skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 2000s and 2010s Russia lowered bandwidth on Western social media (and webmail) platforms to promote local alternatives. It worked and most Russians are not on Facebook, twitter and reddit.

However Russia failed to suppress and replicate YouTube that is the only massively popular Western platform in Russia.
50% of American faculty are independent-minded
I can see a little overlap between the two, but how are they competing with each other?

With Link, you need a gaming PC running 24/7, and then you need another device and a controller to go with it. The Deck is all in one.

It's like Stadia vs a Nintendo Switch. Overlapping for sure, but pretty different overall.
It is more about power then about working with bad people.

Political prisoners tend to be treated as badly as others, if not worst.
If you google "mycelium bricks", there are many results. This is a decent first look: https://www.certifiedenergy.com.au/emerging-materials/emergi...
I'm not satisfied at all with Europe response so far, but i might be missing something here.

> can I rely on these people who threw out every treaty for a want of sleeping without a blanket?

Why isn't the US sending troops? Because the risk of escalation and nukes are unacceptable. In case you forgot, Europe also has nuclear powers and the risk of escalation is higher if the EU as an organization openly acts on more then soft power.

And as far as i know, only the US and the UK are ignoring a treaty to offer security to Ukraine.

Again, I'm not satisfied with the response so far, but what exactly are you suggesting so that EU bureaucrats don't lose their credibility?
Sanctions work and have worked against Russia[0]. Anyone telling you otherwise is wrong.

What's important here is to maintain the moral upper ground. China won't be able to withstand public opinion swaying to the side of the Ukrainians as more and more video evidence surfaces of massacres. If we offer real military support to the Ukrainians, China would use any video of our success as justification to begin helping the Russian side.

Protip: If you want to research the effects of sanctions, go to Google News search and set the time period to exclude articles from after 2020ish. You'll get higher-quality articles.

[0]https://www.brookings.edu/articles/can-sanctions-stop-putin/
>"Sell them and pay for the funerals of all the innocent people that are about to needlessly, pointlessly, brutally die in fear."

I bet millions of Vietnamese, Iraqis and whole bunch of others are already enjoying a windfall.
NordVPN is blocked in Russia, as far as I know
The inescapable fact is Germany intentionally put themselves in a position to be more dependent on Russian oil/gas with their shutdown of nuclear power. The previous US president made a point about how Germany's decision contradicts the purpose of NATO.[1]

1: https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1496917092351692810
> Ideally we should switch to alternative platforms

Please consider supporting PeerTube: https://joinpeertube.org.
Oh, yeah I definitely misunderstood your point.

This makes sense and it's an idea that makes me excited, I wish there was a community drive toward that.

I do think that most Rails developer will dismiss it because some reason like "It's weird to have a Model backed by a view" or something along those lines.
I wish the Rails community pushed (way) harder on dramatically increasing SQL knowledge, because it's so important to the whole framework.

Instead most of that SQL knowledge is hidden behind active record, making it incredibly hard to acquire.

There is one thing that this approach doesn't solve, and that is the inherent flaw of activerecord: having Save on the business logic entity makes it so that returning such object back from a business-logic method is dangerous, since now any other code could potentially write to the DB (and this is what usually happens due to lack of software design principles).

I suspect you are going to suggest something along the lines of "set readonly some records and command records are only used in specific spots", which could make sense!
Embarrassing is not the same as surprising
Randomize HN (2013)
History will not look kindly on people like you defending the actions of Russia.
That's why this OS project would help you more than most books I would think.
> Or just because there are bored

You just contradicted your entire first 3 sentences :)
concrete blocks are a really stupid battery. It's just a worse version of pumped hydro.
It's a bit like Macromedia Fireworks in that respect, if anybody else remembers that one
The statement from Formula 1 says: [1]

"On Thursday evening Formula 1, the FIA, and the teams discussed the position of our sport, and the conclusion is, including the view of all relevant stakeholders, that it is impossible to hold the Russian Grand Prix in the current circumstances."

So if the circumstances change, the race could be reinstated. This is not an official cancellation.

[1] https://corp.formula1.com/formula-1-statement-on-the-russian...
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How many people complaining about the weaksauce sanctions proposed against Russia would be prepared to deal with the effects of more stringent measures?

I'm thinking especially of people in Europe castigating politicians for not wanting to clamp down hard on the Russian energy sector. The way I see it, the europols are in a no-win situation. If they go easy on Russia and keep the gas and oil flowing, they look like weak and waffling appeasers, which yes, they are. If they cut off the Russian gas supply, will the people posting Ukrainian flags on Twitter remember or care about the noble root causes when faced with unprecedented energy prices?

I.e. the politicians know their people better than they know themselves, and they're well aware that showing support on social media is one thing, but being asked to make drastic sacrifices is quite another. These politicians will not survive if they do what their voters are clamoring for them to do.

Of course, they probably wouldn't be in this position if they hadn't taken energy strategy advice from Greta Thunberg, but that's neither here nor there.
To be entirely meticulous about the genealogy, I think Wirth was at PARC in 01976, and what inspired him most there was Mesa; Lampson first described (Mesa's successor) Cedar in PARC TR CSL-83-15, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, December 01983, and without rereading the report, I think Cedar's development began about 01981. So Cedar is Oberon's sibling, not its parent.

The connecting link at ETH between Mesa and Oberon was the Lilith workstation with its system software written in Wirth's Modula-2 (01977–01984).

As for Golang, the relationship is much more direct! The first public version of Golang is mostly a slightly modified version of Pike's Newsqueak, but at the point Golang became Golang, Pike was working with Griesemer and Thompson. IIRC Griesemer did his dissertation under Wirth at ETH on extending Oberon to parallel computers.
> The same regions have the lowest per-capita carbon output.

Largely irrelevant. Every country aspires to increase their quality of life, burgeoning populations still living in the mud are just carbon time bombs. So, relevant in the negative sense of their per-capita output has nowhere to go but up, with a huge multiplier.

It helps to view "third-world" as simply arriving in third place at the finish line of modern living; on a long enough timeline, there are no more mud huts.

In the film Before the Flood, there's a part focused on India which states they have ~300M people living without electricity. A population roughly the size of the USA. In the same part, representatives from India's government make clear that India has vast coal reserves and no intention of leaving those 300M people without electricity. You're looking at an overnight arrival of the US population from the dark to using lights and refrigerators.

It's not like populations with low carbon output have all mastered some kind of low impact living. They're just poor and lagging behind the more wealthy nations, don't mistake it for a lack of intention to join the first-world.
I got scared reading this headline, and then realized this is the UK only. I really hope other countries don't copy the UK's draconian and Orwellian technology practices. Anonymity is a cyberspace birthright. I really don't want my dearest thoughts attached to my legal name forever. With enough digging you could probably unearth my real name, but policy like this just makes it trivial to do. The cyberspace ideal is to make it hard for people to know the person behind a piece of text online. The friction of unearthing a real identity needs to be enshrined in Internet Law. Make law enforcement do the extra work of unmasking identities. We can't make it easy for them.
Genuine question:

Are EVs and battery powered tech actually sustainable?

Lithium is a finite resource which needs to be extracted from the earth via mining (or maybe this new evaporation technique).

Surely there’s not enough lithium for everything to be powered by battery. It feels like swapping one unsustainable resource for another. We already are struggling to meet demand for EVs despite making up a small portion of the worlds vehicle production.
> # avoidng collisions with other rsync processes

Use https://github.com/instacart/ohmycron

> MONTHROTATE=monthrotate # use DD instead of YYMMDD

Use https://rotate-backups.readthedocs.io/en/latest/readme.html

> $RSYNC -avR "$SOURCE" "${RSYNCCONF[@]}"

Create a one-command script with the hardcoded rsync command you want to use and replace the directory to sync as a command-line argument, e.g.

#!/bin/sh
rsync -avR \
--delete \
--exclude=/Volumes/Raid/.DocumentRevisions-V100 \
--exclude=/Volumes/Raid/.TemporaryItems --exclude=/Volumes/Raid/.Trashes \
--exclude=/Volumes/Raid/.apdisc \
"$@"

> $DATE >> $LOG

Use logrotate

> mail a report

Use Cron's built-in mail feature
Maybe they calculate that too much outrage will make Russia appear more powerful especially if at the same time Western leaders are not going to do that much(not sure if they will).

Maybe they want to save face for politicians who - people will argue - mishandled this crisis.

Maybe it is just not really true, despite some people saying it on the internet.
not only are first series euros still valid, but you can still exchange pre-Euro currencies for the original rate.

The purpose of the new series is just to keep up with counterfeit money, to include newer security measures.

But yes, countries in the world have revoked currencies from time to time.
I believe the poster meant that normal people like him (and myself) will be hit the hardest [by the SWIFT cut-off (or other sanctions)] and the influential and wealthy will continue their act as they are prepared / wealthy enough to not care.
On ne peut pas lire un livre pour jouer du piano.
There's plenty of services which map Bitcoin addresses to real-world entities, e.g. Chainalysis Reactor, so coming up with a list of addresses to freeze/sanction would be the easy part.
There is no "best overall systems programming language", that is strictly an opinion. All you can really do is look at "by and large what do large minorities of users use as a systems programming language". Every language has its trade-offs.
When the Chips Are Down Gaming the Global Semiconductor Competition
why didnt twitter just use og: ? it 's the exact same content. they create tag pollution without thinking
I remember about 20 years ago in school, playing with a tool like this. It also had something for the mouth that would make it look like its talking.

Sometimes I feel like so little progress or so much progress is made in the same day.
I too have had a Steam Deck dev kit since pretty early on and have put an ungodly amount of time into it on there. It works really well, like the article already mentioned. Steam Input set up is pretty easy and carries you all of the way through the game. Actually, to completely side step Factorio, Steam Input is an amazing tool on the Deck. It makes it incredibly easy to coerce just about any game out there to play ball with the Deck controller scheme. Super pumped for the device to come out into general hands now
Eh? Within what branches/organizations of the U.S.?
Interesting line of thought! For French I'd say definitely go for gaps between full sentences, because sentences because single words have almost as little to do with spoken French as single letters.

Which is my pet peeve with French: when I feel particularly bad at talking English (I'm German), it feels natural to fall back to a sequence of separate words that isn't a sentence but gets some message to the receiver (while making me sound like the imbecile that I might be, but it does the job and sometimes that's worth this cost). For French, I feel like there's no alternative to trying to form a sentence. And on my level, that works worse than the English "words no sentence" fallback would (and if it does not work it will certainly also fail to make me seem anywhere close to competent in the language)
Watched Jens Stoltenberg press conference that finished minutes ago. During the conference, three times, the Secretary General of NATO, stated Russia rhetoric changed. He mentioned several times, Russia stated they want NATO to withdraw troops from half their NATO members or there could be "technical military consequences".

Both Europe and US leaders are still asleep. There is a different dynamic going on and many are still in denial.
Europe has had plenty of time since the last Russian expansion into the Ukraine. A hard future commitment to finance renewable technology now would give Russia more pause now than sanctions that don't stop SWIFT, or temporarily halt of SWIFT. Part of what gives the large fiscal buffer to Russia is that they're one of the largest fossil fuel producers in the world.
There's also Svix which is based on Postgres, also YC backed, and has been around for a while.
(Disclaimer: I work at Svix)

https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks
Factorio has a sort of almost RTS aspect to it as well. You sometimes need to build fast when the zer... uh, biters are gnawing at your base.
True Residents – A Measure of Success for Startup Cities
>Ukraine desires to join NATO

Do phrases like this have any meaning, in a world where politicians cut out borders through parts of the world that are traditionally multi cultural and have a huge diversity in opinions?
Jews can’t walk around in Paris or many German cities without being spit on.

And it’s not white supremacists doing this, it’s muslims.

And they’re not getting more integrated, but less.
Not exactly answering your question, but I’ve realized that sometimes, “solutions in search of problems” can take up to decades before people realize they are actually solutions to actual problems.

On the flip side, tech people tend to place importance on using technology to solve problems that did not even exist a few years ago. Think most SaaS startups.

Whereas, I’ve now realized, many of the problems most worth solving, also affected people 500 years ago. There is a lot of noise today in our information society, but the persistence of those problems is true signal.

So if you want to work on an idea that may stand the test of time, perhaps start looking at the problems that withstood the test of time. These are also hard problems that will be very humbling.
Ask HN: Mesh networking mobile chat apps?
Are there any modern mesh networking chat apps that can function without an Internet connection? Something that could work in a humanitarian crisis situation in the case mobile network is down.

I remember there was FirChat, used in Hong Kong protests in 2014, but I do not know if there is anything mesh-network capable today.

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/16/tech/mobile/tomorrow-tran...
> In fact, all they've done is push it further underground.

Deplatforming revenge porn is a win. Having less revenge porn on PornHub is a win.

You're welcome to disagree, just as advocates for Voat, Parler, etc. would — and as companies such as Manwin who would prefer to exploit the victims of revenge porn for profit would.

> Every case is tried on its own merits

The vast majority of civil cases don't even become cases let alone get tried on their merits. For a huge swath of the population who do not have the expertise, the resources, the time, or the life circumstances to obtain a lawyer and pursue a case, civil courts are not practically accessible. In contrast, while reporting to criminal authorities has all kinds of issues including that those authorities may be unsympathetic, the criminal system at least does not place such outrageous demands on those who report a crime.

Holding civil court aloft as a sufficient remedy for revenge porn may not be disingenuous if you actually think that a typical victim could sue, but it's wildly unreasonable.
I think they used to index everything they found. But WWW has grown incredibly during the past 10-15 years.
probably a TCP socket and an old, well established, EDI format.
"-All You Zombies-" (the basis of Predestination) was written by Heinlein, it's the subject of the linked Wikipedia article.
And it's good to show Russians the true nature of what's happening. If you remove western social media then they just get the state narrative.
> Youtube's value isn't as a profit center, but a way of keeping people inside Google's ad ecosystem.

Even more important from Google's point of view is it was the way to push Chrome to dominance. And a way to keep it there ahead of any potential competitors.

Which is valuable because of the data and ability to block ad blockers. That is, Google's ad ecosystem.
Nice, starred. We've been thinking about adding webhook functionality to our API but didn't have time to work on it from scratch. Time permitting, we'll give Convoy a shot. Thank you.
You can't win the hearts of people only by propaganda. If someone comes from a country where NATO "introduced democracy" by bombing civilians and installing a puppet government, all Facebooks, Googles and Microsofts of the world will not help for those people to support USA over Russia, which didn't do anything wrong to them.
I never before paid this much for a game
I don't think Russia is going to stop at Ukraine, but things get much more difficult for them after that. Ukraine is a war they can win, but only if nobody else cares too much.

Finland is not. A war on Finland really is an all-out war, and he will not win that.
Love how everything is out in the open....big fan of transparency !
Let me add another resource to your list that helped me tremendously: https://coffeebreaklanguages.com/

They have free podcasts available on iTunes for a lot of languages, the Spanish content is absolutely amazing.
I am. Russia is moving towards china and so is moving away from india.
Yeah it will be interesting to see how they use this to sell adspace for kids.
Burst timescales links between pulsars and fast radio bursts
> First, BitTorret is unreliable and slow, whereas a single transport server is very fast and reliable, and mirroring makes it both globally redundant and verifiable.

BitTorrent has higher latencies indeed but also much higher bandwidth. I am not sure what you mean by "reliable".

> Second, protocols that build in all features (discovery, transport, verification) are less flexible and more centralized than decoupling into different protocols.

I agree in theory, but I haven't seen any alternatives in practise that works here and now---I am happy to be proven wrong.

> Third, when random participants can contribute anything, you get a bunch of malware (look at every app store).

Random people being able to share content is one thing (which is not to different from saying "random people can open TCP sockets!"), random people being able to participate in helping spread your content (which you protect with your cryptographic primitives) is whole another.

> Fourth, you don't need a distro maintainer to do anything at all if you want someone to download your app from your own repo. You just serve your public key and put your files online somewhere. Anyone can download the key, add the repo, and install the packages. You can even put them on GitHub, GitLab, etc.

Again, you are missing the point: discoverability of mirrors in a permissionless system where participants can join and leave any time. I am not saying BitTorrent nailed it on its first try either (they simply spun up trackers), but DHT is more or less a solved problem that works reasonably well today.
Russia can feel free to get lost. They do not have the right to tell everyone else what to do.

And this is so counterproductive. Does Russia think that this is going to make Finland more likely to cooperate with Russia?

But NATO and Finland had better pay some attention. Last time, Russia meant it enough to invade. (Of course, Russia invaded anyway, even though Ukraine hadn't joined NATO, and wasn't on the brink of doing so. They just were insufficiently willing to stay in Russia's orbit. So Finland is warned that they are likely next, no matter what they do.)

But Russia had also better think carefully. They are free to impose military repercussions if they choose. They are not free to escape the repercussions of the repercussions.
Oooohhh! I thought you meant to song by The Hooters: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I
It's not quite that simple; after he had an operation things got much more coherent. Friday is arguably a return to form. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is also worthwhile. The thing about his works after Moon, both with brain problems and repaired-brain is that he clearly decided he was done with avoiding explicit sex and that he would write about it the way he wanted to write about it.
Learning french coming from another romance language is easier than learning it coming from a completely different language, like chinese or swahili.
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We don't want it but we'll continue to elect those who push these laws.

The British vote against their interests and we laugh about it satiricaly on late night shows.
They allowed it to grow past what they can control. They just didn't anticipate the risk.
That was obviously a very serious comment I made.
This thread feels like it's getting pretty far-removed from the original topic but:

I wish we wouldn't equate "free speech" with the first amendment. IMO "free speech" is a much broader concept than the specific legal protections outlined in 1A.

Mocking people for saying things you disagree with ("dumb things") doesn't violate 1A, but that doesn't mean it's aligned with the general ethos of free speech.
XKeyscore
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I assume 100% of Russian content on Reddit is manufactured. Their government has just invested so much into psyops that it successfully undermined legitimate engagement (for me).
those bills are for political optics and favor, not to really make a dent in the homelessness issue. they're designed to allow people who already own land to make some extra cash, not to provide housing (less than 2% of CA residential properties can even take advantage of them). what we need are real, significant zoning reforms. things like making every residential zone mixed-use (residential + light commercial), and remove setback requirements, floor area ratio (FAR) restrictions, yard/parking specifications, and height restrictions.
He wrote a lot of stories I loved. And then, early 1970s or so onwards, everything he wrote was awful.
Oui, c'est vrai!
> US was ready to bomb India and it was a Russian submarine that saved India

?

> Given the history, who would be an ally in that case?

If such history prevented alliances, there would be none. France and Germany are allies. India and the US are allies when their interests align - less so regarding Ukraine, more so regarding China - which depends significantly, but not completely, and especially in the long term, on their values (democracy, human rights, etc.) aligning.