skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smallish country developing nuclear warhead wont threaten survival of the human race. It wont have neither enough warheads nor sufficient delivery capabilities, yet no country is allowed to enter nuclear club, because existing members sees it as threat and have means to enforce their will. Ukraine joining NATO is same in principle: a threat to someone who is willing to act on it.

> Joining NATO--not that the Ukraine was even doing that

Ukraine was actively seeking NATO membership since 2014, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations
they should be
How (if at all) is this related to the ZHEAP development? Sounds like this targets more or less the same problems
you are overreacting. I would suggest a cup of hot beverage.
In context, I don't think there are actually talking about the American populace, but those "in power" who may seek, or be able, to harm you, aka - agents of the state.
I don't think so. Google and YouTube is completely censored for years and people don't care.
I think the Vlasov army was totally killed.

USSR was brutal. World War 2 was extremely brutal - they lost 30 million people

Anyway it is all war crimes, I totally agree !

I don’t know if it is “just” because Russian officers wanted their land. They already could get land through crooked courts easily.

USSR was pissed at how rabidly some Ukrainians and others killed people when they sided with the Nazis. I am Jewish and two sisters of my grandma were brutally killed by Ukrainians (not Germans) while being under 10 years old. One German wanted to quietly save them but the Ukrainians wouldn’t let him.

People want independence and appeal to have their rights, but during war time they can often abuse weaker people too a lot.

As far as Tatars read the last two paragraphs here: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/krimchaks
I think the 'is meat ethical' conversation is a different conversation from 'is the meat industry ethical'. I'd like to think that even if every slaughterhouse in the land closed up shop people would still be nuanced enough to realise that hunting and fishing are in a different league altogether.
You can inline a font as well, just use the data: URI. I do this only for really small font files, such as the icons, and having the above-the-fold CSS in a style tag means the font comes with the HTML request.
Worth mentioning that you can turn the pull down menus back on in Firefox.
rotten.com (late 90's/early 2000's)
Seems like yes:

$ python3 setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/x/git/fetch/fetch/setup.py", line 12, in <module>
exec(open("fetch/__version__.py").read())
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'fetch/__version__.py'
> Clustered primary keys. Without these, some types of queries can become rather slow when your table doesn't fit in memory. (Example: a chat log containing many billions of messages, which you're querying by conversion-id.)

https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2014-01/unreasonable-def...
How does this compare to zheap? I believe zheap made some similar design choices (undo based and avoiding the wraparound problems), though the replication features seem unique to oriole.
“We don’t allow Patreon to be used for funding weapons or military activity. It is a violation of our policies, and so we have removed the page. All remaining funds in the account will be refunded to contributors.”
In practice, the HoL isn't that bad, but it remains explicitly anti-democratic and it's a corruption magnet, since the Tories have started selling seats in exchange for donations. The value of the Lords is millions of pounds in Party donations per year.

The US counterpart isn't so much the Senate as the Supreme Court: permanently appointed partisan lawmakers. The US Supreme Court is limited in that it can only make law on the cases brought before it, but it's been a critical flashpoint for so much social change in the US. To a certain extent the US "gets" to have a dysfunctional senate because critical civil rights issues are fought in the courts instead.

(The people complaining about "judicial activism" have a very real point that a lot of critical US law comes from the Supreme Court, it's just that that includes basic things like "allowing people of different races to marry despite what Virginia wants")

It is also a problem that everyone runs to the US for comparison and not, say, the UK's elected devolved assemblies. Which seem to be reasonably functional with their proportional systems. (Stormont is dysfunctional because of the civil war, not structural issues in the assembly itself)
It’s not an issue to the animals. They aren’t made aware of their impending death and made to ponder what more of a life they could have lived. From their perspective they are alive and then suddenly, not.
Typically either with length prefixing (what binary protocols do) or with escaping/quoting (what text protocols do). For example, JSON assigns a unique bit sequence to every possible list of strings by using '"' and ',' as separators and '\' as an escape signal to disable the special meaning of the next character.
I would imagine that some of the success of these techniques can be attributed to the medium itself. That is, writing something down (i.e., it becomes less abstract abd more visual) gets everyone on the same page (literally). Also, by adding the visualization the brains involved are forced to process the information differently (than if it only spoken), and that can help surface possibilities as well.

It would be interesting to be able to understand if using a screen-based tool has any different impact than using (say) an old fashioned whiteboard. For me, there's something to be said for a large whiteboard and "observing" your jotted down thoughts from the other side of the room.
NATO has never said they have to get UN approval to engage in non-defensive military operations. Consider the NATO intervention in Kosovo: NATO member states sought UN Security Council approval for the intervention; when it became clear China and Russia would veto it, NATO went ahead and intervened anyway in the absence of any UN authorisation. NATO still reserves the right to engage in non-defensive military operations without UN authorisation, whenever its member states can unanimously agree that is appropriate.
There is definitely some weirdness in the community but that wouldn't stop me from using the right tool for the job. Likewise if the community was 'toxic'.
Its okay to have some business spesific software be closed source, say Excell. But an archive is needed every time you download a collection of files from a government website, or make GDPR request for your data to google.

So by choosing RAR you would be forcing millions of people, maybe entire country to use that company's product and giving them power. Is there any good reason for that?
"We" (whoever that is) did not "sponsor a coup". Stop spreading misinformation. What happened was that the Ukrainian people were sick of Russian puppet and kicked him out - at great cost, he murdered a lot of them.
Kicking them out of SWIFT would hurt but China built an alternative system called CIPS. It’s nowhere near as big but it out there. But if China and Russia both used CIPS more then that would threaten the US dollar’s power as the global reserve currency.
What a monstrous attitude.
This sounds like it fails to recognize much of colonial governments, which were typically in the case of the British a very far cry from simply installing an unelected leader or otherwise manipulating leadership through extortion and other means, as the US (among others) is now known to do. There’s an entire wing of cultural, linguistic, and legal imposition that doesn’t seem to exist in what might more accurately be called imperialism by the US, and these changes still have ramifications in how people in the ex-colonies see themselves, their society, and their relationships to the world.
For sure more people (and bots) are searching for it. It's also quite possible some people following you (or the people who retweet you) are more interested about this hot topic: you could probably write a dozen tweet about monads and not get any interest, then post a single tweet about Julian Assange or Kim Kardashian and suddenly feel like the entire planet is talking to you.

It's quite possible the Twitter algorithms are being nasty (i'm personally strongly against AI deciding what to show and how to order it in a timeline), but it's definitely not the only factor at play.
FreeDOS 1.3 Is Out
Does anyone know why RAR is better compression-wise than the two more modern standards?

It doesn't seem like it's been updated in a long time, and I would have expected modern software from two of the best houses in the world to handily beat it. Is it that good, or is it a matter of priorities, or something else?
I have a few quibbles:

- The ordering is still based on the language code, which is only kind of alphabetic, so one might need to scan the whole list to find a language or verify that it's not in the list.

- The label for Simplified Chinese is 簡體中文, which does mean "Simplified Chinese", but it's in Traditional Chinese characters, and all the other language names are as well.

- Wikidata item descriptions are made for Wikidata, which means they're often rather verbose, e.g. to distinguish "X language" from "X nationality". The CLDR has translated language names for use in language selectors that are more succinct. E.g "Galician" in Galician is simply "galego" instead of "lingua galega" https://unicode-org.github.io/cldr-staging/charts/latest/by_... I'd generally prefer the CLDR and only use Wikidata as a fallback.
I’m so disappointed with their stance here. Russians are slaughtered these folks and they can’t get funds to defend themselves? Sickening.
> It says there are something non-mechanical about intelligence.

I don't think Gödel drew that conclusion; that's Roger Penrose's reasoning. He uses Gödel's Theorem as an example of correct reasoning that can't be algorithmic (i.e. Gödel's mind cannot be replaced by an algorithm). It's not a proof, and it's controversial. I find it convincing; but then I'm biased - I'm predisposed to the view that the mind is not algorithmic.
Good luck trying to send a file compressed with Zstd or Brotli to people and have them know what to do with them. I’d certainly have to google to figure out how to open one of those. And I’m an engineer and aware that those formats exist.
First, I commend you on wanting to do something about poverty. I also feel that policies that help all improverished folks and bring more people into the middle class are important and necessary.

That said, the idea that Black people only have issues because of historical discrimination does not reflect the data, and thus I feel affirmative action would still be needed to address those inequities.

That is to say both Black and White differences, and rich and poor differences need to be addressed in my view. You can't simply ignore one or the other.

There's a rich body of observational and experimental research into racial discrimination, which shows racial discrimination continues to exist in health care, hiring and careers, apartment rentals, punishment in schools, etc.

Black babies have worse health care outcomes with white doctors than black doctors. White babies show no difference. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/17/black-babies-s...

Black boys were watched more in an eye tracking study by teachers https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-black-b...

Black and Hispanic names are significantly less likely to get a response when inquiring about renting a property. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29516/w295...

People with Black names are less likely to be hired as per this meta analysis of studies https://www.pnas.org/content/114/41/10870

Those are just a few examples.

We also know that household income affects exam results, FYI, so your exam solution would disadvantage poor folks.
https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and...
Every time I use vim on server that doesn't have my .vimrc file that I copy around I inevitably end up googleing "disable mouse in vim"
While I wouldn't have stopped this myself, I think its perfectly reasonable for a crowdfunding website to not want to host campaigns used to purchase military grade weaponry.
Nice explanation! (I still don't understand all of the details.)

I hope to see you in the next GR discussion.

Anyway, one last question:

Did you choose the mass of the proton in the example because it's special? (The mass of the proton is not just the sum of the mass of the quarks, moreover, the mass of the quarks is quite small.) Is it equivalent to use the mass of the electron? (That has no inner parts (almost).)
Clearly people who write licences want us to believe they are lawmakers. We need to clamp down on this and put them back in their place.
My mother tongue isn’t English and I indeed mixed up rennet and casein because they sound completely different in my language.

Natural rennet cheese may be “artisanal” in your corner of the world, it’s 99% of cheese where I live —just in case, 99% might not be totally accurate, it’s an exaggeration to mean “the vast majority”
If you've got the resources to mount a credible legal defence against Microsoft
Sounds a bit like "At the Mountains of Madness" by H. P. Lovecraft
Country that has unregulated territorial dispute cannot be a member of NATO by it's rules. So to give up on Crimea was the only way for Ukraine to join. It was unfeasible, any politician discussing this would be a political dead.
And yet you've managed not to see any change any outgoingness, loneliness, time spent on screen, etc., in students and teenagers, despite those being registered in all kinds of studies and polls? Heck, even the sex has been going down...

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/teens-spend-hours-screens-entertai...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/02/nearly-four-...

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/01/6065885...

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/campus-life-why-are-student...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/20/lonelin...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/13/young-a...

[5] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Now, even though 2003 is already after the start cutoff date (a first major development being the web's post-1994 huge adoption), the contrast between it and say 2013 (in between which dates smartphones and social media were widely available) would already releal huge changes in those aspects.

Except if the changes became invisible even to someone in contact with students in a kind of "boiling the frog" incremental familiarity (where it had been slowly but steadily increasing each year, but the infra-year difference didn't seem important).
The functionnality of a scrollbar is provided by the touchpad, mouse with wheels , pageUp/Down and search tools so I have never missed it.
Right. Easier to just surrender to our Russian overlords
Seems strange to go to the trouble of making them out of wood when there's evidently a 3d printer available.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/no-need-to...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29610056/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/16/iraq.iraqtimel...
Good for you. Keep at it! I became a vegetarian a year ago, at the age of 42, when my eating habits were firmly established. I loved meat and seafood of all kinds, and was the sort of carnivore who was proud of eating the weirdest and bloodiest animal parts available. But at some point I started actually thinking about the animals and the ethics of killing for food, and I couldn’t conscience it any more. Now that you are thinking about it too, I expect your journey will end with you also ceasing to eat meat. Your other option is to tamp down those feelings and ignore what you are feeling is wrong. For good people, that is not easy.

I know you didn’t ask for advice, so apologies in advance, but a really helpful thing is to simply ensure you have plentiful vegetarian food available, so you don’t get too hungry. Eg nuts, seeds, fruit (including dried), plus stuff you can easily use to whip up tasty dishes, like rice you’ve already cooked and can fry with mushrooms or something. At this point the only things I miss are cured meats like ham and salami. But I eat very well every day and in general feel very happy with my choice.

Much respect to you and good luck!
As someone who's reasonably informed on this stuff, I would be absolutely shocked if Wikipedia ever introduced that requirement.
Because at 33%, there are still 67% of workers who want to come into an office at some frequency.
I don't really understand why you would want to click to have focus on a window.
7z is also Russian.
That's a very good point! Although, would it not be trivial to setup a 3rd-party F-Droid-compatible repo that just distributes CI/CD artifacts (eg. Github releases) by subscribing to a RSS feed? I personally wouldn't do it for the reasons you mentioned, but it could certainly be useful for some people.
I was hoping this would be about OAuth 2.0 Rich Authorization Requests[1]!

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-rar
Alexandr is a very impressive contributor to Postgres community. Met him few times. He’s on the mission to change and improve community. He has a clear vision what has to be changed, and he’s still 30+ yo and has many many years ahead. Just talking him 15 mins will save you years. Hope he can make a business out of this and find resourceful business partners.
When you have a bunch of football hooligans wearing nazi insignia, having nazi tattoos, waving nazi flags and talking about a historic mission to lead the white races of the world in a final crusade against the Semite-led untermenschen... does it really matter what "race" they are?

Of course it's a rotten excuse for an invasion. But I think it answer OP's question, "why on earth anyone is buying into it". People are buying into it because there's a grain of truth to it.
I mean the Russian agents of disinformation and Russian money, as always, is at work behind enemy lines, in this case in the US.

You had US military and ex-military, doing work for Russian's since the 2014 Obama administration. That explains a lot of what has emboldened Russia.

"Trump being advised by ex-U.S. Lieutenant General who favors closer Russia ties"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-adviso...

"Michael Flynn—Once Indicted Over Russia Communication—Voices Support For Russia Ahead Of Potential Ukraine Invasion"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/01/24/michael-fl...
PFAS pollution led to contamination of US drinking water wells, study finds
Yes, what I'm saying is I haven't seen evidence that change in the oil at smoke point is correlated with safety/toxicity.

Found the video: https://youtu.be/l_aFHrzSBrM
You seem to be making the assumption that their working conditions are better than what they were doing before. When considering working hours along with stress and working environment, I'd say probably not

Some argue that industrialization under these conditions is not good for the countries and people being exploited for their labor
Good to know Patreon comes out against the idea of Self defense. I wonder how far that extends.
What I learned reviewing 35k reviews from Steam
Since I was a kid theorycrafting in WOW, I've been interested in games and data. Over COVID, I’ve had this itch I've wanted to scratch to find out what exactly gamers complain about the most in which games.

Let's face it AAA game developers doubled down on their Wall Street corporate mentality. This has seen them grow increasingly out of touch with what gamers really want, as they see them as nothing more than cash cows to extract dollars out of.

And no place demonstrates that better than within the reviews of Steam.

I wanted to see if I could view & analyse Steam reviews at scale to get different understanding of what people really care or complain about the most.

Out a dataset of 35000 scraped reviews gathered from a randomized selection out of a larger dataset of 380k, (provided thanks to Luthfi Mahendra) I gathered the following insights.

TL;DR

- PUBG is a love it or hate it game which people constantly dump on for being filled to the brim with hackers.

- GTA V has a captive audience of people who hate the game, hate hackers, can't understand how to use mods as well as micro-transactions.

- Rocket League fans are super happy, loving the competitiveness and easy to pick up game mechanics. It's constantly referred to as fun, enjoyable, addictive and entertaining.,

- Rust fans are gush like fanboys over the game. It exceeds their expectations without exploiting them.

- In general, Steam reviewers hate hate hate hackers, bans, microtransactions, glitches, crashes and lag.

PUBG

- This game had the highest number of reviews from this dataset (Roughly 10% of reviews were for PUBG).

- There were 1916 analyzed not recommended reviews (from clusters of 204+159+153+147+114+136+134+133+132+125+123+121+121+114 recommended reviews)

- There were 1064 not recommended reviews (from clusters of to 33+132+100+58+142+65+68+55+41+48+40+105+57+120 not recommended reviews)

- This gives it a ratio of roughly 1.9 not recommend reviews for every 1.06 recommended reviews.

- Most complaints generally mentioned “hackers”, “hacking” & “cheaters”

- Less quantities of complaints revolved around “greed”, “buggy”, “unplayable”, “microtransactions”, “banned”, with references to other games and developers like “fortnite”, “Battlefield”, “Capcom” and “EA”

- A high number of negative reviews made reference to connectivity & server issues with mentions of “lag” “latency” “laggy”

- Another segment of complaints revolve around “crashing”, “crashes”

- Further review clusters included food references such as the Winner Winner Chicken Dinner phrase, with mentions of potato aiming and in game states/food like meat, pan, apple, hungry, food.
I may be talking out of my ass here, but the key decider is your ability to maintain the conceptual integrity of your data architecture. Mongo makes it easy to maintain document based data architecture, Postgres does not. But maybe you don't really need a document based data architecture, you just think you do and it's mainly not document based, only a little bit. Or maybe it's just too damn hard to maintain your concepts in a SQL database. Maintaining conceptual data architecture is hard and sometimes too hard.
That's fine, and they're within their rights to have this policy in place, but it doesn't change the fact that they've completely fucked over the volunteers in their hour of need.

"It's a violation of our policies" doesn't magically clear their conscience. It's just another way of saying "because we can".

Companies do this all the time and I have no idea why we accept it.
Seems sensible. Private companies shouldn't be funding wars, particularly wars overseas from where they are based. The Ukrainian's need help but this should be coming from government's, not private citizens through a private foreign company. I feel like this shouldn't be controversial at all.
Dissecting the S3 SLA
Frankly they deserve a taste of their own medicine.
Raising the target SDK just turns a general computing device into a glorified webbrowser, because you lose access to the filesystem, the ability to run background daemons, and the ability to run compilers.

These should be permissions, not disabled wholesale.
RAR is a full-blown backup format* while 7zip is "just" an archive format. So comparisons are somewhat mood.

But even I as a RAR fan and license holder have to agree. For the average joe, sending email attachments, zip or 7z is enough.

* It can safe all three file timestamps (From nanoseconds precision (with NTFS), down to only 2 seconds precision (if you want to shave of a view bytes)), ACLs, ADS, Hard and Soft Links, Unix devices. It can add restore data to protect from bit rot. It deduplicates identical files. Variable length part-files. Skips already compressed files. etc. etc. (+ the GUI supports settings-profiles, which i really miss in 7zip.)