skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I'd be satisfied if they gave any indication at all that they had considered the weight of their decision, especially given the timing.

Patreon arguing that they were just following the rules, when they themselves created the rules and can rewrite them arbitrarily, is absolutely piss-poor form in a humanitarian crisis like this.
The way I learned (and still do learn) vim was the following:

1. Try to use vim to do something with text

2. Realize I don't know how to do that (efficiently, or at all)

3. Look up how to do it efficiently

4. Try to do it that way from now on

5. Rinse and repeat
Also, when mail scanners became too nosy, it was convenient that rar could encrypt metadata, so the archive could not be scanned.

It lasted only for a while. Gmail drops such files entirely for the last few years.
> This is THE crime you are talking about?

No.

Try these:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/05/ukraine-attac...

https://freedomhouse.org/article/ukraine-authorities-should-...

https://khpg.org/en/1517275970

https://freedomhouse.org/article/ukraine-authorities-should-...

https://freedomhouse.org/report/analytical-brief/2018/far-ri...

https://www.rferl.org/a/30388461.html
What missiles? There are no missiles in Eastern Europe, only a symbolic number of foreign soldiers, and even that only after the first war in Ukraine.
Then go out and protest your government to make the decision you believe is right.
Let’s say you are the Lead Data Engineer of a small data-driven company.

You need to define a strategy, pick a stack of tools, decide how data is going to be stored and normalised, what the workflow will be from ad-hoc, exploratory studies to productionized inference.

Are there any good resources out there that are useful to this person?

I am this person right now and I need to find some good guidance.
The thing is, it would actually save them from their population problems.

For example in Poland they managed to raise their economy enough that people just stopped leaving.

So even the demographic part is self inflicted. Corruption -> poverty -> people leaving the country.
That Op-ed is shocking TBH, is discredits Flynn as an advisor. However I think you still need more to back up the accusation of Flynn, let alone Trump, being a (compromised) Russian asset. There seemed to be a lot of politicking around his prosecution, for example (complicated by the fact that these kind of coercive plea-deal threats are actually common in the US). Also, The headline is partially (but not entirely) manipulative in describing the op-ed as "Support For Russia" - it sound like a whole lot of shilling, esp the stuff justifying Russian opposition to NATO and border fortification, but it's not wholly supporting it either; the fact they cram the incitement into the headline shows what message they are trying to convey.

But I think the other stuff (Flynn in Trump admin) is old-news; Biden administration had also talked of better diplomatic ties with Russia recently, before the invasion started. Dems have been somewhat more pro-China than Trump also, and I'm somewhat hesitant to distinguish being "pro-China" vs "pro-Russia"; both are strong mutual allies, at least in backing each other up both in terms of resources and PR.
Don't you think it could make them a target of russia's cyber warfare?
Use the cloud to strengthen your supply chain
> "lzma and zstd guis i've tested will store ten compressed copies"

It depends on dictionary size, word size, the actual data etc.
I recently purchase a Wacom graphics tablet to use during Zoom meetings.

It is astonishing how often there is a call going, with parties from different parts of the firm, where it's clear that everyone has a different idea about what the problem is.

Just being able to draw out the "flow" of the components or even making a list helps everyone first visualize and then understand the problem. Zoom's whiteboard feature is great at this as it allows you to undo, erase "objects" (e.g. a line you just drew instead of the pixels) and you can easily save what you drew.

PS If you don't have a graphics tablet, just listing out what the issues are in a shared Excel or Google Sheets also works wonders.
Contact information is in my profile. Come get me.

Here's the more relevant wikipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_realism
ARJ Software
Depends on Russia's goals. From this other front page (lengthy) discussion[1], they posit Russia likely made a mistake if their goal is regime change. Insurgency's work, especially when they are legitimate. I expect if Ukraine forces survive, they would recieve long-term and well-financed backing indefinitely from the west. Now if Russia's goals are not regime change but just to destablize / make a mess, or even to just make a statement and leave (if that's politically viable? idk), different story.

[1]: https://acoup.blog/2022/02/25/miscellanea-understanding-the-...
Is this the same Patreon?

https://www.patreon.com/GunWebsites
> Everyone thinks they're on the right side.

In this case that has been made pretty easy to see. Even large numbers of Russians agree with that.

> Now, obviously I think we (as in EU+US) are the good guys here, but it's quite clear that a lot of people were both very convinced and very wrong about this and I don't consider us unfailable.

Indeed. But this isn't the Cuban missile crisis (which was provoked by the USSR to begin with) and the Ukraine isn't anything like Cuba.

Note that Cuba was - in spite of everything - never actually invaded with the intent to occupy, and it's not as if the US couldn't have done that if they had wanted to do so.
The Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 was similar to Bay of Pigs (with the difference that the former succeeded, while the latter failed miserably). The current situation is a full blown war and nothing less than that.
Wood is fun to work with! Very rewarding.
That might be a norm that the world _should_ have but it’s not one that actually exists currently.

We demand that payment gateways prevent fraud, prevent the sale of criminal or objectionable materials, prevent money laundering and prevent sending money to nations and individuals under sanction.

Having a policy of not supporting weapons purchases is on that spectrum. Just claiming people can do what they want with their money just isn’t true.
You mean like for the 8 years when the same page was up, and Patreon never had a problem with it?

SO they were OK with it, until they suddenly decided when Russia ramped up the invasion - got it patreon, small invasions no problem big invasions, pull the rug.
Wouldn't the nuclear signature of something like that be trivially detectable though?
Yeah, I see this kind of sentiment everywhere these days. Just because people disagree about things doesn’t mean it’s a subjective issue you can just wash your hands of. Sometimes you just have to dive in, figure out who’s right (or less wrong) and hope your assessment is correct. It sucks if you’re the kind of person who wants to never be wrong, but the adult world is messy, we often can’t afford that luxury.
Right, but my point is this: What is the point in saving some sub 1% of screen space from a screen that is typically too big to even be fully utilized? Why are all the buttons tiny and hard to click, why do they have hieroglyphic symbols with no labels?

A button for opening an ad for a third party app (Pocket) is important enough to be immediately accessible. Why aren't my bookmarks deemed as important?

Makes a lot of sense on a mobile device where screen space is very limited. But on desktop?
That's true, the brain drain is going to be impossible to stop without giving people a credible future and for that to happen the corruption needs to stop.
Consider both the US and Russia eventually left Afghanistan.
"We don’t allow Patreon to be used for funding weapons or military activity."
What is this then?
https://www.patreon.com/search?q=guns
Also related (learned this from HN a couple of weeks ago):

SuperTag https://amoffat.github.io/supertag/
it's maybe one of the wikipedia-over-dns service.
i had this but it does not work by now:
dig +short txt Article_Title.wp.dg.cx
I've used winRAR for a long time because of the "self-extracting executable" feature. You can set it up to create an exe (instead of a rar) that extracts files to a particular location and then runs arbitrary commands. It's like a super simple ghetto-fabulous installer and it just works.

Now I wonder what else can do that as easily in a windows environment? I haven't looked around because I haven't needed to but now I am curious. And yes, the winRAR UI is getting a bit long in the tooth.
if I starve you for a week, what would you do then?

ethics are always the privilege of the well to do
I would but then i would be labeled an "insurrectionist" and possibly have my ability to transact in the every day life removed...

the US, Canada, and most of the "West" is trying very hard to make Liberty and freedom protest illegal, you can only protest some topics, and some actions by government and only with the approval of government that your protesting is OK
They have a valid point in not wanting to be used for funding military support, however the way they express concern for the safety of Ukrainian people without criticizing or even taking distance from Putin and the Russian invasion looks quite strange to me. Ukraine wasn't hit by a tornado or an earthquake; there's people behind the invasion, and Patreon seem to ignore that. Expressing disapproval against people behind the facts, and not merely the facts, is important.
Nowadays I don't do much professional webdev, so I don't deal with as big projects.

But I used to use a poor man's BEM, because my team didn't like the aesthetics of the whole double-underscore thing:

Every component (usually tied to a $WhicheverFramework counterpart, matching case and all) has a class for it, elements that are part of that component get a class like $Component-$part, and states ("modifiers" in BEM) do not need a prefix.

That, and striving to keep the tree small, moving decorations to pseudo-elements when possible, and using CSS grid instead of element-based ones like Bootstrap, means you might get some long CSS rule lists, but the actual amount of selectors is pretty manageable.
The change is from 5% to 6.5%. That is a 30% hike, but it isn't an Apple-style 30% fee.
The worst part of rar (and zip) is that they don't specify filename encoding so you'll end up with a encoding hell.
Twitter has just blocked https://twitter.com/OSINT_Ukraine account. Good job Twitter, congratulation, Mr. Putin certainly approves your support.
> To me a hot plate is a (small, portable) substitute for a stove

Also that here too (or the plate of an old-style metal electric cooker). Portable hot plates are a thing again here but were out of favour for a good while, again due to electrical safety standards.

> You also make me curious what you think of the George Foreman Grill, which as I understand it is a ridged, hinged, self-heating griddle that you fold around whatever hopefully-flat thing you want to grill. Almost exactly the same as a waffle iron, except it's a "grill" instead.

I think in Europe and the UK we were kind of confused that the George Foreman Grill was such a big deal; we've had press-type grills like that over a long period, particularly as panini presses. But they've always been used to cook things like bacon. What makes the George Foreman Grill good is the quality of its construction.

When I was a student we relied on a toasted sandwich maker; like a smaller panini press, a bit like a waffle iron except designed to enclose, seal and cook a filling -- cheese and tomato, tuna etc. -- between two slices of bread. Genius invention but capable of heating cheese beyond what is allowed by physics. You definitely could cook other things in a toasted sandwich maker if you were OK with them coming out triangle-shaped.

This is making me hungry (and homesick for my vintage gas cooker, since where I am staying has a decidedly unimpressive early 90s electric cooker)

> (To your earlier point, I tend to agree that there are many words that basically just mean "cook", and the particular word used is determined by convention according to the object being cooked. Bread is baked; beef is not baked, even if what you do to the beef is identical to what you do to the bread.)

Right. It also occured to me last night that there are heritage/legacy aspects. e.g. perhaps "roasting" comes from cooking over open fire on a stick; we just now do it in an oven.
Thanks for writing these updates, Raph - back in 2019, your early piet-gpu blog posts helped to reignite my interest in 2D rendering. I recently learned that you also invented Cairo's trapezoidal-coverage algorithm, which was my original introduction to anti-aliased 2D rendering ten years ago!

Over the last few weeks, this interest has finally spiralled into an attempt to develop a renderer of my own. I've come up with a design which seems promising, but I do have one question for which I haven't yet found a good answer:

It seems to be common wisdom that 16xMSAA has unacceptable quality for 2D rendering. In practice, though, I'm struggling to find any test-cases where I can differentiate 16xMSAA from 256-shade analytical AA with the naked eye. The only exception has been fine strokes (e.g. downscaled text, or the whiskers on this Ghostscript tiger [0]), which tend to "shimmer" or "sparkle" as they move. Does MSAA have any other common failure modes that I should be aware of?

[0]: https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_loader_svg.html
But slower.
Meanwhile, I keep saving the WinRK installer from my antivirus software.
Bundlephobia: Find the cost of adding a NPM package to your bundle
I’m not American and haven’t been in the United States in several years. Why should a foreign country’s laws impact what I read?

Going even further, a democratically elected leader asked their citizens to help. Once again, why does American law matter?? Does America claim sovereignty over Ukraine now too??
> Does Trump have any influence there by any chance, given his recent statements?

Interesting take to say the least.
For trade between China and Russia, why wouldn't they just do it via Yuan and Rubel? What does a new system like CIPS bring to the table here?
You missed the detail that Flynn was pardoned....of talking to the Russian ambassador and lying about it, to US law enforcement.
You can have that with updates using Squirrel; https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows.
Oh come on you type 15 letters by accident all the time :)
Hmm.. I think you're stuck in the idea that there are good and bad actors, that this stuff isn't propaganda, that it's not just about power, all of it bad... I'm sure if you're in Russia the exact opposite arguments are being made, and make sense to their citizens.

My point really is that - to an outsider with no dog in the race - if you take a long view, it seems equivalent to the US civil war. What you just said, couldn't you equate Russia/Ukraine to US/southern states?
There is this thing called 'False Balance' of which this is a specific example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
I've been programming in C for 20 years, and I think it's scary. Not because I don't know it, but because I know exactly how many cases of seemingly normal code can hide UB. I know from experience that even the best programmers following best practices will make mistakes (or run into someone else's). C is an extraordinary amplifier of bug severity. I know how much diligence, effort, and tooling it takes to merely not screw things up in C.

I've seen time after time people saying "nah, C is fine, you just avoid this and that, use these tools, etc." and this turning out to be insufficient. I've heard many times "maybe you're just a bad programmer and can't handle C, but I'm a good programmer and have no problems" and their code not surviving 5 minutes of fuzzing. I've seen people conclude that multi-threading beyond simplest constructs is just infeasible to get right, and think that's an inherent property of threading, and not fragility of C.
Yeah, you’d need to use something like *nix `tar` to do the archiving part. I think newer versions of tar already have support for Zstd.
Microsoft ironically made its fortune by selling software that ran on IBM PC compatible x86 boxes, built around PC BIOS's that started from a clean room reimplementation of the reverse engineered IBM BIOS. IBM itself was not very significant in that market except at the very beginning. Clones for me, but not for thee.
Pretty much everyone actually. What is the worst consequence of not being able to pay for the heating? In the very extreme case, which could affect a tiny minority of the poorest people, you get broke, and have to apply for welfare. Maybe you'll have to use electric heating and/or wear warm clothes inside for a while. That's about it - nothing comparable to what Ukrainians have to endure.
Here's the guy that took leadership of Donetsk when it all started. You may notice his windmill of peace insignia:

https://khpg.org/files/img/1394442849.jpg

Maybe if Putin would stop funding neonazi groups across Europe he'd have any credence on the matter.
"Mexico joining Warsaw Pact / China" and "NATO Missiles" are common Russian propaganda talking points. When someone says those words, you know they are compromised - either willingly working for the enemy of free world, or manipulated into doing it.

("Russian sphere of influence" is another sign of Soviet-thinking, as is talking about "Ukrainian Nazis".)
Looks like they could well have been CNC routed - if you turn them sideways they're a 2D design so it might be even easier than 3D printing them (and pretty!)
RT's app is down at the moment. I'm in Spain
As I said, I don't understand the argument either.
One difference with DynamoDB is that there's no query planner, so you can have a pretty good sense of how many items you'll hit and how big that read is.
As another poster has already said, becoming predators was an absolutely necessary stage for humans to become as intelligent as they are now, so we cannot regret it or wish that it has not happened.

Even many of the people who abhor the most to see the death of other animals cannot abstain to admire the beauty of the actions of top predators like tigers/jaguars or octopuses.

Nevertheless, now we are approaching quickly the moment when killing other animals in order to use their body for food or for producing various useful substances is no longer needed, so we should stop this as soon as it becomes possible.

Unfortunately we still need some technological developments for this to become feasible everywhere.

I would like to be completely vegan, but for now there still exist 2 food ingredients of animal origin that I consume, because any equivalent vegan alternatives for them are much more expensive than I can afford.

However, the bulk of the food, which provides most of the energy, can already be restricted to non-animal origins, for everyone, everywhere.
None of those are fundraising for weapons or military activity. They all seem to be videos or blogging fundraisers.
I understand your sentiment. And US has made a big mess in many places no doubt.

Yet please understand the view on individual rights in China is non-existent. Take for instance Guantanamo bay is child's play compared to treatment of:

- Falun Gong, they organ harvested their followers and sold their organs on the black market

- Entire Muslim population in Re-education camps + chemical sterilization

- Tibet as a people, country and culture is systematically being eradicated by a very well thought out strategy

And many more things happening.

And the imperial games the US played last 30 years. China is playing now, they have secretly taken over many African countries.

And if it wasn't for the military power of the US China would be much more blatant in taking over countries. Wether we like it or not, we need the US as a super power to balance out the others.
A funding mechanism should be set up for refugees fleeing Ukraine. Jen Psaki announced US is coordinating with Poland to accept refugees who want to relocate to US.
And were the Taliban, a democratically elected regime? Granted, they were (are?) less corrupt that the government that the US had installed, but they don't represent the interests of the people of Afghanistan, either.
Upcycling Android: anchoring software freedom into European ecodesign
hehe i didnt want to put `between 1 and` because of the salt fiasco https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commit/5dd304276ba5745ec21...

and then i had a typo ..

i will fix in the next revision!
Is it a coincidence? Or are dosimeters commonly calibrated for a maximum reading of "not great, not terrible" for best sensitivity in the range they're likely to be needed for? This maximum reading is 50 times less than the famous "3.6 Roentgens".
Inno Setup (https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). Probably not quite as easy as WinRAR, but close. It comes with an IDE with a point and click wizard for simple installers (i.e. just copy files from A to B).
Don't listen to peasants, use RAR
I'm perfectly capable of transferring funds to Ukranian bank accounts from where I'm sitting, my bank doesn't get a say in that.

If I were to try to send money to ISIS or some other known terrorist organization they would surely step in under AMT laws, but the Ukranian defense force is last I checked not on that list (Though I'm sure Putin would love that.)

https://www.dnb.nl/en/sector-information/supervision-laws-an...

So effectively Patreon is carrying Putin's water here.
Yeah, you are right, Ukrainians want to purchase those weapon just for fun...
On paper with raw soldier numbers you may be right, but look at the map, and check once again how many troops russians deployed. Its not possible to really conquer country so vast with so few soldiers. Maybe 5x more, maybe 10x. Not if civilians are armed, full of hate and can actually shoot their guns and plan diversions effectively.

Yes they can bomb the bases and airports, capture few important points, but if population offers resistance in form of guerilla warfare, russians will bleed and will bleed hard and achieve nothing. Not that russian oligarchs like Putin ever cared about casualties even on their side.

I am not claiming its the best approach overall, maybe even the worst in terms of casualties. But there is something in human nature that reacts wildly when oppression comes and freedoms are being taken. Americans should understand this very well.

I personally think his game is just to install pro-russian government forever and few military bases and withdraw most of the army. Something like second Belarus. Look at the map - he will have 500km wall from rest of Europe. Now the billion $ question is, what he thinks about baltic states, since they are part of Nato.
I avoid any proprietary data compression software because they tend to try to lock you in their own file formats. Not just WinRAR, I've seen such attempts at least twice just in my own country (South Korea). I don't want to take a risk that I can't (freely) open my own archive later; I'm aware the risk would be much smaller for WinRAR, but that's still unacceptable for me.
Does Patreon have ties to Russia that are relevant here, or is this purely a principled move based on their terms?
I'm sure you'd also tell someone being raped to not defend themselves so it's over faster?

Jesus Christ, how do you people get so callous? What is wrong with you? who hurt you? What made you give up empathy and humanity?

I'll never understand you people.