skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there needs to be a good "distribution" of all modern open software in a way that it could be developed offline. We can download Wikipedia and Project Guttenberg and have access to a huge amount of human knowledge, but there is no good similar archive for software. If I currently had a copy of popular repos on GitHub for example and needed to change and build some random important piece of software for helping rebuild society without the rest of internet, that would be hard for a lot of projects. You would probably need a copy of all of Linux package repos, npm, pypy, dockerhub etc to be able to edit any piece of software you might need to edit but then you would also have make changes in different places for things to work offline etc. I think things like content addressability, reproducible builds, nix, and ipfs are getting us closer. Hopefully soon we will be able to make a usable "dump" of all modern open source software and have it be able to just work for development.
What's your point? Hadn't the US been DDOSed, Iraq wouldn't have been invaded? Your comment makes no sense.
> It stands directly against the let's-roll-up-our-sleeves, we-can-do-it optimism for which US entrepreneurs have long been known around the world.

This is an interesting choice of contrast between the KGB and US entrepreneurs.

How about when compared to US intelligence agencies?

Do you think they are more similar or different in their methodologies?
Well, to divide a country you need two sides...
The differences between Libya and other nations were not unknown before France and USA started destroying its government.
This is awesome, though I wish they would have used a chip with Bluetooth or WiFi.
One resource you may not be aware of is https://languagetransfer.org. It is easily the best language acquisition system I've ever used (I did the Spanish course). I've previously learned French, German, Sesotho and Japanese using a variety of techniques, and I wish Language Transfer had been around then!

The courses are entirely audio (using a convenient app or downloadable MP3 files) and it all runs on donations.
Reuters is also reporting this, in an "as reported by the telegraph" sort of way. Reuters also claims NVIDIA has confirmed this in a statement, but it's not a statement that's obviously available on nvidia.com.
Yes, the design is routinely changed to make the currencies more safe against falsification. And the old currency is often taken out of circulation simply by wear and tear. But it is the sign of a stable economy that legal tender does not have an expiration date.

"Note that it is U.S. government policy that all designs of Federal Reserve notes remain legal tender, or legally valid for payments, regardless of when they were issued. This policy includes all denominations of Federal Reserve notes, from 1914 to present as per 31 U.S.C. § 5103."
https://www.uscurrency.gov/acceptance-and-use-older-design-f...

Despite not being legal tender anymore, the Deutsche Bundesbank changes your DM notes, if they are after issued after 1948 (https://www.bundesbank.de/en/tasks/cash-management/dm-bankno...). The currency has been introduced in 1948.

If you feel inclined to do so, you can spend a 1 Yen note from 1885 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Japanese_yen

So, inflation and wear and tear takes old notes out of circulation rather than expiry.
Play capture the flag games to get hang of vulns but
I hope that military has firewalls written in Ada/Rust and formally verified or fuzzed hard.
In comercial setting defence works by updating DB of viruses and network monitoring (basically watches all open ports and inspects tcp/ip packets).

Still def is hard as weakest chain loses and this means phishing, sms, email.

If I were Russian I would have agents working in FB/Twitter and bomb/stalk people based on that.

IMO best software engineers can do to maintain power balance are temper proof communication tools that are easy to use. Best if work also without internet - so called mesh-networking.
At this point why does Ukraine give two poots about the rest of Europe?
> The GUI system, especially with the "Gadgets" subsystem, is mind-blowing. It would take too long to go over it at the moment, but there are features there that still haven't made it into mainstream GUI systems.

Have you seen Delphi?
help yourself to some legal accreditation in your actual jurisdiction, to start.
The practice lessons give you back hearts, 1 per practice plus another 1 if you watch a short ad afterwards. Starting a new lesson will sometimes also give you an opportunity to watch another ad for a new heart, so after doing 2-5 practice lessons you can go back to progressing the new material you were working on before.

I actually prefer the free version, because it naturally creates spaced repetition by forcing me to review old lessons in-between new content.
I think if things will come to 200% tariff, it would mean something serious happened already, and voters will be enraged/educated to some extent already.

But yes, it is multi-factor optimization (voters, economy, geopolitics), though it looks like there is some consensus over certain topics between politicians, e.g. Biden didn't remove Trump tariffs, and didn't stop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Bezmenov is ideologically a conservative and pushed conservative ideology once he was in America, so it warrants taking this with a grain of salt. That said, today it feels like Russian misinfo targets anti-establishment groups on both sides, both far-right and far-left types.
> "Middle click" is primary school level computer knowledge,

While I spend well over 40 hours a week at a keyboard looking at a screen driven by Windows with data mostly from the Internet, I have not heard of or used the mouse middle click in years.

The terminology "middle click" just isn't very useful and hasn't been very common for maybe 20 years.
What is the process by which drinking water is extracted from seawater, and does that give you any savings at all with regards to a goal of extracting minerals?
Interestingly, trump hated NATO and wanted to leave it. I firmly believe that his griping about issues like this, while accurate, was really a move to weaken the alliance and make the relationship between the US and European nations worse.

He even planned on withdrawing from NATO in his second term, had he won the election:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
In Grammerly’s Privacy Policy[0], it states as part of information they collect:

“User Content. This consists of all text, documents, or other content or information uploaded, entered, or otherwise transmitted by you in connection with your use of the Services and/or Software.”

and yet they don’t define this as a keylogger. I do understand keyloggers record everything a user types and Grammerly claims to not read “sensitive fields”.

[0] https://www.grammarly.com/privacy-policy
When More Parallelism = More Performance
Txtai 4.2 released – Build once, run anywhere serverless NLP applications
Have to say I'm disappointed with the chosen excerpts in the "More examples" section - they do not show very much of the generated instrument's ability (the last one is just a single note!)
Is it demoralizing to say that the US was never great? It wasn't, but it was always getting better, and it still is.

To me it seems more demoralizing to look back and think things have gotten worse
> post-modernism, a direct offshoot of Marxism

The communists manifesto says

"Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat."

This grand narrative and ideology spoken with objective certainty with regards to binary oppositions, is the complete opposite of postmodernism.

Milton Friedman's works in a similar vein although on the other side are the opposite of postmodernism as well.
We looked into Rust at our company (top 100) and it's clear it's not ready for production systems. It just puts developers into a huge tar pit fighting with the compiler for anything more than a simple hello world app. If it actually lived up to it's hype it would have been used to rewrite browsers, servers, OSes etc. But C/C++ are still the kings of system programming.
At-Home Abortion Demand Has Skyrocketed Since the Texas Ban
When people say "revoking somebody's SWIFT access", I think they really mean putting them on national or international sanction/embargo lists that prohibit them from doing any kind of business with them (in particular, sending payments in their name or for their benefit), rather than actually, technically removing their SWIFT network access.

Since SWIFT is not the only, but certainly the largest financial/interbank messaging network, I suppose the effects are similar, but "disabling SWIFT" to me always sounds like an implementation detail.
Makes sense, apologies for the misinterpretation.
Using transport of information as exemplary strikes me as such extreme cherry-picking as to be disingenuous. It's relatively trivial to move data wirelessly.

Physical infrastructure like housing, roads, bridges, are where the real challenges lie. Cement production alone is a huge co2 problem.

Even if all the vehicles of the future are EVs, there's a huge amount of resources put into manufacturing, delivering, sheltering, and operating those per-capita. Despite its vast HSR network, China has still exceeded US car sales every year since 2009 [0].

[0] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-car-sa...
Although Sweden and Finland like to remain neutral, they have to take a side in this in order to avoid more wars, and this is the best time for them to join NATO. They can simply say they’re scared of Russian aggression and are scared their country is going to be invaded by Putin.
You can also do this with Pulp, and have it act as a caching proxy that lazily caches the packages only when they first get downloaded.

It's a lot more heavyweight though, so maybe it's not the best choice for a Raspberry Pi.
One huge problem is it isn't applied fairly. Money and race shouldn't factor into sentencing, but they absolutely do.

"Economic sense" is a non-argument. Think how much money society would save if we tore down all the prisons and simply shot everyone found guilty of a crime.

Another argument in support of the death penalty is that is "brings closure" to the victims or the family of the victims. That is appalling to me. I completely understand why the victim('s family) would want to see the criminal die, but why stop there? What if the father of a rape/murder victim asked the court to allow him to strap down the criminal and let the father torture him for an afternoon. It would bring a lot of closure to the father, perhaps, but it doesn't mean society should allow it.
> Why do you think that we all should feel pain of sanctions?

We want Russia to stop their criminal war on Ukraine. Either by government action, open revolt or a population starving in the streets. The only other option is nuclear holocaust.
A small tool to find out which type of USB C cable you have
SWIFT is kind of like Facebook. It has the benefit of “everyone” already using it. So even if you make your own Facebook it won’t have the same functionality as Facebook and it’s very unlikely everyone from Facebook will be motivated enough to make an account on your platform, too.
Nickel is quite rare in the sense that the volume available for us on earth isn't as robust as something like iron or lithium, which are extremely abundant.

Also Nickel is highly concentrated in set regions which also causes problems.

Nickel & Cobalt are the most expensive metals in NCA/NMC batteries which are very common today.
Those look nice, and they are larger, but they're also 10X the price?
Nitpick, in your 'Rate Limiting' section:

Avoid blasting too much events to a single endpoint at once with flexible rate limiting controls

I would write this as:

Avoid blasting too many events
That's really cool!

It would be interesting to see it be more commercially-viable. It probably wouldn't really work with NFC (but I'd love to be wrong).

It would also be great for spy movies.
Thanks, that's interesting and I replied with a try at an infographic ;-)
When people say SWIFT, they usually mean "international payments via correspondent banking". SWIFT is just a messaging layer to enable that.

Look into correspondent banking if you're curious how all of that works – SWIFT is just one (very popular) way correspondent banks can communicate with each other and/or look up paths to facilitate international payments for their account holders.
I don't think is true when it comes to foreign policy objectives, especially those centered around energy infrastructure (oil reserves, pipelines, etc).

Consider policies around strategic alliances (Saudi Arabia, Israel) and regime change (Iraq, Syria, Iran, among others) from at least the 90s through the present day.
For ICE we are chasing the final 0.1% improvements. There are a few of them left, but each round eliminates more from the future things to find. Even if they all work out, total we are looking at most a couple percent improvement.

The same applies (maybe worse) to electric motors, but the efficiency of electric motors is substantially better.

there is a fair amount of work yet to be done with Batteries, but even there we know theoretical limits and are closing in on them. (Ask a chemist what they are). if you want to make a contribution to cars battery technology is currently where there is the most room for a big improvement.

Note, I have no idea what the costs for any of the above is. It maybe that ICE investments are still more cost effective. I doubt it, but I don't know. Not matter what improvements will be expensive.
I guess keep at least 6 months of savings and reduce expenses would be the best thing to do during downturn. At least that’s what I’ve been doing.
Google and most other software kings chooses C++ for backend. If you think you know better than them feel free to use the hype lang of the day. Rust will be gone in a few years.
My wife told me that when she was studying Russian in college, some of the professors in the advanced courses would refer to certain phrasings as the "spy's variant."
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That would eat through the batteries. Which means you likely need a different battery, which means more bulk, which ultimately changes the entire value proposition, and now you may have well buy a cheap android phone.

This thing, while worn requires zero power. You only require power to rotate the image.
I never doubted you were. That's why I'm saying you're not serious if you say you don't know these things that you obviously do. I'm 100% sure you'd ace the first ten lines of Twitter's html question.

I want to hire you, not someone who's never really thought about what's going on. These questions are just a trick to force someone to step out of the box and go deep into some fundamental web concepts. It's not about memorizing some HTML tags, it's about knowing why they exist.

edit: This is just in the hypothetical scenario I'd be hiring a senior frontend web developer. You generally only need maybe 30% of those, the rest I can get trained on developing features within 3 months after finishing a 10 week bootcamp. I wouldn't bother asking them how UTF-8 works, I just explained what the word "encoding" means to a junior who'se been outpacing me for the past 3 months. The person who reviews their merge request should definitely know what UTF-8 is.
A problem is that the US often intervened when things were in free fall like in Libya, Yugoslawia or were already horrible like in Afghanistan, Somalia. But by their intervention they are now responsible for everything that happened afterwards. Its like comparing the patient mortality rate of dermatologists with those of emergency doctors. Can you really compare Zelensky to Saddam Hussein, Assad or the Taliban?

For example counterfactually i am pretty sure that Ruanda would have fared better with an intervention.
This would seem to put to rest any questions over the closeness of the relationship between some ransomware groups & the Russian government.

It certainly makes the timing suspect this past Spring when Russia started massing troops near Ukraine in April [0] and there was the Colonial ransomware not long afterward. It is hard not to think of those two events as links in the same chain of actions we're seeing now.

[0] https://www.csis.org/analysis/russian-and-ukrainian-spring-2...
Do you have in your road map, to add Trump's voice?, I will use your app everyday, lol
Public opinion refers to the opinion of the general population. Whether or not Putin cares about it or not doesn’t stop it from existing.
Thanks for the Wasmer mention!

YC investment in OSS companies have grown considerably in the last years. They are doing a terrific work identifying companies with potential on the space.
I'm incredibly hopeful seeing where things are heading :)
Map shows mounting tensions between NATO and Russia (2016)
I haven't tried them, but I have seen 3-color e-ink in about the same size as the Badger, like this one[1].

1: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3933
Later says it matches a video from 2015 and 2018. Later links to a recent (hours old) source on instagram. That instagram video might simply be a re-upload. That has the quality of digital rumors in an already chaotic news day.
I keep hearing this on places like Reddit. I see memes parroting this. But with all the right-wing folks I know, I've yet to hear ONE say they actually think this invasion is a good idea, or that Putin is a good guy. I even visited Townhall.com for the first time in like a decade just to see what "the right wing" had to say. And... it's not there. No one other than Donald Trump has actually taken Putin's side. I just now went to check Newmax as I was certain THEY would be lending this support. But no... it simply isn't there.
Why wouldn't it work with NFC? NFC doesn't require onboard power, the reader powers it.
I see Yuri everywhere, but never Sejna or Golitsyn who reveal the same plan.

https://jrnyquist.blog/2020/03/26/the-sino-soviet-long-range...
Evidence that Microsoft use Actix? Im sure if they did you would have posted a link.
You don't know this stuff because you have "memorized" it, like with flash cards or something as some kind of memorization exersize. You know it because you know web technologies.

It's weird to use "memorization" as basically a synonym for "remembered". Being a good developer is not just copy-and-pasting things from google, it involves actually understanding some technologies. Understanding technologies is not "memorization".
I left a very big company because of this policy. This is deeply unethical.
I think PyPI is mostly served via Fastly.

https://dustingram.com/articles/2021/04/14/powering-the-pyth...
I don't think it's a great question, partially because there are a lot of meta tags there and it feels a bit redundant and slow, and partially because the phrase "first ten lines of Twitter's source code" makes me since - but, I don't see the problem with it. It's a basic question asking you to talk through some stuff. Test of knowledge and communication. There is a right and wrong way to evaluate to evaluate this kind of thing - e.g. "Didn't know about the direction property in the HTML node? Terrible, get out." Would be a pretty lousy interview, but there's no reason to assume the interviewer is going to do that and anyone could beat jerk with any set of interview questions.

I would think that if you would walk out of an interview if the interviewer asked you basic questions then those questions have done their job.
A use case could be a badge for guests, changing pronouns as needed.
PyPI needs more funding. PyPI even disabled their search API for the pip CLI because of infrastructure overload. It would be nice if more sponsors stepped up to fund their infrastructure.
Briar?
#PullisGegenPutin (sweaters against Putin) - turn the thermostat down to 18 C (64 F) and throw on a sweater.

Then call and email your feckless MdB.
He was not a KGB defector. He was a KGB informant who worked for RIA Novosti.

In the west, he earned his money with anti-communist lecturing and his stories became more sophisticated over time.
"Actix was found by third parties abusing unsafe and when they were auditing most libraries found for Rust on the internet. When the unsafe code was audited it was found that on misuse, it can lead to serious vulnerabilities. So they opened a bunch of issues and added a lot of patches and PR’s in GitHub."

Good luck though
The GRU is an intelligence service that's existed in parallel with other ones and is not a 'successor to the KGB'. Perhaps you're thinking of the FSB.
Also if you're not native speaker how do you know if the computer's suggestion is an improvement or a regression?
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Agree.

Many people critize bitcoin for its current volatility and entirely neglect that it can totally change in the long-term.

It appears reasonable to me to expect the system dynamic along a pathway towards (possibly) wide adoption to go through various changes. Yes there are probably phases of hype and there's the influence of block reward halvings but there can also be effects in the long-term that stabilize: the more widespread and integrated in various parts of finance and the economy and actual day to day transactions or people's savings bitcoin were to become the more it would dampen volatility.

Why that? Because unlike purely speculative financial transactions, day to day transactions are very much restricted and influenced by and thus coupled to rather constant human needs, so a lot less volatile than the former.

Now don't get me wrong. I know bitcoin can't directly be used to replace cash because of settlement time and transaction fees. But that's why protocols on top like Lightning exist.
Presumably the PM could coerce the SWIFT staff to do some action (see the fears European countries have about the relationship between the US government and its tech companies).
I think this is fine as a fun litmus test, I don't think it's fine as a key criterion. If a person didn't know a single one of these, they should still be in the running (if marked down a little bit). Most senior front-end devs I would expect to have a decent grasp on maybe 1/3 of these.

I think it's fine to have some ridiculous questions that you don't expect anyone to get perfectly, just to gauge, though it's important to communicate that to the candidate so their nerves aren't rattled when they feel out of their depth
If it's unlawful to discharge brine to the ocean (that is, concentrated seawater), it'd still probably be more economical to just dilute it before discharge (they probably already do this).
> How does one connect to the SWIFT network?

You generally need to be a bank or regulated financial institution.

SWIFT is just a messaging layer for correspondent banking. If you're not a bank, SWIFT access is about as useful as suddenly learning your country's president's cell phone number: Definitely cool, but the two of you would probably not have much to talk about.
3 color ones are much harder to get clean greyscale out of. but yellowscale and brownscale is easy :D
It wasn’t I’ll-thought out. It was an intention decision by the chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Immediately after leaving the chancellorship, he went to work for Gazprom and oversees Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schröder