skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about an action that an individual can take. Is it enough in the grand scale of things? No. Does it make a positive difference in a day-to-day life for people in Belarus? Yes it does (e.g. knowing where the local meeting is happening, where the thugs are etc.). Can you do more? Always.
That's what I always think about MS GUI frameworks.

My rant towards Microsoft:

Get some average students and let them build a real world demo application. Write down all the stupid questions they have and all the problems they struggle with. Consider them as bugs or bad design choices and solve them. Do that before you release stuff.

Microsoft delivers amazing quality in some fields, language design (c# and f#), ASP.NET Core and everything in Micrsoft.Extsions.* is amazing. Also .NET Core was a very successful project (after the hell of PCL and .NET Standard).

But WHY can't you build a proper and usable UI framework?!?!?!!!
hank you very much for your comment.Millions of values ... Thank you very much for your kind words.
To put it simply, "thumbnail URLs to manage", "collect more and more", "three types of collections (private collection, group collection, public collection)", "share and edit URLs with everyone" Is possible.
(It will be smooth if you can translate the article of the linked URL into English by "right-click-> translate" of your browser)
I have a few "Tile" tags which seem OK but I was hoping that I could use my own hardware to scan for them instead of relying on their Android app which just gives you a rough distance. I wanted to have a few cheapo solar powered ESP32's dotted around actively probing and triangulating their position. Couldn't find any info on the Tile protocol. I think smart tags like this could be so much more useful if they were opened up.
> The freedom of users is more important than the freedom of developers.

This is misleading. All developers are users as well. Having to use closed source services and tools impacts us a lot.
I had an Apple TV 4K and a couple of compatible gamepads, and I loved some of the early tvOS games! Rayman, Icycle (!!), Alto's Adventure, Badlands...

Then I tried Apple Arcade and it's just terrible. First, performance for all the 3D-heavy games is exactly what you would expect on a 4K screen with an iPhone 7 GPU. The iPhone XR GPU won't solve that.

But I'm also convinced that Apple fundamentally doesn't get games. A lot of the content was just interactive storytelling. With a few notable exceptions, I felt like a suit who never owned a console or Steam account had picked games for me based purely on the marketing materials.
> you really think having a civil war right around the corner, practically on the other side of the fence, is something any country wants to have?

If you don't want a civil war on the other side of the fence, go and win it.

With current discord in the Belorussian armed forces, double digit desertion rate, broken command chain, even the smallest NATO armies can easily plough though them.

Your bigger problem will be the militarised special police, paramilitaries, and secret services, which are in fact, bigger, and better armed, and trained than the standing military (this is the same situation you have across all Eastern Bloc btw.)
The grammatical differences between Finnish and Estonian are largely systematic, except in the declining of nouns (where Estonian is kind of chaotic). Fully 35% of Estonian word stock is Germanic, so knowing some German would help.
Nobody on this site, I repeat nobody, has any animosity towards a random Chinese citizen for simply being Chinese in China.

What you call „negativity around anything China related“ is people raised in fairly free societies (most of HN) having a gut wrench reaction to whatever overstep-du-jour the Chinese communist elites (the CCP) have committed this week.
You can get decentralized world opinion from a trusted source of truth. The reality is that blockchain guarantees break down right exactly at the point a single element of trust enters the system. This invalidates the entire guarantee and therefore the costs associated with blockchain are purely superfluous.
Tabguard: Chrome Dev extension for tab management
US and Russia are not the same at all. Just look what Russia did to North Korea and what US did to South Korea. The Russian power order is a cancer of the Earth.
In 2021 8GB expandable to 16GB of RAM is just laughable. Here's Apple stating "you are a consumer and thus you must consume. Any kind of remotely more complex task is prohibited on a 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD machine". Plain ridiculous.
SWIFT is a messaging system, the US (and everybody else) can inspect SWIFT transactions to see what's going on . But as far as actual enforcement, once the US sees something they really don't like in the SWIFT messaging platform they can only prevent the target bank that operated the transaction from accessing USD by cutting off that bank US branch from ACH/Fedwire, or if the bank doesn't have a branch by forcing the Correspondent US bank to drop their bank client.

Theoretically if the EU wanted to trade with Iran or if China wanted to sell gas to China...they can do it

The US will notice it and would block that bank access to USD and close that bank US branch if they have any.. but they can subsequently continue in RUB, EUR, CNY..

For a bank losing the ability to loan to US customers or do retail business in the US is not a big deal....the very huge problem is that you won't be able to access the US bond markets and the US equity markets. The ability to buy and sell the world's best debt: the mighty US treasuries goes away.

No bank survives that.

SWIFT is not special, it just saves time to the FBI and the NSA...but if SWIFT were to lose its relevance due to Central Banks Digital Currencies, then the US will still know that you violated sanctions and you'd still be immediately blacklisted and sanctioned yourself

Digital currencies such as the digital yuan or the digital euro will have 6-12 months of free reign before those same countries which make up SWIFT come together again to agree on the same principles behind SWIFT (the ability to inspect etc). The
Central bank of an other country can be too big to sanction (opposed to a commercial bank) but the new framework will require that the identity of those who made the transaction are targeted.

So with the new Central Bank Digital Currency regime the sanction and blacklist doesn't hit the whole commercial bank (because the transaction won't be facilitated by the commercial bank but by a Central Bank) but directly the person or the company violating the US sanctions.

In the end the ability that the US has to sanction and be the world police comes from the strenght of the US economy and the might of the US military as well as the power of US intelligence. The balance of power with regards to that hasn't changed
Belarusian KGB has an academy on its own, and it existed since after WWII: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8...

KGB office in Minsk was always quite big and powerful in Soviet times.

Fun fact 1: head of FSB Patrushev studied in that academy.

Fun fact 2: Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Minsk under KGB control for a few years.
Not sure of the point of naming after “bad money drives out the good.” A smirk, perhaps?

Let’s hope merchants don’t buy in, because the cattle don’t know the difference between “basic income” and “basically a Ponzi scheme.”
Helping to push up prices as they do so, attracting more speculators. That's not a net zero.

They also hold what are limited resources for a non-zero amount of time, reducing supply in aggregate. More speculators, more supply constraint.

This is not some sort of idealised marketplace where people can dip in and out without any effect.
thank you guys for the input. points are very well taken. I will change it to a more appropriate demo.
Interesting- thanks for sharing!
I wonder how many people who are using comments don't need comments. I have seen so many places where comments are enabled but even good comments are not replied to, especially when the post is from 5 years ago.

Also, trying to ensure the correct quality of comments is time-consuming. If someone asks "Why would I use C#?", it might seem low quality and won't be published but what if someone asks "You are using C# but Go would make a lot of this easier", it might warrant publishing and even a reply but how many people really want to start a long discussion with a stranger about the merits of different languages?
>> Backed by Big brand so cant be sold out

I mean, it can, it just doesn't have to involve a sale
I mean, yeah they're kinda small. But you losing them is nobody else's fault. I've been using AirPods since 2016 and have never lost one. All because I make sure to always follow the rule that they are not to be placed anywhere but in their case. Ever. Not for a minute.
Third wave? The Netherlands never really left the second one.
Twitter thread discussing the safety of mRNA vaccines
Former Yugoslavia countries are doing pretty well actually. Genocides has been stopped, nations were able to establish their own countries, none of them returned to a dictatorship, all have democratically elected governments. Definitely better than before.
SPA = single page application. You can make one entirely in Blazor and can host it on any static file host. Are you talking about Javascript specifically?
That's interesting, thanks. Makes me wonder how widespread it is, but when spots are scarce and every bed counts, it's awful all the same.

Also ties back into the idea that governments need to act earlier than might seem necessary.
The problem is that West is not helping them enough. Try finishing Iraq first before getting into other places. Building Iraq will take more time than bombing Iraq. It will need sending money instead of extracting oil. The problem is that, no, that's not what people want. You only want Sadam to go and don't care about anything else. The media, the NGO, the activists just move on to next target because it is always easy to pointing out a problem than fixing a problem.
What I'm going to say will sound pop psychology. Maybe that's all it is.

As a gay man, it's been my experience that quite a few men are totally monogamous, and not for any particular reason. For all the usual ones you hear, even just that the idea seems unsettling or angering to them.

Many men are not. Some do not get much if any jealousy. Some can easily put up with monogamy if it means they get to keep their monogamous lover. Some cannot.

The non-monogamous still seem to do well with "monogamish" in many cases. It can be an open pairing of various kinds of arrangements. Sometimes it works as a well-defined polyamory-style group relationship. Sometimes a small group of best friends and lovers, long-term and even life-long, and a fuzzier shifting periphery of old and new friends and ongoing acquaintances.

And a few are simply not interested or capable of long-term romantic interest of any kind. Not much to say there. Some amount of casual sex in proportion to their sex drive.
I would read his statement slightly different: In that perspective, the actual game is to cheat and not follow the rules. Everybody should do it, but the banker has an advantage. Thus, everybody hates the banker for having an advantage in the actual cheating game.

I have to say, it's slightly funny to assume a multiplayer game that is entered by all the players with the clear and open intent to not follow the rules of the game.
I developed "http://url-wiki.com". note becomes the operation manual. I'm sorry I'm not used to using Hoker News.
Some channels make a lengthy sketch with sponsor "reveal" at the very end
Can it run Doom?
That is not necessarily evidence that the swiping animation is not pre-rendered. It just means that if it's pre-rendered, it can be slowed down, sped up and reversed based on the user's finger's motion.
That those diseases have a lower death-count today is a consequence of the havoc they have brought historically and of the current disruption they cause in isolating the infected, vaccinations, necessary medications and hospital beds, etc.

In all likelyhood COVID-19 will go the way of the spanish flu (with or without vaccination only changes the time it takes) and become less of a problem due to partial immunity in the population. Most children will get it once, after which any reinfection by a similar strain will be mostly harmless.

So COVID-19 will maybe continue to be a problem for 3 or 4 years, but after that we will still be stuck with HIV, TB and others, where the outlook is not so rosy.
A countervailing pattern I've seen (in games with 3+ players) is that, if one player pulls into a lead, then the other players will start piling on them. Board games like Avalon Hill Civilization, Family Business, Root, etc. -- basically any game where you can choose one of your rivals to attack.

Munchkin takes this to the extreme, where someone will perpetually be on the edge of winning and there are a variety of colorful ways to set them back. It's random and chaotic by design.

Monopoly doesn't really involve such a mechanic. You can refuse to trade with someone who is pulling ahead, but by that time it is more likely to be too late.
And they got nothing out of it.
Design has become mass-produced at an internet scale. Minimalism was introduced to better deal with - vector design tools - visual stability across multiple sizes, including small/tiny smartphone app icons.

We are likely going to see a counter reaction. But this trend had lots of practical and technical reasons to exist - we needed very small icons and illustrations that would be readable even in small sizes, and we needed to produce more design using vector graphics tools.

The idea of blaming some company or another is easy thinking.

I work in the area and “flat” and “minimalism” are just ways to speed things up and make them more legible. This article just has an agenda.

“Design has always loved minimalism” isn’t even a true thing to say. There are plenty of designers particularly in the 90s who were maximalists - look at print design during this era, look at stuff from Paula Scher and look at any design mag from the 90s to see Photoshop insanity, distorted and cut up fonts. Lots of other eras had similar ideas - look at the 1950s illustrated magazine ads, the 1980s use of photography, Toulouse Latrec’s poster design.

But looking at magazine design in the 90s this was again a technical/practical design innovation - Photoshop and desktop publishing had become real alongside digital printing, so suddenly you had the opportunity to do anything and print anything. So the end result was an explosion in garish absurdity, some of it quite interesting.
There's a netdata prometheus exporter, but it overlaps a lot with node-exporter. If you're already runnning netdata however then it could be a good choice
And the economy was destroyed. Definitely better than before.
It’s not reasonable by any means - you either assign all rights to google or assign all rights except copyright to google.

Their process is public actually, you can take a look:
https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/
Is there any adapter that will let me run my 2 LG 5k monitors on a M1 MacBook Pro?
Scarcity is also not something that you want from a currency, fundamentally. A currency needs to be abundant when needed, and scarce when oversupplied. That's the point of controlling the money supply based on economic growth rates, and the entire reason we have a Fed.

I believe strongly that cryptocurrencies have a strong future, but what is really needed is a crypto that automatically manages its money supply.

In the same way a car engine uses an oil pump to automatically ensure engine oil pressure is consistent when the car is revving vs when it is idle.

I also think there are better ways to incentivize mining rather than fixed crypto rewards. A better way would be a multi-year bond instrument that would pay coin dividends well into the future so that miners are vested in the future success of the coin, and not just the immediate pump & dump.
Nobody says that expectation is to change the dictator the same day, it's simple statement of fact, that it's much easier said than done.
With the borders shut, all European countries are experiencing it quite differently. Here in Denmark we dodged the third wave and are now easing restrictions.
So apparently this is a thumbnail manager located at http://url-wiki.com/

That url gives me a blank page with the letters “wtf”
Weird, it's working really well for me!
Is it still the case in .NET 5 though?
(since someone asked)

the platform is licensed as GPL2. it was created by a german university, and i forked it after they stopped development on it, and added the REST API myself.

frontends using the REST API could be in any license of your choice, since the code would not be derived from the backend.

the implementation language is pike. (a language similar to python, but with C-syntax)
adding new abilities to the REST API should be easy enough, by looking at the existing API code. though i'd also like to create a graphql API.

the project lives at https://gitlab.com/societyserver and http://societyserver.org/
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ReCAPTCHA v3 gives a score and works in the background too.
> I am not sure if lending makes sense if the collateral is the same asset that is borrowed.

It doesn't. And if the collateral is a different asset, there is no certainty that the value of the collateral exceeds the value of the principal. So there's a risk involved and that explains the premium over the risk-free rate. It's got nothing to do with the fact that the loan is denominated in some cryptocurrency.
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Have you not followed the discussion on the state of OpenSSL? It desperately needs to be replaced. Google pushing for it and providing funding for it is not somehow shameful, it's being a responsible participant that gives back to the community.
The copyright holder is never a user in a discussion about distribution rights, though.
I live in a less developed part of the world - Vietnam - and the government and people have been incredibly successful in controlling the virus here. Aside from two short lockdowns of a couple of weeks, my life has barely been affected (except for the lack of tourists and the fact I can't travel outside the country). Local tourism and business seems to be booming. Meanwhile I hear all the stories from back home in Europe, and from the US... And my sympathies go out to everyone living though that. But I don't the development level of a country has much at all to do with how well it's handling this pandemic.

The only frustrating thing is how clearly it's been highlighted that the rich and powerful countries get all the vaccines and we'll only get them here once everyone in the west has been vaccinated three times over.
Hey,

That sounds super interesting. Would you be interested to share the use-case in our forums? https://community.netdata.cloud

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I'd venture to claim that many of the hardest languages are fairly small ones that most people will never have heard of (as Tuyuca mentioned in the article).
This. Russian state doesn't care about its own society either. And people were conditioned to believe there's no alternative.
Reminds me of Zimbabwe president Mugabe won the lottery organized by a national bank
Turning Belarus into Yugoslavia is not going to improve the situation.

> Warsaw being the one initiating this with Belarus opposition.

?
I know that it's not so simple. But at least for a basic conversation, grammar it's not the biggest roadblock.
HIV, malaria, and many other diseases endemic to the third world target people in the prime of life, wreaking havoc on families. By contrast, most (not all, but most) deaths from COVID are the elderly.

Any mention of this tends to bring on "how dare you say one life is more valuable than another" downvotes, but since this thread is considering economic impact, it's a relevant factor.
^ this. I find it a bit annoying when people tell me that Chinese "has no grammar" because it is not inflected.
There’s a reason that Monopoly is ubiquitously disliked by almost all board gamers. It’s become the game that many people associate with the hobby. This is so far from the truth.
> automatically manages its money supply.

that's an interesting question and premis - automatic monetary policy. I wonder if good monetary policy could be encoded as a set of rules that can be followed by a machine.
Actually knowing the streets is better these days since a majority of drivers are using the same mapping system, which will reroute them all onto the same new path in case of an obstacle or accident and cause more traffic.

If you actually know the streets and see a traffic issue on your map, you'll come out ahead.
India is actually one of the countries imposing export controls on vaccines in order to redirect them to domestic use, with the result that a lot of other developing countries don't have any at all...
Using Netdata Cloud is a great way not to spend any time with that and access the Agent's dashboard through Netdata Cloud. We use WSS and MQTT, so it's super secure and lightweight.

The data are streamed from the Agent directly to your browser via the cloud.

Relevant docs: https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/configure/secure-nodes#disa...
if you are amazed by continued fractions, your head will explode with continued logarithms
I wish people gave a bit more shit about protecting themselves properly, I see too many half-assed mask wearing (with the nose out) around. Or people thinking being masked means they can just hover near others.

I also wish that governments try to inform more, I don't really see anyone saying "Ventilate more!" like this research results suggest they should: https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-a... .
He has a point, for example now they've finally stopped supporting IE11 you can legitimately say to customers that supporting IE11 is no longer possible because it's a security hole.

Extended support by MS for Windows 7 means the only reason you're not supporting it yourself is your lack of motivation, and so to your customers (and your own upper management), for a big contract that's not going to wash.

You might even find that their contract even says something to that effect.
Telegram groups' voice chat seems pretty similar.
Young people have been sold the promise that working hard and getting educated means they can have a nice life. Now that either needs to be fulfilled (cutting corruption, upsetting Russia etc). Or the rest of the country needs to admit it was a lie and watch all the young, educated, hard working people leave for the west.

This isn't specific to Belarus, only the local details (democracy, Russia etc) differentiate it from say Hong Kong or brexit Britian really.
Which is a bit odd, since outside a few elite private institutions, Indian hospitals are dire and the same media regularly carries horror stories of rooms full of corpses etc.
It's like the "Liar, Lunatic, or Lord" argument used by the likes of C.S. Lewis to argue that Jesus Christ is, in fact, the son of God or otherwise just terrible all-around.

I remember growing up as an Evangelical Christian, I felt this argument was pretty decent. But eventually I came to realize that the argument hinges on the assumption that you can't be both a 'lunatic' in one part of your life, and functional or even an admirable person in other parts of your life.

Which of course is a silly assumption. The world is filled with genius crackpots, do-gooders who sucked in other parts of life, or people who are highly successful in one area and utter failures in other areas.