skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a bunch of more consensual opportunistic things happening, people launch “Charity tokens” all day with trading taxes built in where the tax is actually sent to Ukraine government addresses

Even the least cynical traders notice that only a fraction of a single digit percent of the money being thrown around is being sent to Ukraine, but its actually happening and people do love to flip newly launched tokens

I avoid them because they could rug (remove liquidity, or be backdoored), but otherwise they are providing an effective form of entertainment where proceeds go to charity, better than the charities are
Great to see such tools growing stronger. Writing proofs in Isabelle/Coq/... is still hard and assistance from tools like this is very much welcome.
And people still argue for appeasement...
Their government prevents them leaving too if they are male.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/02/25/russia-i...

And that people on the outside are helpful was proven in World War II were many germans fled.
> If someone is submitting purely formatting changes, he/she's just wrong and you should reject that during review.

If you add a line between two existing lines, and then insert after it a new blank line to serve as a sort of "paragraph marker", is that a "pure formatting" change?

If you add a constant in a group of constants, whose name is longer than the existing ones, do you pad the spacing of the values of those constants so they line up with one-another?

For that matter, if you fully-qualify a previously-unqualified and potentially-ambiguous identifier, is that a "pure formatting" change? Some auto-formatter tools do this, after all.

These are things that people may or may not do in code-bases, that "fly under the radar" of even the most stringent of human code-reviewers, because they're so irrelevant to understanding the code. They're "fluff." But because of this, how people introduce that fluff is essentially random, and so the cause of a lot of diff noise. These are the things that auto-formatters can "lock down" to only happen a certain way.

But I think you're missing the forest for the trees, as I mostly wasn't talking about pure formatting changes. What I'm talking about is more like:

You add a formal parameter to a function. Before, the function's clause head was less than 80 characters. Now it's more than 80 characters. Do you break the formal parameter list onto the next line? If so, how far do you indent it? Do you split the formal-parameter list up so that each parameter is now on its own line? Etc.

Done by humans with no strict standard, these sort of one-off judgements made arbitrarily will add up to "syntax rot" — not something you observe with your eyes, but a sort of "potential energy" of un-made formatting changes, that means that any given semantic change by a sufficiently-motivated human might become the impetus for a manual reformatting during that semantic change, such that that reformatting will happen at a random time, inflating a patch where affecting that additional code wasn't strictly necessary. (If you ask the programmer why they did it, they'll say they needed to "clean up the code they were working on" so that they could understand it well enough to apply the fix.) Which is horrible for both code review and merge predictability.

On the other hand, an auto-formatting tool will apply that transformation exactly when it becomes necessary; and will pick some way of formatting the additional lines and stick to it. There's no "potential energy" there. At all times, the codebase is "at rest", with no chance of anyone introducing "arbitrary" (but actually left-over) formatting changes.

Human formatting is like a sequence of DML statements in an RDBMS. Auto-formatting is like a sequence of operations against a CRDT. Given a bunch of changes run in a random order, the output of human formatters will be arbitrary, while the output of auto-formatting will be deterministic. Which is what you want, if you're doing complex things involving e.g. long-maintained stable branches for 1.x that cherry-pick changes from 2.x.
That is solved by making this branch of military the most privileged and the best paid - basically make them addicts of the regime. This makes uprooting the status quo their existential threat.
If your argument is that AI is hard to get right an slow to develop, and they we can achieve an fast easy win by doing all the things that reduce car use, I absolutely agree.

It just also sounds like you’re making the perfect the enemy of the good by holding AI to a higher standard than humans.
As I have just written in another comment:

But they were already wrong in the cited source and we had the original documents to proof that. He just wasn't willing to look at them.

To add to that - the source is a digitized out of print book that will probably never have another edition or printing.

I could start a website or create a blog post with parts of the proof documents and maybe even sound snippets from an old interview (and part of old Stasi documents as well to make the point and that to be referenced by Wikipedia as a new source.

But why would I need to go to these lengths if I could provide proof to Wikipedia more easily if they wanted and have them at least remove the wrong parts. Even if they would not include the corrected things.
I'm not a fan of his work, but he completely deserves it. He works so hard and releases so many books. Are we angry at GRRM for making millions off Game of Thrones, a series he has basically abandoned?
That's also not censorship.

Censorship is when *an individual is told by a government that they may not publish*.

A government telling another government that they can't broadcast in the first government's space is something really quite different.
You mean you don't like to contact Sales to "learn more"?!
That's not a real possibility though, the only way Ukraine will be kept down will be with continuous threats. I personally don't think he will live an hour after he sets foot into Kyiv.
This is one of those "life facts" that I wish we were taught in school, because it's potentially dangerous but doesn't seem like it. I learned about it in my 30s when a partner told me to be careful of the green sprouting potatoes I was about to cook.
No, this is nonsense. Openly discussed where? In May 2020 virologists had written an open letter that stated in no uncertain terms that anyone claiming it could have come from a lab was spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories. This in turn caused Facebook to simply ban any discussion of the possibility entirely. No journal or newspaper would publish anything about this at all.

Discussion was driven underground, which is why D.R.A.S.T.I.C. (who found most of the evidence for it) was made up of anonymous people. Chasing this story resulted in a New York Times reporter being fired; his investigation eventually had to be published on his own Medium blog and in some physics journal.

The lab leak theory was utterly and completely squashed in the public realm by nothing more substantial than a bunch of virologists saying "it wasn't us". Trying to claim it was never suppressed is an Orwellian attempt to rewrite of history.
If you look at where the money is going, it seems a mix of orgs working to create new citable sources about under-covered topics (good, and surely in line with an encyclopaedia’s mission), and orgs who are going to “study” “issues” (highly questionable value).
I don't think the grocery store picks through the bags, but they (or a directly previous step) may break open 'bad' bags, sort them, and place the remaining good potatoes on the plain-air shelf.

It's probably stored in a "controlled atmosphere" for some duration before getting to your grocery store.

> There was almost complete sprout inhibition, low weight loss and maintenance of a healthy skin for all cultivars stored in 9.4% CO2 with 3.6% O2 at 5°C for 25 weeks. When tubers from this treatment were stored for a further 20 weeks in air at 5°C the skin remained healthy and they did not sprout.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02358471

It's possible that the controlled atmosphere is held as shortly as possible (ie: some of the warehousing is just done at certain temperatures without the gas control).
No to war is also no to putin’s propaganda
Most shortages of water are caused by an inability to build and maintain infrastructure, not an inherent scarcity of water.
They were informed beforehand. He took that call from one of his cronies in order to make a point that the US is the one violating international norms, etc. by PNGing those Russian diplomats. (Which is nonsense, given the context.)
My minimal landing page (Front-end Dev Portfolio Project)
Family of Shane Warne offered state funeral as tributes to former cricketer
> Nobody is pressuring former Soviet nations into NATO. They are desperate to get in to avoid getting mauled.

Can confirm. I still remember we had a party when it was announced Poland will be in NATO.
Ask HN: Best way to give out a PDF download while tracking number of downloads
I have an academic pdf I have done, it has tips on how to solve trigonometric identities easily for ASA level students. I want to give away the pdf but I also want to track number of downloads. Which platform can I use such that people will be able to do this in browser without logging into anything.
I posted two links in a neighbor thread, I'll repeat those here:

https://www.praguemorning.cz/expressing-support-for-russia-o...

https://spravy.rtvs.sk/2022/02/za-podporu-vojnovej-propagand...

Those are European countries.

I agree that probably state of freedom of speech is worse in Russia. I agree that political diversity is basically zero in Russia and all Putin opponents are either dead, imprisoned or gone from the country. That's a terrible state of things and it must be improved. Hopefully after Putin's rule, he's not eternal after all.

And if you think that everyone in Russia is going to jail for calling it war, you're wrong. Putin himself called it war. Plenty of people called it war. This is just fear mongering. And potential reason to put in jail some people if they crossed some line. At least I think so. Just as I hope that links above are fear mongering.
I figured you need to leave them out some place with lots of light lol.
What about when Putin said Ukraine is run by Nazis and used it as an excuse for invasion?
Complacency is not a crime, true; nobody is obligated to take arms against his government, but at certain point the argument that you are but a bystander no longer works. For example if someone is dying on your watch and you won't help, you are at a minimum morally guilty. It's your government after all, you have to bear some sort of responsibility for its actions.

Same by the way applies to everybody else, USA folks included
https://archive.ph/TL9jJ
There are some nice clarifications to the problems he ran into with his DP implementation with the little skulls at the bottom of the article.
> Russia has already broken the cease-fire meant to evacuate civilians.

Russians are claiming the contrary.

https://tass.com/society/1417395
wheat does not need trust, it is not a fiat currency.
The problem is how to separate Russians fleeing Putin from Russians who just look for financial comfort and still support Putin.

One of stark examples is Turks in Germany still voting for Erdogan.
exactly. They were all fine with Putin, being Putin... since 97. Now, remote workers cannot get their salary because of the SWIFT sanction, Apple Pay stops to work and NOW suddenly it is serious?

The struggle is real (TM).
> is there anything the end user can do?

Where possible, use and support apps from smaller, independent iOS developers. I realize this only works for some categories of apps.
Do ypu recall when RUssian oligarch assets were seized in Cyprus as it was their 'carribean' money laundering banking system.

Cyprus is literally the hoard of Russian oligarchs, yet I am sure they have been divesting from Cyprus to other locales.. of which were exposed in Panama Papers..

"the bank of switzerland is seizing accounts" (lit just reported n NPR)

---

the author of the book on klepto is talking about laundering wealth via anon companies to "park" (his words) wealth in straight economies.

"there is an entire industry servicing kleptokrats from across the world"

--

Deleware being a core component t money laundering...

Kleptopia...
This is bizarre and doesn't even achieve the stated objectives.

The "we must do something!" mentality at work.
There are only so many jails, temporary detention facilities, and judges to give the verdicts.
In other words, they're probably processed soon after harvest and don't have these issues when frozen.
Russia to Legalize Software Piracy
You're doing it wrong ;)
Potatoes will sprout if they are in higher temperatures and they are in the dark.

Keep them in the fridge or in the light
They use sprout inhibitors on large scale potato growing, which are effective in my area (we can keep most potatoes for over a month before there are any sprouts). If you tend to buy from farmers markets, there is a greater chance of them not using inhibitors.

Depending on where you live, they can be in transit for a long period, or you may be in an area that has natural pressures for sprouting.

Short note on sprout inhibitors: https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/10/agricultur....
It is a lot eaiser to make an interface and throw a mocking framework at it. I've been thinking of similar ideas for a while, but implementing them is hard so I never tried it.
Open-Source Cola
Latin and English script share common ancestry and really are not that different. Likewise people don’t suggest to French and Germans to not use umlauts and accentuation, even though the characters are different.
AFAIU this applies only to Russian airlines because their leased planes can be confiscated abroad. But e.g. Turkish airlines can still fly.
It's going to get a lot messier.
I've worked in a McDonalds. My experience is outdated by a few years, but I don't think I ever once saw real food prep happening in store. Every ingredient is processed at the factory, sealed up and shipped to the store with timestamps and dates for when it expires and should no longer be used. Even the cookies arrive partially baked, with the store doing a minimal final round of heating, all for efficiency. The store workers are basically just doing final assembly for the vast majority of products, and the fries are certainly no exception.
I guess I still don't understand it. (And my apologies for coming across like I was trying to pick a fight)

What does it mean that I can currently use it with my existing homeserver? The architectures for some of these federated systems can be difficult to understand, I feel like I didn't really understand what _Matrix_ was until I tried running my own homeserver.
Oh, it's good to know that. Maybe Russia could get away with the invasion without sanctions just letting his people protest against the war. No matter if the outcome of the war is the same, or if Putin is elected again (as happened with George W. Bush in the US).
It's the other way around. The problem with the natural development theory is there's no evidence for it. Meanwhile lots of evidence was discovered and collected by internet based investigators. At this point the overwhelming preponderance of evidence supports the idea that it came from the Wuhan lab.

"The market theory was always more likely and more dooming for China, though"

No, the most likely possibility from day 1 was that a novel coronavirus emerging right next to a lab doing experiments on novel coronaviruses came from that lab. It was always nonsensical to claim otherwise.
Putin has popular support, and there's no evidence that Russians are against the war. This sort of argument is about as intellectually dishonest as saying Trump didn't represent the US. Factually, he did. A small minority fleeing the country isn't evidence that everyone opposes the country's leadership, and most of the anecdotes from Russians are about avoiding personal involvement - the fear is of being drafted into the war.

edit: I know this is an unpopular point, but there is just zero basis for saying that Putin isn't supported by his country. He absolutely is, which makes the situation much more complicated.
This is exactly wrong. Crypto is fairly easy to make worthless. Ads are impossible to make worthless.
Exactly. Altitude improves visibility and gives humans (wizards included) improved perspective. The view from the top of a ziggurat, Mayan temple, wizard's tower gives the viewer perspective over their domain while also allowing them unimpeded access to the sky so they can keep calendars, predicting the seasons and astronomical phenomenon like eclipses, or even see a storm coming before anyone else.
The number of people who can flee and are able and/or willing to do it must be a tiny percentage, no? Among those, many may also be privileged in certain ways to actually do it.

I wonder how those who are left behind (or stay behind) may react. This whole situation is very messy, and it’s difficult (for me) to see how this will shape up, when the conflict will end, and at what cost.
There is an active army unit that flies a Nazi flag in eastern Ukraine. I think vice did a thing on them a few years ago.
Saw videos of them kicking black people off a bus so white Ukrainians could escape.

That gets half credit. I’m curious what else people have seen.
I suppose that all makes sense, and what to me seems like a simple "Look at x-ray, and tell me if you see a broken bone" operation may be more complicated than I am imagining. But I still have a hard to shake feeling that there has to be something better than "Start a whole new workflow with another doctor within the same system, beginning with an in person appointment".
A Taxonomy of Technology Partnerships
Ask HN: Print form nature and culture mags?
Other than NatGeo.
Well, that was fast. If you can't buy something steal it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417869/

In haven't done the math myself but my understanding from a summary I read (back can't find now of course) is that you'd have to eat an absurd amount of green potatoes (specificly the skins) to get near the dose required for ill effects. Don't feed a child or a dog a bag of green potatoes and if you're worried about inflammation yourself, just peel the potato.
Reason.com (libertarian rather than conservative, but thought is multi-axis anyway)
realclearpolitics.com (they are an aggregator, but host some of their own content at well that leans right)
nationalinterest.org
wsj.com
www.theamericanconservative.com

Faith affiliated:

thetablet.org
Deseret.com
tabletmag.com

And this site appears to exist to aggregate quality news from every angle:

https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
Did you backup the 'seed' QR-CODE somewhere safe? If you lose access to Google Authenticator, you lose the ability to use OTP for access.
was Iraq a pacifist country? BTW Ukraine is invaded since 2014, so the War is happening since 2014. Putin just brought it to a larger scale after to believe that EU and USA were weaker after pandemics and Afghanistan.
>> Your picture is not of a destroyed wheat field, so what is your point?
Everything in the linked story claims that wheat shortages are due to short-term disruption, not productive capacity having been destroyed.

Wheat fields don't harvest themselves. Wheat can't drive itself to ports and load itself on ships. It requires people and infrastructure. The war has disrupted those people and the country's infrastructure. It does not magically return when the war ends.

>> You don’t need to trust someone in order to buy wheat from them.

Yes, but when given the choice many people choose not to do business with murderous criminal thugs. If someone killed your family members or friends would you buy grain from them? Or would you pay more and buy grain from someone else?

>> And there’s no reason to believe the sanctions would last for years or decades if Putin were deposed and Russia’s aggressive actions stopped.

Who knows? That has not happened yet.
Yeah, count me out. This is the world we used to live in when all we had was jQuery. It was miserable and no medium blog will ever convince me to pine for those days.
According to polls, even run by West outlets, Russians do support Putin in big numbers.
I believe at that point it's up to the lawyers to argue. It's up to persons with people skills to convince other people that something is not fake, using tools like these as assistance, not as clinchers.
I think also in the days before garbage collection and sewer/water management, being above the ground level had perks. Being high above the fray is still a luxury that denotes status.
I'm 100% against the war, but the American hypocrisy here is next level.

This isn't an ethnic genocide. Had Putin wanted to kill civilians you wouldn't have 100s of deaths but millions like in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just like the US he is looking to overturn the government.

The reality is that some people in Ukraine (Donbas and large portion of the East) do support Russia. Truth is never black and white.
There wouldn’t be stairs to the upper quarters, just a ladder that gets pulled up. Even wizards need to sleep.
A friend of the family will absolutely refuse to eat chicken on the bone. When my wife was visiting recently, the grocery store was out of boneless chicken pieces, so she bought bone-in thighs instead. Our friend was horrified until my wife said she was planning on deboning them. Very strange mindset.

I grew up eating chicken on the bone, and it was just understood that you eat around the gristly bits. I guess eating nothing but nuggets and tenders warps your sense of what food is.
A) USDC can freeze individual addresses. So can USDT. Alternative stablecoins like DAI and MIM cannot.

B) Opening the visa card will have the same consternation as any bank. You’ll need to start transacting more in the stablecoin, until banking partners are found.
> I store them in a paper bag

Does the bag have lots of holes? There needs to be lots of ventilation. You can also use a mesh net bag (the same bag bunches of onions come in) or just mound them in a bowl. Wash and scrub them before use.

> in my laundry room

Put a hygrometer in that room (you can buy a pack of 20 little battery-powered hygrometers from Amazon for $10). If the humidity is above 50, it's too humid. If you don't have another dark dry room, you can put a dessicant in the room to absorb humidity.
I have always been amazed that there is not an org that specifically seeks to scuttle super yachts.

Bezos $500 million dollar yacht is an example (dismantle a bridge to get the yacht through, where is the talk about re-mantleing said bridge, did it make it better? Stronger? Refresh components?)

Regardless, if youre issues' require actions against, mega yachts should be target #1.
>In the spirit of adult conversation: 1990s enlargement of NATO was and is 90%+ popular in these countries. Exactly because we knew Russia will at some point try to recreate USSR/Tzar Russia/whatever the new name is. Russian elites think they have "the right" to govern these lands (go read Dugin if you disagree). And Russian government after fall of USSR means limited democracy at best, authoritarian government most likely, totalitarianism at worst.

It's kind of interesting that a lot of young western politicians and intellectuals don't realize that the elites and rulers of Russia didn't magically disappear after the collapse of the USSR. They were still there, under different official names and titles. Which is why everyone was so fucking skeptical.
This is the exact same response you'd get if it had everything to do with censorship.
https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge

https://www.gwern.net/index