skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would probably be possible to argue in court that your compressor isn't technically breaking any laws. But why go through the trouble of using formats which aren't meant to be used, when there are so many good alternatives out there which actually are intentionally freely available?
The elegant balance of the system is that everyone eligible to vote in Athens were eligible to be selected for office (through random lot). Officials weren't some distant elite separate from the voters, it could be your neighbor, it could be you next.

This sort of creates an incentive to moderate the use of ostracism to the times someone really fucked up bad.
How many times do you really use that ≡ "burger" menu button of firefox in a day really? And after how many times do you end up having learned the keyboard shortcuts?

There are only a handful of them that don't have a keyboard shortcut.
80 years of toppling democratically elected leaders and supporting Western aligned dictators ought to give a small hint that democracy that doesnt suit their interests doesnt even register as a concern for the West.

Russia feels threatened because NATO was set up specifically to oppose them and is not all that interested in democracy that doesnt threaten western hegemonic interests.

You dont exactly see NATO threatening Mohammed bin Salman for invading Yemen do you?

And if democracy is so important why is it official policy that the crimean referendum be annulled rather than re-held?

>Anyone claiming NATO was an aggressor akin to what Russia is doing now is a fool.

NATO destroyed Libya. The fact it did it at arms length is immaterial.

To pretend it is not a threat to Russia is farcical.
> I cannot believe there actual proponents of nuclear armament and proliferation in 2022.

There will be more in the years to come if thanks to the current events. Plenty of people here and else where are quick to point out that Ukraine is in NATO and that Russia would not dare attack a nato country so this is all fine but at the end of the day NATO, like any treaty, is just a promise not inherently like the promise the Ukraine was made when they gave up their nuclear weapons. An attack on a NATO country will not mean an automatic response from all other NATO countries but instead prompt a decision from each of the leaders of those countries what would be better for their citizens at that point. Retaining their own protection via NATO is going to be a big influence of that decision but it is never going to be the only factor.
No, no malicious code passed. All malicious code was rejected before making it into the kernel.
History of the world would be very different if people actually believed that.
Of those structures only vector benefits from realloc anyway. And if you really want it, it's not terribly hard to write. You can static assert that the template type is trivially movable which would make it safe to realloc.

But this is assuming you have a malloc implementation that does something other than implement realloc as just malloc+memcpy+free. Which not many do, not unless the allocation is so large as to be in its own dedicated mmap or similar.

That aside, sure would be great if you elaborated on these unsuitable, unresolved for kernel language issues? Exceptions and rtti are the only two I'm aware of and both have had off switches for decades.
I used RAR all the time in late 1990s-early 00s. It had great usability, great FAR Manager integration - unsurprising since they both were created by the same person, Eugene Roshal (incidentally, he was studying a few years earlier on the same faculty / specialty as I).

But when I switched to GNU/Linux, the reasons to use RAR died quietly. It had a good run, but didn't get the widespread platform support it needed to succeed as an archive standard. It being a proprietary product didn't help in that, I guess.
on a related note, Keka is a good (and free) gui tool for mac that supports wide array of archiving formats.
Sure I get the silence but there was no need to blame the US media in the first place. Silence in the first place would have been fine for the Kremlin.
>Russia is waving its nukes around as a threat.

Really? Has Putin actually said anything about nuclear weapons in the context of this war?
This is called "sticking to your principles". It's a rare thing these days.
Why is universal suffrage necessary for democracy?
My point of view is that exploiting animals for food is wrong. No brand of “ethical” farming can change that fact for me. Raising animals to kill them for food before the end of their natural life is something I refuse to partake in.

Male chicks aren’t ground at birth in your farm, that’s better in my book. But they’re still raised to be eaten. I’d still argue that hens laying eggs every day shortens their lifespan because it puts strain on their system. As far as I know, hens don’t naturally lay eggs every day, all year. They lay an egg and keep it around for a while to see if it’s growing or not. After a while they eat it and start over. They also don’t produce eggs all year but only part of it. But because farm hens are there for their eggs and later their meat, we take their egg every day and they have to lay another the next day. Some farms also use lights and heaters to trick the hens into thinking the season never ends and have then lay all year long.
Ah, that's good news. Thanks.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the ≡ menu? How do I open the bookmarks bar?
It's easily possible, and many people already do it. e.g. Quasseldroid is available via https://repo.kuschku.de/fdroid/repo/?fingerprint=A0CBC2C29E3... a custom repo generated from the same CI builds that also get pushed to Google Play.
I can't believe it took this much scrolling to find a reasonable take. I think personal preference is clouding people's judgement. Of course it will depend on your employer and how much the office was part of company culture prior to covid, but I think what you're predicting will largely bear out.
People also totally ignore that there is an ongoing war for 8 years now in Ukraine and NATO intervention so far only kept the situation alive by Providing weapons to a side that actively disabled some basic human rights 7 years ago with many national Human right issues the whole time. 14000 deaths.

It is by far not as one sided and simple as many make it to be
I remember downloading a torrent of winrar compressed in rar when I was younger. That troll gave me a good laugh.
So you agree with my point that it's not a purely defensive alliance?
Is it clear in context that the 'deeming' country is the one being attacked rather than the one deciding how to assist? It doesn't seem totally clear from that quote.
Cryptocurrency fundraising is a criminal offence in China
> The Ukrainian's need help but this should be coming from government's, not private citizens through a private foreign company.

If you set yourself up as a payment gateway people will use you as a payment gateway. And what private citizens do with their money is up to them.
>>Unless we see a Stuxnet attack on something important - say the Russian gas pipeline, causing significant physical damage

These are the things I am worried about - and what will be really interesting and terrifying aspects. Everything else is chaff
The article breezes past the obvious (and widely implemented) idea of indexing on top of existing file systems.

I think it would be a lot more useful to improve on that than pursue yet another quixotic file system idea.
I'm really sorry i was actually removing the __version__.py but forgot to remove the code from setup.py. You can try again.
Freedom. What is being defended here is the right to have a website like this at all. The west has a long way to go to wake up to what's at stake here.
> Does anyone know why RAR is better compression-wise than the two more modern standards?

It simply uses a much slower algorithm (prediction by partial matching, PPM) in the highest setting. Those modern standards are designed to be fast enough and improve the status quo in that performance target. If they were only concerned about the compression ratio there are tons of other algorithms that would handily beat RAR already.
So, and pardon me for stating the obvious, this isn't about scaling the technology, this is a marketing issue. That is, traffic is good but you believe there is room to improve conversions, yes?

Both take this the wrong way but...that's everyone's problem :) Simply put, marketing is hard. And every (target) market is different. That is, what works for me might not work for you, and vice versa.

I would say, devote more effort to experimenting and analytics. Perhaps it would make sense to add a CRM? Etc.

There will no silver bullet. Just incremental bumps in understanding.

p.s. Did you list your stores domain?
I was a big proponent of work from home two years ago, when it was a cushy option I had. I'd work from home when I'd want, then I'd come in when I felt like being social. It was great. On days I wasn't in the office, I wasn't in hours of video chats all day. I was at home, doing what needed to be done to drive the outcomes my employer wanted. Fast forward to 2022 when everyone is remote, and its nice, but not as nice. Now instead of working remotely, I'm meeting and working remotely. It's fine and I get paid for it. But it's not as fun. Also doesn't help that my annoying roommate also had to go into a remote job where he's in our living room everyday on video calls, talking loudly on the phone, and our shared space has become a dumping ground for all his work papers. I told him I didn't like it, but he needs to be constantly confronted and I gave up.
Would you be satisfied if they just came out and said "Patreon is a small financial services company. Not black-ops mercenary outfit. Not a powerful nation state. If you expect us to face down powerful nation states on your behalf, we suggest that you sign up HERE to fight on the front lines in Ukraine yourself." ?
That plus in case of full occupation by Russian forces the partisan attacks will bleed occupation forces for years to come

Once the coffins start to come back to mother Russia domestic support for occupation will plummet even further locally in Russia.

Even in USSR, with censorship and active repression USSR was still bringing back afghan war coffins in the dead of the night.
I absolutely think there are situations where the right choice is to serve and I don't have an issue with people choosing to do so.

My main objection was not with the service in itself, but with it being compulsory under threat of prison. Of course today the "compulsory" nature of it is mostly a charade - if you want out it's trivial.
Vox Media, BuzzFeed, and others working on alternative to Google’s AMP format
I strongly prefer WinRAR (the software) because it does everything I am looking for in an archiving and compressing software.

- It is a great tool for archiving. Especially in Windows, it is often faster to compress a rar archive than copying several hundreds of files. This fills the lack of a `tar` tool in Windows space.

- It supports changing the compression level during the compression.

- Highly backwards compatible format. The newer rar format is opt-in.

- WinRAR supports various formats such as ISO, JAR, and a few typical zip-ish formats.

- Superior drag and drop support.

- Context-aware extraction. For example, if you double click a PNG, it only extracts that PNG file. For an exe, it extracts the whole thing.

- Splitting files, locked archives, AES protection, SFX, and other features are easily accessible.

I use 7-zip for zstd, and brotli cli when I particularly need those formats. For my personal archives, rar format and WinRAR never let me down.

Yes, I get that it's not an open source software and doesn't come with a permissive license, but neither do Windows OS itself, and many other software I use. There is an open source unrar, so I don't fear being locked out on my archived.

I happily paid the $29 even though I could absolutely use it without paying a dime, just like thousands of other users.
Really one of the better CWT episodes. I love this idea Chuck offered about the internet no making subcultures obsolete.
Yes, that's more 'keeping the option open' than 'we do this regularly', and I can't seem to find any documentation that MySQL gives any better guarantee.

Note that for all of 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 no changes have been made in the storage format of tables that made it mandatory to rewrite any user-defined schema.

I will admit that some changes have been made that make the data not forward-compatible in those versions; but MySQL seems to do that at the minor release level instead of the major release level. MySQL 8 doen't even support minor release downgrades; under PostgreSQL this works just fine.
Ukraine sees the overwhelming force for 8 years straight.
And what private companies allow is up to them.
Yes, and for your and my sake I hope they won't ever have to act upon that reserved right. Because when and if they do I give the world as we know it another 20 minutes or so.
https://peazip.github.io/peazip-compression-benchmark.html
Can’t beat zip’s availability even though it is quite slow… zstd compress/extract speed seems to be the best overall.
IMO exact opposite is the more sensible. Governments are terrible at representing people who put them to their position, let alone the rest who completely disagree with them.
Zstandard and Brotli are also not an archiving format, which the layperson normally expects to be a "compression" format, so the comparison is a bit off. But that doesn't really matter because there is 7-zip which is an archiving format AND compression format AND competitive to RAR AND open-source.
Patreon is not a "payment gateway", it's a mechanism for people to support creative activities, as the original term "patron of the arts" means.

Funding military weapons steps on some very complicated lines about what people are allowed to spend their money on. So saying "what private citizens do with their money is up to them." is only true as far as the law says.
I think it should be controversial, and I do not think people should just proclaim "let the government handle it", that is very dangerous idea and one that is getting us in to more and more problems

The people are the government, when we loose sight of that we have problems. Clearly the governments around the world are unwilling to help
> If you set yourself up as a payment gateway people will use you as a payment gateway.

They're not a payment gateway for everything and anything. They can choose what activity they don't want to facilitate and they have.

> And what private citizens do with their money is up to them.

It's not. There are numerous restrictions on what private citizens can do with their money.
> and none of them "was breaking community standards".

That should be very saying about just what kind of a shitty community that is.
Etsy hits sellers with 30 percent transaction fee increase
That's all I can think of... I just don't see an outcome where Ukraine receives so much support from the West that it will manage to beat Russia and make it go home without accomplishing any of its goals.... people seem to think that's a possible outcome. I wonder why when Kiev seems to already be surrounded and the USA government (who was right about warning about an imminent invasion!) has already said (correct me if I am wrong) that Kiev is likely to fall within days.

Short of actual military action from the West, which is extremely unlikely as that would give grounds to retaliation by Russia, escalating the war outside Ukrainian borders, Russia seems only days away from removing the Ukrainian government...

The rational thing to do right now is to start planning for the aftermath: how to get Russia out of Ukraine as soon as possible once they've taken control of the country. IMO there's only one way: to dialogue with Putin and finally accept some kind of terms for their removal from Ukraine. This is not what anyone wanted, but now that we've let Putin get to Kiev, what exactly are the options?

Anyone who thinks sending money and weapons to Ukraine will help solve the problem (including, to my horror, the UK government) seems to completely ignore the reality of the situation and is hoping for a delusional outcome, and worse, opening the possibility for things to go wrong and foreign soldiers being killed while trying to reach Ukrainian troops - which may without a doubt trigger a counter-attack by NATO and total escalation of the conflict (which should be priority number one to avoid right now!).
When modern GPU graphics are used, it's assumed that an API layer is also used. This allows the drivers to implement the API specification within approximations appropriate to the hardware. The OS, drivers and API all collaborate to provide a consistent abstraction similar to a file system or sockets; a header file is included to use the API, and the initialization process creates a GPU context, which allows binding of resources etc. There are some examples of direct register programming, but nearly all come from gaming consoles with fixed hardware and tight performance budgets.

Vulkan is simply the lowest-level approach currently available among the major APIs. Piet is an example of a rendering engine that stands on top of Vulkan: it still needs application code to be a complete renderer, but it provides higher level abstractions that speak in the desired domain language(shapes, vector data, etc.).
> It doesn't seem like it's been updated in a long time

It is actively maintained. https://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm A view years ago, with rar5, it got a modernised file-format.
7-zip is single-threaded (by default; there are switches you can play with and -mt is not enough), which means, that you are waiting for your stuff to compress, while simultaneously most of your cores are idle.

I don't know what winrar uses, I don't use it; but this is my annoyance with 7zip.
> I'd still hope our nationalist party takes up arms and goes to the front lines to defend Finland. And they should have the Government's full support in doing so.

As usual, the problem is how you deal with them later, after they got access to weapons and military training and, perhaps more dangerous, some political legitimacy as war heroes.
UHARC is more efficient than any of them, but no one uses it.
Twitter mistakenly removed Ukraine open source intelligence accounts
My algebra II teacher sung the formula to the tune of "pop goes the weasel."

"X equals negative b /
Plus or minus square root /
B-squared minus four a c /
All over 2a"

Decades later, I have never forgotten. Apparently, we should just write parodies!
Invasion could drive 5M Ukrainians to flee abroad – U.N
And what's the difference compared to forcing docx/xlsx or psd? The network effects affect every exchange, not just archives.
Patreon hosts tons of youtube channels focused only on weapons including purely military ones, how to make guns more effective (aka better at killing), how to tweak ammo to be more destructive.

That's one fucked up schizophrenic stance, especially from US company in this specific conflict. Does Trump have any influence there by any chance, given his recent statements?
Well, from their point of view, a military pact with the explicit goal of keeping them under control has first taken their land and is now threatening to get even closer to their border and encircle them. Just take a look at the Cuban missile crisis to see how the US reacted in a comparable situation and in that case, the distance from the missiles to the capital was a lot longer. For Russia, this is more like the missiles are already in Cuba and now Mexico is considering to join the Warsaw pact.

Everyone thinks they're on the right side. Now, obviously I think we (as in EU+US) are the good guys here, but it's quite clear that a lot of people were both very convinced and very wrong about this and I don't consider us unfailable.
I agree, it seems impossible. I actually find the 10% example most impressive - how can it possibly reconstruct things like the coral, or the railing? Doesn't it violate Nyquist somehow? Evidently not, but I can't see where the information comes from. I wouldn't believe it if full source code were not provided!
I must have missed the part where patreon was asked to face down Russia. Hyperbole much?
It’s nowhere near that big.
Not explicitly, but that's how many people interpret his threats to NATO countries if they help defend Ukraine.
The problem is there will be situations where it is less clear if it's bad or not.

Next step would be all kind of groups trying to get military funding.
Good idea, thanks. But before I'll consult with my local birds expert.
Sure, but Patreon was just fine with this until two weeks ago. They should either work on their acceptance criteria or admit that they are in fact a money transmitter. They very selectively enforce this and that is why it makes them look bad because right now is the worst possible time to close this account.
Super cool idea!

I think I found a typo on this card:

https://punkjazz.org/programming-time/photos/c.png

Your comment next to e=7

says: "pick a number between (p-1)*(q-1)..."

But it seems like it's missing "between 1 and (p-1)*(q-1)..."
lots of ways to do this. codemod, ratchets. It's a solved problem
National-socialism is not the only variant of fascism. Mussolini famously said:

> Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power

Both US and UK have (or at least have had) a strong central government abusing power against its local population, laws based on racial hierarchies, a strong military-industrial complex, very close relations between industry leaders and politicians, pillaged/exploited/mass-murdered local and remote communities, maintained gender-based segregation and hierarchies, supported dictatorial/genocidal regimes across the planet in the name of fighting for "freedom" against communism and independent 3rd world countries... all of which are typical characteristics of fascist regimes.

But to be clear, i didn't mean that capitalism equates fascism (although the premises of both systems are uncomfortably-close), but rather that the atomization of capitalist society (in the form of private property, and everyone having to struggle against everyone else to survive) is a prerequisite to legitimize the absolute central power of fascism, under which hope and solidarity don't have a place.

I also mean that historically, in all countries - to my knowledge - where fascism has taken roots, the local bourgeoisie and industry were directly responsible for that. Hitler for example, had wide industry support (financial and logistical) for his campaign, as he was promising to do away with "judeo-bolshevism" and outlaw unions. There's an entire documentary about that called "Fascism Inc" that can be found on the Internet if learning about history is your thing (and of course, countless books on the topic).
There was likely influence coming from Left and Right. If one gets involved, the other isn't going to sit on the sidelines. This comes as direct involvement, as well as the media spin that covers such an event.

It's difficult to understand where the legit events ends and the outside influence begins. That's not a conspiracy theory. It's simply how these things work, with so many chef's in the kitchen (and that in general, the media can't be trusted).

It's complicated.
For people who are not aware, a huge chunk of left wing guerillas across the world, from ~1924 until 1991, were funded and supported by the USSR.

Greece, Germany, Peru, Columbia, Angola, you name it, Soviet funded.

Some others were funded by China, but those were a minority.
How has no one on HN called out the Anonymous drivel yet. Even bringing 4chan supposedly into it. No one has any idea what they’re talking about.
UK social media users could get power to block anonymous accounts
> There are numerous restrictions on what private citizens can do with their money.

Yes, but those restrictions are not typically arbitrated by commercial entities but by the law.