skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Police don't cause crime.

There are plenty of corrupt and criminal police. Planting evidence in Baltimore, tickets and forfeitures for revenue in Brookside AL, excess civil forfeiture all over the place, black sites in Chicago. The list goes on and on. Police may exist to battle crime, but they are no angels and it takes vigilance on the part of the public to ensure the police protect the interests of the public instead of their own.
That statement considerable changes meaning when you know that the thing that failed was that they found a huge amount of gas in Crimea.

It's a Russians invasion, not from the west. A country should be free to decide what they want.
I do rotate which key is off-site. For the "critical sites" this means I've only got two keys registered for some period of time. I don't use the TOTP on the Yubikeys for most sites so signing up for a new service involves generating a new TOTP key with oathtool and saving that in password-store (along with the URL and login name) when I generate the password.
Oh how the world has changed in one single week, we all stand united. Is having a common enemy not the greatest catalyst?
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Those Sinn Fein MPs also happened to occupy leadership positions in the IRA, a proscribed terrorist organisation responsible for assassinating several MPs, launching mortar attacks against Downing Street, blowing up a hotel the PM was staying in, and murdering numerous civilians in indiscriminate bombings.
*figma, not dogma. Autocorrect messed up and just noticed.
More evidence that Covid-19 started in a market, not a laboratory
> not bring us 60 years of the most peaceful days in modern history?

This is a very strange historic rewriting that's popped up everywhere in the last weeks. Did the Cold War not exist? There have been wars, genocides, coups, and regime changes practically continuously, and international media has consistently reported on them. Western media just didn't highlight them because: {they didn't involve major US security interests / involved "non-white" countries that "we wouldn't expect to be peaceful anyway"}.

Ukraine is a local conflict, just like Syria was. It involved proxy wars with the same major players. But it "feels" more significant, because now it's on "our" border. It all seems so artificial.

This conflict isn't a "turning point" in history, it isn't "war returning after 70 years of peace". It's a local conflict of which there have been dozens in recent decades. World War 3 will happen much later, and won't involve these countries[0]. There is no principled or logical reason for people to care about Ukraine and not Yemen, Ethiopia, and Myanmar, expect for people caring about what the TV tells them to care about.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/george-friedman-on-wo...
Are the vast majority of knives being used to stab people?

The study I linked had the proportion of hidden service visits to paedophile sites at around 80% of the total.

It's such an alarming figure, it really should be in the Tor documentation as a warning of what you'll actually be enabling by running a node.
>people live their lives as serf's for fear of pissing off the guy with the gun who will kill them

Are you referring to the people 'ruling' Ukraine?

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/04/how-zelensky-made-peac...
No I know what you mean by “work”, my degree is in physics. What I think is not clear is what you mean by “efficient”.
HN could maybe offer a workaround to this by allow the reddit-like three option sort, "top new controversial" (then also allow per account default sort setting?)

I vaguely remember HN pages are built statically though, so three versions would have to be built? That might have been many years ago and has changed.

If voting weight cannot be trusted anymore in the world we live in, then change the sort.
Lasers that bounce off the moon come back to earth as a few detectable photons, not as a beam of light that you’d recognize without very specialized equipment.
My partner’s 2017 Subaru asks us with an indicator to let it warm up on cold mornings.
I dont want to be harsh, since you may well have lost people close to you because of this specific propaganda, but wishing further pain, misery, suffering and death on the victims of propaganda and their families isn't really cool.

Some things are complicated and murky, but there's fairly clear boundaries too sometimes.
Uh... didn't even think about loss of product. What moved me was debt already incurred.
As someone who works on an MLOps platform that allows you to use your own clusters, I have to check multiple cloud providers for testing.

GCP is wonderful compared to AWS. It took me a week to sign up for AWS, including writing an issue and a phone call. It took other colleagues some hacky ways to start to use it, even at the sign-up phase.

Doing something on GCP is pretty straightforward. Creating VMs, Kubernetes clusters, etc. I've had non technical people do it successfully on their own. Live. While observed and under pressure.

AWS? Good lord. That's what I will say about it as I'd rather say good things about a good service than bad things about another.
It is not 'fake news' it is true. Azov Battalion have been fighting alongside Ukrainians for years against Putin, and Russia. [0] Even Facebook is praising them [1]

> Or just a small that is being inflated in order to make Ukraine look bad. Biased angle? Is there another reason mainstream media doesn't pick up on this?

The mainstream media is not reporting on this because it further attempts to legitimise Putin's 'de-nazifying' Ukraine narrative by using Azov Battalion as an excuse to invade. Then he will fallaciously point out that 'The west is on the side of supporting neo-Nazis' which will give bad optics for Ukraine and split opinion in Russia and the rest of Europe.

Sometimes the mainstream media doesn't report the whole story, and just simply hides it and promotes their own propaganda. Multiple sources always tell you the full story.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right...

[1] https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-ba...
HN doesn't allow downvotes for accounts with less than 500 karma. While I don't doubt there's considerable Russian astroturfing on FB or Twitter, I'm pretty skeptical that the Kremlin employs similar tactics here. Spambots or paid shills would stick out like a sore thumb.
Maybe people are so used to living in such a safe country that they can't even conceive of a real threat to its existence. Countries only exist because they're willed into existence. Sure, Ukraine isn't perfect, but it's the Ukrainians' and they have every right in the world to defend it. That said, the way the conversation is going on here in the last day or two, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these comments were direct propaganda, or people have been soaking it up from somewhere else.
Is this really an issue? The only way you aren’t able to block users is if they are employees of your own organization.
How Angry Should Other Writers Be About Brandon Sanderson’s $22M Kickstarter?
It might be true but as OP says in the article, the moment you have potential multiple ways to show the same piece of code, you’re going to surface engineers with each opinion on the code review. Getting an opinionated formatter is the best way to bring engineers back to do what they really need to be doing in code review, which is review the code not its formatting. I’ll never go back to python without black and Isort!
I feel that just like many former Pro-Russian Ukrainians, this invasion is the final straw that allowed them to see through the bullshit. And the ones left are fewer in number and more hopelessly mired in their beliefs.
Please ask on the Forum, You are more likely to be able to talk directly with a Dev.

However they will be most likely preoccupied with the new release at the moment.

FYI: Tor Browser User Manual <https://tb-manual.torproject.org>

Tor Support <https://support.torproject.org>
Many automated tools consider tor a fraud signal - so be careful.

Users sometimes believe lies online (ie bridge internet extension is OK or not noticeable) and create a lot of trouble for themselves.

Profile sync can bring that extension onto your work computer as an example I’m familiar with. If you are bridging tor at work not great
You want other people to be forced to pay for the content you consume.
It's not the problem what we think they can get away with.
The problem is what they think they can can get away with.
And in what time frame.
They obviously operate in a different frame of reference.
Their military doctrine is also different from ours, apart from the obvious shortcomings at the moment.
But it doesn't matter militaryly, they don't fight us, they fight the Ukraine.
Because of their bloody nukes.
A shame Patton was right in his motivation to stop the Soviets.
That would have been before they get nukes themselves.

They have set the anchor in these negotiations between us and them.
They want status quo ante 1997.
They will at least get Ukraine.
Perhaps Moldavia.

And they created chaos.
Which always also bears opportunity.

And China will wait.
Some of them definitely do. I've watched a few broadcasts from a Ukrainian twitch streamer who remains in Kiev and people are excitedly discussing latest exploits of the ghost of Kiev in chat.
Ukraine doesn't send conscripts to front line. They will service far front line. Ukraine had genocide (Holodomor) and bloody war less than century age, so they caused long plato in reproduction rate. Also, Ukraine has low fertility rate, so we don't want to lose young man and woman, because it hits hard. Many parents has one or two childs, so death of single son on girl causes lot of pain.

If you have stomach for this game, then go to frontline and replace somebody young here, please, so (s)he will not die.
Abso freaking lutely. These statements (so common for him) are way too cryptic and open to so many different interpretations. I guess firing all his PR/comms staff is going well?
> And get myself on a watch list? No thanks.

It's interesting to see people this scared of not being a role model citizen. Gives me a china vibe.
Credit exists when you’re able to pay it.
The linked study revealed that around 80% of hidden service visits were to paedophile websites.

Is 80% of internet traffic child pornography imagery? Are 80% of cars driven by paedophiles? If not, your comparison makes no sense really.

Also, Tor isn't public infrastructure. It's a largely anonymous group of people who have collaborated to form an anonymising network. Everyone involved who is aware of the above is knowingly enabling the sexual abuse of children, by allowing the perpetrators to hide behind their network.
It absolutely blows my mind how many of my friends support soft censorship that supports their points of view.

I try to listen to podcasts, occasionally, that are contrary to my own beliefs, not because of free speech but rather to make sure that I don’t end up in a “bubble.”

Coincidentally, I listed to something by The Hill on YouTube last week and it was reasonably good because they had three people speculating on the future economy with slightly different points of view. Not great stuff but worth having on while I was cooking dinner. Also, as a liberal, there is a conservative think tank at Stanford University that I occasionally listen to, not always comfortable for me, but worth a little time every month.

Free speech, in supporting views different from own own, is so very important.
So you think Trump should have been insulting him publicly? Do you get more cooperation out of people by publicly lambasting them?
I think of road side food vans as equivalent to Indie games. There's a low buy in cost which means that there's much more opportunity for the creativity of the individual can flourish.
Yeah I guess, it does seem implausible they'd be able to fit it in with all the work they have fabricating pretexts to get their own countries involved with wars and invasions and regime change and assassinations.
A lot of child abusers also use the Internet, so you should stop using it. They also use storage devices, SSDs HDDs, we should stop using those as well. And they use electricity, a lot...
1 in 10 Americans say they don’t eat meat – a growing share of the population
So that's why they should be forced to pay for biased reporting that they do not want in the first place? Tell you what, Norway has a proud tradition of honest biased reporting; the party press. It's been toned down now, but I'm not sure it's for the better. Used to be that if your read Aftenposten (The Evening Post), you would know that you read an outlet for the Conservative Party. Meanwhile, if you read Arbeiderbladet (The Worker's Paper), you know you got an outlet for the Labour Party. And that was a good thing! Because you got what you asked for, and if you wanted more view-points - and many did - they'd simply buy both! But nobody likes getting something they don't want, much less paying for it.
> freedom

I think this word should be banned from such comparisons. Equal outcome can equal opportunity and different takes on what matters. Right-wing libertarianism tends to be the most "pure technical freedom" for the individual but tends to lead to little practical freedom for those without significant capital.

You could rightfully argue that the far end of either in its pure form is the meaningful flavor of "freedom".

Authoritarianism is orthogonal to that, in either case.
It's unlikely that std::regex will gain new dialects. Unfortunately it is very broken, it's unlikely that a proposal to extend it would go through.
This is good advice, I just got my first pair and they make a huge difference in comfort, and being able to stare at a screen throughout the day. Particularly if you are nearsighted and already wear glasses, the need for computer glasses may sneak up on you. I found that by afternoon/evening my eyes were tired and having problems focusing on a screen with my regular glasses.

The way my eye doctor explained it, there's two compounding problems - we start losing the ability to focus up close in our 40s, and distance-vision glasses push the near focus point further out. Eventually the near point is close to or further than the distance to your monitor/laptop, and your eye muscles have to strain to be able to focus.
Yup, I add to your second point from my experience.

I live in Turkey and we have a similar state propaganda (though fortunately not war). The government successfully collapsed the economy but they control the mainstream media and their supporters still blame (and truly believe in what they say) the opposition for everything bad that the government does.

Controlling people's mindset is apparently easier than it seems when you control media.
Texans overwhelmingly traveled out-of-state to get abortions after state ban
It's not a popular take, but the USSR spawned lots of nationalism in its republics. Soviet ideology held that nationalism is good, and that it would flourish under socialism for the benefit of its "peoples". The reality is that nationalism ended up eating the USSR itself. Nationalism is never good, we are only one humanity, not many
Nobody should be forced to participate in a war. These men (and trans women who the state considers to be men) are being victimized twice. First by the Russian government who brought war to their home, and then again by the Ukrainian government who is forcing them to participate in that war.

While forcing even more people to fight would obviously be even worse, the exclusion of one sex makes it feel worse because of its fundamental unfairness and the sexism it perpetuates. Perhaps it's illogical, but I actually feel better about being from a country with equal conscription where twice as many people are at risk of being forced to kill and die for the state, although I would of course prefer if the state relinquished its claim to its citizen's lives and gave everyone a choice.
When in the Balkans, I noticed how people’s general dislike of war is strongly tempered by a recent history of their fellow civilians being bombed by NATO using weaponry prohibited by international conventions.
What would be an easy and economic way to run a Tor Bridge/s on AWS?

I have few hundred bucks left in credit that will expire in a few months and no plans to use it
This started up as a good write up but quickly tanked when the article started to turn into just chat history pasting.
Some of Ukrainian propaganda are myths designed to bolster morale of the local population, some (such as claiming that >10k Russian soldiers are dead, fake videos of Russian POWs, spreading rumors that martial law will be declared on Friday in Russia) is offensive disinformation clearly aimed at Russians.
Depends on where in London.

Central London, absolutely no driving.

Somewhere a bit further out of central London like Sydenham or Ruislip and I can see people driving to the office. If it’s there.
regular ukrainian people would be laughing at your suffering (and wish you and your whole nation death), but yes. its a tragedy too. on the other hand you wouldnt have any problem finding a job anywhere. turkish airlines still fly to russia. where i would go if i were russian - bulgaria, serbia, montenegro, greece, turkey, the west...
Robots Get Some Inspiration from the Moai Statues of Easter Island
Specifically "liberal" has very different implications in NA vs Europe.
That's something that I've been thinking about yesterday, while writing my code in PHPStorm. I thought how much easier those modern tools make programmer life, how intuitive they are and how hard it must have been to get to the current state of art. Thanks for that, creators!
I had 3 languages in my Indian school
How's this comparable? It's a lie that doesn't hurt anyone, instead boosts morale in a country that's under siege.
I used to work with people from PST (-8), CET (+1) and KST (+9). The meeting planner [0] shows no "acceptable" overlap, but we made it work by doing meetings very rarely, planning them far in advance and essentially taking turns which timezone gets the late (22-23) or early (6-7) slots. This was despite the fact that there was a clear hierarchy - sometimes the boss got up at 4 or stayed up until 23 so we wouldn't have to.

[0] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=...
why would you believe a single word that Putin says though?
This is the guy who among many other lies said on camera in 2014 that the green men that took over Crimea and were armed to the teeth were just some random locals and not Russian military.
Just a couple of days before the current invasion denied any intention to do so while detailed attack plans were signed long before etc.

And besides taking pieces from your neighboring country, waging long shadow war in Donbas, telling everyone how Ukraine is not really a country anyway and then invading doesn't really seem such a great plan for unifying nations.

As far as I understand relations before Russians and Ukrainians were pretty OK before 2014 events. With his own actions Putin has made a country that has roughly 1/3 of the population of Russia mostly against him. Healing these wounds and relationships will take decades even once the war ends.
That's not an apt comparison. It could be if Trump (or anyone else) won or "won" the second election, then modified the constitution to allow himself to run again, and was still in office.

A lot of people accepted the corruption because life became significantly better. And was noticeably freer in some ways, like the allowance of non-state media and the freedom to leave, compared to the Communist era.
Note to mods - this is a propaganda article getting pasted around.
> "rerender previous form pages over and over again, except hidden"

There are modern ways to do this, see Unpoly, HTMX, livewire, hotwire, etc. You're comparing with an outdated view of what an MVC application looks like. It's like to complain about SPAs because of backbone.js

> "have some token to track partial form data"

This is called "sessions", the token you refer to can be a cookie, which is done by default for free on any MVC framework. Doing this in any other way lead to either losing authentication on page reload or security vulnerabilities (storing a token in localstorage, etc).

> "build up a DB to store a partially complete form"

Again, you can store partial data in a session, for free. As it comes by default with any MVC framework.

One of the key points here is that with any of the popular MVC frameworks you don't need to rebuild the wheel and the car from scratch as with SPA frameworks, most of these things come for free, specially anything related to forms. This is something we're not used to have in the SPA world and everyone has a different way to deal with it.

> Multi-page forms without some front end stuff

Nobody says there shouldn't be any frontend stuff, you still need it of course. If fields are static between steps you can just render every step and toggle between different set of fields using something like Alpine, no need to reload from the server. If fields are dynamic and need some kind of database lookup between steps, Unpoly or livewire/hotwire make this trivial.

Please, let's stop comparing Next.js/React top modern SPAs to 20 year's ago struts MVC, it has not been like that since many years ago already.
These are my thoughts too. Although of course I do not agree with the actions of Russia I feel like the actions of "the west" are increasingly escalating the conflict. Perhaps due to the initial lukewarm response...

I find worrying that Russia is being cornered into a position they did not consider when engaging in this military action and the consequences of what that might bring.

I think the west is not really trying to de-escalate the conflict and that feels a bit baffling. Also, I feel like a lot of the sanctions are targeting the Russian people as a whole, and because I do know some Russians I can see how tough the situation is turning on them... even though they are as innocent as any other civilian in this war. It is really sad to see so many people celebrate sanctions and so on.

It's a horrible situation! Where is our humanity?
Wide Web Authn[1] adoption can't come soon enough! This is so stupid! All I need is a single private key to login to all the websites!

I personally like to keep it in my iCloud account because I don't trust myself with keeping a private key for too long.

[1] https://webauthn.io
Related: anyone have a good 2FA backup solution? Like if I loose my phone at this point I’d be pretty stuffed as my Google Auth app would be gone and my text 2FA also gone in the same moment.
> Kessler syndrome

Makes for pretty good anime though:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
> Are the vast majority of knives being used to stab people?

This is a good point, but more on that below.

> It's such an alarming figure, it really should be in the Tor documentation as a warning of what you'll actually be enabling by running a node.

No, because even according to the article they are not even confident in their results. From DDoS attacks to law enforcement visiting those websites, it is impossible to assess.

> "We do not know the cause of the high hit count [to child abuse sites] and cannot say with any certainty that it corresponds with humans," Owen admitted in a response to the Tor Project shared with WIRED, adding that "caution is advised" when drawing conclusions about the study's results.

Human rights activists around the globe are relying on such infrastructure to have a safer way to communicate with the outside world and denounce actions of their governments. They are by far not the people who would click on the most hidden services, so they will be under-represented on such studies.

Sure encryption is used for unlawful behavior, but if you ban encryption and/or Tor, you will just hurt the people that need it the most while criminals will just find an alternative.