skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that is exactly what scares me as well. It is one thing to have government censorship. That is something one can at least understand. But here we are, as a free society. And with tools that never existed before in history that allow each of us to have a voice. And yet, at least on the surface, the spectrum of narratives that are considered worthy of discussion is almost as narrow as if there was some sort of central control.

It is one thing if you have to be afraid that a Goebbels or Putin manipulates public opinion. But if it should turn out that it's people's craving for easy answers itself that leads to the emergence of mass delusions, then that would be much, much scarier.
Well, it was very embarrassing to take a victory lap with the war getting bogged down, and revealed motivations for the war that contradicted Putin’s statements, and aligned with the “blitzkrieg” analysis of Russia’s early failures.

So, true, it’s not proof, but Occam’s Razor comes into play here.
> Disagree here. A 52% majority is no basis for far-reaching, long-term constitutional change

Especially one with a bunch of negotiations and interpretations and unknowns and fantasies and dire consequences attached to it. Referendum-driven democracy of this sort is a disaster area. People shouldn't have been allowed to vote directly on this kind of a proposition until it had been negotiated in detail.
What makes you think that it wouldn't be the same if we had European army? You may have high trust in EU if you are from France, Germany or Belgium.

But as somebody from V4, I don't feel that we have big enough representation there to trust them with "EU army".
The UK (and France) were pretty lame in the Libya war, if I'm not mistaken they had to resort to getting help from the Americans when it came to re-fueling their planes mid-air. I'm too lazy to search for links for that, to be honest.

Also seem to remember some scandal with some RAF pilots getting very shitty food at an airbase in Cyprus during the Iraq (or Afghan?) war. That one is more fuzzy for me, though, and maybe it's not even that important, as in shitty food in the military might be a fact of life.

Later edit: I did search for that Cyprus thing, turns out it was more recent, from 2014, since the West was bombing ISIS [1]:

> Raids against Islamic State are being conducted from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus "with broken jets and tired and fed-up people", BBC Newsnight has been told.

and

> In a letter, a serviceman said the base was being neglected, morale was poor and ground crews had taken to eating humanitarian rations meant for Iraqis.

Having to take food from "humanitarian rations meant for Iraqis." doesn't sound ideal to me.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30338659
What are distros doing to set it up wrong?

(I've been a happy user of btrfs for several years now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21446761)
Putin is a totalitarian dictator who is waging a war against Ukraine to conquer it and bring it under his control because he doesn't like how their democratically elected government is behaving.

That is not the same thing as the US and UK invading and overthrowing totalitarian dictator Saddam Hussein.

The idea that people should pretend the merits of these two things are the same is dumb, or atleast it's dumb if you value democracy or freedom over totalitarian dictatorships.

It's also the case that right now, the UK, EU and NATO are in the right. They're standing up for a democratic country's right to self-determination and independence, and the right for Ukraine's citizens to live free lives. And since that is the case, making the argument "Well you guys invaded Iraq 20 years ago" is a dumb argument - let's concede you're right, the US shouldn't have invaded Iraq (a position most people probably actually agree with right now), Fine. What the hell has that got to do with what's happening now? Should the West not stand up for Ukraine now? Don't be absurd.

This article is written as if the invasion of Iraq is happening today, a fiction which is pretty transparent.
yeah it's not a free market, but it is an "(semi-)independent laboratory" system where one state can try an idea and others may copy it if it works well.
Crazy. Just successfully pwnd my homelab box in the garage..

Exciting for the implications of opening many locked down consumer devices out there.

Nightmare for the greater cyber sec world...
At this point it makes as much sense as most other world news.
> Intellectually, I enjoy the idea of the states competing as a free market

I believe one of the core value propositions of the state is addressing perverse incentives that emerge from competition. Untaxed externalities, for example. Due to race-to-the-bottom dynamics, "let's compete on the matter" is equivalent to "let's ignore the perverse incentives." Not great.
I think anyone asking this question really doesn't need advice from imperfect posters like myself.

Nonetheless, maybe realizing that "perfectionism" is a misnomer, since it doesn't optimize resource use for resolution of the problem? Maybe realizing that you are being inefficient, wasteful, and taking comfort in simple polishing, rather than looking for a true solution?

In other words, "perfectionism" for me was always a way to be lazy and take comfort in a false sense of doing a better job.

As Newton would put it - A lazy person in motion, remains in motion, and a force of will is needed to re-assess and pivot.

A common misconception is that working hard is hard. I find that to be completely false. I can lift weights to exhaustion, polish a car hood to exhaustion and get every little spec out, work on code I perfectly understand endlessly, etc. It's much more difficult to actually observe, pivot, and do the right amount.
Realm of possibilities – of course. High enough probability that Putin went all-in on it? I'm skeptical.
From Wikipedia:

In exchange for giving up their nuclear arms, "the memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan."
You don't want to turn random infantry into hackers. Alternatives (in the UK at least) include temporary call-up of reservists who have civilian experience and offloading offensive cyber ops to other branches of the government (e.g. GCHQ). The military then coordinate with the other government agencies to synchronise kinetic and cyber effects.
Thanks! It is only a client software, not the server part.
Will try to make it available through `npm` though, so it is easier to self host.
Cheers! Also really excited about matrix, having great hopes for the future :}

Also this can be helpful, https://gitlab.com/sctlib/matrix-room-element, which is what makes libli communicate with matrix APIs.
Ask HN: Will you keep using Chrome when manifest-v2 is sunset?
Google announced that with manifest-v3 [0] ad-blockers will be extremely limited in the way they can intercept and block tracking/ads requests [1].

The announced deadline for manifest-v2 extensions is by the end of January 2023. After that, extensions that didn't update will no longer work on Chrome.

I'm curious to see if you're a Chrom(e|ium) user, will this change make you switch browsers, or do you think the Google arguments about performance and security worth the tradeoff ?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29502439

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/declarativeNetRequest/
Definitely, but at the cost of a minor annoyance.

The sticker/tape solution means you've made the choice to remove the seat post entirely when you move the seat. Since seat posts historically have been greased (to prevent galvanic action between the aluminum seat post and the steel/titanium/?? frame), that can get messy.

Most people, when they stuff their bike into their car, drop the seat post all the way into the seat tube, rather than removing it, and that can peel a sticker off (worst case, inside the seat tube).

On the way to a trip these things are trivial, but at the end of a trip, every little problem is much more likely to get on your last nerve, so finding solutions that take care of future you is a useful investment of problem solving. If it's raining and you're covered with road rash you don't want to deal with your greasy seat post for the 35th time on top of it all.
Yes, they increased from "hiring enough people to give Putin directions on the way to Berlin" to "way smaller than you'd expect with a lunatic next door". Germany announced an increase to 2% of GDP. For the three decades prior to the fall of the Soviet Union it averaged 3.5%.
>People aren't willing to fight and die for the EU, not in large numbers.

As has been the case for the vast majority of wars throughout human history.
This means more Ukrainians in Calais attempting to cross by sea.

Once they reach the UK and claim asylum no-one is going to deport them in the current circumstances.
You mean the treaty where Russia promised not to invade Ukraine?
Why are you taking your supplements for fours days, followed by a three day break? If you are concerned about accumulating dosages couldn't you reduce the dose of fish oil, or take you supplements every other day? I am curious about the four days on, three days off regimen.
I should have said, they have complained about NATO expansion since the fall of the USSR (and obviously before, but that's irrelevant), when NATO gave Gorbachev assurances that NATO would not expand "one inch eastward" after German reunification. They've been very vocally critical of NATO expansion into Ukraine for 15 years (and probably longer), and the West has known that Ukraine was specifically significant for 15 years (and probably longer).
And also this is a classic David Goliath fight, or for more modern example: Star Wars Empire vs Rebels.
Are you able to tell right from left without thinking?
> in what way is Russian culture similar to the US?

Overtly fascist
Many investors are just money. The ones you need are money and belief
>Obviously Russia would not start a nuclear war. It will simply take steps that either need to be conventionally opposed or dare US/NATO to go nuclear.

I think the major conclusion from the Ukraine war is that the Russian army is not in a particularly strong condition, and certainly would not fare well against superior NATO forces (particularly the air forces.) And this is assuming they are not further degraded by a long, bloody occupation in Ukraine. Nuclear first-use is a move from weakness, not strength.
Anonymous hacks into Russian streaming services to broadcast Ukraine war footage
> they only started to recover about one year into it.

With massive aid from...the United States.

Somehow I don't see the US running arctic convoys round the clock to re-supply the Russians this time.
A friend of mine has a 100+ dev team in Ukraine. He said about 30 have evacuated while the rest are staying to fight. Currently, he said the main problem is getting money in the hands of his people. They're all still paid and there's lots of funds available but getting actual currency in their hands is the hard part. He's able to stay in touch over Slack which
implies inet is working at least. Can you confirm? Also, what is the single most effective thing regular, but well connected (both politically and logistically), people in the US can do to help the situation?
The organic sugar soap does come in pump bottles and is also amazing.
Show HN: I made a minimal blog platform with add/delete post and ISR
"positions in EU parliament are chosen and voted for by politicians only"

100% wrong.

Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage, and with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are considered the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's.
1.0 USD = 158.3 Rub
How is it the US "invoking nuclear war" if Russia nukes a US ally first? No, Russia's the one starting that war if they do that. Yes, the US would retaliate.
Hi, creator here, sorry I ran out of quota, I set it higher now.
Should work again.
I dunno, maybe there is another alternative?
Britain to start approval process for Rolls-Royce mini nuclear reactor
"An unverified tweet has been making waves, claiming the country will remove itself from the international online community on March 11."

Not exactly solid.
> if victory in a direct plebiscite isn't a legitimate basis for long-term constitutional change

The question is not whether a referendum outcome should legitimize change. The question is whether using the threshold of simple majority (50%) makes sense. Many constitutional changes throughout the world require a supermajority:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority
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> A little "Military Keynesianism"

Is how a military industrial complex starts. Then it seeks to justify its existence by either meddling everywhere.
> What do you mean we have no experience with the problems it solves?

Some people want to just abolish IP (e.g. patents and copyright) because they've read some articles about abuse by patent trolls or copyright terms that are too long. They're not thinking about (say) the author who spent a large amount of effort writing a successful book, just to have to continue working a regular job, while all the profits go into the pocket of some corporation(s) that are under no obligation to pay the author because copyright doesn't exist so they have no special rights. Or the books that never exist because the author never writes a second book, because it's too difficult and stressful to juggle writing with a job, and they can't live off the proceeds of their previous work.

Legal rights give power to the little guys. Take away those rights, and it'll mainly be the big guys who benefit.
>> Even though it's not practical, it's an approach that previously wasn't possible so at least some cheering for it is valid.

The approach taken by DeepCode -- generate-and-test -- was always possible and is a staple in inductive program synthesis. DeepCode's version is a particularly crude and backwards-looking attempt at implementing that approach. It's no advance of any kind and it only looks like it is because DeepMind's preprint reporting on it carefully ignores most of what has gone before in inductive program synthesis, the better to show off its new system. It's a scandalous tactic that is a staple of DeepMind's publications and I'm very sorry that I can't find anything positive to say about it.

Also, I'm not talking about AGI. At this point, AGI is a fantasy. What we can hope for is to create systems that we can control well, for example to make them learn what we want them to learn and not to overfit to their dataset. In this, also, there seems to be a regression, recently, as the tendency is to train systems end-to-end while trying to remove "the human in the loop" (which is, of course, impossible).
it's hard to argue against the position that the state of the EEC in 1975 was anything other than legitimate given it was directly approved by the electorate

the same cannot be said for the subsequent treaty changes, especially if one considers the 2016 referendum to be an illegitimate basis for reversing the changes

(and the EEC of 1975 was very, very different to the EU of 2016)
If you expected to be able to adequately care and integrate a child into your family, but you are unable to do so, then it makes sense a guardian may choose to adapt to the situation. If reality turns out the child can't be integrated or stay integrated with the family, I'd rather the guardian seek adoption from a family that wants them than let the situation slowly devolve into a train-wreck where they're unwanted.

Simply framing it as any sort of 'not expected' misrepresents the array of situations here.

It may be 'wrong' but at least everyone is better off. Part of life is knowing when to do something others consider 'wrong' so you can achieve the outcome that is 'right.' We shouldn't just shut off the ability to re-adopt out a kid and seal them in with an unwanting family like a trapped rat.
Spoke to an engineer in Romania on Friday who was glowing with pride at his country's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis. Just dead proud that his nation was willing to be so accommodating to the thousands of people streaming across their border.

That our, vastly richer, nation is so miserly in this regard should be a source of national shame for a long time to come. Unfortunately, a substantial proportion of the British press will continue to parrot the government's lines about "leading the way" on sanctions and aid, and a British public unaccustomed to introspection will happily eat it up.
what does "intact culture" mean?
HTTP-Shortcuts: Android app to create home screen shortcuts that trigger arbitr
I spent a lot of time in an EU country and still have a lot of people I met on Instagram. These are normal people and a lot of them non stop post Russian hate now. Some Russian culture events got cancelled by the venue. I realize I may be exaggerating but it has just gotten to me
I can see the point.

One side of the US system is consistently better at getting elected than the other, and used to ideologically prefer the concept of a weaker form of governance.
how about the iraq war. that was timely and costly wrong decision
It'll be 10-15 years before he can do this again, he might be gone by then and the next guy might be more reasonable.
Well they'll probably all be locked up immediately.
AFAIK, they never recreate the graphics.

You write code that is able to read the assets (graphics, sound, etc) - like the original code is able to.
State of Private Markets: Q4 2021 and year in review
Who's going to pay for all of this?
Tech and War
> you should just consider a 15% tip a part of bill for anything where you sit down and have food brought to you

It's not that simple. I fully agree that in cases where the establishment is allowed to under-pay, it's our job to tip. But I've lived in the United States all my life, and there are still enough edge cases in the restaurant industry alone to be terribly confusing. That doesn't even get into questions of barkeeps, hotel staff, taxi drivers, and whoever else.

What if I order at the counter, then I sit down and someone brings me the food? Are the employees who bring me that food making less than minimum wage? How do I know one way or the other?

Even more confusingly, order-at-the-counter restaurants have started asking for 15% tips at checkout. I'm relatively confident that they're not building tips into the wage structure, but how can I be sure?

It's definitely not the fault of the workers that this system exists, but it's a horrible, opaque, and confusing way to do business. At a minimum, restaurants should be required to make it explicit when their employees need the tip.
Thank you, I ran out of quota. I pay for the queries out of my own pocket, so I set the limit low (1000 per day), because I don't want to be bankrupted by some spambot ;)
Throwaway was necessary because a close friend of mine reads this forum daily and knows my username. We are avoiding this topic at all cost
>Why should those labs be somewhere in Ukraine rather than in US?

Same reason we offshore gain of function virus research to Wuhan China.

That being said, this is the first I've heard of this claim so I have zero idea how true it is.
Nice write-up.

The value of Hongjiu Lu's paper is that it brings the overarching end-to-end essentials succinctly together for a programmer (non-baremetal). Once i got into Embedded, things became much more clearer but those were just details.
Death toll from Covid-19 surpasses 6M for the Pandemic now in its 3rd year
NATO doesn't have multiple tracks - a member is a member. The US and their allies understood very well what that meant when they accepted those new members. NATO is about retaliation after external (and generally accepted to mean Russian, in practice) attack, or it isn't at all.

This is not a case of Turkey whining about a few kurds blowing up a few police stations, this is the raison d'etre for the whole thing. Renouncing NATO duties would be the worst loss of dignity the US ever experienced, and would jeopardize its richest partner market, with uncalcolable losses.
In democracies, the opposite is true: the winning
coalition is large, and the real selectorate is
almost as large as the nominal selectorate. This
means that dictators can keep their jobs by
handing out private goods to their cronies,
whereas democratic leaders have to dole out
public goods to maintain their power. That
seems to square pretty well with observations
in the real world.

I'm not sure how to square this with recent US elections, where poorer folk increasingly vote for the party that openly pledges to give them the least, at least in tangible terms.

I suppose that "dole out public goods" doesn't necessarily have to apply to tangible goods, of course. A lot of Republicans are happy to vote for Republicans simply because they have promised to ban things they find objectionable, like abortion. If preventing women from having abortions is one's biggest personal issue, then I suppose a guarantee to curb abortion rights would be seen as "public goods."
I meant a nuclear power (EU, in my example) against another nuclear power (that would be Russia).
TikTok Is Gripped by the Violence and Misinformation of Ukraine War
based on her last name, assuming she is of indian descent so presumably he is talking about the irony of a european refugee not being allowed into a britain because of a brown person
Agreements like the Dublin agreement or the agreement on third party safety between Canada-US would suggest otherwise.

And moral obligations don't exist in the real world... See no one actually defending Ukraine...
As an American whose only interaction with the UK government is trying to deal with collecting and paying VAT on our online sales to UK residents, I've been very surprised at how long it is taking them to deal with things that I would have expected to be easy, basic things that would have been taken care of very early in the leaving process.

I was sure that they would make arrangements to stay in the VAT MOSS system, but no, they did not. So we had to switch to using Ireland for VAT MOSS and register separately with the UK to deal with UK VAT.

Dealing with Ireland was a breeze. It took something like 10-20 minutes online to get all set up. (Orders of magnitude easier than when we had signed up for UK VAT MOSS years earlier. Filing is also way easier with Ireland).

For the UK we've applied to be able to collect and remit VAT. We finished all the paperwork and submitted it at least 18 months ago and they still haven't processed it. They say they are busy and can't even give an estimate of when they will actually deal with it.

They say that in the meantime we should collect UK VAT and just hold on to it until they get around to giving is permission to remit it.
I learned C from that document with devc++ & mingw on windows :)
You can't predict the outcome.
Good intentions can have bad results.

Do you think that most Iraqi people were pro-Saddam or against him?
It doesn’t say “always”.
The Budapest Memorandum did not say that. There is a lot of squishy talk around the Internet about what the agreement did and did not say, so I suggest simply reading the memorandum for yourself. It's short and pretty easily understood.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.or...

Edit: This piece from Brookings seems pretty useful and (as far as I know) accurate, as well. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/12/05/w...
That's a bit disingenuous. Individual decisions != policy decisions. No government struggles with 'perfectionism'
Yup and 5 million people that can vote in a general election weren’t allowed to vote.
Realizing there is no "perfect" helps. If you realize you'll never get there then you start to realize the diminishing returns the closer you try to approach.