skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a geopolitical strategic perspective, the goal of nation-states is not in fact to maximise chaos. You might care to revisit your premises and/or understanding.

The energy released even by nuclear weapons relative to that needed to melt or dislodge icecaps is puny.

The largest nuclear weapon ever tested, the Tsar Bomba, had a yield of 50 megatons TNT.

That's the equivalent energy of about 35 million barrels of oil. That's about 1/3 the amount of oil consumed worldwid per day.

There are a total of about 10,000 nuclear weapons worldwide. I'm not sure what the average yield is, though most US weapons seem to be around 500 kilotons nominal, so I'll use that, adjust your recipe to suite....

That gives 3.4 billion barrels of oil energy equivalent, or roughly 100 days' worth of global petroleum consumption.

Nuclear weapons are awesome, in the original sense, compared to traditional chemical weapons, for use in warfare. As a net total store of energy ... what humans expend in our normal course of life is expended somewhat more slowly, but at tremendous scale. The original Hiroshima bomb, for example released the same energy as a large electrical power plant generates in about 18 hours.[1] The bomb just releases it much faster (in a few microseconds) and in different forms (blast, heat, and radiation, rather than electrical potential).

Or, put another way: we're already nuking the poles, just somewhat more slowly and consistently than you suggest.

Sources:

Conversion calculations using GNU Units <https://www.gnu.org/software/units/>

<https://www.statista.com/statistics/265239/global-oil-consum...>

<https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-weapons>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield>

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Notes:

1. 1 GW plant at 17.43 hours ~= 15 kiloton TNT.
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> They're useless when you want to know about the dynamics of a system.

Generic UI experiments don't try to solve "dynamics of a system". Current best answer: interactive notebooks with first hand facilities to query, transform and visualize data.
Because banks can have IT outages, and you can have no access to your money until they get resolved. They also can go bust which means you can be waiting a long time for what's left of your money.
On the other hand, the reinforced concrete itself isn't combustible, and gradually losing rigidity whilst burning isn't exactly a desirable structural property. And building entirely from timber implies using a whole lot of combustible woods, not just glulam beams. (Then again, this is pretty standard practice in housing anyway...)

Construction solely in reinforced concrete might be undesirable for other reasons, including environmental impact, but does tend to isolate household fires so they burn themselves out long before the structure is threatened
That’s a lot of cash to travel with.
I did say "with all due respect", surely it mitigates my strong language.
Your company wasn't stung by it. You chose to get stung by it. Just pin your version and live with it. If it's such a critical piece of your business, either pay a fair price for it, or make it yourself.
Wait $350 is for the whole semester? So, if a student takes 5 courses per semester it will cost $3500 per year. Why can't the $15000 instate and $44000 out of state pay for this? If even 20% of the tuition is not going for class expenses there is something messed up somewhere
The web server is down!

- Sales guy
So it's not just different building materials, it's also mixed-use zoning? 1 level of commercial space + N levels of living space above it?
AGPL is an actual FLOSS license though, SSPL is not. And Amazon (or any other entity) would be quite within their rights to publically deploy AGPL software as long as they merely published the changes in the deployed version. There's no requirement for such changes to be accepted by upstream.
The modern world is just full of dumb traps like this, and I personally doubt I know the half of them.

Don't rely on gmail/Google Drive, they might arbitrarily block you with no recourse. (This one I've known about for years, but have yet to find the time to properly address.)

Don't rely on a single bank, they might arbitrarily block you with no recourse. (This one was news to me.)

Et cetera.

The thing is, addressing each of these means first knowing about it, then deciding to act, then actually investing the energy. All of this requires technical proficiency and time that people may simply not have. What I want to know is, why have we built so many footguns, and how can we start disarming them? Why is technology moving us to a Kafka story instead of a Star Trek story?
I can't get VS2022 to use this - it renders correctly in the selector but then defaults to Console in the editor.

E: VS Code loves it though!
Same boat here, SpiderOak on Ubuntu (not much issues fortunately) but it does seem abandoned and not sure about its future.

As a general noob I also don't understand how I should use rsync.net appropriately. Do I encrypt all my data files before or is that done by Borg/Restic for example?
I understand the intricacies of it in terms of the App Store, but I don’t think grabbing Quake’s shareware assets qualifies as pirating.
They are experimental and low cost (183 million USD) Cubesats - a great way to get educational institutions involved in space exploration without the backing of a NASA budget.
Ask HN: Work Culture Canary?
On our fridge, 7 years ago, I put a poster: Anarchy soda! Fizzy drinks, for the people, by the people, take one, leave some.

I didn't set this up with any other intent that having some soda available to myself, but I've come to think of it as my canary.. The fridge pretty much never runs dry, to the astonishment of many a visitor. It indicates to me, that the culture is sound, that people are conscientious and respecting of one another. If it stops working, it flags to me that we either have a bad apple, or that it's time to start looking.

It's also awesome to always have access to fizzy drinks :)

Anything similar where you work? A thing that intentionally or not, indicates to you that you're surrounded by reasonable people?
Turning non-tradables into tradables
From anonymous cranks in Twitter and 4chan, they seem to have a very high batting average compared to credentialed people these days.
> The alternative is that we have some specification for intermediate code which is low level enough to be a universal compile target but abstract enough to be possible to compile to essentially any CPU architecture. That's what WASM is.

Isn't that exactly what Java did years ago? And what Microsoft's .NET bytecode did when they had to remove the Microsoft JVM?

Standard WASM is stack based, unlike every real computer out there. It also explicitly supports unaligned memory which is terrible for native execution performance. It was designed for the limitations of the browser sandbox as an evolution on a backwards compatible Javascript library.

I don't know why you'd need tk shop different versions for different instruction sets, that's exactly the problem Java, and to a lesser extent dotnet, solves. The runtime is platform dependent, the binary isn't. You can build a JAR and run it on anything from old MIPS server to a Windows 11 machine or an M2 Mac if your code targets a runtime old enough. You don't need to compile separate versions for each platform at all.

Building platform independent executables has already been solved by Java and very few people actually use it. I'm not against an alternative to Java, or anything else tainted by Oracle for that matter, I just don't see the use cases outside the browser for platforms precompiling WASM.
Wowza Announces Acquisition of Flowplayer
Binding arbitration.
It's really not, I'm not sure why you'd think that.

Even then, I imagine there's a lot of countries in the world where running out of money would mean landing in a safety net that still involves relocating to the the most basic accommodation available that may be neither safe nor close to any friends and/or family.
If you are using clojure, you can do hot-reload in nodejs

You can also install npm deps and switch npm lib version without restart your repl

https://shadow-cljs.github.io/docs/UsersGuide.html#node-repl
Arguably AGPL also triggers "at runtime", based on public performance of the covered work over a computer network.
> Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep,

> And as the sleeping soldiers in th’alarm

> Your bedded hair like life in excrements

> Start up and stand on end.

i read that as "your hair is standing up as if made sticky with poop"... "life in excrements" here sounds like it means "covered in".
One way on looking on that is that it is bad, as cargo prices are very large. But, as in case of every problem, there is an opportunity here: we can shorten supply chains. Maybe established western Europe companies can have suppliers from Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Ukraine, Morocco or Algeria instead of China or India or Vietnam.

Shorter route, more eco, as less fuel will be burned, if production is just around a corner it is easier to make sure manufacturing does not violate workers rights, does not abuse children, does not use slave workers. And we can stop feeding Chinese communistic regime, we see how dependence on country like Russia ends up.
Indeed, not to mention the GC, which isn't one size fits all (not even within Java itself).

And wasm could run in ring 0 if you want, the runtime is that hardened.
Been there, now II have 15 cards from 6 different banks.

There is also problem with deposit insurance. In EU deposit in single bank is insured upto 100k euro. If bank bankrupts, you loose anything over that. So it is better to spread deposits across multiple banks, each with 100k euro deposit.

And by aware that many banks are owned by the same group, and use just different brand as front. Insurance is per bank license, not per bank brand.
> but again the censorship bubble is making this difficult

What is a reliable way of determining whether that statement is true?

For example, do you have URLs of news articles that are not found by major search engines (or are ranked questionably low for the given query)?
lol I'd forgotten about that
Or the fact that he's "doing it for thrills" implies he doesn't need to because he has mounted his entire file system as a RAM disk.
At least in India, banks are required to pay you every day for delays to resolve major issues beyond what is considered reasonable. OP's case would likely fall under it.

It's part of RBI (Reserve Bank Of India) guidelines. The scope is expanding every few years to cover every situation.
The syntax looks very similar to Vue 3's composition api. Nothing wrong with that.
Compilers have had many years of work put into generating optimal instruction sequences for POWER. That is all flushed away moving to RISC-V.

Momentary "vitality of the ecosystem" just seems like a poor basis to choose the underpinnings for decades of future work. But we seem to do that every time.
Y Combinator founders from this year reveal what made them stand out
I've been following r/StableDiffusion on reddit for a while and was wondering whether this can also be used for anything that doesn't look like a cheap fantasy or science fiction novel cover.

This is an honest question, I haven't seen any example of anything else so I got to wonder whether the models they are using are specialized for sci-fi and fantasy "air brush/digital" style? Why?
Canon Confirms It’s Going After Lens Makers for Patent Infringement
Solar Probe Hit by Plasma Blast on Its Way to the Sun
The Build engine's source code isn't enough to port any game running on it, since Build was made as a library (I believe most developers using Build in the 90s didn't have access to the source code).

Also, wasn't there an official Blood port by Nightdive Studios?
I have had very good results with the 18:6 method. It's tough to restrict yourself from eating before 12:00, but if you need to, you can always fall back to 16:8.

Results will vary greatly from person to person, there won't be a single best method to lose weight, and it's usually more effective if you combine it with a modest but honest workout routine (rowing and running in my case)
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'We don’t have enough' lithium globally to meet EV targets, mining CEO says
"With all due respect"

Someone who LITERALLY has no intention of respecting you.
Remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches are now solar-powered
> I've basically determined that my only option to ensure continued or improving code quality is to combine refactoring and bug fixes in the same merge request, while still keeping them in separate commits. That way whenever I touch a part of code for bug fixing or whatever else, I leave it behind in much better state than it was before.

I agree, in practice I think this is the best option, with some kind of timebox for the improvements made.

One thing I'd like to add is setting up some kinds of tests. If nothing else is available, E2E tests for the critical paths of the business are a good start. For (micro)services, getting API contract tests to work is also invaluable.
> require the government to guarantee rights to do what one wants to do, as long as it does not harm others. It also requires a government to enforce contracts and property rights.

That's far from sufficient for sustained economic growth. Most feudal societies had strong property rights - as long as you were on the good side of your king at least, and in times of peace. The population had strong individual autonomy and could even sell themselves into servitude, a right no modern state recognizes. But because all productive capital (land) was controlled by an extractive elite, and alternate forms of capital (human, technological) were undeveloped, such societies were not market economies in the modern sense and living in them was hell for most except select few.

Freedom to do and own anything means nothing when you own nothing.

> It requires equality under the law.

A fair justice system is one of those fundamental inclusive institutions I talk about. We have problems achieving that goal even in the most developed countries.
The point is, it doesn't, mostly. It mostly just churns.
Tesla is supposed to have driver monitoring via the cabin camera:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/27/22457430/tesla-in-car-cam...

It apparently doesn't work very well.
For me best value is a "walkthrough" feature with detailed description what's going on. It seems that static diagram with appropriate description text can have the same explanatory power.
Not to be deliberately difficult but surely "I like Rachmaninoff very much" is a different statement than "Rachmaninoff is a radical"? There's surely plenty of pieces where nobody would even begin to argue that they were radical (even in their time) that can send chills down one's spine.

(The counter-argument might easily descend into "all great art is radical" I suppose the article itself touches on this: "At these colloquies, someone inevitably proposes that Composer X is more of a modernist than had hitherto been suspected." As a huge fan of the Vaughan Williams symphonies, I'm rather familiar with this trope)
Are we in the same thread?

> The general public isn’t asking for a hundred gigs, but I’d love to see the baseline rise up a bit. It doesn’t feel like we’ve budged meaningfully here for years. Or is that just me?

Then less than 3 comments in somehow it became we start justifying 256 GBs of RAM?

256 GBs of RAM can be useful in some cases, on some computers, in some places, but that's not really a meaningful inference? 1TB of RAM can be useful depending on the workload, any given number could be.

The question is can it be useful for anything even vaguely resembling personal computing, and the answer is for all intents and purposes: No. It's not.
In Poland you apply to a major and that's it, you can't even choose which subjects you want. You have a list which you have to take and that's it.
I can't even see the the image you linked. Imgur redirects to the webpage.

When I right click that image to open in a new tab, I get the grainy and indecipherable webp.
> Another time a bank blocked my card because I was travelling and they thought it's a fraud.

I was traveling recently and when trying to pay for a hotel room the transaction was declined. I needed to call my bank to explain that I am traveling, so they tuned down their anti-fraud alerts. Thankfully, one phone call was all it took to resolve this.

However, this block was only triggered because the transaction in question was relatively high amount ($1500), the very same card would still work perfectly for small transactions.
Threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1567315945143603204.html
I would love for Bitwarden to use this money to make SSO available to all pricing levels. Currently, in order to use SSO with Bitwarden you have to be on their "Enterprise" plan. I think SSO is too important to gate behind a paywall, especially for a company whose main product is security.
> Lesson learned, don't trust _ONE_ bank with your savings/banking needs!

This is generally a good advice, as a bank typically has your money and lose nothing being slow or painful.

On moving to foreign countries while keeping banking access, it's such a world of hurt.

Some banks will straight stop your account and flag it the minute they understand you've been out of the country for any specific length of time (from 1 full month to 6 months depending on the bank). Many banks will just not allow a foreign resident to keep an account.

Citibank in Japan has the funniest rule: you have to receive in person a letter sent to your residency address every month if you intend to keep your account alive. Failing to do so for whatever reason automatically locks the account and you have to come to them to prove you still meet their requirements.
Careful, lest you get drawn into the merciless conflict between the Forge Minecraft modders and the Fabric Minecraft modders.
Time and Timing
> The prerequisites of this idea involved building a static site generator and redesigning my website

To clarify: that is not yak shaving, that is just plain old procrastination. Yak shaving includes tasks that you have to complete in order to do whatever your original intent was. For example:

* I want to add new feature to my code.
* The feature requires a database migration.
* To apply the migration to test environment I need to set up AWS credentials.
* To set up credentials I need to log in to AWS console.
* My password hasn't been rotated in a while so I need to update it.
* etc

That is yak shaving.
The problem is that this is not something Apple wants to have on the App Store. They reject apps they deem arbitrarily unsuitable all the time.
Basically all processors today are RISC.

Event the venerable behemoth x86(_64) has a front-end which translates CISC instructions into RISC-like micro-ops.

The distinction is pretty meaningless today.
The tl;dr is essentially: "How not to get distracted. Don't get distracted." Super helpful.
If you're heavily or entirely dependent on mobile, then you don't want to be waiting for the React Native/Flutter team to fix critical issues or introduce functionality. You want to remove as many dependencies/parties between your product and your customers.
I used to like them, but one time I wasted 15 minutes on trying to split → into - and >
before I realised I have them on, so I hate them now too.
The impact of cutting a military budget worldwide to half of today's spending would bring up to 8% percent.

If we still need to have wars worldwide, why not take a look at the current China India conflict as an example. There they agreed to fight only with sticks and clubs, and it's working great for both sides.
Why is it so great? Do you think the cost of doing it in the same pull request is greater than the cost of never refactoring at all, for example?
> and the killer said he acted in self defense

I'm sorry, but that's misinformation. The killer was on video actively searching for potential targets, and repeatedly referred to himself as a soldier in a civil war. Instead turning himself in, like you're supposed to do in a lawful self-defense situation, he crossed state lines while fleeing from police. He later attempted to shoot the police when they finally found him.

Just because censorship is pervasive does not actually change the historical record. I've posted enough to prove my point. I would invite you to watch the hundreds of hours of violent riot footage instead, but Google already made sure to scrub all of it off of YouTube.
The movie industry uses something like 'fingerprinting for DRM', adding dots to film prints sent to movie theaters to figure out where bootleg telecining is being done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_anti-piracy
How often do banks go bankrupt in EU? It must be rare.
I use Bitwarden and almost never use the app. Most of my interaction comes from the browser plug-in and Bitwarden.com.
When done properly, wood charring actually strengthens the wood by drawing out moisture. Charred wood is also more fire-resistant, repels insects and doesn't rot.

Of course all this can be achieved differently but charring usually lasts much longer than other surface treatments.

It used to be common in Japan (yakisugi) but I assume this must have been common throughout the world.
This is an excellent argument against private banks.

Financial infrastructure should not be in the hands of private corporations.
(0 experience in offsite backups so apologies if this question seems a bit dumb)

I'm confused - can this be used as a simple cloud storage platform, or are there limits on how often you can upload/download data? If I can SSH into it at any time, why not use this over other storage providers?
He has been trying to stop for a while. It's not easy to "just stop"
> Yak shaving - While working on something important you iteratively find something more important that you feel you need to deal with first.

No; yak shaving is something you must deal with to continue working on your original "something important". It is solving blockers, not following distractions.
>This seems like a non-story. Rates were insane due to Covid. Things are now normalizing.

Keyword: normalizING. Those inflated prices are continuing to result in supply shortages around the world. I still cannot acquire certain plastic items because they are ridiculously high at the moment. These shortages are also contributing to inflation. There are a lot of people who are closely watching this situation to it's resolution