skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you asked me that a week ago, I might've said yes/maybe.

But now we have actual footage of Russia arresting people protesting against the war, just shooting artillery salvos at hospitals and schools. Oh, and FIRING AT A FUCKING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. You don't get much more cartoon bad guy than that.

It's a shame that the regular Russian people have to suffer, but the only way to get tiny-P off the throne is to turn the country against him and make stuff so unbearable that even the official news can't explain it away with "russophobia".
For example, water usage limits on dishwashers that make people run the cycle twice and end up using more water and more electricity than the old ones.

It's a similar phenomenon to "low flush" toilets that clog and/or have to be flushed multiple times, using roughly the same or even more water than what they replaced.
Skater loses funding over controversial outfit choice before Olympics
If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, I’ve found iThoughtsX to be even better than MN, and one time purchase.
Two things.

Dealing with Russia is now problematic for top level corporate management and attention of top level management is always a scarce resource. General rule products and customers that require too much of it for the profits generated get the axe.

Russia is about to get a lot poorer. So any business you have with Russia is going to shrink.
Nobody claimed it was unique. Slate was just particularly egregious, to the point that virtually every article was like "Was Chattel Slavery Entirely Bad?" The article text would largely dodge the take in order to make some mild pointless observation, but I'm pretty sure articles were accepted based on the ability to write that kind of headline for them, and rejected if they couldn't come up with one.

Is Running the New Smoking?
The past 2 years of GDPR enforcement has looked halfway encouraging. As a libertarian, I still really cannot think of any other way to prevent our individual liberties from being destroyed by the surveillance industry.

Maybe in some alternative universe where the government never mandated social security numbers, driver's license numbers, birth certificates, or laws against "fraud" for using narrowly-scoped nyms. Where the economic treadmill wasn't run so hard, so people had time to practice good digital hygiene like installing Adblock and the advertising industry never developed. But that's not the world we're staring down, and we only get one.
Still, I hope the author realizes the problem so they won't repeat such a mistake. The fact that such a package exists is a little odd to begin with...
Peaceful coexistence? Sure.

Closer coordination and cooperation in a socioeconomic context? Also on the table.

But _integration_ with the communist PRC? Uhmm... yeah no, that's a pretty disingenuous characterization of the KMT side of Taiwanese politics.
Why is it Putin's business what Ukraine thinks of NATO?
Designed by two of the people who designed the ZX81 and Spectrum.

It was a nerd-fantasy product designed by two unusually clever people to scratch their own itch, with no thought to ecosystem, culture, media support, visual design, or product-market fit.

And then it ran into production difficulties. They still managed to sell a few thousand, but it was never going to be a huge success.

One of those unfortunate situations where high IQ - clearly available - didn't correlate with business sense.
"Factual error" is a strong word for a minor issue.

It does not change anything - because no one knows what viri were in the lab. And "China" refuses to share any data about it e. g. the missing virus database.
We have had sanctions before, but at this level? It's pretty much unprecedented.

Usually sanctions are a bit of this and bit of that, just enough to put pressure on the politicians. Now we have companies left and right refusing to do business with Russia, all their foreign money is frozen and billionaires are getting their yachts taken from them. They can't even sell their oil anywhere, not even at a discount. (Although it seems Shell bought some, let's see how the fallout from that decision turns out).
It also runs on Linux and Windows now with only a single codebase. They're not doing this for no reason; it may well just not make economic sense to develop native Mac apps anymore.
The important part:

> ...the boring truth is that we don’t know where Covid-19 came from, we probably aren’t going to find out, and very little of consequence actually hinges on the answer. [emphasis mine]

> Of course, politically it’s a big deal. The case for stricter supervision of virus-related lab ...

Pandemics caused by new infectious diseases were a ~regular thing long before humans had labs studying viruses. Experts familiar with coronaviruses had been sounding alarm bells since the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003. It's d*mn obvious that local government officials in China completely botched the initial response, then a huge number of other government officials botched their own responses, all over the world.

The endless arguments about "who's at fault" for COVID-19...my biggest take-away from them is that the world is really disfunctional, and there's minimal interest in making the future any better.

Happily for me, I'm rather old, and probably won't be around for most of really bad years that the average HN'er will have to live through.
A third option that I don't think should be discounted is that Russia falls apart politically, either from assassination or a coup.

A status quo is usually tolerable, but the man is acting unpredictably and really rocking the boat right now, that's rarely beneficial for a leader's longevity, not even among despots.
Stream BBC News Service about Ukraine
The BBC is relaunching the News Service for Ukraine/Russia. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/03/04/1357239/bbc-resurrects-wwii-era-shortwave-broadcasts-as-russia-blocks-news-of-ukraine-invasion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Is this streamable or is there a recorded archive where I can listen to it later?
> Why settle for a worse out come for the same amount of money?

I did not mean to imply that you should settle, or that I did. I paid for lots of upgrades. But they were expensive, a wash for me financially, and very lucrative for the builder. But short of being my own general contractor and building the house myself, I had no leverage to change that.

If I were building the house, I could say "I want dishwasher B instead of dishwasher A" and the price difference would be B-A. A typical homebuilder, on the other hand, can say "we include A with the build, and if you want B, it will cost $B". So maybe the better dishwasher is $600 instead of $500, but instead of paying $100 extra for my upgraded dishwasher, I pay more like $600 extra.

The only way to "win" financially is take the builder grade stuff, use it until it dies a natural death, and replace with better things as you go. Any other path to dishwasher B costs just as much as paying the price the builder demands for it.

Dishwashers aren't the best example, I agree, because they're easy to remove and install for any DIYer. But we ran into it on lots of things. Toto toilets instead of build grade? Full price. Better garage door opener? Full price. Etc. Things that are not nearly as easy for a DIYer to do (or, even if they are, like toilets, they have zero resale value).

The whole experience made me want to become a homebuilder :). Partly because I love houses, partly because it's such a lucrative business.
The YouTube channel "Cathode Ray Dude" has covered some of the attempts by camera makers to take advantage of the new possibilities of digital sensors with new form factors that never caught on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJBHjl9_VU
Yep, perfect time to use a hyperlink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit
It isn't a binary yes/no question.
> truly unique i'd say are Little Big and Leningrad

Haha my friend introduced me to Little Big... starting with the BIG D song...

> i'm suggesting that something may not be truth

Ahh yes I remember now. Thanks for the link :) !
I agree. You should see the multiverse of moulds, spores and fungus in the bottom of my refrigerator.
Experts urge EU not to force insecure certificates in web browsers
Exactly. Never mind that as you cross borders, there are legal limits to the amounts you can carry as well as the potential to be searched. If you've ever been through corrupt border crossings (hello Moc Bai), the last thing you want is to be carrying cash.
The problem is not only that types are not checked but that strings are simply replaced in structured input. Without having looked in detail, I would bet that the implementation also fails at queries which contain question marks inside strings, i.e. question marks that are not placeholders. Even if string escaping was the right way, which it is not, the proper way to do it would be to translate the SQL statement into an AST and then replace the leaves of the tree that are placeholders with the respective escaped strings.
> Something I think is plausible is that they've figures out a technique for controlling the narrative in the internet age where they take the range of opinions in a group with positions they don't like, identify a really wild one, debunk it, then tar the whole group with that opinion.

exactly. "5G causes covid" "5G transmits signals to nano-carbon transmitters delivered through vaccines to mind-control the vaccinated" et al. were this to any far more reasonable criticism of 5G technology—now any such criticism is lumped in with these wacky, now-"debunked" claims.
Consider the potential for civil war in that scenario, and the opportunism of other nations. Consider the consequences of that, and more. Glib ideas are fine, we all have them, but please do yourself a favor and extrapolate a little before it becomes an "obvious solution" to you or anyone else. Never know who you might influence.
Good marketing but largely bullshit. Bloomberg deals with a great deal of volume but their latency sucks. Most of their data is heading toward the Terminal, which is for human eye balls
Propaganda isn't all false, it's all advocacy. You interpret it based on that fact; you don't ignore that fact to make the world feel stable and secure.
As far as I know there is no peer-reviewed research, or research done by virologists or epidemiologists that supports the lab leak theory. It's being pushed on social media by an internet activist group called DRASTIC. They are laying the cloak and dagger act thick, denying that there are good-faith investigations into the theory. Contrary to what they say however most of the world isn't interested in covering up the alleged conspiracy, it's just that the investigations are not at all conclusive. As a data scientist you can nudge things around until you find the pattern you are looking for, but virologists and epidemiologists must take their jobs much more seriously.
The main goal of this action is sound - cut off Russian economy from outside and it achieves it. There're undesirable side effects that you listed, but the main objective is still achieved. And we should keep prospective and direct the anger at right target, these inconveniences are not comparable to the terror millions of Ukrainians are under now.
We don't launch anything that is not part of the spec: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/canvas.html#the-canva...
Ah, brave russian bear here with us. Don't poke bear, bear chop your country off. Add some BLM propaganda, add good white people and call everyone running for a normal life a coward. Good bot.
Nothing new here. The large tech and financial corporations have moved in lockstep for a long time, and the rest of the Fortune 500 isn't far behind. The average person and small business is rapidly losing the right to transact.
The numbers regarding defensive gun use is very likely to end up being a classic example of commercial interests affect scientific research. Nearly all of the high numbers come from a handful of sources that have connections with the firearm industry. There are many methodology problems with their numbers too.

In the relatively small amount of research on this subject that is not influenced by commercial interests, the numbers suggest that defensive gun use is very rare: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00917...
Answer:

> ... if we boil it down, there are really only two paths toward ending the war: one, continued escalation, potentially across the nuclear threshold; the other, a bitter peace imposed on a defeated Ukraine that will be extremely hard for the United States and many European allies to swallow.

Considering some of the calls from those who should know better for no-fly zones over Ukraine, Option (2) is indeed going to be the harder path. All it would take is a humanitarian incident such as the extended siege of a city. The calls for military action would be ferocious. The accusations of weakness would cripple many leaders trying to hold back a military response. The lack of any sense of what nuclear escalation actually means throws yet more fuel on the fire. And the real clincher: the US hasn't taken on a power capable of defeating it since the 1940s, if not earlier. Confidence in the US military to solve all problems, foreign and domestic, is alarmingly high.

The easy path is, unfortunately, the one that ends with the unthinkable.
I think you're conflating several different strands of this story - the idea that San Mateo withdrew from BART in part for NYMBY-ish and exclusionary reasons is fairly well supported.
Still covered in soil? That’s interesting, hadn’t heard that before. Kind of funny to think of keeping a box of dirt in your kitchen to store the potatoes in.
I'd imagine in a lot of cases the payment network doesn't know if you are moving your own money, or paying for something - the latter which could benefit Russia or a Russian company. E.g. if was Russian and paying Google for Google docs for my Russia based business - I think that might be disallowed by the current sanctions?

I suppose I'm trying to say - the payment providers see where the cash is going, but not what you are getting in return. Without that visibility it's hard to more selectively ban transactions.
Even more nuclear-armed substates with more precarious leadership?
There seems to be a signficant amount of consent being manufactured for a major operation to enact regime change in Russia.
> What's to "c'mon" about?

Maybe the fact that there are many artificial stars in that photo due to software adding new light sources which didn't really exist in postprocessing? I have no idea if this happens but it is the claim they were making, and would certainly be worthy of a "c'mon" if true.
Indeed, this title should be change or suggest remove this article for wrong info.
I don't see how that's relevant. Both government and corporations are independently capable of pushing top-down controls onto society.
Prepared Statements are great. Is there any way to force the programmer to use (only) them?
This is me, except it's 9hours of sleep and if I get a bit less I just feel tired all day. My current theory is sleep apnea.
How to tell if site is DDoS attacked vs. it's geoblocking
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OK, you can trivially pump numbers with small factors.
But what about the numbers that have all prime factors greater than the pumping length?
when you're being told to not think critically about anything and just believe what you're being told at face value, and you're capable of thinking critically enough to notice this, then this is the result.
Mildly interesting; the main bridge in Lisbon, Portugal (Ponte de 25 abril) was built by the same company as the golden gate bridge and looks almost identical. It had a railway added in 1999 underneath.
>I think you're being rude.

I'm sorry you think that. I'm not trying to be.

Link 1: The article is light on methodology, and in any case it seems to be categorizing as "abuse" conversations between person A and person B about person C, who is not participating in the discussion. I.e. me telling you "I think emperor Hirohito was kind of a wimp" would be abuse, apparently.

Link 2: Even worse. It's only counting uses of specific words without regard for context. Just uttering the word "slut" is misogynistic? So my previous sentence is misogynistic?

Link 3: I have no tears to shed for any negative attention any politician gets. That's part of the job description. If they can't deal with it they really should have picked a different profession.

Link 4: As a statistical data point it's interesting, but one should be careful about what conclusions to draw from it. They only counted blocked comments. We don't really know what those comments contained (although we're invited to assume they were misogynistic and abusive towards the writer). We don't know what the specific topics the articles in question were about. For example, could it be that women tend to write more often about controversial topics, for whatever reason? We don't know if all articles are subjected to the same amount of moderation. If articles A and B have the same number of comments, but B has twice as many blocked comments, and twice as many people moderating it, they might not be so lopsided as it appears.

To be clear, I'm not denying that women probably do get more negative attention online. There's probably a fair bit of overlap between being loud and annoying and hating women. I just think these stats are garbage, except for link 4.
I think they serve different purposes.
Catalyst is mostly used when you’ve already written your iPad app (either in UIKit or iOS specific SwiftUI) and now you want to make that app available on Mac without rewriting parts of the code.

You can indeed write a multiplatform app in SwiftUI nowadays.

That’s what I’m doing with Volum (https://lowtechguys.com/volum) which easily shares 95% of the code between macOS, iOS and iPadOS, and only platform specific code like keyboard shortcuts or volume OSD is isolated.

But you kinda have to start with that multiplatform mindset from the start, otherwise you’ll soon find out you used too many custom NSViews and Cocoa APIs, your UI is not designed for portrait mode, and it’s a burden to place #if os(macOS) guards all over the place now.
OP here. I should clarify. I’m an American citizen, I just am wondering if this archived/accessible somewhere.
> Agree or not, but that is exactly the case being made by Russia.

It is, in between other cases about historical Russian territory and grievances against past leaders who deprived Russia of that territory.

> Here in the West we're led to believe the Ukrainian coup of 2014 was totally organic and sprung from the magic fairy dust of happiness and democracy.

Perhaps some tell that tale, whereas Russia’s claim is that there puppet Yanukovych came from the same mythical land. Even if the former were as much of a lie as the latter, it wouldn't excuse, much less cause of necessity, an invasion like the one taking place.

> This is why they took Crimea in 2014 and why we did nothing about it.

It's not, though obviously it was among the propaganda excuses.

We also did not do nothing about it, though, in retrospect, it is clear we didn't do enough about it. The things we did do about it, of course, tend to figure into Russian propaganda for the current invasion, removed from their context as a direct response to the invasion, occupation, and annexation of Crimea and the less overt (than Crimea eventually became, though very similar to the first phase in Crimea) invasion of Donbas, Luhansk, and other parts of Eastern Ukraine.
This is brilliant, but impossible to learn how to beat on Hard mode without programming brute-force recursion. Even when we factorize the target number and its neighbors.

a) Can you publish daily solutions to yesterday's problems? I'd really like to see the solution to #8-Hard (1,6,7,7,50,100 Target: 875)

b) Can you add links to archived previous problems?
Note that cutting the gas aligns with what the West citizen broadly want: Being forced faster than later to get rid of fossil energy. EU leaders certainly didn’t aim to secure the gas supply, they put all their might into sanctioning Russia “even if it costs the gas supply”.

At this point I’m wondering whether Russia knows it and wants to impose any sanction except cutting the gas.
Independently of whether it's a rationalisation or not, it might be the actual reality of the situation. Maybe WW3 actually _is_ needed to unseat him (though I hope it's not).
Good luck finding someone to trade crypto tokens with without burning up the planet as with all these tokens do.

By the time you found someone and agreed, the price would have dropped 30%.

You might as well use the existing system.
The way it typically works is that you agree to a price for the house, and it will come with a standard set of appliances, usually appropriate to the neighborhood. In our case, the appliances were generally pretty decent, it wasn't really "builder grade" garbage.

During the build process you can elect to upgrade things if you want. That's where the gouging happens.

You could theoretically pre-negotiate the whole thing in advance with exactly the appliances you want, and then try to get the price to be reasonable. But remember that you're negotiating for a house in a hot market with other buyers ready to pull the trigger too. Good luck, if you want to play games, buyers do not have the position of power in negotiations right now.

Or you can just be your own general contractor. Or you could get a piece of land and hire a homebuilder to build to your specs exactly. What I'm talking about is more the typical neighborhood of homes built by one builder, where if you get in early enough in the process you can make customizations for surfaces, colors, flooring materials, windows, roofing, stuff like that. The basic architecture has already been decided (you can sometimes change the house plan to a different one, as long as it's one they already build, it fits the property footprint, and isn't a copy of another house nearby). Maybe you can adjust some walls or doors, but not much structural changes beyond that. You're paying for convenience, and 6 month build times instead of 2 years.
no, but it puts it into perspective.
Low light performance is more about the sensor than lenses tho isn't it.

Sensors these days are phenomenal.

Last time I lugged a DSLR around all it did was give me a sore neck.
A pyrrhic victory to celebrate on a sinking ship.
Providing material support can be a crime.

It might not be obviously illegal, but those bank accounts are frozen because the owners of the bank accounts are being investigated just as if they had been sending money to Al-Qaeda.

At least legally it all boils down to how the groups that received these donations are classified. Of course politically things are more complicated, but applying the same rules in different situations is why people where so concerned about this type of legislation in the first place.
PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum
Jupyter.org now runs its notebooks on WebAssembly
Not sure if saying you can't use dynamic programming is accurate though, you simply can't use a direction translation of Knuth's algorithm since this misses indentation.

If I recall correctly Knuth uses Dijkstra on a graph with nodes of 'line break at position x' and I don't see why you couldn't use a graph consisting of 'line break at position x indentation y' or something similar.
Ask HN: How can I filter out paywalls from my internet?
I am not interested in bypassing paywalls. I just want to browse the web as if all those paywall sites do not even exist.

For example, I'd be happy if any link to a paywall site is replaced by a text indicating this is filtered. I don't want to see any paywall site results in Google search, or links in Google news... etc.

Appreciate any pointers.
Because Ukraine is neighboring Russia and is of strategic importance in its security considerations.

Once ukraine is in nato russia has no leverage over what kind of arms are deployed there for instance.

Did you hear about the Carribean crisis?