skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The page you mentioned is perfectly readable here in the US unlike much of the Propaganda on YouTube.

Propaganda is effective else it wouldn't be of any use. People judge veracity in large part via ubiquity and truthiness not intelligent analysis therefore it is useful to block it as any other munitions heading your way. People can still get the other side of the argument by going directly to the source without organically encountering lies on YouTube and being influenced.

Not blocking the Kremlin but blocking YouTube channels seems like a very balanced correct response.

P.S. nobody cares about Hunter Biden
> [Putin] felt the US had deliberately toppled Saddam and his regime based on the false pretext of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.

What's with this "felt" in the article? Is nypost trying to say that there were WMDs?
Breville Control Freak. Also, although it’s current vaporware, the Njori.
I hate the cancel culture of the woke left. If there is a silver lining to it, it is that it is being used against Putin and his goons. I truly do not think, apart from the hair-trigger cancellation machine of the left, that we would have been able to respond so quickly to Putin. But that still doesn't justify (to me) the existence of cancel culture in the West.
Control rods aren't tipped with iron. Iron has a positive coefficient of reactivity.
Admitting ignorance is no indication that the number is closer to what you wish it were. Increasing uncertainty increases uncertainty. Increased uncertainty undermines investment, which depends mainly on confidence.

But literally every reactor ever built depended more on government extraction and concentration of capital (i.e., politics) than on market forces, making it all even less predictable.
but it does keep dandelions from extinction.
Breville's the Control Freak does it well, but $1500!
China struggling with food insecurities? IIRC China have taken over the Netherlands as the world's largest producer
FYI; looks like your early comments attracted too many downvotes and your account was automatically shadowbanned.
On top of that, the west and the mainstream media are obsessed with finding the next villain of the month to report about (Putin), since the hundreds of millions of readers are now no longer scared of Covid (The previous villain).

So once again fear and outrage sells and generates more clicks to their articles, and the mainstream news media goes ahead and pushes more of its propaganda onto a war that should not have happened in the first place.

Maybe we should expect China to do the same to Taiwan.
> which happens both when watching Japanese movies with English or French subtitles, or English or French movies with Japanese subtitles.

Also, though with less frequency, sometimes when the subtitles are in the same language as the speech, which I agree is distracting. (I am monolingual, so do not experience it otherwise.) But I had rather experience that dislocation than dubbing, which to me reliably ruins even a beautiful movie. Of course à chacun son goût!
Giant blobs in Earth's mantle may explain Africa's weird geology
> A couple of $100M political donations may win hearts and bi-partisan support of some decision makers in one powerful country. An offer to Belize along the lines of "Hey, we will fund higher education of all your citizens for the next 50 years if you let us secede" may get people listening. "Hey, we will build several top-class hospitals and huge solar farms if you recognize us" may interest neighboring countries.

You can already "buy" a small/third-world country with that kind of money. No need to go mess up with an island.
1.6 GWe is huge for a single nuclear reactor. EPRs are on the high end. Most nuclear reactors are closer to 1 GWe. Nuclear plants with multiple reactors on a site certainly do often go well above 1.6.
I’m assuming there is an option to turn it into cryptocurrency too?

(At least, that’s what Coinstar in the US has become.)
It's informative to realize that a substantial portion of movies also fail a gender reversed version of the Bechdel test (though sure, smaller than the original test)... Not only does it reflect the representation in main roles, it also counts films which are about men and women interacting as fails.
Worm Watch 2003
You know that Rx in .Net kind of inspired all of the popular reactive libraries/frameworks, right?

Other than that: if you go to a .Net shop who want Microsoft Certified Developers and you expect anything than low quality-stay-on-the-Enterprise-support-contract-rails then that's the problem.

> Nah MSSQL, and all the tables are named and optimised according to EntityFramework and if you have to suffer through ODBC issues that’s a you problem!

That's not in any way true - it's an ORM and it can handle any database naming scheme you happen to have. I still wouldn't use it - ORMs in general are a bad idea outside of a couple of use-cases (i.e. CRUD-heavy systems).
I can't speak to availability from Russia, but Mullvad is frequently recommended.
Bad Economics
>The screens, which were developed by the startup Cooler Screens, use a system of motion sensors and cameras to display what's inside the doors — as well as product information, prices, deals and, most appealing to brands, paid advertisements. The tech provides stores with an additional revenue stream and a way to modernize the shopping experience.

I really hate the trend of putting "smart" screens and networked ads everywhere. Those startup bros can go jump off a cliff with their trash ideas.

Is it really so hard for retailers to stick to their core competencies and keep the transaction simple between us? I give them money, they give me goods/services. No need to get random middlemen involved.
I've been at a store that used this technology and it was obnoxious. I really don't see how it will catch on or survive in the real world. The cost to run these screens 24/7 is enormous, especially in a world where energy costs are increasing. I doubt the ad revenue they make will come anywhere near recouping the costs after the honeymoon period and investor cash runs out.
Russia Shut Down Free Press During Ukraine Invasion. Risk Jail to Tell the Truth
About 1mm.

You're correct, but times change, and the carbon steel wok over a giant burner isn't very suitable for apartment cooking anyway. There are now works designed for use on induction (with aluminium conduction to achieve a heat gradient), and they work pretty well. Also much healthier for the occupants, not as hot in the kitchen and cheaper to operate.

In countries with 240v/10A sockets a plug in electric wok is fine for home cooking. On 110v/15A it is still better than electric radiative cooking, but not as good as gas.

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005003076266949.html
There is some dividing line between crappy ones that pulse on and off. And the better ones with fine PWM control. I don't know where that is and the product literature is unhelpful. I suspect it's in the $250 range.

All I can say is I tried a $60 unit, a $75 unit and a $120 unit and they suck. All of them pulse on and off at lower power settings.
Indeed. SMM exists because it was unfeasible to require the OS to provide necessary power management features at a time when running DOS and unmodified Win2.x and Win3.x were crucial features.

Thus 386SL was born, with SMM mode so that the firmware could hijack DOS without being stopped by accidental modification of interrupt table.

A bunch of stuff was later loaded into SMM for various reasons, both more and less benign. Turion X2 CPUs used SMM resident handler to synchronise cpus when going into deeper sleep levels (iirc C3 required the SMM handler, C1 and C2 were doable without, but C1E required it as well)
> What does "shouldn't have access to" mean?

It means that the stakeholders of the system, normally its owners, do not mean for you to have access. Here's one way you can estimate whether the owners intend that you should have access:

Imagine an in-person conversation with the owner or controller of the data, or their most knowledgeable representative. If you asked them verbally whether you may access the data, and they said "no," then you "shouldn't" have access to the data.

> If you are granted access to a valid request then what other interpretation can there be . . .

See above. This is also the interpretation that will be relevant in court if you are sued or arrested, so mark it carefully.
Or the oil companies might just be taking profits from their stockpile because they can.
Most of these are strawman setups, except for #6 (Boomer code) which is not a myth but a truth. I've spent a lot of years in the MS ecosystem and despite their attempt to entice many younger developers to .NET (and making the world more complex as a result) it's grey-haired devs like myself that have stayed loyal.
I’m working on a renovation but will be sticking with gas. EMFs from induction cooking exceed the legal limit and we like to cook on high heat. If you are not fully covering the induction burner, using a silicone handle, and standing at least a foot away you can be getting an unhealthy dose of emf. It’s non ionizing but it’s so intense that I am personally concerned.

https://kitcheninduction.net/induction-cooking-safe/
Evolution of Volatiles on the Moon
Besides the annoying reality of not being able to see stock levels on product, when the screens go out (they do), you can't see what's in the cooler without opening the door.

A solution looking for a problem for sure. Maybe next they'll try one of those fancy transparent OLED panels and run ads on it!
The thing i see a lot of people bringing up as the large problem with .Net is naming and branding. I could agree with those sentiments but dont really how those are serious criticisms. Thats like saying i hate Java cause i prefer tea.

Anyway if you hate developing in .Net dont do it but I personally find it a lot more enjoyable than other languages ive worked with.
The parent comment is clearly talking about language design rather than the backend.

I say this because I often see Rust people say isn't a great that rust can do xyz and then I look into it and it's actually just basic dataflow analysis that any compiler does or just LLVM being clever.
WHO has particulate air pollution from fossil and biofuel killing just about 8 million people per year (a Chernobyl of people (short + long term) every 7 hours). Add in that they also cause climate change and non-combustion sources like nuclear, wind, solar, hydro all look pretty darn awesome.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution
That is a floccinaucinihilipilification.
There's a video in that article too and it shows the stupidity of this design better..

So the transparent doors are now giant screens that show video ads all over them until you're in front of it.

When you're in front of it, it shows all the stuff it may have inside.

The "may" is where the really stupid part of this tech comes into play -- the screen shows what is available on a fully stocked shelf but when you open it to look inside, you can see there may be entire rows/products that aren't in stock (as seen in some customer videos in the article).
The charitable interpretation of the parent post is that the .NET team has lost all credibility, and that one should not trust them to make developer-friendly decisions.

I don't know whether or not that statement is true, but I think this is the point worth discussing.
Yikes indeed! with the headline, I was thinking that this was some variant of the National Ignition facility, trying to heat up samples enough to break the nucleii... but yeah, without massive intensities like at the NIF I don't wee how optical photons would even be noticed by the heavy nucleii.

I'd hope there's more to it that the journalist just failed to catch...
Roy Sullivan would like a word with the manager...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan
Does Putin STILL have 70% approval? If so, I wonder if many Russians are fearful that perhaps the "anonymous" opinion polls aren't really so anonymous.
[Discussing article title, not article]

I have thought about spaghetti code..
spaghetti is..

* Messy.
* Disorganized.
* Every part of it is connected to every other part.

The third one is the actually really bad one. U tug on one thing and it affects another thing and so on.

I call my code rice code, its like spaghetti code but its made of tiny little modules and no part is connected to another.
It also (like spaghetti) has no order / design patterns n stuff. Imo committing to a design pattern is kind of a mini-failure cus your project is now less flexible, you've committed to a certain pattern and everything in future has to follow it. Maybe the next feature does not fit well into this pattern. Ideally you can get to end of project without ever committing to one. (But sometimes u give in and use one to overcome a difficult problem)
I know but... Bitcoin!!!!!!
The one that asks for an email address and then tells you that email address isn’t in the system despite the same system sending you email? Yeah, I did. Many times.
Except if I have batteries, why should I charge them with expensive nuclear energy when I can charge them with cheap renewables? The nuclear plant will be forced to compete with those renewables for this market, which will limit what it can earn with the otherwise curtailed output. This is not as bad as losing it entirely, or even paying for someone to take it, but it's still going to be a net negative for the plant's economics vs. running all out selling at the calculated cost.
It's definitely down again.
It's been happening multiple times today. I wonder what the cause is.
I had a new hire on my team criticize the API we built for our product because we don't use put or patch, and we don't allow a GET and POST to share the same path. He said "it's not very RESTful"

I pointed him at HATEOAS and suggested if he wasn't familiar with it, he probably hasn't ever seen a truly RESTful API.

I don't think I convinced him that our approach is good (I'm not sure I am convinced either, but it works well enough for our purposes)

I do think I convinced him that "it doesn't correctly conform to a standard" isn't necessarily a useful critique , though. So that's a win.
> But induction stoves are expensive. Starting around $1,000, they’re twice the price of a basic gas range.

When I was in college, I wanted to be able to make pasta in my dorm room. The dining hall was fine, but it was my first time away from home, and I missed cooking pasta.

The rules said that hotplates weren't allowed in dorms, so I bought a portable induction cooker for $60 off Amazon. It can't be a hotplate if it doesn't get hot! (And I didn't exactly ask permission.)

For $60, it was great. It was small and light and plugged into a normal outlet, but could boil water in about the same time as a normal stove.

If my apartment didn't already come with a gas stove, I could easily forego a standard range in favor of a couple of these portable cookers. I've never used a "real" induction range, but $1,000 seems awfully expensive compared to $60 per burner...
Yes, never had a scratch.
The negative learning rate is a strong signal of interference by the regulators. More than anything else it shows how excessive safety regulations are strangled the industry.

1970s nuclear safety standards, despite it all, were still better than the energy strategy the world adopted from 1970-2020. Killing off nuclear in search of a perfect power system was a stupid strategy, and failed. The only unfortunate point of karmic justice is that Europe ended up reliant on Russian gas and in an energy crisis as a reward for their stubbornness against making the technically obvious choice.

Well done Finland for even managing to get a reactor built in the face of all that.
And gone again.

"We are currently offline for maintenance"

edit:

most recent update on https://twitter.com/StackStatus is from Mar 10 - Status blog ( https://stackstatus.net/ ) is 3 weeks old
The tech provides stores with an additional revenue stream and a way to modernize the shopping experience.

Another example of why the word "modernize" has gained a very negative connotation for me.

The freezers have front-facing sensors used to anonymously track shoppers interacting with the platform

That is truly disturbing.

No doubt they're going to say these screens save cooling costs as part of promoting the green-globalist agenda...
＞ With the current political climate and state of affairs in mainland China, many Gen Z-ers and Millenials (mostly from Guangdong Province), as I consider Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong to be separate territories) who hail from mainland China but don’t refer to themselves as Chinese, instead calling themselves Cantonese. While some simply wish to preserve personal identity, there are also many who dissociate themselves simply because they believe the rest of China to be inferior.

There's a lot of Chinese stereotypes being trotted out here, but I'll address this one. Those who refer to themselves as Cantonese do not feel superior, but they have generally felt pushed around by Beijing. Guangdong was, and still partially is, the economic powerhouse of China. This has made the North nervous at times. Beijing has continually pushed their political weight around to try and stifle any sense of original Cantonese cultural, from suppressing the language and media to installing leaders that are happy to oblige with these policies. For the most part they have been successful, and it's quite sad. The homogenization of China is seen as necessary to bind the country, but has destroyed the cultural beauty of the country.
I had to look at the author's name to find out if I was Bob! Though the latter paragraphs about ignoring the other engineers requirements about reviews, etc don't fit.

After a few gigs that didn't go great, I ended up at a research org, where my less than perfect code that would do things in a non-scalable way was actually appreciated and a benefit. This org had amazing engineering capabilities, and amazing research. I was an oddball that straddled the line between the two.

My engineering improved slowly, and I eventually ended up in management, and now run two start-ups. I don't get to code much at all any more, but the experience has given me a new direction in life.

It's great when a manager can recognize that even though you're not the right fit for that company, it's possible your weakness there could be a benefit to someone else.

I can't remember who I was listening to on a podcast, but they said that rather than firing people, they would regularly recommend they go work for a competitor. :)
This is even better:
https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw

(In Finish but with english subtitles)
Not too surprised the top (cited) papers are mostly about processes

"During a gold rush, sell shovels"
Absolutely. I believe he's the only well known crypto personality who stands out for his clear integrity though.

Out of interest, any others? From the many thousands in the industry?
"War zones" is doing a lot of work here for you.
It's horribly inaccessible but while we're throwing out truly nonstandard recommendations, and apropos to the connection made elsewhere in this thread between the theory of forms and object-oriented programming, Whitehead's Process and Reality is good for the same reasons OOP sucks.
That may be the case sometimes but it’s not universal. Some people are not that motivated and don’t really want to work hard at their job, for any number of reasons.

One of the worst hires I made was a person who was an accomplished engineer in another tech stack and aced the technical interview, but when he showed up to work had nearly no interest in learning our stack or working more than a few hours a day. I spent 6 months trying to help him learn, but even after all that he was being outperformed by new grads, because they were trying and he wasn’t.

The person was friendly and well-liked. But nobody wanted to collaborate with him because they knew it would just make their work harder than doing things solo.

When we let him go, it was a big productivity boost for the team, even though everyone was sad it didn’t work out. The morale impact in the short-term was neutral, but within a few weeks as everyone saw there was literally no drop-off from his absence, everyone realized it was necessary and morale went up notably.
$100M is not that much money. I'm pretty sure that's less than the money already going towards charter cities, which are actually a meaningful possibility and currently being developed e.g. in Honduras Special Development Zones.
Asking someone to speak lauder in a noisy environment is normally because they aren’t raising their voice enough rather than them failing to raise their voice at all. It’s not easy to judge how laud you need to be but the basic feedback of failing to hear your own voice if you don’t speak up prompts raising your own voice.

As to going mute, some people do completely shut down in an stressful situation, but that’s associated with for more than their voice. I have no issue with an actor in a war movie endlessly stacking ammo from point A to B. But if their having a coherent conversation, activity and productively responding to stimulation, that’s very different.
Then how will they know about changes to road conditions?

They could know about it the way humans do: get stuck in traffic or stuck at a road closure and just burn time waiting for the issue to correct itself.

But wireless radio communications allows us to do so much better.
Absolutely agreed on all points.

The best APIs I've ever used or built have been, at best, REST-ish.

And generally the parts where they deviate from REST make them more usable, not less.
> "incredibly productive"

That's the best summary of the .NET stack, unfortunately it requires first-hand experience to figure it out.
AWS GWLB: Deep Packet Manipulation
>but I think this is the point worth discussing.

then somebody has to say some some specific stuff instead of "ms will lock you"
Yup - induction heats up quicker, although you have to use a heavy iron wok which sits still. It probably says more about how bad the consumer wok rings are though. If you have a commercial one you'd never switch from gas.
You don't need UN recognition, you just need a host state to cede legal jurisdiction.
If only you could make the door out of a cheap, hard-surface material, made from abundant raw materials, one that is also transparent, allowing you to see what is inside in real time, with pretty much zero power usage.
Gas plant. Coal is much more expensive than gas, by every measure, and is much less adjustable to immediate requirement. The only reason any coal is still being used is installed base and market and political inertia.

Political, because it should already be banned.
These systems are used commercially all the time, just not in the backwater of the US.
Now I wonder will the cooling cost offset the life cycle cost of massive screens, or their electricity demand.

And just funny question, does the light go off inside those when door is closed?
My brain drops the A, so I always read it HATEOS which makes me thinks it is a joke Linux distro of some kind.
IIRC 1Password doesn’t let you use Dropbox as a syncing/backing store anymore, and if it still does, it’s being deprecated.
> Generally, anything not-for-profit and older than 40 years is a technological shit-show.

Everything new is the same. Because everything has to be disruptive innovative hockey stick growth bullshit.

Here's a screenshot of tha app for a Swedish bank, Klarna: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHXG5bPX0AIC1oe?format=jpg&name=.... They are a bank. They offer credit cards, and fast online credit payments.

And no, "Payments" isn't a list of your payments you've done throught them, that's behind two or three clicks now. It's what you owe them.