skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Amazing. All social media is heavily monitored and censored everywhere. We can argue degrees but it's all censored.

Nope. On WhatsApp, no message I've ever sent has been censored. I haven't heard of anyone being censored on whatsapp. (the example being wechat which i believe is equivalent).

> Like that chinese tennis player right. Or jack ma? Disappeared and then reappeared. Like magic.

You aren't making the point you think you are. You are confirming that they were disappeared for a LONG time by the gov't.
Windows DirectX is well documented.

DirectX11 hardware does X/Y/Z. When people buy GPUs, they can see which DirectX version it supports, be it DX9, DX10, DX11, or DX12.
I am actually Russian too (left the country a bit over a decade ago), and I disagree.

Of course not everyone in Russia is like that, far from it. But a very significant number of actual average Russians are like that. While US coverage of any events is far from perfect with tons of conflicting info, there is no straight up "you aren't allowed to publish or see this, or else suffer the consequences" thing going here, unlike in Russia. You could criticize the government all you want, in public too.

Just the fact that you aren't allowed to, it would create an echochamber stronger than any self-induced FB echochamber in the US can suck one into. The main problem is that instead of many different echochambers, you primarily get one - the one controlled by the russian government. And your only options are being in it or not. The issue is that there are only 2 options, and you are heavily disincentivized from opting out. And the larger an echochamber grows, the stronger and more influential it gets. The chilling effect alone is crazy and suppresses people from saying anything. I was called a "traitor" by my classmates back when I was leaving the country. What a betrayal, wanting to actually get good education and live a good life outside of that place. And that was a bit over a decade ago, before russia-west relations got heated up to the current point, and years before Crimean invasion has even started.

Edit: half the replies down this exact thread in sibling comments seem to be a great illustration of what happens when the type of echochamber I described actually ends up working.
If you want to read the story:

https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/QmSiaEmhLvFdzzvkBmJKtRDmZRNDpDt...
The developer experience in regions that don't have fast internet access is hard to imagine, especially with bandwidth-hogs like the npm ecosystem.

See also https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites... - which points out that when every site moved to https it broke local caching proxies, which had a big negative impact on people in countries with slower internet.
It's definitely the goto cheap MCU for me now, for one reason: it's in stock. It's nice that industry doesn't take it seriously.
Does someone have any insight on why Russia would expend resources taking this site? AFAIK it doesn't have anything useful or produce any power, except maybe the possibility that mishandling it could invoke the terror of regional disaster. (Unless that's the point?)
I've personally had some painful experiences with refreshing materialized views in Postgres. In particular, highly variable performance on read replicas that were receiving a refreshed matview every few minutes. Maybe we were just doing it wrong, but I tend to avoid it if I can. Plus the eventual consistency can introduce confusion.

In any case, there's an interesting feature called Incremental View Maintenance that is being worked on by some Postgres developers: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incremental_View_Maintenanc...

This would let us define a materialized view that gets automatically updated as the source tables change. When I last checked (late 2021), they were saying it might land in PG15.
You would pretty quickly lose any economies of scale if you had to replicate the motor/generator, hoisting mechanism, etc across thousands of lower capacity facilities. The whole idea behind concrete blocks is that the storage medium is common, cheap, and easy to scale up, but that ignores significant other challenges.
Excellent!

Now I can pick the large capacities that I'm interested in (14TB and larger), sort by DriveDays, and then look at annualized failure rates, and easily notice that the Toshiba MG07ACA14TA has by far the most drive days of those models (over 13m) and it has a failure rate below 1%.

Or, sort by failure rates and see that the WD WUH721414ALE6L4 has over 1m drive days and a failure rate of less than 0.5%.

I think either of those drives might fit my requirements. I'm a big fan of the Ultrastar models, and I might even forgive WD for buying the company, so I might go that direction. OTOH, Fujitsu also has an excellent reputation.

So, now I have to make a decision between these two choices. It's good place to be!

Now, in doing this process, I noticed that you are just searching on the Amazon site for the product model number. Can I convince you to find the appropriate Amazon created ASIN for each model number and plug that into your database, and then search by the ASIN instead? An ASIN is like an ISBN for books, and for books I think the ISBN is the ASIN.

I think the model number search would be okay as a backup, but there's always a lot of hits when you search by something like model number, and you can never be sure that you've got the right one. But if you search by ASIN, you have a very high confidence that you're getting exactly what you were searching for and nothing else.

Of course, you also want to plug in your referral code as well, but I think you definitely want to search by ASIN instead of the product model number.

Thanks!
>> Why do you think that we all should feel pain of sanctions?

I feel bad for people in Russia who don't want that war either, sanctions will hurt.

But:

1. Sanctions are a way to exert pressure and say "don't DO that". They're supposed to hurt. The other effective way to send that message is to use actual force. I'm sure people of Russia would prefer that less.

2. As a kid from Sarajevo, I feel Ukrainan's pain a LOT more today than yours, because they ARE being shelled and bombed and besieged and starved. You are not. Count your lucky stars.

3. As others pointed, there are choices. At this point, mostly shitty choices, all around, for all involved. I for one ran the fuck away from that part of the world. That was a personal, selfish choice (well, in reality, made by my parents, but I sure as heck supported them). Others protest secretly. Others, braver and less selfish and more idealistic, protest loudly. Yet others take up arms. Much as Canadians let alone world like to find things to complain about US (often validly), they did hash these things in a rebellion and a Civil war and again in the violent protests of the 70's... and they seem poised to be hashing them out violently again. Point being, it's not easy ANYwhere to get things even remotely right or fair or just or peaceful. I'm not selfless enough to die fighting a government; but I recognize it is an option and a choice.

So what I'm saying is, today, people of Russia are not at top of my personal priority list of people to feel sorry for. You're not absent from it, but everything is a limited resource. Sorry :-/
More can be done than simply confiscating Russian assets -- make it clear that confiscated funds will be devoted wholly to build new infrastructure for bringing energy to Europe from alternative sources (plans for this have already been drawn up, but not funded). Make the confiscated amount grow the longer the invasion goes on.

Other measures that could be taken:

* Land blockade of Kaliningrad province

* Funding and arms to Moldova to pressure Russian troops in the east of that country to get out.

* Recognize Southern Kurile Islands as Japanese territory

* Funding to Belarussian opposition groups.
In reality: not "the west", but people from the west who saw an easy opportunity. Which makes people here think it was "The West".
Saving bytes makes sense. But how does the rendering engine know that those lines are CSS instead of junk text? And without a head tag, how do those lines not end up as text in the body of the document? And isn't it strange that it doesn't have a title tag (though, if you aren't going to have a head section, maybe skipping the title tag makes sense too).
Abu TOW
Yep! This is the fundamental "disruption" blockchain tech introduced. It doesn't require trust.
Do you see blockchain tech eventually replacing these trusted systems with a trustless one?
That only works to a limited extent. When you stretch your economy with a war and actively disregard the citizenry, don’t be surprised when you end up like Tsar Nicholas, who also enjoyed absolute power until he didn’t.
Did something like grammarly attempt to correct your post here?

>Haven't been on the crusade against it ever since.

You have been or you haven't been? It sounds like a contradictory statement from the rest of your comment.
These conversational questions where you talk out some code are probably the most pleasant interviews.

It’s not a quiz, if done right. But you can get to know a lot about someone even by how they respond to not knowing the answer.

Someone with experience knows it’s not a big deal to not know every bit of trivia, but they can talk intelligently about what the code might do. And they know how to find out.

For example, they may point out they know about charset=utf8 in the Content-Type header and admit they thought the meta tag was redundant, and you can have a conversation from there. Or how about "I know 'ltr' means left to right but I never thought about using it with lang=en, but now I want to see what 'rtl' does with English". I suppose it's not the best starter question, but I don't think it needs to be to suss out good candidates from bad ones.

Rage-quitting the interview or blurting out confidently wrong guesses, on the other hand, are bad signals.
Of course, but it’s also the hardest solution.
In Canada they just had protests that crippled the country, they just took food and the ability to bank or heat themselves from the protestors until they gave up. No change. Imagine if Trudeau had a gulag.
Just want to chime in and say that I would love to have this ability. Will you be adding more documentation on how a knowledgeable user could use your library to accomplish this? The docs are kinda sparse and I'm not sure how I could actually use it.
Depends. If you are happy with a lifestyle business or low 7 digit outcome, then yes.

If u are aiming for at least $100m exit, you might need the $$$
protests worked in russia in 1917
His posts reeks of unreflected self pity and all you can offer is whataboutism?
i hope this is a joke
I agree. I definitely think Putin wants to be the hero who re-established the Russian empire or something. I really hope we hit hard with sanctions and they aren't just for show like various European weapon contributions (never mind Canada sitting on its hands in that regard and Germany actively blocking Estonia's weapons and instead sending helmets ffs).

That said, I'm worried that the sanctions will be weak/ineffectual as I doubt NATO countries will want to risk economic harm, especially in Europe where they've allowed themselves to become so dependent on Russian natural gas. Personally I think Ukrainian lives are worth an increase in energy prices.
So it looks like they are subverting both sides now. America is screwed.
None of this is a shock to anyone in power. The cards have been played face up on the table for a long time.

NATO has always publicly held that it would not come to Ukraine's defense.

Russia has always publicly held that it would invade Ukraine to prevent it joining NATO.

Critics have always pointed out Europe's increasing dependence on Russian gas. Hell, even Trump put sanctions on Russian gas firms integrating with Europe, and was loudly condemned by Germany and the EU. I guess a broken clock is still right twice a day, and interesting to read some of the articles in retrospect[1]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50875935
These are a thing (though rarely electrical; if a stretch of railway's lightly used, that won't be where you prioritise putting up overhead lines), though they've largely died out in favour of more versatile DMUs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railbus
> my numbers do allow for a $50MM/year

That’s hilarious. The $50m was a rounding error you forgot to account for. Given a work force of several hundred thousand, that would just about pay for an office chair each, let alone any other equipment or infrastructure, or office space to put the chair in.
Ask HN: Do indie devs skip code review because it is not fun?
Or maybe they skip code review sometimes (e.g., every other update, etc.)?
> Technically, there are no bugs anywhere above - all the functions work correctly

They were all correct. But yeah, scary how primitives can result in such poor performance. FWIW, they ended up using {fmt}: https://developer.blender.org/D13998
This is just a store opening right?
Any chances this could turn into a MIDI playable instrument with some pre-trained models plus the possibility to submit user generated ones?
... and emitting deadly lithium oxide fumes:

"Acute inhalation toxicopathology of lithium combustion aerosols in rats", A.H.Rebar, B.J.Greenspan, M.D.Allen

"Male and female F344/Lov rats were exposed to aerosols produced by burning lithium metal under conditions designed to simulate a fire in the containment building of a fusion reactor. ... 14-day LC50 values ... were 940 mg/m^3 ... necrotizing laryngitis and ulcerative rhinitis"

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3089861/

[1] https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/0272-0590(86)90197-1
> Not to be a apologist of what Russia is doing [... apologism]
The way people write things on Twitter amuses me. Is this person a SWIFT expert or did they just google all this stuff to be able to tweet about it?

Plus.. I can't read it all because Twitter throws a sign up modal.
For what it's worth, I've heard people have good success with: https://brilliant.org/ (not affiliated)

It's highly interactive and engaging, which helps it feel less dry!
Ukrainian leader calls on Tim Cook to block Russian users from the App Store
May I ask what you are using for endpoint management? Are you using JAMF, Intune, something else? Are you using an always on VPN to all users? All cloud based or on-prem infra? DNS security? Endpoint protection?

Thanks for posting the guide!
Yes? Not use it?
Ask HN: Can you have both accessibility and privacy?
If you have end-to-end encryption for audio/video, how does captioning work? Is there a way to have group video conversations with E2E and captions? How should we think about this trade-off?
I think key to be good at math/physics is good memory, try improving that the best you can. And then a lot of practice, also you need to base that with fundamental logical thinking. philosophy is good for that
That was a few hundred people at best. Anyway, I can see that you believe strongly that protests don't work, I've been eyewitness to protests that did work and that changed the direction of a country (in fact, multiple countries) in a massive way.

Those instances are rare, but that's an existence proof that you can't deny (and there are, historically, more examples).

Note that the support for those Canadian protests amongst ordinary Canadians was minimal.
This is how it worked for Iran sanctions.
https://www.dliflc.edu/elearning/
Not exactly a convincing expression of support for people's human rights, especially those of fellow citizens with dual nationality. Wouldn't exactly be a good look.

A better solution is to clean up the financial sector, especially the City of London, and to move to renewables ASAP to break the hold of all petrostates on the West.
How do you balance punitive with rehabilitative? I have little experience in this but it seems like for a non-violent offender or a victimless crime the experience should be almost entirely rehabilitative, whereas for violent offenders there should be some kind of punishment. Both to discourage the behavior and as therapy for the victims.

The justice system doesn't really offer me any protection other than vengeance on someone who hurts or kills me or a loved one. There is some comfort knowing that someone might at least hesitate due to fear of consequences.
Which is exactly the very very scary prospect of the thing. Giving Word this ability while using Word makes sense. Giving some other software access to 100% of everything that occurs on the system is very unnerving. <shudder>
We need a real life foundation.
Euh... Europe is taking all the 'consequences' and economic damage from the sanctions, not the US.
Eh, the soldiers know... it's for "power", against nato, and to get a bit more of the land.

Look at every past conflict, every american soldier in iraq knew, that they were going in to get the oil, everything else was just propaganda for the taxpayers.
Isn't that every big tech company?
Also relevant: http://daniellakens.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/impossibly-hungr... which applies the same logic, but to the famous study showing that judges hand out harsher sentences before lunch than after lunch
I think we can all learn from this situation.

This is really a reason why companies need to diversify their source of income. Yes, the company was built around Facebook but as soon as possible the company needed to find multiple ways to get other income.

This situation is not new to the era of internet platforms. Companies regularly grow around a big business. It's great when both companies can thrive but the smaller company needs to make sure it's nimble enough to change at a moments notice or face the consequences when the bigger company wants to change the way they do business.

The way I see it no more than 10% of your income can come from one source, if you want to stay in business for the long term. Or, you need to extract yourself from the bigger company's influence and create a solid source of cash flow independent of any one customer.
Communism in civilised countries results in their criminalisation and collapse of the rule of law. To such an extent that even long after the communists are gone, the state of criminalisation persists. A poor undeveloped state like
Pakistan or India may also not have much by the way of rule of law, but at least the rulers don’t have the sophisticated bureaucratic tools in place to enact widespread oppression of people either. Some anarchy is desirable when most of your leaders are selfish despots.
This is comparable to the argument that programmers are learning how to eliminate compiler/linter warnings rather than learning how to program better. Immediate feedback is the best learning tool and one leads to the other. Of course, natural languages are far more complex and have no universal standard. While it is true that no easy way to check for style, be it in programming or writing, we should encourage the use of such tools (once they are secure and privacy-friendly) as writing assistants.
For many it would mean losing heating and electricity. And while many say they are ready for such hardships, what if one has children or elderly parents they need to take care of? Loss of electricity would also mean public transportation or factories grind to halt. And it doesn't even solve the immediate problem with active battles on the ground.

There is only one real immediate solution – which is providing military help to Ukraine.
Why bother working on seizing Russian owned assets as reparations for an illegal war, when it's more convenient to use the moment to push totalitarianism onto your own population instead? After the initial rush of solidarity, crises always bring out the opportunistic scumbags.
Btrfs and apfs also support copy-on-write snapshots.

Also, snapshots are NOT backups. And one definitely should not rely on snapshots along to keep their files safe.
> Where has this mythical "real socialism" been tried and succeeded?

The only place it really worked were small communes like Longo Maï. Why? Because they are made by people who want it and everybody shares the common spirit. This is only possible on a small scale, never on a state scale when it's pushed down your throat and often you can't leave.
Why Russia just don't open independent sites for it's media. People who want to know different opinions will be able to come there themselves. It's strange that they necessarily want to be on facebook and youtube...
Do you understand why the locale object needs to be locked? I would have expected it to be immutable...
It would trade gas burned with capex - and that capex is very, very high, as you’d need to spend more on turbines and electrical transmission gear than all of Germany’s existing electrical grid. Many times over most likely.
> Well, not all of them, but the there were enough separatists in Crimea

First of all, us Westerners have already questioned how democratic the supposed cessation from Ukraine was. So let’s not get selective now. Russia already had their military stationed their. That could have a chilling effect.

Second of all, plenty of people in Crimea speak Russian. And a lot of the Crimean Tatars were forcefully deported under the Soviet Union. I just bring that up since forceful deportation is not exactly, uh, the tool of a governing party that feels that they can just manipulate their subjects into becoming… whatever the Soviet Union wanted them to become.

> ... and Donetsk, etc. to destabilize those regions.

In your quote you left out the rest of the paragraph where I addressed the separatists. Even if we assume—and this is an insane hypothetical for the sake of this specific argument—that all those separatists were hypnotized by Russia, that’s still a very lackluster result considering that the majority of Ukraine is pro-Western right now. I mean they did commit to an all out war with them. So much for subversion.

But let’s entertain this point for one more paragraph. The separatist conflict started after the 2014 coup which America supported.[1] So the separatist sentiment was in part caused by America trying to subvert the political process of Ukraine (and kind of openly, too). That’s in a way more impressive than Russian subversion considering how far away the US is.

[1] Page 4, https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...

> Were those separatists psychologically subverted, or did they just happen to want to re-join Russia?

This feels like a rhetorical question where one of the alternatives is the obvious answer. In case it is the former which is “correct”: it is quite common for peoples and ethnicities to not live neatly in each of their own little nation state. 25% of Latvia, for example, consists of ethnic Russians. Finland has a Swedish-speaking minority. You have Transnistria in Moldova. So what makes an ethnic/cultural separatist region at all weird or unusual? Especially when a major power is willing to unofficially help them out for eight years...