skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russians generally support its countries’ imperialist activity. They supported the USSR, Afghan war (until it went terribly wrong), Chechen wars, war against Georgia, first land grab against Ukraine, and now, it seems, this one.

You can always argue, correctly, that it’s hard to know what’s going on in an autocratic country, but many of these polls were un controversial and simply not stating support for eg the annexation of Crimea wouldn’t be an offence.

I do feel sorry for how badly this is going to affect people in Russia, but equally Russians don’t seem to mind serving up hot hell to their neighbours. I don’t know how you can break this cycle without making Russians understand how badly they are hurting others.

Russia may not be a democracy but the state does rely on popular support for legitimacy, and has had it in the past 30-odd years.
Our old induction cooker cost us €600 more than a decade ago. It’s our old one only because we moved and the kitchen in our new flat had a gas one and we’d need to rip all apart and rebuild to remove it. But otherwise we used it for 11 years without any issue, so I would call that reliable.
Yes!

I've read that the gas industry uses the cooking specifically in advertising and lobying to keep this toehold for the even bigger emissions. [1]

And 2-3% isn't nothing either. Such an easy win. we desperately need to rack up easy points yesterday...

Relatively as in compared to say utility scale production/storage or hell even replacing home heating like you mention.

I wish we could replace our 110 year old giant cast iron steam heater thing. Would have to either replace all the radiators with electric board things (i hate them) or find an electric boiler (which would have to plasma cut apart the old boiler to get it out lol).

Heat pumps sound cool too but all those options have upfront costs which some of my hoa neighbors can't afford. We couldn't get a loan for other repairs we did with longer term than 3 years.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/06/how-the-foss...
you got me confused there for a sec
Cheating at the College and University
Except all those fine people writing UNIX clones and embedded stuff will never do it, so here we are.

It was already known since the early days how bad C was versus the competition.

UNIX made it famous, UNIX won the server room wars, UNIX will keep it going.
Without paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20220311164526/https://www.reute...
This is not the first time I see posts from this blog on this topic here, and I feel like I'm not qualified to read that, since what I've read in these posts is basically all I know about it anyway, and I don't know why should I even be interested in it — I mean, it's pretty useless, isn't it… But almost every time there's something deeply disconcerting in them.

> It’s even been proved that a Collatz counterexample must have certain striking properties, like an enormously long orbit. These proofs are in effect proofs that we will not be able to find a counterexample, even if there is one.

I don't know why, but it hits me hard. Maybe it's not the best example, since mathematically applicable numbers can be quite big too, but it still disturbs me similarly to how when I first realized that "there's a countable number of definable numbers". I'm still wondering if it's even fair to say that all that "other" stuff (which is the most of math, and as pointed out in this post — can include all sorts of interesting properties that nothing we can "reach" has) even exists. Math is basically made up by humans anyway, it's both a product and a property of how we think. So what it even means for Collatz conjecture to be wrong, if there's there's just one particular counterexample out there we could never find?
Everybody knows that Russia has GPS spoofer. GPS signal around Kremlin were spoofed for a decade already.
I see. 42 million megawatts is 42,000 gigawatts. A quick google search tells me that typical power output of a nuclear power plant is around 1 gigawatt.

So a single nuclear power plant would be roughly equivalent to 0.002% of earths geothermal energy radiation. It doesn't sound like much, but for something as crucial as the earth's magnetic field, I wouldn't want to reduce it one bit.

I guess if the heat is radiated into space anyways and we simply capture that it doesn't speed up the core's energy loss, but if we start digging into the core and allowing energy to escape faster, we would effectively speed it up, right?
There is the CCP. They've gone around indoctrinating everyone for 70 years that Mao was the messiah, Xi is Peter the apostle carrying on his vision, and western democracy doesn't work. Removing that would be a huge shock to the Chinese public (Destalinisation is an example of what happens when you remove the cults of personality), not to mention the existing power structures holding up the state would need to be reformed. I believe nothing short of another civil war will bring democracy to the PRC, and believe me, a civil war in China will be bad for the entire world. What I talked about before was before the CCP. Times were different, and the party that at least pretended to be democratic (the KMT, who proved themselves to not be democratic on Taiwan) had a chance to win the civil war. Today, there are a billion more people in China than when the KMT left, and not very many of them believe in democracy. It's not impossible, only mind-numbingly improbable.

Taiwan is a special case because it came after years of KMT oppression and the death of Chiang. His son was more lenient and then his son's successor opened the door for democracy. Taiwan is much smaller and had more exposure to America than the mainland, which definitely helped.
Shipping from thevoutside of the European Union isn't really relevant after our eastern neighbor decided to invade Ukraine.

We were originally planning to ditch domestic peat as fuel, in favor of Russian biofuel, but that's off the table now, and peat will probably be used extensively for a few years until alternatives are in place.

Energy independence is what we aim for at the moment. Carbon neutral is still something we aim for in the long run, but not being relianton Russian energy is the primary goal for the next few years.
This looks really cool although it’s hard to find an explanation of what it really is. Looking through github it seems to be a sort of api for producing SDF volumes? Rather than a generic js->glsl transpilier.

It’s a very cool rendering tech and nice to see an easy to use library like this. I’m curious what the rendering stack looks like and what the performance is? SDFs are usually pretty expensive to render.
Russia faces brain drain as thousands flee abroad
Somehow, that particular page doesn’t seem trustworthy at this point in time.
I am copying a previous comment of mine[-2] below. But first let me estimate the cost of food for one day in Diocletian's empire. I do not feel like solving a linear programming problem with ancient food so I substituted Roman ingredients from 301 A.D. for similar Polish ingredients from 2016 A.D.

400 g of rye bread = 400 g of rye flour = 0.95 liters[-1] = 7 d.c.

100 g of wheat flour = 0.2 liters[-1] = 2.5 d.c.

250 g of beans = 0.33 liters[-1] = 4 d.c

100 g of beef = 0.3 librae = 2.5 d.c

100 g of dessert grapes = 0.5 d.c

80 g of olive oil (second quality) = 0.09 liters[-1] = 4 d.c

1/2 litre of Egyptian beer = 4 d.c

Total: 24.5 denarii communes for raw ingredients. Add 20% for condiments and cooking, and get roughly 30 denarii communes for 1 trofa.

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Here goes the previous comment[-2]:

A Polish numismatist, Zbigniew Żabiński, came up with trofa (from Greek trophe 'alimentation'), a universal measure of the value of money. One trofa is defined as an average person's daily ration of food typical for the given place and time. Altogether, it has 3000 kcal: 1800 kcal in 450 g of carbohydrates, 900 kcal in 100 g of fat, and 300 kcal in 75 g of protein.

For instance, in late 1970s' Poland, one trofa consisted of 400 g of rye bread, 100 g of wheat flour, 250 g of potatoes, 100 g of beef, 100 g of sugar, 80 g of butter, and 1/2 litre of milk. Assuming that its content has not changed, you take the cost of the food (8.70 PLN in 2016), add 20% for condiments and preparation, and get 10.50 PLN as the 2016 price of a trofa in Poland.[0]

In Octavian's times, one denarius could buy you 2 trofas (with content appropriate for ancient Mediterranean lands),[0] Judas's 30 pieces of silver were worth 60 trofas,[1] etc.

Unfortunately, Żabiński published in Polish behind the Iron Curtain so the trofa is virtually unknown outside Poland. The Big Mac index is its pale reflection.

More information in Polish:

[-2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777042

[-1] https://coolconversion.com/

[0] A table of trofa's price from Octavian's Rome to contemporary Poland: http://blognumizmatyczny.pl/2016/03/14/trofa-miernik-wartosc...

[1] Thirty pieces of silver: https://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media//files/Collectanea_Theologica/...

[2] The purchasing power in medieval Balkans: https://repozytorium.amu.edu.pl/bitstream/10593/8080/1/11_Zb...

[3] Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Żabiński+trofa
Technically the App Store model does serve a purpose, but honestly I’m leaning ever closer to “apple should sign any app that has a valid sandbox profile and agrees to follow the privacy rules”, and let people download them from wherever.

Because this is getting beyond stupid, and we all know in a couple of days it will have been “re-reviewed” and be fine. Developers should not be dependent on get press over stupid review responses, and simple bug fix releases shouldn’t be needing review at all anyway.
Password must contain at least one tab character. Good one :)
If your adversary does not have mitigation or retaliation readily available to them it doesn’t seem that unusual. It’s a pretty normal show of force then right?
> "It's completely insane to subject a nuclear plant to this kind of an assault," Lyman says.

The perfect way to describe this entire war. That Russian forces are moving in other plants is deeply worrying.
I agree but just like uber it's not really "gig" work. You're essentially working full-time and even more (unpaid overtime) but you're classified as an independent contractor so you don't have any benefits or security under the false guise of "flexibility".
Also worth noting that Al Jazeera's coverage in English and Arabic are obviously different.
I think if you don't land FAANG job out of the university you will not get a FAANG job after 8 years of experience in other places.
I guess the same way Theranos made a deal with Walgreens.
The article doesn’t make this clear, strangely, but it looks like adopting this new standard will make the death count go from roughly 100,000 to 85,000.
even worse than the sum: "Password when stripped of non-numeric characters must be a number divisible by 3", considering it needs a valid zip and three digits of pi that starts to get non-trivial!
looks like a second 90s, chaos after putin. the marshall plan will be there to ensure a new one does not arise. Not sure how popular such a plan is in the US though
This site feels very buzzword heavy and science-light for a company trying to do innovative science...

Do they even have a rough plan of what they're doing? Or is the aim simply to take investment money for a few years and then fold?
In the UK there are no legal reserve requirements on lending. Similarly in the US for business lending.

Basel III makes no mention of reserves, but it does talk about liquidity. Liquidity can be and is met through interbank lending, with the center bank filling in as necessary.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2009/01/31/therovingcaval...
https://positivemoney.org/2011/04/monetary-reform-myths-1-10...

A nice bonus link on interest rates not necessarily controlling inflation in the expected way:
https://new-wayland.com/blog/interest-price-spiral/
Not the government, and they won't lose their lives for it, but they do live in a country that records "non-crime hate incidents" and shows them to people requesting your criminal record.
I've wondered about this. Are the TV-sized 'gaming monitors' smart tvs? Looking at a couple of OLED ones - Aorus FO48U, Alienware AW5520QF - it doesn't look like it. No wireless, and they are expensive.

It's not clear whether they have HDCP, but... surely they must? That's table stakes for a computer monitor.
> leaders are responsible for outcomes, especially when they are entirely predictable

GDPR lists all the outcomes for such behaviour. What, in your opinion, should GPR have been to prevent this behaviour?

And once again, you're not blaiming the leeches who couldn't care less about the law, or your data, or your consent.
GPS jamming is not a secret technology, it’s something that you can expect in a war zone and it’s a technology you can buy on aliexpress.

GPS is actually a couple of different signals, and the general public gets the shitty one. The military has some additional protections and better receivers.
I think C# is incredibly close to Java in this regard.

Not in the specifics of e.g. your problem, but the big "solutions" tend to be very enterprise solution-y, single-goal orientated. Spring in JAVA (also J2EE) had a similar sort of issue, where everything worked as long as you weren't veering off of the beaten path, but things got wildly over-complicated as soon as you dared to stray...

The claims made in this article also sound a lot like what Java folk would say back when their platform wasn't yet "cool" - they are nevertheless somewhat successful today, so maybe they have a point?

Regardless, you can absolutely do web dev from a simple C# console app, I don't know there are pre-build server frameworks for doing so. If you don't like MS's offering, tough.
Basically, you work on upwork for company X full-time but are paid on hourly basis and without any overtime or benefits.

This is what the article alludes to. So called "gig" workers at uber are constrained, the flexibility is an illusion. You are forced to comply and work a hard schedule or you will be punished by the algorithms.

So as a developer you are more likely to be average than exceptional, because the field has been commodified by the learn2code movement and bootcamps and therefore you are at the whim of the employer and dont have any flexibility. They can replace you in a heartbeat.
> If this bit of context was clear from the get go it would have been a lot easier for those from EUR where we would expect vents outside the apartment to be the norm. ( Not speaking for all EUR, so there may be places this is not the norm )

It is the norm in newer buildings, but there are plenty of older houses or flats blocks in the EU that don’t have a good ventilation system. It’s similarly expensive same in the UK and I cannot say about Norway and Switzerland, but I would think that it is not better in the other non-EU bits of Europe.
I know it’s a correct title but for some reason I don’t like “win” in cases like this.

It feels like it should be “criminals found guilty and must pay damages to state and victim”, e.g. put emphasis on the people committing crimes rather than the victim beating the criminals in court.
(2020) but as relevant as ever. This should be required reading of everyone who uses a computer, lest we forget what has been lost.
Typical big numbers game from Samsung. As you said, it definitely sells.
I have come across very few companies that offer both, well paid roles and interesting products with .NET for the past few years. .NET is my preferred environment but I had to move away from it.

While you are correct, it's not difficult to get hired regardless of the tech stack you work with if you are competent. However, if you care about the tech stack as well (and it is .NET), then the task becomes much harder.
Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password
1Password was silently removed from Russian App Store and Play Market.

Are there any good alternatives? Or do I have to use Kaspersy's password store?
Referendums, especially binding referendums, generally have high thresholds.

Maybe an argument, but a very weak one.
You want larger pixels to collect more light for astronomy.
Mandala Digital Artwork – S1 E1 Time spent – 2 hours
https://greg-satell.medium.com/how-the-uber-economy-is-killi...
My Miele induction cooktop is physical buttons/knobs and has no auto offs. Honestly, I was confused by all of the replies with complaints about induction UI's because it's the first induction cooktop I've owned and it's been a joy. I couldn't go back to gas.
According to the Macedonian constitution, the turnout must be over 50%. Hence the boycot.

And, what does that say about the oh-so-democratic West if less than 40% people turn out and it still "accepts" a country as a member?
I know it's not either or but seems that money is better spent protecting the Earth. The idea of terraforming Mars is kind of beyond even science fiction.

I think the money would be better spent building larger, more comfortable space stations. Think something between the ISS and DS9 :D
There are definitely a few more benefits than aesthetics. Comparing to electric stoves rather than induction (which are in the same price range) a few benefits I’ve noticed are:

1. Instant heat off/heat on response. In electric stoves the cook top still remains fairly hot and cooking can happen from residual heat after you turn off the heat. Same issue with turning the heat on. While the gas stove has minimum hearing from the thermal mass after you turn it off

2. Psudeo-grilling ability

3. Cost for gas vs. electricity. In an ideal world the heat output per $ would be exactly the same but there are subsidies, pricing structures, different supporting infrastructure etc.

As the article implies, at the current price point, gas stoves are competing with electric stoves rather than induction stoves. And there are definitely a few benefits.
This is LOVELY!

A little suggestion. On mobile I touch the screen to navigate and the character moves roughly towards the finger.

It would be better if there was a virtual navigation pad where the user first touches the screen and make the character move relative to that virtual pad. That would make navigation on mobile much easier without needing to move the finger all the way the screen (especially on larger phones) and without potentially obscuring the actual lovely game art and content if going up with finger.
In China it's become semi-standard to wear a mask in the office even after just having a cold. So there's a definite change to something similar to Japan.
I've never used Vercel, but skimming their site I think it's roughly the same concept as Cloudflare Pages / Functions.

SvelteKit has adapters [1] for both Cloudflare and Vercel (and Netlify), so they must be reasonably similar. I think Vite is a similar idea. I've never used it either, but have seen some references to Cloudflare deployment via a plugin.

The basic concept is really compelling IMO.

1. https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/adapters#supported-environments
It is fortunate that you are not making decisions, then, for the people who are directing the use of billions of dollars invested in exactly the activities you insist do not work.
An IP agreement with an employer typically has the employee assign rights in any IP the employee develops to the employer. That gives the employer ownership of anything the employee personally develops. Creating an LLC wouldn’t change that since the employee is the one creating the IP, not the LLC. If others are involved in the LLC, the LLC could own IP developed by them (assuming they haven’t assigned their rights away to a different company), but not to IP (even IP yet to be developed) already assigned to a different company.

Ideally, the IP agreement with the employer is limited in scope so that the only IP assigned is that which relates to the employer’s products (e.g., a company that develops medical records software might not claim IP rights to a game the employee develops on the weekend). Unfortunately, many employers use overly-broad agreements, so it’s important to review the agreement. Even if the agreement is broad, the employer may be willing to amend it if the employee is working on something unrelated to the employer’s business and the work won’t affect the employee’s performance. Talk to an attorney in your state before you do anything that jeopardizes something of value to you, and definitely talk to an attorney before you concoct a scheme that opens you up to legal problems ;-)

Source: Attorney / software developer.
I feel like we live in the same building with an ancient boiler and HOA neighbors who are extremely cost sensitive!

I do wonder if there's a reasonable heat pump retrofit for old buildings with boiler-based heating. Ultimately you're just heating up a liquid and pumping it through everyone's radiator, right? Seems like a sensible product given the number of old buildings with this kind of heating.

Edit: And here it is! https://electrek.co/2022/01/05/these-new-affordable-electric...
There are several identifiable categories of common HN commentary: discuss name/title, discuss UI/UX, impromptu ama with the author, everyone dumping their sightly related weird pet theory, unreasonably entertaining anecdotes, 101 q&a on the general domain, field experts with long winded objections over minutae but agreeing with the main thrust of the article, someone learning why HN is not reddit, complaining about downvotes, really good summaries, and maybe even a discussion on the content of the article (what a time to be alive!).

Labeling comments would enable you to filter out stuff you're not interested in reading, but I don't think a separate page is the answer.
Why do you think Microsoft decided to drop C support beyond C89 and only caved in due to the pressure of FOSS projects?

A kernel without drivers, only produces heat.

> "grasping at straws" would seem to sum up your position

Fits exactly the position of someone that desperately wants to assert ntoskernel.exe is written just like when NT 3.51 got released into the world.

"Kernel proper - This is mostly written in C. Things like the memory manager, object manager, etc. are mostly written in C. The boot loaders are written in ASM, but set up a C environment rather quickly.

Drivers - that said, a lot of newer kernel mode drivers are actually written in C++ (however, its style is more akin to "C with classes". Lower level code has been much slower to adopting anything past C++98)

User land - Mostly C++ with varying levels of quality and version compliance. If it's a pre-Windows 8.0 component, it was written against mostly C++98. More recent features are C++14 and better."

-- https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4oruo1/windows_10_code...

Bye, have fun with C.
I note that canada is not on their index. I'd suggest that this is because it focuses on billionaire wealth, and there are fewer billionaires. But I'd suggest that a huge part of the economy (in some provinces in particular) derives from "cronyism" in the form of government handouts to "elites".

I'm just saying this because the chart is not telling the whole picture. Not to say for example that Canada and places like it are worse than Russia in this regsrd, but way worse than e.g. the US
> If you want to make certain forms of energy "illegal" because of some "lung-irritating pollutants", I mean why not start with the unsustainability and cancer risks of these poly type chemicals, no?

This is a fallacy. Regulations can be improved even without being perfect and your pet peeve not being addressed in a specific discussion does not make the discussion useless. Gas is harmful, as well as some antiadhesive coatings. Saying we should not do anything about either because the other would still be bad is not particularly smart. It is also the contorted logic that lobby groups use when they know they are on the wrong side of a public health issue.
The "Are you American" part subtly but purposely suggests something about Americans.