skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost of education. Becoming a doctor is 5 times more expensive in India as compared to Ukraine.
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Was this a US-based company? I do wonder if this happens more common than we think, although as others have mentioned, it feels a bit counterproductive
Because your rights end where other peoples' begins, and controlling what a company allows or doesn't allow on its platform is compelled speech, which is unconstitutional in the US. For example, a baker has the right to censor you by not allowing you to order a cake that says "Heil Hitler" on it.
Even just having the potential for the terminal to interpret escape codes is frustrating. Always pipe remote output to `less` or `less -R` (not `less -r`).
We (everyone) have a pretty good look on what is happening, and even propaganda can't hide that. This was designed to be a fast invasion. Everything is pointing into that, relying on the surrender of Ukraine's citizens and military. It failed and we can see consequences.
You said “software costs $0” without caveats. Not “some software”. You are now trying to pretend you didn’t take such a hard stance.

It’s ok and good to admit when you say something wrong. I really respect when people do that.

P.S. I’ve been trying to get into less silly arguments like this on the internet… alas I couldn’t help myself here.
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If creators moved to PeerTube they probably could still make money with sponsored content and donations like they already do on YouTube.

Of course, because of network effects and YouTube ad revenue there is little incentive to do so except for idealists and people who get banned on YouTube.
Alternative articles:

- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukrai...
- https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/03/russian-entrepreneu...
This.

I don't understand how more people are not catching up to this simple fact that central bank "digital currencies" are nothing more than a by-pass of distributed private banking (brick and mortar + online banks). It's just moving more levers closer to central authorities.
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A benefit is that we can seize the opportunity to get away from relying too much on oil and gas.

Time to get started.
> It will isolate them enough to allow the government to push an anti-western agenda.

They are already doing this, Russian media is going full propaganda everything they say is a blatant lie simply to reduce the signal to noise.

The more important aspect is their cyber attacks on Ukraine that prevent civilians and militias from organising to escape the violence or repel it.

Russia's state sponsored cyber attacks show it has no interest in contributing to a healthy internet, they should be banned.
I haven't watched RT in the recent years, so I can't judge that instance (but I have do admit that, unless there is some heavy misrepresentation going on, I can understand why they want to ban it. That's without judging the ban as good or bad, which I find exceedingly difficult; and I don't want to [and will not] engage in that discussion, at least not without thinking more about it and considering the facts and implications).

However, I think you're [technically] wrong about "news shouldn't have bias".
I'd like to start by pointing out that there is a huge gap between biased news and propaganda. A conservative and a liberal news outlet might report on the same thing with different point of views and come to different conclusions (why did it happen? is it good that it happened? what effect has the thing happening? and so on). That's bias; and it's not even too bad a thing. Reading multiple outlets with different biases will give you a good idea of what different people think about an event, allowing the reader to keep an open mind and engage in a more fruitful discussion. Good journalism will even do that for you, by mentioning opposing views without discrediting them. That's the reasoning behind "I think you're [technically] wrong".

Now, what you have in mind goes beyond simple bias. Given the example, either outlet might use their news to push their own agenda, and in my book that's dangerous and on the verge of being propaganda. They might also knowingly misrepresent the facts to do so, or outright invent things (or leave out important bits), which I'd classify as full blown propaganda.
Yes, a lot of popular/mainstream "news", especially in the US (but also in the EU), are closer to propaganda than to being just biased (or are propaganda, think "stolen election" narrative). So one man's "propaganda" is indeed another man's news. Or, more precisely, some man's "news" is propaganda.
My point is that throughout is likely not the bottleneck in SWIFT (300 messages/sec is quite small). Why design a solution that can handle 900k messages/sec to solve a problem that likely doesn't exceed 1k messages/sec?
Nah, I appreciate the wonderfull work of those WebAssembly people that allowed me to have Java applets, Flash and Silverligh running again in the browser.

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/

https://opensilver.net/

Thanks for making the revenge of plugins a reality.
We were actually less framework than more. Basic express app. We explored Next and almost went that way.
not a tutorial, but here is how they did it: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18t0k17k0Xxo0BXMdjl6m...
Well now it's a war crime, not just a shady practice, so plenty of new under the sun :p
By the way, if the author is here: Please use a real blogging platform and not this un-indexable, privacy invading mailchimp crap. Hell, even medium is better.
You can read the document again. It's the minimum eligibility in the test they're taking not their high school scores.

> the cutoff for reserved category students being 60% of that of general category ones

It is not that off and even if it were, it's not as bad as you initially claimed: 18%. AND media houses are known to sensationalize everything.
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Using it on my laptop for, whatever people use an OS for these days, like running apps on my laptop.

And we use it on the work laptops for development work.
Id avoid win 11 but if I really have to I’d use a burner card and cancel it right away. I wouldn’t want any paranoia awaitng surprise charges.
I saw the video of your mobile app debugging. Makes it very convenient for mobile development. Thanks for the work
I don't think cutting off Russia from the Internet is a good idea simply because not everyone inside Russia who uses that connection is necessarily a Bad Guy.

Do you want to be cutting off Russia's anti-war protesters from the world?
It was all note on the request/response as a basic express app.
plenty of countries are "allies" with the west because of convenience and alignment - but that can change on a dime. And countries aren't stupid; if you can see that currency sanctions can have such a major affect, you would prepare by ensuring that you are diversified.

I say that the current currency and banking sanctions are a one use tool - it is effective in the short term at hurting the russian economy, but the west will be paying a future price for it, one where the west's currency and institutions are trusted less than it would have been had they not done this.

You can argue that these sanctions are preferable to war. After all, any war with russia and the west will be nuclear, without a doubt. So the west is choose the lesser of two evils to deploy. But i'm not so sure that nuclear war is not averted.
Interactions with companies are fundamentally voluntarist. Not in the sense that you can’t end up with a corporate dystopia; but rather in the sense that a motivated populace can destroy a corporate dystopia just by demanding legislation, without fighting a literal civil war, the way they’d have to do for a government dystopia.
Western fight against Russian rules by implementing that rules. This is pure hypocrisy and will do more harm in future, just like covid propaganda and censorship around vaccines.

We are loosing our freedom and values every day. Because of our safety, of course.
Have you heard of the eternal september?
I'll play devil's advocate and suggest that when one buys a Mac, one is already aware of the fact that it's more of an appliance and a subscription hub than an actual computer. Yes, it does all the regular computer things, but it's practically a loss-leader for Apple to keep you in the ecosystem (and I say this as someone who "owns" a M1 mini).

For Microsoft on the other hand, this is breaking new ground with Windows users. Microsoft has slowly been easing their users into a OS-as-a-Service paradigm, the next logical step for them is to require your credit card info (which to be clear, isn't required...yet) to continue to use the OS on the computer you bought outright. After all, the other major software players are pushing subscriptions instead of license purchases (Adobe, Parallels, Codeweavers, and Microsoft themselves with 365, among so many others), so why not charge a fee to use their preloaded and -- in the eyes of the average consumer -- required OS?
Are you seriously expressing outrage that the legislation describing the limits to the freedom of expression is in the section about freedom of expression?
Ḥaddad in Arabic.
Whatever dude, you can't even read the profile properly.
They should have known how wrong they were when they saw the motion of galaxies right then and there.
Aside from the technical discussions there is a legal thing: If peers upload the stream they might be liable for copyright issues. Downloading often has different legal impact from uploading and judging legality of stream content is hard.
Taking actions is what got us here. Many of the times when the West tries to push institutions east Russia retaliates. Look at the Georgia war and Crimea for example.
> I've watched RT on a few occasions and I never thought their reporting outright propaganda

Now watch it more often and you'll notice even more bias and outright wrong translations of interviews, along with well cut footage.

Now make it the only source of news (well, along with other channels, RT is not the only one) for Russian speakers and you'll understand why they're seemingly stupid - every single Russian outside Russia I've spoken with believes in some dumbass shit like Covid conspiracies, or "the West" always antagonizing Russia, or Putin being a good leader, or the war being justified, or there being no war.

It's not only RT, these people actively go to Odnoklassniki (Russian Fecebook) or Russian Fecebook sites for their news.

It would be fine if these news are accurate/neutral. But they're always against "the West" (which now includes half of Asia, so I don't even know anymore).

If one guy seems like an asshole, he may be an asshole. If two guys are assholes, you may be unlucky. If three guys are assholes, maybe you're the asshole.
Gas and oil is all they have to trade and they have a lot of it.
I am certainly empathetic to having power and lights go out... In the midwestern USA, we survived last year with rotating blackouts during an unexpected winter storm that reached deep into Texas to parts that haven't seen snow in 50 years, and some parts ever receiving snow on recorded record.

That being said, people are dying because of cheap power and gas. I know it's easy for me to say halfway across the world from behind a keyboard, but I really hope you guys elect to have your power shut off (If that's what it takes) to help the people of the Ukraine. Russia knows Europe is energy dependent on it, and it's the one area we haven't totally cut them off on. It's a small sacrifice that would save a hundred thousand lives.

In the midwest, the grid operators had a plan to divert available power to critical places first like hospitals, traffic lights, etc. It was freezing hold and I had power for 45m every 2 hours for a few days. I survived, there were places I could go, life went on.
The aim of this project is to send message via Bluetooth using a web browser or smartphone to a LCD display which is connected to STM32 board.
It seems to me that annexing Crimea counts as an invasion, so I'm not sure why the author thought Russia would not invade more.

> It did not go any further in trying to conquer Ukrainian territory.

Yeah, they stopped there and got an idea of what the international community would do in response to the invasion. (Little, or at least not enough (as is now obvious)).
Inventive Retail Group Moscow is not an expat by a long shot.
Ok, how about this.

1. Spending <1.2% of GDP on defence

2. Reducing tanks to 18 (Holland). 18! 1 per million people. 57 howitzers. 40 fighter aircraft.

3. Germany : arming its troops with broomsticks. BROOMSTICKS (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-s-neglected-soldi...)

4. Belgium : 0 (read it straight) 0 MBT. 0. 1 Self propelled gun I think.

These are rich and powerful countries. They have been utterly delinquent for the last 20 years. When you see unanswered Russian aggression in the east it's because these people who should be the core of European power have pretended that everything will be alright if they let their martial capabilities rot.

It's not only their forces (and foreign policy, particularly Germany's and the EU's in Ukraine and the Balkans). The near evisceration of the European military infrastructure and production capability has screwed everyone. Where is the Tornado replacement? Let alone the Eurofighter replacement? How many F35's has Germany bought (spoiler :0) how much more expensive has that made F35 for everyone else (spoiler : alot).

Now the Germans are going >2% on defence - how many years will it take for that kind of money just to repair the barracks? Where is the Dutch emergency budget? (https://nltimes.nl/2022/03/01/dutch-armed-forces-facing-russ... --- let's grow towards 2%!)

Also the wording is an allusion to the first world war.
Russia halts deliveries of rocket engines to the U.S.
So glad to hear this. This is really good feedback. Noted this down. We will soon make this live. We already have an animated gif at https://requestly.io/feature/redirect-url/

Do you mean to say we should have an animated flowchart for the hero image on the page?
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Very funny. May Ukrainian rasputitsa englue all war belligerents until they stop all nonsense.
Show HN: Early access launch of Adama, a serverless multiplayer game platform
Greetings!

My name is Jeff, and I’m “early-access” launching my SaaS “serverless” infrastructure for Jamstack, games (particularly board games), and traditional real-time scenarios (presence, pub/sub, etc…). This work is rooted in the frustration of building complicated board games using existing infrastructure. It just so happens that making board games easier has wide reaching implications.

Landing page: https://www.adama-platform.com/

This is a radically different kind of “serverless” infrastructure where I want the benefits of both a serverless architecture with a monolithic mindset, and this is achieved by building a comprehensive language to transform documents within the service as close to data as possible with minimal reads and writes.

As this is “early access”, I’ve outlined the current challenges on the site and have a launch post which goes into more detail: https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/03/02/early-access-launch-and-confession.html

From a technical perspective, the now and future architecture has some interesting tidbits around streaming. However, the key value proposition is the language which I enjoy using (and building). This language has (1) await/async semantics to perform coordination between multiple people, (2) integrated queries for simpler thinking about state, (3) privacy as a first class citizen, (4) access control is baked in, (4) reactive formulas which lazily compute values, (5) simple message passing between user and the document, (6) modern features which make doing bad things impossible, (7) state can be rewound with a rewind, (8) no need to serialize state or think about networking, and (9) more https://book.adama-platform.com/

I’ve got my work cut out for me, but I’m starting the effort to find early adopters and build community that want to play as I push forward on my strategy since many of my investments are driven by my pathologies: https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/02/24/open-strategy.html

I would deeply appreciate any feedback, comments, and questions here, via my new shiny email: jeff@adama-platform.com, or my discord channel: https://discord.gg/W3Cj4By
> China is a large economy but it's nothing like the dominant force many people seem to think. China is 16% of US trade, 22% of EU trade, 22% of Japan's trade, 22% of South Korea's trade, etc

You seem to think of those percentage as small - they represent the largest trading partner of each of those country/entity.
If you search for "Reddit" the first result is "Google Search is Dying" on Hacker News.

https://dontbeevil.rip/search?q=reddit
can solar run 24/7 factories?? it's not that simple guys
> everytime the host of the current/next blob o' data goes offline, you need to waste time finding a replacement

Ther is an algorithm in place where the rarest is downloaded. Also a priority list of older peers is implemented. Some protocol also request the chunk from muliple peers (kademlia).
Have you not encountered this sort of "information cannot be harmful" type of free speech absolutist before?
https://fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charter/article/11-freedom-expre...

> The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

They're saying Article 11 already accounts for these scenarios. (I'd presume they learned from the US experience, where it was left to the courts to provide the "ok but there are obviously exceptions" relief valves to the Constitution.)
I don't understand this comment. A quick look up of the `Morgenthau plan` seems to indicate it was focussed on removing Germany's military power by crushing their industrial output and various other economic restrictions.

Russia cutting off oil doesn't seem to be synonymous with the intent of Morgenthau, it may have a similar side-effect but it's not the same as far as I can see.
Still surprises me all the bans imposed to Russia. Never heard of such a thing with regards (to mention something recent) Israel attacks on Palestine. It is definitely one thing to attack a European country a total different one to attack some other third-world country.
IMO "MLOps" is a "DevOps" problem, if you break it down fundamentally MLOps's requirements are

* Computing resources (CPUs, Memory, Storage, GPUs)

* Distributed computing in most cases w/ spark + hadoop stack

* Keeping state, which may be required to mutate

* Rapid iteration

The ML tooling part of it is an implementation detail, i.e, the software and dependencies required. These are hard problems even with trad deterministic computing. I don't seem to understand why the author seems to think ML engineers or scientists need to know these Ops tooling.

For example in this tweet https://twitter.com/mihail_eric/status/1486750600343822343 the author complains that data scientists need to learn kubeflow (they don't), and that it's complicated. Thing is, insofar as scalable architecture diagrams along with all the other security side-requirements it's about as complicated as one would expect, maybe a little too abstract for those that do this for a living. I mean your typical k8s-based SaaS tech stack can reach that complexity, but it's managed complexity about as complex needed for the stakes at play.

I don't know if ML folk are in the peak hype cycle arrogance where they think global ops problems can be solved for their use case, or if there's some misunderstanding on the iceberg of a problem of managing infra is.

I do agree it is messy, I did some ML Ops (w/a big data stack) as a "DevOps engineer" but I stuck with k8s and infra primitives, filtering out most of the list. The ML aspect was the easy part, mainly managing the install deps, jupyter notebooks state etc., the hard part was scaling to manage costs, managing a big data stack in general, and making the entire flow UX friendly to ML engineers and data scientists, since you can't expect them to learn new cli tools and trad software dev tooling (they're paid too much to waste time not working on ML problems). I think a lot of these problems are solved if your company has a lot of money to burn on SaaS solutions or not care about scaling down, or being able to afford your own datacenter.

My counterpoint to the article is that the industry has bent backwards to cater to the ML space, integrating all these tools to existing tech (spark on k8s, kubeflow), making entire pipelines jupyter-driven (https://netflixtechblog.com/notebook-innovation-591ee3221233), and generally using massive amount of resources for ML. The ROI and massive push to burn resources and time into the tooling seems work out for big tech more than anyone.
If the cash is evidence (e.g., marked bills from a bank robbery), then it doesn't matter who is holding it at the time of seizure. This doesn't come up often with cash, but it can: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/how-p...
Not until China let’s you move money out of the country. They are going backwards on that now not forwards.

And I don’t think anyone knows what will happen if they do liberalize the yuan. The Chinese authorities are terrified of it though.
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Source: I'm Ukrainian, and my family members serve in the Ukrainian military / Territorial defence.

So no, this isn't just rehashed pro-Ukraine Western propaganda.
"Killing" your business (actually, at the end of the war your customers will be back; hopefully you can coast on without income and with reduced costs) is not only collateral damage but part of the sanctions: it hurts Russian citizens and businesses, and their friends.