skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: I suspect VK.com (main Russian social) shadow bans anti-war posts
The supposedly linear historical feed does not show some of my own posts in my friends accounts.

I see no personal discussions about the war whatsoever.
If Russia pour a trillion into crypto it would boost cryto like crazy.

Governments are buying oil and other products from Russia and need a way pay them. Russian banks will move money outside of swift. Swift just makes it easier.
>The war is already happening

Agreed.

>Russia is going to win and Ukraine will lose

Agreed.

>Stopping the war now by negotiations or promises is not going to change the outcome.

A negotiated settlement won't change some outcomes and will change others.

A peace agreement wont change the fact that Russia gets what it wants:

No NATO in Ukraine, Russia gets Crimea, and Independence for the separatists in eastern Ukraine.

A Peace agreement would prevent the loss of countless civilian and military lives, and further destruction across Ukraine.
Dual citizens should renounce Russian citizenship if they don’t support their government and tax dollars going to war.

If you aren’t willing to overthrow the shithole government of Russia, you don’t get to complain when your allegiance (especially when you have dual citizenship and can easily renounce it), makes life hard for you.
There where sanctions between the first and second Iraq war, so somewhat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq

Double checking and it does look like they increased after the war, though not to an extreme degree. Things had largely returned to normal by 2000. https://tradingeconomics.com/iraq/crude-oil-production
I think existence of all the Russian troll farms suggests that the first phase is is being attempted. I imagine incremental success would be pretty hard to measure. I assume there's some "good guy" government agency tracking it though.
>no terrorists make off with radioactive material.

The reactors that aren't infamous have already had all fuel removed. The one that was scattered all over the countryside has plenty of highly radioactive debris but you can't realistically pull out material for a dirty bomb. Terrorists would have better luck stealing cobalt 60 sources and spreading that through a city than trying to break into the new safe confinement, break into the sarcophagus, find a suitably large amount of highly radioactive material, somehow break it into pieces and truck it out of the area, etc.

Terrorists aren't going to try to use the war as cover to sneak into Chernobyl regardless of Russian troop presence.
Out of curiosity, what do you think should precipitate a war between nuclear powers? I mean, applying this principle consistently would mean that Russia can take whatever it wants in Europe, except for UK and France.
This was also the story in Vietnam. The US was fighting endless supply lines from the north.
Only as long as the government is benign. Nothing convinces me that any government is benign and acting in anyone's best interests other than the 1% and the interests of the pols themselves. There is a reason why warrants are need to search through my "papers". This should be extended to the internet. There is no reason to give up anonymity because the cons of that GREATLY outweigh the pluses. Governments should not be given 100% surveillance powers. The fact that China and other authoritarian systems demand this of their citizens should be in the forefront of everyone's minds.
‘The Ghost of Kyiv’ is the first urban legend of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The Iraqis were under a dictator, the Ukrainians elected their President.
Disney has been doing something similar for years: https://superparent.com/article/276/osmo-and-disney-make-kid...

I remember an article that they had something more general (not just Frozen) available for children on cruise ships, I think. I can't find that article but this technical concept has been around for some time
Yeah I know about the inkplate, I might get the 10", or maybe they will do a 10+ analogously to the 6+, but I'd like an even bigger one. The ipad pro that everyone wants is 12.9" and a letter sized sheet of paper is 14" so I'd want to start up in that range, for reading stuff like arxiv pdf's.

I do know about epaper shelf tags but that is pretty niche imho. Not that many of us are involved in stocking store shelves.
I'm reminded of reddit saying they're going to shut down the USA with protest if Trump fired Mueller. Easy to say "You all should do X!", but even in the US people said "well if I skip work to protest I'll lose my job.".

Telling others they should endure a decade of pain... Hah, would you do the same, in their position? (I guess the keyboard warriors will say yes...)
I did look at that and it is interesting and kind of tempting. I want a lot bigger though. Thanks.
I had a few really strong reasons to push through, but it is understandable why others decide not to. It hasn't been cheap. I ate sunk costs plenty by adopting too early. I get angry at how much better the ecosystem and resources are now than when I started!

This aside, you'll still battle with the compiler. As to what you're battling depends on what you're building.
That's what I'm saying. I'm hoping that the Russians are going to have a much tougher time in Ukraine since they are not welcome.
That follows from Amdahls law, doesn't it? Speeding up the most time consuming part by a little is worth a lot more than speeding up a tiny part of the execution time a lot.
When I was younger, decades ago, I always wondered why investors keep saying we need to have customers and revenue first before plonking down millions; why would I need investors when I have paying customers?? Then we got paying customers, customers paying millions/year and we found out why we need investors. Not all businesses do but even little more than slow growth is pretty hard when bootstrapped; we exhausted bank loans pretty fast as they are too conservative.
Can someone explain whether this has a meaningful effect on those that are targeted?
I concur, interesting but has always been expensive.

And looking this up:

> If your total annual Google Cloud spend or commit is less than $15 million, the annual cost of Security Command Center Premium is 5% of the larger of the following:

> Your committed annual Google Cloud spend (for deals up to the term of your commit), or
Your actual annual current annualized Google Cloud spend (for deals up to one year)
There is a minimum annual cost of $25,000.

Yeah I need to be a few orders of magnitude bigger before this is anything close to sane.
Exactly get a taste of power and want more and more in a positive feedback loop. They see us all as children or sheep under their control, and they know better than us in all matters.
My brain -

Awww... that is such a nice thing. But why would anyone post this to facebook? Wait a minute ai.facebook! That is such facebook thing to do. They just couldn't stop with this meta stuff. And now they are targeting kids to harvest data.

Let me see what security issues that are being discussed in the comment section. You know what I will put everything I was thinking up to this point as a comment itself.
A taste of Rust – Hackle's blog
Vlad is already a billionaire, so probably not a whole not.
Yes. Endless supply from the north swooping into Cambodia around the DMZ and right back into South Vietnam. They moved at-will nearly anywhere they wanted in South Vietnam.
Ish, it's still pre-alpha :)

Running it over at https://ditzes.com, source code at https://codeberg.org/ditzes/ditzes

Waiting for reaching alpha status before I post as a Show HN, want to have the desktop builds publishable before then at least too.
This has to be, by many orders of magnitude, the most baller backdrop of any video ever.
Does this really do anything?

I read a decently insightful article in the Economist yesterday, claiming Putin's inner circle doesn't have anything to lose, as they have all already been sanctioned by the Treasury: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/02/19/alexander....
Nim is a nice language, but more geared to Python. Oberon+ is based on the original Oberon syntax instead using the "end" keyword to end blocks (instead of indentation); but when using the lowercase keyword versions it has certain similarities with Lua, which is not that surprising since Lua - as Oberon - is influenced by Modula-2.
Unless your credit card info is also plaintext, I don't think it is a law or anything, no?

And this is a password you set? old systems would email you a new password to log in & change it, vs a one time use link nowadays.
Very surprised to see this as the most upvoted answer. Stuff like doctype is HTML 101. “A framework is going to output this for you anyway” sets alarm bells ringing in my head, it shows that you don’t actually understand the underlying technology and you use frameworks as a crutch.

Look, all of this clearly depends on what job you’re actually applying for. If it’s a junior role I wouldn’t sweat it a whole lot and wouldn’t ask a question like this. But if you’re interviewing to be a senior front end engineer I absolutely want to know that you can head an HTML source and know what the lines are doing.
(Vernor Vinge, "A Deepness in the Sky")

"There were programs here that had been written five thousand years ago, before Humankind ever left Earth. The wonder of it — the horror of it, Sura said — was that unlike the useless wrecks of Canberra’s past, these programs still worked! And via a million million circuitous threads of inheritance, many of the oldest programs still ran in the bowels of the Qeng Ho system. Take the Traders’ method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex — and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon. But if you looked at it still more closely … the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems.

So behind all the top-level interfaces was layer under layer of support. Some of that software had been designed for wildly different situations. Every so often, the inconsistencies caused fatal accidents. Despite the romance of spaceflight, the most common accidents were simply caused by ancient, misused programs finally getting their revenge.

“We should rewrite it all,” said Pham.

“It’s been done,” said Sura, not looking up. She was preparing to go off-Watch, and had spent the last four days trying to root a problem out of the coldsleep automation.

“It’s been tried,” corrected Bret, just back from the freezers. “But even the top levels of fleet system code are enormous. You and a thousand of your friends would have to work for a century or so to reproduce it.” Trinli grinned evilly. “And guess what — even if you did, by the time you finished, you’d have your own set of inconsistencies. And you still wouldn’t be consistent with all the applications that might be needed now and then.”

Sura gave up on her debugging for the moment. “The word for all this is ‘mature programming environment.’ Basically, when hardware performance has been pushed to its final limit, and programmers have had several centuries to code, you reach a point where there is far more significant code than can be rationalized. The best you can do is understand the overall layering, and know how to search for the oddball tool that may come in handy …

… And he learned something about mature programming environments that Sura had never quite said. When systems depended on underlying systems, and those depended on things still older … it became impossible to know all the systems could do. Deep in the interior of fleet automation there could be — there must be — a maze of trapdoors. Most of the authors were thousands of years dead, their hidden accesses probably lost forever. Other traps had been set by companies or governments that hoped to survive the passage of time."
Unless the HN API itself gets compromised, I'm not sure what can go wrong by running your own local HN client really (it only communicates with the official HN API). But happy to be showed otherwise.
The war going on right now is a good place to start. They did a massive air assault with elite VDV units without proper support, which caused them to lose Antonov Airport like six hours after capturing it, and are now wandering armor through urban areas that have AT nests camping out every window. Really the only reason they managed to do as well as have is their focus on shutting down Ukranian air in the initial missile wave and their sheer numbers.

Ironically that train of thought is what is hampering Russia now, since their actions seem to communicate an expectation that they would have been able to just walk into Kyiv like they did for Crimea, and didn't expect the actual resistance of an army fighting for their home
I have 3 tips: exercise, ice baths, sleep.

On Exercise:

I did 'exercise' wrong for years.

Exercise produces 2 types of pain, 'good pain' (panting, muscle fatigue), and 'bad pain' (injury or achy joints). How much 'good pain' you experience is completely up to you, but it is absolutely essential that you minimise 'bad pain'. Simple reason: it is incredibly distracting when you're trying work!

To minimise 'bad pain'; 1. take 3-10 minutes to gently warm up the entire body before working out, 2. take 5-30 minutes to 'warm down' the entire body after working out (this will reduce delayed onset muscle soreness and joint aches). 3. take some protein and water 0-30 minutes after a workout.

TL;DR if you are sore from exercise it will distract you, negating some/all of the cognitive benefits of exercise, so be strict about ensuring that doesn't happen.

On Ice Baths:

One other huge tip, do an ice-bath once per 14 days, at a minimum. You don't have to go super cold: 10, even 15 degrees celsius is fine. How? If you don't have a bath (I don't) search amazon for 'portable bath' (there'll be heaps for under $50), use a $2 kitchen thermometer to take the temperature as you add ice (grocers, bottle shops, any markets will sell large bags of ice - buy 2 or 3). 10 minutes in a cold bath can give you a sense of incredible calm and concentration for the whole day. It also relaxes them muscles.

On Sleep:

I feel like 'everybody's different' is kinda true here, but learn your body and be very objective about how much your cognition drops when you're tired. If you're making mistakes while working tired, you're creating more work that you or someone else will have to fix. So trading off 1 hour of work for 1 more hour sleep is often extremely economical.
His videos are very long. A lot there but I haven't been able to get through one yet. 2.5 hours is long. Could be 3 or 4 videos.
> Work and verification of work builds on each other. And every once in a while, we have a major milestone that verifies that much of the work that went into accomplishing the milestone (such as the moon landing) is generally correct.

Right- that's called trust. I can't independently launch my own lunar program, so I trust those that did... did.
Yes, but many countries have joined voluntarily, so at least they think NATO defends their interests as well.
It really depends on whether or not they choose to meaningfully go after their offshore assets. Krugman wrote a useful discussion of the topic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/opinion/russia-ukraine-sa...
As if it's going to change anything
Interesting to read this. I was thinking back to Korea and Vietnam, wondering "what if it's a trainer pilot from a NATO air force,"...not only because this would align with historic realities, but it also lends motive to the creation of legend--you don't want to give up the provenance of that particular pilot.
How do you find books? I've lived in the US for a decade after growing up going to school in French and find it hard to find books I enjoy reading. Not knowing many French speakers means I don't get book recommendations like I do for English.
I don't know what you think is false. I agree that the US opposed Cuba, because of socialism, and in order to counter/end socialism there, it inflicted sanctions, consciously as a means to "to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.". https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06...

I agree that they didn't (and still don't) meaningfully care about the people of those countries. The goal of ending socialism was not to help those people (Reagan had a lot more rhetoric about fighting socialism because he cared about the people, but I think like in the Kennedy era, this was mere rhetoric). The people are merely instrumental tools.

You don't have to be pro-socialist or anti-US to believe these things, they're quite well documented.
why do you need to run SELECT with a transaction?
You missed the entire point of the article. The point is now to know whether you know those 10 lines by heart, it's whether you can have a discussion starting from just this.

Do you know why the document starts with a doctype declaration? What accessibility tags are and why they are important? What is OpenGraph and why SEO is important? What are CSS resets and why do we use them?

If you can take a guess you're already halfway there. If you can explain what you know about them you've aced it. It's not about knowing all of the meta tags or the OpenGraph attributes, it's whether you can have a discussion about mobile design, accessibility and SEO.
just don't use that password anywhere else
Exactly. Why should we believe this Yuri guy? He'll say anything to excite the TV show's audience.

Serious questions to anti-Putin Americans: if Mexico developed a cozy relationship with China and Russia, and, as a sovereign nation, decided it wanted to install their nukes on its (Mexico's) land, would America allow it? (This is a serious question, please don't treat it lightly.)
Because of the proven URL visiting bot, they don't have to. Everyone understands it's not an idle threat that Grammarly snoops on everything you write.
On the Origin on the iPhone
Looks like you got down voted for that. lol. HN never disappoints. Have my upvote. You are 100% correct. The UK and Australia (and to an extent the USA) have been looking enviously at the social credit rating that China has put in place and want to start installing the foundation of such a system in our countries, and we should fight it whenever we can and call it out for what it is.
Perhaps you are right, and they will go back on any treaty they make with Russia.

I suspect the government will almost certainly submit in the short term. In the long term, Russia will be watching them closely for treaty violations, and invade again if they break the terms.

Either way, they are stuck in a very tough spot. Either give up on NATO membership, or continue a cycle of reinvasion.
I believe the numbers are the one thing in Arabic that are NOT written RTL.
Have you read the original article? It's coming from Chechnya.
Could you provide a source for that statement?

I know that the Shia majority did not support Saddam Hussein, but does this directly translate to them supporting a US invasion?
Sanctions that hurt the general populace are not an "effective message" for the simple reason that said general populace is not in charge of "DOING that".
some bitcoin mining energy usage stats https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/...
It's wet soil, there is no dust.
This attitude is why child labor is illegal and we have a 40 hour work week.
So block people and organizations you don't want to hear from. People have become weaklings when it comes to shutting down trolls.
Not two zeros?
Special Operations Forces (Russia)
Yeah I see now France is back. I know they were a founding member of NATO I'm not doubting that. But they left in the 1960s...sort of, but were in sort of but separate, then back in for sure in 2009.
Some of this content is based on material written by a good friend (who has since moved on from UW). There’s additional client and server-side content at https://drstearns.github.io/tutorials/.
Do you even know what the discussion was in this thread? Doesn't seem like it.
Matcha has both of these.
> That's what real authoritarianism looks like. Not mask mandates. Over the next few months, the tolerance for bullshit, especially in politics, will go way down.

I disagree. If you look at the Cold War period, there was all sorts of bitter politics over culture wars throughout the world. The US experienced the Free Speech Movement [1], violent leftist extremist group bombings [2] (concomitant with the rise of leftist extreme violence in the rest of the Americas with groups such as the FARC [3] in the backdrop of some pretty frightening authoritarian leaders), the Civil Rights Movement [4] and several other culturally and politically destabilizing events. All of these things happened in the background of a global conflict between capitalism and communism, when one could argue that left-wing authoritarianism was in full display in the Eastern Bloc. The US only got its act back together politically after the end of the Cold War with the rise of some awkward form of Pax Americana that lasted from roughly from the fall of the Berlin Wall to September 11, 2001.

I doubt the events in Ukraine are going to _decrease_ the amount of political sectarianism in the US. If anything, it'll add an additional pressure as groups will be called out to be sympathizers of authoritarianism much as McCarthyism attacked folks for being suspected Communists.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement
Considering the whole reason for this crisis is Russia's proximity to Ukraine, wouldn't that mean contamination spreading to Russia too?
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/t17w2b/u...

I believe this is the video, there are also some more videos floating around from different angles.
Did sanctions ever achieve this?

If the West actually wants to defend Ukraine, it needs to intervene militarily. If it doesn't, then it shouldn't try to placate its conscience with meaningless token gestures.
I guess it didn't work then, lol.

/s
> Then what is the possible value of following it?

The same value you get from following any other news source?
You want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Why not let google/facebook let people volunteer their id and then only hear from others who have also self identified. Everything else gets blacked out. This is nothing more than the UK wanting to track everything that you do on the web so they can file it away to use against you in the future.
> we had a weekly lab meeting where one of our lab members would pick a piece of published literature in our field and break down how bullshit it was.

Did you (or your lab members) publish contradictory results, or should I just trust this assessment?
Look for didactic materials and approaches used by the French Academic painters of the nineteenth century. A good book about the sight-size technique of drawing and painting should be a useful toolset for someone engineering-minded. There are books published within the last 20 years on this approach, and there are thousands of living competent practitioners in the real world.

There are methods of examining and translating our physiological visual experience into an abstraction we call a "drawing" that were developed over hundreds of years. They are very good methods. Don't be intimidated by their age or some imagined importance of an old approach. Anyone can learn to draw given the correct system of reasoning and evaluation.

All that said, don't waste time on anything you do not think is beautiful or inspiring.

Finally, nude figure classes are a great challenge and motivator.