skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tbh what is the harm done to Alphabet/Youtube here? Bunch of alleged russian bots mass report youtuber's account temporarily and Youtube reversed their incorrect ban.

It seems to me the system is working as intended as demonstrated by the reversal of the bans being reported 90 minutes ago.

title written by OP is obvious clickbait. Youtube isn't banning accounts that support Ukraine, the automated queue mod system's threshold has been breached and after a human review on the AI's decision, the bans were reversed.
I typically don't make use of standard archive formats these days for my own file storage. If I want just pure maximum compression, I'll often use a long-range matcher like FreeArc's srep [1] or lrzip [2] combined with either fast-lzma2 [3] using a p7zip fork [4] for multithreading and fast compression or use mcm [5] or zpaq for max ratio with longer compression time.

However, my truly preferred way is using dwarfs [6], which features some really good deduplication and (by default) zstd compression while being mountable. Most of my files are highly compressed and easily accessible without needing to full decompress them. I even made a small script to convert and create AppImages that instead use this [7]. Admittedly, I don't make use of PAR2 or anything of the sort, but I could just do that the traditional way if I so wished.

[1]: https://github.com/Phantop/srep

[2]: https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip

[3]: https://github.com/conor42/fast-lzma2

[4]: https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip

[5]: https://github.com/mathieuchartier/mcm

[6]: https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs/

[7]: https://github.com/Phantop/appdwarf/
Something like this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443466

(Create a world only using your voice)
I suppose they could be housed in individual cells that are open, so they can interact with other prisoners without physical interaction.
Ukrainians in Kyiv 'living in a kind of hell', says MP France 24 English [video]
The Brookings article you linked to directly contradicts your point. It argues (correctly) that sanctions will hurt Russia's people but are extremely unlikely to change Putin's policies, and in fact, will only entrench Putin's control over what remains of the Russian economy.

I suspect you might have stopped reading the article at the first paragraph - which presents a thesis that the rest of the article then proceeds to analyze and disprove.
cold war CIA wouldn't have dreamed of having a propaganda machine like social networks provide.

it's a new war theater, they are not going away.
Depends on the cert. If the cert is issued to "Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów" I am pretty sure the site belongs to the Polish government.
Are you willing to feel the same anger and hate that you feel towards Russia towards virtually every other nation that has ever existed in human history? Because otherwise, you're "defending" them in the same way I'm "defending" Russia because mass deaths of civilians happens in basically every single war.
The only thing Google understands is money. A nice fat fine from Uncle Sam for aiding and abetting Russia in violation of sanctions might make them prioritize a fix.
More whataboutism.
Thanks for the update. I think it's healthy and encouraging to hear stories about people who deep-learn something for a while, get most of what they need out of it and move on to the next thing. All learning is good and nobody should feel guilty about putting things down - you can always pick them up later if you need to :)
I'm sure it does, but you put me in a house, with 2 adults, house, feed and clothe me for 5 years that i don't have to worry about going to work and i guarantee you i will speak whatever language they speak a whole lot better than some 5 year old.

Hey i'll even throw in another language and still be able to fight the 5 year old. With one hand.
It’s not quite like News In Slow French, but you might like https://www.nedbox.be/. They sometimes refer to the easier to grok content from the Belgian public broadcaster, https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/rubrieken/klaar/. Perhaps most similar is http://www.wablieft.be/nl/krant with text and audio at two levels of proficiency.
This is far too logical for the United States to implement. People want cheap stuff and companies want cheap manufacturing. It took the great political shock of an unstable outsider getting elected as President of the United States who was not afraid to counter the globalists and a pandemic to alert the citizens of glaring shortages of manufacturing capacity to finally bring this issue into discussion. However, it appears this realization will not be enough to alter course and begin manufacturing more products at higher cost in the United States.

What realistic measures beyond tariffs can accomplish a shift toward a reduction of US dependency on China? A dependency which creates more risk for not only the US but the world as a whole due to the obvious potential for conflicts that will arise when China uses their manufacturing prowess to apply the screws to the many nations that depend on it.
I would say Rust is currently the best overall programming language, period. It is also a great systems programming language.
My 2 cents.

I think we all want any fighting and bloodshed to end and for words to take the place of bombs. I hope all conflicts end quickly and I support all innocent civilians, whether Russian or Ukrainian or from other countries. Most people are just trying to go about their lives and make enough money to survive and have some occasional creature comforts and aren't harming anybody. I've worked with Ukrainians and Russians before, and they can be great, smart, amazing people.

That said, the idea that most people here understand the crazy geopolitical maneuvering going on is absurd. Most people (myself included, I'm not trying to sound smug) don't completely understand the energy politics at stake here with pipelines and the power-plays with monetary policy going on right now. Hell, most people don't even have the energy politics or the global currency on their radar screen: the media is trying to turn this into "Putin is some cartoon Hitler villain" just like they did during Saddam or Slobodan or Kim 2-minutes of hate that were obvious propaganda that the mainstream media also urged in lockstep.

People should do whatever they feel right about, that said urging something along the lines of censorship if you probably don't understand all of the issues feels misguided to me.
Open protocols (HTTP and email) have even greater network effects than closed solutions (Facebook). However, you still need a strong push in the beginning, which protocols don’t usually have the funding while VC burns $100 million in an initial push.
Related:

Writing an OS in Rust: Async/Await - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22727985 - March 2020 (103 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust: Advanced Paging - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19017108 - Jan 2019 (141 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903235 - Jan 2019 (79 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust: Hardware Interrupts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18274235 - Oct 2018 (63 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust, Second Edition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16556481 - March 2018 (40 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust: Handling Exceptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13961020 - March 2017 (41 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust: Returning from Exceptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548066 - Sept 2016 (54 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust: Better Exception Messages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218867 - Aug 2016 (31 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust: Catching CPU Exceptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791694 - May 2016 (41 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust: Remap the Kernel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822479 - Jan 2016 (25 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10807816 - Dec 2015 (34 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust: Allocating Frames - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10569463 - Nov 2015 (14 comments)

Writing an OS in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10448136 - Oct 2015 (34 comments)
You can, but it's not like the Rust std-lib is in that style, nor does it play well with the ownership semantics, so my point stands.

You can also write literal C and use the C std-lib in C++ but it is the same problem. You're not using C++ at that point
Very timely as I have just recently happened to be involved in building a webhook system. Some observations:

1) For something specifically advertised "cloud-native" I would have hoped to see direct integration to e.g. EventBridge/SNS/SQS (or their GCP/Azure equivalents) instead of plain REST API.

2) It is bit weird that you need both Redis and MongoDB here. Is there particular reason why redis alone would not be sufficient?

3) I couldn't at a glance find any docs on the API for receiving the webhooks beyond that small ruby example snippet.

4) You clearly are aware of the security things Stripe has done with their webhook implementation, so it is surprising that you have fair bit simpler model from the looks of it

Some specific security aspects that I noted:

a) Not having some sort of keyids or multiple signatures makes key rotation probably annoying

b) Keys are application-wide instead of per-endpoint

c) Only shared-secret available, no public/private keypair option?

d) No timestamping for replay protection?

Not trying to be too negative about your solution, but its just that I have been thinking exactly these problems myself then they are kinda on top of my head.

There is a draft IETF specification for request signing, that seems relevant here. Maybe you could adopt it in Convoy too? https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-message-...
Didn't most of those kosovar/macedonian operated fake news farms turn out to be just random private citizens from those countries taking advantage of the situation instead of a massive Russian-run operation? If russia actually ran tons of pages and controlled the narrative we would've known by now using the same tools used to unmask the balkan troll farms. I'm sure some were intelligence operations but do we have proof that those really had any big influence on public discourse?

Unless you are saying that russia could do the same in the future, which I agree is possible but we would still ultimately end up knowning about it. The anti nuclear movement in europe is pretty grassroots and the fact is that we don't have any proof of substantial russian influence on that subject even if everyone is much more on the lookout (as your links indicate)
> It should be on the ground in Ukraine, but it can't because it is spent.

Should it? That's not a foregone conclusion. Your justification for why it "can't" is also quite debatable.

> Meanwhile, the enemy steadily built up a far larger arsenal of weapons that while more primitive were also more reliable." Ironically, the "advanced" technology isn't advanced anymore: the weapons are out of date.

How so, can you expand on justification for this line of thinking?

> 50% of the population believe that the election was rigged.

Not true, but I agree with your overall idea about the extreme levels of division.

> how can it keep promises it made to Ukraine?

What promises? If you're referencing denuclearization in the Budapest Memorandum, my understanding that it was not an assurance of protection from third parties, only an assurance of non-aggression from each signatory. Meaning the US made no guarantee to protect Ukraine from Russia if Russia broke the pact, which they have. Do you have any reason for disagreeing with that assessment?
concrete only is 2x more dense. To get the same amount of storage as pumped hydro, that means you need to use at least half as much space. If you see a cute design for lifting concrete that isn't about the same size as a lake, it's a scam.
Unfortunately, that'd be an OPSEC nightmare. They are already prepared to calve their internet, and basically shut off info propagation from inside it. We'd be leaving our own networks open for data exfiltration...

I mean, God above, I never wanted to be on this side of advocating something like this for the Net, it was always meant to be open... Game theory pretty much states the way to go is tit for tat.

They're prepared to exploit our openness for all it is worth.

What a Charlie Foxtrot.
Ask HN: Russian and Ukrainians living in the west, how have you gotten along?
I've worked and work with several Russian & Ukrainian immigrants to US/Canada. In the past, from what I could see, there was bonhomie. Also from an outsider's perspective, they were indistinguishable.

How are you Russian/Ukrainian Americans/Canadians/Britons/Germans getting along in these parlous times? For obvious reasons, I cannot directly ask my work colleagues.
This is ridiculously, hilariously false. If you don't think so, please detail the precise degradations, with numbers.
Russia has a population of a 140 million people.

It is utterly preposterous to believe not a single one uses Reddit AND doesn't agree with their government.

Not to mention, where do you think those people would go?

Maybe Reddit? Maybe that actually makes a ton of sense?
I dunno.

On one hand AR and VR face some similar software problems involved with spatial computing. For a standalone headset the brains of the system will look pretty similar.

From a marketing standpoint though I think "XR" is the kiss of death. I think those Hipchat ads based on Office Space, with Lumbergh asking "What's our XR strategy?" There's a perception that AR has failed, that VR has failed, and maybe if we make up a new name we can fool C-levels into giving it another chance.

I think of Windows Mixed Reality, for instance, which never got AR headsets, just cut-price VR headsets that were an embarrassment to everyone concerned.

The problem I see with AR and VR is not technological but in developing compelling stories. I have been studying theme park design for entirely unrelated reasons but I think the storytelling methods used in theme parks are exactly what is needed for those media.
History does not have origin in French parlors, mon ami.
I've seen people promote Language Tool as an alternative: https://languagetool.org
It appears to be open source and you can host your own server!
> It can't be just a number on a computer in a bank, right?

It really is, but to answer your second question, it's important to consider *which* bank. There's reserves (i.e. balances of banks at the Federal Reserve) and bank deposits (which really are just numbers in banks' databases).

Having an account at the former is effectively what makes numbers in the database of the latter "real USD".

> Otherwise some Russian bank could just increase that number to whatever they like. And say "Look, we own 100 Trillion USD. Now let's go shopping.".

They could, but these assets/liabilities would not be backed by any reserves linked to the USD payment rails.

Reserves are theoretically irrelevant (though practically regulated) as far as transfers between accounts of a single bank are concerned. But as soon as a second bank comes into the picture, i.e. for inter-bank transfers communicated via SWIFT or otherwise, all transfers will ultimately be backed by Fed account to Fed account transfers in the background.

> So I guess USD needs to be recognized by the US somehow?

Indirectly so, yes: What makes USD "real" is the ability to transact with the larger ecosystem of US and offshore banks that have a shared agreement on what "real" USD are.

Practically, this means being connected either directly (via a Fed account) or indirectly (via a bank that itself does have a Fed account) to that system.

> Could the US simply "void" all USD that are owned by Russia?

Indirectly, yes: They can force every bank holding USD balances for embargoed beneficiaries to freeze these assets. Failing to comply could, in the absolute worst case, lead to that bank's Fed accounts being frozen as well (which would take away its ability to settle in USD with other banks).
I'm curious, why do you think that these requirements won't spread to the rest of the internet? I doubt the proponents of this law would create a "loop hole" by allowing other sites to maintain "anonymity" (in quotes because there's no real anonymity on the internet for almost nearly everyone).

Also, you seem to be making two contradictory points:
1) Facebook and Google pushed hard for verified accounts
2) Some parts of the internet make it optional to reveal your true name

Verified accounts, as I understand them, on the social platforms are only for people who publicly want to build a brand around their identity. While people have to use a "real name" on Facebook and Google, there's nothing requiring to get verified.
YouTube has different needs for different videos. The average barely-viewed video can use quick and dirty hardware compression, but a large fraction of views are on a small fraction of videos, which is the sort of thing that more intense AI-assisted optimization would help with.
Indeed.

This is the reason I was able to sway the C suite at my last position to avoid anything Google. I'm estimating it's probably around $9m/month revenue they lost from GCE and GApps.

They're simply not trustworthy, no/terrible support, and capricious about arbitrarily holding user's data hostage when some random automated abuse system decides you're horrible.

System Engineers don't let fellow system engineers use anything google for production purposes.
If anyone suspects that, then everyone will try to withdraw their money from their account and they'd soon get exposed of fraud.
No, Democrats only became anti-Putin after Trump.

“The 1980s called, they want their foreign policy back.” - Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama.

Remember how all the journos and Democrats barked and clapped at that line like trained seals whenever you read them now angsting over Russia.
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I don't eat octopus and I minimize my pork intake as much as possible. I know it's such an arbitrary barrier that pigs are my limit for how intelligent an animal can be before I decline to eat them, but I guess it helps reduce suffering a little at least.
In this particular conflict, the stakes for the EU is much higher than for the US.

Sure, the US is historically (recent) more happy to go into conflicts around the world, but this is a conflict bordering many EU states.
The Baltics, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania definitely aren't happy seeing Putin on their doorsteps.
There's nothing more alienating than the allegedly "inclusive" environments.

These are the places where I'm accused of racism (against myself?) or being a Russian. It isn't xenophobic when they do it. In the next breath they'll celebrate the noblesse oblige of their guilt.

These are the places where individual agency is dismissed. My own experience of pulling myself up by my bootstraps is debunked as a fiction. Is there anything more alienating than being told you do not exist?

Yes, I cannot wait to use my real name in these places. What a great opportunity for further harassment from these "inclusive" and "tolerant" people who cannot tolerate dissent or experiences which run counter to their "compassionate" ideologies.

Up is down. Liberal is restrictive. Inclusive is alienating.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
I'm in space also, nice
Because of this, if I'm remembering correctly, you can append a .zip file to, say, a .jpg file and it will work most image viewers and as a zip archive. It used to be the case, anyway, I haven't tried it lately.
there is lots of alternative battery tech in research right now for the very reason you propose
I couldn't agree more. Every now and then I let gmail auto complete for me, but it feels like my writing is just becoming generic.
For us the winning feature for qdrant it has the concept of both positive and negative query vectors. Overall they are both very good! It's a matter of individual preference.
The problem isn't oil itself but rather the byproducts, namely CO2 that is the cause of global warming and there just isn't enough of an impact from switching from modern ICE to EVs, rather the biggest source of CO2 emissions are the countries people in the West are outsourcing to make cheap goods.

It appears the CO2 emission standards can be achieved overnight simply by boycotting of all goods produce in countries where there is zero qualms about CO2 emissions, namely coal based power plants, which Western allied nations are more than happy to sell and point the finger at the said country they are exploiting.

But imagine telling virtue signaling West coast individual who believes he/she has superior moral values while happily consuming products produced in Authoritarian states under the threat of violence and exploitation of children that they need to trade their comfort for a greater collective.

If a society can't even come to agreements over wearing masks, there's zero chance such society can cut back on our reliance on the Petrodollar because doing so would put them on the same level of discomfort as other developing nations.

Leave it to third world countries to fix it while happily consuming and fueling the product of CO2 emissions and reminding them what a shthole country they live in.

This is my observation as a German looking into the West's mindset, its riddled with hypocrisy and self-contradictory ethic system aimed at distracting its citizens from the truth that their comforts are at the cost to this planet and rest of humanity.

We enjoy what we have because others could not have it and there is zero chance individualistic societies can reverse its mindless competition for vanity consumption.
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The Nazis are the eternal scapegoats of the Western elite mania. This mania underwrites their irrational doctrine and propaganda that defines current international affairs. And they never consider the preceding circumstances which led to the Nazis coming to power. It’s incredibly vacuous and irresponsible.
Related:

Quantum Computing for the very Curious - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23581810 - June 2020 (8 comments)

A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23561018 - June 2020 (49 comments)

How Quantum Teleportation Works - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21519134 - Nov 2019 (16 comments)

How the quantum search algorithm works - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684141 - April 2019 (17 comments)

Quantum Computing for the Curious - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19426573 - March 2019 (24 comments)
Not that Wube Software handled this well, but you're better off not using GOG Galaxy for updates. It's had a 0-day privilege escalation vulnerability for over two years. GOG tried to pull a fast one on the security researcher who reported it and has downplayed the severity of the issue. They've left their customers vulnerable for so long that their incompetence is effectively indistinguishable from malice.

https://wccftech.com/gog-has-had-a-severe-internal-vulnerabi...
This is really awesome, love that they don't mystify the tech and make it accessible to folks who want to have control of the data.
Were I gay or jewish, I would feel way safer holding hands with another man in Budapest or Warsaw than in a muslim quarter of any large Western European cities.
Slovakia is letting everybody in, even with expired passport. You also can travel for free via train if you have ukrainian passport.
animated by Kurzgesagt, but written by Andy Weir (of "The Martian" fame)
Yea of a 140 million people they all agree with Putin. 0% disagree with Putin and even if they did 0% would use Reddit to communicate with people outside of Russia.

Come on.
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