skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet theory: the thousands of surface to air missiles that we sent Ukraine work extremely well and Russia can’t afford to lose 50-100 fighter jets and more when their objective is to take Kyiv and scalp the Nazi or some other weird fantasy. I think once the Russians have installed a new government/had rigged elections they will leave someone like Lukashenko in charge expecting it will behave like Belarus…
You are correct but staying away from Alphabet is a lot easier said then done. They are still the best way for a small to medium business to reach customers. Ever since the iOS changes that crushed Facebook's targeting capability Google has only become more dominant in the advertising space.

To me it seems like avoiding Alphabet basically means avoiding advertising and it is really hard to grow a business without it.
The little nautilus would be cool as a ring
on point 2 another way to put it is that digital computers take much much lower tolerance components than analog computers.

A digital computer transistor has to operate(assuming ttl logic) at around 5 volts and 2 volts the transistor behavior in between does not really matter.

The analog computer transistor has to operate to a high precision at all voltage ranges.

Go ahead and start pricing out high precision transistors and the environmental controls needed to keep them there and you will see why we use digital computers.

The history of the navy NTDS air defense system is interesting because they were in a position where they could have gone ether way. use known and understood analog computers or go with the unknown new tech, digital computers.

https://ethw.org/First-Hand:No_Damned_Computer_is_Going_to_T...
Unicomp Model M. When IBM discontinued production of buckling spring keyboards the employees at the plant in Kentucky bought the factory, the tooling, and the rights to the (now expired) patents and kept on making the Model M the same as in 1985. It's a bit like how they kept making the original air cooled VW Beetle in Mexico years after everyone else moved on.

They're nearly not as well known as they should be because they don't do any marketing at all. And at $104 they're not expensive by premium keyboard standards.
I kave a crazy idea ;

Backstory when I was on design team for UCSF... I met a gene designer who built a system of being able to funnel genes to stem cells in a method of allowing said genes to express based on what prteins exposed to...

The idea being "ne may produce X gene to stem cell, and thus may determine how this stem cell will express"

Meaning :what do we feed a stem cell as far as proteins are concerned, in order to make these stem cell express as [kidney] or - [insert-organ-cell-type-here]
Bingo. There are audio tapes that prove this as well.
Reolink cameras using Shinobi as an NVR
We have smart watches now thank you.
Wanted for War Crimes
> I think once the Russians have installed a new government/had rigged elections they will leave someone like Lukashenko in charge expecting it will behave like Belarus…

Probably someone more exactly like Viktor Yanukovych.
It seems like a big juicy opportunity tho, would be great to take out all of that armor, it might not be stuck forever. I think the problem is that there are a huge amount of sams guarding that column and it would be risky to make a run against it with the few aircraft they have left.
> I can't help but wonder if this is the flip side to the Silicon Valley mantra of "if you want a raise, job hop," where hitting your four-year anniversary with the same company makes you an old-timer and gets people on HN asking you if you're stupid. (Hopefully more politely than that, but that's absolutely the subtext of some recent message threads I've seen.)

I think that comes from misreading stats. If a company has huge growth and hires a bunch of new people, the average lifespan of an employee will obviously go down.

There's many well known Apple engineers (in OS software at least) who've been there for decades.
There's a huge difference: in Bush v. Gore, Gore stepped aside for the good of the country, choosing to respect the institution of the courts even if the decision was dodgy. Trump is willing to burn down the institutions if it gives him an edge. The danger from the Trump narrative is not that die-hards are still grumbling, it's that the candidate doesn't seem to care about anything beyond his own interests.
There were attacks on radar sites and such, but both sides lacked effective SEAD equipment and tactics. In addition, the flak emplacements were hard to find, and many of them were extremely sturdy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower
I think you would be charged with more than that.
This is pretty interesting! Skiff (https://www.skiff.org/) also uses private, encrypted CRDTs for their collaborative docs, but not in a BFT manner (the updates are encrypted but still sent to a central server AFAIK).
So anything that places any blame on the west is propaganda? So you think this Russia Ukraine conflict just started in 2022? These people aren't claiming that Putin did the right thing. They're just claiming that the US isn't completely innocent in all of this.
I'd bet on AR glasses that somehow need to squeeze the compute power of a midrange cellphone into the form factor of a pair of glasses.
I didn’t know about this - I’ll save people a search https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/02/archives/bomb-in-capitol-...
I know you’re joking, but once I accidentally broke a 200 something day streak of activity on my Apple Watch, I chucked it and went back to (modest) collection of real watches.

No one needs yet another notification device, and the activity tracking stuff isn’t as valuable as people make it out to be. Just break a sweat everyday and you’re good.

(Yes, the health monitoring stuff is wonderful)
Seems like the underlying problem is that YouTube is 1 generic platform that contains news, entertainment, random home videos, etc.

Perhaps the right answer is to “divide” it up and set requirements for each category of video, similar to how “YouTube kids” is a thing now. News and podcasts would go under its own section and have some level of sanity checks while home videos can be as random as they want to be.
I got this video recommended before the war became worldwide.
I also got Ukraine propaganda unfortunately: "President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the troops on Snake Island ‘died heroically’ " but a few days later we learned [0].

I would be cautious. On both sides.

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10563487/Snake-Isla...
Hillary has been claiming the 2016 election was stolen by Russia for Trump for six years now, and nobody seems to fret about how she’s undermining democracy. There were even many faithless electors that tried to overturn the results. Much like Trump, she just can’t seem to admit she lost.

Both parties need to learn that if you lose it’s because you didn’t get enough votes and to reflect on why that is. Although I’m sure it’s a lot more fun to complain about how you were cheated.
I'm building the latter. A platform that allows you to use code when you hit limits with the visual builder.

Using the package ecosystem brings with it a can of worms that if not handle right could doom the system. I'm talking security ofc.
What is the falsifiable hypothesis of the stolen election? There's nothing coherent about an ever evolving list of grievances. I'm convinced this is by design. If there were a sound theory, it could be disproven. But if its just a nebulous collection of disjointed complaints, the wound can stay open forever, which is the actual goal.
Hertz Files 3,365 Stolen Car Reports Every Year on Customers Who Rented Its Cars
I didn't laugh at the double masking guidance, I just laugh at the false equivalencies made across the CDC's guidance that refers to "masks" as though there's not a universe of difference between a re-used, sporadically worn, bacteria filled cloth mask and a clean, properly fit, N95. Total fail.
Using git is no big deal, but storing the repo on Github means sharing the information with a third party (Microsoft) even if the repo is kept "private".
> FAANG is 70% retirees, 30% dipole candle burners. And the 30% provide the value, while the 70% are along for the ride.

See in 2005 when Google was gaining traction and notoriety, it was because they had the reputation of not suffering driftwood.

I was working for a giant transnational (full-on archaic org like that in "Office Space") at the time and found it really hard to fathom a company without apathy and drifters. I (foolishly) thought it ironic and dangerous that a company so determined not to suffers fools had free food, coffee, video games, table tennis, etc in the office. My office had an old crappy second-hand foosball table that was removed because it was "too much of a distraction" despite most people not using it from fear of a reprimand.

Fast foward nearly 20 years and I guess "corporate entropy" gets everyone, eventually.
It's built on the old HP campus, so at worst it's haunted by the souls of dead graphing calculators.
You're missing the point. The case was still counted in covid stats, because that is the accepted method from the WHO.
If you don't hold it in your hot little hand, you don't own it.

Banks are supposed to be a safe place to put your money. We've just seen that ALL BANKS are not safe at all. That means Wells Fargo, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, etc, etc, etc can keep your money at any time they feel like it. How do you feel about banks now?
me too, Russian sites don't load at all
So far, this just looks like another recession for regular Russians, and not as bad as 1998-99 [1]. At least as far as "their money" goes. Losing access to western goods, services and travel may be the more noticiable factor, at least for some people.

[1] from The Economist: https://archive.ph/T61OQ
Ah, I was super confused (as I said I hadn’t yet read the paper, I was hoping for TLDR at the time)
It seems most Russians do think the invasion is very wrong, ethically.

Putin goes on about what Russia wants and needs as if that's super-important and everyone should listen and really care and respect his words, while he totally ignores what Ukraine wants and needs, as if it doesn't exist except as a tool/resource for Russia. It's the way bullies, psychopaths and serial killers treat people.

Most people would like things in life, but realize other people are people too, and don't just treat them as resources to be exploited/abused/killed. People who treat others that are locked up, usually for a long time.
The difference is that when you press enter I get an alert. Then you take 30 seconds or 2 minutes (or more) to think through and type out your question. Now I just have to sit there waiting for your question.
love the hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband reference!
You two are disagreeing because the article is terribly ambiguous on the key question about "acute COVID" and "cause of death".
As it should.

But the capricousness and arrogance with which these platforms treat their users (both content creators and viewers) is not a good long term strategy. I mean, was the Hill supposed to know the content was prohibited? And how are people going to be able to actually access the news of the day? Certainly seems to me like YouTube wants users to go elsewhere.
There is a good number of people fleeing east to Russia as well, even as per a report in the BBC yesterday.
Veritasium may not have mentioned either inductance or displacement current; I don't recall. He did, however, talk about an even more abstract concept which subsumes the effect of both: the Poynting vector. Pedagogically speaking, it was probably a mistake to go there without covering the prerequisites in considerable detail, but that does not, IMHO, make it clickbait: for someone who has some background, this could be food for thought.

Whether the distant end of the loop is closed or not makes a difference eventually, where 'eventually' means once the initial EM wave has reflected from the end and returned to the load.
Large scale psychological manipulation
There aren't making it publicly available. If they made it publicly available there would be no paywall. It just so happens that people can utilize some code to bypass the paywall.
I agree in a sense. But my point is that the memes don’t carry purpose or urgency because the possibility of a catastrophic world war feels remote. Just like the possibility that our democracy might vanish in an instant.
Thanks for the effort, this is great! Amazing some of us still can remember some of the special SYS and POKE addresses by head:
sys 64738 (hex FCE2, reset)
poke 808,234 (disable runstop/restore)
graphics memory 0x400-0x7e8 and
$a000-$bfff basic rom memory

You could basically visualize the entire 64k in your head.

Good times!
the example kinda shows that a basic Marxist analysis doesn't reveal much useful insight about the modern world. the faang engineer's stock is probably worth more than the bakery to begin with, but it doesn't actually give them any control over the MoP. if they really wanted to, they could become the bakery owner. but that would be an indulgence, not a smart financial move.
It will. Once no-code goes from an alternative to coding, to its sidekick. Firebase is a lowcode version of node+mongo, they got it almost right and it exploded.
> ... what do you think would happen to the stock price of high flying growth companies that don't even make a profit?

They're already down as much as 80%. If I were looking around today, I'd kill to join one of those high growth tech startups with a solid balance sheet that just got the crap kicked out of its stock.
China’s Yuan Becomes Unlikely Haven as Geopolitics Roil Markets
I’d have to go back and dig to find the relevant posts, but essentially there is the expectation that Hacker News will self-moderate with a careful eye during situations of elevated threat.

So, as soon as the military police action in the Ukraine started, you may have noticed a change in the tone of the posts and comments?

If not, keep an eye out, in the long run, for rates of change in things like frequency of abusive commentary, frequency of down voting, more “graying out” than normal,

If so, that is due to the background pattern of self-moderation that takes place at Hacker News.

Edit: worth digging through https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html every now and again, too.
Our company Adwords got banned a year ago, hours after our creatives got approved. The reason was our site was "phishing" and trying to steal people's data.

After appealing the ban multiple times with no luck, we weren't getting anywhere. I talked to a couple of people I know who work at Google (one works in Adwords) and basically said there's nothing you can do.

What we did find out is that the ban was completely automatic, and the most likely reason was that it couldn't render the content on the Angular (wonder what company created that) site we were pushing the ads to.

Since we have all our emails on GSuite, we've tried getting a few different people in the office to signup, and they get instantly banned after they signup.

We try every few months to appeal but get the same old "policy violation".

Looking on the bright side, I now don't get random calls from angry people in India demanding I need to "optimise" my ad campaigns.
Hard times and war change people. Many changes are negative: poorer, less secure, less trusting, more fearful, devastating losses.

But other changes are for the better. And you don't need war to make these changes. If you make them before hard times come, you'll be better prepared for them: becoming more stoic (less emotional, less offended at everything), becoming more serious, more resourceful, more self-reliant, lowering your expectations, being more humble, being more careful with your words and who you speak openly with, knowing your place instead of speaking for the whole of humanity, being better able to negotiate, being better able to compromise, being more tolerant of other opinions, appreciating the wisdom of our ancestors more, and focusing more on what really matters.
How do you choose a name for a custom domain?
It’s funny how “as long as you can = you should” works here for Google et al but we’d never apply that logic to a million other social issues we have.
This argument is only valid if the government wasn't pressuring Google. Because they are Google can now use it as an excuse to censor whatever it wants. The government also has big contracts with Google so they can use that as leverage too. This is another form of government censorship that actually benefits Google. The government and Google are both at fault.
Yes, we use E2EE CRDTs! They don't have to be centralized because we still get composable updates using YJS (https://github.com/yjs/yjs). This would still help a ton given the p2p nature of updates (malicious or broken clients can cause havoc for documents).
Is Raleigh Mann not still the canon state of truth on BGP?
Indeed, just with COVID-19 and all, I was wondering.
His thesis is an explanation not an endorsement. He basically says Russia will not let Ukraine join NATO, for the same reasons that if in 20 years China wants to put a military base in Canada. It’s not right what Putin is doing but it makes sense…
"Ghost of Kyiv" sounds like something out of a metal gear solid game
If I learned anything about Tsars history, most of them do not get to have a natural death.
NATO has a border with Ukraine - Poland. And it is definitely capable at looking at what is going on, in at least some parts of Ukraine: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-60612255
It started as an economic project after WWII explicitly to foster peace between France and Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Comm...
The 2000 Presidential election was attacked as illegitimate.

I was watching the latter seasons of X-Files and Fox Mulder made a comment on 2000 elections, something like “that sounds about as reliable as our elections.”

Plenty of folks, Howard Dean comes to mind, said they were straight up illegitimate.

Even now many on the left insist it was a tie or something.

This thing of “if you don’t win the elections, question the results” started then.

The press had no problem allowing baseless speculation and outright dishonesty in 2000. But when it was a Democratic cadidate, suddenly the truth matters.

To make matters worse, so many journalists are Democrats … it’s insane. Not just Democrats, but urban, college educated Democrats. Not exactly a cross section of the country.
The difference is that with Bush you have hanging chads and a court decision that after the votes were counted would have probably come out differently, and a concerted political effort to turn that to their advantage.

The republican party just literally spent months on questioning the election in places like Arizona with no evidence of any fraud, and there's plenty of documentation on how (almost always republican) politicians use lies to get people to not vote: https://lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Dece...

Basically, if you want to argue that its a "he said, she said" thing, you're going to need to come to the table with receipts about it, and trump is just completely full of shit on a level that's untenable and weirdly turned into this January thing where we almost had lawmakers killed.
According to Fiona Hill that is not the definition of a world war. World Wars have been defined by battles in multiples countries and continents.

The Syrian civil war was over 15 countries and factions. War in Afghanistan over 5 countries, technically much more.

None of these wars were consider WW3, and just because the war between Ukraine and Russia is in Europe doesn’t make it any different.
It's more like GamePass won't run on Steam Deck.

That alone makes Steam Deck a non starter for me. Microsoft doesn't care about a tiny niche.
Corporations are people, at least within the United States [1], with all rights available to (groups of) individuals. Just not natural people.

[1] https://www.history.com/news/14th-amendment-corporate-person...
Privacy Focused Developer Group(s)?
Anyone know of any online communities (Matrix, IRC, subreddit, discourse, forums, etc.) wherein developers discuss privacy implications of their work?
We're going to be worried about CO2 for a long, long time.
When republicans systemically and intentionally close polling places[1, 2] to concentrate the same amount of people into fewer places in order to deter people from voting by causing long lines and crowding. An then on top of that, preventing people in line from, you know, drinking water.

This stuff isn't an accident, it's intentional voter suppression by one party.

1: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-...

2: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/23/texas-voting-polling...
also see
China’s yuan ‘trading like a safe haven currency’ as Ukraine crisis roils markets

https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/316...
I always enjoy a well crafted comment like this in which the reader can't tell if the "authoritarianism" you are decrying is the former president trying to circumvent democracy or the censorship of people who are spreading that message. It allows you to collect upvotes from people on both sides thinking you are accusing the other of authoritarianism.
Adwords support is Kafkaesque nightmare.

Didn't use to be this way.
Escalation is what Russia is doing: cluster munitions, rolling elite troops in, and shelling apartment buildings. Sending weapons to the people who live there to fend off invaders, and imposing sanctions is a fairly tepid response.
Anybody can ignore letters from attorneys without consequence. (It might be prudent to seek legal advice, but your attorney might even tell you not to respond.)

It's only if attorneys file lawsuits that you have to respond via filing court or arbitration documents.
eh, I think you're being pretty generous to Gore there. It was a long, drawn, fought out battle involving many lawsuits and lots of court coverage. In the end, when Gore had basically lost all of his challenges, he did "step aside" as far as dropping the lawsuits. But he continued to be a presence and he was still pretty bitter about it many years later (and brought it up nearly every time he was on TV). 6 years later in 2006 his movie "Inconvenient Truth" he reopened the wound all over again.

Now that said, Gore is a lot better than Trump on this for sure.
>youtube can do what they want on their website.

This isn't a sophomoric forum like reddit. This is meant to be a place where adults discuss. Adults can see that there are democratic implications of the scenario you're describing worthy of discussion. 'Another platform' may take years to develop, and nothing stops Youtube or another hostile player from simply buying it out and kneecapping it, and how many elections are influenced while that takes place?

Please don't just repeat talking points, it adds nothing to the conversation.
NATO AWACS might just see over Kyiv from the Poland border, but it might be stretching it and probably not close enough to direct SAMs.

But of course capabilities might be more sophisticate than what's publicly known.
Well, in the Google Workspace post there is a picture of a table. So it probably supports them.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/delivering-...

They also feature a table in a little GIF they have on that page.

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-cloudblog-publish/origin...
Ah, well, it may be an improvement to allow certain user accounts to “gray out” a comment.

If I had some free time, I’d be happy to pitch in on the codebase for free (or a minimum living wage lol).