skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I notice this post got some downvotes. My statement is not a political one, it is a practical one.

Anyone who works with SWIFT understands that the system exists at the pleasure of the Americans. If the US decides to not allow SWIFT, then it will disappear quickly. Likewise, the US has the ability to regulate, and does regulate, the systems that are used for transferring money.

And to quote from the FFIEC [0], who regulates this stuff (well, one of the regulators at least):

"SWIFT is used to transmit foreign exchange confirmations,
debit and credit entry confirmations, statements,
collections, and documentary credits."

That's a ton of US Dollars that aren't going away, so SWIFT won't either.

[0] - https://bsaaml.ffiec.gov/manual/RisksAssociatedWithMoneyLaun...
>EDIT: Was never down-voted so fast on HN, is the majority of HN really so negative towards people from the middle east?

I'm surprised myself, generally HN is pretty reasonable and fair about allowing different view points. International conflict seems to bring out the xenophobes and overly political actors. I say this as a Muslim who grew up with many close atheist friends, who has seen this pattern many times over the past few decades.
Thank you for sharing this list of resources. I have been studying French since September of 2020 (but only got serious about it in May of 2021). There are some resources here that I was not aware of.
Also, it's a pretty unpopulated region and for that reason easier to move large forces through without trouble.

And as a minor consideration, "We captured Chernobyl, protecting you good Russians from Ukranian nuclear threats" can be used as propaganda.
> "see look, the Russian people don't approve of this! Don't punish them with sanctions!"

But there have already been demonstrations against this war in Russia, with detainees and video footage showing this. And if you don't trust the footage, I'm sure someone knows someone in Russia who can attest to this.

So we know at least some people in Russia don't support the invasion.

More importantly, in my opinion: that kind of thinking is a trap. When your hypothesis is unfalsifiable, "all Russians online are lying, no matter what they say, and even when they agree with me" how is discourse possible at all? You cannot tell honest speech from propaganda because, by definition, all speech is propaganda?
Project Oberon cannot be his final word, given that it is only the first version, later upgraded up to System 3 version.

It is hard to consider them forks, when they originated on the same department and he also collaborated in some form.

Component Pascal and Zonnon, those are proper forks.

While I admire Wirth's work, his goal to pursue a minimalist Oberon with Oberon-07 is not so interesting to me.

My pocket phone is more powerful than any Xerox workstation, why should we keep searching for such minimalist endeavours, instead of the rich development experience provided by them.
Tell HN: Feeding the Twitter mob that's trying to 'fight Putin' is a bad idea
Posts about SWIFT, nonsense about radiation at Chernobyl, are feeding a stateless mob behavior thing that's unlikely to help, and could easily exacerbate, the current crisis.
I use Duolingo a lot, about 6 languages in parallel. I think the mobile app is great, I'm a lot faster doing that.

People underestimate the effectiveness of multiple-choice type exercises, and I would count the word-bank among those. It is harder to type in the answers from scratch, but especially in the beginning the speed of the MC formats more than compensates for the "laziness" compromise. Double that for translations to English. Just reading and hearing the foreign sentences is enough to have some repetition benefit.

For latin scripts I use the corresponding phone keyboard to put in the words. It's still quite fast. Overall I'm faster with the phone than with the website.
> both Europe and US governments prefer their economic and electoral interests over Ukraine or the international order.

This is a natural consequence of democracy. By design, leaders of a country can't do something their voters don't agree with.
lol the code for this repo is really sus. Maybe don't run it. Runs an eval on obfuscated code
The article says they analyzed sturgeon fossils that died in the impact, and they found they were in the growth phase typical of their reproductive season, so they don't know the year, but they know the season. The article is quite a read.
> I suspect that the semi-nuclear option will get pulled sooner rather than later. Ultimately we are seeing a world where the west is extending financial, economic, societal, and diplomatic infrastructure to countries which actively disagree with the security, co-operation, and economic principals required for those institutions to exist.

There's another option, which is growing the rules-based international order (as it's called). It had been growing for decades, and despite a bad few years, it is bigger than ever from any perspective other than ~2010 - for example, consider it from the perspective of 1985. And growing it is incredibly beneficial economically, for security, and for freedom - a far better outcome.

The semi-nuclear option only achieves short-term survival; it does not build a world for our future.

The main obstacle to growing it is not China and Russia, but the far-right nativist, reactionary political movements in democracies, especially the Republicans in the US. They oppose it (though being reactionaries, have no solution with which to replace it).
Draw a Box [0] comes highly recommended. All lessons are free and are taught from scratch. Everything from absolute basics is thoroughly explained and demonstrated.

Paid courses by Proko [1] are also said to be of very high quality. I have never bought one, though.

I would also suggest that you look into digital art. Sketching/painting/drawing paraphernalia is expensive with time-consuming upkeep and hard to carry if you travel. OTOH, drawing on Krita, Photoshop with drawing tablets & stylus (even $60 ones) or an iPad with pen is low-maintenance and you can find other uses for them even if you don't continue drawing.

Digital art and conventional art have many overlappings, but they are different media with neither being higher or lower.

[0]: https://drawabox.com/

[1]: https://proko.com
permanent, apparently unappealable

This should be illegal. It's like a diner owner saying he's going to deny service to all terrorists and then denying service to anyone with brown skin because it's how he determines who is a terrorist.
What actions exactly have I defended? Awful, horrific shit on scales beyond our comprehension have happened in basically every war in human history, including the deaths of countless innocent civilians. But to count as a war crime, the deaths of civilians has to be intentional (or at least with some level of reckless disregard for the safety of civilians, the standards of proof for which would be extremely high in a war). I've seen no evidence put forward yet that the kindergarten that got shelled was shelled intentionally.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is morally wrong (and as a sibling comment pointed out, the invasion itself may be a war crime). Deaths of civilians caused by Russia's invasion are not inherently war crimes in and of themselves. It's not like felony murder, where any death caused in the commission of a felony is instantly treated as a murder. Civilian deaths caused by a war of aggression are not inherently war crimes.
To those of us who are far-right, Christian, and have noticed the lack of distinction that seems to be applied between say, David Duke, and Chris Rufo, this is not the takedown-by-association you seem to think it is.
Figure out why you want an internship first. If it's for money, then you just want a job. If it's to learn... we are now in a situation in the world where you don't need to do an internship to learn. Different companies do things in very different ways, so it's quite likely what you learn from a day to day process won't be especially helpful anyway.

Give yourself a project. Make it something very simple that people can see. A web app to do X. A mobile app to do Y. A chat bot to do Z. Whatever. Going through the entire process to get something live that people can use is a great experience.
I don't like bubbles anyway :). All those countries have consistently acted exactly with the same methods you see now. Trying to avoid direct war but with no issues interfering with each other's conflicts and "buffer countries".

Georgia, Syria, Libya, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan are all places Russia and Turkey banged heads one way or another. Just like Russia is taunting NATO to bang heads in Ukraine. China, US, India, Pakistan, Israel, Russia, Turkey are other powerful countries constantly putting out a fire and starting another one. The single larger difference being that the sphere of influence of most of those countries expands far less than US' so their conflicts are generally closer to their actual geographic border rather than on the other side of the world. Otherwise they're all fighting to maintain that buffer in all possible ways.

And at a completely different scale, people in rich neighborhoods rarely accept inconvenient buildings or neighbors right next to them as long as they can do something about it. It's not an indictment on either the people or the countries named above. Just the state of things.

Perhaps the only place with nukes and no sabre rattling today is Western Europe. Then again they have the US to do the rattling for them and pay for the service. The picture will be a lot clearer when this too becomes history.
There were two billion humans a hundred years ago. Now we're eight billion. That means you now have to share what would have been yours a hundred years ago with three other people. Soon they will be four. Keep growing like this, you'll be sharing those resources with ten, fifteen people.

You can keep cutting the cake in smaller and pieces, for sure, but that means everyone keeps getting a smaller and smaller portion until everyone is hungry. That doesn't even factor in the fact that the cake is effectively shrinking from overfishing, droughts, and so on.

You keep expanding the human population. It'll be fine. It's probably too late to course correct anyway. Might as well do what makes you happy.
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In 2009/2010 YouTube advertised Chrome as a better way to view YouTube videos pretty extensively. YouTube also is a moving target that other browsers have to hit (see also GoogleDocs.)

It's similar to how "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run", only with YouTube and other browsers.
I don't think feudalism is the correct term here, that was a very specific system where hereditary lords provided military aid to a king in exchange for the land which the serfs belonging to the lords worked. That seems closer to what you imagine prepper survival types want with the gun nuts lording over everyone else.

I don't believe most preppers think or act the way you imagine. The gun crazy redneck with a bunker is a trope from movies and reality TV.
If our crops don't have any nutrients, how exactly would our animal products have nutrients in them? I doubt he is eating wild caught animals for a majority of his nutrition - presumably just eating factory raised pigs and cows which are fed the same crops that he believes has no nutrients.

I'll also bet that Ammous ends up with diverticulitis within 10 years if his description of his diet is correct.
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All of this just boggles my mind. It all feels so childish.
If someone invented an algorithm to enable network effects on decentralized networks, they'd secure a place in computing history.
Stop Russian disinformation and propaganda by DDOSing their sites from your browser. Just open the tab and keep it open

https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/
Anyone know of this for Dutch?
Yes, but then China can easily squeeze them on the price (being the single big buyer)
Cost is a really big stopping reason. The problem not being worth solving to Google is another.
> Its HQ is in Belgium, so technically, this can be a unilateral decision by Belgian PM De Croo.

How does the Belgian PM have power over it? The United Nations is headquartered in New York, but that doesn't give anyone in the US unilateral power over it.
We don't consume it we use it.

This makes a huge difference to oil.

You burn oil away.

You can recycle lithium (which is currently not happening) and reuse it.

You can also use the accumulator in a less efficient way until you even need to recycle. Like stationary scenarios if it's already useless for EVs.
nice of them to leave breadcrumbs everywhere.
FWIW you can easily write Rust in a C-like style, using primarily free-standing functions and structs. You can opt-in to “advanced” features (traits, enums, generics) as you see fit.

Interfacing with other libraries, is ofc, a different matter, but you can usually wrap the library API in your own functions to minimize this mismatch.
Countries in the proximity of other countries are more likely to have larger trade volumes between them, increasing the chances they hold each others currencies in reserves and have incentives to use a common payment network. This is why geographic proximity is relevant even in a fully digital world. At least while a significant portion of trade consists of physical goods that have to be moved across borders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU

"The answer to the speech is... more speech"

And I agree that this is exactly the problem - winners are who have more energy and opportunity to speak. "Drowning the voices" as you pointed out.

But, how to determine which voice is normal?

Per your suspicion that fake news and misinformation make money, fact checking is alleged to make money to Facebook and fact-checking Facebook affiliates. The links on fact checking materials divert viewers from one arrticles to other and increase clicks and retention at Facebook.

Yes, you are right again - misinformation may bring money to FB, at the very least, when FB tries to fight it. I guess it is a nature of capitalism, to try to make money out of everything.
Did your entire Google account get deactivated? My Google account is linked to Gmail, GCP/Firebase, Youtube, Drive, and a ton of SSO apps. Used it for the past decade, but I know now not to put all my eggs in one basket so I have backups of my most important data. Still, what happened to you is a big fear of mine.
This comment actually suggests a useful question to ask when you find yourself in a situation where a group has decided on something but nobody is acting. Is the task to do:

a) Impossible, like for a mouse to put a bell around a cats neck, or

b) Possible but just not something people want to do.

In scenario (a) you need to move on from the idea, or fundamentally change it. In scenario (b) you can deploy organizational tools to get someone to do it (provide an incentive, force someone, draw straws, share the work etc).
`Let us scan your retina before you upload this meme`
There are a lot of decent books out there and obviously a million good online resources, but I think if you're looking for a starting point, I'd suggest you look for classes at a local community college or atelier. Avoid anything that looks too "artsy". Self expression is great but find somebody who will teach you how to draw. An atelier would be an ideal option as they tend to have very good technical instruction and you can avoid forming bad habits early on.

It's very doable to do it yourself, but having somebody there to show you when you're screwing up is immensely valuable. Once you've got the basics and know how to learn then you can take more time to study on your own.
Some people are just dicks.
It was just a month ago we lived in a world where IBM was scathed for working with Nazi Germany. Now something tells me people will come up with excuses too…
You also can't ignore that this will not help stop misinformation in any way.
Everything you've said is true except that this would be a joint effort between US, Europe, and likely others.

This same situation happened with Iran and it torpedoed their economy.
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> ?

In 1971, the US actively supported the genocide committed in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by the Pakistani Army. When the Indian Army intervened, Nixon sent the 7th Fleet that included the USS Enterprise into the Bay of Bengal to intimidate India. In response, the USSR sent their own flotilla.[1][2][3][4]

[1] 1971 War: How Russia sank Nixon’s gunboat diplomacy (https://www.rbth.com/articles/2011/12/20/1971_war_how_russia...)

[2] 1971 War: How the US tried to corner India (https://www.rediff.com/news/2006/dec/26claude.htm)

[3] US forces had orders to target Indian Army in 1971 (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/US-forces-had-orde...)

[4] Bangladesh Liberation War - US and USSR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War#US_a...)
I think the only way to have a “niche” these days is to triangulate between two uncommon languages, but it will be one hell of a small niche. Like maybe knowing Icelandic and Farsi or something.

And as you said, Iceland is not the best example, since for all intents and purposes it’s an English speaking country.
Not an expert, but I think the real motivation is intolerance of anything looking like a democracy adjacent to Russia.

If Ukraine can develop a functioning economy in communication with the West, and a functioning government more or less accountable to the electorate, that is a huge embarrassment for Putin's regime. The Russian economy is basically oil and gas extraction, the Russian polity is basically "support Putin or go to jail". If Ukraine were to begin to prosper in other activities, and well they might given decent governance, the Russian model would be exposed as an authoritarian sham.

Additionally, Putin gains politically by Great Power rhetoric. We are simply protecting our interests, everyone is against us, we must be strong and united! It's nonsense, no one in the West gives a damn what happens within Russian borders so long as they don't bother anyone else, but it unites the country behind Putin.

The Putin regime is a nasty mix of oligarchy, corruption, propaganda, media control and intelligence and police services. It's sadly enabled by modern information technology, which can be used for ill as well as good. The Chinese Communist Party is a similar contraption. The question is, how long can regimes like this perpetuate themselves? It would be great if these ugly contrivance were contained within their own borders, but current events show us they are everyone's problem.

It isn't for us to tell the Russians, or the Chinese, how to govern themselves. But we shouldn't be enabling these regimes by our trade or technology. The hope that trade and communication would make them more democratic and accountable and law-abiding has been tried, and failed. If anything, those connections are making us less democratic, as we see Chinese censorship filtering into American entertainment and marketing. It's time to decouple from these countries. Economically that's very painful, but over the long term it is much less painful than feeding these cancers.
I recommend looking to see if there's a nearby art school and whether it will let you audit Drawing 101/102 classes or enroll in a non-credit program. I did this about 15 years ago and it was amazing to have in-person instruction and to be in a class with people who also were learning. My skills progressed much farther than I suspected they would over the course of 18 months of taking classes.
Convincing Americans to stop buy their wares is a huge task. Any political group that halts those wares from coming in would face huge upheaval. People are much more interested in their day to day comfort than something halfway across the globe (from a US perspective).
Thanks for this! THis kind of domain security is usually poorly articulated or just not out in the open. I still think the basis of most risk for small companies is their domains. Lose control of those and well.. you're fucked. Any recs for "high security" domain providers?
Go is mix of Limbo and Oberon-2.

I also remember reading somewhere that Wirth found Cedar too powerful, or complex, so Oberon was designed with the goal to be as capable as Cedar environment, while using a simpler language.

So not sure which kind of relation I would put them, besides being an inspiration.
All of that fits with what I understand from those same two messages, except that I don't think he intended to blame/shame anyone with this recent one, so that's the aspect that I'm unsure about.
Considering they are a data company with heavy AI departments - not be able to differentiate basic russian bots from users is very embarrassing.
That's the least problem I'd say. Spanish is pretty conserved, especially the written language.

Listening comprehension is always the last of the skills to kick in, because it is all-or-nothing. You only understand every word in the sentence or your brain gets overloaded. While reading foreign texts you can easily skip a word you can't understand and still figure out what the rest means. Or at least, more often so, because you don't have to keep everything in short term memory.
Isn't this yet another nuke-war threat?

Because he was the one who brought it to the table, clearly stating that Russia has no chance against NATO, but they have nukes and no one will win...

But if he keeps this campaign, he is indeed winning by using nukes, without using them. So we will have to sit and watch him? Until Russia is broke or extremely crippled from economic sanctions and then what?
I have a old article with lots of screenshots,

http://progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon&section=compile...
It isn't just the input controls. I cannot imagine playing on a such a small screen. I play facotrio on a single 4k and regularly want more real estate. If there ever was a game with a legit need for 8/12k it is factorio.
I'd point out that being irrational in order to scare the west into thinking you're irrational is still an example of being irrational.

We can only call their bluff so many times before they feel the need to demonstrate that they are indeed willing to be crazy. Which they've done here with this whole Ukraine situation.
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>Google almost single-handedly solved the problem of email spam a decade ago

Google still has to routinely invent new techniques to stop spam. This problem is not solved - it's an ongoing arms race.

It is also a vastly easier problem - spam filters at google scale work because they see the same spam across zillions of accounts. This is not the case for youtube, where a spammer provides them with far fewer samples, and those are across a much wider space.

These problems are barely related.
Guess I encountered the wrong German ladies, then.
I absolutely agree (I live in the UK), but in the end it's a question of money I believe. Somebody has to bear the cost of more expensive fuel/gas. I am sure if UK wanted it could have subsidised those costs till the next winter. I don't know how expensive that would be, but I doubt it's astronomical. On a balance of costs between squeezing Russia more or saving that money they (and Europe it seems) decided to save the money and go for measures like prohibiting Aeroflot flights or throwing Russia out of Eurovision.
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A fact-based explanation (if not a defense) of Russia's perspective can be found here: https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/01/moscows-compellence-str...

And, I post this not in defense of Russia's indefensible invasion, but in defense of being open to and learning from your adversaries point of view. Most people revere diplomacy, but few realize understanding the other side's POV is critical to diplomatic success.

Bottom line... yes disinformation, shills & bots. We ignore the meta-message at our peril though.