skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to add a bit of footnote commentary on how I understand Russian to be spoken in Ukraine.

Millions of native Ukrainians, especially in the eastern side of Ukraine, exclusively speak Russian, and in fact speak it much better than Ukrainian. [1] (Almost all Ukrainians understand Ukrainian perfectly fine, and even study it in school, but a large contingent don't speak it as their mother tongue.) It's much, much more than just "some Ukrainians", and in fact, it's part of what characteristically and culturally distinguishes some eastern and western/rural and urban regions of Ukraine. [2]

Going into anecdotal territory: This was surprising to me. I hosted a family native to Kharkiv and discussed this topic. I'd think speaking Ukrainian would be a part of one's heritage worth preserving, so it was surprising that speaking Ukrainian wasn't a fluent affair for them, and they also didn't have much interest in promoting the language. Their remarks, extremely simplified, were basically that Russian is so broadly understood that it is just efficient to use, especially because of the internet. They don't want the Ukrainian language to die, but they also don't find it as a practical "daily driver". Their children know Ukrainian from having to learn it in school (but don't really speak it), and their grand-children—who moved to the USA—don't know it at all and only speak Russian.

I'm less familiar with Belarus, but it was an almost identical sentiment about Russian and Belarusian for a Minsk-native family that hosted me.

[1] "Russian is the native language of 29.6% of Ukraine's population [...]." "According to a survey conducted in 2006-2007 by Gallup, 83% of the respondents preferred to conduct the Gallup interview in Russian." "For the preferred language of work, an equal amount chose either Ukrainian or Russian (37%) and 21% communicated bilingually. The study polled 10,071 individuals and held a 1% margin of error." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Ukraine

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Uk...
It's not faster despite being in WiFi
Did the doomscrolling ever end? It seems like an endless serial, complete with stock tropes.

>“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

― H.L. Mencken

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/34764-the-whole-aim-of-prac...
Just look at how far wifi has come, only 15 years ago you couldn't imagine an office that could connect to the internet reliably without anything but RJ45 cables.

I still can't. When I'm at work, I plug in to wired Ethernet whenever possible. Otherwise, I get weird slowdown and dropouts all the time. I've done contract work at a number of business ranging from you've-definitely-heard-of-them Fortune 500 enterprises to local small businesses, and it's always the same. When I want a connection that's going to be reliable and consistent, (for example, when I'm taking a video call) I plug in a physical wire.

Read the comments on the internet from the 90s or early 2000s about almost anything and see how pessimistic everyone was about the future of new technologies. This is probably even more true of nerds who live on the cutting edge and see things at a closer range but also at a slightly skewed angle.

Many of those criticisms were absolutely correct. Stallman's worries about DRM have largely come to pass. We're living in a world where farmers can't repair their own tractors without taking out a service contract with John Deere. We're living in a new dark age where a large proportion of our visual cultural output, be it music, film or video games will be lost, simply because it isn't profitable for the original creating entity to preserve them, and copyright law prevents anyone else from doing so.

So what? Seatbelt laws induced the same type of reaction initially, but over time people adjusted, and no one even notices the annoying chime every car makes if you start it without putting on your seatbelt first

I do notice, and I find it annoying when my car insists that I put on my seatbelt, even when I'm just backing it out into the driveway so that I can wash it. I've noticed that newer cars detect when you've been driving for more than a certain amount of time (I think two hours is the threshold) and "advise" that you stop and take a break, regardless of your actual fatigue level. How long before this "advice" becomes more coercive?
What is a "staff-plus" role?
Aspirin
We have an LG wall oven that had a binding arbitration sticker on it. Anyone that uses it enters into a binding arbitration agreement with LG according to the sticker.

Of course, there's no notice at time of sale, and by the time you see the sticker, you're looking at redoing brand new kitchen cabinetry if you return the stove.

I suspect it is not a legal contract (post sale, well after returns become infeasible). If it is somehow binding, when companies pull crap like that, I think the "I reject" path should involve them reimbursing you for your time and any sunk cost you incurred before being informed of the contract.
I thought the first photo was an example of a failed bagel slicing attempt, until I started reading the article.
And he confirmed, in one the forst paragraphs, that he started writting about the lab theory after one of the blogs articles about the press coverage turned into the most read article. I stopped reading when he included a google maps (?) screen shot to show distances as proff of something.
> Putin has an 70% approval rating and the war about 50%.

Haha, sure. He would give himself 101% approval but then it "could" look fake. Vladmir is a humble man.
Good. Then I can dismiss your baseless claim then.
You have a throwaway account solely created to try to make us, Westerners, believe that the War by Russia is as evil as Hitler's War because it has the same root motivation: ethnic hatred with a genocidal goal.

You may be motivated by your rage against Russia starting this terrible war, or it may be simple counter-propaganda, i.e. Ukrainians lowering themselves to the level they believe the enemy to be for the purpose of motivating despicable actions from either side.

Your interpretation of the Russian motivation for the war shows either complete ignorance of the facts (the historically friendly relationship between Ukrainians and Russians within and across the borders of the two nations) or a disregard for truthness that can only be attributed to being a propagandist who will stop at nothing to get people to believe and do whatever it is you want them to.

Some sources that might educate you a little bit:

[1] https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/05/myths-and-misconception... (this is strongly anti-Russia, but describes in a much better way the relationship between Russians/Belarussians/Ukrainians and their "nationhood", unlike your distorted view of reality).

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 - Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer (American geopolitics expert, while being less anti-Russia, also attributes blame to the West in this whole story)
> please, please, please put videos, feature lists, and screenshots of your product on your website!
>These people do not want to go through a big process to buy your product

Yet some companies like to get potential suppliers in to check them out, despite all the literature & online website info. Thats when the real phishing begins, getting info thats not publicly available. Subtle questioning and things like that.

> Dealing With The "You're Not Big Enough" Objection

I know FTSE listed companies that would not trade with SME's because they were too small, even when it meant the product or service blatantly benefited the FTSE company.
Do you prefer they stay, get conscripted and shoot you in the head?
Just found this tonight, and it seems promising. It's essentially like a LSP language server, except for debugging rather than smart editor features.

There are quite a few debug adapters already available:

https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/implement...

Which can be connected from a fair number of clients:

https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/implement...
Ordinary people are now suffering immensely, and it seems like every government just doesn't care, they just stir the fire, like we are all just some expendable resource they control, they do not care... So why was neutrality for Ukraine a bad idea? Seems like a good idea in the current situation, the one based on the reality. The fact that every media is funded by someone doesn't mean you should not take it into account. As Musk said free speech till the bitter end ;)
OMG, that Trinidad and Tobago part is so eye opening, even for middle aged cynic who thought he saw it all.
A real benefit of the Socratic method is that those magical moments of insight are all yours. You discover a new insight yourself, guided along the way.

It's more fun and exposes any weaknesses. It's easy for the student to say they know something when they actually don't. Drawing links themselves exposes everything. Then a quick detour can fix the foundation before continuing.

It's also very effective for large classes. You are forced to pay attention, because the teacher could call on you at any time.
So you suggest we keep the economy of Russia going? That way the common Russians don't feel any consequences. Too bad we will all still fund the bombs that are dropping on Ukrainian houses and apartments.

Ukrainians can also end a lot of suffering by just agreeing with what Russia is requesting. It seems they decided not to.
You could use WordPress as the CMS (it's an excellent WYSIWYG editor) and then publish the site as a static replica using one of the tools and solutions available for turning WP into a static site generator, like Strattic https://www.strattic.com.
> In the world where might makes right, it’s justifiable for the head of a state to literally threaten everyone with nuclear weapons.

He was warning about nato expansion to the russian borders being unacceptable for mane years. Did the west understand that? No! I guess he's signaling the importance of the issue.
Russia has not taken on any power it can defeat nor does it have the economy, allies or even approval of it's populace. The neighbours that has been invading lately don't really count for "powers" and it's already struggling as it is.
Yes, English is a foreign language for me. I did have German and French in high school but that doesn't stick anymore, so I can't say much more than "Guten Tag".
Self-Determination for Cities can avert wars and crises in Ukraine, elsewhere
Before modern nation-states, we had empires and cities. Empires would simply conquer cities top-down. (I don't agree we didn't have nation-states before. The Bible for example describes the 12 tribes of Israel being united, as well as lots of other nation-states around them: Midian had cities, Philistines had the pentapolis, etc.)

But imagine if each neighborhood could pay for a free market of police agencies. The police agency would train local people to learn local laws and enforce them. If the agency and its tactics were too brutal or too ineffective, the neighborhood would simply give next year's tonract to their competitors.

I think the same approach should be done with cities choosing the countries bottom-up. The UN could simply extend self-determination to cities and regions, allowing e.g. Lugano in Switzerland to join Italy if they felt it was in their best interests. Or Hong Kong could choose to secede from Mainland China. Then we wouldn't have these stupid wars. Most wars start because some separatists (or armed opposition to the central government) seize a chance for their cities to leave the larger polity or federation. (Perhaps demographics changed, or there is a constitutional crisis, or another war.) Kurds, Basques, Catalonians, etc. are all looking for such an opportunity. If the UN recognized the self-determination of cities, then any armed gangs would just be arrested as criminals, by the city's own police, since the city can simply vote democratically, there is no need for violence.

Instead, the revolution is usually nipped in the bud by violent arrests (e.g. in Catalonia by Spain, or Hong Kong by China) but once in a while, a larger country helps these separatists because of ethnic ties, or because of geopolitical interests (e.g. to keep the host country destabilized and weak). So you get a protracted war for many years, while the civilian population faces a humanitarian crisis. We have seen such things in Yemen, Syria. Rather than meeting up and holding diplomatic talks (like Iran and Saudis are finally doing) the two countries just keep throwing weapons at the region from both sides.

In Ukraine, this is like a matreshka doll[1] of this exact phenomenon on several levels:

1. Donetsk vs Ukraine (to combat Donetsk distancing from Ukraine, but Donetsk is armed by Russia endlessly)

2. Ukraine vs Russia (to combat Ukraine's distancing from Russia, will be armed by US+EU endlessly)

3. Russia vs West (to combat Russia's naked imperialism distancing from Western Democracy, crippling sanctions)

4. West vs East (Russia+China+India+Pakistan+Belarus+Kazakhstan etc.) build their own SWIFT, exit US hegemony

In each n+1 escalation, the same dynamics occur: the very use of force by a stronger power, to leverage its current dominance in the conflict, results in an even stronger power entering the conflict on the other side, and ultimately the severing of so much work of unification that was done in years prior.

[1] Yes I realize the matreshka is a Russian symbol not Ukrainian.
He has to threaten it, it doesn't cost him anything.
> there are stable coins on proof of stake blockchains, no volatile, no scams or burning the planet

You mean stablecoins like USDC and Tether? I am assuming you sure you are very much informed on those coins are not scams and are regulated right?
The popular pg-promise library for PostgreSQL in NodeJS has a similar issue - for some types of queries ("Formatting Filters") it interpolates parameters itself instead of using real parameterized queries.

This is especially bad because it uses it's own escaping function and escaping in PG depends on a server configuration variable (standard_conforming_strings) that the client doesn't know about.

This behavior is barely mentioned in the docs, and the author does not really accept any suggestions or criticism.
Russians have a shared responsibility. If my country would do something like that, I would also feel responsible.
A tremendous book. Every signal processing engineer should have it.
It's not for the oven, it's for when they boil in water.

A proper bagel is boiled first, then baked.

It's also used for transportation and display by threading a rod or string through the hole, but the main reason is for even boiling. Same as a doughnut (except that is boiled in oil).
Ah. That makes sense. Thanks for the answer :)

Still, I eat plenty of bread that's non bagel shaped and fairly evenly baked. I guess I pay slightly more for the more difficult production process then, or have to suffer bread that's just not quite as perfectly uniform in texture as it could be.
Well worth it, if you ask me, to not have to deal with the frustrating shape. Mileages vary, of course :)
russia could help with rebuilding ukraine if sanctions are weakened.

Grozny was rebuilt after all.
Similar thread from Oct 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819254
> Seems like nukes, NATO, or EU membership are the only way to be sure Russia won't invade, if you're a neighbor.

Sorry, this is not true. Misinformed at best.

Russia has been warning for years that they won't tolerate having another NATO country adjacent to their border.

Every single analysist knew that offering NATO membership to Ukraine would have caused a conflict. And yet we went ahead and offered it.

Without this expansionist step from our side the situation would have never escalated.

This is well documented and confirmed by top notch geopolitical analyst and even NATO officials.

So you want to keep Russia out of a country? Don't offer them the NATO membership.

Why would we expand NATO anyway? It is only an aggressive move and I don't understand why we keep doing it, unless we have an interest in causing conflicts like this one and then polarizing the world into a new cold war.

Check recent history. Who's waging unwarranted wars thousands of miles away from their borders all over the world? It's not Russia, it's us! We are the imperialist here, not them.
Does anyone have a link to a real world example of the double slit experiment where the photons are observed at the slits, causing the wave function of the light to collapse so the light acts as a particle beyond the slit, ending up in two piles on the detector screen, rather than the wave pattern.

Every time I ask this, some do-gooder will not read a word I wrote and send me a video of the basic slit experiment and think they've somehow educated me. Every time. It's amazing.

What I'm looking for is a photo or video of a real experiment showing just two groupings. There a million photos/videos of the wave pattern. I'm looking for an example with exactly two clumps of photons because the light is observed as it passes each slit. In real life, not a computer simulation.

Watch this video if you're unclear what I'm asking: https://youtu.be/Q1YqgPAtzho
Slightly related, is there any analytical writing on the human side of security? How to build organizations that are resistant to intrusion in various forms?

From reading books and watching movies as well as applying a bit of common sense, organizations like spy agencies or terrorist networks with more or less independently operating cells work with a strict least-privilege type model such that a mole in one part of the organization doesn't compromise the organization as a whole. And, I'd guess, at least in more formalized organizations, strict logging on who does what etc.

All this obviously adds a lot of overhead and friction in communications, which, say, a business operating in a competitive environment can ill afford. I'm quite sure there's no "magic pill", but rather a bunch of choices with tradeoffs (like security vs. ease of cross-team communication I touched on above).
Using Stack Overflow for Education in a Computer Science Bachelor Programme
What does it do to Cholesterol?

https://healthgains.com/blog/niacin-boost-growth-hormone/#:~....

Word of warning, pregnant women should not take it as it might cause abortions.
“Vulva Spaceship” aims to counter prevalence of phallic spacecraft
You mean like Tether and USDC? I am sure they are audited and regulated with no scams right?
This may have been improved recently. I downloaded and ran it on my Linux laptop and it worked instantly. the config file was self-documenting.
Automatic in-browser Ukrainian text translation and local news sources to follow
In comments on forums, Twitter, Telegram, and many other text based services, I've seen a lot of requests/demands for translations of Ukrainian and Russian language content.

There's a Mozilla Firefox add-on "Translate Web Pages" by Filipe Ps [0] available on Github [1] I've been using since the beginning of hostilities to automatically translate, and check existing English translations, of Ukrainian news web-sites, Twitter threads, etc.

Originally the Yandex engine worked but lately seems to be less useful - not sure if that is due to some interference on the Yandex side for Ukrainian translation or a side-effect of the sites I read. The Google engine continues to work reasonably.

The result sometimes needing a little mental gymnastics to help decode into a colloquial style.

Here's a few of the Ukrainian language news and mapping web sites I read:

https://liveuamap.com/en/ = really good for geo-locating stories on map with links to original sources

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/ = natively Ukraine/Russian/English

https://www.epravda.com.ua/news/ = economic news (Special Financial Operation - SPOs - aka Sanctions!)

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato = Natively Ukraine/Russian/English/Spanish/German/French/Japanese/Polish

https://www.5.ua/novyny/ = Channel 5 TV

https://prm.ua/news/ = Direct TV

https://censor.net/ua/news/all = Censor Net

https://war.ukraine.ua/ = Ukraine government news

https://tvzvezda.ru/ = Russian defence ministry

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web/

[1] https://github.com/FilipePS/Traduzir-paginas-web
Non-management leadership roles at the level beyond the “Senior” title. Usually involves cross-team strategy planning and requires 5-10 years of experience.
I, too, kind of share your perspective, and indeed prefer the texture and structure of non-bagels to bagels. I just find them unnecessary and harder to put fun fillings inside them.
False analogy and deflection.
> Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war

If Putin views it that way, that removes the main obstacle to a NATO-enforced Not Fly Zone in Ukraine, which is that Putin would view it the same way.

But, no, it's not a declaration of war. It’s more of a special economic operation for the demilitarization and deputinization of Russia.
It seems the original source for all the TIL sites is a WSJ article which wrote that in 2008 there were 1979 people who went to the ER due to bagel related injuries. So it's not 2000 per day, it's per year.

Keep in mind that when a HN user writes things like "seriously", "ask any x", "it's so common". It means they probably don't know what they're talking about.
The people would always choose the true democracy, without the corruption, without the people in government performing state capture and thus enriching themselves and their friends. Place where everybody's human rights are respected. Maybe Nordics are the closest to this. I am not willing to accept war in 21st century, I cannot understand why they just don't bring up military resources and perform a computer simulation, who ever wins in simulation takes peacefully over, it will be best for the ordinary people. From Putins perspective I think he sees possible nukes in Ukraine with 5min flying time to Moscow as incredible threat.
Your website has great structure to communicate your values effectively; it must’ve helped you land some great opportunities.
a bit of extrene violence, then nothing. after that the police starts imprisoning active people, threatening them via families etc. belarus scenario
Or so he says. There is be no point in bombing your own territory though.
Latest update: Trump's National Security Advisor says that Putin was waiting for Trump's second term, as after being re-elected he was going to withdraw the US from NATO:

https://www.businessinsider.com/bolton-putin-waiting-for-tru...
I spent the day watching Russia Today – now I’m questioning my grip on reality
Russian anti-war Protester in Moscow says the risk of Arrest is worth it
> For some, however, it was too late. Defendants in at least 35 of these cases received the death penalty and errors were identified in 33 (94 percent) of those cases. Nine of these defendants have already been executed and five died of other causes while on death row.

Yay. Death penalty is a nice word for murder.
>He was warning about nato expansion to the russian borders being unacceptable for mane years.

That’s a mischaracterization of the threat. The threat was to prevent any interference in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is sovereign country. Putin’s threat of nuclear war was not made in the context of NATO expansion nor the deployment of nuclear arms near Russia’s borders, etc. Nuclear weapons were in fact removed from Ukraine at Russia’s behest.
Journal editor explains ban on manuscripts from Russian institutions
The Verge: A heartfelt farewell from Dieter Bohn