skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We lost over 2000 civilians in last week on Ukraine-controlled territory.

We don't need to bust moral after 8 years of war. It's not possible to bust something 8 years straight. My FB is full of «killed by Russian», «lost in fight», etc.

You spoke at behalf of Ukrainians, but you have zero information from Ukraine. If you have facts, then list them, please.
That's really not a great idea on Linux. A ton of stuff is handled in userspace. There's really no better way to distribute Linux apps than source code.
I had the pleasure (aka hell mode) of building a content site as a SPA because some non-technical manager kept pushing it (it was one of those companies).

It was an insane task to meet all the SEO requirements, we ended up doing server rendered pages, and keep in mind this was years ago so there was not a whole lot of support or tutorials on how to do it.

Oh well, I got paid to learn a bunch of new stuff so I can't complain :D
That's OK. But saying it isn't good as a fact is a bit misleading. If it wasn't any good, it would not be used and would've faded to obscurity a long time ago. That is not the case, so there must be some redeeming qualities to is
> Historically, there was not much holding back punches between Russia and Ukraine. You may start reading about Holodomor, which is still debated whether it counts as genocide or not.

This is such a demagogy and a narrow-sighted view of history. It is always brought up only for the purpose of pouring more oil on the flames and turning up nationalistic tensions.

Holodomor has nothing to do with Ukrainians or Russians. It had happened all over the Soviet Union.

Much more Kazakhs had died relatively to their total population, and almost the same amount of Russians in an absolute value.

Hungers of 1930s were a global event, not something conjured by one particularly nasty Georgian.
we have close to 40 providers and our list keeps growing every time either get a request from customer, (regardless they are paying or not) or when a new engineer joins our team. We are growing so by end of year will have to implement pagination for our providers page. :)
> Yeah, it's an economic absurdity.

Again, can you show us the numbers? "A guy claimed it was so on the Internet" isn't really useful later as a source.
Eh Java never made it to the desktop. Weird.
Yes. I'm Indian, lower-caste (not Dalit) with a surname that does not reveal it, working in India. One of my most vivid memories is hearing colleagues at my first job (a large multinational conglomerate) casually use caste slurs (ch*mar) in my presence. Ever since, I never enter discussions about politics or religion. I keep my cards close to my chest.
Exactly. One prize of playing diabolically is you get to apply a double standard to your opponent. Works great for them.
> What nuclear weapons were being placed in Ukraine?

Ukraine is not the formerly-Soviet-backed and still Russia-friendly Caribbean island state being referenced in the piece you quote.
Product comparison: that’s fair – only so much you can fit in an announcement post. We completely agree it is difficult to compare benefits (even for competent HR departments) but it is even more confusing for individuals. We try to make this clearer and transparent when working with employers during the quoting process. Benefit coverage gets boiled down to “actuarial value” and quantified as a number relative to the benefits mandated under the Affordable Care Act. This is presented alongside the financial quote and compared to competing bids. It also helps to actually read through our Schedule of Benefits Coverage– even at the individual level it is apparent what the differences are in our benefit plan vs every other SBC we have seen.

If you were to judge the quality only by price (all else equal), underwriting for this segment is done at the employer level – so savings can vary significantly from company to company. We’ve had quotes that matched other bids, and we’ve presented offers as much as 35% less (on a cash basis, not actuarial) than other insurer’s annual price hikes.

Overall, I cannot agree more with your comment that comparison is hard. There is not a lot of transparency in this market segment because of the unique considerations that go into underwriting each group. Plus, a lot of the companies (startups included) that people find appealing are playing games with coverage, especially playing around with deductibles and copays. It’s currently very difficult to make it super clear without just sitting down with the person/employer and talking through the benefits.
How are refresh tokens difficult to revoke?

They are presented to the AS to get a new access token, and the AS has pretty good insight into whether a user is logged in or signed out, right?
I wish iOS would let you screen calls like Android.
Why would they shut it down? Discontinuing a successful social app during Covid times doesn't make sense at all. Bandcamp seems to be too big to be closed like that though.
>epic doesnt have a reputation of blowing their aquisitions.

They ditched the Linux version of Rocket League. That counts as a blown acquisition to me.
If they like you, they mostly keep humans out of the ingredients, though.
Depends on the Java application, I feel your pain if need to manage application servers, but supporting and running modern Java applications shipped as jar files or docker images is not hard at all.
I don't really think a coop is a "complex financial structure" itself, but I am hoping that democratic control aspect can forestall the blockchainification. That might be naive.

> how they'd like to try to achieve the effects of NFTs without actually using blockchain tech, which, uh... feels like flirting with disaster to me

To be fair, the "you need to pay for a license to have your otherwise unassociated digital music file be legal" copyright situation is the bizarre NFT-like thing that we all take for granted.
> That being said if anyone knows of any place to buy flacs of music with great selection would love to know

Bleep offers FLAC (even 24 bit WAV).

https://bleep.com/

It's mostly alternative and electronica stuff though. It was founded by Warp records (Aphex Twin, Autreche, Boards of Canada, etc) but it now sells stuff for other labels as well.
That part feels fake to me, not only due to all other kids being brahmin (which statistically from my experience as an Indian American feels very off), but most Indian Americans don't really care that much about caste, most know it but they don't know enough to be "proud" of it.
Europe just had their 9/11.

I wonder how much discussion there was on the possible optics of this. Of course, I have no idea how long one should wait if it’s going to happen eventually.

Life goes on…
I'm not sure. I have little familiarity with Ruby, writing my code mostly in Python. But on uniformity, consistency, and ubiquity, at least when compared to Python, I think Smalltalk has the advantage of being implemented in itself, all the way down to the VM. So, once you learn the the language, it's straightforward to study the implementation details of anything inside the system image. On the other hand, when deep-diving in Python, its hard to avoid smashing your head against the C bedrock underneath, as many parts of the language and important modules are just wrappers around C code. I think Ruby may be similar to Python here.
I find the social graph stuff frustrating, even though I generally like Bandcamp (fingers doubtfully crossed). Using the app or the online streaming requires an account that can't be opted out of the social graph, and this makes your Bandcamp profile publicly searchable by username, a thing that is completely unnecessary to both the use of the service and the goal of music discovery.
The F-35 isn't that expensive these days. It's still a huge amount of money to spend on something good for nothing but war, insert your view here, but the price isn't much different than the new F-16s being bought by the Israelis.

That being said however stealth aircraft are not cheap to maintain at all.
Copy-and-paste from a political group funded by the fossil fuel industry? I can see why you chose not to link to the place you copied that from:

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocal...

In particular, none of those claims from 50 years ago are peer-reviewed scientific literature (and, for that matter, they’re not clearly wrong: for example, air pollution does cause illness and death and left unaddressed would have continued to do so even if it’s hard to precisely attribute causes for things which happen over decades).

The IPCC reports the rest of us were talking about made specific testable predictions which you have chosen not to address, and they represented a broad consensus of the scientific community at the time. If you want to contribute anything, try reading them and reviewing their predictions as the author of the piece I linked did.
Being a bandcamp customer, the answer seems quite obviously "yes" as I've literally done that.
> native-looking-and-feeling apps

Who are you kidding?

> (with some care)

No. Even if you were to give it more care than required to rewrite the GUI natively in each major platform, you still wouldn't be close.

Look, I get it, there are plenty of applications where a bit of clunk in the GUI is beneath other things on the priority list. That's fine. But the number of java devs who think clobbering together a few native widgets means they have constructed a native experience is... disconcertingly high. There's a whole GUI world out there beyond the lowest-common-denominator, and Swing isn't even the best at that.

Your priorities might still be perfectly rational. I might even make the same decisions under the same constraints. Just... be aware of what you're trading away
> Anything other than an objective standardized test is just asking for bias.

Agree. "De-bias" is actually the same thing as bias. The only way to solve bias is to increase accuracy of measurement, not introduce new error terms with a negative sign.
> Now I'm not sure what to do.

Just FYI there's sites that take in What refugees
Good (and long) analysis thread on this on twitter: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1497993363076915204?s...

"Why Russia will lose this war?

Much of the "realist" discourse is about accepting Putin's victory, cuz it's guaranteed. But how do we know it is?

I'll argue that analysts 1) overrate Russian army 2) underrate Ukrainian one 3) misunderstand Russian strategy & political goals" Kamil Galeev
Metaverse concerts and fighting against Apple
You chose to use your comment to promote longnow movement (there's no other reason to use that esoteric and confusing date format), and the conversation turned to the longnow movement. If you don't want to discuss the longnow movement in the future, don't bring it up.
Today I sent out an important announcement to my extended family via Gmail. I received several kind responses -- but one brother told me that the email address I was using for another brother probably was not working.

If I were using Microsoft Outlook I could reply all, adding the updated email address. But in Gmail if I do that the newly added email address will not receive the entire thread up to that point. Google should fix this.
"Because I paid for the game, and despite the fact I was happy to pay for it and I enjoy playing it, I think everyone else should need to pay for it, too. Otherwise all that enjoyment I had will be undone."

c.f.: sunk cost fallacy
I also wondered if coming up with enough pilots who were willing, or they could trust not to defect, was an issue. Offering $5 million per plane is a great idea.
> It stands to reason that if we're asking "Where's the Russian Air Force?", the answer is that it may never have existed in the size we thought. IMO this is a more logical answer than trying to figure out some 3D chess strategy of why Russia wouldn't their planes during the largest invasion since WWII.

It's not that hard to figure out. Putin is saving his planes for something big. Direct conflict with NATO being the most likely (and of course scariest) answer.

This does not necessarily mean that he wants or intends to fight NATO, just that he sees it as a strong enough possibility that he's willing to incur heavy losses in the short term in order to conserve his strength.
Welcome to the wonderful world of inbound marketing.
I agree. Condemn them for the invasion. The "collateral" damage of civilians is part of an invasion. I haven't seen any evidence of targeting civilians as a goal. The US has unfortunate civilian casualties as well during missile strikes.

This is probably the absolute only thing where I think Russia is being unfairly characterized. We'll see though as more intel comes in and if they start unloading on the cities. Possibly holding them to a high standard now, will keep them in check as they get more frustrated.
It really doesnt to the same degree. People claiming otherwise are trying to hide a very real problem
This has never been the case, and stating it as a fact is a big lie
Who is poor? How does needing money make you love capitalism?

How do you personally pay rent if you feel that not giving every single thing for free is wrong?
I do through my purchases and my general encouragement of traffic to the site, if I wasn't a broke graduate student and had the funds to invest in them, without a doubt in my mind I would.

However, even if I am unable to invest in them I see nothing wrong about my expressing discomfort over someone else buying them. I have seen nothing as well that they needed cash to continue operations.
For this precise reason, I use Jekyll. I got so frustrated with Hugo, and when I went to Jekyll they had an entire "From start to finish, make a blog with Jekyll" in their docs.

That made all of the difference for me.

This was about 3 years ago, so maybe things have changed. But last time I checked, Jekyll still had that guide up.
Altinity.Cloud is also not Russian software. We're a US company, all our services run out of US/EU locations, and our team is distributed across multiple nations, also including Ukraine. Like ClickHouse.com major investors are US-located.

I'm the CEO of the company. I'm a US citizen, ex-Air Force, and live in California. There's no possible excuse for the Russian government's invasion of Ukraine. The result is going to be a catastrophe not just for Ukraine but all of Eastern Europe.

Edit: added stuff about me.
Isn’t this basically what NextJS and NuxtJS provide, if you only leverage their static rendering?
The list of problems that Manifest V3 causes are just more reasons to never use Chrome.
I know you're right but did you really have to hurt me so much?
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>Cuba decided to allow the Soviets to deploy nuclear weapons on their soil. Don't they also have that right?

This was before 1997, when NATO and Russia signed the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security, stating the "aim of creating in Europe a common space of security and stability, without dividing lines or spheres of influence limiting the sovereignty of any state."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_of_influence#Contempora...

One of your basic premises are flawed, which makes me think you likely have further errors in reasoning.

We can condemn both the invasion of Iraq and Ukraine.
What about the salvage value of the laptops? This analysis seems to ignore that. Macs hold their value quite nicely.
the claim that russia needs to invade ukraine to stop nazis is completely fabricated, the claim isn’t “nazis exist”
There are many possible explanations, so latching onto the first one that sounds plausible is not necessarily the correct one. Otherwise, we would all be like those pundits on TV.

Several reasons might also be simultaneously true. Some simple examples: Russia might be testing NATO. Russia might not want to escalate in certain ways. There have been many countries whose leaders want to minimize the numbers they kill, while still killing many people. Russia might not want to reveal otherwise unknown capabilities. They might be preparing their air to strike elsewhere, possibly unrelated to Ukraine. There might be a revolt inside Russia's military. And so forth. But, what's likely? Maybe they just don't want to kill everyone or create dissent.
The correct answer for this stuff, and it absolutely kills me saying this, is probably something like asp.net web forms.
> Cuba decided to allow the Soviets to deploy nuclear weapons on their soil. Don't they also have that right?

Of course they do. They did exercise that right, didn’t they? But the US had the right to be concerned about that too, and the USSR cared more about striking a deal with the US than accommodating Cuba.

> This was always the case and the US and NATO were never going to come to Ukraine's aid so dangling that unrealistic possiblity filled Ukraine with false hope and provoked Russia.

You mentioned right above that Biden was clear that there would be no US force in Ukraine. So where is the false hope? NATO membership would take years to materialize. And Russia was provoked? Give me a break. Russia has been provoking, meddling with other countries, bullying smaller neighbors, annexing Crimea. It’s beyond absurd to say Russia is a victim. Russia consider themselves a superpower and have the right over their neighbors regardless of their desire. Simple as that.
> We believe the root cause is that the U.S. system is rife with misaligned incentives...

Involving "employers" is one of, if not the primary, root causes. I understand you're building a business, and ... you're playing in the same space as others. That may make sense financially, and allow you to take away from business from legacy insurers and save some companies 20% on existing costs.

But this doesn't seem like it's getting at the actual root problem, which is most people aren't actually involved in buying or paying for medical care (or... not until it's overwhelming).

I realize this is a national political issue, and not something a startup can actually address. The large companies, which could affect real change, have no incentive to legislate themselves out of business.

This (employer-provided health insurance) seems a perpetually intractable problem and seemingly unique to the US (based on my limited understanding of the problem space).

As a self-employed person, I'm basically an outlier and generally get little day to day benefit from any 'health insurance'. I paid $900/month (2 people) last year. 2nd covid shot caused a blackout, and I was ambulanced to an ER (I was actually only 'out' for less than a minute, but in less than 5 I was being driven away). 3 hrs in ER - nothing obviously wrong, so I was released. I got multiple bills over the next month for $4000. Insurance company graciously 'negotiated it down' so I only had to pay $2000, on top of the $11000 I already pay for this 'deal'.
All valid points, and TBF, the obstacles to adoption that advocates identified were/are legitimate. The truth is, people don’t care about GNU/Freedom or whatever they’re OS is. They just want things to work.

Ironically, Linux has made it to the desktop. It’s ChromeOS.
This. No matter what fancy docs framework or system you use, you need people dedicated to the craft.
GTK on Windows is one of those things that irk me to no end. I've installed several tools that come with the entirety of GTK (and even a dbus instance that tries to start on boot) in the program files folder for that specific program.

The GTK folks oppose static compilation, and that's a perfectly fine point of view because they can support their opinions quite well. However, without an official "Microsoft visual c++ runtime" equivalent, distribution of GTK apps is just so annoying on Windows! You can get the entire GTK library suite just fine on most Linux distros but when it comes to non-Linux platforms, you're left to your own devices, and that means every platform comes up with its own solution, incompatible with the rest.
That’s ridiculous, Russia is not North Korea, you can leave the country without hijacking a Fighter Jet
> This entire conflict could of been avoided if we didn't keep trying to expand NATO.

This is really not a good take. Ukrainians didn't overthrow their government because of NATO expansion. They overthrew their government because it was a corrupt pile of shit that didn't credibly represent their interests. And make no mistake, Putin has always seen Ukraine as in integral and inseparable part of Russian culture. He was never going to allow them to govern themselves, NATO expansion or not.
I doubt their military infrastructure is as dependent on the internet as ours may be.
Nice. I have daydreamed about something like this for years, and this is not it.

I'd imagine a series of left/right comparisons, like a visit to an eye doctor, where the machine learning is rewarded for its ability to predict my preferences. Eventually (a time commitment for me) it will be able to build from scratch color designs that I love.

This is like an early application of machine learning: What are the odds of victory for this backgammon position? Here, instead, we've estimating a preference function on color triples. Is RGB even the right domain, or do we want to work in some frequency transform, to capture the equivalent to musical chords. This is an empirical question, that can only be answered by trying to estimate this preference function, and noticing ripples better resolved by a different parametrization.

This would be easy, compared to the Riemannian geometry used in medical imaging. There's more money there.

For commercial use one cares what others think. There's the speciation question: You won't synthesize deep jazz tracks and deep blues tracks without separating the advice into species. Identifying clusters in data is something statisticians have worried about since the dawn of statistics.
Simultaneously arguing that Flatpak isn't the future because it relies on runtimes that may duplicate resources, and then suggesting that you should statically link in all your dependencies (creating far more duplication than Flatpak runtimes) seems… odd?
I disagree with that. There's no real reason for each page to be a separate SPA, most likely only a small part of that page will be interactive, and most of it will be cacheable. Extracting only the interactive parts of a page into components is what I'm talking about. In some cases that'll be all of the page, but there are very few apps that meet that criteria.
But what's in it for Epic?
It's not about the intersection of the group with the subgroup, but the fact that the group is not a good proxy for the individual. The subgroup is a _better_ proxy, and each further subdivision becomes closer and closer to clearly representing the individual. Ultimately, the person being an individual is the highest fidelity subdivision.
Another vote for this option being a viable, and dare I say good, one. In addition to the CalDAV, contacts and email you can use davx5[0] on Android to help with syncing to your (root-not-required) Android device.

This setup has worked well for me for a little under a year at this point.

[0]: https://www.davx5.com/