skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, do you deny that the Ukrainian army has been shelling civilians in the separatist regions? A fellow countryman moved there since no one of the press bothered to report over the years and she confirmed it. And even apart from that, it's not like reports from the OSCE and UN aren't available.
Furthermore, considering that the Ukrainian government enacted language and racial laws (can be easily looked up) and employs right-wing extremist military groups like the Azov Battalion as National Guard...it should give you something to think about. But well, most just blindly consume US(-controlled) media without doing some basic fact-checking even, let alone engage in critical thinking.
I suspect they spoke on Zoom. I've come across quite a few entrepreneurs basically running sites that pair international people together to converse in different languages.

(As opposed to traveling to a country and living in it.)

Also note that they switched their phone over to French.
There's a difference between self-defence and retaliation. At the end of the day it's civilians who pay the price.

If the Ukraine strike Russian territory and inflict, pain or death on their citizens then Putin gains a lot more support.

It would be a monumentally stupid idea.
In my experience with other languages (can't say for French since that's my native language), it's normal. I'd say that for someone at your level who has extensive vocabulary and good reading comprehension, just staying a month or two in France would be enough for you to get to the point where you wouldn't have issues understanding French speakers speaking normally.

Also, once you do understand French speakers, you might not understand other accents. For example, even as a native French speaker, I struggle with Québécois.
Bitcoin, Monero?
And the legitimate government can operate in exile, ready to return if it becomes viable. Inusrgents fighting on their behalf could coordinate with them. I'm very out of my depth but it seems like this must be a common scenario, particularly when the displaced government is legitimate.
Is that like fountain vs bubbler, soda vs pop, in USA?
> let me recover archives that suffered physical media damage

> Usability nit aside, I'd love to hear about alternatives.

Make two or more copies on different media. Sure, RAR or another archiver can save you from partial media damage but nothing saves you from total media damage other than having completely separate backups.
My knowledge of the Yakuza is limited to a single ~1-hour interview with a former member...

But that said, hearing it from the source has made me inclined to believe the more charitable interpretation.

I found the interview for anyone who is especially interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVmt80EXNGI

Obviously this is not some sort of definitive source, but he goes into "What is the real Yakuza vs. that which we see in pop culture" very quickly, which is sort of the heart of this idea.

Note: The guys runs an anime channel, but it's a very serious interview all the same.
I am fairly certain that he is fully aware of the irony. However he's not in any position to criticize Russia because it will lead to immediate deportation.
One reason, and one reason only: Cheap oil.

We're willing to destroy the future of the entire world for cheap oil. What's one relatively small country in comparison to that?

The West wants Russia's cheap oil. There's no other explanation.
EU reportedly has 40% of it gas imports from Russia. However, the European Commission President has already stated that EU is prepared for partial disruption of gas flow https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-says-it-is-prepared-...

Solidarity towards Ukraine by EU, would be to step up and proceed with blocking Russia from the SWIFT system.

The thing is, such a decision would impact EU citizens negatively in the short-medium term. And I think that level of solidarity is a hard sell, and hard to quickly measure support for, within each country's electorate.

The other issue, for Germany, is that removing them from SWIFT would be like clearing Russia's billions of debt obligations.

If there was any moment for EU to swallow a hard pill, would be now, and cut of gas import, rather than try to get consensus on blocking SWIFT access. It's the perfect time to apply that form of economical pressure, especially now that we're having a bit of early spring weather (though uncertain how long that will last).

Not sure about Cyprus, and others opposing the measure, what negative implications it would have for them and why they decided the way they did.
It seems unreasonable to me to expect to be B1 in 6 months with 2 hours of class per week.

I've been learning German 2 hours a week + homework for 2 years and I'm not yet B1 in German. We are 4 students with one teacher and, from what I understand, we are not particularly slow.

Maybe German is really harder to learn than other languages, but probably not 2x or 4x as French (I'm French).
TSMC probably already has all their facilities mined.

It doesn't take much, to turn a fab into a junk heap. You just need to break the clean room containment, and you have a billion dollars' worth of permanently useless garbage.

Heck, just turning off power would probably do it, but they'd want to be sure.

I actually have a story, from the company I worked for, that supplied lithography stuff (big, expensive steppers).

They need to maintain clean room standards from the first framing, to the final delivery (special airplanes and trains).

They delivered a set of them to a company that then went belly-up.

The power was turned off, and the equipment became junk.
Well actually another one of my answer was completely fucked up by the HN formatting system where some stars were parsed as the start:end for italics. This also forces my tender fingers to use the word fuck in my answer to you instead of starring it.

I could have used "disturbed" or "misparsed" instead when I think about thatbut anyway, fuck it is!
The treaties on conflict resources and blood diamonds in particular seems to have worked fairly well in reducing the money flow to war lords. It seems about as effective as arm trade regulations. Naturally it is impossible to prove if either is effective since we can't run a control group with identical circumstances.
The last reactor to shutdown was Unit 3 in December 2000. The whole facility has been undergoing cleanup and decommissioning since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...
I've read enough r/entitledpeople to know as soon as the ukranian army lays down arms, the russian tanks will roll in.
This is precisely the delusion that makes America such an insane global actor. Get over yourself! The Nazis lost! The USSR won the war! Move on!
> With friends like Germany, who needs enemies.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_friends_like_these_who_n...

"An expression indicating that one's close associates prove more adversarial than one's opponents."

Probably just an unconscious idiom, but the use of the word "enemy" in context of an invasion seemed to be a bit too loaded a term.
I mean, they can make up new definitions for the words "autocracy" and "democracy," I suppose, but that's not what they mean. It calls to mind Alice's discussion with Humpty Dumpty:

> 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

> 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

Whatever caveats need to be added or however much it would differ from our ideal, I've never seen anyone call the form of government of Athens in the period between the Persian War and the Peloponnesian War anything other than "democracy." The Roman Republic, for whatever it's short comings, was a republic. America in 1790 or 1850 was at least as democratic as either of them (by the six measures you list, or by any other useful measure).
Don't browse youtube on the browser you have logged in to google.
Use firefox with ublock origin and don't log in to google. Youtube is great without ads. Use chrome for any of those things that you are okay with being tracked. Use archive.is when they bitch about blockers.
Use tor browser to see interesting ads not targeted to you.
Yep! I'm not against people donating to other organizations that are helping out. In fact I hope that people do help out that way!
It worked for me when I studied Japanese, German and Russian, even though the language of instruction is English, which is not my native language. The trick is that you have to follow the instructions, not just "listen to some tapes". The Japanese course consists of 3*30 units, the recommendation is one 30 minute unit every day. Do that, no more, no less. It's not magic, even if you master all 90 units, that's just a very basic spoken proficiency. But it gives you that result reliably.
I also disagree with his take here, but I think there is some merit to the advice of "understand what you've invested in".

It's fairly hard to personally evaluate companies in a fund - it is somewhat easier to evaluate a single company (or even 10 single companies).

If I assume he means "~40% of non-retirement emergency funds" I can let this skate by.

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I also think there's some risk to index funds precisely because they appear like such low-risk investments. If the majority of investments are in index funds, I suspect there are systemic risks that we just don't understand very well yet, because the vehicle is so young. Whether that's low liquidity, poor capital allocation, fraud, etc - it's hard to say exactly what risks come with that market structure, since we have no real history to look at.

(side note - I'm about 80% invested in index funds... so certainly don't read this as me recommending against them)
This was some story from before the agreement, and it seems the story lived on. The legal text is not yet out, but you will find it on consilium.europa.eu probably later tonight and can check then.
> Please educate yourself...

Side note on communication here.

Any time someone uses a phrase like "Please educate yourself on $THING", they lose a lot of credibility, at least in the context of that communication. Why?

1) It comes across as incredibly dismissive of both any knowledge that that individual may have - especially on HN, I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with YouTube's scale - and of the idea that there may be missing information, on either the situation or context for the other persons point of view.

2) It's quite condescending as well - and if someone thinks that you are coming at a conversation from a combative place, they won't want to listen to what you are saying. Why should they listen if they think you don't care?

3) It's often used to paint broad strokes in places broad strokes may not be appropriate, and the phrase being attached to that makes it lose credibility even when it is appropriate.

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Ok, now a response to the actual content:

I don't know why we've decided to allow things to exist "at scale" willy nilly. If something becomes a net negative "at scale", don't allow it to be "at scale".

No one is entitled to a business model.
I really like this website's design. It's an elegant way to group topics.
There is no world in which LZMA2 decompression can be considered “quite fast.” It’s decompression speed bears no resemblance to that of other LZ algorithms like LZ4 (which is definitely fast).

https://www.opencpu.org/posts/brotli-benchmarks/

Distributions have stopped using xz/lzma in favor of slightly inferior (size-wise) alternatives due to the time and memory decompression requirements of lzma.
I wonder if he was talking about this:

2/19: Started lessons on Italki, roughly once a week

along with doing this:

1/19: Started occasionally watching Peppa Pig in French (yes, really)

2/19: Changed my phone language to French

is what he could be considering "immersion"

For those that don't know, iTalki is a platform where you can talk to native language speakers. You can join either as a teacher or learner. You can get actual lessons from people or just join to have discussions to improve/maintain your language
I got a kick out of the comments about Quebecois, and the Quebec dialect. There's some American movie (name escapes me) filmed where they go across the boarder into Quebec. I found the dialect extremely recognizable, even though I can only understand a few words of spoken French.

Maybe it's because my extended family (who grew up speaking Quebec) sounded very different than my high school French teacher when they switched to French?
So use Monero then. From the exchange's wallet -> your personal software wallet -> hardware wallet.

Then use the HW wallet to send coins to Russians, making sure they do something similar (moving the Monero around to a few wallets) on their end to try and cover some tracks.

Should be sufficient.
Few if any plant based proteins are complete proteins. theyre always missing some amino acids or another.

Even this list of vegan complete proteins are mixtures of multiple foods

https://www.peta.org/living/food/complete-proteins-vegan/
> Migrants are allowed to cross the border on any ID, even expired will be accepted.

Wow. I guess you're really screwed if, in the process of leaving everything behind and fleeing for your life, you lose your ID.
> Please educate yourself on the scale of YouTube

You're being very condescending when it's totally unwarranted. I assure you people are aware of the scale of YouTube.

But why should we give YouTube a free pass? You're talking about the service as if it's a force of nature rather than something human created and managed. Why are they entitled to operate at a scale beyond their own control, all while extracting huge profits?
Filtering data using authorization logic
> I find your position ridiculous and clearly from someone who's never experienced war or even heard about it from parents and grandparents. I have. You can forget about your equality crap

That's a baseless and uncharitable take. But even if you disagree strongly that women can participate meaningfully in modern combat (pre-invasion Ukraine seemed to think there was nothing wrong with having women be part of the voluntary defense force), it is monstrous of you to assert that opposing how families get torn apart by this decree is somehow tantamount to "equality crap". If there was a male-only general draft in effect you could at least argue that the men need to stay behind for mandatory service. But as of now, they're needlessly sending women and children away as refugees while the men stay behind to do whatever. I want to see you construct an argument that clarifies how this leads to better outcomes for these families.
> But I have not heard a really good alternative.

Have not heard, or haven't given the issue a bit more thought? Why do people end up in prison and solitary confinement? And how can that be prevented?

The US has the highest incarceration rate of any country. Why is that? Are the people that bad? If so, why are they so bad? If not, why are they thrown into jail so much?

The issue I have with your comment is that you're tunnel visioned at the punishment part, without thinking of prevention and rehabilitation, or the systems in place (political, financial) that make it so that so many people end up in prison in the first place.

Have a closer look at subjects like the War on Drugs, the private prison system, and different ideologies behind punishment - rehabilitation vs retaliation. Look at other countries as well; how many people are in solitary confinement in Europe? How much violence is there between inmates there?

The problem is not solitary confinement.
It's far past time for American companies to espouse some American values like freedom and democracy rather than boot licking foreign dictators for nickles.
what fraction / count of characters from a dictionary do you recognize?

How many characters has Duolingo showed you (if you can get that metric)?
Let’s make an agreement called YCTO - such that I promise if someone attacks you in comments, I will defend you by attacking your aggressor, and if someone attacks me in comments, you’ll do the same.

… that agreement is purely defensive.

If you and I see some vile rhetoric that is directed at someone else, we can both decide to attack it, even though it’s arguable our actions are offensive.
That action is independent and not bound by the YCTO.

We just both agree, independent of the YCTO, to act.

It’s a function of like-minded values that made the decision.
Could you elaborate on where the btrfs snapshots come into play? I use rsnapshot on a plain ext4 fs and it’s pretty slow (lots of small files).
To paraphrase Caitlin Johnstone, what does evidence matter when my source owns aircraft carriers?
The problem with an alternative social network is that it is extremely difficult to gain traction. What is the value that you provide besides the network effect that is not there yet? If I want to share ideas and things I made, I could just make a blog post.
Here you go for German: https://m.dw.com/en/slowly-spoken-news-reports-learning-germ...
> it's expensive

I got Pimsleur for free through my public library. It's even available through various public library apps.
Edit: Now it seems they are actually underway
Forking to add new checks only causes problems with pulling from upstream when APIs you are using are changed upstream, which happens rarely. Forking to _modify_ existing checks would cause you a lot of pain, but the solution there is to copy the existing check instead.
I feel the same way. I had the time or my life on the west coast for a while until I got dragged back trying to help out my parents. I just can't take it anymore and I'm going back west as soon as I can.
what prevents someone to save the qr code and display it later to "backdate" an event?
No one should use Jetbrains. They have offices in Saint Petersburg and Moscow and when Putin threatens their families if they don't put spyware in your IDE, they will put spyware in your IDE. It probably has already happened.
As I understand it, they're not using PoW, and they definitely are using IPFS.
Ask HN: Are Russian customers under embargo?
With the sanctions on Russia, what impact will that have on processing payments from Russian customers?

I use Stripe to process monthly Subscriptions. Will credit card transactions bounce on their next renewal?
YouTube: "What're you gonna do? Go use Vimeo?"
It's not a dichotomy between life in prison and death penalty though. Wouldn't you have preferred a better alternative to a prison sentence? I don't know what you did to end up there, but what if the societal circumstances were different and you never ended up in touch with the legal system in the first place?
A lot of weapons are a lot scarier when you don't know what they are and what their impact is. You can't kick the BRICS out of SWIFT and expect the world to still take you serious.

Decades of crippling sanctions have also taught China and Russia how to bypass altogether with certain countries. Short term it will probably sting, but long term its a death sentence to SWIFTs position.
I was just talking about this yesterday, I got burned by what would have been pre-pandemic, a normal night out. I imagine there are a lot of people who lost that casual tolerance and aren't really willing to rebuilt it
https://archive.is/CHiiI
What piles of money? Russia is an entirely irrelevant source of income for them.

And if that were true, they would not have de-platformed Trump and they wouldn't take down lots of other high traffic content (eg anti vax) that they do.

Russia has a mediocre economy, mediocre median standard of living, mediocre consumer economy, zero economic growth for a decade, and a disaster of a future economically going forward.

US big tech all by itself generates more surplus cash (capital available for saving after expenses) every year than the entire nation of Russia does.

Russia is an economic weakling and provides no great allure for big tech.
When Putin threatens the families of employees of Jetbrains in Russia, they will put spyware in your IDE.

They probably already have done so.

Switch immediately.
Awesome. Thank you for helping out the community
Russia has superior firepower. It would be like asking why didn't Saddam strike the US?
The fact that you asked such a silly question about dictators and than refuse to learn from any of the multiple answers shows that you are not open to honest or intellectual debate. You care more about being "right" which is why you deleted your original comment and have been stuck replying to people for almost a day while the rest of us have moved on.

I think you're wrong, I think you're angry, I think you're arguing in bad faith, and I believe multiple people/instances have been provided and you have yet to prove anything other than insolence when it comes to being "right".

Honestly, I don't even think you know what you're arguing anymore because you're all over the place. I never called China evil or Putin crazy so why are you putting words in my mouth that I never claimed? The original question is what makes dictators more irrational. If you can't understand the many answers you recieved, that is your problem, not mine. I'm going to bid you a farewell, have a wonderful day.
I don't think YT bans usually affect your google account. I got falsely flagged by a bot for copyright striking a bunch of my own videos which resulted in permanent, apparently unappealable, ban of all my YouTube accounts on that google account but the google account still works just fine.
Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
True, but the json types should at least verify it's valid json, which may be useful.
Relatedly:

University of California: Can the Salton Sea geothermal field prevent the coming lithium shortage?.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/can-salton-sea-g...
One report came to me personally from a small local IRC channel (less than 100 people) from a person who's been around for years. I trust them 100%.
"A fair trial". That's a loaded term.

Does he assume he shouldn't serve time for what he did? Snowden is a complicated figure because the core that the U.S. government was surveilling its own people beyond its bounds was correct.

But he did kind of leak a whole bunch of shit not related to that as well. And that ain't cool.

He kind of has to accept that he's going to go to jail and he's never going to work with sensitive information ever again.
Another book I found very helpful is Programming Rust [1], it expands on many concepts in the Rust book, the chapters on closures, iterators, collections, concurrency and async have very good explanations on how things work.

[1]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-rust-2nd/97...
I think that there are a great many people who don't like realism when it interferes with their ability to enjoy sanctimoniously condemning the crimes of other states.

When their own state is the one attacking defenceless countries, the precepts of realism are their last line of defence to justify either their enthusiastic support, or their tacit consent.

When my country was destroying Libya, Iraq, and Afhanistan, I found that even those with no education in IR were able to spontaneously invent the precepts of realist theory without needing to read it in a textbook: the world is lawless and anarchic, Saddam is a baddy, if we don't stop him then nobody else will.

I try to be sympathetic to it though. When you've lived through enough of these wars (in the aggressor societies) you just get used to grimly observing how people react and I suppose it must build up a sense of righteous indignation and now here is a chance to safely vent it all without any consequences.