skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, go ahead and directly compare the US with China

usually people who are completely wrong don't even know how much wrong they are...

> Which of the two country's practice organ harvesting?

Countries like the U.S. and Canada did not include organ trafficking as a form of human trafficking when adopting their national laws on human trafficking. However, in the U.S. for example, some individual states like Massachusetts include organ trafficking within their state laws on human trafficking.

> Which of the two country's is practicing ethnic cleansing right now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ethnic_cleansing_in_t...

or do you prefer

https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/ethnic-cleansing/trum...

> How about talking about Tiananmen square in China?

Do you ever talk about putting Pinochet in command in Chile?

Or of the many other atrocities you, as a nation, committed in recent history?

> You don't think that China is "depleting resources"?

Average meat consumption in China is at 45kg per person per year, USA is at 119kg per person per year. Or 264 pounds, if you prefer nonsensical units of measurement.

And you have been doing it for almost a century.

The United States accounts for about five percent of global population, but is responsible for 30 percent of global energy use and 28 percent of carbon emissions

> Comparing the US of 75 years ago to the China of today is a dishonest juxtaposition

China is still a better trade partner than USA, even today.

The only reason Americans hate Chinese so much (it's a recent thing, they used to love 'em) is simply because they beat them at manufacturing.

But when they buy US debt they are fine with it...

Or when they invest in Silicon Valley together with bloodthirsty Saudi Crown Princes, they open not only their doors, but also their hearts to them.

Here we can see Tim Cook together with Mohammed bin Salman, responsbile for the Khashoggi assassination in 2018.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/h6MR1tH-Ps__vGg-IZWyUTL-5Ho=...

(from https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/1/18511540/silicon-valley-...)

Here we can see your elected President explaining how many fighter jets and other weapons your country sold to Saudi Arabia (translation: to Bin Salman, the man besides him)

https://gdb.voanews.com/7BB4C7FE-F921-4D0D-867F-53B7691931F0...

If you think that China is to be boycotted, well, I don't see a reason why to not boycott USA as well.

It's very simple logic, you probably don't see it from there, but from the real land of the free, you're not that different.
Dear Comrade, you're very wrong if you think that i'm pro-Putin. But i'm also disappointed in heroification of Zelensky that is currently so common in social media.
Practice at increasing levels, along with aptitude and instruction, makes experts. Practice at the same level makes for boredom.
I find it hard to believe there wasn't a work around for your tv to be set up without Internet.

For example the Sony web site doesn't seem to support what you are saying

https://www.sony-asia.com/electronics/support/articles/00113...

I set up my grandmothers sony tv last year without Internet.
Maybe if Russia was a little less eager in deploying nerve agents in foreign countries the "anti-Russia propaganda" would be less effective.
It is by far the weakest position to take. Your world with no aggressors is fantasy. The only person who had the choice to do nothing was Putin. Our failure to respond to him would result in many more deaths. Incidental casualties from sanctions are unfortunate, but in real life we always have make compromises.
The specs are there, under Wiki / Hardware specifications [0]

- CPU/Soc: LPC11U6x (NXP ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, running at 48 MHz)

- 256kB program memory – 36kB RAM – 4kB EEPROM

- 2.0″ Color TFT, max res. 220×176

- 8-bit DAC and 8-Bit PWM sound

- 600 mAh lipo battery with built-in charger

0: https://talk.pokitto.com/t/wiki-2-pokitto-technical-specific...
I'm pretty sure moss is revered in European cultures. Like, ahh, a nice carpet-like thing to sit on in the lovely forest, instead of just a cold, hard rock.
You are also paying like a 2.9% fee to your payment processor (vs $0 for a check). On a 50,000 car, that is $1,450. Not chump change at all, maybe a big chunk of your margin.
Just don’t try using it in combination with display: table-* or you will curse position: sticky’s name forever.
Sencor used to offer big (as large as 58'') TVs, some of them even dumb as bricks

I'd argue this is what parent wants instead...
Cash inflation has nothing to with a new product decreasing in value, due to wear, tear, and being used, after purchase.
Can you expand on this? It would be cool to hear the details, especially from a non-US country.
As a European I believe that is a very foolish idea.
Mapping the battleground for the next information war
https://archive.is/R1GJC
The ads aren't a problem with some adblocking extension. What is more annoying is the "Trends". I keep getting way too many artificially inflated political keywords thrown at me. I tried to avoid that by following primarily non-political accounts and block any tinfoil nutjob i encounter, but no use. That's why i avoid Twitter now.
I think some of the other posts have covered advice regarding the transition to SWE very well.

You write you are:
> in the process of receving EU passport

This threw me off somewhat. Does this mean you're an EU member state citizen currently living in Russia and applied for a passport in your home country? I'm not sure I understand what you mean otherwise. Aquiring citizenship (for a passport) is either very expensive or requires permanent residency for a number of years.

[edit] For clarification I changed EU citizen to EU member state citizen.
Just be careful. I think canceling cards can negatively impact credit score.
I was taught the other way around: an acronym is an initialism that can be pronounced as a word, all acronyms are initialisms but not all initialisms are acronyms.
Jack Dorsey was a very prolific user. Zuckerberg is every day on Facebook. Tim Cook uses and iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac all day. and so on.
I have also been reading about the American civil war. Even I initially thought it was a small war that barely killed anyone. But losing 2% of your population seems significant, especially given that it was a local affair.
This regime will fall. If not now, then in a few years. What you're accomplishing with deplatforming people is making them ensure they do not rely on western services, which in the long run has the detrimental effect of lowering cooperation and increasing segregation. Plus, none of the taxes paid right now go to the war effort, it will take months for any taxes collected today to go fund the military, by which point this war would have ended and whoever peace-oriented leader replaces the current one will need the income to rebuild their country and pay reparations. Additionally, if we adopt a too-far anti-Russian stance, we may see a repeat of post-WW1 Germany.

In short, I do not think you are achieving anything of value by shutting off civilians from your services. You are of course entitled to your opinion and feelings and nobody can force you to do what you disagree with, I just ask that you give it one more thought.
It almost reads like a GPT-3 bot wrote it, I thought I was having a stroke trying to understand it.
If possible, could the title be modified to spell out what "PoS" means? PoS aliases to "Piece of S***" and "Point of Sale", both of which give the headline a bit of a different impression on what to expect. Though I understand the general consensus is to send in the headline unmodified.
Just a moment ago, they completely destroyed a part of the house in the city near Kyiv with an airstrike.

https://t.me/truexanewsua/27000
Which successful companies' architecture is essentially a monolith?
Sorry, here you go!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
I have a Remarkable 2. I cannot describe how much I love the writing experience on it. I don't think any other standard tablet has ever come close to that.

I also feel like you for the paid Connect account, which I work around using open source tools that you're free to run on it. You can SSH as root easily and run whatever you want. I do it frequently for screen sharing.
I've learned over the years that in this business you grow thick skin or get out. I have found too that being able to accept criticism has made me a better person.

From time to time though, "Fuck everyone, you're all wrong!" is also still kind of fun.
Even though I read the GNU Taler FAQ please excuse any lack of deeper knowledge about it.

When dealing with those commercial banks what is currently the biggest challenge? Is it more the political arguments or the technical arguments of such a payment system that you need to stress? And, I couldn't find no definite answer to that: Could GNU Taler ultimately replace Bitcoin?
How does the average founder in a four-founder startup hold 31.79% of equity after the pre-seed round? (from the "Impact of the number of co-founders on equity" graph). Am I reading that wrong, or is their sample too small or heavily skewed?
When does "upsampling" cross into being a derivative work?
Just because it's not a line item doesn't mean it's not there.

It's just baked into the negotiated price.

Of course despite the past jokes about "hands are tied" re the sale price of new cars, the manufacturers actually do have relatively rigid controls today on dealers lowering allowable sales price. (But not raising, which has turned into an interesting situation.)

In reality, it just means you need to be trading in something to negotiate against any of that baked in finance cost, since trade-in amount is the one thing manufacturers can't really influence.

Which isn't to say that captive/manufacturer financing isn't often cheaper. It's just that the actual cost of financing isn't as transparent as claiming "no fees".

(You see this in gimmicks like having "no/low cost" financing, but at the expense of foregoing "cash back", which even in today's market is often upwards of $3k-5k.)
If anything, Jack is tweeting less now. He has been, was and still is very active

https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/jack
In my opinion it's a great deal more complex than: "you can just turn off the features". To me "lack-of-a-feature" is not in itself a feature of the device or platform, rather a feature of the company who makes the device or platform. It signals that the manufacturer is fully committed to solving a specific use case. Avoiding feature creep is tough though. Companies need to make money, and the easiest way to do that is to exploit your current customers to upgrade. However, because no one upgrades a device without a reason, it may be inevitable that companies continue to follow the classic: phone -> phablet -> tablet -> basically laptop without a keyboard progression.
> Don't finance with the dealership, go to a credit union like DCU

Not always true. DCU has to make a profit, so the floor of their auto loan is going to be like 1.5-2%. A car dealer is also making money from the sale of the car, I have gotten APRs like 0.9% from the likes of Honda, which is going to beat DCU.

Basically, shop around and take the better deal.

> Negotiate, even in times like this you can negotiate

Well, some cars you can't. Tesla has a fixed price, take it or walk. It's quite refreshing.
Well, some things are worth dying for.
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>SWIFT is a Belgian corporation that is not tied to a specific currency. Kicking them out of SWIFT has nothing to do with USD hegimony.

Not in this case given that Belgium and the rest of Europe also wants it.
...but I distinctly remember us not wanting to ban Iran from SWIFT and bowing to US pressure on the matter
I've never had a website block me for not accepting cookies before.
International politics is not a spectator sport. You don't get to pick one side and root for it like a mindless football fanatic
You mention a conflict that's 8 years old, but keep dodging the question.

I already provided one but you didn't like it.

Please answer my question before keeping with that Russian gish gallop.
>“Look, if you have the US government after you, you’re already fucked. No level of encryption is going to help.”

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
it's a company like ericsson. if this person didn't have too much an idea of the world i can imagine he'd just think negotiating with what the US calls "terrorists" is just BAU in this part of the world.

i mean, i can imagine large swathes of human habitation where society is organized around deadly force. literally one country exists right at the border, where cartels manage the economy.
From what I've seen anything over 5% is usually ridiculous. At least for startups on a track to a billion $ valuation, most startups of this caliber (or that see themselves as being of this caliber, key point) will be in situations where each cofounder has 1-2% at most and the rest is kept aside for later rounds, employees, eventually going public, etc. Your mileage may vary, but that is what I've seen.
At the time Nuking a country wasn’t a war crime. Also fire bombing raids on other cities (eg Dresden) were actually worse than the nuclear bombing. Additionally it could be argued that the nuclear option actually killed fewer civilians than the alternative.

Strongly recommend Dan Carlins podcast on the rise and fall of imperial japan to learn more.
I'll just use zeal from now on and never update it. It was fine earlier today, but now it's awful. There was nothing wrong with the old design.
What happens if the recipient doesn't have one of these clients?

An encrypted Zip attachment works with any email client software.
You're right and now I realize I must look rather silly. Thankfully there's a timeline where I saved my $1.99.
Maybe it's just me but I don't have "Australia going to force my email provider to hand over my data" in my threat model.

It's probably worth thinking about that too before hastily switching email providers. Fastmail is a solid provider, with great support and I never had a real issue with them. I give them money, they provide me a good and stable email service.
> I don’t understand why people think react hooks are meant to be ‘functional’.

Because when function components first came along that's what the whole of React was supposed to be: "functional" UI, using things like redux or mobx for state. Plenty of guides still use that terminology even though React's homepage now uses "declarative".

That said I think they were always misusing the term, I remember this because I used to complain to people that react itself was declarative, not functional, and just gave the option of writing in a functional style.
Any event occurring today has to be understood in the context of recent and often not-so-recent history. You can't make sense of what's happening in Ukraine without understanding what was going on during the Maidan protests in 2014. You can't understand BLM without going back at least to the 60s.

On top of this, you need to be aware of the tendencies in constructing media narratives and assess whether they are showing in whatever you are reading. "Cui bono?" and all that. The techniques and patterns haven't changed much and you can read works by e.g. Chomsky to develop a critical sense for what you should look out for.

As others have said, follow the money. The Ukraine story is obviously not a simple good, handsome actor PM vs. evil, Soviet spy dictator. So why is it being painted this way? And what might the real story be? You want a media source that is providing historical context, ideally along with on the ground information from people who are engaged with events at a local level, and also does not hide its ideological position and motive in sharing the story. You won't have the full story after this obviously but it's better than narratives with unmotivated claims depending on cherry-picked sources and undisclosed financing.

I actually find that the far left media can usually provide the greatest insight into a situation, you just have to take the ideology with a grain of salt. They are advancing an agenda but don't try to hide it and their information comes from networks of people engaged in local communities and struggles and who follow relevant political and economic ties very closely. Here is a long interview with a Ukrainian anarchist that can give way more detail on the situation than any paid journalist could hope to:

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/03/ukraine-between-two-fires-...
No worries, 21st century got you covered!

Russia + Ukraine combined amount to some 25% of global wheat export alone, not to mention how global fertilizer prices will skyrocket in the months to come, causing prices to increase for a lot of food products down the line.
I would have 1000% agreed with you except I had a very different experience last year. I was out seeking loans for a car and shopping around for low interest. One of the lower ones was from a company branded LightStream but on the back end is really SunTrust/Truist. They had a great rate, no origination fees, and weirdly, asked specifically not to set the loan up so that the car was collateral. Maybe it was a credit rating thing (mine is quite good) and they would incur more costs setting it up that way.
This is a really cool idea. I am interested in seeing other types of cryptographically secure payment or monetary systems come about, but decidedly not ones you'd call "crypto," much like Taler very carefully explains it is not.

For example, deflationary gold-like digital currencies just don't work. Fundamentally. It's a futile exercise to debate. But debt-based digital currencies run into some really hard problems.

How do you know if someone is good for their IOUs? If someone takes out a large amount of debt, what prevents them from dropping their wallet/identity and moving on to a new one and wiping themselves clear of their debts? Are all of these social issues? Does a new credit system built into such a currency serve as the basis for preventing someone from not paying their debts back to the network? Even if a credit system was built into the digital currency, someone can always create a new identity if there is no requirement for verification, but how do you design a system that does not require it?
If you're doing infrastructure for the old regime and you're not particularly attached to the old regime and a new regime shows up it's completely normal to send some reps to figure out if the project is to be continued and the details thereof.

Obviously there are situational judgement calls that can't be captured by slinging stupid internet rules of thumb around but this is Ericson we're talking about. They're providing basic infrastructure stuff that anyone seeking to run a state needs. That's a pretty neutral thing to be involved in. It's not like they are a defense contractor who were supplying the people shooting at the new regime a week ago. And in this case it was a local contractor so that adds a potential layer of baggage.
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You could possibly make an argument for some groups considered terror groups for actions against governments, but ISIS throws gay people off building and puts civilians in cages before burning them alive. You must feel for the unaffiliated residents but there's no way I'd set foot there for any reason.
You can spend the rest of your life analyzing this, but the simple fact is that Russia was already on the skids and that Putin stays in power only because he is seen as strong and decisive. Being in a war pretty much guarantees that he gets to cling to power for the duration, and if successful for a long time after that.

For the duration because nobody else wants to own the mess, and if not successful then he gets to exit stage left with a bullet in his head or to rot in jail in the Hague for the rest of his trial, and the rest can wash their hands of it by throwing him under the bus.

All that conditional on him not trying to take the rest of the world with him because we've been witness to his fall from grace, something this personality type has a hard time dealing with, see 'Jim Jones'.

Any motivation that I've seen so far is pretexts or historical stuff that has very little bearing on the situation between Ukraine and Russia since 2014, when it all materially changed. Clinging to the past isn't going to help you to understand the present, things can and do change and not everything can be justified by pointing to events from relatively long ago as inevitably leading to the present, there were many choices made along the way by various parties that had a tremendous effect on the outcome, and not all of those choices were large enough to make it into the history books. For instance: the operational readiness of the Russian army was substantially higher a decade ago than it is today, a consequence of replacing one Russian officer.
I am not sure whether namecheap.com is sending this notices randomly to any one. I own common domain extensions like .com, .news, .io, .ai and .co. I am definitely not Russian nor anything to do with Russia, rather Indian living in Singapore. I am following with them through tickets and on twitter. They know my whois registration address and my payment card details which prove my identity. Really frustrated from morning.
Trying to do a crime is punishable. Your blogpost is one big confession on how your tried to hack a company out of money. No?
taxable? bug or feature?
I would like to have an e-Ink notebook for professional reading/writing/editing (no video/games).

ARM, 8 GB RAM, 64 GB persistent storage (SSD or SD card. 10" or 11" e-ink screen, good-quality physical keyboard, light, rugged, portable).
Should be OSS powered, of course (Linux preferred).
> an unsecured line of credit is going to have a higher interest rate than loan backed by the collateral of the car.

That depends on who you are and what you have, from the bank's POV. If they are actively bugging you to take out this kind of loan, then they probably don't have an issue regarding collateral.

A car is not particularly good collateral; it depreciates rapidly, subject to being damaged and stolen.
Oh darn! This is going to take a while to get used to...
The loans may also be genuine interest free - but with a few caveats such as settling by a certain date to avoid penalty fees and such. There will be enough people falling into this trap to make it profitable for the loan company.

Quite often the same loan company is also financing the dealer's stock so there are also hidden incentives for him to push loans - such as preferential rates for himself.
Argument #1 is a "should", not a "will", so there's definitely risk there. Considering the average stock market gain is something like 10% and we're sitting at way over that, it would stand to reason that if that average holds at some point we're going to get below average performance. It's a gamble.

Regarding #3 - doesn't that do a number on your credit? And how many states are non Recourse? As I understand it here in Canada those agencies that backed your loan (the bank or the CMHC) will attempt to recoup their losses by taking you to court if they have to.
Understanding higher-kinded types
Reading your first paragraph, I was thinking "water. the answer is always water", when it comes to estimating the properties of life-stuff vs everything-else-stuff within a factor of 2. Not obviously, of course, but it's just such a powerful heuristic.

Reading your second paragraph, I see you're familiar with the principle, and added a good heuristic to my stockpile, thank you.
Wrong address, tovarisch. I didn't grow up with US cold war propaganda and can detect Kremlin bullshit from miles away.