skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I do feel sad for the Russian population. From the start of the invasion, I knew how much collateral damage Russia would take and that the damage done would last for decades. But then, the country of Russia is invading and destroying Ukraine right now. Just because no one bombs Russia, you cannot assume there are not damages to the country. The obvious way out would be massive public resistance to end this quickly.

Also, this should be a warning to any people who currently feel the temptation to elect a government which is basically fighting democracy. The effect in Russia is obvious, but it isn't as if there aren't such tendencies in other countries. Just watch which political parties try to discredit free media and you have a good first indicator.
A strange decision, but so is the decision to watch news on YouTube.
pt mono is my go to. you?
You'd be surprised. Having 'Western' furniture, clothing and vehicles in the Eastern European countries was a requirement to be seen as successful in life. Of course this is nonsense but a lot of people bought into it and it will take a long time to let go of that. But: whatever Ikea sold they sold and it will likely continue to work for a long time. Vehicles are going to be breaking down without a steady source of spares you'll see cannibalization of the worst of the rolling ones before the year is out.
They still presented search results in their general search engine that were banned by Google (some of them because of stupid EU laws, some others because of stupid copyright laws), that was nice.
Novaya Gazeta quits news reports after criminal prosecution of journalists
They mentioned "geopolitical risks" in every prospectus they issued. So the answer is no - investors have been warned that this might happen!
Nothing. Major versions of Go modules can be kept _either_ in a directory _or_ a branch. (The OP just doesn't seem to be aware of the branch option.)
> I personally prefer using "regular expression" in the language-theoretic sense and "regex" or "regexp" for related concepts in programming languages and software.

This is also what Larry Wall proposes:

> [...] Pattern Matching, generally having to do with what we call "regular expressions", which are only marginally related to real regular expressions. Nevertheless, the term has grown with the capabilities of our pattern matching engines, so I'm not going to try to fight linguistic necessity here. I will, however, generally call them "regexes" (or "regexen", when I'm in an Anglo-Saxon mood).

https://raku.org/archive/doc/design/apo/A05.html
I feel like Russia breaking up into smaller states and then each state joining the eu on a long timescale once they meet various civic legal and economic targets is the kind of boring solution that will be fought for years and then happen once all other options have been exhausted. This war is really about Ukraine (even the Russian speaking parts, the anti-Nato, Anti-EU people in Ukraine) thinking they'd rather be part of the EU once they get their civic society sorted than immediately be a corrupt part of Russia.
To be honest this sounds like a fairytale to me. IKEA has\had good things like lamps and tabletops. But the furniture has terrible quality. I'm still kind of angry at myself for buying their Stockholm cabinet. You _have_ to fix it agains the wall to stop the wiggling (that's what the manual AND their support tells me).

Unfortunately we really don't have anything that is mass-production and of good quality at the same time, but IKEA is hardly a ray of light in my opinion.
Show me proof the US military is using Starlink in a significant manner.
Signal

From Fdroid:

- K9mail

- Mullvad

- Etar + DavX

- Markor

- Newpipe

- Red moon

- Nextcloud (requires hosted service)

- Wallabag (requires hosted service)

Non FOSS:

- Aurora store

- Waze

- Google maps
Because you believe in freedom of speech?
> my understanding is it's primarily because of how adversarial fraud detection is.

Let me rephrase this to make it clearer what the actual issue is: it's primarily because the cost to Google of false negatives on fraud detection (failing to detect actual frauds) is much higher than the cost to Google of false positives on fraud detection (flagging users as fraudulent that actually aren't). So Google is willing to accept a large number of false positives in order to avoid false negatives.

Or, to put it more simply: the incentive structure of what Google has chosen as its core business model means it is in Google's interest to randomly penalize a large number of bona fide users simply because a much smaller number of users are fraudulent.

In other words, this is basically unfixable unless Google changes its core business model.

See the problem?
You may well be on to something here: that Russia is doing this as a warning to other states still under its control that if they flirt with the EU they will get turned into rubble. That would at least make some sense.
it pains me that in 21 century we still have to explain that voting at gunpoint from 3rd party (armed occupation from another country) can't possibly be considered valid.

It's the same strategy Russia used to annex neighboring countries before WW2.
- first they get their military in by any means necessary
- then they take down any means of mass communication, TV towers, radio etc. Any leaders of the opposition will be killed or jailed. Only censored Russian propaganda will be shown.
- then occupation army will establish a puppet government which will stage a referendum which asks to join Russia in some form. At that point it's rather irrelevant how the people vote because as Stalin said, it's not important who votes but rather who does the counting.

I think Anne Applebaum in one of her books has described how it went down in the countries that Russia annexed. Looked eerily like following a flowchart and evidently still works and sounds plausible to some people.

Scottish independence referendum seems to be a rather good example how such independence referendums really should look like to be accepted by the world.
The Lithuanian ‘Elves’ Fighting Russian Disinformation
The US was one of the countries I was talking about that intentionally undermined their own democracy.

Did Trump win the popular vote? Would he have had any chance in a proportional voting system? Or if you had to vote? (He himself says no Republican could be elected if people could easily vote). Who made that possible and why?
* says the rumor mill

IOW not an announcement...
So, like, a social credit score....?

I'm being quite reductive, but at the same time your points could be interpreted to resemble the concept. Fruit for thought
You know you can still simulate that commute, right? People who miss the boundaries of the office environment away from home, the social aspects, the prospect for promotions, sure. That all makes sense. But the commute? There’s nothing stopping you from biking those ten minutes before your remote job. During the quarantine you had more time than before to bike, and probably less traffic to boot.

And as an aside- did you have your own office or cubicle, or was it open layout?
As an aside, a Hungarian mathematician wrote an entire book explaining how mathematics works to a, I guess, a language major (well, Marcell Benedek was a professor, a writer, a literary historian, a translator, a theatre director).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_with_Infinity
Moldova just announced that if you openly support the war/the Russian invasion in neighbouring Ukraine you risk prison, so it can also go the other way. I sort of understand why Moldova is doing it (small country a throne's stone away from Odessa and the Russian troops), the idea is that all sides are giving up democracy and the rule of law as fast as they can (the West a little slower, but it's following the same path).
Web Animation Performance Fundamentals: pages at 60FPS
I'm no expert, but I would imagine this would be part of a larger package that would have plenty of goodies for other D-leaning states. You don't have to convince folks in Louisiana that SALT cap removal is in their best interest — you just package it up in a bill large enough to get a big enough coalition of supporters.
> adversaries already know what they did wrong so telling them isn't going to make much difference

I'm not sure that's true. Adversaries know they are intentionally trying to game Google's system, but that is not the same as knowing all of the internal parameters of Google's system. Telling them what they did wrong in specific cases might well give them useful additional information about those internal parameters that Google does not want to give them.

> False positives do not know what they did wrong and telling them will make a tremendous difference.

While this is true, it is also not actionable, since the whole point is that Google does not know which positives are false positives and has no cost-effective way of finding out (since finding out would require actual humans and the scale of its ad business is too large to make the number of humans that would be required affordable).
But that would be a very irregular way to use JSON.
I am well aware of that. But why do you think I'm stupid? I even said I have a good background, even as far as statistics and reading medical papers and even a few courses on setting up and evaluating clinical trials.

I never had "anxiety". I never was stressed by life or my circumstances. I lived very comfortably.

I also did mention that I was at a university clinic and had a doctor, who even had actually suspected that I had more and did look for other causes. Do you think that doctor, who was a researcher too, was not capable? I also mentioned he did not have a financial incentive - when I was still searching for a cause after it had escalated and nobody could help I had plenty of doctors trying to sell me useless stuff. I'm not even mad, they did so after doing what they could with their training, if I had a specific problem within their field of expertise I would still go to each of them, just now better knowing how to use them instead of expecting a solution to all problems (just an aside, but we know financial incentives matter - plenty of reports and studies about useless overtreatment).

All those things I mentioned were stable and increasing for over two decades. And then they went away quickly after chelation therapy. They were not even on the radar!

And you seriously propose I suffered from "head stuff"???

Also, doctors look at symptoms as a whole. Sure you can ignore everything I wrote (and even more that only my doctor and me know) and try to refute every single system individually by claiming I must have about a hundred different conditions, one for every little issue. Or, you can accept that there was only one problem to begin with that caused them all.

What exactly is so outrageous about accepting heavy metals as a cause? "There is no safe level of lead" is official mantra, and I found a paper for training health workers on an NIH website saying mercury is an order of magnitude worse. So where exactly is it so unthinkable that that stuff actually does cause problems in the real world, and not just in theoretical medical papers?

After about a year both my doctor and I on the same appointment wanted (and di) to say to one another the same thing. I wanted to ask, because I was aware of the lab test values over time, and he said it before I could ask, that we had reached the end of treatment covered by medical science and the available studies. But he agreed I could continue under his now more passive and more observing guidance if I felt it still helped. It did so for years, and I had signs, not just symptoms, associated with continued use of chelators. That included reactions from within my jaw after chelation and a lot of other stuff, visible. If all of that was "psychological", then there really is no need for doctors any more and they can all retrain as psychologists because nothing is real.

But you know what? It actually really was in my head! mercury is a neurotoxin, so yes, there was definitely an impact. Brain is chemistry though! I'll never understand this "it's just psychological" mindset, which is the real unscientific esoteric quasi-religious stuff as far as I'm concerned.
> Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen,

Got in their way? What? Nonsense?!

When you go to war based on lies you yourself made up, then it's intentional.

That's not accidents that "get in the way".
> First of all, at least 40% of the planes are home-built, so aviation in Russia most certainly will not come to a halt.

Home-build - maybe, but not without parts from the US\EU, not to mention most of the production equipment is not Russian too and you have to maintain it or replace it at somepoint.

Oh and to build something you need materials - some are local, some will have to be replaced if possible.

This will be a huge problem, especially in a country with strong corruption tradition.
It's not a war, it's the "special military operation". Calling it a war can be considered a lie in Russia.
Last I read he explicitly said that this was not his goal. When did he say that?
Ironically, this advice is illegal in the U.K. under the computer misuse act - circumventing measures intended to restrict access to information is a criminal offence, as is providing information on how do do so.
https://novayagazeta-ru.translate.goog/articles/2022/03/01/o...

"Today, the Russian parliament finally introduced military censorship without actually declaring it. For “disseminating knowingly false information about the use of the Russian Armed Forces,” we, news journalists, can get up to 15 years in the camps. “Knowingly false” information is information about prisoners, killed, shelling of civilians in Ukraine. We are asked to admit that none of this happened.

Yes, we can say that the path to free journalism is through barracks and barbed wire. All this is very beautiful, but insane nonsense."
I've done some Codewars problems where you have to write a regex to check whether an input number is divisible by a specific number, so I was really interested to see how that would work for primes.

Nope, it's just playing with lengths.
Really? Okay, so TL;DR Heavy metals == bad and can be a factor for tinnitus. Which is why I wrote a comment, the overall subject is tinnitus after all? The rest of the comment is to provide the greater context and more info. I mention that I got rid of my tinnitus right at the start, showing how it's relevant for the current discussion.
well that is a classic chicken and egg problem. isnt it?
if i see no matches, i would be inclined to ask my friends to join me on the linux match and if they join, well there you go.
The idea of DAG-embedded CRDTs is far from new and was introduced here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00107 (I'm among the authors)

Unfortunately, the verification that the author proposes (not accepting new updates until the dag below is verified) will need a lot of caveats for real world usage.

Currently we use these CRDTs for a key value database of 40M+ keys in a deployment of ipfs-cluster, which uses https://github.com/ipfs/go-ds-crdt .
How about computers? I don’t think Russia has a modern semiconductor industry. They are going to need one soon. Smart phones?

I don’t think people realize how hard these sanctions will hit over the next months. There is not going to be a modern Russia left.
It depends of your criteria. E.G: old appliance are bulky, noisier and suck more juice. You could say modern ones are then better. But my mother still own stuff from decades ago, that are consistently sturdier, last longer, are easier to repair, and have a better UI.

I just bought a food slicer. The motor was connected to the saw using a very soft plastic gear. Its teeth became smooth after a month of use, rendering the machine useless, and no way to buy a new gear on the internet.

This is modern tech at work: you getter a cheaper machine, but to get there, the materials used suck. And there is no stock for replacement parts because it's expensive to keep them around.
Home-built doesn’t mean “all parts produced in Russia”. And it just takes a handful of parts to be included in sanctions – especially with just-in-time manufacturing – for an entire production line to grind to a halt.
> Anytime anyone brings-up Western aggression, people cry whataboutism and so the topic cannot be discussed anymore

This is literally lie. There are both discussions and articles about Iraq, Afganistan and what have you all the time. Especially here in HN. Hey, why do you dare to talk about Iraque when you did not stopped Balkan conflicts, you never attempted to help Tibet or stop genocide going on in Chine, so no talking about anything until those two stop.

Whataboutism is not about analyzing or drawing paralel nor anything like that. It is transparently bad faith. Somehow twisting Ukraine and Eastern Europe in EU deserving punishment for Iraque and Syria from Putin, because Americans something something.

"Why dont countries surrounding Ukraine lock their borders to refugees, like I guess, they apparently demanded other countries surrounding conflicts to lock their borders ..." something something.
> About 500 airplanes are leased and have to be returned within a month to the leasing companies,

Putin will make a law that returning airplanes to abroad is illegal. Foreigners have not been allowed to sell Russian shares already nearly a week. So nothing new there.

They cannot fly to most countries anyway, so the risk of getting them confiscated while landed somewhere is small.
Ok, at some point, sure, maybe.
Good point. On the other hand, if we could encourage people to use actual trains, that would be much better for the environment.
> Google for things censored in Russia.

Calling censorship take downs due to copyright infringement and alikes seems like a stretch.

There's a difference between things taken down due to the political agenda of the government (Russia), and things taken down because they violate someone else's rights (West).
One of the advantages of a language is that you can get someone with experience in that language and they'll be able to understand it (with some work for code style and libraries used etc).

This seems to be different enough you may as well just use another language.
> turns out that the reason for the apparent disagreement was that you either didn't know what country Florida was in or what "extradition" means.

I’m afraid it’s you who’s confused - “extradition” is about jurisdictions, not countries.

Sending a person from Pennsylvania to Florida does require an extradition process.
While it is true that journalism has suffered recently, this is a false equivalent.

It is true that in the US, if you want to live in a bubble, you can. However, that's a choice. There are many, many other information channels. And they are free to say whatever they want.

The real issue in the US, is the fact that so many people choose to live in a bubble. I bumped into this Vox piece the other day, "How American conservatives turned against the vaccine", that illustrates quite well how it really is destroying the US

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sv0dQfRRrEQ
Jitsi can connect with most SIP servers, there are even videos on YouTube of people doing this.

The ecosystem is moving, but Signal is falling behind as said ecosystem moves. Way more resources are flowing into making Matrix good than are funding Signal and XMPP, to their detriment.
I thought this was the generally accepted rationale? What other explanations are there?
Specifically only speaking of iOS and Safari. Don’t have FF installed and have never found reader mode option in Chrome.
Go is a high level language, it doesn’t share any quality with C, other than perhaps bad expressiveness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8

Unless America can undo its inequality problem within 10 years give or take, it will become financially and politically unstable.
Not to mention Windows updates.
"Instigated" is inaccurate, I agree.

There were protests going on but there's still a legitimate president (de jure at least).
US diplomats are caught on tape discussing who should be and should not be in the new government.

To me it means that they were directly talking to the protesters leaders and assuring them of us support.

If that kind of diplomacy sounds fine I don't quite understand why the Americans were so sensitive about the so-called "Russian involvement" in the US elections
Can you decide if a number is prime using a true regular expression?

No. This won't work because the time cost of primality testing is too high (cubic in the number of binary digits?), and checking if a string satisfies a regular expression takes only linear time. Since cubic is bigger than linear, this won't work. Too good to be true!

Not a proof, but a rule of thumb. No need to even use the pumping lemma.
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From the perspective of your immune system's cells, what exactly does the vitamin D molecule do?
Some of those links are new to me.

That aside, yes! In my view, right now those of us able to do what just happened here need to continue. More will pick up on the, to us all too obvious dark patterns...

What to do in order to have this aspect of tech make better sense, augment, empower, add value, serve, rather than enslave, exploit, diminish, create dependence, is going to be the product of discussions we will not have, unless enough of us arrive at this all being an priority and understand the time is now, ish.

New law, and in that place where tech, law and society collide.

We are the ones, and we are because many remember times before all this, many may know nothing, this being all they have known.

It is the timing, mix of perspectives, newness of the tech and more which make this time special. We go too long and the inflection points may just evaporate...

A very similar thing happened with labor, resulting in the likes of the New Deal, by way of what I am trying (poorly, I feel) to get at here.

When we attempt solutions, those form a basis to build on and momentum to get it right, and have it work better for everyone. That matters.

The law is well behind, like we are leaving a "wild west" kind of time and that exit could have us see far worse before people move to address it. Or, it all could go better, sooner too.

I agree! Getting involved matters. Sharing it, particularly among "normies", who sense real trouble,,but do not understand well enough for that momentum to build matters too.

Great comment. Wish I had more and better answers. They will come as more of us seek them and amplify the good potential more than we currently amplify the growing bad.
There can be more than one reckless party. Putin obviously started the war, and Russia will have suffered huge losses, not to mention the devastating human toll.

But do you think Ukraine has a chance here? What is the purpose of fighting? It would only make sense if there was a chance of NATO or the EU stepping in to help them, but that seems to be ruled out.
Never even thought of that, but good point.

Russian business would be crippled overnight, and probably plenty of lower government too.
The problem is they are very hard to identify.
Just like when the west stood up to the US Government and stopped the Iraq war? It's easy to point the finger when you're far from the reality.
Thanks for submitting a translated link.