skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion when it came to democratizing access to internet across the world Opera Mini 4 had a significant impact.

Phone internet was an awful experience in the 2000s era. I know different web protocol was launched like wap but that didn't help the experience tremendously. But then came Opera mini. It made access to internet easier, faster and more convenient specially in the third and second world country.

I was trying to reuse a Nokia C1-01 classic with Opera Mini. Opera mini uses a file format called "obml" (Opera Binary Markup Language) to convert and save webpages. So, I figured I can bookmark web pages > convert to plain text html > convert to obml > then send to the feature phone via bluetooth and read the webpages on my feature phone.

But then I came across how it really worked. The webpages were being rendered in a server then converted to a pixel position screen size specific file [1]. In my opinion it was an elegant solution considering the limitations of early phone internet.

Truly a fascinating piece of software.

[1] https://github.com/grawity/obml-parser
I have seen so many palettes and color programs online, but this is so nice. I am loving it.
This seems to be written by someone who is bragging about their technical capabilities, not someone interested in invention, discovery, inspiration, and trial and error.

There is a time for 'the right' approach, and there is a time for crazy innovations that can take something to the next level.
What on earth does “rotating” mean in this context?
China is working on next gen sodium reactors that should be easier to deploy I believe
If your age is between 18 and 35.
Expremigen: Expressive MIDI Generation Library
Our body NEED infrared light. (real doctor research with scientific evidence)

An interesting recent discovery is that our body need infrared radiation to function properly, not just UV light/vitamin D.

I think that people living in the northern climate discovered/felt that it was better to be exposed to the radian heat of the fire in the winter. We recently (50-100) years have been getting rid of fireplaces and replaced with forced air and baseboard heater that probably generated a lot of health problem.

A month ago I discovered this information, bought an small infrared heated and healed in 10 days the winter eczema I have been fighting for 25 years.

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YV_iKnzDRg

I hope this help somebody
The vital missing link in sanctions against Russia
Was the only usable browser to me back in my Symbian days. I used to have it on some low end Android devices too for the Turbo feature, wonder if it's still a thing.
Atkinson Hyperlegible is easy to read, but it ends up looking terrible on most websites because they don't design for anything outside their blessed fonts.
Not to take the easy pun here, but by making this decision and ones like it, someone at Boeing did make a killing. Or 346 killings, more precisely. The same culture and internal processes that allowed this to occur are the exact same ones that let the MCAS design flaws get through, and I will forever be furious that Boeing as an organization was not ripped into parts for that failure.
They don't have the luxury of time. With NATO becoming more and more aware this isn't a bluff you can be sure they will be shipping in more and more cheap anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukrainian ground forces which are highly effective against russia attackers as they stand. If Russia starts firebombing cities I think they might win from demoralization but it could also get Russian citizens and politicians nervous and sick to watch Putin destroying their brethren in Ukraine. You have to remember Putin is a sociopath and while intelligent he doesn't have any real emotions to understand that total war against Ukraine could easily end support from his country and allies like China and neutrals like India.and Turkey
True, but competence tends to come with ambition.
I flew over western China back around 2015 (Shanghai->Amsterdam) I have never seen so many windmills, hundreds of them, spread around open cast (probably coal) mines and power plants, probably sharing the same power grids
I think this is an overstatement of the situation; it's true that you're supposed to keep the house from getting too cold, but it's within living memory in many places that in the colder parts of the winter, standing water jugs would have a thin layer of ice in the morning. They wouldn't stay below freezing, but they'd cycle through temperatures much below 60F (15C) on a daily basis for several months of the year. Even now I think it's more common to set the thermostat down around 50 or 55 when you'll be out of town, and I know people who don't set it much above 60 in the winter even when they're awake and at home, quite a bit lower when they're asleep or out.
The effective purchasing power of $60B in Russia is far greater than of that amount in the US and by many estimations their actual spending is much higher.

The fear of near peer came from their reforms following 2008 where they decided to modernize their army especially their infantry adopt modern combined arms and maneuver warfare and basically mimic the US individual squad battlefield doctrine.

They shifted on paper form a conscripted army to a professional one and have revamp their NCO core.

And their relative success in Syria did make it seem like they were making a lot of progress now it’s clear that what ever progress they have made was either all a smoke screen or limited to such a small number of units that it doesn’t make an impact on the battlefield.

This war has shown that even what the west feared the most the so called elite airborne troops which were always a key part of Russias military doctrine aren’t effective at all at taking and holding military objectives.

Russian armor seems to also be extremely vulnerable to western ATGMs so the fear of Russian APS systems has also now proven to be completely unfounded and Arena/Afganit seems to either be non existent in the field or utterly and completely useless especially when compared to western battle proven APS systems like Trophy/Windbreaker which have seen great success against Russian modern ATGMs.

Basically they aren’t even a paper tiger at this point they are a wet tissue.

We have now hard indisputable proof that they aren’t capable of anything more than leveling cities from 100 miles away which they won’t be able to do due to NATOs total air superiority or bringing a nuclear annihilation which hopefully they aren’t mad enough to do.
You can also pipe it through

sed 's/\x1b\[[;0-9]*m//g'
They're not really comparable.

1.) Kyiv is 50mi from the border, Baghdad is 200mi.

2.) Iraq was a numerically far superior force to the coalition, with >500,000 active soldiers and >1.3 million total. Clearing out that many people simply takes time.

3) The coalition moved slowly and largely neutralized resistance along their way, they didn't skip settlements or cities. Russia is trying deep strikes and bypassing/avoiding many of the larger cities/settlements. And those places are not necessarily under any kind of coherent siege at this point either.

4) Coalition losses in the entire war, where they were again, fighting a numerically far superior force, were tiny. ~200 killed. Estimates of Russian losses so far are 10x+ that and with a lot of lost equipment.

I'm not suggesting I think the Ukrainian position is great or that they're poised to win other than via long insurgency, just that I don't think the comparison works.
Don’t track bugs, fix them
That's not something you can hide from Russia, so why not announce it and give Ukrainians hope and will to fight off the invaders? Joe Biden and other leaders have been making the right decisions by being transparent.
An Ableton Live set is gzipped XML (2012)
>Of course it's "on the cusp of encircling Kyiv" - it's less distance than the average US drive to WalMart.

I doubt it. I checked the distance from the center of Kyiv to the closest Belarus border and it was around 55 miles. The actual distance is probably higher because I'm taking the distance over the lake/river that's north of Kyiv. Meanwhile...

>For most people in the United States, a Wal-Mart is literally just down the road. The median distance to a Wal-Mart in the United States is 4.2 miles

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2006/thomas-j-holmes-...
Russian shells hit radioactive waste disposal site in Kyiv
> But, realize they weren’t sending any troops to Ukraine...

I do realize that.

> ... because they are too arrogant to even believe their own claims.

No. I'm afraid you got this backwards. The NATO countries quite literally removed their troops from Ukraine instead of sending in new ones precisely because they believed that Russia is going to invade.

During an invasion if there are NATO troops in Ukraine said troops would engage with the Russian troops. This can lead to an escalatory spiral and we end up with a nuclear confrontation. This is why what little NATO troops there were in Ukraine were withdrawn.

> If you look at what NATO actually did, it’s very difficult to take them seriously.

I'm sure NATO is very worried about you not taking them seriously. What exactly are you expecting from them?

> If they were so confident of a Russian invasion but they were still so willing to be petty and stubborn, then blood is on their hands all the same.

That's twisted again. The blood is on Putin's hand and the Russian state's hand.
No I'm talking about very graphic ones involving dead bodies that clearly tried to crawl away and vehicles riddled with bullets.

You're correct though, the fog of war is thick, and it's hard to tell for certain.

I hate to use reddit as a source, but here is a group of civilians encountering a roadblock, being shot at, and then managing to escape. This video is not as graphic as the others.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t1605y/people_gett...

Although I can't say for certain if this recent, but it seems to fit. If someone could for certain debunk this, I'm all ears, but this same location (red truck and cars blocking road) shows up later in other twitter videos with a destroyed Ukrainian convoy and dead civilians.
It seems relatively simple to target behavior and label it 'unethical'.

What is arguably as challenging as crash-proof code itself is the notion of a standard that is simple, complete, agreed-upon, secure, and future-proof enough that at least a large majority of people say: "Yep. Falling in line with that."

I, for one, would like to see the FSF's ideas expand a bit more into hardware and services. Yet there seems no rush. *Why* there is no rush may reveal a bit about the nature of hardware- and service offerings.
Great idea!

For those wondering why anyone might not like their oh so beautiful colours...

I like to set the background colour of the terminal to light green, and the text to black. It's much more relaxing. Coloured output is often illegible with this setup. Plus the colours are silly anyway...
Emails from the Belarusian weapons manufacturer Tetraedr
Which browser? Working fine for me in Firefox 97.0.1.
They have to deliver the base stations for this to be useful, parent post is just saying 2-day air FedEx is not happening

I would suppose they would go across the border to poland along with all the NATO weaponry, but its still quite a logistics feat, I don't know that musk can snap his fingers and consider it done

Plus I'd be surprised if they had base stations in stock just sitting in a warehouse when they could already be in revenue service.

Forgive my cynicism of musk's grandiose gestures
I have a ton of Fire tablets and I would love more projects using them. If anyone has any ideas please link me to them. I will absolutely take a stab at something like this.
Example: shell uses color for the prompt, but nothing else does. That way you can quickly scroll up and see your command prompt entries.
What a badass. Tougher than hell.
That is lovely, one of the nicest UIs/set of reports I've seen so far. Congrats!

We in the plain text accounting community should try to use it. (What's the license ?)
Yeah, the biggest effects on the number of orphaned blocks should be the number of distinct mining pools and the latency between them. I could see some of those numbers changing enough to matter since 2013, but I'm not all that sure.
Has the Middle East been pointing missiles at Western Europe for 6 decades?
My childhood home, in a mid-century California suburb, used the same fan arrangement. Incredibly effective... if also very noisy.
what you can do is retrofit existing hydro dams, add more generation capacity (penstocks/turbines) and then let them fill when the sun shines/wind blows and empty when it doesn't, this is actually more efficient than pumping water uphill
Europe also gets gas from the North Sea countries Norway/UK/Netherlands, also Algeria and Libya. It can also import from US and Middle East via ship. Russia is a critical supplier but it isn't everything.
Gambler’s fallacy. You guessed whether he would invade and you were right. That doesn’t mean your next guess is any more likely to be correct.

FWIW, I have had the same concern as you. I don’t really know enough about Putin’s mental state to know whether the concern is valid. I think he would be much more likely to use chemical weapons rather than nuclear.
>when the "poster" is a weapon unto itself, in the theatre of information warfare.

So exactly like a real poster.

>like "CIA mind control device"

These sites don't have that kind of power.
Are you working on one? I saw pollen mobile, San Francisco based at the moment and data only. Interesting stuff
They didn't stay the course during the 90s.

They fell, like the rest of us, but they, Ukraine and Belarus did... nothing. Or installed dictators.

Meanwhile 90% of the former Warsaw Pact recovered by 2005 or so and now is at historical economic peaks, see places like Poland.
I have felt dirtier…

I know Teams gets a lot of hate on here, but in a 3 decade career I can tell you it’s far from the worst piece of software an employer has made me use. Lotus Notes gets that top prize. What a piece of crap that monstrosity was…

I’d be willing to bet that pretty much everyone who has used Lotus Notes probably at worst has a “meh, at least it’s not Lotus Notes” opinion of Teams.
I also was in the same boat as you, I even paid for a year of YNAB. However, I had anxiety of giving full access to my bank account and importing it manually became a chore, soon I just stopped all together.

I support your decision of blocking phone access, even tho it was a surprise, maybe explaining why is better than label it as a technical limitation

Best of luck
It's difficult for me to imagine a negotiated peace that doesn't involve NATO guarantees of sovereignty for the remaining parts of Ukraine. Otherwise, what's the value from Ukraine's perspective?

So one way or another this will end in short order. Or it will be WW3 (not necessarily nuclear, but it's a risk).
And the RBMK reactors are a 1950s design.
I imagine most of the oligarchs are still relatively practical people. This war seems highly ideological, as in from the mind of Putin.
https://discourse.org?
Like MSX's BASIC prompt.
I'm certain all these organizations can act without their poster^W websites, even if these were permanently downed, which they were not.
Yep, idiots get placed in high positions because they are loyal, not because they have talent. Same with the military. I'm not saying that doesn't happen in the USA and other countries, but it happens much less often because you have other parties to call it out. In Russia, everything traces back to Putin and his talentless goons. I think China somewhat gets around this a bit because they have centuries long bent towards meritocracy, although I'm sure plenty of people reach high level that have no talent for it, just not to the extent that a country like Russia sees.
Sanctions and Super Yachts
My experience as a Software Engineering Radio host
I think it's changing characters on each run, 'rotating' through the lot.
If France had had that attitude in the past the United States would likely not even exist. And if the USA would have that attitude in the past then they would be speaking German in France right now.

The United States has a pretty strong foundation when it comes to trying to do the right thing. They may not always actually do the right thing, they may not always do it timely, especially not when looked at through the lens of history. But they will try their very best to do what is right. And right now, what's right is to stand with Ukraine (where quite a few Americans, about a million, can find some of their roots), even if that has risks associated with it. And if you don't want to do that then there are plenty of options on the table.
No idea…I’m long past the point where I get deep into the gears of the devices I use, I just want them to work when I need them to work.
Very interesting and good to know. Thank you for sharing.
>Then supposedly major alerts start to feel normal

Major alerts should feel normal. I should have said that you shouldn't feel alarmed instead of suggesting that it shouldn't be treated as an event. Maybe that doesn't quite capture what I mean, but you should get the picture. You should be prepared to handle them. Unfortunately, security defects are to be expected and it shouldn't be a surprise that they might exist in your system.

>and when there is an actually major alert nobody has a sense of urgency about it.

Why? You should be urgent with all security issues. You shouldn't have people putting off security updates because they are minor.
I'm actually surprised Russia isn't patrolling the air along the Polish border and bombing arms shipments. They have to have intelligence of where they are coming in.
I've always wondered what condition their ICBMs and nuclear arsenal are in. Are they all rusting in silos in various states of disrepair? I'd imagine upkeep costs for these things would be astronomical considering the reported size of their nuclear arsenal.
Honestly, I haven't really got as far as a license for the code yet - I don't know much about them, and people seem to have strong opinions about the standard options for OSS.

I'd be interested in what folks recommend for something like this, and what the trade-offs are. Seems like MIT is the go-to in many cases?

EDIT: Done, on GPLv3!
> for him it's the number of potential soldiers that he can use to bully Europe.

And number of consumers. Want a big economy? You need a big population.
Malware on your PC can take control of your exchange account as much as it can a normal wallet. The drive dying is why you're supposed to backup your wallet or at least record the seed.

On an exchange you're vulnerable to compromise both from your end and on the exchange's end
Depending on where you live it can already be horrific.
And the dreaded stuffit
Some study said black on white wasn’t as readable as off black on off white. Of course everyone took it to mean make gray on gray.
What if your emails go to a spam bucket/get "lost", and you have no way of knowing?

I mean, this is really what prevents me from eliminating the free email providers from my life, not that I can't afford paid email.

Whether or not it's overly paranoid, it's a pretty general pattern that when you venture off the beaten trail, you have more uncommon problems.
Imagine a lossless conversion from electricity to making hydrocarbons from atmospheric co2. Car engines are very very inefficient (about 35% of chemical energy converted to mechanical, out of a theoretical max of 46% or so iiuc.) comparatively, electric motors are like 80% efficient.

Now it’s true that bev have transmission and battery losses, but synthetic gasoline is going to have inefficiencies and cost to transport, too.

The case wher e it makes sense is where the weight of batteries matter, ie: jet packs and airplanes.
Tanks are ineffective in an urban environment but it also impacts ATGMs that require a line of sight and a relatively long arming distance.

Javelins would probably not be that effective if the tanks enter the city but other anti tank weapons like the NLAW are. Also barricades could have them bogged down.
But still if the numbers of 500 tanks in Kyiv are true and the Russians are under orders not to retreat under any circumstances holding the city might be difficult.

If Russia takes Kyiv even if they don’t kill Zelenskyy they’ll have a bargaining chip to play in the negotiations that would surly have to happen sometime next week if they don’t they don’t have anything.

Right now Russia is running out of win conditions or even a way to get out of this situation at all and that is the most dangerous part.

If they have nothing to bargain with they can’t come to the negotiating table to get the sanctions removed and they will not issue an unconstitutional surrender under any circumstances other than if there to be a regime change in Russia.
There are many other possible outcomes.
> But, realize they weren’t sending any troops to Ukraine because they are too arrogant to even believe their own claims.

Uh, no, they pulled their troops training Ukraine’s forces out because they did believe their own claims. As they stated many times alongside saying Russia was going to invade, they were not going to commit troops to fight such an invasion (or even to evacuate their own citizens) because they have no mutual defense treaty with Ukraine and did not wish to escalate any invasion of Ukraine into a World War.

If they hadn't believed Russia would invade, their troops would have still been there when they did.
As someone 2 years deep into implementing a language, I enjoyed your article

A minor typo spotted:

> it is impossible [not] to keep thinking about ways to improve your project.

Indeed the most productive days are those when I decide a major feature is unnecessary
> People are claiming it's a victory when Russia hasn't totally taken over within 72 hours, but is that really any kind of victory?

What else are they going to claim? That everything's fucked and there's no realistic hope of even a partial victory?

Regardless of whether or not the war goes well or poorly, the news will be positive, right up until the end. If it turns out to be the latter, everybody who spent the past few weeks listening to it will be struck with one hell of a cog-dissonance hangover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle
It's hard to tell this early into the war, because honestly we don't have any reliable sources on how successful or unsuccessful Russia has been. Ukraine might be exceeding expections, but the margin could be greatly exaggerated to keep the morale of the troops and the country high. It's very difficult to tell. I want to believe Ukraine is weathering this very well, but I also know that sometimes you need positive propaganda to keep your people motivated.
When the computer fails its job it is the same responsibility as any other car component when it fails to do its job. You are responsibile unless you can shift the blame to the manufacturer or a mechanic or God. Nothing new, same as air bags going off when they shouldn't.
I'm starting to be of the mind that environment variables in general are an anti-pattern. They have arbitrary scope, their lifetime is not clear, and they are not easily composable. This was not something that bothered me so acutely until I started using declarative config with NixOS to configure my system, and found environment variables to be a big wart on this.
If you start using color, you need to consider accessibility. What if you use some combinations of foreground and background inadvertently that renders it unreadable. Also, there's no guarantee color pallets will be the same.

There also needs to be a NO_EMOJI flag. I'm tired of having random garbage glyphs show up because I'm not using the latest electron based terminal that uses mono-spaced web-fonts.
This. The genius of iPhone UI was that it was so obvious once you saw it. There were plenty of so called Smartphones then, with or without Keyboard. But none of the touch screen phone interface were user friendly. Zero.