skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So, and I realize all answers will be pure conjecture, what happens if the sanctions work? What's the end game? Can the proverbial tiger be put back in the cage?

Literally everyone in the world is hoping the sanctions work. If it does, it tells the world even a nuclear power can't attack sovereign nations and get away with it. If it doesn't... then humanity is not post-war and we're about to get into a nuclear world war.

>Russia has invaded Ukraine and Europe has responded in a unified manor. China gave muted support, but largely stayed out of it (at least vocally - but still traded with them).

No they didn't. China picked up the phone with Putin on day 1 and said peace talks immediately and made comment they respect Ukraines sovereignty as well as the security needs for all involved. China appears to have been sideswipped and used as as shield by putin.

>China is, of course, watching very closely, as they have their own expansionist interests.

This is seeming more and more like Russian propaganda. China has 75 years of foreign policy showing no expansion. They have all the factories and a gigantic standing army. They could expand and take quite alot. Yet they dont because they know war isn't the way. Invest the war money back in yourself and grow taller.

>How does/can Russia get out of this and save face?

Every good negotiator makes it possible for their opponent to save face. Russia has a huge and simple one they provided themselves. "Nazi government was toppled, we are guaranteeing the new republics. White Peace out." Though to get sanctions lifted im sure there will be reparations to be paid.

>Where will this go with social/cyber warfare - it has to ramp-up dramatically, no? Now that western Europe has increased its military spending, what does that mean for the "World Police" American stance that has been so prevalent since the late 40's?

Everyone is making this about the USA... the Russian propaganda was running all these 'USA imperialism' which hey... they have to get in line... the commonwealth is up first... but the USA didn't do anything. Didnt get involved other than showing unity with the EU. Russia probably predicted the USA would act. In fact, it looks like an awful lot of effort is being done to curb the ongoing russian propaganda internally for most countries.

> Does this, in fact push forward clean technology, or will it hinder it as now America and Canada sit in a prime spot to export fuel and make record profits for decades - environment be damned?

Usa and Canada are leading the way with clean tech in many ways. We have 10,000 trees per person. Canadian solar is top notch. Our automotive industry has pivoted in an instant to manufacturing EVs. Coal plants are gone or going? The only thing I think Canada is missing out on is nuclear fusion.

The world needs oil still. Oil rich countries are switching over. Lets not exclude awesome scandanavian countries. This hasn't been some sort of Canadian conspiracy to convince Russia to attack a sovereign neighbour. This is Canada being a good ally and offering conflict-free oil.
It is already the norm with the current domain registration system, so I'm not sure what your point is. I recently tried to purchase a domain with some version of my name. There is nothing hosted there (domain name lookup fails). I offered them a few grand for it which I thought was reasonable, no response.

Would be interested in your solution to this problem if you have one (seriously, I don't know how to solve it).
Is this something we, hackers/information technology specialists, could try to achieve?
I play a lot of Overwatch and the really nice thing is that it's relatively straightforward to get every single cosmetic in the game.

I've only bought a single skin (Blizzard donated 100% of the proceeds to Breast Cancer Research Foundation), and every other cosmetic was "free". I have nearly all the cosmetics in the game and have spent about 1000 hours (spread over 5 years since launch).

Compared to current games it's a very generous model that I think will end up going away when the sequel launches in the next year or two.

Additionally everything you can pay for is purely cosmetic (there are no weapons or characters to unlock) so even if you got the game today you're not at a disadvantage.
First lead dev offered me advice for the rest of my career.

Most of what you are going to see people argue about are cyclical fads. A pendulum. We try A and it doesn’t work. So we try !A. And when people forget why we stopped doing A someone tries it again over and over.

How are things different this time should be your second question. Your first question is what is the middle ground? Boolean logic falls on its face in the real world. If 1 is bad that doesn’t mean 200 is better. If 200 was bad the solution is not 1. The best answer is probably three.
I haven't looked at a National Lampoon in many years. But I'm guessing that a lot of modern audiences would find a lot to object to during the magazine's heyday. Of course, a lot of its humor was always pretty sophomoric but in its heyday it was probably a lot more acceptable to say "I probably shouldn't be laughing at this but it's really funny anyway."
Those are very good points - I wonder how the author would see, for example, Google Sheets implemented as not a SPA
I guess others were interested in the FortNite concerts.
The west is still paying Russia 500 million dollars a day [0] for oil and gas imports which is indirectly funding the shelling of Ukrainian citizens with cluster bombs [1] as we speak. I think we should stop imports even though this will be painful at first.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-28/ukraine-san...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083616770/russia-is-using-co...
My only complaint about the site is its nearly-useless search feature, which uses some deranged fuzzy full-text logic that is almost guaranteed not to return the result you want.

Oh, and there's no "open in app" feature on the site, or a "copy URL" feature in the app.

Otherwise, I share the sentiment that Bandcamp itself is (was) a great place to buy indie music in high quality, and that this feels like the beginning of the end.
GE, is that you?
Loving open source doesn't mean you have to open source every piece of code you write in your company. They open sourced some projects already.

It could also just mean supporting projects financially, with developer time or filing issues.
I have been a Namecheap customer for over 10 years and use them for my business websites. I will be moving away from them. I do not support Russia because I am vehemently anti-war, especially after what I've seen my own country do to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. However, I cannot support a business that will target and cancel customer based on their race or ethnicity. Who knows who will be the next group that is targeted and canceled.
Motivation for founders is a lot easier to understand than that of the acquiring company. What on earth is Epic going to do with Bandcamp?
They were necessary from a perspective of "we need a way to develop a company's web presence in a way we can send kids to code camp to get the gist of." Of course they weren't a wonderful thing in terms of actually building sustainable infrastructure, but what's that to stand in the way of business's need to go to market yesterday?

Code camps don't have time or resources to educate their students so we got the reinvent-the-world half-solution that is the SPA. SPA frameworks won't ever go away but you'll get the chance eventually to go work on something better-architected than your run-of-the-mill NodeJS shitshow.
Russia absolutely has the air power to pull it off, you clearly haven't seen Syria.

My guess is that they have, correctly, anticipated that mass casualties of white civilians would play very badly internationally and domestically.

e: I'm downvoted.. for what? It's obvious that the ethnicity of the victim matters for both domestic and international perception, all you need to do is look at a bit of media coverage of reporters bemoaning that this is happening to "blue eyed, blond haired" people or in the "civilized world." There is a different standard for what sort of casualties are considered acceptable.
I assume it’s because Epic presented a ton of cash and a small but profitable company found it attractive.

I can’t imagine anyone wanting to work for or be part of Epic, so that’s my assumption of gobs of cash.
Lame opinion, but I miss the (pre-license-change) ExtJS days

Unified library of tools. An actual GUI designer to design layouts in.

Now everything's just a mess
So, Mexico is a sovereign nation and should be allowed to ally with North Korea or Iran, right?

The USA would be understanding of Mexico’s sovereignty and stand by while North Korea sends military aid to Mexico, installs their elite sons and daughters as board members of Mexico’s largest corporations, and blatantly strategizes who will become the “elected” leader of Mexico.

Perhaps you should take a hard look at the reality of what all powerful nations do when they feel threatened by their foes close to their borders. Ignoring it is at everyone’s peril.
> If it kills a business model that's based on intrusive user-tracking and the user being totally unable to know who has their data and who their computer should vs shouldn't be connecting to - great.

What are you talking about? You can always block whatever you want, and we're not talking about "intrusive user-tracking" here but literally just an IP address. You can have the opinion that websites shouldn't use third-party resources, but legislating that requirement is beyond ridiculous.

There are countless good reasons for using third-party resources on websites, and disallowing it will absolutely make the web a worse place regardless of any "privacy" benefits it could have.
Nyan Cat over SSH
sounds like a great idea! I worked in finance before and tracing errors was part of my job description, lol!
First of all congrats on the launch, we need more innovation in the space and I applaud your efforts. Here are some thoughts / questions if you want to answer them

> We have [...] benefits that exceed the best plans from legacy insurers.

You claim that your product is better than some of the competition, but do not demonstrate it (here or on your website). At this point it seems to me that every insurer claim that they have the best plan with no way for me to know easily.

I think the key issue of the industry as a whole is that there is no way for client to compare insurance product beyond pricing. A product that could look better at covering lenses for example because it cover up to $2000/year vs another that cover up to $350 may actually be worse because of some widely applicable exclusion written into the contract.

What are your thoughts on this point?

> On top of that, we reduce premiums by up to 20% for employers. We can do this because we are a software company that owns an insurance carrier. We automate roughly half the tasks involved with claims, care coordination, underwriting and back-office operations. We aggregate data from disparate sources (claims, clinical, pharma, lab, and wellness data) to make superior decisions and aid patients. Our technology helps members identify and treat conditions earlier and more effectively. We also have a much better user experience—a single portal to access telehealth, care concierge, claims data, wellness plan, doctor lookup, rewards card, etc.

You claim to be able to reduce cost because of your tech, and I believe compare to legacy carrier, your IT / Process are cheaper to run today (I believe that legacy carrier spend ~5-10% of their revenue on IT). From my observation the insurance industry is quite bad at getting ride of legacy systems (for compliance, once you decommission a system you sometime need to prove that the new system run the old policy the same way, or just because to many process optimisation software has been build on top of the legacy system making it extremely costly to sunset).
How do you plan to maintain this cost down once you extend to new states / product /over time, to keep this cost advantage?

> Since half of Americans get health coverage through their employer, we’re focused on companies to maximize impact.

I understand that B2B distribution is easier than B2C, but this can go against your mission of changing healthcare incentives for mutual benefits. You customer are the Employers, and their incentives are to reduce cost and to maintain their employee healthy short term, whereas employee would like to have better access to healthcare (higher cost) and to stay healthy Long term.
How will you find balance here? What happen when a a major client as you to cut cost for their plan to the expense of the employee coverage and you need to keep them as a client to keep the company afloat.
Well, if the OP insists on sharing their visitors data with 3rd parties, and doesn't want to adapt his site to fix the specific instances other countries outlaw... then yes, it's better for everybody if he keeps it caged into his own country.
If you can do it in a single GET/POST in an SSR, you can do it in a single XHR call in an SPA. There's no reason it has to be split up in separate XHR calls.

You just have to want to do it.
oof, not my intent, sorry about that

do you have a "best of" list to share?
Definitely! We have a short demo video available here (and linked on our homepage): https://youtu.be/QcwSXrCdx3s
They arent piloting it, they are standing next to it just like on the official https://www.starwars.com/databank/tie-fighter middle of the page
> it sure looks like they are trying to limit them

Just saw a video where they blew the leg off a civilian that was just standing in the road to block their advance.
Hmm. I wrote C and C++ for 20 years and while I haven't used either in some time, I don't remember this ever being a problem, except when trying to port Unix code that expected errno to be global to Windows (but that's the opposite problem of the one you're talking about).
Putin helped Congress rally behind cybersecurity legislation
Distributions like Debian are way more strict than that:

- peer reviews including licensing review

- package signing

- various types of build and integration tests

- reproducible builds

- freeze periods

- build hardening flags and sandboxing

- strong identity verification with PGP web-of-trust
FWIW, yes, Putin has spewed a bunch of bullshit about Ukraine not being a nation, and such. But pretexts add up, and remove enough of them, and invasion is simply not on the table anymore.

The neo-Nazi line is probably based on things like https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-ba... (a bunch of references inline — I had no idea of this until earlier today when it was posted to, of all things, HN).

In a democracy, it takes 51% of voters to elect a president, so you can still have large population that doesn't agree with that (I am not saying this is the case in Ukraine — esp as Zelenskyy got something like 70+% of votes — just that the fact that they've got a Jewish president does not mean they don't have a Nazi problem: it certainly makes it less likely, but they are, logically, independent arguments — even 1% of "active" neo-Nazis in any country would be a huge problem, though I repeat, I am not saying this was happening in Ukraine).

To be honest, I don't see how invading Ukraine and turning the entire world against Russia is going to make Russia superpower anything, and I'd be surprised if Putin is such a dummy to think so (though, I am beginning to fear he might be).

I must admit to not knowing what Putin would have done if circumstances were different in a way I suggest, but you seem very confident about it, so apologies if I don't take your view as truth either (you might be right, but we'll likely never know): we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I think there will be a new Cold War, this time Russia/China vs the West. This may not be a bad outcome. I think it will be good for the average citizen of developed countries in a lot of countries if globalization gets slowed a little. We traded cheap crap for a big increase in job insecurity and rising inequality.
In case of slow internet, SPAs are much easier to make responsive than an SSR application.
I've got no interest in playing "who had it worse" but I think two or four or even a hundred apathetic parents put a child at more of a disadvantage than a single parent that actually cares.

My parents had literally zero involvement in my education. I was never helped with homework let alone walked through the college application process. My friend literally paid the $50 application fee for me because I couldn't get it from my parents (thanks Paul).
I wouldn't be surprised if Bandcamp shuts down entirely in the next 2-3 years, to be replaced by some limp attempt at an integrated Epic music/streaming/gaming platform.
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Personally I find Windows 2000 style to be my favorite one generally - it certainly is not pretty but it is simple and no nonsense and seems to take minimum screen space.
>basically what docker does

With the added hassle of installing Docker and learning and managing all of its details, and what you get in the end only works on Linux.

Meanwhile every OS in existence support running its executable format with zero other bookkeeping.
Very nice! Will use it for sure. May I ask you how you created that good looking demo gif?
He was pretty funny until the mid-90s, and then seemed to just get cranky. I honestly hadn't given him a thought in years.
Using CMake is like trying to do one-handed pushups to setup your build. Use https://mesonbuild.com/ and make your life comfortable as a couch potato.
Or do you mean demo content as in a walk-through?
Promises that sound nice, but have huge economic consequences and therefore wouldn't be passed by a sane government. An example: Medicare for All combined with amnesty for illegal immigrants. It sounds nice, until you think about the obvious result.
I think, the distinction is necessary for determining the first video games. As the genre matures, we may broaden the definition. (E.g., to anything sold and/or reviewed under this title. The problem arises only as long as there is no recognition or general concept of video games.) I would also suggest to exclude anything that is "just" a simulation of an existing, physical game the same way. (Is a billiards simulation a video game? Well, is then a dice game with realistic animations of dropping dice a video game?)
Respectfully, the indiscriminate killing we have seen so far - while awful - does not even remotely hold a candle to what happened in Syria.

They are clearly pulling their punches, likely because of the ethnic/racial dynamics of this conflict.
I believe they were working under the assumption it would be a walk in the park, once the central government was captured or killed.

To strengthen this assumption here's a canned article which was likely meant to be published had things gone according to plan, but pulled, since they hadn't.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220226224717/https://ria.ru/20...

RIA is a state owned news agency.

Why precisely they thought they'd meet no serious opposition in their attempted airdrop near Kyiv is anyone's guess. Mine is that Putin started believing his own tales about Nazis taking Ukraine hostage, assuming the populace is dying to be liberated from them.

Things crumbled once this met a different reality on the ground, and now they're trying to raise the stakes, and have become desperate enough to begin indiscriminately shelling population centres, Kharkiv most notably.
I don't get it and I don't see this being positive for me as a customer of Bandcamp, which is the only place I buy music online from.

Now if they can finally make the Android app a decent music player I'll revise my judgment :)
I'm not sure if that makes sense. The goal is not to shoot aircraft down, the goal is to prevent them from coming in the first place.

Wouldn't you want to disclose the hell out of your extremely effective anti-aircraft weapons so you don't have to use them as much? Obviously not the positioning or numbers but just that you have them...
Look closely at 0:04 and you can see the armored vehicle under tow, though, in the molotov video.
Tim Dillon had a Ukrainian comedian call in to his podcast who made the quip, yes we are family, but families can hate each other even more than strangers.
So "broken" -> "mismanaged".
>> If you write C and don't know how to cross compile your code you shouldn't be writing it.

It would be great if GCC supported all target architectures out of the box, but what would be needed for multiple OS/platform support?
The War in Ukraine in American Context
Zola [1] was created exactly for this reason. It even says so in the Readme. The templates are based on Jinja though, not mako. They also claim that their CLI is intuitive and documentation is good. I certainly found it more comprehensible than Hugo's.

[1] https://www.getzola.org/
Similar things have happened before
I use all three and Epic is by far the worse software. Their platform requires root access on machines. It starts up when I don’t want it. It acts like malware. It also pegs my cpu at 100% at unpredictable times and download lots of data.

It’s good that someone is fighting Apple and Steam, but I wish some better company would enter the fight. As it is now, I’d be sad if Epic won.
There's around 40 million people that might have a problem with that.
Visiting a website by a European in Europe does not require IP address to be exposed to US soil, right?
Using the web at all is your problem there.

If that's your targeted usecase, send an exe on a thumb drive, and get them to call you back over the phone
Turbo is making your site an SPA, and hiding the implementation details from you

That's not what the article was about (it was very clearly advocating for the standard browser flow)
Users do stupid things regardless of the implementation. The extra work to implement a SPA is worth it because you can swap material in and out on demand without constructing a complete new web page.

100% disagree with OP.
Is part-time teenager labor the same as low skilled labor? In general but also more specifically to the time period you were referencing?

While teenagers generally have low experience, some of them are have the ability to perform at a level above low skill and are able to follow complex instructions. Look at any of them in more advanced classes who are performing academics at a level beyond what would qualify as low skill. These could've been the teenager running the machines at those mom and pop shops of yesteryear.

It does lead me to question where are they working now and why not at McDonald's. Given a moment of thought I've already generated a number of hypothesis that might explain it, but I'm too lacking in relevant data to narrow them down.
Not seeing an issue, Steam can just drop Bungie for TOS violations.
That video player didn't work for some reason.
Has the use of thermobarics been confirmed? I know they were spotted in the area and there was an explosion in Kharkiv, but it could have been gas pipelines that were hit, and I've also see that explaination for the explosion videos.
This was echoed in a recent interview with Ken Griffin [1]. Even for Democrats such as myself, when Griffin speaks, people listen.

[1] - https://youtu.be/AyEORjgaaNc
This is downvoted, but I fully agree with this. As hard as difficult it is to imagine for some Americans, it is more then just plausible for Russia to seek "reclaiming historical territory and past glory, national glory, and creation of a grand ethno-national state angle". Neither Russia nor the rest of Eastern Europe are purely reactive to what USA does. People in those countries have own history, own myths and own motivations.

It is even openly in Putins own propaganda.