skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read that he's been isolating himself because of Covid, and that he has a very limited circle of people who are allowed to talk to him (see the images of him at the head on a comically long table). If this is true and those people are sycophants, then he's operating in a different reality.
wow!! so detailed and accurate.

> In this war, Russia might have the watches, but the West and Ukraine may have the time.

Profound and true
"Just setup rclone and mount a cloud drive."

This reads like the infamous Dropbox comment. :)
Wonderful rational interview hitting several key points which are in fact taboo in most EU to even mention. At the end he says:

"We (USA) should be pivoting out of Europe to deal with China in a laser-like fashion, number one. And, number two, we should be working overtime to create friendly relations with the Russians. The Russians are part of our balancing coalition against China. If you live in a world where there are three great powers—China, Russia, and the United States—and one of those great powers, China, is a pure competitor, what you want to do if you’re the United States is have Russia on your side of the ledger. Instead, what we have done with our foolish policies in Eastern Europe is drive the Russians into the arms of the Chinese. This is a violation of Balance of Power Politics 101."
What I fear is that is slowing coming to us anyway, is like watching the history lessons being replayed, killing in Sarajevo, "liberating" Poland,....
Nice tool, I will give it a try!
Good summary. Thanks.
"The poor and powerless" can't afford legal representation (and public defenders are notoriously poorly funded), so they're easier to prosecute. They also can't afford lobbyists, so they didn't write the laws in the first place.

I was pleased to learn that the new supreme court nominee has worked as a public defender.
It was always both. And General "Winter" is to a huge extend a myth.
The Russian Credit Crisis
Why Kreya isn't open source
No one I know, but maybe it's just my echo chamber. Russian IT industry petitions the government to stop the 'special military operation' with more than 30k signatures so far.

Edit: I checked the petition text[0] and it says not 'war' but 'special military operation'. If they wrote 'war', obviously Putler could have said "there is no war, so wontfix".

[0] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEsxsoXl_7R4aD5F8-...
Test prep isn't all that effective in raising scores, at least on the SAT. To the extent that it is, a $30 test prep book provides the lion's share of the benefit.
The people there don't want to separate from Ukraine. They identify as Ukrainian.
Roadmap to become a Web Developer in 2022
I would love to buy a TXR book. It seems like such a powerful tool, and I totally lack any context or understanding of how to get started with it!

I got started with Awk and Sed by just reading through the manuals and putting in the effort to understand the various code snippets I saw online. But that was when I was much younger and "fresher" than I am now. Is TXR worth it?
And the t is about half the size of the h. I found the font trying too hard to be unique, and the content just boring. I gave up on both after about the fourth paragraph.
True, but the UN passed 16 resolutions against Iraq leading up to the war. That leant a lot of legitimacy to the war itself. The US coalition ended up withdrawing their resolution since it would have been vetoed, but felt like they had enough legitimacy from the UN to go ahead anyways.

And not to split hairs, but "illegal" to whom? The UN? Ok, but the major powers were the guilty ones. Who would enforce such a charge of an "illegal war"? Who had the power to actually enforce it?
I get what the author is trying to say, and I certainly agree. Sometimes you simply need it to look a certain way or use an image that cannot be summarized in text in a meaningful way in order to get your point across.

All those monks slaving away doing doodles in the margins weren't just staving off carpal tunnel. There's meaning there you can't get any other way. Before Man could write, Man made art.

The other HN article about "plaintext only" I also agree with. HTML is the synthesis of the two. Sometimes I forget what a great idea and a blessing HTML is. Even if you don't have a browser that can render it, reading an HTML document isn't difficult if it isn't festooned with auto-generated nonsense.
I was also looking for a way to better visualize text as a set of notes while still using markdown and .txt, then I came up with the idea "Sticky notes + Markdown + Tabs, All in one .txt file"[1].

It's nothing fancy, just a prototype using electron and vanilla javascript, but it might be useful.

[1] https://github.com/zonetti/zonote
I don't think merging will ever be fully solved by software. It's a problem created and solved by process. How annoying merges are is entirely dictated by process.

Sourcetree is the best git GUI I've used. That could be used as a model.

I think an old-style solution to merging would be fine: output a word file that uses a unique font style to indicate which user made what conflicting changes, have the user edit the document and remove all of the "merge styles", then continue.
Do they also have a permanent underclass with a high crime rate and result in mass incarceration?
At least at the government-executive level, other nations did not hate the US as much as we now hate Putin. And no one was going to stick their neck out for Saddam Hussein, who was after all, a monster who massacred his own people and invaded a neighboring country. No one would miss him when he was gone. Did that justify the war? No.
The HiFive Unmatched[0] from SiFive is a beast of a dev board, but with a price to match ($665 from Mouser). For a smaller Arduino-style board, the HiFive1 Rev B[1] exists as well, but it's more an MCU than CPU.

[0]: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched

[1]: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive1-rev-b
Zooko's triangle implies that human-meaningful names will always be contended (to a varying extent) in a decentralized system. But you don't need human-meaningful names to host your services under, only to optionally direct users to them. So an auction system seems like it should be the most appropriate for such user-facing links. Individual users can always opt for some alternative means of indexing, e.g. "petnames" chosen locally or provided by some source that they trust.
This video predates the Iraq war by a few years but is a critical look into how this sort of thing works with world powers.

Noam Chomsky "Sovereignty & World Order"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtBQ7iTyfBQ

Also regarding the other comments about WMDs (from Vox):

"To some extent, this is beside the point; even if they had been totally cautious and careful in characterizing the intelligence, the war still would’ve been a catastrophic mistake that took an immense human toll. But the truth also matters, and the truth is that there were numerous occasions when Bush and his advisers made statements that intelligence agencies knew to be false, both about WMDs and about Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent links to al-Qaeda. The term commonly used for making statements that one knows to be false is "lying.""

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/9/12123022/george-w-bush-lies-ira...
Am I the only person the caught Putin's "I don't care to occupy Ukraine" in his address a few days ago? Dude goes back on that, he'll have even more problems from untrusting Russian citizens. Everyone assumes his goal is to conquer Ukraine and keep a tight grab on it. We don't know that positively.
This is what I don't get. Isn't Kyiv a few hour's drive from the border? How can you run out of fuel and food? I guess the only way is if you expected to simply drive directly to a victory march, but surely it's worth being prepared?
>> What? This is racist in and of itself and would be blatantly illegal for any number of reasons

Not going to touch the moral implications here, but _is_ that actually illegal discrimination? Is there any benefit for interviewing a particular candidate than an employee would miss out on? Again, not picking a side here; just curious.
If we assume that we should probably all be really alarmed that a man that disconnected from reality has their finger on the nuclear trigger. I find the idea that they are ruthless and calculating and trying to force something that no one wants to somehow be the much less frightening option.
They're not really "media", they're analysts. CSIS is a think tank funded by Bank of America, Northrop Grumman, etc. https://www.csis.org/corporation-and-trade-association-donor...

A think tank can be there to manufacture support for an ideological position, but it can also be used to do actual thinking.
Different family cultures. Some families value education more, plan ahead more, and sacrifice current consumption for their children’s future more than others. Small differences compound over time.
That's a myth perpetuated by a (possibly willful) misinterpretation of the survey results[1][2].

If you click on the report in your own link, the survey summary even says as much:

"If faced with an unexpected expense of $400, 61 percent of adults say they would cover it with cash, savings, or a credit card paid off at the next statement—a modest improvement from the prior year. Similar to the prior year, 27 percent would borrow or sell something to pay for the expense, and 12 percent would not be able to cover the expense at all."

In the study, the Fed asks respondents whether they are able to pay all of their bills in full. Only 17% say they can’t pay some bills. The Fed also asks respondents how a $400 emergency expense that they had to pay would affect their ability to pay their other bills. 85% percent report that they would still be able to pay all their bills. Only 14% say that the emergency expense would result in their not being able to pay some bills. The situation is bad for that 14%, but that figure is much closer to what you would expect in a normal distribution, unlike the sensationalist 40% figure that makes the rounds.

Also, these kinds of surveys capture a point in time, and don't reflect changing affluence of an individual over the course of their life. One study[3] of historic income tax returns found that 40% of working Americans spend at least 2 years in the top 10%. A full 62% spend at least 2 years in the top 20%, and over 54% spend at least 3 years there[4].

If this comes as a surprise, one can sanity check this by comparing the median household income (after taxes, transfers, and benefits) in the US with those of other countries; the US is #1[5].

And NB: even for those that are destitute, the US has a huge safety net, where the poorest fifth of American working age households are better off than those in Canada, Denmark, Britain, and Germany because their market income is higher and their taxes are lower, after accounting for all monetary benefits[6]. That's not to say that there isn't room for improvement (people still slip through the cracks), but it's by no means as dire as many make it out to be.

Given all this, it takes a lot of motivated reasoning to be able to argue that "more than half of the families in the US are destitute".

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/the-40...

[2] https://www.cato.org/blog/it-true-40-americans-cant-handle-4...

[3] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourn...

[4] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371%...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

[6] https://twitter.com/CPopeHC/status/1489702016561602568
I don't doubt you, at all. Most of this catholic priest are from the upper caste community.

1) https://scroll.in/article/876000/is-the-caste-system-deep-ro...

2) https://www.jstor.org/stable/44144111

3) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11229170

4) https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/dalit-catholics-continu...

The leadership of Churches in India remains in the hands of upper-caste Christians, and they are as bad as their Hindu counterparts.
> It consisted of going to some Indian dude’s house for an hour every Saturday for a summer. If that’s a game changer what does that say about American K-8 math education?

Ironically, this is scouting round a theory I have long espoused – the failure of American K-8 math education has nothing to do with teaching, and everything to do with culture.

Sure, going to some Indian dude's house every Saturday for a summer and prepping is not objectively hard in itself. But think of how many cultural factors had to be overcome for that to work out:

- Your family bothered enough to think about sending you there, rather than spending time keeping up with the Joneses for the latest model of garden sprinkler

- Your family quietly put down one thousand(!) dollars towards additional education instead of complaining about the schooling endlessly over $15 bottomless mimosas on Saturday

- You were extremely uncool by the standards of American culture for doing any kind of test prep. On Saturdays at that. The cool kids were off skateboarding or something, right?

- You stuck it out for a whole summer. Who does that? It's cool to blow it off, man. Chill out!

I think the big problem is that most Americans completely ignore these cultural factors, end up having bad outcomes in math, and then often blame it on the "terrible" school system. Asian-Americans just happen to have enough counteracting factors in their own culture that nullify some of these influences that drive away people from math in the United States.

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Edit: Just to make it clear, the takeaway from my comment is intended to be "We should value STEM fields more in American culture, start paying your classroom teachers $200k", not "Every kid should be forced into test prep". Test prep is terrible and should be replaced by teaching the fundamentals of math and science much better. Maybe that would have caused 'rayiner to work at NASA instead of being a lawyer!
Agreed - there is no incentive layer present with vanilla IPFS. This is where Sia comes in. Hosts on the Sia network are paid using Siacoin to keep data readily available and online - they are incentivized. At Filebase, we have connected the two technologies to give us the best of both.
The US controls the world. It is above any regulation or international law. Other countries have to comply with UN and other agencies... not the US. US will always find an excuse to do whatever is best for their oligarchies (AKA Transnational Corporations).
Had been in similar position months before outbreak of pandemic, completed the move out and German paperwork on February 2020. This is an awkward amount of money. Staying in Germany will burn at least 1-1.5k EUR monthly in rent, rundfunk, health insurance, etc. Ended up in place inherited from grandparents back in Poland. Lockdowns efficiently cooled down remorse caused by doing nothing.
While I understand your point, withdrawing your services to a nation that is invading your country does seem reasonable (to me anyway), and I can see many companies doing something similar when push comes to shove.
> 2) Don't forget that the man you're quoting is responsible for the end of the British empire and arguably got Britain into a war with Germany unnecessarily (remember that Hitler's ideology was heavily based on race and he saw the British as close to the Germans. He even intentionally let their army go at Dunkirk because of this.)

What now? You seem to be talking like those were bad things.
The purpose of sanctions is not to punish, but to apply pressure aimed at obtaining compliance, or at least compromise. The US doesn’t depend all that much on other countries for trade, and no other countries can orchestrate big international collective actions the way the US can. Imposing ineffective sanctions is, at best, a demonstration of impotence.

So there are two questions: who could have imposed meaningful sanctions on the US? The answer is probably nothing short of a concerted international effort amongst many nations. And then, the more important question, who would have imposed sanctions? Nobody, because the Iraq war had a substantial amount of international support, at least within Europe.
Funny, how the German Armed Forces can still buy weapons from the US then...
chestito!!!
Do you have a source on that? Not that I don't believe you, but when the war started I was fairly young so I didn't realize experts were disagreeing at the time and would like to learn more.
There are individuals who are more adept with their toes than most people are with their hands, using their feet to paint, draw, write, play music, and so on. It's a repeated phenomenon, demonstrating neural plasticity in a great way.

Such abilities are latent in all of us, differences in brain function that paralyze or confuse any part of the body are very rare.

You, too, can pull off an arched eyebrow like The Rock, do ear wiggles, crazy eye rolls, and more. Getting good at it seems to be a matter of methodical practice.
Molotov cocktails? Seriously? Yeah, you go try that in the streets of Moscow and see how it goes...
Nice to see a senior tinkering with modern technology.

Would you provide any more context about the "66 Year Old Coder" part:

>what did you do professionally?

>when did you start programming?

>why start programming at that age - was it boredom, curiosity, need for money, etc.?
Ukraine has already offered to pay defectors, at a significantly higher rate than the compensation Russia pays to their family if they are killed.
Web version of Microsoft Store now live
I feel like a lot of use plain text proponents forget that outside of ASCII and now UTF-8, lots of alleged plain text documents with diacritics or non-latin characters are at least slightly difficult to open because of their somewhat esoteric encodings. Plain text isn't as universal as it is often claimed, although it is immensely simpler than some other formats.

But maybe we should all use monochrome bitmap files for everything? That would be very simple.
Ladies keep the estate, boys move out.
To go 6 more years back, here is todays CIA director (then ambassador) on the issue.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html

>NYET MEANS NYET: RUSSIA'S NATO ENLARGEMENT REDLINES
Yes, of course. Genocidal dictators do indeed sometimes describe UN peacekeeping and population protection measures as acts of war. Just as Putin will characterize any military attempts to defend Ukraine as acts of war against Russia.
It is structural but I guess the board thinks a good CEO can fix it when it's the board that probably needs replacing as well...
"a matching context" means having exactly the same handles for all objects (since application memory will have references to them) and with modern-enough OpenGL even means having the same (virtual) memory addresses for all GPU-side buffers as well as the same addresses for any host-side mappings. This is probably not something you could build on top of OpenGL or even on top of the existing kernel-side drivers.

Even if have a perfect wrapper that achieves all that you now have to save all application-supplied texture and shader data in the original form even where that memory could normally be freed after translating it to GPU-specific formats.

But "restricting yourself to a shared subset of OpenGL" alone already makes this unviable for anything demanding as it also means restricting yourself to the lowest common denominator for all limits including VRAM size, maximum texture sizes, essentially guaranteeing your solution to run worse on both systems.
> Everyone assumes his goal is to conquer Ukraine and keep a tight grab on it. We don't know that positively.

There is strong evidence for that. A ‘reporter’ at RIA Russian media accidentally uploaded a preprepared article saying Ukraine had been returned to Russian rule and tried to delete it. [1]

Here's some commentary about what that means from a guy I have really come to respect. [2]

[1] https://mil.in.ua/en/news/brave-new-world-of-putin-an-articl...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWIYfKWSAxw
Obligatory psychrometric chart: [0]. I find it easier to understand how it's all interrelated using a chart.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometrics#Psychrometric_c...
That’s what summoning players for co-op is, a way of reducing difficulty.
Cool gameplay loop! Lots of short jumps makes it easier. Maybe change it so that every time a paddle is hit the player gets 10 points but looses a point every time they jump.
> “Git for everything“ would be a multi-billion dollar startup easily.

Didgets (recently surfaced here on HN) seems like a sane approach to this, from the file system up. Pretty incredible performance too.

https://didgets.substack.com/p/where-did-i-put-that-file

Sadly not (yet) open source, though the developer is considering it.
I think you're underestimating how much that same sensation comes up when talking to many Americans about the Founding Fathers, Constitution, Civil War, and things like Iraq/Afghanistan.
It’s anti-social to call out an organization for their bullshit? Knock off posting 5 digit dates and people won’t call out their bullshit. Or yours.
Ukraine’s Volunteer IT Army Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory
I converted mine years ago using iPhoto but according to Wikipedia, there are several programs that can do the conversion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_CD#Converting_Photo_CD_i...
As I recall, they weren't clearly stating that. They were stating that they found no evidence of WMDs, but the Iraqis weren't being sufficiently cooperative for them to be certain. In retrospect, it seems like Saddam was trying to maintain some strategic ambiguity as to whether or not he had WMDs and relying on not having them to dissuade any war attempt, but the Bush administration was interpreting the evidence in the light most favorable to a case for war.
IsaacWiper and HermeticWizard: New Wiper and Worm Targeting Ukraine
It is self evident that loving, responsible parents with income provide better outcomes for their children's future.
First or Second?
Thank you. In fact, I was looking for an accessibility auditing tool that can download the report for free. Thanks a lot!
Cross-Site Leaks
what was the issue - hardware access (a CD reader), bit rot or else?

The image format was jpeg if I remember correctly, wasn't it?
> There's a difference between stopping an action at a societal level, and targeting an individual through any means necessary.

Yup. It always amazes me how often people conflate, "The U.S. government can't be bothered to stop people from doing X" with, "The U.S. government can't stop people from doing X". If you want to test this out, try not paying federal taxes for a while.
Every laptop I've had that has both discrete and integrated graphics has had less than perfect switching between the two. That's involved submitting countless bug reports to both Firefox and Chrome about rendering problems, painstakingly documenting them, getting fixes only to have them regress in a few weeks. That's involved never being able to trust "sleep" mode to work.

My last desktop replacement laptop made it possible to disable integrated graphics completely in the BIOS which left me with a reliable system. My current one doesn't have that option so the problems smolder on.

Because of this I can't see integrated graphics as anything other than a problem and certainly not a "solution".
There are a couple takes on this. One is that it was genuine discrimination targeted at Jewish people and Asian people then where as now that is not so much the case. The other take is the reason for affirmative action is to address a very real and stubborn problem where we have what seems to be a permanent underclass. Asian and Jewish people do not seem to be having that problem now, at least regarding college admissions.
Surely this:

> In October, Rasputitsa turns firm ground into mud.

must actually be:

> In October, Rasputitsa turns mud into firm ground.
That didn't work in Canada, a supposedly liberal democracy. Trudeau enacted emergency powers and seized peoples bank accounts, what do you imagine Putin would do?