skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this is another answer to "What is Bitcoin good for?" It's good when (quoting the article) your country's central bank suspends electronic cash transfers, suspends the foreign exchange market, limits cash withdrawals, and prohibits the issuance of foreign currency from retail bank accounts, because you're being invaded by Russia and your government has imposed martial law. Also apparently fighting-age Ukrainian men are prohibited from leaving Ukraine right now.

Also https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/25/4point1-million-in-cryptocur... says, "$4.1 million in cryptocurrency funneled to Ukrainian military since Russia invaded," by which it means "nongovernmental organizations and volunteer groups," aka militias or paramilitary troops, because the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense does not "use other payment systems ('Webmoney,' 'Bitcoin,' 'PayPal,' etc.)." (Though apparently some of the money is being used to buy materiel to give to the regular army.) So I guess Bitcoin is also good for sending funding to paramilitary militias in countries that are being invaded by much stronger armies.

Interestingly the article omits to mention that the most prominent volunteer groups like the Azov Battalion are neo-Nazis, even according to anti-Russian sources like https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-au....

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30447749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30435383
It’s not a fork. It’s an extension. That’s both in the doc and build instructions.

That is a very appropriate way to run ahead and add experimental features that could be folded in later, even just later maintaining the extension as part of the OOB release.

It speaks to the architecture of Postgres that this is possible to implement this way.

I would love to see this be successful. Much cleaner than stacking software in front of and around Postgres, and not just a wire-compatible DB like Cockroach.
> with french subtitles (!)

This is crucial. Watching movies in a foreign language can be difficult because of how fast the dialog is, but if you use subtitles in your language, you will always be thinking in your language first, then translating to the target language. Put subtitles on in the target language so that you can catch words that you wouldn't catch from the audio only, but you are still immersing yourself completely in that language.
Predestination was a trip, I recommend it for anyone looking for an interesting weird movie.

I had no idea it was based on a Heinlein story.
A GPU toolkit without an OS API could be useful for WASM rendering, and a rendering library without a GUI is useful for headless rendering (matplotlib graphing, video generation/compositing, meme generators, etc.).
The once ubiquitous UltraEdit text editor for Windows used to have a similar message on its website and still does to this day. I remember it being a little odd back in 1997 or so when I first started using it, especially living in relatively secular Australia.

> This is our story ...to God be the glory!

https://www.ultraedit.com/company/idm-full-story.html
Congrats on the launch, huge space with lots of product market fit to go around, value prop is very clear.

Do you have any plans to support PostgreSQL or an S3 compatible target as storage backends?
I don’t, for one. From the title I thought this was about the code that runs the Twitter back end. I would call this “markup” or “HTML”.
BRICS is not an alternative to SWIFT. Russia, India, China -- the RIC -- in BRICS are each working on/have their own SWIFT like system.

There's a BRICS bank though.
They have low carbon footprints because they live in mud huts. I don't think they're going to be great stewards for the future of humanity. Modern civilization, that thing you're enjoying right now, was built by the people you want fewer of for some reason.
All these sanctions are a bit of the joke when you are dealing with an insane leader in a country without elections and sitting on top of a pile of reserves. And the west is not doing one thing that could actually actually make a difference -- cutting oil and gas export because the west thinks it'll be too expensive for the west.

I feel these sanctions are still more of signalling, than actually doing something useful to help Ukraine.
> At the end of the day you will still be serving the elites when it's all over

What's the alternative? Not fight and become occupied and likely oppressed - is that a better choice? Or flee and become a war refugee? The average citizen doesn't have highly sought-after skills in other countries, they are likely to go to a refugee camp for months and years. So, some people choose to fight for their families, friends, and preserving their way of life. I think defending the in-group from an aggressive out-group is a perfectly reasonable, ingrained human response.
Yeah, I do agree. Interestingly, you could argue that it's fairly strongly typed; at least according to some definitions (and btw "type-strength" is not a rigidly defined term, so the definition itself is somewhat debatable).

I don't claim to be an expert in knowing what is/isn't in the various standards; I just look at the build errors and static analysis alarms. That said, I think the argument is that in the vast majority of cases it's not actually possible to change the type of a variable; off the top of my head, I can only think of pointer co-erosion. Otherwise, if you define an unsigned int, it stays an unsigned int.

Now strong/weak typing isn't necessarily the same thing as type safety. C has always seemed astonishingly bad on that front. It's like they try to trick novice developers into thinking they have a robust type system sometimes.

If you define functions implicitly they will link to any symbol, EVEN A VARIABLE... this is bananas. I think I sort of understand why compilers work this way, but it really feels like a bug in the language. Under some compilers you might not even get a warning for implicit function, either! TI had a compiler that hid them by default.

Enums are garbage in C. Again, you can misuse them, and may not even get a warning. You can pass an enum for color to a function that takes an enum for kittens and the compiler will be happy as a clam. The way they're often used can cause constant implicit conversions every time there's an assign/compare. May not be a problem for most positive values, but it's annoying if you're trying to develop standard compliant code. MISRA defines an "essential type system" and normal enums usage violates it.

I'm probably forgetting a TON of deficiencies. Please add them or correct me where I'm wrong.
Zelensky doesn't miss opportunity to make fun of one willing to help
> Per [sic, "pre-"?] invasion Putin was effectively saying "Russia can't trust The West. They're out to get us" ... Biden follows that with "Lookout Vlad...we're gonna put a hurting on Russia."

Between those two (in-effect) statements, first from Putin, second from Biden, was Russia's/Putin's invasion of Ukraine. No irony there, just cause and effect.
I won't believe people will use anything but the big (and censorship ready) social networks until I get the real news in Imgur or 9gag.
Oops, sorry, I haven't actually made a new release with those commands yet. I'll need to have better discipline maintaining a separate `latest` branch for the website...
USA meanwhile 10% of oil imports are from Russia - more than from Saudi. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0...
I think so. ;-)

Just like "The Forever War" is a reply to "Starship Troopers", "Worlds" is a reply to "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". I would put "Worlds" in a category like Pohl's "Gateway" (but not the sequels to Gateway) in that it reads more like literature than genre fiction.

The copy of Worlds that I have has a false copyright date (I think 1954) and I was thinking "... they didn't have lasers in 1954" and "... they sure didn't have O'Neill colonies in 1954". I think the fake date was no accident but part of the homage.

Personally I think you should beam yourself into the past and tell your former self to read Worlds... It's that good.
To be fair, it's not only heating. It's power plants and gas to keep many factories working. Think about ovens of all sorts and all industrial processes that need a lot of electricity. But yes, it's the n-th loss of face of EU. It's not much about EU bureaucrats but about EU head of states, prime ministers, etc. which ultimately decide what bureaucrats do. On the other side of the ocean, if the USA let Putin go too far they risk losing part of their empire [1] which is always bad for business.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire#Present
Processing only during office hours? That's hilarious. Is there someone manually debugging transactions, and that's the reason?
Historically India has been closer with USSR/Russia but I think in the future this will change. Obviously as other posters have noted India has stronger trade ties with America now, and there are lots of Indians in America in influential positions (like CEOs of big companies). I also see a natural coalition with anti-Islamists in America and India.
The problem with Spanish is what country’s Spanish you learn.
Words can mean different things in different countries, and also pronunciation changes.
The cost of wind and solar skyrockets when you factor in the need for energy storage, since neither of those sources operate 24/7.
Gene expression changes are very common with food. What you eat commonly changes gene expression, this is why inherited traits are not very relevant to your health. What diet you inherit is much more important. If you have a family history of a certain illness it's most likely that your diet is what is expressing those genes and not your inherited traits. This also means if you change your diet you can plot whole different disease and health outcomes.

Most people are going to assume this article is bad news because they don't understand this fact, that makes this article pretty suspicious (without having read it) in my mind. Industry propaganda "science" isn't uncommon, a few years ago a big set of papers were published that were basically made up evidence that were completely bogus that was written by a pro-industry lobby, the reason was because of a pro plant based diet health related documentary that came out at the same time. It's a tactic of sewing doubt in peoples minds, if people have doubt they wont change their behavior or oppinion for the better.

I'm gonna read this article later and I hope it's not propaganda..
I guess yes, for some examples, but sometimes the new words meaning are not even "guessable". Maybe you can see it as what you could experience as an american visiting the UK.
> One thing I understand about Western European culture is that they will never tell you no outright as it is rude to do so. Any sort of hesitancy is to be construed as a no and unlike America/East Germany or Scandinavian countries tough to get a straight answer most of the time.

This is a ridiculous overgeneralization. If you compare e.g. the Dutch with the Southern U.S., you'll find the Dutch are much more eager to directly tell it how it is.
They don't expect candidates to be able to write the "right" set of tags, but they use them as a basis for discussing different topics and recognizing things and maybe doing educated guesses in the meaning are quite useful skills.
Sure, but it also means being skilled in writing Node backends and I'm doubtful if knowing what some meta tags mean is a good indicator for that.

This is the equivalent of interviewing for a C developer by letting him explain a Makefile.
The original phrasing was fine.
If you do that, the issue is: The other side will treat the property of every US citizen, company, or state as a fair game for appropriation, and if not possible for destruction.

Would you risk seizing private property of a Russian citizen, if Russia decides to retaliate by destroying property of a US citizen, wherever in the world it may be located?

Let's please not further escalate, it's time for diplomacy. Diplomacy means agreement, agreement means compromise. We may not be fully satisfied, the other side may also not be satisfied, but we'll both claim a diplomatic win for our side and go on with life. If the alternative is war and mutual destruction, it's the only reasonable way to go.
> The mushroom is an ideal food...Low in fats, sugars and calories...

It's funny to see "low calorie" as a positive for an ideal food. From the perspective of getting people enough food to live, things like grains, corn/maize and potatoes are "ideal" foods because they can cheaply get us a significant portion of our needed calories.
Hah, yeah, I was going to say, if this went to court, it would feel like a slam dunk case of trademark infringement or IP of some kind, due to consumer[1] confusion.

[1] term of art in this context, not what I'd prefer they use.
Google: Force Drawing.

It teaches 3 critical drawing things 1) think in terms of lines.

2) every line is in relation to something (sometimes just the frame). An example of (2) would be, in the face, there is lot of relation between horizontal and vertical (relation to the frame) and for example, the eyes are in relation which each other via an expression, so you better draw them together, with one stroke to start with. Thats the point of relations: draw them at once or one after the other.

And 3) notice the diagonals and horizontal/vertical in your drawing.
Stop Putin, Block Russia from Swift
>If something becomes a net negative "at scale", don't allow it to be "at scale".

>No one is entitled to a business model.

When it's just ordinary American conservatives being censored by social media, somehow nobody says things like that. Ban Trump and allow the Taliban? There's nothing wrong with that, they're private individuals, they can ban whatever they want. What do you mean nobody is entitled to a business model? Go away with your freeze peach.
Patreon takes a cut of 5-12%. This is okay for the content distribution platforms, but it is outrageous for the charities.

Donate directly to the Come Back Alive and the army https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp.... The last link lists the account numbers for many currencies.
According to https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/ukranian-bank-suspends-e-cas... foreign exchange in Ukraine is mostly suspended though, and already was when I made my comment above, so the price in markets that are still open won't reflect what you see on the ground in Ukraine; the Tether price cited (32 hryvnia) suggests an additional 9% loss since yesterday, which does qualify as "free fall" if it continues.
You are missing out. This game is worth way more than what it sells for.
Glad it's not about the Swift language
I am kinda starting to think that this guy is an idiot, I mean he went right on show to tell the world he wanted to join NATO while there were still talks to try to solve the thing without war, but now today he went right on twitter to make fun of one of those who are collecting armies and weapons and collaborating with sanctions, I mean he doesn't really appears to be the sharpest knife in the box
I can get behind that
Why? It's already arguably underpriced at $30.
As someone who has difficulty asking this question to themselves:

- Is anything I'm seeing similar to a previous effort that I under-performed in?

- Do my own expectations of success make sense if I weren't me? (would a random stranger agree with my goal criteria)

- How different (currently) is the other person's expectations of success? In my current role does it make sense (for the project/customer) to try to change those?
What if you are let in by police (police actually holding the doors open as is seen on multiple camera's), walk through the building peacefully and unrelated to that a police office has a medical event that sadly costs him his life...

Because that was the experience for 90%+ of people... the less then 10% should be prosecuted, that actually committed property crimes.

Then you have Canada... which was a 100% peaceful protest.
When I want to sketch something in pencil, I draw a fibonacci spiral, choose two to three points on it to be the boundary of the object I want to draw, and then start filling it in. It's surprisingly effective.
No, NATO is absolutely the redline and even the smallest nato baltic countries usually have allied troops stationed there. To think NATO wouldn't defend a member state is completely unrealistic and that's one of the reasons this entire conflict started. If ukraine joins NATO it becomes untouchable, even for putin, hence why they were willing to support the donbass rebels and escalate to a war now. If putin was just going for the easiest target and didn't mind NATO, ukraine is hardly the weakest target in the area.

Once you attack a NATO member you are almost automatically at war with all the members of the alliance and you'll probably have to face already present nato troops as soon as the war starts.
This looks great! It took me so long to figure out how to start writing bare metal code for my raspberry pi so I could make a toy OS. This information is pretty hard to come by for some reason. I'm going to follow along so I can learn some Rust.
I would highly recommend drawabox.com. I used this system to get from no drawing experience to sufficient. I especially appreciate the focus on learning how to learn how to draw and not just the mechanics of drawing.
> "Decades long propaganda campaign"
Russian citizens like me will be hit hardest, as usual. Large institutions and wealthy individuals will find another ways to transfer money. Costs of goods and services will rise.
Seems like a bad idea.

First, BitTorret is unreliable and slow, whereas a single transport server is very fast and reliable, and mirroring makes it both globally redundant and verifiable.

Second, protocols that build in all features (discovery, transport, verification) are less flexible and more centralized than decoupling into different protocols.

Third, when random participants can contribute anything, you get a bunch of malware (look at every app store). Linux distributions' app repositories don't have any malware.

Fourth, you don't need a distro maintainer to do anything at all if you want someone to download your app from your own repo. You just serve your public key and put your files online somewhere. Anyone can download the key, add the repo, and install the packages. You can even put them on GitHub, GitLab, etc.
For me it's enough to look at the process of making vegetable oils (acid wash, oxidation caused by high temperatures, bleaching, deodorization, degumming, etc.) to conclude ultraprocessed oils are not healthy for you.

https://youtu.be/rQmqVVmMB3k?t=988

From personal experience, my health significantly improved after replacing vegetable oils with butter, coconut and olive oil.
How were the other prisoners? Did you feel physically threatened by them?
A practical guide to securing Google Workspace for a startup
I can specify custom compiler flags and enable or disable options like i.e. "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128" optimizations for OpenSSL for 64bit architectures, this isn't enabled in the default package. Also the original Unbound package makes only use of OpenSSL 1.1.1. Unbound is further compiled with the mentioned hardening features and unnecessary modules like python were left out just to name a few. I'm also providing the package faster and can adapt user's requests for example DNSTap. Conclusion: I can act with most possible flexibility.
It is pretty crazy. I would assume that they really needed the energy it was producing, although I admit that I don't have much further knowledge on the topic.
To put it into perspective, children learn their native language through ~10 years of complete immersion, so of course they speak it incredibly well. Very few adult learners will ever have the opportunity to be immersed in a foreign language that thoroughly over such a long time, but if they did we would expect them to speak that language excellently as well (albeit perhaps with a slight accent).
To be clear I 100% agree with you, but in terms of being maximum pedant, they aren't wrong necessarily.

I think we may finally be seeing computational cost consciousness warped imto another horseman of the infocalypse.
I used the same method, in addition to going through all of the Rosetta Stone French lessons and the Defense Language Institute material (thanks to the Army.) I also went to a weekly French language Meetup where only French was spoken and any Alliance Française events in the area. It took me eight months, so you were faster than me.
J&J, distributors finalize $26B landmark opioid settlement
I like the idea that we're all the same entity, experiencing itself backwards and forwards through time, eternally forgetting and re-remembering who we really are.

That's a fun one.

Maybe next time I'll be the individual reading this comment.
My guess is that tech savvy audience will use Adblock mostly, hence Adsense revenue might be low for tech audience
Author here. Let's talk web scrapers.
> All these sanctions are a bit of the joke when you are dealing with an insane leader in a country without elections

Russia has elections, but even having an unelected autocrat doesn't mean that governments are immune to popular opinion.

Ask Louis XVI of France or, perhaps more relevantly here, Tsar Nicholas II of all the Russias.
I cancelled my account today.
quite a few commenters have pointed out SWIFT as a hand of soft power and i think its important to understand the twitter post doesnt mention an important fact:

SWIFT was created in order that Europe may resist Kissingers increasingly capricious hand of soft power as it emerged as a lead sap in an increasingly arbitrary US foreign policy. 40 years ago the US had become effectively drunk on soft-power moves against states it perceived as even remotely objective to US interests. Is your president elect too socialist? you get an aircraft carrier floating in your strait for a year. did you nationalize your oil fields? sanctions mean you cant sell it to anyone. Cuba to this day still enjoys endless sanctions for resisting regime change.

in 2022 sanctions are to international diplomacy as a tantrum is to a toddler. theyre effectively meaningless as most capable, observant countries have managed to sidestep in part or in whole the once dominant US hegemony of finance and trade. even the threat of a blue-water naval presence is an unspeakable taboo as Russia is one of a handful of emerging countries you wouldnt dare send an aircraft carrier to patrol, unless its goal was to secure the ocean floor.

The only meaningful threat SWIFT offers is the ability to assuage short-term market fears among traders that dont fully understand just how inapplicable SWIFT is in this case.
For all the problems the Steam controller had, trackpad precision was the one thing I never really heard people complain about. For this sort of game, I think it would be a very effective compromise to get it working on-the-go.

Of course, it's still just a computer at the end of the day. If you want to pair a Bluetooth mouse and play that way, that's your prerogative; I imagine that most people would be contented to use the touchpads out of convenience though.
This is how we secure Workspace here at Fleet. We figured the guide could be useful to companies of a similar size. The next step would be to enable Endpoint Verification to control access to specific apps such as Drive so it could only be done from up to date, encrypted devices, but that requires a the highest Google subscription.
Can I find out which architectures are emulation supported by the system?
A little under half of soybean production is exported from the US. The rest is used here for oil products, protein products and animal feed. Apparently, 90% of our cooking oil comes from soybean (usually sold as vegetable oil).

https://www.bizvibe.com/blog/agriculture/us-soybean