skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone with knowledge of these things clarify the ramifications for their business if they were to allow something like this on their platform? I'd imagine it would have significant regulatory and legal implications. Which of course sounds mild compared to the ramifications to the lives of those affected, but I'm wondering if it would be a business-killing move for some legal reason.

To me, the wildest thing here is not that they enforced their policy, but that a site that started as a means for YouTube musicians to get paid has now become a player in international politics and warfare.
Yep, fighting without considering the consequences is what people should do. Let's destroy all of Europe if we need to, just so we can say fuck you Putin! Beyong disgusting , me? I am sure you're the best person in the world and ready to pack your bags and bear arms against any invincible opponent without even thinking about the costs as they don't matter a single bit.
I eat all animals, octopus is delicious. What I do practice is compassion and respect for when I do, going out of my way to ensure it was done so in as an ethical and sustainable way as possible. Much of my protein these days I catch myself.
It is the job of the Russian people to stand up and refuse to participate in this conflict. Anything that makes their lives harder so they are more likely to do that, as opposed to just sitting around on their ass, is a good thing. The Russians need to band together and topple their dictator state, they are acting unethically and there needs to be a groundswell of support to oust someone like Putin. Simple democracy will not work there to change things like it could in the U.S. (voters were able to get rid of Bush for being a war monger).
This brings back a lot of memories! Do you remember the multi steps decompression phases? The par2 files for repairing
If you want to fund guns for Ukraine to fight back, you can donate directly to the Ministry of Defense here: https://ukraine.ua/news/support-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine/
If they’re launching nukes, you think the rest of the world is just going to sit by and watch?
What? Wars have been crowd sourced since forever. Crusades, worlds wars, and so on.
This title seems designed to cause outrage. In their post, it's very clear why they couldn't allow the account to remain active: "The website of the organization says they use contributions to finance and train military personnel."

Individuals should not be funding foreign militaries. It does not matter if the country was unjustly attacked or not.
They are a petrolstate with no real economy going and producing virtually no tradeale goods other than raw resources[a] [b]

70% of their trade is with Western countries [c] so if cut them off, their deficit quickly pushes them hard into debt and with no external financing they will go into internal debt. With no credibile ways to pay off debt they have hyperinflation and people on the streets demanding Putin out.

Modern war is super expensive [d]

[a] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russia_Export_Treema...
[b] https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=186&product=un...
[c] https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=186&product=un...

[d] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hanktucker/2021/08/16/the-war-i...
But we can do both: personally abstain to inform the market of changing preferences, and lobby the government to introduce new laws and reorganize subsidies.

It’s not one or the other. There is no reason to wait to stop eating animals unnecessarily
> In the US in the 90s, your lifetime likelihood of victimization was estimated to be around 80%; the odds of suffering criminal injury hovered at 40%.

Any source? These figures seem absurdly high, and I say that as a former resident of NYC in the 90s.
Isn't state funding also crowd-sourcing? Except by force?
Another take on this: https://github.com/sheerun/vimrc/blob/master/plugin/vimrc.vi...

You can use it as plugin
Oh the irony of recommending formats made by Google and Facebook - two of the largest enemies of the internet.
I'm frequently made a little uncomfortable seeing photos or videos with people holding up a piece of paper with the date on it, as the paper is so easily forgeable for both the past and the future. Signing the date on the server seemed like an easy idea to mitigate it against the future, so I whipped this up last night. Any feedback is much appreciated.
I do! I am also old enough to remember a few other side characters like ZOO and ARC.
I have developers in Kharkiv and other areas of southeast Ukraine so I speak to them

They tell me Kiev’s attitude towards the Russian speaking population there. You can ask them yourself. Where do you live?

The situation is exactly as you’d expect … some guerilla fighters shoot rockets and then Kiev shoots back and civilians have to sit in basements… so there is escalation and the local residents feel that Kiev is bombing them… just like in any other separatist situation.

Hardly a “genocide” as Putin characterized it but also not exactly welcomed by Kiev. They say they offered Kiev to be an autonomous region with its own Russian language etc. and not bother anyone but Kiev sends troops.

I just listen, I am trying to piece together what the situation was like on the ground from people who are there.
One benefit of RAR is when dealing with multi-file archives, you don't need all of the files to be able to decompress one of them. You don't even need a complete file to be able to look inside!

Yes, some of your files will be broken if you don't have the entire archive, but at least you can salvage some of your data. Or you can peek in to make sure you've got the right thing before committing to multi-gigabyte downloads.
Maybe it’s based on the assumption that more complex organisms are more sensitive and thus the suffering that is experienced is bigger.
Two phase commit for logical replication is now available in Postgres 14.

The biggest issue I see at the moment is that sequences are not replicated.
Why do you think so? Honest question.
rsnapshot[1] is what I used on FreeBSD with a snapshot. It is like a well-tested version of the author's rsync and ssh blog post. I have a blog post here[2] describing my setup. It saved my bacon multiple times. Also, rsnapshot works in pull mode, so no client is needed on my Linux/macOS desktop or server except ssh and rsync.

[1] https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot
[2] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-rsnapshot-filesy...
It's like oxygen. Is it bad because the invaders can also breathe it in?

Ukranian government is very much pro-crypto.
https://www.kmu.gov.ua/en/news/parlament-uhvaliv-zakon-pro-v...
Most recent pg releases use the -> operator to access json fields now, in case you didn’t know about this syntax improvement.
I am not currently living in Poland, but I am going there to my family soon to stay there with them. My family lives near the border so it is frightening to see them being frightened of the war.♥
Nice site, but it makes a meal out of the material. The technique of 'completing the square' is about as quick and easy as the quadratic formula (indeed, doing it with generic coefficients is what gives you the quadratic formula) and only calls on a good elementary understanding rather than dredging up a formula from the memory banks.
Ask HN: Google not completely indexing github.com issues?
Given https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet/issues/3033

Fore query "cannot persist Microsoft authentication token cache securely!" (with quotes) Google returns single result, written in Chinese. Luckily I opened that Chinese result and spotted link to that issue.

duck.com does find the issue at hand.

I mean GitHub is no small site, but somehow I expected that Google will find my ANY public string on the internet.

Not that it doesn't find issues at all - but I stumbled upon this one that got left out.
I think this is still used in binary use groups. At least it was a few years ago.
> I thought this would happen immediately after Trump lost the election

It took a minute for them to realize we have two feeble minded and weak kneed presidents in office currently. The cats outta the bag now.
Creating on-boarding training discussing the nuances of different parts of the business. I use teachable now since it's powerful and inexpensive in my opinion at 99 bucks a month. I know this already sounds like a paid promo for them but It's not. I run a blood testing company and we have 150,000 customers who are keen on improving their lifestyle and health. I've been running digital operations since 2004. And I WISH i had been smart enough to document each tiny nuance, tip, how to and share it. Makes learning faster, keeps new team members engaged and happy since they are more comfortable they are in turn less likely to quit, and you don't have to hold everyones hand as much or at all. I could write a book on other things. but 1 other massive improvement was selecting mission critical stats to come inbound to me automatically in slack. i.e. site down, checkout errors, sales revenue comparable to previous period, customer tickets, i never have to go look for it. I connected it all to slack in one way or another and i see it first thing each morning. It helps me spot issues before they become big problems and it feels like i can see around corners because you get the pulse of the business.

Hope this helps. if you need some more help just email me jp AT jean-pierre.com

fun fact: This is my first real comment in Hacker News, I figured after seeing so many articles that helped me over the years, I'd give back. Thank you Hacker News and Y Combinator for all the great stuff over the years.
This week I was looking for a book. I couldn't find it at libgen, zlibrary, google with filetype: nor torrent. Fired up aMule, and it had more than 10 sources, downloaded in 30 seconds.
I think there is nuance there but it may derail the intent of my comment: It is not a foregone conclusion that an invasion with intent of regime change and control is actually a viable strategy. The point of the Afghanistan inclusion is that the relative miltary strengths were even more lopsided yet it was not enough for Russia nor the US to maintain control. Insurgencies are devastating and the more legitimate they are, the more likely they are to maintain support.
Seems like kind of an oxymoron to have a living being killed and subsequently eaten, then claim compassion and respect.
Actually cows do produce some levels of B12 in their bodies, but we still supplement them with the raw ingredients for that B12 so at the end of the day, basically every person living in the developed world is getting their B12 from supplements, one way or another.

Also, it’s not only the American Dietetic Association that believes veganism is healthy for all stages of, it’s the opinion of all the largest ones around the world!
but if political pressure lead them to their decision, it wasn't really a principled decision was it? It was a decision of convenience.

A principled decision is one you make regardless of outside pressures - i.e. you stick by your principles; clearly patreon has no principles in play here. If it was wrong to allow donations, it was wrong since 8 years ago as they happily collected their commissions on donations.
This is a war. Children are writing on reddit about explosions outside their windows. Patreon is doing the morally wrong thing here.
SQL Server is good, but note the system is oriented differently than Postgres - Postgres is very friendly towards programming directly in the DB. In SQL Server world, you can do that, but you'd be much better off with a solution where the logic lives elsewhere (Not counting Reports or Bulk Imports which have MSSQL-native solutions).
I worked with ARJ archives well into 2015. At one point I studied the format to see if it was possible to change the filenames in the archive without unpacking/repacking. It was. And I did.

To be fair, I had ~230k files I had to "manipulate", so even automating a unpack/repack would have cost too much time and energy.
Honestly I would be less annoyed if that had been their statement.
The development of all out war probably had something to do with it
My 2021 macbook pro crashes almost daily, I would take 1x per week at this point.
Other World Kingdom
I don't think I've ever actually used the official build of 7zip on the command line. Only the older p7zip version on Linux.

The p7zip version by default uses all cores and hits 100% on all of them compressing a single file. Perhaps p7zip or my OS has a different set of default options?
> weight of their decision

I am not too aware of this account. How much money was moving through Patreon to the Ukrainians? Is it the majority of the weapons funding they needed?
Thanks. This is helpful. I never use those shortcuts and yes most of my Esc are for indentation and deletion.
Maybe it’s your ISP ? From a Mexico I can access it just fine.
You should try it. I started out without giving two shits about animals. Now it’s the thing I feel most strongly about, and it has given my life much deeper meaning and direction.

Maybe you’ll feel the same!
The difference is the voters of the U.S. punished the presidents who did those things with huge political defeats that have now made most oversea invasions and hawkishness very unpopular political positions at the moment. Russians have a much tougher road to hoe to do the same thing, but it needs to be done for the moral reasons you lay out here.
Show HN: Mirrord – Debug locally using mirrored traffic from Kubernetes
It's the job of the Canadian people to stand up to oppression and fight the governmental overreach... etc etc
> It's also just quite a bit of fun.

Agree! I always liked CSS, it got better and better, and the real fun for me started when I found out all the different color names. For one little side project I forced myself to only use color names, it turned out pretty nice.
Of course, there is a non-trivial cost to spending time dealing with this stuff, particularly the less likely outcomes.

As with any risk assessment, one has to judge the probability of certain events and act accordingly.

The thing that bugs me about this culture -- and I don't include the author of this piece, who sounds imminently rational and level-headed -- is that a lot of people in this space seem to want these outcomes. In some extreme cases, they relish it or see it as a forgone or morally good outcome.

We should be putting most of our energy into avoiding catastrophic scenarios, and making these outcomes less and less feasible. But I fear that it is increasingly difficult for people across the political spectrum and below a certain socio-economic line to not be extremely cynical about society, and therefore the future. The result is "prepping" getting more attention than building a better world.
BBC has more clout for serious issues than the Daily Mail.
Biden was essentially appointed by party elites, Obama and a few other leaders decided it would be him, the party immediately followed. I don't think that Biden or Hillary Clinton had millions of people clamoring for them to run. Meanwhile, the least terrible president of the past 30 years was Obama, who would never have been appointed in a backroom.

There are many things to reform in the US democracy, but it is obvious that it is highly oligarchic already.
Which is surprisingly powerful as it does various data analysis and compression testing of files in order to pick the best method, and often coming up with fantastic results. Though I'd be surprised if it has a mentionable user base these days.
What seems like a long time ago, I was working at a place that used Linux, but not really any Linux experts. They had backup scripts that assumed (and did not check) that you would connect an external drive. If you didn't, the script would gladly copy files to /mnt/usbdrive, and if the server was full enough, backing up itself to itself would fill the drive and bad things would then happen.

There was no email notification if the backup completed or failed, or even started to run. There was no notification of how long it took, how much data was backed up, etc.

There were plenty of incidents of data loss.
So you hate your food?
As someone who has never had to truly live through a disaster (knock on wood), I found this story to be compelling in thinking about disaster planning: http://www.theplacewithnoname.com/blogs/klessons/index.html

>On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina became the largest natural disaster in United States history. After the levees failed, it became the largest man-made disaster in United States history. This blog is a chronicle of what happened to myself and my family during those events. It is also a documentation of lessons learned from a survival and recovery viewpoint.

I think it delivers a lot more backstory on what happens when you don't prepare for something, which you don't get simply reading a how-to list.
> I've seen first hand what life under Russia looks like, there is no way this is going to be whitewashed.

I'm really not trying to whitewash anything. I have friends in the Ukraine and I'm fearing for their live right now - and, to be honest, a bit for mine, since this conflict is really close to escalating near my actual home. The last thing I want to do is to condone Russian aggression.

My point is that it's really easy to get lost once you accept violence as good. So I can absolutely understand why Patreon chooses to stay neutral in a war, even if it's for (what we see as _and probably is_) the right side. Violence might sometimes be necessary, but it's never a "not bad" thing, especially since it's easy to see oneself on the right side and be wrong about it - which does not mean I think Russia is in any way right here, just to be very clear.

And I think we both agree that the aggression in the Ukraine is both wrong horrible and that violence is generally a bad thing, just to state the obvious - which is probably why we don't get anywhere with this discussion.
wow those look amazing!
I don't think you can really consider it crowd-funding unless people are individually choosing to contribute to the specific cause.
Hey all, just dropping the first version of mirrord.
mirrord is a VS Code extension that lets you mirror traffic from your Kubernetes cluster to your locally debugged service.
We'd appreciate your input on it.
We'll soon release a cli only version, and maybe more IDE plugins.
Please use with caution when using in production as it's very early release
yep, and yet they (and facebook and instagram) continue to allow Russia to push 'their side of the story' without restrictions.
Very frightening to see the people in terror, while them sleeping in subways, metros, and trains ( etc. ) I have family here in Poland near the Ukrainian and the Russian border. They have small children which makes it even harder for them to leave.
If their policy banned this sort of activity and they cared at all, they would have removed this page 7 years ago, it's been up for 7 years. This isn't about their policy. The timing is everything.
The book Eternity by Greg Bear had an interesting take on this. In that book (spoiler) there is an exchange of nuclear weapons between the U.S. and Russia, which devastates the surface of the Earth.

But many people survive, and a society quickly develops post-war. But it is dominated not by those who were most individually prepared, but by those who contributed the most to their neighbors and communities.

There is some overlap of course; some preppers have a lot to give and do so. But the ones who isolate in compounds with their hoard for too long emerge into the new society to be met with scorn, or even outright violence in some cases.

I had not thought about it that way but it kind of makes sense. It’s easy to like someone who is helping you. And shared hardship can bond a group of people.

It’s a great book, in addition to this aspect (which is a somewhat minor part of it).
It is not being used to fund an invasion, but to fund a Ukranian military response[0]. Russia has banned crypto and crypto mining, and the only person that claims Russia is "using Bitcoin" is Dan Peña.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/t0jpbw/ukraine_mil...
Well, the project does mention that they're not trying to replace any existing approach but instead provide additional functionality over the existing stuff. My understanding is that they can grab the JSON, XML or whatever else other projects do, use some existing tool on the parsed data and then passing it forward to other tools as JSON, XML or whatever. I think the diagram at the end of [0] shows it well.

[0] https://relational-pipes.globalcode.info/v_0/index.xhtml
I know emotions are running high in this thread but asking to educate myself.

Ukraine is not a tiny nation, and Russia is huge. In that scenario how will a small assortment of weapons and software even help them? Do they even need weapons help? Also how can a charity buy that list and supply? Can an organization buy them, feels like that kind of a purchase should be restricted to countries only.
I don't think any amount of money is going to save Ukraine. If money could, US would dump a boat load already (and did dump a boat load).

These kinds of conflicts cannot be won by any amount of BTC/USD. May be helping refugees is one option but its still too little too late.
Yeah and I havent seen anyone wearing a mask, its like its slipped out of the public consciousness already. Covid? Whats Covid?
They meant they don't see the issue with the ban.
Putin: Talk Like a Democrat, Walk Like an Autocrat (2004)
Marshall Fire Storymap
If you want to learn how to do disaster planning as an organisation, a really good example to follow is Waffle House, who take it extremely seriously. https://disasterphilanthropy.org/blog/preparedness/disaster-...
Honestly I think it’s basically a combination of four things at once:

Separatists overreacting to news of civil war in Odessa and moving to declare independence from Ukraine

Kyiv blowing the separatists out of proportion and sending its army in a protracted siege war against them instead of sitting down based on Minsk agreements

Putin blowing the “fascist Kyiv government genociding Russians” thing out of proportion and sending his army in a blitzkrieg to destroy Ukrainian capabilities instead of sitting down with Zelenskiy’s government at the highest levels

NATO ignoring Russia’s repeated concerns over the years about expansion and surrounding it with the same kind of thing that made JFK ready to go to war during the Cuban missile crisis

Basically on every level, sending an army backfires. Better to just not react with violence and use diplomacy. But seems that cooler heads do NOT prevail
The amount of "trouble" highly depends on the kind of tools and skills you have. For some people just going away from workshop to use the computer in office can be more hassle than taking a piece of wood and shaping it directly. It's the same as machinists choosing manual mill for simple one off parts even when CNC mill is available. 3d printing is good for more complicated parts. Some comments suggest cnc router but simple part like that with the right set of woodworking tools could be made in a couple of minutes freehanding it or maybe using paper template glued to a piece of wood. Also maybe the 3d printer was busy printing the other more complex parts which actually benefit from it. Different tools have different advantages for different parts.
Your comment was flagged, i vouched for it so i can downvote and rebuke.

No. Inaction is equal to support of the Russian invasion ( like in so many other cases). People have to decide for themselves what they want, where their morals lie, and how they want to act on that. Message of support? Donation? Whatever. Ignoring the problem only helps the war criminals. Don't critique people for daring to speak and act against war crimes just because you're deciding for yourself to ignore them.