skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After killing both nuclear and russian gas I wonder how they'll do.

French politicians are already calling for people to reduce their home temperature by 2 degrees C to not be impacted by the Russian gas being cut off, and France uses way less Russian gas than Germany. With German electricity already being twice as expensive as France I'm worried for my 2022 electricity bill
>The question I kept coming back to in conversations with computer scientists and the Census Bureau was: what would a real-world privacy harm look like?

>McSherry suggested a scenario involving banks or insurance companies using reconstructed data to discriminate on the basis of racial or ethnic categories.

...

>But discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity is illegal,

That seems glaringly uncritical. It seems awfully close to "Well that couldn't happen because it's illegal!".

>But there’s a simple solution to this that even skeptics like Ruggles support: get rid of the smallest blocks.

But they're publishing block by block data, you, the user of the data can exclude that data yourself, and the added noise for large blocks is relatively small so you can ignore. So this proposed solution acheives almost nothing.

I think we should come back to basics here: the census bureau has 1 job. Generate the data used for the federal government to allocate congressional seats to the states, and allocate spending. It's not really its job to provide data to academics for research. So the priority of "Do your job" vs "Do this other thing that's not really your job" weighs massively in favour of "Do your job". So be grateful for what they release, and realise that something that has the tiniest impact on them being able to do their job completely outweighs your need for them to do something that's not their job.
I certainly hear what you are saying. You are correct there is a free world and there's a totalitarian world. What is sad is that the people in the totalitarian world don't know what they are missing
Stop spoiling The Batman, please
Find a person that makes you laugh and you will be happy for the rest of your life. Everything else fades (looks, money, status).
For those who don't care to watch the video or find the actual report: it seems that the greatest loss of points for Apple came from actively opposing right to repair legislation and from supporting trade groups that oppose it.

That's fine by me, but I thought that might be worth mentioning since the video title alone could give any number of impressions.

(I have never had any Apple devices but I was under the impression you could get them serviced and repaired; Apple just keeps a tight control of how and by whom. Since some other cheaper hardware seem to have little concern paid for repairability by anyone, the title alone seemed kind of clickbaity to me.)
Can we sanction Israel next, please?
Interesting! We tunnel SQLite over JSON in the Notion iOS/Android/Mac/Windows apps, and the interface presented here looks pretty similar to our second iteration. Here’s the things I think are missing:

- Precondition. One or more statements to run to check if the transaction body can proceed. We use this to check pragma user_version which we use to mark schema version level. Prevents old processes from writing to the DB once another process has started a forward migration. You can also use it to assert about transaction state or disk space remaining.

- Userspace transaction batching. We found some use-cases (like as part of migrations) where we want to control transactions explicitly. Forcing each batch into a transaction is a good default, but ideally the JSON api doesn’t restrict any DB semantics.

- Websockets! I thought “ws” could mean websocket but web server is fine too. Websockets work better for our low latency local-only connection use case, and have a more traditional socket-pool vibe. They also avoid retransmitting headers etc, and can allow the server to better understand client “sessions”.

- Extensions. I guess portability is a fine goal, but there’s so much great stuff in the extensions. Full text search, JSON support (although the latest version mainlined it), bulk data load. The main one for us is JSON.
Whenever a google search shows up an Arch Linux wiki page I know the contents are going to be detailed and technical. I don't use the distribution itself, however this level of excellence has given it a place in my heart. Thank you to all the contributors :-)
I think we have to talk in broad swaths here, we can't zoom in on individuals.
I think part of the reason might be that the browser settings aren't as reliable as location data. A lot of people even outside the US, have their browser/OS set to en-US from the default configuration. Even if they might be located in France or India. If Google had determined that was the case more than 50% of the time, then I can see why they favour using location for language instead of browser settings.
You can't buy USD in Russia right now without breaking the law. You can only sell USD. So it's obviously the main thing that keeps USD/Ruble ratio from falling.
Then please enlighten us, what's the rationale?
> hyperinflation

If you actually own stock and not just sitting on the cash, you'll be fine if you own income producing assets.

If you buy stock in, for example, a coal mine, and get annual dividends from operations equivalent to perhaps one rail car full of coal, "worth a couple grand $US in the 2020s", no matter what happens to currency values you'll still, in the very long run, average a dividend that boils down to being worth one rail car full of coal. For as long as people still buy coal, which is going to be more constant than short term political or economic turmoil, a rail car full of coal will always be worth about one months labor, no matter what numbers are used to value that labor. Might call that four thousand bucks, or an eighth of a million rubles, or now a quarter of a million rubles, or maybe a trillion rubles, but that stock will on average annually return about a month's labor.
In my opinion, there's simply no replacement for their IDEs.

Also, are you sure you want to politicize your work at that level? If yes, then you also shouldn't be using AWS, Azure, or Google cloud, as all of them do business with countries you won't like and with weapons companies. Did you know some nuclear submarines run on Windows XP? Bye, Microsoft. Btw, they also pay taxes in Russia. https://officesnapshots.com/2018/09/04/microsoft-offices-mos...

I guess your only remaining choice will be to go all in on open source.
Ironically, a brief passage by Scott Alexander (from the hit piece targeting him linked above) describes a very good reason to read content you disagree with, almost making the parent comment germane to the overall discussion.

> Compare RationalWiki and the neoreactionaries. RationalWiki provides a steady stream of mediocrity. Almost nothing they say is outrageously wrong, but almost nothing they say is especially educational to someone who is smart enough to have already figured out that homeopathy doesn’t work. Even things of theirs I didn’t know – let’s say some particular study proving homeopathy doesn’t work that I had never read before – doesn’t provide me with real value, since they fit exactly into my existing worldview without teaching me anything new ...

> The Neoreactionaries provide a vast stream of garbage with occasional nuggets of absolute gold in them ... The garbage doesn’t matter because I can tune it out.
Culture supremacy is still just bio-supremacy. Memes don’t exist except through genes.

Arguing that memes exist outside of genes is like arguing that the Platonic solids are real.
We (Italy) are already paying more than 2€ per liter on fuel (it was around 1.5€ befor3 Ukraine happened) and the gas bills have become unbearable for most people. The government is vaguely talking about some "relief" coming for the past 2 months, but nothing has come yet.

Honestly, I'm all in to lift the sanctions. Liberals, you wanted globalization? I'm not going to pay the price for that.
Are we being buried by one-sided coverage?
Substack is a player in the increasing tendency of our fracturing media landscape - for the better or the worse. I believe, by enabling more and more unedited and unlimited speech increasingly diverse voices can become more prominent.

The hope is of course, that we have an unskewed distribution of voices, however, our increasing challenges with misinformation or maybe rather information warfare show that this _might_ not be the case.

In the old media world, this was to a degree ameliorated by a powerful elite of editors and publishers who controlled and cut off the extremes (bad for business if you have no targeting).

What does Substack think about missing editorial oversight?
I've been on holiday to Thailand, and Google most definitely did not use the buddhist calendar for my search results
>All I got to do is look over what they have filled out and correct it if I think anything is wrong.

Its pretty much the same in the USA if you just have income from a standard job. You send them your W2 form with the last year's salary and make sure everything is right. If you're self-employed, earned income some other way (capital gains, etc), or live in a state with additional state income tax, you have to fill out some more forms.

Then it gets a bit complicated calculating deductions. Which means you have to put in some effort if you want to lower your effective tax rate. There's deductions for everything under the sun since the tax code is very complex. You get some money back if you paid interest on student loans, have kids, bought a house, spend money on office supplies, gave to charity, etc. Some people spend a few hundred on a tax advisor to do it for them and still come out ahead. Many people simply don't bother and let the money go. The IRS only comes after you if you underpay, not overpay.
Previously
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590715
Over a one year period, the ruble is still doing better than the Turkish lira ...
Cheaper? Yes. More convenient? No.

I have a Raspberry Pi with OSMC where I installed the plugins for several online services. My friends hate my setup. Sure, you can watch anything you want if you know what you want to watch, but it sucks for browsing the catalogues to see what's available. I also get interrupted once a month when a new Widevine version is released, which takes ~10min to download and install.

And then there's the language issue: if the movie/series is not in a language I speak I need to spend 10-20 minutes hunting for subtitles. That means: download a subtitle, check that the starting time matches (or tweak it manually), skip ahead to ensure that they remain in sync (good luck not getting spoiled while, simultaneously, checking that the subtitles make sense with what's happening on screen), moving everything to the right directory...

All of this is second nature to me so I'm not bothered, but I can totally understand paying a fee for a single-click interface.
I have a "monthly log" google doc that's always open in my browser (it's tab#2). At the top of each day's entry, I just have a list of TODOs for the day. Below the TODOs are the running thoughts I have as I'm getting stuff done. Every day, yesterday's undone TODOs get copied to today's, and there's a different section for long-term TODOs.
This means I see my tasks every day and I can make things as done (bold/unbold) pretty easily.

(Not to assume that something similar will work for you, but basically accessibility and making sure I see my TODOs every day is pretty helpful for me to remember to do them)
It's a reasonable point.

Russia does have some structural disadvantages compared with the Netherlands (e.g. it is stretched out over a whole lot of extremely cold territory and it has a crumbling soviet infrastructure in places where it should not) but is in the position that it is in quite a large part due to corruptly exfiltrated wealth over almost two generations.

Money that should have gone to fixing that infrastructure has instead disappeared out of the country, starting in smaller ways through the more western-friendly comecon states and then accelerating with every market reform.

That money now creates wealth entirely in the West and has done for thirty years.
Petoria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMYIMw6qcBw
Sunset and Sunrise Forecast
>Nobody doesn't have the right to make their own risk analysis. That's assuming they're capable of it and we both know that's not the case.

You start out by saying that people have the right to make their own risk analysis, suddenly add on a condition (if they're capable of it), determine (by yourself?) that they're not capable of it, invalidate your initial conclusion and end up saying (without saying) that people actually don't have the right to make their own risk analysis.

Now that's abhorrent.
How did you even figure that one out?
Russia Just Created Its Own Certificate Authority
The outcome
Construct – Python library for parsing/generating binary formats
“JAFFA, March 10 (Reuters) - Israel’s parliament on Thursday passed a law denying naturalization to Palestinians from the occupied West Bank or Gaza married to Israeli citizens, forcing thousands of Palestinian families to either emigrate or live apart.”

Abhorrent but not about preventing marriages, at least not directly
Try embedded, although embedded systems have a lot of CRUD stuff they tend to be more challenging, require innovation and definitely require low level knowledge of the system especially on the low end of the systems, those with low memory and weak CPUs.
Common progression, yet I've never seen usable playbooks that help navigate the tradeoffs between architectures.
Plenty of people in other countries feel the same way about their native population, I don't see why Israel gets a pass.
Not likely to happen, I think. It would be construed as "antisemitic". But even apart from sanctions, Israel receives foreign aid and grants from the US.
https://nohello.net/en/
rqlite author here. Yes, that is a correct statement about rqlite.

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/blob/master/DOC/FAQ.md
I'll say in the defence of advertising that it doesn't need to be a pack of lies. There are countries where it is illegal to publish false information.

That said, Y*tube is not to be trusted as a source of information. When people mistake entertainment for democracy, they are living in Plato's cave.
Russia has $640 billion in foreign currency, a functioning economy with significant petroleum exports and many trading partners not aligned with NATO.
It's certainly interesting how an oppressed people became the oppressor.
Its more like they fucked it up with some AI driven A/B testing and think they are doing the right thing but actually its just all broken now.

They used to have /ncr (no country redirect) - open that in incognito mode and you have to accept some TOS in a language based on some idea of where the IP is.
I want to add to the discussion that whenever I search for any kind of discussion topic on the internet I search on Google and add "-reddit" to it! I hate the reddit-style low-effort void anti-discussions. It's unreadable. I find every forum in the whole Internet better than reddit. The voting system turns everything into a one line joke and there are no founded opinions.
> We are required to comply with applicable laws and industry standards, including international sanctions and export controls. Your certificate was flagged as not being compliant with current trade sanctions. As such, we have revoked your certificate.

Did you even read your articles?
I've always thought of work as a game. How do I uncover the rules to maximise earnings within boundaries that provide suitable enjoyment and acceptable levels of stress.

Spending a few months doing some leetcode revision to pass some interviews that could personally yields me hundreds of thousands, potentially millions, of dollars, is a very acceptable trade-off. Many people accept that because the risk/effort/reward ratio is very worthwhile.

I've worked in two FAANG companies and the level of talent and skills is phenomenal, an order of magnitude over anywhere else I've ever worked. They all played the game, and continue to play the game, and receive the rewards for doing so.

Choosing not to participate because you dislike the process isn't going to change the hiring process.
> Don't forget that other countries, who supported sanctions against Russia (due to coercion or tight coupling with the Western World), are also watching what is unfolding. They are seeing the disparity between how NATO invaded Libya and none of the NATO countries faced any sanctions, while Russia invades Ukraine and faces massive sanctions. Libya hadn't threatened any NATO country nor had it invaded any non-NATO country. It was going through an internal civil war. Yet it was leveled and Gaddafi was dethroned, and lynched in public. So anyone who says NATO is a defensive alliance is just bullshitting.

Yeah, invasions suck, but the war in Libya wasn't to seize Libya and integrate it into NATO. It was arguably enforcing, not violating, the rule-based order. At least NATO has a better argument for this invasion than Putin does for the invasion of Ukraine.

People have a tendency to break things down to maximalist, black-and-white, us versus them terms. This view is convenient for debate when one is defending a position.
This is the kind of task where I feel like GraphQL should shine in theory.

In practice, it feels like we don't really have good tooling for this kind of stuff, and you end up writing everything DIY. There are also some annoying limitations in the GraphQL schema and query languages, so you might end up wanting to compile/generate those from something else. The promises there, but the implementation is quite a headache without proper tooling/library/framework support.
If you own the machine and have rented it to someone, with a promise that it's working and being maintained, yet the renter doesn't clean the lint filter even when the machine beeps, you have to send a maintenance guy to clean that, costing money.
Are they going to get the energy from unicorns?
"What I cannot create, I do not understand", as Feynman said. I for one defend people's right to do unusual things. You do not need to write your programming language, but when you do that, you end up with something that changes you, even if the idea of writing your programming language was stupid in hindsight, perhaps especially if the idea of doing whatever you did was stupid in hindsight.

Two thoughts for you to ponder: exercising will is doing precisely what you don't need to do. Also, I feel that programming is a lot like writing. When you read something as a reader, you just read it, but when you read it as a writer, you're thinking about what makes the text flow, or "tick", and the ultimate test of that is whether you can write a similar thing yourself, or perhaps a slight variation.
I'm not seeing there is no difference, I'm saying that the methds to curb it are the same.

Pretending that you don't understand the argument of the other side ("it won't work because only criminals") won't get you any closer to a dialogue with those who say it.
Not useful analysis.
Sounds like they can transition into a more technically challenging role.
> You’re focusing on the “ecological impact” of an event bus over the impact of massive transcoding jobs and the infrastructure required to serve it fast to users?

Not exactly no. I'm focusing on the excess, useless consumption of resources just to please psychopaths on a corporate board. Video distribution as a domain has inherent complexity that has to be dealt with, but there's obvious ways to greatly reduce the ecological impact of Netflix:

- distribute videos P2P, enabling shorter routes and less "edge" infrastructure

- remove all the useless DRMs so that people can share the videos on their USB key without requiring considerable network infrastructure

But of course business-minded people can't come to terms with the reality of how much they're fucking the environment just for their so called "property rights" and for the sake of imaginary numbers and very real control over people/workers.

> python -m http.server /movies/

Something like that. Better with a more solid HTTP server implementation (nginx?), and even better if you can replicate split/replicate the content across machines. Then you can leave Bittorrent protocol + HTTP(S) seeds do the job of delivering video on a budget. The only complex parts in such a setup is transcoding (but that's ok they've got machines to do it in advance) and maintaining a central database of everything available across storage servers (that's also OK given it's only a few million entries).

> I’ve got no clue what’s required to build and operate something like Netflix at scale”

Nope, i've got no clue, and i'm ok with that. I don't think anything approaching the scale of Netflix or Facebook should even exist. We need to dismantle industrial capitalism before it finishes dismantling our entire planet.
I stand corrected, it indeed appears that it only affects exporters.

But my original point still stands, this creates artificial demand for RUB.
How do I know if my site is vulnerable to this attack?

Edit.

Seems that some preventative steps are....

- have all your javascript assets hosted under your domain.

- have a CAA record see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_Certification_Authority_Au...

- If you use a third party to host JS then THEY need to have CAA configured or you need to use sub resource integrity.
Israel has always been the ethno-state white nationalists dream of, just centered on the wrong race.
The only problem is that a Pret sandwich in the US is about 8x as expensive as a full meal from a Japanese gas station.
No shame, they don't even hide their racism.

Where's the outcry.
A reasonable write-up. I would really like them to elaborate on what GUI libraries besides Fyne they used and what issues they've encountered. Gio[1] has been fairly popular, and Tailscale's Android client is written in it, iirc.

[1]: https://gioui.org/
For all practical purposes all BSDs and Linux are Unix.
The United States spends more money per capita in healthcare than any country in the world, and 2-3x as much as most European welfare states. There are a lot of problems with the system, but "not enough money funneling into it" is not one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
In Soviet Union the official exchange rate was close to 1 rouble for 1 dollar. You couldn't exchange them, of course, except in some cases when you were allowed to travel etc.

Now that the currency exchange activities are seriously limited in Russia the exchange rate stops being very meaningful measure.
Rust WebAssembly OCR Experiments
Exactly my question.
Russian prosecutors ask court to name Meta as “extremist organisation”
Then should us, Android developers, abandon Kotlin and Android Studio?
Both are also Jetbrain's products.

Hmm...
Exactly why I'm asking why proponents believe they do: it's not in the article. Sorry if this wasn't clear, I'm non native. I'm also asking why it's not in the article. I don't mind the downvotes, but I'd love an answer ;)
DNSSEC does not protect at all against the attack described in the article.
Do you have any proofs? There is a rule which forces you to exchange 80% of revenue but you can buy it back right away.

You can also pay in some countries overseas with Mir/UnionPay and having your payment converted via RUB/USD pair.

Currency exchange is also open as well, although you have to pay 12% fee when buying.