skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> temperature rose quickly to become unbearable as the missile stuck the the armour and the warhead sent a payload of molten brass (or something) through the solid metal. As the poor blokes try to escape it seems like something more has gone ablaze as you can see they are frozen while trying to run.

Sounds like a shaped charge[1]. I know a man who was drafted during the Korean War and at first he thought it would be lovely to be in a tank protected from harm. Then he got trained on using shaped charges on old German panzers and decided he was happy to be infantry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_charge
I don't know about proxy, but for sure they're correlated, because they have a common cause: breaking the site guidelines.
I have a bad memory, I think!

If I spend a year learning French, I fear I'll forget it within 6 months. Any other forgetful people out there with solutions? lol!
It would have been good if he asked how long grammar checked text is retained to grammarly / an engineer that works on it.
Because democracy and press freedom are the be all end all right?

That being said, we're proud of our "barbaric" laws that punish the evil doers like thieves and rapists and murderers and fornicators. We saw what "enlightenment" has done to your culture. You can also stop making lies like forcing women to marry their rapists. What a straw man.
> Reed-Solomon error correcting codes

Had to double check that. I would have sworn those codes were called Solomon-Reed, not Reed-Solomon. Guess I have my little Mandela Effect now!
Then you have fraud, likely leading to an economic crisis.

Consider the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Abstractly, investors believed that homes had significant value until, one day, society realized the value didn't exist in reality but only "on paper." We know that investment bankers were hiding the problem until the proverbial lid blew.

You might consider that our current financial paradigm has never been tried before in human history. For thousands of years, currency was based upon various measures of value which attempted to be as objective as possible. Semi-rare materials (e.g. gold and silver) and difficult-to-replicate coinage were some examples. The US dollar was decoupled from the gold standard under the Nixon administration. The end result is, one dollar now holds value relative to the amount of dollars in existence. To increase the relative amount of precious metals into the world is relatively difficult (actual physical labor is required), but to increase the total amount of dollars in existence is as simple as updating a database entry.

If financial controls work exceedingly well, the current economic system is viable. We know, however, that they don't.
How likely is it that this is the result of Russian bots mass-reporting Ukraine supporters for "violations"?
> My understanding is that they know this and are attempting to scale the business this way instead of their usual strategy of ignoring the issue and hoping it will go away.

Ha ha. Last I heard, Google were actively trying to remove their engineers from client engagements, and replace them with third party "Google preferred suppliers". They really don't want to ever be face to face with a customer.
I was traumatized watching a go pro on a tank, with the other side having poorer footage streaming at the same time, in the same place, through live leak.
What good will liking a tweet do?

If you are pro-SWIFT-exclusion-of-Russia and live in Germany please contact your national representatives and let them know you're willing to bear some hardship so others don't have to.
Facebook, Twitter and the rest of this basket of deplorables will meet their reconing in every nation.

The problem is not that they've created a spyware empire that has swindled the common man - the problem is that they've swindled politicians and whole countries.

In their greed, they cultivated bot armies that deploy propaganda for corporations and political parties on their platforms. They've swinged laws and elections. And they raked in the profits. If they had kept it just to business and domestic politics, maybe they could get away with this.

But in their arrogance they crossed the line - when Taliban got a twitter account that regulatrly gets into spats with the CIA one, and when Russian state got millions of bots pushing propaganda (and many others)

You have to be breathtakingly arrogant or insanely stupid to think that Putin and the CIA will be playthings of your newsfeed.

The 'free-market of the brain' finally pissed off the only force in the West that's valued above Capitalism, and that's Nationalism / National security. Their business will survive, but they will get cut down to size and never be the players they once were. It won't happen overnight, but I would not hodl their stock.
I'm pretty sure that we're in World War III. We're just trying to pretend that we're not.

We're at least at the buildup to it.
This is true. But as you say it is only a part of it.

Whole words get dropped as well “ne ___ pas” simply becomes “pas” as an obvious example.

This phenomenon happens in spoken English as well. “I am going to go to the store” => “imagotada store”
You mean that "real" banks have issued loans of 10M+ and not gotten repayed by people/companies who went bankrupt or such? Certainly!

Banks do their due diligence for a reason, but they don't always get it right. And a certain amount of "bad loans" is expected anyway. Part of the fees and interest they charge is to cover that.

But that's very different than simply printing yourself 10 million dollars. Or even just ten dollars.

It's also different from you starting a bank and saying you loan me 10 million dollars. I now have a statement saying I have 10M in your bank. I try to take that to a "real" bank to cash out. It's not gonna work.
What about the future affecting the past? Rather than A+B, there is A. In this scenario, you don’t go to the past, you were/are already there. In other words, there never was a past without you in it. You never could go back and kill your mother/father since it would break a causal loop. You may think you have the agency to do so, but try as you might, you won’t/don’t.
Hey thanks for pointing this out.
NATO has not been viewed favorably in recent years, and some of it is for good reason. As much as I dislike Trump, he is right that many NATO members don't contribute their fair share. Many countries, even wealthy, highly developed ones, are missing the 2% target by a wide margin. On the name and shame highlight reel is:
Norway, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the list goes on.

I suspect we will see a renewed interest in making NATO a stronger alliance after this dust settles.
What you say is very relatable. I did a bit of reading in French after this article, though I haven’t kept up with it. A huge motivation for me while learning was that I wanted to experiment with living in France for at least a year or two after finishing school, to be able to experience living abroad, while speaking a foreign language, before “life happens” and I get too rooted here in the US. That didn’t end up happening (which in hindsight was very fortunate, as my time in France would’ve been severely compromised due to COVID), but is still something I would consider in the future. Of course, visits will certainly be an option in the future.

I’d definitely still say the experience was worth it, given that I still have much of my previous ability and can probably relearn it rather quickly. It certainly is a bit sad to see your skills degrade over time, and this has certainly contributed to some fear of picking up the language again, but that probably goes for most skills and hobbies anyways.

And as you said, I have the same experience whenever someone asks me about my language learning experience —- I always mention how rusty I am these days, and there’s a nagging feeling I need to shake off the rust so I don’t have to say that anymore. But in the end, I guess we have to settle for doing whatever we think is best in the moment, and if it’s important enough, we can always pick it up again some day.
> YouTube has no right or requirement to operate at that scale.

so only you can be smug, eh ?

> They've consciously decided to scale past what they're able to manage well.

That is not true. They are doing quite well considering the overall scale.

> I'd be impressed by their scale only if they managed to maintain some level of quality also.

So you assess quality by random one-off/anecdotal articles always highlighting the negative ? How do you know what their quality is when you can never know the number of abusive videos correctly blocked ?
The OP's post is flagged for asking if JetBrains products are safe to use considering the current Russian Military attack against the Ukraine. Interesting.

This post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30459985#30461340, praising JetBrains, is not flagged. Also, interesting.
I think there are quite some macros that accelerate a CRUD creation app, for example, take a look at sqlx with ormx: https://github.com/NyxCode/ormx
Yeah. Grammarly greatly improved my English.
I plan to keep out of war. However those live in Ukraine a week ago you have no choice in the matter - I cannot ignore the possibility that the same might happen to me (though it does seem like a remote chance)
Electric vehicle battery recycling is starting in California
About 10 years ago, I was earning my CS degree, and my Intro to Unix teacher was showing us how to use rsync. He somehow made an error that synced an empty directory to his home directory, deleting everything from his home directory.

The lesson I learned in that class was to not use rsync, sadly.
America runs NATO and does not have a perfect history of only getting involved in justified wars itself. Being a NATO member means that other members can drag you in to something you wouldn't join yourself. For example, NATO helped in Iraq and Afghanistan (in small ways, by supporting the US-supported local forces), which weren't going to attack France for example any time soon.

What Russia has done is made the odds of NATO dragging you in to something (which hasn't really ever happened in a major way) look much smaller than the odds of them invading you (which is happening to a NATO nonmember today).
How will Germany pay for Russian oil if they cannot use SWIFT anymore? I know! Our politicians will simply use whatever financial system that Russia will propose.

It would be even possible to trade a fleet of AMGs for a week of oil if need be. Removing SWIFT would only delay trade between Russia and Germany not hinder it in anyway.

In fact bartering system would produce more efficiencies, a bullet proof AMG G-wagon for instance would fetch more oil than a regular C-class offered to Putin's low ranking officers!

All in all, Ukraine gains nothing from this action, it would only give Putin the political ammunition to sell the narrative that Russia is under attack.

The US certainly stands to gain everything and risk nothing in this region and its puzzling to me why Ukraine would choose this as a hill to die on as if their self sacrifice would move the hearts and minds of NATO officers on some emotional basis
I have not stated my opinion on lithium production only the difference to oil.

And yes it's the co2 but the co2 is always the issue when we talk about climate change.

If we get ecopolitical: I think lithium itself is right now much better to extract from earth then oil as it will help to transition away from fossil fuels and I'm not blind to the fact that my existence creates struggles for other humans.
Germany froze the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project. Russia has a ton of reserves, but this will hobble them economically once the reserves are drawn down. The UK and US are debating seizing property belonging to Putin's circle of supporters, which could be very precarious for him domestically. Protests are breaking out in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and videos are turning up of captured Russian soldiers saying they didn't want to be part of the invasion. Things aren't going swimmingly for Putin.
Kubernetes Hardening Tutorial Part 1: Pods
This is ridiculous panic. They haven't cracked open the NSC or anything like that. It's just dust. Long lived radionuclides kicked into the air that emit alpha and beta radiation - practically harmless unless you're playing around in it like a sandpit. Please don't let your attention be diverted from the matter at hand.
At this point, being in NATO feels safer then not being.
I’ve been steadily drawing for the past 3 years. Slowly improving, what boosted my skills the most was getting an online instructor from a site that mostly facilitated language learning. Mostly because talking with real people about process, what you are working on, things where you might be struggling. My instructor help me pass those obstacles.

Draw a box drained my love got drawing and painting. I found it very repetitive and painful. The teacher warns for that, but still it didn’t work for me.

I do daily line-of-action.com sessions, it forces you not to think but to draw. Capturing essence and intent is more important than realism for me.

Just draw! Find people who inspire you. Don’t dwell on instagram and ArtStation. Perhaps take a look ob meetup if there are “shut up abd draw” sessions in your area.
I don't know about cows, but there's chickens in the farm where I live and they're the dumbest animal I've ever seen. They also don't seem to care when one of them is taken by a predator (something took one of our roosters two nights ago and the other chickens didn't make a sound, although he certainly did).

Pigs are intelligent and sensitive and they have compassion for their kind and other animals. A lady I know worked in a lab that made experiments with pigs and with dogs and she saw pigs taking food on their snouts and giving it to the dogs, who were intentionally left without food, through the bars of their cells. And pigs know when you come to take one of them for the slaughter and will raise hell and try to get in the way and defend their kin. It is a heartbreaking thing killing a pig. It is very unfortunate that pigs don't produce milk or eggs or wool and we just want them for their meat becaus there's no other reason to keep them around than to kill and eat them, unlike cows or goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, horses, donkeys, dogs, cats etc etc...

(I mean, we kill those other animals too, to eat them, but we also keep some of them alive for their other products or work)
Should Apple Continue to Ban Rival Browser Engines on iOS?
Whether they join or not, Finland and Sweden better beef up their defenses, starting yesterday...
This is something I thought about a lot before switching to Rust at Svix[0]. What I came to realize though, that there are no "casts to any and move on", but rather there are silencing real bugs and praying you won't hit them.

Almost every time I've ever tried to silence the type checker (in any other language) it resulted in a bug.

Does it make you slower? Definitely at times, but it's mostly OK, and the code is pretty damn clean. You can check out our repo to see how it looks[1].

Edit: we don't use Actix, we use Axum, but the same holds for Actix too.

[0] https://www.svix.com

[1] https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks
It's not accusation of racism, but it's quite clear that OP thinks lower of those places because they're not "democracies" or have "free press". As if those things are causal reasons of prosperity or something. Not to mention false accusations of people being forced to marry their rapists or something. Rape and sexual harassment are much much more prevalent in the decadent sexually immoral West that's a fact.

We're proud of our "barbaric" laws that punish the thieves and rapists and murderers and fornicators. Don't force your "enlightenment" on us, we saw where it got your culture OP.
Part of the “justification” for invading Ukraine was that they didn't rule out joining NATO in the future, and in fact have an official policy of seeking NATO membership, which puts them farther along the process than Sweden or Finland.

OTOH, Sweden or Finland could probably join more quickly and with less friction if they decided to seek membership, and I can easily see the result of this being pushing Sweden and/or Finland into NATO rather than keeping them out.
If Ukraine would have been in the NATO then we would have NATO troops (including US troops) in Ukraine. What do you think would be the response if russia opens fire on US troops? Biden made it very clear, in this case we have WW3 immediately.
Ask HN: How should I Help Ukraine?
I am the primary developer of some open source Android applications. The most popular is UserLAnd, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula . I am personally upset by the further invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces. I am trying to think of what ways I should respond to it. I am genuinely seeking advice. My current thoughts are to:
1) Modify applications to have a political statement, like "Ukraine is not Russia" or "No war please" in Russian for Russian users.
2) Give financial aid to the Ukrainian defenders.
3) Pull my apps from Russia. (I like this the least)
I have a small audience and limited resources, but I am determined to do something. What are your thoughts about how I should go about this?
The most likely one is missing I think - full collapse of the financial systems globally.

Everything is interconnected and incredibly fragile and correlated.
> Further politicising swift would give China an incentive to bolster cips

It's not just China, but also crypto. This can already be seen with Ukrainians using stablecoins because they don't have access to banks.
Source credit: lumberjack24's post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29660486 (currently marked as dead on HN, but the content looks very good to me)
When it comes to arms, Russia still takes precedence over the US for India. Russia is willing to sell their state of the art weapons to India and the deals involve significant tech transfer which helps in propping up local defense industries.
It really makes perfect sense. USA has long history of imperialism and anti-democratic actions. And USA is core of NATO. Any sane country knows that only safe way is to have reasonable buffer zone against such well known aggressor.
Oh, Snap Security Holes Found in Linux Packaging System
Studies in Intelligence – CIA
I always read perfect secrecy as a term of art with some technical meaning.

This protocol seems to solve the communication at a distance problem for which asymmetric encryption was developed but since then a lot of other uses for public key, e.g. signing and multi-party decryption and so on have come out of public key. Do you think there will be entanglement based replacements for these?
If there are any US assets in Russia they need to be removed/leave.

Russia isn't leaving Ukraine and they had no right to go in and start killing people.

Diplomacy is before war. Not after a country invades. After they invade you have to make sure they not only stop but never do it again.

If we aren't willing/able to put boots on the ground then any US assets in Russia have to be sacrificed.

If Russia pulls this off without a scratch, next up will be North Korea or China because why not? What is the US/Europe going to do?

No imports, no exports, no travel, no Olympics, nothing. They are a rogue nation acting like a bully and they now have isolated themselves until they leave Ukraine.
while it’s a good idea to understand how to use TCP socket directly. Trying to reinvent http request parsing is a waste of time.

You could do something simpler maybe.
one thing i noticed from your code is it can only process one request at any given time.
A real server would start a thread for each connexion.
I'm ashamed at our (the USA's) response. We have no choice here. When will this stop? Do we allow mutually assured destruction be used to have Putin march his troops into our beloved nation too? What about Georgia, Bosnia, Finland, Sweden?

The only option, better done now than later is to ready, arm and prepare all our nuclear warheads, point them at Moscow, and then send our forces into Ukraine, repelling the Russians. If Russia fires a nuke, we let it all go.

I'm prepared to head to the army recruiter today if we do this, the right thing. In that event, I hope the rest of my countrymen choose to join me. I wish Russia could've been integrated with the west long ago, and I think the only other way to prevent this conflict was to station NATO troops in Ukraine. The ship has sailed on both fronts. The only options are to fight now, or fight later.

God bless the heroes of Ukraine. I hope we, myself included, are there soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-Yeqh4PFY
> is it feasible that humans would live longer in higher pressures and lower UV levels

You could test this by spending the rest of your life in a diving suit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_diving_suit

let us know how it works out.
Do you have a citation on this? Or is it as you say just obvious?

Here’s a study that found no link between age and a slow down of ability to learn things:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4552811/#i...

And here’s Harvard’s thoughts on it:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/how-memory-and-...

Scientists used to think that brain connections developed at a rapid pace in the first few years of life, until you reached your mental peak in your early 20s. Your cognitive abilities would level off at around middle age, and then start to gradually decline. We now know this is not true.
I've been using the pre-releases for my web service and it has been rock-solid. I'm happy that it finally has been marked stable. That will definitely help a bit with dll-hell that you often see for unstable releases.
NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg press briefing of today:

From correct time: https://youtu.be/JvxqTGrZxwQ?t=64

Partial quote as of time above:

"...The Kremlin objectives are not limited to Ukraine. Russia has demanded legal binding agreements to renounce further NATO enlargement. And remove troops and infrastructure from allies
that joined after 1997..."
The OP's post praising JetBrains is not flagged. Interesting.

This post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30453689, asking if JetBrains products are safe to use considering the current Russian Military attack against the Ukraine, is flagged. Also Interesting.
USD are ultimately bearer notes, we've just built a bunch of trust-based infrastructure to enable transactions without moving physical currency.

The key feature of this system (and what everyone is ignoring) is bank accounts that x/German bank has at y/Russia bank (this is also the actual means of transaction for SWIFT).

So in your example, 'y bank erroneously says we have $100tn' would actually just mean 'y bank is willing to credit the account of x bank by $100tn.'

If x bank then tried to pay y bank for a separate transaction with those fake $, then y bank is the loser anyway.

EDIT: Put alternatively, 'making up' USD is a near equivalent to making a loan, which is sort of the core thing a bank does anyway.
Putin has been saying for the past decade that he would not tolerate further eastward expansion of NATO, a thoroughly anti-russian alliance. It is a reasonable position. No, invading independent countries is not reasonable. One can hold both these thoughts in their head.
With all recent Metaverse stuff, it seems that Neal Stephenson is public domain now. So many things on the Internet are based on Snow Crash and Diamond Age that maybe it's time to move to different book now.
I always wonder how many of those preppers have the actual skil, and yes gear, to roam the country side for long. Orientation, navigation, endurance, you name it. I'll take any long distance hiker for tjose scenarios than some wpuld be prepper siting on a stash of gear that would need a small truck to haul around.
But, isn't standard Bitcoin completely traceable, once you move funds out of your wallet to fiat? Can't they track you down retroactively after you make that one transaction?