skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't been in an active band for over a decade, but back when I was bandcamp was the only way we ever got money online. We had it set to optional to pay, and we would randomly get $5-30 from people around the world. It wasn't much, but it always felt nice.

I also like the way they handled payments to artists, I'm not sure if they still do it this way, but back then your first 9 payments would go directly to your paypal, and the 10th would go to theirs. And they would balance it out to keep it where they only took %10.
McCain was giving speeches in Ukraine and Biden's son was installed on board of directors of Ukranian energy producer. Lots of USA meddling.

When was eastern Ukraine (ethnic Russians) going to be voting on leaving Ukraine?

Anyone wondering how Putin got into power may want to research how the New York bankers and Clintons tried to install Boris Berezovsky in Russia.
I don't have enough Java experience to know the answer to that question.
Right now we're still in closed beta, but we'd love to chat!
Well, this blew my mind.

Are there any iOS camera apps that will let me experiment with taking "natural perspective" photos?
Seaplane – The new way to build infrastructure
That's more NetBeans than Java- the GUI builder really didn't want you messing with it's generated code directly.
> I don't understand why people just don't believe Russia is being literal with their intentions.

That's very reasonable.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071766987/u-s-russia-dicuss-...

> Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov emerged from the nearly eight hours of talks and declared, "There are no plans or intentions to attack Ukraine." He went on to say, "There is no reason to fear some kind of escalatory scenario."

That was, quite clearly, a lie, as they'd already massed 100,000 troops near Ukraine.
a decade of the berkeley math circle
early college
Oh, I forgot that WASM-4 is a thing. It indeed makes a good comparison:

- MicroW8 was originally conceived from the size-coding community (I think it was mainly inspired from TIC-80), and partly because of that its compressed cart is much smaller than WASM-4 carts and can be shared with just a single URL. The built-in assembly language (CurlyWas) also certainly helps.

- MicroW8 has a relatively rich support for palettes and fonts. That might be a matter of taste though (some want a very constrained environment, others want a slightly more powerful but still retro-looking environment).

- As a result WASM-4 doesn't have any sort of text handling while MicroW8 has one, arguably similar to PICO-8 as well due to its control characters.

- MicroW8 doesn't yet have audio support, though it is in the high priority to my understanding.
The parent comment is referring to Cuba.
Ha. Really. I guess I'd rather they were getting 500k Hershey bars, but sugar isn't so good for you either...
Factorio is such a great game that it's probably worth buying even if it were made by the government of North Korea.
Curl-impersonate now also supports Chrome fingerprint
No one seems concerned, except the NATO Secretary General who rushed to Poland specifically to stop Polish President, Andrzej Duda from lending Polish jet fighters:

https://news.yahoo.com/no-eu-countries-aren-t-233404478.html

Also, that one jet that flew from Romania was flying BACK, because it already belonged to Ukraine, just had an emergency landing in Romania for some unknown reason: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44514/su-27-returning-...
I believe they do have air superiority, just not air supremacy.
Ouch. On a more positive note:
Goethe -> George Eliot -> "browser"* -> the WWW

* Bullet 12 in here: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/538298/facts-about-georg...
I'm not sure about the public facing entities, but the Federal Government already has a VERY widespread PKI system in place that I'm sure they will leverage. Most federal departments already have a process for distributing a smartcard with a Federally signed key to all their employees and some contractors. I'm hoping that they can extend that to non-employees.
No. It means that they just open up and clean the machine each day, just like every other appliance that touches food. The MD machine was designed to run without daily cleaning.
>Look at the Punic Wars vs. the Peloponnesian War for example

Not sure how this supports your thesis. Are you trying to say that the punic wars was more devastating/brutal than the Peloponnesian because the first had people of different races fighting while the second had only Greeks fighting amongst themselves ? there are several problems with this :

- We have no estimates of the casualties on both sides of both conflicts, Wikipedia only has an estimate of one side of the Peloponnesian, and it's only the military casualties.

- In the Peloponnesian war, Sparta actually allied with the Persians. They were entirely OK with people of different races murdering their fellow Greeks, I think they had zero problems murdering their own race too. (and burning the whole city if it came to that, but it didn't, but that doesn't really mean Spartans were softer because their enemies were Greek, it just means the Athenians surrendered quicker and didn't try again, unlike the Punics)

>Japanese in the Warring States vs. Japanese in China in the 1930s

This is really comparing apples and oranges, those two wars are about 5-6 centuries apart, whatever you're comparing as proxy for 'brutal' or 'destructive' is very much confounded by technological advances in warfare.

>Compare the attitudes of the English towards the Germans in WWI vs in WWII.

I don't understand what this is trying to say. Did English attitudes toward Germany differ between WW1 and WW2 (besides the trivial differences explainable by the change in geopolitical atmosphere and warfare style)? how much of that is both parties seeing each other as different or similar races?

>the behavior of the Germans on the different fronts

I never said that race-based dehumanization isn't brutally effective and leads to astonishing results when it could be used, in fact I placed it at the top of the hierarchy when it comes to dehumanization algorithms.

What I'm denying here is the claim that this efficiency of dehumanization can't be achieved using other methods or combination of methods, I'm asserting that it can, just with more effort/propaganda. I'm not saying that this is necessarily the case in this specific Ukraine-Russia conflict, I don't trust the hose of (dis)information on this conflict the internet spews every day anyway, so I don't really have a strong opinion on anything in it besides the most naked facts.

All what I'm disputing is the claim

>Wars with same-race combatants are, always or most of the time or on average, less brutal than wars with different races fighting

I'm saying that this is false and reductive, Religion in particular is a very strong counterexample. Communism-style genocides is another.
I mean, it's not rumored - its there in black and white in the club financials:

https://twitter.com/swissramble/status/1476816609851367431?l...

specifically, https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1476819216909099162

"CFC only have £30m debt in the football club, down from £47m prior year, though it should be noted that the holding company, Fordstam Limited, does have £1.4 bln of debt in the form of an interest-free loan from the owner, theoretically repayable on 18 months notice." This is from FY21, so will have shifted since then, of course.
Sure but for those who remember history C# was Microsoft's answer to the incredible success that Java was clearly becoming.

Being years late to the party and basically creating a (back then) Windows-only copy of Java, it's quite normal that they managed to do a few things better.

Regarding UI editors: back in the days IntelliJ was already amazing and allowed to hide all that boilerplate Java code. This boilerplate code was still there, but hidden by the IDE.
I guess everyone's weighing in with their view, so why not?

Firstly, we should be mindful that the fog of war is now in play, and a good amount of what we think we know is unverifiable. With that caveat out of the way...

It seems that the Russian soldiers are making efforts to avoid attacking civilians directly. Counterexamples exist and could be explained by rogue units, incompetence, or hot-blooded revenge on local resistance.

I speculate that Russian airforce weaponry is not generally high-precision, and the order to avoid targeting civilians implies restraint on use of indiscriminate bombing. Again, we've seen counterexamples which could be explained by all of the above reasons, plus the possibility of friendly fire from failed Ukrainian air defences.

I can only imagine that the "pro-civilian" policy is part of a plan to eventually install a pro-Russia government that has some semblance of consent from the people.

But I cannot fathom how they expect that suzerainty to operate in the face of mass popular resistance.

Did they really launch this invasion on the assumption that the people of Ukraine would just roll over and accept foreign rule?

Their options seem to be (a) beat a hasty retreat; (b) impose a bloody total subjugation of the population; (c) face a decades-long insurgency that will bleed them dry.

We need to find a variant of (a) that allows Putin to save face, because his default will be (b).
Not if the SPA subsequently takes over, (internally) routing links it recognises. (Nuxt does this)
I give you Google Maps is a perfect example maybe for SPA.

But Gmail? Why do we need SPA for that? Receiving emails notifications could be websockets and clicking on email should go to a new page displaying the email. I dont know if the initial gmail was SPA or not, but the current version is very very slow and consumes a lot of memory to display some emails that worked even in terminal clients, remember Pine?

The same for twitter? I anyhow have to press "Load 39 new tweets" to load the new ones so why is it a SPA? Just for that notification? If you would give me a twitter client where I need to refresh the page to load new tweets but works faster and consumes less memory I will happy use that.
Its easy - imagine massive, gargantuan corruption. On all levels, including the very top and going all the way to the lowest soldier. Heck, they were selling gas to Belarus civilians from their own machines while waiting just across the border during February. And then they ran out of it in Ukraine.

Can you imagine US or western Europe soldiers doing something similar en masse?

And its not just that - heavy drinking, fuck-it attitude, and suddenly called to invade the nation who was supposed to be their closest brothers?

They are sort of potemkin village kind of army. Few exceptional units (Spetsnaz), few cool technologies ie anti aircraft missiles, literally maybe 10 new Armata tanks (they found out they can't manufacture them en masse). So you see 40-50 years old tanks which Javelin can fry easily, and even clueless civilian can fire them after 30 minutes of training. You see soldiers abandoning vehicles since they have higher survability on foot. You see tank crew coming to Ukrainian police station to ask where is gas station (I call it clever way to surrender).

I think its actually very dangerous for Russia as a state right now. Showing this much weakness might motivate some neighbors. Especially China, they could run through the country all the way to Barents sea without breaking a sweat.
Of course Rudy isn't going to be a popular person on a tech board:

“And from the earth will well up terrible creations of beings who in their character stand between the mineral kingdom and the plant kingdom as automative beings with a super-natural intellect, an immense intellect. When this development takes hold, the earth will be covered, as with a web, a web of terrible spiders, spiders of enormous wisdom, which however, in their organisation don’t even reach the plant status. Terrible spiders which will interlock with each other, which will imitate in their movements all that which humanity has thought of with their shadowlike intellect that was not inspired by a new imagination, through that which is to come through Spiritual Science. All man’s thoughts of this kind, which are unreal, will come alive. The earth will be covered with terrible mineral-plant like spiders, which will link up with empathy but evil intention.”

- R. Steiner, 13 May 1921
Oligarch, one of the richest russian businessman, a close ally to Yeltsin and Putin too [0]

Few days ago revealed that because of the current situation he will hand over "the stewardship and care of Chelsea FC" to a foundation, then pretty much everyone on the board stepped away [1]

Then today he announced he will sell the whole club instead

0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich#Relationship_...

1, https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/chelsea-foundation-trustees...
> And yet so many modern day startups have no viable exit strategy beyond acquisition

Bandcamp was already profitable and has been for years. The pandemic dramatically increased their sales. They were doing fine.

Why did they need an exit?

That is the real flaw of SV thinking: that simply being a profitable, going concern is somehow inadequate. The result is monopoly accretion as small companies are repeatedly swallowed up by bigger ones.
>Today's market cap of BTC is $839.5B

Or Zero...depends who want to exchange it to real-stuff
I doubt the Russian economy will last for months without a complete collapse, much less years.
When I was young I don't remember the term video game being used very much, the preferred term was always "computer game", even for console games.
No, the azov battalion is much more integrated into the ukrainian army than anything comparable during trump's presidency. This is from the official Ukrainian national guard twitter, where they seem proud of the azov batallion dipping munition in pork lard before fighting Muslim chechens:

https://twitter.com/ng_ukraine/status/1497924614865002497

That does not justify any invasion, but there's also no need to go on the other extreme and turn into azov apologia.
Roman Abramovich is a billionaire and the owner of Chelsea. The context is that he is Russian, Russia invaded Ukraine and now there are many calls to boycott Russian companies and block its oligarch from doing business outside of their home country.
Is there any good kit out there for artists to self host their own store/player?
Chelsea FC, one of the larger clubs in the Premiership, is owned by Roman Abramovich, one of the Russian oligarchs personally named as a target of sanctions as a result of Russia invading Ukraine. Given that, and the possibility that his assets in the UK will be seized, he's selling his stake in the club.

It would be like if the Dallas Cowboys were actually based in Moscow and the Russians had made it impossible for Jerry Jones to do business there and so he was selling his stake in the team.
Does this mean that the decades of training on "Defense in Depth" is going to have to be rewritten and all the certs reacquired?
Deep-learning technique predicts clinical treatment outcomes
jQuery days were bad?
A little too optimist saying USA can stop thousands of nuclear launches at the same time, not even accounting for nuclear subs.

Once a massive nuclear attack starts, the only options are massively launching back, or not answering and hoping for the best, both for your country and the planet.
which one are you using? I could not find an up-to-date one on GitHub. thanks!
YouTube by default prefers newer, bitrate saving codecs over old ones if it thinks your CPU can handle software decoding them. On my 2017 Dell XPS 1080p and lower resolutions on YouTube play in software decoded AV1, only 1440p and higher play in hardware decoded VP9, so playing 4K video on YouTube is less taxing for my CPU than playing a 1080p video....
By comparison, each shuttle launch cost about $1.5 billion.
If the US was taking over Canada, I think we might approach it in a gentler way then Iraq or Afghanistan.
Yep, had this problem several times already.

Look at the fancy load balancer, it can do traffic splitting and you can attach a security policy (waf) to it! Oh wait, you can't do traffic management stuff with the "classic" (legacy) LB, switch to the new one that's still in "preview" (beta). Oh wait, it doesn't support the waf yet. Etc etc.

Another one is some sort of hard-coded service users that must be in place to run things, for example in App Engine. If you delete it, you can't just create a new one with the same permissions, you must undelete it... but only if less than 30 days have passed (!).

All of this is documented of course, but spread out all over the place. The thing about deleting service users isn't (as far as I know) made clear in the IAM docs, for example. The only place I found it was in a howto for the App Engine Python environment: "Using the Default App Engine Service Account".

I share the author's frustration, if it isn't obvious :)
having to run several Java runtime versions on the same computer. I developped some years ago and that was an issue: some applications require 1.7, others 1.8, with some funny security specifics (I think it was not possible to set the security level for certificate on a per-version basis)
The author says of Middlemarch

"""
As a consequence, Will exchanges the questing pursuit of a meaningful life for the settled, trivial existence of a bourgeois, a fate incompatible with his previous identity “as a kind of Shelley” or “a Byronic hero.”
"""

My recollection is that he ended up as a Member of Parliament. The life of a back-bencher, as I suppose he must have been, is not world-historical, but hardly trivial, particularly not in comparison to the dabbling in painting etc. he had done before.
In my humble opinion, SPAs are not the fundamental mistakes. SPAs are applications. There's nothing wrong with having applications. The mistake was not maintaining a distinction between applications and content. The difference between a static document, a collection of hypertext documents, and a web application is very blurry. If it were less blurry, there would have been things we would have been able to do that we are not currently able to do.
I can never tell if comments are sarcastic are not...

but "fortnite" by epic already had concert/online experiences. They've been pretty fun. Maybe getting band camp allows them access to artists they didn't have before?

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/fort-nite-concert-seri...
EU's Ukraine Fighter Jet Promise Falling Apart as Russia Advances
The money could all be payed to families of dead Russian soldiers and still be considered going to "victims of the war in Ukraine"

Plus, I don't think Abramovich really cares of any investigative journalist finds this never came true
> why do we believe what these services promise?

We don't, but we also don't use DuckDuckGo's products as the recovery email for hundreds of online services, as a tool to share and store team spreadsheets or as a storage for all of our pictures, or as a tracker that monitors our location 24/7.

So the worst they could do is spy on our search, they can't track everything we do with the hanging threat of destroying our entire digital life if we do something that its IA deems unacceptable.
The explanation which I have not seen discussed here is that this is a secret war, in Russia.

Putin called it a "special operation." Use of the term "war" in reference to this action has been banned in Russia. This secret war aspect may have had practical effects on command and control. It is possible that by not declaring this more than a limited special action, Putin's deployment options are actually limited.
In 1938, not so much.

In the 1940s, there were computers, such as ENIAC, that were programmed with plugboards that changed the connections between modules that performed various mathematical operations.

If the modules in the Nimatron could be reconfigured to perform other operations, the Nimatron would, by the standards of the era, be considered an electronic computer, even if today we usually reserve that term for Von Neumann style machines where the program consists of symbols stored directly in the machine's memory.
If DHS would issue Global Entry smart cards that were part of the CAC platform [1], that would be a convenient shim until national ID cards could be deployed. I picked up a TWIC card [2] thinking I'd be able to use it with Login.gov, but no such luck.

[1] https://www.cac.mil/common-access-card/

[2] https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30101411 - Jan 2022 (352 comments)
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/...
Investors poured more than half a billion into solar software in the last week
wget --recursive --page-requisites --adjust-extension --convert-links --no-parent https://YOURWEBPAGEHEREX.com

NO "--convert-links" if you want a "pure" non local browsable copy.
Ukraine already struck back inside Russian with a missile attack on an airfield[1]. But I don't think Ukraine has the manpower or the equipment to get munitions anywhere near Moscow.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-forces-target-russian-airfi...
On the other hand Minecraft is the best-selling PC video game of all time and it was originally written in Java and the Java client is the definitive experience of the game.
Chelsea FC is not profitable, so what proceeds can possibly be donated? Even after winning the Champions League they lost money.
This is the iterated prisoner's dilemma of modern US politics.

If you compromise and cooperate with the other party, some fraction of time you will make progress, and some fraction of time you'll get screwed because they're cooperation was a bad-faith trap.

It's certainly the case that at least since New Gingrich the odds of the former have grown much higher when Democratic politicians try to work with Republicans.
Some browsers have poor hw decoding support on Linux (their problem, not drivers) but its gotten a lot better recently.
Destroying bridges, rail, etc would be a huge mistake (beside maybe those leading west to NATO), as the current logistic challenges underscore. The initial blitz did target radars and airports (strategic infrastructure) to try to get air superiority, after which many more options become available. But that didn't play out. We're seeing now a transition to siege tactics; surround and generally make life miserable.
Putin’s Invasion Is a Turning Point in Japan’s Relations with Russia
It can't certainly be for all victims, since they will be in the millions if we count displaced, destroyed property, refugees etc. So it will remain to be seen who really will benefit. I think it is stealthy language
This is a right to repair case and I hope McDonald's looses big time.
I'd be worried that any un-married fighter pilots might just defect. A quick run to Poland, and you're done.
> The foundation will be for the benefit of all victims of the war in Ukraine.

Whoever formulated this is a PR genius.

The West will read it as "the [Russian aggression] war in Ukraine".

Putin can be made believe it meant "the [Ukrainian nazi government] war in [the Donbas region of] Ukraine".
I don't "believe" any of them. My use of other services rather than staying on The Google reservation is because it's always better to not put all your eggs in one basket; The Google can clobber your entire digital life out of nowhere and with little to no recourse. Although you know for a fact that Google has all your data and records everything you do, at least there's a chance with other smaller services that they are either keeping their word or are out of the jurisdiction of your particular law enforcement agency.

At the end of the day, there's no absolute trust towards any of them. When I'm on the internet, I'm assuming that someone with enough motivation can eventually get my data. Instead of rolling over and submitting to The Google, I at least enjoy forcing my potential enemies to go through a more complicated obstacle course.