skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

When we look at the Soviet system, we don't think of it as having had much in the way of scientific or artistic accomplishments. There were some, and the practical engineering and economic achievements were nothing to sneeze at, but by and large the Soviet era is seen as somewhat of a dark age in terms of humanistic advancement, as indeed it was intended to be a transitional stage before communism, which the Soviets admitted had not been achieved.

Our period is worse. We have the same stultifying bureaucracies, governmental and corporate, but with more advanced surveillance technologies. And while a 1980s Soviet bureaucrat might have been indifferent to excellence, 2020s corporate executives and venture capitalists and war barons are actively hostile to it, because it threatens their positions.

In our era, we seem to have everything, but we are producing next to nothing, and we have gone from being one of the best-run to one of the worst-run societies in record time.
Their tagline says it all:

“a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine”
Israel is a racist apartheid state at its core.
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?

> Transcoding takes place once and for all when you first upload the video, then you can call it a day and let caching proxies distribute bits

Damn! You should let Netflix know that, I’m sure they would be relieved to know it’s as simple as that, as anyone who’s ever worked with serving video to many devices would attest!

> Do users benefit from the machine learning algorithms and statistics collected by Netflix?

Yes. Those metrics allow them to take targeted bets on new types of content that other studios might pass over, across the entire world.

Your whole argument seems to be that “Netflix could be run with just python -m http.server /movies/, all these kids better get off my lawn because they are messing it up with all this complexity that I don’t appreciate because I’ve got no clue what’s required to build and operate something like Netflix at scale”. I don’t buy it.
Assuming that your user speaks the common language of their current location is as rude as any other kind of stereotyping.
At one point when I was a support tech one of our computers would randomly start playing sound, specifically radio stations. This would even happened if the computer was switched off however the external speakers had to be turned on for this to happen. We eventually attributed it to the user's proximity to the national broadcasters main tower (they were within 500m).

This only happened occasionally and not always the same radio station. She logged call after call about the problem just for us to travel to her location and tell her we could find nothing wrong while internally thinking that she might be hitting the bottle while at work :)
Off-topic, but wtf is wrong with images on this site? For some reason i had javascript enabled in my Tor Browser (safer mode) so whenever i hover an image it starts to fill the whole screen... which is inconvenient because images are already almost filling my screen so it's REALLY HARD to scroll away from them to read the text.
>As for your legal point, that doesn't mean much. Lawyers try any argument that might work.

No, I'm not willing to let them off the hook so easily. Why were they in a court of law in the first place? Because they lied to such an extent that it's literally illegal. If this hail-mary legal argument of "no reasonable person would believe us" was the best defence they could come up with, then that is approximately the most powerful indictment of their veracity as is possible to legally establish within our current framework. We should not let them live it down - they cannot have their cake and eat it.
GTK 4 is not available on any released Debian version. The author stated he's working on Debian, so there's no way he could choose GTK 4.
At some point when the number of boxes and number of cronjobs become too high, I suggest looking at Rundeck as a central scheduler (not affiliated with PagerDuty, I actually work for a competiting company) or something similar.

Also, you want to make sure your job has been running. I've used a selfhosted instance of healthchecks.io in order to warn me if something has not run.
You can also specify "OnCalendar" multiple times!
There's no serious discussions of lifting sanctions in Germany at this point. The war has only barely just begun, Russia is genociding civilians. It would be an extraordinarily ugly public relations outcome for Germany to take that step right now. While NATO and Germany are busy trying to kill Russians with their weapons, pledging more by the day, they're going to stop sanctions? Nope.

Sanctions on Russia will get worse yet. The war will likely get worse yet as well.
This doesn't even consider the possibility that location might be a more accurate indication of what language(s) the human user knows/prefers language than the browser setting is.

Which it may or may not be. But I'm shocked by the headline, "Why does Google get internationalization wrong?" that just presume that Google hasn't collected data on this. After all, Google is famous for data collected and data-driven decisions. Remember that "41 shades of blue" story?
If the international value of the Ruble falls below it's fair value then buyers of Russian produce and exports would start buying more Russian stuff (since it's now cheaper than the competitors) and demand for the Ruble would increase back to its fair value.
Google sheets also does this and even uses regional formatting standards. I can't copy values between programs because some are using ',' for decimals and some are using '.' its VERY annoying
Honestly, this is an insane proposition even in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war, but it's outright bizarre to see it presented as some EULA compliance measure.
If you happen to be on a Linux system with a properly configured mta (mail daemon), which you are if cron is able to send emails, you can just pipe the output of your command to sendmail
>Arm them with nuclear weapons

The reality is problematic for Taiwan, they are so dependant on the Chinese economy that any major pivot that results in an economic war could halve or quarter their economic output in very little time.

They do not have enough leverage to take the stance you are putting forth.
All of which were actually expressed in legislation already or passed by elected government and accepted by courts as valid consitutionally.

All of which have been used in the past, and, just like in the past, are being relaxed after they are no longer required.
You can mathematically prove that the puzzle is impossible: Assign each reachable tile a black or white colour as in a chess grid. You end up with 57 white and 55 black squares (assuming a white upper left corner). Any walk that only touches each grid cell once and only goes up/down/left/right must alternate between stepping on a white or a black cell. You start on a white cell, which means any path must have an equal number of white/black cells or one more white than black. However, in the room there are 2 more white than black cells, therefore a path touching every cell only once is impossible. QED.
What cipher does the machine use?
Firefox has bad management after they fired people with wrong opinions, but it is still better than the Chrome monoculture. This will especially apparent if they migrate to manifest v3 completely around next year.

DDG is far easier replaced. Brave for example.
No, because Linux has generic lists and data structures so you'd have to be more specific.

Also I was asking a particular person to because their perspective would have been interesting to me, but if you're also a kernel developer I would be interested to hear your gripes too.
I use this on my laptop and desktop when I bring my laptop into my office. It's totally seamless. You tell Barrier where the laptop "is" (relative to your monitor array -- just like setting up a secondary monitor) and then when you scroll your mouse onto your laptop everything is totally seamless. Your mouse and keyboard are then used solely for the laptop until you move the mouse back onto one of your desktop monitors.

The only bug I experienced was that the Barrier client would infinitely connect until you set up where that client "is" (as above) on the server. This is a pretty well-known issue at this point, but it would be nice if Barrier would say a bit more about errors (instead of being stuck on "Barrier is starting..."). There's a Show Log button in the File menu though which is nice.
was hooked as soon as I saw the MIDI out module, for musical applications alone this could be a gamechanger (to my knowledge theres nothing else truly like it out there, outside of complete DIY)
Please be aware what planning means in the EU. It might happen or might not.
Yeah and 50% is already _a lot_.
It aligns with my experience as well. I keep getting recommendations for shows I have already disliked. If it's due to a low number of options, and not due to their recommendation system, then surely they don't need such a complex recommendation system after all.
That's incorrect. Only companies who receive foreign currency are forced to convert 80% of that to RUB.
Inca whistle jar doing animal sounds [video]
For me the worst is that these settings sometimes reset after background updates... I don't know how many times I've tried to do a simple aggregation or something in Excel and was flustered by why it didn't work, only to finally figure out that my skripting language was set to german instead of English... Yes, the actual commands are also language specific.
I use united-domains.de

Their website is fast and allows batch queries for when you're trying to find a new project name. Prices are reasonable. I've never used their included hosting or email, though. 3rd party Nameservers like CloudFlare work great.
Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)
Unless there were things like sanctions to come in the way of buying Russian stuff...
Doing a quick compare with the 12.1 Release notes - https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes/ - I will speculate that the 13.1 Release Notes are not a finished document, and quite a bit more will be added before the April 26th (current schedule) "final" Release of 13.1.
>Proponents say the law helps ensure Israel's security and maintains its "Jewish character".

What the fuck?
I love the look of this, but haven't been able to find any information about latency... It seems to be a local network solution? Light on details about how it works, short of reading source.
Company plans to dig earth’s deepest hole to unleash boundless energy
> passed just before the Knesset disbanded for a holiday recess by a 45-15 majority vote

Wow
I don't know the first thing about constitutional law in Israel but western basic sensibilities would be that this violates the principle of equality under the law.
Even China, India and UAE are heavily restricting trade with Russia. None of my banks in these countries are accepting transfers from Russia.

My fixers in Russia confirm the same, and say the best they can do is exchange money into cryptocurrency via Kyrgyzstan.

Pretty sure everything but oil/gas/metals has been pretty much entirely cut off.
EU used to produce its own energy, but environmentalists funded by Russia managed to reduce EU production and increase dependence on Russia. Hopefully those regulations can be reversed and EU can block Russia completely.
I did it before the exchange closed...
> An egregious way internet providers do this now is to not only use your electricity, but also your internet bandwidth and router (!!) to create their so-called hotspot network.

To be fair, it's not a bad idea... if it was open for everyone (helping out one another) and not just benefiting their customers (helping the company extend its reach). As much as i hate Free ISP here in france, for some time when it was impossible for me to get connected to xDSL (but my neighbor was!) FreeWifi really helped me stay connected to the Internet.

Still, fuck them for calling it FreeWifi (wtf, a corporation is like the exact opposite of freedom). If you're looking for truly free wifi communities, i strongly recommend to check out Freifunk they've been doing that for a long time building OpenWRT images for popular consumer modem/routers in Germany.
You own the car de jure (you have the right to sell it to someone else), but not de facto (the car manufacturer exercises direct and indirect control over how you use the car, undermines your basic human rights by spying on you, can destroy/permanently disable the product).
Russia cannot sell European gas to China, because Russia does not have pipelines from West to East.
I would suggest that, as an example, letting people be able to have separate 'technical subscriptions' and 'political subscriptions' identities might still have the positive effects you describe and if anything more so.

Also consider somebody who wants to engage honestly and openly with mental health related content without risking that being dragged in to conversations elsewhere via somebody reading a unified profile.
that would be quite a risky speculation. if you check historical price of rubble over 10 years it was always loosing value [1]

[1] https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/USDRUB/
I was curious and from further investigation I came across this article on hedonic adjustments which goes through several examples [0]

The author explains that for all practical purposes hedonic adjustments only happen in one direction and they therefore discount the corresponding price increase in the underlying good. They are manually curated and suffer from bias of the estimators.

For example when airline baggage fees were added separate from ticket prices, there was no hedonic adjustment. However hedonic adjustment is used to discount the increase in the price of Honda Accords over time.

The article was previously posted on HN with a healthy discussion that came to the same conclusion. [1]

[0] https://www.epsilontheory.com/im-trying-to-understand-hedoni...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27114135
I read all of the articles that are available for free by that author and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Well within the overton window.

Y'all really think that moderate conservative writing - it didn't stray in terms of emotion into what I would consider rhetoric - is abhorrent? Wow. That's some thick-walled bubble you're in.
The only answer to the question is because google make more money if you sign in and share location data.

There's no other logical reason a rough guess about where you might be in the world is a better method for determining your language needs than the specific request from the browser.
Ask HN: Don't you think, revoking SSL cert for some Russian banks was too much?
This topic has been appeared on HN [1] but has zero comments while on Russian tech websites this topic has the most discussions [2] among all the sanctions. From my point of view, and from point of view of literally everybody on [2], this is an attack on the freedom of speech since https became kind of mandatory for every website. Do we really need organisations like Thawte to be a moral judge of what website deserves to be visited securely?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30517483
[2] https://habr.com/en/post/654633/
This was also discussed on Reddit[0].

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/ta22nq/a...
You think they would have?
It looks like you are reading more than OP has actually written. I am equally interest to understand if sanctions will work as intended.
This article fails to explain the reasons for which proponents believe that marriage with Palestinians would threaten security or Jewish character of the country, failing the supposed neutrality of the article or compromising the supposed quality of journalists in charge of investigating this.
Russia is an export economy that finances half it's public spending directly from energy sales. Recently it had a very good trade surplus - each year it netted tens of billions of dollars more coming into its economy than going out. Most of those exports are still in place and, while some foreign exchange reserves were frozen, Russia still controls hundreds of billions worth, allowing it to support the ruble.

It also very hard to stop this flow of foreign currency: as a permanent member of the UN security council, Russia cannot be subjected to is an embargo, all nations are free to trade with it from the point of international law. So assuming US, EU, Canada, Japan etc. all stop buying Russian oil and start buying from other sources, then that oil will be redistributed onto the the global oil market, maybe a few pennies cheaper, but Russia will still get it's money, now at record high prices.

A thing that could help is stopping the gas purchases, that, due to limited infrastructure cannot be routed to other countries, but will clearly damage european economies. Also, pressure on China, India and other large economies, threats of secondary sanctions, making them chose if they want to trade with the western bloc or Russia, all these could really damage Russia. There were no substantial actions in this regard because it would hurt the west too, China is unlikely to simply roll over.
Right? That was my first thought as well.
After reading the actual text of the conference by Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (linked to in a comment below), it turns out that the author doesn't discuss writers in general, but specifically poets, and that he thinks poets stop writing poetry (or, sometimes, good poetry) in old age because poetry requires "fire", which doesn't burn as bright then.

I'm not sure where the OP got the idea of "writers less likely to carry on" but it's not in the text of the conference.
South Africa took a lot of flak for their apartheid. Wonder why the same doesn't happen with this apartheid in the XXI century. That's a shame.
That's not what I know.

All people who receive USD from the foreign countries must exchange 80% of received USD for RUB. They can keep 20% in USD. That's mostly about businesses and freelancers.

Another thing is: all people who had saving accounts in banks in USD can only withdraw $10k USD. Rest can be withdrawn in RUB or they can continue keeping it in bank hoping that things get better in the future.

If I'm wrong, please provide source for you claim.
Like many of these types of sweeping inferences, I suspect that the devil is in the details.

Namely, what, exactly, is being measured?

Everybody changes, as we age. I'm almost 60, and, as I look back on my yute (I live in New York, so I have to use the correct lingo), I am amazed at what an addlepated, compulsive, reactive, emotion-driven, knucklehead I was. When I think about what I considered "earth-shatteringly important ideals" back then, I wince. What a waste of energy.

It would be easy to say that I was "more creative" back then, because I had diarrhea of the mouth. You couldn't shut me up, and I was always spouting pseudo-intellectual claptrap. I guess, for some people, they would have considered me to be "a creative intellectual." I also spit out a lot of rather naive little projects and artworks; crowing at each one, as if it were The Mona Lisa.

I probably would have thought I was just a jerk.

These days, I get stuff done. That does mean a lot of compromises, and acceptance of limitations. I don't tilt at windmills, anymore. I hook generators to them.
Use nitter.net and just use nitter.net/handle1,handle2,handle3
If you’re trying to pacify a group wouldn’t you encourage integration, instead of banning it?
Link? "Degree of disintermediation", yes, it is central by definition! Is that bad? Well, that's a fancy question.

We already have very few banks, so if that was really what one cares about, I'd say the "disintermediation" Rubicon has already been crossed.

Now, banks has a creative and non-creative function. The creative one is loans, and more broadly subverting the rules to do finance things (insert Minsky things here). The non-creative one is just mere accounting.

I see 0 point why we don't centralize all the accounting as a public utility. Certainly it would be a political argument about AML and KYC getting too strong, not an economic one. Baring such woo woo, accounting is either boring....or fraud! Centralize is to to make less busywork!
It depends. That kind of code does or doesn't disturb me in production code.
I don't know that I'd go so far as to call it a toy, but I do think that this device is more likely to be used in education or prototyping than anything else - which is still great! Just having a platform that will autoconfigure the array of devices that he's demonstrated is amazing. Being able to snap on two cameras and a TPU and have everything 'just work' so you can focus on your vision processing software is incredible.

I'm betting that it will be cost-prohibitive to have this device as a permanent fixture for any one application outside outside of the sorts of things an rPi4 already does (Home Assistant server, etc). I don't think anyone is going to use it to control an LED with a slider, but for prototyping that sort of thing it has endless possibilities.

Hats off to Anil for the huge amount of work he put into this project.
As a nomad traveler, this is the reason I stopped using Google as my primary search engine.
Banks in Canada are authorized to freeze ordinary citizens' accounts if they believe those citizens are associated with a protest, and the citizens have no recourse.
Poll: Are client web requests sent to upstream servers or downstream servers?
I hear both terms used in either direction. It can be somewhat confusing!

The HTTP spec indicates the requests are "downstream" and dependencies are "upstream" [1]

nginx indicates the opposite [2], even naming modules based on "upstream" being the direction of dependencies.

It may seem trivial, but I get a twinge in the back of my neck every time I hear one over the other; I believe others may have a similar experience. Perhaps the considerable knowledge and experience of the HN community can help clear this up?

Simple example:

Client -> Proxy -> Load Balancer -> Gateway -> Application Server -> Database
<- <- <- <- <-

On the one hand, it just seems natural that "upstream" refers to the inbound request being sent from one system to another. It takes effort (connection pooling, throttling, retries, etc.) to make a request to an (upstream) dependency, just as it takes effort to swim upstream. The response is (usually) easy... just return it... hence, "downstream". Recall the usual meaning of "upload" and "download". Upstream seems to make sense when talking about processing/effort.

But conversely, an individual client request is like a drop of water, that feeds into a trickle (proxy), that moves through the larger load balancer, etc. Certainly, the application server's database is most likely much larger than the client. So, the size of the stream (usually) gets larger the deeper into the stack a request goes. Downstream seems to make sense when talking about data size/volume.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-2.3

[2] https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html
Client requests are sent upstream to servers and their dependencies.
Client requests are sent downstream to servers and their dependencies.
Depends on topic at hand: processing vs. data volume,
No opinion.
Same for me here in Denmark for google and gmail - I don't f***g speak Danish!
CBDCs do not even aim to be cryptocurrencies. In fact there's very little connection between the two, unless you only care about similarities in UX and not what's 'under the hood'.
> India & China are continuing to do business with them

Every bank I’ve talked to in these countries strictly refuses to touch transfers from Russia. Our usual incoming volumes would be several million usd per month, so we aren’t super tiny either.