skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump just sang Putin's praises for all the world to hear, and trashed Biden in the same breath. The Republican party has shown time and time again that loyalty to Trump outweighs yesterday's strongly held convictions. Loyalty to Trump has replaced loyalty to the nation in many Republican hearts -- pols and voters alike. Whatever poll you got that 5% number from, it's outdated in light of Trump's latest opinions.
Haven’t looked at that but it’s not clear how one can “debunk” a vague saying to begin with.
The only way to stop a monster from destroying you is make him afraid you'll crush him back. If you let him know you are willing to let him do anything to save your skin, he will do it. Including destroying you, in the end.
I wouldn't make it about ethnicity. Making it about former Soviet republics and members of the Warsaw pact is the problem, from Russia's point of view. A problem that, in hindsight maybe, is so obvious and so guaranteed to come (Russia complained about NATOs eastern expansion for decades) that it seems surprising that NATO doesn't seem to have an answer. Hell, when Russia annexed the Krim and tried to annex parts of Georgia one would think NATO would have gotten a clear wake up call.
Do you have counter arguments to Jacobin and Tucker Carlson or just insults?

>I hope the Ukrainian people fight back as hard as they can and the governments of the world help them in any way they can.

I remember people talking like this at the start of the Syrian civil war.

I hope the fighting ends as quickly as possible. I don't care who "wins".
Never knew about that sport, looks pretty cool!
Ask HN: What keyboard do you recommend build+use?
I'm looking for my next keyboard to build/work on and wanted to see what this community might recommend.
Five judges out of nine go a long way.

Also, not everywhere is America. Sweden had a fairly nasty eugenic program, for example.
Can't they have backdoors by design? For example, open source printers are not a thing because of the backdoors and security measures required in order to sell your printer on the market.
> substantial risk of full scale thermonuclear exchange.

This hasn't been true since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

A full scale nuclear exchange ends with the annihilation of both sides. [1]

To quote WarGames, "The only way to win is not to play".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
Strangely enough, Germany has had hate speech laws and struggled - to put it mildly - and continues to struggle with National Socialism attracting supporters.

Also strangely, the United States has such strong free speech and association protections that Nazis were protected enough to march through Skokie, and yet there has been no such struggle with Naziism - except to join the other Allies in smashing the Reich.

Yes, Popper didn't stutter, those who do not reject debate in favour of violence should be tolerated.
Thanks for pointing out.

I'm comparing Germanys "helpful" occupations of neighboring countries "to help the poor Germans there against abuse" inhabitants to Putin's attempt to occupy Ukraine "to protect all the poor Russians there against genocide."
Propaganda aside - yes.
All you need is Vanced or NewPipe.
What Putin actually considers casus belli isn't important for the moment - it could be anything, reasoned or not. Can we, here, present arguments that the desire of Russia to be able to attack neighbor countries should be honored? Do we extend MAD doctrine to non-nuclear matters - that is, everybody should refrain from defense, as defense reduces their neighbors' abilities to fight back in case those neighbors are attacked? Is it reasonable - for the moment - to think that countries, improving their defenses, actually offend neighbors?
I can't see the European Green movement embracing anything that has "nuclear" in it.
US National Labs (e.g. LBNL) can easily top 200%, based on what my colleagues told me at the time. I never applied for funding myself while there, so I cannot directly confirm the actual figures.
> In what way did the West not decisively defeat the soviets?

The way imperial japan died, replaced by a semi-client state. I would say they're more prosperous today because of it!
> Russia and China are still in the 50-100 years ago mentality and will ruthlessly enforce having buffer states between major powers.

How the fuck is that supposed to work, now that Russia is invading and obviously planning to incorporate Ukraine, which already borders on NATO and EU countries? That's Russia removing any buffer. Does that mean Russia now gets to dictate that Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania must leave NATO and the EU, and they and everyone else is just supposed to STFU and obey?

Seems more reasonable that Russia just gets to stick this bit of its "mentality" where the sun don't shine, doesn't it?
Define "fighting back". If you mean they will attempt to defend their land and cities, then yes. If you mean strike back at Russia then no chance. Ukraine simply doesn't have the tools necessary to mount any sort of counter-attack and even if they did the Russians effectively have them surrounded right now. So it would have to be ICBMs or similar long range weapons which they no longer possess.

Unfortunately this is what happens when countries are pressured to de-nuclearize, promises of Western protection and then fall to bullies.
Your first and second sentence seem to be in conflict with one another.
This should be the case.

As far as on Windows, autocomplete itself isn’t native, however, the text prediction feature does exist within certain Office apps like Outlook.
Being able to think about how to order your files is a fundamental skill in this day and age and doing this on a big scale does indeed require discipline.

I'm not sure that's true, because no one does that on mobile devices. Some people have even suggested that young people who've grown up with mobile phones struggle with filesystems because they have no experience of file management despite having plenty of experience of computing.

Mobiles have shown that it's possible to remove the concept of files entirely from the user facing side of an OS.

The same is true to a lesser extent with online office suites. You don't need to know the name of a file in Google Docs - you refer to things by their titles.

Moving from file names to tags, or any meta data really, would be possible. Whether it'd be better is a matter of opinion.
> Maybe he'd fold, maybe he'd go direct to nuke.

I don't think the president of the US has the authority to nuke anything by his own accord.
> Because at the time the equipment was bought, it met every applicable federal standard. This would be unfair to the owners who had no way of knowing about the issue.

At least in Europe, there is precedent that modern use of frequency assignments make older equipment illegal to operate. 4G and 5G have heavily eaten into the frequencies used on stage for event equipment - microphones, IEM, that sort of thing. Many, many pieces can‘t be legally operated anymore, and it‘ll probably be the same in a few years time with the current-gen devices (although I hope I can swap crystals if needed and keep using my stuff).

Radio bandwidth is a scarce resource. If the radio altimeter is transmitting well outside of its boundaries and it creates problems (for any of the parties requirements), it’s the radio altimeters that need fixing. Even if it is expensive to do so.
This is most likely a bluff.

If the invasion comes, it will come because China will think it will succeed. And if it looks like it's going to succeed, why blow your own factories? After the war, you will have to return to ordinary life, and hopefully a job. Blowing away your own factories, to spite your enemies doesn't make sense. Sure you deny China access yo them. But you deprive your people who will have to live after the war there even more.

More likely scenario is that US is going to try to get them blown up (probably not directly)
It won't crash the economy but combined with really high inflation and having already over-expended QE measures it could lead to a nasty enduring stagflation which is probably worse than a crash.
Ask HN: What if Russia cuts undersea optic cables?
Should we be worried?
I have 394,175 photos and videos that I have personally taken since 1997. They are organized by a simple hierarchical system in 5,356 folders.

D:\masterarchive\source\YYYY\YYYYMMDD\photo file name

If I want to find a person, in a photo, I've used Google Picasa (when it was an offline product) and lately digiKam to do face matching, and tagging them with IPTC metadata tags in the photo files. Thus they survive moves across filesystems, etc.

I'm up for seeing alternatives, but there's a very high bar to clear here. People have been using directories and file storage since the middle ages.
> --New members must uphold democracy, including tolerating diversity.

NATO's founding members in 1949 included Portugal, at the time ruled by a right-wing dictatorship (1926–1974). Turkey and Greece both joined in 1952, and both have gone through periods of brutal military rule even while remaining NATO members. For the majority of NATO's existence, most of these "requirements" you cite have been mere lip service at best.

Many political scientists classify Erdogan's Turkey as an anocracy – a hybrid form of government which is part-way between dictatorship and democracy, mixing elements of both systems. Yet, Turkey remains a full member in good standing of NATO. Putin's Russia is also often classified as an anocracy. Why demand genuine democracy as a condition to join NATO when its current membership includes a state which isn't one? Indeed, according to the Polity data series [0], Putin's Russia is actually more free than Erdogan's Turkey.

Don't get me wrong, democracy is a truly wonderful thing – but if welcoming non-democratic Russia into NATO might have prevented this war, wouldn't that have been a wonderful thing too?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polity_data_series
This is what I've noticed in (as far as I can remember) all of the comments here that outline their career change. The career change... it's always _to_ programming, but never _away from_ programming. I sometimes feel burned out and like I'm solving the same problems over and over for different people, teams, etc. I mostly enjoy my work and usually the people I work with. I do end up reading comment threads like this one with some frequency and realizing not many people switch from software engineering to altogether different careers. I don't count switching to engineering adjacent roles among the things I'd be willing to switch to because my reasons for leaving are definitely not my lack of passion for technology and learning, but almost always trying to find/build a team I enjoy working with and not having to do the same non-programming things over and over again to improve my environment (people, workflow, pressures, etc).

I really wish there was a way to hop paths that didn't involve making ridiculously less money for many years, while likely having to deal with many of the same problems.

I frequently lament not choosing to go into marine biology, even though I know now that it would have been a far more challenging field and would still have (likely) resulted in far less income. Had I just started on that path, I believe I would not have cared much about the possibility of making more money in another field that I would have been skilled at. The last bit is clearly an assumption as you can't actually go back and do it all over to realize the possible outcome(s), but I can't imagine a life journey were I didn't enjoy programming, even if it wasn't my career focus.

And so here I am, in a place that I mostly still enjoy, dreaming of what could have been, assuring myself that I'm doing the right thing for myself and my family. It would be one thing to completely upend my own life (I still have the belief that I could do it if I were the only person affected), but to completely change the trajectory for my family and possibly the financial stability we enjoy... I guess that leaves me in the category of "overall happy enough" because my family more than makes up for my perceived benefits of getting out of the tech industry, which if not already clear, I love more than hate.

Wow... that's a lot of text and felt more therapeutic than anything to unload that. :) So frequently I'm reading these threads and keeping my thoughts to myself. If nothing else, I hope that maybe some others who believe they're in the same boat take note that they're not alone in this and I have at least 2 close friends who feel very similar to this (though I rarely admit, even to them, that I feel this way about my career).

whew
> The fact that NATO has no intention of doing so is irrelevant to them, because politics change. It's the military capabilities they are afraid of.

The change is not in politics - for decades post-Soviet Russia wasn't worrying about NATO. Actually, no - even the point that Russia is afraid isn't correct - it's Putin who's afraid. NATO problem doesn't really exists.
“Oh guys, we got turned around and now we’re in the wrong country!”
You have failed to acknowledge or address any of the points I brought to your attention. I didn't think I would change your mind anyhow
Please somebody implement playlist download in NewPipe
> Regarding the last part, Putin is trying to find out.

Ok, so when Putin finds out NATO won't confront an invasion, then the Kremlin will back off their aggressions now, right? Now that they've found out there's no way NATO threatens the motherland? Does that sound right to you?

I'll make a guess. I've been on side "Russian invasion is imminent" for the past four months. I've been hearing a whole lot of "nothing to see here. Russia has no plans to invade. Just military drills. West should stop being threatening." for months. They were all dead wrong (sooo many on this site as of just days ago). So I'm inclined to believe I'm a bit more prescient on these issues.

Putin still won't back off, knowing Russia is safe from NATO, because that's not the issue.
Why would a country that has so many nukes be afraid of invasion? Genuine question, maybe I am missing something but I see this kind of explanation (Russia afraid of massive land invasion) often and it does not make any sense to me. It feels like applying pre-WW2 logic to world that has fundamentally changed after WW2. Also, if I am mistaken, before Russia attacked Georgia, NATO had like 4 battalions close to Russia and military spending in Europe was going down to ridiculous levels.
But the US did put a blockade around Cuba. Any ships going to/from Cuba could be searched by the US.
The West (I live in a Western country by the way) did not respect self determination of people when it didn't suit the Wests interests. Not before WW1 (when there was no West), not between WW1 and WW2 (Austria wanted to join Germany and wasn't allowed to, the whole former Russian Empire as engulfed in a civil war over that very question, not to mention the colonial empires) or after WW2 (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arab Spring, Syria,...).

The war that is on the horizon is not about the "good" vs. the "evil". It is about one revisionist, power hungry leader going toe-to-toe with another power-hungry block over territorial dominance. And about those people just wanting to live in peace caught in the middle.
Why can't the western nations seaze all assets of the oligarchs. For example take their super yachts and drive them out to sea and blow them up as a symbolic gesture?
Take control of all their appartments etc. Drive all russians out of their countries (yes it will hurt "normal" russians but so what, this is war, maybe they would start to think about their leaders a little bit more).
Is it possible to disable the animation when switching between spaces? It’s something that has always prevented me from using such a setup. I’d rather have instant switch, considering how often I would perform this action.
World War 1 started because a guy was assassinated, for one. The tension was there, but the assassination was what set everything into motion.
The cost that I mention in my post doesn't include the cost of the bike. I payed 1212€ just for the kit.
From what I know, the PSF intend to pay $175/hr, the “up to” part is about the total hours billed.
Nukes are an ultimate weapon, equally destructive for both sides no matter who's using them.

Threatening with nukes on the other hand is an almost as good weapon but only effective of you convince the other party you mean it and only countered by the others also being willing to use them. It's the MAD policy and it worked quite well during the cold war.
I almost walked this path, but ended up buying a Sparkel https://sparkel.com/ -- it creates CO2 on the fly, using sachets of citric acid and sodium bicarbonate. It's pretty easy to use, seems pretty robust, and my use of it has lasted much longer than my use of Sodastream which I never managed to keep up the habit of swapping tanks and so on.
I'm reminded of a dead archduke and burning Reichstag...
> The west can't do anything to stop China from incorporating Taiwan.

Who knows, I certainly don't. Except, I believe that Taiwan is much more important to the rest of the World than Ukraine, (no disrespect intended towards Ukraine). Also, Taiwan has been preparing for this longer and not sure but it seems they have better equipped and prepared military. Then there's the matter of about 100 miles of Taiwan Strait between them..
I’m fairly certain that some people truly do want to see the world burn.
It makes me sad, angry and confused that Putin is showing force. What an absolute madman.
Russia actively conducting cyberops and disinformation attacks
There was a referendum in 1991, and a huge majority (92%) voted for independence from Russia. This is a map showing the no-votes per region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_re...

The Crimea region was the only part of Ukraine that had a noticeable opposition (42% voted against independence). Even in the Eastern parts of Ukraine there was no region with more than 13% of votes against independence.
https://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/27/opinion/7-things-gavrilo-...
I'm sure some people are mistaken and think Trump himself is anti-vaccine, but most people (that I am aware of) that put some measure of responsibility on him do so not because of his specific stance on it, but for his part in the flywheel that created the current political climate.

He has been closely in bed with the sections of media that have pushed the narrative, generally celebrated paranoia towards experts, and consistently pushed the idea that you can't trust the government. If you lose control of the bolder you helped push onto the slope, it doesn't mean that you don't have responsibility in pushing it to begin with.
> They... requested NATO to discuss it. Officially. Which is kind of a big deal.

I'm totally ignorant on NATO procedures, so forgive me that I don't understand the Big Deal here. Obviously, NATO nations will discuss this. They didn't need Estonia to draw attention to what Russia is doing.

So this seems to me a bit like: The exact thing that obviously would happen next (NATO nations discussing) will still happen, but now it's dressed up in a formalism?
Whether there is a debate or not is not what I was addressing. I'm simply pointing out that, under current Federal law, that's not the case.

But If you want my opinion as an individual, I wouldn't agree with a privacy carveout. Firstly, because "revenge porn" doesn't qualify under currently prescribed limitations (defamation, incitement to imminent lawless action, obscenity, "fighting words", etc.) and I'm skeptical of adding any more. Secondly, most "revenge porn" legislation is overbroad and does not require a mens rea to prosecute. They are strict liability laws in all but name. They amount to prior restraint and violate the requirements of content neutrality and strict scrutiny towards limiting speech. Thirdly, these laws can be used to silence journalists reporting on relevant events (such as the Katie Hill debacle).

"Revenge porn" laws do nothing but coerce individuals into becoming bearers of secrets. Even if they had no interest in doing so to begin with.

I would also like to add that not every person charged under "revenge porn" laws is the stereotypical ex-boyfriend uploading sex tapes to Pornhub. It's in situation like Bethany Austin's where rights are needed most. https://www.cato.org/blog/picture-worth-thousand-words-priso...
Ask HN: Are there any sites for building appliance and tool prototypes?
In particular, I’m looking to build a prototype of a vacuum cleaner. This means mostly being able to build a plastic container with a fairly complex design and smooth air flow pipes which most additive 3D printers are not very good at as far as I know.
Was there a promise that the US would defend them?

I don't see that in the list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...

What I do see is a promise made by both the US and Russia to "[r]efrain from the threat or the use of force against [...] Ukraine." So Russia definitely broke the promise, and I don't see where the US broke it.
Thanks for recommending Web3Forms. I'm the Maker :)
Regarding official sources, US does not share nuclear weapons with anyone outside of Europe. More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing

Even Canada does not share nuclear weapons with the US. That genuinely surprised me. US and Canada have unbelievably interconnected militaries -- see NORAD and various Artic zone military bases.
> Rather than waiting for the client to download a JavaScript bundle and render the page based on its contents, we render the page’s HTML on the server side and attach dynamic hooks on the client side once it’s been downloaded.

The fact that they don't make a reference like, "hey, ya know, how _everything_ worked just a few years ago" tells me they think this is somehow a novel idea they're just discovering.

They then go on to describe a convoluted rendering system with worker processes and IPC... I just don't know what to say. They could have built this in Java, .Net, Go, really any shared memory concurrency runtime and threading, and would not run into any of these issues.
This isn't an intelligence organization or unlabeled fighters. This is an actual, state-backed military and a declared invasion.
ok, so ELI15, what is Article 4 and Article 5?
Are you in Ukraine? If not, how will you yeet cash at them?
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1) The reference is the UK health ministry report why they revoked the vaccine mandates for healthcare professionals.

2) With the global perspective the differences are not significant. Most important what are vaccination rates among elderly? You correctly show that in Israel it is barely 90% and somehow the graph doesn't show it but it has remained something like that for over the year. While in the UK (and Canada) it is close 99.9%. See the difference?
Russia is a like an abusive man with PTSD - always expecting an attack that doesn't come and victimizing himself while abusing others.

Has Russia perhaps thought for a moment why are countries making an alliance to defend against Russia? Why aren't countries in NATO worried about being attacked by other countries in NATO? Because *all the countries there don't want war*.

NATO is not to attack Russia, but to defend against it. The idea of protecting against counter attack from the West is like saying "I can't leave my house to protect against the possibility of a meteorite against my head."