skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Escape from Tarkov's Economy Just Crashed Thanks to Russian Sanctions
Russia Keeps Stock Trading Shut in Nation’s Longest Closure
> if you’re an average Russian with few/no international ties, would you really risk protesting against a government with a demonstrated track record of murdering dissidents and imprisoning protestors?

I think one has to decide what's important for them -- if I think that my participation in collective action (protest) could somehow prevent or stop killing of other people, then I think I would try at least (and if I knew there were other people who I can rely on, who share the same feelings that I have). In this case, if nothing changes, at least I know I did all I could, but if it works (in best case scenario), then the war is over. Worth risking right?

This is how the Revolution of Dignity happened in Ukraine: you just knew you had to act -- and act as a group not as an individual -- when the president you elected have failed your nation (and before running away he also proposed fines and imprisonment for those who took part in protests, so there were risks obviously).

> I don’t disagree with the sanctions but we also shouldn’t pretend that it is a just or fair course of action. Sanctions are the best tool that we have, out of a selection of poor tools.

Completely agree
Cool, thanks... I will peel my sprouted potatoes in addition to cutting off the sprouts from now on. The things you learn from HN...
If I understand correctly, you are fine with broad economic sanctions on everyday Russians, most of whom are already poor especially after the collapse of the Ruble - and who frankly don’t have as much say over their authoritarian governments as American or German citizens who enjoy living in liberal democracies.

At the same time you excuse rich countries such as the US or Germany who actively choose to continue to buy oil from authoritarian regimes even as they invade our allies - simply because buying oil elsewhere would be expensive and politically inconvenient.

I don’t understand your logic.

Remember, the sanctions against average Russians will absolutely result in shortages of food, medicine and other essential supplies. Many everyday Russians will likely starve or die from these sanctions. This isn’t about how quickly they can replace their old iPhones.
Parsing this header is such a nightmare. HAProxy had a CVE a while ago where they stopped parsing the header if they hit a quote in the middle, which allowed you to forge the right-most IP.

As a result I had a long conversation with AWS where I told them it was ridiculous that ALBs allowed garbage to be inserted in the only header that contains this important information… suffice to say they did not care.
All we need now is a Pig-to-Human Video Call Device.
Lumpers probably account for 90% of the market and users. Dividers like to tweak and usually have to fix problems with the many tweaked fixes to get disparate tools to work together. Lumpers like to focus on their problem domain and not fuss with perfection and ultra-optimal solutions that deliver unquantifiable cost/benefit returns.

I say this fondly though as a recovering Divider who still appreciates the pioneering spirit of Dividers.
Were you totally unaware of how bad you sleep was?

Did you have any other symptoms related to poor sleep?

I ask because I have structural nasal issues that I believe are affecting my sleep, but I'm terribly afraid of surgical correction due to the risk of Empty Nose Syndrome. My fitness tracker says my sleep is okay, but I'm starting to doubt it.

What kind of sleep study did you get done?
DAG size gets out of hand when many operations happen (akin to how a blockchain grows indefinitely).

Nodes could however rely on some form of "consensus" to compact/reset the graph at intervals. But then you have invited a consensus into the party which is the opposite of what CRDTs want to have.
I thought about using lists like that, but it felt a little too much like cheating. My attempt at something like this is, if the word is one of your first two guesses, I reward it for having more common letters. And actually penalize common letter "misses" in later lines. I'm sure it's not 100% optimal, but I saw some improvement on my admittedly very limited set of test data. Here's the relevant code - https://github.com/mattruzicka/wordle_decoder/blob/0bfd7eaac...
I mean, there's several obvious ones that could be considered easy targets: FBI, ATF, ICE, DHS are all ostensibly criminal enforcement and/or counterintelligence (even Secret Service under Treasury). In theory, a lot of that could be merged and get rid of cross agency inefficiencies and bureaucracy.

FAA, NTSB, NHTSA, OSHA are serve similar functions around safety, but for different things. Why not have one "safety" org? Maybe FDA, USDA belong here, too.

Simplify the tax code, or better yet, eliminate the federal income tax and replace it with a consumption tax that would be more fair and less paperwork. IRS could largely go away, too.

CIA, NSA, NRO are all intelligence agencies with different mandates. Could probably merge them with more strict Congressional guidelines on budgeting.

Part of the problem is there's very much a tribal mindset across most of the TLAs at the federal level, mostly because they're all chasing limited funding.

I'm trying to not look at this with a political mindset, but purely a functional mindset. Put like agencies together. We don't need 3 or more agencies doing X for A, B and C, etc. We need one agency doing X for the whole government.
At this point, what do you think that Putin has to loose?

The guy is 70 years old. An old, lonely, bitter man. His wife left him in 2013 and his kids are far away from him. All his Wealth is blocked, he will never be able to enjoy his life outside of his little empire. He has nothing to loose.

He could choose the bunker, but maybe he decides to bring the whole world with him. And if he decided already, nothing that we do, will make him happy. We are just deciding to die without even a fight.

The song that describes Putin right now:

"I am alone, this bitter man that I've become
Hold my breath, laid to rest
Drown in my tears, there's nothing left of me
I am alone, the angry man upon his throne
I can't pretend, the great descent
Take my hand until the end
You see me on the horizon
I am the air you breathe
I sold my soul to the seven seas
Condemned and lost, pulled off course
I will never leave, I'm always yours"

Any given day - Bitter Man
I’d take an alternate approach and suggest that tech’s cult of transferring tons of user data and draining battery life/bandwidth in the process should taper off.

Lower energy consumption would be better for battery capacity requirements, privacy and thinness.
well, they execute their opponents immediately.

delusional a bit, but I only know a few anecdotes of high-profile arrogance paired with stupidity, which they eventually fixed internally.
This isn't an original idea, this is an opinion, and there are many people posting the same opinion online in different places. Searching "stop saying hi" will show up thousands of such posts.
> I think most people outside of the US will pick: "I speak more than one foreign language".

That might be true of an HN poll but I would be surprised if it were of an exhaustive survey of the world population.

Some anecdata:

My (former) in laws in large country in Western Europe speak only one language and it isn’t English. Likewise of own family in Australia (I’m not living there) I am the only polyglot. I know plenty of people in the UK who speak only English.

Even in my (100% remote) company, while all business is conducted in English we have some on the team who are only really functional in their country’s language and rely on zoom translation (which I only learnt of on Thursday). I happen to speak their language so in 1:1 conversations we used that.
By peeing do you mean sanctions or just hostility towards russians?
It could even be the teflon from the frying pan.
Funny enough, just yesterday I did a spike into introducing one of the mentioned frameworks (SolidJS) into a no-framework legacy app, and I’m almost certain it’s the right move. The app is over a decade old, with a variety of different approaches and the tangled data flow that you’d probably expect of that… despite effectively having evolved an informal framework internally. Solid is a perfect fit for a couple reasons:

1. Its “components” compile away to plain DOM operations, so it’s well suited for a gradual transition story: existing behavior can wrap and be wrapped by new/replacement components without a need to reconcile between them.

2. Its reactive state model fits the app’s requirements very well, particularly in terms of needing to maintain two related but quite different representations of the data in tandem.

Solid’s performance being about as near to vanilla JS as possible is just bonus points to me, but certainly will ease concerns on my team.
> Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week.

Who's government is responsible for that, really? Why doesn't Russia have free press?

> Driving ordinary Russians back into a fatalistic, nationalistic hole can only make things worse in Russia. It might also run counter to governments trying to tailor sanctions to target decision-makers.

They were always in one. You mistake the status quo where russia is able to function for russia actually being functional. Without the world propping up and tolerating the Russian dictatorship; there can be no Russian prosperity. We didn't design your economy. Your barely functional government did.

Russia is now more Russian than ever before. It's time for Russians to face unbridled russia. Enjoy.
This may be inaccurate now - but a few years ago I stopped at Idahos potato museum. If I remember correctly - the McDonald’s fries are actually a product of a lot of food scientists hard work. There are multiple types of potatoes involved that are turned in to potato product. Those are then mixed together in a specific ratio before they are reconstituted into fry shape. I think even the combination of oils and temperatures are very specific to McDonald’s.
Russian electric vehicle chargers hacked to display pro-Ukrainian messages
This is why licensing your brand is such a double edged sword. GE has had nothing to do with engineering appliances for many years, yet you can still take the reputational hit when things like this come to light.
Display information about HTTP status codes
In this GitHub repository, you can find my small Shell script for displaying information about HTTP status codes.

https://github.com/ABGEO/httpinfo
Nice elaborate answer. Discord has noise cancellation by krisp. I believe it is offline only. That would be good enough I suppose. But I’m not sure whether it can be loaded in webasm so it works in the browser. (To meet the cross platform needs of Matrix/Element.)
There is some cool development going on with Matrix recently! Threaded messaging first and now group calls. I am especially excited for Safari Support as this is my personal pain-point with Jitsi Meet. Very excited to see this evolve into the Element client.
Yes, anyone believing Putin is scared of NATO offense (he just doesn't want NATO defense) has to reconcile the conflicting viewpoints that he's simultaneously scared of NATO attacking Russia but not worried about them just defending the invasion of a sovereign country, Ukraine...
If you work for a company that toxic you should find a new job.
The vegans/vegetarians eat vegetables. The low carbohydrate omnivores on Paleo and/or Healthy Keto eat a mix of vegetables and meats. Those on carnivore diets eat mostly non gmo grass fed meats from what I have seen.
If a donation is anonymous we don’t know who it’s from, so it can’t be PR by definition
Time mismatch between the underlying issue and the investment necessary to fix it. It costs $X to do the business expansion required to move the product, and you expect to get $Y from it until things return back to "normal", and relevant business management believes that $X >> $Y.
If ten millions of Russia's most educated and brightest leave the country, it will have an effect. Those tanks and airplanes are expensive and require lots of skill to build and maintain.
Might makes right.

Might does not exclusively mean kinetic might.
Which massive restrictions? Not exporting into conflict zones? And still, number four exporter world wide. And your argument was something along the libes of "German weapons arw show cases with zero output" to show just how free-riding Germany, and Europe are. Objectively not true.

EDIT: Trick question, where do you think the main gun of the M1 Abrams was developed? Hint: Not in the US. Or its armor? Hint: It is named after a place, Chobham.
It may be an option, but as a consumer, why would this be the optimal answer? All this does is hide costs for you.

This is a problem with service. If the service doesn't want to fix it, then that sounds like a potential market opportunity, no? I'm new to thinking about the business side, but it seems like I want to remove any obstacle I can preventing a customer from using my service.
Having "free" Press does not absolve US of its crimes.

That's even ignoring the fact that the Press itself is a propaganda tool for the US military-industrial complex, while steeping in biases of its own.

You're welcome to live in your own bubble of facts.
Maybe a bit off-topic but will upcoming Matrix Live also be hosted via Matrix VoIP now? ^^

(At least the smaller ones like interviews where the number of participants is <=8 until compatibility with SFU is done)
Don’t they have an incentive to destroy the rainforest in order to protect their trademark?
> but being equipped with all those languages reading papers in German is a walk in the park.

I find when reading a news article in Italian I can get the bones of the article (bank robbery, police chase, no injuries, size of sum stolen) but not the meat (so we’re the robbers caught or did they get away?)
And, where will You find it? (The new government I mean)

Things are, The Reality is, much more complicated.
Of course.

Famine is the natural stable state for Russia.

Russia was on the brink of famine in 1990-1991. Putin's political career started from stealing and reselling humanitarian aid from USA in St Petersburg. He was saved from prosecution by mayor Sobchak. That's why his daughter Ksenia Sobchak always got preferential treatment.
How is the Ukranian Donbass situation any different from Kosovo/NATO bombings of entire Serbia?

Where was everyone during the last 8 years during the Donbass war where Ukraine deployed battalions composed of neo-nazis against unarmed civilians?

Further unapproved thoughts from approved sources:

1. US ambassador decided who they'll pick for the puppet during the 2014 coup, right on this call: https://youtu.be/WV9J6sxCs5k

2. Ukraine is the only country with an official neo-Nazi battalion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion

3. Ukraine parliament speaker was an open anti-semite and neo-nazi, and also served as minister of national security(!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Parubiy https://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-...

4. Ukraine commits assaults and arson against their rather sizable ethnic minorities, again, using their neo-nazi groups: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/02/ukraine-dead-o...

5. Ukraine has neo-nazis at every level of their government: https://youtu.be/KfaAyiP8Wuc

6. Ukrainians killing civilians for 8 years using the same neo-nazi battalions mentioned above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas

Just as Ukraine refused humanitarian corridors during the last 8 years in Donbass, they are refusing them now to their own civilians to exit cities under siege.

It's amazing how people think Ukraine is this shining beacon of freedom and Russia is this evil orc empire, when in fact, they both have the same transparency score, aka just as corrupt.

Now tell me, how is recognizing independence of a province populated by a persecuted ethnic group, and then marshalling troops to protect it any different from NATO vs Kosovo?

The minority is Russian, so I guess it's a safe pre-approved behaviour to hate them and ignore their persecution by literally self-admitted neo-nazis.

Go ahead and support Nazis openly.
For similar photo/video teardown goodness, check out LTT disassembling and water-cooling a RED cinema camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFrK-l3VSzY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imJ9QgOJHzY
I used Tor in college to connect to the Silk Road to do a report on its use of Bitcoin (I didn't buy any drugs.)
Not disagreeing with the sentiment here, but I was recently surprised to find my LG smart TV allowed me to reject their terms of service and privacy policy.

If you reject them, it cuts off access to all of the smart tv stuff (including the App Store, apps, etc). Seems like telemetry also stops.

I was pretty delighted to discover this.
> The country they directly immigrated from.

Less than 10% of Americans claim English ancestry. There were later waves that dwarfed English immigration.
It's possible to self insure for auto insurance. It's just that the vast majority of us can't afford to do it.

Also, the minimum auto insurance required is liability, which does nothing to help you repair your vehicle in the case of an accident you cause. It's to cover damages you cause to others.
The strategic apparatus of NATO, the folks that have been studying this issue since the Cold War, have said it by doing it ("actions speak louder than words"). With 73k karma, I'm confident in asserting that you've been around enough to know that NATO has a playbook for this and is working through it. Or how did you think they not only settled on a course of action but gained consensus so quickly?
That is not trivial at all. How do you go against status quo which is to add more lanes for cars? How do you get the train from the middle of the freeway or raised portion to outside/ground level? Where do you put railyards to break/make trains to deliver to/from local places? I'm all for freight trains, but there is no way they can simply piggyback on car infrastructure.
Not sure how legit the polls are. However, most of the people will support security and safety over freedom. Supporting war seems to be the only safe of living under Putin's regime.
You're repeating Russian propaganda that is straight from the German Nazi playbook. "If you don't defend your cities we wouldn't have to kill your civilians there."

>the Russians are eating civilians alive if they can

the Russians are indiscriminately bombing Ukrainian residential areas, including using prohibited cluster and vacuum munitions.

When it comes to eating, the Russians are marauding stores for food and alcohol as Russian military supply is broken and stolen in typical Russian fashion.
Yeah, you can think of it as a percentage. The min is 1 and the max is 99. It could be 100, but I don't trust my mostly untested side project that much, so I cut it off at 99 :)

The base confidence score is determined based on how many words a guess technically could be, that's here - https://github.com/mattruzicka/wordle_decoder/blob/0bfd7eaac...

Then, I sort of just willy nilly add/subtract from that based on the "intrinsic" score of the word which is computed here - https://github.com/mattruzicka/wordle_decoder/blob/0bfd7eaac... and then the "contextualized" score AKA how well it works with other words, which is computed here - https://github.com/mattruzicka/wordle_decoder/blob/0bfd7eaac...
The Emptiness Inside Donald Trump’s New Social Media Platform
The Ukrainian central bank shared their crypto addresses on their Twitter and received tens of millions worth of donations.
Yea that’s going to go well for you — https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-truth-social-de...
Can China do more to stop Russia's war in Ukraine?
They actually don't live in towers by choice. The truth is, magic affects the reality around them. Buildings get taller, clothes baggier, hats siller.

Hopefully this affects human height and dick size as well
I came out as a polyglot [0] at my conference a few months ago. Spanish (native), French, English, and hopefully a fourth one coming soon!

Learning a new language is enriching -- it automatically unlocks so much culture and entertainment.

[0] https://media.handmade-seattle.com/closing-notes-2021/
To the same degree that russians are responsible for the political regime they live under -- it's the result of their inactivity and tolerance of the horrific things that are happening right now, no?

Of course if you're in North Korea, it's much much harder (if possible at all) to do anything. But unless russians wake up soon, they're heading in the same direction as North Korea for sure.

So they should act before they become North Korea, act whilst they can
Thanks for those links! Re antibiotics, do those end up in the spinal fluid and brain in „useful“ amounts?
everybody in performant interpreters uses tagged pointers. micropython got it from lua, which got it from lisps
I agree, people don’t chose their nationality (for the most part) just like they don’t choose the color of their skin. That said being a straight white male it has been a reprieve.
I used to be of this opinion until I asked myself whether I'm really that fluidly intelligent and able to approach things with better critical thinking, and am not a sitting duck for being easily manipulated by technology. Turns out, I was wrong and I am human after all and there are ways to manipulate me, especially by using the technology I love so much.
You know what should be practically illegal? Foisting yet another web framework without a standardized reference implementation. A sort of rosetta stone or PLEAC for web frameworks.

- login

- registration

- db views / grids

- forms

- api invocation

- navigation

- menus

- tabs

- lightbox

- forum

- wiki

- ecommerce

etc, etc, etc... I'm leaving out probably about 50 things.

Yeah, not just a "widget zoo" or something similar.

The reference implementation should be pretty big. Annoyingly big. It shouldn't be easy. Don't foist your web framework and push it until you do the work to show how it does and does not work well. It should have four or five levels of complexity in menus, forms, grids, navigation, tabs, and the like.

Because at this point there are likely several thousand web frameworks. Java alone likely has 200 since the old days of Struts.