skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...Russian government propaganda. It's a news aggregator, so it might look like propaganda because all popular news outlets are propaganda. Not sure if they filter anything themselves. But I think it still makes sense to put a pressure on the company anyway.

As opposed to what Western News Media coverage on the war has turned into, aka, more Propaganda?

The middle ground is not promoting our own Propaganda instead, which is what pushing everyone to Western Search Engines (Agitprop search really).
If they really do have 20TB of data, then it was probably an inside job to acquire it.
but there's a bus route for all corners in the USA...

This is just plain false. The USA is way too big and has a lot of rural area that are not served by public transit of any sort.
I read it to be more "i can no longer be bothered". Ie, he's been spoiled by google's build infrastructure/code policies such that he just can't handle the crap anymore.
> there's a bus route for all corners in the USA

I'm sorry, but this seems plainly counterfactual in view of the low-density, automobile-exclusive nature of much of suburban and rural Middle America. There's literally not a bus route in most of the USA, let alone "all corners".
I would have called those "icons" but in any case what tool is good for making them? I have used illustrator (now switching to inkscape) but it seems like you really need some specialized skills out of reach for the common man (person).
I personally think that it was the collapse of the Soviet Union, not anything to do with trade. We've always had trade for the past few centuries and it never stopped countries from attacking/invading others.
That's not a proof in the paper. That's a definition of how the system is works.

And it's only part of the procedure for how to choose between different competing capital-B Bitcoin chains. It doesn't say anything about comparing different coins.
I thought that at the time I got that notification.

But it turns out I don't have any EC2-Classic instances, and was really just a notification I wouldn't be able to create new one.
Which is all out wrong if you look at the literature. Nutrition, education, nurturing young, and inbreeding can have profound effects.
There was a time when it seemed like every new device had to have an always-on blue LED. Escaping blue light at night was an effort. These days small white LEDs are in fashion, which I find much more tolerable.
For PR that is mostly new code, I'd much prefer to review a single 1000 PR than 5 200 line PRs. It's so much easier to understand how all the pieces fit together than the myopic view you get with tiny stacked changes.
I wish I shared your optimism. But this 10% "energy imports" figure makes it seem like "energy" of all kinds is fungible...
There's a blog about porting the arcade (Z80) code of Pac Man to the 6809 Color Computer. This link is about converting the Z80 to 6809 but elsewhere is discussion of blitting, ie drawing the sprites with the CPU to a bitmap, and I think he ended up using a similar technique IIRC
https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/zilog-z80-to-...

You can definitely try that one.
Wisconsin flock of 2.75 mln chickens to be culled as bird flu spreads in U.S.
I wonder if the decision was due to legal issues, or perhaps pressure from sponsors. After all, they just very recently decided to spam everyone with a very clearly sponsored advert: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30665493

I bet this is another move that won't gain them any marketshare either.

It's sad that "at least we're better than Chrome" seems to have become the only real redeeming praise of Firefox/Mozilla, and I think that's exactly what the management at Mozilla and Google realises --- both browsers are heading in the same hostile direction, but as long as FF stays a little behind Chrome, Google can say it's not a monopoly. At this point "browser choice" is clearly more of an illusion than reality. They're all slowly shoving everyone down the same funnel.
Fortunately, rural Middle America doesn't have huge amounts of traffic. So a bus isn't needed in those locations either.

If you have a bus route available, really consider it. I don't think this oil-crisis is avoidable. Even if Russia retreats from Ukraine tomorrow, the long-term effects of these sanctions will propagate through the market.
Yeah I think it takes only one madman at the rudder to grind global trade and diplomacy to a halt.
You’re going to have to explain more of the argument, because I don’t follow.

It sounds like you are arguing that writers should spend more time spelling things out for readers which aren’t very good at reading comprehension. That doesn’t seem very efficient—it wastes most people’s time, since the writer is spending more time spelling things out explicitly and avoiding ambiguity, all of the readers with decent reading comprehension skills have to spend more time sifting through crap that doesn’t add value to the text (for them), and only the people with lower reading comprehension skills get any benefit. People with lower reading comprehension skills are less likely to be reading text-heavy blogs in the first place!

The following claim may be controversial—generally, there is a tradeoff between clarity and precision, and the right tradeoff depends on the context and what your goals are. The internet, and forums like HN, distort our perception of where the correct tradeoff is, because the people complaining about lack of precision are the loudest. You should be aware of who your audience really is… is it people capable of interpreting claims in persuasive documents? Or is it people who decide to complain on HN?
High prices will outlast the war
> According to industry reports, Chinese and other Asian buyers are not yet considering new Russian crude oil purchases. Like the rest of the world, China is evaluating its exposure to Russia in the aftermath of global condemnation of the Ukrainian invasion. They’re approaching the newly-sanctioned Russia with a degree of conservatism. As of today, it is not eager to deepen commercial linkages to Russian crude.

Is this actually the case? If buyers in China and India don't need the oil today, wouldn't they be waiting until the seller is more desperate and they can purchase at a bigger discount? They would only be buying now if their stocks are low or if they think their negotiating power will be weaker tomorrow.
Could you suggest one? Maybe one that doesn't uncomfortably push your eyeballs in
The Ancient Mesopotamian Tablet as Cookbook (c. 1730 BC / 2019 AD)
It's using monaco as the underlying editor, just like VS Code that it's based on. Code Server basically takes the VS Code codebase as is and just adds a very light server layer to do auth and static content serving. All of the frontend javascript code, etc. is the same as the desktop version of VS Code.
There are Unitarian Universalist churches. I didn't like the vibe, but/because I think it works perfectly to what appears to be the target audience of people who cannot lie to themselves anymore about religion not being BS, but still want the social aspects of a church. But, it is a thing... people there are very kind in my experience. I though I was trying to be spiritual but the time I went was when I moved cities and was also pretty lonely for some time.
The big obvious ones: regulate and supervise other banks, settle interbank payments, explicitly act as a lender of last resort to stabilize the financial system as required.

There are also other practical differences - for example, having a set, specific target for short term rates (the first bank of US didn't have a target rate, even if they did loosely have some ability to sort of influence rates).
Over Ukraine, Lumbering Turkish-Made Drones Are an Ominous Sign for Russia
My previous comment was unpopular and I'm sure this will be also.

I don't doubt the leaks from Snowden increased awareness of privacy.

Snowdens early justification statements were "I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. "

He was either a pawn or naive. Perhaps at the time we all were.

Snowden then went to China and then Russia. These are hardly the bastion of human rights, privacy and freedom that he supposedly fought for.

At some point we have to admit that all countries of any significance likely have intelligence and monitoring programmes. Maybe (in countries with some semblance of freedom) these are there to protect us from those countries that work against those same principles Snowden claimed to support.
I don't view a single codebase as the goal necessarily. While I see the benefit to doing a WebView everywhere, I prefer the React Native approach: write once, run anywhere by using the underlying native components of each system. Because it has such a great unified API for building UI, React Native is a good abstraction to use the same code everywhere. But what draws me to it is the fact that it maps onto native elements.

That said, I'm sure there are good arguments for Capacitor!
Is Apple going to do anything about Safari (on my 2021 16" M1 Pro) hitting 200 points in BrowserBench, while Chrome hits 299? Sure, Safari battery life is great, but the browser is slow, buggy (refreshes the page when I back a page half the time; can't speed up videos without audio distortion; typing into the search bar is laggy and I on a daily basis arrow down to select a previously used URL, hit enter, and then find that Safari moved my selection up or down, almost like it had to sync or something).

I try really hard to love Safari, I really do, but it's just a shitshow outside of battery life.

Also, Brave is consistently 20-30 points below vanilla Chrome on BrowserBench? Any ideas why?

And finally, and this is pretty egregious, but the 1Password browser extension is a 20-30% (yes) performance hit (on the BrowserBench benchmark) on any Chromium based browser that I use, and on Firefox. What the fuck, AgileBits?

See for yourself: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/
It proves there was one, and quite possibly only one ‘city’ or settlement of some kind that was probably intermittently occupied, perhaps on a seasonal basis.

But yes, it is quite possible there are more to find, especially in now flooded former coastlines. I’m not expecting us to find anything spectacularly revolutionary or shocking though. Especially not widely distributed. There doesn’t seem any really good reason they would all be clustered along coastlines all over the place, but not along rivers or by lakes. Gobekli Tepe is nowhere near the coast.
Comet 67P's abundant oxygen more of an illusion, new study suggests
Annndddd our own media conglomerates will shill propaganda and censor people who they disagree with all the time as well. Not saying that this exonerates Russia or Yandex, but if you think we shouldn't be able to use Yandex's translation service because of the other things it has done; then you best get ready to stop using google, facebook, reddit and twitter too; along with all the services attached to them. They all have been just as bad in their own ways.

Look. I just said it was a shame that this all means that we won't be able to use a superior auto-translation product. How is that a problem. It just means someone who can do better than Google would be wise to step up, because someone like me is saying there is a market for a better product than what Google is offering.

That's the thing about sanctions and such. When you take away some things, you gotta try to replace them somehow with something as good or better. And all I am saying is Google ain't it.

Edit: https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/14/dpc-sued-google-rtb-compla...

Here, look. Now yes, that is about the watchdog being sued over not doing their job correctly; but look at who the culprit is and what they were doing. Google. Being naughty, once again.
Blockchains as Nation States
Fun read.

Interesting ending.
tell me why we should not think you are an American propaganda created by weapon lobby who wants war to last longer and supply NATO with everything they need and make huge profits?

I know Russia started war, but it is very difficult to make conclusions at this point, everyone will tell other side "propaganda", "brainwashed"
You could do a lot of science for $500M. I wonder where all that money goes for a mostly complete piece of software.
That's the big role of Linux distributions (debian, fedora, ubuntu, etc...) -- they have thousands of people packaging tens of thousands of C and C++ libraries.

You choose whatever build system you like, create a single-line "install.sh" which runs some "apt install" command, and you are done -- things just work.

The main downsides are that packages are somewhat old, and that your users need the have the same distribution. But containers help a lot with the latter problem.
Awesome Visual Regression Testing > lists quite a few tools and online services:
https://github.com/mojoaxel/awesome-regression-testing#tools...

"visual-regression": https://github.com/topics/visual-regression

Cypress.io can run in a CI job, does Time Travel, works with DevTools debugger, can take screenshots and [headless] video, and it looks like there's a visual regression testing thing for it: https://github.com/mjhea0/cypress-visual-regression
https://docs.cypress.io/guides/overview/why-cypress#Features
"erosion of real wages" isn't actually calculable since the price of your house doesn't really have anything to do with how many electronics you can own, but it's most likely not true - houses are much bigger and higher quality than 1970, cars are incredibly safer, you can buy infinitely more computing power, most importantly you don't have lead poisoning now.
Couldn't all of this have been considered in advance by the Russian government?
Every once in a while I'm tickled by an author who manages to juggle ornate prose deftly.
So we only need half of what we saved when states went into complete lockdown and travel basically ceased existing? That's not a very positive outlook.
I don't have any plastic stuff that breaks. My supposedly bad Ikea furniture has all survived 3 moves, none of my kitchen tools break, car's about to last 10+ years. I think my worst problem with something I own is my PC fans are too loud.
The entire premise of the book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” is “Can we define ‘quality’?”

At the end of the day you can specify a dozen different metrics but someone will game it to cut corners. There’s no replacement for caring.
flex fuel is a net energy loser
Also for availability, if you need extremely high uptime - single-region outages are not unheard of, and even if your data is still there when they come back, you might have lost a significant amount of money and/or trust in the meantime.
I read the article so I'm gonna respond here ;)

As a counter-anecdote I'll offer my experience working for a company that built large precision machinery. Many of the parts of said machinery were built by subcontractors. The quality was extremely high. We did do certain things in house if they require special expertise and we did have the capability to do rapid prototyping but it wouldn't make any business sense for us to purchase all the equipment to make all those parts that we subcontracted.

I think this is common in many industries. (Automotive?)

Even with software this is far less than clear cut. There's plenty of times where you should not build it yourself and the quality stuff isn't always terrible. Seems like there's some cherry-picking going on in the examples re: bad software. Sure, there's lots of bad software, but there's also awesome software that works really well. Building it yourself isn't a guarantee that it'll work well. 90% of the time the people that think they can do better if they build it themselves can't, they just don't know it yet. And sure Kyle is great but there are plenty of solid databases built before he was around (before he was born?) by companies like IBM and Microsoft.

I've seen companies build in-house tooling that's much worse than what's available off the shelf and have an endless drain of resources due to that.

Build vs. buy isn't an easy call. I'll agree with that.

I felt like there was a self contradiction in the essay. You can't get great software but you can get great engineers that will build the great software in house? I don't think your chances of finding the team that can build that are any greater. You're just as likely to hire a bunch of people you think can do this and then find out they can't. 5 years later. Which sort of jives with the commentary of experts doing shoddy work...

EDIT: I'd also say that the examples of the stuff that was built in-house that was superior might be a case of survivorship bias.

EDIT2: Thinking more about machines... motors, sensors, cables, connectors, bolts, power supplies, pumps, linear rails, screws, etc. etc. all of which you buy, never make, the quality is generally very good, and it's almost unimaginable that you can be completely vertically integrated.
If this biohack is so good... moreso if it happened to be simply viable in nature - then why didn't it evolve and persist already ?

I can see how a simple notion of helping carbon capture could feel reassuring, but the true motivation behind this is the commercialization of a partially understood biohack which cannot be recalled once it is mass propagated into the system of time-served species on this planet. Time served in Epochs. Billions of years of development which somehow managed to perpetuate fertile habitats with a diversity of species and inter-relations, which to this day goes beyond comprehension and over all of our heads...
> In practice, all it took was a dude called Dane Jasper deciding that the barriers were mostly regulatory and he could beat it and boom! Sonic covers so much of the city in $60/mo symmetric fiber. I think people will still explain why it's impossible in SF.

It often is impossible to get past the regulatory burdens in SF, although sometimes it's just because the supervisors ask you for bribes.

https://twitter.com/sacca/status/1375962440303661057
That's very selective reading. Here's what the article says:

> The unprecedented collapse in worldwide mobility as a result of lockdowns and travel restrictions in March and April 2020 slashed oil demand by over 20 million b/d, or 20% of total demand.

So the 20% drop was temporary, during the most strict lockdown months. Extrapolating that to longer-term periods is obviously a mistake.

> We expect about 75% or 6.3 million b/d of demand to come back in 2021

So the demand would be down by 5% (25% of 20%), YOY. No predictions as to how much it could come back in 2022.

The graph a little bit further down the article predicts oil demand to keep going up at least until 2035, and 2040 for all oil products.
> IMO It serves a useful purpose!

I have to disagree! I simply do not understand what useful purpose it serves—IF we are allowed to assume that our readers have a proficient level of prose literacy. The default assumption, when someone is talking or writing, is that they are communicating their own opinions and thoughts, experiences, anecdotes.

I don’t know about you, but when I think back to taking writing classes in school, if I wrote something like “I've seen this tendency in multiple teams I've been part of” in my paper, any good writing teacher I’ve ever had would cross it out. Same as “it is my opinion that” or “I have recently started to form some beliefs in the matter at hand after reviewing some materials that came into my possession” or other… filler. It pads out the document and only tells us things that we should already know, or be able to figure out.

The ability to sort out opinions and anecdotes from factual claims and evidence is… well… something you’d expect from a proficient reader!
this news is also relevant to wkwebview users
You’re killing me here. What’s the compiler?
> A bit of woo woo aside but I’ve been trying to practice more gratitude…

No woo woo necessary. You may be interested in checking this (and related citations) about research on gratitude and psychological well being:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratitude#Psychological_interv...
Well, on my M1 MacBook Air Safari hits 275, whereas Edge is 246

Safari: https://i.imgur.com/LcPD5eE.png

Edge: https://i.imgur.com/eWhgSuU.png
Shrinkwrap: Taming dynamic shared objects
China is autocratic, but maybe not a dictatorship like Russia. I had the feeling that the CCP has some leverage over Xi, whereas Putin’s power is more concentrated on himself.
It's like asking why consumers go for low prices rather than good quality. Similar answer: Because it's easy for companies to hide poor quality, but impossible to hide high prices. (Although companies do their best to hide prices anyway, like airlines charging everything as an addon).
That's fair, you're limited by the technologies you're using. I guess that's a problem with these sorts of libraries, you can find yourself being "the lowest common denominator". Of course, your library is very useful, and there are plenty of apps that I imagine can just drop in Solito. So this isn't at all to detract from its real-world value today.

However, as much as it's convenient to get up and running (with bundle splitting), the file-system based router is in my opinion probably the weakest part of Next.js. It would be top priority on my list of things to go. The main issue is it's fundamentally not type safe.

For example, Solito's useParams() is fragile because refactoring can easily cause param substitution to come out of sync with param consumption (in another component). My most recent solution (not in Next.js) for this is:

const {partnerId} = useRouteParams(routes.tails.partner);

That's 100% type-checked. Creating a URL for that route is also type checked and done like:

routes.tails.partner({partnerId: "blah"});

I'd really like to see routing libraries adopt type safe practices.

EDIT: I suppose the file-system based routing could be kept if you pair it with code generation. Maybe that's an option?