skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oooh. Humble thanks, I did indeed get the two confused. There was a recent post talking about how iPhones will be able to pretend they're payment terminals (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30259183), with Stripe in the position of major partner, and Square as the unimpressed incumbent that had just had their core competency made redundant. That kind of backs out my point somewhat then heh. *Moves Stripe back to "probably ok"*

The comment I linked incidentally happened to be (understandably) stuck in my head, but some bumbling around and experimentation with Algolia for a few minutes (trying keywords like "works at", "engineer" and "dev") also found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700627, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12924580, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12928349, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20701499, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815847, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16971725, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587191, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728531. It's quite possible none of these are relevant or useful; I also just thought of https://github.com/search?q=tumblr&type=users, which surfaces an interesting level of signal right on page 1, and this is not even mentioning LinkedIn, notwithstanding that site's caveat of "oh no" vs "likely most direct solution to problem" :)

(Now to work through this small pile of unrelated interesting things that also mysteriously opened themselves over the past few minutes. Welp. All good :D)
The IT world is still growing, people need scale and existing solutions might not scale like people want.
very interesting. The issue is that many countries are banning civil people from using drones. However, I agree that it should be organized to be used properly as you said for medical purpose it would be great.
The Russians purposefully moved a bunch of instigators from one vassal state into what they would have liked to be their next.

That you continue to carry water for them given all the evidence on the ground is baffling to me.
Exactly. Moxie is right. Telegram isn't secure by default. Signal is the way for tons of dark net criminals, terrorists and extremists to use it to conduct their activities without seeing any side of the conversation, thanks to E2EE which that is a known double-edged sword by many. [0]

The real problem is what Moxie doesn't want to tell you is that they want to release a private untraceable cryptocurrency called MobileCoin [1], which not only the majority of the coins are owned by the founders. [2][3] so basically orchestrating a pump-and-dump, this coin (like Monero) enables these dark net criminals, scammers and extremists to fund their operations anywhere in the world and it is totally untraceable.

Now I see why Moxie is out there hyping the Signal / MobileCoin pump-and-dump scheme again?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/22872133/signal-cryptocurrency-paym...

[1] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...

[2] https://mixin.one/assets/MobileCoin-Whitepaper-EN_FINAL.pdf

[3] https://github.com/UkoeHB/Mechanics-of-MobileCoin/blob/maste...
> US should also not have made NATO an offensive alliance with Kosovo... a "humanitarian" invasion outside UN security council authorization.

UN security council is how things like Srebrenica happen. In my eyes, disregarding it is justifiable if there is a high enough likelihood of something like that repeating.
You don't mind wearing a sweater but I'm willing to bet you're not elderly, nor poor, nor living in substandard housing. Any of those would make your sacrifice simply one more example of an action that hurts the most vulnerable in society while claiming to be a good thing.
Wow, this is such a nice application. In combination with this [1].
Could be a delightful Project to start with.

[1] https://inkstitch.org/tutorials/embroidery-machine/
It's basically the same situation as the USA has w.r.t. the world until maybe very recently, they basically inherited the UK organizational structure.
The US clearly enters the picture here if they are willing to supply weapons to the Ukrainians. That is a justified security concern from Russia's perspective
> This was always the case. Turkey needed to help in Korea (1950) to get into NATO (1952). With annexation of half the Cyprus, and the tensions with Greece and buying NATO-incompatible S400 defense missiles from Russia, it kept being a problem-child. It weirdly remains also the only member which recently had armed conflict against Russia.

Turkey was completely blackhanded as a military ally by NATO, long before Erdogun. NATO made an extremely costly error of accommodating the Greek junta, and later closing eyes on Cyprus.

By all reasonable judgement, NATO should've backed Turkey, and not Greece, but they did it the other way around.

If not for that, it wouldn't have set seeds of doubt which lead to the situation you see now, and probably would've averted the 1980 coup.

Turkey has NATO's most powerful conventional military on this side of the Atlantic, second NATO army by size, and conventional firepower after the USA.

Macaron trying to intimidate Turkey, and marginalise Turkey's NATO role in this day, and age is absurd, and suicidal. Turkey leaving NATO = say bye bye half of NATO's conventional force on this side of the Atlantic. Turkey's troops could not be replaced by ANY NATO member since USA is already overstretched.

I could've added much more strong words.
nice article. however, the site is under construction. Is it possible to access the archive of the previous articles?
>During the Tiananmen Square debacle/massacre, interviews with people there indicate that many/most never imagined the "people's" army would act against them - they were considered on the same side.

I don't think even Tiananmen is quite as cut-and-dry as you're making it out.

There were at least half a dozen generals who risked execution to publicly oppose the attack, and many of the commanders instructed their soldiers not to open fire on the crowds. The insubordination went down to the level of the individual soldier, and if more than a tiny minority of soldiers (namely the 27th army) had actually, genuinely been following orders then the casualties would be orders of magnitude higher than they were.

At least that's what I've heard from people who witnessed it.
Nice work. Support of different languages would be neat!
Also preemptive detection of flaws in their own safety.
Convex: Life Without a Back End Team (James Cowling)
That would be fine, except that was not at all its substance. The claim was that it was not possible, something I recognized at the time as farcical and a disgrace. I have no recollection who penned it, but can only hope the author has since left the project, or been ejected.
What should they peacekeep? The Russians are not butchering civilians, their goal is to demilitarize the country and replace the government. There will be no attack on peaceful civilians, hopefully. Civil unrest will be solved the way how Russia is solving that. But that could NEVER be prevented by peacekeepers.

Imagine China would send peacekeepers to Canada to peacekeep the policing against the truckers.

No way.
Nuclear weapons are a special case because they threaten the survival of the human race (you can probably throw certain chemical/biological weapons in here too). Joining NATO--not that the Ukraine was even doing that--does not. There's a material difference here.
The west not having the stomach for any real sanctions that also hurt them in return is exactly why Putin was confident enough to start the invasion. The only way non-violent way to stop it (besides an internal uprising) is to make exactly to make it clear that Putin miscalculated.
I'd like (or hate, actually) to see what would happen to the US if a foreign power was able to fund a terrorist militia and overthrow their government. You have too much faith in the morals of humans who don't have a strong leadership that can hold them accountable.
I've used this a lot in the past for my embroidery projects, it's come so far from it's early days (and it was pretty good when it first came out). It's an incredible bit of software.

As a side note, it's amazing how versatile Inkscape is. I literally use the program to: design cookie cutters for printing, make embroidery designs, create laser cut patterns, and CNC Router cutouts. Just an incredible program.
Russia in NATO would by no means "literally eliminate a whole host of terrible scenarios". Putin would still be in power, in fact he'd probably have swallowed up more territory by now using his ability to paralyze NATO, and he'd be no less likely to use nukes than he is today.
I completely disagree. If sovereign nation A invades sovereign nation B, while under no threat from sovereign nation B, that by itself is enough to qualify as offensive IMO. You could argue (and I'd maybe agree) that it's a justified offensive action, maybe even morally necessary, but it's not defensive.
This is going to be a tough sell to the significant percentage of US Congresspeople who vocally support a man who currently vocally supports Putin's actions.
I like how the article cuts off the founders head at the top. /s
> I'm actually not awared of any sign of genocide from russians to ukranians (and vice verse).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor, followed by suppression of Ukrainian culture until 1991.

Russia continues to deny Holodomor to this day, and in the recent speech Putin called the whole idea of Ukrainian independence a fiction, and now he has declared a war on Ukraine. I don't see how this has any similarities to US-Mexico relations. Does the US deny that Mexico has the right to exist and is it preparing to wage a war on Mexico to replace its government and absorb the country?
See that I’d be open to discussing with an employer. Office jobs all want to go back to the cheap open office sort of thing though

Am a free range human now, can’t be crammed in with 20 other nerds coughing and burping and sneezing everywhere all day
Related: surfraw https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw
From what I can find e.g., https://tass.com/economy/1247359 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_budget_of_Russia or https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/two-lean-years-russia... you are incorrect. The last link seems to have good information whether it's accurate or not I don't really know but most figures seem to agree roughly:

> In 2019, revenues are planned to reach 15.555 trillion and expenditures will amount to 16.374 trillion, whereas the deficit will stand at 0.8 percent of GDP. By 2020, revenues are estimated at 16.285 trillion with expenditures at 17.155 trillion

And

> In contrast, military spending rose from 2 trillion, 141 billion in 2013 to 3.775 trillion in 2016. In 2017 it fell to 2.778 trillion, and it will decline further in 2018 to 2.771 trillion, but will grow again afterward, to 2.808 trillion in 2020. It should be borne in mind that the actual military spending in Russia is much higher than the planned figures. Traditionally, additional budget revenues, if any, are allocated to this sector. Moreover, some military expenditures are concealed under other civilian items, primarily under the “national economy.” Police spending rose from 1 trillion, 487 billion in 2013 to 1.898 trillion in 2016, 1.977 trillion in 2017, 2.108 trillion in 2018, and 2.140 trillion in 2020. The share of concealed budget expenditures in 2013 amounted to 13.8 percent of the total expenditure and increased to 18.6 percent in 2017, with a planned increase to 20.1 percent of the budget in 2020. These are absolutely bizarre figures that cannot withstand any comparison with the secret parts of budgets in developed economies. At the same time, a significant proportion of the “secret expenses” most likely does not go to military purposes but simply remains in someone’s pocket.

So expenditures are around 17, and official military budget is 2.7-3.7. There are "secret" expenditures of up to 3.4 of which they don't all go to the military but if they did we would be at 7.1. 41% of federal budget revenue to the military.

Let's see your figures that show it over 50.

> But further discussion about it is pointless and will be going in circles.

I absolutely could be wrong, but I'm not arguing in bad faith here I'm using the sources I can find so you don't need to go off in a huff. And it's not really going in circles because you've refused to answer all my questions about China or acknowledged that the military build up in Europe is not remotely like it was in the 1930s. It's more like it's hit a brick wall than gone in a circle.

EDIT: Either way I find it's pretty arbitrary to be so worried about the exact amount of military expenditure. Would a regime that spent 30% of its budget be better than one that spent 40%? What if the absolute numbers were higher? What if the government raised taxes and other expenditures to reduce the proportion of military spending below the magic 50%? What about as a proportion to GDP? I really don't see why that should make a significant consideration about whether we would go to war with a country. So perhaps you are right and it is pointless to talk to you about this.
it's defined enough for C to have adopted it since C11 (https://people.mpi-sws.org/~viktor/papers/cpp2015-invited.pd...)
I'm sure lynx + w3m together hold less than 0.01% of the global browser usage.

Why would you even want lynx or w3m when curl/netcat already exists and allows you to view text on the commandline from http/s servers? Because it's more comfortable for you. Just like this tool is more comfortable for you if you just want to visit Wikipedia articles in the commandline.

Some tools are specialized, I'm not sure why you think that's such a bad thing. Otherwise we'd all use netcat to view websites, then you can read most protocols too, not just http/s.
Not that anonymity goes a very long way, but I can vouch for USG not giving a shit.

I used to work for an anti-phishing firm that you’ve likely never heard of. We routinely disrupted and dismantled phishing campaigns and bot networks being used by Russian crime networks as well as suspected IRGC (those folks have to get currency somewhere and importing an crack cocaine is apparently not their style)

Our malware research and SOC folks were pretty much all former Feds or Military Intelligence. They would routinely counter-hack servers we couldn’t take-down through legitimate means. While it was most certainly a “let’s not discuss this in an email” it was understand and briefed by our legal department that it was a “grey area” and that the USG would never even bother us as we were hitting adversarial nations anyway.

If you’re gonna play hackerman for UA, just do it smart.
I can take Kiev in two weeks, Vladimir Putin warns European leaders (2014)
I'd say that this makes Xi Jinping Sauron, but that puts the Shire (Taiwan) in the wrong place, no?
Putin's brain cannot feel such feelings (like love) at all

since he is a psychopath (Machiavellian, more precisely)
I suppose then if Nazi Germany just killed Jews and other undesirables in Germany and didn't try take over Europe then we should just stand back and do nothing because otherwise millions of Germans would also die? I wonder why people here seem to consider violent dictatorships and other such governments in equal standing with democracies.
I tried microdosing psylo regulary for 2 years it gave me a lot of improvement on my mental health, now I don't consume it anymore, I just can't feel the need to, like if I was cured.
If you fix a filed complaint, but leave in place the same means to break in as before, that is what we call "security theater", which has a well-deserved poor reputation.
There's some of the latter, but there are also a lot of people whose single principle is "AMERICA BAD" and everything else follows from that.

(I'm not even American)
where in hell did you learn that, this is entirely false
> I highly recommend the movie Der Untergang, which is as historically accurate as they could make it

And in case anyone didn't make the connection, is also the movie where the scene used in all those "Hitler hears about..." YouTube clips is taken from.
> Opinion on life during communism is very much a mixed bag

Only if you were part of the Nomenklatura or the Secret Police. The rest hated communism quite uniformly.
There's also a package "emacs-w3m", an interface for the w3m web browser: https://github.com/emacs-w3m/emacs-w3m
" 13,565 bangs and counting"
Could be as simple as military movement disturbed old sediment?
What's your point?

The claim that NATO cannot attack Russia is often justified by the fact that "NATO is a defensive alliance". Previous events show that actions by NATO in the recent past do not reflect this definition, so this line of reasoning is invalid.

The other line of reasoning on why NATO would not attack Russia is that it would trigger MAD. And while this is a really sad state of affairs, I believe this to be more credible rather than lies about NATO being "purely defensive".
I hear you, and I share severe criticism of USSR and USA imperialism. I condemn Russia’s imperialism, too. I am just saying that all of this is also true of the USA.

The entire Caribbean is in USA’s sphere of influence. We toppled Hawaii’s kingdom and annexed that, too.

Actually, the entire hemisphere, going back as early as President Monroe (200 years earlier)

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

USA seized territory during the Spanish-American war, which is now Texas / Arizona etc.

In short, as angry as you are, I am sure many South American countries were and are angry at the USA as well, for propping up fascist dictators (Pinochet), or toppling regimes for fruit companies (Guatemala), or arming rebels (Nigaragua) in violation of our own laws (Iran-Contra affair) or training terrorists and dictators (School of the Americas). Whether or not we are “a dictatorship” is beside the point.

I was simply pointing out that Donbas has ethnic Russians so it is more their business than Iraq was ours, Iraq has no credible threat to us at all. Neither do the dozens of other countries that USA effected regime change in.

https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peopl...
I can't speak for others but I am not against having regime change in Saudi Arabia and other such "allies" of convenience.
This is ignorance at it's best. There were antiprotesters in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The nuance here is if the US could invade other faraway sovereign countries, why Russia couldn't against a neighbour, over what it sees as security concern?

US is a misinformed bipartisan country and has a combination of brainwashed and scared population
Is it just me, or does this read like they’re trying to use the crisis as an excuse to pitch?
His closest few men likely are, I think. Or most of them
> then such person is a problem to itself.

No, that is a statement that I consider false. I do personally live in a country that has a sizeable ethnic minority (Hungarians/Szekely, depending on the particular region of the country where they live [1]), and many of them do not know the local/national language, which is Romanian. Many of my fellow citizens regard that as almost blasphemy, I (and the law itself) actually have the contrary view, those people have the same right to Romanian citizenship as I do, even if they don't/can't speak the Romanian language.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarians_in_Romania
This limitation prohibits the use of joins until a session parameter like 'set max_logical_reads to xxx' is available.
> Apple proposes that programs such as Tunnelblick be modified to use a different method to accomplish the function that the system extensions currently perform. The current Tunnelblick developers do not have the time or expertise to use the new method Apple proposes and have no plans to do so.
Tunnelblick's value proposition is that it's a way to use OpenVPN on MacOS. What's its point if if stops doing that?

I'd have much more sympathy if it was a cross-platform application or if they had to keep rewriting/refactoring code multiple times because Apple kept changing different APIs from under their feet. That's not the case. Their only platform is macOS and AFAIK this is the only meaningful API migration they are being forced to do in 11 years. I know we cannot demand anything from Open Source maintainers, but is it really too much to ask that if you're the maintainer of a very popular security related application, you either learn how to code for the platform you're targeting or you pass on the torch?

I just don't understand the obsession with clinging on to being the unwilling maintainer for something that you don't master when the option of passing on the torch is always there. Someone willing will always pick up something as important as an OpenVPN client for an extremely popular operating system.
And even arguing that it is justified is hard when the United Nations explicitly stated that the intervention was not.
What’s the point and significance of capturing Chernobyl?
Except logical replication doesn't handle DDL yet. And 2 phase commit (prepared transactions) as well.
>How can you say something “does not mean anything” simply because it cannot be formalised? Since when is formalisability a prerequisite for meaningfulness?

I'm wondering then, what you think is the interest of this theorem?

The goal of Gödel was to create a metamathematics. You need to know what is a paradox of the theory or a paradox or not to know if it is correct.
If you have a contradiction, you cannot believe anything that the theory proves.
So the whole thing is ultimately about separating mathematical paradox from "other types" of paradoxes.
I certainly sympathise much with that call, given the west is basically saying now -- we'll put in sactions, hopefully in a few months/years Russians will notice, in the meantime lets Russians bomb and occupy Ukraine. And to be honest it is not clear if the west can do anything that wouldn't lead to a direct confrontation with Russia and therefore nuclear war. But in the same time you'd hope in the modern world there would be ways to put real pressure now on a rogue state behaving insanely. It's not clear if SWIFT is an effective measure or not, but certainly prohibiting the oil/gas imports is -- the west just considers it too costly for them -- I guess it makes sense, they are not dying under the bombs, Ukrainians are.
They didn't have the codes to use the nukes though so it changes the balance of power somewhat.
Their politics is overwhelming informed by their memories and they bring it up whenever they can.
Balkan wars had a historical tendency to spread to the rest of Europe, so nipping that one in the bud can be seen as a defensive move.
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You're right, I have removed that line. Phobia is a irrational fear of something, but it sounded catchy to use that word when I wrote my comment.
If they had the motive? We don't really need to guess because Trump plainly suggests that America should do the same thing on its border with Mexico with the implied motive of solving the immigration crisis. The Trump quote that was posted is slightly incomplete:

> And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper…We could use that on our southern border

Oh, I can believe that Trump is being irreverently honest, just like your uncles, but I doubt your uncles are vying to be re-elected into a position that gives them the power to do such a thing.
The bigger point is that life for everyday Afghanis was better under the American occupation than it is now. (Partly because the Taliban can't feed them.) Too bad the warlords didn't agree.