skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but military contractors in the west actually deliver stuff,

Deliver stuff nobody needs? LOL, the American oligarchs aren't much better. Just because they use a different word (lobbying instead of bribing) doesn't make it any less of a corrupt system.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/77-billion-raptor-22-fighter-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/air-force-admits-f-35-...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/12/18/congress-agai...
watch this channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCczNzQ01CxIGD7hMyRqcW4g .
Go through the videos one day at a time.
I am recommending it because its message is very simple, you can understand the teaching in 5 mins and if it "clicks" with you. You will start becoming more and more peaceful.
> Most European countries are part of NATO which demands a modernized standing army as part of its membership requirements.

I couldn't be bothered to look beyond Wikipedia, so going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Security_and_Defence_Po...

1. Most countries spend significatly less than is required by NATO. Nato requires 2% of GDP to be spent on defense. In the EU, only 7 countries are at that threshold, or above it, and of those Finland is not in NATO.

2. France has the largest active military personnel at 200k, and of those, 17k are "prepared for deployed and sustained operations".

At this point all of EU couldn't get an army to respond to Russia's current force engaged in Ukraine.
I feel for the guy and what he says about user interfaces is all true, but the tone of the piece grates on me a little.

“I take responsibility, but…” is not “I take responsibility.”
Great idea - I hadn't thought of diff. I'll have to have a think about how it might fit into the UI, since there's only one input box. Any ideas on what a good input flow might look like?
“ No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or”

Trump fits all of that AND is a threat to democracy. That there’s porn on the site doesn’t matter.
A valid point is however made: The absolute veto power (in the security council) of countries like Russia, US and China makes this UN body quite pointless if the troublemaker is one of these countries.

This is actually the point you also made:
> …or overriding their vote would defeat the purpose as this would trigger several of them to leave the organization…

Their veto _is overriding the vote of others_.

And by this principle of might over right, the very purpose you point out in your comment is actually undermined by the veto-countries.
> My impression is that the UN is a place where all nations come together to negotiate and communicate

This makes the current arrangement of the UN quite useless to have any meaningful effect on world politics and to fulfil its purpose of saving humanity from its own destruction.
>A non-removable power cord has a big advantage: it's hard to lose it.

How could you possibly loose a monitor power cord? It's not a portable device that you travel with. But in a home or office setting I can certainly see the cord getting crimped under the weight of the feet of desks or chairs.

>so is it really that damning you should go to a repair shop for something like that?

Yes, going with your equipment to an Apple Store enquires down time and extra costs that wouldn't be a problem if you could swap the cable yourself in two minutes.

Heck, they already do that with the excellent removable mag-safe power cable on the Studio display. Come on! Seriously. They proved they can do it but choose not to because fck the consumers and the environment.

>Also, Apple never advertised removable SSD modules. I don't care what they put in that box as long as it works as advertised.*

That's the problem. It's not about you, it's about the environment and the e-waste that these company's products generate because while they could be more user upgradable and repairable like the old Macs were that people still upgrade and use today, Apple now spends resources to make sure their new products are not upgradable or repairable, in order to have you buy more of their stuff instead of keep using their old products for longer.
It is a Linux which builds and supports PPC Big Endian in 2022
Yes, I sent them a heads up- they nuked it from orbit.
Love this game so perhaps a little biased, both community managers Jace and Snoot we're devs and make some great content about the development and decisions of the game. I really enjoy there content.
That is compeletely wrong. Producing too much electricity is equally destabilizing the grid as producing not enough. That is, why gas is needed as it can be switched very quickly. Of course, you could decide just to switch off renewable source (which is very easy, they are the quickest switchable sources) a lot of time, but that would make energy production really expensive.
> fear that the Russians will be pushed into a more "traditional" warfare with heavy air campaigns against anything remotely "dual-use" and the massive civil casualties that would follow

That's what they're already doing. Except it's not with air power, because theirs is kind of a joke ( using commercial off the shelf phones and GPS to communicate and navigate), but with artillery. And it's not "anything remotely dual use", it's bomb everything, even obviously civilian targets.
The first time I came across the spotlight effect was in a Facebook game - I can't remember the game's name, but it was very much like Mystery Manor[1].

Kudos to the OP for coding up the feature in CSS. The effect is fairly easy to recreate in the canvas element, using a radialGradient in a rectangle for a simple spotlight or, for the replacement effect, playing with globalcompositeoperation when rendering the scene.

Here's my spotlight demo, which I did for a CodePen Challenge last year (warning: page will ask to use your device's camera): https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/gORXpya

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Manor
Ah yes, batteries made from non-renewable resources mined by literal child slaves is the solution to renewables' glaring baseload problems.

The only problem is, that makes them non-renewable.

Renewables + gas = not renewable.

Renewables + batteries = not renewable (plus there's the whole child slavery thing that ideologues ignore)
> They don't have sheer numbers unless they go full mobilization. They already put almost entire Russian ground force, which is 280k, into battle

That is sheer numbers. The EU has 1 million active military personnel on paper. Of that, less than 30k are "land troops prepared for deployed and sustained operations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Security_and_Defence_Po...
What media would you suggest?

Surprisingly, I’ve found AlJazeera to be quite professional, if slightly biased for up-to-date news.

Reports from rusi.org are interesting, but not free and some do have a whiff of opinion/cheering, which is rather suspect.

Books by Mark Galeotti offer insight into the various Soviet and Russian conflicts and into their military forces.
Sounds like it's reddit that is terrible here. But then what else would you expect from a platform ?
> lack of tabs, which I think are being/have been added in Win11

Unfortunately, they backtracked on that, so still no tabs.
Corruption in the army is one thing. Another one is over-relying on the nuclear weapons. They probably thought "Who cares if that tank's engine is stolen. After all, we have nukes!".

Also, I would argue about legacy. The legacy, as with many things Russian, was mostly made up. The Soviet army did a lot of atrocities during, e.g. looting and rapings in WW2 in Germany (aka the "German spring"), the pointless Afghan war that killed 1mln civilians, the suppression of democracy in Czechoslovakia and Hungary in the 1960s, the Chechen wars, etc. It has never been as glorious as Soviet propaganda described it. It's always been ugly and brutal.

PS. I highly recommend reading the long threads of Kamil Galeev [1] on Twitter. He did an excellent job explaining why Russia and its army are what they are.

[1] https://twitter.com/kamilkazani
Yeah I got my son a a6400. Such a nice camera, and the low light performance is amazing.
Same here, maybe one of my "anti-bullshit" extensions is blocking it..
Rectangle is a free and similar app.
>The influencers couldn’t put a normal SSD in a mac and make it boot.

No, Linus put the SSD from another Mac Studio into the second slot of a Mac Studio and it wouldn't boot, and it wouldn't even run recovery to format everything and do a factory reset. So Apple is obviously firmware locking the Mac Studios to their factory configuration despite only genuine Apple hardware being used in the upgrade.
> I am a random person who got multiple characters added to Unicode.

Tell us that story please!
That's exactly why people hate tar/UNIX generally. Tons of parameters that don't EVEN CLOSELY represent their purpose. For example: -j -J if noone told me, I'd assume they were "join" or "jump", or something.
PS: zcvf zxfv, and, - surprise, surprise! - by default tar deletes source archive!
Maybe the names in this article would help.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/why-second-han...

https://pekelnitachky.com/en
It’s sketch.
I'm in the north, but I've been to lots of places in all parts of Germany. In this aspect, the country seems fairly homogenous to me.
Gas usage for electricity is insignificant and irrelevant for the discussion at large. What Germany is concerned about is usage of gas for heating and in industry. Turn of the gas and realistically, parts of German industry will be destroyed at a 0.5-6% loss to GDP.
Rust is alright as a language, but cargo is extremely scary. I hope a culture of coding in rust outside of the cargo "ecosystem" develops. The current situation is alienating to reproducibility-oriented developers.
Same thought. Seriously, what a great way to trigger some senior kernel dev to come down and straight veto rust with some rant about how it’s “worse C++”

Rust is very slowly winning (but it’s a really hard space and this is impressive). But some people have to come and try snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

(sigh)
> 1. Why would it be particularly difficult for them to have soft deletes in Rails or at scale?

I don't know the internals of Github. But we had soft-delete dragging down our database. Indexing, for one, becomes tough.

It also presumes everything lives in a single, canonical, transactional database. In real life, anything of scale, with legacy lives in multiple services. There'll be caches, search-indexes (elastic etc), data-lakes, leader/follower clusters and whatnot. Propagating a "delete" command is no easier or harder in such a setup, than propagating a "flag" which has severe business and security implications.

2. Like the article suggests, additional UX improvements could be made besides making it possible to restore a backup or providing an undo action.

Yup. My point was that with e.g. Event-sourced or Command pattern, you don't even need that whole UI in the first place. There could be a 20 minute "undo" somewhere. Or an "undo" that remains active untill another non-compatible command renders undoing unavailable. This is a common pattern. Which was invented decades ago, and is still used everywhere to solve this exact problem.

Why invent dialogs, soft-deletes, etc, when the problem is solved, done and non-existent, given you make the right choices? Why do software engineers insist on re-inventing wheels every few years rather than grab existing, proven and solid solutions for this?¹

3. I feel you are ignoring the fact that technology-wise it was probably Rails along with its MVC model that got them into their scale in the first place.

Why do you feel this? Rails comes with tradeoffs. I'm not saying "rails was a bad choice" But I'm saying "the choice for Rails brings the tradeoffs that e.g. Undo is hard".

Saying that "it is easy in Rails" is both disingenuous and unfair: there are hundreds of Gems, some of which grown to enormous project almost the size of entire ActiveRecord itself, to tackle these problems: it isn't easy. Papertrail, for example is a magnificent monster. "just drop in papertrail" really is not a solution, it's a problem.

> 4. Had they focused on a more exotic architecture from day one, the UX of other features on the site could've been significantly worse.

I.e. "tradeoffs".

¹ The answer, I'm afraid, is a mix of the doubling-of-developers-every-four-years (forever september), NIH, and unwillingness to invest time in learning the foundations layed out in the past decades. The last is what bothers me most.
Expeditions: Rome and the Perils of Verisimilitude
You should check your sources. It is closer to 90% of russian forces that are capable of offensive action than to 9%. Military doesn't consist entirely of troops, the bulk of their fleet is useless for example(it can't move into Black Sea since Turkey blocked Dardanelles). Out of 280k of their ground forces almost 200k went into Ukraine with initial invasion and since then they've been sending a lot of reinforcements. So yeah, it's closer to 90%.
From the perspective of a Strategic Rocket Forces commander, what's the upside to actually using the maintenance budget for maintenance? None. It's free money for the taking.

If the US starts WWIII, nobody will be left alive in Russia to care. If Russia starts WWIII, likewise, and it's better if the warheads don't work anyway. Meanwhile, that dacha on the Black Sea coast isn't going to pay for itself, nor is the boat that comes with it.
Someone's gotta guess. A fresh pair of eyes can bring insight.
> There are downsides, too: the computer has to work harder to render all those pixels and the battery life is shorter; my battery life was noticeably shorter than my previous almost identical XPS with a "normal" 1080p screen, so it's a trade-off.

Makes me wonder why Apple is capable of building laptops that run for hours and have a high DPI screen then?
Don't confuse Dell dropping the ball on hardware and software integration with trade-offs.
There are upsides to high DPI too: you can turn off anti-aliasing since you won't notice it when the pixels are too small to see.
Case in point, had a meeting at the beginning of this week where the meeting request 'accept' included "we might have to cut short this meeting should the sirens sound, thank you for your patience". Brings things into sharp focus.
To each their own!

Retina is a slightly overkill for me too, but I'd still prefer it over FullHD.

System76, Clevo, and OP(StarBook) are all 1080p only. I'm sure I saw others I just don't remember right now.
Russia isn’t the only player on the board. There’s a whole load of sabre rattling from China which military leaders have been warning about for years. This is some leverage to build a defence strategy against them and other actors too.

Plus Russia could probably do some damage and would be difficult if not impossible to completely take out due to the size of their land mass.
no, it does matter. Because once someone has appropriated it, they can block access to the original material.

Theft of the commons is one of the enduring themes of capitalism.

Could be soft-blocks, i.e. burying links to the original source so no-one finds it, reducing the number of teachers or the ability of those teachers to make a living, etc.

Could be harder blocks; say the new company patents it. Files takedown notices against alternative presentations. Yes, you could fight them on "prior art", but now you have a legal fight as well as the difficulties of promoting the technique.

And while I'll take your word for it that Patanjali et al don't mind one group spreading their techniques farther, are we so sure that Patanjali et al would feel about that one group claiming ownership and only allowing that group to access it? Perhaps Patanjali didn't try to trademark/patent (or the equivalent) their techniques because they were morally opposed to this?
What's your testosterone level?
> Were there many people in the soviet union/east germany looking to visit hitler's grave to pay homage? Of course not. Does that kgb narrative make any sense to you?

There are some Nazi graves that are used as such. So yes, it makes sense to me.

Furthermore, we don't need to believe the KGB or see the actual remains as they're not the only evidence that Hitler's dead: there are a number of (German) eye-witness testimonies, as well as documents such as his will.
I wonder how long till we can post gemini: links on HN and people can open them without wondering 'what is that?'
Rust will quickly replace C in the kernel, I have no doubt about it.
> A non-removable power cord has a big advantage: it's hard to lose it.

Lose??? The power cord for a big monitor???

The mental gymnastics are amazing! Good old Stevie J., now turned zombie, still projecting the distortion field.
Report them to the relevant authority if you can. Assholes like this need to be stopped.
It's a sad reflection on the state of safety in many of the world's cities but...this is quite tame. I think the question is: what are the chances of being a target in the worst crimes, which are being randomly assaulted/mugged/murdered/raped. From the women I know who have been to Japan they've recounted that it's one of the few countries they felt safe (in most areas) walking home late at night. Of course, that attitude probably leads to a few bad outcomes occasionally.
orjson, the fast underlying json parser, is written in rust.
Counterpoint: Twitter lost over half its value in the past year (share price from $70 to $33). Can the board justify that they’re on track to turn that around so quickly?

Frankly the board doesn’t seem capable of ‘unlocking Twitter’s value’ based on their recent performance.
Why is a machine an appropriate analogy to a living body?
An insurance requires an independent assessment that a certain event has taken place (e.g. a car accident) and of the circumstances surrounding the event. A loan requires the ability from the lender to initiate legal action against the borrower in the event of default. Smart contract can't help with that or make any of that more efficient.
Gerhard Schröder ("affectionately" called Gasherd) was the chancellor until 2005, not specifically in charge of energy policy. He also hasn't been politically in charge of anything for the last 15 years. The nuclear shutdown now in place (after a few reversals, exiting the exit started by Schröder) was triggered by Merkel, who isn't involved (at least yet) with russian gas money.

The current minister in charge (Robert Habeck) is part of the greens, who were one the most parties most opposed to russia and it's energy (staunchly against North Stream 2) and Habeck shares these views according to his public mentions.
> Visual clutter
With a mote of customization this is not an issue. Choose a minimalist plasma and icon theme and replace menu bars with the configurable hamburger menu, or place them on a panel Mac OS-style.

>forcing Activities
As corroboration for rejecting this I'll admit I've been using KDE Plasma for a long time and I still haven't bothered to figure out what they do. Not only are they not forced, their discoverability is 0.

>poor integration with GTK apps
The context menu hover looks different, but apart from that non-CSD apps arguably look more at home than in Gnome 3

I don't know why I felt the need to defend a desktop, but I get the impression that Plasma is judged by its defaults rather than its possibilities.
The calculus has changed. Previous defence spending was based on a much less aggressive Russian posture than what they’ve now taken. Since Russia is willing to go war in Europe, which almost no-one really thought possible before, the deterrent must be increased to account for the increased risk.
You are referring to Gerhard Schröder, who was the German chancellor from 1998 to 2005. So he was in charge of running the country, not the energy politics specifically in that time, and not in the 17 years following up today.

To start with, yes, his later (up to today) involvement with Gazprom is a scandal, bordering on corruption. But had nothing to do with German politics after 2005.

He might have been too friendly towards Russian gas, but Germany used Russian gas for many decades before him and the largest mistakes, which we suffer from today, have been made made by the governments which followed his. And I say this as someone who always opposed him.

While deciding about exiting nuclear energy long-term during his government, the switch to renewables was started. If the following governments had fully stuck to that, the situation would already be significantly different. And of course, however much gas you use, tying Germany so much to one supplier was the greatest mistake of all, especially after 2008 and 2014. There would have been ample time of adjusting energy politics to the changed situation, but nothing has been done.
Is it too much to hope the addition of this Reddit feature can help the Google algorithm improve?
My last name would eventually give away that I wasn't a Brahmin.

They hadn't asked me my name yet. I was taken to them by a rental intermediary. A guy who helped people find apartments. Online rental finding places, like Craigslist, weren't common back then (at least in India).

The most shocking thing about the experience to me was that even though it was illegal for them to deny me an apartment on the basis of my caste, there was simply nothing I could do about it. If I went to the police, it would be a whole other circus (bribes, inaction, etc.).
Which device was used in the study? Any buying recommendations?
I think you have buried the lede, which is that these platforms are no longer about an acceptable good. Votes or in twitters case, engagement metrics, are just one part of the magic mixture that drives more engagement. It's not about fair outcomes, or social good, and it is hard to hide your engagement optimisations when everyone can see how you are tweaking the system to generate more ad revenue. A cynical take I know, but we are taking about billion dollar corporations, not cheeky startups.
I think you underestimate just how low EU military spending was. In Germany there were reports of a complete lack of readiness: in 2018 DW reported that none of Germany's 14 large military transports were flight-worthy, 21,000 officer positions were vacant, fighter aircraft were averaging 4 months of flyability per year (resulting in a pilot training deficit), and only 9 of 44 tanks promised for the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force were operational. And those are the big flashy items. The articles also note shortages of supplies like winter clothes, automatic grenade launchers, night-vision equipment, and body armor.
Batteries are currently about 1000× too expensive, because

(a) you realistically need seasonal storage for when the wind/sun are both weak, so about 30 * 24 Wh/W, and

(b) you need around 2× the otherwise needed generation capacity to charge those batteries.
Wow, business resells thing for 2-3x the price of Chinese direct-to-market almost bulk prices after paying shipping and customs and storage and employees and warranties and

do you know how a normal business works?