skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they already were hesitant on building another AN-225 due to cost concerns.

Very astutely note. EU was trying to block Ukrainian defence industry for decades. They had a cargo plane design which beaten Airbus 400 on 33 out 34 tender points on EU defence tender, and still lost.
It took me two seconds one twitter to find a ton of onlyfans creators complaining about this.

They aren't being banned from using the site- so they can still stream and sell stuff- but they are being blocked from cashing out their earnings. It makes sense that people are still using the site, as this block is probably temporary and they will get access to the money eventually. From a technical standpoint it looks like the sites just "unverified" the bank connections, and aren't allowing new ones.

It seems like part of this is due to the fact that these sites used one of the banks that is currently sanctioned to handle the money conversation. People are still allowed to transfer to PayPal and convert there, but the rates are much worse. Since Twitch and OnlyFans haven't made a statement it's also possible they're looking into using one of the banks that isn't sanctioned yet.
Pak hasn't officially taken sides. Putin just started the war while their PM was visiting because he doesn't give a shit about them.
Europe here. Mostly agree with a couple of notable exceptions.

I grew up in a home 90% furnished with heirlooms and there are two antique categories I'd never buy for my own use: Dining chairs and beds. They just don't have the size and robustness I find comfortable. Antique beds for two use about the same mattress size as I used for a single growing up. It's horrible. And I can't rock old chairs back and forth without disassembling them spontaneously.

Now day beds, consoles, tables? Cookware? That's all my jam. (except for silver cutlery, taste horrible)
yea classy guy
https://i1.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/...
"The Music of the Primes" by Marcus du Sautoy, about history of prime number theory and the Riemann hypothesis. Beautiful and inspiring.
Doing nothing except further sanctions lol
Musk says Starlink active in Ukraine as Russian invasion disrupts internet
You can already see it in the US's response to Russia nuclear threat. "We have the ability to defend ourselves", aka "We can shoot down any nukes headed our way". It's becoming an idle threat that, if ever executed, would probably not succeed and would in turn be the most definitive declaration of war.
Google blocks Russia's RT app downloads on Ukrainian territory
I’d guess the complexity of operations around returned payments are outsized compared to their dollar value.

eg if 1% of payments are returned, they need to devote 10% of their operational overhead to it.
China lifts all restrictions on wheat imports from Russia
This is already a thing on KDE Plasma.
> I just don't understand how that is difficult.

It's not difficult, but why do they make it difficult to "just go to the previous window", whose default shortcut was alt-tab on almost all systems (windows + gnome + kde)?

Maybe you have a specific workflow with a specific set of apps you use in a specific order in which case your brain is hard-wired to know whether you'd like to switch app or window within an app. I personally find it much easier when i don't have to think about it and can just "go back" to what i was doing previously.
So Colorado is accepting all crypto....

... "for the payment of state tax and fees." The original article's headline just says "payment" -- but it's not the entire universe of all payments.

Having said that, Colorado's governor is very pro-crypto (and pro-technology in general)...
That's a common (I wouldn't necessarily call it "standard") C idiom, to allow chaining calls. You could e.g. do

puts(reverse(fwdbuf, reverse(revbuf, input)));
This is an intentionally misleading headline by OP. Flagged

Edit: Misleading headline was written by publisher not submitter
I saw this video earlier: https://youtu.be/wmD_-Gaj27k

I don’t believe such destruction could be caused by a drone, especially not lightweight drones like Turkish TB-2s. This looks like the work of a fighter jet. Now given Russian air superiority over Ukraine, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is outside work of something like an F35. There are tankers flying tracks all around Ukraine fueling non-existent planes.
>The point is criticizing a specific part of the western left

My point wasn't about who said it or what they are referring to...I'm clear on that.

My point was I keep seeing critiques of a position I do not see actually existing in discourse. It seems like, since this started, there has been a concerted effort to attack a strawman.

'Focus' is such a strange thing to critique and just rings hollow. I really honestly haven't experienced anyone who talks about just western imperialism...maybe I'm blind and naive here but the fact that this is suddenly a critique is really sketchy to me.
Great so instead of speaking for the people of the country affected you are speaking for the whole world?
As a person coming from a country which suffered 150 years of Turkish (Ottoman) invasion, glad to see they are doing the right thing.
p.s. we also had 60 years of Soviet rule. Had the worst luck
Most drills I’ve used fit in your hand. Compared to that, it’s huge :)

(although on rereading I didn’t mean to say ‘huge’ twice in my previous post)
Hello @dang this appears to be shadow banned and I don't understand why, it got a lot of interest and I think this discussion is useful for more people to see.

Did I violate any HN rule by posting this?
I found a revelation to me yesterday[1], which was strikingly simple yet mostly overlooked in terms of the implications it has.

There are countries with a lot of old people, and not enough young people to replace them as they go into retirement or old age.

That's not just a problem for maintaining all that old people when they retire in terms of taxes. It's a problem because when you're a really big, old, and proud country (at least in your mind), things break down faster than you can train people to fix them and to come up with new things to improve on old things. And if on top of that you are immigration-averse, you're effectively dooming yourself into extinction.

Russia is one of those countries. Going to war might hurt them more than anyone else, but at this point what alternative is there for them? Just waiting for their country to tear itself to pieces? That might work if you're a country with no imperial past, and no nuclear weapons. But the Russians will go down swinging... and that's a problem for everyone.

EDIT: Added reference to the video that gave me this idea.

[1] https://youtu.be/MIdUSqsz0Io?t=2059
Turkey, like Germany, has had time to reconsider how history might think on its response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Honestly, I kind of enjoy assembling Ikea furniture. It's like Lego for grown-ups.
Nothing in this war adds up. Either Putin has an ace up his sleeve or he grossly overestimated the chances of success. Maybe the people who surround him are too afraid to tell him the truth about the actual condition of Russian army. It looks pathetic.
Media in Kyiv and other places have plenty of satellite communication and in normal wars more protection from shelling (the IDF for example will blow Gaza to hell, but they won't say hit the building Reuters are in)

Whether Russia cares about the bad PR it would cause by blowing up international media (including crews from places like CCTV) is another matter.
Hollywood?
Nick Bostrom, 2005, 'The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 31, No. 5

https://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
I agree. A complete up-front design is basically a way to guarantee that you will get several key parameters wrong.

That said, even a very rough outline of an idea should be subjected to an appropriate amount of high-level criticism.
I changed the title to say Crypto instead of Bitcoin
The Brits romanticize the blitz. Russia certainly has views on Stanlingrad.
> The weight alone of furniture made with real wood would make shipping multiple times more expensive than the cost of the item.

That's obviously not true. An 77 1/2" IKEA Hemnes bookcase sells for $199 and is made of pine. A comparable 75" bookcase[0] made of alder costs $550 with free shipping. Since alder costs about 70% more than pine[1], there's no way shipping adds "multiple times... the cost of the item."

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[0]: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hemnes-bookcase-white-stain-903...

[1]: https://www.buildwithrise.com/stories/benefits-of-alder-wood
Actually our university has dedicated funds to cover open access so you do not necessarily need this in your primary grant. However, it is first come first serve and limited. What is worrying me is that there are so many predidatory open access journals out there and the open access advocates haven't understood the need to limit open access funds to journals that are actually read. And they should make sure that a relevant percentage of the money is actually spent on reviewing and/or editorial work. The money for an open access nature paper is probably well spent in the end. Otherwise publishing preprints is probably the better alternative.
> Hair-trigger alert ... needlessly truncates decision-making time, increasing the risk of a mistaken launch in response to false information.

It doesn't "needlessly truncate decision-making time" if there's an actual attack though. It takes 20 minutes for an ICBM to strike, and less for SLMBs.
Yep. This looks a bit clunky. Any old/rusty irc client (even the ones for DOS and a 286) will connect to public bitlbee servers, where you have several. By typing up 'plugins' at its &bitlbee channel (not a typo), you will get the supported chat protocols on that server.
The understanding of an app quitting when the last window is closed is something that I go back and forth on if I like it or not. I think it really depends on the app. Launching Adobe apps take long enough that it is annoying to need to relaunch them, so I really appreciate that they don't quit on close of last window. Yet apps like Lightroom must totally relaunch just to switch to a new library which is extremely frustrating.

So it seems to me that Cmd-Tab is less of the offender to you than the app not behaving as you prefer when there are no active windows. Seems like your ire is slightly misdirected.
I've been using and working on my custom hacker news frontend for a few years now. As the name suggests, it only has minor "improvements" compared to the official website. It has a dark theme, (IMO) better layout and typography and it's a SPA with server side rendering.

Currently you cannot login, vote and post comments.

Tech used:

- Angular (Universal)

- https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas (which has been archived as I just noticed)
It's far from the first time rouble has plummeted. Just a reminder that 10 years ago, before this whole Crimea thing, 1$ was around 30₽. In the 90s and early 00s rouble was unstable enough that cellular carriers billed in dollars and many stores had prices in "у.е." that were also dollars just with a different name.
Perhaps the (biological) choices are growth and decline. No steady state (stable equilibrium) is feasible. Just a stupid guess; I have no basis for this notion.
Mods: please restore the original accurate headline: "Turkey to implement international pact on access to shipping straits due to Ukraine war"
A Chinese company has a 70% complete AN 225 hopefully Antonov Airlines can buy it back and finish it.
Protesting in Russia against Putin takes some balls, and yet many are doing it
Taiwan will put up a much bigger fight than Ukraine can and has geography that will make invading so much harder.
Anyone knows what the implications for Russia are from this move. Surprising that Turkey is showing more spine than core NATO nations.
I would speculate that it's that Colorado wants to build up its tech industry, and a bunch of people in charge believe that things like this will help project an image that attracts investment.

The actual impact on US currency valuation will be negligible. Even if it weren't, I believe a large portion of Colorado's economy is based on producing export goods, so a weaker USD is theoretically beneficial to at least some segments of the state's economy.
mmh.

Not all $9-per-hour engineers are the same. Been there done that.
And some of these $9 may buy them more of their-own bread-or-house than the $$RICH ones can with their 6-digit $s. Thus being happier. Envy? Competition?

And of course it's always them outside teams that are to blame, while the actual elephant isn't.

On the other side, when you outsource everything, .. you're what, just a web-site? oh wait, not even that..

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
The modular aspect of Ikea pieces is a big deal for me because I relocate often for work and have a growing family. We have a sectional sofa that we can turn around depending on what best fits a new space, and we have a sofa with a chaise lounge that we can turn into a straight sofa given an extra cushion and set of covers. Of course, all covers are removable so we can wash them in our machines, and easily change the color to better go with a new space. There are even many unofficial vendors of Ikea sofa covers.
One thing I don't like about GNU Guix: they despise systemd. Not that I like it, I like the fact that its adoption was entirely transparent for me and I like the fact that if I ever have any problem with it, it is easy to google for solutions.

When one chooses to use GNU Guix, you're already entering the "exotic distros" terrain. Not using the most used initialization system definitely doesn't help here.
The video in the article is pointing to the strike happening at an airport, I don't think the video you've linked is of the same strike.
> at the same price point

Not if you factor in the cost of repeatedly replacing your IKEA furniture
That was a strategic bombing campaign, and an anemic one by the standards of the later war. Also bad, but not properly urban warfare, and I think a case could be plausibly made that urban warfare is meaningfully worse.
That is basically what they are doing now, sit back and do nothing.

Just some economics sanctions...
The Russians assassinated the Chechen leader on his way to peace talks 26 years ago.

IMO the US should at least consider having VP Harris join Zalensky as an observer to help broker the talks. Make it very known to the Russians that she is with him, to deter possible assassination attempts.
>>"liberal education is to learn something about everything and everything about something"
I think this is an excellent advice for life long tech workers.
The US has said it would defend Taiwan
I'd consider it a win if I was using any of those currencies.

You seem to be trying to make this not a win for cryptocurrency. It is. Sorry.
Do you have any sources for FAANGs outsourcing critical engineering work? Not stuff like, say, Workday or Greenhouse, but core bits of their product?
How do you know which aisle and row to go to? And which items to take from there?
‘Double standards’: Western coverage of Ukraine war criticised
I’m sure during months of planning that Russia gave no thought to financial implications of the attack. Nope, made no preparations at all.
There's some game theory here I hope we don't get to test, but you could rationalize why the West wouldn't retaliate with more nuclear bombs despite MAD (or rather because of). For instance, not walking into a nuclear apocalypse.
Not at all the main point, but tr can do rot13 and more; plus GNU Coreutils' implementation is fast:

$ time openssl rand -base64 1000000000 | tr a-z n-za-m >/dev/null

real 0m1.073s
user 0m1.327s
sys 0m0.644s
$ time openssl rand -base64 1000000000 | rot13 >/dev/null

real 0m19.225s
user 0m20.101s
sys 0m0.747s
I'm afraid anybody with the integrity to do something like that has been removed from power a long time ago already. Putin is surrounded by scared yes men, and he's always said there are strategic uses for nuclear weapons, not just a last line of defense by MAD.
"clearing resistance from urban terrain is the last thing you'll be doing in you life"

I've read this phrase in Russian years ago, but can't remember where exactly.
Some tips from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy:

“I thought,” he said, “that if the world was going to end we were meant to lie down or put a paper bag over our head or something.”

“If you like, yes,” said Ford.

“Will that help?” asked the barman.

“No,” said Ford and gave him a friendly smile.
> that tiny little chance has dire consequences...

I recently heard the joke: "What's the shittiest job now?" "Putin's poison tester."

As a consolation, the people who are actually responsible for pushing the big red button have proved to be reasonable cold-blooded types not so eager to engage in genocide, especially Stanislav Petrov and Vasily Arkhipov.
We'd always just be better off building a space colony in orbit and/or space mining.
Exactly, a very arrogant and short sighted comment.
Though one I would expect in a thread about crypto currency. I believe many have a strong hatred for Bitcoin etc, as they missed out on an opportunity to make a LOT of money, or simply know others that made a lot and feel some jealousy.
It's just a technology and for all we know, some larger distrust may arise in governments that leads to people using crypto more and although a very small chance, bitcoin may become the most commonly used currency. My point being, we just don't know and cannot predict these things.
I don't know if it's true. A quick look on reddit and it seems like some russian creators are affected :
https://www.reddit.com/r/onlyfansadvice/comments/t2dubg/only...
The War That Continues to Shape Russia, 25 Years Later (2019)
Is "where I am" a GDPR country?
Digital currency already exists, but with the much less sexy name of "bank accounts", "checks", "debit cards", and "wire transfers". The only thing that cryptocurrencies bring to the table is trustlessness, but that is what introduces the inefficiencies of cryptocurrencies, and prevents useful features such as reversible transactions in the case of fraud.
Based on the article, the Russians will probably be upset, but may not do anything other than talk tough. Any attempt to sail through would probably be seen as a huge escalation that could potentially drag in NATO, and I don't think Putin wants that, although at this point who knows what he's thinking.
18h ago
He's already starting talks with Ukraine. He is realizing what a poor calculation this war was.
spivak calculus

really taught me how to think about math
Negative real rates are negative real rates. The yield has been dropping in the Euro area for twenty years:

* https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/financial_markets_and_intere...

For a while you could get mortgages with negative rates:

* https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-la...

Too much spending has generally not been Europe's problem.
> Then again, some people find math hard, others find it easy. To each their own.

Way to be condescending. The presented opinion is clearly reasonable, as is yours.
These look like they match what postgres uses? Not sure if postgres invented it, or got it from somewhere else? Time for some specs/standards for JSON operators in SQL?
Assuming you don’t want to block Russian-speaking people, but Russian-origin connections, use a firewall that updates its mapping of IP addresses to country. Pfsense has such a plug-in. You will definitely want to log outbound block or ignore events.
Practical guide to solving hard problems
Can you please not change the title? The original title is "Turkey to implement international pact on access to shipping straits due to Ukraine war"

Turkey has NOT closed the Black sea; this article does not say that at all.

Turkey has stated continuously in last few days that it will follow the Montreux Convention, under which they cannot restrict vessels going back to their home base, including Russian ones.
And Constantinople is not Istanbul. The point ant6n made (grandparent post) was about the worldview of the (roughly) conservative old Russian nationalists who are dropping the bombs, and how much destruction they might find acceptable.
They don't mean literally nobody cares about the product, just that this conversation isn't necessarily related directly to the product but more about design in general. My original point is just that it's a design that locks people into using the app with a very specific medium and it locks people out of accessing it on another medium with no details about why.

That's a pattern that most people would agree they don't like and my comment is meant to be a criticism of that.

> That's their problem, no one else's.

It was posted in a public forum for discussion, is it really wrong to critique or praise the product in this setting?
PhD student here. Aside from difficulty of accessing articles who don't have institutional access, it's significantly easier to obtain an article from sci-hub. Enter title or DOI - done. To get the same article using uni logins you need to search via database e.g. Medline, then click on the source button. This takes you to different resources you can download from. Once you click through, you can then download the pdf, unless they've decided ePub is the default option in which case you have change this. Rarely, I've had to sign up to attempt to download an article but find once I've done this, my institution doesn't actually have access. The steps are reduced if you're on campus but not much better to be honest. Absolute mess.
I dont care. They can think however they want. I totally understand why some want to fight.

What I dont understand is how people from far away can justify financially supporting this war.

"The people there really really want to fight and need the money" is a weak argument, ofc they do. Still it will inevitably increase the suffering of thousands of people if we donate money for this war.

But hey its a free world (for some of us) so go ahead an donates some rounds and hope that they will be fired only at people you would shoot too and no innocent people get harmed.
Confirmation from the Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs

https://mobile.twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1497947370008...

Edit: official confirmation from Ukraine’s primary account

https://mobile.twitter.com/Ukraine/status/149796151448090214...
> The Jellyfin app can't save videos for offline playback

That's unfortunate indeed. Is it planned to be implemented at some point?

> I regularly run into random hiccups and playback issues which I haven't had happen with infuse

Could it be that Jellyfin buffers are too tiny? Or that it's using a higher framerate? In any case, it sounds like it's worth reporting to the Jellyfin project.

Have fun
There isn't much the world can do now.

Calling Putin's bluff on invading Ukraine was the biggest mistake the West made. NATO should have seeked to recruit new member countries from other regions. They forced Putin into action.

If you are calling for an assault on Russia in the hopes of making Putin bow out of this war, you would be effectively starting WWIII. Putin has just recently called bluff on readying the nuclear warheads, I don't think any leader wants to antagonize the situation any further.

The most reasonable course of action IMO (with the least amount of casualties) is to let Putin have his way for now, and let him deal with the consequences later on.
The US is in NATO. If Russia nuked a NATO member, all NATO members would respond with force. That’s the entire point of NATO—-to deter Soviet/Russian aggression against any of its member countries. The failure of any member country to respond accordingly would be a breech of faith.

Ukraine is not in NATO. There is no obligation to intervene.