skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, your comment is absolutely bizarre, and that’s the most charitable way to interpret it.

NATO is a defensive alliance, and isn’t a threat to anyone, unless you consider being able to deter nuclear warheads as a threat then sure, go ahead. So, yeah, if you have a bunch of nukes, which you plan to use/threaten their use, then I guess your neighbors joining a defensive alliance would be perceived as a threat.

I think more or less the world is trying to move to a post-violence order, and I think it’s been made clear by their actions that Russia is threatened by that, for some reason. I can’t imagine why they don’t have more allies…
According to Soviet military doctrine Putin can't fulfil the objectives he set for this war. Defeating an entrenched enemy requires 3-5x advantage in manpower and materiel and Russia staged less than what Ukraine currently has. The Ukrainian armed forces have retreated to the defendable cities and will counter attack and return occupied land after defeating the Russian attacks. On top of that the attacks are in 3 directions, depriving them from any local advantage.

Chances are Ukraine will win this war, unless Russia stages half a million addional soldiers and the respective gear. I don't think the regime has the support to do something like that, and not for an agressive war against Ukraine. All while Ukraine increases its manpower quickly by calling reservists and volunteers who are already near the battle.
> there is no proof of humans being able to sense (electro-)magnetic fields.

The effect is widely used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat...
>> I'm not sure exactly right now what this refers to as fifth state of consciousness, is it the eight circuit model of consciousness?

No, the fifth state here is an interpretation of the Gurdjieff system and the associated Fourth Way. Loosely the fifth state equivalent to enlightenment (satori). The specific quote is from a book by Robert de Ropp called "The Master Game."

I haven't looked into Leary's eight circuit model in years. Thank you for reminding me of it. By your description of your current state, sounds like you have found utility in that particular framework?
I think it's dangerous to expect a malicious actor would not pay $10 to screw your service.
Well, I'm quite sure Putin will find the most efficient way to keep the occupied people under his boot. As for the Resistance flushing out the moles, what are they going to do with them? Are they willing to kill them? Or just shame them?

Would we (the West) still support them if we hear they kill informants? Or if we hear hey tar and feather them?

Who knows, maybe in today's world the threat of being canceled on the internet is enough of a dissuasion, that the Resistance fighters can use that. But will it be enough to balance the threat of going to jail?
Once companies get big enough their polices can be industry shaping, before Apple it was Walmart

"On other CD's he has bought at Wal-Mart, record companies had removed songs or altered artwork on the covers to make them acceptable to the discount chain, although Adam said he was not aware of it.

Adam's mother, Arlene, said she did not like Wal-Mart's policy. ''It should be my decision instead of theirs,'' she said."

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/12/arts/wal-mart-s-cd-standa...
Bad blood between Elon and a direct competitor. I can't imagine it.

Do you know what the contract says. Is Arianespace required to launch them? My understanding as an outsider is you buy specific launch vehicles. Do you have any idea what the legal implication of a move like that is?
It's only a sunken cost fallacy if you consider that the cost to be in-office is lower than the benefits it brings. Otherwise you can see this as being able to get the benefits of an investment, which would be strange not to do.

Some agree with the idea that remote is strictly "better", but many do not. Bear in mind that we had the opportunity to create fully remotes companies for a long time, and some succeeded, but most companies were still office-only or office-first. Similarly, some companies will move to remote-first post pandemic, but it does not look like everyone will - far from it. And everyone is making their pro-and-cons analysis.

> What's the point then of allowing them to go remote when it's not really remote

Here is the point: this is not remote. It's office-first with some days were you are going to be allowed not to come, in order to lower the commuting time and get more "alone" time. For people who want to work remote, from anywhere, this is not cutting it. And it's not trying to. For people who still love the office but have some complain about having to go every single day, this is a nice option.
> They’re literally part of NATO.

Yes, then snubbed NATO with the S-400 purchases.

> They closed the entrance to the Black Sea to Russia yesterday.

It seems from the linked article that Turkey requested the Russians to not cross, and the Russians obliged. The Russians are just as happy with Turkish relations as Turkey is with Russian relations. However, rest assured that if a Russian warship decided that it absolutely must traverse the Bosphorus strait and a Turkish ship were to confront it, the Russians would have no problem asserting their crossing over a sunk Turkish warship.
Show HN: I made a obfuscator for Python wheel
based on Cython (for compiling python source code to binary) and adamyaxley/Obfuscate (for compile-time string literal obfuscation)
In no way this invasion by Russia is justifiable but I'm getting some serious "Don't look up" vibe from the glibness with which the West is escalating.
So you're telling me that Putin ordered the invasion of Russia because NATO represented an existential threat to Russia. And this existential threat to Russia is demonstrated by an inflow of arms to Ukraine as a direct result of the invasion?

Meaning that he could accurately predict the future reaction to his invasion, and used it as a justification for the invasion? We don't have to cheerlead a NATO or EU military response (and I'm certainly not for that), make stupid "Ghost of Kyiv" memes or display the sort of bloodlust that some in the media have ... but this is a really weird position you're taking.

One mistake I think many are making is mapping this to different invasions/wars in the past - Germany/Poland, USSR/Agfhanistan, USA/Afghanistan etc - and assigning roles then picking sides accordingly. I do not think it is that simple and by the same token I do not know what the right course of action should be. But I know that "Putin is justified and acting rationally" is one of the wrongest takes of this war.
Your dead business isn't helping stop people from being killed. It's collateral damage from the sactions, but those sanctions ARE helping to put an end to this madness.

I realize that this is cold comfort as the business you've put so much work into has now died for reasons outside of your control, and that's a really shitty situation to find yourself in. This is a black swan event. Your business acumen is not in doubt. You have no fault in this.
As a Russian: yes. What people seem to not understand is that Putin does not really a key figure here. Not the only key figure.

The only reason he started the war is because he was assured by his generals that they can do the whole thing rather quickly. Putin does not do any information analysis, he does not use internet at all (his words, not mine). He only read repots presented to him in paper.

So when he was giving the order he was sure that he's into an easy game. Gerasimov^1 on the other hand most likely knew what he was doing.

At the same time Putin does likely realise that russian army is not capable agains NATO, not in an offensive scenario at least.

He does not view at as a conquest for sure (at least as long as we are talking about the Russia vs West+Baltics. Can't say same thing about other former USSR republics)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Gerasimov
Wow impressed indeed. Especially the esp targeting. Is there some intermediate compilation from c# to c or a compiler backend was created from scratch?
Yes, we can imagine all kinds of ways the US health care system could work better. I was just mentioning that US citizens have to pay for Medicare regardless of where they live, and it’s not excluded with FEIE. And Medicare doesn’t work overseas. That’s the reality we have to live with. What could or should happen in our opinions is a different question, not really relevant to this topic.

Personally, my goal was traveling and living nomadically out of the US. I did that for over six years. Medical care was cheap almost every place I went, and I’m older than the typical 20- and 30-something nomads. My goal was not debating or trying to reform Medicare or the US health care system. Those are noble goals I suppose but not something I want to spend my time on.
For common surnames, yes. Mine is quite rare, and while there are naturally a few hits in Berlin, most are concentrated in Southwest Germany, specifically Stuttgart. But you're right that it would be interesting to see the data normalized to population.
Having previously looked at peertube, the problem is it's hard to make money out of it -- because of the p2p technology, it's hard to have control of your videos, put adverts in, track users, etc.

While peertube saves one big pile of money (the streaming costs), it makes it significantly harder to make any money. Videos are expensive to make, so generally creators want a wide audience, and ways to monetise that audience.
Szilagyi shows up ... Vlad's second wife was Jusztina Szilágyi, ... She survived Vlad Dracul, and married thirdly Pál Suki, then János Erdélyi.

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler#Family
A lot. A whole host of covers probably violates the arbitrary 'no pornography' guidelines (even omitting the obvious examples like The Scorpions' Virgin Killer). Then again, this is just a set of criteria for Apple Music. Artists can always just generate a gradient just for Apple Music like that pretentious Baby Keem example — the paragraph below those covers about sparking conversation; that has to be some form of sarcasm I'm not getting right?

> No barcodes

Well, too bad for the Barcode Brothers:

https://www.discogs.com/release/224392-Barcode-Brothers-Flut...
There is a project that uses a headless browser to implement HAR.

https://github.com/wabarc/screenshot
I have some experience with large-scale CDN I've cofounded some years ago.
The short answer is - the perceived benefits you'd receive doesn't match the decrease in quality of service. So the economics doesn't work.
Content distribution is widely skewed towards 1% of content makes 90% of traffic nodes so the cases that p2p may work for very popular content but the long tail is not easily cached/served. Try to watch/download a torrent file with small number of seeders and you'll get the experience you will be providing for the end user. Also internet networking is tricky and connectivity in different parts of the world can differ widely. South America or Asia have almost none of the peering hubs infrastructure that is available in Europe.
(I've cofounded a CDN company and have some knowledge of the market)
Ironic that some of the highest paying jobs out there are also the jobs that are most easily performed at home. Software dev really seems to be one of those win/win/win scenarios when it comes to jobs. Of course, there will always be a litany of complaints online because there's always something to complain about, but still.
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While in a difficult practical position, OneWeb previously got bailed out because of the military applications and the value of communication that's much harder to jam than traditional means.

Russia just launched Cold War v2.0 at best, if not WW3. OneWeb's value proposition just improved massively.

Ukraine had to publicly appeal to the only real competitor in the market to get Starlink. I think OneWeb is looking more valuable as a product range by the minute.
In Sweden also. We say "vitvaror" which literally translates to white goods.
Very cool!

Brought back old memories of the "Paddle War" in Commander Keen.
They meant to say mumetal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu-metal
Not sure what's the argument of the original post, then. How did the West come into the equation? It seems that both West and Ukraine want to arm Ukraine and think this is the right thing to do.
The idea of an Ukrainian insurgency is pure cope and only serves to prolong this war. Ukraine's strategic position is untenable, capitulation or complete defeat is a matter of weeks. And once again Western audiences will be dumbfounded, and they will learn nothing from it.
Then just take/forbid profit that is derived from whatever is discovered; there is no guarantee that it will be greater than preservation cost which is the whole issue.
Would be nice to have an actual pipe-generating AI.
Yes but they seem to have some pretty draconian rules where a beautiful looking music catalogue (for users and Apple’s marketing screenshots) is more important than the artistic nature of whatever album art the musician might want.

Who are Apple to say I can’t put another artists photo on my album?

Sounds to me like it’s primed for some artist(s) to break as many rules as possible with a legitimate release to see how Apple actually respond.
Why is a mixed model not used? Where the server exists and serves both the meta-data and acts as a seeder with support from other users? This seems to be the best of both worlds?
Apple is not opposed to RISC-V: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=risc-v (3 jobs available)
Nomads and expats should keep a US address and bank account. It makes everything simpler. You don’t have to tell the IRS or your bank your moved overseas. No one comes looking for you, no reason to complicate your life with foreign addresses.

Intuit may be an evil company, that’s a different subject. But their TurboTax product does handle the FEIE, which is the point I meant to make. You don’t have to hire a tax pro for that, though it may be worth it for complex tax situations or if you have income over $200k/year.
No one in this thread appears to be able to see the world from the Russian POV. That is precisely why this is all going to end in catastrophe.

Imagine Asian countries (China, Russia, etc.) had a military alliance that was working its way up through south america, gaining memebers, placing nukes. And one day it says, Mexico is going to join.

I can tell you, if that had happened in Peru, the USA would have invaded -- let alone mexico.

This naiveity of "presumably we're the good guys and russia can see that", is a delusion that will lead to mass ukrainian deaths.
I wish I could afford a nice house close to the office. I do like to socialize. Until then, remote work is all I will do.
That's the AEGIS system. It works better when land-based, from what I've read; it's dramatically more accurate than the purely naval fleet-defence version.

AEGIS is an integrated, networked system; multiple sensors on multiple platforms (including AWACS) collaborate to detect and hit targets.

There was an AEGIS-equipped ship either in the Black Sea, or trying to get in through the Bosphorus (now closed to naval traffic). The presence of AEGIS ships in the Black Sea would be enough to explain the non-appearance of the Russian airforce.
This is highly, highly dubious without a physical explanation. Or with representative statistical data. Magnetic and electric fields do not interact much with biological matter, so something 'special' needs to be shown here before there is a point.

This should be treated with utmost caution without statistical and physical proof.
How about the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, signed by Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia, USA and UK?

In exchange for the first three countries giving up their nuclear weapons, the signatories offered them security assurances that included (using wording taken from [1]):

* Respect Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.

* Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

* Refrain from using economic pressure on Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to influence their politics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
> Your employees are not going to idly look through logs to see if everything is running smoothly when they are done with their tasks

Because that's a job!
Have you actually looked at the rules? Which one do you find objectionable?

I red the article with the idea that I am going to snap at Apple for starting with "Express yourself" and then placing a bunch of restrictions, but then I red the restrictions and I can't find anything that I could object to. Even when they say "No blurry, pixelated, tilted, or cropped images" they clarify "unless intended".

There is infinite freedom within the rules. There is no need for you to spam my phone screen with additional hashtags, handles or copies of information that I already have on my screen.
The most interactive thing about this seems to be the banner ads..
Amazed at the number of use after free and overflows and the total sum spent rewarding the discoveries. All for a single release

I wonder how Firefox compares in terms of bounties and bugs discovered/fixed per release.
> The problem is that it won't likely be a direct invasion. Estonia has a significant Russian minority and we've seen this play book before:

For instance, we've seen it dramatised in season 3 of Berlin Station: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5191110/episodes?season=3
At this point the war is only in Ukraine. I know you can never believe Putin but his internal and external communication was crystal clear: we want to retake control of Ukraine by any means possible. What is not clear, however, is how long the war will last. Given the deplorable state of the Russian army and tons of modern weapons delivered to Ukraine, it wouldn't surprise me if it took a long time.
Ouch! I did not know that.
Indeed.

For example I have very fond memories of Ray Man for the Game Boy Color.

In many ways I think that game is a genuine high-water-mark for graphics within any given set of limitations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REM9s3Z1gd8

I still find it quite astonishing. It's a simple scheme, actually -- a rich painted background and surprisingly few sprites -- that just has so much personality.

Any work to bring back this kind of art is so welcome.
Human toxicity from Covid-19 rapid home test kits
Can we drop the q= and the quotes from the shell cmd somehow, that would make it so much nicer, and rip is a great command line.
What a stupid choice.

BJP is literally diametrically opposed to Muslims. There may be a lot of shit Mullahs, but at least some care.
Did your parents restrict or monitor you to that extend when you grew up?
I'd love to read more about the lives of the initial Provo activists, and to hear their opinions of how their ideas and actions transpired within and outside of their hopes and regrets. Their opinions of the issues of today would be very valuable.
No, they can win the war. The question is whether they can win the peace and/or survive the fallout from starting it. Assuming others don’t forget it happened in 6 months.
I thought Google ads had a maximum spots per page, looks like there's at least 8 on some pages.
Asymmetric network connections are common and I imagine ISP networks are also not designed to process large amounts of peer to peer data. So besides the other issues, if this would ever become popular I'd guess the networks would struggle and ISPs would probably raise their prices.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/03/02/putin-not-crazy-russ...
How international money transfers work (2016) [video]
HR departments trying to get people back in the office..
>For me it looks like the hosting provider gets a huge savings in terms of bandwidth.

The constraint on wide adoption is literally the quantity of "peers" in both Peertube and peer-2-peer.

The underlying human incentives are not there for most people to host a peer node. This limitation applies to all types of digital domains including videos, or files (IPFS or bittorrent), or crypto (Bitcoin/Ethereum peer node).

Let's follow the trail of incentives for one Peertube node:

- see list of Peertube instances: https://joinpeertube.org/instances#instances-list

- I pick the 2nd one on the list: https://the.jokertv.eu/about/instance

- in that instance's "About" page, it says: How we will pay for keeping our instance running -- personal funds. If you feel like donating, put up your own instance instead and host some creators you find interesting.

Companies can't build a Youtube/TikTok competitor based on examples like that. Same forces of economic incentives that limits quantity of IPFS peers which means businesses can't use it to replace Cloudflare CDN or AWS S3 buckets.

It should be understandable why most people aren't willing to spend personal funds on hosting home nodes so businesses can freeload off of p2p and save money on bandwidth.
My name is so rare, in my own country, I only get two small spots.

And I don't live (or haven't lived) in any of them.
My guess is that Russia doesn't have that many S-xxx missile systems, and further that they are much more expensive than the Turkish drones. I imagine they're keeping their powder dry, against the risk of NATO planes appearing over Ukraine.
The difference from 1996, is that now Arlene can simply go to the artists’ website and buy the content directly with zero extra friction and bypass all of Walmart’s (or Apple’s) meddling.
There's a persistent meme on HN that it's straightforward to make a business that "runs on autopilot", with no human intervention. I'll admit that such a business is possible, but I'm deeply skeptical of the durability of such a business.

I'd much rather bet on a business owner like your dad, who's deeply involved. Sounds like your dad's receipt reading was a great habit to have, and paid dividends far outside of just "making sure things were running OK on a daily basis".
What I will counter is that remote is almost certainly better for the environment

Being forced to live in expensive cities … and suffer the misery of public transport, yeah no thanks.

In your attempt to throw everything against a wall to see what sticks you’ve contradicted yourself. Living in dense cities and taking public transportation is good for the environment.

You want to work from home—own that instead of trying to pretend you are fighting for some great moral cause.
"Industry-shaping" doesn't seem so bad. "Art-shaping" provokes other feelings. Counterculture's lost its soul in the past decade. It's time to rekindle it.
> We are lucky that HN effectively only has one staff person.

False:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235720