skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly my point. They don't have an incentive structure so that it is not treated like copiers. We are definitely on the same page here, in that sense. When I can only get 6% increases in a year to my base compensation by staying at a place and get 10, 20 sometimes even 30 % by leaving for a competitor doing a similar job, the calculus isn't hard, all things being relatively equal.

This is just an unfortunate reality, and its true beyond even tech. I have a few friends with MBA's (accountants / finance) and they say similar things about their jobs too, switching every few years to get better compensation and once their growth starts to plateau they just rinse and repeat.
You could also do this with RAR. I always used the same command (which I could still recite up to the last character) to create compressed files of the size of a floppy, which I believed to be exactly 1423.5 kilobytes. Then again, I'm not sure where did this number come from. I think I used the first disk I could find as a sample, but maybe that disk had some faulty sectors and the amount in a healthy disk was slightly higher.

I remember, back in the day, trying all the compressors I had at hand to see which one compressed the most. Possibly one of my first truly self-researched bit of computer knowledge... not very impressive, but then again this was the mid-90s and I was like 13. I believe that the answer was something like RAR > WinRAR > ARJ > PKZip > WinZip, with the difference between RAR and WinRAR, and between PKZip and WinZip, being very small, and the other two gaps being higher. I probably botched some settings regarding compression levels, so it's likely that I didn't use the best compression level for some of the compressors.
> India and the US are allies when their interests align - less so regarding Ukraine, more so regarding China - which depends significantly, but not completely, and especially in the long term, on their values (democracy, human rights, etc.) aligning.

China is probably the only thing India and US agree on, especially considering Pakistan has been warming up to China now. Regarding the values, when has that stopped US ever? Only time US cares about democracy is when they the ruler is not friendly to them. US is an ally of
- Saudi Arabia which is committing a genocide right now and actively sells arms to them (there goes your democracy and human rights)
- Israel, again human rights go out of the window when it comes to Gaza occupation
Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?
Moderating away rule breaking content that most people don't want to see is very much akin to disallowing state-sponsored war propaganda: a good thing.
Let's assume the US had better intentions toward Iraq than Putin has towards Ukraine. But the people of Iraq are not thankful for the results of the US invasion. It did not bring peace and prosperity to Iraq.
Oh, I never imagined you'd have a hn profile. When I started learning your "Don’t go to art school" post was also quite an inspiration to learn diligently. I had spent one year in art school which was the most useless I ever had and disgusted me of art for quite a few years (and made me switch permanently to math/CS).
Patreon loves Trump. Trump loves Putin. Putin hates Ukraine => Patreon hates Ukraine.
Countries will almost definitely buy oil from
them.

We had Turkey a NATO member buy cheap fuel from ISIS in the past.
this guy doesnt use twitter like twitter
I understand the theory of what you are saying, NATO as an alliance is focused around the "red line". However, in practise, will the US/UK/etc risk a nuclear war over Montenegro? Even today, with Biden and Boris in command, the answer in not clear. With a potential future anti-NATO Commander in Chief there is even more doubt.
> Lots of people in other countries are rooting for russia based on west past failures.

In the UK that's Farage and Corbyn, one was a major architect of brexit and one was almost prime minister
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related https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1497196542138196000
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Russian vigilante hacker: 'I want to help beat Ukraine from my computer'
> China didn't attempt to conquer India

China illegally occupies Aksai Chin. Pakistan illegally occupies parts of Kashmir. We have fought multiple wars with both countries over the last 75 years with very little help from outside parties. When the rest of the world goes beyond mere words to help restore these territories to India, I am sure India will be more than happy to move beyond mere words in similar situations.
> I agree that it wouldn't be the best PR but it would be a relatively good way to weaken them.

Wars are won by morale. Material is instrumental to that, sure, but a relatively minor material gain (and against Russia, that's all Ukraine gains by unrestricted targeting in Russia) isn't worth a massive boost to the enemy population’s willingness to fight when that will is likely the greatest weakness your opponent has and your best path to victory. No one neighboring Russia is going to defeat them in a conventional war materially, but they have been outlasted in willingness to fight.
Him thinking that, however qualified he is, does not mean he's right. Being the CEO of a hedge fund, with a personal grudge against Russia, does not make you infallible.

The US benefits enormously from owning the reserve currency and running the world financial system, and the ultimate effect of our trigger-happy approach to sanctions is to push countries away from those, especially with the US becoming a smaller percent of the world economy every year. Even the Europeans are sick of it. The Europeans only play along still because they are militarily dependent on the US, in part because their populations have, under the comfort of the US security umbrella, developed irrational political beliefs against building up their own militaries.
The following is US centric because that is the only resource extraction I'm personally familiar with.

Coal should stay dead. It has no redeeming qualities except that the cost is largely in externalizations.

Oil and LNG output is constrained by price. More and more shuttered/untapped wells will go online as prices rise and they become economically viable. This is already in progress at current prices.

I'm not sure what you meant by pride, but we don't need to drill/frack protected areas because they're cheaper to get resources out of. If protected areas are not what you meant, rest assured that unprotected areas will be "gone all out" on based on the economic calculus of extraction and there are plenty of untapped areas[0].

Price is the better incentive because it's elastic in response to demand like that created by embargoes on Russian resources, and also incentivizes a move away from fossil fuels by nature of its high price. It will be costly to average consumers at an already precarious time, but at least it aligns incentives with a more sustainable future instead of sacrificing unreplaceable ecologies by "going all out" as you describe.

[0] https://www.usgs.gov/centers/central-energy-resources-scienc...
It was not intended as a take down. Thanks for clarifying.

It's becoming clearer that Bitcoin is the "currency" of the far right. For those of us who consider this ideology abhorrent and counter to the ideals of a free and democratic society it's good to have that out on the table and on full display.
Ah yes, it's easy to forget that children's drawings aren't already alive in their (and their parents) imagination, and that we need to ship some personal (and in some ways, sensitive and later nostalgic) data to a for-profit entity in order to achieve that. Glad to have 'em around!
> My Google account is linked to Gmail, GCP/Firebase, Youtube, Drive

Don't. Have separate accounts for dev stuff, entertainment, storage, social media each.

> and a ton of SSO apps

Never do so. Use a password manager (self-host if you want) and use good old username-password to sign up and log in. I once had all my passwords stored in Chrome leaked in a security breach.

A friend's Gmail was suspended that was connected to bank. He had to waste literally tens of hours in commute and waiting and meetings to change it.
>> is proximity to the country that owns a transaction processing system relevant in a fully digital world?

Very much yes. Think of two people trading rice between china and the Philippians. That rice is not digital. It is traveling across a not-digital ocean on a not-digital ship. If something goes wrong with a payment they would much rather be dealing with someone in the same timezone who can address the issue before the non-digital ship gets locked down somewhere. When things go very wrong, they don't want to be shopping for a European lawfirm to help with a matter between two Asian businesses. Timezones, language and local understanding still matters for realworld trade.
> Cuba to this day still enjoys endless sanctions for resisting regime change.

I mean, I suspect we agree that the embargo should be lifted, but that's a really poor way of saying "communist dictatorship with a penchant for, among other things, lining up homosexuals against a wall and shooting them".

Hopefully the last few days have reinforced that even if one country does things wrong sometimes, it doesn't mean the other side is a good guy.
It also has some significant advantages over hydro: can be built anywhere, requires a small fraction of the space, doesn't destroy vast landscapes by putting them under water.
As someone who uses (or used to use) Steam Link to be able to use a Windows PC headlessly to game from a macOS machine, I think it's a really compelling argument to consider it before considering a Steam Deck.

However, I'm viewing Steam Deck as a mobile gaming machine, which might be replacing my current Windows gaming laptop, and I can leave my Windows gaming laptop at home (or replace with a tower altogether). And if Steam Link works with a Steam Deck, I can have the best of both worlds (mobile gaming + regular gaming via Steam Link)!
“If you want to go fast go alone; if you want to go far go together.”
I think worse than keyloggers is that people are learning how to make the yellow lines in Grammarly go away rather than learning to write better. The training of humans on AI which was trained to be a (dull) average of prior humans has unforeseen consequences. I've seen Google grammar suggestions getting worse with time.
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> I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the notion of the web as a self protecting organism that naturally rejects misinformation and stops bad actors is completely wrong

Well HN does this thing called shadowbanning, where the user sees their post when logged in, but in a brand new isolated session (when not logged in), their posts are not visible. The only caveat to this is the user spent a considerable amount of energy writing a comment, only to have it ghosted and non-visible to other HN'ers meaning their time was wasted and their ideas essentially censored. Shadowbanning works however, and stops HN getting flooded with spam, but has the sneaky caveat of essentially censoring some content.
That's making the huge assumption that high calorie density is the only and most important thing (its not, not even close)
>raped and murdered and ethnically cleansed in Kosovo

And that has exactly nothing to do with defensive NATO core mission.

Sectarian violence happens all around the world, except NATO chose to invade Kosovo under the pretext of ethnic cleansing / "genocide", again current RU excuse, which later investigation pointed out to be unfounded. The real cynical reason was for NATO to rationalize its existence post USSR collapses by reinventing itself as an offensive alliance for LIO/US geopolitical interests, which is how it has been wielded since causing untold deaths in various interventions. NATO is a hegemonic instrument disguised as a humanitarian one. RU sees through the "defensive" narrative. Ultimately, the point is US opened pandora box of bad norms in terms of prosecuting wars and upsetting balance of power. It won't get sanctioned for it, instead wielding sanctions to deter geopolitical adversaries from pursuing more pertinent self interests. Until the sanctions stop working, and US adversaries use US playbook for their own interventions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQb-6yXKBlE

They are still pushing this "nazi" narrative weeks later, when social media and many of the millions of people that attended the protests are like, what are you talking about?

It's been truly eye opening to see blatant lies by the government.

I was at the protests for 3 weekends. I guess that's my "source". I think that's as close as you can get to a true source (your own experience). And I say that as someone that leans left, previously voted liberal, is vaxxed, and was also against "anti vaxxers" previously to attending the protests.

I'd say the actual narrative is it's a group of diverse people all affected by mandates, lockdowns and other government responses to covid. I don't agree with what they all want, but I can understand their pain. And I think we can figure out a solution that would make life better for them while also protecting our hospitals and vulnerable.
NATO is adversarial to Russia, so it shouldn't be NATO, but some entity should be brokering a deal here, not seeing much upside in escalating militarily or even banning Swift.

There's ultimately no war to be won against Russia, Putin knows this unfortunately, but that's what it is.
While the idea of a Twitter mob "fighting Putin" is wishful thinking on their part, I also don't think it's likely to exacerbate anything. They're already dropping bombs. Events on the ground (e.g. how well and how long the Ukrainians, like the Finns in the Winter War against the USSR, can hold off the inevitable) will have orders of magnitude more impact than anything happening on Twitter.

Decisions about SWIFT, etc. will be made based on the banks and intelligence agencies, not Twitter. I know it is dispiriting, but we have little to no influence here.
I guess it depends what you're doing? My girlfriend works as a data engineer and as far as I understand it's used in that field as a first layer to pipe a bunch of different raw data sources into before analyzing and/or moving it over to a more structured database like Postgres.
NATO Response Force activated for first time
I'm not convinced. Because if google becomes only search for ads, it's almost useless.

It does find other issues tho. And google certainly has the resources and to contain all the text on the web.

Not that github is small/niche site that is irrelevant...

Moreover there are updates on that page lately, so it should be fresh content.

Anyway, maybe it's just that not enought incoming links to that issue? Maybe their algorithm has simple flaws. Maybe some search node is down or whatever. Anyway, I wanted to raise awarness on this.
I’ve been studying German on Lingoda and Chatterbug a lot during the pandemic.
Like the author, I took advantage of their marathon plans.

On Chatterbug, it was 400€ for unlimited (!) 1-on-1 lessons with native teachers.

Can’t praise them enough. It was a singular thing that just propelled my speaking to the next level (from B1 to B2-C1).

Lingoda is less fun and more traditional classroom-like. Chatterbug is fun and startuppy.

Both offer structured lessons with natives.

Edit: Chatterbug is no longer unlimited for 400€, it’s only 30 lessons a month. Still cheap. Here’s a referral link for a further 25% discount: https://app.chatterbug.com/r/DerIvan-66
> If you already use Steam then you already have a PC

that's probably not their target demographic.
All superpower countries have a shame. That is how they all become superpowers. And we all stood by, happy with our conveniences, while others had to suffer for them, earning scraps and locked in poverty.

It is the way of the world.
It sounds simple at first blush, but there is a leap of creativity+skill from "this machine can run this pre-made design" to "digitizing arbitrary designs"

There is a lot of nuance in the angle of the stitch, the type of thread, the patterns in satin fill stitching, underfill amount, etc. And then you need to watch out about the materials your stitching into, making sure things arn't stretched, distorted, or you use the right backing to hold it in place, etc.

Dabble your toes in the plethora of professionally designed stitches, so you can see what they look like. The pre-made designs are just lists of x/y coordinates and stitch/cut commands. Keep in mind that this limits the amount you can size up or size down a design: most software won't add/remove stitches to scale it properly.

Ink/Stitch can get around the resize problem by working with with vector/SVG as the source data, and rendering the stitch plan once you've sized things the way you want. It can also import most of the pre-made stitches (.pes, .vp3, etc) into Inkscape as a manual stitch plan, which is just a path with some flags in the xml, and then you can cut out parts of the stitch, or add additional parts.
I went back and refreshed my memory. It was two groups of cruisers and destroyers and a nuclear submarine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_74
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>However Russia failed to suppress and replicate YouTube that is the only massively popular Western platform in Russia.

I'd say Instagram is as popular. Not sure about other services.
I agree completely. However, there are many situations where it can be reduced. For instance, I've heard chatter about people wondering about Apple's exposure to China[0] should China back Russia in the Ukraine conflict. At some point, it would be within Apple's best interest to look at reducing their dependency on a possible opponent.

[0] - Obviously we can pick any number of company and country matchups for this discussion, but China is obviously the relevant discussion point to this topic, and Apple is a huge American company, so the example is much less esoteric than others. I'm not picking on Apple here at all.
Gateway was wonderful. Skip the sequels.
> in 2022 sanctions are to international diplomacy as a tantrum is to a toddler. theyre effectively meaningless

Earlier today a report on BBC said existing sanctions on Russian already made their economy suffer to a significant extent. I forgot the percentage points they mentioned but it was surprisingly high. Applying even more sanctions will unfortunately hurt the Russian people the most and the discontent that will create among the people over the many years to come should not be underestimated.
There's no "my data". There's my usage of their service and there's their data about my usage
> I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the notion of the web as a self protecting organism that naturally rejects misinformation and stops bad actors is completely wrong.

It's an interesting question, but the point isn't as clear to me. First of all I believe most people are able to see through misinformation. The biggest blame should be laid on algorithmic feeds that optimise for engagement, and are therefore designed to lead people into self-reinforcing loops where their ideas never get challenged. That's the main bad "innovation" that social media platforms brought; the arguments about dangerous ideas, censorship, and bad actors echo all the way back to the dawn of the printing press.

> But I also think you can’t ignore that misinformation from anonymous actors has pushed democracy to the brink of collapse, and “that wasn’t the original idea of the web” isn’t the best rebuttal.

I think this is overstating the role of "anonymous actors" - plenty of misinformation comes from well-known politicians and simply normal people. Are you referring to FB's concept of "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" and troll-farms in authoritarian countries? This is definitely a problem which platforms have to tackle, but again I don't think it's as huge a factor as people make it out to be and certainly has not pushed democracy to collapse on its own.
https://www.21-draw.com/ has been advertised to me a few times. I've been very tempted to get a membership and put some focused practice in. They mostly focus on digital art though.
Isn’t this like saying that doctors have incentives to encourage people to get sick? What am I missing?
Self interest. Belarus is one of the places that will feel the worst effects if anything happens at chernobyl
I want a way to hide all company specific job postings on the front page other than whoishiring.
And yet YouTube allows channels that call the holocaust a hoax, that threaten people, etc to stay up and collect superchats.

Strange.
Maybe a banner on the top, but no blocks. We should not cut the few normal social, cultural and non-war-involved technical links we have with ordinary individuals in Russia. The affection and connection ordinary Russians have to the rest of the world is one of the few things that might yet stop this madness. Something like that easily comes across as blaming them and cutting them off personally in retaliation, and that will not foster brotherhood.
I think there's multiple things going on. One is coordinated reporting spam from Russia, two is actual misinformation being posted (tons of Ukraine videos being shared are fake) and mix in the general churn of abusive user behavior (trolling) and YT's moderation algos just can't keep up. I sincerely doubt YT is actively suppressing relevant information on Ukraine. Especially at a company founded by Soviet emigres. It's a very hard thing to get right at scale and they just can't do it.
humorous to see a mushroom fan invited to a formal talk among scientists.. He 'recently moved jobs' and 'has something really big' coming up.. when the science was flowing, his part kept referring to consciousness itself, and seeing the disconnectedness of all organisms.. no mention of the specific question ! It was obvious to me that he was invited to bring breadth to the (environmental) science talk.. but I found it funny to see his "trippy" inputs so bluntly disjoint from the content of the actual questions.

to be complete, I believe that pure consciousness, and multi-organism biological models, are essential myself. It was funny to me to see it included in a clumsy way.. nervous-humor perhaps..
It's a book (well, a digital book), not just a set of flashcards. The SRS parts are to reinforce what's been read and studied from the prior sections.
> in 2022 sanctions are to international diplomacy as a tantrum is to a toddler. theyre effectively meaningless

I don't see how this follows from your (correct) description of US influence in the cold war. Soft power works now the same way it always has, all it requires is coordination on a "pool of influence" large enough. It's absolutely true that the US can't unilaterally do what it did in the 70's. But the e.g. USA+EU+Japan+Korea? That's pretty dominant, still.

Russia's only out from something like that would effectively mean becoming a sattelite state to the PRC. And... maybe that's where we're headed. But it's surely not where Putin wants to head, so it remains leverage.
The EU would only go along with this because the US has them by the proverbial balls. European militaries are a joke and there is no domestic political support for building them up.
I played a fair amount of Overwatch on the old Steam Controller with a combination of touchpad and gyroscope controls. Touchpad for wide sweeping movements and gyro for fine tuning the aim. It's not quite as accurate as a mouse, and it does take some getting used to, but I found I was much more competitive with it than I was with a regular gamepad, especially when playing games like Overwatch that don't support aim-assist on controllers.

For slower strategy games, using the left touchpad for fast/imprecise mouse movement (or map movement) and the right touchpad for slow/fine tuned mouse movement is also decent. I don't know that I'd want to play an RTS that way, though.