skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you're misremembering or discounting the American psyche in the immediate shadow of 9/11.

While later proven to be false, accusations of WMD, and the insinuation they could be used against the US and/or Europe, were widely believed and likely highly motivating to the average American GI in 2003.

I know men and women who enthusiastically signed up to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq who had little prior intention to join the military.
> carry out their legal orders...even if the orders are to conduct criminal was of aggression

Isn't that a contradiction?
Sounds like my 9-to-5.
How I Made an AI Generate Synth1 Presets
I think a useful article in this vein would be building useful DSLs for real world applications.
This is the type of thing that should be supported in higher-level libraries like Chalk[0] (maybe it is?). We all know that Joe Bloggs' CLI isn't going to be checking for NO_COLOR.

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk
I think it is safe to assume that most/all (large) modern countries have paramilitary forces that are used to carefully tip the scales toward outcomes that are in their best interest in situations like these.
Yeah I spent 2 months in Egypt, 400$ per month including flight and visa, that may seem extreme but it's very cheap. IMO if Europeans took advantage of cheap doctor and dentistry and fresher products while taking a couple of months off work (unpaid leave) it would also give a big economic and social impulse...
Besides learning arabic a language used by a big fraction of humanity including many Europeans was both enlightening and fun :-)
I like colour, but can easily empathise and visualize that I may like colour in applications I've configured, but found it obtrusive in something that vomits inconsistent, garish, distracting coloured output. So while I would not necessarily use this environment wetting, I can understand why some would treasure predictability and consistency.

Note btw that one might have a wildly different perspective as e.G. Developer using a few tools on their own controlled desktop a lot, vs e.G. a sysadmin constantly jumping between large number of tools on large number of systems. As such, having a simple variable to shut up all the apps on all the servers may be quite handy.
It’s goddamn stupid. The better example is World War I, not World War II. We’re being dragged into a war over a intra-Slavic dispute that has nothing to do with the rest of us.
Well golly gee, I guess the last 20 years of Ukraine not being in NATO was just too much of a risk. Nothing says "don't try and join NATO" like ongoingly and continually trying to invade and conquer a country because they're not a member of NATO.
I find it's more of a problem when applications use the color palette instead of 24-bit color. Someone might pick foreground and background colors that contrast perfectly well in their 8 color palette, but that in mine are impossible to distinguish. And changing them for one case might break legibility somewhere else. When the colors come from the 24-bit RGB selection, contrast will always be as the author intended.

I've had that problem with the default LS_COLORS/DIR_COLORS settings in some Linux installs. It's very annoying.
Joint Statement on Further Restrictive Economic Measures
You wouldn't get an accurate answer to that if there were any sort of shenanigans going on. It's a pointless question.

Also, considering how unlikely it is that any particular sentence a user has typed is unique, would it count as 'storing that text in a database' if the text you typed remained in their systems in a tokenized fashion, i.e. incremented a sentence use counter?
https://archive.is/dpdF9
His criticism of NATO went a little further than that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-presiden...

> Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set.

> In the days around a tumultuous NATO summit meeting last summer, they said, Mr. Trump told his top national security officials that he did not see the point of the military alliance, which he presented as a drain on the United States.

It's a little hard to see that as something Putin would've been mad about.
"HVAC balancing" would be a good search term for you.
Also CoD and Battlefield aren't going to teach real tactics. Arma is the closest you'll get to what "real" war is like, but even that mostly forgets that logistics is about 90% of winning a war.
Note that his mother barely survived the nazi siege of Leningrad. Lots of Russians have similar intergenerational trauma. That is why he is talking about “denazification”.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/e...
It's clearly time to pivot China into Russia's spot as the globe's #2 military. That seemed to be the case prior to Ukraine, and based on the showing so far, Russia's military may have been exceptionally badly mismanaged by Putin over the years. What did they do with all that supposed upgrade / modernization money? Where'd they funnel it to? The klepto state klepto'd their own military - it'd be a fitting outcome.
Ask HN: Why are fonts on websites so small?
I find myself zooming up to 150%, sometimes 175% on almost every website out there, HN included. Even my desktop graphic settings are set to 125% UI scale.

Small fonts make me less tired at the end of the day, as I spent a lot of time reading documentation and whatever.

I usually sit at 1 meter from my screen, but even when I use my laptop at 50cm from the screen, it's still too small.

I don't have a bad eyesight either, as I have no problem reading books, which have a good font size IMHO.

I was just wondering, how many people out there is like me, zooming everything to have an easier time reading.
It's quite clever actually.

First, it destroys the traceability of notes (because they go into the FOBT machine with one set of serial numbers and the machine is going to pay out other notes and coins in different denominations). And any cash that investigators are going to track through seizures targeting an organisation gets slowly distributed through a community via its gamblers.

Secondly and more importantly, it provides provenance to the money. The gambling money mules (inveterate gamblers who are often addicts, lower ranking gang members, or the dealers themselves) can now move very large amounts of cash around on the street, because if they are stopped by police with large amounts of cash, they have a receipt to show it is what the machine paid out! The money they are carrying is the proceeds of legal gambling, not the proceeds of drugs. It's cleaned.

Here's one article about it:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/08/gambling-mac...

Things have got a lot simpler for police, because FOBTs are now subject to more restrictions.

(And about time: in the 2015/16 year, individuals lost more than £1000 at FOBTs in a single sitting more than 233,000 times)
Human Heater anyone?
Not to discount that there may be HN readers who don’t recognize the acronym, but I suspect it’s one of the more familiar ones. Edit: oh I see the dead comments now. Welp, thanks for helping!

That said, it never hurts to disambiguate… which is why I’m slightly surprised the Wikipedia disambiguation page[1] doesn’t include the entry I thought to disambiguate, and even more surprised it’s second in Urban Dictionary’s top results[2].

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL_(disambiguation)

2: Use your preferred search engine or whatever
OpRussia OpKremlin FckPutin
FAANG and other companies outsource lots of (sometimes critical) stuff to obscure service providers that just kind of employ bodies to do generic work. There are American companies that employ people in the US, that may have half or more their employees in India or other places. Very non-household names, even compared to a company like Infosys.

Those companies that are paying people in India $5-10K equivalent (I assume) aren't paying US employees 6 figures. The wage disparity is an implicit threat that their US employees cannot expect a raise ever, and should be happy not to be laid off. Most of the US is akin to "flyover country" even near the coasts and over $50K is a good living for people who will never consider moving to a megacity.

I think people occasionally ask in places like HN, "if corporations will go to the other side of the world to hire people cheaply, then why don't they go to low wage areas of the US" and the answer is duh, they do. Someone can go to no particular place in Appalachia and hire Americans who have no better options.

There are two obvious reasons (but I've never seen someone state out loud) why FAANGs or other prominent companies should outsource critical functions.

One is that super genius software engineers who make six figures often do not do an adequate job on anything they dislike or feel is beneath them. "Prima donna syndrome".

The other is that when super genius employees making the big bucks screw up in some extremely high-profile way, it's very embarrassing, and it's better to be able to point the finger at an external service provider, since at least they are (ostensibly) specialists and how could anybody be expected to know their inner workings.
The fall of Baghdad was just the beginning of the Iraq War.
Usually a wise move, I do the same with the mainstream game consoles. I waitied for the PS4 slim to come out, and it happened to be a great decision as the original PS4 didn't have a 5GHz wireless adapter. I know playing online using a wireless connection isn't ideal, but it's better to play on 5GHz than on the already crowded 2.4GHz.
I don't care for them at all. They seem both fake and also very limited in their range of expression of facial types, facial colors, hair styles and colors, colors and styles of simple things like glasses, and so many other things. Everywhere that they should have a whole continuum of colors or shapes and styles, they have less than a handful of specific examples.

I'm an old, fat, white guy, and even I can't get one that really looks anything at all like me. And I've seen multiple examples of Memojis that are supposed to be of specific people, but are in fact identical. And yet the people from whom they are supposedly created to represent don't really look that much alike.

There are other personal avatar creation systems that are better. I hope that there are some out there that are much better. Because Memojis suck.
The problem with this approach is being vilnerable to major zero-days (like 30k servers hack in Nov 2021) every month.
Ah, yes. Sorry, I misread your comment. Yes, that is a good idea :)
https://archive.is/PeT0G
If the troops are being kept in the dark about their location and missing, that would go a long way to explaining the abyssmal performance of the military so far. How are you meant to plan logistics in this situation?

Everyone I know in russia declares virtually 0% support for this invasion. You can only hope that this is begining of the end for Putin.

However one should be carefull drawing conclusions about total ineptitude of the Russian military - in a different confrontation, for instance defending Crimea, these issues might not apply.
Vladdy has been in near isolation during COVID and looks unhinged. Did this on his own, no oligarchs. Now oligarchs are trapped, no assets, cut-off from most of their funds. Gambled, this time he lost it all.
This isn't a sentiment.

The simplistic version of the Nazi's rise to power is that they did so by labelling Jews and other minorities as evil.

That reinforces my point. Doesn't it?

(And were the British any better? See: Bengal Famine)
If I'm going to be honest I'd fight DC before I fought Moscow.
The 1995 bombing was against the federal government not an act of white terror. Just because someone might be racist doesn't mean the act or terror was racist in nature.

The New Zealand shooting the fbi wasn't involved.

The El Paso mass shooting was against one group. You don't qualify to be a white supremacist unless you hate everyone not white. That person had a problem with a specific group hardly makes him hate everyone nor was his act against everyone not white.
Planetary Sapience
>I've commented elsewhere in the thread on that.

Not that I've seen. Not going to go back through all those posts to find yours, either. Link to it perhaps?

>What's your take on Grammarly?

I have no "take" on Grammarly, except that as a "cloud-based" (read: someone else's servers) application, I won't ever use it.

Oh, and yes I did ignore your obnoxious blathering this time.

I'll ignore you completely moving forward, as you apparently don't have constructive stuff to say.

Toodles!
I reported this issue four years ago to Google Cloud (not sure if it was ever fixed, no updates to the report), as they don't stripe out ANSI color codes nor render them, so our logs in their log viewer were full of gibberish from any colored messages.
Why? It's well scoped: "the best ... for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads".

The Linux kernel is buit for all sorts of devices, including embedded, servers, desktops, phones, etc - it's not hard to imagine the default settings being not perfectly optimized for a specific usecase (that said, I have not tried the lqx kernel or looked at benchmarks, but the claim doesn't seem outrageous).
You probably have a high DPI monitor and need 150% display scaling from your OS. Devs usually have large monitors and will not notice the issue when they decide what font size to use on their websites.

Also 1 meter from the screen would be way too far for me personally. I use 1.5x scaling in windows and my eyes are ~0.5m from my main monitor (27” 4K 120hz).
A billion dollar in weapons also helps.
"Intervention" is maybe older than you think [0] - definitely older than America's post-war empire. I do not know what is and is not a "western propaganda kitchen," but "intervention" is likely not from one.

Granted: American has used it for basically every war since 1945, most connotation now stems from this.

I caution you - without in any way trying to argue about ideology or civilizations or historical justice! - that American political discourse is not autocratic or controlled, not even secretly. The New York Times and the CIA are both independent actors, and each is itself not a perfect information autocracy.

No oligarch has the power to exile you, and no government the power to imprison you - even informal censorship is impossible. There's no central node able censor all others in order speak without contradiction. There are not literal state propagandists, or at least not many and none effective.

Any analysis of American propaganda, or indeed of America holistically, is flawed if it refuses to accept this reality. Any analysis which seeks to expose lies must start by not lying to itself.

Chomsky writes that free speech as such does not stop Americans from lying effectively and with minimized dissonance to both ourselves and the world. I don't dispute him (couldn't competently in any case).

But there's never been an American Pravda. Blue jeans broke the USSR all on their own: the CIA doesn't know how actually to make something cool. America doesn't possess a fantastical ability to will rock 'n' roll, or color revolutions, into existence.

0 - https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/interventionnisme

ps I find "special military operation" to be much more objectionable than "intervention."
>What is the actual goal here? Can someone please explain to me why this is all happening?

Well in Putin's own words, it seems obvious and clear. Ukraine's government are Nazis who are committing genocide over Russians in the new republics as Ukraine invaded the republics to reclaim the land.

“As I said in my previous address, one cannot look at what is happening there without compassion. It was simply impossible to endure all this. It was necessary to stop this nightmare immediately – the genocide against the millions of people living there, who rely only on Russia, hope only on us. It was these aspirations, feelings, pain of people that were for us the main motive for deciding to recognise the people’s republics of Donbas.”

“What I think is important to emphasise further. In order to achieve their own goals, the leading NATO countries support extreme nationalists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine in everything, who, in turn, will never forgive the Crimeans and Sevastopol residents for their free choice – reunification with Russia.”

While all this nazi crap is absurd. We can also discount the possibility that Putin has been misled. He's ex-KGB. They were actively trained to be able to avoid exactly that. Instead this is obvious propaganda. The president of ukraine is jewish and target #1. Obviously not a nazi, this was more to mislead the russian duma and russian people.

>What an absolute disgrace that we fight each other over BS orders. So many lives, especially of young people, lost for what?

We have to figure out the 'they didnt go into iraq for wmds, they went there for oil'. It's all pure speculation. Go to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ukraine and throw a dart. Whatever you hit, that's it.

There is this: https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-supplies-90-perce...

If you have been following... there's about a trillion $ of investment in new chip fabs. Everyone in the world is rushing to build chip fabs. Russia taking this neon production could give them the edge they need... To what end?

The thing for me? there's nothing in ukraine that makes it good there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon#Production It can basically be done anywhere.

And what's even the point? Russia has basically been excluded from ever making any value from this.
Guilty [1]. But it's really hard to handle both light and dark color themes! On a dark terminal you're probably more likely to use the "Bright" variants when using the default 16 color palette, but then you'll have less contrast in a light theme. Some color schemes intentionally invert the "bright" colors and makes them darker for a light colored scheme. This is what Gruvbox [2] does, but most other palettes don't. I also have an issue with Solarized which makes some of the Bright colors almost exactly the same as the foreground or background, which can make text printed in certain colors seem invisible.

I've used ANSI codes to invert colors (which works pretty well for highlighting), and dim colors, but those can't solve everything.

[1]: https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless/issues/4
[2]: https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox
>SSH caused serious security problems

>I don't know what "null cipher" means but it sounds very technical and is probably the best one.

The whole UX excuse is a bit silly considering modern Steam games take an hour to download anyway.
One notable difference is some of these Russian soldiers are conscripts and have been forced to fight.
I think this is better as a theory on HN than it would be in reality. There are plenty of engineers that are just as greedy, ruthless, and willing to do anything for a profit as the current execs.

I doubt a leadership team half comprised of engineers would be significantly better than a current one.
Some are grey hat and many won't cross a line.
The question is, though: what does propaganda look like when it's targeted to be effective against a population that has already been loudly warned about the dangers of propaganda? Because I think it would look a lot like that.
Maybe the Germans shouldn't have relied on a corrupt kleptocracy for energy.
In that case at least Saddam really was a tyrant. Obviously pick your poison but you could make a case of intervention in Iraq - i.e. if it were led by Blair rather than Bush I think we'd be reflecting differently, although probably still negatively
It makes the logic simple in C (where the empty string is truthy); you can just write `if (getenv("FOO"))`.
>the troops are being kept in the dark about their location

considering that that excuse has been practiced at least since 2014, and that the soldiers have smartphones to post selfies, and after watching several of those POW videos with their canned responses, i'm convinced that it is just a trained excuse to get better treatment from Ukrainians when caught.

Even any technical aspects aside. I grew up on a USSR Navy base, and we always knew who goes to fight where. And the military convoys always naturally interact with locals on their route, soldiers talk to the locals, exchange fuel for vodka/cigarettes, children come to get onto/into tanks in exchange for some small favors/goodies/etc.

And to the commenter below: nobody dismantled road signs on the Russian side on the roads to Ukraine :)

Btw, on Ukrainian TV - they are in much better mood today giving their military successes and corresponding Russian failures, i mean they weren't panicked or anything like that yesterday, just seriously somber, it is just today they are really having the blast - they today addressed that overall Russian people habit of playing a powerless victim of circumstances : "Next time you'd think twice about whom to choose President."

(Other quotes from Ukrainian TV today - "We Christened Russia, and we're going to give it the last rites.", "To see Kiev and die. Looks like you're insisting on doing it in that your own peculiar way - well, be my guest.")

And to another commenter below:

>conscripts calling families telling that they are forced to sign contracts (in military operation can participate only contractors)

so, they forced you to signed contract because that is the only way you can participate in military operation and are sending you on "exercises" with full battle ready hardware somewhere close to Ukraine when there is escalation in the air/news. Days later you're driving through Ukrainian villages with clear orders to shoot on Ukrainian tanks and soldiers first and like have no idea where you are and why you're there :)
Q: What happens when you chase cheap clickbait stories to get eyeballs?

A: Tabloids.

Have you seen what the History Channel turned into? Or that environmental awareness channel, Animal Planet? Even PBS (the Petroleum Broadcast Service) has followed the trend.

CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and others, though, seem to function more like political party propaganda. Something like two flavors of Soviet-style TASS. Interestingly enough, Americans don't joke about TASS anymore.
> Mach was slow, disk access (the spinning beachball Mac OS inherited was supposed to be a CD originally) was very slow.

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/beach-closing/

> Using a Turing complete language for drawing was scary.

Not particularly sure why. Aren't all apps using Turing complete languages to draw on screen? It's just a question of which layer that happens.

Display PostScript did the same, surely?
There's a sad but perhaps unsaid factor in this war that many on HN seem unaware of.

People seem to think that the fact that the Russian army is disorganized and slow is a problem. It's not - Putin doesn't care about the body count provided he comes away with a victory.

If Ukraine is to win this war, the battle for air supremacy and a constant supply of anti-tank armour is much more important. If they can stop Russian armour using a combination of airpower and anti-tank weapons then they have a chance.

I think both of these things have a critical dependence on Ukraine being able to show the ability to resist Russian advances. If they continue that, then Western support of arm shipments is likely to increase. Significantly, both the Germans and Dutch have started sending anti-tank weapons in the last 2 days.