skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the perspective of someone completely naive to the situation: what's going on, and WHY is this happening?

I partially ask "why?!" plaintively, because this is senseless. But I do also want to understand the... rationalization ("logic" is the wrong word) behind this action so I can be better informed, and I guess form some predictions about what might happen next, and maybe even get an idea about when this might end (?) :(

To be clear, I already don't agree with what's going on, this is not how to solve disputes and disagreements (especially when the attacker has nuclear capability). I'm just looking for facts and positions on the countries involved here - something something editorialization and signal-to-noise ratio.

The one mildly good thing I can think of right now is that the general commoditization of technology (TV, radio, phone, internet) hopefully means lot of people are aware of what's going on and, also hopefully, able to take decisive action and even collaborate and work together. Hopefully Ukraine prioritizes reinforcing the cell network :/. And if this is all-out war then hopefully extraordinary maneuvers are acceptable and supported to help innocent people stay far away from the line of fire. This doesn't feel like when the US occupied Afghanistan :(
> Like what is the upside here (for Putin)?

60% of russias export is energy by way of natural gas, to Europe, across two pipelines, belerus, and ukraine.

Ukraine currently leases the rights to Russia, but the threat of Ukraine joining the EU could largely change those economics.

Putin could be banking on the fact that since Russia is the large supplier of natural gas to Europe, the west will have no choice but to continue to purchase from Russia.

Currently the US is backstopping Western Europe with Liquid Natural Gas, but it's possible that Western Europe will feel additional energy crunch and have to break away from US Sanctions.
These are all PhDs or experts in some fashion that I just cited. You could just read their books too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Friedman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zeihan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hitchens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky

Does this being on YouTube make it any less meaningful?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj1AR_aAcE

Are these all lies?: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peter+zeihan+ru...

What about this?: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peter+hitchens+...

And, here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=noam+chomsky+uk...

Is this unreasonable?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXsq0Z30ppA
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Well, Putin has very, clearly, plainly told us he’s going to start genociding several groups in Ukraine.

He has also said any foreign military that attempts to intervene in this Russia-Ukraine conflict is going to be facing nukes.

So we’re either going to watch a genocide & invasion happen in real time & do nothing meaningful about it, or we’re going to be possibly headed towards a world war if we do decide to do something meaningful about it.

Quite the sticky situation, eh
Biden's spokesperson stated today "US will not send troops to help Ukraine under any scenario."

Seems a concession, if not directive, to Russia to invade Ukraine.
It would’ve been really interesting if WinFS actually was released. It had a very interesting type system. Probably would’ve been more suited for servers than desktops/clients.
Awful.

A lot of people in threads a few days ago like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30335610 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30405782 were terribly wrong. This wasn't just Russia's annual war games in the region. This wasn't the US and media pushing for a war. If anything, this was the US declassifying things in real time to tell the world what was happening to prevent war.
I only have limited experience, but I’ve seen projects migrate from Ada to C++ more often than the other way around. If I had to guess why, it’s probably because it’s easier to hire for.
Crypto is dropping fast
For weeks now we've been hearing from Moscow that Russian troops massing around Ukraine were just conducting a military exercise, that there were no plans to invade, and that any reports to the contrary were mere propaganda and hysteria.

What a coincidence that Russia's biggest deployment of troops since the Cold War just happened to come immediately before an actual invasion of Ukraine.

Now where are all those who kept claiming this was just an exercise and not a preparation for an invasion?
Discarding the truth value of these claims: this doesn't explain why Ukraine is characterized as a "State Department client state." Hunter Biden is not a member of the executive branch.
Imagine a game like Dwarf Fortress... but passed on from father to son for centuries, each generation making the game bigger, richer, more complex. I suppose at a certain point you'd have a game impossible to play in one lifetime.
Notice how he did not even bother talking about the experts I cited. He just jumped to attacking the medium. I'm well aware that you have to be careful with YouTube. But, ignoring it as a video hosting site is just ignorant.
I am chatting live with a friend from Odessa. This is 100% not a media manipulation, they effectively are under a significant scale attack and i guess it's just that Ukraine is a big place, so some places will stay peaceful for now.
Just like Google Ads, it's a huge network of affiliates trying to bring the viewers into paid services like cams, paid porn or straight out prostitution services, these are often linked to violent organized crime forcing women into prostitution.
And he thinks that's a bad thing? Isn't Tucker Carlson/Fox News supposed to be unapologetically pro-America? This position from the right makes no sense if you think about it for a minute. Bizzaro world.
That's not me. I suggest you remove that link from your comment as you're doxxing people. I'll be reporting your post.
Why America Has So Few Doctors?
One of the biggest strengths of Vanced over NewPipe when i tried them both was SponsorBlock [0]

Is there a similar feature available in Newpipe now?

[0]: https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Let's be honest about Ukraine.

Nobody cared when Russia put military there last year. Then after Afghanistan disaster in the summer he doubled the amount of military, and still nothing happened in response. It's a highly corrupt country where opposition is in prison, and various foreign leaders launder money there. There is no appetite for investing in Ukraine, meaning multi-billions into real air defences and training military to use it instead we gave some pocket change and wished them the best while using their banks and oil companies as personal ATM.
Agreed but the Russians have known for a long time what they’re planning. The betting market is now looking backwards.
It’s incorrect to view Fugaku (as cool as it is) as having a monolithically addressable 5 PiB. Each processor/node has 32 GiB directly attached via HBM and not expandable (Apple M1ish). It’s a really big cluster of (much) smaller memory spaces.
Stop fearmongering. There is no visible Chinese military build up near Taiwan. Furthermore, China can't just waltz into Taiwan as it is seperated by sea.
The Power of Water
ASML seeking alternative sources for neon gas amid Ukraine crisis
"Let him have just a little bit of territory and I'm sure it will be fine," is a strategy with a particularly bad record when it comes to world wars.
This should by far be the highest-voted comment.

Multiple sources are now coming in with live video of explosions in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities, for example CNN's Matthew Chance:

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-...

This is utterly insane, and the single worst news event of my lifetime.
Before WoW there was EverQuest. I personally felt EverQuest was more compelling than WoW. Sure WoW was "better" but it didn't have the same magic as EverQuest did. EverQuest motivated me to go all the way to the highest levels and beyond in a way that WoW just didn't. I may have done 2 or 3 raids in WoW before I grew out of it. But is this really anything to do with how good the game was? Or is it really just nostalgia? I mean, your age when your first played it is probably the #1 factor in how good a game is, to be honest.
Thanks for your interest. I know it's a cliche, but yes, we are actually building a VR computer because we want to use them ourselves (completely replacing our own Laptops/PCs).

Here's an early "dog-fooding" video of me using Simula to develop on Simula: https://youtu.be/FWLuwG91HnI.
I remember reading about Company A trying to acquire Company B for X in an all stock deal, but the deal didn't go through for some reason. A few years later, Company A bought Company B for 5X in an all stock offer, 5 times the original offer, and many people complained that Company A was vastly over paying. But between the first & second acquisition attempt, Company A's stock had increased by 7x, making it actually cheaper to pay 5x for the acquisition.
I agree, but the real plans are probably kept to a very small inner circle who are expected not to go around betting with that knowledge. It's why the stock market has been slow to react, too.
been using newpipe exclusively on android for the past around 3 years. i have basically never used the stock youtube app, before it was ios and then newpipe. i cant stand "ads".

been using sponsorblock newpipe since the original team got scared after youtube-dl dmca and they refused to accept MR of the sponsorblock developer. the fork is basically perfect. sure it has bugs but i can live with that as opposed to "a word from our sponsor"
The 24/7 work week is the new norm. I don’t work eight hours anymore - I can get up and do whatever I want whenever I want. However, I’m permanently on call whenever anyone needs me, night and day, in sickness and in health.
NewPipe not having essential features like the home tab (recommended videos) or My Mix make the app almost useless to me. Not supporting livestream chat or being able to watch member streams (or videos) is also another big deal breaker for me. NewPipe also can't show community posts or give me notifications when a creator uploads a video or makes a community post.

I keep the app installed as a quick way to watch videos in incognito mode.
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Live Updates: Putin Orders ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine
> I trust cloudflare more than Gmail actually. One isn't known for having algorithms delete accounts without human appeal.

No, instead it's known for leaking private customer data (think authentication tokens and the like) onto the public internet [1]. Imagine if Gmail ever had a bug like that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed
yep. https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/

a fork of newpipe for sponsorblock specific functionality. i use this now
There are regularly stories in the news about judges giving slaps on the wrist for full on sexual assault. In comparison to that, what would a punishment for this kind of thing be? Absolutely nothing.
Only because I didn’t know and was curious about context, Biden is more popular now (as judged by aggregate approval rating ala 538) than Trump was at this point in his presidency (43% vs 39%). He’s about the same as Trumps average approval rating for the rest of his term until the end when Trumps rating tanked.

Biden is lower than any other candidate they’ve tracked at this point but Clinton had a lower period earlier and Truman had a lower period very soon after this point in his presidency.
So you can't run it at all on Monterey? That's disappointing.
Technically, they do. In reality, they don't.

The Ukraine isn't one of the big boys on the playground, so anything they do needs the OK of the big boys.
I drive an ‘05 Chrysler town and country. I can replace its engine for $220, which I’ve done. It is super cheap to repair. :)
Reading this article left me wondering just where the 200 million tags this guy needs are supposed to come from. Manual curation?! Automatically derived by file extension? file headers? what is the cost of opening a file, parsing its filetype, comparing against a reference, writing it to a database, etc. How is that cheaper than current indexers (which all seem to work fine btw)?

I rarely waste effort trying to remember filenames in the first place, much less needing some expensive tag curation to locate files. I simply use a bit of discipline organizing the directory structure(s). If I do ever need to actually search for something, it will be constrained to a narrow subset of directories and ignore the other 199.9 million files or whatever.

Moreover, I just don't have the problem of searching for filename fragments to begin with. Nor do I see a reasonable way to use a whole host of powerful unix techniques with a whackadoodle tiny tags filesystem. Or the need to produce a list of 20 million images in 2 seconds. What use would that be anyway? I'm not going to read a list like that - I'm going to operate on it.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the versatility of `find` is far more powerful if you actually need to handle/sort through that many files, and something like `fzf` probably curtails all these complaints in the first place.
unprecedented times

Unfortunately this is more like back to old norms. I hope the US and EU have the stomach to deal with this, but the rhetoric is not heartening. I'm not hearing leaders preparing us for sacrifice. And I don't mean war, I mean I don't see leaders with the stomach to handle $5 gas or natural gas shortages.
An invasion of Taiwan would require a months long military build up just like we've seen with this conflict. If China was preparing an invasion it would already be all over the news. The buildup would be visible even with the open source intelligence available to Twitter accounts.
It's not illegal to refuse to do business with someone. It's quite ironic how keeping morality is now somehow a "fringe" action, but not spreading sexual immorality.
Bots are spamming the live steam chat with slurs in an attempt to get it taken down.
Ukraine should have kept the nukes[1]. Whether NATO is in violation of an agreement or not, Russia is definitely in violation of the Budapest Memorandum.

[1] https://www.kalw.org/npr-news/2022-02-21/why-ukraine-gave-up...
Perhaps syntactically C++‘s operator overloading can make it quite palatable, but C and C++’s unique aliasing rules would mean that a naive implementation could leave performance on the table. There’s a reason it’s almost always Fortran at the bottom of the stack in most LinAlg codes in most languages.
*Facepalms in "when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure"*
Sure, but what are new grad salaries in industry these days? 100k-200k/yr base?
And crypto is plummeting
By making a website for homosexuals, she is aiding them to engage in a sinful activity. It's really quite straightforward logical behavior. And from Christianity's perspective (as well as many other faiths), this is not a "family". You don't get to impose your ideology on someone else like that. Where's freedom of expression, as per your own country's law?
You say that like the file system is the ground truth to how we use a disk. It is nothing but another abstraction we've invented to manage blocks on some persistent medium. The vast majority of people wouldn't notice if you replaced their FAT partition with a key-value store, where the keys were paths delimited by slashes (with some UX to traverse paths).
Became too partisan/political
People forget this is not twitter

Anyway Ukraine will be broke for a long time after this, there's no jobs during a war except fighting we can help there is tons of developers there who will be jobless probably tomorrow
For me, the Drift github.io link doesn't exist. Google seems to think it's there, but it's not.
Chomsky is the very last person I'd go to for any "research", YouTube or not. His relationship with facts is practically non-existent. "USA Bad" and whatever facts need to be cherry-picked, massaged, or ignored, whatever history needs to be rewritten, whatever motives need to be speculated about to support that position is fair game as far as he is concerned. He regularly cites sources while stating something completely different than what they say and his tone frequently suggests this is not even a consideration of fact, but merely an exercise in interpretation as one might treat a work of fiction or artistic work.

Fun exercise for your research, do a search on "Chomsky genocide denial"
Note the thinly veiled threat of nuclear war in Putin's speech directed at foreign nations.

> "To anyone who would consider interfering from the outside: if you do, you will face consequences greater than any of you have faced in history. All relevant decisions have been taken. I hope you hear me."

If there is some way of interpreting this other than a guarantee of MAD, do enlighten me.
What opinion is this? Why do you hold it?
Yeah, the same concept applies to airline and hotel sites and apps

Their server returns results instantly but found that if they showed a loading animation (even fancy ones like an animated svg or gif of a cartoon passenger in an airplane) that people trusted the results more
Yes, nukes would definitely have made them think twice about invasion...
Love to hear more about it. We have often been told porn are one of the largest internet video category. 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.

And there are so many tech on these system I wish I could read more about it. And yet we dont. There could be loads of things that could be open sourced too. Or do we live in a world where an open source component from a porn company are not good enough to use. ( I would not be surprised if that is case right now in Silicon Valley ). And yet we are happy to read technology being used in warfares?

I would imagine you have lots of restrictions and barrier in your work, from hosting to payment or whatever. It will be interesting to see how those are worked out.

Oh but please post it in a separate blogging platform so we can all enjoy it during work hours.
I am always amazed at how little recognition Anarchy Online gets in MMO discussions. I have never seen another game like it. It's too bad the devs kind of lost direction, and the game eventually withered and died. It's actually still around, but mostly as a nostalgia thing. I remember that the community had started to accuse the developers (a company called Funcom) of trying to make the game more like WoW instead of focusing on what made AO unique and interesting.
> Ukraine currently leases the rights to Russia, but the threat of Ukraine joining the EU could largely change those economics.

I have tow big issues with this argument.

Firstly, an inevitable consequence of invading Ukraine is sactions that will disrupt oil and gas exports. This is Russia's biggest export.

Second, if Ukraine joins the EU (which is a big if), I haven't seen a compelling argument why this would hurt Russia's interests. Most notably, as an EU member,U Ukraine would lose a certain amount of autonomy to negotiate thing slike this. Do you think Ukraine as a future EU member could effectively cut off the gas supply to other EU members? I just don't see how that could happen.

It's possible that the EU's reliance on Russian oil and gas exports will weaken their resolve. I guess we'll see.
I'm pretty sure people occupying Ukraine would vote for annexation once Ukrainian people have been removed or forced to flee:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...
I loved the Orc, Drawf, and Undead starting areas. Tauren was always pretty boring
Is there any DRM that this makes it easier to break?
Isn’t that how more or less all editors render text, on the GPU and on the CPU?
For simple matches against one pattern, you may prefer...

> ls -rec . -filter *substring*`

... as filtering can be offloaded to the "provider" when Get-ChildItem (ls) knows about it.

Even if the filesystem provider doesn't handle patterns any differently from Where-Object (?), you can save the cost of hydrating FileInfo objects only to query and discard most of them.

For multiple patterns or anything that you'd need a regular expression for, Where-Object is superior!
Thanks for this, this is interesting.

I agree, when doing something like this it's hard to know what it should look like in order to be recognised professionally and having a template or example is a huge huge help.
I don’t think that’s entirely it. All of our programs got significantly more powerful at the same time. Your email program, for example, can handle email in hundreds of encodings plus several varieties of Unicode. Properly handling Unicode text requires detailed information about each character. Just the Unicode data tables are multiple megabytes, though the exact size will vary depending on exactly which properties you need. Figure on at least a megabyte just to handle bidirectional text rendering, and add a bit more so that you can distinguish between word characters and punctuation well enough that double–clicking can reliably select a whole word. And then there are emoji!

Most people just see text, and not the complexity that supporting all of that text requires. Most computers from 20 years ago could barely handle it, and you can forget about doing it on the computers from 40 years ago.

There are plenty of other features that have invisible complexity too.

The article we’re all discussing talks about the symbols as if they are completely unnecessary, but that may not entirely be true. They are certainly unnecessary to _run_ the app, but it is probable that all of the error reporting and logging done by the app uses those symbols to explain where the errors and log messages came from. This makes it possible for the developers to actually fix problems. Granted, they could strip those symbols from the distributed app while still keeping them available to developers, but unfortunately that’s easier said than done.

One of the few ways that developing on Windows is better than on other platforms is that MSVC makes it very, very easy to build a symbol server that collects all of the symbols from all of the applications you have released. If you get a minidump from one of your programs crashing, it will automatically load the correct symbols from the symbol server, as well as the correct version of the source code. It will even download symbols for Windows itself, to make those dump files as easy to debug as possible. Linux is only very gradually gaining similar features. and I have no idea about Android or ios.
> From [1], “placements of nearly 19,000 tenure-track or tenured faculty, among 461 North American departmental or school-level academic units, in the disciplines of computer science, business, and history (see Supplementary Materials and table S1).”

> The 25% is from 461 universities, so probably 115 or 116 universities is included in that number.

That seems to confuse the school whence the professor graduated, and the school at which they teach. 25% refers to the former, 461 to the latter, afaict. Or am I the one misunderstanding?
Depending on the circumstances your rights absolutely entitle you to engage in street fights with the police. It may not be wise, but you can do it legally (in some circumstances).

A couple of famous cases come to mind - Tupac, the rapper, was once driving down the street when he witnessed two police officers beating up a random guy. He grabbed his gun and engaged in a brief gun fight with the police. Completely justified at court.

Randy Weaver, at Ruby Ridge, was ambushed by federal marshals. In a gunfight he shot and killed a marshal and successfully argued it was justified at court.

You can legally fight and kill the police in some circumstances. It's dangerous, and you'd better be sure you're in the right, but it is legal.

(I'm also emphatically not saying you'd be justified in fighting the police over a face scan)