skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems you're forgetting the timeline. Immediately after the 2014 coup the new US-approved government changed the Constitution to the 2004 version which allowed for a vote to join NATO[1]. Then Russia invaded Crimea as a result, since a country not in control of its borders would not be eligible to join NATO. Then in December 2014 Ukraine voted to abandon neutrality and begin the process of getting into NATO anyway.[2]

Trump's presidency definitely put a pause on this plan, but now that Biden is back on top the clock has started ticking again. So yes, Ukraine was very much on its way into NATO, but they needed to either officially cede Crimea and Donbass to Russia, or expel Russia to be eligible. So something had to give.

[1] https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/191727.html

[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-parliament-abandons-neutrali...
@dragontamer: "Radiowaves have the least effect on our body" - but what happens when you modulate them at a secondary, low frequency, that disturbs voltage-gated cell-membrane ion-channels?

Just hoping to pique your curiosity into the field of biology and away from hyper-reductionistic physics models.
You are correct! He does dress well and formally. Combined with his friendliness and general cheerfulness, he makes a great impression.

At two consecutive remote jobs with a lot of zoom time, I had the habit of wearing Tommy Bahama shirts - these are Hawaiian style shirts (or some of them are) that are expensive and perfectly made (e.g., the pattern matches perfectly on both sides of the buttons). My wife made sure I had a diverse collection.
It's not empty, the singularity hinges on robots becoming sentient but who's to say they ever weren't? Who's to say anything isn't? If plants make a 'decision' about which branch to grow next based on sun trends, that's equally as deterministic as humans deciding which word to say next based on stimulus. Are all singularitists non-determinists too? Are words cosmically more important than branches?

Sentience is just a synonym for humany stuff. (I know it when I see it - a validator function requiring a human - convenient!) Maybe dolphins have it? Looks like they're talking and have a society. Octopi? They engineer solutions to escape confinement. The second you act more humanlike we know it when we see it so maybe you're sentient? If dolphins and octopi, why not mice? If mice, why not Roombas? The Roomba wasn't programmed to clean _my_ room specifically, so he's not a routine. No more or less than the maid service anyway.

The only place to hold the line on sentience is 'doing humany stuff' which is what makes the singularity anthropocentric. The claim is that robots will start doing humany stuff. What proof? What if the AI wants to hide from us? That's mousey stuff. Humans hide from other humans, too. The mousey stuff is humany stuff. Are mice sentient? When a mouse hides, it's not sentient. When a human hides it is. When a robot hides it also is. Says who? A human I bet.

So that's why pinning down sentience matters. Knowing it when you see it is too convenient when we also author the dictionaries. Only humans can say if your sentient. Why? That's where the anthropocentrism gets smuggled in. But the claim keeps going. They're not just doing humany stuff they're also doing it incomprehensibly better. Pretty enticing narrative leap if you're writing science fiction. I argue we have no evidence they would care about us at all. If they still bother you even though they don't care about you, like incidental death or extinction (sci fi plots!) then you should worry about them as much as you worry about rogue meteors and aliens. (More sci fi plots!) This is the 'fiction' aspect I allude to. It seems more likely that the singularity meme spread because it's an enchanting narrative, rather than an academic observation.
Um, how do you convert anything with this tool?

All I can see is different forms of presentation of the entered time.

My main use of such app is conversion between timezones. Luckily all desktop OS I use have this built in already.

One feature I often use is this:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20...

Convert a past time in one timezone into another.

My usecase is maybe odd but in an online game i play (EVERQUEST), I get info like "Boss was killed 9 PM eastern on sunday" and I'm in Sweden and know boss respawns 5 days after kill, so I need to calculate when that is in my local timezone.
It could have an application in remote desktop scenarios, but it would suffer when high entropy images are on screen, like photos in a web browser - the variance in output size for a fixed input may not be ideal.

It would be hugely helped by being able to look at the previous frame.
I’ve seen you post links to the mojeek blog on HN a few times now.

I have never used mojeek for the simple fact that there’s no link to the app from your blog.

Having to guess (or google) what the actual url for the app is is a bit too much friction for me. Especially when I do most of my HN browsing on mobile.
I will not use it since I am already an organized person, but I absolutely love the default user name the author put in the login section.
RedLeaf: A research OS developed in Rust, leveraging language safety
Software will not add some needness to have a conversation.

And BTW nothing can add more fun to raw dialogue (via phone which I use to carry anywhere) or to raw dialogue with video (via skype, if both of parties have an access to video terminals).

I do not expect from "metaverse" nothing except of more surveillance and ads and all kinds of strange rules like hardware requirements or unfreedom of speech on some topics. What might be some extra sources of fun during a conversation with your family? Oculus Rift?
Agreed. And this is exactly why we shouldn’t ban it.
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"Who will look after my dependents or children? Will they be safe and comfortable?" is one of the main worries for people when they die, I figure.
This class of issues is so common in my personal experience that very often I intentionally introduce some sort of panic/assertions in the place that I want to fix, just to be 100% sure I'm a) editing the right source b) the tooling (compiler, ci, ...) is actually doing what I expect.

Most of the time it's unnecessary, but when it catches such issues it saves countless hours of frustration.
My favorite 'Hop!' sample is at 0:08 of this song: https://youtu.be/kL8CyVqzmkc
being an active procrastinator, this made me laugh.
The screams of Constance Goodheart captured by Doctor Chaotica in Star Trek Voyager have a wonderful ironic quality.
As I heard a former war reporter that went to dozens of wars:

War is always the same. Now in Ukraine the only difference it that they are blonde, blue eyes, white and European. But the suffering is the same in all wars.

There were war before in Syria, promoted by the US and Saudi Arabia US friend. There was war in Libia before, promoted by France and the US. And of course there was war in Iraq and Afghanistan before, US invasions.

Those wars were created because of geopolitical interest, just like Putin's war.

Russia population believe Putin pretext in the same way the US population believed it was necessary to punish 20 terrorists from Saudi Arabia invading a country thousands of kilometers away or in weapons of mass destruction or what not.

So it is not really "the World". It is your World, my World. The US has always exported war without dealing with the consequences as it is isolated by Oceans.

Now Europeans have to deal with those wars closer and closer and its consequences. But it was always there.
> Another counterproductive tendency, in my view, is the quest to create a profile of ‘those people’ who engage with conspiracy theories, obsessing over characteristics that make them distinct — especially from the researcher. This othering is, in part, a legacy of a field that has frequently opted to study people drawn in by, say, fantastic stories of alien abductions

You know why people don’t trust science? It’s this, the whole article should be about this and not a footnote at the end. It’s condescension, belittling and othering. You don’t get people to believe you and trust you by treating them like they are stupid for not already doing so. Particularly not people on the right, where respect is of more value than social acceptance. You start a conversation with insulting them, why would they listen to anything else you have to say?
This is quite new, so work in progress, the neuropsychology as far as I can fathom does check out, not just for immediate capabilities preservation, but also to prevent longer term damage.
The consequences are dire. In the US, We the People only now exist to line the pockets of the uppermost classes, whose disdain for the rest of us is, well its really getting tiring at this point.
> missile hits with a great failure rate

Any sources for this?
I'd probably buy one, mostly because there is no other e-ink laptop available yet. Regarding battery life, since you've got LTE on board, you'd be better off by offloading the processing to a remote server and connecting via ssh, vnc etc. imo. See also similar art: http://www.paperterm.org/notes.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28432921 and https://www.modos.tech
> Autonomous are either pipe dream or basically bad cruise missiles.

Loitering munitions are already capable for much more than a “bad cruise missile”.

I wouldn’t dismiss autonomous drones that easily. The trick is that they don’t have to be perfect, just probabilistically good enough for them to be worth their cost.
Squaring the Heartland
Reminds me of my native Finland in the early 1980s after Urho Kekkonen retired from his 25-year presidency. The successor Mauno Kekkonen started a series of constitutional reforms that transferred much of the presidential power to the parliament. The general consensus seems to be that Finland is now much more democratic and less influenced by USSR/Russia.

(I don't know anything about Kazakhstan politics so the similarities may be superficial.)
I don’t know enough about it to say, really. That’s the thing where airplanes don’t have condensation trails, but whenever you see clouds behind one they are crop dusting chemicals on people? You’d think by now someone who works on airplanes would have noticed the chemical tanks/sprayers, or sampled where the contrails landed for unexpected chemicals.

Someone who believes in it with just a bit of money could surely fly up and sample the air inside of one of the trails, for example.
There are people who identify themselves as conservatives. They are subculture that very much exists. It is not true that there is no such thing as conservative.

These people call themselves conservative. They read what other self described conservatives write or listen to their talkshows. They alter their own views to conform to what those talkshows say.

These people hated Obama. Obama did not shared all that many views with them.
Having been part of a clique who spent a lot of times playing Tank Wars* I wonder how I could have missed this variant!

* I even made a basic Tank Wars clone from scratch in one day because of a bet with one of the other guys.
IMHO, you are mixing TODO lists and task management/planning software. No, I don't know a good task manager or business process manager for command line. Instead, I created a simpler TODO list manager, called `td`[0], which supports flat TODO lists only, and use directories and command-line generators to manage todo's. `td` prints top item only, by default, leaving little room for procrastination. I'm keeping one `TODO.md` file per project instead of one large TODO file for all todo's.

[0]: https://github.com/vlisivka/bash-modules/blob/master/bash-mo...
Are single-photon models even useful here? What about aggregate photon effects? The sheer amount of photons hitting you from a cell-tower is enormous. Perhaps an "optical tweezer" type effect could happen?

And for the non-thermal effect discussion, have you considered voltage-gated ion-channels in cell-membranes?
I'm not familiar with NaCl, websites that don't seem to have been updated in 7 years (version states 2016?) make me a little suspicious about the future viability of said projects. Perhaps it's not something that needs to be updated very frequently, but my knee-jerk reaction is that it looks abandoned, especially considering that they have an "upcomming features" section.

What made you choose it? Could PGP/GPG with ed25519 keys not have been sufficient? What makes NaCL "fun to work with"? For me, fun to work with would be Age [1] or Ring [2] with a elegant and well designed API. I'm also aware that the older something is, the more likely it has undergone peer review and security audits, unlike new Rust crypto libraries.

[1]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
[2]: https://github.com/briansmith/ring
A youtuber made this and called it a ‘dopamine box’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJeQIXBdVuk
And for Italians it should rather cost 2EUR/months jsut with smaller font size, for Germans it would rather be 6EUR , however you will need to accept cash.
I would think the only way they could be stopped is if "MIT" is a registered trademark. No idea if it is. But actually, would trademarks even apply in legal documents? A software license is not a product nor a business and there's no chance of confusing it with one, so could I publish a Disney™ Public License?
no, thanks, i will stick with gpl
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Why the header of HN post so differs from the header of linked article? Former is something general and latter is something about Qatar.
> Appreciate the option to do it without 3rd party tools, but if you do want more power in this space I find Magnet indispensable.

Used Moom and Spectacle, and now using Magnet as well on personal machines (actually it was the first one I ever used back when it was called Window Magnet), but the work laptop has a policy about vetted apps you can install, and only Spectacle is allowed, which I don't like personally, so I use the macOS native stuff there.
And paywalled too.
I was going to recommend the same thing! If you don't want to host Miniflux, it has a hosted version. https://reader.miniflux.app/
not everything is a joke. and some jokes are not funny.

specially ad hominem criticism.
I'm reasonably sure the author is just making this up. As a US citizen you have wide discretion on where you live, even extending to several other small nations that have signed agreements with the US.

If you're renting or selling property, most of the discretion that used to be afforded to buyer's is now outlawed. But it would require someone willing to pursue a case if they felt they were not sold a home because of their race or whatever.
One thing I like to do and have been doing for a very long time, is have an optional flag '-e file'.

This will redirect stderr to a file. I use it because:

1. I used tcsh and older systems csh

2. works great on DOS (like FreeDOS) and Microsoft Windows

I wish more people (ie: large companies) followed this guide, but in this day and age of mega-builds, I am afraid those days are over
Who Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism (2006)
FYI this is from 2018.

I thought it was something released recently but saw on Github that it's from 2018.
Many thanks. You are right; the button, which appears on desktop, does not appear on mobile. We'll get it fixed.
Yes, quite likely since I’m sure most builders in America have not worked with bamboo in this manner, as it isn’t native to North America.
just because yr paranoid don't mean they're not after you.
Very interesting! I’ve wondered about doing something similar. I hope this is followed up on.
Your abstracts do not even correspond to the content of the articles, how can I take you seriously after this?

The last article doesn’t mention word “girls” or “female” at least once on the page.
How to get kids to do chores: Does the Maya method work? (2018)
Does that one person, most obviously being Alan Dershowitz, even count given that he is nuts and/or of questionable ethics? :D
Hey since my paragraph saying it's easy to swap out storage engines wasn't believable, here's a diff without any 3rd party library:

https://github.com/eatonphil/docdb/pull/1

Took me about an hour for a +40/-40 diff that is still <500 lines of code. You may notice that the code basically looks identical. That's because I wasn't using anything specific to a key-value store.
I loved filed based h2 as well. Is there any reason in 2022 to use h2 over sqlite?
> Faith was always described to me as a belief in something that cannot be proven.

That is certainly one way to define it. Faith is the sibling/cousin of trust as the first two videos go over. If US Census Bureau says the population of the US is 331M, you are trusting them, putting your faith in their methods, that they are getting it right:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States#Population

> In my experience, however, especially in terms of Christianity, faith is a belief in something that cannot be proven, and - crucially - can be disproven. To put it more clearly, faith detaches a claim from reality, and puts it into a realm above criticism.

Most Christians simply have faith / trust that God does exist. Most Christians also trust, have faith, that when they wake up in the morning and reach for the light switch the room will get brighter, and when they turn the faucet water will come out. Some Christians will have understanding of how and why these things happen (and what could be the causes if things stay dark and/or dry).

To take your day-to-day knowledge of "faith", or what most people think as "God", is to a certain extent looking at a straw man. Most folks don't have time or energy (and in many cases the intellectual horsepower) to get into the steel man version of the idea. Not many folks are going to bother with analyzing, e.g., Aquinas' argument that God is "ipsum esse subsistens," translated by Bishop Robert Barron as "the shear act of 'to be' itself": the idea of God not simply as a noun but as an action (i.e., verb). Something very different than the Sky Father With a Beard image that most many probably visualize.

Further the question of whether, in the case of the Christian God, it is something that can be (dis)proven is completely separate than the definition of "faith". The two books by Edward Feser linked to give proofs—in reason/logic sense, not the proverbial sense of (physical) evidence—for the existence of God. None of which involve any religious texts or revelation.

> My disagreement with Aquinas is that the ideas of Christianity that are based in the abstract are expressed as literal fact, even though such "facts" and their origins are deeply contradicted by evidence. There is a name for the inability to criticize Christianity for contradicting with evidence: "faith".

The arguments for a {g,G}od (in the general sense) existing are different than those than the argument(s) for any particular God (Christian or otherwise). Aristotle put forward the argument (see the third link) that there must logically be an Unmoved Mover in ~350 BC for example.
HTML5-based physics simulation for building and animating springy creations
> Be careful for what you wish.

Thanks for the warning. I wish I could change perspectives with a few people who've worked on both sides. Thanks to your comment, I feel this should be obligatory.
Also talk to other museums etc. You're unlikely to be the first to have that problem in this specific domain.
Can you explain what you mean, and how that is true?
Web3 'contains the seeds of a dystopian nightmare'
> For most of the time no one will thank you for doing something that way

That's still would be a good outcome. More likely, is that conspiracy theories would appear about that person's work and they would start facing abuse.

You could cure cancer, and there would be a number of people who would hate you for it.

You just can't make everyone happy.
Excitement is only for people who are learning.
>any optimization that doesn't exactly and exactingly preserve the distribution almost always turns out to introduce exploitable vulnerabilities

Not a crypto expert, but aren't there changes to the distribution that you actually want to make, like having a lower size limit for each of the factors?
In the other direction, you can target a subset of PNG to get less optimized images but with QOI-like encode and decode speed: https://github.com/richgel999/fpng
Agreed. The whole concept is tiring and boring to boot.
New trials for alopecia areata treatment are a success
As a techie, I've always made it a habit to walk out onto the middle of the stage and shout, "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! There, now it's done with!" at some point during tech week.
I wished to make it a general comment but I’ll change it back. This is a symptom of the disease not the complete corpus.
I'm pretty sure GGP did not mean they literally could not move there. They could move there and be shunned by society if that's what they are into. But why else would you want to be there except for the society?
Better they just ban PoW and not annoying me with their stupid laws. There is a reason for not having third parties while doing some economical activities.
> pushing a drug that was obviously not working

What do you mean by not working? It seems that the two choices are a.) getting covid and building some immunity or b.) getting a covid vaccine and getting some immunity, in the end a and b both provide some immunity. To me the downsides of a are clear, but I'd be interested in hearing why you think there are no upsides to b.

> remember the lab leak hypothesis?

I'm not expert but I think the most recent thing I heard about the origins of COVID is that is some natural origin is back on the table as the most likely scenario.

> definition of vaccine was modified to fit that new drug

Please tell me if I'm mistaking what you mean, but I don't think the definition of a vaccine was modified? Instead I think the public had a working lay definition, based on the success of previous vaccination efforts. I think the definition was always something like a medicine that enhances immunity against a disease.

> The whole thing is sickening.

This I agree with, but for me it's been more that people start with conclusions, work backwards to find evidence, and then call it research.
I’m struck how many times I’ve heard the pro-Russia apologists here evoke Mearsheimer and his speech on NATO’s eastward expansion as a common-sense view of what’s happening in Ukraine. The damage the man has done.

edit: “Simplistic and wrong”: Sir Adam Roberts responds to John Mearsheimer, who recently argued in a guest essay for The Economist that the expansion of NATO was reckless and provoked Russia: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/26/sir-adam-...
UK missile shoots down first Russian helicopter in Ukraine war
People care they just can rationalize concerns away if the money’s good enough.
Interesting, that could be it, thanks!
Ask HN: Software engineers that have worked in both US and EU, which one?
A HN commenter pointed out that I should be careful what I wish for. I am from Europe (specifically The Netherlands), wanted to work in the US all the time. I've applied all the time, almost no callbacks (only Facebook, I failed the interview but in my defense I was severely sleep deprived due to nerves).

I always wanted to work in the US simply because I've been growing up with a part of the culture since the internet existed and because the pay seems to be better.

I feel only people who've been working on both sides can comment the situation to answer the question: should I be careful what I wish for here? (aka better pay, experiencing US culture)

I believe more people are in my situation.
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