skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A charitable reading of both Putin and Trump fans could be that both are in the thrall of small but immensely wealthy groups who need some level of legitamacy from the masses. And while it is cheaper and easier overall to just make peoples lives better, for that powerful minority they can make themselves much, much wealthier by feeding propaganda to their people.

So they did and do.

And lots of people helped them, for lots of different reasons, but primarily because people paid them to or because they got conned by the people getting paid to con them.

Does that make the Russian and American public dumb? I don't think so, but they're definately misinformed about reality and contributing to their own problems (up to and including death) as a result.

You can't even enjoy people getting caught out by their own propaganda (like Trump getting booed for saying vaccines work) because it basically signals that even they have lost any semblence of control over where things are going and the horrible monster they created.

Now we have a mob of angry, scared people who don't trust politicians, media, science or experts (because powerful groups attacked and undermined all of these) and they're leading the way.
Just use sh where it is read as sh, sht where it means sht etc.
What case do you want to make about technology though?

That it is cool is I think pretty much accepted by everyone. The objection there being just because something is cool doesn't mean we do it especially if its at the detriment to the planet we live on.

That it is useful? If you have time, please make that case. To avoid having a flamewar over it, lets try to be concrete and cite an actual project (even if in progress)
Capitalism isn't bad, but there must be constant pressure from market competition for it to work for the benefit of the society at large. What we see now with companies like Apple (wrt app store) and Facebook is that the US government protects their monopolistic status and doesn't let people compete with them. You can't build a Facebook app that's better than the official one because Facebook would sue you, and there unfortunately are laws that would protect them. In a saner legal system, Facebook would've been laughed out of the court building with this case.

99% of my friends consider the current Russian government completely dysfunctional and in dire need of replacement. And we would totally accept the Western values. USSR was a mistake and there needs to be a clean break from that ideology, no continuity.
When you say capitalism would not work as well for predator states, how are you defining capitalism? Free market? Is the alternative a centralized planned economy and price controls? Limitations, regulations and protections for developing nations?
The Chernobyl reactor suffered a steam explosion that destroyed the containment chamber and lead to an open air reactor core fire. Fukushima suffered several hydrogen gas explosions that also caused explosive venting of radioactive material and severe structural damage.

So yes nuclear plants can explode extremely violently and that can disperse huge quantities of radioactive material. They’re not nuclear detonations as in an atomic warhead, but the consequences can still be catastrophic and as at Chernobyl the fallout can be similar to that from a nuclear weapon. In fact when scientists in Russia initially detected the radiation from Chernobyl they at first assumed there must have been a nuclear explosion if done kind.
People also choose to sell organs and prostitute themselves in desperate economic circumstances.

Are Johns and organ harvesters providing economic improvement or are they exploiting economic suffering?
> are their contributions automatically licensed under the same MIT license as the original repository?

Yes. GitHub clarify this in their terms of service: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...

> have they (almost certainly inadvertently) assigned copyright over their changes to me? (They're asking me to merge changes from a repository which contains a copyright declaration in my name.)

No. They still own the copyright to their change (unless it's a trivial, un-copyrightable change).

It's not uncommon to require contributors to reassign copyright.
Hilary went off the rails after losing a sure bet, and she's even less popular now than she was during that election. She also is a former candidate, which is incredibly different from a former president.

Stupid comments aside, she didn't contest the results or encourage people to violently protest after she lost.

But yes, you can draw parallels to just about anything if you really want to.
I just spent £700 to have my own app on my iPhone
Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla to solve compatibility issues
>Most are under 18

You mean children? I wouldn't expect them to be out working.
relevant regarding Iraq: http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/iraqkuwait.html
>You know, the one where a single mom with children to feed pays the same percentage of her income as the single billionaire that wants to buy a 3rd yacht.

And the proponents of a flat tax would say "so?"

There's a fundamental ideological incompatibility here and unless one side stops caring or puts the other in the ground the bickering will continue.
Saying it happened as a result of the Russian invasion is accurate, saying it happened because of Russian airstrikes is not.
On this image it is clear that shell or missile which killed Mria came from the left

https://s30121.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Sho...

That is North direction. Right toward the Russian forces which at the time had made that huge advance through Chernobyl toward Kiev. The trace in the pavement points to a large and fast shell or missile. Ukrainians are using up to 203mm which looks too small for that trace in the pavement. Also making that long trace in concrete pavement suggests low angle which for artillery would mean relatively close position - bringing large caliber like 203mm that close is usually not done, as well as you don't bring such your strategic artillery assets into position where enemy's tanks would be rushing right into your back. Such low angle is indicative of missile, cruise (not ballistic) or air launched. Cruise missile like Russian Kaliber would make bigger bang, so most probably it was an aircraft launched air-to-ground missile.

Edit: downvoting without clear technical counter-arguments - i take it such people just don't like where the technical analysis leads to while not able to provide their own technical analysis :)
Agreed. Public misrepresentation of facts is extremely serious. Positions such as COVID denial, creationism etc. shouldn't have public platforms.
All very US centric apps (with the exception of Paypal), but PayPal would gouge them on fees.

I guess what I want to get across is I’m not evangelising crypto, I just don’t necessarily want the space to die. I want them to keep iterating on the concept and see what other benefits can be generated.
ismorphic to xml. it's markup. not structured data
It's reactor heat -> (heat exchanger) -> steam -> (steam turbine) -> electricity.

If you disconnect the load, you need to stop putting steam through the turbine and dump it somewhere else (i.e. a condenser). All steam turbine plants (including coal) have something similar.
I‘m only a participant, not one of the organizers but even then, the laptop was provided with the device by the company to be used together, I would assume that simply for support and data integrity reasons they are not interested in using a different PC.
It makes me chuckle how a creep like Bill, among all the disgusting behaviour still relatively enjoy taint free image. Media has largely been silent and instead many mainstream media had elevated him into a covid expert. Such a sad state of affairs where billionaires can basically buy their image with the help of media, the same media that is supposed to keep in check.
You are right about education being run by the individual states. However, when looked at from the outside there are still many similarities between Bavarian and Bremen.

Just like there are many similarities between shopping at German hard discounters (despite them being run by totally different companies) vs shopping at big box stores in the US (who are also run by totally different companies).
I wholeheartedly agree.

IMO it's rather annoying how the argument usually goes "well, there might be some bigger quasi-mythical reason for things being like that" but they just don't provide any good reason for betting on that metaphysics.

They've decided it's how things should be and often will pull unknowable arguments for it.
Content marketing junk
Still hoping Safari implements beforeinstallprompt!
Sounds like Nvidia just needs to patent its trade secrets until Friday, thus making them useless to everyone for the next 20 years when they'll be so outdated nobody will use them anyway. Regardless of what is released if the license doesn't allow anyone to use it it's effectively useless. Aside from maybe a few pirated driver builds that will fix some linux issues and also install background bitcoin miners.

I seriously doubt Nvidia will cave.
> This “reality” had seemed so crudely constructed that it was impossible to imagine anyone in charge (especially those who created it) to believe it seriously. As it turns out, however, somebody does believe it. His name is Vladimir Putin.

I may be incorrect but I feel that’s what Adam Curtis is trying to describe with his documentaries. I’m thinking of “HyperNormalization”, “Century of the self”, and “Can’t get you out of my head”. For the past few month as I tried to follow Russia-Ukraine developments I found myself thinking about Curtis work a lot.
This is not a technical issue. But if you aim for the software to be packaged in official distro repositories, they possibly don't want you to have other backported dependencies, such as a new version of libstdc++, or you to vendor in those libraries.
I would have said English, but you are probably right - as long as we are talking about written language. As a Scandinavian I understand the other Scandinavian languages as well as English, German, French and a few other languages. But Dutch is hard to understand due to a lot of guttural sounds.
Most problem I see with unions is that they tend to run their own causes at some point. It is difficult to keep them focused on the interest of workers and they can get tangled up in contemporary issues. Corruption is another problem since possible. If I look at some unions some people in tech wanted to start, I don't really see the issues of worker prioritized.

That said, because corporations seem to default to exploiting workers to the maximum degree possible, they are a necessary evil.

I don't know how bad working for the NYT is, but I wouldn't be surprised that instead of arguing for employee conditions, they try to influence editors and dejure editorials the might not like.
Lithuanian and Latvian are in the Baltic language family which shares a direct ancestor with the Slavic (Balto-Slavic languages). (The Germanic and Italo-Celtic languages are in the closest "sibling" branch to Balto-Slavic). So it's not impossible for an interlanguage to be understood by both Baltic and Slavic speakers.
Agree that it's very important to distinguish between the various categories of people. Clearly, having doubts about the wisdom of lockdowns is entirely different from believing that Covid is a hoax.
Numerous modern editors support ASCII. There's no reason to want one to only support ASCII, and it certainly isn't required to deal with plain text notes.

Where do you store them now?

And 2 KB is 2 thousand characters ... "pages and pages" of notes sounds like more than that.
Does the first example contain undefined behaviour? (As written it does because x is not initialised, but the text suggests that a value is actually being provided for x)

I think the second example may contain UB on a <=32-bit architecture (right shift by a value greater or equal to the number of bits), or at least this is UB in C++. On a 64-bit architecture it would be fine (but the result would not be 0).
> And what will this fight be for?

For your honour. So that you do not become a citizen of North Korea; so that you do not take part in <this>.

Honour systems developed independently in many chaotic/violent societies - not irrationally, but because they are _good_ systems, perhaps the only way to protect yourself from fates worse than death. Kamil Galeev explains it fairly well here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498692916511924232.html
Ortho makes sense if you touch type. I sort of hover above the keys using 3 digits on each hand to do most of the typing (with supplemental pinky usage, but never ring finger). It isn't Mavis Beacon approved, but I can bang out about 70wpms this way.

When I got an Ortho keyboard, I tried to learn to touch type, but it was quite slow. Eventually I learned to hover-type on that too. I love the look and sound, but not much more than that.

The biggest problem with using an ortholinear keyboard is that sometimes I want to just work on my laptop and for a while My typing speed on a regular qwerty keyboard slowed way down and had a lot more typos. Now I can mostly go back and forth.
Internet trolls don’t make good soldiers.
I feel like it must be intentional. The original Far Cry AI is far better than anything coming out these days.
This is a nice tech bubble way of framing it but the oil, plastic, logging, chemical, and agricultural industries will be the ones that get us in the end, and heavy market competition would only make it happen faster.
Literally answering your question... Both.

Exploiting each other in a directed way is kind of what capitalism is all about. If you ask me, organ harvesting should be illegal, and sex work should be regulated.

Anyway, I think you have an implied point. Care to state it?
by 2027, the over $75k earners will represent far more than 65% of tax payers. even at ordinary inflation, which is very unlikely going to remain as "low" as for the last 5y.

interesting struggle ahead.

Thanks for posting some sources. it's fascinating.
I think if you speak slowly any of the Slavic languages it will be understandable enough "from Prague to Vladivostok"
As a reminder,Japaneses in the 90s are the only one to have found effective treatments for Tinnitus, however like most research from non-occidental countries, it has been universally ignored and suffering persist.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jibirin1925/82/1/82_1_1...
Bill Gates is known for his many clumsy and unwanted advances on subordinates, he may have needed Epstein to help him out. That's quite pathetic.
They got one free change with the dropped "The". Facebook is final.
>> Maybe I'm being cynical, but I think there may be some potential problems with that approach.

This description matches everything that Putin and his lackeys have been doing since 22-02-2022
There are plenty of examples of hardware being artificially constrained, and low hash rate GPUs are hardly the first. Slippery slope fallacy aside, why would you need a top of the line GPU to do strong encryption? That's something you can do with a pen and paper if you're motivated enough.
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https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jibirin1925/82/1/82_1_1...
Yeah, things will be really bad. That’s how fascists regime go, everybody suffer immensely in the process.
> The crucial difference, in case is not clear, is that a missile placed in Ukraine would hit Moscow, the capital of Russia, in minutes. This is much more threatening to core Russia interests and Putin would not live with it.

So what? So could one from Latvia or Estonia. (Not to mention Leningrad.) So you're saying that justifies him invading and subjugating those countries too, aren't you?
I understood this perspective 10 years ago but it's asinine now. They also don't have a fax line or a BBS.
From the guidelines:

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> They view Ukraine as part of Russia

And it is. So is Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia Oblast) part of Hungary, and other parts or Ukraine that should belong to Romania and even some to Poland.

Their current borders are an accident that should have long been solved diplomatically, but alas here we are.

>Danger is, if Putin can portray this as west vs Russia, he could start enlisting people from far-left and far-right.

The danger was these maneuvers that even in the Bush era, people recognized they would be deemed unacceptable by Russia.

And the whole handling of the relations with Ukraine since the events of 2014.

This situation is far more complex than "Kremlin man bad".

Unfortunately the people who will pay for these are not diplomats or the big interests that played this situation as a game, it will be the average Ukrainian who see their country torn apart, and in a lesser extent the average Russian, severely affected by sanctions.
Exactly the opposite happened with me, a few months ago. Brave posts were getting so much mindless hate, and every argument involved shifting goalposts or people just running away when asked specific factual questions in response to their vague FUDding. I was a long term Firefox user who was looking for an additional browser to check out and partially switch to, and this astounding amount of vitriol made me want to check out Brave and see what had these people all riled up.

(And I believe the answer is crypto - any association with it at all. There was a long period when crypto threads were just complete hatefests - yes, even more than today - and I think it's the Moxie web3 article, despite being generally against crypto, shifted the general tone of these to have some actual thoughtful comments. And the Brave thread here seems to have experienced the exact same change compared to before.)
His reason to invade Ukraine was that it was part of Russia back in the days, and not its own country. That could be true for NATO member countries.
Of course they will review it in their spare time. They wouldn’t copy it, but they could certainly learn insights and apply them in their architectures.
It does seem like almost entire world (including most of South America and Middle East) condemns this particular invasion, though:

> The vote on the “Aggression against Ukraine” resolution was 141-5, with 35 abstentions.

> Only Belarus, Syria, North Korea and Eritrea joined Russia in opposing the measure, (...)

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-uni...
What if you do not want a future where you have to pay union dues and give up individual agency in your relationship with your employer? Unions might be a necessary evil to rectify massive power imbalances but that is hardly the case in tech, so all we are left with is the evil part.
This is why I'm not too worried. I believe general purpose has an innate advantage due to versitility. PC is still around and still great for high performance gaming. Sure there are exclusives but that doesn't mean I can't play them on PC. Just means that some large company doesn't want me to and I'll happily ignore them like so many others. They may Sue me but it's not going to have a real effect unless they start catching way more people or making the fines unbearably huge.

I won't give up the fight against exclusivity because my side isn't the uphill fight.
Getting better? The original Half Life had better AI than HL 2. Should be more examples.
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Obama, the same person who bombed kids with drones is a Nobel peace prize winner[1], so I wouldn't go around brandishing that as a status symbol. There is definitely an element of not understanding a place and talking about it in Western media in a negative manner. Be it even China or India.

Not that I disagree with your broader point.

[1] https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/oba...
Is it the video that I think it is?

Yeah it is~ ^^
Ask HN: Do people still use Meetup?
Our company is exploring creating a meetup in my town and previously relied on Meetup.com to make it happen.

But I do wonder if Discord for community and event planning + self-hosted website for member growth / publicity is the way to go in 2022?
> Got a link

Got a car today. Bought it with #bitcoin as all ATM's are almost cleared out and the credit card terminals are down. Hopefully, it will allow us to report a little from #Donbass while also keeping us safe and granting us an escape if things starts heating up here. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/efmikkelsen/status/1497283116028686336?s...

They did end up both getting shot in the leg(s), but are now safe
Eh it’s not too bad on Linux as long as you use the official docker image that has cuda, cudnn, and tensorflow with matching versions. This also lets you use tf1, tf2, and PyTorch in separate containers without upgrading cudnn in lockstep. Larger projects that use several models inevitably require all three. If you install it yourself, you’re in for a world of hurt.
But they can’t drop you to avoid paying a claim if you have insurance.
AtoB (YC S20) is building Stripe for Transportation and hiring
> If the same thing happens to a nuclear power plant the area can't be lived in for millions of years.

Some people have been squatting in the Chernobyl exclusion zone for decades now, and are still alive. See eg https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/17/chernob...

I wouldn't want to live there myself, and cancer levels might be slightly higher than normal.
> I mean Hilary Clinton said, as recently as 2019 that Trump was not a "legitimate president". And this is someone who was the Democrat candidate for US president.

She accepted the results of the Presidential election. Not the same; don’t both sides this.
I’m trying to be part of the solution by buying AND graphics card for my Linux box.
I've heard that a lot of parents don't like the current principal of the school (TJHSST) for a multitude of reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if those quotes are accurate.

As for everything else, I feel like things aren't as clear cut as the post portrays it as.
See https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/17/chernob...
Google just reinvented HTML documents. Great.