skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A new arrival to Gulag is asked: "What were you given 10 years for?" – "For nothing!" – "Don't lie to us here, now! Everybody knows 'for nothing' is 3 years."
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Yeah, at least we can say that we did see this coming at some point. It was shortly after the annexation of Crimea that Congress said you need to stop using Russian rocket engines and ULA started working on the Vulcan rocket.
This is like comparing buying bottled water instead of using the taps in your house. Yes, technically you can do this, but transporting that bottled water is painful, and at the scale of a whole country doing it, is a huge logistical challenge. You could eventually get to the point where LNG replaced the pipelines, but that's not going to happen overnight, and the European energy grids need to heat homes this winter.
The people here do not hold power. Those who do have abandoned the ideals.
It’s not edge if legal if you are a licensed ham operator. Then could fly with more than a thousand watts!

Of course you’d have a little problem with the battery :-)
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Public opposition grew despite media narratives and there were ways to clamp down on domestic opposition that U.S. wouldn't entertain that Russia would. So these comparisons miss the forest for the trees.
> If they don't have their own engines they have no business being a launch provider

I dont really agree with this line to be honest, making rocket engines is hard, and if you only "deserved" to be in business as a launch provider if you made your own engines, our medium/heavy lift launch capabilities would be even worse than they currently are. There is nothing wrong with buying engines from someone else, Id say its a good way to make sure we have multiple different launch vehicles.

Maybe you have a point with buying them from Russia specifically, but until very recently, it was basically the only sensible option since American made engines didnt really fit the requirements super well. The RD engines are extremely good for what they are.

Only in the last yearish did it make sense to start getting rid of the Russian engines, as we finally have some larger American made ones coming online.

Id love to see more American made engines, but without major government investments, I dont really see it happening outside of SpaceX/Blue Origin.
Pyrrhic victory is Pyrrhic. Gaining accountability in one case while the apparatus of brutality and repression grows - that is not a good outcome.
> LED light bulbs have built-in inverters

Think you meant rectifiers here.
I agree. I think where we might differ though is that I think we can be considered responsible for accidents but I think you were arguing that that was a hard position to take.
I just copy and paste from old projects like a clown.

Maybe this would be a good portfolio project thing for me to build.
For my site I switched from a chat widget to a simple contact form, mostly because I didn't want to include 3rd party content and show cookie consent pop-ups for a chat widget. I also personally dislike any chat widget that makes sounds or pops up out of nowhere.

You can see my implementation on this site, in the bottom right widget: https://www.uxwizz.com/
Because China owns the US economy and could put it out of business like the US is attempting to do to Russia.
Personally, I'm a bit pissed at shantnutiwari. They have a job to do. If they have free time, why don't they get back to work instead of posting comments on Hacker News?

We all have our own ways of balancing work and life, and relieving stress, and trying to master new things. Creativity comes in bursts. We just happen to be spoiled that Sanderson is basically a fire hose that we get to sip from.
To someone that understands this, I'm curious: is line of sight, especially this far, impacted by something like a bird flying in the middle?
This is the study that that number comes from: https://fair.org/extra/amplifying-officials-squelching-disse...

That study says only 3% of individuals who were interviewed on the 6 studied channels were opposed to the war. They only studied coverage across 6 mainstream media outlets:

> The news programs studied were ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Reports, Fox’s Special Report with Brit Hume, and PBS’s NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.

This doesn't tell me anything about the state of independent news outlets at the time.
Fidelity is the worrisome one. Someone could be impersonating you.

- check your credit report for any suspicious activity

- if you are tmobile client(or network that uses tmobile underneath), check to see if your SSN and DL was leaked last year
Agreed. There are already tons of laws on the books that prohibit "knowingly and intentionally" contributing to a crime. If simply being aware that a service you provide could in general be used to commit a crime, and likely was being used to do so, given the large number of users, then not only would every Tor node operator be considered an accessory to drug trafficing and child pornography, but every ISP would as well, and this new law would be the least of your worries. At least in the US, that wording implies more concrete knowledge of specific actions.

That said, like you and the OP, I am not a lawyer, or even a citizen of an EU country.
Pass some of the savings in to the customer via lower prices and it’s a win win.

Alternatively, enabling P2P gives faster downloads. That’s rarely noticeable with streaming but people often want to download stuff for offline viewing.
Assuming you haven't done anything else my guess will be something like having an IP/phone number that has been blacklisted because of a prior owner, having your personal details used by a scammer (e.g. if you've had your ID lost and then returned), you accidentally share the details with a scammer or something in that vein.
Oh man, have fun. I wish I could wipe my mind and read Stormlight fresh. Be sure to read Warbreaker before book 2 if you haven’t already, and don’t sleep on the novellas.
I'm just waiting for them to press the button to flip their UN sign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5u1u5IuLec
This is what russia is doing in response, taking their national system and making it international to end-run around SWIFT

https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/central-bank-of-russia...

If China joins it, that's going to be a problem.

Then I wonder if the spy agencies are going to be able to monitor those networks like they do SWIFT
It's good to remember that the previous American president also waged a war against every media outlet he didn't like by claiming they were "fake news." It's the same authoritarianism in different stages.

And if you think nobody in America wants to jail journalists and media CEOs, go look at any forum with a substantial amount of Republicans talking freely.
Forgot to mention, I was using Tawk.to before and for some reason including their chat widget lead to page rendering to be broken, where the page would load, flash white for a brief moment, then show again.
There will be no blackout due to gas issues. Power generation from gas is not a problem. Heat generation from gas could become one though. Luckily Germany will likely mandate a switch to electricity driven heatpumps for all buildings soon.
More detail on the survey data would be nice. For instance, we’re these conclusions consistent across job roles or localized with certain positions.
I really can’t disagree with this:

> "The problem is not that Putin is smart, which, of course, he's smart," Trump said. "The problem is that our leaders are dumb... and so far, allowed him to get away with this travesty and assault on humanity."

Trump is smart, which is why he recommended Europe arms itself and reduces dependence on Russian gas during his term. Other Western leaders are dumb, because they didn’t listen to him (Merkel, Biden - shut down nuclear, stop domestic oil production, invest more in Russia). Putin is smart because he exploited this weakness.

If dumb Western leaders were at least as smart as Trump, we wouldn’t be in this situation. I predict another dumbass similar situation with China, soon.
Do you use the exact same email address across all these services? Try it with unique addresses (e.g. lopkeny12ko+lyft@gmail.com) for each... or instead of 'lyft' something harder to guess. Maybe someone is messing with you and this would make it more difficult/impossible.
Well said... All this total IQ at Google is much, much less then sum of parts...
Go on, explain.
Cheaper and smarter to just hire them and give them free green cards.

NASA was born in large part from all the German scientist and engineers we wiped after the war.
there's no photos on the site, and like any lawyer, they used an OR statement which evaluates ambiguously Other reports state skin damage (second or third degree burns) which are serious.

Remember, lawyers always use appeals to emotion and other tricks to overstate things to get the best possible outcome (a settlement in this case).
This logic was one of the reasons the Shuttle/Mir missions happened as well.
Your name might be on a shared corporate or government blacklist?
In 2020 NATO said themselves:

"Allied leaders also agreed at Bucharest that Georgia and Ukraine, which were already engaged in Intensified Dialogues with NATO, will one day become members. In December 2008, Allied foreign ministers decided to enhance opportunities for assisting the two countries in efforts to meet membership requirements by making use of the framework of the existing NATO-Ukraine Commission and NATO-Georgia Commission – without prejudice to further decisions which may be taken about their applications to join the MAP."

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_49212.htm
See also: Louisiana.

It's understandable that there are a ton of chemical refineries near the mouth of the Mississippi because it allows for easier transport of refined goods to other countries. Less understandable when they're everywhere else in the state, except for the part where local governments give quarter-century and longer sweetheart tax break deals for these companies to come in, pollute the local environment, and pay no taxes on the real estate they're operating on. One of the main reasons that the education and social services systems in the state are so horrendously poor is because there's no tax revenue.

And even by those standards, Russia is a kleptocrat's wet dream.
I think McDonald’s was stupid to not settle and pay her medical bills. But the facts indicate that McDonald’s coffee was not significantly hotter than other coffee. 190 degrees is only 5 degrees hotter than is typical for the industry. Starbucks serves at 185.

It’s worth noting that as a result of this lawsuit, McDonald’s didn’t even lower the temperature of their coffee. This isn’t just because they’re stubborn assholes. Customers want hot coffee and hot coffee happens to be dangerous.
From the diagram in the article the entire fresnel zone was unoccluded.
Howdy! I'm the author of PhotoStructure.

I initially wrote it to organize the boxes and boxes of old hard drives from the last 25 years of photos and videos that my family and I have taken.

PhotoStructure libraries are uniquely cross-platform and cross-machine, so you can import on your old windows box, sweep all the non-bitrotted files onto an external drive, take the drive to your Mac, run it there, and get a single, comprehensive directory with all your stuff. If you have a NAS, it's even easier: PhotoStructure supports libraries stored on remote filesystems, and it also runs in docker.

Currently I delegate the uploading task to external applications, like syncthing or Resilio Sync. Making everything automatic works well for my family, but may not be what you're looking for.

Note that I've open-sourced several components of PhotoStructure, but the application itself is commercial software. There are free and paid plans available.

https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/
In the light of current Russian military activities: Borne Sulinowo
>that you could actually make friends with people existing solely on zoom?

I don't get this idea that you need to be friends with your colleagues. Hpw does that improve productivity?

Professional yes, friendly even sure but friends? That's for leisure time and it shouldn't matter if their your colleagues or not.
The US Space Force plans to start patrolling the area around the Moon
I'm using the definition the original article seems to imply.

Not so much contributed to the GDP, but "Advanced the state of the art in some way" or "Solved a problem of interest outside the programming community".

I would imagine only the very most dedicated would actually enjoy doing a new language, maybe a third of programmers, and probably only those who fully accepted their thing was probably not going to be an enterprise grade solution.
> Those are noble goals I suppose but not something I want to spend my time on.

This is really why I should donate to the "abroad" political arms. Both Republican AND Democrats agree on fixing Medicare, FBAR, etc. because citizens abroad are always an afterthought. I wouldn't mind being an afterthought if it wasn't sapping the biggest part of my paycheck while being utterly useless to me later in life or sucking out all of my time come tax season.
The difference is China would likely cut off banks and countries who “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people”, i.e., refer to Taiwan as a country, or refuse to recognize the 9-dash line, or comment on their human rights abuses.
Absolutely!

How else will we get information of Bad Deeds (TM) of state actors or otherwise when SHTF.
You might check out the feature below to allow for time acceleration, it is fairly new.

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/test-clocks
Parent commenter made the point about "arrest[ing] 7000+ protesters in the course of the first week of the war" and your purported equivalence to that is that "plenty" were arrested.

There's a failure of vision, a failure to understand differences in scale that is driving these false equivalences, that then leads to a bunch of equivocation about whether the unlike comparisons can be similar. I think the original point stands and this remains a false equivalence.
You mention cryptocurrencies as an alternative. But many/most of these have an open ledger. Isn't it possible for a government to sanction certain bitcoin accounts, making any bitcoin coming from them either worthless or less valuable?
So I have "Russian" military-grade communications equipment in my drawer? Huh.
If sanctions worked really well, that position could be justifiable.

In practice, sanctions rarely if ever seem to cause violent revolution. They just end up hurting the little guys who can't do anything anyway, whilst the most well connected work around them anyway. See how North Korea has Apple computers ... for the leadership.
And the top exporter of wheat IIRC? Also Ukraine is something like top 10 wheat exporter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wheat_exp...
Given a good control link such as ExpressLRS [0], people can also fly quadcopters 10+ kilometers on as little as 10 mW. See for example the range competition at [1].

Of course, the VTX is usually a different matter..

[0]https://www.expresslrs.org
[1]https://www.expresslrs.org/2.0/info/long-range/
I assume this meant only that their org chart didn’t eventually merge with the police’s. Kind of like SREs at google.
I wouldn't use Tornado - it's effectively dead. Hasn't been a commit merged in for 5 months, and doesn't seem any forks have really picked up the mantle.
If figuring out why your banned accounts are getting banned isn’t fruitful, you could take a look at the accounts that haven’t been banned yet and see if there is anything suspicious on them. Spam, weird login sessions, unknown IPs; asking site owners could work as well (eg you could ask hn@ycombinator whether there is anything weird about your account).
Go get one of your annual free credit reports and read it carefully.
> It's still hard for me to believe there's no way one can make a novice productive with templated Java compared to blank-slate Matlab.

I don't meant to imply you can't make any novices productive with Java, because obviously that's not true. People go from novice to writing Java all the time, and not just a few. But I want more.

My essential point is that while this will work for some people, it's turning off a great deal many more at a time when they are especially impressionable. For example, a student I taught wanted to go to school to be an accountant. But after learning a bit about robots he fell in love with them and now he's going to be building planetary robots next year with the hope of sending them to Mars. Now, I have nothing against accountants, but I'm not trying to make accountants. I want to make programmers, and to do that I need passionate young people willing to give it a try.

There's a huge contingent of students who have fun playing with Logo, Blockly, Scratch et al. and then just nope out when they get to Java. You wouldn't believe how many students tell me they were inspired to code by Logo. Or maybe you would believe it because that's exactly what it was designed to do! But AP CS with Java is a filter, whereas I believe it should be a springboard. These are the students I'm worried about. These are students who were told they are bad at math at a very young age by parents, teachers, media, etc. ("You're not a math person you are a sports person. Or an art person. Or a music person"), so they have very low self esteem when it comes to their potential in this area. Our society is very anti-math, to the point that we create a perception that math isn't even used in every-day life. And maybe that's the root cause of this issue, but I can't solve that one. But I can ameliorate its effects with better language design.

When these students experience Scratch et al., they believe there is a glimmer of hope for them. It doesn't feel like math. It's technical but it's also fun and kind of like a game. And they can get it. They can make programs and games.

Then they get to Java and all they see is math, which they are sure that they're bad at. And it's a huge step backwards for them too, because it takes forever to get them as proficient with Java as they were with Scratch. Going from Scratch to Java is like being blasted back to the stone age for these students.

Programmers looooove the programming as mathematics metaphor. I think a lot of programmers have mathematician envy, and so the programming languages we create for one another drip with the trappings of mathematics.

So I want to reach the students who fell in love with programming early on, have a perception of themselves that they are bad at math, and then are scared away in AP CS. These students are disproportionately girls, not because girls are bad at math but because they are told they are bad at math more than boys. If anyone is here who wants to hire more women but says "I wish we could but they just aren't applying! It's up to the teachers to train more that we can hire!" well this is part of your problem right here.
It's crucial to start talking about this problem with representative and not superficial data.
It is the developers' first game, and probably their first software program of its size of any kind. It would be surprising if they _didn't_ make any design decisions which in retrospect were mistakes. The fact that it's a single-player game also means there's no real need to redesign things once they discovered that what they were doing didn't really work. They successfully fixed the bugs you can hit when you aren't intentionally trying to break the game, and bugs which let you do absurd things when you are trying to arguably aren't even a bad thing.
> my issue is the principle of MS assuming that MS knows better than their users.

Web devs do this too when they decide to change scrolling behavior. One website I went to decided that 1 click should be half a line of scrolling and override my 1 click = 2 lines behavior. I'm just trying to figure out what would possibly make a web dev think overriding a user-defined setting with the dev's own personal preference is a feature. They had to go out of their way to spend time to develop that, which made me spend time figuring out exactly which JavaScript file to block with to prevent that from happening again.

> [win 10 forced updates]

Aggravating indeed, but I don't think Microsoft is entirely to blame. There are plenty of users that would just never update their systems if it wasn't forced. How many XP machines were vulnerable to MS08-067 for YEARS after a patch was available?

But yeah...I planned on doing a CPU-Mobo-RAM trifecta upgrade next year, along with a new NVMe drive, and take that time to upgrade to Windows 11, but the more I hear about it, the more I think I should just stick with 10. After tweaking, it behaves well enough. Win11 just doubles-down on dark patterns and anti-consumer bullshit. I'd switch to Linux in a heartbeat if all my games worked on it.
It's absolutely infeasible militarily.

In asymmetric warfare, the weaker force benefits from being spread out. Concentrating just gives the larger force a bigger target to shoot at. But you need a large force to mount an offense into enemy territory.
你们真的care那些其他国家战争的人吗，还是把她们用作话术工具用来满足你廉价的民族主义情绪。
Are you repeating your passwords? Are they getting hacked from obscure locations. Do you use password manager? Is your email very specifically suspicious - I don’t know some keyword triggering these. Do you have any accounts that aren’t banned? - just a lurker here. Not industry insider.
Other question:

How much is Putin willing to do to escape sanctions, the current level of sanctions cannot be ignored.

As a bare minimum he will have to withdraw all troops from Ukraine.

Plus in a short while i expect that Russian oil and gas will be dropped by western countries.
The developer tools market was tough before there were a ton of open source options. Microsoft probably did as well as anyone (MSDN subscriptions and the like) and, while it supported other parts of its business, was still a (relatively) modest revenue stream on its own.
There's two extremes of employee behavior I've seen, with most folks somewhere in the middle:

- My co-workers are friends. We hang out, we go out drinking after work. We do activities on the weekend together outside of work. Early stage start-ups often are like this, most of the time not by intentional design, but due to the hours and intimacy of working closely with peers.

- My co-workers are colleagues. We're professionals, but our interaction stops there. I don't particularly care to get to know my colleagues on a deeply personal level.

Your preference for working remotely seems very closely tied to which camp you more strongly identify with.
But perspective is not.

Try to not throw "whataboutism" at something where perspective is key.
You could probably flip the current at periodic intervals to deal with this.
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But it /is/ evil intent!
2020 was after the invasions of both Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014).
I feel bad for that lady but that doesn’t mean the lawsuit had merit. Many similar lawsuits have been dismissed. Coffee is hot. Hot stuff can burn.

Her lawyers argued that coffee should never be served above 140 degrees. No one wants coffee at that temperature (certainly not anyone who’s going to add cold milk that would make it tepid). 140 degrees isn’t even “safe to eat chicken” temperature.
With the Great Firewall, the Chinese have developed its own sunshine. Less quality, but sufficient for most people nonetheless.
Well, interpretation or background may be biased. But nobody tries to hide pure facts...
Can you expand on this? I know for a fact they can be _technically_ notarized, which developer agreement bans it?
For some reason the version in Portuguese is Ferreira (the feminine form), not Ferreiro. No idea what the reason is. I somehow doubt that medieval Portugal was exceptionally gender-progressive.