skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't the only relevant question. The most relevant question is: how defensible is potential NATO entrant X?

Georgia was completely indefensible. Ukraine might have been, but preparations were not made for it. Finland can defend itself, so in a sense it is defensible, and in so far as Norway is a NATO member and a neighbor, there might be lines of transportation that might make Finland defensible by the alliance.

I don't actually know. Finland must be more defensible than the Baltic states (which are not at all defensible, but are in NATO). But evidence suggests that Putin doesn't care as much about Finland as about Ukraine, nor as much about the Baltic states as about the Ukraine. So this question may not matter as much as I suppose. Still, in a context where Putin sees NATO expansion as so provocative, it might not be a good idea to rush to expand NATO just yet -- it might be a good idea to first take stock and really see if we actually can defend the new entrants.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are scams.
From HN's Guidelines[1]:

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hate to admit it, but I tend to agree. In my opinion, Lex has actually gotten worse as he has done more interviews. Now, he seems to feel comfortable taking up huge chunks of the conversation with incoherent non-sequiturs. He tends to do better when the topic is math/AI related (due to his knowledge) and does worse the farther the topic is from that narrow focus.

Rogan started off bad, but he became an excellent interviewer up until the last 2 years or so. I listened to a few podcasts of his from pre-2020 recently, and there's a clear difference in quality.

Rogan has annoying quirks, favorite anecdotes, and tangents, but as you said, his core interviewing skills are top-notch. Lex has always been robotic and socially awkward; forcing new questions or topic jumps just as the guest gets into an interesting flow.
Not sure what this guy's credentials are, but here he tries to give advice to the people who have i) overthrown a corrupt government with little but baseball bats, tires, and home-made molotovs ii) stopped and maybe even reversed the progress of what has been hailed as the "2nd army in the world".

Dunno, wish I had his self-confidence.
Belarus need to join NATO immediately, but I think it’s pretty urgent for Finland too. Putin is a vicious, unpredictable dictator who has already invaded one large European nation. People think he won’t invade Finland, but they also thought he wouldn’t invade Ukraine.

When you share a huge border with an aggressive psychopath, whose army is massively larger than yours, you need strong military allies.

Edit: nevermind, clearly my understanding of Eastern European politics is weak, shouldn’t have commented
Classic scheme.
See also the Continuation War.
The .dev TLD is owned by Google.
Fascinating are the words of netizens of the time in guestbooks, forums, and homepages of sites large and small that have been immortalized in the Internet Archive [a].

The Internet Archive also has an extensive collection of televised news footage from ‑‑09‑11 and the following weeks; I'm often reminded by its prominent placement in the 'Video' section of their navbar. Ironically, both their original 9/11 web collection (assembled by the Library of Congress shortly after the event) and the related Pew reports on internet use following 9/11 are lost to time; remnants can only be found in the Wayback Machine [0]. For whatever reason, it was replaced with one apparently curated by the September 11 Museum around 2008 [1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20011014012316/http://september1...

[1] https://www.archive-it.org/collections/1029

[a] an aside: I find the archived sites of schools (of all kinds) from the time particularly captivating. Perhaps the abridgement of time enhances their liminal nature. Or maybe it's the feeling of sincerity in guestbook messages and the personal homepages of students and staff.
It may be short-term, but long-term coal is being priced out of the market by cheaper sources.
The labelling is overboard.

Hacktivists are not white hat hackers. They are black or grey and justify actions with personal morally. Judge each case by it's own merits. A lot of regular people get treated as terrorists when they do things like hack their school.

I haven't ever heard of white supremacist terrorist. I've heard of terrorist, I've heard of white supremacist, but I don't think the groups bi-sect. What is the last white supremacist terror attack you remember?
Belarus is with Putin. How is Belarus going to join NATO?!
That law doesn’t prevent ~200 Russian cities from being evaporated by the French nuclear arsenal, and neither world it prevent France from responding to a nuclear attack with said arsenal.

That, not law, is the important part of MAD.
this guy claims not to be an expert on the matter, admits his bias against russia, and then proceeds to talk as though he is an expert on russia and ukraine (there are significant factual mistakes and ommissions in the link above). i would be hesitant to cite this as the "clearest understanding"
Or just save a “known roads zone” setting - drag a circle out from your house/office/etc and that’s it.
And then they ironically failed due to the winter. Quite funny that the USSR has been on both sides of this.
* It was initially closed as "not applicable". I had to insist that it was a vulnerability.

* It was originally scheduled to be fixed within about 90 days, which was reasonable, but they kept delaying it more and more.

* They took 4 months to notify me that they've fixed it. That's 21 months in total from opening to closing it.

* They miscategorised the severity as low, when the exact same vulnerability was medium. It's quite feasible for a determined attacker to set up a camera to record a monitor, and it doesn't require any special exploit code or tools. Exploiting it gives you access to the "crown jewels".

* They didn't open a CVE. Probably didn't issue a security bulletin to their customers, but I didn't check.

* They don't commit to fixing security issues in a timely manner.

* They didn't make the effort to fix the issue themselves, it was incidentally fixed when eventually they updated an dependency which was unmaintained for years.

* The fix was as simple as pointing to a patched fork of the dependency (there was an unmerged PR), not something that requires more than a year to fix.
No, this is one of those where the button says "Contact Us for a free quote".

These things don't have a set price. They have a price of "How much can you afford?"
What do you mean, he’s been saying this for years. The west are the ones that keep bluffing and Putin called their bluff.

Clearly we’ll let you into NATO es the bluff.
> Not sure what this guy's credentials are

He's literally both a colonel and a professor of urban warfare.
The reasons why there isn’t actually another perspective like this:

Everything you said was true years ago as well, a form of it was even true during the Cuban missile crisis, as the US had missiles at the border of the soviet union too, there is nothing unique or newfound geopolitically about the timing here to support this “security issue”.

Russia creates contexts for invasion. It hands passports out to pro-Russian residents in parts of Ukraine, and then invades to “protects its citizens” so that it could theoretically be judged the same way as other countries that do interventions.

Adding all of that to an ideological retcon from 100 years ago, and all you have left is an irrational madman who wants to be in the footnote of a history book as attempting empire rebuilding.

Putin’s own advisors are afraid of him and cant give him a straight answer about anything, they're afraid of the international consequences of this as well.

None of this supports the idea of a leader doing anything in the interest of Russians or the concept of a Russian empire.

We’ll never even get to know what an independent Donetsk and Luhansk even means. Microstates? Districts of Russia?

This is just all way off and a mess. Its come down to just choosing a side and watching the results unfold.
I think it's fine. If anything, expecting or requiring men but not women to fight is "social repression" against men, but I doubt that a large fraction of Ukrainians think it's wrong to have different expectations for men and women in wartime.
I feel this is the only article distinguishing this place from CNN at the moment.
Ask GNOME [0], Redox OS [1].

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME

[1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/
Maybe the modern version of a leaflet drop is to drop smartphones with a data plant to Russian troops and let them find out for themselves
Thanks a lot! And I agree, the docs button is more important than it is shown to be right now - working on it. (edit: done. the animation is somewhat powerpoint right now though)
Ukraine President Status Update
Interesting. I’m looking forward to it when the IRS adopts it.
Reliable enough to convey what Russians have to say for themselves. Besides, TJ is more of a blogging platform. I wouldn't trust an opinion of a (wannabe) journalist, but this particular article simply provides all the references and the auther doesn't push their opinion.

As for whom you would consider a more reliable source of the regulator's demands: the regulator itself, or a Facebook executive ex-politician -- is obviously entirely up to you.
Perhaps “on demand” is relative; perhaps tomorrow’s platforms will have AIs that will generate relevant content for you.
Thanks for the downvotes, appreciate it. I thought it was funny but apparently people have a stick up their ass
From his twitter bio: Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, Modern War Institute(@warinstitute)| Colonel (CA) | @MilWritersGuild | Author, Connected Soldiers
Don't forget hot water bottles. Excellent recent post from Low Tech Magazine on this:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/01/the-revenge-of-the...

tl;dr is that heating people rather than spaces is a great idea with much more mileage than we give it credit for.
Allowing authentication not only within the original time frame but one interval before and after is by design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password#S... .
That’s right. I was born In Odessa a city in a country I proudly visited more then 15 years ago to see the apartment block where I was born. Today the picture of the steps that’s been the poster of my Facebook profile for a decade is guarded by a Ukrainian tank. I’m happy to see that modern day freedom fighter Ukrainians are standing up for democratic principals and what I was bright to this country to escape from. It’s a difficult situation. I admire they’re courage.
Lex is a good interviewer. I started watching his MIT AI class videos years ago. He had a good skill of inviting interesting people to the classes. He also seems very media savvy. I often don’t have time for complete interviews so I sometimes look out for his shorter clips on YouTube.
Really curious, now that Russia is fighting in a front in Ukraine what would stop the US from growing NATO? Would they fight a war with a second front?
And... 18 hrs prior to being at $35000 it was at.... wait for it... hang on... can you guess... ? $39000.
dang, my bad. I did a pretty quick (and large) refactor this morning and must have broke it.

EDIT: it fetches historical games when the session is established. The bug is that after you complete the game, the call to renderStats is still using the old games list; it needs to refresh the list so it includes the game you just completed. I'll fix this over the weekend. Cheers!
They have nukes. They’ve indicated they will use them.
So in other words...the system worked exactly as it was designed to work...
The Art of Time-Keeping, Part 2: Time
The ‘embedded reporters’ thing was deeply compromised but looked and felt real. Is this situation better or worse?
WSL2, afaik, runs modified Linux kernel (maintained by MS) on a modified Hyper-V. I would hardly call that a VM in traditional sense because it might introduce differences in behavior. However it is true that WSL2 uses virtualization technologies, so in that sense it is a VM. But calling it "a real Linux in a VM" is a stretch imho.
I honestly do not know how that was your take away from what I wrote. Can you please elaborate on how what you quoted at all implies:

1.) I’ve never screwed up.

2.) (and never) Had to do something different.

I’m saying the lack of transparency you’ve been forced into to accomplish things is the result of people who are incapable accepting mistakes or doing things differently. You must work in secret because people don’t believe the technical team can or will learn from their mistakes. In a healthy organization you would not have this burden.
If only the political level of corruption would be normal. Yes then I completely agree. But it's not. Nevertheless I agree that the people of Ukraine want no Russian control.
Information war is a thing. Though, you can find information from people on the ground on Youtube, social media and small websites (mainstream media you can completely forget, there are enough leaks to show that the likes of BBC and Reuters engage in propaganda to turn people against Russia (and I don't even mean local/international outlets but in Eastern European nations specifically and even in Russia itself)). Ah, of course, you should be able to distinguish footage from a video game from real life footage (referring to the large amount of people who apparently can't do that).
Why does it regularly get taken down? Any downvoters care to share? Like is it doctored or something?
Insulation is irrelevant to the question given the context of Russia stopping gas deliveries to Europe due to SWIFT sanctions. There simply isn't time to insulate enough houses to make a difference. It would take years.
Twitter does a great job of elevating expertise signaling individuals, especially with long threads where mentions of "past experiences" and other name dropping dramatically boosts one's exposure.
An excellent article in his "Further Reading" section:

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/
Munitions can and do fail, rockets can and do go off territory.

Taking into account how the Russians handled MH17, as a Dutch person I may be a bit biased but I think this is wholly on them.

Russia is responsible, no matter how you want to dress it up. RCA. Or do you actually believe that reparations payments take into account which party did the damage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations
The ICC [1]. Like everything it's not perfect. But this might be in their jurisdiction. I don't know.

[1] https://www.voanews.com/a/icc-may-investigate-possible-war-c...
Google Maps does this too, using landmarks that are already on the map. They say "turn left at the Exxon" and "turn right after the pet store."
You’re free to chime in with your own thoughts. Just don’t bother with the ad hominem stuff.
Like Denis Leary says: because they've got the bomb.
Let us all be glad that - at least for now - it is several orders of magnitude cheaper to defend than to attack (beside crazy things like nuclear weapons).

Example: stingers have 95% accuracy on jets - cost ~$20k. Jets cost $40m+.

Tank cost $5m+. Javelins cost ~$180k.

Patriot missiles cost $1m. Bombers can cost $500m+
Finnish political parties believe in a policy of "Nato-option", where major parties have kept saying to population it's option we can choose. Almost on instant anytime we want. With war in Ukraine, it doesn't look a credible policy, because they can't anymore say it's an option Finland can choose in case hot conflict is ongoing.

Currently as things stand, Finland most likely joins in few years. Next parliamentary election is most likely won by center-right who favors it, and president is from same faction.

It's a bit situationally dependent, if threats from Russia is seen as violent, it could change their calculus. However even center-left figures already agrees it's necessity, just not now. It could be seen as provocative.

I have always thought that Finland would be in NATO already if it was not seen meddling in middle east. It has really burned it's view among leftists.
oh nice, i have not. thanks i've got some catching up to do! i see that they used the nsynth dataset, i didn't realize it was publicly available. i recall that the nsynth paper came out just as i was finishing that work, you can imagine i felt a bit scooped ;). (but nsynth was far more impressive so what could i say..)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is very, very real.
You can't use the average.

Example: Let's say for half year the average temperature is 11°C and for half year it's 31°C. That gives an average temp of 21°C and a δT of 0, even though you would still need to heat for half a year.
I agree that I was referring to the behavior of the former USSR and of the earlier Russian empire, so to the last few centuries until Gorbachev, not to the present Russia.

Nevertheless, unlike Germany, which has apologized publicly many times for what the Nazis have done, and which has paid consistent reparations for a part of the victims of the Nazis, neither Putin nor any other Russian leader has ever apologized for any past actions of Russia. Paying reparations would be even more unconceivable for the Russians, who continue to claim that they have "liberated" the people whom they have enslaved after WWII.

I have seen nothing in the public speeches of Putin that would indicate that he would ever behave in relation with an invaded territory differently than it was traditional for the Soviet Union leaders or for the earlier Russian tsars.

Until the man himself would say and act otherwise, in a credible way, the only rational assumption is that an invading Russia will behave like always in the past.
An interesting topic for sure. In terms of mastery / skill building, I'd figure those round trips are crucial for the novice and the master. It's just that the master has enough wisdom / experience in the back pocket to know which paths to branch and bound.
Yeah I used to listen to every episode but now I pretty much have stopped. Same with Rogan. I just keep getting dejavú. Didn’t I hear this exact line of conversation already 5 times? Camus is really cool and Twitter would be better with more love ..

And as others have said he has pet theories or opinions he always has to throw out there and almost never gets a response on. insert rant about aliens - yeah I guess that’s possible(?)
Yes. Hans Blix and David Kelly were on the money and US intelligence was full of shit.
If you choose dishonor over war, you will only end up with both, against a stronger enemy.
Appeasement was also previously tried by not getting involved in Transnistria, Georgia, Crimea and Donbas.
I'm not enough of a history buff to say whether sanctions are consistently successful. But I will point out that the point of (broad) sanctions isn't to win wars: it's to punish governments by punishing their people, who are then expected to pressure the government to acquiesce.

Among the targets of US sanctions in the last 50 years, contemporary Russia is somewhat unique: it has a relatively large and urbanized middle class, one that's used to the benefits of global trade and cheap European travel. Sanctions that hurt those people seem, on face value, more likely to impact Putin's decision making than e.g. sanctions on North Korean peasant farmers.
https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1496906468695724036

I’m not sure if he’s extremely naive or completely delusional.
Wasn't one of the ways we knew Russians crossed into Crimea by Russian soldiers posting on TikTok? Little Green Men.

So while yes, it is the smart thing to do it definitely isn't what happens in reality.
Russian invaders are using internationally-banned butterfly mines
Sean isn't just a listener. He'll directly challenge his guest (politely of course) on flaws in their arguments.
I haven't I'm use to having an account on an exchange and moving money directly to the account.

Is there a way I could use the lightening network directly if my exchange doesn't use it behind the scene?
Urban warfare is very 'hacker' in my mind. Lots of asymmetry and subversion of infrastructure.
Recognizing what it is is different from remembering the exact syntax.
If you haven't heard of a white supremacist terror attack, it is because you are ignorant of domestic terrorist activities. That doesn't mean they don't exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_Unit...

Also, you should revisit your hat definitions. White and black hat are a matter of political perspective for each act and issue, but hacktivists are definitively not grey hat.
Belarus is allied with Russia, they aren’t going to join.
Or pattern matching that takes account of the empty list case. Orrrrr using a fold! I usually find when I start matching on list values that the function could be better expressed with a fold instead.
Is there a ready-to-use bot for that?
Azov battallion - google is your friend
YouTube blocks RT, other Russian channels from generating revenue
It’s likely been at least a year in the making.
Troop build ups were noticed in March 2021.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–2022_Russo-Ukrainian_cr...
> Also you may risk giving more people diseases

This is an old wife's tale. Especially at 18C. No one is going to be getting diseases.
Just like I can cross the border with a hundred thousand in crypto in a wallet.

No, you can't. You can cross the border with the private key for a wallet containing the addresses of a hundred thousand units of crypto, but the crypto isn't in your wallet (either kind), it's in the blockchain ledger of whatever cryptocurrency you're using.

And this is an important distinction from money, because the money is actually in your wallet and you can use it without an internet connection, but the crypto is actually in the cloud and requires an internet connection to access and use.
Belarus is a very close ally of Putin, why would they ever join NATO? Ukraine was invaded from Belarus by Russia.
I believe this subreddit is extremely harmful. Example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/russia/comments/t1ya3b/memo_to_the_...

Is there a way to stop it? This is propaganda in the open.
That was my own thought. It wasn't an attack at you, just a PSA to think about what you see online.

Personally, the red flags from your post were that you have hardly any post history, you came out claimed to be a munitions/explosives expert, usually you don't have to do that, the knowledge speaks for itself. Your rebuttal didn't seem to be as strong compared to GPs reasoning, and it ended with a conclusion that seemed to be more of an opinion, not objective reasoning.

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I don't think the ad hominem attack by (epgui) and (jaquesm) is warranted, it definitely isn't "Fact". I reply to many topics both political and technical, as does everyone. If I have such a consistent track record of "patently unreasonable comments" then you should be able to support your argument.

Again, I did not mean any offense by my initial statement.
If half of the world can be at war at once because of a single soldier being killed in those countries, then haven’t we repeated the 1914 mechanism?
Companies are in it to make money. If it is not going anywhere, they drop it. You and I do that all the time. I have dozens of dead projects.
So you want to design a programming language (2017)
Minimal English (2018)
Shouldn’t it make most sense in contexts exactly like Steam, where the merchant can take the goods back in case of a fraudulent transaction?
Professor of urban warfare? His PhD defense must have been more literal than most.
By the same definition Bush is a war criminal. So it doesn't seem probable that the US is going to support that.
the world is on your side if not at your side just yet... hopefully putin gets deposed and someone more like your leader gets installed
I'm also curious how Lex managed the get the calibre of guests he did right off the bat.

I understand he was some kind of MIT whizkid, but I don't know much about him beyond that.