skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This approach works very well for those that are capable of getting their news from multiple sources and are capable of critical thinking, but in many places the majority of the population is not like this.

If you look at some interviews of people in some regions of Ukraine and Russia you'll see that folks are convinced of what the fake stories that Russian state media has pushed along the years, namely that Ukraine is being controlled by Nazis.

It's not very difficult to see how the same propaganda could spread to other countries quite easily and become a threat to national security - one of the reasons why Moldova blocked off the sputnik.md domain today.

It's a touchy subject indeed, but when you have state controlled media that is spewing outright lies, I think countries have an obligation to block off those sources of fake news in order to protect the citizens that are most vulnerable to this sort of manipulation, especially in an age when people believe everything they see on social media.
Ya right who the fuck is going to want to go do business or work in Russia after this lunacy. They are on track to pariah state no matter what happens in Ukraine.
You would have to contextualise a slogan like Make America Great Again to give it a negative connotation; on its face it is objectively normatively positive.

The Brexit slogan was Take back control. Again, normatively positive.

Same for Black Lives Matter.

The psychology behind successful political slogans is that people are generally in favour of positive things.
If anything has been proven in the last one month, it's that Putin says one thing and does another.

I bet the exact opposite happened. Ukraine must have offered ceasefire and Russia said no.
Russia Used Beatings and Tricks to Forcibly Send Soldiers to Ukraine
The party which forms the current UK government has received significant investment from wealthy Russian individuals. I do not trust them to make credible changes in this regard. Instead I expect them to punish regular Russian citizens who wish to visit or do business in the UK, and who cannot avail of the privilege afforded to those with significant wealth.
https://therealnews.com/putin-has-launched-the-most-senseles...

> The conquest of Russia by NATO, by contrast, is the personal fear [...]

It doesn't matter what people do, it matters what people think what people do.
Is this a founded rule or rather anecdotally?
Berkshire Hathaway 2021 annual report [pdf]
It's not just me. See eg https://borgenproject.org/top-10-facts-about-living-conditio...
Not absurd. Do you think the same might apply to quakes caused by fracking?
Extremely lacking in historical analysis. Putin is not a socialist or a Soviet - in fact Putin is reportedly very anti-socialist - and Russia's aggression has little in common with the tendencies of the Soviet Union.
Yes, but they don't have any power, until someone actually stands up it is Putin that is in charge, and if someone does stand up it will still be a very iffy outcome, chances are that that person would be dead in 24 hours.

Watch the inner circle security council meeting in Russia for some idea of how afraid everybody is of him.
According Alexey Arestovich (a military advisor to the office of the Ukrainian president), the 3500 figure includes killed AND wounded.

This was clarified in a comment thread on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alexey.arestovich

edit: https://imgur.com/a/jnu3yUn
Not surprising. If supplied well Ukraine can push russia back. Russia is propaganda and nukes.
they did achieve something!

they took out 200 men with /200 helicopters/ to take over an airstrip

and 17 blokes on an island in a shed with a /warship/
>There must be some sysadmins somewhere that are really taking care of business, even though tanks are almost literally rolling down their street.

https://xkcd.com/705/
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Classic. I remember this from middle school.
It's a combat rule.
Known from Sun Tzu, and later.
Zero wing!
It’s a difficult decision either way and I’m not ignoring anything. Made easier though each time the Putin regime restricts what citizens and businesses can do or subverts platforms for its own ends.
They are all white race. Maybe you should use the word ethnicist or religionist?
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Ask HN: What can we do on what's happening at Ukraine?
I have seen lot of social media buzz to attract the eyeballs, mostly these are sensitive videos of blasts, praising how Ukrainian president is going on front lines, and then lot of thoughts and prayers kind of stuff. I have never seen things like this work in past in bringing a meaningful change.

What can we actually do to help at individual level when our country leaders have failed?
Stockpiles are not a public good. They are both rivalrous and excludable.
Amazing how Putin does all by himself.

Also the comparison with the Holocaust is extremely tasteless.
Key Findings from the Panama Papers link:

"
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his partners in comedy production owned a network of offshore companies related to their business based in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Belize.

Zelensky’s current chief aide, Serhiy Shefir, as well as the head of the country’s Security Service, were part of the offshore network.

Offshore companies were used by Shefir and another business partner to buy pricey London real estate.

Around the time of his 2019 election, Zelensky handed his shares in a key offshore company over to Shefir, but the two appear to have made an arrangement for Zelensky’s family to continue receiving money from the offshore.
"
Oh come on stop pretending it's so easy to setup a chromakey with most video chat applications. The only ones that don't scream about virtual cameras are Zoom and with the last updates MS Teams the rest just doesn't work. Ofc you can use NDI but than you have to setup like 3 programs just to get an effect that is available on most plattforms with just a click even if the quality is worse.
A territory must at least sustain itself in the long run. Russia does not have the economy to fund Ukraine. So they can’t just level it: they have the means but not the ability to hold it afterwards.

Russia certainly has the means to win all the battles, they might just then find they cannot keep the spoils.
The person you're replying to mentioned China and Russia - Pyongyang is in North Korea. While neither China nor Russia are particularly free or open, North Korea is on an entirely different level.
I see that Anonymous is already living rent-free in your head
You're absolutely right that there is an enormous difference in the policies implemented by the various governments, I'm just saying that the policies were partially driven by a common psychology.
You can do Swift transfer to the official national bank of Ukraine account to support army

https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...
Twitter is blocked in Russia, can confirm. I wonder how long my VPN and general internet connectivity will remain...
Inevitable and predictable consequence after western social media companies facilitated political change in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

If you care about an open internet, you should be against banning any sort of media, no matter how much The NY Times calls it misinformation.
Hopefully Putin realizes they has no more claim over whatever holy grail they are chasing than anybody else.
I agree censorship is bad. But there should be rules that apply to all. If Russia blocks access to twitter then shall RT be allowed to continue posting for their Western audience while Russians are unable to evaluate the same content (or are totally prevented from using the platform)?

What I'm opposing here isn't that ordinary Russians are prevented from having their voice be heard but RT which is financed by Putin is somehow allowed to continue posting. If the playing field would be level then they would also be prevented from posting until they restore access to the rest of Russians citizens.

Would that be a fair compromise? What else is there that twitter can do to not have blood on their hands by enabling such an asymmetry? (keep in mind that information pushed into these networks is also seen by combatants and will shape morale, so the argument that twitter is somehow neutral is hard to justify)
Pieter Levels of Nomadlist.com fame lives in Portugal and even started a new company making it easier to gain residency in Portugal.

https://rebase.co/

Portugal is extremely welcoming of new residents.
I think the prevalence of people buying morning coffee is a more complex phenomenon.

In Malaysia, you would see people complaining if their Nasi Lemak costed more than RM 5, but the same person would happily pay RM 15 for coffee. It appeared that there was a norm at play, that Nasi Lemak belongs to Malaysian streets and should be cheap, while coffee is a western thing and it's normal to be expensive.

For some others, queuing up, the micro-interactions, and drinking while walking to the office (or even back to their home office) seems to be a morning ritual. I could see myself in this group if I did not prefer my own blend and brew.
I can’t find what the progress or results of the arpa-e project were either on the quais website or elsewhere. https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/projects/millimeter-w...

The Altarock energy site is currently showing a 503. Altarock from Seattle won the arpa grant and were noted as an “affiliate” of Quais in the ieee article.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/altarock-energy-melts-rock-with-mi...
Somehow I don't think there will be as much outrage as there was with Middle Eastern refugees.
I'd never really thought about how much goes into this, but spent time reading Daniel Spreadbury's excellent blog [1] about it, which predated the publication of Dorico. I'd suggest starting from page 5, as it obviously becomes more product-orientated later on, but the early parts in particular were really enlightening in terms of both music notation and how difficult some programming tasks can be (for me, at least!)

[1] https://blog.dorico.com/making-notes/
Slavs are horribly treated in the Americas?

“Slavs” is a European term. I worked with a bunch of Eastern Europeans in Canada and everyone is like “oh, that’s the former communist countries”.

The reputation of “slavs” in Europe does not carry to the Americas. They’re just “europeans” to us.

I used to chuckle s bit when Europeans would say “oh im from the Lorraine region” or “my ancestors were from Prussia”. I’m like “mother f’er nobody gives a shit, here you’re just white”.
If that's correct, it's quite a big deal. Both the BBC and Wikipedia have very clearly "3500 killed". See here under the section 'Casualties and losses': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...
> Ukraine inflicted as much casualties on Russia in 3.5 days as total Russian losses in Second Chechnya war.

I‘d like to quote that. What‘s your source?
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After all these years, I've still never seen a video of the Pentagon impact. Has anything come out for that?
Negotiate on whether to invade Ukraine or not?
> But the 50k they did commit seem to have achieved nothing.

A bit far-fetched I admit, but thinking outside the box, perhaps those on the Russian side of the front line don't really fancy being involved in this ? In other words, "we need to make some noise because the boss is watching" but really the commitment isn't there.

Reason I say that is perhaps its an extension of what we saw on that infamous broadcast where Putin was seeking approval from his cabinet but some of them were struggling to find a way to disagree without actually saying it.

> It really makes you question whether Russia's reputation is well-earned.

But this is also a possibility of course.

Who knows. Its impossible to second-guess Putin.
> The question has to be asked if Russian State friendly media (like RT.com) which keeps disseminating RU propaganda on twitter, and has been influential in pushing "alternative narratives" needs to be made harder to access for people.

That is a decision every country should make for itself. If American and European countries don't want RT poisoning the minds of their citizens, they should black hole the domain and take the channel off the air within their country. Trying to prevent RT from reaching any audiences at all, such as in Africa or Asia, will be seen as an act of setting a singular global narrative for the conflict, the one crafted in Washington and London.
As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, there may be some misunderstanding/misreporting going on. According to Alexey Arestovich (a military advisor to the office of the Ukrainian president), the 3500 includes both killed AND wounded.
> “So you have this kind of bottom-up movement that happened in the ‘90s, with thousands of local ISPs routing these small cities - for example, it's very normal in Russia to have an ISP just for a city of 50,000 inhabitants,” Limonier said. As of 2015, there were 15,433 ISPs registered with the Russian accounting chamber.

It was quite common in several countries in and around the Middle East, SE/E Asia, to have not just ISPs for small towns but several ISPs in medium towns that appeared and disappeared, for myriad reasons like finances or cat and mouse games with authorities. Oftentimes the only way to know which latest, working ISP to use was through word of mouth. It gave the early days of the internet an additional unfettered, unexplored kind of feeling.
May just be he's getting bad advice. He wouldn't be the first leader to end up surrounded by yes-men nodding in vehement agreement with everything he proposes. The usefulness of rationality depends a lot on your ability to see things as they are.

If he believes he will win this war, he may either do so on grounds of something we do not know, possibly bad intel.

If he does not believe he will win this war, he may think he must on grounds of something we do not know, possibly bad intel. It could also be he doesn't want to win the war, for some reason we do not know.
I like it, it's relaxing for the eyes, like the blue tints of Sun Solaris with CDE: http://toastytech.com/guis/sol.html
I was advocating for arming Belarus rebels from Poland, and Lithuania.

If we had free Belarus by today, this war wouldn't have happened.

Without constant pressure on the capital, Ukrainian military would have easy time doing a general offensive on southern direction, or maybe even reaching Rostov, and Volgograd.

It was very appaling to see Polish government initially agreeing to sneak in weapons bought by volunteers, and then detaining it on the border.
Nice job. Now if only some people would see the difference between an actual ponzi scheme like this one and bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. That would be nice.
There is always a balance to be found. US could for sure win the war in Afghanistan if barbaric was an option. The same for Russia. Is Putin willing to pay the price for a terrible war with a huge body count from both sides?
Thanks! I tried. But at that time there were lots of inconsistencies. I tried going full-95, but couldn't find exact controls. And in most themes there were bitmap or vector images to mimic control appearance. It's nothing like disabling effects on Win7 brings back natively-drawn imageless UI. Generally, I tried even making my own theme, but it looked odd. ) Especially when the start menu ignored all the theme colors and lived on its own. I've heard they've fixed it in newer Plasma releases though.
There's a difference between wanting people in the country to work together for a shared goal, and literally referring to yourself with the pronoun "we".

> "All Mike Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president."

https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-rules-trump-can-be-sue...
This is not interfering in foreign policy. It's a private company (pretending to) not sell their services to someone.
Right, I don't know a great deal about the guy but his response to a US offer of evacuation was pretty impressive: "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride"
I would say it's time to take the gloves off. If you want Putin to listen, you need to speak his language.

Remote wipe and brick all iOS, Android and Windows devices in Russia, then cut off their internet and see how they can "live with it". I've seen arguments like "But... but... how can other countries trust FAANG after that?". Well they are about to cut Russia off from SWIFT, so how can other countries trust SWIFT after that?

Right now, West absolutely has the power to hit Russia very hard, they're just not doing it. If they really want to send Russia a message - send them back to the stone age.
Also one difference is that The Ukrainians only let children and women leave the country. Men 18-60 are not allowed to leave. So the people coming over are truly vulnerable.
What's even more shocking is that large companies, banks, healthcare providers, and government institutions continue to pay companies like the Big 4 or IBM to do consulting work when the outcome is always like this. Crap.

Either the sales teams in these companies must be on another level or the price is just unimaginably cheap.
Computers being fast enough to do this in biology education is quite along way out. They probably used a farm of Nvidia racks for several months to obtain the simulation.

Personally I doubt that an atom-scale simulation of a cell is very useful for education. Rather, I’d approach it in a hierarchical fashion, where progressive coarser scales are used to model progressively larger systems.

This way one learns not only about a cell, but also about principles of modeling, and that each model comes with assumptions, simplifications, and errors.

Choosing the right scale of modeling for the problem is crucial. In this case they have chosen a very fine scale to model a rather large system. But what’s the scientific insight gained?
Don't beat yourself up over it, though.

'The Ukraine' used to be perfectly acceptable English.

It's a bit like Burma vs Myanmar.
Oil companies sell finite fuel for energy to people in cars, on the move.

Geothermal heating provides unlimited fuel for people in houses, staying still.

The technology is similar, and it's boring ;-) The market is different. This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to hire expert drilling engineers out of the oil industry!
I wish Facebook had banned Russian state interference and advertisements before the invasion..
Not saying that you are wrong, but on Crimea Russia was able to improve the infrastructure in comparison with Ukraine
The comment you replied to said North Korea not Putin though
I didn’t like that this was a Pakt book, but the blog article was so well written and the author bios are impressive, so I just bought it as a Kindle book.

Just right now, I am retiring from a lead machine learning job to devote more time to caring for my wife who has some grim health problems. Before that I managed a deep learning team at Capital One.

I think that the field of deep learning blows away any other tech right now because it can be used to greatly improve everything else (bio tech, financial tech, medicine, corporate to corporate data communications, optimizing sales, etc., etc.)

Anyway, I am glad I dropped by HN this morning, saw this book and bought it. I enjoy going back to basics and relearning things, and I expect to enjoy learning new tools (this book uses PyTorch and SCikit-Learn - I have done 99% of my deep learning work in TensorFlow).
Ya I noticed that too. Probably a deadline, or “the weekend is here” and they submitted
Whenever the topic comes up, it always seems strange that going more than just a handful of mi/km down is an incredibly difficult task.

Because it makes me realize-- or remember-- that the most life-hostile & technology-defying environments aren't in far off geographic locations or far out in space, they're a constant presence just under my feet. A shorter distance from me right now than I travel in my daily commute.

That as space enthusiasts (rightfully) speculate or plan the future above our heads, there are incredible things going on beneath our feet at forces and temperatures that also produce very exotic materials and even the prospect of untapped clean energy just a short distance away from every single place in the planet. (Assuming that drilling down for geothermal power isn't horrible for the environment?)

Just another example of how very little in the natural world is truly mundane and there are incredible things everywhere.
Do they want to keep Ukraine? I would guess they plan to change the government and install a puppet. Perhaps with annexing a small bit.
The whole premise of Western freedom is that people can think for themselves. It's useful to practice looking at some different sources to practice how to think.
Generative music is absolutely nothing new either.

I have listened to so much generative music the last 25 years and there was one piano piece that was really good and something that felt like a unique style. Not good enough though that I even remember the name of the piece.

Generative music is really no different than what you get when a human starts noodling around with music making software. It is almost literally the same process.
undying classic from carlos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFwlWLtsw6c
You’re touching on a huge topic, and I can’t do it justice, but the simplified answer is that blocking voices “fairly” is nearly impossible.

If you choose to block some voices, you inevitably have to draw a line regarding what is allowable versus not. But voices don’t exist on a one-dimensional spectrum where you can simply block everything to one side. Someone has to decide what is allowable, but who gets to decide that? Who decides who gets to decide? Regardless of whoever ends up becoming the decision maker, reasonable people will disagree, creating more conflict.
I can confirm that. BBC says this was offered by the Ukrainians but Russia chose not to engage.
Action movie and game soundtracks tend to be great for this.

I suspect it’s because they needs to have an emotive effect without distracting you from the story.
On a similar line, we often hear about Russian, Chinese, NK and Iranian cyberattacks on US and EU infrastructure, on a regular basis. But it's very hard for to find information on what kind of attacks our actors are regularly carrying out against them.
That’s an improper assumption. You can do a lot of harm with regular explosives
On Saturday morning I go and buy a cup of coffee and sit outside the shop and read the newspaper (physical paper) and watch people walk by. It’s really one of the pleasures of my week.

(I then go home a brew a pot for me and my wife - who prefers to sleep in on Saturdays.)
>The point is, none of this would have happened if Putin hadn't decided to incite the war in Donbas.

It would have been put down quickly without putin's help but the sentiment there was very real. It's among the most pro-russian areas of the whole ukraine and yanukovych was popular. Only a minority of people there were likely to be happy about the lurch towards Europe signified by the Maidan.

It has close industrial, commercial and cultural ties to Russia.

In a reverse scenario I could well see Lviv revolting.
I don’t want social media platforms picking political winners and losers, whether their choice aligns with my personal politics or not.
I obviously don't have any data of my own, but Arestovich is one of the people who deliver military briefings to the nation on behalf of the Ukrainian President's office[1]. I have the greatest respect for both Wikipedia and the BBC, but it's almost certain that their reporting is downstream of his and therefore more likely to be inaccurate.

(But yes, that's a huge discrepancy.)

[1] https://www.facebook.com/president.gov.ua/videos/37266901135...
Probably by sheer force of numbers and firepower. I think it’s very likely Russia will win in the end, they’re just going about it in the most half assed way possible that drags this out and increases their own casualties.