skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turn off the news and step outside to interact with real people. The situation is much nicer when you’re not letting a 24/7 stream of news and hot takes teleport your attention to whatever the worst event in the entire world happens to be at the current moment.

> If you had bought gold 7 years ago, you would have doubled its value.

And you would have made the wrong investment choice, because the stock market outperformed gold.

Gold has a reputation as a great inflation hedge but it hasn’t really lived up to that reputation at all in recent history.
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Which is great, because regular folk there will still be able to send and receive funds to their close ones in the EU, the US or even Ukraine, without fear of the corrupt authoritarian state intervening or taking their cut. Right?
Lol, what? Remember when US Navy shot down a commercial airliner, killing some two hundred people? None of the responsible was punished for that; they got decorated instead.
So it's a laptop without a monitor.
The US has no treaty obligations to Taiwan. The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty expired in 1980.

We do have the Taiwan Relations Act but it's not a treaty. It only requires sales of necessary military equipment. It doesn't require the US to defend Taiwan against China. The US probably would mount some kind of defense against an invasion but ultimately it's up to the President.
From the article:

> * Ukraine is not a NATO ally, and the alliance is not treaty-bound to protect it.*

I suspect risking a military engagement between NATO and Russia would be to risk a world war.
> destroy all of Europe if we need to, just so we can say fuck you Putin

"just so we can say fuck you Putin"? Really? That is how you are attempting to frame the situation of a clear victim defending itself against an aggressor that has been appeased for years now?

So you believe that the attacking entity should always win, no questions asked? Is conflict to be avoided at all costs?
Can I come into your home and just claim your house if I threaten to escalate with violence? You wouldn't want any conflict, so the right move would be to just give it to me.
They are idiotic. Everything they do is just opportunistic, they've never provided anything of value. (Anonymous, not RT).
I love the irony of a document about a "perfect" script with a grammatical error in the very first word of the title.
I think my favorite feature is its good toolkit for speeding things up. I listen to most podcasts at about 1.4x, and there's a button for removing silences. I have no idea how they do it, but it doesn't sound unnatural. It just peps up the pace and makes people sound more lively. I've used other apps and their speedup algorithms aren't as good.

All told with its various speedup features, I download about 30 hours of podcasts a week, but I probably spend half of that actually listening. (At least some of that is ditching episodes I find dull, but not many.)

Other than that I really am just used to my "workflow". New stuff gets downloaded and added to a queue. I imagine most podcast apps have something like that, but this one has a nice feature set for managing it all.

Thanks for asking. Good luck on your project!
The thing is, you don't have to be a Doomsday Prepper to just be prepared. It's about mitigating the risk of the disasters you are likely to face in your locality.

I lived through the 2011 Super Outbreak [0]. Following the tornadoes, we had no actual damage (and most places didn't, tornadoes are pretty localized disasters, even in big outbreaks), but we had no power for about eight days because the tornadoes tore up all the transmission lines that feed the town.

The biggest lessons I took from that were:

1. Have enough supplies on hand for the duration of the event. I now keep 10 days of food and water for everyone in the family. It's not a lot and it won't win awards - mostly shelf-stable canned goods and bottled water that gets rotated out regularly - but it will keep us fed and watered. Things like toilet paper, a hatchet, matches, a first aid kit, etc. All in my "tornado box."

2. Keep enough cash on hand to last you 10 days with minimal spending. At one point during the outages that followed the Super Outbreak, we went to a pharmacy to pick up some supplies. Obviously with no power it was cash only. They were "ringing" up by writing things down on paper and manually tallying up with a pocket calculator. We were able to get some essentials using the cash my wife and I had in our wallets, but we were fortunate because we usually don't carry cash. I now keep $500 in cash in a safe in the house.

3. Keep at least a half tank of gas in both our vehicles. Basically enough to get us a few hours away from town. These days if I know we're going to have a big storm I top off. That's enough to get us to our family that lives a couple hours away, should we need to bail.

4. Have a crisis communications plan. When the power went out, initially the cell network stayed up in a degraded form on backup generators. But when those ran out, we lost cell coverage. On the third day I drove about 45 minutes down the highway to where I could get a cell signal and let everyone know we were fine. My Mom was so freaked out that she couldn't reach us after the tornadoes happened that she almost drove over to look for us. Now, they know to wait 48 hours before worrying.

Now, it's easy to say "that was a unique event." And you would be right. The 2011 Super Outbreak was a "once in a generation" event. But I have lived through so many rare events in my life so far that it makes sense to be prepared for another one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Super_Outbreak
The generalization of "white people" is, to put it mildly, ignorant. The civil populations in Europe are mostly white and have been for sheltering the refugees of Syria, Afghanistan, Irak, etc., with tolerance and acceptance in mind, for the most of them.

The amalgamation of a certain ruling class of mostly north american twitter assholes, pundits, politicians and other professional "opinion-havers" on one hand and regular (white) people on the other hand is just ridiculous.
No. That was merely a memorandum, not a defense treaty.
Germany sent 5000 hats to Ukraine. It also prevented the export of actual military equipment to Ukraine from the baltics. And it shot down sanctions related to the SWIFT banking system.

With friends like Germany, who needs enemies.
This also reduces the first respond burden.

After that a lot of people would dye sooner than later.
If they move forward with their VR headset, that seems like a useful compliment.
Here are Garry Kasparov's suggestions. None of them imply boots on the ground:

https://twitter.com/kasparov63/status/1496865471995523080?s=...

Kasparov wrote the book "Winter is Coming" back in 2015.
Iirc you could split files with Zip at that time as well, but the major annoyance was that you always needed to insert the last disk of the Zip set at the start.
This made it so that compressing and copying between 2 computers by moving one or two disks between the computers was impossible, requiring a full set of disks.
Finding jobs that help the planet
> I think newer versions of tar already have support for Zstd.

You don't really need to have support for a particular compression fromat in the tar command since the tar format does not support compression at all and instead the output of tar is passed through a compressor such as gzip or xz that has its own encapsulation format. All the support in tar does is add switch to start that (de)compressor for you and, for GNU tar, to detect it based on the file extensions.
Not true, both got re-elected.
Mongodb has a sales team. The stock values the company at a 25 billion dollar market cap. Sales will make it so your company may end up using it whether you think it’s obsolete or not.
I would say most e-commerce sites with lots of concurrent users look more for key-value stores today, like a DynamoDB
And LZX ended up as Microsoft CAB format, since Jonathan Forbes went on to work at Microsoft.
Could I then download a zip of torvalds/linux from github and use it without abiding by the license as it’s never thrown in my face?
> It’s a sad state of affairs when being evenhanded

This is not one of those things where there is a bit of truth on both sides. One country just invaded another.
POS Systems.
What use is cash in the case of a true catastrophe? And I don’t see the benefit of having a gun with or without ammunition. I would never ever be willing to shoot another person (or even an animal), even to protect myself or mine. I’d rather we are raped, tortured, and killed than harm another person.
Ukrainians are definitely not alone.A lot of them are coming here(a EE,NATO/UE country) and other neighboring countries and they're received well: most people in EE naturally dislike russia for obvious reasons.

I understand somewhat US not doing much of anything militarily speaking, and it's nothing new: happened before, it's precisely why Putin does it: he dares the west to do something, because (and this is the bigger, more overlooked picture) he knows he's mainly there to play a role: to distract the west from Taiwan, Kazakhstan[people already forgot about this one, it's critical for China's development of the 'Silk road' train route], etc. If sh1t hits the fan, he also knows China backs Putin.That's why also the Chinese are threatening TW lately: the western leadership(Biden, Germany's Scholz,somewhat even Boris & Macron) is weaker right now.
US Military Dogs were given seats on planes, while Afghans were hanging on the outside of those same planes and then eventually fell to their deaths. [1]

The US provides lots and lots of weapons to Saudi Arabia, who are artificially creating a famine in Yemen [3] and have used the US's provided weapons to deliberately attack MSF Hospitals [2].

There is no mass outrage. No trending tweets. No real pressure at all on the US administration for either of those things. Afghanistan was a thing for a few days, but eventually everyone started blaming the poor civilians instead.

Seems clear to me that you have to be a certain demographic to get sympathy from the Internet in the West.

1. https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/afghanistan-us-mil...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93...

3. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/09/yemen-evidenc...
Anyone that can access, could you summarize their spin on all of this?
What does it mean to run your own servers?
Rt.com Appears to Be Down
You put that beautifully - it really is the case that "normal" preppers seem to be totally relishing becoming the next Mad Max hero, roaming the wilderness with their stash of weaponry...

What's really great about this piece apart from the fact it isn't this ^ is that it is beautifully written...
They must be scared of losing gas access. And they need gas more than Puțin needs money. That's why he allowed himself this gamble at this time. And it seems to be working.
nope, still up I think
Fuck their employees - Seems a little aggressive doesn't it? I personally know employees at Patreon and kind of take offense to this.
> Your FOSS project just died.

Seems unlikely anything changes.
They should still fear it though. How can they guarantee anonymity?
> It depends on which time you measure. 7zip's LZMA2 is, like most LZ algorithms, asymmetric that it is quite fast to decompress no matter how much you spend on the compression.

In fact, better compression with LZ formats often means faster decompression (at least compared to other settings of the same format) as there is less compressed data to pass through the expensive entropy coder (which itself has symmetric cost for encoding and decoding).
It all depends on your point of view - the russian point of view is that nato controlled crimea is much more unwanted, and would and leave them much more cornered compared to nato controlled Odessa and Mykolaiv (and that point shouldn't be too hard to realize by looking at the map). And they wanted to keep their naval base there, which they now can.

Romania, Bulgaria doesn't border Russia , Turkey is not on the land border and they have decent relations with them. But sure, they're likely not happy with that either - they just can't and will not do anything about it. With Crimea/Ukraine - they could.
I liked the book from lcamtuf "Silence on the Wire" , I used to read what this guy writes.
But then as i recall he started to work for google. Probably helped there with browser security and user tracking.

He wrote some good open source tools thou.
I am very much rooting for Ukraine, but at the same time feel there is little anyone short of another peer superpower can do to stop the Russian juggernaut from doing what Putin wants.
There are multiple videos, you can google it
Can you summarize the experience in thirds? For example, what was the first 30 days like versus the last 30?
They didn't even send the helmets, now they are citing logistical issues to be the reason for their lack of support. They are feigning incompetence to hide their unwillingness to actually do something
You can do that anyway, but if you wanted to break the license by distributing modified copies without providing sources, you would fall foul of copyright law.
Christ on a bike, the pedantry in this subthread.
I think the desired audience is the student, professor, and students' peers in University of Utah's MATH 2270 Linear Algebra class. If you walk up the URL, the context presents itself more.

https://www.math.utah.edu/~gustafso/s2017/2270/projects-2017...

And true, these projects have limitations/constraints, and I am happy that the author took LA and learned more about LA and Graph Theory. I didn't know what to expect, but assumed Graphs + LA ==> Let's talk about spectral graph theory -- well, because I hoped for it.
> the BMI (interior ministry)

Remember that these are the guys who coordinated the Corona and Ahrtal responses, and understand that if they say 10 days is enough, it is prudent to plan for 30 days upwards.
> What's the best method for them getting the money back into Russia so they can use it?

Cryptocurrencies (not Bitcoin) are your only option.
And the less known but overall better AIN.

http://www.compression.ru/arctest/self/ain.htm
What confuses me is how does WinRAR continue to exist as a profitable commercial entity? Are there actually enough companies out there paying licensing fees to them for using it? I can't imagine that being the case.
The joke was that it was Flanders' bunker.
The explanation is simply that objects that are much smaller than 1 degree in size, and are still less than 1 degree when magnified, won't look bigger. It's possible some stars exceed this size, but there are few, or you need a very strong telescope.
... I've sort of had a different experience. I've been in roomfuls of "ideas people" and I've been in roomfuls of "execution people" and in roomfuls of "tell me what to do people."

None are effective in isolation. If your CEO / tech lead is an idea people, your COO / project manager an "execution people," and the team "tell me what to do people" things work pretty amazingly.

I think the problem is that people like to hire people like themselves, so a balance is hard to find. Each group is self-perpetuating.

I'll mention: I stated my career in roomfuls of idea people, and was deeply surprised the first time I ran into a "tell me what to do" person. That person worked hard, and was possibly the best software engineer I've worked with, but:

(1) Deeply didn't care about much beyond coding.

(2) Valued having people around him who can structure his work so it has meaningful impact.

Personally, I really benefit from having a watchful project manager to keep me on track. Once I gave up on doing that myself, my productivity skyrocketed. I tend to empower project managers (and admins and similar roles) to boss me around much more than the job description entails.
> divisions among members … resulting in a lack of a coherent and meaningful … strategy

This feel like a succinct description of the entire world’s response to the Ukraine invasion.
https://archive.is/FclNc
Do solitary confinement help in correcting illegal/bad/wrong behaviour among prisoners in your opinion?

Seems to me that it can only breed resentment and detachment.
Some of the interpretations seem a bit anti-democratic. Some rich lord cat is doing something bad, but it's the fault of the parliament who are only mice and can never hold him back.

If the story ended with a swarm of rats killing the cat then it would be a more positive message, and who benefits from messages that say belling the cat is impossible if not the cats?
The Ukraine has disabled some human rights 7 years ago and is actively engaging in violent war with several human right violations for over 8 years now.

I don't see how even this situation is as clear as people make it out to be.
Anonymous declares 'cyber war' against Russia, disables state news website
I don't think the argument should really be framed that the goal is for the US to become fully fab self-sufficient. Rather, this is about a very specific risk scenario. I think the distinction is that Taiwan is in a particularly precarious situation with a rising superpower openly wanting to reclaim it. And that rising superpower has some cultural distinction that make it a liability to US interests. The other single-point failures in the supply chain don't appear to be at that level of risk.
> fuck their employees for not blocking offices and protesting this decision

You removed almost the whole sentence.
> I grew up in farm country and will also, on a very rare occasion, eat cattle raised on a proper farm/ranch - even though I absolutely love cows, who can be extremely affectionate, I believe they can be slaughtered relatively humanely.

I agree that eg Cattle can have a good life living on pastoral land eating grass and so on. Can be slaughtered humanely close to home. That meat born, raised and slaughtered all within 20-30 miles of the consumer can be relatively low impact.

I'd quite like to only eat meat matching that description. I'd also like to minimise my food miles overall. But honestly it's not trivial to even approach the problem when eating out. Even the supermarket makes for a long slow shopping process looking for anything fresh that hasn't been flown in.

I am simply too lazy to be good about this, so outside of weekends when I have time to go to a butcher or a farm shop... well I'm part of the problem
When you open the source the license is there.
Naive question: doesn't this still achieve a useful outcome? i.e., denying RT the ability to spread government propaganda?
wikipedia has an incomplete, yet still sobering, list of USA regime changes in Latin America:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
https://twitter.com/YourAnonOne/status/1496976346995638272

... in progress ... ;)
+1 and ditto...but my bet is that such honesty would not turn out well for Patreon. "Per our Terms & Conditions..." is a legalism which excuses their behavior, keeps the discussion safely in the legalistic realm, applies a dose of "who actually reads those Terms & Conditions, anyway?" mind-numbing, and fairly well signals "decision is final, case is closed".

Vs. honesty would open a Pandora's Box of internet outrage & arguments about morality, the roles of corporations in modern society, whether Patreon should stand fast if the GRU (Russian military intelligence) sends 'em death threats, how close to funding an overseas armed conflict they (and the banks they use) can legally come, and more. All with Patreon stuck in the middle of that sh*t-storm, collecting $0.000 for each & every enraged comment, reaction, DDoS, etc. aimed at them.

When there are little kiddies in the room, it just works better to say "Because Santa Claus...". You get far fewer screams and tears and arguments from the kiddies, and the grown-ups still understand.
I'm unsure why it's idiotic to down a mouthpiece for the Kremlin propaganda when Russia has started a war? Russia spent weeks lying about their intentions to start a war with Ukraine. Who really cares what they have to say publicly at this point until they start withdrawing?

What effect is achieved by going after the internals that isn't achieved by the DDOS to the outside world?
Sorry, that'd be me! Hope it didn't distract from the actual content of the video too much. We'll work on better audio for our future videos.
In context:

>fuck their employees for not blocking offices and protesting this decision

I think the idea is that silence is tantamount to agreement.
> allowing a dog to last too long

I felt this way with the first dog I raised outside of my parents house. Things were slow but fast. One day I found a boil on her neck, rushed her to the hospital only to walk out with no answers a mountain of bills. I spent months seeking more answers with new testing. She was still the same old dog, playing with my other dog constantly. She'd do silly things, demand walks and pets, and stomp/parade around the house with her toys. I begged every night that she make it to her tenth birthday. She did, then shortly after her birthday she'd struggle to eat for days at a time and was acting sleepy. On the third day I brought her to the vet and did the deed.

It still hurts remembering her sleepily lay in my lap one last time and watching the life quietly slip away. That was the life I nurtured and the life that guided me to be more of a man every day. A life that demanded evolution and growth out of me in the most compassionate way possible. The vet felt her stomach and said, "Her liver is covered in tumors. You did the right thing." Then I began to reflect; had I been selfish? When I found the boil, was that when I should've done it? What about after all the testing? What about when she'd protest her food for a day? Two? Inevitably, I decided somehow the magical number was three.

The only thing that gives me solace is that I consulted the vet constantly on when was the right time. She'd never directly answered me; that choice was mine, a choice I absolutely feared. The advice that sticks out was, "When the dog you know stops being the dog you know." I know in my life I'll have to do this again and I don't think it'll ever get any easier. There's no right answers to this intersection of life, only wrong and less wrong ones. Love is a very tricky thing, especially with a friend that can't say much.
This is a much more practical and realistic prepping guide than what a lot of self-labeled preppers tend to practice.

Suggestions such as getting in shape and building good relationships with your neighbors are great suggestions for both good times and disasters. It’s also easy to map these suggestions to recent disasters and see how people who practiced them
would be (or were) better off.

There’s a weird element to the prepper community that leans toward a sort of role-play: Some get into prepping because they imagine it will be something like a heroic disaster movie, where they’re going to need a lot of guns and ammunition and a lot of expensive technology gear. Maybe fun to buy and collect, but most of those things are useless in real-world situations where people really need shelter, food, water, and support of the community.
>Can someone with knowledge of these things clarify the ramifications for their business if they were to allow something like this on their platform?

Worst case (ignoring the legal side of things) their payment processors stop working with them and Patreon needs to find new payment processors that allow for more high risk transactions. To avoid paying the higher processing fees Patreon would want to find a way to use payment processors who are okay with these higher risk transacions to only be used on these higher risk patreons.
I thought it would cause issues when running CI/CD, since you're having to give separate access to the repositories, which might be in different Azure DevOps projects.