skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not against the death penalty in principle; but in practice, at least the way our current system is set up, it just seems to lead to perverse problems. Since prosecutors are generally a political office, there's a strong incentive to be seen as "tough on crime" by getting lots of death penalty convictions. The result is innocent people convicted. If you're alive, there's always a chance your conviction will be overturned, even if 20 years down the road. But if you're dead, there's nothing you can do.

The argument, "Life in prison is a fate worse than death" is an argument to make prison more humane, not an argument to kill people instead.
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> Please educate yourself on the scale of youtube.

Please be less smug.

YouTube has no right or requirement to operate at that scale. They've consciously decided to scale past what they're able to manage well. This is no different than a developer who produces terrible non-functional code but defends it to their boss by pointing out the line count is really high.

I'd be impressed by their scale only if they managed to maintain some level of quality also.
I do fall for the argument that oversight would be too costly given the sheer numbers. I don't like it though.
> On another side, it's not even mentioned that in the middle of the war action in Ukraine, nobody seems to have noticed Putin just annexed another country, Byelorussia. The Russian troops were supposed to leave at the end of their 3 week long exercises, but they are now leaving...never.

Belorussia has been a Russian puppet since the collapse of the USSR, nobody's noticed it because nothing has changed.
> It can also do things like split the archive up over many smaller files.

Are there other archival formats on par with RAR without the licensing voodoo I see people mentioning?
Ask HN: Why doesn't Ukraine attack Russia?
Easy targets like electricity and communication lines, to inflict economic damage and paralyze society?
A mushroid is just a toadstool in the category of endofungus
I agree in a way, but I also think that in avoiding conflict, it is possible to see yourself pushed back into a corner to where a bigger conflict becomes necessary.
Bot the very approach is fun:

class RusselSet(set):
def __contains__(self, other):
return other not in other

paradox = RusselSet()

paradox in paradox # ?
the coastguard?
I'm glad, and I shouldn't try to pigeonhole you here either, I just think these types of conversations lose specificity quickly.

Person A: I'm doing <this thing> to support <cause>
Person B: You shouldn't do <that thing>
Person A (or more often, C): Inaction is equal to support / silence is violence

I think there is almost always more than one possible action, even in support of <cause>. Also, some well intentioned actions can hurt a cause, so inaction is obviously preferable. Or, there may be a third outcome that I like better than <cause> or <not cause>.

Let me get specific, to avoid my own criticism.

I don't know if what the original commenter is doing is worth the effort, in terms of supporting Ukraine in this conflict. There's obviously a cost, in terms of dev time and false positives (showing the message to an unintended audience). I do think it is usually annoying, distracting, and unnecessarily polarizing to add politics to technical projects, so I would lean against doing this, even if I agree with the politics. Good technical work is hard enough on its own.

I'm not terribly offended by this action, and I wouldn't criticize it on its own; but I definitely think that "inaction supports the Russian invasion" is out of line here.
Because Ukraine doesn't want war?
I suspect this boils down to those type of searches do not make money.
My YouTube channel also got removed, received an email 3 hours ago.

"We have reviewed your content and found severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines. Because of this, we have removed your channel from YouTube."

Also posted a message showing support to Ukraine in a Kiev livestream.
https://dazv.gov.ua/en — UA state agency for management of the exclusion zone.

Their online map seems to be... offline: http://www.srp.ecocentre.kiev.ua/MEDO-PS/index.php?lang=UKR
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this has never been the case in US prisons
We should de-peer the russian ISPs from the internet.
could you explain why it's a bad idea to use molex to sata?

did your guys use shitty injection molded connectors that melted or is there another reason?
My statement was not about how long it will take them to take Kyiv, but rather Ukraine. I had actually thought they would reach Kyiv before now.

I still believe my claim. Unless Russia miraculously takes the rest of the country in a few hours it will come true.
> I don't appreciate the gratuitous insult that we can't objectively discuss the actions of a past president.

Regardless of any point made on the subject, what one side considers objective, the other side considers biased and tainted. Your rejoinder on the existential insult (though a consequence of human nature) is noted -- and your wish shared that we could exist with any real semblance of objectivity. We primates aren't objective creatures when it comes to arguments that at least one side has turned its axioms into articles of faith.

For the record, I expect we agree substantively on an analysis of Trump's presidency, both in terms of motivations, outcomes, and impacts.
@akorotkov I'm interested also. I see the forked and patched version here, https://github.com/orioledb/postgres, but I don't see any documentation on what changes you made.
I love the idea of admitting that scaling up technology arbitrarily can make our lives worse instead of better. But no, the answer is not to accept it and hope that it will get better despite no specific and substantive reason to believe it will.
I agree, I thought, given the URL, that this was the or one of the founders of effective altruism writing about their job as marketing.
There is some portion of learning new languages that involves natural ability, which is no different than how people learn math at different speeds. But the overwhelmingly critical factor is motivation.
Prediction: China isn't going to do jack shit help Ukraine.

Also, why would they even listen to anything the US has to say given their relatively recent rocky relationship with each other?
I dropped off earlier than 45%, somewhere around 25%. It is about deriving the quadratic formula, not about 'what's a root'.

What's a root could be a link you click on to give more information than a special x value when both side of the equation line up (a root is when the graph of a function crosses the x-axis).

I like imagery and the clicking to progress to the next portion. What would be fantastic in my opinion is to take the step-by-step approach of something like WolframAlpha and apply it to defined topics with a set of defined examples rather than hey provide us an answer and if you get it wrong we will take you through a rudiment branch that will take us back to the main branch.
In and of itself, the "bug out bag" doesn't necessarily imply running off to the wilderness but the fact that you might have to abandon your residence due damage (fire, quake-related structural damage, advancing enemy force).

If you have a bug-in bag you ought to have a bug-out bag for the simple fact that "Shit Happens."
> [2] www.newsinslowspanish.com

Oh wow I've been after something like this for a long time. It's awesome because it's relevant content (news) but at a pace that beginners can follow. I don't know Spanish but knowing French, I could follow along the super slow mode and not feel lost.

Going to look for this in German and Chinese, I wonder if there's something similar.
Pimsleur isn't cheap, but if you have an Audible subscription you can (could? haven't checked in a while) get them at a steep discount compared to list price (through Pimsleur or any other source). When I bought the Spanish lessons a few years ago, buying the whole set via Audible this way (even considering the subscription cost, and combined with their credits) basically cut the cost in half (I actually did price it out because I nerd out with spreadsheets sometimes, but I don't recall the exact figures anymore).

Also, check your local library. They may have access for you for free.
It's safe to say that Russian state-sponsored hacker groups have become more skilled since 2017 where NotPetya struck:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/russian-military-almost-certain...

It's not farfetched to think they have something worse planned.
Luckily it is, essentialy, the basis of customary international law, otherwise the entire world would disintegrate in to ethnic violence until we ended up with perfectly aligned ethno-states rather than the borders we have now, the majority of which are in place as the relics of failed empires.
The article discuss the benefits and drawback of SWIFT being the dominating banking system in the world, and the risk that cutting of Russian banks from it would encourage the other banking systems to take over. What I find missing from the article is that primary intention of wanting to cut off Russian banks from SWIFT, ie stopping trade between Russia and other countries. In particular, stopping Germany and Italy, the two countries most dependent on Russian oil and natural gas.

If the world want to stop countries from trading with Russia, have a trade agreement that imposes sanctions to anyone trading with Russia and goods that comes from Russia. Right now the oil and gas from Russia is just as bloody as blood diamonds.
China State Banks Restrict Financing for Russian Commodities
Scientists are recruiting elephant seals to eavesdrop on whales
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For me it looks like all of those banking / swift sanctions will mostly affect regular russian people and small businesses, who will not be able to work with foreign markets. Russian goverment will continue to trade oil and gas like nothing happenned, and will find way to trade other goods through non-Western countries like China. And sanctions regarding high-tech export will take many many months to have an effect. Honestly, it looks like western countries try to decieve people, that they are actively helping to solve this situation, but actually want to leave everything as it is.
"Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT"

Because Europe is dependent on Russian gas (thanks to an ill thought out denuclearization drive), and both Europe and US governments prefer their economic and electoral interests over Ukraine or the international order. The rest of the article are really silly excuses (Russia is a relatively small economy and can't meaningfully hurt the dollar etc.).
That makes no sense. If Russia had an effective way to conduct its business without SWIFT in the event of sanctions, it would also have a way to conduct its business outside of SWIFT any time it has something to hide.

To follow your analogy, if they had a separate office in a separate building that they could use in the event that they get kicked out of the bugged office, they would already be using it whenever they wanted additional privacy.

The only way SWIFT actually forces Russia to be visible is if it's their only option, so no visibility can be lost if they're cut off.
Experian experienced a data breach affecting millions in South Africa
At this point it doesn't seem they have a choice?
I didn't find anything sea cable related to this yaht. I found a possible scenario in the UK Sun, but no actual report for an actual cutting. Actually, the Sun Article mentions that cutting such cable will have to be answered with torpedoing the submarine responsible or a cyber attack.
> Russia has already built their own alternative to SWIFT and will eventually switch to it regardless.

What's the alternative? Any source(s)?
It will be when the answering to those popups can be done by API, I believe...
The Chesterton Fence AKA an undocumented obstacle from the perspective of anyone new.

Of course we need to understand the system before changing it.

But we shouldn't browbeat those wanting to improve the stuff we left no guidance about.
Right. Because I'm a fan of not starving to death myself, I have no problem paying people for goods and services and hence don't agree with the "closed source is a sin" stance of the author. RAR is both faster and more pleasant to use on a daily basis than 7zip, so that's what I use for all my own files. If I'm going to host data or send it to someone who I know uses 7zip, then I'll use that. Generally though when I have a need to send compressed files I have no idea what the recipient has installed so I'm forced to use regular zip files.
If the EU is unwilling to stop gas shipments from Russia, so much more is the USA unwilling to stop shipment of everything from China.
Clean energy supposedly, but Iowa is the first primary state for Presidential elections. Guess who makes a lot of ethanol?
The reason I'm a RAR fan is because TAR failed me multiple times! (The first one was ~21 years ago. I lost most of my home.tar.gz-Backup. Because tar has no index, if something bad comes along, everything after that can't be read.) 17 years ago, I took a deep dive into rar and replaced my tar.gz backup process with it. I had a cronjob that checked the tar.gz-Backups from the past week and there was a 50% change of "Unexpected EOF in archive". There where weeks, when all seven archives had and error! Disk, NFS, USB-Stick didn't mater. Also I wanted encryption. Which means another pipe. I have also seen bit flips on USB-Sticks. Where a copied jpg had reversed colours in the middle. So I wanted redundancy too. RAR has everything included, and I felt it had a low bus factor.

Time moves on. 7zip feature creeps towards rar. Most if not all consumer OSs can open and create .zip out of the box. So, who cares ;-) Even I use Borg for my backups these days, since I don't have to care about a bus factor any more. RAR is still cool and my 17 year old licence is still valid.
Let's do it this way:

Do you think in 10 years that Clubhouse will be a $100BN company? [0]

This is also towards the fact that it's sole feature has been copied to death and the hype generated by global lockdowns is no more.

Maybe they will do something different in 10 years to justify that valuation, but with what it is offering compared to its competitors, I don't see it how it is even worth $4B.

[0] https://twitter.com/shl/status/1353406140495798272
> the far left regards Trump and Putin as being aligned and view that as one connected political union

I mean, it's not like this idea is unfounded. Trump has praised Putin many times, including during the current invasion. Meanwhile, Putin has been very friendly towards Trump.

I think the "Russian election interference" stuff is very overblown, but it's pretty clear that Trump respects (and maybe even idolizes) Putin.

One other problem with what you said is that I think the cause and effect goes the other way. The democrats are anti-Trump in part because he's pro Putin. They're not anti-Putin because Putin is pro-Trump. Being anti-Putin is very simply a matter of being anti-dictator and doesn't require tying Putin to a controversial US political figure.
What kind of cheap comment is this? If you make such an accusation, which I would say is not obvious at all, at least provide an iota of support for your argument. Or are you a troll?
Sorry but that's just straight-up right-wing propaganda. Don't know if you're acting in bad faith or just repeating things you've read or heard somewhere, but statements like these are just disgusting to me as a Caucasian european who grew up with friends who have parents from the middle east.

I'm an atheist, some of my friends are muslim, yet we don't struggle to be friends because of that.

You are probably talking about very conservative people who like to hang gay people and all of that funny stuff, but just making a blank statement that this is true for all of the middle east is very wrong.

EDIT: Was never down-voted so fast on HN, is the majority of HN really so negative towards people from the middle east?
I hope it's Y2K compliant!
Better title:

> Ink/Stitch: open-source machine embroidery design platform based on Inkscape
Note that this guide is in the middle of a big rewrite to include a UEFI compatible bootloader. The author posts updates here: https://rust-osdev.com/
>The actual reason is because SWIFT gives the US/EU visibility into all inter-bank transfers

But like clearly it doesn't if Russia and China have their own systems. How would Swift reveal Russian/Chinese internal transactions?
> All of the US mainstream media (except for one) is taking a pro-Ukrainian sovereignty angle

Which one would that be? I haven’t seen a single US media outlet saying this is a good thing…
your comparison is just wrong.

Ukraine is an independent sovereign nation _de facto_ and _de jure_, recognized by probably every single country in the world including the aggressor russia to.

Why you thing I have "a dog in this race"? It's just old-school war, russia does not know how to use it's soft diplomatic power. It's threats all the time, and when Ukraine does not give up on idea to westernise for at least 8 years - russia treat is a threat - thus they invade.

If I'd compare - I'd compare it to Winter War. When WW2 started - they saw that Finland is too close to St.Peterbug for russias comfort - thus they started the war. Same here - Ukraine wants to free themselves from post-soviet economy and modernise to western model, it's a threat to putin - because then the "western" economical and political borders will be too close for his comfort.
I'm eagerly awaiting a technological breakthrough in storage that renders compression pointless.
The college I worked at had a few classes at the prison. I was an adjunct and agreed to do it. None of the tenured faculty would do it. Didn’t really have any support. Did wear a body alarm. One way the body alarm would be activated was if it was horizontal for more than 3 seconds.
I had the same thought as your last point. Regardless of what happens with SWIFT now China will keep pushing hard to reduce it's US dependencies and is clearly well on their way.

Keeping your powder dry isn't so useful when it's evaporating in front of you.
>> For this to work, your hypothetical man has to see that country as "his tribe" in the first place. I think a lot of people don't, and basically just see their own family as their tribe.

> If you’re some hypothetical cosmopolitan man who’s lived in 10 cities and has no emotional connection to anywhere, maybe. Most people don’t want to see their local area taken over by some Russian maniac.

Also, on the other end, if you're enmeshed in a culture that's rife with corruption and nepotism.

Loyalty to only a very narrow band of close relatives is usually not a recipe for a successful society.
What if money was no object?
Infosperber is an independent Swiss online news platform where I can read about strange things (in German). To be clear, I don't know whether the things they tell are true, but often I find these things interesting and plausible.

One of them is that Gorbachev has been promised that the NATO doesn't expand in Eastern Europe. So perhaps this is one of the causes Putin invaded Ukraine. He is afraid of the NATO and deems the EU and the USA untrustworthy partners. I don't know. Seems plausible.

https://www.infosperber.ch/politik/darum-fordert-russland-de...

Edit: This doesn't exculpate the invasion. An invasion of a country is a violation of international law. I just try to understand the rationales.
I see this more and more. When software infrastructure become mature and stable, the people who built it eventually leave or retire. You end up with systems that people use and occasionally modify, but the real understanding is gone. The ability to make big changes is reduced. Knowing what secondary effects a change may have is nearly impossible. But you can keep right on using it just fine.
I keep seeing tons of talk of nuclear weapons, and I'm not really sure why everyone's so worried about them. Even the soviets understood MAD. Everyone does. Nobody's going to use nukes. Nobody wants to. They exist to not have to be used. That is their whole purpose now.

This conflict is perfectly executable within the bounds of conventional warfare. It needs no more.
Just because he doesn't have much of a choice doesn't mean there's no irony.
> and neon used in welding.

I've worked in a specialty welding shop that did laser and electron beam and never saw or heard of neon used for welding. It is beyond prohibitivly expensive. Even helium is awesome for welding but so expensive that we only used it for specialty jobs that were very low volume and high margin and high risk (e.g. prototypes).
I always found this aspect of 'copyright' very confusing. I still don't understand the legal basis here.
What is your age? (If you don't mind me asking)
Do you mind sharing your age? Curious if youth played a part here - I'm in my 40s and wondering if I'll have as much success?
Not the poster, but I taught a computer science class in prison. I did it through a college which operates a degree granting program in the state prisons (in addition to normal college operations).

Most of the professors were paid, I did it as volunteer work.
Probably for the same reason they didn't exclude Five Eyes from SWIFT when they invaded Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and killed over 1,500,000 people in just over twenty years...lol nah it's about money. They'd shoot themselves in the foot if they did it.
The more countries you cut off, the less you hurt them and the more you hurt yourself.

If you sanction every country you're effectively sanctioning yourself, not that that is what you're suggesting :).
I can't imagine what change they could make to the the algorithms to understand world context at an acceptable level. Reporting on the Russian Ukraine conflict and show a dead body. That is news and should probably be left up. A school shooting and show a dead body. Why did the algorithms leave that up so long?
Sanctions only work when imposed by a stronger country on a weaker one. Ecuador, for example, cannot impose sanctions on the U.S. For this reason, it is quickly becoming unfeasible to impose sanctions on China. Imposing effective sanctions on Russia is already hard enough, and Russia's economy is much smaller than China's.
Think of SWIFT like the internet. You can build your own new internet, but you also need everyone else to connect to it as well. If a Russian oligarch wants to transfer money to a Swiss bank to buy a new boat, they'd need to convince that Swiss bank to be part of the new network as well.

At a practical level, swapping out SWIFT would be like changing the engine in your car. You can do it, but doing so is time consuming and prone to risk. Running more than one at a time just isn't feasible.
I learned Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Polish, I knew English and Hebrew.

Every day I would usually repeat the previous day's lesson, and do a new lesson.

For languages such as Japanese and Chinese, you'd probably need to repeat it more than that. It's recommended that you know about 80% of the answers before moving on to the next lesson.
One thing that I wish were, at least, explored is how make Rust simpler.

I bet Rust syntax and some complex and divergents ways of typing are major implications on how Rust compile (you can see why, when comparing to Pascal). Also, modules, macros must be, IMHO, major faults here.

The other things: San, Quote, Serde? That stuff must be bring home. At minimum, the bare traits and some basic machinery.

Other thing: The orphan rule means exist a lot of places with redundant code to tie types that cause extra compilation efforts (because n-crates must pull n-crates to impl traits!).
I didn't read the whole article but the reason I like rsync is that I get files on a normal filesystem. I don't need any special backup software to read or access the files.