skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can I buy bread with a gold bar? Serious opening question as I have a lot of cash to convert. I don't see the benefit in having gold if I expect cash to inflate to worthlessness eventually.
Nuke strikes have a distinctive double flash that I don’t think asteroids or meteorites do.

I think they’re more referring to ‘if an asteroid hits Washington DC, Moscow,
or Beijing in the middle of what is going on now,
will everyone check their satellites for it before they launch a retaliatory strike?
Yeah, typically if you agree with them they are "freedom fighters" if you don't they're "terrorists".

In my opinion, most long running conflicts tend to have both sides doing terrible things over the course of the conflict, so its rare there is one side that is "good" and one that is "evil".
Here's the link to the (recently published) experiment proposal paper: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0087175
> One tip I'll give for people is don't rely a script.

I always write out a script before an important presentation. I number it with the corresponding slide numbers and read it out loud as I'm presenting. And now you're probably imagining falling asleep to the quiet droning of a disinterested high-schooler reading out loud in literature class, but that's only because most people never practice reading out loud effectively. I've practiced it a lot, and now my reading aloud sounds much better than me just speaking naturally. Practice it!

You're right that it's important to be able to adapt a bit, but usually that just means answering a question or two and getting back to the script, or skipping around the script a bit.
pi hole is as great as those blocklist filters people used to add into Torrent clients or using tools like PeerBlock.

It's just so faulty and pointless.
Seems like this could pair well with something like yaegi.
I understand that libraries have to prioritize what uses space in their circulating collections, but does "old book" really equal "awful book"? A few are in the awkward space between being current enough to be useful today and old enough to have historical interest, but many of them are just a little outdated in appearance and tone, which in no way means they can't be a valuable part of a library collection.
> These men are known in Russia as the “siloviki” — “men of force”, or perhaps even, in the Irish phrase, “hard men”.

Just to clarify. The word "siloviki" made from "силовые структуры", which may be translated literally as "structures of force", or less literally but preserving some meaning "armed organizations" (maybe "armed forces", but I think that in English "armed forces" doesn't include the likes of police and security guards). It refers to police, military or any other organization with a dress code that requires a gun.
Oh, my gods, I was so confused until I read your comment. I thought "people of color" as well, and looked through the entire readme trying to understand the relevance. This might be one of those times where writing out the full phrase is worthwhile
What about having more western stuff published onto IPFS? As long as there are one or two nodes in Russia that can get any content it can be easily spread.
In the case of YouTube, though, isn't this a decision made not by the state but by a corporate entity? In the case of China, censorship is top-down, whereas many of the corporate pull-outs from Russia are being driven differently. It's possible that that governmental pressure has been applied to YouTube, but the article doesn't specifically mention it. If Russian state media wants to get its word out despite the YouTube ban, it's free to seek other means of distribution, whereas the distribution of prohibited content in China is still subject to government restriction.
From the report linked, on the threat to communications between submarines and command, and the direct threat to submarines:

>> HEMP Threat To U.S. Submarines?

> HEMP attack could achieve for Russia a key objective the USSR could not achieve during the Cold War—neutralizing U.S. ballistic missile submarines at sea.

> Russian Super-EMP weapons could destroy or degrade U.S. bombers, ICBMs, SSBNs in port and their strategic C3I—including land-based VLF communications systems, TACAMO aircraft, and other redundant means of strategic command and control used to convey Emergency Action Messages (EAMs) to submarines hiding at sea. Severing their communications links to the National Command Authority would neutralize U.S. submarines, rendering them useless.

> HEMP could also be used to attack submarines on patrol at sea directly.

> A high-yield warhead (1 megaton or more) detonated for HEMP over the ocean would cover an area 2,200 kilometers in radius, a zone nearly as large as North America, with powerful E3 HEMP that would penetrate the ocean depths and possibly damage or destroy the electronics of submarines on patrol. Submarines would be especially vulnerable when deploying their very long antennae—which they need to do precisely when trying to receive EAMS.
Impact of Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification on Large PowerGrids:Texas CaseStudy
"...we find that as little as 11% of heavy duty vehicles in Texas charging simultaneously can lead to significant voltage violations on the transmission network that compromise grid reliability. Furthermore, we find that just a few dozen EVs charging simultaneously can lead to voltage violations at the distribution level..."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.04430.pdf
> There is a weird thing going on

It's not weird they're just incompetent / a bozo.
One of the most interesting bits of devops work I've done was when I was embedded with a data science team. Infrastructure for data science is just so different than traditional ops - but I feel like I was able to both help the team move more quickly and also prevent them from spending all of the companies money - so at least in that case, it worked quite well.

I've never understood why data science teams are typically so far removed from "normal" engineering teams. Maybe it's the DevOps kool-aide speaking, but in my opinion, teams should be more horizontal than vertical!
More State Lawmakers Want to Make Daylight-Saving Time Permanent
I am very aware of that. I'm just stating what i think, which is unrelated to the cruelness of this all.

The cruelty is what Putin's Russia forced others to comply to their conditions in the past, by literally violating every human norm possible and continueing this, while saying they want to "talk". Especially during so called "ceasefire" peace talks. It's despicable.
> Apparently, people don't check it out that much, but is that really a good reason for getting rid of it?

That is precisely why a public library should get rid of it. There's a limited amount of shelf space; a 60-year-old book which nobody is reading is a waste of that space.
The advantage of a wrapper, even when the underlying API call is simple, is that your program can be system-agnostic. You don't need to care at the call site whether the call eventually resolves to pthread_create() or CreateThread(). The implementation has already taken care of it.
I'd simply like to point out that Western media has been deliberately obfuscating many aspects of this conflict.

a few salient examples:
the 8+ year war in eastern Ukraine (14k dead, 30k wounded, 500k displaced)
the damming of Crimea's fresh water supply from the Dnieper (recently destroyed)
the violent seizure of state power by neo-nazis following maidan
the reincorporation of WW2 mass murderers into the national identity (postage stamps, statues, school books, parades)

I can only lament that in an increasingly interconnected modern world, wealthy globalists and oil barons can wield tech to collectively brainwash entire populations in their own living rooms: That sending weapons and mercenaries to foreign countries is noble and righteous. Strange how interfering in a nation's sovereignty and self-determination has become a hallmark of 'democratic' nations.

Apparently, we have forgotten the last 50+ years of conflicts.

I expect to be flagged.
hugged to death it seems.
Countries whose temperate data this site has: United States
Until you can cause phase shifts of other matter to and from information, it's an obvious no.

Oh, you're going to take a liquid, bake it into information, then freeze it back into a liquid? Cool, cool
It's information in the Shannon sense of information entropy, which is about the rarity of sequences of bits, not the notion of bits themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
I could imagine a bus on a fixed route not having controls. This doesn't have to apply universally...

There could definitely be a number of use-cases beyond taxis/individual cars. This is why top-tier regulations like this need to be broad. You can refine it at the vehicle category level.
This. Weapons supply is somewhat gray zone. Russian know about it, don't like it and have openly protested, but it is probably not a good strategy to retaliate for this reason alone. NATO providing intelligence to Ukraine is actually already deeper into the gray zone, but such thing is harder to prove. However a no fly zone means firing weapons at Russian aircraft and is already a direct confrontation that sooner or later will lead to a retaliation. A single incident will probably not lead to escalation (e.g. as the downed Russian plane in Turkey during the Syrian war), however a persistent confrontation that is interfering with their military strategy will definitely escalate things a lot.
I know, but Lazarus does not support that...
While attending church camp the summer after Prety Hate Machine released, the preacher started quoting some of the lyrics. My friend and I got in trouble for singing along. My fondest memories of church was when the hypocrisy just popped out and smacked you in the face.
The blood or tissue needed to seed the process means it will never be considered vegan.
I grew up in a Jehovah's witness household and my dad burned my harry potter books after a particularly zealous talk about harry potter and the association books had with the occult and satan. Fun times
Considering that any mass as part of the launch vehicle will have a major trade off in time to intercept?

It’s way better to use the asteroid or comet itself. Every bit of mass (or second of delay to launch) you add to the intercept vehicle allows the bolide to get that much closer, requiring that much more escalating delta-v be added to it to clear the planet in time.

If the object is caught and intercepted far away, it may take only the slightest nudge. Up close and personal, it might require almost vaporizing it.
Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8
Nth of month (with month sometimes elided) is most definitely standard English.
I've been in orgs where it was on same team, and on different teams, both as a modeler and a data engineer. So far, I personally prefer when they're on the same team.

Pros of same-team: fewer ideas "lost in translation" between data scientists and data engineers, better understanding of which datasets/flows are top priority, can sometimes share some stack components and help datascientists improve their code, better chances of getting data scientists to contribute their own batch jobs (there's just more trust as opposed to dealing with some "engineering" team that is less connected to you)

Cons of same team: data engineers may not be as in-the-loop on what's happening with production datasets, may not be as tightly integrated with a devops team, may get overly caught up in "business logic" as opposed to "plumbing".
> our current predicament was correctly forecast by computer models well before 1980

So what? There are false climate predictions from back then too, and nobody knew which ones would turn out to be true or false. It was an immature field and predictions were all over the place, including global cooling.

If I produce a dissenting climate prediction, will you produce evidence that that specific piece of research was both paid for by the fossil fuel industry and known to be false by the general climatologist community?
Most of the Russian nukes are likely to be usable, especially the SLBMs. Even when the Russian economy collapsed and their conventional forces fell apart they still managed to scrape together enough funding for their nuclear forces.

Our current ability to intercept Russian ballistic missiles is extremely limited. We might get a few at most. There just aren't many interceptors deployed.
Any source on this? I knew about the relative success, but was unaware of the combo with artillery ( although it makes sense)
Reminds rebirth on desktop and audio-something, an app made in Flash.

The Flash app in the browser had better performances and stability though. This app panics as soon as one pressed the random button.

The Flash app had effects and more powerful synthesizers and it was 15+ years ago.
> What is not happening in Ukraine however is a genocide.

How sure are you of that? It wouldn't be the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Temp in Celsius doesn’t need getting any extra data :)
You let someone else do all the hard work and download their DRM-free torrent.
Is a Major General not a very high rank?
https://www.pine64.org/availability-and-shipping-status/ is the canonical source for what's in stock and when it'll ship.
Paywall removed:

https://archive.ph/uKp73
If the sawdust and twigs was just going to be dumped to rot, then it would give off methane, so similar to food composting, burning that output can be GHG negative. Its not going to be a primary source of power, because solar and wind are so ridiculously cheap and scalable, but every little bit helps in the short term. Once fossil fuels are elimanted it'll make sense to do other things with them, rather than burn them.
One specific example might be recent panics over "misinformation" (e.g. covid misinformation), what I would call the idea that incorrect, contrarian, or offensive speech online isn't just bad, but fundamentally dangerous. Even if you believe this is true, there is absolutely a powerful moral panic movement that exaggerates the terribleness of misinformation, and generally places itself in opposition to free speech in its solutions that call for more and broader censorship of online platforms.

Of course this perspective relies on a few base assumptions, such as: 1) free speech exists as an ideal aside from legal protections, 2) corporate censorship is a threat to this ideal, and 3) misinformation isn't as bad as the alarmists claim it is. If you don't agree with those points, it might not appear as a moral panic to you, which may explain some of the confusion.
There are two failure modes. It can also stick. I've only experience a stuck throttle cable, not a snapped one.
I rather prefer comments that telegraph agree or disagree. You can tell me all about how long you've had your laptop and what you do with it later, but start with the point.
One thing that isn't very intuitive – on a map dealing with temperature you'd immediately expect a range of red to blue colors to represent hotter/colder regions. In this case, maybe a different color scheme would help in representing # days more clearly.
A bit harsh to call it inane observation. Going by the original example, the challenge is the lack of good c++ libraries for common tasks in systems programming (like Sockets, or networking - still experimental after 40+ years!!) and the only option is to directly embed C code into your C++ code. Other languages will keep the distinction between your C code and the host code. Python for ex. might have C code behind the scenes, however you will interact with the C library in a pythonic way. Your mental mode of your python program (regarding lifetime/memory of objects) is consistent.

In contrast, with C++ your program has Hodge podge of high-level constructs like std::vector, string, RAII etc.. and suddenly you are in the void*, malloc, free land with your C code. The mental model of lifetime/memory of objects in your program is inconsistent and burdensome. People would rather program everything in C, at least it will be consistent albeit very low level.
Peloton is price competitive with standalone (ie: not tacked onto a big-box gym membership) spin classes.

I don't think Peloton is worth a trillion dollars, but the market is serves is real.
The reality of information is pretty well accepted. Take the black hole information paradox for example, which observes that 1. Hawking radiation means that black holes eventually evaporate, and 2. information about the infalling matter cannot be destroyed, so where does the information go after the black hole is evaporated? This study proposes a different way to test the reality of information that is a bit more... experimentally accessible than an event horizon.
phoscyon is really good. I've been using it for 15 years. Roland Cloud has its own TB303 plugin I believe.
Hard disagree with rule #2:

> 2 – Present at most 12 slides, no matter the length of the talk

The longer you sit on one slide, the more boring your presentation gets. Make hundreds of slides! Most should flow directly into the next (adding a single bullet, highlighting something else, emphasizing different parts of a visualization, etc.)

That "rule" is directly in conflict with rules 4.5 and 7:

> 4.5 – Visual, visual, visual

> 7 – No complex slides, whether text or images

You can't get by on 12 slides if each slide is supposed to be super visual but also not complex. Make 100!
Which raises the question... Can I as a consumer put a big pump in my back yard to pump water uphill (paying the price cap), and then own a company that generates power from the water flowing down the hill, and get paid wholesale rates, profiting from the difference?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/facebook-offic...
> I am not concern-trolling.

Don't take it personally. Most HN readers take their marching orders from NPR, CNN, BBC, r/poltics, etc.

Engineers are notorious for their Gel-Mann amnesia and assume that the same Western propaganda arms that get computer security, cryptography, venture capital, genomics, spaceflight, battery chemistry, and software development so catastrophically wrong happen to be paragons of unassailable truth when reporting on the actions and motivations of nations and leaders that coincidentally happen to be potential threats to FVEY power.

Offering a slightly different analysis or opinion than the lockstep talking points provided by the FVEY-aligned "free" press is, by default, going to be construed as trolling or foreign influence, at best.

Just speak your truth, accept the downvotes, and be happy with the gnashing of teeth.
Coastal LA - the only place in the US with a liveable climate that doesn't have hurricanes.
that picture only captures, like 5-10% of what you see as you pass through there.

I think it's always ridiculously represented as "hurr this is what America is!"

It has every chain business there because it's the intersection of major highways where there's no other meaningfully-sized rest stops around for hours.
Semi related anecdote: I was using DDG yesterday to do some research on mold remediation and effects of mold on humans. Page after page of naturopathic and holistic healing type things, usually repeated. Only one result for an overly generic CDC brochure. No ads for mold remediation services, thankfully, but I was pretty disappointed in the results.

Spoiler: Google was basically the same, but with ads.

I had to ask myself if I would rather see those and just skip them, or if I would rather have those results removed. I am still not sure.
> Not to be snarky but

Yeah. Exactly.

Why should I want to earn millions while doing something I despise. As if money was worth living against my values. Not everybody buys into this ideology.

I actually don't do things purely for monetary reasons. Gladly my parents instilled some better values in me.

To be clear - I definitely have no problem with earning money. I absolutely like to make money if it coincides with my values. But only then.
mpv can be convinced to rip most blurays, but getting the requisite magic files can be a bit of a trip. You're looking for the latest "KEYDB.cfg".

There's also still a chunk of blurays that it just won't rip because they're too sophisticated, although shocking few releases seem to be releasing those. (Must be a lot more expensive to make them.) You also run the risk that if you're not careful about what you put in your drive, you can have the latest Bluray disk revoke your drive simply by it spinning up and doing the initial read before you even ask for anything, from what I gather. I'm not sure if this is a current risk, but it's always changing.

I've also found there's some confusion about what constitutes a 'track number'. DVD only has one, Bluray seems to have two. Most releases keep both in sync, but not all of them. The STTNG Blurays were a bit tricky to get the right shows off in the right order.
Yes, in fact, I'm switching off W2 as of April and am planning a 2 month sabbatical EOY. I'm thinking small contracts, otherwise strict 4 day weeks, but gone are the days of making 100k+ only to just suffer every Friday and not really work...
There was a snippy saying from a book I read that stuck in my head:

If it flies, fucks, or floats: rent it.

This was in a story about never buying a boat because it's a giant money pit for maintenance. I'd imagine it would include cars if that was possible, which is finally becoming a reality.

I believe renting should be the default and ownership is the alternative for people who need it (like pickup trucks for work and maybe commuters).
How could this possibly be a "state of matter" ("the fifth" in contrast to sold, liquid, gas and plasma, the standard four)? Entropy and information are qualities which all states of matter have.

And Information as a quality of matter is already taken into account by a variety of physical theories - none of which label information a "state of matter"?
Just because the US does a bad thing doesn't mean Russia is justified in doing it.
> The reason it is so rich is that it has developed inclusive liberal democratic institutions that have enabled it to rather consistently make better choices than the rest of the world.

Simply false. It's because the west was able to steal continents from native and aboriginal peoples and colonize indians, africans, etc. The west became rich before much of the west became a "liberal democracy".

> People like you are unable to believe this, and choose to misguide yourselves that it’s “military imperialism” or “propaganda”.

I'm from the wealthiest country in the world. I know how we became rich. Not sure where you are from and what "liberal democracy" has to do with anything. It wasn't "liberal democracy" which allowed us to expand from 13 states to 50 states. It wasn't "liberal democracy" that allowed Rockefeller to become the wealthiest man in the world via Standard Oil. Britain didn't become wealthy via liberal democracy. Neither did france and the rest of "the west".

> The Soviets had both of those things and what happened to them?

They lost the cold war. That's what happened. If you lose a war, you suffer. Applies just as much as to a liberal democracy as it does to a communist state.

Which country became wealthy from liberal democracy? Not a single one. Not taiwan, not south korea, not japan, not the US, not any country in europe. The trick is you become rich and then you can play around with liberal democracy. I used to believe the liberal democracy nonsense too. Then I started to think and like most propaganda, it turns out it is nonsense.
If Putin Owes You Money, Good Luck Collecting It