skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the subtext that Putin plans to blow it up, or what?

Information war does not need a rational subtext - I suspect it is more effective when it hasn't any. Even better if multiple rationalities are all slightly plausible yet all slightly absurd.

The fundamental tactic is to obscure truth with a flood of bullshit. One thus removes the surety of known & agreed facts from both the politics of enemy's polity and the planning of the enemy's military.

With its rapidity, and its dynamic reaction the the enemy's information disposition, Russia's approach is to conventional propaganda what blitzkrieg was to trench warfare - largely the same tools, but radically different tactics. To stretch the analogy, the internet takes the tank's place as the key disruptive technology which both inspires and requires new tactics.

I'm pretty sure that attacking central Europe with a dirty bomb would make it very difficult for NATO to avoid invoking Article 5.

This threat is, I'm pretty sure, not intended. Russia already has enough nukes and Putin has already rather clearly threatened nuclear escalation if any nation "interferes." There is perhaps an implicit threat intended - "nice continent you got here - and, oh, look, Russia is now in charge of protecting its on-going habitability!"

Think of it like this:

Russia wants to be a respected great power. Putin's revisionist fantasy casts Russia as the primary arbiter of Europe's political order.

Chernobyl is an on-going danger to the entire peninsula's safety. It must have a robust institutional custodian - perhaps for centuries to come. It may not be as dangerous, but that cannot be assumed, it must be proven conclusively (and even then concern will linger: democracies are quite skilled at turning society's vague, broadly-held fears into irrational policy).

Therefore Europe cannot ostracize any polity controlling the exclusion zone indefinitely. The EU paid for the current sarcophagus: managing this risk is a vital interest of the entire Union.

More broadly: fear need not be (and usually is not) rational in order to be acted upon - especially in democracies.

Pripyat and its immediate vicinity is just an unpopulated area with a decomissioned nuclear power station in it.

You are rational and informed, and perhaps correct (I don't know). As far as facts actually matter here, however, your analysis is incomplete.

The exclusion zone is an unpopulated area with a decommissioned nuclear power plant *which happens to be directly between the Russian army and their objective*. Any conventional attack on Kyiv from Belarus must include this area - even if it was truly unexceptional.

But the facts don't matter. "Chernobyl" is a totem in American and European minds. The very fact of this HN post's popularity attests such.

Russian strategists hope, I think, that they can gain an edge by capturing the totem. They think to turn its symbolic meanings to their own ends.

Ukrainians also hope to use Chernobyl's various meanings in the minds of their allies to their advantage, as a warning and an impetus for solidarity.

Semiotic warfare, if you will!
I'm a little confused, you write "vegetarian" but did you mean "vegan"?

"The few vegetarian dishes ... are often not nearly as good as yogurt, meat, eggs, or [...] whey protein"

Yogurt, eggs and whey protein are vegetarian (but not vegan). Vegetarian is extremely easy (I eat 95% vegetarian because it's cheaper and easier), vegan is very difficult and requires significant sacrifices.

Or maybe I misunderstood your sentence in some way.

I don't mean to be pedantic, but it seems to me that the discussion is going to be difficult if vegan and vegetarian are getting mixed up.
In fairness, only 18% of Americans cast a vote for Trump in 2016 (~60M out of ~330M), and only about 25% of Americans cast a vote for Biden in 2020 (~80M).

This is not in any way to contradict your point, rather to broaden it. In general, the actions of any country's government should be thought of as distinct from the on-the-street will of the majority of people in that country. The two may happen to line up, or they may not, but there's no reason to think they do in any given case, or to judge people based on the actions of their governments.
Whether deliberately or not, yes.
> business decision

the tweet isn’t about business, it’s to support families of JetBrains employees
Vitamin E is surprisingly stable in oil compared to other vitamins (like A).

Unless you're commercially deep frying with the same oil over several days, there's minimal vitamin E loss from frying.
> NATO is mostly an American instrument aligned with American interests.

NATO was originally formed to stop USSR expansion into Europe. Its predecessor was the Treaty of Brussels, of which the US was not a part of.
And if he is not bluffing? :)
xattrs can certainly be used to store tagging info. There are a couple major problems with them though. 1) xattrs are not supported by all file systems and they are not enabled by default in some. If you copy a file with xattrs from one file system to another that either doesn't support them or didn't enable their use, then your xattrs are thrown away in the copy. 2)Searching for files based on xattrs in a large folder tree (e.g. several million files across thousands of folders) is exceptionally slow by nature.
Phew. That would mean they'll never be completely cut off by measures like the proposed ban from SWIFT of all Russian interests.
> These indexes often are just a sequence of ordered entries, but new entries are added in random order. This means that from time to time, you need to sort the index.

This seems like a crude index. Why didn't they start out using B-epsilon (Bε) trees [0]?

> The indexes we use in the TezEdge v1.15 only store references to the commits special objects in the storage ... They are small enough to be completely loaded and sorted in-memory ...

If they can store their index in RAM then why did they write a custom storage engine? Why don't they just use Postgres?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29403320
It's nice to read some positive content about CSS. I personally love CSS.

I see CSS as a massive toolbox full of awesome tools, some old, some new, some I use all the time, others I barely know they exist, but it's nice they are there when I need them.

It also has improved significantly over the years, it's quite remarkable; transforms, transitions, flex, grid, media queries, I could go on, we even have CSS vars!

I've written/styled UI in quite a few ways, and I still much prefer CSS. I even use it for design, I often find it quicker to write a few lines of css than doing things in graphics software.

> This is all a way of extending a big “thank you” to the CSS spec authors

Seconded! I am very grateful for CSS and everyone who contributed to it.
This was like 5-10years ago, I developed a bug reporting app and developed a form of encryption which was uncrackable. Now I'm not qualified in anything, never even went to Uni, but what should have taken 6weeks with the UK Dept BIS, took like more than that and then got denied so I shut the business down I'd set up for it.

Dont have the source code anymore or anything and its not ever going to happen now.

When I say it was uncrackable, it was based loosely on code books which were used in ww2, which is something I subsequently read about later on in the news.
I think you're saying that you would enthusiastically rehire everyone you ever hired? Not sure I'm getting the intended meaning
The Factorio blog [1] does a similarly fun thing with it's return to top functionality. It's a fun little easter egg.

Hint: rockets go up

[1] https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-367
I once witnessed a pup being crushed under car tires from around 50-70 meters - car was stationary when I first noticed him sleeping under it and I didn’t realize that there was a driver in it, ready to drive - when I did, I shouted like hell but he was gone in a flash.
Ask HN: Could Russia be “unplugged” from the internet?
I'm asking out of technical curiosity.

We have seen lately the idea of excluding Russia from the SWIFT financial network. Would it be possible to do such thing with internet? Like stop routing Russian IPs? (If there is such thing?). Or how could it be implemented? What would be consequences for Russia? And for the rest of the world?
This is just how you work with large code bases. Updating 15,000 call sites is far from trivial. These changes happen in multiple phases, and in each phase, you still want to have a working kernel.

The unsafe version can be deprecated and eventually removed, but that is down the road.
UX feedback: Change from blue and green to something else a bit more color-blind friendly. I'm moderate blue/green and couldn't tell them apart without some careful examination.
That exact situation could (and is) happening to people who want to work in an office but whose company is going remote. It's not specific to people who want to WFH.
In fact, we don't seem to be willing to impose more isolation. We've imposed as much as we could without getting hurt ourselves too much. Now all options are painful, so also not likely. Also, every additional turn of the screws increases the risk of wider war. So, yeah, I think it was a mistake to impose such severe sanctions for so long over so little, especially with the court filings from special prosecutor Durham.
Which tells you everything you need to know about how this is going down.
> To think that companies exist out of the political sphere is at best naive, at worst utterly delusional.

I'm not who you're replying to and don't necessarily agree with them but they did say that companies /should/ stay out of politics. They think it's better if they aren't, not denying that in the real world politics does have influence.
Google was (is?) building some massive new campuses in the Bay Area.

Nvidia completed a huge new campus in late 2020 and it just sits empty.
I kind of wonder how much of a role climate control has to play as well. Surely must have a role alongside straightforward inactivity.. until pretty recently, people would burn a lot of calories just regulating body temperature indoors. People with outdoor jobs/lifestyles obviously still do.
Their head office is in Prague, Czech Republic and they're technically a Czech company... But point still stands, they're Russian and speaking against the war.
The balls on these guys wow. It's one thing to do this from Palo Alto. It's different when the kremlin can snatch you. Support Jetbrains and purchase their tools.
> not fighting against something is the same as supporting it

This is nonsense. This quickly leads to people putting all sorts of demands on companies to support causes they have nothing to do with, and assumes that everyone needs to have the same priorities you do. It's a fallacious, "my cause is more important than anything" argument. If a company's owners, for whatever reason want to get involved in politics, that's up to them. But this "silence is violence" nonsense is not just a low effort rhetorical device to make people shift resources to your cause.
IMO, the vice president at the time.

Cheney pulled a similar move of cynically planning and instigating a war of aggression, which is why many people consider him to be a war criminal even within the US.

He wasn't really the head of a cult of personality, though. He just took advantage of the gullible people who surrounded him.
The shadow muting is the most annoying feature ever and leads to an echo chamber.
"topics around diversity and inclusion in tech ... tend to be flagged to death by users"

Ouch. Any readers have favorite HN-like forums where this doesn't happen?
And what did that do to stop their invading Ukraine? Nothing. Nothing at all. That means those sanctions didn't work no matter how much they looked like they were working.
Is that not effectively a first-level hierarchy with no further subdivisions? The "important stuff" category and "everything else" category are already a useful taxonomy, even if very minimalist.
> or in this case one person

I don’t think that’s true. Even autocrats need allies to stay in power and stay safe. They might obtain those through fear, bribes, etc., but they’re still allies.

Autocrats also help elevate those that agree with them so if you also think Russia should return to USSR (or Russian Empire) borders, you’re going to get more power, more perks, etc.

Just like any country there will always be nationalist leaders and a good portion of the population that supports them.

Russia’s leaders from Putin to Stalin (and probably before — I don’t know my Russian history that well), have always had territorial ambitions. See: Georgia, Crimea, Afghanistan, Poland, etc.

Putin is the face right now, but I think it runs far deeper than just him.
It might but it also gives Xi something that will immortalise him like Mao. CCP didn't have the military might to fight the British Empire and by the time they could think about fighting UK for Hong Kong, the lease was about to get over and UK knew it might be difficult to get ally support to keep Hong Kong with them.
Real House Prices, Price-to-Rent Ratio and Price-to-Median Income in December
Nope it’s a full YouTube account integration. I actually prefer it because this way I can subscribe to new channels on the go from the official YouTube app, and it synchronizes directly with my Android Tv.

What’s wrong with using a YouTube account? Is it just the ca t that it’s a Google account (which I could understand)? Or is there something more?
It is the will of _some_ of the Russian people. It has to be. It's people doing the invading. If no Russian wanted to invade Ukraine, there would be nobody in uniform invading Ukraine.
There's a long road to calling that a war crime. Largely what has to be shown is that they meant to target civilians and that there is absolutely no case in which they're targeting Ukrainian forces.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime

I suspect you're probably right, that they did so intentionally, but using the right words matters.
You just summarised the whole argument : you can go very far with a well structured relational database.
I know, but other Electron apps manage to do it (VS Code, Postman), so there must be a way.

edit: some quick googling reveals there is an API for this https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/menu#class-menu
OP, were lithops on your mind for the same reason they’ve been on my mind recently? “All Hail West Texas”?

——

“Absolute Lithops Effect” is the last song on All Hail West Texas but was the first song written; it is the summation of the album, the opening statement and the closing remark. A lithop is a hardy plant, a succulent that looks like a rock until it blooms its gangly flowers. The narrator in this song is waiting, stuck in a way that feels painful and raw, but they insist on their own survival. No matter what, even if they remain trapped in this room, they will survive: “And I, I feel sure that my wounds will heal/ And I, I will bloom here in my room/ With a little water and a little bit of sunlight/ And a little bit of tender mercy, tender mercy.”

This is the whole point. This is what John Darnielle has been saying for over 30 years as the Mountain Goats: You can survive, and you can survive on your own terms no matter what they are, and you will emerge from the darkness into the light if you have to drag yourself there bloody and howling. You have a light within you that no one can extinguish if you refuse to let them. Do whatever you have to do to survive.

With a little water and sunlight and tender mercy, you will survive.

https://www.stereogum.com/2176877/mountain-goats-all-hail-we...
Yeah, anyone an idea? There is outages of the internet and mobile communications in some areas? For example is there anything one can do forom here about that?
In terms of business risks, I believe Jetbrains are based in Czechia, so while there is risk for their founders, I'm not sure there's any business risk (whether Russian retribution or international sanctions) for JetBrains itself.
The Senate authorized the Iraq war. A far cry from one person.
>The issue with F-Droid is that all apps are signed by the same party (F-Droid) which is also not the developer. You’re now adding another party you’ll have to trust since you still have to trust the developer anyway

This is fallacious for several reason.

Firstly, no I do not "have to trust the developer anyway" - I can always not install the app. I'm not starting with an app, adding my trust of the developer, and adding my trust of F-Droid - I am starting with F-Droid, and only installing apps which F-Droid trusts, because F-Droid's criteria for accepting apps are far more stringent than Google Play's - more stringent even than I could feasibly audit myself.

Secondly, trust is not binary. Maybe I trust the developer enough to run their published source code, but not quite enough to run their precompiled binary that they might have slipped some tracking library into. Indeed this is very common and F-Droid strips a lot of such libraries. So even if we take it as a given that I am definitely going to install an app, and my only choice is between installing it from Google Play or from F-Droid, F-Droid is still superior because the builds on F-Droid are built from public source, and I am much more sure that F-Droid themselves won't slip malware into the builds because they have a track record of not doing that.

Thirdly, Android's default app store, Google Play, also trusts a third party by default - Google, who insist on running a tracking rootkit on your computer, which is so much more egregiously invasive than trusting any one app that it renders any comparison with F-Droid moot.
They've run simulations themselves in that regard.

See: https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-disconnected-globa...
Not to discredit the article, but it would be nice to know from the get-go that it's written by a contributor to GrapheneOS and gives a plug to their upcoming App Repository at the end.
The best thing happened to my programming job and mental health and physical too
From 10 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26866482

over 200 comments

(Arguably a dupe, as it's been less than a year)
They also had non small population of men who were not slaves and not citizens. Had to be born to right parents too. And have wealth I think too.
As well as with Tiny C (fast).
Makes you wonder if every war with a nuclear power, will escalate to mutually assured destruction.
Wanting to inflict violence on a significant other for this situation is not at all a healthy response.
Actually no. I wanted the demo video to be short (4 minutes) so I didn't do a lot of complex searches. I have other videos, but to show everything takes a 20 minute video and I didn't think that was a good length for an introduction.
The band [formerly known as “Dixie Chicks”] said they had picked "that stupid name" as teenagers, and had wanted to change it for years; they said they were moved to change it when they saw the Confederate flag described as "the Dixie Swastika" on social media in June 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicks
Yeah, this is the case I was talking about with the 90% of cases I was referring to.

At a previous job, we had a many, many thousand lines codebase of typescript, redux, observables, epics, thunks, custom server API libraries, websockets, Elixir backend, Kafka to communicate with other microservices, etc, etc..for...a frigging signup wizard.

Which then failed in so many stupid ways, had almost no server validation (everything unexpected was a 500) and it took days to do the smallest of the changes. But hey, don't dare to suggest doing this with Laravel would take 2% of the effort because you'd be crucified in the next frontend guild meeting.
Companies make weapons, or tools to make weapons, even if not intended. An IDE could be used to develop a fighter plane control sw.
Companies pay taxes that are used to also buy weapons that kill people.
Everyone should be involved in politics, even companies.
Please reread the post I originally replied to:

> Putin warned the West that he wouldn't hesitate to conduct a nuclear strike if they try to meddle.

I maintain he never said that and that interpreting the word nuclear which indeed appears at the beginning of the speech (I stand corrected) in the context of the retaliation threat at the end - is quite a stretch.
Was René Descartes a Victim of Skull Blasting? (2021)
China refuses to accept Russia has ‘invaded’ Ukraine; blames US[..]
I'll agree—it's elegant. The animations are a bit "Flutter-y" and I'm not a fan of Flutter animations in general, but it does look quite nice: https://web.dahliaos.io/.
If, like I do, you need visibility hacks, KDE is the clear winner. Gnome's screen zoom has a fixed magnification level, whereas KDE lets you zoom in and out arbitrarily. And KDE lets you invert the colors of the focused window with a keyboard shortcut; Gnome offers no such thing.
yes, people of HN need to realize what it takes for a Russian company to voice narratives not in line with the government (in this case supporting their war enemy)

for JetBrains this could mean losing contracts with other (pro-government) Russian companies, house searches for their own employees and executives and targeted “investigation” campaigns

they could be declared a “foreign agent” or “undesirable organization” which will make business impossible

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_foreign_agent_law

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_undesirable_organiza...

for Russian government “a friend of my enemy is my enemy”
U.S. Department of Commerce and BIS Russia Rule Fact Sheet
The cynical side of me says it's one's hindbrain may be subconsciously whispering "This person is bigger than I am and could beat me to death, it's better not to antagonize them, or 'compete' with them in any way. They look like they'll always be on the winning side, so that's where I'll be".
Tibet was under control of the Qing Dynasty (i.e. China) until its end in 1912.

From 1912-1950, Tibet (due to its remoteness) acted as an de facto independent region, despite Western legal precedent stating it was still under the control of Beijing.

When attempting to get de jure independence from China in 1951, China asserted control over the region.

So sort of, but not really.
Yes, and Putin's cabinet authorized this war.

It's always an oversimplification to attribute global events to an individual, but sometimes you can point to one person without whom an event could not have occurred.
This study was from the first lockdown period in June / July 2020, which I expect not to be strongly correlated with the way people feel now.

In my experience and from talking with friends and family, it wasn't the initial lockdown that took a toll on their mental health - it was the sustained lockdowns over a two year period.

The first lockdown was stressful and there was a lot of uncertainty, but it was also novel and exciting in a way with a sense of the entire world coming together to overcome something. After three or four lockdowns that no longer held.
On mobile at least some of the links are plain text and aren’t clickable. I found an orange bubble in Donbas like that. Any one else have that issue?
And yet, the most significant part of the C code issues we find is memory corruption. Which is either significantly harder to cause or impossible-by-design in many alternatives. Unless you can realistically say "people working daily, for years, on huge C projects write those bugs, but they're reckless and I'm better than them" - yes, C should be scary to you these days.
I did not say 18 - just "underage". And, to answer your question... ...lots of people.
The dixie chicks were never poisoned, imprisoned, and tortured.