skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even before the Internet, pornography decided the war on DVD or Blu-Ray. Or at least that is what I have been told, never fact checked on any of these.

Beta vs VHS.

DVD did not compete against BluRay, they are two different generations. BluRay competed against HD-DVD. From what I remember technically HD-DVD was superior, BluRay won because it had extra copy protection mechanism the HD-DVD lacked.
No the website which highlighted an anomaly. I could spot something up with a big entity, knock out a website highlighting that when all the while I'm looking to identify the user.
It's bizarre how well I remember that game... It was the design of each area, the music, ambiance, how the quest system introduced you to an area, but there was exponentially more to discover if you explored. Then the hook were instances where you couldn't realistically go solo, which led to pickup groups, which led to frustration with randos, which led to elitist groups forming which became top raiding guilds.

I met some insanely talented and accomplished people who moonlighted in raiding guilds within WoW. Friends raiding, writing custom mods, while working at the top tech companies. Such a time sink, but so much fun.

Oh.. and do you remember theorycrafting? Reverse engineering the game mechanics and optimizing for each situation across all the classes to beat raid bosses that were designed to be nearly impossible to defeat at launch? That was incredibly interesting, especially in a 40 player environment with multiple classes. The depth and balance of that game was and is still unparalleled.
sure sure. the "Revenge for twin towers" wasnt a thing. i get it. i also get why USA would continue to impose sanctions, essentially force iran to try to comply to its wishes because israel cannot do that on its own. they justify that with saying "but they are building nuclear weapons". sure.

imagine iran using stuxnet on an american facility or even an israeli nuclear facility. that is what i am asking for "justification".

if you say usa wasnt justified in any of the wars, we are on the same side. great
If the editor-in-chief of state broadcaster RT is anything to go by, the Russian policy is alarmingly 'ours is not to reason why..': https://twitter.com/M_Simonyan/status/1496701223734583296 – "we lived without iPhones, and we can do without Parisians, if necessary"
Blacklists make sense for news feeds, but whitelists seem more useful for media consumption.
True in early '00s as well, and this is why I burned a CD with the XP service pack on it; code red would infect a fresh install of XP faster than you could download the update to patch the problem...
Another thing you'll want for database-centric file stores, that should be table stakes for every desktop OS, is Amiga style datatypes. That is, allow applications to register readers and writers for their file formats. That will help the database parse files for important metadata.
I wasn’t happy.

I shared a bit more detail here: https://austinhenley.com/blog/leavingacademia.html
Yes. Parking is required for essentially all building types in the US, including office buildings and residential buildings (houses, apartments) too. Often even in very dense areas with public transit.
Use those drones to seed locally appropriate mushroom species with spore sprays. Even better, preemptively identify piles of deadwood and prioritize larger piles. Bonus points if the mushrooms are edible. Double bonus points if they're magic.

More mushrooms means more water retention, less fuel that's less dry overall, and a niche in the ecosystem is filled , expanding activity in the adjacent niches, which in turn speeds the disappearance of biodegradable mass.
Bitcoin Under Pressure Below $39,000 as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Hit Risk Assets
Because India.

[Edit] Thanks for the comments, in now way is this meant prejudiced and derogatory, I have worked with many excellent Indian colleagues.

The country normally associated with Chess is Russia, lately India got a huge wave of great talents like Vidit Gujrathi or Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.
Ask HN: How are you helping employees affected by the war in Ukraine?
Like many companies we have employees affected by the the violence in Ukraine. What are others doing to help their employees?
You are proposing a solution in search of a problem.

It's not character limit that's the problem, or even length (shortness) of messages.

It's how your company uses Slack. Look to change that.
I never did any of those things back when I was bike commuting and I still got punishment passed regularly and had drivers turn left in front of me when I had the right of way nearly causing collisions (when I was wearing a glaringly bright yellow jacket).

I also never saw any other bicyclists on my commute do anything particularly dangerous or come near to causing collisions. I saw a few of them brake the law, but I saw a lot of cars break the laws as well.

The last time I think I saw a truly dangerous bicyclist was probably 10 years ago when some idiot blew a 4 way hauling ass after coming down a hill and given a minute one way or the other I would have killed him.

I really need to get a dashcam because of all the bad drivers out there though. Just the level of tailgating at highway speeds out there is fucking insanity, with every other driver convinced that their testicles will shrivel up if someone changes lanes in front of them.
Ask HN: How can I delete a Facebook account without waiting 30 days?
A family member in Ukraine asked me to delete their Facebook account fearing that posted materials may lead to prosecution. Is there a way I can delete the account permanently, without waiting 30 days or allowing a possibility for recovery?
American citizen here but I'll try to write from a neutral perspective.

> Iraq

Not justified. See e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22794451

> Vietnam

The justification used was the Containment doctrine, meaning the containment of Communism. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment Basically, the US military feared the possibility that Communism would spread across the globe, which matched the rhetoric used by Communist politicians and writers, who promised a global workers' revolution. The US feared this outcome and sought to contain it via war. You can say they were unjustified or they were justified; that depends on your point of view about what constitutes a just war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory

> Afghanistan, Libya

I'm not familiar with the details of these conflicts so I won't try to address them.

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From a perspective of a neutral party, if you're trying to decide whether to side with the US or Russia, I would point you to the Democracy Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index , which is the closest thing to a consensus view of the moral rightness of countries. The USA is not at the top of the index by any means (heck, our neighbor Canada has us beat) but the USA scores far better than the other military superpowers (China and Russia).

From a standpoint of realpolitik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik , no country is purely good or evil but it's smart to side with the country that would result in a better long-term outcome for the world, hence why I refer you to the Democracy Index.
I feel like we're overrun by troll and bot farms. Compelling content directly out of the tinfoil hat "freedom convoy" bible.

Canadians are happy to have their cities back. Most of them (90%+), and most truckers (90%+), realize we're all in this together and don't try to hold their fellow citizens hostage.

You need to recognize the sources on these are the same who've been saying that requiring someone to not infect other people when going to public places is the same as being a Nazi.

90% of people disagree. The nazis are the ones imposing their views on everyone else.
If you've been paying attention to the crap that Trump and his sycophants have pulled you'd realize it makes total sense. These people are not patriots to America in it's current form. They are wholly on board for a new authoritarian far right nationalist America, in bed with the Russian state to further their goals.
I have been using computers on a daily basis since the mid 80's. I have seen many applications that stretched or exceeded the capabilities of the machine I was running them on, resulting in sub-par performance that left me wishing for a hardware upgrade to make using the application a more pleasant experience.

None of them were text editors or terminal emulators.
> Frankly …

This whole discussion has a really low SNR
> I honestly thought it wouldn't get to this point. Like what is the upside here (for Putin)?

Dismantling Ukraine by solidifying the breakaway regions and installing a pro-Russia regime in the rump Ukraine in the near term, annexing at least the breakaway regions on the intermediate term.

But, the war is a loss. The actual goal of the escalation was to get much more operational freedom by capitalizing on years of efforts to exacerbate divisions within and between the Western Allies, the establishment of propaganda conduits within them, etc., to get NATO to fail to hold together, crack, and fold, either abandoning or simply failing to adequately reassure it's Eastern flank, and leaving many of the existing NATO countries in the shadow of arbitrary Russian threat and influence.

Propaganda support for Brexit was part of that. Support for separatist efforts in Catalonia (and, though with less effect, California) was part of that. Support for various political factions in the US (notably the right and Republican Party, including the financing and influence channel developed through the NRA, but also propaganda support for—not, in most cases, collusion with—ideologically opposed groups, like the candidacy of Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, as well as a bunch of divisive non-candidate groups of various types) was part of it. That was the prep work.
Because, every time Magnus loses, it is news.
When he is no longer number one, it will cease to be news.
Yeah, you didn't edit it in any way to disguise the song. In these pirated videos on YouTube, any music sections are replaced with different music. It's quite weird.
You walked into their house...
Moreover, Carlsen is currently symptomatic with a confirmed case of COVID.

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/magnus-carlse...
Going to come correct all your posts now?
I love this one, KNDN. It’s located in Farmington, NM and it’s a Navajo station. They don’t have words for everything in their language so you’ll hear random English words like “Walmart” and such dropped in.

http://radio.garden/listen/kndn/YpE8bbVX
One Russian independent new group is claiming that the metadata for Putin's latest justification speech shows that it was recorded 2 days ago.

https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1496705752114900993
Lmao (obviously this never happened)
Stitches are both significantly harder to accidentally apply in the wrong place and can also just be snipped. I'm not asking how long it takes for the tape to dissolve. I'm asking about what happens if the doctor accidentally tapes the wrong parts of my insides together.
^this with the additional tidbit that from what I’ve read the police chief at the time was put in place in the wake of the blm protests to help fix relations between the police and the populace of Ottawa, so this may have been a pendulum swing of the police going too easy after they went too hard on the black community.

The timing of who got the kids gloves and who got the truncheon is probably increasing how angry everyone is
> I've run into some of these revenge post people - and they would pay $10, and they'd do it every week.

No they wouldn't, because the upload would no longer be anon, and they'd be charged under a revenge porn law.
Not that I'm aware of (I work at FB, but not related to accounts).
> Because India.

Do you have something against India or Indians? That too a 16 year old Indian kid..

Hopefully that is not part of your CTO coaching..
Sounds like a third-world power grid.
I'm referring to the actions of the State Department in Ukraine, as evidenced by "Cablegate" and by later reporting and leaks regarding the Maiden revolution and subsequent elections. I'm sure HN will be full of experts within a few hours, if the speed of new armchair virologists the last few years are any indication.
Not that anyone who touts him as an authority has read what he said:

"But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols."

So you don't even get to be violent with open racists as long as they aren't actively hurting people.
I wish US security services didn't spend last 6 years working hard on having their credibility on anything regarding Russia sacrificed to near-sighted political goals. I wish US politicians didn't use "Russia" as a cheap smear to throw around when they couldn't think of anything better. Maybe if they didn't spend 6 years crying wolf, when the real wolf came, we'd be a bit more ready.
This is news because it's a 16-year-old Indian kid. India has a huge Anglophone online audience that loves to boost news of Indian accomplishments, particularly those of people achieving something beyond their years.
Where did I say anything about any state entity's "right to exist?"
Ban porn.
Are you confusing semantics (open, readdir, cwd, ".." etc..) and implementation (directory entries, ".." pointer, etc..)?

The blogpost talks about semantic change -- "open" would mean something else entirely.

You seem to be talking about implementation, and yes, users or programs don't care. In fact, many network filesystems like DAVFS and SMB treat filesystem as key-value store, where a single call can get any file by full path. It would be interesting to see an on-disk filesystem that is based on key/value store, but sadly the blogpost's author does not talk about it at all.
How are they "pro-Kremlin"?

They are pro-peace pro-realpolitik. Not "pro-Kremlim".

Peter Zeihan is openly not pro-Kremlim. He predicts that Russia will collapse. As does George Friedman.

Please think before you type?
That appears to be where Russia wants to move the border, judging by the regions they're recognizing as independent states.
Any 16-year-old kid would make the news for doing this.
It's not one man. A lot of people in Russia, unfortunately, share the insanity spewed by Putin, and itch to show those dumb Ukrainians that they do not deserve to be anything but subjects of the Great Russian Empire. That's one of the reasons he's doing it - because he knows a lot of people want him to.
Do folks know that 55% of ad revenue goes directly to the creators whose content you are watching? Apps like this sound great, but ultimately damage ecosystems. YT Premium is like $11.99/mo and you never see an ad again. If you think you're getting $12/mo USD value out of YT, then I question why you'd want to go through the hassle of this over just paying not to see ads (ps: premium income also goes to the creators!) - how much is your time worth?
I want to like NewPipe but I've always had problems with resuming videos after pausing them in the background. Most of the time my progress is just completely lost. Also, full screen and popover mode have been broken since Android 12. I use Vanced at this point.
see also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System
Traffic stops that let them seize cash will definitely be a priority. So even your broken taillight means revenue.
The difference is they're so much better at it now.

Social media allows for efficient targeting, and even if you know how marketing works it will work on you eventually.
Previous posting of agadmator analysis of the game
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30436926
> I am for keeping Ukraine as a neutral buffer separating Russia and the US.

US is on another continent. It doesn't needs that buffer, Atlantic ocean is rather wide and deep.

You seems to ignore what Ukrainians want. NATO is an open alliance (open https://www.nato.int/ and read what they wrote there), not an American empire.

> We then openly backed the 2014 putsch in Kiev

That backing was limited to verbal expressions of support. Technically you're not wrong and this might count as "backing", but I don't believe that changed anything at all in the outcome.
Oh, you mean sentient GANs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
Oh boy, this is crazy times if at least one parent can't be with the baby at the hospital.
Great! Congratulation for achieving a remarkable feat at a young age.

I do have one general question, not specific to him. I am just asking what other people think about such a situation. Is there a scientific method to verify the age? Because I have seen my friends reducing their age intentionally to take part in international competitions.

I know there are prodigies, and even if he is not 16 it doesn't matter to me because he beat the world champion. He deserves the accolade :)
Chinese cybersecurity lab discovers US backdoor at Chinese system
Me and all of my friends and family have Vanced, I've never heard anyone of them mentioning a casting issue
It's a practical limitation; we don't have a mobile app (yet) nor is the web app mobile-optimized (yet), but you can certainly use it on your phone – and hurl abuse at us until we fix it.
>What he's saying: When asked on Chess24 he'd celebrate beating Carsen, Praggnanandhaa said: "I think it’s about just going to bed, because I don’t think I will have dinner at 2:30 in the morning."

I don't comprehend this quote or even the sentence Axios introduced it with. ("asked on Chess24 he'd celebrate"?) What is this saying?
Interesting idea but without knowing more technical info pretty hard to judge. I'm sure experts will review it, but the inventor could have provided more evidence for his method working by showing that the same technique can track other remote planes whose flight paths are known already.
Not really. I mean, yes, with unlimited effort you can but you'd have to write your own virtual table implementation. There is no existing JSON virtual table module. You'd have to do the indexing yourself in your virtual table implementation; it's not possible to add an SQLite index on a virtual table. If you imported the JSON data into SQLite tables you still can't do it, because SQLite doesn't support GIN indexes. You would have to extract the data from the JSON into separate columns and then index those columns. Now you've got an index, but you still can't do a fuzzy text search on it. You'd have to use FTS5, or create yet more columns with something like a Soundex of the original value. I don't think SQLite is a good fit here. PostgreSQL is the clear winner.
Thanks for sharing. I’m going to read this report now. Are you in Radar? Potentially looking for a job at a well-funded startup making very high powered phased arrays in c and x bands?
> This isn't a Boeing-specific issue.

If Airbus has the same problem, then ground Airbus too.

> Boeing doesn't even make the avionics in question. Some of the manufacturers don't even exist anymore. It's not clear who would pay,

Surely when the parts break, they are fixed, and if they are not fixed, then the plane is either grounded or flies in conditions such that the equipment is not required. There is a somebody who repairs, services, or replaces broken parts. These parts are broken. So that somebody fixes it.

> or how you'd enforce it.

You'd enforce fixing this broken part the same way you'd enforce fixing any other broken part. When the FAA finally got around to deciding that MCAS was in fact broken, they grounded the 737 MAX until it was fixed.

Everybody's acting like it's not a big deal that this equipment can't handle a signal that is more than 220MHz away from their nominal operating frequency. Certainly if Hasbro wanted to sell Batman(TM) BatWalkie BatTalkies, but they were rendered inoperable by another signal that far from their operating frequency, the FCC would deny the device its operating license and it would be pulled from the market.

> Nobody expected at the time we'd be blasting high-power omnidirectional signals everywhere at 4 GHz

Infrastructure 5g antennas are directional. The mobile devices themselves are omnidirectional, but those are very low power devices.
About the 40 acres, I forgot to link the article where the 40 acre claim is made: https://www.businessinsider.com/startups-working-to-fight-wi...

Although I agree that better detection may have some value, I have not seen anything from this company (their website or the press they link to) that indicates they actually add anything here.

A story: I was on a crew that was chasing after a series of dry lightening strikes (hundreds of strikes in a night). It was a bad scenario because the weather forecast showed hot, dry, windy weather was coming, so we were in a race against the weather to put out the ignitions. The next morning we chased after the fires, map in hand (showing the location of every lightening strike). We started with the ones in the sketchiest conditions (fuels, terrain, buildings). We put out one after another tiny fire for days. Some were single smoldering trees, some had grown to a few acres. We were lucky to get them all out just before the bad weather arrived. Our limiting factor was not the ability to detect the fires, but the ability to put them out. This is sort of typical of my limited experience. Obviously my experience is small in terms of time and geography. I would however be curious about any research that addresses the value of better detection. It may be that small improvements in detection would help a lot, or it may be insignificant. But the reason for my story is that in my (very limited) experience, detection has not been the problem.

Finally I can't talk about fire suppression without mentioning how tenuous the situation is. On the one hand, the story I told above is one where we prevented a massive fire (given the weather and fuels). But really we just kicked the can down the road. At the end of that story, the conditions were a tinderbox forest in a historically dry and dying forest. Much of the West is in record drought, summers keep getting hotter and drier, wildland-urban interface is getting worse, and fuels keep building up because of beetle kill, our "successes" in fire suppression, etc.

It's not like the fire community doesn't know. This was covered in my training. Everyone in the field knows how it's bad and will only get worse. But the political aspect of this paralyzes progress. Prescribed burns for example: they get shut down because people don't like the smoke and they call their senators. Imagine that. Even if that wasn't a problem, burning is incredibly labor intensive and we more than a century behind. Prescribed burns for a meaningful fraction of Western lands would take an absolutely massive effort and funding. It is skilled and labor intensive work. It's also not risk free. Not that burns will save us. I fear that warming/drying climate likely means the end of forests in much of the US West no matter what we do.
We internet users don’t want to pay for anything, we don’t want to watch ads, we get upset when free products aren’t free anymore, and when we are the product…

I sometimes think we get what we deserve.
Don't recent Androids do your "frontend protocol" idea? At least a file chooser on my phone, in addition to a regular file browser, also has an entry for "google drive", which seems to have no corresponding physical location.
You’re asking me to change the behavior of thousands of employees. That’s not a simple task.