skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead

It is a huge performance issue.

I tried to do a pokedex in react, you have to use a virtual list, because react/virtual dom is too slow, doing any operation on a plain list with 1k element, like filtering lead to multiples seconds freeze.

This also lead to a lot of issues, like not being able to ctrl+f text being out of screen in a virtual list.
(disclaimer, I'm russian but not Russia citizen, but I 'experienced the culture' for 30 years)
This is wrong. There is not so much special russian 'mentality' left in Russia, not in the big cities. People there have more-or-less the same 'european values'. The problem now is that we used to think of ourselves as 'good guys'. We destroyed nazis and even though we did a lot of not so good stuff, in minds of russians it always viewed as 'missteps' or 'lesser evil'. Thats why propaganda now is so efficient. General population of Russia can't even imagine the possibility that we invade other country. Because it is impossible, we remember way too well how we were invaded by Germany. And it is easy to use. Basically government tells people that we actually prevent Ukraine to invade DNR/LNR. Yes, it sounds stupid, but it works. Personally I can't even convince my parents that right now we are the bad guys. It is beyond their world view.
My point here is that russians are not some special people or special culture that allow us to invade other countries. We just struggle to move to more 'people-based' governments.
Easy, Java and .NET SSR frameworks (which support components for two decades now), + vanilaJS for Ajax like behaviours.

Loads fast, easy to debug without tons of layers in the middle.

And yes, I also do manually make use of script and vendor JS libraries.

Naturally it only works when doing side gigs on my own, on big Web projects where my role is mostly BE/DevSecOps, I go with the flow.
You might want to consider terminating for Belarus too now that they are invading Ukraine as well.
A big complicating factor there was also the concomitant sanctions by the US and some of their allies. I don't want to imply that I don't think banning SWIFT wasn't important or impactful in either of these cases (it was) - I just wanted to make clear what precisely was happening, as I don't think most reporting was very clear. I'm sorry if it came off otherwise; I appreciate you dropping this comment as I don't want anyone getting the impression that I'm flippantly suggesting that Russia could easily go on with business as usual through alternative means.
Can't help to notice that all of [european_country]'s first unicorns are payment service providers.

Scalapay (it), Adyen (nl), now Payhawk. And probably a few more that I'm missing here.
> I don't think we tried to push for Ukraine as neutral state, like Finland, did we? Does EU/NATO really NEED Ukraine to join them?

Yours is an imperialistic attitude. The question is not, how could EU or US or NATO or Russia push Ukraine about. The question is, what do the Ukrainians themselves want or need.
> We are an independent policy institute

https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us

Sure you are. Who funds you?

google maps tells me that this organisation is on St James's Square, not Tufton Street, but how much distance is that, really?
> https://payhawk.com offers 3% cashback on card payments up to the full amount of your subscription.

So they seem to offer corporate cards to at least in UK, Germany and Spain.
There are 2 public plans at €149/mo and €299/mo.
Does that mean that they will offer up to 3% cashback until you reach the 149€/mo or 299€/mo?
In that case you are not really getting a cashback but getting their service for free if you spend enough...

COMPETITORS I KNOW OF:

https://wise.com offers free business bank accounts with pre-paid cards in a LOT of countries (US and EU and many more)

https://mercury.com offers free business bank accounts with pre-paid cards in the US.

https://airbase.com offers free cash back business credit cards but not accounts (it can be paired with mercury.com or wise.com for the bank accounts) in the US.
Digging into the Current State of Content Management
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Is there even going to be something left at all, or someone left, anywhere, depending on the choices of weapons they make in the next few days?
Only if the successor won't decide that Putin was too weak and to win one must use nukes (as Putin has himself hinted already).
What the parent commenters are saying is that URLs in the page which are _not links_ have also been rewritten, e.g. the ones in the source code snippets which are plain text. They are not clickable so it makes little sense to the user that they are rewritten.

I imagine they probably have a pretty liberal regex working on the source code so that it can also rewrite URLs in JavaScript/CSS/etc.
> If the sanctions didn’t work before, I don’t know why they would work now.

Just look at short term effects: Ruble is down 30%, Russian banks in EU are going bankrupt, interest rate jumped to 20% so anyone with a loan in Russia is screwed... There's talk of seizing people's savings... Nobody can buy foreign currency... Perhaps they'll go back to trading with Kent cigar packs like in former USSR.

Longer term, it's assumptions, it's doubtful sanctions will go away any time soon, I'd look at Iran and Cuba for possible effects.

It also decouples EU and everyone else from Russia and it grants some immunity to Russian influence. (harder to do election meddling if you're cut off and everyone is against you)

> I don’t have the answers, but certainly any move toward more militarization of the world is usually a bad thing.

Proper defense does tend to prevent invasions. It's a bitter pill to swallow for a lot of folk that Russia will invade at any opportune time and it's best to be prepared.
Payment services (if you wanted them to work) were for a long time predominantly US-based. I'm very happy this is changing.
> BitLocker backdoor (MS strongly pushes users to backup keys to the cloud while calling it "encrypted", among security blunders)

Even if it's suspicious, it's very easy to understand how this particular thing happened. Key management and handling is surprisingly difficult, even for IT professionals. Look at how many private keys get checked into GitHub on a regular basis.

You have to understand what the keys do and how they protect your data. You need to know that your data is really really gone if you lose them. You need to understand what happens if someone else gets their hands on your keys. You need to keep copies of the backup keys but not too many copies because that's also insecure. You need to understand what powers you are giving another person by asking them to keep a copy of your keys. You need to understand who it is safe to hand your keys over to. You need to be able to tell when you are being tricked into handing your keys over to someone or something malicious.

Some of us may understand all of this but there are many people in the world from whom it is simply unreasonable to expect that. The same people who create new Facebook accounts because they forgot the password to their old one, or take their computer to a repair shop if their emails won't download. BitLocker key backup is about the best way that Microsoft Customer Service or your organisation IT helpdesk can turn around and say "well actually, yes, we can help with this" rather than leaving users to suffer consequences they probably didn't even know about.
I sent a link with a selection of best F-Droid apps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30209189
how is crypto scene in iran? with india's recent tax daylight robbery on crypto i am confident that a lot more people will join the informal network of owning and transacting in crypto. if i have to buy 1k worth of BTC or ETH for example, i can imagine paying a friend the cash and getting their wallet in return.

now translate that to international cross-border transactions and we have a bypass. do iranians accept crypto as in other countries (to be fair, even india is far far behind but the recent acceptance by imposing tax is seen in a good light overall)
Back when they were initially released my teammate started rewriting everything in them. Little did he know, if you're not careful with hooks, you can severely damage performance.

My take is that if a feature requires a linter to be properly implemented then it's obviously giving the developer too much rope to hang themselves with.

Also it appears that they were introduced mainly for performance, but for some reason sold as the new "better" way of writing applications.

I actively avoid React and its ecosystem, because I believe there's just too much FOMO and "fashion"(for lack of a better word) in what drives its development and not enough meritocracy.
> I thought we were on track, but it's just so stark of a reality check.

While I understand the world view and it's utopian appeal. I believe what your youth might have been missing is an incentive to critically think and search for information that is not curated for you.

In the last decades there has been not much (imo) implying we are anywhere even heading towards such a society. I believe it can only be perceived that way if you omit the large parts of society and especially the world as a whole. Local things like changes in living standard for most of the population, crime rates, organized crime. International things like piracy, human trafficking, corruption in different parts of the world.
If you look beyond a local bubble, there doesnt seem to be much implying much was heading towards a society you refer to.

I do not wish to imply you don't think critically, just that there are too many topics for anyone to inform themselves about all of them. At best we are aware of what we know more about and what we know less about.

Regarding critical thought:

While I believe it is important to teach youth about independant thought and critical thinking, I also want for young people to have a somewhat sheltered youth and not to worry about all the horrible things in the world. As so many things it's complicated.
A lot of sites (with domains in non-RU tld) that coordinate, help, inform people about what's really going on are under great pressure from Putin's regime. Sites are getting blocked, people are getting fined and jailed.

Now you are joining this effort on behalf of Putin. Good job, товарищ! Please report to Russian embassy to get your 30 silver pieces.
If they don't - they shouldn't complain that all this shit is on them. Because it is.

Without patriotism there would not be a country where you are at now, no matter which one it is.
Mttaggart/OffensiveNotion: Notion as a platform for offensive operations
Apple might have missed its opportunity in video production
I just think if you're going to eviscerate someone's hobby project then you should at least have the tact to balm it with some encouragement.

>catastrophically, disastrously wrong

maybe it's a semantic thing, for me i wouldn't ever describe anything to do with html, css or fonts as being "catastrophically wrong". it's a subjective opinion.

that kind of hyperbolic language is not appropriate when reviewing someone's code, it could be someone who just recently started learning...
Nobody knows what is after Putin, though we have educated guesses they could be wrong.

Regardless I want to attempt to deal fairly with each one and hopefully bring Russia a better world. (My view of a better world, which is roughly western, but may not be yours).

To be honest I have more hope for Africa, there are a lot of countries and several are making useful steps in the right direction to encourage. It will be interesting to see how west meets Africa works out.
"Support peace" here means "make sure invasion of sovereign nation goes unpunished".

The best anyone can do to make the world better place is support the world again the Russian aggressors and war criminals. People "asking for peace" and "deescalating" are just on the side of the aggressors and war criminals.
Apologies for using a throwaway account.

It is true that the idea of suffering have been engraved into the Russian culture, for centuries. It is the ever-present fear of what could happen next, based on what has happened in the past. The fear of things getting even worse, despite everything being bad already. The longing for a chance to have even a short period of normal life, before everything inevitably falls apart (because it always does, roughly twice per century). The idea of accepting the current reality as something immutable and just trying to live with it. The idea of personal (rather than collective) survival. Of course in these circumstances you rarely have the luxury to think about what is right.

Now, that is exactly what state media has learned to exploit. They were selling the idea that nothing _too_ bad will happen if everyone just stays away from politics. Well, now the worst happened. It has been only a few days, and not many people have realized what is coming next. A collapse of economy at this scale will inevitably lead to a massive increase of hunger, crime and death. And — I am not even sure it can change those people's collective behavior.

Personally, I am trying to do my part, but I do not believe my work is going to be of any significance. Maybe it's the "soul".
Options:

Fight

Flight

Starve

Advocating for fight is reasonable because it has the most benefit but the highest activation energy.
I’ve become convinced that intellectual property restrictions significantly slow innovation. If no one was allowed to own information we’d still have to get things done and work to make a profit. Only once someone figured something out everyone could adopt it right away. Take a look at the landscape of innovation in 3D printers in the 13 years they were for sale under patent and the following 13 years after the patents expired. Innovation absolutely exploded! Instead of one company happy with $25,000 machines we had hackers, hobbyists, and engineers from all over the world working on solving problems and making the machines cheaper. Ten years after the patent expired the price dropped 100x from $25k to $250.

Imagine how cheap medical care would be if all the patents on medical imaging equipment expired. If there were no patents the market still provides incentive to innovate as first movers and reputable brands stay competitive. Meanwhile patents allow big slow companies to sit on their rewards and charge high prices with little real innovation. Things would change, sure. Instead of few large investments we would see more frequent smaller investments. But market competition would still work and natural rewards to innovation persist. Only innovation propagates way faster.

Intellectual property restrictions are a disaster in my mind. And sadly most people believe some basic fairy tale that we were told without ever caring to research if that story is even remotely true.
Literally no-one can write compilers smart enough.
Am i blind? The site doesn't seem to mention anywhere what sort of CPU/SoC/etc or other specs like screen resolution this has. I guess from the magazine shot it has an ARM, but even looking around the wiki, shop, etc i couldn't find any other information about it.
I think the idea is that Windows' security, once booted, is enough to protect your data. It's the same situation if, for example, your laptop gets stolen while in sleep / on the lock screen.

In theory, you shouldn't be able to get the key while booting on some other media (say, your own Windows USB drive).

> Ensuring the integrity of early boot components and boot configuration data. On devices that have a TPM version 1.2 or higher, BitLocker uses the enhanced security capabilities of the TPM to make data accessible only if the computer’s BIOS firmware code and configuration, original boot sequence, boot components, and BCD configuration all appear unaltered and the encrypted disk is located in the original computer. On systems that leverage TPM PCR[7], BCD setting changes deemed safe are permitted to improve usability.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...
Making millions of tiny holes is hard so it's a manufacturing and engineering issue. Sometimes physics gets on the way when you scale a small prototype.
Hawala can be out of balance within network. A lot of it was used for remittances etc however the agents had other businesses which helped them keep balance, laundering , high risk or payday loans etc outside the hawala system
You should first and foremost be willing to risk your life for your family, loved ones, as well as your children, for which you probably want a good/better future.
This is assuming you're always on the same device, don't clear cookies, don't use multiple browsers/profiles, don't mask your browsing in other ways, don't use rotating/temporary emails, etc. I logged in three times today and needed a magic link each time. My password manager would have autocompleted correctly in any of those situations... were there a password field to use.

I've gone weeks not logging into services like Slack before just to avoid dealing with trying to get into associated email accounts. Magic links are one of my least favorite "convenience" paradigms to emerge over the past couple years: they're less efficient, less secure, and more annoying/confusing friction for many users, and reinforce a reliance on email at a time when many people are trying to wean off it.

Best of luck with the rest of the site though!
This point is quite telling:

“Anti-Western sentiment, though by no means universal, has been inflamed by Putin and has taken a firm hold in the hearts and minds of many Russian citizens – including, depending on the particular topic in question, among young people.

“This is not going to change after Putin’s departure, in part because Russian society also suffers from a post-imperial syndrome characterized by a state of deep resentment towards the West, which to Russian eyes neither allows the country to remain a superpower nor has provided it with a decent place within the international system.”

This might give some context to why many Russians seem to support this war. It seems more persuasive than the idea that they have all just been gulled by propaganda.
Worked in US, France, Germany and every country in the world - all of them had revolutions and led to the change.
Russia and NATO together doesn't make sense to me. Who would they defend against? What common threats do they have?

NATO is made to promote democratic values, Putin runs a dictatorship, how does that work?

In a world where Russia also sought to promote free democracies and started with itself, then Russia being in NATO would make sense.
This will be my last reply. I am not accusing you personally for what is happening. I empathies with your situation and feel sorry for you. You are obviously doing what you can at the moment. What I was trying to convey was that the tone of your replies came of as pretty aggressive with a sense of injustice and victimhood. Which considering the situation didn't sit well with me.

My replies also comes from emotions and anger. It is probably unfair but being Russian I think you are going to have to find ways of dealing with these emotions from other people even if you feel it is unjust. Expressing empathy and humility would probably be helpful. Especially during the current time when bombs are still falling. I didn't get that feeling from you and therefore reacted the way I did, which was probably unnecessary. I wish you the best in dealing with this situation and hope that you are able to help Russia become a free & open society.
“No country was born a democracy”

The Russian people really can impact change in their country and now is the best time. They just need to find a way to be united about stopping Putin.

Many more Russians will likely die, but sadly that’s always been the cost of building a democracy. I would have much rather preferred a world that wasn’t so brutal to achieve something so critical.
I'm not an English native speaker and today I learned that I misinterpreted a lot of what was said to me in the past.
It's absolutely possible, it would just come with an enormous impact on citizens and the economy.

The result would be exploding prices, shortages and rationing of gas, potentially even power cuts at night or reduced availability of power to industry.

But the EU countries could absolutely do it if they really wanted to.

But this is also a big escalation.

Energy exports are the lifeline of the Russian economy. Canada just banned crude oil imports from Russia yesterday. Without a delay Russia just stopped diplomatic relations with the country and withdrew all diplomats.

It's basically a declaration of war to them, because if it spreads and even countries like China theoretically were forced to join in, they would really collapse.

And if Russia is pushed I to a corner there's no telling what they might do.
Long term, but the software isn't quite there, though improving.

Worse the radios don't support everything my carrier does. 5g is a must where I live as 4g is being skipped in remote locations that are finally being upgraded from 2g.
I wouldn't worry about "ever going back" to trading with the West: as they say, "money talks".

National animosity will remain and it will be a political tool that can be easily put to use, but as long as there's money to be gained to improve life for your local population, trades will start happening.
WAT?
Do you have any proofs with real appliance to NATO from Russia? I don't remember that, apart from some usual russian rhetorics how they ask USA (for some reason) to allow them into the NATO and for some reason USA (not nato) didn't answer them.

But ok, lets imaging you are right. So you are saying that, it is NATO fault that Russian invades Ukraine simply because they didn't take Russia into NATO? Right?
Irrelevant and not even remotely close to what I asked for. This is a story about Tucker Carlson sympathizing with Putin.

It is not a story explaining the reason why Russia felt it was necessary to conduct special military action in the Ukraine. It does not explain why Russia believes they are helping to liberate the DPR and LPR from nationalists and return the borders of the republics.
California says even unvaccinated can now unmask indoors
Might not be so. Competent and rational actors might have given up on playing for the top levels of Russian political game.

Russia might be so messed up that leading it is not desirable and attainable for anyone except quite crazy persons that are at the same time smart + competent enough.

Our current world order seems to have created a "power niche" in Russia that can only be filled by persons at the same time smart, crazy and competent enough! ...and we should also be wary of what kind of personal qualities we select for in people in eg. NATO or Chinese leadership, one could imagine embarking on crazier-than-thou leadership race.

This is scary as f! The rarity of the smart+crazy+competent combo is why we didn't off ourselves so far with nukes or by hacking into being stuff like, dunno, "covid ultra pro+ with prionic-inserts" or other horrible world-ending tech that is getting cheaper and cheaper...
meanwhile, on RT.com

> How the Woke stole Christmas (not from RT though). Snowperson, no Santa or Rudolph the Reindeer, woke-implied gifts… This is Christmas the ‘Cancel edition’ you could be having. Or you could question more and stick with RT. It’s your call.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rt_com/status/1474243438552006659...
The size of the target country is somewhat less significant to me than the explicit justification for the war involving invocation of a set of translations and transpositions of the whole set of Nazi expansionist arguments (lebensraum, Volksgemeinschaft, and Blut and Boden), with a twist on the Dolchstoßlegende mixed in.
All the flag-raising and anthem-singing in US schools surely serves a purpose. We tried to avoid replicating that in Germany, for very good reasons, but now we have "third generation immigrants".