skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> extract a demilitarization commitment,

How could they possibly hope to get this? A peace accord with demilitarization on the Ukrainian site would only be possible if the Ukrainians trusted Russia. But Russia did not feel bound to their former agreements on keeping Ukraine as a sovereign state. How could Ukraine be guaranteed not to be invaded completely after demilitarizating?
Lessee here,...

Following several hundred years of rule by Poland and then Russia, in 1991 the Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence from Russia. (I assume you think that was a mistake?)

Between 1991 and 2004, two the administrations of two presidents retained close ties to Russia. However, in 2004, in an election festooned with accusations of fraud (serious accusations, not Trump-accusations), another pro-Russian president was elected, sparking protests and a second election, which brought into power another president who called for closer ties with the European Union. (Yeah, this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko demonstrating the results of not recognizing Russian authority.) Corruption seems to have abounded during most of these and the next president's terms.

In 2010, another pro-Russian president was elected, which in 2013 and 2014 led to the Euromaidan protests, complete with violence, that led to that government's collapse. This was the time when Russia annexed Crimea and civil war broke out in Donetsk and Luhansk. (They should have just given up then, right?)

The next President, elected in 2014, began again the policy of closing the relationship with the EU and withdrawing from the Commonwealth of Independent States, the association of countries from the USSR, and generally trying to clean up the mess. In 2019 the constitution was amended:

"The authority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine include ... determining the principles of internal and foreign policy, realization of the strategic course of the state on acquiring full-fledged membership of Ukraine in the European Union and in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

"The President of Ukraine is a guarantor of the implementation of the strategic course of the state for gaining full-fledged membership of Ukraine in the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

"The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine provides the implementation of the strategic course of the state for gaining full-fledged membership of Ukraine in the European Union and the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization."

(Stupid fools, don't they know they have no rights a world power is bound to respect? They're barely human!)

Also in 2019, Zelenskyy was elected president with 73% of the vote, a group of prisoners were exchanged with Russia, freeing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Sentsov, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Sushchenko and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olexandr_Kolchenko, among others, and here we are today. (Not that I'm suggesting holding political prisoners is bad, mind you.)

Now, Putin has said that the big mistake happened when Lenin's USSR gave Ukraine any autonomy at all, which may in fact be true. But,

1. The Ukrainians are not victims. Well, they are, but only of Russian aggression.

2. The military-industrial complex seems to have an awful lot of reach and power. Shades of the Elders of Zion, eh? On the other hand, seems like they could have worked a bit faster.

3. NATO does not look to be a very big player; the EU and Poland have had as big a hand in "false promises" if you choose to look at it that way.
Awesome article. Three things:

1. Esther Hicks is maybe my favorite contemporary philosopher. Her words are incredible. But she operates by channeling the voice of “Abraham,” a non-physical intelligence. Whatever that means, the channeling works. What she communicates is truly awesome.

2. Julian Jaynes — the idea that the voices in our heads were perceived as divine for ancient peoples. The voices in our head can give incredible power—or they can be our greatest barrier to success.

3. I need to get in touch with my coach again. She is amazing and so so worth it.
No, it’s not more accurately described as arbitrage. Arbitrage involves buying something and then selling it for a higher price in a different market. That might describe something like a temp agency, which buys labor from employees and then essentially sells it to other companies. It does not describe most businesses, which directly use the labor provided by their employees rather than reselling it.

I agree that “price discrimination” isn’t quite right; it’s more of a metaphor. It works if you imagine that companies are selling money that is bought for the price of labor. In different markets, people will accept more or less money for the same labor, or equivalently spend less or more labor for the same money, which allows for price discrimination.
They could carpool to work now in their non-self driving cars. So why don't they do it? What does self-driving change?
It is a common misconception. Knowing two slavic languages from different branches (e.g. west and east slavic groups) improves your comprehension of other slavic langauges a lot, but even that still often not enough. I speak 2 slavic languages but found myself confused with simple everyday phrases in others.
Russia has already moved on to "Plan C." They're conducting indiscriminate shelling against residential neighborhoods [1]. Kyiv could be the next Aleppo or Grozny.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/3/3/photos-shelling-c...
I edited my comment after doing a search. FDA does permit synthetic alcohol in food and food chemical production. It doesn't say that it can't be part of a beverage, which is food. Although there could be other regulations that supercede this.
Mercedes had a self-driving car prototype in the 80s and got it to drive at high speeds on the Autobahn in the 90s. [1]

So it took them only 30 years from protoype to product.

[1]: https://www.politico.eu/article/delf-driving-car-born-1986-e...
Ask HN: Content Management Systems suck, why is no one building a good one?
Having trained with elite athletes and coaches before, and knowing religious people, the author got some of it so right. Fear is ego and ego speaks language, so you need to find or hear a voice that separates you from the nagging, halting filter of your own ego to perform at an elite level in pretty much anything. And yet then, and the end of the article, the author judges it with some pitiful story about not getting your body back, from having "given" it in college, as though the incredible and peak human experience of performing at that level is somehow lesser - or worse, their own experience as a critic and anthropologist is somehow equal or worthy of having an opinion of what elite performance entails. The ending read as an unbearable conceit, as though criticism can digest the experience of training at that level, perhaps to seduce magazine readers of Harpers and provide some knowing comfort and justification to people who have stopped at mediocrity. Yes, I'm angry about the article, so (point author) great provocative writing, but what a disappointing analysis. I don't compete, or even place among the people who do the things I do passably as an amateur, and nobody needs my defense, but as a writer, it seemed low.

Maybe there are elite athletes who regret their commitment, or maybe the author is really a former olympic team contender knocking the ladder away behind them, but having trained with olympians and been trained by their trainers, and being involved in mentoring and coaching relationships, the end note about "a former track star sat in my office weeping," seemed out of line. Again, superb insight into the relationship between voice and performance, and how it's closely related to spiritual experiences, but her critical lens really taints it.
I switched from 2 21.5" 1080p monitors to 1 40" 4k TV. At first it felt comically huge, but I found it great for both media consumption and working on huge documents. If I had a larger desk, I'd move to an AORUS FO48U.
TTF hinting is automatic, using vertical and horizontal stem widths. Manual hinting is WIP. I've gotten feedback for trial fonts, please sign up for notifications at the bottom of the page and we'll email you when that's properly available. It requires some font engineering and writing up a license for it.
Cool game mechanic, I haven't seen anything quite like it.

I think you could remove the UI options at the bottom entirely.

Instead have the user click on the adjacent squares directly. Basically if I click a red square on the board, that would be equivalent to selecting the red square in the UI options.

Then add have a hover state that indicates what is going to happen after they click. And make everything bigger such that so the user can't avoid mousing over the squares.
If the hover state is good enough, it should teach the rules without the need for instruction.

Oh and make the color blind option the default / ditch the squares. The emojis look cooler.
I'm hoping for NO too, mainly because this kind of software tends to become extremely aggressive.
What is NATO's objective except to defend the member countries from aggressors? As has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, perhaps what is happening is about the control of natural resources. The entire situation is then politically motivated. Aren't NATO and Ukraine then simply actors that have been strung along? (Obviously at great cost to Ukraine now.) This would also explain why EU has been so quick to respond with sanctions. This is about cause and effect. Russia attacking Ukraine is obviously very wrong. It seems philosophical to discuss if the cause should be blamed. However, Mearsheimer has warned about this aggression for a very long time. The history seems to indicate that this outcome has been forced.
Dell Scam Caller knows I just bought a new Dell laptop
> English dependence can be viewed as why india and so much of africa is so poor and undeveloped.

This makes no sense. The USA primarily speaks the language of a country an ocean away that they fought multiple wars against.
You keep referencing DocuSign and HelloSign, but what are your USPs in comparison?
Here's the link to the actual study:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28735-5

The crucial figure is Figure 3. Take it with a big grain of salt though. From the figure it would follow that if you are female and you drink an average of 1 alcoholic drink per day, then your brain actually "grows". And the effect is more pronounced (about double) than the "shrinkage" effect observed for males.
I feel like not everyone works well remotely. Meanwhile if you can work well remote, you can probably work well at a desk. So the rest of us must suffer especially at these larger firms.
Microsoft halts all new sales in Russia
Which podcast?
What CS questions would be irrelevant for front end? I don't quite follow.
Open Source Community Ponders Removing Code Optimizations for Russian Processors
Agreed.

Pre-scheduling is ONE way of getting people in sync, but not the only way.

For me and my team, there is a LOT of ad-hoc communication, preferrably in public slack channels, which leads to extremely productive conversations.

Furthermore, these are SEARCHABLE, which is a godsend; if an issue comes up once, it's very likely to come up again.

And, of course, there are times when we just jump on a zoom call quickly to review something that may be quicker than a bunch of slack back-and-forth.

There has never been a time where I felt "damn, it would be easier if I were there in person". If anything, in-person communication has always been hampered by the very need for co-location (including arranging meeting rooms or whiteboard, etc), and it's always been difficult to view someone else's screen unless they connect to a projector or large TV, whereas zoom has made pair-and -group programming almost inevitable.

I understand the social side of people wanting to be co-located, but from a pure productivity perspective, my team has been significantly more productive since WFH.
The main difference to me is that 'banned in X country' implies availability outside of that country. The Parler situation was about the viability of the site as a whole.

'Weibo banned in the USA' is very different.
> it’s just a lazy solution: why on earth would I want to specify the version in the path?

It's not a lazy solution, just opinionated.

Personally, I love the fact that just by seeing the import path I know exactly which codebase is used. I don't have to open my go.mod, see which version I'm using, clone the repository, dig through the history to check out a specific tag and see what code is actually used in my program... I just open the repo in my browser and browse through the directories. There isn't a single system on earth that doesn't support directories!

I also love the fact that I don't have to know s**t about git to use Go. If Go was to suddenly switch to git tags, not only would it break a massive amounts of existing code, but would basically force everyone to learn about git tags just to be able to see what code are they using, which would raise the amount of paperwork I have to fill in order to work on the thing I care about. Go is fundamentally against needless paperwork.
Totally agree. I'm a technical founder and I failed for 2 years until I learned how to sell. Now I'm at 6k MRR.
This should give the open-source movement a massive boost.
Oddpost
Good luck getting a straight, specific answer from anyone at Google regarding supposed problems that violate one of their vaguely worded policies. Some of the stuff flagged by their automated systems are laughable - one that comes to mind is an ad promoting genealogy research that was blocked for promoting birth control.

Not that the other platforms are much better. A nonfiction book publisher once told me her Amazon detail page on a book about surviving breast cancer was rejected for promoting sexual content. Besides the description containing the word "breast", the word "therapist" in the description was interpreted by Amazon's "AI" as being about rape.
Christ almighty, you again with your vendetta against this dude. Flagged and deleted a few months ago, you’re gonna try gain, eh? Good luck.
(2019)

The New York Times, The Intercept, and ProPublica are also available as Tor services.
I have gone one step past that. The really wide monitor gave me a neck ache as I'd persistently find myself wedging stuff at one end. It was also 1440p which is crap.

I now have a single 27" 4k monitor which has better text rendering and no neck ache.

I will buy a 27" 5k if Apple sell one.
"Improvements in command, control, joint action and coordination have also been made, as demonstrated in both Crimea and Syria, and during a number of large-scale exercises training for joint combined arms operations. A costly programme of rearmament has modernized available military equipment. Following a hiatus in the delivery and upgrading of military hardware lasting for more than a decade, the armed services' stocks of weaponry have been comprehensively replenished. The impact of technological renewal on the Russian military's ability to project power on a global level was demonstrated in Syria. At the same time, the country's capabilities for expeditionary operations remained limited. It is highly unlikely that it could supply sand sustain the scale of forces required for an operation comparable to the US coalition efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq."
--Bettina Renz, Russia's Military Revival, 2018, page 196, emphasis mine
Shareholders vote for Apple to conduct a civil rights audit, bucking company
True, though if you have code in separate repositories you might want to stick to some versioning scheme to use the module tooling to your advantage.
"I have not actually read Hegel. I never will."

You're not missing a thing, I assure you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9FdULDV6M

https://www.lymeneteurope.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3647&fbc...

Who knows..
"...NATO/US troops in Ukraine..."

Do you have a source for that?

Don't forget,

"On June 1, 1996, Ukraine became a non-nuclear nation, sending the last of the 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads it had inherited from the Soviet Union to Russia for dismantling. Ukraine had committed to this by signing the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances in January 1994."

That was certainly a stupid idea.
I think that solo founders can accomplish much more today than they could 5 years ago, and the belief that solo founders are inferior to cofounders is old-fashioned to me. i wish that people could wake up and get with the times.

Stats show that startups with single founders tended to last longer and eventually achieve higher revenue.

52% startups that succesfully exited has 1 founder
> turned from dovish "can't we all just get along" types into rabid "Russia Delenda Est" types

Manufactured consent.
I get people are skeptical but let's be objective here. Not everything needs to be a conspiracy and an evil scheme. California and NY followed CDC guidance. We are past the Omicron phase and may be the data shows we are in the clear. If losing out people was the issue then did NY just participate in this "scheme" out of solidarity to California?
I predict that in 2030 none of the top 10 car manufacturers will offer self driving (but cars may have emergency braking). Even those manufacturers who offer some self driving capability now will stop offering it by 2030. There may be some startups (nowhere near to 10) with really advanced tech but only because they haven't been sued into bankruptcy yet due to their low volume.
Very fun. I like the timer and move limit to add a bit more pressure, but agree with other commenters that it may not always be desirable. My suggestion is to have different modes. A practice mode to learn the mechanics, a “strategic” mode where you can turn off the timer and/or move limit, and a competitive mode when you’re ready to tackle the day’s puzzle.
I’d like you to tell everyone here what you think about James Randi.
Welsh and English are both use Latin alphabet so it is not quite the same idea.

Russia has an almost mandatory foreign language in their education[0], which is a subject to availability I suppose - if there is no one who can teach the language in some remote village then nothing can be done, though with all that COVID measures I suppose the idea of remote learning is there.

But again, it all depends on the quality of education, the abilities and the will of the student and not being forgotten. People who don't use another language would almost completely lose it in 3-7 years even if they had A+ for it in the school.

Though it all more applies to an older generations, I think, because younger ones should be explicitly exposed to the Latin alphabet through the keyboards of their computers and smartphones, in Instagra/TikTok handles, email addresses and so on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_State_Exam
With the massive binary retention (15 years) on Usenet these days, BitTorrent really cannot compete.
Which brand was it? The ones I've seen adapt to the speed, so 2 bars in the cruise control adjustment means a certain distance at 100 km/h, and a longer distance at 130.
I am very impressed by what Proton brings to the table (even though it's just standing upon the shoulders of Wine, it brings a whole new level of convenience to something which used to be rather hacky), but I've still experienced a few issues when using it. For example, one game I tried (Wargroove) had pretty substantial input lag when using it (which makes using your mouse feel really bad) and I tried Elden Ring on Linux yesterday. I'm very impressed that it launched at all, but it detected tampering and wouldn't let me online, and the game appeared to perform noticeably worse than it does on the same hardware when playing on Windows.
With steam on Linux, I can happily play Bioshock Infinite, but not Bioshock 1 or 2. I can play The Witcher 2, but not The Witcher 1 or 3. I tend to play open-world RPGs, so one of my pet peeves is not being able to play any of the Elder Scrolls games on Linux. Without frequent crashes, I mean.
Blyat Ivan, the bots aren’t working, shut the whole access down
Paid alternatives can only compete if free "you are the product" services are killed off. There is no way I'd pay even a few dollars a month for some added privacy, because most of us don't work at FAANG companies and a few hundred dollars over a few years is not a trivial amount.

If their plan is to kill off those free services.... They should be immediately stopped, for the disadvantages it will cause to low income people.

What they could do is try to focus on zero-cost P2P/selfhosted tech, or focus on developing tech to make the paid services in the sub-3$ a month range total, where it might be more reasonable if it could replace all the "spy services" from Google Assistant to Tile Tracking to YoSmart door sensors to Amazon Sidewalk, without any performance hit.

People should have the right to hide things. They should also have the right not to, unless you have a way to replace all the spyware-based services that so many people's live's would come crashing down without.

It's not ideal, but in practical terms, I'd be royally screwed without those services, wheras if every three letter agency in the world had a live feed of a hidden camera in my bathroom... I wouldn't notice.

Some people truly do need privacy. But at the same time... poor people need modern tech, so we don't waste all our food because we burnt it or left the fridge door open, and lose our wallet three times a year.

How much practical damage is it worth, to prevent a mostly theoretical future risk?
RT America wasn't self-sufficient, itwas the local operation of Russian state media in the US, who, as well as losing key distribution channels and contracted-out production for some content due to private partners abandoning doing business with them, also suffered from the financial difficulty it's Russian immediate parent and the Russian state are experiencing in operating overseas due to sanctions.
There needs to be some kind of law that mandates that a company MUST reply to customers and/or users within a given time and offer a proper redress process.

I remember years ago FB would block your site and they would give you NO OPTION to contact them - like AT ALL (they used to hide the support chat button, and I think they still do from some people).

I also knew a company that got its own IG account indefinitely suspended because malicious competitors accused it of cloning their names, even though they were the ones doing that. There are even some articles on Google about being able to pay people to do this for you for like $50.

And they could never get that account back after months of trying to talk to FB about it or send documentation to the recommended appeal links (all apparently useless).

This is unacceptable from any company where you are a customer/user, let alone multi-billion dollar companies that definitely have all the money they need for proper support.

If your support is this poor/non-existent, you shouldn't get to talk about your "record-breaking multi-billion dollar profits" quarter after quarter.

This is something we as a society can decide upon, whether or not these companies like that (of course they wouldn't).
This is true as well.

The russian patriots would not need the nationalism substitute so much, if they had wealth in real life.

A Ryszard Kapuściński quote from one of the sowjet people I remember:

"We might be poor, but our empire is big"

Now they are just poor, without the comfort of being part of a big empire.
Those taxis can’t even reliably drive in the rain yet, hence Arizona for the staging grounds. So they’re a far cry from meeting the standard, unless rain is now considered a natural disaster.
No, the claim was that mandates were being abandoned not because it was scientifically prudent, but because of a nearing election.