skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only source for that claim as far as I can tell is conspiracy theorist Wayne Madsen's book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen_(journalist) . So it's probably nonsense.
Too bad icann didn't see this as a problem...imagine how the misinformation problem and cyberwarfare would diminish if they had been disconnected from the greater internet?
It's the internet now. It was the influence of television when I grew up. When my parents grew up it was rock music. It's a constant in history that older generations complain about younger generations. Alan Kay of course was a young free thinker in the 1960s when he and his colleagues did some great pioneering stuff. And here we see him as an older version of himself falling into the trap that many older people have fallen into before: believing that everything was better in the past.

He does have a point challenging the young people in the room that seem to be a bit challenged in grasping the notion that maybe it's not all about what will be successful in the market. People don't invent because they want to get rich but because the process of invention is just deeply satisfying in itself. Sometimes it has practical value.

There are plenty of free thinkers in this world working on all sorts of topics. Successful breakthroughs are just a function of getting these people hooked up with each other and enough funding.

The whole point of Xerox Parc was that it happened in the middle of the cold war and the US basically just removed the floodgates from any funding that had anything to do with tech. They went to the moon in the same decade that Kay was doing his thing. Xerox Parc's funding was petty cash in comparison but it was enough. People and companies were thinking big. Xerox had plenty of money and they figured that beautiful stuff could happen if they just gathered up anyone with a brain and let them do their thing. Lots of companies did that back in the day.

Computer science as a discipline did not even exist. But Xerox saw that this computer thing could be a thing for them. So they hired the smartest people they could find to figure that out. It was a very hands on, multi disciplinary team with a lot of funding and no bean counters on their back. Very similar to what you find in some well funded startups these days. I'd say Spacex might have a very similar vibe right now. Magic Leap before the investors got nervous: same thing (and actually very comparable to Xerox Parc). Google in the first ten years of its existence. Etc.

I worked for Nokia Research for a while when it was still drunk on its success with early feature and smart phones (i.e. before the iphone). They were not doing any rocket programs but we had plenty of people working on some pretty crazy shit. And some of it actually worked. Of course Nokia wasn't very good at converting their research outputs into product. Just like Xerox, they had all the right ideas and failed to capitalize on them. If you like ipads or iphones: Nokia had a touch screen Debian linux based tablet in 2005. They imagined the future, built it (as Alan Kay famously suggested), and then discarded the results in an epic bit of corporate stupidity and ineptness that still gets me angry to this day.

Of course, blue sky, industrial research labs were already declining when I worked there and they no longer really exist. But they've been replaced by well funded startups. I'm working in my third startup now. Loving it but the funding could be better (yes, we're raising: tryformation.com).
The whole point is that we all DO understand the way the man talks and acts, and we ALSO all understand the way you talk and act too: dishonestly and delusionally. Admitting you're delusional with a sarcastic tone doesn't cancel it out. Pretending that you believe Trump doesn't make us believe you. You're fully aware of and fully supportive of his lies.
Belgium also, Dutch-French-German and English.
My guess for the downvotes is the claim this isn’t Biden’s fault. There’s a large camp of people who think the US is forcing Ukraine into this position by egging on Russia. I don’t think that’s the case personally.

One thing I do think Biden did wrong was shut down the keystone pipeline and forcing us to buy oil from Russia as a result, which gave Russia a great way to fund a war campaign.
> It was not Biden's mistake that the war was started. Putin only used it as a pretext. It is a simple war of aggression that would have happened anyway.

It was President Biden who said it openly "we know Russia will invade Ukraine," the intel I believe Putin leaked purposefully to probe US response, and then said that "there will be no US boots on the ground" before the invasion has even started.

This reassured Russian political establishment of not only US military not doing anything, but also about US political establishment being comfortable with that.

Indicating that you know a credible threat is coming well ahead of time, and then doing nothing all that time is a terrible diplomatic move, which signalled Putin of US already "coming to terms with the inevitable."

You never state your red lines.
This might be helpful, Steven Pinker recommended the best books on rationality -> https://shepherd.com/best-books/rationality

i am working on more around critical thinking...

I think specifically his rec for this book would be interesting in developing critical thinking:
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth By Jonathan Rauch
Thanks both! Here is a video demonstrating the web app version, with 3 more examples (one sketch, one concept art, one photo):
https://youtu.be/jSZ7RMq5EKA
Let me know what you think!
> Let Putin loose face and be deposed so that a new generation can take over in Russia, preferably one which is not controlled by some globalist loon nor one which has dreams of reinstating some former Russian empire.

After being potentially devastated by the sanctions and embarassed by the world, there are no guarantees that anyone taking over from Putin would be more reasonable, less nationalistic, or less likely to utilize nuclear strikes. More chaos and instability in Russia after a Putin exit could backfire with a random cast of characters gaining power. A risky roll of your favorite multi-sided dice.
Not distributing source code is not coercion. GPL forces people to do work in exchange for a promise that they will not be subject to volience, that's coercion.
It is not very clear to me what data they are mining, but for sure they are doing something, all their business is build around that.
Paraphrasing certain German minister: 40 years ago nobody needed search and I don’t use any of it so nobody needs it?
Indeed, but I have a 100 of services using that as a username. I have a custom domain address email but so many sites reject it as non valid I have to use the yandex one regularly. All that to avoid gmail, lol.
> It is precisely because of the tactics they used in places like Chechnya that the people are fighting back.

Some people are fighting back, mostly young men of somewhat courageous disposition. Also 1,2 million Ukrainians have already fled the country which far exceeds the number of Ukrainian combatants. I'm sure some of them would see surrender as a better outcome than loosing their homes and home country. I also heard stories about men between 18 and 60 who weren't even allowed to leave the country, so that number would be even higher if this demographic was given a free choice.
It might get them out of a tight spot in the short term, but I'm not sure if cannibalising abandoned planes is a particularly viable long-term strategy
The US is still oil independent - the keystone pipeline didn't change a thing in that regard (how could it? If you can ship oil from Russia, you can ship it from slightly further north in your own continent.

Oil is a fungible commodity though: the price is effected by global demand - as I noted in a previous thread on this exact subject, the idea of "independence" and "dependence" both mean nothing so long as private enterprise can own the resource and faces no restrictions on its export.
I don't know about the USA, but in the UK our stopping distances assume the car might become stationary at any point. That is, they are actually stopping distances - not following distances. If you follow closer than that on your test, you will fail.
‘I Don’t Want to Be Called Russian Anymore’: Soviet Diaspora Rethinks Identity
Ha, that's nice. I almost forgot that the one year rule also applies to LTS patches.

Also, the KDE maintenance branches should be better known. They are the place to get important bugfixes and improvements for everyone not using a commercial license.
Sometimes, yes.

But I never worked in a big professional team before, where git's features shine.

And git != code formatter.
I think because a Scrum Master is with the team (is there for the team) she must be concerned about the so-called "bad apples"; specifically if a person behave in a way that puts the whole team under stress...
The English and US notions of class are very different. In the US, class basically mean income bracket. In England, class is more akin to "caste", a basically hereditary status which correlate with wealth, but it not determined by it. A broke aristocrat is still an aristocrat, a working class person winning the lottery is still working class, even if they stop working. A family may migrate from one class to another, but it takes multiple generation.

The angle of the article seem to be that the English notion of class is bullshit, because it does not directly correlate to wealth and privilege. Maybe so, but class is still a real thing in the sense it affect peoples attitudes and interactions in real way. It is like saying "race" in US is bullshit. But it is still a very real thing that affect peoples lives.
That’s the ideal scenario. Sad that governments of bystander countries do not seem to want to help make that happen.
I used to work with Rui-san before he went full time to work on mold. He's a real awesome guy and super fun to talk with, he's extremely knowledgeable as well. I was very sad when I heard he was going to leave the company but looking at how popular mold has gotten and how well the project seems to be doing I really couldn't be happier for him.
Some of the older programming languages had memory safety. C is not the only old programming language.
Haha thanks orliesaurus ;)
Are the Chinese seeing past the propaganda? It will be the same with Russians. Putin wanted this. Now his hands are not dirty and who is going to protest the closing of internet, lack of foreign investors, lack of foreign companies when they are done by the west themselves. New companies will come from within Russia, new investment will flow eventually from either China or from within. Mission accomplished and he has cemented his power till he dies.
No matter what you use, you can backdate everything.
They are not allowed to leave because general mobilization has been called. Pretty common in all countries that have mobilization laws.
Linux History: How Dot Files Became Hidden Files
Iran's nuclear program, that looks actually a lot like Germany's in the 60ies. Both are most likely some kind of nuclear threshold strategy, that is one tries to exploit dual use technology and push the actual decision wether it is a civilian or military nuclear program as far out as possible. Now, it is possible to interpret that as a military program, however the qualifier that that is an interpretation, and that it wasn't actually shown is always lost. And that is precisely how these kinds of biases work, it is not that newspapers outright lie, they just use their wiggling room in a consistent manner.

Actually best to observe is at the Olympics, there is across competitions and therefore across commentators, a very consistent national hierarchy for which athletes the moderator will make excuses or for which athletes the moderator seeks to qualify the performance. (Think of doping for example.)
I have a particular fondness for well-formatted html that I can read via 'view source' - in contrast to the div-overloaded soup that I usually encounter. Periodically, I toy with automated formatting for html until I remember that it's essentially impossible - two html sources can have a single space character difference and simultaneously produce the same output and different output, depending on an external CSS file. This kind of stuff is tricky.
Context is very important here. Saying that in NYC or Paris, sure that’s ridiculous. In Russia? That would not surprise me. Our ideals of society should not prevent us from seeing a current reality.
Okay, makes sense. But how does that negate us giving Russia a war chest of money the past year?
Thank you. I've been thinking about that change. It does look cool haha
Im as lowest as lowest goes. Like whole family used to sleep in a small room, seen struggle for food and finished engineering with help of lots of people and scholarships.

Dad started with manual labor work, and things like cutting wood in forests when he started. Retired as a taxi driver.

Not seen any caste system in muslims, let alone discrimination of any kind. Looks like desparate attempt from Hindus to drag muslims into this just to be able to say 'Its not just us'.
Yes, that's why there's medication to treat depression, anxiety etc. Obviously it doesn't work for every condition and every person and there's still a lot of research being done but this is one of the main ways to tackle these problems.
Where there? There seem to be hundreds of posts, and searching for "risks" and "bridge risks" didn't seem to bring anything up.
Absolutely right you are, sir.

We all have to thank the Russians to have shown the world in 2014 how to do it.
And before that.
And also to give us a great opportunity for Whataboutism.

Sigh, I probably still have those Bezmenov brochures from the early eighties lying around somewhere.
F-droid:
Imagepipe (remove EXIF, resize, share)
andOTP (alternative to google authenticator)
Loyalty Card Keychain

Non FOSS:
Firefox
They gonna send nukes because IKEA stopped sending Billy?

I'm not sure Billy will come back that way.

Let's face it: Russia is illegaly invading a foreign country that is fighting back hard. The only way I see out for Russia to save itself is by sending Putin into exile and blame it all on him.

Putin hoped for weakness in the west re sanctions and weapons. They play hardball and now Putin is failing.

edit: I also believe nuclear is the only war Russia could even think about against the west. The army isn't that strong obviously...
It is really a bad situation because NOBODY in the west has thought about attacking Russia at all. It is all in their heads. It's just plain stupid.
Podcast Republic. Most functional podcast app I've found, with manual playlist creation, adding virtual folders, YouTube subscriptions, etc

Also the Dev answers everything promptly on a dedicated subreddit for it and releases updates constantly.
Wow - I love it. That's how I'd hope to build a job site. Love the long form company descriptions. Will have a think about DDG's idea of a "DRI".
I think the point being made originally was not that the leased planes will be returned (many articles suggest they won't), it was that these planes need ongoing maintenance and parts which the airlines won't have access to. The original tweet thread viraptor is referring to suggested that this is something that will hit the airlines much sooner than we laypersons might have imagined.

We'll see in the coming weeks, but the scenario you describe where a catastrophic decline in Russian flights such that there are enough non-Airbus/Boeing planes that can manage them is effectively a collapse in Russian civil aviation sector which is kinda what the thread was implying.

The thread in question https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498723248183382020.html
If he put the malware in, yes.
Such a reaction is within expectations — of course there will be resentment, because the tangible consequences of economic hardship on this scale are devastating.

I'd expect such sentiments to continue and amplify over time — but hopefully support for the war will also be driven down in parallel. Even if it's considered a tactical blunder ("we can't afford to keep up this special operation") rather than a moral one.
No he probably couldn't. He could nuke it, but sending a bunch of planes against a city which has air defense cover is a good way to lose your airforce. He sure can't get artillery near it - because he'd have done it if that armor convoy could move. Instead it's getting bombed by Ukranian war planes.

Resistance fighters lose against an occupier at something like a 10:1 ratio - against the resistance. They lose on average 10 members for every occupation kill. You can prove this to yourself - what did the US lose in Afgahnistan vs the Taliban? For how many years?

You should always try and win the conventional war if you can do win at a better rate then that - which the Ukraine is.
Why?

Oh, I understand. There are two kinds of engineers: the lumpers and the dividers. The lumpers like to build one single massive engine that does everything, and the dividers prefer many small engines that do one thing, do it very well, and can be composed with other small engines in new and innovative ways and provide redundancy, maintainability, and scalability.

Obviously I count myself in the latter group. So the question for me is, what possible advantage would consolidating everything into one tool give me? Consider that I'm a software development toolchain engineer by trade in your reply.
From the Docs: Overview of the issue types currently reported by Infer

https://fbinfer.com/docs/all-issue-types
It is a weapon. Tor doesn’t exist because the DoD loves anonymity and freedom of speech so much.
Whatever you stand is on the war support the civilians with supplies and anything needed. There are tons of organizations that will collect supplies in Europe and ensure it gets to where it’s needed.
Approximation
And Ukrainans believe there's a "ghost plane" in the sky that destroyed half russian air force.
Atomic (YC S20) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer – Fullstack
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Unpopular opinion here:

Two guys (or gals) are fighting. One has a pistol. The other is bare hands. You are watching. What should you do? Give him a pistol?

While one has a pistol but the other hasn't, the odds of somebody dying/get injured are minimal. If both have a pistol, odds are somebody will die or get really injured. Probably both. Does it worth? They will sleep on this and tomorrow nobody may care anymore.

Putin is guilty of starting this war (should be bashed to hell) but Zelenski is being a courageous irresponsable by allowing his country to be destroyed and his people to die. He didn't do his homework and is betting everything now. EU and US are giving him guns..
Yerka bike uses frame as lock
Ukraine war: Sky News journalist Stuart Ramsay and team shot at in ambush
Caveat: I drive in the UK so driving quality may be different here. I always maintain adequate stopping distances on busy motorways. People do fill those gaps occasionally and it does result in me driving slightly slower on average by a couple mph maybe, but it's perfectly possible to maintain a gap.

A lot of experienced drivers here claim it's impossible too, but there's a good way to know that it's not: on your driving test, you'll fail for following too closely, so most people manage to keep an adequate stopping distance for the test. Following closely is usually a habit picked up when someone becomes a more confident driver.

The real reason is probably people don't want to take the tiny average speed hit or find it unfair that they keep letting people in.
His second biggest crime was probably saying <<Он ёбнутый... чтоб вы поняли?>> about Putin.
The location of DSOs on the build machine is rarely the same as on the target machine the software is run on, except for the corner case of building software locally on the target. Embedding detailed information about the build environment is rarely useful to anyone but those with malicious intent.
What do you mean by "operate a self driving car"? That's the point of SAE5: You can't really operate a SAE5 vehicle other than telling it where to go. No steering wheel, no gas pedal, no brake pedal, no nothing. There is no way you could argue that the owner of a SAE5 car is responsible for it. You might as well be legally responsible for the bus, train, airplane you ride in.
I meant the LEO orbit, though I have no idea of their military activities, they might as well have a ton of objects there.

Thank you for the counterpoint though, it was interesting :)
It’s not that formatters are essential but they are extremely convenient. They don’t just save you from formatting your own code, they also:

* Prevent arguments on which formatting convention to adopt,

* Save a peer reviewer from shallow comments if formatting conventions are broken,

* Prevent fill-in white space commit from filling in the git history, and

* Decrease the risk of senior developers imposing weird styles on the code base.

Formatters might help you write better code by freeing you from worrying about one aspect of coding, but—much more importantly—they help create and maintain a better culture around your code.
Nigeria has people whose home language is English. I’ve worked with some. I doubt there are many Nigerians who only speak English and Nigerian English as spoken on the street can be as different from the British standard as Scots or Jamaican patois but there are plenty of native English speakers on Africa. This shouldn’t be that surprising. The Indian subcontinent has plenty of ruling class Brown Englishmen like the Bhuttos or Gandhis who are on their third or fourth generation of English language medium education. Anglophone Africa isn’t that different in that respect. The ruling class spoke English at independence and people from different language communities who have a common language in English will raise English speaking children.
I have three Yubikeys that I use for TOTP and that house my GPG keys and SSH key. At any given time, I have one on my person, one in my home office and one off-site. I only use TOTP on the Yubikeys for "critical accounts" and use oathtool and password-store to perform TOTP for most accounts (in Firefox via passff).

Password-store features git push and pull so I keep my encrypted passwords and TOTP keys on a couple remote Git servers. Because I use passwords that I don't know for every service, the Yubikeys are really more about being a safe way to back-up and transport my encryption key. If I've got that, I can always decrypt my passwords.
So because you can’t afford something, that means it’s the responsibility of another private party to publish your video for free?

If you think it is a right that people should have, talk to your representative and get the government to create GovTube where anyone can post any type of conspiracy crap they desire.
Shortwave radios are cool but a lot of countries (eg Netherlands) have decommissioned their "world service" transmitters. And due to the massive antennas and high power needed these are not reinstated easily.

I would get a receiver that can receive the amateur bands too. These tend to be very active during emergencies. You'd need continuous coverage and SSB (LSB/USB) receive. Can be had for 100 bucks or so.
I'm taking about a universe where violence is impossible. Not a universe where people are compelled to distribute source code whenever they have distributed a binary file.

I'm fundamentally opposed to the idea of forcing people to do what I want and that's the clear purpose of GPL.

Somebody not doing what I want is not coercing me. I'm free to use or not use a binary distributed without it's source code, or I can try to reverse engineer it. Forcing them to do the additional work of sending me the source code would be coercing them, it would be impossible in my hypothetical alternative universe, and it would be wrong in this universe.
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