skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that NATO's expansion east is what pushed Russia to invade Ukraine is frankly ridiculous. I can see how it's problematic for them, and they did bring it up before the invasion, but that was mainly more lies, the war had already been planned and decided months ago.

Putin has said that Ukraine is a historical mistake, and laments the dissolution of the Soviet union. This war is because he want's to create a larger Russian empire, not a preemptive strike for self defense.
It’s not just efficiency. Super long lasting incandescent are also very dim and very red.

Many (most?) people preferred both more light and a less extremely warm color temperature.
Also read about the saga of creating the Keyboardio 01:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01...

They went through hell to get it manufactured. Shady companies, the whole nine yards!
Bitter BharatPe feud worries India's booming startups
Yes, this time it's a stuff shortage, not an oversupply of money. But the central bank still wants to raise rates, which is silly. The current prices and shortages are a result of longstanding policy, just not monetary policy.
This is ridiculous action from visa and mastercard. Goverment make taking more than 10k $ cash abroad illegal and another strike come from payment systems.

Whats the plan, do they want to trap most talented and qualified specialists from Russia here? And cut off any oppotunity for us to make world better in tech companies across the world? This make relocation extremely hard!

Corporations’ actions are very questionable. No one inside Russia will notice the effect, only those who relocates.

This already provoked mass cash withdrawal by people in Georgia and Armenia. No one benefit from this
All of Southern Ontario really; prices in Midland, Owen Sound, etc. etc. are all much higher.
For what it’s worth, I live in a no-income tax state (Tennessee). I didn’t move here, I just grew up here. We have some of the lowest property taxes in the country for metropolitan areas: I pay around $2,500/yr in property taxes for my home within the city limits of Nashville.

The downside is that the city has very little income for infrastructure improvement/upkeep and education.
Yeah well so its 2022 and we have another house bubble at least as big as the one in 2007. And oil prices are sky-rocketing. Do the math. I do not know about you but I am not buying property in this market. Market is meant to crash if we follow the logic from this article. But I could be wrong. Do not take my advice
It depends entirely on the item (and how it is manufactured) and the number of units you plan to sell.

There is quite clearly a difference between selling 100 items that are designed to be simple enough for you to manufacture in your garage, to selling 10,000 items which require injection moulding, custom PCBs long assembly steps, finishing, QC/testing, certification etc, are clearly two completely different challenges.

But the first step is to build a prototype that people want, and then think about how you can make it easy for yourself to assemble (because chances are that will also make it easier for someone else to assemble).
It's not just the boilerplate, but also seemingly noncensical things like stypes.
You say "government prints tons of money" like that goes to the people and not to the corporations.

See, inflation would not be a problem if wages kept up with rising prices. But they do not? Why? Because profit and stock buybacks. Corporation are not paying you a fair wage based on the cheapness of the money they can get from the fed. Instead of keeping profit stable they aim at not raising your salary and keeping that profit so their company looks better and their stock price goes up.

I guess you still believe in trickle down economics?
It’s useful to know what some people are fed and what the source of “their” opinions may be.

It’s also useful to see what overdone propaganda is like to have a solid reference point for when our own countries try to do the same.
Right, it’s owned by a financial elite who also have control over the state. In China and Russia, there’s a managerial class who run the state and have control over the financial elite.
If I were them I'd be up on IRC buying crypto at a premium. And that appears to be happening.
I used to be extremely privacy focused. I was the stereotypical noscript, don't load email remote content, all services off on phone, etc kind of guy. But recently at a certain point, I just stopped caring. I use ad blockers, so what harm is there to Google knowing my information?

I don't really have any information worth hiding. Even the worst case catostrophic leak scenarios are really not a big deal for me. So I just decided to stop making my life harder; I got a smartphone, I turned on the convenience services that track me, I started looking at pictures in my emails. I still think privacy is important, but I stopped caring about mine.
It can't be discharged through bankruptcy (thanks Joe!), but neither can we squeeze blood from stone. Debtors who don't have the funds to both eat and make their payments will not make their payments.
Title should be Russia to legalize software piracy of countries supporting sanctions.
Ukraine is in fact in war, and it was not NATOs push eastward that forced Russia into war. So they're not at all the same.
21 Compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes (2019) [pdf]
> In the hardware-lite case, you're basically starting a software company that needs to set up a supply chain for a few parts, built by others, which provides the most cost-effective platform for your software to run on. You might then package that up, brand it, and sell it. This can be relatively capital nonintensive.

True to a point.

Beware that even if you're putting your software on to someone else's hardware, it is ultimately you who becomes the "manufacturer" in the eyes of the consumer and the law.

So if your batch of Widgets that you bought from XYZ suddenly start setting fire to people's houses, that falls on your doorstep (yes you may have an upstream claim against the actual OEM, but it is you who will be responsible to the end users).

Similarly if you're getting involved in safety critical stuff, then buying OEM hardware will only take you so far. Regulatory approval for the final package will still be on your watch and your tab.
Maybe! I was actually considering saying I was from NY just to not make anyone think of a "Joisey" accent. I grew up in the suburbs which means a close tie to NYC despite the distance. And Jersey City being right across the river from NY certainly takes influence from there.
> Democratically elected and populous forceful overthrow are the same thing

Does that also apply if the "populous forceful overthrow" is being directed by foreign powers?[0][1][2]

[0] It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-...

[2] How William Hague Deceived the House of Commons on Ukraine
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-morrison/ukraine-will...
When did the governments stop printing tons of money?
so what you are saying is you are in favor of trickle-down economics? - where people who make $300K+ a year, buy government subsidized Tesla's, and somehow, somewhere, the poor single mother who now has decide between filling her car to get to work, and buying food - will somehow benefit from wealthy tech-bros driving $100K cars.
Not just lack of updates. It’s also a vector for distributing exploits. Encouraging piracy while the country is under intense cyber attack seems like a risky move.
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They speculate that the harmful component of e-readers is the blue-shifted illumination. I’d be curious if newer e-readers with temperature controllable backlights set to “warm” mitigates some of this sleep harm
Most of the value may be in the software for sure, but TinyPilot is a KVM (I had to look it up; knew I recognised it from somewhere but couldn't think what it was. Think I saw Jeff Geerling review it.) so there's hardware involved, inventory, a product to ship.
I wrote a short blog post about this: https://www.uxwizz.com/blog/self-hosted-analytics-gdpr-frien...

This quote from the GDPR law is more relevant to your question:

> If the controller has the legal option to oblige the provider to hand over additional information which enable him to identify the user behind the IP address, this is also personal data. In addition, one must note that personal data need not be objective.
It's also exhausting when there are centers manufacturing bullshit on an industrial scale. It's simply easier to manufacture lies than to track down the truth. I don't think the correct answer is the repression of lies, or certainly not in the long term. But fighting for truth without giving up freedom is not easy.
Here's the key difference between the West and Russia - when people in the West peacefully protest the actions of their government they're not typically jailed. No one is arguing the West is perfect, however the West adopted something akin to the scientific method so that things can get better. Case in point - we're talking about this. Many in the West are looking at this situation and asking what would we do if the roles were reversed or what are we doing that may appear to be similar to what Russia is doing. Free countries have the freedom to improve.
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I have used “riddled with problems” and “riddled with security holes” to talk about other software than flash.

I just googled the phrase:

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252512175/Investigators-...

https://blog.avast.com/aws-freertos-riddled-with-security-vu...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hola-vpn-still-riddled-with-se...

https://securityinfive.com/episode-659-tiktok-riddled-with-s...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2490527/many-antivirus...

It’s a common phrase, not a conspiracy.
> most russians (and more importantly russians abroad) are presented with the same tired old propaganda they always did

I'm going to be thát guy; do you have sources to support that claim? I've been hearing about that sentiment but haven't seen any data about it.
Is this why they invaded Georgia in 2008?. Russia sure as a habit of invading former soviet states them claiming some rubbish as a justification why.
By bogging down anyone involved with the project (even if the involvement itself doesn't infringe on anything, like a links-only page) with costly and time-consuming investigation.
Well, in reality nobody can trust any security guarantee from any one else.
Russia was promised no NATO expansion when the Warsaw Pact was terminated.
And the reason for the commit was to have 'nicer code'. The code was working perfectly fine before someone decided it was not nice enough?
The original seems to have been designed with different goals in mind. I have no doubt that the new ux better optimized their new goals, I just don’t agree that the new goals were as useful to me personally.
I'd advocate for these tech corporations to pay dividend to the state and distribute that as social benefits to reduce income gaps between professions. The idea that software developers are underpaid is very laughable, we are paid more than medical doctors who literally save lives.

[*] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21298919/andrew-yang-big-...
I wonder that too.

It has been said that you should never draw your pistol unless you are going to shoot. I don't know if that's true; but I do think it's unwise to threaten violence unless you are quite sure you are prepared to carry through.

I think Putin is prepared to carry through (he's made the threat more than once). Russia seems to be losing in Ukraine; but they can't be seen to be slinking away with their tail between their legs. So I think there's a good chance Russia will pop a tactical nuke in Ukraine.

For the same reasons, NATO can't be seen to tolerate the popping of tactical nukes in a regional conflict; they would have to retaliate, for fear that their nuclear deterrent be treated as a joke. I haven't any idea how NATO might select their target, though; striking a city would be gross over-reaction, and striking Russians in Ukraine would be rather counterproductive.
Not everyone is a paid shill. Lots of tech people are Russians and/or from Russia and support the war in Ukraine. Independent polling shows that the majority of people in Russia support the war, including the majority of the highly educated.
> I would say that Putin's chest thumping at other countries is just intended to make the western world feel relieved when only Ukraine gets conquered, but I feel that's coming from the same optimistic-rational place as the idea that there wasn't going to be a full scale invasion in the first place.

Yes and no: It's true for now, but it will turn out to have been optimistic when he takes the next one[1].

Wonder how long the West is going to go on falling for it? Until he dies of natural causes, at far too high an age[2], or well beyond -- when an equally Stalinesque / Hitleresque successor is firmly ensconced and keeps on doing it?

___

[1]: And the next, and the next, and...

[2]: That is, anything above about fifty.
I am from Romania, our constitution is mostly based on France if I am not mistaken, maybe you can translate this https://www.lighthousecommunications.ro/blog/tot-ce-trebuie-...

there is the obligation that if you presented false acuzations(not opinions) about someone you are forced to give this person the right to present his defense, also the editors of the news are responsible for the things they published.

So you are not forced to invite both sides when presenting general news, this is the journalist code though, to always ask the other side for a comment.

I remember about this TV channel that was a pile of shit and got tons of fines and finally was closed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTV_(Romanian_TV_channel)
In the EU, the DACIA Spring is sold at 20 to 18k€ before all the government credits. You can get this urban electric car for less than 12k€ with the government credits.

Yes this is a very simple car, but this is now less expensive than a similar gasoline car.
So it is western media but from a Russian POV
Copy-paste of a comment from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfArW6zppYw

Here’s the situation and the order of events that led to this invasion:

Pro-Russian government was in power pre-2014.

Violent coup overthrew the government in 2014 and installed a pro western, anti Russian government.

This caused the mostly ethnic Russian region of Donbass to declare independence and break away from Ukraine, resulting in war.

Russia tacitly supported them, but did not recognise them.

The Minsk Accords was supposed to end the fighting in 2015, but Ukraine has not lived up to the agreement.

Ukraine has been shelling and bombing the region on and off for 8 years now.

Putin finally decided enough is enough and recognised the region as independent.

He sent troops into the area to protect it and his invasion of Ukraine is meant to destroy the Ukrainian military to prevent them from attacking Donbass.

Now its up to you whether you think Putin is sincere or he's just using it as an excuse to grab Ukrainian territory. Geopolitics is complicated and believing anyone is innocent in geopolitics is ludicrous at best.
right is generally not less than left in the context of a binary search.
RT reported about ukrainian army crucifying a child in Donbas in 2014 which literally caused some people in Russia to volunteer as fighters and cross the border with intention to kill ukrainians.

No, RT should be banned and every person working for it should be jailed for life.

Freedom of speech is not freedom of inciting violence and hatred.

Edit: here, educate yourself - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucified_boy
Yeah but you can get away with pretty much anything in a construction safety vest. [0]

0. https://youtu.be/GyvRamX1VyA
It's also catastrophically self-fulfilling: it's not like the eastern NATO members joined on a whim, they worked hard to make the case for it because they knew what living next to Russia meant and didn't want to be next. The war of conquest in Ukraine has done more to encourage continued NATO expansion than everything the older members have done in decades combined.
Indeed yes, E2 was so much better in many ways than things like Wikipedia (and worse in other ways, of course).

The ability to create amusing nodeshells, or posts that were just ASCII pictures of a fish swimming from a shark ("The birth of leadership"), or poems, or in-depth analysis of some interesting idea or thing.

Everything2 was where I first made real content on the web, and was proud of what I created. Like a precursor to answers on Stack Overflow (or other SE sites).
Russia is also a known hotbed for neonazis. So is Alabama. Just because a region has small factions of race extremists it doesn’t mean they’re blowing up nuclear reactors.

But Russia’s history of false flag operations and whataboutism are so well-documented that it’s literally a textbook example. They’ve invaded Georgia and Ukraine before using the same exact lies. Putin’s history in Chechnya is also horrific. So you should trust Russia saying they’re coming to liberate someone as much as you should trust a certain other country coming to liberate someone: you shouldn’t.
Pen and paper isn't "more secure." As a voting system it's "significantly harder to commit voter fraud against at scale" and "significantly harder to commit fraud against from halfway around the world" and "significantly harder to commit fraud against without one of your conspirators ratting you out." With electronic voting, changing one vote is as easy as changing a million.
AlphaCode works by first generating many millions of programs from a large language model trained on all of github and fine-tuned on a dataset of problems like the ones it's supposed to be solving. Then, those millions of problems are reduced to several thousand, by "filtering" on input/output examples of the target problem. Finally, these many thousands of examples are further reduced by hand-crafted heuristics, clustering and ranking, that finally select k prorgams, 10 in the paper introducing AlphaCode.

This is not a practical approach. It's a maddenlingly resource-intensive approach that spams programs at an insane rate and hopes to get lucky and catch a few that solve a programming task. In the evaluations listed in the AlphaCode paper, it performs awfully against the test set of its training dataset and a pre-existing benchmark. DeepMind have drummed up their systems ability to do about as well as the average participant in a code contest, but that's no measure of coding ability.

Deep neural nets are certainly very far from automating human problem solving, like you say in your comment. Your comment is exactly the kind of overhyped misunderstanding of the state-of-the-art that the OP is warning against.
It is astounding that, in 2022, people are still throwing around simplistic, authoritative statements and providing links to articles that do not support those statements. This style of discourse has done "your side" an enormous dis-service over the past two years, and I suspect the damage is permanent. Are you relying on people not being able to fully understand the linked articles?

None of those articles lend much support to the idea that masks protect the wearer, and if anything, conclude that they do not. This makes perfect sense, as the entire efficacy of mask wearing is based on the idea that even the coarse weave of cloth can reduce the larger aerosols and droplets found at the source. (As a side note, I find even this premise shaky - you could make an equally convincing mental model of the weave of cloth masks instead acting to split larger aerosols and droplets and thus project a a finer mist. Much like squeezing jelly through a colander. )

It is also surprising that you are trying to make this point. Very little public messaging has contained the idea that masks protect yourself - it's all about protecting others.

Whether mass mask wearing achieves this outcome is another discussion entirely.
They can pay those mortgages in the moment they sign for them.

They cannot necessarily pay those mortgages after inflation screws up the rest of their month to month budget.

People always love to circle jerk about inflation "inflating away your mortgage" but that's only if you manage to hold onto it.

Wages lagging inflation will still hurt a lot of people. "Just switch jobs" doesn't work in every industry and even where it does you're gonna stagnate in terms of skill/experience due to ramp up times in new roles so you're basically borrowing from your future earning potential by doing that. <Insert ye olde quip about "10yr of experience being a junior developer vs being a senior developer" here>

Unfortunately most people who championed the bad decisions that got us here are wealthy enough to weather the storm with little more than reducing their retirement contributions.
I don't know what the deal is in Russia but in Argentina piracy is rampant but Microsoft has been ruthless and they have done stuff it would make your skin crawl.

Microsoft basically has power of police here. I don't know who they bribed or in exchange of what or how they managed to achieve this.

They go for companies, basically they send you an email and ask you about your infrastructure, licenses and tell you on X day we will be there to audit the software licenses that you are using. This is not optional, this is mandatory. You have to let them in since they will come with cops if necessary.

We have dealt with them sadly, but we are a linux only shop so we made abundtantly clear that we were going to fight until the end to make them accountable and bill them dearly for every second they spent here. After a few back and forths they decided it wasn't necessary to audit our company, probably not because of our indisposition, but because they probably realized we weren't lying and there was no money to collect here.

To add insult to injury they will use these emails to offer you Microsoft Teams. It's insane.

I cannot wish them ill enough.
I like reading Noam Chomsky‘a take because even though I often don’t fully agree, I always learn something new because his sources are pretty solid.

Especially here was the state department cable from 2004 about Russia’s concerns about Ukraine joining NATO.

One thing I do agree with him (and others obviously) is that this is a war crime. And also this attack only strengthens NATO. So it’s quite an own-goal.
Yes, thats what people doing in Turkey for example. In the end of the day it just adds a layer of complexities for those who relocate and does zero pressure on goverment, as the majority of population who stays will not notice anything