skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this is what I do! If I have a complicated issue and Google won't solve it, I'll write up a clear, context-inclusive explanation of the issue and what I'm looking for, then paste it into a couple different groups. Usually, if Google can't help, it's too specific of a problem for it to be likely that a tech help group can solve it also - but sometimes it works, or people have other ideas.
> Yet somehow it is morally superior compared to other countries that also break the same laws.

That's because it actually is.

> NATO has expanded 5 times to the East and now borders Russia. Placed its nukes, ballistic missiles on all the member states. All pointing at Russia 24/7. Now you are telling me that Putin has "no good intent"? Is this not good enough intent?

They're sovereign countries aren't they? Should NATO have invaded Belarus for signing on with Russia in an alliance?

"You do not invade a Sovereign Country. Period."

Why do you think those missiles are aimed at Russia? I'll give you a hint: it's because it's a country run by mobsters and thieves who are pillaging their people and holding the world hostage with nuclear weapons. Nobody would be pointing anything at them if, ya know, they at least tried to be a democracy and respect human rights. All of this is self-inflicted.

> Was USA chill when Soviet Union wanted to place its nukes in Cuba? Have you forgotten the Cuban missile crisis? Isn't it hypocritical that the West did not want Soviet nukes in Cuba but is actively placing nukes in NATO member states and bringing NATO closer and closer to Russia's borders?

How many years ago was the Cuban Missile Crisis? Are the same people in power? Are they even alive? Does the Soviet Union even exist? People keep bringing that up like it's somehow relevant to anything. It's not. Whatsoever.

> So many Western scholars, politicians, diplomats have, for the past 30 years, repeatedly warned the West of not expanding NATO. That it will antagonize Russia. The flashpoint will be in Ukraine. Not to risk poking the bear. Yet the West did not care for the viewpoints of these experts. All of them have now turned out to be right.

You want your rules-based order, but then you want might-makes-right too? In an international rules-based order, Ukraine is a sovereign territory that is free to choose how it conducts its international affairs which includes potentially joining organizations like the European Union and/or NATO. What "risk" is there in "provoking the bear - more like a teddy bear"? Oh that's right, because you use rules-based order when it fits your narrative, and might-makes-right when it fits your narrative. So which is it? Does little ole' Russia respect the rules-based order or not? Notice how all of these former Soviet Union countries are rejecting Russia? I wonder why that is. If Russia is so nice and peaceful why don't they ally with Russia? Build strong relations? That's a rhetorical question.
Persecution complex is in high gear in Russian media, they obviously aren't going to give the full context of Facebook's position. But if you are western in this site or Russian curious enough to be here, let's drop the idea that it's all Russophobia and Westerners hating all Russians. No one here believes you and it's all seemed pretty clear that everything is happening strictly in response to what is happening in Ukraine

Now we can debate about whether these policies are bad and will backfire in Russia where everything is easily sold as being anti-Russian people, but I'm done reading all the woe is me comments from people who absolutely know better about how it's a persecution of Russians based on hate.

I do think these policies are interpreted as anti-Russian racism internally. Looking at vc.ru (Russian HN) they are scooping up the racism angle at face value, they don't like Putin but enemies 1 and 2 right now are Ukraine and the West. Posts blaming Russia for anything are heavily down voted and responded to with Putin's talking points even though they dislike the man. Don't know if the West should lay off with some of the sanctions and boycotts though, opinion might be the same without them
One of the stores he would do swaps with had a somewhat private area like that. I think my dad did not build such a thing because of fear that people would, umm, linger. I don't know if that was a real problem at the other store or not. Also, if the area offers some privacy from the staff it is harder to take a quick glance to make a guess as to whether anyone was shopping this area and whether they looked old enough.

I think that there would often be standees advertising movies that shielded the area from visibility from the street and casual non-staff observers. You had to be "this tall" to see into the box, the front was covered with 18+ signs, and it was either next to the counter or placed on the counter at the store where it was stored behind/under the counter. There really wasn't a problem with youngsters taking peeks.
> As to why you need to collect this info again, homeless people don’t report income to the IRS etc.

Many homeless people also do not have mail, so they never get contacted or participate in the census. If they are in a shelter, then that shelter already has their information.
How about ConvertKit? It focuses on handling the nuts and bolts of email subscriptions, instead of the faux-social platform / walled-garden audience that Substack is trying to build.
Apple didn’t say in its presentation what the components are

Embarrassingly, this info is printed right on the screenshots reproduced in the article.
It might also be a false-flag operations by the Russians to create problems in relations between the EU and Ukraine.
Ukraine war: Putin seeks foreign volunteers to fight in Ukraine
How would you deploy an ASP web application to Linux hosts in 2005?

Linux and Mac made up a small but meaningful portion of our revenue for over a decade. Would you have foregone that, all because you didn’t want to write a compiler? It took one intern three months to do the first version of Thistle.
You mean like machinery in factories? Sounds like a revolutionary idea!
> conflate kindergartners, with all school children

It appears the bill is concerned with K through 2 and has the caveat of age and developmental appropriateness.

I don’t think it bans a teacher reading a storybook with a gay couple doing dishes together. (EDIT: never mind, it bans “discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate” [1].)

[1] https://m.flsenate.gov/session/bill/2022/1557/billtext/filed... 1001.42 § 8(c)(3)
French native speaker here. UX consistency, shared Internet culture, habits from the early 90's and error messages I can actually find on the Web are the reasons why I always set my computing to the english language.

I'm trying to have English language but metric units, 24 hour clock and ISO dates... Seldom can I achieve that.

On the French-language mandatory corporate Windows laptop, Excel formulas are translated in French - so when searching for recipes on the web I have to translate them !

I enjoy sites such as Thomann.de which have separate settings for language, country and units of measurement.
Underrated observation here
Didn't Top Gun also break sound ground with Dolby Surround? Maybe I'm thinking of the Laser Disc or a re-release VHS? I recall it being some fantastic demo material for the time.
He has a TPU tile.

Automagically plugging in more compute would, I guess, require OS or application level support.
For me, whichever you choose, you should make it easy for the user to change the language. Living in Spain as an English speaker I often end up on a Spanish version with no obvious way to change to English. That is the real sin.
SWIFT runs on a separate network that's not affected by internet-based denial of service attacks. I don't see how such a thing would prevent a Ukrainian from accessing their funds via a UK bank.
I definitely remember ads for some of the Disney animated movies saying they were "priced to own"
Having been involving in some internal projects and done the data analysis (not in Search, other areas), your guess is correct - far more people get (clearly) wrong results if you serve what the browser is asking for due to mis configuration. It’s easy to tell due to differences in various conversion metrics and huge increases in clicks to language change buttons.

It drove me crazy too before I saw the data. Geo-IP, while not awesome for exactly the scenario you are describing, is more predictable since it gives a set of baseline language/settings that are ‘right’ based on norms in the area, and people know how to navigate out of generally if they’re not the ‘baseline’ user there. (An English speaker in Japan pretty quickly needs to know how to switch languages or learn Japanese or they aren’t going to be able to even navigate the subway/buy tickets for instance!)

Many of the browser based settings get people stuck, especially since most large websites do the same geoip thing now.

It does make it awkward for folks not doing ‘the norm’ in their area, or who have an IP improperly categorized, but statistically they aren’t as common and they figure out how to handle it usually.
What Hamilton got was of course a watered down version of what he wanted precisely because of the Jeffersonian objections.

He had argued even during the revolutionary war that there was a need for a Bank Of England equivalent in the States. The Bank of England also didn’t look exactly like a central bank does today but was an explicit instrument of governmental monetary policy.

Hamilton and his supporters believed the federal government would fail without a similar institution so it’s just not correct to say that the founders didn’t envision a central bank. It was a contentious issue then like slavery was.

If the central bank uses different technologies and processes now that’s to be expected. But even the original bank had as part of its central mission the management of federal monetary policy. Dealing with revolutionary war scrip and resolving a fiat currency were stated aims. The founders didn’t envision that the Department of State would send an ambassador to the UN either but it’s a natural extension of the duties of that department they did establish.

Any appeal to the founders implies allowing for reasonable differences between the world of then and now or it’s a pointless appeal. And the founders certainly did envision a governmental central bank that enacted monetary policy. It was a central argument of the day.
Pretty sure Russia took responsibility for the hospital but my understanding is Russia claims their intelligence was 1.) it was no longer a functioning hospital and 2.) used as a base of operations for the fascist Azov Battalion... not that it didn't happen.
Ok, yes, correct. But either you're missing the parent poster's point or I'm missing yours.
Neat, he's cool with the situation in his suppliers countries still right? Until these people grow spines and start to advocate where there is actually risk for doing so they can stfu.
Copying was rampant, and recording off of TV (including movies) too.

People wouldn't bother with the tab, because they kept recording over stuff, dozens or 100s of times.
archive?
uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
Is banning effective? Can’t you just hop on a VPN and be done with it? Do they block that too?
Why not use lower crime areas, even if they're conservative/right wing areas, and emulate their policies?

The frequent response is "You can't translate them to X because the situations/demographics etc are incomparable". Tet similar objections are less often if ever raised about emulating the policies of tiny Scandinavian countries that are mostly white.

Because their politics are seen as "correct" by the media and academia, and the policymakers they create and indoctrinate. It's deliberately willfully ignorant of potential solutions because the solutions are provided by people whose policies are seen as "incorrect" (and in liberal/progressive circles, this often is reduced to "evil").
More comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30457490 ("Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking")
To paraphrase: Sure, I'm for a habitable planet, just so long as my dishwasher doesn't take any longer to finish.
Correct. Ask any kid bullied by classmates in private groups. FWIW one of the best things I ever did was delete my Facebook account.
I feel like the author is not highly aware of social norms, nor how they change depending on context, culture, and confidence.

Many inexperienced users- the kind who often need help the most- are coming from a place of low confidence. They don't even know if this is the right place to ask this question. They don't even know if they're asking the right question. That's the nature of being inexperienced. I'm glad they're cautious and trying to be polite!

If you don't want to help such people, don't lurk in channels designed for helping people.
One like this exists for Barcelona: https://www2.bcnregional.com/
Heroes Rise // Monsters Fall
Then that would point toward a Ukrainan likely making the Ярун mistake. I suppose they'd be even more prone to not checking the country and assuming it's the one nearby/in their country.
I have seen such double negative at many places, to represent strong negative. Don't know if it is some trend!
That’s not really an exception. The banks aren’t piecing the corporate veil there, they’re simply asking a natural human to be party to the loan contract, as a condition of leading.

Anyone can do that. You’re just forming a contract between both a corporate entity and a natural person, with clauses requiring the natural person to cover the obligations the corporate entity, if the corporation fails to fulfil its obligations.

The natural person in this cases doesn’t have be a founder, or company owner. It could even be another larger corporate entity that’s less likely to vanish overnight.

But none of this changes the protections a corporation gives its owners, it’s just that the owner are choosing to sign contracts that make them personally liable for failures of the corporation.
I kind of would like to call this a toy, but by that I mean -- wow, on top of any other application he can think of, this would be an amazing educational toy for a kid who isn't quite ready for Arduino or Raspberry Pi (or who might never be, not everybody interested in STEM wants to do circuits).
Same thing for audio tapes. Inconvenient, sound like crap. At least, vinyl has something for it, it is also inconvenient and sounds like crap, but at least you don't have to rewind them, and all the noise and distortion it introduces can be considered pleasant and "warm".

Really, there is a good reason all these things are gone except for nostalgic purposes.

Video game cartridges are actually practical, they are essentially read-only SSDs! Some even include specialized co-processors so they are more than just storage. While they were made with the electronics of their time, they are in essence, much more modern than disks or tape.
that would be two hands on the wheel and pulled them away stops the device.

https://www.google.com/search?q=machinery+two+hand+control
I used to do this a lot because It thought it's more polite to check in with "can I ask you a question about <something>?". It took me way too long to realize this behavior was actually annoying lol
Discussing sexuality:

"some boys like boys" or "if someone touches you in a swimsuit area, tell a grown up right away", or "many families have mommies and daddies, but some families have two mommies and some have just one parent"

Teaching kids that we should acknowledge and respect each other, even if our families are different, and protect themselves from predators is not abuse.

No one is talking about graphic penises and vaginas, sexuality education at this development age is about recognizing that families are different and that's ok.
With all this banning of western media, social media and pornography websites looks like Russian citizens may end up being the most well adjusted and happy people on the planet.
If only the problem was just for desktop environments. Last week I decided to get into Jails and threw FreeBSD on my home lab server: an HP DL380 G7, which is enterprise level hardware from around 2011.

Even with powerd and speedstep support enabled, the fans were spinning close to full speed at idle. It sounded like an airplane taking off. I searched around and found that maybe I needed to get specific software from HP that was behind a paywall. So I gave up.

Instead I installed Alpine Linux (so tiny) on the server and its never been quieter; With zero extra config. I ended up playing with LXD instead of Jails.
Barrier and input-leap are nice and all, but they're written for only modern OSes using modern library versions and language features.

If you want to share a mouse with an OS older than a decade or so you'll still have to use the original Synergy 1.x. It works on both old machines/OSes (all the way back to the 90s) and on the very newest released OSes. Given that, I don't really see a need for barrier or input leap. They're kind of niche, but it's nice someone's keeping the codebase going.

Basically the only reason to use newer forks of synergy is if you have an abnormally high DPI screen in your span.
India Accidentally Fired Missile into Pakistan
Look, I'm generally on the bull-ish side of autonomous driving, but this is almost akin to the feds passing laws on science fiction. Section 180.99 part alpha: "Minimum size of a Ringworld is mercury orbit around a red dwarf"

I guess we can always drive with a USB-plugin gamepad if there's a glitch or a central system outage?

This would actually represent progress if they eliminated the requirement for side mirrors, which from what I've read of good aerodynamic designs is responsible for as much drag as the body of the car.
I'll blame stackoverflow. It's lead us to believe that anything but a precise, specific questions with clear use cases and previous attempt is going to get scolded for not meeting the guidelines.

It takes time to formulate a good tech question. "Why isn't my API getting called" is a easy question to ask but not likely to get much feedback. "Why isn't my API getting called I'm using library <X> and callback <Y> and routing framework <Z> and I've already read the documentation which says <XX> should work?" is a better question but harder to formulate. It's not surprising that someone wants to check to see if there's anyone in the void willing to answer first.
Tangent: it's a personal pet peeve that Model M buckling-spring keyboards often pull too much power for modern PCs. This is particularly apparent with the PS/2-to-USB adapters but also happens with some PCs using "native" PS/2 connection. And then I got a fancy Unicomp Model M with native USB connection and... that does it too.

That was on a Dell desktop I had at a previous job. Not sure if it was just kinda crappy, or whether the inrush current on those Model Ms is just that big.
Supporting (Windows|Mac|Linux) on (MySql|MS SQL|Access) was a small but meaningful portion of our revenue stream for over a decade.

Having our own compiler meant we could migrate easily to a new platform (.NET/Mono, in our case) with two engineers working full time for only a few months. Should we have spent that time rewriting the app in C# by hand instead? How would we ship new code in the meantime?
> It's like:

> Should we ban Twitter in Russia? Yes.

> Should we keep posting Russian propaganda on Twitter? Also yes.

That's entirely consistent. It just means (from their perspective) Twitter is for externally-facing propaganda.

IIRC, nationalist Chinese diplomats, the Global Times editor, etc. are all active on Twitter for the same reason.
Funnily enough, in Russian the double negative is completely normal and that is a normal way to express many negatives. It always triggers my brain when I have to say a double negative in Russian, "just do it, it's completely normal, don't worry about it..." (inner feeling-based monologue).

https://www.russiantutoring.com/post/double-negation-in-russ...
The attitude below: "Well, duh, what did you expect, I'm sick of these HN posts" is a depressing, cynical take.

Google is the search engine, and if a business, or a thought, or a piece of information, doesn't show up there, then it's invisible to 95% of the (Western) human population that doesn't use duckduckgo or Bing or whatever failed alternatives there are.*

I do find it very amusing that I'm not the only one that uses reddit as a keyword in search results, because the results are almost spot on.

* - Yes, I use duckduckgo as my default, but use g! a lot because the results aren't superb for tech items, and it too falls prey to SEO type manipulation with dubious stuff at the top, in my experience.
tldr: A method that is typed as returning `never` either never returns (infinite while/for loop) or throws an error. And as return types can also be conditional, your given inputs may switch the return to `never`, allowing typescript to tell you that code following that line will never be executed.
Doesn't seem likely, TBH. Azov Battalion is apparently part of the Ukraine's national guard [1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
Web3 cloud strage service on permaweb(Aeweave) closed $2.3m round
Akord enables you to move your digital valuables off the cloud and secure them on chain – forever.

The company just closed a $2.3m round that included investments from Maven11, D1 Ventures, SevenX and Arweave.

The funding gives Akord the resources to market their secure and permanent storage and collaboration service.

After a year focused on product and protocol development, this investment gives us the resources to position Akord as the clear alternative to cloud storage for all your digital valuables.

Pascal Barry(@axo_pas), co-founder at Akord
says Pascal Barry, co-founder at Akord.

Akord can provide secure storage for digital valuables using Arweave, the network that allows for permanent, decentralized data storage with a “pay once, store forever” model, has recently seen massive gains in adoption.

This is especially useful for storing the digital valuables you want to secure for your lifetime, as well as preserve for future generations. Our collaborative vaults are also perfect for corporates, non-profit organizations, endowments, foundations and many other entities that are managed by a collective, spanning many generations.

Richard Caetano(@arsydotorg), co-founder of Akord
says Richard Caetano, co-founder of Akord.

Akord also intends to support the community of developers who want to integrate the protocol with their applications. Using the Akord Protocol, developers can build and integrate privacy and protection within their Arweave applications enabling interoperability and security.

Developers can build applications that access data privately from the Akord vaults. Members of the vault can then move secured data between applications without having to trust third parties to store or process their data.

says Weronika Kolodziejak(@w_kolodziejak) the company’s cryptography engineer.

Originally launched in March of 2021, Akord is fully operational on the Arweave blockchain and offers free storage for users who signup and/or invite others onto the system.

Sam Williams(@samecwilliams), Arweave CEO said.

Akord is bringing privacy to the Arweave, the missing layer for the ecosystem.
Exactly. My point with Poole is that he started a platform that was much more accepting than competitor sites. Eventually he wasn't happy with how it turned out and walked away from it. Easy enough to do when it's a small operation. But with a larger operation like Twitter staff are invested enough that they won't just say "fuck it". So you see stronger TOSes build up over time.
What you really want to do is read the "how to ask questions the smart way" page by ESR:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html