skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even Russia will not be able to imprison everyone :)

Although maybe that action will suddenly motivate SMS companies to find ways of actually dealing with SMS spam properly.
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> The point is really that a lot of people are intimidated and compliant and will hand a device over when requested. This is never a good thing. Even if you’re legitimately a victim, you shouldn’t even let them at your stuff.

Did you read the parents comment? Resistance might work in the UK but in places like India, unless you’re well connected the police can make your life miserable.
Seems like a really slow, cumbersome technique to monitor people.

On the contrary, this is evil genius. Once the rumour spread that happens, people stop communicating about the war.

At the human level there are probably plenty of low-tech techniques to keep yourself safe like deleting messages or using coded language.

99.9% of the population wont take any risks (e.g. even receiving text messages about the war). They will closely monitor their phone and block anybody who dont do the same.
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Word of mouth. Mouth to mouth is cpr. ;)
You're right about it being very safe and emissions free. It would be a great choice if we wanted to solve CO2 emissions.

But the reporting around last week's attack on Zaporizhzhia illustrates why it's not the future. The "paper of record" reporting vague experts' fears about a "cloud of radioactive isotopes over Europe"[1]. The Ukrainian President saying: "If there's an explosion, it's the end of Europe"[2]

How can nuclear overcome that level of FUD? No idea what it would take, honestly.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/science/ukraine-nuclear-p...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/04/ukraine-nuclea...
Yup. ICO investigations into this practice: https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/documents/2617838/ico...

and https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/documents/2620095/ico...
I think the author might be overlooking just how weird something can be while still being a function.

Let f(x):R->{1,0} be such that f(x)=1 if x is rational and 0 otherwise.
Are they pulling over passing Bentleys the peruse the phones of those inside? If one of these cops sees another cop passing, do they check their phone? Do they go into the senate and check senator's phones? Do they go to the financial district and look at trader's phones for signs of insider trading?

This is at least profiling or a discriminatory style of policing. They go to areas that have "those people" (whatever that means for this context) and do their policing there, avoiding the rich & powerful.

It's also a digital strip search in the street. If this is a valid style of policing, why not just digitally search everyone's phones NSA-style? Could it be that NSA-style wouldn't be discriminatory enough (a rich person might get caught)? Could it be that the psychological effects on the policed population are one of the motivations?
Towards an Internet of Proof?
Gravity is not uniform. It varies geographically
I feel like this is something that people who use a certain language repeat to themselves until they believe it.

Go is big enough that this certainly doesn't hold for tens of thousands of developers.
I really don't understand why everybody is making this out to be some kind of impossible goal for Germany to reverse course.

We are truly doomed as civilizations if we don't know how to adapt and change to current circumstances.
The U.K. isn’t “such places”. There are plenty of places where the cops are so indemnified and corrupt that it’d make your head spin. You have little choice but to go with the shakedown (it’s often a bribe they want), unless you are prepared to go to jail and face unknown consequences on a point of principle.

I’ve been there, I’ve done that, I keep a €50 in my passport when travelling in those parts, it’s acceptable identification if it’s what they’re after, if it isn’t, it was in there accidentally.
Activists are using ads to sneak real news to Russians about Ukraine
We should probably aim to have 50% over provisioned capacity for energy production at the national level, and chaos monkey it to ensure that it's resilient.
In the current context, it should be noted that the EU's dependence on Russia and its sphere of influence (Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) for uranium is more or less compatible with that of coal, gas, and oil; for the US, it is even worse.

In 2020 only 0.5% of the uranium supply in the EU was domestic (+ 1.6% re-enriched), but the percentage from the Russian sphere of influence was as follows:[1]

20.2 % Russia
19.2 % Kazakhstan
2.6 % Uzbekistan

Total: 42.0 %

The figures for the US in 2020 were as follows:[2]

16 % Russia
22 % Kazakhstan
8 % Uzbekistan

Total: 46 %

[1] Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

[2] Source: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/where-our-uraniu...
The Man in the High Castle adaption by Amazon was fantastic in this. The Nazi cities were beautiful. They were orderly, clean, everyone was well dressed and nice. Infrastructure was top notch and there were only very small hints that something was off. It was the type of NIMBY paradise that the rich Californians would kill for.

What I have found to be a fantastic guiding principle for fascism in the West is the saying of a Peruvian dictator: "for my friends: anything, for my enemies: the law!". We're seeing this right now as the West has completely re-written the rules of The Game for the sake of hurting Russia and Russians. Going to be an interesting decade as the world re-shapes to adjust for the rule change and the West likely becomes more of an authoritarian fascist totality.
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You do realize that PWA support on MacOS Is a 100% and on par with windows right?

You can get edge or chrome on Mac too.

The problems with WebKit compatibility is more about the functionalities, which is what framework like tauri try to adresses.

Look, I will concede that maybe there’s some specific app where electron really make sense, but there’s no way that applies to all the apps. There’s no way that Trello needs electron, there’s no way that your new pomodoro app need electron. There’s no way postman needs electron too cause there’s literally some people who made an open source PWA version of it, and to get local host support you can just get their chrome extension.

It is no longer : it’s better than no app, cause there are definitely way better alternatives for most electron use cases.

I’ve also downloaded chrome less, which enables me to get a wrapper for figma and Trello. I choose to make them use my safari browser, and both of them takes way less space and are reaaallly faster.
uh... Taiwan GDP is in roughly 90 percentile in the world.
> Ironically, the plan to finally shutting them down was made by the pro-nuclear conservative party.

That is... not really true?

The plan to shut them down was initiated by the SPD following the SPD/Green election of '98. They also voted to ban the building of new plants.

When the CDU was elected in 2009, they decided to extend the existing plants' lifetimes by 8 to 14 years. This was quite unpopular, and if they went back on that idea following fukushima it was mostly because they were being hammered by the Greens (Baden-Wuttemberg went Green after 50 years of CDU rule).

When put to a vote, the only people who objected were Die Linke because they thought a 10 years deadline to shut down the plants was too long.
I prefer Javascript/Go/Python because most of my code is actually doing something instead of just conforming to a Gang Of Four pattern designed to paper over the shortcomings of my tool.

I too want my programmers to be thinking about and solving my business problems, not writing boilerplate.
I think you mean to say natural gas is cleaner than coal. It's obviously not cleaner than nuclear.
He says continuous function
A similar case of a forensic lab being a perjury factory was the Motherisk program in Ontario, which forged drug detection in hair samples to remove kids from custodial care. These systems are rotten.

In politics, you can see people who are corrupt like this getting rewarded with promotions for having taken one for the team. I see it in companies as well, where if you take on the risk from committing fraud, you can use it as leverage.
There are numerous cases where I see managers telling subordinates to fudge data of all kinds, and the ones who don't lie get managed out, and the ones who do lie get promoted. The tactic is to get someone to do something compromising or illegal on your behalf, so you can take credit for the outcome, but the person bullied into lying holds the risk. The only people who ever get persecuted or prosecuted are the ones who threaten to give away the game. The dynamic is covered in the concept of a Moral Maze (https://hbr.org/1983/09/moral-mazes-bureaucracy-and-manageri...).

You can't fix corruption and adulteration. The only way out is to fork a new organization and create a gate that prevents the corruption from taking root in the new org, and even then I've seen it creep back. The alternative is to make grisly examples, but nobody has the stomach for that.
Maybe the parent poster means US Customs and Border protection? That’s different from the TSA which could potentially search you leaving the country, or on internal flights.
Going to need to do this real soon. Thanks for posting this!
I recently had a passport check within Schengen that wasn't on list of temporary exceptions [1]. I did not have it in me to say no even when I knew it was very likely illegal. I might not have gotten officially arrested, but they would have likely taken me off the train and thus having to buy a new ticket and lose 2 hours of my day.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/policies/schengen-borders-...
I think Tim Cook will pick up the pace to diversify the plants so that he would have the option.
Nearly every Building uses Boilers for heating
The NSA program in question was terminated in 2007, when that part of the PATRIOT Act expired and wasn’t reapproved.

To be clear: law or not, the NSA’s program was an unacceptable breach of civil liberties. But it is not comparable in domain or in historical context to Russia’s domestic surveillance.
Users most commonly get a lot more than they pay for. It may not be everything, but it’s pretty clear that it’s more than they pay for, on average.
Putin is an oligarch. He is doing what keeps himself in power. The risk he is taking on with this war can easily wipe him out. If you just want to stay a regional oligarch you simply wouldn't take this risk unless you had to.
See, but, this is acceptable because you just buy another oven that doesn't require WiFi. Easy right? Until all manufacturers require it.
reality > utopia

realpolitik > ideology

You have to do what you have to do. The massive energy deficit Europe has always meant these policies of "renewables" were vaporware, and were going to run into a brick wall of reality. And the same will be true of needing to continue buying gas from Russia, just watch.

Europeans are funny because they naively get led around by the humanitarian and morality propaganda of US, while US continues to buy Russian and Saudi Oil, and just yesterday was meeting with Maduro in Venezuela (world's largest oil reserves) probably to make arrangements to bring his oil back online for US, and be their next Saudi Arabia. Rhetoric around his treatment of his people or Guaido being their guy was always nonsense, now they secure their resources while Europe economy withers. You "go green" while rest of world, China, Russia, US continue to consume cheaper and more productive oil, gas and nuclear, and increase relative economic and geopolitical power at your expense.

People should read up on Mackinder's heartland theory, and the geographic pivot [0]. US policy has always been to keep Europe down and Germany and Russia apart; if they were allies, US would lose a huge vassal they can lead around for their own geopolitical aims.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_Hist...
Seems like it will stop some corruption and force some corrupt officials to use the “stuffed mattress” as a bank technique.
Absolutely not. While FM has a bit lower bandwith than healthy ears, digital adds fake high frequencies.

There is just no way to cram enough data in the same signal to make digital any better.
I stopped tinkering with electronics despite being a full-time embedded software engineer. I have designed small boards, but I only know enough EE to get myself in trouble. I prefer working with EEs that know their stuff, where our skills can compliment each others’.

I no longer work on “hobby” projects; such things become an albatross around my neck. If you deploy a hobby project in your life, you must maintain it. Forever. For that time cost, I want to work on a product that could go into production and pay for its own maintenance.

Unfortunately, I cannot stand being around people anymore. I had my entire life savings stolen by an ex, with the government’s help. When I tried to open back up and make new friends after that shit show was over, I was drugged and raped by the first guy that I invited into my house in over two years; he was never even arrested for what he did. And after over 25 years, I stopped playing music, because those “friends” all actively abandoned me when I decided to start carrying a sidearm daily. Collectively, these events destroyed my belief in the just rule of law and the goodness of humanity.

Overall, the above factors make me read articles like this with a mixture of excitement and possibility combined with depression and hopelessness. I do not have the resources for a side project, financially or emotionally. I cannot design and launch a side project, even though I am fully capable and that is what I most want to do.
Note: this does not necessarily mean new nuclear.

Keep the current nuclear going, build renewable sources of electricity, and retire fossil fuel plants first. Once those are gone continue with renewables building and then (perhaps) shutdown nuclear.

Building new nuclear would be a separate discussion from the above.
And yet there are hardly any software written in Haskell or Ocaml that are widely used or have any notable positive impact on the modern digital world, compared to those written in languages like Go, C++ or Python.

edit: ps: Big fan of OCaml, but have since moved on to Go and Python for getting things done in the real world.
It's certainly going to be, and is already, an extinction event for many other species. While it's true that humans probably won't go extinct as easily, billions of lives may be lost to collapsing ecosystems. We can't feed ourselves at large scale without an ecosystem to support us. At this point, that risk is looking much, much worse than the risk carried by nuclear waste in the long term.
> but wouldn't a niche language make it harder to find developers

Maybe? There are less of them, but sometimes there are great people who really want to use a language you’d have a hard time hiring otherwise. But then you have to make sure they’re not just into the language. Some people complain “we’re having a hard time hiring experienced developers in our area at rates we can afford for our weird language.”, but you have to wonder if “for our weird language” is actually the difference maker there.

> possibly increase hardware costs if It's not optimized as well as JS?

I don’t exactly think of JS as “optimized”. Most languages will be faster. Certainly anything in the APL family if you’re doing that type of work.
Where is the electricity going to come from? Especially if they are closing nuclear and coal-fired power plants. They are building some renewables, but prices for electricity were high this year because wind speeds were low.
> out of one side of their mouth while demanding gay wedding cakes get baked out of the other

Sexuality is a protected characteristic, and it's illegal to discriminate people based on such characteristics.
And he won't be bombing his own.
If you can't write it or pay for it, and it's providing a critical function, you only have a business because someone gave their product away for free.
Try doing the same while being black in the US. Being arrested would be the best outcome that you wish would happen to you.
Not sure what you mean. Under that proposal :visited wouldn't be available for styling or scripting except for links the site could already know that you visited.
Making that back-to-the-office hybrid work won’t be easy
It shows up as a CCID reader with a card attached for PGP stuff.
By the way, Kevin Rothrock is the host of the podcast ‘The Naked Pravda’ from Meduza, which is one of the main independent news outlets in Russian now—created by former staff of Lenta.ru after that came under ownership of an oligarch and became pro-government. ‘The Naked Pravda’ is in English and serves the audience who would like to know about Russian affairs from people closer to the ground. In fact, it's quite worthy even for those who speak Russian and have other news sources.

https://meduza.io/en/podcasts/the-naked-pravda or https://meduza.global.ssl.fastly.net/en/podcasts/the-naked-p...

Also perhaps https://meduza.io/en and https://meduza.global.ssl.fastly.net/en for text—though that has much less material than in Russian, and I can't personally vouch for it.

As a gentle reminder: after being declared a ‘foreign agent’ and losing risk-averse advertisers, Meduza lives on direct contributions from readers. Given both the devaluation of the ruble and the financial sanctions (as Meduza is not incorporated in Russia), these contributions will likely shrink, and we might lose one of the last outlets with actual good journalism.
I think at the moment there is the soft problem of delays in results or potential rejection for unknown reasons. You also don't have to tell them who you're staying with either but a rejection can be pretty devastating so there is a strong incentive to give more than what is explicitly required. It was clear such encroachments on civil liberates were coming so I've never done anything on my social accounts that would upset the establishment, so even in my own case it has had a chilling effect.
This ^. You know what's up.
Putin is a particular kind of evil; the autocratic, personally liable kind. He murders and jails opposition, which I find more abhorrent than the bureaucratic and societal evils of American power. While American atrocities have equaled autocratic ones, there’s rarely a single person you can hold accountable for embodying our bad ideas and behaviors.
See updates in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578163
We are about to release 1.0. The new site is not entirely ready. This is a preview. https://test.zotonic.com.
Tried signing up. The system accepted my address but I never got a reply/verification code.

Sending issues perhaps? If it can't be trusted to send a simple reply, why should I trust my email to it?
Good luck trying to convince our anti-government regulation-hating culture to demand sensible laws restricting corporate abuse like this. It's considered "free market" and "job creating" and "freedom" to be maliciously exploited by corporatists.
you seem quite sure … about US-based businesses not being free to publicly protest against war in form of denial of services: Google is littered with many corporations doing exactly that and issuing press releases to that effect.
But why would they remove the forums? They could just stop slowing new posts.
This is a very interesting question that has also bothered me for quite long.

The term was used by Ward Cunningham to name first wiki because of the distinct feature that allowed users to perform quick edits. He borrowed the term wiki from a quick airport shuttle bus in Hawaii. I think wikiwiki means quick in Hawaiian.

After trying many options throughout the years to host my own personal wiki, I have settled down on plain text files written in org, that satisfy certain conventions. For a personal wiki, quick edits are a bit pointless since there's just one user. If you go for plain text files, everything is easy to edit and you can get many other perks like version control.

Most relevant ideas for a personal wiki can be borrowed from Zettelkasten, which is exactly that. A personal knowledge base.
Germany consumes the equivalent of 3300 PJ of natural gas per year, mostly for heating. This is an average heating power of 105 GW. Probably less than that in summer, and a lot more in winter. Considering how expensive nuclear power is, I don't see that kind of capacity being added anywhere in Europe. Renewables might have a better chance against fossil fuel in the near future.
Personally, I think monads are hard to understand in Haskell mostly due to its quite complex and comparatively ad hoc type system.

Let's remove all the complexities that are introduced by the static type system for a moment, and focus on the essence. To illustrate the key point, let's use a dynamically typed logic programming language such as Prolog, where we think in terms of relations instead of functions.

Suppose we have a predicate definition of this shape:

pred(S0, S) :-
goal_1(S0, S1),
goal_2(S1, S2),
goal_3(S2, S3),
...,
goal_N(SN1, S).

In this case, the arguments clearly follow a pattern: They are "threaded through", starting from S0, and ending with S, in a sequence of the form S0 → S1 → S2 → ⋯ → S. This shape of argument passing is common, for example if you want to describe successive "modifications" of a data structure in the form of relations between an initial state S0 of the data, several intermediary states (S1, S2, ...), and a final state S. Or successive applications of side-effects: Think of sending packets over a network, or writing a sequence of strings to a file, where each such relation affects the state of a socket or other entity. Or when describing strings, where the string becomes successively "more known" in the form of further and further instantiation of a list of characters.

You can think of monads as mechanism to make this cumbersome explicit passing of arguments implicit. For example, since the arguments that are passed around follow such a clear pattern, we could write the example above equivalently as:

pred -->
goal_1,
goal_2,
goal_3,
...,
goal_N.

and let the compiler do the necessary transformation for us. In fact, that's exactly what also happens in Prolog, using definite clause grammars (DCGs), which you can think of as a mechanism to implicitly describe such a passing of arguments, so that you do not have to write them yourself.
I’d like to recommend the game DEFCON by Introversion Software. It’s not a proper war simulation but it is an excellent game/simulation regarding the concept of MAD. It’s fundamentally a game where you win by not being the biggest loser. It covers the building tensions and eventual first send and even third strike nuclear warfare quite well from a simplistic high level.
In your mind how does this scenario play out?

Are you just living in the "second OS"? Meaning you don't actually use your phone while you are outside? Or are you going to just casually reboot your phone and boot into the "second OS" while the officer is standing there demanding your phone?
They still had some independent news, up until now. They still could access a lot of website, up until now.

Their borders are still pretty open, no? Just watch as they will close them down soon.
Union pay is a debit card system and not credit card system. So I am not sure it will help considering the purpose of credit card usage are different.
The Police in Canada are telling people flying FCK TRUDEAU flags, that they are now banned on Parliament Hill.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1500153323495866372

He wants to pass Bill C36 and Bill C11 that would further monitor the internet and censor information. This is a western country not Russia.
I think people need to get back to fighting this Authoritarian bend.