skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t let countries with active conflicts enter NATO, you might as well declare war with Russia at that point. Russia was weaker back then so they may have resorted to nukes sooner.

NATO shouldn’t have expanded eastward, or the US should have left NATO. The West has been such utter fools in our negotiations with the world, being too powerful for too long has eroded diplomatic skill and left us ignoring the legitimate grievances of our adversaries and delivering one sided ultimatums.
Also needs multiplayer support - if someone else presses the button soon after you have to wait and ride up together
they use oxygen to pull the trigger on their firearms.
It's "not escalating the situation further" for the last few decades that's allowed this to happen. A good strong dose of escalation in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea might have nipped this in the bud. If we avoid escalating now, Taiwan is next.

The cost of inaction has gone up, and up, and up. Now the Ukrainian people are paying that price in blood and subjugation. How much higher should we allow it to go?

DDOS-ing a website is nonviolent. Severe, crippling economic sanctions are nonviolent. We should wage all-out economic war and accept the costs, which will be real and painful. Gandhi and other pacifist leaders didn't advocate inaction, he advocated forceful and determined nonviolent action that caused as much inconvenience and difficulty for his opponents as possible. We should at least be doing that, surely?
> If RAR encounters a file ten times, it will compress once and store it and nine pointers.

A bunch of compression formats do that. Even zip files can, which leads to interesting tricks like:

https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/
I found a 1987 report from the bureau of justice statistics: https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/lifetime-likelihood...

Uses data from approximately the 1975-1985 period, so not about the 90s.
Ask HN: How do I pay our Russian devs?
Operating a company with a decent amount of remote contractors in Russia. We are worried about being able to pay them. What are the best options? We are currently thinking about having them open foreign bank accounts if they don't have one already.

Where's the best place for them to get a foreign bank account?

What's the best method for them getting the money back into Russia so they can use it?
I've noticed (from an external point of view) that 1/ many people use it for some kind of escaping (myself somewhat included) 2/ Fantasize about being the hero of a post-apocalyptic novelbut IRL
Hard times just kill people. That saying is crap.
Russians came from Belarus and with their tanks disrupt the radioactive soil and create dust [1]. The internal systems and the reactors themselves are in nominal state without changes.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-says-chernobyl-radia...
They could be accused of funding terrorisim. For instance, imagine a radical fringe group the far left of the West falls in love with takes up arms against a group of people they believe is unjustly occupying their land. So the Western far left group uses Patreon to raise funds so this group can buy military grade weapons to use against their occupiers.

Congrats, you just funded Hammas.
It’s a patent. I don’t see why Apple actually would build this. This is basically putting an iMac in the keyboard and connecting it to a display via USB-C. And the display would need external power.

If anything, this a step backwards from what an iMac is. It adds a completely unnecessary second wire.

That’s before you look at price. The M1 iMac is US$ 1,299. Or the lack of Retina resolution USB-C monitors on the market.

If you want something this compact, Apple would have you get a MacBook Air for US$ 999.
Officially supported funding would make them a legitimate target in war.
Do you think that society is more coherent now, after the past 2 years? Are things improving or are the wheels coming off? The Canadian government was freezing people's bank accounts like they are North Korea, and most cheer this on? With Russia going to war? Etc etc.

If you had bought gold 7 years ago, you would have doubled its value.
It depends. If they know they will do nothing, but in future if they find problem with you, who knows?
If you sent me a RAR, I'd remind you that it's the 21st century, we all have really fast Internet these days compared to the 90s when RAR was released, and I really don't want to have to install a new piece of software just to open your photos.

(The best bit is that the official WinRAR Linux distribution is a .tar.gz)

Just use ZIP unless your classmates are working solely via tethered 2G connections in Tierra Del Fuego.
> to educate some girls

Oh, now I get you.
While they are in fact receiving lots of BTC, one transaction sticks out (80 BTC, 2022-02-25 09:55:18 [3,067,846.41 USD]), I wonder who has that much BTC to give away like that. It is impressive, but raises a lot of questions.
Anonymous has been ddos’ing it. https://twitter.com/youranonnews/status/1496969715826278407?...
I collated those definitions from a couple websites and they all closed in on the same terms, which is also what I had come to understand over the years. But it's possibly a case of definitions and usage shifting a bit, or maybe a cultural element (defined in British English vs American perhaps?). But I got the closer meaning by looking up "despair" rather than desperation, so it was one hop away :)
And the passive tone at which those of contrarian opinions express their doubts. Just say it outright so we can have an actual conversation, do you not think that Ukraine is the victim?
Nobody here is saying you should try and prevent them - we know how fucking insane US cops are. But if you don't say anything, your chances of successfully suing or at least getting erased from their database afterwards are way lower. Saying "I won't resist, but I do not consent to my face being scanned" while holding your hands in a visible position won't increase your chance of being shot unless it's already so high you're basically dead anyways.

Also, please record everything. Put a voice activated recorder on your phone so you don't get shot when reaching for it (didn't Siri have that built in at some point) and have recordings synced to the cloud, have a dashcam or better a 360° cam always running, hide a digital audio recorder in the dash - or even better use an old smartphone on a modest data plan...

I know not everyone can afford to do that, but if you can, you should. Especially if you're in a group that gets targeted often, this is the best thing you can do to make sure these fuckers are held accountable if they do something illegal or worse.
> For those still looking to help, Ukrainian journalists have recommended several charities

Why journalists should be deciding where funds should go?
Well they are if they can vote to get rid of this official at any time they choose.
You are confusing BCH with BSV, which was started by a guy who claims to be Satoshi.

Lightning Network is not Bitcoin. It is a separate payments platform, being pushed by a for-profit company, Blockstream. It is never non-custodial. You always require a third-party to authorize and process your transactions for you. Since it doesn't use mining / blockchain, it is vulnerable to all the centralization problems that Bitcoin was supposed to solve.
Please note that the 80BTC you're talking about comes from one transaction, not many. Seems most donations are under or around 0.01 BTC, but one of them was for 80 BTC. From another comment of mine here:

> While they are in fact receiving lots of BTC, one transaction sticks out (80 BTC, 2022-02-25 09:55:18 [3,067,846.41 USD]), I wonder who has that much BTC to give away like that. It is impressive, but raises a lot of questions.
For me, planning for a five day power outage in the winter seems like it's something that takes only a limited amount of effort and resources and could come in very handy indeed. Make sure you have enough water (and a way to make it potable), heat, food, light, 1st aid and communications.

Going all in and getting a year of supplies seems excessive.

As always, YMMV :-)

PS: In Germany, the BMI (interior ministry) publishes a free guide for preparedness at https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/themen/bevoelkerungsschutz/zivil-...
They recommend a 10 day food and water supply.
This is very interesting. I would truly love to hear more from of experience and takes. Over time I'm sure these initial sanctions will cause great damage to the Russian financial interests.

Today however it is a slap on the wrists of the Elite. Having a wealthy background like yourself (owning lots of property and being married into the oligarchy) you're seeing the most severe consequences.

Real consequences for the elite would be freezing assets (bank accounts, re-possessing Russian owned London properties, etc.).
I don't know much about PUBG, but I did play a lot of other online shooters. Based on those experiences it seems there's a fairly large number of players who thinks that anyone substantially better than them are cheating.

They played with poor sound setup so didn't realize I knew exactly where they were thanks to a good headset and could blast them in the face as they rounded that corner.

Or they didn't know about drag/flick shooting[1] so they thought the snap that landed the headshot was a cheat rather than a deliberate, physical mouse movement.

Or just they just significantly overestimated their own abilities, thinking anyone being that much better must be cheating.

[1]: https://themeta.com/aiming-essentials-3-flick-shot-technique...
You'd need to use a tool like par2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive) on top of a 7z file to get a recovery record.
There was also ICE.
I like Linuxbrew because I can install things without needing to mess with the system packages. I'm using it on my TrusNAS SCALE server to install things like fish and neovim. The stance of iXsystems has always been that TrueNAS is an appliance and you shouldn't touch the system packages, so I try not to apt install anything.
What are you insinuating?
Isn't that how focusing windows on Windows works? As far as I know, it doesn't have focus-follows-mouse.
At least pointing devices come in different shapes and forms, including vertical and trackballs. We used to enable chrome accessibility feature [1] to automatically drag-click when the mouse button is stopped. Although, as kids got faster they turned it off. It's a nice option to have.

[1]https://mcmw.abilitynet.org.uk/how-to-make-your-mouse-click-...

One of the reasons why we made auto-clicking mouse is so, when playing games, they don't have to click it crazy fast (besides it being fun project). To increase keyboard ergonomics I am thinking on a custom keyboard with programmable keys to, for example to turn long-press space into backspace, shift space to enter.
Enjoyed this comment. Vibes with an essay by Cory Doctorow about needing a “bug in bag” not a “bug out bag”, to run towards community to help versus running to the mountains, as you need collective action to survive.

https://boingboing.net/2015/12/21/a-survivalist-on-why-you-s...

https://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/postapocalypse-witho.html
> My point is that it's really easy to get lost once you accept violence as good.

I don't think any normal person believes that violence is good. It's the last option on the table. But it is an option.

> 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.

Excellent. And if and when it does happen, then maybe you will understand a bit better why the likes of Patreon cutting off support for the defenders is effectively taking sides.

It doesn't cost Patreon anything to pass on those funds. But fine, if they want to take sides then that's cool with me, they just made it to my shitlist, not a cent through their company, ever.
While I do agree there is a certain bias here, let me offer an anecdote...

I've been remote for years prior to the pandemic. I've found more advancement since.

It's certainly from a disadvantaged position, not to imply otherwise. I attribute this more to my employer and personality - if something is wrong/broken I make it known

Being essentially on the speed dial for everyone and maintaining this image of vocal participant has helped mitigate this. Fix a couple incidents in stellar fashion and the C suite starts to love your Slack alias
It's a shame LLVM isn't more explicit about calling conventions (especially since the front-end has to lower most of the platform-specific C ABI details, short of the exact list of registers or stack offsets, into LLVM IR anyway).

(if it was more expressive, we could have e.g. specifiers similar to inline `asm!`, but on a function signature, to fully describe its call ABI)

In the meanwhile, I agree - if you need some entry-point to have a custom ABI (especially if you need it parameterized through generics), `#[naked]` + inline `asm!` is the only viable option for now.

Especially with const generics, you can do some cool stuff to make very compact trampolines that e.g. embed immediates directly into instructions (though it's sad that `const` operands in inline `asm!` aren't stable yet).

But for interrupt ABIs I would hope that LLVM can fully support them and avoid any inefficiencies that "whole body is one inline `asm!`" could create by blocking LLVM from doing optimizations, clever register allocation, etc.

(that is, they let the user control when they do something special with inline `asm!` vs regular code that LLVM understands)
If China really wants Taiwan then now's the time to do it. North Korea might as well take South Korea while all this is going on. Now I'm starting to think the world is descending into chaos. Or has it always been that way?
What about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Secur... ? Doesn’t it oblige USA to help UA?
It's not about neutrality, it's about doing it the right way.
In the end they only become a target of russia's cyber warfare.

There are better channels and ways of helping without making a civilian platform a war target.
Nice! I see that Inkscape has support for 'G-code' (which I am just learning about ...)

On a related topic, I'm looking into XY plotters to draw designs on paper - does anyone know the easiest or cheapest way to do that? Building it myself with a servo motor, an Arduino and a pen seems daunting.
This seems well intentioned but overly dramatic to the point of being false.

Other nations have been training Ukrainian Troops and supplying Stinger missiles and so on. Lots of diplomacy and financial sanctions happening.

The step to actually involve an external Army in killing Russian soldiers has big ramifications that shouldn't be ignored.
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I'll try to figure out the best way to post them.
I am intermittingly able to access through Tor on Brave, and the home page of RT.com includes a headline that "Anonymous declares cyber war on RT"
You can use an par2 file for that though. Yes, might be less convenient than having it built into the archive in some cases but on the other hand you can a) only download the .par2 file if you need it and b) use it to add error correction to files without putting them in an archive so you can access them directly and c) you can create the error correction information across multiple archives if you want.
> Then why not declare it on paper with both Ukraine and NATO guarantees? That's all Russia wanted during negotiations last few months.

It is on paper that they cannot join while in active conflict?

> Yes, and Russia been told for many years it will not happen. That's why Russia now wants it to be legally declared. Not just promise.

Gorbachev himself admitted there was no such formal agreement.
Isscc 2022: Machine learning processors
What you’ve just said isn’t any different from Russian propaganda.
That's so idiotic. The only thing they are DDOSing is a public facing website where people can read what Russian-sponsored media is saying about the events. It's not like RTs internal infrastructure runs on the same as the public-facing one. Why not try to attack their internal infrastructure instead?
It's not like NATO to deploy forces there to fight the Russians. This is a more complex military, strategic and political issue with many implications.
> If you had bought gold 7 years ago, you would have doubled its value.

Over five years VTI is up 77% vs gold at 54%. VTI is up over 100% since Jan 2015. GLD is only up 45%.
But, many of the catastrophic scenarios are nature-made instead of man-made. I’m not aware of any way to avoid volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, drought, etc. unless you are suggesting that everyone move to someplace where none of these things can exist.
I spent 3 years in US prisons for drug charges picked up when I was an addict and did a 90-day stint in solitary for breaking up a fight between two acquaintances.

AMA.

I'll start with: Yes, "fishing" is one of the first things you learn. It's not just for solitary, you use it to get stuff under other people doors when you're not out of your cells on a regular unit too, or when you don't want guards to suspect something.

Another interesting thing fact -- where I was at, in solitary you could trade your 1-hour of your cell a day for an extra tray of food at either lunch or dinner. Because the guards had to let each person in the solitary block out, one-at-a-time, for an hour, they were lazy and would let you forfeit your one hour out to shower/make a paid phone call/walk around the cell block for extra food. Most people took the extra tray.

---

Edit: While this is on the front page, want to raise a bit of awareness about US criminal "justice system" and prisons:

I saw things like this regularly:

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/c567d688cc89f084...

Guards would beat the shit out of you, strip you mostly naked, strap you to a restraint chair and cover your head with a hood, and then wheel you into a back room somewhere and "accidentally forget" about you for +8 hours until you pissed yourself, and then they'd come and laugh at you.

Lots of things I can't unsee from being in there.
Looks like you should look it up, too.
I have been in the same position, and here's what my experience has been(sample size 1)

Standardize the stack. Use one stack, one set of tooling, one set of practices, and libraries that are very well known and has decent community support. As you start delivering code, the knowledge builds upon itself.

For example, I pretty much standardized REST API, microservices, Python, Flask, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx for the first 2-3 years. As teammates joined in, they were encouraged to reuse code. Slowly, as more senior engineers started working in the team, they brought their own processes, and consequently the organization became more flexible and robust.
So many things happened "during the 80s", such a broad correlation is basically meaningless. I have heard some much tighter correlations have been found and some possible causal links, but I never looked into it so I might be misremembering.
> Your bank absolutely gets a say in that. They can refuse to transfer those funds for effectively any reason and will if they think that those funds are being transferred for any number of proscribed actions.

I think I covered that by linking to the charter that governs this.

> Those actions need not be official sanctions either. They can refuse to do business with another bank at their discretion.

They'd have to have a pretty good reason or I would have an excellent opportunity to sue. Capricious interference with the flow of capital is frowned upon.

> I agree that it’s a very bad look for Patreon but it’s pretty business as usual.

Patreon effectively joined Putin. There is no way they will whitewash this.
I’m sorry to say this, but the international order was unable to help the people in Hong Kong, Yemen, the camps in China, Syria, Afghanistan. I am very sorry, things have changed where spheres of influence are no longer dictated by the West. Best of luck. You guys are on your own.
yeah but they’re not pulling the trigger with bitcoin, they’re buying weapons
I get, or rather don't since my country wasn't invaded in my lifetime, that people are scared to shit over that. I knoe I would be, too. And yes, I can read. My whole point is that there are rules in place. Using private funding for stuff like this is just not acceptable, it is rather what groups like ISIS are doing. NATO, and NATO countries have ways to organize the stuff much faster, easier, cheaper (just thinking of the German armed forces "surplus" stuff sitting various warehouses) and, most importantly, through proper channels to Ukraine. And they should, and should have done so long time ago. And maybe even did, none of those things is usually made public.
Make sure your borg repos are copying properly and in full!

I had a horrible realisation that my borg backups were timing out on the offiste copy, meaning the resulting offsite backup I had was non-existent. The heartbreaking error message Inconsistency detected. Please run "borg check [repository]" - although likely this is "beyond repair"

Course following the 3-2-1 rule you're probably good, but aye I'm treating borg repos as delicately as I would a striped raid now. I am also monitoring that `borg check` actually comes back successfully before considering the backup complete too :)

Also if you're in a small company, start up, etc.. Set yourself a 3-2-1+ backup system. + is the miracle backup that makes you look good.
I understand your point. I didn't try the same thing, I tried lots of different things. There were a few times where I would even say "hey I need to get back to this is there anything else you needed?" which worked maybe 30% of the time. "Oh no thanks for the help... hey did you hear about $THING?"
I do now that you mentioned it. And there was an archive format starting with LZ* right? LZW? LZJ?

I mainly hit that one when downloading .MOD music.

(Edit, huh, .ZOO was based on LSW, so maybe I'm conflating the two)
My family was joking the other day that we have a culture of moving away. My mother moved us to the US from Russia and I recently moved from East to West coast.

I never really liked where I lived on the east coast. Going on vacations out West I always thought to myself “why can’t I just live here”. The culture back home, all my friends, hated the idea of me moving.

One time thought I asked them “do you like it here”? I never really got answers from them, it was mostly “yeah I guess” or “meh”. I get that people have roots, but flights are cheap and all these folks had the kind of jobs you could relocate with. Life is too short to live somewhere you think of as “meh”
Very nostalgic! My first software was an arj.exe frontend (in French) for Windows 95.

I just launched it! https://i.imgur.com/HfgleBq.png

Of course, it's because ARJ was the standard for warez back in these days...

edit: It was coded in a language called "Visual DialogScript", which amazingly kind of still exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_DialogScript
There was a Simpsons episode were they had a bunker but not for enough people.

Flanders had not enough space and was left outside. Then everyine started to emerge from the bunker.

People who think they want to survive an apocalypse so badly that they romantify a bunker live might not have thought through it deep enough.

I want to be protected from a fallout so I can move out of my region after the fallout but that means survival of a few days not month or years. And I definitely don't care much for lifing on a totally destroyed planet.