skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean like this story that was on the front page of the BBC News website a couple of days ago and also featured on the 6pm and 10pm BBC 1 news https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-60573719
The "(2011") in the title is a bit confusing in this regard since that's when the review was published; but the subject is more obvious if you know the book itself was published in 1978.
Antisatellite weapons are already on orbit.

I'm not sure if there are enough presently up to take out a Starlink plane, but there are definitely some already up and at the ready, likely by at least Russia (and likely also the US).
Please tell me we're not at the point where Elon tweets make it to the front page of HN.
I'm a weak go player but every other year or so I re-read this book and get a couple of stones stronger for it. (I then drop back to my previous level when I pause my playing for a while.)

This book has also taught me a few things about mastery of any subject in general! Some of the lessons are surprisingly transferable.
In my country my ISP acts as a censor by poisoning my DNS look ups because of a court ruling.
I thought that's what I was implying, although my choice of words was probably clumsy. I guess it's a sort of chicken-and-egg relationship. If it was more socially acceptable for women to be housewives, they would admit to it more freely. If women admitted to being housewives more freely, it would become more socially acceptable.
> If my country would do propaganda, I would barely notice it

> Reddit

Thanks for the laugh. The whole Reddit is now in "Evil Russkis" mode, you can't voice the reason and common sense for absolutely anything.

HN is just less known, but the same happens here too.

Yes, you wouldn't notice the propaganda, because there would be only one side you hear.

> Can they access the whole internet

Well, Twitter and Facebook are now banned.

> Can the majority read English

No. [0] Translators exists but that doesn't answer if they want to read anything in a foreign language. Do you often read articles in the language you don't understand?

> have an overview of international news about the current situation

They have access to information but that doesn't imply they know, want to know or what they are on the same footing with you even if they know.

> Or would it help to put some infos up?

And what 'infos' you want to put up?

[0] https://www.rbth.com/news/2015/12/03/percentage-of-rusians-w... (2015)

> About a third of Russians (30 percent) speak English to one degree or another: 20 percent can read and translate using a dictionary, 7 percent are familiar with colloquial language, and 3 percent are fluent speakers, according to Romir research holding.
It is on android, but it will not work if USB debugging or other developer options are enabled.
Simpler regexp:

^(11+)\1+$

it does not handle "1" for clarity. I also don't understand why author used `+?`, because simple `+` should work just as well. At least it works in Idea for me.
> Can they access the whole internet? Can the majority read English?

Poorly. It's completely unnecessary for their day-to-day lives.

The majority, like in most of the world, doesn't "read Internet". They have some icons on their smartphones they click to access social media or messengers. Their laptop/desktop browser has a default (sponsored) home page with some search engine which they can use for their news feed (as is the case with Yandex) or to access some online shop or the local version of Yahoo Answers. They can mostly use e-mail with the web-interface, but this skill is surely on the decline, considering how widespread one-time logins with a phone are becoming.

> I guess these are people who already have an overview of international news about the current situation.

There's lots of us here still, even considering the paragraph above.
They could have made it look more legitimate by sending multiple fake donations there. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/364fYEU6U4D8zt4EG2oxV... shows only one ~$40 donation, which may or may not be fake.

On the other hand, I guess they're only targetting the gullible, who aren't expected to check the donation history anyway...
Has anything actually useful ever come out of this field of enquiry? To me it always seems like excessive formalism for its own sake without a useful real-world outcome. Would be happy to be wrong about this.
The internet has given rise to a pop culture that couldn't be more interested with the past or the future, but only with identity. Alan Kay was ahead of his time.
It doesn't seem to be past its "best before" date.
I would say she comes from a working class background and is middle class or "middle class passing". Meaning when she goes to a job interview, or meets people socially, they think she is middle class.

The concern the author of the piece has is that if she says she's working class, it will suggest she overcame adversity to get to where she is, but from your comment, it's possible she grew up in an area with good middle-class-school-district-funded schools. Or maybe she went to a bad school and qualified for financial aid, I don't know.

Our parents' attitudes which you're talking about can affect us, but so does our material circumstances and environment.

In the UK where there's a stronger class based system, middle class is expressed through your accent and dialect, how you dress, etc.
I can think of a few occasions where they have reported on some less than truthful statements from government ministers without adding any commentary. This has certainly led to allegations of bias but do you have some examples of where their news output is “flat-out propaganda”?
I do have them but as soon as I take them off I start focusing too much on every little noise and cant take a break in my own home.
is it our responsibility that we protested the regime, forcing Putin to ramp up the repressions, to strengthen the police? If so, I guess we should've just stood still and patiently wait for Putin to die of old age instead of attempting to change anything.
Even Finland, the densest forest in Europe imports 80% of its wood pellets from Russia. Russia's got plenty of trees being felled.

What I can't comment on however is the quality of lumber for construction purposes. Making pellets is trivial. Furniture, less so.
The DPI is avoidable, the hard times would come when they'd start to block entire networks, but it seems they've learned the lesson from the hunt on Telegram.
Terms have definitions, otherwise communication is noise. To directly quote a friend living near Kherson: “they are shooting when military is attacked”. She is on the ground (private house) and feels safe, but strongly worried about residents of apartment buildings that get damaged in fire. Do with that anecdata what you will.

If the war persists in the cities, such death toll is certainly a horrible possibility. It is hopeful that humanitarian corridors seem to be opening up. Though not to Kyiv, where I have a teammate. He just keeps working as normal… Feels like he is trying to escape reality.
Edit: Sorry for the misinterpreted news below.

Regarding Thailand, I would not be so optimistic. There is a report (https://lenta.ru/news/2022/03/05/problemsss/) that Russian bank cards just stopped working in Thailand (Edit: hotels only). So one would somehow need to rely on cash only while searching for the opportunities.

Edit: I should have checked the source: https://www.atorus.ru/news/press-centre/new/59021.html which says that Russian cards still work e.g. in shops.
I wish there was some dialect of C, with a complexity between C and C++, with simple things such as string, vector, dict...

I like V, nim, Zig, etc, but I just want a language that use the same idioms of C, with the same syntax flavor, without all the complexities of C++ (templates, inheritance, etc). I don't want complex, new features that new languages offer.
I'll take that criticism. If preventing people from having websites as easily available to them to watch kids being raped is as easily available as watching YouTube is then I am pro-censorship.

I put it to you that most fair minded people are also pro-censorship.
and warning is a step forward.
And anyone without one is then nobody.
It's sad to see how many conservative"reeee muh freedom" is in HN. Hope they all get their Herman Cain Awards too
I believe the sanctions may well trigger a change in the Russian public's opinion of Putin.

Right now, my Russian friends tell me that state propaganda is so strong that a significant proportion of the Russian population believe the Ukranian deaths are due to Ukranians just killing themselves.

Surely at some point they'll see that what they're being told doesn't make sense. Especially if they also start to see a deterioration in their quality of life...
It sounds like you are, to some extent, conflating "getting better" with "improving ranking".

I don't care particularly much what rank I have in any given context. (For it does vary by context. My rank at OGS, KGS, DGS, and the local club varies by so many stones that I no longer remember what it is anyway.)

However, I do find that I enjoy the game more and more as I get better at reading and applying strategic principles. I can start to string together more complex plans and have a deeper "hand talk" discussion with my opponent.
I see it differently. From the outset the only realistic solution was vaccination. We have that now, I can't live my life in quarantine, so I get vaccinated and get on with my life.
PayPal suspends its services in Russia
Since I've already addressed this point further down the thread, which can't have escaped your notice, it's rather pointless trying to pin me down on this position.
I was in your back before you arrived.

But you tried nonetheless, I give you that.
Brave but dead.
> The BBC has been broadcasting on shortwave for decades - BBC World Service.

But stopped broadcasting in Europe and the Americas quite a while ago.
> He was nominated for a bloody Nobel peace prize and was a serious candidate.

If you’ve heard of someone being a nominee was who didn't win, despite the 50-year non-disclosure rule, it's usually a fringe group with that disrespects the prize and the process and is desperate for attention, not a serious nominee or otherwise representative of the general view of the West.
It’s really not “incredibly pro-government”. It’s anti-rapid change; pro-middle class; pro-a-comfortable-quality-of-life; anti “changing the system” whilst still “improving on the details”.

Some of its reporting feels pro-government because it’s telling the story of what the government is saying it’s doing. Watch any of the “just off the peak time” broadcasting and it’s very keen to hold politicians to account, to point out unfairness and hypocrisy, regardless of which party holds more power. It’s had gentle leans towards, and against various governments over the past 20 years, and not in sync with the party in power.

All of this is fairly centrist.
So just use C++ without those features...
Monitoring, Archiving and Transcribing Open Russian Radio Comms During the War
> excel

We must apply this to spreadsheets ASAP.
I mean the US has almost certainly had space weapons since Reagan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
I don't think you can assume Russia's satellites are not hardened against EMP or able to reconfigure to defend against it.
I’d really appreciate longer battery life before they start thinking of making it thinner!

The current battery life is fine for day to day use (lasts 28-32hrs, can be charged while getting ready in the morning), but it’s a pain having to remember to take the charger when you’re away for a weekend.
Does it find a true optimum, or just some approximation?
> Surely at some point they'll see that what they're being told doesn't make sense

The crackdown on non-state media, especially if it is not exactly in line with the state propaganda message, makes it harder to do that.

> Especially if they also start to see a deterioration in their quality of life...

A narrative that explains and places blame elsewhere for that is fairly easy with complete control of information, especially since it being due to economic warfare by the West is true (and how even some Western leaders have described it.)
Just like North Koreans see through the propaganda? Unfortunately I just think that's wishful thinking.
live reading now on clubhouse
https://www.clubhouse.com/room/xBl0AV3Z
That's Russian government for you, pal.
I feel that is pretty bad. It doesn't require system to actually work too well. It doesn't name anything about effectiveness of system. Just safety. Still, effectiveness might come to abstract things like:

L5 = vehicle can achieve similar travel times and destinations to average human driver in mixed conditions.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30562073
> This desire to tinker also comes from a thrive to provide something of value to society ...

That seems like a massive assumption about people you don't know.

IMO, a more likely explanation is that people just tend to do the things that their brains find rewarding. I like programming because it feels like playing a puzzle game, so I'll do it for fun. For lots of other people the idea of sitting behind a computer all day solving abstract problems is pure torture.

Doing the dishes on the other hand is not mentally stimulating so I kind of avoid it until I have to do them. So my place usually isn't as clean or tidy as it could be. I also know people who enjoy the process of cleaning and tidying, and their place is always clean and tidy.

I don't think these people are more virtuous than I am for keeping their place cleaner, nor do I think that I'm more virtuous than others because I enjoy programming and can make things that they cannot. None of this is caused by abstract pondering about one's value to society. We just follow the reward structure of our brains.
I don’t disagree that there are poor outcomes from much of the technocratic class. Also, you are correct that the ability to build basic crud apps and websites does not make you a genius or all-knowing seer of the cosmos. However, we are talking about making furniture here and repairing/building machines that have existed for over a century. Hillbilly mechanics and basic carpenters can accomplish these tasks.

Elon Musk takes risks beyond what most are willing to take and that is what separates him from the average technocrats. You don’t like that personality type, but some of us wish technocrats would reach farther than copycat social media and advertising ventures even if they fail sometimes.
They don't criticise Putin. They write about the criticism he receives. Kind of like a news outlet would.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/05/the-predictable-demise...
While there are risks and many attempts are foolish, everybody should have realized by now that Putin will not stop in Ukraine unless he is crushed. Not to engage military is even bigger mistake and will only lead to prolonged war and more deaths and suffering.

It was not Biden's mistake that the war was started. Putin only used it as a pretext. It is a simple war of aggression that would have happened anyway.
It seems odd to be so opposed to plastic that one might not use in favor of another product that requires more energy input and is this worse for global warming.
Same orbit or not doesn't matter, what matters is distance, and things in different low orbits (most satellites) are all pretty close to Earth and hence each other when orbits line up. They definitely can't just move satellites away, as satellites have very limited manoeuvring capabilities, and changing orbit takes a lot.

The EMP of Starfish Prime [1], the detonation of a nuclear bomb at 400km altitude (the altitude of the ISS), knocked out streetlights over 1400km away in Hawaii. That means it could have damaged satellites up to at least 1800km altitude (but this was in 1962), which is almost all of the low Earth orbit altitude range. With enough nukes you could probably wipe out Starlink's satellites, but with the way they're spread out, I think you'd wipe out most other satellites too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
Russia-Ukraine War – What Happened on March 4
Putin isn't some madman sitting on a launch button. No matter how desperate he gets, he needs military command to follow through on an order to start world war 3.

Considering how superbly Russia is fucking up a simple ground invasion, I'd say any threat of nuclear escalation is empty at worst.

Putin says roll tanks into Ukraine? Yeah fine, military commanders oblige. They won't lose much over it. Putin says nuke the world? Well, about that... Even military commanders still want to survive.
1. Lots of things get discussed. This was such a minor topic that Gorbachev didn't even recall it ever having been on agenda. Ultimately discussions lead to a formal agreement with a text approved by all sides and that's what counts. There is no formal agreement, only tiny snippets that mention it ever having been discussed.

2. The Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore. Even if such assurances had been made, a number (most by now?) of former parts of the Soviet Union have stepped away from it and applied for NATO. Why should Lithuania be eternally bound to an assurance made to the Soviet delegation, which at the time represented Lithuania? Even if all former members of the USSR applied for NATO, should they be denied because of the alleged assurance in the past to an entity that no longer exists?
Make it a browser extension.
Yandex is part of the state media. It should be sanctioned and sunk.
You must think I am 18/20 years old or something. It may surprise you to know that I remember times before Trump was president. And there wasn't social media to 'guide' my thinking.
Yea ignorance is bliss. Governments all over the world must love you.
Can a car manufacturer be held responsible for built-in features designed to maim or kill unauthorised users?
We have proof that Trump tried to blackmail Zelensky into framing his political opponents by witholding aid they needed to defend themselves from Russia.

When Putin started his invasion, Trump praised him for being smart, then praised him again, suggesting he'd captured a whole country for a small cost in sanctions.

What do you think you're expressing when you say that Trump isn't a Putin puppet? That he's not made of wood?
That would assume they are willing to break their contract and not returning the machines. Which they can do, but then they will never be able to lease a machine again. At best, this buys them a couple of months of operations.
The whole Reddit is now in "Evil Russkis" mode, you can't
voice the reason and common sense for absolutely anything.

Can you give an example for some background info that cannot be linked to on Reddit? Some link to an interesting article written in English? We could give it a try then. Submit it to Reddit and see what happens.
I usually use YCS [1] to extract subtitles though ypu may want to remove the timestamps before translation.

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ycs-youtube-commen...
Apple ahead of the competition, windows 11 feels like a joke compared to the latest version of macOS (bugs aside)

And then the HW...

Microsoft should be ashamed, and Apple is missing a huge opportunity to grab that audience, even though it's shrinking year after year, Apple's pricing is still too high, they should tap into the low-medium range and finally annihilate windows

I'm sad Hackintosh will be a thing of the past with the focus on ARM, there is still 0 competition for consumer grade ARM dekstop CPU, a shame..
Ofcom has sent out notices, and the UK has blocked news of Russia from its citizens, by banning RT and such.

https://news.yahoo.com/rt-russian-backed-tv-news-105214336.h...

Russia seems to be doing what the UK is doing to it, blocking the BBC in retaliation.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the English locked Irish people in concentration camps without trial. In Derry people marched through the street and the British Army opened fire on the crowd killing 14 civilians. The queen then decorated the regiment who did this with medals. The Irish began to elect (abstensionist) Sinn Féin MPs to the UK parliament, but the BBC was banned from broadcasting their voices. So this kind of censorship is not new to the BBC.
And how many of them are using home built engines and not engines bought in the west?
I find their domestic coverage to sometimes be problematic but their world service is in a league of its own.

But to each their own, I suppose.
Looking at the ifixit tear downs, it’s difficult to see how they could make it much thinner without sacrificing battery size or sensors.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+Watch+Series+6+Teardow...
Keep in mind this is from the Cato Institute and similar.

"People feel it's a fixed club and no one else can get in, but that's not the case," said Mark Perry, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Once you get there, it's not easy to stay there."

Hmm, the figures show that 1.1% of the population get to spend 10 years in the top 1% of income, while another 2.2% only spend 5-9 years there and another 11.1% spend 1-4 years there. It's easy to "stay there" for some...

The flipside is, a higher income tax would affect 11.1% of people just a few years (times), and 1.1% of people would be affected many more years (times).
As a programmer I prefer formatters that don't introduce those heuristic line-breaks based on line length.

I'm still hoping that Rust will eventually get such a formatter. Unfortunately the people responsible for rustfmt seem to have a strong preference for the "ignore line-breaks the user inserted" approach.
Lifehack: install Russian keyboard layout on all devices to avoid malware attacks.
It is definitely worth pointing out that this isn’t new, the idea itself is truely fascinating and the author clearly articulates this is code as art. It is definitely eye opening once you read into the details.

I stumbled across this when a new chapter of crafting interpreters came out, and I ended up doing a deep dive into how to speed up CPython. My conclusion was that it wouldn’t be possible without rearchitecture of the fundamental types, and hence unpalatable, but a fun exercise none the lesser

If you’d be wrong to so quick to dismiss Cello. Cello is an order of magnitude quicker than python, even cython can only achieve 3x on CPython without annotation. The ideas behind Cello put it somewhere around JavaScript speed, but far more extendable, and definitely worthy of further investigation.

To expand further, fat pointers (void type, void data) could be superior to NaN boxing, and I’m not aware of any interpreted languages that have seriously implemented fat pointers, but it seems to be going well for Rust.
Sounds like you just want a library like GLib.

Vlang is the most simple in your list – it is a different syntax, but not much more complex than C.
Yes, you're right. Fixing that refreshing and getting locked out bug is a priority right now.
I think that's optimistic. This is easy to spin as "the west are Nazis and hate that we've tried to liberate Ukraine and this is all their fault".
Source? Wikipedia says you need a transit visa as any land transport will be through foreign land.
Well, yes, they can keep and operate them illegally. Short term: problem solved. Long term: its even worse.
I downvote very seldom. Probably once per day. Moreover, I upvote grey comments I disagree, if they are not offensive or very wrong.
Working on that bug now. I'll probably keep a limited number of plays per day, but you should be able to continue playing even if you refresh.
There is the GCC static analyzer and the LLVM equivalent:

https://lwn.net/Articles/869880/
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Static-Analyzer.html
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DavidMalcolm/StaticAnalyzer
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/28/static-analysi...
https://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html
Remember folks, the best way to halt a Russian invasion of your homeland is to apparently not fight them.

If pundits weren't so regularly stupid I'd almost think this was paid for propaganda.