skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia generally acts rationally. It's just that the assumptions and axioms on top of which rationality is applied is different from the West and ― apparently ― not uncommonly delusional. This made it very hard for the West to believe what Russia was saying for years about Ukraine, for example.

Further, the explanations seem to differ whether they're addressed to Russians or to other countries. Russia's own population tends to get what they want to hear (which we often consider bizarre), and what the West gets doesn't matter much what (because the West has already proven they don't understand Russia even on the big things so why not lie about military training near Ukrainian border as well just to avoid any extra yet futile discourse?)

With delusions in the case of Ukraine I refer to the idea that Ukraine never was a real country and it has belonged to Russia all the time. This falls in line with the worldview of the ex-KGB grandpas from the Soviet era but there's a notable difference they don't seem to accept. Back in the Soviet times USSR had the (fire)power to keep their member states in line and practically own the local governments. There was nowhere to go and it wasn't until the USSR was disbanded that the small Eastern European countries could run away. And run away they did. But Ukraine and Belarus are so close to Russia that it can be easy to think of them as extensions of Russia if you assume you can retain control over the countries, both politically and ultimately militarily. But Russia is much weaker than USSR. Russia have Belarus because, to my understanding, their president basically sold his country to Russia to personally remain in "power" but Ukraine has been looking to West much more than to Mother Russia. And they overruled their Russian leaning president and replaced him with one who's much more open to the West. Here's where I think the delusion comes to play.

Russia somehow thought it would be a simple matter to put Ukraine back in line to avoid them drifting too far into West. Like a father who had no trouble beating his son when he was a kid, the son is now a young adult and the father is much older and weaker, and it's necessary to realize the change. So far, Russia seems to be stuck with the idea that they can maintain control in Ukraine, even after a war. But Russia doesn't seem to be in any position to boss their neighbours around like USSR could.

Even if I ultimately believe that what Russia wanted was Crimea with their old naval city and a land route over there I think they figured why not just go for the whole Ukraine while they're at it, and for once reset the country with a government that makes things easier for Russia in the future. The old USSR could've done that but Russia can't, yet Russia acts as if they're still operating like in the times of USSR. To achieve a "reset" like that you need citizens who agree with you or who are so oppressed that they won't revolt. Russia has neither.
> You’ll never really get wok hei with induction.

In a home context its irrelevant. You're not doing true wok cooking at home anyway, your piddly little small bore home gas feed won't be providing anywhere near the required intensity.
Reality shatters your point really quickly, it's even mentioned in the lecture (suggesting you didn't watch it): Russians have literally had 8 years of democracy in the past 600+ years, otherwise it's always been an autocracy.
> They're expensive as fuck, and eat lots of counter space.

I am comfortable with the latter at least, as my default would be a 5 ring gas hob! I cannot imagine cooking with fewer than 3 rings. (Say, duck breast, mash, veg is a pretty basic meal)

> Get a standalone induction plate. They're cheap and portable and they let you try it out without a huge expense.

That is actually a good shout, and not something I had considered. Am currently "camping" kitchen'd in the utility room with a microwave and a 2 ring camping gas stove. Will have a gander, Thanks :)
I really hope I’m not missing a silly point. I always buy a TV that has the specs I need and can afford, and have a steadfast rule that they are forbidden from ever connecting to my WiFi. No firmware updates! - if it does not work when I bought it, it goes back. If it works, I’m fine if it does the same job for its life.
What am I missing? Isn't every smart TV in the market a dumb TV if you don’t ever give it the keys to your network?
As decided by the people. They could have politically campaigned to change that, buy out all the medallions at fair market price and the redistribute them for free in sufficient quantity.
If 87 in your nickname suggest your age then I guess you are not the target for Uber. I’m 10 years younger and almost all of my peers never used Taxi and take Uber/Lyft quite often.
> due to the uncertainty about future daylight saving time changes

It’s not just DST, it’s any TZ-related changes: locations can change TZ for other reasons than dst.

> I suppose it’s the difference between exact time and social/political time.

There’s really no such thing as exact time. The closest is UT1, and it’s not really practical for normal applications.
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Even in cities they have had animals, mostly poultry, some horses, some sheeps etc cities of the past have not much in common with modern cities. Transports in the past were far different than today and while long range commerce were the norm they where very different than today.

Cities in the past were just polluted agglomerates of people living nearby for defense, services, communications, ancient Rome can be seen in modern terms like a set of colonial houses with some "central" buildings for social life, nothing like a modern city.

Also at that time earth was far more fertile than now, at least we can deduct that from the common and ease of hunting: they do not have any "long range" weapons and still they hunt much just around, enough to even nourish a moving army, food in the past was not that abundant of course but enormously more abundant than now.
Actually, no.

The only climate compatible way is not an alternative on demande source of energy, but the other way around: adapt our energy consumption to its availability and significantly lower our energy use. (see this 2009 piece by low tech magazine[1])

This is the real issue with dealing with climate change: we have to drastically change our way of living, in ways that most of us have not properly grasped and are not ok with.

But it is not a matter of choice, this will happen. It is a matter of choosing to do it in a somewhat controlled manner over the few time left, of to be subjected to this change in a brutal way.

[1]: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/11/renewable-energy-i...
Most of the Warsaw pact are doing much better ( in terms of democratic and economic development ) than most of the ex-Soviet republics, even though they came through a similar path. So it wasn't inevitable.
The newer satellites, of which 5 are in orbit, also have a directional antenna with which they will be able to boost the signal strength 20 dB (100 * power), using a new military M-code that no longer needs the other signals to lock on. The signal is sent both over the wide area and the spot beam antenna. Older satellites will only sent it over a wide area antenna. As far as I understand, this is not operational yet, but is planned for this year.
Culinary back water would be unfair, but definitely laggards when it comes to innovation, especially if there is some regulation involved, doubly slow if there are entrenched interests. America is quicker to innovate if someone can make a buck.
> I cannot imagine cooking with fewer than 3 rings.

You're allowed to own more than one standalone induction plate. And you're also allowed to position them freely over your work area :)
+1 for bit/vaultwarden. Nice mobile apps, nice browser plugins, nice web interface. Regular updates, easy to install. Using it for a year + (two years?) no issues. Super grateful.
I was told this story in Cambridge by the person piloting our gondola.
"but I believe the vaccines that China have is of the type as the AstraZeneca vaccine"

Absolutely not. And that is they key problem.

Personally I was quite sure that Beijing would allow Biontech sooner or later, especially since the Chinese company Fosun was a very smart early investor in BNT.

But unfortunately it seems Xi's nationalism is now so strong that he is willing to let many people die for it.
Try it out on a local Linux machine first, if you have one. There are plenty of ML techniques outside of neural networks which train perfectly well on a CPU, so I'd start there.

Look at some kind of AutoML framework like AutoGluon, then dive deeper on the components it uses once you've got through the initial setup process. AutoGluon will let you train some basic models with all the data cleaning and normalisation steps handled for you.
That figures includes all losses from the entire power generation chain, it's hard to take seriously. The heat transfer energy efficiency of an induction stove is about 80-90 %, which is much better than for let's say an electric oven or even a gas stove. Also, electricity for induction can be generated from renewable sources, unlike for gas or open fire cooking.
> Russians under every bed paranoia

I always wonder how much that is a result of Trumps non-stop tweeting about it

> Over half of Democrats believe Russians hacked vote tallies and compromised voting machines in 2016

source?
I actually bought a TV box to avoid using those so called smart functions. Samsung TV's design, especially the remote designs are crap, which make switching video source a pain in the neck.
facepalm You’re not helping.
The one made by CanSino is adenovirus vector.

The point I am trying to make is that this is a political choice rather than a question of access to technology.
This whole thing makes me deeply uncomfortable. I don't trust the government as far as I can throw them, and I don't want them to know who I am online unless I choose to divulge that information. I wish these consultations were more widely advertised, but a lot of the time I suspect they're a foregone conclusion.
> but didn’t produce anything that truly raised the economy… that’s the point.

Utterly false. They produced people taking way more rides. More rides = more people going out to different places.
also France stopped 13+ nuclear reactors mid-winter which really did not help.

But defects were found that would jeopardize the current evaluation to renew the certification for using them for 10 more years, so the decision was made to stop several reactors for forced maintenance and repairs.
Why is crypto a waste, but another equivalently large use of electricity isn't?

If somebody was growing weed indoors, or they're smelting aluminium, then they're not wasting?
Stay away from React bindings! It looks nice when you first start but you’ll soon enter memory leak hell forever. Biggest rookie mistake there is. Just stick to a dead simple framework-free UI, HTML+CSS
This is awesome.
I've seen a similar concept before but way simpler than this (e.g. https://www.mariosaul.com/).
Great job!
this is what the real web3 is actually going to solve.

out with globally centralized service dispatch and paupers doing the work on unencrypted user data siphons and in with decentralized identity, reputation and commerce systems that sell to small business.

tools so small business can be as good as uber, everywhere.
>I already had access to this exact experience with a taxi firm in Newcastle where I used to live pre Uber - so yeh, I don’t see what benefit Uber brought.

It seems like the benefit of Uber was that it provided better service for many who didn't have the superior taxis in Newcastle.

If all the other replies (including some UK ones) in this thread contradicting your personal experience don't convince you, would that be a form of solipsism? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism)
>social demonstrations did not considerably improve the stone tool making and using abilities of orangutans

Maybe they are able to accurately assess human technology all around them and understand that stone tools won't help them escape.
In man's search for meaning the author draws the same conclusion, describing Jewish prisoners who would cheat their fellow inmates for a priveledged position, and Nazi soldiers, who were also a bit hungry, because food was scarce, sneaking food to give to prisoners of the labor camps.

"There are two races of men in this world - the decent man and the indecent man."

-Viktor Frankl, 'Man's Search for Meaning'
> It’s not just DST, it’s any TZ-related changes: locations can change TZ fir other reasons than dst.

Exactly, and for that time zone info will not be enough, you would need geographic coordinates.
There's absolutely no way Russia could occupy Ukraine for a prolonged period of time. Ukrainian morale and national unity are very high, and as was seen time and again ( Spain against Napoleon, Afghanistan against everyone, Yugoslav partisans against the Nazis) a determined population is impossible to control by a foreign occupier regardless of its strength.
You were lucky. Before Uber it was almost impossible to get a taxi in San Francisco and Paris for me. Now it just works the same on both cities.
>I think it's more similar to any other profession

Could not disagree more. I run a small business selling used video games online, and come from a SWE/EEE background.

The fact that we've got processes in place that are built from the ground up to be scalable and automatable, as well as the simple Python scripts to perform this automation has basically tripled or quadrupled our productivity.

I could see much the same happening for a lot of workers who handle data, and as more people who have learned to code enter the workforce I'm not sure employers will continue to tolerate (for example) accountants who can't write their own report generators.
That's Uber's problem though. Essentially their billionaire investors subsidized car rides for lots of people. Maybe it'll work out for Uber in the long run. Maybe not.
You need over 200 karma to create a poll. OP doesn't have that much, yet.
Blueline taxis had one in Newcastle - you could also send a text message and they’d come pick you up
I'll consider storage a solved problem when we actually have it.

In the mean time, nuclear is a nice thing to invest in.
I live in Europe and I didn't have such experiences at all (when in very few cases a car didn't arrive, I got refund very swiftly without any problems). Try other applications (Lyft, Bolt or whatever).
We can see some effect of the sanctions right now, and it's significant. But they didn't stop the war yet, unfortunately. Corruption in the russian army is a bigger stopper than sanctions right now. Maybe sanctions will help to overthrow Putin in 3-7 years, but how expensive this waiting might be for Ukraine? Even if it will take just 1 year - this war created an enormous amount of suffering in 2 weeks, it's difficult even to think about the possible damage from 1 year of the war.

What helps much, much more than sanctions: unmanned aircraft units, Bayraktars. Turkey (a NATO country) helped Ukraine, and I wonder why other countries can not send (without the soldiers) some unmanned aircraft units or F35? They create a really HUGE effect.

If you are reading this and you are a citizen of some western country, please consider asking your representatives, if they can start a discussion about sending such help to Ukraine.
The best thing you can do is make your TV dumb by not connecting to the internet. Then use an Apple TV or whatever Android stick there are on commerce.
Insane cost overruns.

Takes decades to build, will be too late for climate change.

Uranium is also a finite resource
Email from the dutch government: You have a message from <organization>. Log in to My Government to view.

Me: logging in to My Government using DigiD, which takes some effort, like five steps between two different sites and an app, but at least seems to be secure.

My Government message: you have a message from <organization>. Log in to <organization> portal to view message.

Me: Logging in to <organization> portal, again using DigiD (same steps).

<organization> portal message: There is a new document for you to download at My Documents in our portal.

Me: Wow, I don't even have to log in again, that's great! Document is not in the list, though. O, you have to select unread documents, otherwise you only get the old ones. Sure, makes sense.

Document: You student loan interest has been changed. We will send you your new monthly repayment amount soon.

Me: Great, glad I spent an hour finding out what was in that document...
A privacy review of Tribler, the onion-routed BitTorrent app (2021)
> China is more interested in not getting Russian dirt on them atm

I have always gotten the feeling that China collectively recognizes a paper tiger when they are politically engaged with one. My big lesson here is, Russians drank the domestic kool-aid, up to and including Putin.
Ironically, the evidence to date is that'd probably get more people killed due to energy security issues. The last group who tried to apply that logic in defiance of market forces - the Germans - are currently staring at each other wondering what to do about their reliance on Russian gas.

If they'd acted rationally, acknowledged Fukushima and moved on with trying to make their nuclear power cheaper instead letting ideology determine that part of their energy policy then they wouldn't be in the mess they are in. Instead they pushed ahead with renewables, ignored technical problems like reliability and have ended up looking like fools while literally paying a high price for the privilege. France continues to quietly plod away as a reliable European energy success story.
Alright chill your beans “pal”. It wasn’t just one company in Newcastle, growing up I never had an issues with taxis

And as far as I know you still can’t book an Uber for the next day or whatever.
It solves absolutely nothing for the people who do not use Typescript.
In Finland Uber lead to deregulating taxi market, which to no ones surprise lead to worse service, less skilled drivers, less availability on average and more expensive service... Then again I suppose the Uber lovers want exactly those things and an exploiting entity to leech money in between.
Still not scaled enough. Those fines might be staggering to a small company, but for those giants, might be less than 0.5% of net profit. So you can see that Apple/Google/FB etc.. were fined for billions but they simply paid the fine and continue to do what they were doing. The reason behind is actually pretty simple: fixing those problems would probably costing them more.
IMVHO people have completely forgot a thing: money have no tangible value. Money is a unit of measure of a tangible underlying. We choose something symbolic to trade it in place of physical goods being able not only to trade but to always have something anyone is interested in. That's is. Consider money a value by itself is a psychological scam.

Monetary war is just a way to put pressure on an antagonist stating that it have less value than most people think.
"once they realize Omicron isn’t that serious in vaccinated individuals"

Afaik Sinovac is pretty much useless against Omicron.
Yeah maybe, I’m getting old now I guess :-)
If possible, make it opensource with AGPL license and invite few friends to send some initial contribution, viola now you are not the only one who owns all the IPs, also your employer will be most probably stay away from it due to licensing requirements of opensourcing all the changes made. Alternatively you can create a project with your friend as main owner and contribute to it with same AGPL license. You can also contribute to it as an anonymous contributor. flip side is you will have to get explicit full ownership of the code with MIT/BSD/WTFPL type license via documented way(verified Email works fine).
I wrote about just one example here. The BBC spent years on a hit piece equating trans people with sex offenders, meanwhile uncritically platforming an extremist trans-eliminist sex offender. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30565403#30567568

Before that, staff were told that attending Pride was no longer allowed.

This week the BBC Woman’s Hour platformed Maya Forstater as a feminist hero. They didn't critically mention the real reason she was dismissed from her contract was for handing out leaflets at work that said trans people are a danger to children.
Maybe the easiest thing is not to embed but to show a dialog on top with all the DOM inputs you need and close it when you're done with it.
Mine does it in bursts I think (it's fairly obvious when cooking rice, as the water bubbles up periodically), but I've never had a problem with that. I can say that I don't have smoke problems with olive oil, which I believe is one that shouldn't be used with high temperatures.

That said, I'm probably an ok cook at best and I don't eat meat so I can't really say how it would work with that. However, I found that at least the gas range I used when I lived in the UK, wasn't really great for low temperatures either, as the flame tended to not self-sustain properly on low settings.

The killer feature for me personally was actually the steambake thing, as I bake bread weekly. It's not quite as good as directly spraying water into the oven, but still works really well. Obviously independent of the induction top though.
I think innovative idea is to get people think they make money when you rake rake of 20-25% and they provide the service for peanuts. And then they kicked out if they don't do it well enough.
"I’ve never seen the need for Uber."

A very bold claim. I am not sure about the finances of Uber and how it impacts shareholders vs employees and how many people are getting rich off it, but let me tell you that services like Uber have been a God send as a consumer. The haggling with old school taxi drivers is one of the worst experiences one can have, not to mention that you have no idea what the prices should be if you are not local.

Uber and similar apps remove all that nonsense. You can disagree with their business practices or even how much they charge, but I hope apps and services like Uber do not die, EVER. I don't want to go back to being harassed by taxi drivers.
“Sorry, another user in our system has that password”
I did a quick read in the article and while it gets in conclusion that induction has only 15% efficiency compared to a typical open fire, it is considering also the conversion of heat in energy by a thermoelectric (that is the actual inefficient process). While I understand the point of the article this is not a valid general conclusion of the efficiency of induction cookers, since you can have much more efficient ways of producing energy.

Induction cooks by themselves are very efficient in converting energy to heat (90% efficiency, according another claim in the article).
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here.
UEFI Secure Boot requires SMM (because it secures access to the key vault). Non-x86 architectures use something else, for example they could use EL3 on ARM. Either way it's a "super-supervisor mode" of sorts.
Sinovac doesn't seem to be effective against Omicron - https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/02/03/sinovac-vaccine-ef...
This actually isn't dumb question.

Nothing precludes Typescript from becoming another ECMA spec. It's just not going to be ECMAScript.

Nothing precludes Microsoft from allowing Typescript to run directly in the browser either. Nothing. Just that nothing forces any other browser to support Typescript as well.

Nobody has to follow standards if they don't want to, in practice...
WPF is still used heavily in Visual Studio.