skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Important Is Russia to Apple’s Business?
How about we stop with the blame game and start figuring out how to conduct foreign policy in a way that leads to desirable geopolitical outcomes for all parties involved. The humanitarian catastrophe that resulted from the US' invasion of Iraq was far worse than what's happening in Ukraine anyways, so all this moralizing by the West just comes off as hollow and hypocritical.

If the US leadership over the last thirty years was even a little less unscrupulous and short-sighted, we could have averted this geopolitical catastrophe currently unfolding in Eastern Europe, but I'm sure the fact that "Putin started it" will be great comfort when the nukes start falling and everyone you knew or cared about is dead.
How do you ensure Ukraine's neutrality as another country? If they pick your side, you start with sanctions against them?
Not really.

Statically verifying a GC is probably the kind of thing you want to specify in TLA+ whereas this basically only infers corruption on "local" memory i.e. as opposed abstract memory being managed by a GC
It's getting downvoted because westerners have been whipped up into a bloodlust frenzy towards Russia.

Just like the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, those who speak against the destruction will be derided as unpatriotic, freedom hating traitors.
Or mandating any that include wifi, touch screen, anything running code to be open source and able to be modified by the user.
> Not buying stuff is war

Removing the tools of trade to specifically punish a country is akin to war, I agree with the sentiment. A lot of innocent people are going to starve and die because of this decision, regardless of whether or not bombs are dropped. They don't have any other options and their already fragile and corrupt markets are crashing.
I think we are all slinging mud over the same reason, but money is only a part of it, it's really about geopolitical domination.

The EU wants to dominate the cultural and political landscape in Eastern Europe. The West have their ideals of human rights, democracy, climate change, migration, etc. Russia has different views. Even if Ukraine were to become a part of the EU and NATO, all that happens is the problem is postponed. At some point the West will impose sanctions on Russia anyway, regardless of an invasion, because Russia is an obstacle to Globalization. I think that Putin saw the writing on the wall and that's why he made a move.

I certainly don't agree with it, I don't agree with the war, but what did the EU think was going to happen? They and the US smugly admitted to tampering with the internal affairs Ukraine over the last several decades, and and have made their designs on Eastern Europe obvious. Now that they are implementing extreme sanctions on the Russian people, it is only confirmation bias for the Russians and more reason for them to double down on the direction they are headed in.
You can make that argument for any repressive country and regime. Why do North Koreans not rise up? There is not much difference between Russia, Belarus and North Korea with regards to brainwashing of population and repression.
> 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.

I believe I am part of such a cabal, despite my contributions on Wikipedia totaling about half a dozen in the past decade. Why would I be part of such a cabal? Well, first, I have no contact whatsoever with the other editor other than edits made with the same purpose — and that purpose is to deflect an attempt by other editors to erase the details of a (well-sourced) historical event from Wikipedia and replace it with alternative facts more amenable to certain political ideologies. I (and my fellow cabalist) have explained in detail on the talk page that the other editors were pushing a fringe position which was not backed by any reliable sources, and with this justification I have removed every edit made by those editors attempting to change the facts in the article, even to the point of removing tags they add to the article indicating that there is a dispute as to its accuracy! And yet I believe I am in the right, due to overwhelming evidence of the correctness of the article's contents, and incorrectness of the position being pushed by (what I see as) rogue editors.

The thing is, probably every single such cabal is maintained with essentially identical motivations, at least in the eyes of the cabalists. If even some fraction of us are correct, it shows that you have to choose between cabals and an encyclopedia of misinformation and propaganda. Except, of course, haha, there's no choice at all, because some portion of the cabals are pushing misinformation and propaganda. In my view the Wikipedia experiment has failed, and not merely in some contingent way but in a way that shows that the concept cannot be executed as imagined, an "encyclopedia anyone can edit". Some [substantial?] portion of the information contained will be misinformation, for the same reasons that misinformation exists at all.

Unfortunately, insofar as Wikipedia seems to have displaced many other sources of information (which, to be fair, needn't have been any more reliable — a traditional encyclopedia no doubt contained misinformation spread by the editors, with the only saving grace being a relative dearth of information limiting impact), I fear that it will prove to have been the greatest setback to the aggregation of accurate human knowledge so far in the history of humanity.
> They will just also be sanctioned.

Yes, and because most countries in the world are smaller than the US or Russia, they will suffer because of it. Likely with people dying, either directly or indirectly. The smaller the country, the more sanctions hurt, the more it's like getting punched in the face.

Most countries in the world can't afford to be excluded from trade with the western bloc.
What you say may be ttue for the classic startup kind of innovation, less so for scintific ground work, developments in large existing companies and so on. In terms of patents, Europe is pretty much among the global leaders. Did we forget were two of the earliest COVId vaccines came from? Which aeroapace giant is building the more advanced civilian planes? Whos building the better quality cars (besides pushing EVs, even Teslas build quality is nowhere near that of European or Asian manufacturers, nor are other US brands)?
There was a site like this about 10 years ago, it contained some bizarre examples but i dont know if it was accurate. Perhaps it needed fact checking!
I'm not really sure how I am supposed to retroactively go back in time and register earlier.

Since you are handing out free advice, is it normally considered polite or helpful here to accuse people of using fake accounts? Is assuming that a person speaking with confidence about a topic may have some direct knowledge of that topic somehow rude or against the rules?

If you're speaking confidently on behalf of the person that I was responding to, are you sure that you reflect their opinion faithfully? If the GP wanted to say "I refuse to give more details about the fund due to the phrasing of your request for details," surely they could have typed that themselves.

Namaste!
the most interesting part of this imo is the heuristic it uses to find the most likely word:

# Greatly penalize words that have multiple of the same black letters
# Greatly penalize words that have the same black letters as any seen word
# Greatly penalize words that have the same yellow letter/index pair as any seen word
# Reward words that have yellow letters that match yellow letters in seen words, but in different positions
# Reward words that have yellow letters that match green letters in seen words
# Penalize words that have yellow letters that don't appear in seen words
# Penalize words that have green letters that don't appear in seen words
# Rewards words based on commonality
# Reward/penalize words based on line indexes and common letters

I built something similar to this that just lists all the possible words, and is nowhere near as smart -- but it lets you draw pretty pictures! https://jse.li/wordle-reverse/
There is rail from the ports, but rail is less flexible and harder to expand (and more susceptible to being removed).
As gus_massa said, the site is empty. When you make a submission here you are competing for people's time and attention ... don't make them click on things to find out more.

So submit a link to an actual explanation. If it's something you made, make it a "Show HN" submission. Above all, make it so the first thing that people see will engage their curiosity.

It might also be that the site is flagged somehow. In that case contact the mods to ask, their details are in the "Contact" link at the bottom of the page, and also in the Guidelines, and in the FAQ.
There are actually quite a few smaller companies that are like this...I drove for one to pay my way through college, although it was short haul LTL. You might be surprised at what types of companies are willing to pay 40-50% more for consistent and fast service. Our 2 biggest clients were John Deere and Caterpillar parts distributors, delivering parts to construction sites, mines, and farms. And we got a bunch of business through logistics consultants that used us to make up for cheaper carriers dropping the ball.

But for the most part, businesses deal with the problems of cheap logistics because they can easily see the prices, but the actual costs are harder to measure.
>the question is the overall output isn't it?

Well considering German arms are nothing more than show pieces, it's output is, well, zero. Although this could be changing as Germany finally changes its defensive posture after the Ukraine invasion.
Show HN: CL and FB reselling app with auto renew and auto price reduction
I recently moved apartments and had a lot of stuff I wanted to get rid of.

I found the reselling process to be cumbersome – I needed to post the same info twice, to both Facebook and Craigslist. I had to renew the items so they don't expire. I also had to reduce the item prices if they didn't sell.

So I decided to do what any right minded overzealous, "pragmatic" software engineer does – instead of spending 10 minutes every few days reducing the prices and renewing the items, why not spend 3 weeks to build out a fully decked out Electron app that does all of the above automatically for you? Why not indeed...

In the end, it's been a fun ride and I learned a lot. And actually! now it's coming in handy as I'm finally starting to sell the backlog of items that I've accumulated.

Once I built it, I figured I'd offer it on gumroad, make a buck, why not... btw, the link is for a discounted version ($1 instead of $10) so that you lovely HN lot can try it out.

Curious if you all have thoughts / feedback! Hopefully it will help you out on your next move too!
Independent news sources are rare in Russia, especially with the recent law making "misinformation" a jailable offense with up to 15 years jail time. I'm not saying there isn't any other news sources, but it legitimately seems like you have to go well out of your way to find them. How many Americans are digging into different news sources to see if the narrative on Ukraine is true or if it's all a western farce? Just the same many Russians aren't double checking the narrative they're being fed
This didn't start in 2014, this started in 1990, when it was informally agreed that there would be no eastwards NATO expansion. Then NATO expanded eastwards anyway, after all there was no formal agreement, and Russia kind of accepted it. In 2008 with the Bucharest declaration Ukraine and Georgia started the process of becoming NATO members. Russia attacked Georgia. Until 2014 under Yanukovych Ukraine no longer pursued a NATO membership, after that this again became more and more a priority and Russia annexed Crimea, intervened in eastern Ukraine and finally now this war.
More - that study is about the tops i.e. leaves, which are not widely eaten.
thats not accurate, all data is available onchain and can be read, new dai and mim can be created by adding collateral, programmatic interaction is done via ABIs, there is no need for a third party API even if they are offering one

Youre saying, atm, all solutions are KYC-rooted but you can create a grey area yourself without being KYCed yourself (if youre lucky). Youre certainly right.

FYI I was giving a practical advice to someone in need of a sure grey-enough area thats available now.
Looks like merica does negotiate with Neonazis though
https://www.stpete4peace.org/Ukraine
Fractal-Next is really usable for me at least. (The times I've tried it) The only thing that is hindering it for me is the missing SSO-Support, but as soon as my MR is merged, it has SSO-Support
Redirect Russia
At a former job, I worked on the low-level OS support for GE devices. With that perspective, I would never buy one of their products that contains any software, and I actively warn others not to buy them.

I worked on medical devices. Imagine how much worse the software will be on devices that do not have that level of regulatory scrutiny.
Yeah like you can sell your smart TV and buy one of the approximately zero remaining consumer-available non-smart TVs.

Voting with your wallet didn't work so far, but stay the course! Any moment now it'll start working, I'm certain.
This is a common view among many commentators but apparently not very popular with his subscribers. I liked his articles even though I am not a subscriber. In this case I think he really misses the point for several reasons:

1) My post-Soviet country joined NATO as soon as it was able to. The current events show that it was a very good, maybe even existential decision.

2) I am actually protesting against US embargo over Cuba. Nevertheless, the embargo is not depriving Cuba's free determination. It also doesn't excuse the socialist regime in Cuba.

3) I also protested the US/NATO invasion in Iraq, how it dealt with Afghanistan etc.

4) Consequently his arguments are whataboutism despite him not liking this. At the moment Russia is attacking Ukraine and we should do something about it. I admit, I am partial because Ukraine is closer to my country than Syria. We should stand for every country but it is not wrong that the charity starts at home.

5) It is a tragedy and he must be tone deaf to write such an article at this time.
You’re for annihilating the economy of a nuclear power with thousands of warheads? How do you imagine that a nuclear failed state looks and acts like?

I swear, reading comments like these on social media makes me realize that a disturbingly large number of people are irrational about war.
IsUserAMonkey and IsUserAGoat
My father is an owner operator of a trucking company. I helped him run his business after I graduated from college. The way we were able to differentiate was by being extraordinarily reliable with our pickups and deliveries. You can achieve this if you can communicate often with your clientele and have slack with your trailers. You can't have drivers sitting in a loading dock for 2+ hours waiting to load or unload goods without getting paid for that time. So we wrote into our contracts that you get paid overtime for sitting around if we showed up on time and you took too long to load or unload. Anyone who refused got cut, and we still had more than enough people willing to give us business to continually expand. We would also talk to them and work around production schedules by dropping off trailers and have them be loaded when the company had slack in their schedule if they wanted. This allowed us to keep great clients, and have predictable routes for our drivers. You can go even farther if you analyze traffic patterns and attempt to find clients who will minimize your deadhead miles.

You can make a lot of money in trucking if you know what you're doing since the bar is so low for competence. Most of the big boys will churn out drivers and treat them like garbage.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_2003–present

this may sound blunt. but people are always and will always be dying. most of them will be poor people in some bush conflict you do not hear or care about but there has always been a war 'somewhere'. if conflict demands we suspend all of our principles and all modes of sensibility 'for the sake of the dying people' then we will do so indefinitely.
Close enough[1]? That breakdown doesn't seem too unreasonable, the 'community' bucket is large, but not larger than 'direct support to websites' (which I take to mean Keeping The Lights On). The overhead for admin and fundraising looks fairly typical for a nonprofit.

1: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-annu...
I got lost in your word soup. Messy writing often implies messy thinking. Beware conspiracy theories. Yes, there's almost always more going on than you see in the news.

Russia's strategy has stayed remarkably true to The Foundations of Geopolitics, a 25-year old book. One of it's core principles is dividing the US from Europe. Nato is a clear threat to that.

>Ukraine should be annexed by Russia . . . Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible.

>The United Kingdom . . . should be cut off from Europe.

>France should be encouraged to form a bloc with Germany

>The book stresses the "continental Russian–Islamic alliance"

>Georgia should be dismembered. . . Georgia's independent policies are unacceptable.

>Russia needs to create "geopolitical shocks" within Turkey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Go fight against Russian zombies in Ukraine to win your right to have a bank account.
There is a train line that helps, but it's not enough.

> Also, where is this warehouse? I’m thinking that when society collapses, that might be a great place to pick up stuff.

It is a collection of warehouses, not one single warehouse, and they are in Ontario and Redlands, CA. You can seem them clearly on satellite pics surrounding the I-10/I-15 and I-10/CA-210 interchanges:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0825717,-117.4149858,56798m/...
That would be even better. Google search email and docs are almost public utilities at this point. But at least, we need to regulate on Google shuts down accounts, because it can really screw people's lives and companies. That reminds me I need to copy everything out of my own Gmail and docs again Just in case Google one day says I'm a persona non grata.
Or the company will grow to a point where they buy up all their competition and get to set higher prices.
Interesting. I was assuming that given 94% turnover there couldn't be that many quality focused employers.
I should have been more specific. I was trying to ask about generating renewable energy and then using that at some other site for heating purposes. What kind of efficiency does electricity to heat get you compared to just burning fossil fuels on site? I am not sure if that is the best way of asking this question.
Here's the problem though: if you obliterate a country's financial system to the point that people start starving and fundamentally lack their basic needs, what incentive are you giving someone like Putin to not drop a bomb?

If people start starving en masse the way they did back during Soviet Collectivization, which saw 4-7M dead[0], what's stopping Putin from ending it all in retaliation?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet...
Why not in the middle of the freeway? Sacrifice 2-3 lanes or do it raised, one for freight another for metro. Last mile transportation still needs to be solved, light rail would be awesome to and you and down main streets.
This might help somebody but it's not super related to the article: in 2012 I had very bad and worsening depression and anxiety even though I had great, stress-free life. My doctor immediately suspected some deficiency in minerals/vitamins. We did a million tests and nothing out of the ordinary. Long story short, we did a sleep test and turns out I had horrible sleep because of my congested nose caused by sinusitis! Sleep is incredibly important.
Putin isn't the one pressing the button to shoot a missile that hits a kindergarten. He's not the one that's threatening you with a rifle. It's an average Russian guy that does it.

It has been an average Russian guy that does it for centuries.

Virtually every country bordering Russia has suffered from this in the past few hundred years. I don't mean to say that it's right, but it should be easily understandable why any country that had portions of their population deported to Siberia and sent to gulag campus would have tensions that were reignited with this conflict.
I guess the book is more of a very well structured fast path (compared to learning from blogs) to give you a fundamental understanding of storing, transferring data.
You won’t find the exact answer to your question, but reading this book enlightens you to read other things and helps you better to understand what solution to use in what case.
Yup back in the day when I first started doing frontend work in ~2009. Everything was vanilla JS / jQuery.

What did we end up with? A custom build framework.
>but I can see why they want Ukraine, a country that is in their borders, to stay in their orbit.

Ukraine is not a Russian region that wants to separate, it is a independent democratic country and Putin pretends is part of Russia.

I can also see why Putin wants Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia(he said he wants to restore URSS) but why should we say "bad luck, let him have them and let's buy more gas"
> Over the past decade, dozens of lawsuits from misclassified drivers have resulted in judgments affirming that they’ve been misclassified and awarding them compensation from the companies that misclassified them. XPO recently paid a $30 million fine to a large number of its drivers. But neither XPO nor any of the other fined companies have stopped misclassification. It’s cheaper for them to pay a fine than to pay their drivers a living wage.

This would seem to be the root cause of the problem.
No, it really isn’t. A brief DCF analysis shows AMD is heavily overpriced. There is a significant difference between tech sector sentiment and earnings yield. See also: Facebook.

DCF using ^TNX as discount rate: $70.93, with a 50% discount: $35.465. Current price as of Mar 5, 2022: $108.41.
Washington state is a woke shithole. Move to Texas or Florida and be reminded of what normalcy is.
Yes that's my point, that is capitulation to Russia for us. To not get involved.
The vaccines came from decades of NIH funded research and the US Govt's actions (in partnership with the private sector) during the actual pandemic.
I support sanctions precisely because I wouldn’t want to volunteer for any militia, and am therefore not prepared to ask others to do the same.

If the options on the table are a) do nothing, b) launch a military counter-offensive which could lead to use of nuclear weapons and/or a cyber-war with as-yet unknown (but certainly devastating) consequences, or c) use economic measures to deprive Putin of the tax base he needs to fund his war, I choose option C.

I’m willing to consider other options if they are presented.
I suspect that most multilingual Americans are immigrants or a child of immigrants. By your definition, they would not be considered to speak a foreign language.

I for one don't know the intent of the question. Is there a reason the poster phrased it as "foreign languages" instead of "multilingual," or is that a language difference?
Afaik, if there's one thing Russia is actually self-sustained at, it's food and energy. Would there really be shortages of food because of the sanctions?