skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to step a little more back:

Can we agree that there is an ongoing shift from a unipolar moment (1990-ca.2015) to a multipolar world (basically US & China)?

What confuses me in this "shift" that there is still very much a 'cold war rhetoric' inherent pushed by NATO and transatlantic alliances which very existence relies on seeing Russia through the lens of constant threat which in turn proliferated the nationalistic and militaristic currents and tendencies in Post-Soviet Russia. This dynamic was indeed anticipated way back in 1997 [0] when the Clinton administration - at the height of 'unipolarity'- made their policiy decision not to pivot from the myopic Europe-Russia view to the vantage point of emerging Asia by not solidifying the alliance of the Yeltsin era of Russia with new military partnerships.

So, in the 'dark' (in the now comfortable fully locked transantlantic view) there was brewing a greater and greater resentment and Putin successfully captured back the imaginations.
Now we find ourselves in 2022 where the transatlantic power in Europe has successfully severed Russia from Europe, so much that the clearly waning Putin went all-in bluffing, so far Russia is losing. I'm not sure if the cost for the US and the EU is worth it in the long run. But if China stays calm and patient it can 'take in' a heavily bleeding and sufficiently defused Russia by very little work on their own.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20190503072531/https://www.nytim...

Edit: The more I learn about the current 'military operation' the more I'm baffled. From a military perspective he had a lot of options in taking down and significantly weakening the Ukrainian military instead he amassed a huge army to 'invade' at a high cost (resources, operational precision and morale) when long-term 'occupation' wasn't his goal in the first place but - deriving from the actions in the past 8 years - creating a 'buffer state' alike to 2012 and/or effectivley splitting Ukraine (Donetsk/Luhansk etc). It doesn't make sense for me in the light of his former actions, it looks like a self-inflicting wound from afar. Maybe the experience in Georgia from 2008 has something to do with it, the utter international isolation, internal crisis ... I'm trying to figure this still out. The US in the past had also made very poor choices (at least in their unipolarity), so maybe this was a long overdue 'twitch' on the part of the hawkish delusional Russians. Militarization is certainly experiencing a scary revival in Europe, now.
Wind in this area is primarily a westward one.
Germany is still immensely traumatized from WWII, believe it or not, and has lots of internal issues resulting from the reunification, ironically, after the fall of the former USSR.

That is why there is tremendous friction before Germany will get involved in anything that looks like a war.

This is not exactly news though.
Yes labor costs are enormous in Denmark, but you should direct your blame inwards towards the population and the government you elect if you want that to change. It's not IKEA causing those.
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In the US, high-school linear algebra, geometry and calculus were de rigeur. Three courses of calculus were, at the time I went to university, required for engineers, along with differential equations and matrix algebra.

However, the pure-mathematics coursework ended up being the most useful: two or more mathematical analysis courses, non-Euclidean geometry, statistics, algorithmic analysis, and mathematical topology.

The two take-these-if-you-want-a-future courses I’d recommend are discrete mathematics (which I use every day) and abstract algebra (which I also use every day).

There are a lot of good college textbooks for both; mine is long gone, though you may find one that you absolutely love.
There is an argument that stereotypical ethnic Russians are Finno-Ugric people.

Moreover, if you go almost anywhere in Siberia, 50% or more of the locals will be of ethnic minorities native to the area (you may describe their appearance as Asian). More in rural areas. Many regions are dual language, Russian + indigenous. This includes the largest administrative region on Earth that is not a country.
Looking at its energy policy, I wonder how competent Germany is at looking out for its own interests.
The multi-monitor stuff is much better now. I’d revisit. It persists for me across display configuration changes.
Yes there are
> “It is kind of like credit card payments, with the bonus that there are no returned payments,” Polis said.

If the Bitcoin was stolen or used fraudulently aren’t you still required to return it?
> If half the profiles are just a no-brainer "no" then the "real average" is only over the top 50% rather than the full 100%.

You're doing a lot of mental gymnastics to redefine terms like "average". Ah yes, it is perfectly fine for women to consider 80% of men to be below average in attractiveness, because those 80% are just a no-brainer "no" because they are not attractive and math is hard.

> I don't deny that using these apps as a man is a more difficult experience in actually landing a date, but many women are also frustrated by the tons of crappy/creepy men out there (e.g. "dickpics" and such). Being in the "top 30/20%" is easier than you'd might think.

Perhaps you are in the top 20% of men so you feel that it is easy to be in the top 20% bracket, but men who are not up there don't really have a path to get there. You imply that men should simply stop sending dick picks (and stop doing other, very obviously bad things), but the proportion of men sending unwarranted dick pics is vanishingly small.
Wait, cognito hazards are real now?
I wonder how the likes of Neville Chamberlain fit into this article?
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>i want to switch window of the same app or switch app.

That sounds like a total nightmare to have the same keyboard shortcut do 2 different things. Cmd-Tab switches app, Cmd-` switches windows in an app. I just don't understand how that is difficult. Then again, some people find math hard, others find it easy. To each their own.
It would have been a good opportunity to highlight how you can publish articles in Nature as Open Access under a Creative-Commons license so people don't need to pirate them (as long as you have €9500 left over from your grant to cover the fee).
Ukrainan drone. Its origin isn’t exactly important here.

What’s more interesting is how fantastically reckless the Russians are with their equipment and troops, and how poor their logistics and communications appear. Those vehicles driving bumper to bumper indicates they are confident there is zero risk of attack. Yet they don’t have control over the airspace? Several days into the invasion?

Something doesn’t add up.
Also, you get to watch young couples have their first real argument.
You are not speaking to a y'all. Are you alluding to a dualist world-view?
Anyone knows the infrastructure behind Sci-Hub? I'm asking because I feel like they're vulnerable to be taken down in the future.Maybe IPFS/other are not the best options but some sort of hardened network could benefit such project.
The monetization is frozen you can still use the sites.
Blog spam or fake/propaganda site? Why is this on HN

Just look at the main page https://www.gamingdeputy.com/
Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, by Richard Courant and Fritz John. This book clearly explained many of the motivating examples of the concepts in Calculus, which was important to me as a beginning student. Too many times I read math textbooks that simply present a list of definitions, theorems, corollaries, and whatnot, failing to guide readers from one point to another. I agree that for advanced level of math, there're probably no good motivations or 'storyline' that weave these constructs together (they're purely symbolic); however, for a layman level, I feel it's crucial to at least make the readers understand why and how these concepts come to be, so that they can grasp at least a little bit of the 'logic' of math.

Similarly, Analysis I by Terence Tao has a 'Why do analysis' that has made me actually enjoy analysis.
Consider that I'm coming from a family of Partisans (Italian, nephew of) and I've always had definitively leftist ideas...

The fact that you find my words "from the alt-right" means that you get trapped in actual propaganda where: PR of one side try to push ideas against their will as ideas that came from very bad people. It's a classic technique present even in classic Greeks tails.

Indeed these days I found more leftist certain discourse form well-know nazi-fascist parties/politicians, parties I'll NEVER vote for, than the one from formally leftist parties. Another proof, at least in EU (I do not know the actual political composition in USA), more and more workers classically voting left are now voting right, not because they change their mind but because they keep voting the very same idea and do not know much the history... It's not a critic but a serious observation: try to confute it an I'm pretty sure it will surprise you.
Right, like how after 9/11 Europe had a responsibility to ignore the USA?

But we didn't. And even if the way that was handled sucks and the intelligence was faulty and I was utterly against invading Iraq because it seemed the wrong thing to do, right after 9/11 the whole world stood with the USA.

They fucked up the aftermath of that but in the moment there was zero doubt about what was the right thing to do: to stand as one.
What else is the above post offering then?

It's not even intended as a strawman, I cannot honestly see how any of that would have positive impact: In the history of mankind, having an external force that makes people's lives worse, will, if anything, give the autocrat more support. Also, it's not like well-trained Russians aren't already leaving the country.

Edit: I am honestly asking. Thanks for giving a comment. But to me, the above comment looks almost comically naive. What am I missing?
Yeah, I'm biased. I'm hearing an alarm right now and just heard two explosions. But he really threatens to use offensive nukes, I think he is past the point of any empathy.
I think there have been several attempts, but their government is cracking down on protests very swiftly. Many of them also have restricted information/are being outright gaslighted.

We don't have much visibility over what's going on in Russia that's not government controlled, but it seems to me a lot of people over there are against this war.

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally...

EDIT: https://twitter.com/ASLuhn/status/1497944821679501313
That feels like it's only half of the truth. The other half is that our leaders stopped trying.
You'd be pretty hard pressed to find furniture of better quality at the same price point.
Any attack from a NATO country doesn't trigger anything from its other NATO allies. NATO only gets involved in a defensive war.
All of this is a bit bupkis without taking into consideration the cost of grid, distribution, maintenance - and especially the quasi monopolistic and massively bureaucratic powers that operate those systems.

Energy prices to business and consumers are staggering, and the 'transport' fees are proving to be a substantial portion of that. The 'Sunshine List' in Ontario, the government list used to publicise all civil servants making over $100K frankly was very focused on the electricity grid providers, with average wages multiple times the national average, and large swaths earning over $100K even a decade ago when that used to mean a lot.

Start to show us prices being reduced to consumers (or significantly increased consumption) and then we can talk about the great future.

The story is nice, but it's only halfway there.
Math: Robert A Adams' book Calculus
They could but I don't think it will be financially practical for an Aerospace company to set up a manufacturing line to just to manufacture 1 or 2 of the 225's.
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> To prevent their atrocities from being broadcast they’ll probably prioritise cutting the internet.

You only need one good connection.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/27/elon-musk-activates-starlink-i...
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It's a formerly occupied state that is fighting its former occupier.
I've been using Time4vps. It's a little bit more expensive, but it's also a full linux box you can do anything with...

I dump my backups and also run a calibre server.
If the goal was to properly reverse Unicode text, this doesn't do that — it completely fails to consider combining characters. Those need to stay in-order… otherwise the combining accent jumps to the next/previous character.

Generally speaking, Unicode text can't be reversed without the UCD (Unicode Character Database) at hand.

Also, as soon as you consider that arbitrary groups of characters (or "Rune"s) need to stay in-order, you might as well stay on UTF-8 since the variable length encoding no longer really matters.

(Also-also, some text just can't be reversed, or might change characters in reverse. For example, Greek Sigma [σ] changes to [ς] if it is at the end of a word. Do you readjust that after flipping a word around?)
Pornhub, Onlyfans and Twitch blocked in Russia - surely this is a positive thing for Russia.
Guy has too much time on his hands.
My opinion is solely based on my personal experience, so take it with a grain of salt.

I was enrolled in a PhD program (engineering) around the time Sci-Hub started, we were lucky enough to have access to most papers we needed thanks to the University agreements with Elsevier, IEEE, etc. I did not hear about Sci-Hub until a bit later, when I needed access to some academic papers but remote access to my university network was very cumbersome. I ended up downloading my OWN papers from Sci-Hub out of pure convenience. I have to say I always had mixed feelings (if not just hostility) towards the academic publishing industry, so I was actually happy my papers were available there.

During pandemic time I decided to enrol in a MBA in the fields of Humanities (because why not). My experience is that Humanity folks are not very aware of Sci-Hub, probably because they are not so tech-savvy in general, but those that discover it are more than happy to count with this extra resource.

Said this, my personal impression is that places like my country are not higher in the chart .. just because Sci-Hub is not better known yet.
I read it was parked for maintenance and couldn’t be flown out in time. Really sad.
>The most important battle was, again, for Kyiv. Russia failed to seize an airport on its outskirts on February 24th, the first day of the war.

Spetsnaz airborne were routed day 1. Was it really just Ukrainians? Or did they have some proxy help?

>Despite its impressive resistance, the city faced the prospect of imminent encirclement.

General mobilization is a huge factor here. Russian troops are fighting against people who have nothing left to lose. encirclement doesnt matter, when they enter the city they will lead with spetsnaz because if they don't... they will take tremendous losses. Russia hasn't even started to see the real resistance yet.
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Sorry, but Kasparov is a charlatan with zero qualifications to speak on complex global geopolitics. His main claim to fame is inserting himself into Russian opposition politics for two years post-retirement and then cosplaying to US neocon audiences as a Soviet expert. HN would be particularly unimpressed by the book which is pretty tedious and self-referential and only prescient in the most obvious ways.
this can be observed in a wide range of cell cultures, human and beyond.
that has been worked with for about 25 years.

the problem in the context of genetic engineering is to achieve predictable, directed transfection and incorporation, in an expressible and regulated form.
Just 10 conversations? It would be better to use an IRC client against Bitlbee.

As for the irc client, use any.
Or VPNs.
This impacts me too, the US does export liquid natural gas that could help some. I'm also trying to encourage everyone to reduce consumption, even in the US, because it could enable some resource re-balancing if it comes to that.

Russia coming out of this stronger helps none of us. The way I see it is that without starting this discussion we are steaming towards an inevitable outcome where Putin puts pressure on this issue and the whole world just gives up and lets him do whatever he wants.
It's not balanced and getting more imbalanced.

Germany is much more powerful economically and has benefited massively from the Euro.

EU extension to the East benefit them most. Brexit reinforced their domination.

Now, if they also "wake up" militarily then France can soon be outclassed on all fronts and more of a "junior partner" than an "equal friend" (let's be honest, it already is). At least France has nukes and I hope no-one will have the "brilliant" idea to share them...
Some politicians secured campaign contributions from the crypto lobby, that's all. I didn't see details on how much extra it'll cost compared to paying with a check/ACH.
We use Uber/fx in the org I work.

Took me a while to buy into it, because as you said, it doesn't seem any better than hand-written code.

But after a few years I noticed fx was being adopted by more and more teams, and it reduces cross-project contribution friction, some teams started building conventions around it, and more importantly, iterating on these conventions, etc. It's become just really handy for us.

This is many many small teams (5 people per team, more than 4k devs around many offices and countries).
I don’t understand how this statement can be stated confidently.

“People in the far future will read the history books with great amusement.”

Who knows what’s going to happen in the far future?
Now it is called "pirate" to access research, which was financed by the people?

I don't think we should attribute such action with any negatively connotated words. It is not like they are stealing anything. They are just accessing what should be accessible to anyone anyway.
Inflation rate minus T-bill interest.
If you can't see it from outside of the US: https://archive.is/IvHg3

Announcement also on Facebook: [0]

[0] https://www.facebook.com/jaredpolis/posts/486922196339837
>But the IKEA hate seems mostly based on snobbery and/or brand awareness.

what? Ikea was always the cheap brand, not expensive one, nor premium one - there is no snobbery attached to it.
I think that Germany could not conceive of the situation that we are in today.
I just watches a bit and dont see what point from me this even targets.

I never said anything about who has the right to own which land or anything the like. The woman is correct but how do you help her by donating for war? You dont.
The more money people put into this war the more endangered this woman is.

As I said above this is not about picking sides its about stopping to financially support wars.
The vast majority of the people in Russian and Ukraine are against this war.
Nice! If you can also make alt+tab select apps instead of all windows, I might try using Windows again.
My theory is that U.S. and other governments recognize that digital currency will eventually be necessary.

Rather than expend the resources to develop it themselves, they are giving the crypto community enough space to do the R&D for them. Once the technology evolves to a point that it is both secure and practical, the governments will implement their own digital iterations of their respective currencies.
https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1497843649668739072 is a short thread on basically this subject, but no clear answer. 18 USC 958 makes illegal "within the jurisdiction" of the US to accept "a commission" to fight against any state "with whom the United States is at peace."

(As the thread points out, public perception and the willingness of prosecutors to go after you are probably more relevant from a mechanics/plausibility standpoint.)
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No, Cmd+Tab switches between apps not windows within all apps.
That's why you normally attempt to ascertain whether or not obvious tactical and strategic oversights are deliberate prior to taking advantage of them. Time will tell whether the Ukrainians actually did any homework, or simply rushed in headlong to a target of opportunity and 'damn the torpedoes'.
"the world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything"

This is a strange message, given the rest of the article. It could be interpreted to mean we need to make weapons to stop evil people around the world. But I guess the auther wants us to think all people who participate in war (defensive or offensive) are evil and must be stopped.

EDIT: I sincerely don't follow the author's point with that quotation. Can someone elaborate?
I'm guessing the payment processor has to swallow the losses in that case. It's clear from the FB post that Colorado is getting USD, not BTC.
Isn't this not accurate at all due to mass VPN usage?
I don't think the methodology is necessarily colored by my view of science. My assumption is that most of scientific paper downloads are done by people who are employed to do it. Granted, it's a flawed assumption and there are no metrics on "how many papers are downloaded by which demographics", so we don't really have enough information to make a strong conclusion, but the right answer is probably somewhere in between.
This argument makes no sense. Just because I can’t implement new plumbing in my house myself doesn’t mean I can’t complain about my neighbor doing a shit job with his. This board is a Tower of Babel with lots of pointless languages - just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
NATO already has member countries equally close to Moscow, there was no way Ukraine was going to join any time soon, and no reason for NATO to station any missiles there when all of Russia has been in range of ICBMs fired from submarines since decades now. It's a completely made up story by Russia.
Yes there are! Practically in every major city[0]. Moreover, they are threatened with up to 20 years of prison, so this has much more value than armchair criticism. Many of them are young people, risking all their youth[1].

[0] eg: https://www.rferl.org/a/yekaterinburg-protest-russia-invasio...

[1] Look at this girl arrested on the first photo, looks like a middle school student: https://www.e1.ru/text/gorod/2022/02/25/70468868/
Who romanticizes WWII urban warfare?
Certainly there’s a lot of opportunities for improvement here!
Pushing that it is a simpler game is a bit of a non sequitur. In many ways, chess is also a simpler game. Wouldn't make sense to claim it is laughably so, though.

Similarly, paying for things with an hourly job is very different than doing do so with a competitive job where pay is not guaranteed.

I get the impression you are asking if the credentials make him an authority. No idea, there. They do give a good reference point to how much they liked card games, though.
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No, it sounds exactly like Russians. They haven't changed. Heavy drinking, fuck-it-all attitude, laziness, gross incompetence, nepotism, utter disregard for any human life including Russian (ie they adopted flak/bulletproof vests in the army much later than west) and so on. When they attack small nations like Georgia in limited scale, maybe they look strong.

But here all failures are in the spotlight and combine, you can't escape them or bullshit it away. That's why Putin is getting desperate and waving with nuclear arms. Big question is how west will see it - I call it desperate bluffing, but that tiny little chance has dire consequences...
I think it shows the risk of being dead by a particular age.
True, but it seems some become more idealogical once they reach the status.

I would say Elon falls in this category too.