skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be cool if we all had to use this. But nobody does.
Who would take up the role of morality police though?

I mean would you still support it if the Ukranian military capture a Russian soldier and torture them?

What if it's not the Ukranian military but IS? Or the US army, which is also guilty of war crimes [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base
My only issue is things calling themselves a database when they are either a wrapper layer around an actual DB (most of the new "databases" I see posted) or as in this case a storage engine.

Not trying to take away from the great work done here but the product name and link title would be more clear if it was referred to as a storage engine rather than a DB.
Could be, yes. Although I do wonder if the average octopus suffers more when being killed than the average cow. If so, then I wonder if that relates to intelligence or to other factors. Structure of nerves etc.

If an octopus wasn't able to feel anything, it would again be okay to eat it? Or if it was sedated before killing it, would that change anything?

Lots of open questions I guess, but I'm just brainstorming a bit :)
Invading a country and killing its people is more illegal. In a war, laws are thrown out of a window and then it is up to everyone’s own moral compass to do what they feel is right. Naturally different people have different opinions and any kind of activisim comes with a risk, like a slap on the wrist in the case of a keyboard warrior. But I am quite sure ISPs, especially European ones, have tolerance for activism.
Par2 is still on use ;)
Direct military intervention increases the risks of massive nuclear or cyber war. Given the frailty of power grids and the season, the US can't justify the risk of death and chaos over supporting Ukraine.

Hopefully anonymous and independent hackers don't escalate to infrastructure attacks.
It is, because apathy is the only chance of the Russians getting away with it.
I wish more languages/softwares/projects set this goal of simplicity and clarity.

Clarity is easier to measure. Simplicity is harder. Take Golang for example, yes you can learn the language in a few days or weeks but then some of the external complexity ends up with boilerplate. Is that simpler in the end?

Then simplicity has many aspects. Take a software project. Simple for who? the users? the original devs? the maintainers?

We have Kolmogorov complexity for algorithms but what is the equivalent to measure whole systems?
Why not both?

What good is your strong economy if one weak link in its supply chain just ceases?
The first two lines of the script are already wrong;

#!/bin/bash

Should be:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

That’s table stakes for any bash script. With the first piece, exit on error, being critically important.
Nobody believed a word this man said.

Did he ever deny the presence of WMDs? Sometimes we must review our memories with the benefit of facts we learned later.
"Furthermore, the small differences in the resulting file size matter less over time as bandwidth is increasing and increasing fast."

Firstly, this argument, if true, would add up to: if you're on Windows, don't use anything other than ZIP.

The argument is not true, because although increasing storage and communication resources make compression less relevant for small files, there is content which is getting larger because of available bandwidth, including aggregations of smaller content.
Alternative Services for Blockchain?
In his recent critique of cryptocurrency/blockchain systems, David Rosenthal cites a study on crypto "decentralization" which claims a Byzantine Quorum of size >= 20 would provide a more robust "decentralized" solution than Bitcoin or Ethereum (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03998.pdf). Are there any existing services that offer something akin to what he describes? If not that particular design, are there other alternatives worth looking into?
Turkey also has a lot of war refugees from Syria etc. too which it has agreements with the EU not to let pass into the EU.

I think Turkey could yet recover though.
> I know emotions are running high in this thread but asking to educate myself.

I hope You would learn something from today's message by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on situation where few Ukrainian kindergartens shelled by Russian rocket strikes:

> Today’s Russian attacks on a kindergarten and an orphanage are war crimes and violations of the Rome Statute. Together with the General Prosecutor’s Office we are collecting this and other facts, which we will immediately send to the Hague. Responsibility is inevitable.[0]

N.B. I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine. Here is my statement for HN:[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1497186665156255754

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395897
a tar.something is just a tar archive passed through a compression filter like zstd or gzip. Anyway, tar needs metadata extensions in order to allow random access; most tarballs you'll find don't. So you need to read 5TB of data to find the file at point 5TB in an archive of size 10TB. Which is why as a general purpose archiving format, tar needs to be applied to use cases where it works. It gets old really quick if you don't have random access and random access requirements, plus, remediated by SSDs these days for a bit, it's really time consuming.
Is there a gopher client for macOS? I haven't been able to find one. Command-line is preferred, but beggars can't be choosers.
What if China's future moves in Taiwan are being determined by the Ukrainian outcome? A Russian victory (I think) will show a weakened, divided West and will embolden China.
This is surely the cause. Germany has foot-gunned itself horrifically when they gutted their nuclear power generation. The idea was to replace it medium-term with natural gas.

Natural gas is also quite common in germany for building heating + cooking.
It's more useful for mobile, where there isn't a "home" key and you'll often need to scroll back up to access menus/filters/etc.
like how the US was supposed to send them $400 million in military aid? [0] Or the EU is sending them €1.2 billion?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Tr...

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022...
> Are there not displays with USB-C power buses now?

Retina display.
It most certainly is. In terms of the U.S.'s own involvement, we floated the idea of Ukraine joining NATO, but then did nothing to ensure it actually happened, and the end result is invasion.

Staying neutral on the matter of a straightforward invasion of another country where there is no meaningful "two sides to the issue" analysis to be had is equivalent to materially supporting the invasion. Anyone remotely rational has condemned these actions. True neutrally is only desirable for those who want to continue doing business with the Kremlin or who have other nefarious designs.
If I remember rightly, Apple once patented a hard drive inside a mouse - so you could take your home folder/full OS with you wherever you went.
It's actually nothing like that.
Considering that they use funds only (mostly) to buy defence stuff and to support the recovery of the veterans (there will be many with PTSD and injuries after this war), Patreon is in a morally wrong territory here.

Like other posters said there are several other ways to support this fund (crypto / wire transfer) or Ukrainian army directly (wire transfer).

With crypto there is an almost 100% chance the money transfer will go through. Not sure about banks, haven't heard anything about wire transfers not going through
Looks like the first paragraph was a recent edit. I'm not sure how gopherpedia works but perhaps it only syncs periodically.
Youtube banning people and channels that support Ukraine or watch live streams from Kiev. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467384
> But I am quite sure ISPs, especially European ones, have tolerance for activism.

Only if it’s the right kind of activism.
How so? There is preciously little else you can do to feel like you may make a difference.

Not that I believe donating here would have helped, but…
>Apple didn't make large screen iPhones until the competition forced them to

And people like me have to suffer with what I consider comically huge phones because of that. The iPhone “mini” is still massive and it's probably going away.

Hopefully Apple Glasses will save us all from RSI.
> I'm one of those people who think OS kernels should stay as portable and simple as possible (i.e. C89 or some other easily-bootstrappable language, to avoid Ken Thompson attacks)

Why does the complexity of the OS, or even its ability to be compiled by multiple compilers, matter for "trusting trust" attacks?

As I've always seen it, the problems and solutions all exist at the compiler level. The whole premise relies on starting with a binary compiler that you are expected to trust. The source is also assumed to be safe and un-tampered for purposes of this discussion because that's an entirely different issue.

The solution, of course, is to build the compiler itself with different compilers. If you build the same compiler with two or more different compilers, then use that to compile itself, you should be able to with the right options (see the work that has been done on reproducible builds) get binaries that are equal or close enough to easily compare any differences.

At that point if they are the same then you know either it's good or both of the upstream compilers were also compromised.

If for whatever reason that's not practical at the top level compiler the same concepts apply going further back in history until you get to some early compiler a bored grad student wrote in the '80s in pure ASM.

As a result from a practical sense I don't really see "trusting trust" attacks to be that big of a concern. It's always possible to work your way back down the tree of software until you get to a point where you can actually trust a compiler and then build your way back forward from there.

If a compiler starts depending on its own tricks and gets to a point where it can only be successfully compiled by itself, then there are reasons to be suspicious. Even then you'd just have to have the last version to be able to be built by other packages as one more stop along the way to trust.
Nah, I clarified because I felt my comment was ambiguous and didn't want someone to turn it against RT (which you kind of did anyway).

I actually enjoy RT, as they make some interesting documentaries, https://www.youtube.com/c/RTDocumentaryChannel/videos
Please fix your comment, you're basically saying that Ukraine should just roll over. What happens next? Think before replying, you may come across as a Russia apologist.

the Taliban and IS dragged out the conflict in the middle east for 20 years and came out victorious against an army that spent trillions on that conflict. That was after said army was defeated in Vietnam as well.
I just read Parable of the Sower by Butler and it's also very relevant I think.
If farming result in the existence of happy animals then the process definitely favors them. If it results in their unhappy existence then it does not favor them.

The argument around doing them the favor of providing them existence relies on them having a nice life, until the day we eat them. It sounds like you are opposed to them coming into existence because it means they exist in existential agony.

Also that physical agony is a near certainty, by your last paragraph. But that does not seem to be the core of your objection.
> Inaction is equal to support of the Russian invasion

No, no it isn't, in this or in other situations. More than two choices _usually_ exist. Statements like this present a false dichotomy in an attempt to coerce people to support a preferred position or interpretation.
I wish more of these backup solutions (even simple scripts like this) would include zero trust features.

I'd like to have a backup system that I didn't just kludge together myself over a weekend that accomplishes both delta change detection and rotation as well as allows me to keep my data encrypted with a key only I control.
"(...) putting the rest of their money in a rainy-day fund (...)"

What do we do when we are outcast from the financial system or it ceases to function?
No, it is by definition impossible for an older product to ever violate a later patent, as a patent is invalid in the presence of prior art.
> MongoDB is distributed, PostGreSQL and SQlite are not.

YugabyteDB is distributed and Postgres 11.2 compatible. AFAIK it will be 13.x compatible soon.
Funny you should mention NewPipe since they discourage users from relying on the official F-Droid repo for the very reason of slow updates, which you don't want for an app relying on parsing web pages that are likely to change. The app itself (at least the regular build provided by the developers) sends you a notification once a new update is available. They also maintain a third-party repository, which again is fine at mitigating some issues of the official repository (while breaking the security model because the OS inherently wants one source per app repository, but at least it's more usable than waiting for the F-Droid build to be updated).

F-Droid can't do anything against "secret code" since they don't/can't analyze the whole codebase. Like said multiple times, they only run a few scripts on the available source code to remove known trackers, which is known to be a poor approach to privacy.
Even if you are a prepper, there is always the risk that you aren't able to get home. Maybe you are on a trip across the ocean, maybe you died in the initial attack. As such you should tell your friends who might be able to get to your bunker how to get in without you. Maybe you save a friend even if you can't save yourself.

Also it is easy to have enough food to last for a year or two, but what after that? It is a lot easier to survive if you have a village with you. A village protects against loneliness/depression. A village planting fields makes it more likely not all of them fail (rain/hail is often unevenly distributed even across a small village). A village makes it more likely that useful skills survive - medical doctors (even without modern infrastructure they can still do a lot), various trades can often figure out useful things (if there are enough engineers and some sort of easy power source you might even be able to get an electric grid for your village). With enough people it is more likely someone actually knows enough about gardening to help you grow food.
> Other nations have been training Ukrainian Troops and supplying Stinger missiles and so on. Lots of diplomacy and financial sanctions happening.

A lot of that has been too little, too late (e.g. last minute transfers of some equipment). Some of it was an embarrassment (Germany sending hats).

IIRC, the US gives far more military assistance to Israel than it ever has to Ukraine. In retrospect, that really should have changed circa 2014. Most of Europe continues to live in a fantasy-land where war is unthinkable and Putin cares about the easy half-measures they're willing to take.

Putin's done a bully thing by making one of his demands that his victims be kept weak. The Western powers more or less obliged him.
Zero chance of them doing anything about the games basically being 90 minute Gazprom adverts though
Unar is a libre alternative.
Yes. The GPL is not a license which dictates how you can use software, such as that you must not read it, or use ideas from it.

EULA restrictions like "no reverse engineering" are not rooted in copyright law, and borrowing ideas is in the realm of patents.

EULA's try to leverage copyright law in order to impose non-copyright restrictions, using the concept that if you violate any of the arbitrary non-copyright restrictions, the thereby violated license lapses, and that license is the document which allows you to have a copy of the software (not the fact that you paid).
> Cash on hand, a gun with ammunition, canned food, and bottled water.

Contrary to popular opinion, people generally pull together in disasters rather than society falling apart. Good book on what happened in various situations ( 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans)

* http://rebeccasolnit.net/book/a-paradise-built-in-hell/

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6444492-a-paradise-built...

It's an area / sub-field of study:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_disaster
A "strong community" full of people with no resources isn't going to work so well, though.

Best way to get into that "small community" is to have something to offer. Of course, it may not be a "bunker", but if all you're bringing to your "strong community" is another mouth to feed and some free time, don't expect the community to celebrate your arrival.

Indeed, they may not even let you in. It would be a time of strong communities, yes, but not the "let's all hold hands and sing kumbaya in our glorious unity"-style strong communities. It's going to be working hard together to survive. Those who don't have something to contribute aren't going to find themselves very welcome.

Basically, what I'm saying is, don't think "oh, I'll just have a strong community to fall back on so I don't need to do any prep". Especially if you're not already in one! If nothing else, prep today as your contribution to that strong community tomorrow.

(And I mean "prep" as the document does, sensible precautions to increase your robustness and decrease your reliance on resources that will be stretched thin in event of catastrophe, things that might actually happen, not necessarily piling 4 years of food into a bunker. Considering one of the "things that will never happen" just happened you have a more clear view than ever of what sort of things might go wrong, and, well, even if the virus is basically done there's plenty of reasons to believe the consequences of it are not.)
Would you have thought the Taliban and IS did in e.g. Afghanistan? Twenty years later and the US got tired of trying, pulled out, and they're back in power.

They can't win a guerilla war.
Buy a plotter. There are many second hand ones on the market.
Taiwan is also not in NATO. So the situation would unfortunately be somewhat similar.
There is going to be nothing to stop China and the USSR from doing this for exactly that reason. At this point the only thing you can do is temporarily inconvenience them, since they’ll get off SWIFT as soon as possible anyway.
> Perfect? Ha.

The cynic in me believes this was intentional to drive engagement and discussion.

It's that old adage of "if you want to learn something just say something wrong about it on the Internet" at work.
I still remember WikipediaFS from almost two decades ago when FUSE-based filesystems were popular (and that project allowed editing Wikipedia too).
I thought it was a design patent. It's full of very specific measurements.

Design patents only protect key aspects of product design, they are more limited, and -- evidently like this one -- they're kept secret until they are granted.

There's a good chance this device is actually going to happen.

If it's not a design patent then they are really only claiming one or two small elements of this as innovation. Read any patent; they're all like this at some level.
Talking about Amiga, don't forget PowerPacker! That's what I used on Amiga, in addition to LHA.

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/PowerPacker

http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=66230
If Putin wins, I think we'll get an even higher chance of nuclear or cyber war. He has no reason to stop at Ukraine and has no moral issue with using whatever weapon he can get his hands on to win.
Is a signed memorandum not binding then? Is it little more than hopes and aspirations?
Systematic Prevention of On-Core Timing Channels by Full Temporal Partitioning
>- WinRAR supports various formats such as ISO, JAR, and a few typical zip-ish formats.

Jar is just a ZIP. ISO's can be mounted under Unix.

> - Context-aware extraction. For example, if you double click a PNG, it only extracts that PNG file. For an exe, it extracts the whole thing.

Any software does that since... Amiga days?

>- Splitting files, locked archives, AES protection, SFX, and other features are easily accessible.

Splitting exists since forever.
Patreon should have insisted the Ukrainian guerrillas bear their insignia, really bring this war into the 21st century.
By the article's standard, breathing air produces genetic changes :D
I could see this as a replacement for Mac mini. However patents often don’t revolve into actual products so who knows.
Why did Turkey agree to that? Hopes for EU membership?
That was my thinking too but I can't find a revision without it on the first page of results going back to 2019. Why does it look like a recent edit to you?
Sad thing is that now with conscription, if you are male 18-55, Ukraine side will force you to fight that war, at least as far as I understand it.

What a fucked up world we live in…
Just for fun, here’s a site most people visiting Turkey would probably never visit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaz%C4%B1l%C4%B1kaya,_Eski%C...

I’d never heard of Phrygia before a friend mentioned the Midas Monument to me. If you’re passing through that area, check it out.
Yes there are. Anonymous in this case might just be a small discord server with access to a working slowloris script. There really is no collective in this form of loose collective ;)
For heat in northern climates, unfortunately there's only so much you can do (outside of a backup generator with a big propane tank). A wood stove/fireplace can keep you comfortable but you'll still probably end up with frozen/broken pipes.

But I agree with your basic point. Early on in the pandemic there were people stocking up on 6 months of rice/pasta/etc. In cities. You basically plan for relatively short outages or you plan for civilizational collapse which probably involves getting out of cities and preparing for people trying to take stuff from you.
Not really. There are plenty of low-profile high-net-worth miners with that much. I used to hang out in the cex.io chatroom back in 2014 and there were fat cat miners in there who would say "watch this" and then the price would quickly go down by several percentage points because their entire mining pool just sold. It seems quite plausible at least to me that one of these networks might decide to donate a large amount all at once.
These internships requesting 4th semesters of college-how does your experience rank to them?

Maybe identify what you miss other than the semesters requirement and grind towards adding them. The semester thing may simply mean they want someone who has made it through the first two years of college. It may be a thing to avoid students likely to drop out of college or something like that. Your robotics experience may go some ways ameliorating that worry.

Otherwise, I’d say spend some time figuring out what’s coming in your college courses. If you have areas of weakness now is the time to go back and strengthen that knowledge without homework and quiz stressors.

Edit-also, lookup the syllabus for your coming courses. If you can ID which textbooks you’ll need and get them you can start reading them now. These are usually posted on professor pages or department pages.
Personal donations to a foreign nation-state for the purposes of building and supporting military operations is not the cyberpunk plotline I expected to come out of 2022.
Any lossy compression format it's crap.
Are there secondary sources? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda.ru#Controversy the website is very much pro-Russia "according to Vladimir Pribylovsky, the site is maintained by the Department of Internal Policy of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation"