skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia's GDP is something like 4% of the EU GDP. Everybody will get hurt from these sanctions but Russia will get hurt about 20 times more than the EU on average. Some EU countries will have bigger impact than others but they may get help from the EU, so it can be mitigated to some extent.

Russia will try to find a way around these sanctions generally but it will be less efficient. It is not that easy to substitute everything. Russians may not care about latest brand items but domestic substitutions will not be always of good quality or functionality. It wasn't during Soviet Union and depending how long these sanctions last, it will gradually impact Russia.

Some think that sanctions will be gradually weakened. I think it will be the opposite. The war is just started and as Ukraine will suffer more and more casualties, countries will make sanctions even stronger. It is surprising that the reaction was so severe in this short time. Usually it requires longer time to agree on things and it is expected that more sanctions will follow.

I am very sorry for all my Russians friends who now will have to suffer. It is not an easy situation to deal and no way out.
Russian gold reserves.
b/c there could be no other reasons for this to be the case, and the only solution is to arrest, jail, or fine people potentially exacerbating their poverty?

this sounds like pearl clutching and not wanting to think more about an issue with tons of variables.
Spotify does this as well. I hate it. No, I do not speak the local language, stop!
Not to mention the disproportionate number of Jews in the federal government that are extremely loyal to Israel.
If Israel has not been sanctioned for nuclear weapons I don't see it happening, ever, for routine Palestinians discrimination.
Does naturalization in this particular context confer citizenship with voting rights? I’m curious if blocking shifts in the electorate is a motive for this move.
I don't know what you mean by preach. Modern monetary theory is just an accounting framework. It is kind of true by definition if you define money as credit and assume that central bank money is issued by a central bank and commercial bank money is issued by commercial banks.

That doesn't change the fact that it doesn't address the problems that a negative interest rate would solve.
Time is a reference invented by men
haha, when I read OP, I thought exactly of "Hello".
> Wonder why the same doesn't happen with this apartheid in the XXI century.

Because it's supported by the wealthiest country with the biggest army.
>The "occupiers" gave up their rights by holding an illegal protest.

The same can be said for any kind of protest once deemed by governments illegal, that gave you your current rights, from child labor laws to environmental regulations...

Also in what part of a democratic playbook is it written that if you "illegaly protest" you "give up your rights" to everything, including your financial assets, and by government fiat nonetheless. Because in 20th century plus western democracies at least, this is an unprecedented step.
I like the tone of the article describing vhs has some mystical artifact of antiquity (I’m old).

trailers and reviews on demand weren’t a thing when vhs rentals were common. All you had to go on was the cover of the box and the description on the back. It was a roll of the dice renting a movie you hadn’t seen before.

Please be kind and rewind.
I want one of these sites for this flow-destroying scenario:

Bob: Hi

Me: hey Bob. What can I do for you?

(Five minutes later)

Bob: how are you?

Me: I’m ok Bob. What do you need?

(Five minutes later)

Bob: Do you know much about the daily Foo sync task?

That “how are you” gets me because its meant to be polite but it has the exact opposite effect. It’s funny because developers are often characterised as lacking social skills, but it’s usually the non-developers (analyst, PM etc) who do this.

Maybe also one for good old:

Bob: <screenshot of blank page, address bar omitted>

Bob: Do you know what's going on here?
> The west says, what Russia is doing is wrong and we will not do business with them anymore. Right now that still makes us the good guys.

While it's moral on a larger perspective, this will directly cause the death of people in Russia and the West (never mind the harvest in Ukraine that probably isn't happening and will cause famine in the third world). Just because no missile is fired doesn't mean the effects of the sanctions will be without victims.
Thanks a lot for these precisions. They bring the details I asked, yet also make me wonder more how I could follow your example.

I have so many other questions to ask you - like where your interest for Buddhism came from, where were you born and in which culture (and if not Bengal, how come you are interested in Bengali poetry?), how you find your interest and the things worth pursuing with our limited time...

Yet I don't want to you bother you too much.

> I am striving towards the goal of annihilation of self and I already knew Anatta (no-soul doctrine).

I discovered Buddhism in a manga about the life of Buddha (seriously). Like you, I've had a brush with death that was transformative at the time, but I fear I may have lost my path.

Since then, I've read a bit, and now I seriously believe I am just a P-zombie, and that consciousness is an illusion.

> In a party, you will find me donning a black silk shirt and a black suit with a drink talking with attractive women.

You see the limits yet you enjoy life at the maximum. It's very inspiring.

I hope you will stick to HN for a while so I can ask you more questions.
That language is an explicit part of Israel - the Declaration of Independence enshrines the idea that Israel is, first and foremost, a Jewish state. In more recent times, the nature of the state is often referred to as "Jewish and democratic". It is also enshrined in the basic laws of Israel (Israel doesn't have a constitution).

This entire concept has a dedicated article on Wikipedia [0]. It's a pretty fun read for those that believe Arab(or those of other non-Jewish ehtnicities, though they are far fewer) citizens of Israel are fundamentally equal to Jewish citizens of Israel.

Basically, Israel is all for equality, but with some limits - essentially, it would not be acceptable for people who are not Jewish to have an outsize power in Israel, though they are free to participate as minority parties. This is, in my opinion, the main reason why Israel has never attempted to annex the Palestinian territories. The Arab majority (or near majority today) that would form in the population would seriously challenge the idea of a Jewish and democratic state - they would be forced to stop recognizing Arabs' right to vote and/or hold office.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_and_democratic_state
Time to boycott, divest, and sanction!
> 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.

This elides so many significant differences I am not surprised you created a throwaway account.

NATO's involvement in Libya was certainly a disastrous failure, but a disastrous failure from good intent and from multi-party consensus.

It is not possible to project good intent onto Putin's actions when the actual things he is doing are explicitly at odds with what he claims, when the claims themselves are farcical on their face.

One of these actions was a failed multi-state peacekeeping effort. The other is plainly imperial ambition dressed up with lies even told to the Russian people, who are not free to disagree with it.
cool, the typically slippery slope. wonder if there could be other reasons for latin american countries being destabilized... hmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Casey's sandwiches (made fresh, to order) are surprisingly good and so's their pizza.
There is a systemd-cron package in Debian that does that, except it only sends email on success.
South Africa is/was a western ally. And the West did ignore apartheid for a long time.
He mentions that studios assumed people copied rented tapes, but I have to imagine that was relatively uncommon. Not many people had two VCRs, and by the time VCRs got cheap enough that people started to have multiples, most rental VHS tapes were protected by MacroVision[0] copy protection. Which was relatively easy to bypass if you knew what you were doing but wasn’t something the average home movie viewer was going to bother with.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Protection_System
Unfortunately true. It’s been darkly amusing to see the total absence of outcry when boycotts, divestments, and sanctions were decided against Russia, but somehow exactly the same thing is a crime against humanity when it’s against a segregated theocracy.
DNS was not attacked in this case, the IP addresses themselves were redirected through BGP. It would protect against BGP hijacks of the DNS server, but that wasn't what happened here.

There are ways to protect against such attacks (RPKI for BGP routers, DNSSEC + DANE or HPKP for servers) but none of those aren't available in most modern browsers.

I'm a strong proponent of DNSSEC, but it can't solve _all_ problems. Only with DANE would it benefit the situation.
I don't think Tom Scott ever promoted a VPN product in a YouTube video. He's actually quite selective with his brand deals. From his contact page regarding ads:

* If you're asking about pay-per-click or pay-per-lead advertising, the answer will be no. Please don't ask.

* I do not review products or apps.

* I am unable to accept sponsorship from apps or games that contain microtransactions or gambling.

Source: https://www.tomscott.com/contact/ads
First and foremost, thanks for having a very sane approach to this ! This is what other apps should tend to.

> We used the device's language as the app's language, because that makes sense, right?

One of the mistake devs do all the time is assuming users use _one_ language. It’s not the case for a very large portion of people around the globe.
I think the cable companies really ushered it in, with their dual SSID setup. I refused to use their gear for a host of reasons, this being one of them.
The US severely weakened the case for the US dollar as a reserve currency with their recent actions of freezing Russian reserves. Why would any central bank stash USD when they can’t count for these reserves to be there when they most need them?

I believe the next global reserve currency would be in the form of a blockchain.
Until one runs UNIX software and forgets to set POSIXLY_CORRECT accordingly.
It's myopic to focus on which way the toggle on the phone is actually set.

People who live in the Apple ecosystem don't do so in a vacuum. Apple announced AirTags to enormous fanfare, and clearly explains how they work.

They immediately sold out and are no doubt continuing to sell quite vigorously.

Does the median customer want AirTags and Find My Device to work well? We could do some polling to be absolutely sure, but I'm going to just skip that and say yes, they do.

Meanwhile, if it bothers you, you can turn it off.
Once the initial setup is there (which isn't easy in either case), the difference is to write a new law that forces commercial banks to implement some changes vs one that forces the central bank to do so. The former currently have strong lobbies, that's what really makes it harder.
I'm sure the only "relief" they had planned is spring weather.
DuckDuckGo has also been guilty of this, even when I disable the prominent "regional results" toggle. I am in France but have everything set to en_US, and on some searches of rare technical keywords it will still mix in "Visit France" tourist websites, often within the first page.

Ridiculous example: searching for "HID2HCI" (a bluetooth thing) returns as first result a business website from the French Alps. The second result is the English Wikipedia page for "Île-de-France" -- just why?? It doesn't matter which country I set in the "region filter" or whether I disable it entirely. And these "regional" results seem to be very random in that they will change and move up/down when I repeat the same search.
By the end of the decade copying was super common.
You will see no outcry in the media because that would be antisemitism.

I hate 21st century
I don't know if you've noticed but it's usually very difficult to criticize Israel outside of the darker corners of the internet.
They don't have access to $640 billion in reserves. Half of those reserves are locked up under foreign control [1] and may be taken from Russia as compensation for Ukraine (properly).

Russia is now admitting they're going to default on foreign debt because they can't pay [2].

"Banks are stopping Putin from tapping a $630 billion war chest Russia stockpiled before invading Ukraine"

"... it turns out that Russia’s foreign reserves strategy had a major flaw: About half of the money was held overseas in foreign banks—and now Russia can’t get to it. "

[1] https://fortune.com/2022/03/03/russia-sanctions-central-bank...

[2] "Russia says debt payments abroad hinge on unfreezing of reserves." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-10/russia-sa...
like what China is doing with the Uyghurs? Re-education and labor camps, forced migration, forced sterilization.

(not saying that's what you're advocating, just that that is one approach in use today, and given Israel's transgressions against the Palestinians I wouldn't be surprised if they were capable of that).
American who has been in that meeting a few times. It is mostly arrogant innocence... A kind of Dunning-Krueger like effect.
That's a $50k prank to … use up some data and battery?

For 50k you can do a lot more damage "as a prank".
Well, business in the South were also authorized to not serve colored folks not that far ago.

It didn't make it right, just legal.
And how do I get more money? Working for free?

Let me tell you a secret. A friend of mine is the no. 1 maintainer of a very popular OSS. 60k stars. He got paid way way way lesser than me.
You are most likely vulnerable to some extent, protection has to be done by your ISP.

In this case it seems like the attackers targeted an SDK. Subresource integrity would have helped here.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
This is how the Middle East works by the way. Interreligious marriages are a very big deal and banned in every single Middle Eastern country.

The good countries will refuse to issue a marriage license to you, the bad countries will send the police to watch as a mob lynches you.

If you see Israel as some kind of psuedo-western state, then yea, you should be shocked. But as a Middle Eastern country, this is just another Thursday. Personally, I don't see Israel any different than I see Turkey, Egypt, or Jordan.(Allies that get lots of money from the US with questionable behavior)

edit: I think is wrong by the way, so not justifying. This is just how things work in the Middle East - where nations do terrible things in the name of preserving their "religious" identity.

edit x2: Sources:
1. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/06/20/what-egypt-...
2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/02/persecution-dr...
3. Any of the State Dept religious freedoms reports here: https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-report-on-international-r...
LLC veil can be pierced if they are the sole person responsible for the business. It is different case if there are multiple shareholders and employees though.

All depends on the country.
This is not about “countries we don’t like” or petty political or ideological squabbles but rather a very real, current situation.

Whether or not to continue to support a company that arguably pays significant taxes into the - only very slightly figurative - war chest of a country actively waging war right now, is a valid question.

Then, there’s the nasty aspect of Russian intelligence agencies figuring out (or having already done so) that with a widely used IDE product they have a valuable asset at their disposal.
I do. There's a difference between refusing to further conduct business and sabotaging existing business.
Does it use the internet? If so, you are vulnerable.
Yes, that is precisely the reason. This is what the mention of "the Jewish character" of Israel boils down to.

They will also claim it is about preventing terrorism, but that is an extremely transparent fig leaf.
"Russia bars purchases of dollars by citizens in sign of hard-currency pinch"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/08/ruble-dol...
> West Bank was occupied after a war that Israel did not start

That is irrelevant ancient history. What matters is that they continue expanding their occupation (building new settlements, passing new discriminatory laws, etc.) today.
Performances here https://germ.gitbook.io/ws4sqlite/features/performances, multiple read and writes are serialized under the hood, but concurrency is allowed if the db is in read only mode and WAL is not disabled.

Security discussion here https://germ.gitbook.io/ws4sqlite/security and here https://germ.gitbook.io/ws4sqlite/features#security-features

In particular, authentication https://germ.gitbook.io/ws4sqlite/documentation/authenticati...
The politicians who enacted this law outright said that it's to preserve Israel's favored demographic majority.

Did the U.S. prevent Iraqis from marrying Americans in 2003? What about Afghans in 2001?
That is a probability, but seems too simple, and is in complete contradiction with all the other stuff Israel has done so far make the life of arabic Israelians enjoyable there, such as hiring arab police officers, the entry of an Arab political party—the Islamist United Arab List, or Ra’am—into government for the first time has signaled that progress could be in the offing, having the same rights as Jewish Israelis...
>How about we just stop electing people who are going to use power against their own citizens? If you think that's impossible, then how about we change the system such that it is.

How would that go? Who would ask you or me how to run the system? And who we should alternatively elect, given that the elections system is a rigged game with a couple of mostly-agreeing between them horses alternating in power in most countries?
Youtube also auto-translates video title for me, based on the language it assumes I can read. It’s so infuriating (there’s settings that alleviate that behavior for declared languages, but it’s buggy as hell, and still grating…)
Remote indigenous Amazon tribe has lowest dementia rates in the world
Shit, where were you all these years?
I've never been too into the japanese sandwiches but other konbini items are great. But I think the best convenience store food I've ever had was actually baos sold somewhere in downtown Shanghai.
Impressive, but let’s not forget that we live in an age of miracles. A terabyte in a chip the size of your pinky’s fingernail? You’ve got it! A supercomputer in your pocket? Sure!
> South Africa is/was a western ally.

Maybe, but not one of nearly the same strategic importance (and lobbying/PR prowess) as Israel.
Russia moves to ban WhatsApp and Instagram
Yeah, CIOs, industry analyst, enterprise architects are going to read this comment and learn that Netflix has undesirable and complicated IT architecture.
Because you are right - convection is just a special case of conduction

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/497923/is-convec...
> Russia will try to find a way around these sanctions generally but it will be less efficient. It is not that easy to substitute everything. Russians may not care about latest brand items but domestic substitutions will not be always of good quality or functionality. It wasn't during Soviet Union and depending how long these sanctions last, it will gradually impact Russia.

You are forgetting China here. 70% of mobile phone market in India is dominated by Chinese phones which are honestly far more feature packed than the latest iPhone. Of course one does not have any idea about privacy/security aspects of it. Will definitely not be as secure as an iPhone. But for a regular user, does this actually matter? Especially in developing countries? More so in Russia?

When Soviet Union collapsed, China's GDP was slightly higher than India's GDP. It wasn't yet the manufacturing base and supply chain of the World. The West propped China up for 3 decades. Now Russia/Russians won't miss out much to be honest with you. There are alternatives for everything Western and then some.

> countries will make sanctions even stronger

In what way? The sanctions are already the strongest. There is nothing more "stronger" that can be done now. What can be "stronger" than cutting off financial telecommunications (through SWIFT)? Cutting off oil? That can be easily re-routed to India and China. India and China will love discounted Russian oil.

I think the West is overestimating the impact of Sanctions.
You're not wrong.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-right-wing-party...
Myself I hardly ever open the Twitter front page. I get all my Twitter follows in my RSS reader through RSS-bridge, and then it doesn't matter how Twitter sorts them.
If societies still have cash and multiple banks, the power to order/stop/whatever is much less centralized, and there are multiple levels to resist it.
Related to Apple: is there a different haircut if someone subscribes to a newsletter from the app vs. from the website?
Behavior is different if you’re logged in and depending on your settings I think.
It would not have prevented it, because they could've just as easily attacked the server that serves the HTML instead of the CDN that served the JS.
So do I need to re-upload it?
In me memory it was "Raiders of the Lost Ark" that was released for less than $30 that blew the VHS movie market wide open. Maybe it was "Top Gun" or "E.T." though.

It was pretty crazy though when movies were like $99 on VHS.

Of course, I'm also old enough to remember seeing a single Japanese import of "Wings Greatest Hits" on compact disc for like $300 in a high-end audio store.

And going further off topic, I remember that when the CD was released and cost around $20, the record companies assured us the price would drop to that of the vinyl record (which was often about $12 or so at that time).

There have always been some sort of price games in the entertainment industry. When you have the rights to an artist, finding the same thing cheaper somewhere else just isn't an option.

Well, except for piracy. I also remember a store in the college town I went to that rented records (and CD's?) and sold blank audio cassettes....
Did copy protection really help? In the early-mid 90s my dad was dead set against copying VHS tapes. A neighbor down the street had no problem copying anything from live TV to Blockbuster rentals. Their library was a massive mess of tapes from various sources.

I don’t recall them having any special setup except 2 VCRs. They also weren’t the type to be able to bypass copy right.
Sometimes accurate is good, but my vst favourite 808 clone of recent times was this one: https://rc-808.com/ which is similar but more with a focus on a more flexible drum synthesis engine than the original.

I think the joy of the roland 50 is how approachable the sequencing is though, with the sounds everyone is familiar with
Yeah see, sh*t like that happens when you make a country only based on/for a religion.
Confidence only works when there exists a base level of attraction, which is entirely based on looks (face, height, race). A woman that ƒinds a man ugly and is not open to even the possibility of dating him, will not care one bit about confidence or any other soft-attribute.
Ableye: An SDK Visualisation with Go and Ebiten
What do Russian owner's sanctions mean for Chelsea
Thanks, at least we have an idea what this law is an overreaction of, I think telling a bit about that would have made the reuters article on-par with the journalistic quality that I expect from my standards.