skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ukraine was longer part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth than Russia.

BTW. Moscow was part of Ukrainian (Kievan Rus'), should they go and start a "special miltary operation" to "free Moscow"?
the most extreme validation of typographical precision is the banknote. Discuss?...
>2. Communicate with other regional survivors.

For the US, CB radio might be the best bet here, based on likelihood that some number of other locals might have one and be trying to use it. And "where to scavenge for one" is pretty straightforward.
Came here to say the same thing. Russia is shelling civilians at random as these comments are being written.
If I had access to true Taliban information, produced by Talibans honestly explaining their positions , what they do, what they want their world to be like, etc, do you think it's likely I would just say "oh sure, it makes sense, I've been brainwashed into thinking you were something completely different"?
In Texas teaching sex education is strongly discouraged while teaching abstinence only education in public schools is mandatory.

Some in the Republican party want states to be able to ban birth control as well. [1]

[1] https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/...

EDIT: Link to PDF about sex education in Texas https://tfn.org/cms/assets/uploads/2015/11/Report_final_web....
Timex Sinclair was a joint venture to market the ZX81 in the US. I don't remember Timex ever being used in the UK at the time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair
Sorry for the confusion, maybe I even answered to the wrong comment? I was answering to a comment that somehow justified the situation in Israel while at the same time saying Russian invasion is unacceptable. If it was not your comment and you did not make these claims (too lazy to check further up now) move on.

I just made a direct analogy point to point between Israel's actions and Russia's actions. I do not really believe they can be viewed in a different light, in particular Israel in a more favorable light, which I believe is something you (whoever I wanted to answer to) deduced in your comment. You can put one on one points between the Russian invasion and the Israeli colonization of Palestine, and the only real difference is that in Israel the victims were not white people.
> North Korea will be proven right

About what? No one is trying to invade neither Russia nor north Korea.

If there is anything that was proven is that even if Ukraine would become a strong western ally, as is South Korea, still no one would attack Russia, just like no one is attacking North Korea.

If anything Russia should be extremely wary about following the exact same path as North Korea, turning into a secluded prison state. It's all just extremely sad, and a lose for us all.
The East moved to NATO, not the other way around. And they moved to NATO for good reasons, as we have seen continually in the 21st century.
language formatter/server with semantic analysis are the hardest thing ever
Cool! --- I won't do it till I read all the docs.
Putin and Lavrov have said Ukraine is a historical mistake. They want to assimilate Ukraine into Russia and commit cultural genocide.

Ukrainians have every right to kill the Russian invaders. The West has every right to put sanctions on Russia and support the Ukrainian resistance.
I didn't understand a thing of what you said. Any recommended readings to know a bit more about this topic?
Covid is an example where it has.
I’m going to use it “in production” just to spite them!
Keep your straws, strawman. I don't want them, be they short or long.
And this could make it more useful too. You could prove that an event happened before a certain timepoint (not after it).

Some notary services allow you to inject documents or hashes into cryptocurrency blockchains which prove that the submitted documents existed before a timepoint.
For the Psiphon mail responder, we configure Postfix with `smtp_tls_security_level=verify` and `smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt` (with three "may" domain exceptions, unfortunately). So, the email should be encrypted through the ISP.

Of course, if your ISP is also your email provider (get a new email provider), then your ISP will be able to see and modify your email.

We also sign our apps and provide detailed instructions for verifying the authenticity of them: https://psiphon.ca/en/faq.html#verify-psiphon-authentic (You can't get to that if you can't get to the internet, but it's hard to do much better. We can't email the instructions, since then the instructions could also be modified. But it's entirely possible for some users to be able to load a webpage but not download a 6MB binary.)
Putin clearly stated that an eastward expansion of NATO is considered a security thread to Russia and is unacceptable. This was ignored and NATO decided that Ukraine will eventually become a NATO member. This is an obvious conflict between Ukraine's rights as a sovereign state and Russia's security interests. For the west this is no big deal, NATO is a defensive alliance and poses no threat to Russia, Russia on the other hand does not buy this.

This is, at least to a certain extend, a similar situation as during the Cuban Missile Crisis. How would the USA react today - or maybe better fifteen years ago to ignore the effects of the Ukraine conflict - to an Russian attempt to have missiles in Cuba? Would we believe that it is purely for defensive reasons?

This might have been avoidable, while it is impossible that both parties get what they desire, there might have been a compromise. Now with the war this probably becomes much harder, Ukraine has more reasons for a NATO membership, Russia has more reasons not to want Ukraine in the NATO.

Now the question is whether Ukraine has a chance to win the war. If they do not, it would probably really be the best option to just surrender. But judging the chances of that seems really hard at the moment because it depends on the amount of support from the west, the effects of the sanctions and the reaction of the Russian population, on China's position, on the kind of war that Russia is willing to fight, ...
> I would disagree that they are anti rapid change on social issues.

Eh, no. The BBC is institutionally anti LGBT, like much of the establishment in the UK.

As just one example, a few months ago they did a hit piece, to equate trans people with sexual offenders. Curiously, the loudest anti trans voice in the article was herself a sexual offender. However the BBC was okay with not disclosing that, and then platforming her.

Later, emboldened by the BBC piece, said anti trans activist wrote a manifesto—just like a neo Nazi or a school shooter does—calling for the elimination of trans people. No apology from the BBC, and they didn't even pull the piece.
You are correct. I was running a relay.
There’s not a single reference that I know of, at least not covering all aspects. An interesting place to start may be this PDF and it’s references: https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/CTAN/info/memdesign/me...

TeX famously does line breaking in a perhaps decent way - but it and text shaping become more of an art than a definite list of rules to follow.
They wanted the money and prestige
To look away shouldn't be an option. Otherwise we should never blame the ordinary German people that looked away when the nazis (the real one), killed millions. "self-preservation", right?
French speaker here: your translation is correct
Yep yer right I was a relay.
Thank you! Arcsecond is a 2d measurement! One star is coming within a small distance of the other star when looking at the projected image!
Tell that to the Ukrainians taking up arms and risking their lives. Do you think they care more about the items on your list of 'things that don't matter', or about ending the war at any cost?
>In Texas teaching sex education is strongly discouraged while teaching abstinence only education in public schools is mandatory.

Holy shit, that's even more backwards than my poor backwater Eastern European country where the Orthodox church still has big influence. Teaching sex-ed to kids and giving them free condoms is becoming the norm.

How is this possible in such a wealthy, educated and developed country?

No alcohol before 21, no sex before 18, etc., American kids must be going nuts over there.
Yes, I understand that too. But for me that doesn't mean I shouldn't comment on it.
Technically we are already there. The bigger question is how far it will escalate, and whether slow walking it isn't the best guarantee that it will eventually spiral out of control. The West is happy to sit back and watch Ukraine get slaughtered as long as it isn't their territory that is involved, absorb the refugees (the ones that survive, that is) and then pretend to get back to business as usual.

But Putin's appetite is not satisfied and once he has 'won' Ukraine (or whatever remains standing there) for sure he will push on. Moldavia was apparently already on the menu, I can easily see another sortie from Belarus into any one of the Baltics (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia in that order). This is far from over.
Is there any actual data on the types of people that use Tor?

I know by the very nature of it, that’s not a practical ask.

I can’t help but think that despite Tor’s good intentions it’s just not being used for legitimate use.

Every story I’ve read really relies on anecdotal stories. If feel better having a clearer sense of the real userbase.
I did protest those wars.
Agreed.

So much of this looks suspicious. The fact it's already being sold as a smoking gun is incredibly suspect. Several unproven assumptions. The report exists in vaccum where it neatly ignores new data that's come out since February 2020.

I also share your sentiment of truth seeking in modern times. It's exhausting.

Maybe better to just put head in sand?
If Valve managed to acquire a good marker share, developers will care about having something that works in Valve's SteamOS, Microsoft will push developers to native ports if they tried to degrade Proton ports, so I think they'll prefer to keep their control over DirecX.
> If the length of contract is what is protecting you, you're already in court.

Not at all! A strong, detailed, clearly written contract reduces the amount of "wiggle room" for litigation.

The other party is much more likely *not* to sue you in the first place if they know they would be fighting an uphill battle against a strong contract.

That's why GPLv3 has anti-patent-troll clauses for example.
> I don't remember Timex ever being used in the UK at the time?

No, indeed it wasn't -- perhaps my initial comment wasn't clear. (Some of that might be the latent British rage of the overlooked)

I've amended a bit.

(In fact I doubt the Timex Sinclair devices even worked here, and vice versa, hence the need for a manufacturing deal that dealt with needing NTSC and 60hz power etc.)
Sanctions and support are MUCH different than antagonizing Russia, a nuclear power, by doing the one thing that if the U.S. did not do would ease tensions greatly.

You do not have to be a Russian apologist to understand that this is more complicated than bad vs good.

And it was only a mistake because they trusted the US and Europe that they would keep the promise of not surrounding them with NATO forces.

What Russia and Putin have done is nothing short of a war crime, just like when the U.S. invaded Iraq, but that does not mean we should blind ourselves to their side to do everything we can to avoid war.

Peace come with understanding.
Psiphon usage from Russia is up almost 6x since the war started: https://psix.ca/d/nyi8gE6Zk/regional-overview?orgId=2&var-re...
The license has been set to end in 2027 already.
Two million people protested the war in Iraq. It arguably led to Tony Blair's pariah status in UK politics. We're currently going through a cultural admission of collective responsibility for Britain's imperialist past, and it's pissing off many of the right people (the National Trust being the latest targets of the anti-woke brigade).

Let's not get into whataboutery. We all know governments are shit. We shouldn't stop arguing for higher standards just because we've been inadequate in the past.
Heya, I had a friend who wanted to do something similar and asked for advice.

I suggested paying a consultant their hourly rate. So if I were you, I'd reach out to kafka experts and see if you can buy 1-3 hours of their time.

Here are some kafka experts I know:

Rich at Quicloud has taught classes for Confluent: http://quicloud.com/contact

Jason has given Kafka talks and is active in the community: https://twitter.com/jasonbelldata

Best of luck!
Ask HN: How can we fix Wikipedia?
Hi, not sure whether this is a good topic to discuss here or not but I keep seeing issues with Wikipedia which are getting worse with time, with regards to neutrality and editorialisation.

While Wikipedia's model seems far better than an individual publishing house's encyclopedia one where they can draw editors from millions of people throughout the world and are not bound by ads or sales to keep them afloat, in terms of editing it hasn't been working well.

Not every editor has equal power on Wikipedia. The more you have stayed on the site and the more time you spend on the site, you tend to have more say on what gets inside the articles. I have seen talk pages where the same three editors who seem to be part of the same echo chamber discussing issues preventing any alternative opinion or tone to come in the article. A behaviour very similar to Reddit where some subreddit moderators can sustain echo chambers by moderating anything not falling in line. In Wikipedia's case this often even leads to some sources getting picked over the other specially when it comes to media or books.

Is it possible to break the grasp of "editors" or is every user curated platform doomed to reach this state?
I am definitely more active as a result of owning my apple watch. My health is noticeably better. I get that it doesn’t work for everyone, and that’s fine.

Ironically, I like my Apple Watch because it gives me a lot of the things that my phone does without being so distracting. I can leave my phone behind and go walking while listening to an audio book, and have access to trail maps if I’m going somewhere new. I can see altitude, compass, Sun up and sun down all without having to use a phone, all of which I use on a weekly basis.
Probably because those distros haven't developed a relationship with Microsoft. I'm reasonably certain that in order to distribute Linux on SB, you have to build the kernel as a Windows executable and get MS to sign it.
Russian circumvention usage up 6x since war started (using Psiphon)
Git is how we store all the white space changes as the formatting wars rage.

Apparently some actual code changes are in there but we’ve never found them.
Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war
this situation has truly opened my eyes about how selective the general population (especially in the UK) can be about certain things.

supplying arms and willing civilians to fight a war = bad Russia 2014

supplying arms and willing civilians to fight a war = good Liz Truss (UK Foreign Secretary) 2022 but before 2022 it was bad

*disclaimer -- both bad

We have been told my entire life that boycotting economies is bad (which is what is going on, this isn't just sanctions) and in some situations discrimination (on grounds of race) but now it's ok.

My brain hurts trying to reconcile these positions.

We just need to end this conflict ASAP and it doesn't help promising to speed run UKR into EU and NATO (even if that's the ultimate goal)
> Mexico or Canada considered joining a non-American Security Alliance

The problem with those hypothetical situations is that currently they have no reason to do that. If they had reasons, they could outweigh what the US thinks about it - because the US is already the danger.

Or to change that variable on the other side: if Russia want hostile in the first place, there would be no pressure for the expansion. "I increased bullying due to you joining the anti-bullying group" just shouldn't make sense when grown-ups are involved, and yet...
Broadly speaking - read The Phoenix Project.

They really need air cover from management and buy in from stakeholders. Most sysadmins I know would love to be proactive, but they are not given the bandwidth or time to do planned work. Things like deployment, maintenance and improvement of the platform, etc are not properly baked into product planning and always tackled at the last minute.
This is what I think. But no way to find it's true or not.
Wifi hotspot locations can be triangulated, so if the regime has penalties for sharing information they want to suppress, this could be a dangerous plan for a civilian within the regime to undertake.
Non-encrypted email in transit is a concern, but AFAIK most users should already be protected nowadays. (Google estimates [1] put it at around 9/10, tho probably not representative of Russia)

A bigger concern might be Russian-monitored email servers, especially given that around 70% of the market share is occupied by Russian providers [2], and email isn't considered personal data in Russia [3].

[1]: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email?hl=en

[2]: https://help.returnpath.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001108411-C...

[3]: https://www.plesner.com/insights/articles/2016/01/data-local...

Update: as for transit, see adam-p's comment.
Nice reference there! Micro Men really is a great docu-drama, it really feels like it captures the time very well.

As my first computer was a BBC Micro, it really struck a chord. It’s great seeing the specs for the (yet to be built) ARM chip on the board in the Acorn office, and it’s also awesome that Sophie Wilson playing the barmaid too!

For those that haven’t seen it, it’s definitely worth a watch [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM
Exactly this. I'd be much more interested in what people say anonymously. Same story anytime you see a North Korean being interviewed with their face visible.
>Even if Putin was a Hitler 2.0 (which is very doubtful, since History rarely repeats itself and reasoning by analogy often leads to spectacular failures)

History is famed for repeating itself and analogies are a powerful tool, some (Lakoff) even asserting that they are the core of cognition. That's the entire premise behind "learning from history". When a dictator starts invading his European neighbors while ranting about building an empire and restoring former glory, it is difficult to come to a different conclusion than Churchill did about Hitler.
The question is how many civilians they are willing to kill, or in another words, how barbaric they are wiling to be. But don't fool yourself. Russia destroyed two major cities in the last 20 years. Grosny and Aleppo. Both, for no reason.
Forming the Dog Internet: Prototyping a Dog-to-Human Video Call Device (2021)
I'd say civil rights were the perfect example.

If legal slavery was a federal law, it would still exist today.

The beauty of states rights is that there's context to see why something is good or bad.

Rather than the despotic federal boot that crushes any dissent.
Cvc5: Versatile and Industrial-Strength SMT Solver [pdf]
Email hn@ycombinator.com, then, and let them know what you think. They're the ones with the power to change it.
To the second part of your statement, it’s true that China is an actual contender to the US on both economic, diplomatic and military terms in a way Russia can never hope to be.

However, since China is not controlled by a narrow circle of delusional madmen I’m confident that the West and China can continue to cooperate peacefully and there is no need to call for hostilities.
Are you suggesting American Covid-19 policies worked well? Almost a million people died from it in this country.
The West is happy to sit back and watch Ukraine get slaughtered as long as it isn't their territory that is involved, absorb the refugees (the ones that survive, that is) and then pretend to get back to business as usual.

This was always true, even when Western leaders said otherwise. Some people in Ukraine learned from the examples of Georgia (and Hungary). Others did not.
There is also the extremely oppressive language law that punished both the polish and hungarian minority (even though the main target were the russian speakers).
Sheesh. That is hard. And that does NOT pales in comparison to me polishing the “tiny” Bash regex for removal of inline comment (as denoted by hash, semicolon or double-slash) in the INI-format (version 1.4 2009) file … while … and while permitting those same inline comment characters in quoted string to be allowed in (along with its sub-sequential string up to its ending pair of matching single/double quote symbol.

I have a working regex (passed by many regex online testers) but in bash yet, NO!

To graderjs of HN, the Author of Dart code for matter, you got mad respect from me.
Yes, but this was after we lost the war (thank god). This change came not from within. The absolute vast majority supported the Nazi party until the end. You can read about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
I agree that you don't need a blockchain for this but consensus systems can be nice. A system that others can run this system and somehow verify with your keys as well as their own, or anyone running this and offering the API. So scanning that QR code will send me to the website of whoever generated it but will also show other instances's approval there.
Rightfully so, as it seems now.
From the start, the problem with these lab arguments was that they were made by people who had zero evidence. Making up a plausible story and speculations are not evidence.

The bottom line is we will never know, since China is not exactly a free country were potential eye witnesses can be interviewed freely. The market theory was always more likely and more dooming for China, though. It's easy to beef up the control of bio labs, it's way harder to close down all animal wet markets. Officially, China claims they have done the latter but I've heard that they continue to exist all over China.
Yesterday I saw claims that "half of Ukraine is pro-Russia" and the revolution against the corrupt dictator in 2014 was a CIA coup.

The vast majority of Ukrainians are anti-Russia and pro-EU. Russia's actions since 2014 have also made them pro-NATO.
5 figures? 6 figures?
I keep saying this, but I am right back at the first Iraq war again, trying to unblind people of the propaganda just like I did back then. Only this time we have nukes.
I was being snarky, but I didn't equate "feminists" to females, let alone with children. It wasn't any statement with content, just a tease.

While compliance doesn't equal agreement, let's not fall in the trap that non-compliance will solve the problem. The enemy ( which is what it is atm ) isn't some old fat C-suites that rollover when "their twitter explodes" and they have to work on the weekend instead of go boating.
Types being checked at runtime seems like a bad idea, because it wont help you discover mistakes before the program runs. Ideally it would check types before the program runs and give an option to have checks at runtime in parts, for when you cannot know at compile time.

The type system also does apparently not provide a common Object kind of type. So Object cannot be used to work around the lack of generics. Making it difficult (impossible?) to create abstract data structures and making sure, that the functions for that ADT only accept things that adhere to some interface. This makes the type system rather less useful in general.

I guess it all stems from the earlier days of PHP, where OOP was added badly and in hindsight. It still shows.
Bridge relays aren't. The person you're replying to was running a public relay, not a bridge.

https://support.torproject.org/censorship/censorship-7/
Russia is the molester in the train. Europe are the people around holding their phones and live streaming it.