skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second question is more aligned to what we're doing. We currently interface with banks through a scraper. It's inefficient, slow and at risk of breaking when the banks change their interface.

To be clear - we provide this interface with the banks as a service to other companies who want to use the consumer's data inside the bank account (with their consent of course). A good example is a loan affordability calculation. Instead of asking a user to upload a bank statement, we provide the interface with their online banking profile which allows them to extract raw transaction data more quickly. We then send that data to the company is offering the loan so that they can make an affordability decision.

In our country there are other companies who do the RE method. I am not aware there is another way, other than scraping and that because our banks don't offer external API's.
> Yes, he appeared for a TV ad for Putin in 2012.

This is an extraordinarily disingenuous summarisation of that link.

A more accurate summary - he has publicly supported Putin on every single major policy. He supported annexing South Ossetia (2008), criticised Pussy Riot (2012), defending Putin’s anti gay bill (2013), annexing Crimea (2014).

Just to drive the point home, here’s what he had to say about the anti-gay legislation - “In Russia we do everything we can to protect children from paedophiles. This law is not about homosexuality, it targets paedophilia.” This is a man so abhorrent that he was equating LGBT with paedophilia.

And you summarised that as “oh he just did an ad, what’s wrong with that”.

Even now he could save his job by putting out some platitude like “I support a peaceful resolution to the conflict” but he won’t because he supports whatever Putin does.

Let me be clear - it is ok for me and others to not want to associate with such a person. It is ok if all of us prefer not to go to a performance by him. If the production companies think they’ll find it impossible to fill seats because too many people will stay away, then it is ok for them to pick someone else.

This isn’t censorship, it’s just people not associating with those who support unjustified wars.

> McCarthyism

I don’t know why it’s necessary to explain this to an adult in 2022 but McCarthyism is explicitly about persecution by the government. Not ordinary citizens preferring not to associate with you. The First Amendment prevents the government from making laws which abridge the freedom of speech, it doesn’t force private citizens to be your friends and supporters after you say anything.
> It's we Russians who are fucked for the rest of our lives.

Most of the world knows that most Russian civilians are also just victims of Putin and a corrupt system. I really hope there's a solution here, where after this is all over, Putin and his buddies can be executed for war crimes and the West can help both the Ukrainians and the Russians rebuild. Ironically the solution in Russia might actually come from Ukraine: it seems like they were able to really deeply root out corruption in their country, with help, in the early 2010s. Maybe after Putin is gone, we can somehow use the same strategy in Russia? I know the scale is completely different, but I'm a hopeless optimist.
I enjoy React+MobX with class-based components, because they are nearly as nice as Seaside was, back in the day!
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>we have to ensure the security of Hungary

I would have thought belonging to NATO would have been a deterrent to Russian attacks.
> The very few executable programs provided with the OS did not have any command-line options

PIP was part of CP/M – it was an external executable rather than a command processor builtin, what in MS-DOS terminology is called an "external command", in CP/M terminology a "transient command" – and PIP did have command line options. It didn't use either hyphen or forward slash, instead it put switches (which it called "parameters") in square brackets, for example:

PIP LPT:=X.ASM[NT8U]

Prints the X.ASM file on the LPT: device (line printer). Option "N" means line add line numbers, "T8" means expand tabs at every 8th position, and "U" means convert lowercase to uppercase. [0]

This is different syntax from DEC operating systems, such as RSX-11M [1] or OS/8 [2], where PIP indeed used slash as an option character.

This "switches in square brackets" convention was used by other commands as well, for example the LINK linker [3]. This convention is (obviously to me) influenced by the IBM CMS mainframe operating system, [4] albeit with the parentheses of CMS replaced by square brackets. We know Gary Kildall used CMS at the Naval Postgraduate School, and it also (I'd say) influenced CP/M's use of drive letters A-Z (as in CMS file modes) instead of the multi-character disk device names generally used by DEC operating systems.

Square brackets is CP/M's native convention for command line switches. Forward slash is something not native to CP/M, but a convention spread by certain ISVs. I think the linked blog post is likely right that Microsoft introduced this convention in its products, and I'd say it likely spread to other ISVs due to the widespread adoption of Microsoft's development tools. The fact that many larger ISVs used DEC minicomputers as a cross-development platform, not just Microsoft, was likely also a factor. While IBM mainframes influenced Kildall personally, and through him CP/M, IBM mainframes were much less likely to be used by CP/M ISVs than DEC minicomputers, because they were a lot more expensive.

[0] http://www.tramm.li/i8080/cpm22-m.pdf page 1-33 (PDF page 40)

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/RSX/A... page 5-2 (PDF page 70)

[2] https://www.grc.com/pdp-8/docs/OS8_System_Reference_Manual.p... page 65 (PDF page 73)

[3] http://bitsavers.org/pdf/digitalResearch/cpm_plus/CPM-Plus_U... page 83 (PDF page 96)

[4] see for example https://www-40.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc0302a.nsf/pag... page 42 (PDF page 66)
The Iraq war was a terrible error but it still can't be compared to Ukraine. America had no plans to colonise Iraq or absorb it into its empire. Despite the enormous death and suffering the war caused, America's aim was naive altruism: getting rid of an unquestionably evil dictator who used WMDs on his own people. There are conspiracy theories that America invaded to steal Iraq's oil but they are not plausible.
> In my experience, a bicycle balances for about as long as it takes to fall over.

I bet you can do a lot better than that with a bit of practice.
1) Putin was looking for any pretext to attack. He told his people that this war is just a response to Ukraine's aggression (and most of Russian citizens believe that Russian army is protecting innocent children from being killed by Ukrainian Nazis). So Ukraine tried to avoid any aggressive step.

2) They are handling rifles out because they just now arrived from the multiple countries that are helping Ukraine. Before that, they trained with wooden rifles.
I get that in theory this is possible, I'm saying I've never to my knowledge seen it, or I have but the Gmail spam filter caught it.

My domains are not really "out there" in any big way though, so perhaps I've just been lucky?
My new Sony TV wouldn't allow me to do anything without connecting it to the internet during initial setup. I just wanted to use it as a dumb screen to show HDMI signal. But even that wouldn't work without initially connecting it to the internet. I haven't connected it to the internet since and so far it hasn't stopped working, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it does as some point and forces me to reconnect and update it.
They didn't buy the dip, they stole it from the state and its people.
That’s for a judge to decide, not some helpdesk intern.
From the day 1 I publicly made a statement on my Fb and LinkedIn and offered relocation help for Russian and Ukrainian people.
And as I’ve said earlier, I don’t live in Russia, I don’t support “my” government and their actions.

There are thousands of Russians who got into jail for the protests.

How dare you blame people just because of the place they were born?
IBM cannot kill this age-discrimination lawsuit linked to CEO
The west can force their ISPs to block traffic to these DNS services... and then extend that to whatever else they want blocked.

We need a blockchain DNS service which can be exported as custom list for a DNS service you run locally (afaik, pihole supports custom lists).
You're absolutely right. There should be no sympathy for Russians from the outside. They must reckon with this situation internally.
If Ukraine survives and the war ends in peace, I sincerely wish for a version of some kind of Marshall plan for Russia.

Unfortunately, given the current state of world politics, I am afraid we will instead get a new version of Treaty of Versailles. In which case you will be right.
> But even Iraq does seem different: Hussein was a brutal dictator and, at least initially, Americans were welcomed as liberators.

In some areas in Eastern Ukraine, the Russians have been suffering "genocide" (whatever that term has been redefined to mean, but obviously not systematic murder) and the Russian forces were welcomed as liberators.
How to block a country in 8 steps in Cloudflare
But these elaborate uses for excess energy are easier to do at scale using the existing grid. You have a specialist centre in a single location that can take excess power from across a large area.
You meant all possible counter-measures given tools at hand, and that is in an ideal state when the aggressor is perfectly rational, very smart in planning and can hold their emotions in place.

Most if not all above is not valid right now about Putin and his clique.
that's great but it requires an active step on behalf of the user which is violating secure defaults principle. it also violates the principle of good UE
Relying on Chinese infrastructure providers may be a good bet at this point. Indian SaaS providers too, to an extent.

Also, stable-coins (BUSD on Binance / DAI on Uniswap) or anonymous coins (MobileCoin via Signal or Monero via a wallet like Guarda) may prove helpful in the face of collapsing Ruble.
So you mean Apple has solved the Y2038 problem ?
Should you really be on this site then? I'm sure there are non-US based tech/startup forums you can use, and not support an American based company from the evil American empire.
How many dollars per cubic meter of water?

At the end of the day, that's the metric that matters.
> Execution is Elton John writing Your Song in 20 minutes

Nitpick: he means Bernie Taupin, a prolific song writer who wrote many of Sir Eltons songs. Credit where it is due: According to Bernie "I scribbled the lyric down on a lined notepad at the kitchen table of Elton's mother's apartment in the London suburb of Northwood Hills, breakfast time sometime in 1969. That’s it. Plain and simple." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Song#Composition_and_insp...
because the browser is literally the HTTP client. why would you need to use something else for a very specific case of HTTP protocol interaction ?
Trump is far more than a card carrying member of the tribe, yet was booed when he suggested taking the vaccine.
I haven't really been analysing my spam thoroughly to be perfectly honest, it is possible this has happened to me and I didn't notice it because the Gmail spam filter caught it.

I do pop in every now and again and don't recall seeing anything akin to what the parent to your post is suggesting (many emails following the same format but to different addresses and I guess names).
Yes. But storage is easier at scale using the existing grid. A large battery storage site can take excess power from across the grid and get economy of scale.
While I deeply understand Namecheap's sentiment, it still feels as a bad move to me. IMHO, net neutrality shall be above this. If not, at some point in time we are just going to have Western, Russian and Chinese internet (the latter more or less already implemented).
It did not, if you have any international court verdict that says that Serbia conducted a genocide, I would like to see it. Also Serbia was not at war with Slovenia. Those are the basic facts.

Now, even if those things were true, they are claimed by the proponents of bombing, enemies if you will, the same way that Putin is claiming there is a genocide of million Ukrainians in Ukraine. Do you believe your enemies?
How about Nginx, Clickhouse, Telegram, etc?
Expect Russia to retaliate against MasterCard. If this is your sole credit card you might want to look for alternatives in case their computers go down.
> Fennec: Firefox (allows custom add-on collections so I can use Vimium)

Vimium on an Android device? Tell me more. What keyboard are you using?
In case someone doesn’t know, the title refers to the movie, Life of PI

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi_(film)

PI is a tiger that has a journey with a boy.
Making it dependent on bookstore.org immediately cuts off international users. I'm not taking a transatlantic flight to "buy locally" - and the prices local bookstores ask for importing books are laughable (often three or four times the prices Amazon asks).

Sure, you could mention the ISBN, and I could manually go to Amazon, and find the thing, and buy it ... but what a hassle to me as the user just so that you as the site operator can make a political statement.

I would invite you to consider doing some geo-lookup of the user's ip address and provide alternative integrations.
Yes, accept those things are all designed for large scale grid systems.
Yes this is what I was suggesting would probably make most sense - you keep the existing grid even if you distribute the production.
Ask HN: Is it possible to create counter-terrorist consensus on blockchain?
So let's say we have a set of wallets which are used to support terrorist organizations. Can we write a patched BTC/ETH clients/miners to freeze those wallets? This way we can perform >50% counter attack on terrorists?

I am not blockchain expert, sorry if this sounds stupid.

I am asking this because I can't stay rest seeing Ukrainian civilians being killed by bombarding residential areas.
Not really, that doesn't seem to have that much bearing. I still remember Western news about Serbia during the Kosovo conflict where Serbia was doing basically what Ukraine is doing now.
>GlobalScope.launch { ... }

I can't begin to express how sad that makes me. Your component should have its own scope that it destroys when it gets destroyed, otherwise your coroutine leaks to the outside world when your component is gone from view.
It looks stupid to me too. Which is precisely why I think there's information I'm missing.

Like, I've seen arguments that the whole "Ukraine joining NATO" justification is just a pretext. But if that's just a pretext, what's the actual reason? I haven't seen a good answer yet.

I honestly don't think we'll know the true story for decades.
A lot of people here seem to be surprised that people would spend $200 on a niche gaming console when you could instead get an emulation machine or "real" handheld.

To add a bit of perspective, from someone who sells classic video games for a living: this console's main point isn't to be affordable or play high-end games. Its target market probably already owns an OLED Switch, a Vita, PSP, every DS model and 2 or 3 Game Boys (one of which is modded with an IPS display).

It's designed to be interesting. That's it. Doesn't need to have a killer app or broad library.

Any utility it offers comes from the fact that it's something to add a bit of spice and fun to an already broad games collection, and possibly the clout that comes from showing other people that you own one.

From that perspective, I think these guys have absolutely hit it out of the park. Not surprised by the success of this at all.
That's kind of the thing with Microsoft's bitlocker as well.
It automatically decrypts the hard drive on boot, so the only thing it could protect you from is someone removing the hard drive and mounting it somewhere else.
But if they have physical access to the device, why would they do that?
> I do not care about this war at all

ok. that's your problem.
There's a _huge_ difference between having a firewall that can be bypassed by a VPN, and making all Russian websites and email inaccessible from outside Russia.

Their request to remove all "domains issued in the Russian Federation" is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Do they honestly expect ICANN to spend exorbitant amounts of resources to help companies migrate? To help researchers maintain contact with Russian colleagues?
What Russia is doing now is terrible and completely fucked up, but having the US as the only superpower is also not good.

We need a place where Snowdens of the world could go.
> OSMAnd search is awful. For everything else it's pretty good!

I stopped using Open Street Maps because it won't turn off! I close the app, I close the notifications, but the damn thing keeps playing loud audio telling me directions when I've long since left the car and the phone is in my pocket.

Of course the inability to exit an app without restarting the phone is a failure of the OS itself, but OSM is the only app that this happens with. What am I doing wrong? How does one exit OSM?
He went to my high school. His sister is super hot. We had a thing for a few weeks.

Was cool.
There is absolutely nothing to suggest that Russia is interested in anything other than Ukraine. Everything else is just fear mongering, atleast Slovak media does that well.
Oh come on, we can actually see what’s happening to the Russian economy including the capital flight.
Nginx is free software and Telegram is in Dubai
His handling of the trapped boys and their rescuer bothers me far more.
Yugoslavia is the case here that isn't like the others. After the fall of yugoslavia, certain ethnic groups went back to ethnic cleansing. Important to note, the time for Yugoslavia up to that point is probably one of the longest periods where ethnic wars/cleansing didn't take place. Essentially, Tito put a stop to quiet a bit of it. When Yugoslavia disintegrated, ethnic cleansing came back. Long history of it there. US and NATO partners stepped intervened to put a stop to it.
> It does seem like a good time to leave

Alas, too late for me...
i know it's very easy to say, but if you're russian right now, it seems to me that the only sane choice is to actively organize the overthrow of putin.

It's one of the rare case (nuclear war threats), where it may be the safest solution. Especially now that a few public figures in Russia have officially standed against that war. There may be an opportunity to reach a critical mass at home.
No they didn't. He stayed in power via manipulation and assassinations and things like that. Cannot blame the people. (Well, a few, but in general.) Stalin also wasn't the people's fault.

There's been some estimates of how many votes Putin would get, if there were real elections, no vote fraud, no threats, opposition politicians hadn't been killed or imprisoned, everyone got to vote, didn't get bribed to vote on Putin -- and then from what I read, a large majority would vote against him.
Motives matter too. Bombing of Serbia was to stop a bellicose regime and the humanitarian crisis it was creating. It was like bombing Russia right now, which I'd support fully hearted, if it was a possibility.
Ukraine invasion: Russians feel the pain of international sanctions
NASA seems to achieve quite a bit with its relatively meagre budget
> Unfortunately it's arguable whether it does anything useful besides enriching the producer.

I don't see how that goal is problematic given the use of a carbon-neutral energy source. I actually see it as an advantage, something that might help speed the adoption of fusion energy and thus get us off hydrocarbons.
>Having used Solidjs for some pet projects, I've come to strongly prefer Solidjs over React. It's an evolution of react, so I've found my existing skills/knowledge transfers. This being said, Solidjs is brand new and the ecosystem is minuscule compared to React. For this reason, I plan to continue using React for the foreseeable future. One of the biggest weaknesses of Solidjs is the lack of a "nextjs" like framework. It appears work is being done in the solid-start[1] repo, but it looks like it's still years away from being fleshed out. I want Solidjs to succeed, but I'm not interested in being an early adopter.

The chicken-and-egg ecosystem problem for new frameworks is tough. I've been working on Svelte stuff lately which has a similar problem but less extreme--the ecosystem is still much worse than React's, unsurprisingly, but it's also much better than Solid's right now.

I think Solid's primary branding is around performance and Svelte's primary branding is around it being easy. For getting things off the ground, I think "easy" is a much more successful approach.
Ukraine is winning the narrative to a large extent because Russia is not present in this particular battle - most likely because it wanted to keep things quite internally.
Using a tool to help someone see that their thoughts or words are foolish isn't a bad thing. People are getting very emotional about this entire situation, which is understandable. But then they are getting on their internet soap boxes and saying things that don't make any real sense and they don't really believe. I was simply trying to make OP realize that his extremely harsh comments are just platitudes, by reminding OP that in very similar situations he basically did nothing.
What would be newsworthy then?
great. this is why india is furiously pushing for "rupay" card system that they ingenuously developed rather than just lapping up whatever visa/mastercard offer.

they can do 30/50% less fees than incumbent visa/MC and still operate in the ecosystem because all local gateways and tech stack has been built to incorporate Rupay card system same as visa/MC.
the end result is, suppose tomorrow USA orders visa to quit india, beyond a few hiccups, there is a good chance india can weather these american companies leaving the domestic ecosystem. that way, the indirect control USA has over the financial infrastructure of entire nations is reduced to a great extent.
seems russia has done the same so this is moot now but think of it this way.

visa/MC often cry to mommy USA about unfair advantage to rupay cards in india and the US tries to intervene. suppose india bans Visa tomorrow, why is the US government so inclined to intervene in that case? unless this is their way of maintaining a degree of control
Ask HN: Remote work, no-code, web 3... what's next?
We do this will rooftop solar cells, so the precedent already exists.
There's a lot to like about 1990s UI designs - for example, they tend to have clearly delineated controls and to be more easily discoverable.

The spatially-oriented Finder of classic Mac OS has some nice properties as well, such as visual stability and a 1:1 mapping between windows and folders.
So far the global sanctions regime has been carefully constructed against the Russian state and specific companies and people supporting it. This is the first time I've seen someone targeting blanket sanctions at the Russian people - it may help your conscience but I'm not sure it helps those in Ukraine - presumably the Russian regime isn't a customer of Namecheap? Sanctioning citizens helps boost the governments case that the US/Nato/world is conspiring against Russia.