skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downvoted you because this line of logic is deployed, I believe, by race obsessed westerners who are privately fuming that a shooting war has sidelined their culture war for a few weeks. "Don't forget about me and the things I care about!"

Just because a talking head or two makes those claims does not mean it is all of the sudden the truth. If Russia was worried about the looks of white civilian casualties, they wouldn't have invaded Ukraine. By the way, how many news reporters didn't make the claim that people only care about this because blue eyed/blonde haired people are involved?
I don't think it is just about shock and awe. It's about controlling the airspace. Controlling the airspace has advantages during conflict outside of bombing.
No air force, because cost-benefit isnt there. Too many things to take them out. Not enough things to drop bombs on. Dont worry, they did airstrike the

Navy doing navy things? aka floating there threatening civilians.

Army is in terrible disarray losing tons of equipment to mud. Losing even more equipment to combat. Their MREs expired 7 years ago. Their army sure is looking pathetic.

Is this Putin's last hurrah?
Vietnam incursions were in the 1970s I believe. (Now I have checked) seem to have lasted between 1979 - 1991 off and on.

Island and coastal nations of the South China Sea seem concerned about the island militarisation going on. Taiwanese people don't have a particular reason to rest easy either.
You can't destroy anti-aircraft guns located in civilian areas without killing civilians.
This is the reason I'm still runnins OSX Mavericks. I have a HUGE investment in iPhoto in the form of curated albums and photo captions. All attempts to migrate the iPhoto albums to Photos have failed. So I keep Mavericks machines mainly so I don't lose my iPhoto albums.
The new White House memo on zero trust is a strong signal
Nowhere in that article it indicates IMF is holding Venezuelan currency.
Seems odd that a town can prevent people from living in an RV
> I'd say a bit like raising my eyebrows, but the "tension" is behind the ears.

For me the tension is pretty far back, basically halfway to the back of my head on either side, and covers a vaguely oblong patch that is about 1.5 square inches.
>Historically combatants have treated their opponents differently based on race and existing cultural attitudes

Huh? when have that ever been true? European religious wars have been huge bloodsheds, communist regimes routinely genocided their own (often quite homogenous) populations, Lebanon's civil war saw neighbors shooting at each other.

The truth of the matter is : when people want to fight, they will find something that makes their enemies different and alien, because it's uncomfortable to imagine yourself in the place of the dead body that was previously a living human.

Race and Blood just so happen to be very convenient to latch on, because they're immutable (for now) genetic characteristics that make the gulf between you and your enemies look huge, a very desirable property in a dehumanization tactic. When people don't have those, they start latching on less immutable but nonetheless difficult-to-change things like religion, language and culture. And when people don't have those either, they start latching onto who their enemies voted for in the last election or their stance on <insert pet issue>, which are very mutable but also very numerous and can always be found and used as basis for dehumanization, their mutabilitiy and arbitrariness notwithstanding.
Naming a thing takes creativity and luck. Congratulations on an excellent name!
"I love you, and I love it when you do favors for me...but I don't love you quite enough to return the favors."

Everybody loves benefiting from free software. Who wouldn't? But if you aren't willing to contribute, then it probably isn't worth mentioning. All you're saying is "We love getting free stuff".
It is well worth a visit.

Just to clarify that the main discovery of the Temple of Mithras was in 1954. The Temple was then moved, put out in the open in Queen Victoria Street in front of some offices and was largely ignored - essentially just looked like a small ruined wall. I used to see a few tourists come to see it and quickly walk away.

Credit to Bloomberg for putting it back in its original position and making seeing it a worthwhile experience.

The Bloomberg office is worth a visit too - it won the Stirling Prize for architecture in the UK - but it's not open to the general public, although they have hosted some tech talks in there.
It is rather simple, they didn't want to really destroy UAF, but were hoping after initial attack that a lot of them would surrender and switch side, as there is a lot of unhappiness in Ukraine over how they treat Russians, right wingers and pro-nazi groups with guns.

So they expected a lot of infrastructure will be available for them to take over. As we know, this didn't happen and now they have to destroy it. Honestly this is not good for Ukrainians as they will now suffer for real.

I found this site provides somewhat better analysis of situation, as well as The Hill and Breaking Points for example.

http://www.iswresearch.org/
U.N. General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to censure Russia
>This is just public display. Actions matter: will they continue buying Russian gas and oil?

Russia's diplomacy was pure lies. Maybe it's true of China? If actions matter: what has china done wrong exactly? Have they invaded anyone yet?

Continuing to trade with a trade partner isn't an indictment.
I'm replying to a WSJ editorial that literally starts by attacking the Democrats for saying diversity is a good thing.

Maybe those Asian parents should worry about what that implies from those that are pretending to be their temporary allies.
> The link you posted says the opposite of what you said

Not at all. The claim I responded to is that "Afghanistan had a secular, left-leaning government in the 1970s - the US armed and funded the mujahideen, the radical Islamic jihadists, to overthrow that government."

The link I provided says that "Carter signed two presidential findings in July 1979 permitting the CIA to spend $695,000 on non-military assistance (e.g., "cash, medical equipment, and radio transmitters") and on a propaganda campaign targeting the Soviet-backed leadership of the DRA".

Note the non-military qualification.

Keep reading and you will learn how the Soviet Union, not the insurgents, overthrew the government on December 27, 1979, to install one more to its liking, and how the US then (i.e. in the 1980s) started to give military aid to the insurgents, all contrary to gp's claim.
Yes, it gets back to essential complexity vs. accidental complexity, like most software that does anything non-trivial.
> Not sure there is any comparable figure today that comes to mind.

The obit already mentioned the late great Christopher Hitchens.

In his (frequent) funnier moments, I think Scott Alexander channels the same daemon.
First of all, this is uncalled for. Second of all, it's not even an SPA. Maybe do the slightest bit of research before slinging shit at someone?
Thank you!

Medical + Rx trend: Our trends are a little lower than the published trend figures because of the shifts we are creating through embedded telehealth and telemedicine solutions. For competitive reasons, we cannot disclose exactly how much lower but it is substantial.

Admin cost savings: A regional Blue Cross Blue Shield plan typically spends 12-15% of their revenue on general and administrative expenses (G&A). That number does not include Sales expenses – it is pure G&A. We are confident in hitting 4% or 5% thanks to all the technology we’ve built and automated, and we pass through the savings to our customers.

Controlling provider costs: It’s not all about controlling costs. You’re certainly correct that our rates across the board would be better if we had a large membership base to illustrate how our programs help physicians be successful and encourage broader collaboration on the care coordination efforts that drive better outcomes and higher quality. Sometimes we end up paying more for a procedure. That’s okay and working as intended! Good doctors should get paid more; bad care should be worth less. But even if we pay more for certain care, if outcomes are aligned and the patient is healthier, it will generate a financial return for us across a population. We offer up to 3-year rate lock-in agreements for employers so we can still capture the savings of, for example, reduced readmission even if it doesn’t occur immediately.

Legacy insurer efforts: Legacy insurers are attempting to address the situation, but their patchwork efforts cannot address the fundamental chassis that they are tied to. That legacy infrastructure and broader employment base is not easily transitioned to modern technology, value-based care, and virtual business models. Also, the innovation-based pilots they roll out may impact one market, like a specific city, or a specific market segment, like Medicare membership, and one service, like pain management for arthritis, but they are not necessarily rolling out solutions that impact their whole population. At the end of the day, the current system is not sustainable.
ICBMs can't be used against mobile targets like ships. High balletic arcs and travel times measured in the tens of minutes means anything that can move will easily do so. And judging by Russia's current military louadout, every warhead fancy enough to actually manuever to compensate either only exists on paper or partially disassembled in a Moscow lab
I misread this as Epic Games acquiring Basecamp and was scratching my head for a few minutes :)
I can imagine a considerable problem with the command structure is that if you've got a war that forces are badly prepared for and reluctant to fight in, you have to tread much more carefully with the orders you give your small number of highly trained (and relatively smart) pilots based on home soil than your large number of dispensible conscript troops you've driven into the conflict (or your gung ho special forces). Easier for them to disobey, and much more cause for alarm if they do, and no matter how dedicated they are to following orders, there are fewer pilots and planes to risk than armoured personnel carriers, artillery units and dated tanks.
Related:

Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245817 - Aug 2020 (616 comments)
Errr, because only developers get to privatise the profits from building on the land?

I'm always a bit surprised at people expressing incredulity that the state (which definitively controls the right to decide who gets to own land) hands out responsibilities with privileges.

There are all sorts of burdens and responsibilities, financially and otherwise, that fall on land owners and developers. This is just one of them. It's unusual but it's not outrageous.
> Then you add a couple of client-side Stimulus controllers, maybe a Turbo frame here and there and it works fine, but then you get to browser navigation and you're screwed, because none of this works out of the box if somebody were to submit the form, then navigate back. Now you have to implement lifecycle handling to account for navigation and once you're done, you've basically implemented a SPA, except it's broken into a mix of tightly-coupled Javascript, Ruby and ERB templates.

Where in this process did you need to start adding navigation via JS? Did that functionality really require JS, or was it implemented that way just because other parts are JS, and the trend was continued? Could you have used Stimulus controllers to manage functionality on the page itself, but when it came time to navigate to a new page, just done a basic browser redirect?

Saying that SPAs is a mistake doesn't mean that a strong dependence on JS or frameworks in a mistake. It just means that trying to make an entire site fit into a single page load introduces more costs than savings. You can still have pages controlled via React or Vue or Stimulus, but forgoing the router functionality.

In my own apps, I use Vue and VueX to control page behaviors, but each URL is its own Rails page. For example, I have a search page that uses Vue and VueX to asynchronously load, filter, and display search results. Clicking on a result is a basic browser redirect, taking you to the result's page, doing a full Rails page load, and again using Vue and VueX to manage any dynamic state (any static content is rendered via ERB files).

This has created a very clear and simple structure that allows each page to have any dynamic functionality it needs, but no complications from having to maintain navigation or browser history via JS. The browser already does that natively, and I get to spend my time working only on actual features--not recreating the browser's built-in functionality, or debugging my own take on it.
They recently acquired Harmonix (original makers of Guitar Hero and other rhythm games). Maybe they're trying to build a GaaS music game?
You may be exaggerating but there is some truth in it, and it applies to many areas of science. The growing specialization means your knowledge is deeper but lest vast. For many classes of problems you just use a pre-built solution as this is the easiest and most common way. But rest assured, the people who work on defense system know very well what they are doing.
This is really nice! It'd be nice if the colors picked were saved in the url, so that you can use history to navigate the different patterns generated.
Yeah, it's an economic absurdity. I agree with you, your proposal is very fair.
"To the extent of imaginatively stripping women of their achievements."

I agree. For example, the records of female athletes in swimming and other sports are being erased by transgender women, and currently female athletes are being denied honors they have earned.
What's even more strange is once they started getting bad publicity and the lawsuit talks became public, mcflurry machines magically all started working in my city. All of them. Some had not worked since the store opened.

Another thing companies seem to be doing a lot is false advertising. 7-11 is so bad with this. Sales posted everywhere but when you try and buy them 'it's not in the system sorry it will be regular price.'

Or even worse they list the (sale) price if you buy 2 or more, but do not list the regular single price anywhere.

I'm so tired of companies running our country.
AGPL has a ton of problems even as an open source license. Just use a source available or creative commons license, AGPL isn't helping your case.
> Who CARES if the SPA had to make 3xRTT in the background, if it can serve the next page up instantly because that data is already present and cached, it's a huge win.

The data is never in the cache. It is for a developer because they forget to clear their caches when testing. For most users the data will not be cached unless they're sitting on the SPA all day.

So when the user doesn't have data cached that 3xRTT on their spotty 4G signal the SPA pattern is of no help. Not everyone is sitting still on great WiFi. Someone's cellular reception can go from great to unusable just walking down the street.
Yes. This is an incredibly stupid aggressive blunder. Totally seems like Iraq to me too. Except here nukes could be involved.

Honestly, I wish the world had reacted to Iraq the way they are to Ukraine. A million people died in Iraq for nothing. It's totally unacceptable and highly dangerous.
I talked to a guy a few weeks ago who worked for a company that developed a guidance system before GPS that used stars like a sextant to navigate.

Pretty crazy to think about.
Right now an "expert" is whoever says something that is aligned with media retoric.
Only universities award PhDs so by definition that cannot be a "corporate industry".
Yeah, that’s the crux of the issue. Windows mostly does installers to get around its problems with single binaries. Only OSX has a reasonably decent solution for copying apps between machines.

On Linux the only reasonable solution is an install/executable script and/or docker.
pkg is another one: https://github.com/vercel/pkg

It can cross-compile too.
As another poster said, the problem is that Hugo is built around a number of new concepts. To understand them, you have to understand their relation to two contexts: the other Hugo concepts that they are designed to work with, and Hugo's purpose of generating web sites from data.

The docs are written almost entirely in the first context, building the concepts up and explaining how they work together, so if you start with the docs you can end up spending a lot of time trying to create a mental model entirely out of these concepts, with no connection to the concrete function of the software.
Thanks for the correction, though I guess my comment was meant to be interpreted as "someone in the border region where the conflict is" rather than "the Ukrainian government".

I'm guessing "the Ukraine" will be a hard word to change in "The United States of America" though. "United States of America" could mean the old confederacy, or the Dakotas or something (assuming they're united in some cause)

Along similar lines, couldn't "ukraine" mean any of the Russian borders?
For first world issues, this is terrible. I love Bandcamp and love supporting artists there. Epic is a scourge.
>Well, they do want Taiwan back.

Back? They currently own it. No country in the world recognizes them as their own country. They are not in the United Nations. They have no alliances.

If Taiwan declares independence and is recognized... and China invades to stop this.
Who can even stop China if they decide to take them? Nobody is coming to their aid. This is a super silly thing to say.
This is incredible. I've been struggling with a color palette for my most recent project so I uploaded a screenshot of it, clicked generate and I instantly got a really nice palette! Amazing work - thank you.
Everyone here is really gloom and doom about this news but as much as I love Bandcamp, they have made some decisions that really made me not want to use the platform. For example, if an artist releases a free song as part of an album, it is not possible to add that song to your library without purchasing the whole album. This makes no sense when I only like and want to purchase say 2 or 3 songs off the album. This alone made me uninstall the Bandcamp app and just go back to Spotify.
Why does this need to:

- Read and change all your data on all websites

- Modify data you copy and paste

- Manage your downloads

Is there a way to use a version that requires less of these permissions? e.g. it seems we can address the first permission by only activating it on click, but I'm not sure if that addresses the other ones.
I really hope this is just one bad move and doesn’t point to a larger, inherent flaw in the business models of smaller, indie companies. With Bandcamp now gone, there’s one less case study of truly free consumption and ownership in an increasingly rented/“streaming”/subscribing world.
Aren't Russia and Venezuela pretty closely allied?
So we would simply need a fleet of synchronized submarines to shut down all trans-atlantic connections.
I can't speak to individual circumstances. I've certainly seen your situation and know that it happens. Just in aggregate though, children of two parent households overwhelmingly have better outcomes. In fact it's the single largest factor determining success in life, statistically. Certainly this can be in spite of, rather than because of your parents.

Also I probably mistakenly gave the impression that my mom cared. No. Her values were more that kids should be out of the house every day from breakfast until dinner. If she had left me to figure that out on my own in New York City I just would have been a kid on the street. As soon as I could get a permit to work and earn my own money was as soon as she stopped giving a shit.

I didn't get a higher education.
My apologies for having a different view than you on how it is applied? You may be technically correct, but that is not, at least in my experience, how people use it. And that is all I’m talking about. How it is used, how people wield the term. So maybe cool it with the ad hominems?
I'd buy into that model.

I'm interested in hearing how this has been explored in the past. People have mentioned Blendle, but it seems to be in Beta hell. The business model strikes me as the issue. I'm curious if one could find success by allowing ads, and cutting the aggregator's cut from 30%...
Would it be correct to assume that something similar can be done to replace helm.sh with kubernetes ?
It's bigger than Ukraine. It's that people just realized they are witnessing a new form of fascism in Russia and what it can do if ignored.
Oh, that's nice. I was using it through Quarkus a while ago, not sure if I missed it or it wasn't available yet. That seems like a good starting point, although I assume it can't assure no runtime errors in production

Edit: it seems to me that GraalVM would benefit from a repository of classes and corresponding reflection configs. Like DefinitelyTyped from the Typescript world
As long as they are following the sanctions, this seems OK.

It might even be a net benefit since Russia has banned it's citizens leaving with any more than $10k in cash [0], and many Russians are now trying to depart. So they could now buy a bunch of cryptocurrency, get cans for the trip plus a bit, arrive outside and recover their cash. This is exactly what we want to prevent in the sanctions leaders and oligarchs, but what we'd like to encourage for the ordinary Russians trying to leave

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-bans-cash-exports...
That’s a very interesting comparison… I’ll have to give it more thought. Thank you!
If so, did those people not build (and thus own) this platform? Is it not their right to sell it to others? I am not asking this so much to challenge your statement, as I agree that it's darker, but to demonstrate that clearly the platform delivered value to music consumers like myself, and perhaps we as music consumers should be willing to compensate the folks who build "glue" like Bandcamp more in order to provide such a great service in the future.
I kind of have to agree here. There are very few times I've ever worked on a SPA and felt like throwing it all away and using the alternative.

The last time I thought about this, which admittedly was many years ago, the alternatives that I knew about were: server-side frameworks like ASP.NET MVC Razor, PHP, RoR templates, Node.js EJS, Jade (now Pug), and static HTML.

Nowadays, you can create extremely elegant and performant SPAs with tools like Next.js and Remix, so I really couldn't agree less to the OP.
Or just helping set up ways to license music for games made with Unreal as part of their asset store/offerings.
I call on us all to force our own leaders to the negotiating table. This needs to be worked out immediately. No good can come from this war.
The actual paper was discussed not long ago:

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30138468 - Jan 2022 (27 comments)

Also:

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1971) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8849468 - Jan 2015 (5 comments)

Surprising that there haven't been more threads, since it's such a frequently mentioned classic.
Another part of this is US intelligence sources have an incentive to overstate Russia's strength. A strong scary Russia better justifies American military spending.
It's an internal resistance conducted by the military. In the coming days I would expect a coup, Putin's arrest(or worse), the new administration, end of war.
I love how anti-trans-activism highlights logical inconsistencies of feminism - ”men and women are equal but not THAT equal”.

But then I’m a guy so maybe I just don’t get the advantage of sex-segregated toilet as opposed to unisex toilets.
That's really cool! I like the various demos of the themes.

I need to play with it some more, and understand how to use it, but good job!