skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America represents 40% of NATO forces. America guarantees the physical security of Europe in consultation with the governments of these nations, but there is an inherent power imbalance here.
Because my friends and relatives die in Ukraine from russian troops
Doh! I was accidentally reverting the state to the very beginning when applying the column sort. I just deployed the fix for that
I'm sure there is a public algorithm / implementation. My question here is: is there an existing archive format (like .7z) that integrates it to the archive format and knows to update the error-correction data on archive update? Maybe not in a way that is as user-friendly as RAR, but "halfway there".

Or are you suggesting all my .7z files should come with a sibling .par2, that I must remember to regenerate after every change of the .7z ? I know I was asking here about "Usability-aside alternatives", but that alternative seems quite inconvenient and below the bar I was ready to accept when asking for less-user-friendly stuff.
Well if that's your feeling then so be it :)

Hungary has Anti-LGBT laws, same can't be said about "muslim quarters".
This may be the case, but "this tool is a potentially massive privacy and security intrusion" is a drastically different conversation than "calculators mean students can't do arithmetic anymore".
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I'm not really seeing that difference in requirements. Most of the forums were trivial to find in all sorts of Google searches, allowing thousands of people to create a new unique account, and then get banned for violating the pinned rules about asking a question by one of the <100 users that could be recognized as being a repeated chat mate on the one forum. Many of those obsessives on one forum would never be findable somewhere else where they might not have been an expert.

I find it a bit sad that thousands of people are on FB using their real names and turning person who says stupid things about several different hobbies into a permanent part of their own fairly permanent identity and I don't actually see how it helps anything. But maybe people who don't find it creepy see something I don't.
“I was learning for about 2h a day, 6 times a week. I would read articles, books, websites in Spanish”

If you put in that much time you will learn no matter your age. Same for children. They are supposed to be better at language learning but in the end they spend a lot of time that adults often don’t have or don’t want to invest.
Yeah, it still absolutely blows my mind folks allow Grammarly anywhere. It's horrifying from a privacy and security standpoint. I get requests to install it at work from time to time, and then have to basically explain that it would be illegal for me to allow it.

I would argue if you're subject to any sort of data security compliance policies, you can't allow Grammarly on your systems.
Why not? The world trusts China to make their products and corporations entrust China with their sensitive intellectual property to manufacture goods. Even Charlie Munger and Warren Buffet (two conservative investors) trust China enough to invest in China. Doesn’t seem like a big stretch to trust China for money transfers.
What can you do about it?

Learn to write. Don't use Grammerly. That's the article. Instead, we keep trying to find little tricks to keep the utility without surrendering privacy.

High school and college essays are already full of enough mindless fluff and tropes. Why put everything you write into something that then makes you sound like a bot? Your essays will all end up with YouTube Face.
What the actual flying fuck happened there, that's intensely horrible. War is hell.
Populations in most European countries are set to decline, but do they really need immigrants? A lot of Europeans think that letting in more impoverished, low-skilled immigrants would actually accelerate economic collapse rather than preventing it. EU youth unemployment is already relatively high so clearly they don't have a labor shortage.
For sure. $100 dollar oil makes a ton of supply profitable.

It just won't be here tomorrow though.
Borg has a command ("borg check") to test backup metadata. I'm not sure exactly what it does, but it is pretty slow, about 80 minutes to check a 1.6TB backup depending on how busy the backup server is. Another approach might be to mount the backup as a FUSE filesystem and monitor it with something like tripwire. I just thought of that a minute ago and haven't looked into it, so idk if it is workable. At the end of the day you have to occasionally do a full restore to another system, and test everything.
Yes! just that need to start mining massive amount of it.

But there are batteries that don't rely on lithium and many other alternative technologies.
Yes. Don’t use it, and require that contractors not use it either.

I’ve found attorneys using it - automatic dq for me.
Came to say this too. Had so much fun going through that book. Definitely check it out.
If the US citizens can't improve their own govt and get them to stop neverending wars, I think it's a tall order to expect citizens in a dictatorship to do it. Point isn't US bad -- point is, no easy way to affect change other than revolution which too ends up with bigger tyrants..
Yup, they nailed it! Where before I had to check one Inbox folder, I now need to check two - Inbox and Spam. Because half of legit emails end up in spam now. And no, I am not researching internet daily about manhood enlargement.
> It's becoming clearer that Bitcoin is the "currency" of the far right.

Does this extend to all cryptocurrencies or is it just Bitcoin?

A Ukrainian organization called 'Come back Alive' who have just been de-platformed by Patreon [0] are now turning to Bitcoin donations [1]. Does that make them far right?

Or maybe the starving Afghans who are under sanctions due to the Taliban are trying to survive by using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies managed and accepted by NGOs helping them survive [2]. Perhaps they are all far-right too?

[0] https://blog.patreon.com/on-the-removal-of-come-back-alive

[1] https://decrypt.co/93810/patreon-suspends-ukrainian-ngo-come...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2022/01/19/crypto-afghanistan-sanct...
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All fun and games till the sites leak who is behind your pseudonym. And you 100% know that your real ID linked information will be sold to advertisers... I mean 'business partners'.

People will still steal ID's and link them to accounts. And requiring a telephone number for verification is even worse. I signed up for twitter, they asked for a #. I didn't and my account got locked. Two weeks later they had a data breach and leaked those number to the world.

Many services have my information. I don't post my opinions to a single one of those.

Please stop fulfilling the authoritarians wet dreams.
> Spoke to the wrong people.

So either the conference didn't have the right people, or this journalist is shit at their job. Which implication do you claim?
Most of the propaganda is much more obvious than that, for the most part it ends up downvoted on Reddit. In this context, the messages are more like "give up and flee, it's inevitable" (alternately: staged video of a pile of bodies, seen yesterday; large formations deploying from Chechnya, etc), "the war is because of NATO expansion", "Nazi government". Just to name a few themes.

I would also guess that 90% of propaganda you see is primarily people spreading it for ideological and non-monetary reasons, it just has to be seeded enough for the messages to be spread.

One of the fascinating trends is that the most rapidly spreading stuff is purely visual, short video. The dominance of short clips is incredible, and allows for so much subtly misleading content.
> I remembered seeing RAR's in the scene around 1995, 1996 or so. My take: RAR handled splitting to multiple arbitrary-sized volumes more gracefully than ARJ/ARC which were CLI first and never had a Windows GUI that was as nicely polished as WinRAR was.

Of course there were still people who screwed that up. I remember downloading some software once that came in the form of a multi-volume RAR, maybe 20 floppy disk-sized RARs. Download all 20 of them, get them in the same directory, then un-rar them, and lo and behold out the other end comes a single .RAR file that was inside! So I un-rar that single RAR, and out the other end comes 20 separate floppy disk images. Obviously the "scene" distributors weren't always the computing world's best and brightest...
The percentage of the population that uses Matrix, PeerTube, etc, is absolutely negligible, and news can't propagate nearly as far with peer to peer sharing.
What's changing is that every year the US economy is becoming less important for the rest of the world.
> I'm curious, why do you think that these requirements won't spread to the rest of the internet

I didn't say that, I only said that we currently have two Internets, but that there has been a shift towards the walled gardens of identified accounts over time. The proponents of the law probably would end up creating loop holes just because their main beef is with the big tech firms, and it would be challenging for a single country to enforce legislation on the rest of Internet.

> Verified accounts, as I understand them, on the social platforms are only for people who publicly want to build a brand around their identity. While people have to use a "real name" on Facebook and Google, there's nothing requiring to get verified.

We may be getting mixed up with the meaning of "verified", I'm talking about accounts where the platform has associated you with your RL identity through some method, not just the process to get a public blue tick.

And, while there may be nothing formal requiring verification, there are many reports of people suddenly getting locked out of their accounts and being required to provide ID or at least a phone number shortly after registration. In fact a phone number is a pretty widespread requirement and it's getting harder to obtain a phone number that's not linked to your identity in some way. I don't see the contradiction in what I wrote, I have simply pointed out trends, not absolutes.
Yes, the bigger ones are around 2 euro per TB. They also have Storage Share at around 3 euro/TB in the bigger sizes. Those have more features (they run nextcloud) and are themselves backed up several times a day.
US showed it can kill journalists (!) who are not aligned enough (remember wikileaks video).

It might skew how wars are portrayed.
This is similar to the "why are banks allowed to print money by issuing loans and I'm not?" confusion that sometimes goes around.

Your internal balances are only good so long as the rest of the system trusts you. Magic up some fake balances and good luck getting the rest of the world to continue to take you seriously. "You want us to believe you've actually got that 100 Trillion? Show us?" How would this Russian bank spend these trillions? They can't cash out, because they don't actually have that much paper USD. Transfer it to another bank somewhere more reputable? How are you going to make those transfers clear?

I invite you to open your own bank and print yourself ten million dollars out of the air. Good luck converting that number to cash or transferring it to anywhere else!
I don't think so, I tried to mimic mongodb using sqlite, some operators can be difficult to do, for example $in
Your amazon account is likely already attached to your identity and I'm sure your google account and ip data could very easilly be used to pin point who you are.

I'm not really disagreeing with you, in principal, just pointing out that this ship has already sailed for must of us.
This is how some self-extracting .exe files work, too. You modify the unzip command to use its own filename instead of an argument, and then you append a zip to the end of that.
See: immanent critique.

Western liberal dogma holds that democratic consent justifies global terrorism of virtually any kind. As Chomsky says, the US state apparatus is the world’s largest terrorist organization.
Could you please share them?

All I recall was accusations by political parties from both sides.

Just because some content got popular amongst some cohort, it doesn't mean it was being pushed as an agenda. That is a problem any platform that depends on user activity to surface content will have, that you might see whatever the other side wants to share too.
Fuller quote:

"He says he is motivated by the war and wants to "help beat Ukraine from behind my computer whilst they die in the streets"." (Dimitry)

This hacker is so disgusting, so brainwashed. I wonder if he'll ever feel remorse.
I stopped eating any animal products after that ordeal and realized I don't need to. There are so many problems with the meat industry anyway, so I am pretty much relieved to not have to think about it.
Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian response, Russia warns
That’s a very good point.

People, in general (not just HN geeks), tend to have difficulty looking at other folks as “human.” This applies to our next-door neighbors; let alone, people in a distant nation.

I appreciate your making that point.

But TSMC is a very big fab on a rock…
What is the current take on supporting Russia’s liberation of Ukraine? Not trolling just playing devil’s advocate. Are we ostracizing these people(Russian supporters)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17888920
Yes! I looked into languagetool last week to see if I could host it locally on my Synology. They have an interesting page about how, after setting up the initial 200MB install, one can enable n-gram checks[0], which requires an additional 8GB of storage and an SSD. I haven't tackled that yet, but it's on my list!

[0]: https://dev.languagetool.org/finding-errors-using-n-gram-dat...
> All I had wanted was a get-rich-quick scheme that actually worked

And now you are disappointed. I get it. That does not discount the value of the underlying technology though.
I have been looking but coming up short. If anyone knows such schools or artists in Austin, Texas that they'd recommend feel free to reply in a comment.
A petition or a Tweet poll is very far from direct democracy. I have spoken to a person in Switzerland, where direct democracy exists, and she told me that people vote stupid things, but then as they feel the consequences, they start to vote more responsibly. Of course you don't start it by something as serious as what is happening now.
The EU collectively outclasses every likely regional aggressor or likely regional coalition, and can project power better than any but a handful of other states (most of which are unproven against that challenge). Throw in Britain and only the US—which is in a mutual defense pact with several EU states—is clearly ahead of them. How's that "a joke"?
Yes. That was it. Thanks @acemarke.
So by your standard, we invaded Guantanamo Bay, which is absurd. Its amazing how people lose their ability to think critically when emotions and propaganda are involved.
With Russia actively invading Ukraine at the moment, yeah it's different.
Yeah, I am sure CIPS won't be used politically.
In my view, there is no 'going back' with time travel. Rather, you appear in realty A+B where A is a similar state of the world at that moment in time that now has B applied to it by having present self placed in it. This solves all paradoxes with time travel as you never change the past, but rather, you are creating/finding forks of reality that appear backwards/forwards in time. Each time you 'travel in time', you are mearly moving between possible states of the universe. In this lens, nothing you do in 'the past' when affect you in the present because you're never actually in the past, but rather a fork of that time/space with you in it. That's just how I've always imagined it.
This is my primary use case too. I've started using my phone with steam link and an xbox controller to play some of the bigger single player titles I've been sitting on for the past few years (such as Horizon Zero Dawn, Witcher 3, and Cyberpunk 2077).

My 4790k is long in the tooth but it can lock 30 fps in any game. Coupled with a 3070 I can stream 1080p30 at max graphics settings on any of these games and I don't need to buy another computer to do it.
I don't buy it. These developers don't discount because they don't have to. They're not doing it out of some altruistic sense of duty to not "reward people who hold off." That's silly and I honestly can't believe that you believe that.
It’s a private corporation, they can do what they want!!

Wait not like that
One of my Facebook friends was banned for 'not using their real name' when they came out as trans. The real name policy is awful.
Every ISP I've had in the US specifically says their services can't be used for DDOS
“ don’t try to force constructs from your primary language onto the one you are learning.”

That’s super important. This also applies to translated texts. Something somebody in Iran says may sound crazy when translated straight but may just be a normal thing in their language.

As a German it took me a long time to understand that when an American says “we should have a beer someday “ that this means that you most likely will not have a beer with that person.
If you are eating grains directly or feed grains to (say) chickens you have to plow the land, clear other vegetation, cause erosion, probably use fertilizers and pesticides.

At a certain scale though you can graze animals on grass sustainably, building soil structure instead of destroying it.

The environmental movement has a beef with beef but the more I look at it chicken is the problem.
Telegram is main social media platform of this war. Kinda weird to connect to Russian SM to find out what other side is saying (with Google translate).

https://t.me/s/wargonzo

https://t.me/s/sashakots

https://t.me/s/MedvedevVesti
heiliger strohsack! this is a good suggestion but the site itself seem to be very much like Grammarly or am I mistaken here?

The golden chalice appears to be a self-hosted solution!
Thanks for the info and yeah, this adds another brick to the GOG pile of shame unfortunately.

GOG has been very lethargic to the point of straight-up dishonesty regarding their plan for Linux support for games, galaxy and their downloader. Their rollout of Galaxy has been panned and definition of what qualifies as DRM-free has been eroded over time.

I understand the disparity of resources, but steam has done much more lately to embrace Linux and their community than GOG and gaping security holes is just unacceptable.

A lot has changed since 2016.
I think "calculators mean students can't do arithmetic anymore" is perhaps an uncharitable take because it ignores that calculators aren't also trying to learn arithmetic from examples of people using them. Eventually grammar correction algorithms will injest text written with them or other grammar correction algorithms as ground truth in their efforts to improve and adapt to new idioms- this may already be the case.
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> how you know this

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empr%C3%A9surage

“ En France, l'utilisation de présure d'origine animale est une des conditions des cahiers des charges pour prétendre aux dénominations de protections fromage fermier, appellation d'origine contrôlée et la marque de l'Union européenne, Label rouge.”

Loosely translated, it means that for a French to cheese to have one of the protected names (Roquefort, Brie de Meaux, Camembert de Normandie, etc) they must use animal rennet. Since farms making these want the protected names because they sell so much better, they use animal rennet.

In the supermarket you can also buy industrial cheese which doesn’t have to use animal rennet. But at the fromagerie they mostly (only?) sell artisanal cheeses, all using animal rennet.
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Does anyone have experience with Duplicati [1] or recommend it? I am tentatively looking to make the switch to something a little more sophisticated than manually tar-balling + rsyncing backups.

[1] https://www.duplicati.com/
>Considering that they use funds only (mostly) to buy defence stuff

can you clarify on what "defence stuff" means? Is there any meaningful difference between a rocket launcher used for "defense" and a rocket launcher that's not used for "defense"? Or are they only buying stuff like sandbags?
The phrase, as with many others, is used to hand-wavy dismiss arguments. For example, you completely ignored basically >90% of my comment, which is what people with really poor positions do to attempt to maintain some position of superiority in their minds.
5 minutes was I lowest I went, but I realized that was a bit too fast for me and now it's around 6m 30s. Pretty good considering it used to be 30 minutes.

What about you? Do you think this'll be something that could help you out?
It was ok before when I was there yesterday morning, but things are rapidly changing. A major assault was launched on Odessa this evening.

At least there are two ways out — you can relatively easily go to Isaccea or Galati.
War has costs for everyone. Consider these hardships doing your part to stop your country's aggression, and remember the Ukrainians have it much worse than you.
Video uses codecs which encode information in frames of various types; in particular, the I-frame is essentially a self-contained image, a bit like JPEG, and the P-frame only encodes the changes from the previous frame.

The choice of when to have an I-frame or a P-frame is arbitrary, but the rendered video will look the same. However, too many I-frames can bloat the filesize, and too few can degrade the appearance significantly as errors add up.

They act on a codec parameter related to the I-frame, to pick better rules for good compression without visible errors in the P-frame.
I agree, but I think many on HN and the excited hardware junkies (which there will be plenty of for this niche boutique product) could gain some value without having another computer through existing, free, undermarketed software.
> "This is different" I guess.

I should say so. Despite all of its hard-earned criticism, Facebook isn't the social media arm of a foreign invader.
How? If power and resources are not scarce, then people will start doing despicable things just because they can and want to. As I said, most of you here are naive and will not see it.
You're very right. I still don't know what I want it for. Of course I'd like to learn, money is (fortunately) right now not a problem for me but I would like to get an actual job, since I've actually never had one.

Right now one of the projects I've been working on is a URL Shortening service and a simple app that returns your HTTP Headers.

I'm trying to write it in Plain C. It's certainly hard. I can imagine exactly how I'd do it in NodeJS (you can define the POST and get methods directly and stuff). But I definitely want to learn how to do it from a high-enough low-level language. The problems I'm having right now are not being able to process HTTP POST requests correctly. The code is here [0].

references

[0] https://github.com/trevcan/short
This is the classic conspiracy treadmill and subsequent dive:

See correlations that are unsettling or suggestive;

imagine causal forces which are fundamentally out of reach epistemologically, but explain the causation for the correlation which is apparent;

institutionalize the theory into a worldview;

attach your identity to it and obey in-group/out-group social maxims;

find home in only the in-group because only they tolerate your assertions with no challenge;

cement the worldview in your mind as a quasi-religious totalizing narrative because of the lack of challenges.
> The only thing they are DDOSing

How do you know “only”?