skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised to see so many moral narratives, like this one, surrounding war start popping up. I thought it was pretty well understood and established that the narratives we tell about war are mostly propaganda/myth making after the fact.

War is about resources and control. That's it. There are no "good/bad" guys (or more specifically they're all "bad" guys). We're not participating in some grand moral struggle, we're taking calculated risks to maximizes gains when the opportunity appears and minimize losses when we have no other options.

For the last 70 years world power has be set so there was primarily one global hegemon (the US) so there was not much movement on the world stage among powerful nations. Economic strategies remained the safest way to control resources among world powers, but military actions still dominated in cases of extreme power asymmetry. The US has been invading and bombing countries and regions virtually continuously for the last few decades.

The resource situation is starting to change, so risks that made no sense suddenly start to seem more reasonable. But absolutely none of what we're seeing now has anything to do with some silly narrative about NATO powers and Russia. Russia has ceased the opportunity of low risk acquisition of resources, NATO powers have worked to minimize their own loses given the risk of any major action is high.

As resources grow more scare we'll see increased military conflict. The severity of which will be proportional to the scarcity. None of this will "haunt" anybody, it's just a game to survive which as been fairly easy the last few decades and that is changing.
Why are we discussing patents? They mean nothing, it’s just a way for engineers to make some extra money, organizations to defend in lawsuits and trolls to survive and show us how absurd patents are.
>Inaction is equal to support of the Russian invasion

It certainly is not.
> the 2013 edition of Project Oberon and its results are intended to be presented "as-is", a teaching and learning resource kept reasonably static in the spirit in which the original book was written.

This is a classic
Rules for Aspiring Authors by Chekhov
And I would had "defense in depth" still applies as of today. The further your ennemies are, the more difficult it is for them to eavedrop communications, spy on military exercices, train their radars on your planes.
Developing on the Web Is Better Than Ever – and Not as Good as It Could Be
Are you sure? It says “The memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.” So there were assurances, not just “respect”
Yes. They remain valid as a way of thought for many Russians before the war and should be kept for history. Hardly anyone in Russia was considering real war as a possibility, so when Putin made the orders it came as a deep shock. Before the recognition of separatist territories, his strategy seemed at least rational if wrong. He could be understood, even if his actions were not approved.
Not anymore. I do not know when this transition happened, when the last red line was crossed by him in his mind, but now it is total uncertainty. Whatever he planned with this invasion, his calculations are so obviously mistaken, that it is hard to understand how this decision was made at the first place. It will not help Russia to achieve any long term or short term goals and it will jeopardize his own rule. Now he is certified crazy. And this is scary as shit.
The introduction to any article needs to keep things easy to understand for all readers regardless of competency and familiarity with the topic.

While you are correct, classically solving a problem in a time measured in years is not useful or meaningful. So personally I would allow the article some creative wording to improve understanding in this case.
Follow up question is RT youtube channel facing similar things?
Maybe not bring real life threating into this?
The first two weeks were very difficult. You have to sort of mentally come to peace with the fact that you're shut in this tiny room and you can't leave. It feels very claustrophobic and if you're the type that has anxiety disorders you will probably have to ward off panic attacks.

After the first two weeks, time started to slowly speed up, and the days all sort of blurred together. Thankfully I was able to get a newspaper every day, and a book every now and then, and so I just read every word of the newspaper (even the ads) for something to do, and slept a lot.

I think I handled it better than a lot of people would have, as I'm sort of introverted by nature. There's research on solitary confinement permanently harming mental health, but I think I got lucky on that one.
Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?
Sure but that still means NATO is not exclusively a defensive alliance. Libya was not attacking any NATO member and got attacked by NATO. It seems silly to pretend it's a defensive alliance just because you can justify all of the times it was the aggressor?
Funding terrorists and insurrectionists is always wrong.

… but funding freedom fighters is encouraged.

George Carlin: “If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?”
want some sanity back? quit supporting fascist regime. all employees are complicit if they continue working while knowing decisions of their leadership.
This article reminded me of this economics paper from a former World Ware 2 prisoner of war describing the "market economy" that formed in the POW camps.

http://icm.clsbe.lisboa.ucp.pt/docentes/url/jcn/ie2/0POWCamp...

It's fascinating because it describes:

- Open outcry markets

- Exchange rates

- N dimensional preference spaces

- Collapsing money supplies

- Market shocks

All in plain English and using specific examples from the camps.

Highly recommend it especially if you (like me on both counts) have an Econ degree and/or work in finance.
When it comes to heavily manipulated "sources" like Wikipedia, I "throw the baby out with the bathwater" (yet another lazy attempt at reasoning is to use phrases like that as justification for, well, anything) is because you cannot see what is not presented in the article, usually in the form of others who will contradict the claims of whatever criticism the page is presenting with equal or stronger sources. Wikipedia guards such open discussion with a lot of dirty tactics which include collusion between article guardians and admins who will have your account locked and IP address blocked from editing in less than one hour of a "violation", and they do not notify you through email of their activities so you have to go discovering what they are doing through their Kafkaesque procedures of adjudication which are decided without any defense from the accused and evidence that doesn't truly qualify as evidence based on any reasonable standard for evidence.

A relatively newer policy implemented through their MediaWiki project is a "feature" whereby an edit can be permanently hidden from view, so future editors cannot go back and see what edits were removed or reverted. This goes completely against the original concept of a wiki and bolsters my claims that Wikipedia should never be used as a source because in the most contentious articles they will hide removed edits containing information they don't like.

The result of this is editors who have contradicting opinions from the Wikipedia-approved opinion will stop editing simply because it isn't worth the effort as Wikipedia always wins (because it is Wikipedia's website).

Wikipedia is a dumpster fire full of bias, pettiness, and structured manipulation. Linking there or using those pages demonstrates laziness and a near complete lack of higher reasoning.
One of the screenshots is https://www.saveecobot.com/en/radiation-maps#11/51.3463/30.1... (related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461521)
Since we are talking about books I’d like to add “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy to the reading list. It’s almost unimaginably bleak but just completely incredible.
Europe has promised 1.2 billion in aid and has been sending them armament for a while now. I much prefer countries and politicians sending them large sums than the small donations - of which Patreon and any payment processor in between gets a big cut - given by well-wishing common folk.

That said, the US denied them financial aid though, Trump got impeached for withholding $400 million in military aid to Ukraine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Tr...) if they didn't investigate Joe Biden and took the blame for Russia's intervention in the 2016 elections.
I really think those two sentences are non-sequitur. I think the general's statement is true to a degree - our inability to deter Russian action surely emboldens China, but at the same time, the situation in the Pacific is not quite the same.

But regardless of the truth (or usefulness of his statement), I am almost certain that he would not extend that to NATO's naval response. Firstly, since NATO straight up said that it's not going to engage Russia in Ukraine, it's not clear what NATO naval forces in the Black Sea would do other than increase the risk of escalation. Second, as the article points out, NATO has to deal with Turkey - a situation that the US does not quite have in the western Pacific (though exactly how supportive South Korea and Japan would be in the case of a Taiwan invasion is a bit of an unknown).

Also, there is nothing that NATO can do to stop Russian Naval deployments into the Black Sea. Asking Turkey to close the straits would a) almost certainly be refused, b) be an incredibly bad look for the side that performs freedom of navigation missions into the south china sea and c) cause a shit load of kerfuffle as the split between Turkey and the rest of NATO gets forced to the surface in an awkward manner.

Finally, we can look at the US Navy's current deployment of major assets - https://news.usni.org/2022/02/24/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-...

There's a carrier strike group deployed in the Mediterranean, and one in the western Pacific. There's a forward deployed carrier in Japan. As the article notes, there's also an French and Italian carrier group deployed into the Mediterranean. There is plenty of "real" naval strength nearby.
Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine
Reddit is now full of reports of people (and their channels) getting banned for supporting Ukraine or even just watching related live streams. Reddit is also censoring and removing these reports..

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/t13wyv/im_banned_a...

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/t13h44/so_youtube_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t147c3/defending_u...
Not sure why you're comparing it to an iMac...
RT YouTube channels like the German one have been banned by YT some months ago.
I had a friend years ago who made leather goods from kombucha. Looking it up now, I learned that it's called SCOBY leather.

> SCOBY stands for "symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast"

Biomaterials: What is SCOBY Leather? https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2021/11/04/biomaterials-wha...
>The US, the most well-funded army in the world for the past generation, hasn't won a war since the end of WW2.

That depends on the definition of winning. In many cases, US military won everything militarily, but lost politically.
Also in many countries software / algorithm parents do no exist, so you could write your own rar utility.
I don't see the reason for not just doing this as Jupyter notebooks.

I am child free but I just can't see not using Jupyter notebooks.

If I had a kid we would learn jupyter after learning multiplication.

5*7 shift+enter

variable = "hello kid"

variable shift+enter in a new cell.
When you do local web developement, I enabled it for example.

But of course never browse the web with this instance of disabled security.
I thought the same thing ... and wonder how Apple can possibly believe this is patentable.
> compassion and respect

I hope the long-dead animal on your plate will be able to appreciate your compassion and respect ;)

> ethical and sustainable way

How would you describe ethical and sustainable meat production, or in other words, what qualifies as ethical and sustainable for you?
Well -- they obviously don't have quite as broad an application as the Pi 4 and Zero 2 have.

You can't embed a Pi 400 in a robot, you wouldn't stick it on the side of a 3D printer, turn it into a streaming media player, etc.

I suspect the Pi 400 sells better at specific times of the year -- at Christmas and when schools are spending their rare IT budgets. But it's also the first product of its kind from them.
> because there are no restrictions on things that just work with root, donation links for open source open geo data contribution platforms[1], roll your own payment scheme without giving anyone a cut, put ads in it if you like...

Respectfully, that was not my point. The point was that having access to the source code fundamentally doesn't mean much. You can read more about why there since I don't want to open this debate again: https://seirdy.one/2022/02/02/floss-security.html

> As does every web browser, but somehow banking on websites seems to very rarely be intercepted?

Banking apps exist, and are required as a modern 2FA. Since 2021, strong 2FA is a requirement in the EU for banking operations. Mail clients also do this. DANE would be the ideal approach on web browsers. This might be up to a more general debate that doesn't belong here though.

> Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually see what this app sends to Google about you?

It's perfectly nice, and mitming is a great tool to ensure Google (and others) doesn't lie about what data they send.

> Previously you'd add a cert to your OS and you'd be good to go.

Now, this argument is rather moot though, since it's still doable. Not sure that the higher technical barrier would matter much, and most users will benefit from having certificate pinning anyway. Google is not doing this to prevent researchers to do their work. Nothing is permanently a blackbox anyhow.

> Hah, the author just spent ~2800 words criticizing the liberal inclusion policy, missing api target enforcement, outdated (now slightly misleading) permission listings, lagging signature scheme update, and then concludes with "just download the apk from github because it has an Atom feed"! If only f-droid knew that this was the requirement for an endorsement by OP :D (jk)

This is a bit exaggerated. I'm merely stating this is an alternative for "tech nerds", since Android enforces signature verification for app updates, so you once you ensured the authenticity, the source doesn't matter as much. This should be done with apksigner by the way, not tools like OpenGPG.

I didn't feel the need to expand on this.

> It depends.... how much does security matter to you? Is this to the exclusion of all other values?

I rephrased this conclusion, since it was indeed a bit binary for my taste.

This article wasn't meant to be openly shared on public platforms. This was bound to happen, but obviously I was not trying to make an article that should reach everyone. This is fine though, thanks for your comment.
> Patreon hosts tons of youtube channels focused only on weapons including purely military ones, how to make guns more effective (aka better at killing), how to tweak ammo to be more destructive.

This is a straw man argument unless you can produce some sources.
Account created one hour ago, just to come here and tell us not to do this?
I have never wanted the ability to downvote a comment more than I do after reading yours.
SSL handshake fails if you are not going through TOR
> Fuck Patreon, fuck their employees for not blocking offices and protesting this decision, and especially fuck their CEO, please go bankrupt, shameful.

This was unnecessary. Remember, that they are a business and they have no obligation to care about what's happening in Ukraine, and they probably made a business decision on this. It's probably some Risk Management decision or something of the sort.
In a cold blooded way, staying out of Ukraine is a way for the US to remain focused and available for Taiwan. Which realistically is a more important entity than Ukraine for the US.
de.rt.com is working for me, RT.com seems down.
Must be particular ISPs. I just checked from Toronto, Canada and it loads instantly
When the Budapest Memorandum was signed, having one of the defenders be the invaders was not expected.

As a result, even if that binding is still in power, is it worth defending Ukraine by going to war against Russia? That would literally start World War III. Letting Ukraine fall is terrible, awful, painful - but it's better than WWIII.
I anticipate a police state in Ukraine if Russia completes the invasion and negotiates a non-NATO entrance for Ukraine with the west, similar to Hong Kong.

What a disaster. If I was Ukrainian, I’d get the living fuck out of there now before living under those conditions.
A Raspberry Pi 400-size ARM-based Mac, maybe with an A15 CPU/SoC (similar to the Mac Mini ARM developer transition kit, which had an A12Z) could be an interesting low-cost option.

It would probably still require 8 GB RAM to be useful unless Apple manages to reduce the RAM requirements of macOS significantly. This amount of RAM will probably be too expensive for a low-cost device.

Edit: fixed CPU info for the ARM Mac DTK
> I strongly feel like wars are unwinnable.

I think wars are winnable. It is technically possible for the US (or Russia, China) to annihilate their opponent.

The bigger question is: what follows?

Let's say that NATO got involved and retaliated. Somehow Putin gets handcuffed and sent to prison or otherwise is removed from office.

What then? A HUGE power vacuum in Russia that will be filled by... another ex-KGB officer? A Russian oligarch? A freely-elected politician?
And how well is that doing?
Maybe Project Oberon is widely known to others, but if not, I suggest the title be changed to something like "Project Oberon is a design for a complete desktop computer system from scratch".
Same in Windows. Every control is a window with its handle and you can embed other apps inside
You're not DDoSing, you're just trying to load that site that keeps failing to load over and over again
Notion Meets Physical Computing
The main feature from WinRAR I don't see in other GUIs is the ability to search within file contents (text) inside archives.
Use balena and raspberry pi to log sensor values on a Notion's database
ScImage Delivers Industry’s Largest Multitenant Cloud PACS [pdf]
So is Raspberry now violating Apples patents?
Critiquing does very little against someone who has committed to invade a country. Rarely has it stopped a bullet, much less a tank. Russia has already accepted the cost of being criticized.

But for the record, Putin has shown himself to have little regard for anything besides ending up in the history books next to Stalin & Hitler.
> If you have half decent internet connection, Compressing and Decompressing the files is going to take more time than simply just sending it or downloading it.

This might be true for transmitting files 1-to-1 (and even then, for every connection speed slower than memory there is likely a compression algorithm that makes sense) but most files are distributed 1-to-many which is why algorithms like deflate that might be slow to compress but are fast to decompress make sense.

For example, Linux distributions would not keep switching between gz, bzip2, xz and now zstd for their packages if the choice was pointless.
> I think in these cases to receive contributions you must ask people to sign a CLA that transfers the copyright to the you/project. Otherwise it's not possible to relicense the contributed parts.

This is a common misunderstanding. A CLA allows relicensing of a contribution, but doesn't require transferring of copyright.

Transferring copyright is only needed if you want to allow changing the terms of licensing unilaterally in the future (for example, you contribute under GPL/proprietary terms today, but the company decides to change the license of your contribution to proprietary-only in the future), and makes suing for license violations a bit simpler (since one entity obviously holds the entire copyright). Technically a copyright assignment could even allow the assignee to sue the assigner for a licensing violation.

In other words, copyright assignment really isn't needed for anything reasonable a company might want to do. Only for things (like reselling the copyright to some other company or making the code proprietary only), that you wouldn't agree to if it was spelled out in a CLA.
Gas Flows from Russia Ramp Up
Austrian here, using Drei. For rt.com I get a 404.
report of a kindergarten being hit just now.
Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet (2019)
I'm assuming they'll leave after negotiating a very one sided deal with a panicked government on the verge of total collapse.

Theyre already offering to negotiate, but now theyre demanding total demilitarization.
True, but none of them had that big of a budget nor military technology.

There's more than one parallel with the Third Reich efforts here.
As some form of an input device is often required for interacting or interfacing with a computing device, including computing components within the housing or enclosure of an input device can eliminate the need for redundant sets of input devices and reduces the number of components that need to be transported by the user.

Dibs on patenting the computer inside a mouse.
Is there some checklist for those who find this a daunting question?
I’d venture to say that upgrading screens happens less frequently than upgrading the mobo/cpu.

Plus, this could be an affordable option due to BYOScreen.

They could potentially use it for wider adoption of the purported VR headset.
7zip also has a ton of settings where you can get it in the same ballpark of compression ratio. But LZMA2 usually consumes more memory to do better. It also takes a decent amount of time the more you fiddle those settings. The defaults on 7zip are fairly tame but 'good enough'. I found in my cases if you turn on solid archiving and duplicate file matching you are usually just as good as RAR or usually better. But costs speed.
Again, simply watching or having watched live streams from Kiev might net you a ban.

> If you watched any Kiev livestream it may have been the reason for your termination. It happened to a lot of us too, it seems some Russian bots have been mass-reporting every single person that watched them

> Yes, yesterday night I watched a livestream. Im shocked

> I also watched a Livestream yesterday night. How i wish I didn't now since my account got terminated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/t1445p/this_accoun...
Some decent guides from government:

* https://www.ready.gov

* https://www.getprepared.gc.ca/index-en.aspx

To start: have an emergency fund for 3-6 months' worth of expenses, be able to cook/eat/drink/clean/toilet and heat your abode for 3 days in case the power goes out.

Then prepare for 7d, 14, one month, etc: stop when you think you have "enough". Some will feel comfortable for more time and some less. One piece of advice I heard: make sure you have enough food in your pantry to survive to cover two pay cycles in case there's a hiccup with pay roll. Having your emergency fund at a second bank in case your primary one has (e.g., IT) issues.

Perhaps have a bag of necessities (clothes, toiletries) in case you have to evacuate your abode quickly.
Me knowing good people at Patreon and vouching for them = supporting Putin and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Wow, apparently I've been the bad guy the whole time.
It also, if you believe Saifedean Ammous, makes world wars impossibly unaffordable, once you achieve hyperbitcoinisation and it's no longer possible for governments to print money to fund conflict. It's probably one of the reasons why the world wars happened only after we started to move off the gold standard (definitely not the only one of course).