skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true but then again, it is designed to be used automated afaik may be thats why it became instant hit among developers.
There are services like ZeroSSL which would be a better fit for average user.
>it is not needed to clear all your browser cookies

In Firefox, Right click > Inspect > Storage > Cookies

You can see that site's cookies and delete the ones you want manually. I hate clearing all of my browser cookies
Yes, which is why if you have captured enemy vehicles (as apparently Ukraine have done) it becomes much easier to do.
> Outsourcing all of that logic to a centralized (ex google blockchain) or decentralized blockchain and wallet just seems like a more scalable (num of actors not tps) approach with a low barrier for entry for each individual actor.

I do think for this to make sense you'd have to have, you know, one blockchain everyone used otherwise you still have the "10 app stores" problem, no?
"lingua franca" does not mean French, if that's what you're implying. It originally referred to a trade language used by Italians.
> You can even spin up your own sources and serve whatever you want,a right not afforded the average Chinese citizen.

It's difficult when the backbone of the internet isn't available to you. For instance, AWS can be denied cutting off vital internet infrastructure we take for granted. Further payment processors like Visa can cut off access. Even banks could cut you off and even seize your funds if they got the directive.

You can spin your own service is a nice fiction we tell ourselves but with financing getting cut off it becomes impossible to build a service that reaches a lot of people without a lot of money and a disregard for profit.

In China maybe someone would come knocking on the door to take you away to jail. But in the US, we don't need to go that far. All it would take is the press secretary telling big tech they need to help fight "misinformation" and pointing them in the right direction.
Couldn't care less.

I have an Oculus Quest, there's currently only one app on it I use (Wander) and sometimes I try to dip my toes into VR development. I like VR, although I think its potential is vastly oversold. It's only going to succeed to the degree that Facebook can force it to.
> TIVO has had the ability to skip ads for about 20 years now IIRC.

Does TIVO skip automatically, though? I know that when Dish tried to do that in 2015, the TV networks sued. Don't remember who won, but I'd personally be somewhat sympathetic to the TV networks.

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It's not about you. Websites are selling a product for a price; you're jumping the turnstile and saying it's okay because the fare was too high anyway. By all means, don't visit websites with overly intrusive ads, let the the price and demand curves even themselves out.

Or, if you do block ads—because I get it, the world is imperfect—at least acknowledge that what you're doing isn't entirely ethical or fair, and stop encouraging others to do the same.

This is usually a topic I try to avoid on HN because it feels like such a loosing battle, but somehow I walked into this one. :)
We don't do prior restraint on speech in the U.S. Only if there's an imminent threat of violence (and that imminence is not interpreted liberally) do we allow the government to stop a speaker. If speech eventually leads to violence, we expect law enforcement to deal with it, and there can be consequences after the fact, but not before.
I’ll be more blunt about it: cultivating emotionality is a disservice, especially to the most disadvantaged. Being offended doesn’t serve you at all; it’s a merely feeling that makes you easier to exploit.
I sense the goal isn’t to change anyone’s mind from “the election was stolen” to “the election was fair”. Rather, it serves to enforce the notion that believing the former is considered unacceptable.
Not incompetent, but not expendable, as in military command feeling it is better for their careers if they don't send powerful people's kids to die.

Why are you so hung up on defending Russia?
Anyone surprised. Russia may look like a big scary country on the map, but keep in mind they have roughly the same GDP as the state of FLORIDA. Its why they were once described as a gas station with nukes. The nukes are the only thing really scary about Russia, otherwise they are a turning out to be a paper Tiger. In fact if they didnt have nukes I would think other border countries in the east coughChinacough wouldn't hesitate to take their land. If the reports that they tricked their own troops into thinking it was just going to be an exercise (cant tell if thats just propaganda) then ordered them into Ukraine, and the fact that their convoy outside Kiev is totally FUBAR as far as resupply, we are looking at a major blunder here. Why wouldn't you show strong airpower competence to scare the west. I think others are right, this whole thing was likely planned at the top, didnt involve all the competent people it should, and now Putin is looking visibly pissed in his state broadcasts. Authoritarianism doesn't breed competence, its breeds yes men and ass kissers and kelptos and thugs right up until the poopees hit the fan. I think behind the scenes Russia is having a huge crisis of competence.
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I first got glasses as a kid when I was about -1 diopter nearsighted. In the long term it stabilized at about -4.5 and then, of course, with age, the focusing ability went away. Now I wear a weakened prescription for working at the computer that leaves me... about -1 diopter nearsighted. And I'm totally used to keeping those glasses on all the time around the house and (memory is fading!) the office. Sort of come full circle. I do have to switch to normal glasses for driving, of course.

But yes, getting dedicated glasses for the distance at which I use a computer screen was a complete game changer. No compromise, just good vision. With mail-order outfits (Zenni in my case) you can experiment... I ordered glasses weakened by -1, -1.25 and -1.5 diopters and just picked my favourites.
UN ambassador: Russian forces are approaching Ukraine's 2nd-largest nuclear site
Will advanced reactors solve nuclear’s problems?
i listened to interview with leading Ukrainian journalist/analyst a couple of days ago. Apparently Ukraine got intel about time of attack and possible targets so when cruise missiles were flying to take out targets, most of functioning planes were in the air and everything that wasn't stationary (like mobile air defense systems) were moved to different locations
Right. I'd wager the wealth inequality is going to vacate the middle managers
The bond holders aren’t dumb. Presumably a contingency like this was more or less what they had in mind.
You might need to update your heuristics, because most kids these days haven't watched a show that ended almost a decade ago.
This might be a dumb question but… where are all of those soldiers expected to sleep? In the vehicles and/or outside in the freezing cold? How does that work? The logistics of feeding, housing, and bathroom needs, etc. for 40 miles of people.
This seems unlikely. Ethnic groups are cultures, much more than associations of genes. African-Americans are ~80% West African ~20% British by ancestry but there’s a lot more British in their culture than West African. Absent Indian jati style strict endogamy genetic distinctiveness will disappear quickly even with low levels of exogamy. Jatis in the same village have levels of genetic distance similar to Sweden-Sicily. Those are people whose last common ancestor was 1000-1500 years ago. There’s nothing like that anywhere in Europe.

East Anglia is the English region with highest modern Germanic ancestry, 30%. Samples from graves from Anglo-Saxon invasions suggest almost 100% population replacement. That’s consistent with panmixia.

As to red hair, attitudes change quickly. Kick a ginger day started with South Park.
Let be real here. It's very likely the former guy may run again. You may be against that, as would I. But I think its pretty creepy that a handful of large tech CEOs will be able to get together and prevent that from happening by shutting him off from every social media platform and biasing search results, even so far as censoring our private communications via FB messenger, email or similar chat apps.

You want to argue he did something illegal, should be in prison, should not be allowed to run? Fine, that's what the court system and respective political parties are for. But please don't tell me it's completely cool that tech CEOs get to decide who can and can't run. You may like the side they fall on this time, but how confident are you that you'll agree in the future? What if leadership changes? What do you think would happen when a politician has a credible shot of winning on a promise to break them up?
There's a typo on the pie chart on your homepage - the title says "Gobal" instead of "Global".
Sad that they decided to start "choosing what content to host" after everyone has become dependent on it. It's the bait and switch.
I think: It’s not for the average Hacker News commenter. It’s probably not for people who are currently in their 30s and older. It will become something for the people who are currently in their teens or younger, who aren’t really interested in the web and social media of their parents generation.

Basically: You’re not going to get good metaverse hot takes on HN. You’re mostly going to get blanket dismissals from people who aren’t the target audience anyway.
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I'd say more security theatre than security
> I think we can all agree that new first world generations are on the extreme side of the spectre of emotions and would benefit from leaning to the opposite side a bit.

"We all" find our opinions are unwelcome on the internet when we say things like that.
Negative Utilitarianism
Catholicism, however, changed the focus away from judgement based on what you did towards judgement based on what you believe. I don't know too much about Orthodox Christianity, but I have some vague sense that it is even more focused on belief (and piety) than on the notion of good work being the path to heaven.
Got very intersted, then lost interest because I couldn't reload and get a new number when I was sure I had taken the wrong path. Is there a feature to start again from a new random number?
> I'm not going to give them any improvement suggestions.

They were desperate to read those. /s
Just finished 13 months at my new startup employer from USA. Personal time imbalance has been a polite and cold confrontation often and I simply never budged. So much that I’ve got “that reputation” here. It’s just around 400 people across the world.

Delivered my work really well. Was rated 4 out of 5 - 5 being best. No one even mentioned that part of my decision. I am fiercely professional and diligent about my work and product I own in my work hours just like I am fiercely protective of my personal time.

And yes, maybe they need me, maybe they will aks me to leave, maybe they’ll PIP me (that’d ne ridiculous though), something else.

But I’ll not budge. That simple.

With that short incomplete sentence what you’re trying to say is - and I won’t point directly at you, I’ll just try to expand/translate - one is afraid of losing the job and actually more afraid of getting another one, one is afraid of not getting that high a salary, loans/EMIs, etc. You may be right. Or that it’s just like that everywhere (this is not true at all).

So like everything else in life nothing comes free and without risk.
when the overtime is included why not push it to the limit? i once had a contract where deployments were shit shows every other weekend. i signed up for every single one...

on more than a handful of occasions i was able to bill 20 hours over overtime at 2x rate for simply being 'available' meaning my phone was on mute in a deployment support conference call.

they happily paid and i happily pretended to care about their product.
This going from zero to fascism in ten seconds flat is exactly the type of mindset OP is rightly criticizing.
What about the very subject of this thread?
Not a view worth keeping around?
Better Never to Have Been
You are right to zoom in. But the basic culture abd repeat pattern of Russia and chinese empire is astonishing as well. It might not be used to explain Air Force but the general picture is still there.

For this round, expanding an empire just be force is odd, except for Mongolian empire. Usually you start with soft bit. Seems this round is very Mongolian.
Teflon is toxic when vaporized (>300°C). Solid teflon is nontoxic.
Against government authoritarians.

You have no shield against private oligopolies.
Yandex was back then giving FSB info on people donating to opposition.
Because then Google (YouTube) would force the competing app off the Google (Android) App Store for not meeting Google's (YouTube) own censorship policies.
Putting my Matt Levine hat on: was the invasion of Ukraine securities fraud?
If this triggers popups/modals in the app again: Signal outage incoming (due to overload).
I made no claim about the relative morality of piracy vs. license violations.

But I will note that you are (by using the framing of "stealing") implying that piracy results in lost sales, which is largely not the case, except possibly for the most popular works. See "Piracy is Progressive Taxation":

https://www.oreilly.com/content/piracy-is-progressive-taxati...
I've been postulating that last week, when biden was briefed on his "cyber options", that a devastating cyber attack similar to NotPetya took the Russian Air force offline.
Don't spread this nonsense.
The idea of a free and open Internet should undergird any individual conflict.
> that new first world generations

What do you mean by this?
Optics vs. Lenses, Operationally
It reminds me of a firewall joke, you use an American firewall to protect against the Russian backdoors, then a Russian firewall to protect against the American backdoors, and so on.
Ethanol produced by fermentation also contains impurities and methanol. The FDA/ATF say in the link that the majority of vinegar and alcohol used in food cone from synthetic sources.
I remember typing in the animation routine that bounces a ball once at the bottom of the screen. The ball was so bright and glowing.
Ukraine is a free country, not Russian vassal state only for 8 years, during which of has been sabotaged by Russia by the war in Donbass.
Patience, patience. Don't worry, we'll get there. Very likely sooner rather than later.
I think we're on the same page - I was referring to Bitcoin's algorithm giving you arbitrarily low failure probability, not the OP's paper.
You are right it didn't start yesterday. Over the years Putin slowly but surely took control over all main media and news sources and the country let him with little to no resistance, but today it is too late. The remaining liberal channels were shut down this week.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-prosecutors-dem...
It’s a feature by now, that successive versions of the system are actually built around and upon.

Like “rocket jumping” in FPS games: Moving ahead by harming yourself, hah
passwords get leaked more than cracked. this article is dumb
Well, my dad tells stories of their "self driving wagon". Take the wagon (or sled in the winter) in to town, do a bit of shopping (or picking up mail order goods) and head home in the evening. The horse knew the way home (in the dark even). I'm hoping some day to have a car as smart as my dads horse. :-)
they are running not out of supplies but also out of equipment. somebody filmed a train full of whatever was state of art 40 years ago at Khabarovsk yesterday. it's 9000km away. https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1499383504265785353

And with regards to supplies, yesterday, accidentally, due to electrical short in car (official version) blew up russian ammo depot in kursk region...https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1499761900959289347
On second thought, this theory of complacency on the European Plains makes even less sense when one considers the invasions that Russia/Soviet Union had to fight back in the 20th century. The border with the rest of Europe is hell to defend—it’s basically anti-Switzerland.

And in that light the historical line that is being drawn makes even less sense.

> Why are you so hung up on defending Russia?

It’s revealing that you frame or interpret this discussion as being about either attacking or defending Russia. Why is it/ought it to be about that?
Thanks! This is great stuff. Best of luck to all of you!
Or they could actually use their brains and check if an account in otherwise good standing suddenly gets flagged, why that happened.

This would eliminate most the edge cases.

The problem is trusting the algorithm to make decisions and then pretending you aren’t responsible for them.
> this is a war with no heroes

pretty sure i seen some heroes.
This comment made me wonder if there's a tool out there akin to ~~autoenv~~ direnv [1], but that automatically activates a virtual environment when you cd into a directory with e.g., a poetry.lock.

Surprisingly, it seems like the answer today is no. But there's a little bash snippet that wraps cd to give us a start [2]. But just dropping `poetry shell` in an `.envrc` for direnv is better than nothing too.

[1]: https://github.com/direnv/direnv

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50830617/149428
If it was a single creditor they could evaluate the situation and make an optimal decision. If it's a group of them, now you have a prisoner's dilemma. You don't want to be the last one pondering your move when everyone else has already redeemed their share and left the bag empty.
It looks like it does on Yandex maps if I have the right location. There's even a photo of the (apparent) pole dancing room.

https://tinyurl.com/ttxvuvu4
I recently embarked on a months-long just-for-fun effort of porting an old AS3/Flash game to Haxe and make sure it worked on every imaginable Haxe target I could find. If there was something that bit me was how ugly everything looked inside the browser, even when using a WebGL backend.

It turns out it was very obviously exactly what you described. You basically have to double the resolution to get it to look decent on retina and 4k screens. Once I found this out I was over the moon!

(On a related note, colouring looks way off on the HTML5 target compared to native ones, and I spent an embarassing number of hours manually brute-forcing a shader to make everything look similar.

Oh, and sound sucks in the browser.

Oh, and Safari sucks. Seriously, it just sucks. The amount of hacks I put in place to workaround its egregious limitations, particularly regarding canvas operations is insane.)
This is difficult to read.
No. Letting Russia do with foreign democracies leads to war like this. Appeasing dictators doesn't work.
AWACS only has a range of 250 miles, it can't see through the planet. From the Polish border that only reaches as far as Kiev.

I would wonder more about space-based observation, either ELINT or active radar.
There are initiatives to make certificate revocation better.

As of now, the world's most popular browser does not support OCSP. So revoking a cert kinda has no impact on chrome.

As we go forward, crlite is going to be required by Apple around October of this year. It's probably our current best option for browsers to use.

But yeah, you're not wrong. At the very least it would give you an idea that you were targeted and give you an idea that you need to plan for DR.
Good enough against whom? Russian tanks are getting absolutely shredded by antitank personnel if reports are true.

Against M1 Abrams it isn’t even going to be a battle and they don’t have enough Armatas to make a difference.

I question the use of tanks for anything beyond a support / artillery role at this point. All tanks seem highly vulnerable to both air and Javelin-like AT.

I think there was a US report a few years back about how modern tanks are no longer really the centerpiece of the battlefield anymore. Similar to how the battleship was thought to be the centerpiece at the beginning of WW2 and then it quickly became apparent it was the aircraft carrier.
>We encouraged Zelensky to talk about acquiring nukes

This is literally Kremlin lies and talking points.
I 'downgraded' to a cheap Casio late last year and I think i'm better for it.
In post ww2 I can't think of any.
That's not been eliminated. Quite a few people believe the election was stolen. Also, it's not a view worth keeping around. There's no evidence to support it and it's just used to justify violence and division.
It's almost like civilization requires a level of trust that falls apart if you assume a threshold of greed beyond anything we've seen in most democratic systems
> I suppose you don't call removal of LGBTP+ elements from the media released in Russia/China/MENA "censorship" either, just private companies exercising their rights, right?

I would call it censorship. But in those examples you listed, I would attribute it to the government and not the company. Because by removing those elements, they are not "exercising their rights to do so", they are "complying with local laws and regulations by doing so".

For a specific example: in Russia, "propaganda of homosexualty" (which includes something as trivial as explicitly acknowledging that one of the main characters is attracted to a person, or people in general, of the same sex) is against the law and is heavily punished.

So in reality, those companies only have two options: sell their product with those elements removed for that specific market or become unable to legally sell their product in that market at all.

Is it censorship? I would argue "yes", but I wouldn't say that the censorship is done by the company. If that action was required in order to be in compliance with local laws and regulations, I would call it for what it actually is - government censorship. After all, they are the ones making those laws and regulations that decide what is allowed and what needs to be removed.
Ever heard of bitcoin?
I don’t perceive Threema to have a significant network in the US, which is where a lot of HN’s user base is from.

Checking the iOS App Store I see they charge $4 upfront for the app, which must hinder its chances of adoption in new circles.

I do like the idea of paying for software, but it’s tough to succeed with it where large networks draw the life out of smaller ones.

I’d like to be corrected, though—I know the security has a solid reputation.
They've worked pretty well in the fact that we owe unions the fact that were working only forty hours a week.

SDEs quitting like crazy would've had a much stronger impact if it was an organized strike and AWS literally went down.
The "hard times create..." meme was originally shared by actual ethno-nationalists who have since been banned from most platforms.

I don't know if the person I replied to knows that - I think there are a lot of people who don't. It's worth pointing out though there's a disconnect from the first sentence to the second. Why is it that we have to have hard times for us to be better? Well, the argument from the meme - which many people take seriously even if you or I don't - is that recent times have been easy and this has created weak (and other pejoratively described) men.
Is this reported, rumors, or just a bunch?
Only if the military aren't likely to pull a coup - look at Turkey, seems like a dictator getting too big for their boots and then knocked back by the military happens every decade or so there?
We do not live in the time of weak men; we live in a time which has not made men strong in the way other times have. endurance through hardship is what makes strength. Being strong in the way that many hardships make you comes with its own complexity.