skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you can call a slight reduction in an unimaginably massive fortune "impoverishment". Putin could lose tens of billions of dollars and still not be able to see poverty with a telescope.
Probably what happens is that people are being reported for saying something in chat that others don't like. X reports and your account is terminated automatically.
> We are going to look back on this in a 100 years with the same disdain we look back on slavery.

We can only hope, but why only in 100 years when 'we' - the people in this thread and a lot of others - already look at it with disdain.

But there's others - lawmakers, the private prison industry, etc - who think this is just fine and dandy, because it fills their pockets and is a legal avenue into a slave labor force (prison labor). It's in their interest to get people in jail.
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Here's an account from a Ukrainian 4 hours ago re: fighting spirit in a pro-Russian city in Donetsk (my translation):

> "Here's what's happening in Kramatorsk [a city in Donetsk]:

It's quiet for now, but we're expecting an escalation in the evening.

I was at the military registration and enlistment office. Just so you understand, our city is pro-Russian. Was. Seems that's now in the past. There's a huge line at the office, of both the young and old.

I don't know what they thought to themselves in Russia, but they've lost our country once and for all.

Such are the preliminary results of operation "Like it or not, endure, my dearest". [Putin's words to Zelensky Feb 7 in response to the latter stating he liked none of the points of the Minsk Accords]"

Source: https://www.facebook.com/e.menendes/posts/7085200851522280
>> They've also suffered a lot to end two world wars that they didn't start.

> This is even more true of the Russians

No, it is not. The First World War was started because Russia backed up Serbia's refusal of Austria's ultimatum after a Serbian operation assassinated Austria's crown prince (and France & the UK backed up Russia, while Germany backed up Austria, and the whole powder keg blew up). The Second World War started because of the German invasion of Poland — and who else invaded Poland sixteen days later? The Soviet Union, which had signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with its supplementary German-Soviet Frontier Treaty. Moreover, modern-day Poland is really an amalgamation of western Poland and what used to be eastern Germany: the Soviet Union kept about one third of what had been Poland.
That's an interesting possibility. Another hazard to outsourcing everything.
The poster completely missed an incredible resource: Discord! The Reddit r/French has a fantastic Discord community where you can engage in written and spoken communication.

https://discord.gg/french/
> Gorbachev himself admitted there was no such formal agreement.

"There would be no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east," Secretary of State James A. Baker told Mr. Gorbachev in 1989

The National Defense archives of George Washington University declassified this discussion on 12 December 2017. You can look it up.
I believe those are weakly held beliefs relative to their strongly held belief of making piles of money. Despite the lip service Google and others haven't exactly been going out of their way to help improve democracy and institutions in recent years.
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My Algebra II teacher used Row, Row, Row Your Boat. She also wore a t-shirt with the quadratic equation on it, under her sweater. As she finished the song, she pulled off the sweater, much to the surprise of the students (the shirt stayed on, so things were still safe for school).

I'm still not sure if it was the song or the shock of seeing your teacher pull her clothes off. While I can still remember the song by heart, I also shudder every time I sing it.
I've been learning French since I was 9 and when I moved where French is dominant, I can barely communicate French to the locals and would usually quickly switch to English.
Someone does:

https://visual.sfu-kras.ru
I never peaked at the gh source but from using it I think you only see closed issues after hitting a select box or button. Maybe googlebot isn’t “doing” that, triggering the JS or whatever drives it.
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India’s economy and luxury market are growing hand in hand after witnessing a decent growth over the last few years.
I don't think anyone's arguing against that - at least not on here - the question is how to stop it from happening and undo the harm. That'll take big reforms, all the way up to the current political system in the US.
Don't simplify. If you want to make some simpler "starter" cards okay, but what you have is great, even for total python beginners, as long as there is a dedicated teacher to help them work through the card.
This is a bunch of words around "it would be inconvenient for us because we allowed ourselves to become economically dependent on a criminal state". In particular Germany gets a gold (red?) star for shutting down their nuclear plants.

Meanwhile the Chinese Communist Party has to be enjoying this. If we can't agree to take the relatively minor hit of financially cutting Russia off from the civilized world, we'll obviously be unwilling to do anything significant when they invade Taiwan.
Thanks for your response! I write these blog posts for you and others to understand the technology better.

I didn't invent the Cairo trapezoidal algorithm, I think that was mostly Carl Worth, maybe Keith Packard, but I certainly did do one of the earliest analytical area algorithms in the free software space, which I know inspired other work. It's been quite a ride, I went back and looked at my early work[1], and thought it was impressive that I could render the tiger in 1.5s. Now I'm seeing times in the 300µs range on discrete graphics cards.

16xMSAA is pretty good, and I would say is definitely good enough for most vector art. I consider it not quite good enough for text scaling, and anything less than 16x not acceptable. Desktop cards shouldn't have much trouble with it, but mobile devices might not be capable of it or able to deliver adequate performance.

Of course the upside of MSAA is that it's much easier to solve conflation artifacts, so I imagine we'll end up with some variant of it in additional to the analytical AA; and the latter will continue to be used for almost all glyph rendering.

[1]: https://www.levien.com/svg/
On the other hand, RT is still happily streaming on YouTube, spouting their non-sense. German viewers is not even IP blocked, even though the have lost their broadcasting license.
I learned Spanish, too, in about 12 months to dogfood my new app for learning vocabulary (which I just recently launched) [0]

Even though I made an app that helped me along the way to learn words, I don't believe in a single app/book/approach for learning a language. You need to expose yourself to A LOT of different language materials.

I was learning for about 2h a day, 6 times a week. I would read articles, books, websites in Spanish. I would watch YouTube videos [1]. I would read news, initially for beginners [2] and later regular [3]. And most importantly, I would have 4-5h a week itakly conversations.

After 6 months I understood quite a lot, but couldn't speak almost at all. Then magic happens and 6 months later, I was having a normal conversation (though still with some errors) about any range of topics: politics, global warming, travel, engineering etc.

I believe the key for me was to read a lot of books which were interesting to me. For example I read Bill Gate's book "How To Avoid A Climate Disaster" in Spanish, as well as about ~8 others in the first 12 months.

[0] https://www.obstino.com

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/DreamingSpanish

[2] www.newsinslowspanish.com

[3] https://elpais.com
I really like it. It’s half language intro, and half learn-via-projects.
It worked well for my learning style :)
> Make whistleblowing about illegal activity by government not a crime?

It's not a crime.

> Offer him a plea deal to return home, plead guilty and serve some time?

I actually like this one. That's fair.
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But usually a good idea to understand that that's what you're aiming at producing.
A slightly more detailed thread is here: https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1496954233492541444?...

Or, unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1496954233492541444.html

It's essentially an apology and a call to arms from Anonymous. I do note that allegedly Joe Biden was presented with a "menu" of "offensive cyberops" [1]:

> Two U.S. intelligence officials, one Western intelligence official and another person briefed on the matter say no final decisions have been made, but they say U.S. intelligence and military cyber warriors are proposing the use of American cyberweapons on a scale never before contemplated. Among the options: disrupting internet connectivity across Russia, shutting off electric power, and tampering with railroad switches to hamper Russia’s ability to resupply its forces, three of the sources said.

> “You could do everything from slow the trains down to have them fall off the tracks,” one person briefed on the matter said.

I do wonder where Anonymous falls on that spectrum...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-pre...
If you're been bullied then the school management behaves like hypocrites too.
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I don’t understand why you’d want to risk typing into the wrong window or add such a cognitive burden (“where is my pointer now?”) with every keystroke rather than have the window that receives keyboard input be very clear and consistent. At least, as a heavy keyboarder, that’s how I see it.
Maybe because of the same reason, "West" can't even not sell Gucci bags to oligarchs.

https://mobile.twitter.com/barnes_joe/status/149719400903862...

If this is true, it is quite shameful on Italy's part
I bought it when there was a kind of 2-for-1 deal with Rust in Motion a while back. I haven't spent too much time reading it though. From what I've browsed it seems competently written. It seems to cover the topics of typical interest in systems programming.

The other resources I would point you towards are Rust by Example:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/

And the Rust Cookbook:

https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/

Though the cookbook is kind of out-of-date. I'm actually in the process of updating / expanding it, but that effort is far from ready for presentation.
>like all the west should have stronger actions and isolate russia on different levels, most importantly isolate the economy and flatten it the ground, it is possible to do but there is always a cost for that. But it is the least it can be done if military intervention is not on the table.

Russia would not have pursued this invasion if they weren't confident that they had an answer to that in the form of China.

That's not to say that sanctions wouldn't have a huge impact, but not to the degree that you're hoping. And the effect of sanctions becomes weaker every time they're used, as the target market will find alternative paths.
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We need to accept that why exactly?
Check out https://discord.gg/french/

It is directly related to the subreddit, with a fantastic and kind community!
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You're missing the point. The engineers might be great but the incentives are all wrong. Engineers from those.companies aren't specialized in making software that improves peoples' lives. They are specialized in making software that makes money. These tweets call out what that end result looks like from organizational and technical perspectives. People confound money-making with good engineering. "Good" is where people disagree. The tweeter is taking good as "good" for the consumers. Orgs make "good" mean "makes more money".
Great thank you. Albeit the rudeness of romanian public servants appears to be well established and has nothing to do with preparedness.
Call attention? It's already known and public information; clearly, awareness alone does nothing. No, this needs sweeping political reform. Elect better leaders. Make the police, prison guards, military, politicians and rich people accountable.
How much did it cost you, if you don’t mind me asking?
> Apparently Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, IBM and all companies slowly moving their system infrastructure to Rust don't know enough C.

They are moving that direction because of the safety promise that Rust offers and it is a "hot" language with a bunch of momentum behind it.
Or be more like France: about 70% nuclear generation of electricity.

Still dependent on gas pipelines to North Africa, but also building out its LNG infrastructure so it can buy from more sources.

They’re heavily promoting heat pumps for heating, but that also comes along with increased A/C use in a country that seems to culturally avoid it (in my depressing experience).
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The most plausible explanation I've seen is that Youtube's reporting algorithm is being gamed. It's a known weakness that Google has had no interest in fixing in the past.
This is an important point
Unless you are an active combatant in a war, or civil war, that's usually not your problem.
The chilling effect of this should be taken in account too. Once this is more widely reported, I can see many people choosing to avoid these sources of information even after bans are lifted because they are afraid of losing their google account.
ASP.NET MVC isn't the best but it isn't the worst either. In my short experience with it around 2014ish, the default works well with /{controller}/{action} routes. But yes, the rendering engine still feels worse than PHP's twig or NodeJS's Nunjucks.

I imagine it's better to use ASP.Net MVC as rest api and use react on the front/client with Next JS.
I don't know. I think it would have been good if IBM had taken sides during WWII instead of helping Germany build the infrastructure for genocide.

It's usually not that clear cut, but the war in Ukraine has a clear unilateral nature (aggressor is pretty obvious). It's not crazy for western companies to echo western values and interests in such situations.

Edit: Consider the alternative, where western companies maintain "neutrality" and help oppressive regimes surveil their citizens or spread propaganda at home and abroad. This seems like a great way for western democracy to shoot itself in the head.
That's what the first reddit post is saying. Which makes sense to me. If YouTube had an interest in blocking support of Ukraine, they wouldn't have replaced the COVID news section on the main page with one for the Ukraine invasion news. All of the US mainstream media (except for one) is taking a pro-Ukrainian sovereignty angle, and that's what shows in the news area.

Seems like Google needs to disable autobans triggered by user reports until they have a solution to filter out the reports originating from Russian-operatred bots.
What is the state of decentralized (ake Web3) video hosting platforms?

Are they ready to fill the gap to some extend?

I think this is a typical use case for the decentralized approach?
I could really see this working for education, libraries, coffee shops, terminals, anywhere really. It needs a reliable locking mechanism. Unless it's issued with a mouse and every desk has a monitor & hookup it's gonna end up walking away at some point. It needs to be robust, spill-proof, slam proof.

Decent-enough monitors are cheap as hell, schools should be buying bulk displays given how fast they can be damaged. It's a lot cheaper to swap out an older Dell display than it is to replace a whole iMac.
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> Well, you can’t do that with an equals filter. But how often do you use non-equals filters like > or < on the primary key?

You can; he's wrong. He missed the vastly more common scenario: your primary key is a composite key and you're filtering on a prefix of that composite key. We do that all the time. No < or > required; you get a range of keys with an equijoin. It's additionally common for the first key in the composite key to be some kind of timestamp or monotonically increasing value, so new writes always go together at the end of the table. This sort of key is absolutely begging to be used with a clustered primary key index.

We have a table with 100+ billion rows that uses this pattern. It uses partition switching to append new data. At this size it is absolutely imperative to reduce the number of indexes to keep insert performance high, and we are always querying multiple consecutive rows based on a prefix equijoin. I'd be a fool to follow the author's advice here.

I suspect the author and I live in very different worlds, and he doesn't know my world exists.
Simple, money: Greece closed down their borders for Syrian refugees many years ago, as did everyone else on the so-called "balkan route". In exchange for an awful lot of EU money (six billion € ) to "house migrants", Erdolf promised to have his coast guards prevent people from fleeing to Greece, which together with brutal and illegal pushbacks by the Greek Coast Guard and Frontex led to a collapse of that route, but still not an end, there are regular deaths. The Greek Coast Guard actually got accused a week ago of having murdered refugees by throwing them into the sea to drown [1].

In 2020, Erdolf told refugees that the borders to Greece had been opened and bused thousands of people to the borders, with two refugees being executed by Greek border police [2] during the subsequentriots. In the end, the situation was settled by the EU paying half a billion euros to the Turkish dictator [3].

[1]: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/griechenland-eu-grenzschuetze...

[2]: https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/griechenland-tue...

[3]: https://www.nzz.ch/international/die-eu-und-die-tuerkei-brau...
> The economic networks in prisons are wild, and of course there are incentives for guards to participate.

maybe a naive question, but where does all the money come from? I can understand that prisoners would trade favors and artificially scarce items (eg cigarettes) amongst themselves. but what's in it for the guards? I wouldn't expect a bunch of people that aren't allowed to have jobs to have a ton of cash to throw around.
Will sanctions need to broaden to include China or other countries supporting Russia?
Not really since i'm still tweaking it. The base processor is mostly done (though i also add some minor stuff here and there) but the scripts are incomplete. Of course one can use their own scripts instead, but i want to have a default set that works for most manual-style uses.
What language did you learn and which did you already know?

I’ve tried listening to some pimsleur tapes for Japanese and Chinese and it is hopeless even if you now a little bit already
"Math" is the "key" to quantum mechanics in general, isn't it?
This is what happens when you remove all humans from the loop. The decisions made by software can be manipulated once you have a reasonable estimation of what the software is doing.

This time it's Russia. Next time it will be an American political party (whichever one you don't like). YouTube saved some money on human moderation, and all it cost was selling their platform to the first group willing to abuse the system.

And do you know how they'll respond? By trying to improve the automation. No no, no need to add costs by having humans in the loop, we'll just make better software. Because that's what worked so well for SEO, right?
The actual reason is because SWIFT gives the US/EU visibility into all inter-bank transfers, which provides us intelligence to build sanctions on top of. It's the financial equivalent of kicking Russia diplomats out of a building where we have every conference room bugged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_Finance_Tracking_Pro...
> Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT

Possibly because the banks using it don't really understand it. After succesfuly delivering one project at Credit Suisse I was charged with implementing a SWIFT interface, but no-one, and I really mean no-one, could tell me what such an interface should look like, or how it should be used.

After a lot of mucking around at and around Canary Wharf (which did at least get me to the top of the Canada Square building a couple of times - remarkably shoddy indoors, at least on the CS floors) I came to the conclusion that this was a project that never could work, and left.
China can't save Russian economy that much if their economy started to be hit itself by constraints and some sort of sanctions.
Note that behave_differently.sh takes two inputs, both a program and the input for that program. Also note that paradox.sh gives both these inputs by using $1 twice.

And behave_differently.sh is supposed to be an arbitrary program. It can run the input program but it doesn't have to, it can analyse it in any way it wishes.
> WINRAR License is least concern for me, because when WinRAR was created, there were different times, when there was an idea, that auhor(and maintainer) should have all the legal rights to his work(and that also includes compensation) - not some company, that is employing talents.

The rights to WinRAR are held by a company, not an individual.

> Also, closed propiertary sources were historically better for security.

This is not true and was never true.

> Also, 7z even nowadays havce some limitations, which requires workarounds, which is time consuming in archive creation.

Like what?
I don’t think Uber itself operates in China since it sold its operations to Yandex.Taxi.
The problem with this argument is that the NATO does not accepts members that do have territorial conflicts.
How long would it have taken to resolve the krimea and donbas conflicts against the background of an antagonistic russia.
1 decade?
A few more are more likely if history is any guide.

It is somewhat ludicrous to suggest that russia would invade ukraine because ukraine might join NATO decades after putin leaves power.

Especially since putin has explained himself that he does not see ukraine as a souvereign nation on historical grounds and wants to correct that mistake.

The problem seems to me that there is a real breakdown in competency and responsibility in the russian regime. Just take a look at: https://twitter.com/peterliakhov/status/1495851796782362628

This might be far more serious and dangerous than it might look.