skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The last possibility, then, is that the gibes about the cages being emotional support armour are actually correct, and that they have been added simply to improve morale by convincing the troops inside that they are safe. As Dr Benham-Crosswell notes, soldiers often take the view that every little helps.

Once again, the general point of the article is "Russian army is soooo imcompetent, of course Putin is going to loose".

I would not mind reading that into a cheap "troop-morale-boosting" stand-up act.

However, even though I understand the Economist stands against pretty much everything Putin stands for - shouldn't we expect a little less blatant wishfull thinking and propaganda ?

As an alternative, what would a _relevant_ source for info about the current warfare (a decent primer on who has what weapons, what they can do, etc...) be ? One that would aknowledge that _maybe_, the Russian army is not entirely made of clowns ?
One problem is there is very little reliable best practice on network security. Do you have any good resources?
Basketball and baseball are both extremely popular in many countries outside of the US and Canada.

This is typical reverse-American-exceptionalism sneering, where someone assumes that because something differs between the US and the few countries they’re familiar with (usually all in Northern and Western Europe), it must be unique to the US.

Baseball is one of the most popular sports in at least Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba.
The kids that attend games have been conditioned to do so. School graduations happen in the field because it’s there already.
AMD Fires Back with 7 New Chips
A lot of tutorials that get copy/pasted for things like Python that do the same thing. It isn't until someone actually reads the docs and realizes what this code does that they understand that it's probably not what they want to do.
Huh, I thought it had released already. Been running 28 for about half a year maybe? Works perfectly.
Their guides are indispensable for my occasional dabbling.

Just saved flexbox and grid guides using the SingleFile extension, something I discovered a couple of weeks ago here on HN. HN warns and provides solutions.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/
Ask HN: Why does FreeBSD do Releases the way the do?
Can someone help me understand how/why FreeBSD does releases. It almost seem user hostile (unless you're just a FreeBSD developer wanting to hack on FreeBSD).

What I find odd is:

(a) there are 3 simultaneous production releases (13.0, 12.3, 12.2) - which seems confusing and lack of focus

(b) the development process is CURRENT > STABLE > BETA* > RC* > RELEASE. But the problem is, all developers just work on CURRENT (not RELEASE). So if there is ever a problem on RELEASE, you basically won't get the fix until the next MAJOR release, not the next point release. This also create a weird side effect where major releases only have 2-3 point releases and never matures.

(c) it seems appropriate to only run RELEASE in production, but the problem is - RELEASE is only supported for 3 months after the next RELEASE. 3 months! [1]

(d) this creates a situation where companies basically have to fork FreeBSD just to use it in their production environment (and merge from CURRENT frequently, which by it's very nature is unstable). Netflix has to do this, but not all companies have the huge resources Netflix does [2]

(e) just the simple fact that freebsd.org list 4 releases on their homepage is alone confusing.

These problems has been long documented for over a decade (documented well by @rsync [3][4]), I just feel like I must be missing something obvious as to why FreeBSD does there releases so strangely.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21867202

[3] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-June/045319.html

[4] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-January/037294.html
I just moved to a new flat and, by design, the motorized shutters don't close fully and the top two or three rows of "holes" remain exposed when the motor disengages.

I was a bit annoyed at first and considered tweaking the mechanism to close the shutters fully, but in the meantime the impact this tiny changes has made on my and my girfriend's sleep patterns is tremendous and now I think I'll leave it that way.

We used to be very late sleepers, I work from home and regularly wouldn't wake up until 11AM or so. Now at 8:30 sharp I'm awake and ready to get up. It's a pleasant way of waking up too, I can tell that my body is sort of meant to be woken up that way instead of using an alarm sound. Obviously it also means that I get tired much earlier at night. But overall it seems like a positive change, especially since I'm in my mid-thirties and it's not like I regularly party all night anymore and I appreciate getting more time to do stuff in the morning.
Whoever owns the Flexbox article: please reformat it in a single column so I can read it without having to go into Reader View each time.
>Product availability is the most important factor in choosing a grocery store

For many people, price is almost certainly at least as big a factor. Many, perhaps even most, people are willing to accept things being out of stock now and then for 10% lower prices.
Given it was developed by NSA, completely relevant.
Tom Scott: 14 science fiction stories in under 6 minutes
Can someone remind me what the CSS is to make the site readable please?
What term? : )
I've used some of the tutorials for help with dev server setup (self signed cert and some other things). They're well written and they work.
It helps keep me using their services, though the tutorials are generic enough to work everywhere ( I used the instructions on a vagrant/virtual box instance too..)
This whole article is music to my ears. I left behind a rewarding career to test out entrepreneurship and while rocky initially, it's paying back in ways I could not have imagined. Similar to the author, I'm perfectly content with a 9-5 job but since taking the leap, I can now no longer imagine returning to my position.
So this means that Tor taking money from Zcash is an explicit endorsement of the crypto token space and the scams and speculation and environmental destruction they harbour.

Not to mention the ransomware enablement of a so called privacy token.

I don't think Tor would want to be associated with all of that on top of all the other illicit activities they are already associated with.
I agree with your overall point, but is this still true?

> Not to mention the fact that in many schools graduation happens on the football field.

Maybe it's because I live where I live, but no high schools around me do this any more; it's all at local amphitheaters and the like.
Hmm. I know someone who works in the UK basketball industry and it's very niche as an organised sport. Attendance at local events is really low. Something that sums up basketball in the UK for me is that I have a local basketball court but the kids only play football on it. There will be ethnic/regional variation though so I'm interested in the real figures.

These are the only hard figures I can find and it puts basketball behind cricket:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/899184/basketball-partic...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/899199/cricket-participa...

It's ahead of rugby union but about the same if combining with the league variant (ignoring recent covid years).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/899308/rugby-union-parti...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/899302/rugby-league-part...

Something to bear in mind when comparing it as a "team sport" is that it's not quite like for like. Basketball is much more accessible like tennis - it can be played casually with a couple of friends. A lot of homes will have a hoop in the garden or driveway.

Cricket and rugby will mostly be organised teams, dedicated pitches etc. If the question was "do you play in a local sports team" then I expect basketball to not be comparable. There might be more people playing with a frisbee in a park than are members of a local rugby team but calling it "a more popular sport than rugby" would feel misleading by failing to account for different level of commitment/organisation required.
YouTube is getting shittier by the year also. Forcing me to watch an ad that takes 5 seconds to even start then after said ad the video freezes and doesn’t even play requiring a page refresh just to watch something. I’m ready for the alternative to arrive.
Actual opera fans are frothing at the mouth right now at the suggestion that Cats is opera.

But this idea that opera is stuffy high culture is the same mistake people make with Shakespeare--it's pop culture, just removed from its context. Imagine upper-class twits a century from now screening an Adam Sandler movie.
https://pastebin.com/raw/RkZvsKuL

This is my current list.
I add them as a submodule to a repo.

ag -A10 'inputs' -G flake.nix
Yeah, it's okay now for me too but it was not updating for 10-20min here.
Invidious is different from Vanced in that Vanced was a mod on top of the main YouTube application, while Invidious is just a different frontend with presumably no infringement of YouTube IP or code or TOS. Now, youtube-dl got the infamous copyright complaint by RIAA because they advertised using it to download copyrighted music[0], so perhaps a stronger case could be made if any code within Invidious used more hidden APIs or otherwise shows using it to watch Standard YouTube License videos without fulfilling the quid pro quo of watching ads.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911
why would a glass bottle bounce off a steel frame? imho it would shatter on impact and spill all over and underneath it? we need Mythbusters set on this one.
Bloat is bundling it into the default Emacs distribution. This is cool.
I was thinking about modern intercept missiles: they all seem to use something like radar or infrared to detect and target missiles. But they also seem quite easily fooled by countermeasures. In many cases the human eye can easily distinguish between the real target (a helicopter or cruise missile) and the counter measures. Would it therefor not be feasible to use something like computer vision to make the intercept missile find its target visually?
Funding doesn't control code? It just controls what is being worked on.
>The use of the decoys may point to some level of carelessness or urgency by Russian military leadership, Mr. Lewis said, given that Russia knows they will inevitably be collected and studied by Western intelligence services so that NATO air defenses can be programmed to defeat the Iskander’s countermeasures.

It does surprise me that they do no self-destruct upon impact. I wonder if they continue to have jamming capabilities even on the ground. They use a solid rocket motor, which could easily be capped with a small charge that would only detonate once fuel is depleted. This is how most aerial firework operate and it is quite reliable. A delay could also be easily built in.
If you search for a solution, not workaround, consider this: https://joinpeertube.org.
It is, at the moment as my entire audience are on Twitter. I'm working on other login method right now. Is there any way I can reach you when it's ready? Also I assume you would like a email/password login option? Thanks
Not supposedly, definitely. And I think the fact that they actually did something like this is very concerning and shows two things: they are very deep inside EU computer and network systems, and that they do not truly consider the EU as an ally.
It’s how it is with local high schools near me. Coworker went to a HS with a brand new stadium but the students study in classrooms with ancient heaters. Said they had to routinely wear jackets and heavy clothes to survive class in the cold months.
This is amazing. Thank you for the tip!
I haven't seen much pumping for Rust. It is a great language but I see Go and even Ada and Ocaml are mentioned a lot (relative to actual adaption) here. There are lots more esoteric languages getting hyped on HN. There was even a popular post about .NET the other day.
You probably could use something like Assembly for iOS/iPadOS: https://www.pixiteapps.com/apps/assembly-vector-graphic-desi...

(no affiliation - I just like playing with it)
That assessment is 100% subjective, and anyway millions of people disagree with it.
> Every major "high prestige world city" as you describe is a hub for multiple sports and various tournaments that invites both local and international crowds.

My gut says you have the causal relationship here backwards. The lack of those teams wouldn't ding the city much, if at all.
Web application developers will rightly question the claim that Safari has surpassed Chrome in anything in 2022. With "Safari Technology Preview" and the test suite that this site has chosen to group into "Experimental," you'll see FF: 74, Safari: 73, Chrome: 72.

With "stable" and actually-consumed versions of browsers (a more important goal for "interop"), you'll see:

- FF: 74

- Chrome: 66

- Safari: 50
Hope they keep the site as it is, css-tricks.com has been consistently one of the best, if not the best CSS site around, to the point that I search there for a particular topic before going to general purpose search engines, and you'll frequently find Chris' original articles copypasta'd by "content marketers" anyway. I guess the big time push for CSS3 with ever-changing responsive requirements and new UI idioms of the 2000's and 2010's is behind us, as witnessed by css-tricks's forum with contributions from other world-class experts having closed down last year or so. Could be worse than DO for sure.
Q: What's grey and wrinkly and writes gloomy poetry?

A: T.S. Elephant.
What I find fascinating is the sheer length of time of "the great rust" when oxygen was being absorbed almost as fast as it was produced and "Deposition of banded iron formation" happened.

This took around 750 million years. Rust, slowly raining down onto the seabed, for three quarters of a billion years. Deep time is chilling.

And also the fact that it was "banded" indicates that there may have been periodic local surges of oxygen like an "agal bloom", which would have been self-limiting when the producing organisms were poisoned by their own wastes.
A common problem I've seen with Russian tanks is that they're supposed to be protected by soldiers on the ground. Tanks are vulnerable as we've seen. They aren't supposed to be driven in by themselves, infantry is supposed to go in first and check there is no threat before the tanks arrive. Of course this feels more risky.
The whole idea is just so dumb.

This comment I am making is not worth $.000000001 USD, it is worth exactly zero in whatever currency you want to denominate it in. $0 BTCH, $0 ETH, even $0 Zimbabwean Dollars. Take your pick.

It might even be worth a negative amount of currency since it is a mostly pointless comment and anyone who reads this has kind of had their time wasted. That is practically most of what is online IMO and why micro payments are an idea that have not and never will take off.
There are no "burner phones" in Spain. To buy a SIM you have to identify yourself with a National ID card or a passport.
As the subhead of the article mentions?
You're moving the goalposts. The people operating darknet markets are not Nazis, extremists, and generally not hitmen and terrorists. I have heard that many onion services host child sexual abuse imagery though, but I've never looked for reliable citations or personally verified.
Reminds me of how studies found out that, when sleeping with lights on, one gains weight.
Hot springs reveal where continental plates collide beneath Tibet
It's just incredible how people who are seeing pictures and lack the imagination to understand what purpose they serve then assume it must be no real purpose and that the folks who are doing it are just absolute morons.

Perhaps it's not there for when you're out and about and actively being seen by the enemy. Perhaps it's there for when you're hiding in the woods and you want to hold a tarp off of the top of your tank so that you can get in and out easily. Perhaps it's there to hold up camo netting for hiding the tank better while stopped in the woods. Perhaps the mesh on top is to hold up branches that you cut down to try and better hide your tank while you're in the woods, not moving.

I'm not saying that any of these reasons are THE reason. I'm suggesting that if some idiot on the internet (me) can come up with some reasons that aren't entirely moronic it's too bad that better informed folks aren't trying a little harder to imagine what they might be used for.
It may be a stupid question...but why doesn't a country simply use something like "LSD gas" or "psyilocybin gas"? The assumptions are: 1) it renders people temporarily crazy and docile / compliant, 2) it will wear off in a day or two, 3) people will fully recover, 4) while they are gassed, you can just gently shepherd them out of their dwellings / fortifications and onto buses to take to refugee camps or something, while they have an out-of-body mystical experience and comprehend the totality of existence.

Everybody wins.

It seems that a non-lethal / no permanent disability hallucinogenic agent would not violate the treaty against chemical/biological weapons, would basically achieve passive area denial, with create zero casualties, and would (if it actually worked as intended) probably be a heck of a lot of fun (ignoring all the un-fun aspects of war like "these new people now own this territory and here are the consequences for everyone who used to own it".)

Note: if a gas is impractical as delivery mechanism (hello, gas masks), be creative: a 'contact agent' (skin absorption ~~ like DMSO), cheap 'cluster darts' sprayed from drones, etc, etc.
The popular apps aiming to tame the chaos of family life
What is DigitalOcean's strategy here? Kudos to CSS-Tricks on the acquisition!
ARM China CEO asserts venture’s right to pursue IPO independent of SoftBank
The US used “decoys” in Desert Storm. They were very successful and served the same function as you describe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-141_TALD
The owner is making money, but so are the players, the referees, the concession staff, parking attendants, stores and shops that sell licensed apparel, and the bars, restaurants, and other adjacent businesses. Not to mention the marketing team, strength and conditioning coaches, web developers, and others who work for the team. And although temporary, it does create new construction jobs. This is true for football, soccer, baseball, basketball, and other sports.

But this is less true when the stadium is built and then surrounded with parking lots that you have to drive to to go park your car. It's more true when the stadium is built in a neighborhood or at least a walkable area.

Recently Columbus was going to lose the much beloved Columbus Crew soccer team. We had a stadium off of I-71 that was, you guessed it, surrounded by parking lots and not much else. You couldn't grab a beer before or after the game. People couldn't go camp out at a nearby bar and while you're not in the stadium you're close by and part of the atmosphere. Fortunately the state and local business leaders rallied together to #SavetheCrew and we were able to keep the team and we're building a new stadium next to Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus where you can walk to the stadium. Hell, you can actually bike there from the suburbs using an existing bike trail and check-in your bike. Similarly, Ohio Stadium on the campus of Ohio State University is very walkable. People go and grab brunch before the noon game, they buy apparel, etc.

So I think that yea, a football team is likely to make money for the team owner and cities and governments should be weary of this. And I also haven't read the article so maybe the benefits I mentioned are washed away somehow, but I can't imagine Columbus without Ohio State football, Bluejackets hockey, or Crew soccer. I think it makes the city a better place, even if the owner (of the latter two) makes money.
Why do you think it's just Hacker News?

I noticed on Manning (http://manning.com) "Rust in Action" was the top-selling book for over a month. I think Rust is just a hot topic right now.
Also, why would you protect the turret from a molotov cocktail and not the more vulnerable parts to this type of weapons: air admission & exhaust…
Show HN: A toolkit makes it easier to archive webpages to IPFS
The i10 is a rather low end car, but the upgrade could be worth it. Finland gas prices are 8.464 USD/gallon right now. That’s unusually high but assuming 200k miles at say 35 mpg that adds up to 48,000 USD in gas over the lifetime of the vehicle.

Not that electricity is free or that we have long term cost data, but I suspect the EV / plug in hybrid premium is a very easy choice in Finland.
Elon musk has a new market for his self-driving tech; the EV cruise interceptor! "We're only using consumer-grade cameras folks"
> what Apple PR snafus is that?

I suspect this is it

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

Which it seems they abandoned or paused

https://www.macworld.com/article/559731/apple-csam-icloud-ph...
Reading the case the precedent that this was constitution was set in a 1956 Supreme Court case which leaves the matter entirely up to the legislature.
Are INDENT and DEDENT here describing whitespace sensitivity in the vein of Python, which "uses whitespace to delimit control flow blocks"[1] (elsewhere[2]: "Python uses whitespace indentation, rather than curly brackets or keywords, to delimit blocks")?

We're specifically talking about the subset of languages where these blocks _don't_ have their own delimiters[3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Python_syntax_and...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Python_(programmi...

3. There is a reading of Bob's original comment such that it's suggesting that Python and end-if languages are among languages without them (or something—I can't make total sense of that part of the comment; it gets kind of garden path-y), but they're not.
The reactive armour and cope cages cannot be helping too much, the Russians have lost 214 tanks so far in barely 3 weeks, of which 16 where T-90's, and this is only visually so the actual number is likely much higher.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...
SoftBank’s ARM to Lay Off Upto 15% as It Prepares IPO After Nvidia Deal Collapse
DeepL is better quality-wise when context matters. The synonym feature with auto rephrasing of the remaining sentence is amazing too.
Are you on LSD gas right now?
> Local governments do subsidize movie production with all sorts of funding and grants.

In yet another example of why government intervention in markets is mostly to make them worse: the politicians in charge can’t help but build and spend the citizens’ money on flashy vanity projects. Public expenses, private profits. They’ll talk it up like it’s some big “civic” investment in Prestige with all sorts of abstract benefits, rather than just being a handout to the rich — and if you challenge them, well, they will correctly tell you that everybody does it!!!
I credit the origin of the name mostly to /r/noncredibledefense - It's a whole community pride thing over there.
Rust fixes some issues that haven been present in most mainstream languages for decades, while maintaining performance.

There are many such languages or tools - Haskell (or other FP languages) or Erlang being among them - that have some vocal minorities that actually use them. The reality is that these language are highly unlikely to ever gain the traction they might arguable deserve.
I'm so bad at (physical) science I had to see if "simple" Wikipedia had an entry for this because I couldn't follow it at all and.. it does! :-) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature