skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone always goes to extremes in the age we live.

Don't overreact and block what you think are Russian ips. Because your effort is not going to crack the iron curtain but it will hurt everyday citizens who have no power to pressure their government or local secret service agents.
SWIFT is an interconnecting protocol, like the IP in TCP/IP. It's absurd to my mind to talk about weaponising shared/common protocols. It's not only bad because of how it might affect us, it's bad because it's bad in principle. That this way of seeing things is not a more universal way of seeing this matter is telling and disheartening but I guess ultimately not that surprising.
Yes. Exactly.

Dyneema bags are light, strong (i.e., hold a heavy load), flexible, can have good water resistance and attractive colors—and will wear a hole through in one drag through an airport.
I feel like the era of flat panel displays and the error of windows 98 really didn't intersect much. Though it might just be bias because of how broke I was at the time.
> is it worth paying much attention to smallish items that last 15 years?

No in the sense of emissions and garbage creation from them are negligible. But ensure you pack out everything you pack in, not washing your dish(es if you're bougie) near the water source, etc are very important principals to maintain hiking and camping conditions for whomever comes next. Because that plastic wrapper will definitely last more than 15 years.
Facebook prohibits Russian State Media ads
I wouldn't say marketing so much as Microsoft did a lot of usability testing back then where psychologists threw people in a room and took notes while they interact with the UI. I don't think any OSS projects have this luxury (or money needed to throw around for that sort of thing).

Raymond Chen vaguely references it here https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120126-00/?p=84...

Also, back then, you had to make the best with the resources you had. Computers were slow so UIs had to be lightweight out of necessity. Yet here we are in 2022 and GUI applications have become so bloated they take longer to open up then they did in the 90s. And yes I'm looking at you, GTK and Windows 'Modern' apps.
This is all nonsense.

The division is because we haven't had anything to unite over since 9/11. The Iraq war was divisive.

At this point it is half the country living in one media fantasy land and the other half living in different media fantasy land. Both think they are the ones not living in a media fantasy land but believe the other side is. Both think the fantasy land they live in is objectively true.

Just like from your post the fantasy land you are in is no mystery. It is fun to watch this process honestly when you don't have a horse in the race.

If another country invaded the US though this would all disappear instantly overnight. A legit war with China or Russia that brings the threat of intercontinental missiles, this would all vanish overnight.
Anonymous hacktivists, ransomware groups get involved in Ukraine-Russia conflict
The Reason Putin Would Risk War
I'm still surprised brands still use non YKK zippers.
I think the driver survived, I saw a video of them being extracted from the crushed car.
We already have American troops on Russia's doorstep in Alaska, is it really about proximity to Moscow? Does that even matter these days?
I am also very interested in DL-based lossy image compression!! I am starting research in it. I believe that there's a lot of scope for DL to improve lossy image compression, since lossy relies on what humans see, and DL is really good at figuring out what humans see.

Are you also interested in it? I have found some other people interested in it. Maybe we can start a Discord channel for this?
There are a lot of things in c one would expect to be immutable or re-entrant that aren't.
Only if you can convince the major members of NATO to go along with a false flag, which will be extraordinarily difficult. They're reluctant to act generally and most will require overwhelming evidence.
Show HN: Flatsauce – Database with Decoupled Storage and Compute
Hi HN, this is Soheil (https://flatsauce.com). Flatsauce is a cloud database service that separates storage from compute while horizontally scaling your database cluster. Think of it as a Postgres read/write cluster with several nodes except that all the nodes in Flatsauce share the same storage. Flatsauce intelligently routes data between the nodes and incorporates a file locking mechanism to ensure there is no data corruption.
In traditional read/write replication scenarios usually a write instance is the source of truth. First data is written to the write server then the data is copied to all the read nodes. When more read nodes are needed to run long-running queries the storage needs to be copied for each node.

Flatsauce reduces the cost to run a database cluster by eliminating the need to duplicate the data storage every time a new node is added to the cluster.
>This is a natural consequence of democracy. By design, leaders of a country can't do something their voters don't agree with.

LOL.

That is not how bureaucracy works. Most of the key positions, that have power are not voted in. Most democraties does not vote president into his position, like it is done in US. So, it has nothing to do with democracy, but bureaucracy. And bureaucracy does not have allegiance to voters, but only to their own survival. And as long as democratic society is no threat to bureaucracy, it has no reasons to stick out and do something on their own initiative.
Reminds me of this Ira Glass quote:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
A few weeks ago I installed the browser plugin Intention on my workstation. It has been great, having a reminder that I am getting distracted and being given the option to be distracted on purpose for a limited amount of time.
dl/dt/dd aren't obscure necessarily, but when I see them, they're almost always misused.
To be more specific, central banks are allowed to create money. Their liability is /dev/null. It's how they added trillions to their balance sheet during COVID.
Who do you think wrote that code for Twitter?
I only know this company as the annoying YouTube pre-roll ad company. Any company that needs to advertise on YouTube that heavily raises red flags, IMO. Not surprising to hear they are cretins. For what purpose do they use the keylogging data. Doubtful they tell their customers all the exact details. "We use the data to improve the service." Gimme a break.
California Scrub-Jay After Digging Up It's Hidden Acorn in My Yard
I hadn’t realized that Ukraine’s current (young) President is the first Jew to ever hold the position. Given the unpleasant past Jews experienced in both Russia and the Ukraine over the last century or so, it just adds another layer to this ugly lasagna.
digging up acorn piece caught my eye, just nice break on tl rn
.pro is now gone from the search results and replaced with https://vault.bitwarden.ltd/!
This seems like a really effective technique, I am sure left leaning people are pointing at conservatives as being turned Trumpers and Russian shills while conservatives look at liberals as socialists and communists who don't want to work.

The reality is that a society made up of people who think their country is terrible and don't feel any responsibility to work to support it is probably not going to last that long.
Speak for yourself, my riced out linux desktop is fast and usable AF
Information access is has diminishing relevance in an attention economy.
good example of a nice easy to understand script!

await welcomeMessage();
await getOptions();
await readyMessage();
await pomodoroLoop();

https://github.com/jacksbrand/pompoms/blob/9fa9ba582f4b7f823...
I haven't done or even really touched front end work in a decade and I believe that this would have been an interesting interview.

Given his perfect answers I probably would have been able to come pretty close to passing.

If you know anything at all about the details of html, all of these can be easily understood by looking at what they're claiming to do. None of these are esoteric even if your front end knowledge predates wide spread use of mobile devices.

Take line 5 for example. I have never heard of Open Graph, but I know that og: is declaring a namespace for a pretty self describing tag. It's clear from this take with no other information that it is providing a site name for a specific service.

I don't think it's a big ask at all for a senior front-end dev, who is fresh in the field, to know what the first 10 lines of one of the most popular websites out there is doing.
The beauty of bitcoin is I can compile a open source program, and my own hardware will verify that all the rules of the blockchain have been followed, and no one has spent any funds that they don't have the crypto keys for.

I've been banned from one bank. I have friends who are sex workers who are partially debunked (sex work is legal in Australia, but PayPal doesn't care).

The truckers in Canada are also finding it out the hard way.

Are these edge cases? Perhaps. But they seriously affect the lives of people.

If millions of Russians suddenly find themselves without access to the international financial network, I have a feeling a lot less people will think "bitcoin has no value".
I don't believe this is accurate.

I don't think anyone would arbitrarily just ban all trade like that. And if that's what they did intend, that's what they would say and the consequences are much bigger.

It's kind of a 'de facto' ban however, in that, it's hard to pay people otherwise.

I'm sure a Swiss bank or two could immediately broker transactions 'by hand' though, that would be a pretty easy way around things.

That said, you could be right. If that's the case, I wish they would make it more clear.
I haven't ever had an issue with stanky outdoors gear, but I've had luck removing stains from different gear by washing with either regular laundry detergent or "Oxygen-based cleaners" (oxiclean and knockoffs) as they have a different mechanism of cleaning, and drying in sunlight and fresh air.
And how does this help?
Doesn’t mention NEXTID, XMP, or LISTING. I guess those aren’t just obscure but obsolete.
I disagree. US law and regulations are not tied to any particular messaging system. US banks are required to know their customers, and obey OFAC sanctions lists no matter how they send/receive payment instructions. If Russian banks are sanctioned, then US banks are not allowed to send dollars to or from them no matter how they choose to communicate.

The part of you post that I was primarily objecting to was that bit about this "UBS won't get $50 million added to their balance sheet because other banks don't recognize the Sberbank -> UBS transfer since it's not on SWIFT." That makes no sense. SWIFT is just messages sent between banks, other banks don't know what messages are sent between two other banks.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a bag fail. Then again most of the duties are lugging a computer around. Usually I just get tired of the bag and want something new because there’s a slightly different use case where another bag is optimized for that.

But bags are like old friends. They all have personalities and are unique in their own way. I have an old Chrome messenger bag from college that’s 20 years old. It’s still going strong but I have a different bag now (still a Chrome though) which has an integrated laptop compartment. The bag is still going strong today and whenever I take it out to use it’s like talking to an old friend and retelling stories of the past.
Maybe Putin's Russia should not exist in its current form?

Russian people are infested and brain washed with decades of propaganda. I hope this war and sanctions will cripple the country back into 1990s and Russian state cease to exist in its current form, regime, and borders.

Russia is seriously sick and must rid itself from Putin first
In reality though if this happens and Europe / China doesn't like it (Europe literally needs Russia oil unless they want civil unrest with $300/barrel crude), compliance with US directives are not guaranteed.

The stick is real, it is very sharp and pointy; but it's a thin and targeted stick. Stab top many people with it, and it'll snap.
I think Sam Altman had the same answer to this question lol
Yup, I think we fall in a similar age group, and lack the nostalgia that most HN readers have.

At the same time, flat design is objectively worse. Barely any indication as to whether something is a button or a text box or a label. Personally, I really like the path taken by WinUI3, since it addresses the UX concerns with a fresh paint of UI
How would one self-study enough about ML to be able to move into an ML engineering role without an academic background on it? Any recommended paths out there?
The default Windows 95 didn't look that great, but almost everyone agrees that 98 or 2000 are much better (at least they have gradients). But I'm not 100% old school, and I think that Windows 7 Aero looked good, too. I'm sad that someone decided that glassy transparent windows were an abomination and broke them all :(
The way the author writes and answers questions in the comments shows he does actually see it as a test.

> Note that since our technical discussion is a conversation. I don’t expect a perfect answer from anyone. If I hear some right keywords, I know that the candidate knows the concept, and I try to push them in the right direction

I.e. if you don't know the concept you don't pass.

And in a comment:

> I would much rather hire an all-rounder with deep knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS rather than a particular framework. This “Twitter source code” test demonstrates just that.

He literally calls it a test.

Also, I'm not saying Seniors are lone wolfs. I'm saying that they should be able to work autonomously (I.e. without supervision). I'm not prescribing what that work entails.
They share a lineage. And my point was that in the past, sanctions were threatened before declaration of war, and generally only implemented after a declaration of war. I haven't read the book yet, but you can find interviews with the author: "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War"

> Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on devastating techniques of warfare.

> Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival research in a political, economic, legal, and military history that reveals how a coercive wartime tool was adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping by the League of Nations. This timely study casts an overdue light on why sanctions are widely considered a form of war, and why their unintended consequences are so tremendous.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259360/economic-weapo...
I originally used a ZX-81. Can't say I miss the UI.
LOL. I never thought about it before, but that statistic would be interesting to know. How close to zero is it?
The trouble with this is it essentially reduces all differences to "biggest player wins". Because it almost never matters what symbol or representation you use for these things, your personal preference is largely based on what you grew up with.

I could resign myself to Americans* being allowed to pick the global date format to save a few cycles on an operation, but frankly I don't want to. It's not that important to me, and not having aspects, albeit minor aspects, of my culture steamrolled in the name of pointless efficiently is at least a little bit important to me.

Differences create friction yes, but I'm alright with that. I would prefer a little friction to grey uniformity. You're free to think differently, but you're not the speaker for everybody else.

* I should clarify that most Americans don't seem to want this either, this isn't a jab, it's just that if we did standardise everything their choices would probably be the ones which won out.
>"I personally find more modern (like MacOS 10) styles to look the best, and flat designs to be just as usable as more skeumorphic ones."

I am not familiar with MacOS styles. But from what I see on other platforms my problem with "modern flat" is not that it is in any way inferior by design. Problem is that the designers make for example clickable elements not any visually different than unclickable, make scroll bars that are impossible to locate, put light gray text on white background and lots of other demented things.
Simulation seems like a step that requires knowing the initial state of a system. I wish there were more efforts focused on finding ways to scan the constituents of a cell all the way close to the atomic level. As far as I know the closest thing we have are Atomic Force Microscope and Scanning Electron Microscopy both several-decade-old technologies. They're also pretty invasive and require access to the surface area of the object to be scanned.

Knowing the position and charge density of atoms in a cell is required to simulate it.
> NATO now has the power to declare war with anyone they want, anytime they want, for any reason they want, without provocation

NATO has always had that power; NATO opponents claim that is what they actually did under the banner of “humanitarian intervention” in Kosovo in 1999, but even if it isn't, they clearly could any time they had the necessary consensus.
I've been using Chicago95 in a VM and on my laptop for a few years. I was so dedicated to the look that I picked through a Windows install DVD to grab its fonts and use those (Microsoft Sans Serif particularly). I throw in a high resolution Bliss wallpaper, too, even though it totally didn't come with 95, and I don't have much fondness for XP.
Yeah, right.

Ask anyone in accounting in a large enough corporation how many millions of dollars go unaccounted each quarter.

Ask the Inspector General of the Defense Department how many trillions of dollars are fudged (answer: $2.6 trillion as of 2016).
You have to drink a lot of older tea leaves from specific areas to have any real concerns about this.

Gunpowder green tea is a common version that carries more F than others but most casual drinkers will never come near levels to cause physical concerns.
Every time our screens get bigger, designers eat the space!
I've replaced a lot of my normal web surfing time with putting in some bluetooth headphones and listening to audiobooks. Much more fulfilling than spending hours on the internet where I can't even remember what I did that whole time, and you're freed up to do other things like work out, prep food, clean the kitchen, etc.

Not sure if it has improved my concentration, but it has improved all sorts of aspects of my life in surprising ways. Like I'm now the type of person who doesn't mind hand-washing all the dishes where, in my 20s, I'd let them pile up in the sink—I just do it while listening to a book.
Thanks, yes I see now how to do check the registration. I thought I'd take this away and report to DDG, but don't see any option on their search page to report the problem. Sketchy..
Aside from SWIFT, we're not even talking about Nodstream 1 or other things.

This 'target the gov. and leaders not the people' is also a bit rubbish for 2 reasons:

1) The people are the country, they are not hugely separable. The people won't really feel the pain or 'see consequences' directly from SWIFT. It's a total abstraction. Even if their prices rise, the attribution will be lost.

2) Putin's approval post invasion is 69%. 5% of Russians think that Russia is responsible for the Ukrainian invasion. 50% believe that NATO is responsible. Just absorb that for a moment.

Despite some of the current protests that we see on the news (which are amplified in the Western press to the point of being a bit propagandistic), Russians are themselves complicit in what is going on, and at very minimum, things should be done to make a very clear populist signal to them.

a) Cancel all travel visas

b) Disallow all flights in/out of Russia to all friendly states.

c) Cancel a lot of consumer facing business: Starbucks, IKEA, iPhones and definitely entertainment, film, clothing brands, music apparel etc. Definitely cancel everything related to Football/Soccer. And ban all participation from any kid of international events. None of this 'Athletes from Russia technically no the Russian team' rubbish.

d) Send anyone on short-term business/study home. You can finish out the year, but your not coming back to Harvard next year - sorry - your Oligarch/Elite parents are complicit.

None of that will have dire consequences for anyone - but every single Russian will be hit with the message: you don't get nice cappuccinos when you're gleefully invading a neighbouring country. If you want nice shiny toys, get a new leader.

Putin is actually not invulnerable. His approval has been low over the last bit, he has people who want to replace him, the Oligarch and Big Business really do not like him, and the population could turn on him pretty quickly.

I believe part of the reason he was so physically distance from other members of his staff was not just COVID, but I suggest he's paranoid about a coup, which is after all the most common way for a Russian leader to go.
Your comments were saying/arguing Russia would not invade and implying I and others were naive for believing they would invade.

Now your comment is simply calling up Iraq and similar because two wrong make a right apparently. Even worse than that, apparently because “Russian elites” weighed the options your comment seems to be excusing this pointless war and carnage wrought by an arrogant man in a bubble who’s living in a warped view of the past. Now both Ukrainians and their Russian brethren are dying fighting each other purely for the vanity and delusions of a weak minded man. There is a picture of a fallen Russian soldier covered in snow by a burned out vehicle, this is what the Putin desired.Russians are suffering, Ukrainians are suffering. But the “elites” weighed it your comment says! Let the elites be the ones fighting and dying then. They do not care about average Russians. They only care about power and graft.

I do not find those explanations of the proven wrong logic from the earlier comments to be in good faith. The passive prevaricating and pseudo intellectual tone of the comment is, in my most generous interpretation, akin to the passive avoidance tone some take when caught completely in the wrong but unwilling to admit being wrong to themselves or others. I would hope being wrong about such a grave matter would be sobering and cause more introspection but apparently that has not happened. The sympathy towards Ukrainians does not come off as being sincere in the context of the comment.