skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really care if we increase our production it not. We need to stop purchasing had from Russia.
That is the first step. Perhaps we need to increase our production after that. And invest in more green energy. But first step is so the Russian oil
> Devils advocate: if the majority of business software is sold from the US and the US is refusing to sell software to Russia, what choice is there?

"Leave Ukraine and pay for the war crimes committed there" is an obvious choice that comes to my mind.
It might spur development of the FOSS alternatives, like Wine and ReactOS, FreeCAD and LibreCAD, GIMP and Krita, Octave and Sage, etc; for all kinds of the proprietary software that was blocked.
I have written this comment in a hurry and I don't like how it turned out, I am not sure how to fix it...
Thanks! I have a later edition of this book which doesn't contain this picture. It will come in handy for a presentation I'll be doing next week.
I know regular Russians don't want to kill their Ukrainian brothers. Come on. Most people in Europe know that (and the people blaming Russians directly are the same racist fucks picking fights with any random brown-skinned dude for "being al'qaeda").

But yes, some of what you're saying is indeed propaganda. This war is unjustified and unjustifiable. I would invite you to watch this video by a Belarusian lieutenant colonel, it's relevant: https://twitter.com/kopiganja/status/1498182268523016195

Now, I want to be clear: That Russian soldiers are disobeying, failing or retreating does not mean this is not a genocidal war. The objective is genocidal, but the objective is stupid enough that the smarter Russian soldiers aren't following it.

> What we really want is no NATO bases everywhere near our border and now looks like the only way (idk, maybe there were others, but Putin decided so) to do it is to destroy ukrainian state completely (the state, not the people).

Okay, well, that's very different from "wanting to eliminate nazis", isn't it? And yes, I know Putin doesn't want NATO on russian borders, but like you said, "maybe there were other [ways]", and choosing the bloodiest one is fucking psychopathic.

Furthermore, I want to remind you that to "destroy the Ukrainian state completely" is still genocidal when Ukrainians DONT WANT YOU TO DO THAT and are rightfully taking up arms to defend themselves.

It is their right to defend themselves from a bully. And if the bully insists, you can't then say "oh well guess I'll have to kill everybody who doesn't want me to absorb their entire culture and identity" without being called genocidal.

Finally, please take a look beyond your own sources when looking at war footage. Here's example drone footage of destroyed civilian structures in Kyiv. https://twitter.com/avalaina/status/1499467690842415109
Compile to WASM is a popular thing nowadays. It's enticing to be able to write your app in native WebGPU and then with almost no changes in code be able to compile your app to the web browser.
There's almost nothing non-hyperlocal that you 'need' to hear about to start your day. You seem to be singling out one topic because you have an axe to grind.
That's true. I guess it would be difficult to avoid places where this obligation exists without knowing about it beforehand.
Right, and I read that

> some even use [metathesis] as a regular part of their grammar, such as Hebrew and Fur

, but I wonder how much that is part of the evolution of the language /in use/, and how much that mechanism involves language itself. So, for example, the Spanish may use 'palabra' ex 'parabola', with the seal of approval of the philologist as a codified expression, but that remains a "familiar" (small circle, irregardless if enormous) terminology implying a wink: "you used a metathesis", we forgive it but know it.
Has the US unblocked his passport?
Yeah, intellectually it is interesting. I just fear that this will, ultimately, backfire. Privateering works better against an abundance of targets. Russian oligarchs and Russian Naval assets are lower in number than, say, Western shipping. So nothing would block Russia from issuing Letters of Marque and Reprisal against, e.g., shipping going to the EU and the US. Which would tie down a load of naval assets, and could hurt the West more than Letters of Marque would hurt Russia, once their assets are seized there's nothing else to be seized.

But hey, Pirates, harr!

EDIT: Now that I think of it, any prospective privateer is facing a couple of challenges (privateering is business after all): If you operate under an US Letter of Marque you have a limited number of prizes. Those prizes are comparatively easy to capture, legitimacy isn't your immediate concern and selling the prizes is a solved problem.

If you operate for the Russians, potential prizes are plenty. Legitimacy is a major concern, so. As is selling those prizes for money. Capturing a container ship is easy (just ask the Somalis), piloting it to a friendly port as well, crews are really small nowadays. Selling 10k TEU is a different story so, especially if the party issuing your Letter of Marque is short on hard currency. And has a limited number of deep sea ports. Those ports are, lucky for any potential privateer, close to the largest ports of origin in the Pacific. One just has to be careful to not piss of the Chinese. resorting to Letters of marque could turn the Pacific into a, almost, hot war zone resembling the Caribbean during the golden age of piracy.

Unlikely scenario, but stranger things have happened. It would make a great military fiction novel so!
I agree - the best binary search algorithm is the one someone else wrote, preferably in the standard library of the language you are using.

I've written binary search algorithms maybe a half a dozen times, and every time I get tripped up by some boundary condition or other and what is only a few lines of code takes a really long time to get exactly right for all the corner cases.
As a staunch advocate against war crimes, the sensible move is to outlaw the Russian commander in chief.
Bye Bye Russian Translations.

Edit: I mean, who would support translations of a language where you're software almost 100% gets pirated.

Edit 2: Downvote, without a comment? That's not what i expected from HN.
Web Pioneers (2001)
People, please stop confusing Putin and poutine. One is a dangerous and unwholesome mix of greasy, lumpy and congealed ingredients, the other is a delicious food.
Lately is like last 3-4 years.
I love the idea. But its so difficult to know if its worth investing in using the format or if it will end up languishing.
East and West Ukraine?
> The only exposed skin is the center of my face.

Me too. And I have a beard. Do I have to take that into account? Do bald men get more D-vitamin out of the sun? Studies never talk about hairiness.
If anyone cared about privacy, a solution would be to only include the pixel when a user was redirected from tiktok to Ubereats. No need to include the other 6 pixels, or include them for users that landed via the homepage.
Stop killing people by hundreds is one option.
Try Duplicati. Cross platform, free and supports several backends (google drive, s3 and s3 compatible providers etc). Supports encryption so you have data security.
Ah good so it actually does exist in a way that's more than a spec, that's good enough for me.

I'm in no rush with that slurp mode or whatever they called it, just hadn't heard of anything more since the announcement :)
Privateers, under a proper Letter of Marque, are considered to be legitimate mercenaries. No much difference if it is Privateer Babossa of Commodore Norrington who's doing the seizing at sea, as long as the former is operating a letter of marque. Both parties are, basically, part of the same Navy. The other option would be outright piracy.

EDIT: Sure, sovereign states can unilaterally decide whatever they want. in case they are not North Korea they risk to break multiple treaties so. As Russia showed us, one miscalculation in such a sovereign decision bears the risk of turning said country into an isolated country, just like North Korea.
https://ru.libreoffice.org/
To put that in perspective, to date, Covid-19 has killed 957k Americans. This works out to be 0.3 percent if everyone had it (which they didn't).
"...Daily inflation was 62%, with an inflation rate of 2.03% in 1 hour being higher than the annual inflation rate of many developed countries. The inflation rate in January 1994, converted to annual levels, reached 116,545,906,563,330 percent (116.546 trillion percent, or 1.16 × 10^14 percent)... "
Bad times for Ukrainians mostly.
When you are way in over your head, the way out is to push through the dip.

A startup will have that moment.

A theatre production will have that moment.

Pretty much everything will have that moment.

Kids too. My biological brother almost drowned me and we somehow worked it out.

Having kids is a very serious affair. They didnt choose to have you. You chose to have them. It is probably the most important arena in life. Time to step up to the plate.
ah yeah rite,

I'm horrible at naming things, which is another reason I wouldn't push back on this kind of change, even if I didn't see an issue.
If closed source forks of copyleft projects become legal then will FOSS still benefit? On the one hand, just generally having FOSS more widely used could be good in and of itself, and closed source forks are difficult to maintain especially if the project upstream is lively. On the other hand it might mean Russian companies adding great features to GPL software and not sharing them.
It's the top 5 headlines for each news source/publication.

I think it makes sense, especially for the "global" filter (top left corner). Helps you see the different priorities in different parts of the world.
I am a JavaScript developer so my opinions are limited to that slice of software.

Senior used to mean someone experienced enough to become an advanced problem solver. Those days are long over.

Now senior is equivalent to expert beginner. They are really fast and confident at using tools. This advanced and rapid tool usage means they can solve some problems quickly, but they cannot imagine any solutions aside from their favorite tools. The most important limitation there is that most senior developers cannot write original software. It’s a world of a few commonly known problems with commonly applied repeated solutions and everything else is discarded with excuses that equally lack originality.

If, as a JavaScript developer, you are able to write original software without popular tools you are commonly viewed as something like a dark wizard, equal bits of magic and evil. People view this as mysterious and incompatible with reality (you won’t be hired).
Generative Flow Networks
I left a $10 tip at a Chinese buffet I frequented in Finland to a friendly waiter. They insisted it covered payment for my next lunch. Finland doesn't have strong tipping culture, but it still felt strange for a restaurant to outright refuse a tip, especially a foreign one :D
Hopefully they aren't choosing containers between "containers + insecure app" or "no containers + secure app", thinking containers will secure the app.
I liked your comment and didn't mean to come across overly critical. But one of the scenarios I hear discussed in the media I consume is for this crisis to be resolved through internal changes in Russia, and that de-escalation through western actions is unlikely. I don't know enough to know how realistic that is. But in that case support for Russians could be more valuable than our voting power toward NATO.
Ukraine may seek nuclear weapons if left out of NATO (2021)
You should be able to get UV B all year, but only between maybe 10am and 2pm (rough guess).
I am 52 years old and suffer from eczema, which is an auto-immune disease.

I've been taking a daily 5000IU Vit-D supplement combined with vitamin K2 for a few years, and my eczema has completely cleared up.

I live in Scotland, so I am unable to generate Vit-D naturally for a good part of the year.
Pretty much the same experience. Have stopped taking supplements twice. And it took me right back to 4-5 colds a winter and no energy.

I'm in Denmark. And health authorities have started recommending everyone to take supplements doing winter. And elderly all year around.
If you use sunscreen every time you go outside then you might be vitamin D deficient
Maybe they should just not leak application data instead of warning people about phishing emails?
Depends.. there's always this one user who seems to take things differently. can't please everyone

I think society is losing the concept of context, which is pretty worrying. Can't even make jokes I used to, because people seem to take things a lot more literal these days. If I do any self-mockery, people look at me like I'm crazy for example. Most sarcasm is lost too..

In this light, I think we should KEEP the words master, slave, disabled, etc. So we can educate the meaning of context back to society.
Well. Which one of these options is least bad then?

I don’t think the US would leave Iraq because they couldn’t buy IP licensing. They’d probably say that the IP licensing is invalid and do it anyway.

Anyway. Obviously I want this invasion to end, but obviously they don’t. So, this move makes sense given that context.
The problem with this design is that it makes it a lot easier to have a big lever (eg. using a bolt cutter) on the frame. That's why folding locks are effective: Not because of their raw strength but because of their awkwardness that makes finding a lever harder.

The real solution would be a police that takes bike theft seriously.
Qt Roadmap for 2022
This is an incredible lecture series, and one to watch if you ever catch yourself taking MIT OCW for granted. (This is a figure of speech and not necessarily to be taken literally.)
A better strategy for this and other problems might be "don't live in a city".
What books would you suggest to beginners who wish to learn programming?
What book/resource would you suggest to budding teenagers who like solving problems and want to learn programming and computer science?
And they want to cover both depth and breadth of CS.
> Podman rootless

This is the way. Docker rootless and podman rootless. A lot less attack surface than running containers as root.

I haven't tried a dedicated user for this though. I'm sure that mounting volumes would get messed up.
For security reasons the user "backup" on the linux acting backup system is not part of the sudo users. Having sudo rights will to my knowledge not help to excess root files on the remote system?
Not really. If they would not act criminally they would not need diplomatic cover. Most of the "spies" there are actually agent handlers, i.e. handling native agents, infiltrating unions, press, police, army, government. Spying is mostly not passively writing reports of intelligence matters, it's mostly actively pursuing criminal acts. Writing wrong press articles, social media posts, paying natives to do something illegal, killing union folks, torturing students.

The passive agents writing the innocent intelligence reports are usually not under diplomatic cover. They are under some commercial cover mostly. As with Israel also arts and students.

There are tons of CIA books.
In this case calling the embassy looks reliable (if you can stand the probably long queues), because the middlemen on the way will recognize that this matters. But most of the time, I'm skeptical the famous person you're trying to reach will ever see your email or tweet, nor will your call be promoted.
Given that vitamin D is created in our skins by sunlight exposure (or rather, by exposure to UV-B radiation), this corresponds with the employment distribution shifting from agricultural and other outdoor labor work towards office, cubicle-farm jobs. Additionally, making this worse, modern glass is highly impermissible for UV-B radiation [1], meaning that even if you do sit in a well-lit place you won't get enough to create enough vitamin D.

[1]: https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q12082.html
1997? So I saw it for the first time when it was really fresh. I didn't know that.
Why decide? Gimme a toggle in the settings to pause or throw it into the corner when I scroll past a video I've pressed play on

Personally I prefer it to pause, but I don't really watch many videos on Twitter
Would it be crazy to have a similar law in a non-sanctioned country?

If some product is impossible to buy legally in some region there is little harm in pirating it.
The only insane thing is to have an algorithm guess whether I want to watch the video or not, instead of just letting me decide with a single damn click.

Autoplaying videos that stop playing after scrolling is one of the worst UX crimes in history of UX. At the same time in 2022 I still cannot prevent "autoplay" of animated gifs that bombard my senses in every feed unless I outright block literally everything other than text.

And the sad thing is that software quality in general is most likely just as bad, only not as visible.
Like yourself I was both a consumer and producer on Freshmeat.

I recall when it closed, I think RMS or ESR (kinda fuzzy now) asked for people to help build a replacement.

Personally, it is a real loss, not in a nostalgia sort of way, but in a discovery way. Search engines, searching github, heck just github, are no substitute for the cool software we found on Freshmeat. It was a way for projects to not only become visible, but for you to stumble upon them (as other comments have already noted). With some frequency, I wonder why no one has come up with a replacement. Sourceforge has had its ups and downs, but the front page of SourceForge compared to FreshMeat.net is like comparing a modern news conglomerate to Hacker News.
> Leave Ukraine and pay for the war crimes committed there

This is what eventually will happen, but over Putin's dead body most likely. "Live by the sword, die by the sword", that kinda thing, etc. Everybody agrees that by starting this pointless war Putin has painted himself into a corner.
> Devils advocate: if the majority of business software is sold from the US and the US is refusing to sell software to Russia, what choice is there?

The right choice is to stop murdering civilians in Ukraine and invading their free nation. It's pretty simple.
Thanks! And that is from the "Construction Project Manager’s Pocket Book (Routledge Pocket Books)"? Presumably it has been added to the 2nd edition, because I cannot find that passage in my (1st edition) copy.

(edit - yes it is from the 2nd edition, thanks for your help)
> And "homonym" itself is probably best avoided

I really, really, with all the atoms in this world, hope you are joking.

Would you want to live in that world?
How would you use this to find a small string (or string close to it) in a large fixed corpus?

Usually you want to find many small strings in a large corpus.
A Lodash-style Go library based on Go 1.18 Generics (map, filter, contains)
The timing of this is great! I just watched Casey Muratori's lecture, "Simple Code, High Performance"[1] and its follow-up videos[2, 3]. I highly recommend watching it. It is about Software Optimization, and gives practical and high-level understanding of topics like CPU Architecture, SIMD etc.
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3aKEmZcqY
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VakkEFOiJc
[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tEqsQ55-8I
Countries can withdraw from treaties first so as not to formally break them, or just indeed break them.

The point is that the consequences depend on who you are. Russia is up against the US/West so consequences are severe and, again, we can contrast this against the consequences for the US of invading Iraq, which were none.
History will remember our response to Covid as one of the greatest outbreaks of mass hysteria, and the time when a supposedly atheistic society developed their own religion.

I even made a quick guide: https://www.bicyclerepairman.cc/laymans_guide/
Russia has a poor track record of working. Making bad copies of the software is a valid choice for them, the narrative is that the sanctions will not scare them because russia can make everything themselves, also better than the rotten west.
That would be the equivalent of a car designer complaint that engineering ruined it. You cannot produce quality work without that collaboration in either direction.
Of course they're trying to make a profit. Youtube, Google, nor Alphabet are a charity.

"Profit is inherently evil" is a difficult point of view to have on this venture captial forum.
Not long ago I accidentally found out about a pair of these words in Spanish:

1. pelo (=hair)

2. peluca (=wig) and its derivatives peluquero, peluquería (=hairdresser, hairdresser's).

The word pelo comes from the Latin pillus, but peluca came from the French perruque, and this from the Lombard parruca of unknown origin [0]. As Spanish used an "L" in the word for hair, it contaminated the imported perruque due to its proximity in meaning.

For contrast, the words for wig and hairdresser('s) in standard Catalan (perruca, perruquer, perruqueria) did not cross over with the word hair (pèl) and kept their original "R".

[0] https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/parrucca
A school with working blinds? Where turning out the lights doesn't result in a riot. Giving students glass and expecting it back without cracks in it.

In my school all of that equipment was broken, lost or stolen years before I got there.
Sadly true. IMHO to only thing left, is removing russian translation from every downloadable software. Side effect, maybe more russian speaking/reading people learn english or another language (at least reading).
Freshmeat, Slashdot, Everything2, Advogato, and more. Relics from a time when the Internet felt like a wild frontier.

The immense buzz when Mozilla open sourced Navigator/Firefox. The crazy first day of the IPO of VA Software (+698% above initial price!!!)

Tweaking settings to get the best X11+Enlightenment speed possible, although I decided I preferred WindowMaker. Feeling like Open Source and Linux would take over the world (It did, really). Developers conferences at Apple to discuss this crazy upcoming Unix-based MacOS. (one of the presenters made a joke about how easy it would be to install apps, you'd just open a terminal and run "/bin/install --etc" and laughed at the horror on the faces of the assembled Mac evangelists)

I feel like an old hippie, trying to tell people what Woodstock was like and why it was special, only to see their confusion and lack of really getting it.

Not much of a point to this comment, just a big old nostalgia bomb early in my morning :)
Related: Qt disabled downloads for anyone that has a Belarus or Russian IP-Address. There are talks about why they blocked it currently going on at their public mailing list[1]. One argument that came up, is that the downloads are blocked, because Qt is also used in the military. My guess is that this will definitely strengthen other UI toolkits like Flutter in the future.

[1] https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-Marc...
This question has been asked and answered in Hacker News numerous times. Use the search box below to search for “programming books” and “computer science books.”
Nanobind – Seamless operability between C++17 and Python
I've never done that myself, but I backed an SDR device called Flipper Zero on Kickstarter some time ago, and I found their updates on the project status very insightful.

Through their posts, you can make an idea on how complex and how much work there is on developing, manufacturing, certifying and delivering a hardware device.

Link: https://blog.flipperzero.one/