skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Had a Russian/enemy state website had a similar thread that condoned cyber-attacks against the USA critical infrastructure, they would be flagged as terrorists

Look up the difference between belligerent and victim, and the word compassion.

I don't see why you're dragging another political topic, capitalism, into the conversation when it's about thwarting what you call terrorists. It seems flamebaity but I'm replying in the hope you're seriously interested in the conversation.
I think HN has 1 full time mod.
I think restic[1] does provide this.

[1] https://restic.net/
I'd sit in a jail cell before I got drafted into an unjust war. Doesn't seem like a hard decision to me. Now if you're repelling aggressive invaders, that's a different story.
First line, from 2015.

"In the public consciousness, its portrayals have all the makings of a doomsday cult: a tribe of unkempt misfits who hoard gold bullion, study herbalism, and preach about the imminent collapse of our society."

Well, that hasn't aged well...
The connection is that lately(well actually since around 2017), when Patreon/other claim to stop supremacists/russian trolls/bots/"dangerous groups" it's mostly a smoke screen and based on nothing than ideologically-based censorship, or due to certain people being tied to russia. To give a little bit more context,when the western "anti-russian" folks (often left wing but not necessarily, there's some nuance here) talk about stopping russians but don't see the hypocrisy when they censor specifically people who are not pro-russian at all, but due to being labeled as such by the MSM, end up in the crosshairs when legitimate good-will gestures are being made.This is precisely why I also shortly mentioned the Canada situation, though arguably that's even worse because we're not talking about violent conflicts, and donations from US to CA are not "foreign meddling".

You might say: why does this bother you? Well, because for non-american citizens it actually makes it really harder to be pro-liberty and stand by US.Many people look up to US as a good reference of the struggle for liberty and freedom.And some can even tolerate US warmongering, but labeling pro-western (which is what most of UA is right now) foreigners wrongfully is really shitty, and the benefiting entities from this are mainly pro-war, western/eastern military industrial complexes.
We only have ourselves to blame for this.

Of course there is an information attack on social media right now.

The countries on Russia's side in all this are smart enough to see the value and ease in doing this while we are just oblivious. We are so helplessly addicted to social media that IMO we are willfully oblivious. It is comical to think about at this very moment there are thousands of people pissed off but also highly engaged with the opinions of bots.

When part of the business model is based on optimal engagement I don't know what you expect the companies to do. This is a feature from their perspective.
Russian 'news' is claiming Ukrainian Nazis are massacring ethnic Russians. They don't need a legitimate excuse.

Anyway, most Russians probably thought this was all bluster by the West and Russia wasn't going in. They need to know they're engaged in an actual war.
totally reasonable course of action given their existing terms of service

Oh, well, if it's a violation of their Terms of Service, then everything is perfectly OK. /s

Notions like this are what makes it so easy for the real world to hate people in the tech bubble.

Protip: Terms of Service !>= Doing the right thing
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> The term has become an idiom describing a group agreeing to perform an impossibly difficult task.

My more cynical take has always been that it is about the bravery of the group, cowardice of the individual.

Or, more charitably, the good intentions of the collective that nonetheless fail in practice.
Not at all.

1. Appeasement is not an option. It just encourages them to do it again.

2. It is up to the Ukrainians if they want to fight to the bitter end. We can't make them, we can't stop them, but we can have their backs.

3. The purpose of resisting an illegal occupation is to drive up the cost of staying as high as possible. This works, even without economic sanctions. Just ask Vietnam or Afghanistan.

4. In a proxy war, countries officially "ignore" inconvenient facts because acknowledging them will cause a more complicated conflict. This happened all over the Cold War, but as recently as Afghanistan the US had to turn a blind eye to Pakistan's behavior.

5. Nothing is predetermined or strictly predictable. History is chaos. The only thing we know for sure right now is this will be hell for the Ukrainians.
I hadn’t heard about any of this, especially the latest batshit crazy bigotry from Abbott (TX). That guy is a grade-A sociopath. I’d love to see him voted out of office, but with the voting rights suppression in Texas right now in effect, lacking any overriding federal law to restore sanity to the democratic process here, as a Texas citizen/resident in a large city, my vote literally doesn’t count.

I hate to even think this, but the fact is that this kind of abuse will only go on so long before people are forced to take violent action against their government. Which, even now, certainly could be argued to be illegitimate, the result is fixed elections.
> From nanoseconds precision (with NTFS)

NTFS does not have nanoseconds precision, only 100-nanoseconds aka FILETIME.
You claim this, do you have sources?

It only shows humanitarian aid is partisan.
I see downvotes, but history is an excellent predictor.

Russia is held in an iron grip. The public can not, and will not successfully rise up. Any threat to Putin is either dead, or jailed.

Now, with these restrictions and sanctions, another country, a long time friend of Russia, China, also undergoing trade restrictions, will clearly work with Russia even more closely.

Do people really think that China and Russia do not have the resources, and industry, to not care about sanctions?!

And again historically, when chaos reigns, people take advantage of opportunities. I fully expect China to finally take Taiwan very soon.

Literally, this is the best time for them to do so.

Ukraine is just the match, people. The real flames are not even visible yet.
I first discovered the Theory of Constraints and Eli‘s work in about 1992. I was also able to get a copy of Bill Dettmer‘s course notes for the course he was teaching at USC at the time on the Thinking Processes.

I’ve been a fan of TOC and the TP ever since.

That being said, I think there is a certain kind of danger for certain people. It’s possible to spend a great deal of time and effort building paper tigers. That happened to me, probably because of certain aspects of my personality at the time.

The danger as I see it is that as possible to spend too much time in your head and not enough time out actually interacting with people in the real world working to accomplish your goals.

So I recommend TOC and the TP to people. But they’re also not enough, especially if you’re prone to investing large amounts of time in analysis and planning and not much time in actually executing. Both are needed.
You should look up on the Crusades, liberty bonds, donation runs of metals from the population, etc. There's nothing dystopian about people donating for a military cause.
Yup. Also people who write things like CollapseOS, and many HAM radio people. They fantasize about being relevant and important, and their hobby is a way to indulge in those fantasies. No wonder they secretly want the worst to come to pass – it’s the actual point of it all.
Yes but at least the US had probable cause to go into Iraq. The world was pretty much behind that decision. We were attacked, civilians were attacked directly, none of that conflict would have occurred if Iraq or neighboring countries stopped their terrorism.
[pdf] (HN hides the last bit of the URL)
20 years of war and occupation to educate some girls seems excessive to me.
I don’t think anyone’s buying weapons with oxygen though
This is a double edged sword: an animal that is incapable of imagining a hopeless future may also be incapable of understanding that certain terrors it faces are temporary, and thus may live in anguish much more as it has a poorer mental model of its own situation.
Typo - should be: Try check if "China" appeared anywhere on the passport issued by the current government of *Taiwan*.
That's the plan, and thanks for the compliment! :-) If you try writing lessons on the app and have any feedback/requests -- just let me know, jameshfisher@gmail.com
The problem won't be having money. The problem will be (hopefully) spending that to buy stuff. Sanctions should make sure companies can't receive money easily from Russia, i.e. have issues properly declaring those funds in their accounting. BTC won't help with that.
Did Ireland ever have a reasonable chance of resisting British invasion?
Did Afghanistan ever have a reasonable chance of resisting Soviet/US invasion?
Did Vietnam ever have a reasonable chance of resisting US/Chinese invasion?
The past few months I've been on a temporary internet connection, it says its 15meg but in reality its usually 3-5meg. Its given me a while new understanding of the need for lite sites, reducing file downloads and giving users options to just not load half the site. The 'reader' views don't really solve the issue because the site has to load first.

Youtube is the worst offender I've found. Loading one of their 'shorts' videos on the desktop in chrome. The video autoplays, except its just the audio first, the page hasn't loaded yet and still hasn't before the video has finished - and then it auto-skips to the next video!
With the risk of getting a dead comment, I can't help but ask one question: Imagine groups in countries getting uninvited visits from NATO or US forces, pick the country of choice from Vietnam to Afghanistan, would have used Patreon for fundraising. Wpuld the perception, after they get kicked of patreon, be "fuck patreon" or "good that patreon isn't financing terrorists"?

Ukraine needs all the help they can get. And that Germany managed to send a couple of thousand helmets is a disgrace (Germany has no problems selling arms to Saudi Arabia or the UAE so). NATO should be on the forefront of sending arms and equipment to Ukraine, and they should have started months ago. That Patreon isn't offering its platform to fund weapon purchases for an active war is good.
That's amazing! Thanks for making this open source.

Could this be extended to support temporal (and Bitemporal) tables? Some storage level optimizations could benefit performance and easy of use for use cases temporarily is important, like financial services systems.

Thanks
The funding was to buy guns, to buy UAVs, to train snipers and gunners. Not sure how any of those are going to help kids get away from explosions.

Facts are:

1. Patreon is a private company.

2. I don't think their policy around the whole funding military stuff has changed recently. If they changed the policy when this happened or to specifically target this. That would be quite terrible.

3. The page was against the rules of the company. It's perfectly reasonable for a company to remove a page against its rules. It's technically on the organizers, why did they create a page on a website that explicitly does not allow military funding.

I am guessing we wouldn't be this supportive of a private company funding the Iraqi Army fighting against the illegal occupation of their nation by the US.
Whats the problem with setting the requirements to a private git repository using ssh?
No. What you clearly teaching is utmost harmful for the security. Are you going to be responsible if someone lose money from their bank account? And please don't expect all hackernews reader to understand the meaning of cors. Not all of us are fronted developer right?

The best way is to create some node or binaries (rust/go/c++) and run them.
Support for Ukraine Is Welcome
I won't do a tl;dr version of the events in the last two days. But recently I decided to change jobs and I was invited to join a Ukrainian company fully remote. For long and irrelevant reasons, I went a different route days before the invasion. That said, I have worked with Ukrainians in the past and they were all amazing people. Likewise, I absolutely loved the people I met in this company albeit over a video call. In addition being from and living in a country which has suffered immensely from Russia over the past almost two centuries, I feel like it's my duty to share our last two emails(redacted for obvious reasons):

https://i.imgur.com/eW8LNWs.png

With that, I want to address all free people on this planet: they need help.
Clustered indexes can be overused but they are sorely missing from PG, having had them forever in SQL server it was another surprise to see they don't exist in PG and there is even a confusing CLUSTER command to reorder the heap table but does not actually make a clustered index.

Clustered index are great for storage space and IO for common write and retrieval patterns. If your table is accessed in one way most of the time and that way needs to be fast and therefore requires an index a clustered index saves write IO (only writing the table no secondary index) disk space (no secondary index redundantly storing the indexed columns) and retrieval time (no indirection when querying the clustered index).

This is great for certain kinds of tables, for instance log tables that need to written to quickly but queried quickly (usually by time range) and grow quite large and are append only. GIS tables which can also get quite large and are by points can be packed really tight and row found quickly. Entity tables that are mostly retrieved via primary key ID during app usage, you trade a slight performance penalty when using secondary index for maximum performance when retrieving by ID which effect everything in including foreign key checks this again saves space on writing the ID twice to disk. Tables that actually are an index for something else such that the table is kept up to date with a trigger etc and usually exist for specific access pattern and performance.
Winrar save extra information to the compressed file. So in case your .rar file damage, it can be recovered.
I've always felt a connection to this story in my professional life. I've been in enough rooms full of "ideas people" who will spend an entire meeting talking about tools that should exist or processes that need to be changed, if only "someone" would implement it. It's about work that everyone agrees someone else should do. Everyone wants the cat belled, no one wants to do the belling.
Some people want to live in urban areas and don't have space for a dedicated office. Some people prefer having work as dedicated time away from their household. Some people working from home for a long time lose motivation and struggle with burnout.

Try to have some empathy. I'm glad you like working remotely, but it's not for everyone.
Isn't it both? Imho the relevance to software projects is right on the button
ReckOn: A Spiking RNN Processor for On-Chip Learning over Second-Long Timescales
An unnecessary killing is never respectful. You can attach whatever rituals and formalities to the process to ease your conscience, but at the end of the day if you kill a sentient animal for momentary pleasure, you don’t respect it in the slightest.
Your position is called 'appeasement'. It's understandable, if not very good in the long term because that means that Putin gets to rule the world.

Somewhere you have to draw a line, you can choose for yourself whether that line is the Ukrainian border, Kiev or France. But you too will find that you have a line. Or maybe you don't.
I guess it's a question of when does your moral kicks in and makes you feel bad about the kill.

I've seen and participated both in killing of pig and chicken. Multiple pigs are always a problem that needs to be addressed as they go crazy when they hear the first one die. When you kill a chicken and bleed it out to the ground the other chickens come to pick the blood and totally incapable of realizing the same fate will come to them.

Even lower are insects like a wasp. If you cut its head it will try to eat it then when that fails it grabs it's own head and fly it to home because its second algorithm is called "gather food". I'm not even sure you can call this "intelligence".

I have serious problems killing pigs and I would never attempt one because it feels wrong. But chickens are dumb man, I don't have any problems killing and eating them whatsoever.
He means its the last card the west can play short of war. If they unleash all of their cards now they have no chance at dealing with Putin in the next few days. As small as the hope sounds, its possible Ukraine could resist enough and possibly hold some ground, and Putin could be convinced to stop his advance at some point with the threat of swift being revoked.
Your bank absolutely gets a say in that. They can refuse to transfer those funds for effectively any reason and will if they think that those funds are being transferred for any number of proscribed actions.

Those actions need not be official sanctions either. They can refuse to do business with another bank at their discretion.

I agree that it’s a very bad look for Patreon but it’s pretty business as usual.
Hm, ctrl-d and ctrl-u don't work for me, for some reason (keybinds for scrolling in screen-halves), and scrolling and moving of cursor causes jittering, which is distracting.

I'm using lxterm.

Nice tool otherwise!
The internal workings of the US is not relevant to the signing of any of the treaties. It may affect if the US chooses to uphold it's obligations, but the Budapest memorandum[1] was certainly signed by the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
I was able to get to rt.com when using an american vpn. I had to reload 3 times and fill a captcha though.

english.pravda.ru is working though.
Question: war comes down to us vs them. Even the most racist, xenophobic Canadian will consider Ukraine to be "us". But Canada houses 1 million people who have Ukrainian roots and many of those have been here long enough that they are considered "Canadian". A good analogy would be the Italians in the US. At one time they weren't considered real Americans, but that time is long past.

Yet xenophobic Canadians would not consider Georgia or Moldova or Chechnya to be on our team.

Is this a uniquely Canadian thing, or would it be common to the rest of the West?
Next paradigm, Fungional Programming.
I suspect this operation is currently in the works.

Removing Putin would be massive relief for most of Russia I think, and most of the world at this point. The man is unhinged
Yes. It is. What's your point? If the truckers of Canada try to shut down the country over a vaccine mandate, seems the Russians should consider this a reason to do their best to shut down Russia.
>swarajyamag

A right-wing website that's extremely sympathetic to the current right-wing government in India is how you rebut V-Dem's classification of India as an electoral autocracy.
Yeh, "completing the square" is also how I learned it, but I thought this was a nice alternative approach that I hadn't seen before.

If you like, you can try writing a lesson using the "completing the square" approach! :-) https://tigyog.app/lessons/new
Whether a wolf would kill a cow before its 25 years old doesn’t affect our moral duty to not kill animals unnecessarily and prematurely.
> but if political pressure lead them to their decision, it wasn't really a principled decision was it?

Yes that is the point of my inquiry :)
“Compromised”, as in, they don’t blindly follow your propaganda?
It definitely does make sense and it probably what most people expect if they've never worked with a database before. But coming from my experience with other databases (primarily MS SQL Server) it's a surprising difference.

On me for not testing better, but it was some quick and dirty work in a quick and dirty environment that doesn't even have a dev instance.
Yep. We use rsnapshot with btrfs snapshots on Debian / Ubuntu. You can set up multiple generations easily. Efficient storage using hard links.

Very reliable.
If the good general wants the US to declare war on Russia, he should man up and say it. The US specifically has treaty obligations to Taiwan it doesn’t have to Ukraine.
> a tribe of unkempt misfits

If anything, it's an accurate description of preppers. Together with the unsustainable individualism.
There is Vitess for MySQL, no such cluster manager for Postgres. Citus is now owned by Microsoft, and getting harder to use outside of Microsoft’s cloud. Eg, no more Citus on AWS
Trying gopher://gopherpedia.com with a page linked on HN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_cat

Any ideas why it's missing the first paragraph? I didn't spot a page revision without it.
Maybe one of those bored days and turn out a load of 1/2/3/4 cable grips to live in a box for the next project
>Storage Box backup product

The script here really only makes sense for servers you physically own. You wouldn't accept SSH access from a key located on a plain VPS, right? Also this script doesn't seem to encrypt the data at all!! Very dangerous on a VPS.
Given that people here are apparently specifically looking at Ed's words, maybe it wouldn't though. The first thing to die in war is the truth, I've heard said. The Russians need all the good publicity they can get, every bit they can reduce blame or normalize the actions is going to result in lesser sanctions. Ed might have been politely asked and realized it was not a question or suggestion; we don't know.
Right now, for better or worse, Ukraine is fighting for the whole of Europe and maybe for the world's future. The fact that they are alone and we aren't doing anything to help them will hunt Western (and NATO) countries forever.
I think it is a good thing. Short of all the rich people in the world donating their wealth to poor people, I do not see any other way for the wealth transfer to happen other than labor price arbitrage.
Cash on hand, a gun with ammunition, canned food, and bottled water.
You are off by 1000x:

2000 nSv/h * 10 hours = 20 μSv (microsieverts) = 0.02 mSv (millisieverts)
Looks a lot like the raspberry pi 400 https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/.
In short, South China Sea is more important than the Black Sea
Finally I'll be able to send my whole desktop computer to repair when a key is stuck.

I don't really see the benefit here, all you get are some drawbacks you usually see with laptops. I understand the all-in-one inside a screen, but integrating it with one of the parts most exposed to wear?
I'd go for YugabyteDB instead of CockroachDB but your point of distributed SQL being better is spot on.
Yeah, I'm willing to give Rust the edge on stability and correctness, but I'd probably put Go at more like 4/5. It's certainly possible to make Go programs that crash, but it's also really easy to make them incredibly stable.

I don't think they're wrong for picking Rust. I really like Rust and it's probably a great fit for them. There's a good chance I'd have picked Rust for the same project. Based on their criteria, I'd probably see it as a bit more of a coin toss between Rust and Go though and I suspect they just picked the one they wanted. And that's totally fine.
Germany disagrees with you as a country that does not ship military equipment to war zones.

At this moment war is happening mostly outside of the cities. Soon it will be there and urban warfare is cruel. 100BTC or Patreon donations will not stop it. The best you can do for those children is to help them to evacuate to Europe, to get proper accommodation, medical help and education. Pointing towards charities which do that is morally right thing.