands of electric heating and so France imports a shitload of energy from Germany and the UK every winter [2]. To put it blunt: The German CO2 budget is suffering and we can't get rid of our coal stinkers because France can't be arsed to set up a resilient grid on their own.

> Sure, uranium has to be shipped. But that's the point: uranium fuel can be shipped.

And every time uranium fuel is shipped, you have massive protests from civilians, incurring a lot of side effects - acts of sabotage, blockades, expenses for police and judiciary system. Additionally, Russia is currently used as a dumping ground for French nuclear waste [3] and supplies 26% of the EU's consumption of enriched uranium [4].

tl;dr: France should STFU about their nuclear plants. Nuclear is a dead end unless "fusion is always 50 years in the future" becomes obsolete in the future, the only thing that will help us scraping by regarding CO2 emissions and keep us independent from Russian imperialism, Arabic oil sheiks and a potentially-going-bonkers-again USA is going big on solar and wind.

[1]: https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/atomkraft-was-is...

[2]: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/frankreich-fuerchtet-sich-vor...

[3]: https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/umstrittene-tran...

[4]: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/ukraine-krieg-eu-...
I have one like this too. It's just a little round device that has play/pause volume and next/prev tracks. Shows up on my Android phone as a standard Bluetooth keyboard. Sat in a drawer for years because it didn't work with my iPhones.
This is a great way of thinking about it. Same goes for "unlimited" plans: the more I use, the lower their profit margins. I'd rather agree on terms and pay for what I use.
“Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.”

Agreed with the comments that point out this 'article'/post is not exceptionally well written.

In general I would ask what is in a name. Yet I have always been my name, deeply and unshakably. With a 'foreign' name in a small town I could be mistaken for no one else and in that way my name was deeply bounded to me. It invoked perceptions, mistaken assumptions and every externalized characteristic. In time it was also mine to define through the time required to build a reputation that could, in some circles, precede me.

Now I work with four people who share my name. A cousin's daughter shares my name. It is one of the weirder day to day experiences of my life.
I imagine the NSA, MI6, etc. have already thought about that. Hacking Russian computer systems seems unlikely to “stop Putin.” Also, hacking into a foreign computer system is likely illegal under US law.

Knowing how to write code is not a superpower that also enables hacking into Russian state computer systems, or Putin’s smartphone, despite what we see on TV shows.
protip: nazi isnt "when you attack a country"
Hey dizzy!
Department of Energy regulations require hydrogen fuel stations to be able to fuel vehicles at 8-12 gallons per minute equivalent. Gas and diesel pumps (even the hi-flow truck stop ones) are capped at 10 gpm for safety.
It's amusing that a silicon-valley web site has such rampant conservatism about extrapolating cost declines in highly modular technologies manufactured by the millions.
But observing the other bit changes the outcome. The whole point is that you don't know the outcome until you observe one of the particles.
Maybe they meant dang and/or other mods/admins have been silent? HN has been the only place I've been following for news on the war.
For more Utah arch vibration content, check out Prof. Jeff Moore's twitter feed @UtahGeohaz (Jeff is in the same department as the link).

Here's some very cool visualizations showing exaggerated vibrations of natural wonders:

https://twitter.com/UtahGeohaz/status/1451218202621399043 (Colonnade Arch)
https://twitter.com/UtahGeohaz/status/1473692964216057865 (The Matterhorn)
https://twitter.com/UtahGeohaz/status/1473692964216057865 (not sure which arch)
Yes, IQ Matters
Sounds like he adopted the diet that Dr. Esselstyn recommends (http://www.dresselstyn.com/site/). There’s an excellent documentary, Forks over Knives, about his approach and he’s written a book that is awesome.
Object Localization using PyTorch, Part 2