skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This moral, intellectual con that the Russian people are not responsible needs to stop. The Russian culture must change.

Of course the Russian people are morally responsible for their culture and its products (including the war in Ukraine). That culture has produced the conquest obsessed Russian state (including Putin, he is a product of that culture). The Russian people have reveled in the atmosphere of power, greatness, empire, return to glory, and all that bullshit propaganda that Putin has been feeding them for two decades. They cheerily rode the highs with him during the good oil years, applauding as he stripped away human rights one after another, refusing to go against him en masse. They now bear the moral responsibility for tolerating him from the very beginning (dictators quite often only get more difficult to remove with time). Oh now you can't get rid of him? No kidding. Oh now a lot of people would have to die to remove him from power? No kidding - like the people being killed in the name of the Russian people in Ukraine.

The Russian people are responsible for what ideas they hold, what they believe, who they follow, what propaganda they accept or reject (and they've been willingly drinking the propaganda by the liter for a very long time). They tolerated Putin's power grab and abuses for many years early on and did next to nothing to try to stop him. They have celebrated him often, he has been widely popular for most of his reign. How many more centuries of authoritarianism need to go by before people figure out that the Russian people are responsible for their culture and their culture is producing the authoritarianism. It's not bad luck producing those repeat results. Raise your hand if you think the Nazi ideology magically, spontaneously appeared - no, it was an assembled mash of ideas that were popular at the time, prevalent in the culture of the German region, commonly held by the people there. Putin's authoritarianism, his obsession with the Russian ethnic superstate (which is quite similar to Hitler's obsession with the German ethnic superstate), also did not appear out of nowhere, it's directly from their culture.

And - speaking as an American - of course the American people are morally responsible if their government does something similarly horrible as what Russia is doing in Ukraine. That very obviously also goes for what happened in Vietnam. The US Government and its presidents are the product of the American culture, which the American people are responsible for.

If the other empires of Europe changed (Germany, Spain, Britain, France, etc) - their people changed those empire, conquest obsessed cultures - then Russia too can and must change. Russia is the last major power in Europe still clinging to those decrepit, backwards ways. Russia must give up the notion of empire culturally and that means its people must fully abandon all the related ideas that propel and sustain that ideology (which endlessly spawns monsters like Putin (who is just another Russian Tsar type)). Until the people of Russia change their beliefs, the authoritarianism will just keep repeating.
I would also say that we probably should reject the idea that there's a yin-yang give and take where one is the flip side of the other. So far as we can tell, most of the universe, heck most of earth just isn't alive; most things just live on the surface.

In most of the universe things are just dead, and stay dead, and aren't part of any process of transformation where death transforms into life. If anything, the "process" of things dying can be part of a downward spiral of more death, and life can be part of an upward spiral that begets more life, and there's all kinds of pertinent details that separate those circumstances.

Life probably started here by underwater volcanoes, and started feedback loops that bloomed more life, and on and on. Meanwhile, most places stay dead and don't become anything.

It's just so frustrating to step into conversations about saving someone's life so they can live to see their great granddaughter's birthday and have someone say we shouldn't because they'd rather play games with metaphysics.
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I think you have a different definition of bullshit than me. Sitting in a pointless meeting so I can daydream or work on something while half paying attention? That sounds like a vacation where I don't get bugged by drive bys. Voluntold work is the norm for ICs, my condolences that you have to deal with it. I think your list is a a best case scenario of the bullshit ICs might have to deal with, and it's a good example of my point: management doesn't have the same pain.
Couple of thoughts:

Make it available through a web page instead of a raw search dump?

Hide the internals of your search engine? In case you want to switch to meilisearch, algolia, ... (for cost reasons)

Preferably use your own search DSL to avoid users to learn about Elasticsearch queries (goes hand in hand with hiding internals of search engine)

Good luck! :)
> you care, when you don't really

Not caring might a bit harsh. But gitlab being smart people I'd rather see them doing something truly unique, e.g. like https://200rf.com/ (https://www.firstpost.com/world/ukraine-launches-website-200... is the first hit I got I you don't know what that is about and can like myself not read it)
Interesting! I didn't know this is becoming a requirement in the States, too. Thanks!
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Oh man, when Russia cut off twitter, my timeline cleaned up instantly. Check out the Trudeau post replies - not a single person calling him Hitler. That ended the day Russia cut off twitter. Basically all pro-Trucker content ended that day.
> At this very moment the US and UK are in multiple countries bombing and killing civilians.

Which countries are the UK in bombing civilians right now?
You can totally build first. Developers always do. The problem is you have to sell at some point, if it's not customers to begin with then it has to be investors, but invariably you will be selling to customers. Products do not sell or market themselves.
You need to validate your business as quickly as possible. Here's one way to do that:

Consider your top 3 assumptions relating to the following risks: users (do people want this?), business (can you sell it will it be profitable for you?), technical (can you complete the project in a way that will be useful for others?). These are the things that, if they're wrong, will mean you'll fail.

Then give yourself two days and find out the answers to those questions.

The only way to find that out in that time is to go out and talk to people. Give them a call; email them; reach out on Twitter - just get that feedback however you can. Be open to learning and being wrong, even though you've worked on this for a long time.

Some suggestions:

Users - find some people you think would want this and talk to them about it.

Business - find someone who's sold something similar successfully and talk through what they did with them.

Technical - speak with people who have written similar projects at the database layer.

Engineers don't typically like picking up the phone, but there's no alternative to asking questions and knocking down those risks as quickly as you can.
Yes, you’re right. The Mayor’s ordinance would encourage a proliferation of private cameras that could turn into police surveillance cameras any time there is an alleged crime, and requires only summary information after the event. This is an end run around the surveillance ordinance which allows the public to review a report about the cameras (software, camera type, location) before they are installed and to view an inventory of all public cameras.

There also seems to be quite a bit of anti-police animosity among activists in general.

Personally, I think the surveillance ordinance is probably too restrictive in prohibiting the police from using technology and not protective enough in ensuring proper policies for the use of the technology that is available. To me, what matters is that the technology is used with professional care, not that the inventory is enumerated months in advance.

Full video of Board of Supervisors Rules Committee hearing https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/40566?meta_id=...

The EFF’s lawsuit Williams v San Francisco (the police won on a technicality since their use of the cameras was grandfathered) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/san-francisco-police-i...
> Freedom of speech is freedom from government censorship, not private censorship.

That's not a universal definition, no. E.g. in the EU Facebook and Twitter have lost cases where they blocked posts for "ToS violations" and were ordered to restore them on free speech grounds. (whereas apparently in the US the perspective is more that banning corporations from banning people is violating the corps free speech rights, and doesn't see as much of a balance there)
"...he replied that he had never expected anything out of life."

Something that helps is to lower your expectations of other people, then be pleasantly surprised when they "step up".
> you don't need to make e.g. a random accounting tool used by five specific users accommodate something that none of those five people have

What if that team then wants to hire a sixth person, and one of the qualified candidates is blind (or has some other disability that's relevant for software)? If accessibility isn't the default, it's too easy to pass on qualified candidates in a category where many struggle to find work.
Are you reusing the same email/password with these accounts?
I don't think this is stupid on Russia's side. No one's going into war thinking they are going to lose. In this case at least, if Russia does achieve their goal, being temporarily beholden to Chinese' financial system for international trade is an acceptable solution for the time being, they are otherwise beholden to the US as well, what's the difference?
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Chinese banks still need SWIFT, and if we find any Chinese banks using CIPS to do business with sanctioned Russian entities, they will get cut off too and now both Chinese and Russian banks will be screwed.
And gets up to a whopping 1.4 kbps downlink and 16 bps uplink!

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/
Stay Calm - America's response
How does every Russian joke begin? By looking over your shoulder.
>But I figure this is the price that I pay for not using Gmail or Outlook

That's one way of looking at it. Over the years that price has risen and it's getting to the point where I'm not sure if I want to pay it anymore. Is being paranoid about my flight boarding pass being cancelled over my damn email address worth the privacy? Is being paranoid over whether an important email I've sent has actually reached someone and not hit a provider-level filter worth the privacy? I'm not sure anymore.
The RD-180 is still by many measures the best engine that has been to orbit. SpaceX Raptor is putting up better numbers but so far has only flown short hops and test stands.
I'm of Russian-Ukrainian ethnicity, I was born in Kazakhstan and I'm living here for 35 years. I wasn't discriminated, not once. I'm not a very chatty person, and, of course, can't answer for other people experiences, consider it my anecdote.

The only thing that I felt some discrimination is gradual reducing of Russian language usage. For example in hospitals there are often only Kazakh labels without Russian translations. I don't like it, but that's not a big issue and it's not wide-spread.

That said, I don't exactly remember what heavy propaganda campaign 5e92cb50239222b talks about. I must have missed it, I guess.
How is the article fake news when it agrees with (is literally the source for) your main point?
That's not really a good comparison. Being an asshole to journalists if really different than putting them in jail for their reporting. The difference here is that some Republicans who have no power to actually do that talk shit about doing it, but Putin actually jails a lot of journalists.
I'd go one further and point you to western esotericism, where you would likely perform various meditations before summoning goetic entities.

Now, you're not supposed to let yourself get possessed by them, but any Christian should clutch their crucifix that anyone would even be trying to communicate with Solomon's demons (except maybe to tell them to go away).
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Yeah, if they upped the brightness. heh.
I take it you've never looked at the self-published stuff on Kindle Unlimited or put up for Free/$1 on Amazon Kindle. I've seen programming books published in the past year that are supposed to be "C Programming Exercises", but in reality are little more than poorly-copied solutions from Stack Overflow.

It's still a problem. I'm not knocking every indie author who wanted to self-publish their first Sci-Fi novel. Far from it. Traditional publishers can churn out low-quality garbage with the rest of them, particularly when trying to make a quick buck by reprinting Public Domain works. My point is that it's always a race to the bottom for some people, and digital publishing has made it much easier, since it has largely eliminated the cost associated with production.
Calling it “useless” is overstating the case. China has good farmland, that’s how they were able to grow to such a large population.

However, at this point, China is extremely dependent on imports of commodities including food and other raw materials.
The purpose of this project is to see if it's possible to build a highly targeted, privacy respecting, search engine that people will pay for. I've given myself a year to build the index and tune for relevance. If at the end of that year it's not a path to sustainability, I'll shut it down secure in the knowledge that, despite what they say, people really won't pay for search. If it is, then I'll start scaling into other STEM subjects.

So the difference is, it has the things folks on HN say they want:
- search expressions
- REST api
- no tracking
- users are buyers, not products
For me the big one is playlists. I'm absolutely an album listener (call me old school), but I like to build thematic playlists of multiple albums that I listen to in rotation (for example, I have a background electronica playlist I love to use when I'm working), and the player lacks that capability.

Notably, Bandcamp absolutely encourages purchasing individual tracks, so for folks who, unlike me, tend to build mixed playlists, it's even more annoying that this feature doesn't exist.

In fact, they only very recently (as in last month!) added basic queuing support:

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/02/10/the-bandcamp-app-now-su...

Which is pretty incredible as I view that as a core feature of any music player.
I'd say that the key difference is that in, say, the US -- yes, there's tons of very stupid stuff said by media uncritically, and there's stuff the government says.

But it's also easy to find opposition points of view. Case in point, mask mandates and convoys. Propaganda still works, same as marketing and advertisements, but it really does not seem equivalent when it's so easy to access information critical of what your government is doing.

Unlike when all media critical of the government gets banned. No one tried to arrest me for protesting the Iraq war, or Guantanamo, or Afghanistan, or...

But the "mainstream" media definitely has huge blind spots, implicit racism, and other nasty features from either habit or laziness.
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Absolutely. At root, this is the management version of xkcd: Standards https://xkcd.com/927/ Possibly no human endeavor is immune to it without deliberate steps.
How can he check his account activity if Google won't log him in?
No, but a lot of us figured out that it's currently a lot more profitable to sell to businesses than consumers.
> because of the huge amount of resources search consumes

I’ve been intermittently working on much the same idea as the OP, and I suspect this is actually a lot less of a problem than it seems, since they’re focusing on a niche. Indexing everything the way Google does requires a lot of resources, but indexing the majority of useful material in a specific domain takes a lot less. (My ElasticSearch index for the entirety of StackOverflow is a mere 40 GB, for example.)

By far the more expensive part is likely to be paying market rates for a developer (you need a decent number of users paying $10/mo to hit a mid-market salary), but in theory this scales relatively independently of userbase.

Edit: I’ve just noticed I’m replying to the OP, who’s mentioned downthread that they’re using BigQuery and spending $200/week. I’ve gone the marginalia.nu route and run everything on a computer in my living room, which changes the calculus somewhat—it’s a lot cheaper, but probably involves more development time.

For me it’s mainly about the learning experience but I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the tradeoff.
>what part of Google's profit comes from work done in the last 5 years?

I imagine maintanence. Even if they decided not to pursue any new products, features, or other major updates, keeping their services updated and providing various B2B support is a big part of keeping the whole thing running. It's not glamorous, but it is very specialized and requires top talent even for bug fixes, security patches, etc. at that level.
Related: https://future.a16z.com/its-time-to-build/
> 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.

I'm not going to reply line by line to your other points. Though I disagree with your interpretation of my argument it's clear we aren't going to reach agreement there, but this statement is just wrong. Genocide has occurred throughout history, including at times prior to and contemporary with the warring states period. Technology has nothing to do with it. For example the Dzungar's in China in the 1700s. More recently the Rwandan genocide was carried out with primitive weapons. There are numerous other examples.
Yeah, my problem is never figuring out what deck I want to build, it's managing to build a deck with synergies when I have zero clue what cards I might get and with very few options to remove cards from the deck; you can make up for a missing card by buying one from the merchants, but then you tend to lack the resources to remove cards.
Not true.

April 2008 [1]

>NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.

After the meeting Putin said NATO expansion was a direct threat to Russia.

The Russo-Georgia War was August 2008.

So Georgia being attacked was clearly after attempted NATO expansion east.

In November 2013 the president of Ukraine, Yanukovych, decided to not agree to an EU deal. There were protests in Ukraine which would end in a coup. Some of the European countries try to work out a deal for an election but the protesters aren't going for it. Yanukovych then flees the country.

The new government is very pro West / EU. What then happens in Ukraine starts making anti-Russian moves like removing minority (Russian) language laws.

Russia then attacks Crimea in February 2014.

Again, Russia only attacked after Ukraine was attempting to work out a deal with the EU and after they showed they would use force (the coup) to get it.

Don't get me wrong. I am against Russia attacking both Georgia and Ukraine, but it seems quite clear that Russia only attacks after they start getting too cozy with the West.

[1] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm
Its likely that you and HN are different from the majority. Web is the de-facto targets for the vast majority of development. The vast majority of users use apps on the web with a few exception. I'm pretty sure most people I know use mail in the browser. Even a lot of the Office Suite is being used in the web.

I'm sure there are a small group of people who use native apps for everything but the rest of the population is using the browser most of the time.
Russia reparations payments for Ukraine war
If we take international law as a basis for our arguments, then Armenia has illegally occupied territories that de jure belong to Azerbaijan [1], brutally massacred civilians [2], destroyed and looted cities [3][4], and left more than 700,000+ people homeless [5].

Armenia is the aggressor here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_Securit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khojaly_massacre

[3] https://www.meydan.tv/en/article/ghost-town-of-aghdam/

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/azerbaijan/comments/jumrv3/on_the_l...

[5] https://reliefweb.int/report/armenia/armeniaazerbaijan-myths...
Didn't the majority support the war in Iraq initially? Propaganda works. Consent was successfully manufactured.

That's not the fault of civilians. That goes even more so for those under authoritarian regimes. That's Russia. The people are under the thumb of a dictator and bathed in propaganda 24/7. And who the hell knows how many actually support him or do so out of fear.

How about North Korea? Should we punish their citizens too for not rising against their dictator? I think it's clear that we shouldn't.
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> No one is innocent

I'm going to go with jailing citizens for 15 years as much worse than mildly critical journalists in Russia.

Ignoring your combo whataboutism and gish gallop. Don't think Russia has much jurisdiction over some Spanish news channel.
single video of someone starting, stopping, and setting breakpoints across hundred+ file programs or during a regular debug task please
The RD180 looks like 2 engines, but it is 1 engine with two combustion chambers. A clever trick to simplify the problem of combustion instability in large combustion chambers!

Rocketdyne's F1 engine which powered the Saturn V spent years solving this problem, and they were never totally confident it would not blow up. I wonder if this would have been a workable solution for apollo!
They also have significant market share exporting certain commodities like Nickel, Palladium &c. -- but not close to gas/oil, true.

Since new investment into fossil fuel projects will go to nearly zero from here (and old equipment becomes defunct unless it is replaced), expect there gas/oil exports to decline significantly in the next years/decades. Putin didn't only mess up Ukraine now, he also wrecked his own country for at least a generation to come.
Appreciate it. Let me know if the experience wasn’t straightforward. It’s kind of a V1.
Then don't use a privileged terminal to run curl.
I grew up on a rez in North Dakota and use the term "bog-standard". I get the feeling we all went to college and watched BBC videos.
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You're talking like this is a week ago and these options are still available to him. Putin chose to go for Kyiv and has probably alienated large parts of Russian-speaking Ukraine at this point with indiscriminate bombing (see Kharkiv).
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It is not just Russia. Europe and the UK will suffer as well as fuel and gas prices will raise significantly (2x?) of already high levels.
That'll all happen (though ES simple search expressions are quite OK). The reason it is the way it is today so to enable me to get it out into the world as fast as possible. It puts the M in MVP.
If you're producing gamma rays, then you have a neutron source. This is exactly how the cold fusion people mislead themselves into thinking they had succeeded.
Data is not clean, I doubt people have the surname "Computer" or "Bahnhof" (train station) in Germany