skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post is about a curious discovery on Mars.

The commenter joined the conversation about that discovery to say nothing other than that they don't find the topic interesing.

There is no getting around the fundamental ignorance and offensiveness of that.

My comment IS exactly about conversation not about Mars.

It's about the curious but not at all uncommon phenomenon of joining a conversation for no other purpose but to tell everyone in it that you are not interested in it.

My point is to point out that that is what they are doing when they do that, not merely adding their own perfectly valid opinion on a topic the same as anyone else's. It's uniquely invalid and offensive.

It's walking down a hall, hearing a conversation behind one of the doors, stopping, entering the room, and announcing to everyone in that room "It's stupid to discuss this topic".

Obviously, the ignoramus who does this doesn't realize that this is what they are doing. Obviously they think they are delivering a valuable observation and conclusion, or at least expressing their opinion which they are entitled to have and even to express.

The problem is the context. They were not already in a conversation where something came up and their opinion was relevant. They were not specifically asked for their opinion like with a poll or an article that poses the question. They went out of their way to join a conversation in the first place for no other purpose than to say it's a pointless conversation.

I am distilling their action to it's essense to expose just what they are actually doing, and lay bare the lack of any valid motivation for an action like that.

You are supposed to see this, and understandably try to find a hole in it to save face, but then eventually when there turns out to be no way to avoid the essential facts after unpacking, realize that's what you're doing and maybe do it less.

Or failing that (honestly, more likely, but at least they no longer have the excuse of ignorance), at least maybe some bystanders will be wiser to the phenomenon in the future an be better able to recognize a tool for what they are on first sight and not grant them the time of day by bothering to get into any arguments with them. IE, recognize that peculiar form of mental Turet's and thereby feel no attack from it, and feel no need to defend against it.
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Of course, any SEC-registered token probably won't be allowed to do anything interesting so there's no point in investing.
Not all of it. If there isn't some responsibility on proper operations of munitions then you're saying it's okay for them to keep blowing up apt buildings on accident because Ruskies are there.

This should be remembered, those responsible in its operation should be reprimanded, and those civilians and their families should be compensated by the Ukrainian government. It should not be used as propaganda, it should be admitted as a mistake.
If you zoom out far enough, you could also blame Nato for this whole shitshow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
GitHub’s database of security advisories is now open source
That is true, 250W-rated electric engine can supposedly make 1kW for some time without damage. But if I understand correctly, EU law prohibits the "power driver" to deliver more than 250W.
Ask HN: Stripe subscription vs. chargebee? What to choose and why?
Hey everyone, I want to integrate subscription payments in my app. We are bootstrapped and around 10K MRR. What should we integrate for subscription payments?

2 popular options are stripe subscriptions and charge bee.

Stripe subscriptions API looks fairly simple to add. Should I just go ahead with that?
The original article says the same thing multiple times
"You are completely delusional." claims man unaware of the collapse of the USSR. Point me towards the genocides in Syria and Georgia, I'll wait.
The question is if the nukes will even be able to get into air, travel to their targets, and correctly perform their function there. I'm increasingly sure it wouldn't work, these people are full of shit.

Also, I think the technological gap is now simply too large. The recon capabilities of today + various types of UAV and new kinds of manned aerial vehicles, coupled with new generations of weapon systems, could very well mean we would pluck the nukes from the sky mid-way.
That's pretty clearly an extra step that people want to avoid by using tools like these.
Germany to supply Ukraine with anti-tank weapons: Scholz
> Politicians and diplomats executed some realpolitik type moves and it backfired into a hot war.

This has been planned for months. It didn’t backfire into anything. Putin likely made up his mind weeks ago and there was nothing anyone could do. All of his demands were completely ludicrous, and either he knows it or he really has lost his mind.

> cheering for one side

Yes, in a completely unprovoced war not far from where I live, I side with the country being attacked.
Russia feels the same way about Poland, the Baltics and any other country that joined NATO after 1993 or so.

But none of that matters, it's just a figleaf to justify an attack, if not for 'NATO' then for some other bullshit reason.
In my estimation, most of the activity done with people's inventory on Steam, especially skins in major games, involve one illicit scheme or another. I guess you can't or shouldn't stop people from using their skins on gambling sites. However, it doesn't seem like many of the metafeatures that the company started to build around Steam actually serve regular gamers just looking to enjoy themselves.
Wouldn’t a policy of surrendering at the first chance essentially turn you into a slave of anyone willing to use force against you?
Hi! Author here :) It would be really cool to get some feedback on the app :) Feel free to drop a comment / create an issue or create a pull request. What would you improve?
>blacklists

They wouldn't be blacklists. You only learn after the fact so its more about the analytics.

>I'd tell them to fuck off.

Well that's nice but if you get paid with stolen money, you don't just get to keep the money and tell them to fuck off. Steam would be liable to return the funds.
When the missiles start flying, equality doesn’t seem so important anymore.
Appeasement was tried before WWII and didn't work either.

This is how you hopefully deter Putin, by helping Ukraine defend itself and defeat his "special operation" militarilly.
Where is "elsewhere"? Western media pushes its own propaganda.
Is America the kind of place that bans slavery and bans usage of the n-word so as not to hurt people's feelings?
If you want to see the physical process from start to end, check out this (German) documentary about Hans Kühner, Germany's last music engraver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7-3r99Fng
I tend to agree with you philosophically, but when it comes to implementation that's where I really struggle. How do you curtail either of the two types of growth? It seems like the only options include authoritarian and borderline human rights violating. A group of progressive countries could band together and try to invade China and force them to slow their growth, but even ignoring the ethicality of forcing our will on others, most people would agree that the death and suffering would be pretty bad.

So far the best form of population control has been prosperity. Birth rates tend to fall as quality of life goes up (not always of course because there are many factors in that). The other option is outlawing reproduction much like China did for a long time. That seems questionable re: human rights also.
Making effective use of all this tech requires training and infrastructure. Ukraine may not have that anymore.
I don't think the "entire region"s involved would be big enough to make insurance difficult to implement.
When referring to AWS/GCP, I said,

> "at least enough to get around in"

Because, you're right -- cloud-based knowledge changes a lot faster (and gets wider) than standards-based, and it's actually a lot less useful because you don't know from year to year if the knowledge is even still relevant or if the product is still supported.

And, yes, you do need to keep standards-based knowledge top-of-mind, even if you perhaps are not currently building projects on them and even if you can't remember the specifics of syntax etc. Knowing every tool in your toolbox will make you a far better engineer, and, yes, it absolutely can be done.
Yes but note also from the Report ( pag 20/21 )

"...Irrespective of this, the Atlantic Alliance makes it clear that the organisation’s security guarantees apply to members only. Full access to collective defense planning, decision-making and military structures can only be reached via full membership.

This leads to the main paradox of the NATO partnership, namely that in the worst
case it can be seen in the eyes of external actors to strengthen an ever-closer
association with NATO without, however, supplying the deterrence provided by Article 5..."
> Ukraine is a big country.

Yemen is too. https://upload.vaa.red/2hjyom#565284ae60ef9dfd699d3810c00600...
They're all Ponzi schemes. Every last one of them.
> We’re witnessing a historical bravery of Ukrainian people,

This. So much this. My hat's off.

Don't know if this is propaganda, but I do not care. Awesome regardless:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-60532715
I do believe that you get to keep cash. I don't think I've ever heard of an instance of "dirty cash" getting seized back from a merchant. Do you have an example of that?
Get an electrically heated jacket / blanket. Use 20W of power (per person) instead of >2000W of power heating the whole house. Two order of magnitude reduction in heating costs and you can quit gas entirely.

To be honest I think this is the only way people in the UK are going to survive this year with energy costs literally doubling. Half the population can barely afford energy as it is.
Russian media and the Russian negotiators said there would be no attack on Ukraine. Why would you still give them the benefit of the doubt after that? If they lied about that then there is absolutely no reason to believe them about anything else as long as Putin is in power.
The big question is, how much bravery can we show before Putin starts going all in with bigger weapons? Personally I would rather be a coward and not have my country involved even if it may possibly just be delaying the inevitable for when there is no choice.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/25/vladimir-p...
Do it fast, then, and now, while Putin is massively tied up and likely to be for a decade pacifying a well-funded and equipped insurgency.

https://yle.fi/news/3-12272467

> "If Finland and Sweden applied for membership, we could decide on it overnight. You could be a member the very next day because you meet all the necessary membership criteria," said Rasmussen, who was Nato Secretary General from 2009 to 2014.
Hitting the philosophical restart button on web development
Open sourced control hardware for quantum computers
I suspect you may have missed the sarcasm here.
This is basically psychological safety, worded in a different way - https://hbr.org/2017/08/high-performing-teams-need-psycholog...

The best write up on psychological safety is from Google Rework - https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/understanding-team-effe...
Putin wanted so much to be Stalin that has ignored the first rule of successful bullying. Hit your targets one by one. Never, ever, threaten the entire class at the same time. The usual outcome is everybody teaming against the bully until removing him/her.

So the longer this situation lasts, the worse for Putin also. Higher probability that the Russians will eventually say enough is enough, and throw him under the bus to get rid of him. Maybe this is one of the reasons to give the army something to do. He is entering the same age when Stalin started his decadence until being poisoned by their own people at 73 Yo, and is not earning a lot of friends lately. He's looking more and more desperate for a fast victory.

Threatening with giving Sweden and Finland the same treatment as Ukraine is also interesting. Will not grant him a lot of sympathy among the Linux crew and open source world for sure. If you rely a lot on cyber-war, disinformation and cryptocurrencies, going after the quiet wallflowers in the class that hold many keys in this field can backfire easily.
BBC interviewed the mother of captured Russian solider
You need a source of slow neutrons...
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I don’t claim to know the right solution to any difficulties in international politics, but I can say the difference between the current situation and your hypothetical is that Poland is in the EU so Article 42.7 of the Lisbon treaty world apply, and is also in NATO so Article 5 of the NATO treaty would apply too.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/...

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm
I think you figured it out. In general "fraud" gets used as an abstraction-primacy obfuscation term just like the more extreme "identity theft". The claim is obviously not akin to credit card fraud, and Valve doesn't describe the mechanics of what they're calling "fraud". So it's likely the one of the least offensive possibilities - like routing around their regional price discrimination. Which would make perfect sense as there's no identifying metadata tying a payment source to a location in the way that say a credit card does. Of course from the customer's perspective this is simply making the market more efficient, and I'll make sure to play my tiniest violin.
He asks the same questions and gets the same answers for half of every interview. People are going to give you a variation of the same answer for 'what is the meaning of life,' and it gets old after a couple interviews. He's also fairly opinionated and repeats the same opinions over and over.
I always have the sense that Lex thinks himself several tiers more intelligent than he actually is. So most of the interviews I have this cringe facepalm feeling which is distracting. Joe Rogan is super self deprecating which helps counter that feeling.
Maybe some of the experts could name the haskell equivalent libraries/wrappers.
Fighting Nazis by targeting a Jewish president for execution.
This isn't isolated to Haskell. Bad errors are everywhere. And by some of my colleagues, I mean YOU TOO!
Hi! I lead the Zulip project.

I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience with Zulip. If you can share details on the UX problems you had, perhaps in https://zulip.com/development-community/ where we can have an extended conversation, I'd be very appreciative. I personally review every issue reported in zulip, and some of the specific problems you cite are not unfamiliar and surprising to me. Specifically:

* I'm not aware of a plausible explanation for Zulip frequently doing full reloads of the web view. Zulip's core design is to live-update everything [1] and there's only a handful of code paths that can trigger a full reload (the most common being when the server version was updated, and in that code path, the client has an algorithm where it waits up to 30 minutes for a moment when your window is idle and not focused to reload to get the updated version, to minimize the chance of disruption).
* I'm also not sure what what state might be forgotten between web client restarts; almost all of our client UI updates happen via the client asking the server to change something, and the client updating via the same server-client push mechanism that updates other clients (the main exception to this is sending messages, where local echo is important for UX reasons). And at least the server-initiated reloads are designed to preserve your precise scroll position, compose box state, etc., and that's been true since ~2013. (Though we did fix a couple bugs where compose box state was not properly preserved in the last year).

I know you're not using Zulip currently, so your memory may be imprecise, but any additional detail that could help us reproduce what you experienced would be awesome!

[1] https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subsystems/events-sys...
I cancelled my subscription to The Economist after it basically turned into the Covid news in 2020 and was offering little value over what I could get anywhere.

I agree with you that if this goes on, HN needs to stop talking about it, or at least scale back to rare instances where something materially new happens. I think there's some room in the first couple days for these stories to dominate though, it's kn everybody's mind and it's tough to just shut it out entirely
Probe Reveals Government Access to Unregulated Internet Data Streams
Glad to hear it! Here in the US, the ‘wag the dog’ was pretty obvious almost immediately (Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but that didn’t stop anything), and the protests didn’t seem to do much either.
This is why it's always been absurd to believe that standard retail purchases would be regularly done with layer 1 base chain transactions. You can't even say that you're ok with waiting for 1 block confirmation, because the time between each block is only an average of 10 minutes, with high variance. It's fairly common to experience over an hour between blocks, or as little as a minute.

The security and confirmation of a transaction is not a function of number of blocks, but time since inclusion in a block and total amount of work (hashes) piled on top of your transaction. Generally, 6 blocks (1 hour on average) is considered sufficient certainty of immutability for normal functioning of the blockchain (i.e. not under active attack). One hour for final, and completely irreversible, settlement is absurdly fast in the context of the traditional financial system, which takes days at least for final settlement, and can be much longer for some international transfers.

Small, individual scale purchases only really make sense to do on higher layer transaction protocols, like lightning network (non-custodial and open) or some custodial networks (like a bitcoin backed Visa credit card).

The only model that makes sense for bitcoin is the layer one base chain is a settlement network, with payment networks build on top that aggregate many transactions into one on chain transaction. Think OSI model for networking.
Good point.

G.W. Bush is the president that authorized the use of a chemical weapon (white phosphorus) in Fallujah, Iraq, 2005.
But you talk about "concerns", so which concerns are that? That Nato would attack Russia?
- Persona 5 Royal: a turn-based JRPG with an incredible soundtrack and great story. I like the art style, too. Currently only available on PlayStation 4, but many expect a PC port to come soon.

- Yakuza 0: an action-adventure JRPG, with a really good story. It's a prequel to the well-known series, but 0 is the best in my opinion. It was actually my favorite game before I played P5R.

- Final Fantasy XIV: an MMORPG. I haven't followed the story, but it's considered to be one of the best FF story in recent years. If you have an MMO itch, go for it!

- Dead Cells: a rogue-lite made by an employee-respecting company. Try, die, get good. It's like Dark Souls but in 2D.

- Crusader Kings II or III: strategy game and dynasty simulator where you can conquer the world.

- Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel: coop FPS shot'n'loot.
Linking to someone else on the internet saying "I don't like this" isn't all that interesting. For one, we already do that here.
Lots of "explosives experts" coming out on HN.

Not saying I don't believe you, but I'd caution everyone during this time to take what they see online with a grain of salt. It's propaganda season.
I've proposed to other customers who want less releases to track one minor version behind for the experience you are looking for. Still within security fix range, up-to-date and you will jump the the latest patch release (and none should follow unless it's a security release).
We may have had the technology in the 80s, but the economics is only just getting close. We could have switched but it would have meant a drastic reduction in quality of life for everyone who wasn't rich. We might still be in 80/90s technology had we done that, because the wealthier we are as a society, the faster we can develop technology.
The tooling is already there. All the "not playing nice" issues are largely solved by using Docker. Installing a local Docker instance of Gitlab is literally four commands. Mkdir three directories and docker run to get it started.

See https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/docker.html
Lego Group is private and not for sale?
> dumb systems that often repeat stuff unnecessarily and annoyingly: “In a quarter mile, turn right” “In 500 feet, turn right” “Turn right”

I actually find these super helpful. They're redundant in some cases, but if you ever fail to hear what they say the first time for whatever reason, or if there are multiple streets close to each other, the redundancy is incredibly helpful.
I can't even imagine how much worse Afghanistan would've been if the Taliban had access to modern antivehicle weaponry. Something like an NLAW or Javelin costs about 1/100 what a modern Russian tank costs and takes little training to use.
I'm just going to point out that you said nothing about proof of stake here, and I am getting the sense from your other comments that you do not understand the technicalities of the traditional finance system, or cryptocurrencies.
Fee free bitcoin transactions? How does that work?
1) Your first assertion is false. Land o' Lakes and the store-brand butter I buy (in both cases, the non-organic varieties) are as yellow in my grocery store as the expensive Irish Kerigold butter I also buy.

2) Butter is less yellow in the U.S. because of lower levels of beta carotene. Grass has higher levels of beta carotene than hay (which is cut grass, the lower levels are due to the decay of the beta carotene). https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-europ...

3) American butter is not "lower quality." It is lower fat. American butter can be used in more cooking situations than Irish butter, which is too fat for many dishes (including, for example, pizza).

4) Not all foreign dairy products command a price premium. Kerigold is less than the organic American butter in most grocery stores in Southern California. So much for that silly theory.

5) You are asserting EU propaganda without any support. Because...you won't be able to find any. More to the point, Kerigold only feeds its cows grass 312 days of the year. Let your imagination fill in the blanks as to what they feed their cows for the remaining 43 days (hint: sometimes it comes on a cob, and sometimes it rights with "boy"). https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/food-drink/kerrygold-la...
Watch "Catch me if you can" for some fun history on bank cheque fraud.
Only if you believe another pile of Russian propaganda.
I looked at the "mildly pornographic app" you wrote and my reaction was, I would not choose to hire you. Basically I don't want to be exposed to people's sexual fantasies as a part of my job. It's obnoxious and way, way into the territory of TMI. Do what you like and keep it private. The fact you thought it was appropriate to share this with a potential employer reviewing your resume is a red flag. Your sense of what is appropriate to share in the workplace is clearly off.

This is quite different than merely listing an employer such as pornhub on your resume.
My apologies. Point taken
Russia’s assault in Ukraine slows
Very small price I would say.
> That person doesn't exist

Just because you've never met one doesn't mean they don't exist.

However, often, people like this (sadly) move into management or into higher-level architecture types of roles, and let their tech skills go fallow.