skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in the UK. While there's peaks, we don't average 24kwh/day, that would be enormous. Even looking at detached houses, it's less than half of that.
> I can not do this from the top of my head, I would have to research this. At best I vaguely remember concerns about anti ballistic missiles system, ICBMs are especially vulnerable during early flight when they are still slow but this requires of course being close to the launch location. Why does it matter? Because this may be able to weaken retaliatory strike capabilities and therefore make a first strike by the other side more viable.

It sounds like you are talking about nuclear first strike here again, ICBMs are primarily for nuclear weapons after all, and there is no advantage to having them closer, see my first comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30569822

> But I am not sure that this even matters, what if the threat is only perceived but not real? At least before the current mess I would have been reasonably confident that NATO would not attack Russia and only use its assets for defensive purposes. So there is no real threat, only a theoretical one, NATO could but would not. You could also imagine the inverse scenario, where there is an actual threat but the threatened country does not know or misjudges the situation. So what really seems to matter here is how the situation is perceived by Russia.

This makes it so the most delusional or paranoia person/country, or those that act like it, are given advantages over those that are acting reasonable. This, used as a general rule, can/would cause a negative feedback cycle making the world worse over time.

> I could even try to make the case for the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuba requested the missiles as a deterrent against further invasion attempts and if we assume for the sake of argument that they and the USSR are sincere, then there was no actual threat unless the USA tried to go after Cuba again. But it seems of course very unlikely to me that the USA would have this amount of trust and confidence.

No, because the threat of Cuba and/or USSR in this case would have drastically changed, unlike with Ukraine joining NATO. This analogy breaks done for the same reasons the pervious does.
You cut out the middle of that paragraph, which says:

"Sadly, there is all sorts of baggage around learning it (at least in the US educational system) that is completely unnecessary and awful and prevents many people from experiencing the pure joy of mathematics. One of the lies I have heard so many people repeat is that everyone is either a “math person” or a "language person” — such a profoundly ignorant and damaging statement. Here is the truth: if you can understand the structure of literature, if you can understand the basic grammar of the English language or any other language, then you can understand the basics of the language of the universe."

:)
It was for me (french school of math), that and also measure theory.
Most people who are religious nowadays know that the stories aren't real or are embellished. It's a story to teach a lesson. The faith allows comfort for people who need it, the community does as well. If you don't need that comfort, fine, don't make fun of people who do. They aren't stupid, they're filling a hole in their heart with community and a shared belief / interest. My wife fills mine, some people don't have that or lost it.

Pro-tip, instead of asking for "proof" like an interrogation, ask for clarification to understand the story or viewpoint. Getting in a fight over something neither side can prove is ridiculous.

But if you want to debate what we cannot know, riddle me this, how do you know we're not in a simulation made by a higher being? Math and science is the reverse engineering of our created universe. It's more probable we were created in some way than a random occurrence.
I am fairly confident that Susan Rigetti is a future president of the USA. In addition to becoming somewhat well-known as a household name early on in her adult life, she has achieved so many difficult and impressive things (publishing multiple books, studying physics and philosophy at graduate level, working for a top-tier tech company, taking down the CEO of a top-tier tech company and damaging the company's reputation, being asked to work for the New York Times, publishing curricula in graduate Physics, graduate Philosophy, and undergraduate mathematics). Furthermore, she seems to have a gift for or knack with the public eye.
A significant portion of that population will develop natural immunity (mostly by natural selection) and will be the one to survive when at some point centralized supply chain is exausted out of resources and all the viruses that they had vaccines for come back with a bang.
VW goes ahead with $2B new factory to produce Trinity long-range electric car
> They have the resources to spin up something like this in a week

That sentence right there is a pretty solid indicator that it’s a solid business to be in, no? What VP wants to take engineer time to create an internal tool when they could pay $40/user/month or whatever? How many SaaS startups do we see right now that occupy that exact sentiment area?

As far as this being more of a culture change than a process change — well, good products can change culture. Making something much easier is a huge step on the way to getting people to do it.
The nature did this in Oklo 2 millions years ago, it did work quite well tbh, as we only found out recently. It wasn't even that deep.
From the body of the paper:

> Such a craft accelerating at a constant 1000g for half of the trip and decelerating at the same rate for the remaining half would reach Proxima Centuri within 5 days’ ship time due to the fact that it would have been traveling at relativistic speeds for most of the trip (Figure 7B). However, for those of us on Earth, or anyone on Proxima Centuri b, the trip would take over four years.
I don't understand, did he or didn't he make money then? Articles about this make it sound like he made nothing and is in debt, but he's also a billionaire?
I think cities from both sides of border were shelled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2015_Mariupol_rocket_a...
Harder to spot if you don’t have an outside view. From inside, all you hear and see is that the media which was shut down were “evil propagandist” aligned with $ENEMY who wanted to harm $NATION by spreading lies about $POLITICAL_BUZZWORD.
It might be because the profession is heavily affected by gatekeeping and it takes a while to ramp up qualified professionals who are certified to provide counseling.

I’m not insinuating that gatekeeping is a bad thing, you want trained professionals providing the service. It’s just that there is a limit on how fast the pool of available providers can go, especially if there is a significant amount of professional burnout.
Probably not, Amazon's goal is to pay under the actual cost of delivery by offloading deliveries to these 3rd party companies.
You can see my comments from further down to see that I’m not Russian and, as it happens, I don’t live in Russia. I do live though in country bordering Ukraine, I’ve just parked my car 5 minutes ago behind a car with an Ukraine plate (refugees, most probably), right at this moment me, my SO and a couple who are very close friends seriously discuss on WhatsApp what would be the best strategy in case of the worst (everyone bar me is for leaving the country, I still hope it won’t get to that), all this to remind you that we’re on HN, a programmers’ website, not a propaganda one, where we try to make sense of the world around us, no matter if it’s a nuclear power that neighbors you or nasty computer bugs that you dream about at night.
After going back to college at the age of 29 to obtain my CS degree, I finally unlocked my key to learning. I am not sure if this is going to work for you.

In the last few years I have learned about construction/building codes, cars/engines, continued expanding my programming knowledge and also smaller things that come up as I exist, including investing/personal finance. The depth of the knowledge in those areas depends on the problem.

My key to learning is: quickly applying what I learn or learn to solve a problem I have. The solving a problem I already have supercharges my learning capabilities and puts my brain into overdrive. I often get fixated on a problem and my life start revolving around figuring it out. Obviously, some things are just not reasonable. I gave up on learning some things and just paid to have it done, but usually like to at least make an attempt.

A direct example to your question, when I was younger I enjoyed wrenching on cars. I bought a car and at some point after the warranty was over I realized the engine was toast. I did not have the means to pay someone to just build a complete engine for me. I ended up doing research and seeking advice. In the end I was able to tear the whole engine apart, contract out the machining of the engine block and was able to assemble everything mostly by myself. This took hours of just learning everything. What parts to use, which type of metal is best for pistons in my application. I learned so much that I did a presentation on a turbo combustion engine in school.

Programming example, I heard and I even read what dependency injection is. However, I would not be able to really explain it to someone else at that point. Then, I started to do more testing on my code, and it became clear some things were extremely hard to test without DI.

CI/CD, same thing I knew about it but I was working as a solo dev and on non-business-critical software. Then, as I started working on bigger projects which ran a business I quickly realized I needed a CI/CD pipeline to track releases and changes. I kept running into headaches without it. Now, I could explain in depth, provide examples of how it really can benefit a business especially when application breaking bugs are discovered.

For me confidence comes from REALLY knowing things and understanding the "WHY" I am doing this thing. Plus, sometimes someone may ask you a question you don't know an answer to, it is okay to say you are unfamiliar with something. Then, go look up after. This is how you find gaps in your knowledge.

In the end you can't know everything. To have a good life one must learn until they die as things change.
How to send messages in Ukraine if the internet shuts down
It’s amazing how different the subjects of mathematics are. It’s like the difference between a drum and flute.

You listed some of my favorite stuff. Weirdly, when I was 11, my math tutor told me I’d probably really like finite mathematics. She turned out to be right.
Internal resistance of the battery would be a significant problem, you'd need a fairly sizeable battery, and most lithium ion cells have a maximum discharge rate of around 1-5C unless they're high-discharge-rate cells which are usually more expensive and lower capacity.

Using a vacuum flask would dramatically lower heat loss.
No, it's because nukes were and are fantastically expensive, and the projects are often cancelled with exactly zero watt-hours produced after massive cost overruns and absurd delays.
A Swedish professor Janne Wallenius recently got a government grant of 100 msek for building the same thing. But his smr is lead-cooled and supposedly much safer than a pwr reactor which can overheat. The advantages are supposedly the same as with Rolls-Royce's reactor; low construction-costs due to standardized design. In a recent interview he stated that his design could be ready for mass-production in the mid 2030's.
Russia didn't do "“invisible hand” and optimism", they did laissez faire "no rules" capitalism and rapacious (eventually oligarchic) cronyism at scale.

The hand was an administrative machine that changed the appearance but none of the core substance of how the nation ran; Putin's very existence as a scion of that very machine bears that out. I still suspect that should he fall from power before he wishes to, it will be because a bunch of unknown "Putins" in a bureaucratic machine that do the actual heavy lifting will decide he's a become a liability, much as he did when rising to power in the first place.
Projects Involving Running Kubernetes at Home
As someone not much into this scene, how useful are 3D Printers actually? I get the sense that they're very useful to hobbyists or for creating prototypes but are the plastics used suitable for production use cases?
I came to the conclusion about biases back in high school, and IMHO, what people call woke is just the stupidest idea to fight them I've ever heard: forcing counter-biases on everyone, including people who are not initially biased (relatively speaking).

We should have stronger requirements for education in mathematical logic, and perhaps probability theory in schools instead of teaching countless anecdata.
I was an early adopter and some bad experiences early on made it a bitter pill. I swore it off for a decade, and about year and half came back around. It's MUCH MUCH better now. With automated "sensible" settings for btrfsmaintenance tools it's actually just fine now.
Your account has been breaking the site guidelines by posting flamewar comments and has also been using HN primarily (in fact, it seems exclusively) for political/ideological/nationalistic battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. Therefore I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Edit: we got such an email so I've unbanned the account. Please stick to the rules going forward.
Putin Will Lose, Here's Why [Johnny Harris, YouTube]
I wonder how one should host their educational videos to have them be available without ads or other nonsense like this. Any affordable solutions?
It seems everyday web is turning into ask permission before you do anything environment. Companies instead of hiring competent technical person, spend money on lawyers and lawsuits.

It is scary for someone who grew up on 90s' Internet. Not sure what was in the bucket, but in 90s and 2000s, it was common to link to various resources on the web. My friend in college ran a popular forum where people shared direct links to video games, softwares, pdfs, etc. It, of course, facilitate piracy, but not everything linked there was illegal.

I run a blog where I curate and embed YouTube videos. Yes I am using their official embed code. Using standard http protocol to link to a resource on the web is official way to link. If they were bypassing url signature or something similar, then I can see how they were violating terms and conditions of that bucket owner.
>It's not about hosting. Anybody can host. The issue is discovery.

Again, no number of bad faith arguments about popularity or awareness in consumer headspace make it a monopoly. You are not entitled to being discovered in competitive markets, and forcing suppliers to host your content is anti-competitive.
Generating a dirty sine wave which will power an appliance is fine, but that's not the goal here.

The goal is to generate a clean sine wave which will benefit the grid when applied to it. This is probably impossible at bike workloads, and is in any case quite a bit more of a problem than just throwing an inverter at a DC source and calling it done.
Are there any "math for people who just want to use it" tracks in math pedagogy? I don't care a bit about proving any of it's true, or even reading others proofs of same. "Recognize which tool to apply, then apply tool", all focused on real-world use (so, yes, it wouldn't be "real" mathematics). That's the math education I'd like—try as I might, I just can't make myself care even a little about math for math's sake.

I've got Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Kline and that's kinda heading the right way, but what about whole courses of study? More books? It's more of an introduction than a thorough resource or course, and feels like it needs another four or five volumes and a lot more exercises to be really useful.

I want a mathematics education designed for all those kids (likely a large majority?) who spent math from about junior high on wondering, aloud or to themselves, why the hell they were spending so much time learning all this. One that puts that question front and center and doesn't teach a single thing without answering it really well, first.
Russia’s AI army: Drones, AI-guided missiles and autonomous tanks
That does sound delightfully nostalgic. Sometimes when I use my iPad for SSH'ing in to things, I get that same sense. I don't need a dedicated SSH box that badly, and I wouldn't gut an iMac for the privilege when it can run SSH natively, but that would be a fun box to have.
Lessons from a tech job search
Where did you take your classes?
Sure, except it should be foldl' instead.

StackOverflow is thataway -->

Edit for reason: https://wiki.haskell.org/Foldr_Foldl_Foldl'
I feel that this kind of response isn't very helpful. "Oh, it's always been bad, you just didn't know any better" is the same thing that has always been said in response to emergent issues.

America was not politically unstable in the 90's. It may have been rocky, but not unstable. Saying it was just as bad then as it is now is false.

Only a fringe element would have cheered John Hinckley Jr's attempt to assassinate Reagan in 1981, but today an attempt whether successful or not on either the Democratic or Republican front runners would get a resounding cheer from a not-insignificant section of the population.

I would hazard to say that, under the right circumstances, a single bullet could spark an internal American Conflict between the groups of people who can best be identified not by what they stand for but by what they stand against.

Trying to say that the tensions the country are facing today are equal to the tensions of the past glosses over the amplification of the screaming masses thanks to technology, the financial whirlwind created by the internet, where unimaginable fortunes can be raised and erased faster than you can blink, the lancing of the pus-filled boil of human misery that education and awareness brings, the struggle of the lowest-paid and lowest earning members of society to simply survive when the financial ladder of arbitrage no longer reaches their grasp.

Many of these things existed in some proto form in the 90's, yes, but they have grown since then and, like an abused child who becomes a sulking and angry teenager, may reach the point where they start to swing back. You can't treat the teenager like you treated the child, you're far more likely to get a black eye.
If gitlab allows uploads by dropping files outside of the textarea, it might be a bug related to that (either in the browser or more likely in gitlab). This is standard for dragging urls or files into the browser from outside when the website isn't a drop target, afaik. You might be able to write a user script to disable it.

Alternatively, if you feel like rebuilding Firefox yourself, it looks like nsBaseDragService.cpp _might_ help you with preventing stuff from being dropped anywhere; I haven't read the whole file, but going by the name, overriding aCanDrop and mCanDrop to false might help. See lines 62, 84, 92. This _might_ allow you to continue dragging stuff around but disable dropping stuff.

[1]: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/nsBaseDr...
I sometimes peruse the Daily/Weekly/Monthly trending report on Github: https://github.com/trending?since=daily
Is there a niche for a website like stackoverflow but for customer complaints? If not then I call dibs
There are still 25,000 BTC unaccounted for which no one is talking about. Even if they are sentenced to 10 years for laundering (likely only serve 7 at min security camp) they will still have at least $1 billion at today's prices. Not bad. They are damn lucky to not be charged with wire fraud for actually doing the hack. Otherwise, they could be looking at life for multiple charges. The irony is that the charge for defrauding the US govt of taxes, which carries a 5 year max sentence, is just 1/4 of a wire fraud charge for defrauding a company or individual. Somehow the later is viewed as 4x more severe or bad than defrauding the all-mighty federal government. They are making it sound like they are idiots who got beat by the system. They stand to still walk away with $1 billion.
Yes please! I have never even gotten a shot at interviews like these, its such a black box to me, and I love tests.

I would honestly pay for this without even the hope of a job, just to be able to know where I am at, feel confident if I ever get past the first screen.
TextAnalysisTool.NET
For those that dabble in large log files, this is an excellent tool for filtering through and extracting just the information you need. I've been a long time user of this program and I just realized it hasn't been linked to here on HN.
2 thoughts here:

1) This is actually why I was going back and forth on offering a trial version, and decided to use a form so that I can qualify employers who legitimately need this vs candidates just trying to game the system

2) It might not actually matter if candidates get preliminary access to Litebulb interview code bases. Our interviews aren't brainteasers that have a specific optimal solution, they're just regular feature requests, ie build a CRUD API for this new resource model, so it almost doesn't matter how long you have. From what we've seen with submissions so far, having extra time doesn't necessarily make your code quality better. Potential idea: open source all Litebulb interview codebases?
I'm torn between the two sides of this mindset. On the one had, what you says is true, if you cant protect whats yours there is a chance you wont keep it. On the other hand, I know that people who take what they haven't worked for is destined to live a life of suffering because the world is created by people who build things that make a difference. The people who take and cannot create for themselves are doomed to live a apathetic existence. That is not a life worth living for me. I think I would rather be taken from then to always have to sacrifice metal/emotional stability every time I steal something that is not mine.
As someone who works for a company that heavily utilizes Azure:

1. Try to hard to get security to be "it just works" feature

2. Too much handwavy "it's secure because we're in the cloud and say it's secure" logic going on
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you implying that you are not contributing to the mystification and idealization of mathematics?

In other words, I do not see how you are dealing with the "baggage" of learning mathematics beyond name-dropping it. In my opinion, the mysticism is the baggage. And then the rest of the blogpost reads like a conventional curriculum within the conventional academic regime with which we associate that baggage.
I'm much less worried about the risks from nuclear power than I am about global warming. But while the costs of renewables continue to fall we now seem completely incapable to building new nuclear power for a reasonable price.

While the article mentions "electricity in France was almost 40 percent cheaper than in Germany as of the first half of 2020" this is from the existing fleet power stations almost all of which were mostly built 30-40 years ago. Even France seems incapable of building new nuclear power stations at a reasonable cost:

"EDF estimated the cost at €3.3 billion and stated it would start commercial operations in 2012, after construction lasting 54 months. The latest cost estimate (July 2020) is at €19.1 billion, with commissioning planned tentatively at the end of 2022." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

And for countries which have large investments in renewable energy, nuclear seems a poor match for balancing variable output since its costs are almost all capital expenditure so it never makes sense to run at less than full capacity.