skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These historians uncovered evidence that the Attic letterform had continued to be used in official documents long after 446 BCE. They concluded that the dates of many of these decrees should be earlier—around 420 BCE.

Not "earlier", "later".
Anecdatum: There's two iPhones and an iPad in this flat along with 3 AirTags - there's been no change in battery life since the AirTags arrived a few months ago.

Maybe it's only when you're in local contact with not-your AirTags?
How do they stay neutral when they are invaded? Do you think the invasion was because they wanted to join NATO? It is more likely that Putin is scared of them joining the EU than NATO.

> I think Zelensky chose himself over his country

I think he chose his country over himself. If he was a career politician he would have taken the offer of a US flight out of there and the country would probably fall to the Russians. If you think that would go well for the people of Ukraine then I have a bridge to sell you.

Honestly if you cannot understand why a people would want to fight an agressor to remain free then perhaps you should go and live in Russia, that appears to be the norm over there. Kowtow to anyone stronger than you as long as you can have mcdonalds.
The only explicit thing about gold and silver is that states can't make anything but them tender, but the feds can through coinage powers (not metal specific): "coin money and regulate the value."

Also, the UN Charter is supreme law of the land according to article VI of the US Constitution, so check some of those other claims through there too.
Mimblewimble itself doesn't eliminate transaction traceability, since the transaction graph is almost entirely visible in the mempool. But Mimblewimble can be augmented with something like [1] which does mostly eliminate transaction traceability if widely deployed.

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/mimblewimble-coinswap-proposal
U.S. dismisses Russian claims of biowarfare labs in Ukraine
> The easy out for Ukraine was to just go neutral, like Austria.

Russia wants both neutral status and demilitarization. That's to make it easy to invade and they would be fools to do so. Neutral status was de facto there, they couldn't join NATO on account of Crimea. (Joining NATO would mean no Russian invasion so they would be fools not to pursue that regardless...)

Also, what Russia says it wants is irrelevant, judging by the fact this was planned out since November last year. Russia just wants to annex the whole of Ukraine and partition it as per plans Lukashenko presented, anything else they say is lies.

I'd say stop being so naive / start double checking your assumptions.

Some more things as I read:

> Putin could have easily wiped Ukraine off the map

How?, nukes?, Russia would be next to be wiped off the map, and the rest of us with it. Conventionally?, well, that's not working out too well now is it?

> Is there another explanation for Ukraine's/Zelenskyy's behavior here

Patriotism, courage?, you see your country invaded by Russia you stay and fight. If you meant demilitarizing, that would be stupid as Russia would have invaded anyway and it would have made things simpler as there would be no fighting back.

Where's Putin right now btw?, hiding in a bunker?

> I'm also curious why Europe supported this.

Ukraine was already de facto neutral. What exactly did Europe support?, you wanted Europe to tell Zelensky to dismiss his army and let the Russians roll in?

Or you mean military support right now?

This is because of what Russia is doing in Ukraine and I'd say its not enough.

NSFL: (parents and children dead taking their kids to daycare, hit by grad rocket artillery) https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t12lna/akhtyrka_uk...

NSFL: (6 year old dead due to shrapnel) https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-a8bb96288aa...

And many more like the bombing of a maternity hospital, bombing people's homes, bombing people trying to evacuate and ignoring negotiated ceasefires...

> Russia -- try to establish yourself as a powerful nation once again, and don't let the US box you in

If anything, the war proved Russia is a paper tiger and would get obliterated without nukes. It also cut it off from the international market and destroyed its economy, if anything it's not logical for them, it's just old school imperialism and delusion from Putin. Nobody was threatening it with nukes.
How on earth is that a monopoly? It's their product. That's like saying MS have a monopoly on Windows. Or VW have a monopoly on the Golf.

There's literally nothing stopping anyone else from developing an AirTag competitor.
Swiss BIS (Bank of International Settlements, the central bank for all central banks, including US and UK) Director Carstens on CBDCs at an IMF meeting in 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVmKN4DSu3g&t=1451s

> With cash, we don't know who is using the 100 dollar bill today ... a key difference with CBDC is that the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that determine the expression of that central bank liability .. also we will have the technology to enforce that ... if an advanced economy issues a CBDC, and someone in a 3rd country wants to use it, it will require the consent of the central bank of the residence of that person, therefore the degree of control will be far bigger.

June 2021 in the UK, https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/bank-of-england-tells-...

> Tom Mutton, a director at the Bank of England, said during a conference on Monday that programming could become a key feature of any future central bank digital currency ... what happens if one of the participants in a transaction puts a restriction on [future use of the money]? ... Sir Jon Cunliffe, a deputy Governor at the Bank, said digital currencies could be programmed for commercial or social purposes ... “You could think of giving your children pocket money, but programming the money so that it couldn’t be used for sweets. There is a whole range of things that money could do, programmable money, which we cannot do with the current technology.”
As you said everyone and his sister knows javascript, JS devs are a commodity. I don't think anyone can expect to secure his future by picking up something like JS or Python since there are tens of millions of people learning it right now. So the popularity of the language means just that - everyone knows it. There are more jobs but way more people applying.

Nor is Ruby a secure bet, nothing is really. Ruby is niche but it still has a very strong community, there is almost nothing web related Rails and the community haven't solved. I think people overrate the importance of community size. Does it matter if JS has 10 million devs or 20 million? Not really imo. Maybe even 10 is better than 20, less decision fatigue.
This has nothing to do with the car being an EV. Isn't it?

It's perfectly possible for ICE car manufacturers also to start adopting this "expansion pack for cars" model
Related: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/russia-claims-us...
That might be because both the browser and search are in beta. Though, since search will be a paid service they will necessarily need to have some info on the user.
Replacement for RubyMine
After russians attacked my native city this morning I want to replace RubyMine, made by russian company JetBrains, with an alternative.
Can you advice a replacement for Ruby on Rails Development?
Hello Sandwich Guide to Japan - https://priorworld.com/editorial/hello-sandwich-guide-to-jap...

The Cult of the Sando - https://www.departures.com/archive/travel/in-search-of-japan...

Japanese Sandwiches Are Beautiful to Look at and Even Better to Eat - https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-japanese-sandwiche...

Wildly popular Japanese sandwich pop-up coming to downtown food hall - https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/03-08-2...
I'm probably getting old, but I expect a link to the extension in an article about that extension...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/firefox-relay/lknp...
> there was a category on unboxings

Used to be, people could unpack shit by just removing it from its packaging without making a stupid fucking ceremony of it.

The whole concept of "unboxing" -- the mere fact that such a "concept" exists[1] -- is a horrific example of how vapid the Internet has become.

Yeah, hands off my Gran Torino, punks.

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[1]: Or "is a thing", which used to be spelled "exists" back when a majority of people were literate.
Amazing demo. Simply floored.
In that case just like in current you can sue the government. And if that route is not open due to corruption or whatever it is essentially same... If truly totalitarian government decides to do something "illegal" you really don't have much way to fix it in either scenario.
On Windows 10, I use flux instead of the built in night light. flux gradually increases the strength of the night light over time, which I prefer to the fixed intensity of the Windows 10 night light.

Using night mode on PCs greatly reduced the eye strain and sleeping issues I was experiencing due to long days at the computer.
So, can anybody recommend an EV that is not a smartphone on wheels, but an actual car that just happens to be electric?

I really would like to get a Tesla, but besides the manufacturing issues (like large gaps between the panels) the IP and data issues are really putting me off.

- Car is always online, gets OTA updates, GPS is always running

- Cameras inside of the car

- Tesla can remotely downgrade or deactivate the car

- Independent mechanics can't repair many things
Russians aren’t soldiers, they are state terrorists. By purposefully attacking civilians they gave up their rights.
Drink a lot of water.
Every time you feel hungry, drink a bottle of water.
> So the idea that society doesn't have a problem with communist extremism is unfortunately not quite accurate. It's still out there.

It doesn't seem like communist extremism is the problem we are dealing with today. Unless you'd like to argue Putin's GRU lackeys are communists (which they're not, but either were and are nationalists). What you are doing here is essentially a whataboutism. What about the COMMUNIST extremists?! Yeah, well, what about them? They're irrelevant in the current playing field. The danger is coming from the right: alt-right. But either way, we can just call all of them extremists. Just don't pretend its 50/50 extreme left/right cause that's not the world we are living in. Not anymore, anyway.
Bot that replies to IWD tweets with the paygapp
Been to Japan twice and I agree. There is so much amazing food on offer, that conbini sandoichi really really shouldn't even be on the radar. If one really must go conbini, one should stick to onigiri and sweets.
I will. Not as strongly as I say no to Bitcoin or the other ones, but sure.
As long as Ukraine fighting a war, that would be impossible. If they will sign peace and focus on economic development to join EU, neo-nazi topic will change its polarity and become toxic again. There is no way Ukraine can join EU with "Pravy sector" being legal organization.
Ah I see! What alloy do you think could block the cosmic ray radiation, I though lead was doing that, isn't there enough of it on the paint? Or maybe the windows are letting the radiation in?
What would the tech stack be for finance?
This seems to be an idea that simply won't work everywhere. I can read outside at night during the summer because the sun barely goes below the horizon. In June, sunsets are around 11:30 and sunrise is at 3:00am. It really doesn't matter if you set the clock so that it rises at 7am nor not.

During the winter, 10:00am sunrises and sunsets at 14:30. The times in between June and December vary, unsurprisingly, and gaining/losing 5-6 minutes a day isn't uncommon.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, folks at the equator are having fairly standardized 12 hour days for most of the year.

We'd never know what time it is anywhere during the year (unlike time zones with or without DST), and some folks would find it seriously inconvenient.
Shitcoins like Dogecoin are harming this vision, not helping it.
If you can predict individual stock prices with such accuracy, you’re wasting your time doing anything else.
Edward Carr on the last days of the polymath
The market changed drastically while the plane was being developed. Had the program started a few years earlier, it would have been, if not successful, at least profitable. And if it had started a few years later, it would have been canceled before completion.
The cross-section structure kind of reminds me of animal rod and cone cells. They are on the same order of magnitude size, as well. I estimate a rod cell is 4x wider than one of these pixels.
I recently thought about the same thing.

The problem with rental system is user now has less incentive to treat rented item well. But overall I think it still leads to less production and less resource usage.
some years ago i ran a vpn service together with a friend. we had the second skill set you mentioned, but not the first.

we didn’t overhype the privacy aspect (and would in fact explain what _wasnt_ private about vpns, not that anyone was interested in listening) and primarily existed to serve a customer base for other reasons.

it was a good experience, but it went nowhere really. but i did quickly figure out that almost every large vpn provider out there has more of the first skill set you mentioned.
People create the economy. The government is supposed enforce the agreed upon property rights that the economy is built on. The government was once funded by tariffs on import and export essentially a tax on the success of the nation. Since the income tax was imposed the government has taken a shortcut to the wealth of the people. This saps wealth from the populous that slows and diminishes the wealth and growth of the nation as a whole. It also changes the incentives of the government.

You are correct that with an income tax the government is incentivized to have as many people working as it can so it can squeeze some blood from us. It is an abusive and destructive incentive and the only way to require it is by force. The original way had much better incentives for government behaviours that are beneficial to the people and ultimately the nation.
@thomas, I bet you can't ;)
Gaming Platforms Tap Biometrics to Drive Smooth, Secure Microtransactions
We don't live in the cold war era anymore, the new USSR doesn't have the backing it used to, at best it will be a chinese puppet, nukes or not.

Historic analogies never work

> What was Europe thinking?

That russia is too weak (geopolitically) to make such a move - which it is. Also, it's not like the EU 'pushed' ukraine into this, they chose it themselves.
More likely we will get regulation making smart, connected devices mandatory for one reason or another.
When I joined FB there were no ads and a chronological feed and everything was awesome. Reddit was awesome.

Nowadays they are an evil manipulation mess, but I don't think it is an inherit property of social networks.
The VW eGolf (discontinued) was a Golf that „just happened to be electric“. It has limited range though.
Butter is added on the sandwich, not in the baguette itself as an ingredient.
To be clear: I think that feature is something that would be useful on any desktop OS. I actually started implementing it as a firefox extension on Windows/Linux, but never had time to finish it. A feature like this would be orthogonal to the "look & feel" of the platform.

With "Mac way" I mean forcing myself to learn all the shortcuts and gestures, instead of redefining them to be like on Windows, and using built-in or native apps when available.

Nevertheless, if I look at my colleagues computers, the "Mac way" seems to include hundreds of open tabs just like the "Windows way", and I was suggesting a new tool to deal with that issue.
Note that 7-11 in Japan and 7-11 in the US don't share anything beyond the logo. They have been completely separate businesses since forever.
It's mostly shifting right and it's an issue that existed forever. The reason for it is that the microphones were positioned on the left side, and OS X thinks it's smart enough to move the balance to the right, so that music/audio doesn't interfere with microphones (might be helpful during calls). Skype used to do the same.

I am using a small app called Balance Lock https://apps.apple.com/us/app/balance-lock/id1019371109?mt=1... to automatically restore the balance. No affiliate with the author of the app in any way.
I was just about to point out, there’s no great likelihood that all will survive the next election, either…
>I'm not interested in hippie-dippie morality right and wrong stuff, here

>If there's not a moral reason for it,

Make up your mind. There IS a moral reason for it. But you said you don't care about that. I think what is happening here is that you can not see why you would ever choose to fight for something so cannot see why others would. So this boils down to a flaw in your character and not an issue with the Ukrainian people.
We have had many traditions when it come to relationships - for example the tradition that all couples were a pair of one male, and one female, and they always ended in marriage.

Sure it might be easier to explain your relationship if you're an "average married couple", but there have always been alternatives - even in the past mistresses were common-place, and so were affairs.

I'm married, but I live in a separate house to my wife, for example. That works wonderfully for us, but is obviously not a traditional arrangement - and why should it be?
Author here. Thank you for this comment! Yes, it's probably a bad idea at this stage of maturity; there are security provisions put in place, please see https://germ.gitbook.io/ws4sqlite/security and of course never do anything of the sort without a reverse proxy. If you care to read it, I'd be interested in discussing things further.
A few counter points:

- Loads of aftermarket conversions of existing cars to EVs are done by third parties using a wide range of components from OEMs, custom built stuff, or scrapped EVs. E.g. Tesla batteries have a high value for this. Not that hard apparently.

- There are companies providing aftermarket upgrades to Teslas and other EVs to e.g. install custom batteries. For example, Our Next Energy (One) has installed their batteries in Teslas and other vehicles: https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/05/our-next-energy-tests-i.... So, it's not true you are dependent on the OEM for this. Same with many older EVs that are still servicable. E.g. the original Nissan Leaf from twelve years ago can be equipped with after market battery replacements.

- Tesla recently urged owners of older models to come in to replace their 3G modules with 4G replacements to keep the over the air updates and other online stuff going. The cars work fine without that but obviously lose some functionality as 3G networks are being shut down.

- ICE vehicles are similarly software intensive. It's just that most vendors are a bit behind on update procedures and the update procedure generally sucks. They're busy switching to EVs instead of developing new ICE vehicles, so there's a lot of effectively unsupported software in the field that will never get serviced even if it is full of bugs. Which is of course common because most car manufacturers aren't very good at creating software. It's not a problem if the car keeps on running.

- Lots of things are software intensive these days. This is not unique to EVs. Why single those out?
> Maybe you can just give the bully your lunchtime scooby-doo snack and live to fight another day?

Maybe you can just give the bully your lunchtime scooby-doo snack and go hungry, and again tomorrow when the bully demands your fruit and your money, and the day after tomorrow when he just punches you in the face for fun...? It's easy!

And why is Michael getting in the middle of this?! The bully is strong, isn't it better to continue being friendly to the bully while he expands his bullying to other kids in your class as long as they are not your closest friends?

Why doesn't everybody just either kneel before the bully or let him do his thing to others? I mean, the bully is just acting logically, trying to establish himself.
I dont think its so simple. Japonism was a phenomenon rampaging through Europe in the arts and high society well before transistors existed. You dont get quite the same thing for other "exotic" cultures. There must be more to it.
(author) Different use case, but thanks, I'll take a look
Or you can just suck it up for a bit and make hundreds of thousands of dollars. You have to give up a few months studying, not your soul.
Facebook allows posts calling for violence against invading Russians or Putin
This isn't about being neutral, you're copying Russian propaganda here.

A large amount of gas was found in Crimea, Russia doesn't like it and shortly after they started the gray zone war.

What Russia claims, does and thinks are different things. This is about commodity monopoly and they won't accept Ukraine being neutral.

Their neutral = having a Russian proxy government.
Try the iOS Charles proxy app, it allows you to scan and inspect network traffic for most apps.
it is, but the narrative was that the total cost of the flimsy boots is some 10x the cost of 1 of the good one. An enterprising financier could charge 5x the cost of 1 good boot, over the life time of it, and the wearer is still going to be better off (and he obviously could afford it because previously he was paying 10x over the same period).

So the only reason this isn't done is because the flimsy boots aren't 10x the cost, but likely only 2x the cost. There's no room for financing option since transaction and friction costs would absorb any possible profit.
I recommend and use PureBasic[1] for the exact same reason. Give it a try, they have a full working demo to test before consider purchasing. They also have a showcase[2] section on the website where you can see various apps developed with it.

For even more RAD oriented, you can also consider AutoPlay Media Studio[3] from IndigoRose, I use this also and it's very easy to use. For example, I've built SidePage in it[4]

[1] https://www.purebasic.com/

[2] https://www.purebasic.com/showcase.php

[3] https://www.indigorose.com/autoplay-media-studio/

[4] https://www.alexdragusin.com/sidepage/
You can do bulk/batch inserts, and because of the single request = single query behavior you can much more easily cache responses.

It's a tradeoff, but ws4sqlite just sees HTTP as a tunnel for SQL-in-json while postgrest tries to represent SQL in REST. Which you prefer is a matter of taste.
That's the point - algorithmic artificially lengthens the time you need to actually see new posts by making you scroll through lots of old bullshit - and you guessed it - ads in between and never giving you a clear indicator of when you've all caught up. By contrast, chronological will by default give you the latest stuff (which in case of news is what you want, and might even remove the need for you to see earlier stuff) and makes it super clear to tell when you've reached the end of the new stuff.
The Russian economy is going to be permanently damaged. It’s currently the 11th largest.

Don’t be surprised if their economy is smaller than Spain or Mexico within 6-12 months.
Author here. This is a pet project of mine, and what a surprise to see on HN! :-) Your discussions on PostgREST and on using SQLite for different use cases are what motivated me for this. So thanks!
Blown away, by both the adaptiveness of the platform and software. It feels like the flexibility that I'd want for all of my prototyping experiments. Signed-up, and patiently cheering from the side-lines.
Probably because fresh quality produce costs less on the continent.

This said, Upper Crust is that attempt.
Russia's Misinformation Offensive Impedes Diplomatic Efforts to End the War
Thank you for sharing tromp, this looks great!