skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I feel like it must be complete familiarity with Illustrator. I feel the same way about using Illustrator since I learned inkscape first.
Better educated. Less likely to contribute to poverty in the accepting country. More culturally compatible with the receiving country.

When you accept refugees you’re also accepting the pain of side effects from accepting those refugees. Refugees from some places come with fewer side effects depending on compatibility with the host country and skills and education of the refugees.
The Year of the Jackpot (Robert Heinlein) [pdf]
Our actions and what we are allowed to do are constrained by God's orders. He owns us, and defines what we are and are not allowed to engage in. It is a consistent and non-contradicting system, unlike the liberal atheist view where the poles keep moving.
I have been working with Oracle for more than 20 years now. I think I only had very few situations where an "index organized table" (=clustered index) was useful or actually provided a major performance benefit over a "heap table". So I never really miss them in Postgres.
I've followed this project from the beginning, but I would say in general this is only a good way to learn Rust if you already know how to write an OS. If you've never written an OS before, then following this will be an exercise in simultaneously learning Rust and operating systems, and that's a lot for anyone to expect of themself. This OS may be "small" but that should not be taken to mean "simple" (although the presentation is excellent and understandable).

Good on you if you can pull it off though!
I don't mean that these companies are literally shilling for Russia directly. Rather it's that their entire approach is based around maximizing revenue, regardless of the consequences.

Deferring all decisions to an opaque algorithm isn't the most responsible approach, it's just the cheapest. Worrying about externalities of their services costs money and produces little, so they mostly don't.

The fact that their approach can be used to help horrendous warmongers is not intentional, but maintaining a system that can be used in that way is.
We are all connected. In Spain we get no gas from Russia (it comes mainly from Algeria), but there are already news that we will send gas up north to help Northern European countries that may experience outages.
Also, politically most of Europe seems to have worked itself into a corner where the only politically tenable power source that works well regardless of the weather (which is also when most of Europe has peak power demands) is unbuildable and very expensive (nuclear) or puts them at the mercy of Russia and very expensive (nat gas/fossil fuels)
What distro?
I use Fedora, and I use it all the time and have never had it crash.
>rudeness of romanian public servants appears to be well established and has nothing to do with preparedness.

Thier rudeness is legendary in Romania. I assumed it's because we are a poorer country with a rough past that traumatized a generation, but I've seen equal levels of rudeness sometimes from the public servants in Austria and those earn way more than their Romanian counterparts and get much better benefits and working conditions from the state and didn't go through famine 35 years ago.

So assholes will be assholes regardless, just because they know they can't be fired, and are usually venting their personal failures and frustrations on those in weaker positions who can't fight back (foreigners, immigrants), just like how you see people being rude to employees in the service sector.

Anyway, I hope you find safety and know that you're welcome in Romania.
It would be costly, but I am confident that Google has the money. They just don't want to spend it, and I am not sympathetic to that.
re: communications - in the events that cellphone and internet infrastructure fails, what are the viable alternatives? Are landlines intrinsically more robust (or they share the internet fiber)? Shortwave seems obvious, but there’s an obvious education/investment/network barrier (no one I would want to communicate with is a HAM).
A Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey userscript will make quick work of this. Compare the submission domain to the list you want to ignore: https://www.tampermonkey.net/

Optionally, you can publish the userscript for others.
weak arguments though. It would be a swift action, a shock with immediate effect. the long-term points are not that relevant but evenso, the non-western allied world is comparatively small. a disconnection is not going to be forever.
Is there some sort of "tweet-chain combiner" extension?

Can't think of a worse format to share a few sentences of text.
Especially given that Ukranian President Zelenskiy is Jewish.
What are the environmental / health risks of this radioactive dust getting kicked up?
Controlling a Chair with an ESP8266
When Google bans an account like this, and that account is a Premium subscriber, do they automatically cancel the subscription?
Threats = antagonizing. If he knew the invasion was coming, he should have DONE something.

So he made a bunch of threats then publicly said he won't do anything... Do you think this helped the situation? Even Zelenskiy told him to STFU.

They could have stationed troops in Ukraine. Or they could have taken NATO membership off the table. Or done any number of things but they literally did nothing except threaten sanctions.

Then Biden went on TV to gloat about being 'right' after giving up Ukraine... SMH
What future? after russia invades hungary or poland or ... ?
Machine Learning for Kids (using Skittles candy)
Lovely, and quite easy, way to teach a rather complex concept to a kid.
Lack of traffic is also g2.
Russia Today Says Anonymous Took Down Its Website In Cyberattack
Twitter shows digital security tips notification for Ukrainians
Well, Microsoft things usually only works well with other Microsoft things only, and unreliable to outside techs (wcf, activeX). Better not use them if you aim for interoperability and stick to simple techs, even if you need to declare more classes that way.

> I'm sure ASP.NET has caught up, but I still think ASP.NET MVC would be overkill for the average backend for a React-like app.

I share the same idea, since I've found typescript (express) is usually enough for backend rest. But I cannot refute that C# is more reliable with it's variables than ts. Can't say much about Java though.
Ironically, women in Afghanistan also had those freedoms when the USSR took control.

Agreeing with you entirely, I might go further and offer some more concrete advice. If you are feeling helpless, it might be a good idea to turn towards thinking about changes that you can affect in your own country. Which, presumably (ok, statistically, we're on HN), is an affluent democracy. Trying to change policy in China or Russia if you are outside those countries is a self-defeating exercise in futility (sad to say, that may be true even if you live there).

But I mean. Every year there are (rightly) outpourings of grief and rage on the anniversary of Tiananmen square. But the people who are responsible for the Gwangju massacre are living out their lives well within reach of the FBI. The USA is able to fight doggedly to get Julian Assange extradited to the US at enormous expense. But Chun Doo Hwan dies peacefully in his sleep as a wealthy man... Wake up and get a grip. Fixing situations like that is where the hope is.

The set of paired examples that history provides for us on this practically endless.
I did three stints in solitary. First for writing to my wife and explaining how I traded coffee for stamped envelopes, which got me an extortion charge. On the last day of my "sentence" in solitary I had my trial and was found "not guilty" of the charge. Of course, it was like Alice in Wonderland, I did my time then got my trial.

(during this time in solitary though they went through all my property and figured out I'd hacked the commissary system to send emails through the jail and were mad about that)

Second time I was framed by a guard. It was an internal thing called "Operation Cleansweep". The idea was to frame all the jailhouse lawyers on false charges and send them to solitary and then get access to all the legal work in their cells to go through. They came and threw contraband in my cell in front of everyone, then cuffed me up and off to solitary again. [I found out about the operation because I fought for the details through FOIA and got all the "Intelligence Unit" reports. Idiots wrote this shit down. Usually the government isn't that dumb. For instance, this is a response I got to a request for documents concerning a big investigation in the prosecutor's office here in Chicago recently: "After speaking with SAO personnel most knowledgeable about your request including those active in the internal investigation, there is no written or electronic report of the internal investigation into the Adam Toledo bond proffer incident." LOL]

Third time in solitary was because I took two seconds too long trading some rice for a chicken nugget at lunch. Disobeying the guard who told me to "hurry up". Another stint in solitary!

You start with ZERO in solitary in most jails, and work your way up. I sued to get the rules changed, because on the first day you also spent it naked. They would strip search you on arrival and then leave you until you could persuade a guard the next day to get you clothes. [they remotely popped my cell on my first day once for a visit, so I ran out, sans clothing, all the way to the visit until the guards freaked out and were forced to get me clothes]

As the article says, even toilet paper can be a bitch to get. My first time I didn't know anything. My second time through I managed to snatch a book up off a table as I was being dragged to my cell, so I had something to read. Then I learned to "finesse" the guards into getting me things: toilet paper, soap, pencil.

You're not allowed commissary in most solitary. The first time I was in I requested my bin of legal work, which they have to provide. But dum-dums gave me my commissary bin instead. So I spent three days eating the whole lot before they realized their mistake and ran in and took my (now empty) bin and swapped it out.

You get lots of reading done in solitary. I read 800 books in jail.

AMA
They already applied some form of sanctions against Russia, surprisingly.
Can we just invite the fox into the hen house guild and be done with it?
This focus on combat for survival thing is so American. In Civil War combatants are quickly trained by warlords, and quite expendable. No amout of training will allow a single person to survive alone. In case of warfare, there are armies.

For all other circumstances, combat skills are negligable. Repair, food "gathering" and medical skills are so much more important. Followed by organising people and stuff.
Yep, probably true. Receives funding from public and private intel or intel-aligned firms or fronts, staffed with former Five Eyes spies, etc.

All the commenters acting incredulous about this only need to Google it.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/bellingcat-intelligence-agenci...

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-c...

I think what a lot of people don't really grok about intelligence types is how similar their internal cultures are to gangs and mafias: it's blood in, blood out, and even if you "leave" you've never actually left. This makes sense, right? These people are vetted to be given security clearances, to be trusted with secrets -- what good would it do if the secret keeping only lasted through a term of employment? Once you know the secret, you've gotta keep it forever. So you'll always be one of us.

Maybe the less melodramatic comparison to make is to US college and university fraternities: just because you graduate doesn't mean you're not a Delta Tau guy anymore. If anything, the opposite: you're now out there in the world as a real Delta Tau guy, and when you see another member, it's a wink and a handshake and a favor. Doesn't have to be all that secret, either.

So, a "former intelligence professional" who goes to work for a "citizen journalism" website like Bellingcat remains, and cannot be anything other than, a spy. It doesn't need to be the case that, for Bellingcat to be an intelligence front, the CIA literally went on Legalzoom and started the LLC or whatever.

As for Bellingcat itself, well, if it's funded by ducks, and it's staffed by ducks, maybe it's a duck.
Here’s a simple approach— If you don’t have any ideas, read more books on interesting ideas.

If you have an interesting idea, then write—Write for yourself, to yourself.

And when you’re ready, create a prototype or mock-up.

Without more information, simple is best.
Yes, while it may seem on the surface like the blog hasn't been updated in a while, the whole rust x86 project is under active development:

https://github.com/rust-osdev/x86_64
There is a serious issue with neo-nazi's in Ukraine who the U.S. supports because they are anti-russia. (I feel like I am living during the beginning of the Iraq war all over again.)
> A severe reduction in size of the global economy is not necessarily a "collapse," it's just that -- a severe reduction under either direct or indirect war conditions.

We have crazy levels of inflation right now among other economic problems and the FED or the EU central bank are running out of instruments to "tamper with". Anything at that point could trigger violent unrests across the west.

Whatever the consequences of "sanctions" are, they won't be happening in a vacuum.
Perhaps, but so what? The existence of certain dangerous modifications does not imply that all modifications would be dangerous. If you mess with the ABS logic (or anything else) and the modifications contribute to an accident then you're obviously going to be liable for that. On the other hand you could simply install a custom infotainment unit or some third-party or DIY heated seats, in which case I see no reason to preemptively ban the vehicle without clear evidence that the modifications pose a threat to other users of the road.

A reasonable compromise would be to require any modifications to be disclosed at registration, but with a policy of approving them by default unless there is a good, evidence-based reason to think that they pose a significant risk.
FYI changed the URL to https://elefound.com/posts/elefound-the-imaginary-open-sourc... for the tech angle so that I can add a 2nd article exploring the business angle [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374611
> When Turing proved the halting problem was undecidable - that there is no program that can decide whether another program will ever finish

Turing didn't prove the halting problem was undecidable. The halting problem was defined after Turing's death by Martin Davis. It's a common misunderstanding people have. Turing's definition of Turing Machines classified machines that halted as circular/unsatisfactory. Turing wanted his machine to run forever ( circle-free/satisfactory ).

> Personally, I think we should set aside Gödel’s original number-theory-based proof as an artifact of history, the way we no longer use Isaac Newton’s original notation for calculus.

We also don't teach Turing's version either. No computer science class teaches real Turing. It's been reformulated to a point Turing would barely recognize it. Also, you can't understand the halting problem or Turing without "number-theory-based proof" as "number based proof" and godel numbering is at the heart of turing machines ( look up what descriptive numbers ) are.

> We should accept that the concepts of mathematical proof and computer algorithms are intertwined at their heart

Computer algorithms are mathematical algorithms. Mathematicians have been using computers/algorithms to derive theorems from axioms since at least the 1950s. You are saying we should accept what everyone already accepts and have accepted for decades.
Greece gets half its gas from Russia

Any shutdown would increase gas prices worldwide. Just because the UK doesn't use Russian gas direct, it does buy gas on the open market, when Germany can't buy it for €1 per unit from Russia, they'll pay €1.20 from the UK (which has 50% domestic production, Norway having most of the rest), pushing prices up for the UK and other countries despite not using Russian gas direct.

The failure here was the inability to boost nuclear and renewable sources in Europe over the last 8 years to reduce reliance on Russia.
As long as there's a plausibly non-military use of such projects (ie. entertainment), it's fine. It's not any different than funding some open source project, even though the open source project can theoretically be used for weaponry.
The press have been reporting the fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk since it started 8 years ago, what are you talking about?
Ukraine has actually discouraged people live streaming or publishing Ukranian troop movement, it's revealing their positions and capabilities to the Russians. I'm sure that's a two way street.

How much live streaming happened on Youtube - and how many accounts were terminated - during the conflicts in the middle east?
not really, it's an excellent book but focused on Rust.
I liked the fact that it explains the memory layout of common Rust data structures.
they wouldn't point is use both then you are reliant on neither.
Why would China be willing to stop gas shipments from Russia? USA is also not willing to stop oil shipments from Russia, although Russia is the third-biggest oil exporters to the USA.

Independent states usually don't do anything that would harm them directly, they force their colonies and vassals to harm both themselves and the enemies. In this case, it's the EU harming themselves and Russia with sanctions, while the USA and China being relatively unaffected.
It's probably easier to parse the HTML than the Wiki markup.
I believe it's quite simple: Ad money. Those search queries that cannot reliably be monetized with ads are more or less worthless to Google. So they skip indexing those search terms. That probably also implies that search queries where the majority of users use an ad-blocker (that's us developers) will be a very low priority.

I'm not even sure I can blame them. Creating the search index is a huge investment on Google's side, both in terms of time (can't crawl too fast or else they knock the target offline) and in terms of bandwidth, CPU power, and storage space. But Google needs to operate their search profitably, on average, or else they will go bust. In the long term, I predict that this leads to ever more SEO spam and ever more ads as the internet grows and more and more NLP and AI processing is needed to separate the good results from the bad ones. Filtering gets more expensive => more false positives + need more ads to pay for it.

I've been trying hard (maybe a bit too hard?) to stir up a discussion about people actually paying for the search index, because that would allow them to get the results that they want - private and ad-free - no matter if those results are monetizable with ads or not.

In my opinion, that would make for a nice open source project. In case you're curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374611

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361385
https://pastebin.com/preUNcNR
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1496861068945154056.html
Indeed it's not the whole population, not every individual in it. There are though, bulk properties of large groups of people (which also vary by location, citizens of Tehran would differ a lot from Pakistani villagers) and those bulk properties should be acknowledged and of concern.

What I'm pointing out in the parent comment is that if those are the kinds of things that constitute social progress in your part of the world, it's pretty clear that your median or typical cultural attitudes have a pretty damn big distance from that of modern western european nations.
Any idea how we might gain access to this?

It says "This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer."
From any adversary’s perspective, the ability to shut them out is as good as shutting them out. They need to prepare an alternative solution.

The moment the SWIFT system became political, it was already doomed, and the petrodollar along with it.
> Yes but at least the US had probable cause to go into Iraq.

Oh my, this is disturbing. What was the probably cause? WMD's? :^/
How can it not make sense, if when there is an issue with devise, then it takes weeks to debug vs 1 day with the handrolled code?
My understanding Germany made a huge mistake in connecting with Russia. Swift and or petroleum product sanctions would just crush germany. This is going to be a key reason. Given the context, no real major war had ever happened in a long time. Perhaps Germany was connecting in order to build relationships. Which may actually be a long term benefit for everyone. In the long run maybe preventing further conflict.

Germany did halt Nordstream 2, which wasnt doing anything yet, but I dont believe they did anything else yesterday? Most likely they fear retribution.
Rbacklight: Xbacklight Written in Rust
As my first real Rust project, I decided to rewrite a classic - xbacklight.
Just like in xbacklight, which uses the xcb library, I used the rust-x-bindings crate(https://github.com/rust-x-bindings/rust-xcb/tree/v1.0.0-beta...).

rbacklight comes with more features than xbacklight,like formatting output, using different value modes, etc.
So rbacklight is not a drop-in-replacement for xbacklight (also uses slightly different command syntax).

Hit me up with your suggestions or critics!
I have never authored an article, but I have edited many. I try to impart my knowledge into Wikipedia as much as possible. Any tidbit or piece of trivia I can think of, I either add to, or amend to on Wikipedia. Sidenote: I regularly binge on Wikipedia for long periods, hopping from link to link. It has made me very knowledgeable in a lot of areas, and my IQ has probably jumped a few points over the years because of it.
I mean, Fox News and One America News Network are still on there as well.
Well, I didn't tell that parents shouldn't cooperate with their kids.
> but somehow I expected that Google will find my ANY public string on the internet.

Is it the case tough? Does Google index everything? I don't think it's the case.
MediaWiki is also written in PHP?
Most of Russian side social media is on Telegram. Does anyone even know if they ban people or moderate content?
Same for other people. The country you wanted to flee away to from the repressive regime and economic decline now denies visas? Now you have to look for other opportunities. I suspect people who tend to leave Russia aren't pro-putin and have decent education and sought after skills, not sure what forcing them to stay achieves.
Microsoft recently started putting github behind a reddit/twitter/Instagram login wall: comments for open source community projects are truncated unless you log in. Maybe related?
This is weird trolling. You bring up a completely uninvolved, unrelated person and attack them for doing nothing. Maybe Dang will kill off this whole thread for being against HN guidelines.

He's already a martyr. He's living the rest of his life in exile, under a microscope and under constant threat. The only people who would gain from him tweeting about these events are those who wish to see him harmed.
> I think Apple have realised their new developer pipe is drying up

Is this actually happening? New iOS apps seem to be coming along in a flood like usual.
I presume so, else Google would get sued for charging for a service not delivered.