skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... which was a regular western fear whenever Radio Moscow started looping "Swan Lake" in the past.

Whenever there is political turmoil in Russia, TV stations, in fear of reporting 'wrong' things that may be unpopular with whoever will be in power tomorrow start showing Swan Lake - it's perfectly unpolitical.
> Any utility it offers comes from the fact that it's something to add a bit of spice and fun to an already broad games collection, and possibly the clout that comes from showing other people that you own one.

Is that niche large enough for a sustainable success?

(not arguing, genuinely interested to hear your opinion)
That's basically the same as saying if Puting wasn't president, the war wouldn't happened. True but meaningless. A country should decide what it does and should not rely on another country's approval.
It's just a piece of propaganda, and how they were going to explain (in their thoughts) fast, painless war.

It does not represent real thoughts of those in power.
"These things aren’t some secret paperwork that needs to be filed, they’re publicly visible legal reforms that make the economies and legal systems compatible with all the other member states."

Probably a good thing that it started in 1994 with the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between them, moved on to the Joint EU–Ukraine Action Plan in 2005, and then to the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement in 2013, which didn't get signed because of Russian interference and led directly to a revolution.

Oh, and then after the revolution, we got the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement.

So they might not be quite ready, it's not like this has come out of nowhere, and lots of reforms haven't already happened.
> Why not?

If America's plan was to take Iraq's oil, what went wrong with the plan, given Iraqis still control their oil?
I mean. Maybe?

But that's kind of a problem for the future. Right now, given what's happening at the moment and what's been happening in the decades leading up to it, he has to go.

You can only cope with so much realpolitik and cynical thinking before you eventually catch your reflection in a mirror and have to fight your gag reflex.

Sure, some people are immune to that, but as a society on average not everyone will be, and it takes a surprisingly few people to start a reaction.

The minds of the people might not be aligned with this in Russia, according to the article, and it might be very much the case, but if the external pressure of the current financial and political shunning lasts for more than a few weeks something will have to give.

And EU won't feel a countercrunch due to energy restrictions until next winter (yeah sure there will be disruptions to industry but whatever). The people of EU are very much aligned with this mindset as of now, and they won't need to suffer for it until winter in their daily life.
When you say Russia, do you mean Putin's authoritarian regime?

I'm failing to see the threat of NATO to Russia otherwise. NATO only ever goes against dictators and acts of ethnic or religious cleansing and such things as territorial conquest, etc.

But even given Putin, his regime having access to Nuclear Weapons, I still doubt NATO is a threat. Look at North Korea, even though US has military bases in South Korea, no one is touching North Korea.

So in my opinion, it's pretty clear to me the whole NATO thing is false pretense and justification hiding an ulterior motive, very similar to the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Let me know if there's something I don't know otherwise.
In that case a fairphone might meet your requiements while still being open to installing alternative OS'es.
Can we stop painting Russia as a nation of poor proles being subjugated by a disparate government? On the whole, Russian people are very much in favour of their leader & largely ignored the erosion of protections like term limits for the short term that it benefited them. To turn around once the consequences are on their shoulders and say that this was unforeseeable is nonsense.

If you want a nation that is subjugated by Russia's government & experiences the consequences, there is a much better option.
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Why do you have such little faith in Apple?

Apple's not going to just drop in a change that makes you go through popup and notification hell.

I'm 100% certain Apple would give users control to enable or disable features on a per site/pwa basis.
Thanks for the resource! This is why I love HN, good information references.

What are some of the most useful insights you got from the book? Considering reading it...
>But russia has to stop nato somewhere

Yes, at their own borders. Their jurisdiction ends there.

All other nations have the right of self-determination and don't have to care about Russia's thoughts.

If they won't like it, they could sanction Ukraine or something, don't you think?
I don’t think anyone is saying that Russia is justified, more that if we want a solution here we have to understand their motivations.
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Interesting. Yeah, my knowledge of the French revolution is a bit limited. Thanks for the link.
(I worked at Telerik until 2014). They were acquired by Progress software later that year for $262m, so no longer independent nor a unicorn. Still one of the biggest successes.

The Payhawk founders are ex-Telerik and Telerik has made a major influence on the Bulgarian startup ecosystem.
I can't imagine working at a place that had 1000+ staff. I'd be a number, a cog.
May be because langage is deeply tied to culture and sovereignety. foreigns langage are cultural weapons, just look how european countries are slowly but surely turning into a chimeric federation mimicing USA just by cultural war.

For exemple a simple brainwashing illustration in the west is the fact that Imperalism is synonym to weapons/war/bombs and all things related to military. While indeed the biggest treat and real imperalism is culural and linguistic.

Hollywood and affiliates are bigger treat than any US Battaillon into subverting and destroying nation.

And it's even more dangerous because im an active actor of my own subvertion, of my own languistic and cultural destruction like im forced to use English (not my native language to expose my opinion here)
Playing the devil's advocate here - but a honest question - I've always wondered if I'd be able to recognize propaganda from within.

We're at a point now where all I see (in western media) is videos of long lines of refugees, children crying for their fathers that were drafted in Ukraine and companies banning everything Russian to turn it into a PR event online, articles about Ukranian hero president (in part articles about how sexy he is - I kid you not) - an on the other side of the spectrum Putin portrayed as a bloodthirsty madman that lost control.

I have to wonder - if anything in the world is ever portrayed this black and white - could it be true?

DISCLAIMER - condone war in every possible way and whatever the truth is in the end - Russia definitely lost control by attacking. But still - seems like we're getting a fair amount of propaganda ourselves too.
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> will want to buy but after a week sits on a shelf unused.

Just like my nintendo switch!
I don't
I don't
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> That wouldn't work, for example, when you're pushing commits someone else did in another repository.

What? Why??
> Does Putin strike you as an overly emotional guy who gets frustrated easily?

I mean... yes, clearly! Obviously, there's the Ukraine thing, but even before that, look at photos and footage of him when slighted at conferences and so on. He's not as emotionally open as a Trump or a Burlusconi, but he's no stoic as politicians go.
I was wondering the same thing! I always assumed that payment processing was one of the most "winner-takes-it-all" business models out there.
They are system patches, which may include security patches. That doesn't make it more wise to ignore, but it does become easier to imagine why you would.
Things you don't need JavaScript for
>It is now very clear to every single bank on the planet that the USG is willing to use commercial entities as a weapon against your country.

If you act like North Korea you'll be treated like North Korea.
I think this is basically right. He believes in the Russian Empire.

You can hear threads if this in the speeches he gives to Russian audiences where he argues that Ukraine isn't a real country.
Honestly loved it when I read it at the time, I can't think of many times a feature not being included I've cheered at.
How does this particular system passively condense the evaporate? That doesn't seem to be addressed anywhere.
I've seen young tech workers from Vilnius complain about their €200-500 per month heating bills for their small flats. I have no idea how average people pay for this.

Centralised geothermal is probably good solution, but that removes Russian kickbacks from plant management.
That is a big call regarding web components. I did some looking into web components for a recent project and React is just way ahead in many areas. You could use a framework like Lit to help smooth things over, but that just speaks to the underlying standard being somewhat cumbersome to use. I totally want web components to succeed and be the new way of doing things, but I get the feeling that is still a while away.
> one should risk their life for their country?

No, I'm saying to risk their life for their freedom, the freedom of their family, the freedom of their children, the freedom of their neighbours.
> Not necessarily Putin's demands, but there's talk of Russia asking to join NATO way-back-when

Putin wanted to skip the readiness steps applied to aspiring members and just be jumped in. Readiness is quite important, because NATO doesn't work by voting but consensus/unanimity.

> but I am pretty confident Russia would have no fear of NATO if it was not sent off

They weren't sent off, they were admitted to the Partnership for Peace (the onboarding path for membership) before Putin even came into office, and never formally pursued anything farther, Putin specifically indicating that he found applying the accession process used for aspiring members to Russia rather than a direct invitation for full membership improper.

> Also, recognizing independence for Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine would have helped with the current situation too.

Would it? How? Would it stopped Putin from escalating attacks from those areas and then claiming that attacks on them, combined with the historical “fact” that Ukraine was an unjustly created entity ripped from Russian territory, justified the invasion of the rest? How does that work?
React hooks is another attempt to gain ergonomics. The idea is to try to spread the virtual DOM into native effects. In theory the code specifies or declared the effects once and the framework takes care about subscribing/unsubscribing as necessary. But in practice this became so messy that in any complex cases one better stick to classes and explicit subscribe/unsubscribe.

The right way to do that exists in Elm. But I do not think there is a way to translate that into JS without requiring either a lot of boilerplate or very messy code
Don't want any country to be destroyed. Isn't that a given?

Can't we discuss realities in a more open way without the low hanging strawman arguments?
No, what you want is a random key. The security properties of an n-bit key depend entirely on those n-bits being random. Derived from user data is not (A CSRNG is not secure if the initial state is predictable).

The way security on modern devices with h/w support work is that a random key is generated in hardware. Subkeys are derived from that. Access to these keys (if they're ever directly exposed) is gated on the correct password, but nothing is actually protected by it.

This is what you want as it means you don't have to make a password that is maybe 50 characters long, and actually random (e.g. no word sets).
Besides fossils and defence stuff (which as we can see... is way overhyped) Russia has nothing interesting to offer to the world.
Keep your book reading info private!

If we drift into a world that is ruled by authoritarian leaders the information collected on these kind of sites is too dangerous to publish.
> I grew up on Star Trek and somehow I just though we had (almost) arrived in a post-war, federation-like world.

The Star Trek universe explicitly had a third world war, which was absolutely devastating. In that sense we're doing really well!
Propaganda and resentment often go hand in hand.
No it's not, it's the equivalent of you giving $2m
You are a private company and you can do whatever you want as long as your country's law allows you to do so.

That being said:

- Did you block US citizens from using Namecheap when the US invaded other countries and killed civilians?

- Did you block the US from using Namecheap when the US left Afghanistan without evacuating the people there who are in constant danger of being murdered by the Taliban?

- Did you block Ukrainians when they stripped minorities of their basic human rights? There are minorities in Ukraine like the Hungarian minority that has nothing to do with this whole conflict and they were denied their right to use their language by the Ukrainians that you have labelled innocent.

- Did you consider blocking Ukraine for their sexist and fascist move to deny their own men the right to flee the country?

Please, don't be part of the problem, if you want to support innocent people: support charities and tell your politicians to pressure Ukraine into allowing any person to flee the country who does not feel like dying because of this foolish proxy war between the US and Russia.

With your actions you are just weakening the neutrality of the internet and doing nothing to weaken Putin, his oligarchs will just move to a different registrar.
It's safe to assume this operation was in the planning at least since 2014. 8 years. It had weeks of operations at the border to sort out the logistics. And it had overwhelming military/intelligence superiority and access to the front from 3 sides.

It should have taken hours to break through. The operation was a shamble, even if it might succeed over time.

In 20 years of NATO operations over 5 different war theatres there have been 74 captured soldiers (src: https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/prisoners-in-the-war-o... ). Here there have been 10's in a matter of days.

Either he's gone full potato, or he's still very calculating but everyone around him is feeding false information upwards to "look nice" and because they can't say no. Neither scenario bodes extremely well for his chances of success.
If you really dislike Amazon or really want to support your local bookstores, a more low-hanging fruit might just be to create a browser plugin that replaces the links on Goodreads.
"There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming"" - Deplatforming does not mean that there aren't any other choices.

Are you planning to ban USA for all of the wars that it is engaged in or is this a racist and hypocritical move?
Wouldn't I still pay Russia if I move to a different registrar? That makes no sense...
>If a linter is required to tell me when I'm writing a bug that is not immediately obvious, that is a failing in the framework to round those edges. Lints are not rounded edges!

Those linter warnings with React hooks show just how much of a disaster it is. All of the "simplicity" that comes with hooks is just complexity that is now completely out of sight, and only appears once the code is run in a linter. That is even worse than having the complexity in the code.
I like Elm. :)

On the JS/TS planet there's https://cycle.js.org , which comes close.

Looks even better than Solid IMHO.
Note that NATO encirclement wasn't a motivation at all or a minor one at best.

The Kremlins true motivation is to create a Greater Russia. Russia will not allow for an independent Ukraine. This is consistent with Putins speech before the invasion on how Ukraine isn't really a country.

Ukrainians understand this and that's why they are begging to join NATO. They are not trying to unnecessarily provoke Russia, but they already understand that Russia is an existential threat to them now.

Some argued before that Ukraine should become a neutral buffer state, but that is simply not an option with the current Russian ambitions.
The US military killed nowhere near that many. It was mostly internecine warfare.
Hi, can you check the accessibility services on Graphene? Are there any screen readers?
Star Trek is a communist utopia. Our world won't resemble it as long as their are people who have the means and motivation to circumvent democracy. Unfortunately, such people exist in every major power.
> So it sounds like the myth is no myth and promises were made, but there were no legal guarantees given instead?

That, and the various "interventions" of the early 90s Russia. There is a reason why the Visegrad states (back-then Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary) were the first ones to literally beg NATO to allow them in - they were completely afraid of Russia after well over 100k people ending up dead in their neighborhood.

It was Russian aggression that drove the former Eastern Bloc countries to NATO.
- Would the majority population of DPR and LPR like to break away from the Ukraine?

No, they would not. They voted in very large majorities to be part of an independent Ukraine. Of course, now they are ruled by Russia-linked gangsters, so it is impossible to know what their citizens would like. Common sense suggests that they would rather be part of Ukraine, somewhat democratic, and relatively rich, instead of part of Russia, ruled by a warmongering dictator, and relatively poor.
I have the same issue fwiw. A notification to update NewPipe that always fail to install the update, but it works if you do it manually in the app. Just happened a couple of hours ago.
What values would those be? I'm really not following you?
Virtue signaling at it's finest. where were you serving ukrainian customers while they were ethnically wiping silently russian speaking peoples of Donbass since 2014 ?
> for their country

I had a discussion about that a few days ago with friends. It's not necessarily "for your country" or "patriotism" it can just be fighting for what you stand for.

Sadly what a lot of people stand for these days is living their little comfortable life, as long as war doesn't knock on their door they're fine, but then when it does happen it's too late
And namecheap banning russian TLDs will not stop the bombings, will not stop Putin, and will not help Ukraine.

I hate people who think they can solve geopolitical problems with SQL commands.
And Xi will squeeze him much harder than he squeezed Iran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93China_25-year_Coo...
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Most relevant here is the date: Feb 23.

Wow, I am surprised that 30% of Ukrainians supported Russian use of military force to stop them from joining NATO. That's bonkers, who could possibly want that? I can't imagine even Russians in Ukraine wanting that.

As such, I find this poll hard to believe.
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The term was originally used to describe the value of telephone systems, where more people using the system meant that it was worth it for more people to get telephones. Today, the term is used to describe any type of system where all participants benefit from increased usage of the product or service.
The Network Effect has a strong influence on cybersecurity communities. The larger these communities are, the greater their collective knowledge base will be and consequently they will be better able to help others in need and, of course, themselves.
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They seem to be somewhat open [0] and there is a decent wikipedia article [1]

[0]: https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-funding/donors-cha...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House
This isn't completely accurate. The Windows file dialog will not but the Win32 api does. Specifying a path such as foo\\bar in the shell for example will work.

The exception is if the multiple slashes appear at the beginning of the path. Windows accepts UNC paths which begin with double slashes. It will not normalize multiple slashes into double slashes at the beginning of a path but any following multiple slashes will be normalized to a single slash.
I think the show can be fine, but it's notable that the kind of excessive focus on being seen at all cost in my experience rarely happens at top restaurants.

They'll put on a show, but it'll be understated, and they'll know when to dial it back because they see you in conversation, and when it's ok to interrupt.

The over the top show is a trademark of second tier restaurants that often are still great, but feel a need to trade on gimmicks as a step up from places where the service is inattentive.

So you go from inattentive to overattentive to well calibrated.
I beg to differ, all people have a right to self determination...ideally on a local (village) level. I'd actually like people to question the meaning on countries and what they project with the never ending question of "where are you from" I come from a mixed background and look forward to where I'm going (which is much more interesting )
Countries imo are a colonialistic power grab by political elites who want to fill their pockets and freeload on the questionable idea of cultural identity (Slovakia...etc) not that it doesn't exist but it's often a bit racist or very local...
Anyway afaik Tibet was invaded...
Not on every relevant view though, so there are still new waves of pranks and surprised people.
For anyone else confused, 55 Tufton St. is home to a number of right-wing think tanks advocating for euroscepticism and for Brexit, and against climate change mitigation policies and against immigration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Tufton_Street
i was wondering why de-googled.com does not offer e.foundation as well, but then they sell phones as well, and i guess there is no need to compete on the same product.

very happy with /e/OS for more than two years now.
Croatia's first unicorn was Infobip, one of the world's largest providers of A2P SMS services.
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banana!
Absolutely right. Bombs and all, NATO baaad. On the flip side, I'll leave this here, to bring back a bit of perspective. Especially on the "let live" part:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
Also: http://youmightnotneedjs.com/

And: https://kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html