skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even the flipping Germans were saying NordStream 2 is dead. This was Scholz in August: “we ended the approval process for good reason.”

Tucker is pretending this is a smoking gun when the reality is, the US and Germany had a political agreement wherein the US agreed to lift sanctions on NordStream 2 in 2021 so long as Germany agreed that further Russian aggression would prompt re-evaluation. This was reported months and months ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/01/biden-eur...

"Before Scholz, the German chancellor, visited Biden at the White House on Feb. 7, for instance, the two leaders had come to a general agreement that Nord Stream 2 would be taken off the table should Russia invade Ukraine, the administration officials said.

At the time, in a joint news conference after their meeting, Biden was unequivocal about what would happen to the pipeline if Russia invaded Ukraine. “There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2,” Biden said. “We will bring an end to it.”

But Scholz, while generally acknowledging that Germany was prepared to “act together jointly” with the United States and other allies, pointedly did not mention the pipeline by name, raising questions about Germany’s commitment.

Administration officials added that while they had no doubt about Germany’s commitment, they conveyed to Germany that, if and when the time came, Germany could announce the halting of Nord Stream 2 — the ideal outcome for everyone, the Biden administration argued — or the United States could impose sanctions effectively ending it.

Ultimately, however, when the time came, Germany did not waver. After a three-way phone call between Biden, Scholz and Macron to discuss a joint response to Putin’s initial aggression, Germany surprised the group by swiftly announcing it was halting the certification of Nord Stream 2.

No arm-twisting was required, said one French official familiar with the dynamic. And shortly thereafter, the Biden administration announced its own Nord Stream 2 sanctions."

There is no mystery about what Biden was talking about at the time.
Queensland, Australia to build world's largest pumped hydro energy storage
Fast Company takes website offline after Apple News account hack
Doctors used to be viewed with (justified) suspicion. That suspicion is mostly still justified, but doctors are riding the coattails of several significant medical inventions in the last 100 years, especially antibiotics. This gives them a lot of credibility (justified or not), and the political consequences of this are not ideal. Hopefully this will eventually return to equilibrium and people will stop treating doctors like they're a couple stddev smarter or more trustworthy than they actually are.
It outputs JavaScript so you can only put it in places that interpret the JavaScript like GitHub pages or your own site.

GitHub comments for instance or hackernews comments won’t work.
Food and Power in 16th-Century Ireland: Household Accounts from Dublin Castle
Set the iron to the temp listed on the solder's datasheet.

Use a larger tip for higher heat transfer. Don't increase temp...this is how people burn boards and lift pads.
They should integrate Portage from Gentoo as it’s written in Python. Then they could have a precompiled package manager based off it.

The same way FreeBSD had Pkg and Ports systems.
The other replies are pretty good.

1. To migrate I'd use their email import utility. I've never used it but I've heard good things. On the Fastmail side set up sender identities so you can compose (and reply) to emails using your @gmail.com address [if you're using gmail addresses]. On gmail side you can continue having a dual email setup by having gmail setup forwarding such that it forwards the email and keeps a copy in gmail. I have 4 gmail accounts setup this way, so I know that I can always fallback to gmail if there's an issue on Fastmail (haven't had one for over a decade with this setup though).

2. Fastmail indexes emails so they're searchable via their web UI. It's pretty good, I've not really had any issues.

In my opinion, the best way to use Fastmail is to bring your own domain. One really cool thing about Fastmail Web UI is that it integrates well with catch-all email addresses, so you can have <catch-all-alias>@mydomain.com and when you get emails to that address, when you click Reply it automatically sets your sending identity to <catch-all-alias>@mydomain.com. This ensures your correspondence is consistent with the email aliases you use.
…Because only poor people drink instant coffee?
When all you have is a laser, every problem looks like something to be ablated.
The dollar is surging. This is who gets helped – and hurt – by its strength
There is a free tool provided by Yoast SEO that you can use to check the analysis of your blog's content. It shows that your headings and titles improve the content's readability. https://yoast.com/research/real-time-content-analysis/
It makes sense to stop selling gas to the EU, but Russia already did that weeks ago.

What makes little sense is then blowing up the pipeline. Russia were already not selling gas, why would they take the extra step of blowing up the pipeline? That removes it as possible leverage for future negotiations.

And if you have the capability to blow up pipelines, why not blow up all the other pipelines transporting gas from Scandinavia to the rest of the EU? Make Nordstream the only option.

It actually makes more sense for Germany or one of their allies to have blown up Nordstream, to remove the temptation to for Germany to open it back up in the middle of winter when they are suffering massive gas shortages.
I’m interested to hear your beef with Greg Rosalsky because I do listen to his work as he’s part of the most popular economics podcast in the world, Planet Money.

I’m not expecting super rigorous cutting edge economics from NPR but I do actually expect a well informed conventional take on economics. Who should people listen to? NPRs level of competence in economics already far outstrips mine.
That’s comparing all jobs to manufacturing, no?

The lowest wage jobs are dominated by service industry jobs: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/occupation-finder.htm?pay=Less+than+...

The only manufacturing jobs in the <30k group are in textiles.
Zero sum means that when one player gains an advantage of +1, another player loses the advantage. Chess is a perfect example.

Monopoly does not count as positive sum IMO because when other players get rich, you end up paying more rent. Cooperative games where multiple players are good vs a few bad ones may be positive sum.
Book Review: The Wealth Elite (2018)
Do you know where I can get a Pinecil V2 for 25$ in Germany?

The TS100 was about 40$, when I bought it...
Another way is to solder direct to the board but have strain relief holes which the wire routes though. There are footprints for this in kicad.
i'm amazed that they still sell/sold 128gb versions that late. I remember deciding never to get a computer with that small a hard drive again a bit less than 10 years ago. it clutters up so fast.
If enough people do it this can create a negative feedback loop. It’s called Market for Lemons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
The project progress is documented here: https://wiki.evemu.dev/wiki/Crucible_Project_Status
I’m old enough to remember when 128GB meant something
It's interesting you wrote a very long response and yet you presented no concrete arguments that the US could be behind this.

We can agree that most EU countries will not support such an incident. The only two countries who have the technical capability and the political reasons are the USA and Russia. Both are evil and ready to blow the world for their own gains.

> why would they take the risk to destroy the pipeline knowing Germans won't buy Russian gas in the foreseeable future?

Because they know their "allies" will cave. They've been trying to push them from Russian gas for a long time now but it didn't work.

> Their utmost priority is that Ukraine defeats Russia to send a strong message to China.

They are not trying to send a message to China. They are being engaged in a proxy war with Russia since the cold war. Now things are heating up again as they are closing in on their prey.
ONE the world is falling apart
TWO half the internet thinks the Russians are the aggressor
THREE half the internet thinks the country that nuked Japan, decimated Vietnam, bombed Cambodia, illegally invaded Iraq, supports brutal dictatorships world wide, … is to blame for pushing its hegemonic grip a tad bit too much
FOUR the effects of this are spreading… the world is falling apart
Astronaut Michael Collins discusses in Liftoff how people generally expected in the late 1950s that a descendant of the X-15 would be the first spaceship; that is, something with wings would one day have enough power to reach orbit.

Sputnik, and the consequent desire by the US to get someone in space ASAP, preempted the gradual process of ever-faster aircraft in favor of capsules. Without the space race, the X-15B or X-20 or something else would likely have taken an American into space for the first time. It would have been a few years later than Alan Shepard's first flight in 1961, but would probably have been a more sustainable technology.
Well, the short answer is that there aren't that many related decimal expansions at most two for any expansion, and a countable number of pairs, but it's a problem with the argument.
> The problem: the web has a terrible UI toolkit for desktop apps. It has clickable links and basic forms, that's all

I think you're not giving credit to the best part about the web: CSS.

I've been programming GUIs with Java AWT, Swing, and Qt for years. Nothing comes close to CSS when it comes to defining layouts.
This is cool but phones have fit in my pocket for years. It's all about the form factor if you want a PC.

I'm waiting for the PC that's the size of a thumb drive that you just put into any hdmi port.

All peripherals connect over bluetooth, and power will have to come from the hdmi port.
> No, I don't remember this. It sounds made up. Do you have a citation?

Nope: documenting all of the awful and shitty things conservatives said on the radio wasn't a thing back then.
Why not learn a synthetic language with more speakers, like Klingon?
Absolutely!

Unfortunately, the designers all seem to have 72" 8K professionally color-calibrated monitors and a $1000 mouse, and think if it works for them that's good enough.

I saw the start of this in the mid-2000s when the web trend was for grey-on-grey 8px fonts. I went to the designer and asked what the heck he was thinking and he showed me his screen; and yeah it was kinda legible there. Still bad design.

Nowadays the trends are flat UI where you don't even know what's clickable/actionable, hidden things that only appear when you mouseover them, and on touchscreens, secret functions that only trigger if you swipe in just the right way with just the right number of fingers in just the right pattern.

Design has just been getting progressively worse and worse ever since 2000/Windows XP.
> "Have you considered moving" doesn't go over well when spoken to people getting priced out of SF.

Maybe it should do.
Windows has pretty decent keyboard shortcuts for manipulating windows‘ positions, though. Clicking and manual window manipulation should very rarely be necessary, shouldn’t it?
Government website: https://media.epw.qld.gov.au/

Infrastructure blueprint:

https://media.epw.qld.gov.au/files/Queensland_SuperGrid_Infr...
It's not about economics, it's about winning the war. He's telling NATO to back down or he will make winter hell for their populations.
I don't know I tried to understand CSS many times but never managed to get it: I'm a backend developer nowadays.
The difference with major cities is

a) it's a lot harder to somehow abandon large populations than small ones, and

b) the cost vs benefit ratio is probably there for big cities in a way that it's not for small towns in the mountains. Spending a billion dollars to rebuild a town with a population that numbers in the hundreds is horrible economic value. In contrast, New Orleans is big enough to where spending billions on flood protection may be still be worth it on some level.

That said, it'd certainly be nice to find a way to have cute little towns in the mountains that wasn't dependent on enormous subsidies from other cities.
Yeah, I know. Seemes totally unlikely. I wrote comment before seeing that…
Not a really good comparison I think.

A knife blade and a masonry chisel are roughly the same type of carbon steel tempered to a similar hardness.

They will both scratch and damage concrete.
good summary!
PayPal Backs Down
... an intel compute stick?
I had this exact same thing happen a few years ago, with an internal employee.

They had gotten someone else from the India office to conduct the interview. He said his camera wasn't working and we didn't think anything of it.

He aced the interview, even made good recommendations on the project he would be running.

The guy that showed up wasn't even at a junior level. It became painfully obvious after a couple of days. Pure red flags but the highlight...

- When asking for a project plan on an enterprise level project his response was "I can code all this in 3 days".

- Proceeds to supply broken code.

- When mentioned the code doesn't work he gets aggressive and says other people on the team broke it.

- Code gets reviewed by a senior architect (Bob) from another team. Turns out code was copied from an external github. So even if it worked it would be illegal to use.

- They get aggressive saying that Bob is jealous.

- Bob proceeds to document in detail the codes origin, legal details and points out where the code is broken.

- Bob and senior management have a meeting with the guy, where he is asked supply his original code (which he can't). Is then asked to explain exactly what the code does.

- Bob puts the cherry on the cake where he finds a simple broken function that anyone junior developer could see is wrong. Asks him to explain what is wrong with that code.

After that the guy got fired. Not sure if they investigated further in the India branch. But it was embarrassing all round.

I'm still not sure how the imposter planned to keep the job after getting it. I suspect the stand-in expected money and didn't get it. So didn't support them.
Fond memories of my Nokia N900, still have it somewhere
Is that justice? I don't think so but what do I know.
The fallout is that there’s now a sudden realization that these pipelines are subject to sabotage, including the pipeline to Poland, which creates unrest in the gas market. This, in turn, hinders the expected recovery of the gas price in the winter, and somewhat increases pressure on Europe.

I wouldn’t say that the act of sabotage is minimal.
Good thing is that python3 provides typing.
link : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32669330
A huge benefit is being able to see how people react to what you're saying. I especially like this during brainstorming or retrospective meetings.

The other is just to make work more fun. Beyond 3-4 people, everyone stays muted, and with no cameras, a lot of the jokes and banter just stops. Dead air is a soul-draining response to jokes (whether good or not) that an individual can only try so many times. This works well during scrum meetings (when it's just the small team anyway).

I say this as very much an introvert: meetings are tiring for me anyway; I'd rather they're not also boring.
>I'm waiting for the PC that's the size of a thumb drive that you just put into any hdmi port.

Google intel compute stick for one that already exists.
I most certainly do not use flux in my rework. I am in a zero-clean facility, the only flux allowed is that which comes with the solder paste for stencil and SMT placement - on initial production work.

Fluxless rework isn't difficult at all. I do it dozens of times a day.
Much respect for this response. Your tech work is obviously reputable but really wholesome to see humility and honesty on such cool big work.
"You can’t on one hand be a libertarian turd"
Even ignoring the slur (I have many disagreements with libertarians but don't see the need for ad-hom), where did you get this? Ctrl-F in the article for "libertarian" has 0 matches.
> Firstly, who is saying it is permanently broken? If the repairs are cheap, Russia may decide the cost of that is worth the amount of distrust it has introduced.

Experts, apparently. These pipelines weren’t made to carry salty seawater, and are now filling up with that. This means a lengthy repair is required.
How are you sure these costs return to the communities? These towns have fewer than 1,000 residents. It's likely that builders would have to drive in from far away, trucking in materials from the largest metro area. Workers would have to drive 1-3 hours home, requiring higher pay, or you'd need housing onsite, both adding to costs. This is a lot of building all at once that they don't normally endure. You need outsiders.
100GB is… a lot of email.
Counterpoint is that C and C++ are increasingly removed from what the hardware is actually doing and are now more of an emulation language mired in legacy thinking rooted in 1970s era memory and processing models.

Modern languages are trying to introduce constructs to make safer, more performant software on average, lessening the tendency of hardware chip makers having to hack their way into performant execution of C/C++.

This is not to say C/C++ can’t make good software, it’s that we limit ourselves by clinging to them, and would be far better off with gradual adoption of modern low level languages, just as we shed Assembler for C over time.

See also https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
I migrated from Google Workspaces to Fastmail earlier this year and their migration tools made for a smooth transition.

My only big complaint is their woeful spam filtering. I get 1-2 spam emails a day, and I mark each and every one as spam. They're all of the same format; The subject line is something like [Symantec Invoice #431343] with the body being empty and a single .jpg attachment of a fake invoice. The company name and design of the invoice changes but it's always the same pattern.

I've contacted support but they shrugged their shoulders and suggested I just keep marking them as spam.

It's annoying, but I pre-paid for 3 years so I don't quite feel like jumping back to Google.

*Oh I just thought of another gripe that I didn't consider before switching: their calendaring system isn't really that useful for shared calendars unless the other people you want to share with are also Fastmail customers. This seems obvious when you think about it but I take for granted that literally everyone in my life has a Gmail account that I can share calendars with.
Having owned both MB and Porsche I can say I would pay for having an Apple driven, configurable dial set. That being said, the trend to replace buttons that you can feel and learn and access without thinking (looking at you Tesla) I hope there is some sanity to the design. Screens for what they are good at, buttons for normal everyday stuff!
Yes. Branchy code which could sometimes use getElementById and other times use querySelector may be faster if it always uses querySelector, even if that call itself is slower. The reason for this is that the JITs sometimes deoptimize on branchy logic with inconsistent property access between branches. They also deoptimize on branchy logic defining intermediate values, but much less often when the value is a consistent type like a string (selector).
Upending your whole life and moving somewhere "safer" is no small thing, particularly when you have generational ties to the area. Doubly so when rural economies are dying, and you can't afford to move.

Native Americans have lived in these places for thousands of years. Much longer than cars, industry, datacenters and their resulting climate change. I'd fault the latter for this situation, not the victims.
why do people need to be doing something interesting by your or anyone else's standards to hate being interrupted? "people like to not be interrupted too much" is certainly a weird take.

yet, equating "likes to not be interrupted on someone else's schedule" with "likes extreme social isolation to the point of mental illness" is a weirder one.

just because i want people to text me that they're coming over, and waits till i see it and confirm that that's cool with me, doesn't mean i'm into driving myself crazy in solitary confinement. this is the default for most people agreeing with the article, and folks like you are just upset because you hate not being able to get your hit of extroversion in on your schedule but have to wait (more than in the 80s) for folks to agree to share their social energy.
I think it’s coming in Chrome 106

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-106/#popup-a...
You're assuming fascist ideology needs to be internally consistent. If you look at historical examples, it rarely is.
They did not blow the other pipelines passing through Ukraine, so why would they blow up NS? To deny themselves military aid from Germany? It doesn't make sense.
An improvement? I'm not sure, but I'd like to think through it.....

In the traditional case there are sponsorships where pre-existing fame unrelated to the target paid promotion is used to lend the target a false veneer of legitimacy through that fame. Not so great.

In the "Influencer" case a person has sort of deliberately & explicitly set themselves up as a broker-dealer [1] of attention they have aggregated from the masses of the internet population. Their endorsement of a product/service is no more valid than those with traditional pre-existing fame. So, also not so great.

And when I reference the democratization of this sort of paid shilling I'm thinking about it from the perspective of those doing the shilling: There are more opportunities to everyday people to get in on that by hustling to become an influencer. But there's another population to consider: those who consume the content & paid shilling.

The average consumer probably understands that the athlete/actor/whatever that is, for example, shilling a Citi Bank credit card has no special expertise in banking, comparative appraisals of different credit card offerings, etc. They know it's just a paid gig for the celebrity so the bank can forge a pleasant psychological association for consumers.

On the other hand, influencers often represent themselves & their paid endorsements as if they were authentic/organic opinions on whatever product or service they're being paid to shill.

In the later case it seems like there's a lot more potential for people to be deceived & not realize that the influencer's opinions were sold to the highest bidder and aren't authentic representations of their true thoughts on the product/service.

In that respect, no, not an improvement at all. Quite the opposite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broker-dealer
It's a shame (but not at all surprising) that rejecting unpaid work has been turned into a pejorative concept.
> lengthy repair

I know, but at what cost? If Russia can sow distrust for $X million, maybe it's worth it? And who will pick up that repair bill? Is it strictly Russia? I see a lot of handwaving saying the project is forever destroyed with no sources. If we're going to be speculating on incentives from our armchairs, these details are pretty important.
This is cool, but a 5 hour battery life is kind of a dealbreaker for a device I would be very mobile with.

The 11 inch macbook air used to get over 11 hours, and netbooks used to get like at least 4 hours.