skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some good points here. In defence of the original point, you could extend the "plain text everywhere" to "open formats, as text-based as possible" and keep the spirit. I'm personally in the "markdown for most things, with inline images" camp (with regards my own notes).

This one caught my eye tho:

> Try plain text sheet music vs actual sheet music.

Conceptually, "sheet music" *is* a plain text of music.

I accept that technically it would need to be implemented very differently as we haven't got ASCII or UNICODE for sheet music (AFAIK). You could probably do it with an XML language, or at a stretch YAML, and it'd be close human-readable and still vaguely plain text.
If simply bleaching one's skin or straightening hair allowed one to hide their racial phenotype ,then millions would be doing it and we wouldn't have all these problems. Race is immutable in most parts of the world.
I'm in Poland, but reasonably far away from the eastern border. The first day of war I and many of my friends and relatives first thought was to run. Seeing how Ukrainians keep fighting and also world around us uniting against the enemy gave me hope. Now I think it is safe in Poland, because if they would attack us nowhere on the ground would be safe. I live in one of the biggest Polish cities, there's a fighter jet base here and I would hope for being vaporized if the war would go nuclear.

Otherwise I'm worrying about Ukrainians much more and it breaks my heart what happens there. Also I worry of this "justified" nationalism against innocent part of Russian population which had risen lately, but I do support even more extreme sanctions as it seems there is not much more to be done other than supplying Ukraine with weapons, ammo and aid.

For sure when Ukraine will win the geopolitical system will never be the same again. Militarisation will increase. I will no longer take basics for granted. I think we must all be more vigilant now.

However we're alive and make the day count, but remember that relaxation and rest also counts.
I mean things like containers though in the context of a new language chances are the language itself may provide functionality that makes moc unnecessary.

Also you certainly do not need something like moc to make a GUI library, which comes back to what i originally wrote in that you do not need to replicate Qt to have a GUI library.
Nobody is trying to kill Linux on bare metal. Why would that even be a thing?
Ask HN: Are there good userspace TCP/IP implementations written in C++
I would like to study (preferably C++) implementation of the network stack for a project. Any recommendations?
Cargo Ship Carrying Thousands of Luxury Cars Sinks in The Atlantic
Ask HN: Can Airbnb Help housing Ukrainian escapees in central europe, please?
There are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing Ukraine now. Here in the Czech Republic we are scrambling to find places for them to stay. Same thing in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and so on.

Does anyone know anyone at Airbnb who would help? There are 15000 airbnb apartments in Prague alone.

Can the tech world please help?

There are already lots of websites in various regions where people can sign up to offer goods, drivers, accomodation, etc. Airbnb can COMPLETELY SOLVE the accomodation part - the locations, the volunteers, etc.

thank you.
In Haitian creole, if the main object of the verbe “prete” is a person, it means loan, and the second object says what. If it’s only one non person object, it means borrow.
More then one bad things can happen at the same time. The genocide was not the only very very bad thing that happened either - the conquest for living space would be major even if genocide of Jews did not happened.

In this case, OP likely refers to false impression that the conquest was going well while it was already lost.
I got quite a lot of use out of metadata over the years, such that now I'll probably get a nervous itch and tremors all over my body if I attempt to use just plain text. Specifically, the creation and modification times for each addition to my notes are rather valuable, especially with the work-from-home lifestyle aka ‘day fades into night into day’—with which more people are gonna be familiarized in these years.

Thankfully I'm using Org-mode these days, which is reasonably ‘plain text’ under practical definitions—but I make dozens new headings every week, and each of them is stamped with the creation time. But boy do I miss having modification times too—should probably finally set up automatic commits to Git. Also need to mess with Orgzly so that it marks notes that are created on the phone.
I’ve had better than expected success with diffing word files by converting them to markdown via pan doc. It’s nowhere near perfect as you lose nearly all formatting, but if only the actual text content is changing it allows you to automate the display of those changes.
I have long thought writing law is a LOT like writing code. When you actually look at modern laws, they're basically legal patch files.
From the POV of outside of Russia… this is Russia defaulting on its sovereign debts, no?
Import Maps Under the Hood in Rails 7
Additionally the option to (relatively) easily transform markdown or richtext to another format is a great when you want to try a new tool and/or format.
They already help: https://news.airbnb.com/help-ukraine/
> In this case, OP likely refers to false impression that the conquest was going well while it was already lost.

That is exactly what I was referring to. I should've been more clear.
This is a sad case of Goodhart's Law playing into reality.

People in power have chosen one metric as a measure of progress of historically oppressed races- enrolment in college degrees.

And that is costing everyone dearly.
You can always hire a software developer, can't you?
Dark Souls is mentionned elsewhere, I think Zelda BTOW also works roughly the same way: there is a base level of skill that you will need to beat the bosses, even with the strongest weapons, but on top of that bare minimum you get to choose how hard you want to play.

I’ve watched 8~9 yo olds play, and they heavily rely on the infinite remote bombs, always looked for field items (iron containers, powder kegs etc.) to ease encounters, maxed their cooked items, avoided the stronger monsters and bought special arrows as much as they could.

Of course it doesn’t mean they can explore explore everything in the game, and they also move slower, but they get to see most of it, finish the story and see the ending.
My best score at Almost Pong is 34! https://www.lessmilk.com/almost-pong/
>>our ears already can move a slight bit by its own muscles.

Not everyone can do that though. My wife can easily twitch her ears by just thinking about it, I cannot no matter how hard I try - it's just like there is no nerve link to whatever is there.
The benefits are mostly realised when playing games:

* Higher refresh rates means more frames can be displayed each second by the monitor

* Lower latency between some input action (mouse, keyboard) and the frame being drawn on the monitor (provided your game can run at a matching number of frames per second; FPS)

* Synching your FPS to refresh rate (e.g. if you're game can run at a locked 280fps and your monitor is running at 280hz) will remove tearing and provide a very smooth experience

On the desktop the benefits are less pronounced: Everything just feels a bit smoother, like moving your mouse point/open windows around the monitor.

Such high refresh rate displays normally aren't very colour accurate when compared to displays used for media editing.
> North Koreans manage to get DVDs of Marvel movies

It is not like average north Korean would routinely watched Marvel movies.
If I piped that .docx file into bas64, would it then be a "plain file"? It's ascii plaintext chars.

I don't think your argument holds any water.
> The big problem with Signal is that it has a proprietary client with no supported alternatives

Molly on Android
If you want a headstart dashing for safety, keep an eye on FlightRadar24 for excessive numbers of E-6 and E-4B aircraft.

They're the ones that high ranking military and other important people (e.g. president) will be in if there's an escalation.
Show HN: Lapce – open-source code editor inspired by Xi-editor
Hey HN, I made a code editor which is inspired by Xi-editor. It's native GUI and GPU rendered written in Rust. A main feature is remote development support (VSCode like). Also other features like Vim-like modal editing, Tree-sitter for syntax highlighting, built-in LSP support and WASI based plugin system.

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29549173
Yes, I see, thanks for clearing it up. I understand and can agree with this reasoning, - even if as a Russian (anti Putin and anti war, of course), this war is just too painful and too overwhelming for me to consider it in a broader anti-colonialist picture.
But regardless of how the vault is protected, your password and your otp generator are both stored there, right? If you have access to one, you have access to the other. So, I don’t understand how requiring both to log in to Google improves security in any meaningful way.
looks like free OSINT for UA. could also be used for trolling (set markers on russian forces) if true
Those of us who lived during the cold war spent 40 years where we originally practiced duck-and-cover (my parents) and then understood the futility of the idea. We came to rely on the belief in MAD and relegated that worry (no longer fear) to the back of our minds. You are worrying about a non-zero (but small) chance of nuclear war when there are so many easier ways to die in this world (riding in a car).

Instead of being scared, demotivated and depressed about war in the Ukraine, find a way to spend that nervous energy productively. Maybe join the Ukraine IT Force?
Anecdotal, but absolutely. I knew several people in undergrad whose parents did things like put assets into trust funds that would have been invisible to the limited means that colleges have at their disposal to audit. One friend specifically told me how his parents transferred ownership of their house to a blind trust they had established under a family member’s name and “rented” it back. This put their total assets well under the total amount to qualify for (a surprising amount of) financial aid. I’ve also heard of parents deferring a portion of their income for the four years their kid was in school, and receiving the deferred income in the years after their kid graduated.

Top schools these days give substantial financial aid to families whose incomes are well into the six figures (and assets into the seven figures), so it makes total sense that families just above the cutoff would use some dirty tricks to qualify.
Them doing anything is not the same as them doing everything, as claimed. This shows every sign of being a lot of organic activity and the Ukrainian government – unsurprising as they have entire groups whose job it is to do this and more people who are mother-tongue fluent in Russian.

This illustrates the danger of conspiracy theory thinking: you’ve got yourself arguing a more complicated explanation with absolutely no evidence, and if we’re going by institutional reputations as portrayed by Hollywood wouldn’t the same logic have lead you to expect a massive Russian counter-campaign?
Are there any business projects that you'd like to launch? Or maybe some educational topic or skill that you'd like to master? 50k euros is enough money to live on for 2-5+ years, depending on where you want to go. If you make a plan with specific objectives, that's enough time to become really good at just about anything and/or launch your project.

Personally, I'd look into Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey, Morocco, Albania, rural Spain, southern Italy, Romania, or Bulgaria. You can live comfortably on 1,000 euros a month in these countries, which gives you 4+ years of runway.
Startup community in the area they're based is much smaller than any of the US markets I've worked in and the previous business I started services a number of companies run by people tight with the founders. I don't want to cause trouble for my former team by making a stink, I'll find something else pretty quickly.
Start with an unfinished series? Strange recommendation, I’d instead suggest going with one of the more complete stories…
https://www.airbnb.org/help-ukraine started a program already. "Airbnb.org is funding short term housing for up to 100,000 people fleeing Ukraine." My understanding is that hosts need to take part but payment is provided by airbnb.
Throughhput drives demand. Customers aren't doing stuff that needs 10Gb/s because they don't even have 1Gb/s, not because they wouldn't if they did.

Personally, 802.11n and whatever crappy DSL link speed I get is good enough for me, but I don't do video, social media, or online gaming. I can rent access to machines much better positioned to take advantage of greater bandwidth if I ever need them.
> The narrative that Putin is mad is ridiculous

It may not be so ridiculous. If you watch his earlier public appearances - he's always a stone cold sociopath in control. In his latest appearances he's increasingly erratic and struggles to keep his cool. Remember he's 70 years old now which is well into the risk zone for serious health problems. Alzheimers? Terminal cancer? What would you do in his place if you were told that? What if he wants to go out with a bang? He couldn't just straight out declare war on NATO, what if by going after Ukraine he actually hopes for escalation?
Yes, but it's for the moment called a technical default.
Given that the last commit is by someone with the same username as you, wouldn't you know better than random HN commenters?
> Many in the West perceived the Talibans and Bashar al-Assad as illegitimate rulers that oppressed their populations.

Afghanistan had a secular, left-leaning government in the 1970s - the US armed and funded the mujahideen, the radical Islamic jihadists, to overthrow that government.
Alternatively you can just never level up and still beat the whole game with enough patience. That's what I like about the Souls series compared to some other RPGs, it lets you do whatever you want and is balanced to make late-game enemies literally just more challenging, not some unfair instakill situations (hello Skyrim & Witcher 3).
A much cheaper state school in a cornfield can get you a quality education. Harvard and Yale are more about getting invited to the right dinner-parties.
Help is not “running”. I’d want some evidence at all for that, especially given how quickly this happened.
Good. Russian is not a legitimate part of the world community anymore.
There's a lot of requirements creep, the bar is high, since the estabilished stacks have had decades to build up their feature sets. Complexity multipliers include accessibility, cross-platform, gpu acceleration, complexities of text in the modern world (unicode, fancy rendering like subpixel aa, fonts, bidi...), programming language bindings, memory/lifetime management in presence of different mutually incompatible PL memory management models, native code hostile mobile platforms, etc. Leave any of those out and you start halving your potential users for each feature.

(For more specialised, niche gui toolkits the answer is that they're out there, but you've never heard of them because they don't enjoy the network effects that a wider user base gets the big toolkits)
>An outcome is finally merging an unsustainable PR that has sat for a month.

Ultimately the desired outcome is money arriving in the bank. Which is even less fathomable.
Brief guide to accessing online resources blocked by the Russian authorities
Fulcrum is quite unlikely to take down a SU35 1 v 1. But how about, awacs intel, wingman, and how many on the ground pointing G2A at the SU35. Suddenly it's much easier for the fulcrum to take down all those things.
> her

Why did you assume the gender of the software engineer?
It must really suck for the developer who is trying to build something there.

Oops, we need to stop construction for some indefinite amount of find while archeologists clean and move a giant section of the ground.
In Kotlin, does the “it” of a lambda hide a variable named “it” in the outer scope?

Also,

The compiler of a statically typed language can know that a lambda that takes one argument is passed to a function that calls it with one argument. This would be hard to guarantee in Smalltalk so you’d need a convention that finding an undeclared variable “it” in the block converts the block to a one-argument block.

Finally, I imagine nullary lambdas in Kotlin are less common than no-argument blocks in Smalltalk.
It's often much easier for someone to manage to get a copy of your password for a specific application than to get a copy of your unencrypted vault.
Entrepreneurship as Developer
I only discovered how to move my ears when I was like 8 years old. This suggests the nerves are there, just very non-obvious to control.
> from personal experience working on GUIs and toolkits for decades i think are overblown)

Accessibility and internationalization are really hard though, right?

I'm finally doing something about the accessibility issue: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit Still have a long way to go though.
Even the worst starting word is guaranteed <= 1 average guess more than the optimal strategy though!
What is your ad and retargeting ad strategy? What sort of landing pages are you using and how are you retargeting?
I love the story about soviet bootleg records pressed on used X-ray images!

https://www.x-rayaudio.com/x-rayaudioproject/
https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/32308/1/russia-x-...
I was a conscript in a MT-LB. The batalion lost like one per every other day to malfunction when driving alot. So I agree it is probably what is happening.
How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Playing Out on Wikipedia
Unfortunely there are only so much that a country can take with an endless amount of tanks driving into it.
Yes, I’m assuming post-Soviet Russia will have a little skepticism of state-run media. There’s pretty good historical precedent.
Everyone thinks they'll be so successful in the next 6 months that they call LTS distributions a 5-year plan.
One thing that piqued my interest is stock market trading. I'm not referring to buying and holding - that's called investing and you're already doing that. I'm referring to more complex trading scenarios that use options contracts as hedging, typically around a companies earnings report date. Usually you need about that amount of money ($25k+) to get started because you will be on a margin account. You would need to do significant research to understand the mechanics, how to setup trades, etc. to minimize risk. From what I understand it doesn't have to be a full-time all day, every day type of hours. And it doesn't matter if it is a bull or bear market, stocks are always moving somewhere.

An example could be to take a position using options contracts around a companies earnings release thinking the stock will go up (because you've researched it, not guessing) and hedging so losses are minimal in case you're wrong. This might mean a company is say at $90/share and you think it will go up to $105 so you get options contracts for $105 and contracts at $85 in case it falls. I've only skimmed the surface of how this works since I have limited knowledge but that is the gist of it. There is a lot more detail involved with put vs call contracts and buying vs selling them and how the options greeks impact pricing, etc. There are tools out there that let you understand better the risk at different stock prices/options using statistical models.

Obviously if you don't have interest or don't fully understand how these work you could turn your 50k to 0k rather quickly.
According to tandymodel100, the user with all the dead comments, when the upper echelons of society match the racial demographics.

I'm not sure why their comments are dead. I don't necessarily agree, but it's a valid point of view.
Awesome project!

We had some neko-mimi's a few years ago but the ear clip broke very quickly.
weird, because I'm in Denmark. ah well, it's probably just because we're above Germany then :)

at any rate it's just a product offering:

Dynamic Product Pricing by Location via Zip-code or IP Recognition

so you can add this desirable feature to your CMS etc. etc.

They of course note that "When it comes to eCommerce sites, a location-based pricing strategy is not illegal, but it is frowned upon."
but then they go into how great their product is which allows you to implement this.

They give reasons why a company might want to do this:

1.
The company reduces prices of its products drastically in the North zone, thereby penetrating that market against competition.

At the same time, it increases their wholesale price exponentially across other regions where they are earning ample margins to overall increase revenue with minimal loss for a business like theirs which needs every penny counts!

blah blah blah

There are many factors that play a role in the pricing of a product including:

Demand

Distance from the warehouse

Local / Regional Income Levels

Local / Regional Competition

Supply fluctuation

etc. etc. but in the end this product is to allow the seller to easily differentiate their price dependent on location, some of which will have to do with transportation, and some because they think they can get more money out of you.

In a recent discussion about Tinder charging more based on user profiles it was discussed that perhaps using PII to determine pricing, which location would be a part of, would be against GDPR.
It's not being ignored. It's long been a valid legal "immunity indicator" here in the UK where this is published.

I don't know what end game is being sought here tbh, given that England has abolished all legal restrictions, the rest of the UK likely will do in the next few weeks, and nobody is even talking about mandatory vaccines any more.

Overall this feels like something of an agenda piece, not an entirely science based piece, which is trying to build consensus round something really quite ill defined...
There are certain categories of entirely preventable mistakes you don't make. Entirely preventable mistakes that cause reputation damage (see this very thread), lost revenue, a lot of wasted manpower, etc. on others. Blocking (and by definition, breaking to a certain extent) things shouldn't be taken lightly, if you can't do it responsibly don't do it. As someone running a FOSS web service who go out of their way to respect user privacy, I shouldn't be a victim of their crappy practice.
A single Artemis launch costs $4.1B
Please don't project Credit Suisse behaviour to the swiss population. The majority of us have nothing to do with this institution and would be really happy see people responsible for criminal activities be judged accordingly. The "Suisse" in their name is mostly for brand purpose, it's in fact a global corporation that has almost nothing to do with the country itself.
> what are they going to do if the target demographic (in this case Asians) start their own merit-based and academic-based colleges and universities?

I would expect setting up Asian-American universities in which non-Asians need not apply to be highly illegal due to the Civil Rights Act.
A few more for the list:

* Internationalisation

* Concurrency, parallelism, and perhaps async (probably less of an issue with modern C++, but Qt still has plenty on offer here [0])

* Integration with various platform-specific build tools and IDEs

[0] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/threads-technologies.html
New CSS Features in 2022
It doesn't follow the published open spec so it is de facto proprietary.
I know this is a controversial topic, but the very same is happening when IT companies deliberately hire and promote women to increase diversity. Like race, gender is an immutable characteristic and if you target it to positively discriminate one individual you negatively discriminate the other individual.

HR departments have measures and targets to report on and they will find a way to make their bosses happy.