skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure China is watching this very eagerly and taking notes. Fate of Taiwan depends on how the West and the rest of the World reacts against Russia.
I think it's more "we need Russian support against Democrats". Given the events in US politics of the last 6 years.
Bay of pigs was not an official invasion and it certainly was not effective, hence my comment.
Oh so let's build scores based upon social media interactions and google results because this is fair? What?
No. Not ANY alternative would require a human. There are a few numbers you actually need. You should have to ASK for those!!

Besides that: I don't care about someone losing money because they actually have to sit down a human to verify data which is relevant. This is what humans are good for and if it cost you, you can put it on a bill.
Nukes are probably not Russia's strongest offensive resource, and certainly will not be the first resource to be drawn upon.
Funny that the newscaster called the (large brick) cellphone a "trademark of the yuppies." While do recall one self-employed white-collar friend having one, they were much more common among building contractors and tradespeople.
If you read the thread I linked to you'll see that if you think Putin means what he says, Finland is in danger.

Putin is clear that he wants to go back to 1917.

In 1917 Russia ruled in Finland.
It's not like that. "Reserves will last until summer" estimate been done with assumption of gas coming at current low rates, but not complete shutdown.
I can't even imagine what you are going through. If you need to get out, Sweden welcomes you!
(I apologize for posting this here, but I was hoping for a one-time exception.)

I am trying to help my programmer friend escape Ukraine, along with their elderly family: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30451497

The problem is, I don’t know anything about Ukraine. I have money, and I can book an Airbnb in a neighboring country for them. But I suspect (apropos nothing) they’ll discover that there’s no way to leave the country through traditional means.

Does anyone know if the buses are still running? Can they get out of the country? If not, my fallback idea is to help them plan a way to escape on foot. But which part of the border should they try to cross?

What I really need is for someone local to Ukraine to DM me so that I can ask some basic questions. If you know anyone, please forward them:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/theshawwn

Telegram https://t.me/theshawwn

--

EDIT: Apparently other people want to do this too, so I made a twitter thread to pool our knowledge:

https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1496761074258952193

I'll tweet updates there (and I'll post them here as edits for the next hour or so.)

--

Updates:

- Someone DM'ed me on Telegram and mentioned that they're trying to do the same thing. They were thinking about evacuating them to Germany by "sending them an official invite, but the German embassy seems to be closed."

- A twitter DM pointed out https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1496724041520095235:

> If you know people who want to leave Kyiv, don't drive to Zhytomyr on the M06. Russian air assault will be taking cross roads. Go south to Bila Terskva to Berdichev to Vinnitsya to Kemenytsky. Fastest evac: go to Chernivsti crossing to Romania.
"An authenticated attacker could write an arbitrary file to the pfSense disk. This can be abused to write a webshell to execute arbitrary code / commands."

This looks more like local code execution (privilege escalation).
You...realize that all "thermonuclear" is is doping your bomb with tritium/a light fusion stage to generate more neutrons, for more complete fission of the fissile primary, right?

All nuclear weapons are fission. Only newer ones are fusion boosted fission devices.

I assure you, there is more than enough nuclear ordinance laying around to ensure WWIV is fought with sticks and stones.

You do not want.
I don’t think mere mortals can go around what https://facebook.com/help/224562897555674 says (30 day grace period, may take up to 90 days, copies may remain in other accounts)

Also, if the data is publicly available it probably is too late for that, and if any knowledge of the earlier existence of the account remains, its deletion alone is suspicious (likely less so than its content)

I would change the password to something really complex (generate a long random string), ask Facebook to delete the account, and destroy the password. Then, nobody can force you to undelete it in the grace period. Ideally, change the email address associated with the account, too.

If you have a safe way to store it, make a copy first (GDPR’s right to data portability helps here). If they have to flee, having one can help getting asylum.
I'm actively following chess. I was confused by the article title since I know Magnus was playing recently with somebody else (Le, Quang Liem) in the quarterfinals of the tournament.

After reading the article I've got more confused. When this is happened? What tournament? Which game format?

Finally I've realized this is just another PR stunt / clickbait / classic media article / yellow journalism and I'm just wasting my time.
They trusted the American guaranty of their safety in exchange for them becoming a nuclear non-proliferation country and giving up their inherited nukes. American's failure to stay ahead of the situation and deliver on the guaranty we promised them caused this, and I think is going to lead to nuclear proliferation going up now.
15 Years Late, the FCC Cracks Down on Broadband Apartment Monopolies
Except you can catch panics, and not every Go package is such example of panic purity.
I think I am well versed in European history, thank you for your snarky comment. There's no reason to believe some local conflict will undermine "democracies" all over Europe, notwithstanding the media that is always preying on people's fears.
You absolutely can, and if you read what I wrote above I'm not shilling for any token or pushing any kind of blockchain.

I'm saying the user experience of having your keypair in a browser extension with an API that lots of sites agree to use is significantly superior to the old gpg way of doing signatures and verification and means that you can do what the GP wanted (having a key that you control representing your identity which is strongly authenticated with zero knowledge and not an account on each server). You can do all of that without any sort of blockchain and it's something fediverse sites could adopt.
What makes Russia position understandable? What gives them right to occupy Ukraine?
You are correct! However (from my POV) this was done with the intent of disabling any possibility of a counterattack or serious resistance.

Russia's ability seize it's desired positions is significantly greater if Ukraine has no functioning airforce or military infrastructure.

While this _does_ make it easier for Russia to invade the rest of Ukraine (again, because of a lack of military infrastructure) I still think it is a stretch that they will go for a full-country occupation.

While this is not exactly a parallel, think back to Operation Desert Storm. The US-supported coalition had no intent of occupying Iraq, but it's push into Kuwait was made _significantly_ easier after they completely annihilated a significant portion of Iraq's military structure (inside and outside of Kuwait).
Land the Job You Want
> The lesson learned should be that if you don't stop the thug with force, then he will eventually become strong enough to stop you.

this is a lesson of a past war, the world has moved, this is no longer a WW2 era, if you try to apply a similar foreign intervention now the chances are you'll get a nuke on your lawn.
Small nitpick:

>The size of this record in popular file systems can range from 256 bytes (Ext4) to 1024 bytes (NTFS).

On 512 and 512e disks, where the NTFS record is two sectors, in 4K "native" disks the NTFS record becomes 4K, i.e. e single sector.
The west can't do anything to stop China from incorporating Taiwan. The only thing stopping China is that they are not fully prepared yet, they will be in a few years however.
So hasn't any crown prince murder since the first world war.
> Which is why it's been so stupid of the US and the EU to push for Ukraine's inclusion into the EU & NATO.

Or, it's been stupid of the US and the EU to talk about Ukraine's inclusion into the EU & NATO but not actually do it like, in 2015 - 17 sometime.

> All it has done is provoke Russia, who doesn't want foreign influence right on its borders and Ukraine isn't strategically relevant to NATO anyway.

Why the fuck is what Russia wants so holy? The rest of Europe wouldn't want a third-world country with nukes and a crazy tin-pot dictator on our eastern border, but are we getting that?
To be fair Prag outplayed Magnus in their game, whereas Magnus hung a piece vs. Hansen in an otherwise equal position and resigned immediately
That is an extreme liberal viewpoint, which often flourishes on Wikipedia. Not everything authoritatively stated on Wikipedia is fact, even if there is a link in the footer to someone who says so.

Nation-states were by far the dominant political entities up until the age of exploration, around the 15th century. Name any ancient society, with the stark exception of the Romans they are all nations or nation-states. The Egyptians, the Hebrews, the Ethiopians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Greeks, all nations or nation-states.

Today, it is fashionable to pretend that race doesn't exist as an effort to remove racial barriers. The goal is noble, but the rewriting of history is profane.
I didn't see an obvious mention of it on the page, but this site has an RSS feed at http://the-witness.net/news/feed
I don't know the current situation, hopefully someone else can tell you that. But the good thing is Ukrainians can travel ( with a biometric Passport) to EU for 90 days and then see further.

One good travel Option (was, but I think should be still, AFAIK only planes stopped because they could be shot down) to travel by train to Lviv, take a taxi to Przemysl in Poland for maybe 50€ worth, and then take a train from there to for example Berlin.

All the best to your friend and his family.
There's almost never an indication how the backdoor is installed. Is there an internet exploitable vulnerability in the TCP/IP stack?

Most home routers these days have firewalls enabled and no amount of NSA technical wizardry is going to get past those.
You realize that NATO is a voluntary union?

If Ukraine wanted to promise Russia that they would stay out of it, they could have done that without any US involvement.

Why should the US tell Ukraine how to conduct its foreign policy?
Good points.

But isn't the real threat against Putin that the ideas of democracy spread via word of mouth?

I think problem with Ukraine is that Ukrainians and Russians have close ties and if Ukraine succeeds in becoming a western country their relatives in Russia will want to do so to.
Though, you may be surprised to learn that in general, western media and western commentators are pretty negative on India. See, for example, [1]. Whenever some positive news about India comes out, people come out of the woodwork with statements like "do people still shit on the streets?" "India is the rape capital of the world" "India should feed its people first", etc. etc.

Hence you can't really blame Indians for getting excited about a positive news story.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29502062
I'll give him that, you don't know what DJT would have decided. Maybe he'd fold, maybe he'd go direct to nuke. That baseline unpredictability is actually useful strategically (there's even an essay about how being rational isn't necessarily a good game theoretic strategy, can't recall the name now).

There's at least one other world leader who clings to power because of this trait.

Recent mutterings suggest Trump thinks highly of Putin though, so it's hard to tell.
Yet the reason is an important subject, and in questions like that different reasoning lead to lost lives. So it's a serious, justifiable subject to discuss.
health span and life span are different, and arguably, the health span is more important.

https://www.juvlabs.com/your-health/healthy-aging-lifestyle/...
> How popular do you think Putin will be at home when he announces he's going to full war with NATO?

Putin is not elected by a popular vote, the voice of the people does not matter there.

Estonia is a NATO member already, the current conflict has been escalated because of the previously announced red line demands (Ukraine never getting into NATO) that the US diplomats discarded. It is their job to negotiate peace in the region too. Negotiations is a nasty business and the outcomes are nasty too. Those who seek easy and pretty solutions that satisfy all parties in one step are destined to escalate the situation further up.
That must be Meta's long game with their social network. It's much easier to identify signals if you know who is sending.
Basically, he threatens anyone interfering with nukes. It's a new world, or actually it's the old world reappering.
I don't think that any of the world wars started out of small things, can you clarify?
That is why I said, "even though it is not Article 5"
Everyone bombs everyone, it seems. NATO bombed Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq,... Sent "peacekeepers" to loads of African countries (funny enough those countries sit on tons of raw materials). Russia bombed Georgia (not the US state of Georgia), Ukraine. China isn't bombing as much with actual bombs for now, money seems to work just fine it seems. Saudi Arabia is bombing Yemen, Israel is bombing Palestine, while Palestine is bombing Israel.

No need to justify any of that, because it all sucks and is ultimately utterly pointless. It does help so, to understand the other side. Because it makes it easier to find a solution that doesn't lead to all out war between nuclear powers. And no, I don't consider just handing Ukraine to Putin to be that solution. Or Taiwan to China, as far as that is concerned.
They don't care. Thousands of Russians and culturally Russian ppl will die on Ukraine, but the attack is still happening.
As counter example, NVidia a C++ powerhouse, is using Ada for their autonomous vehicles firmware.
Can you send a tweet out sharing this message, please? I'll gladly RT it.
I believe the take from John Mearsheimer after the Crimean crisis in 2015 [1] to be a bit more elucidating based on realpolitik than just the reductive take based off Russian imperialism, the issue is larger than just a madman trying to regain control of past territory.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
I’m an aerospace engineer and when I look at paper drawings sometimes I start to try to press control-f.
> The moral of this era seems to be: no one attacks a country with nuclear weapons.

Though, now that the invasion has started (again),
So, Boeing produces faulty airplanes (again) and the FAA is OK with that (again)?
It actually did consider joining the EU, and even NATO at one point, but it wasn't taken seriously by either. The NATO intervention in Kosovo was also a major stumbling block.

Internally, democratic reforms in the 90s became associated with 1) corruption far worse than Soviets had, and 2) right-wing economic measures ("liberalization") that messed up the economy and created a lot of hardship for the population at the time. The very words "democrat" and "liberal" became profanities for some.

So when Putin appeared, the popular sentiment in the country already in favor of a "strong hand" for a while. He only needed to fit the image, which he did quite easily with his KGB background. After that, he gradually deconstructed the civil society, starting with free press.
> Is that what I said? I'm just saying that everyone's hands are not clean here. Putin's are the filthiest and bloodiest, no doubt. But, maleficence is everywhere.

That's actually a pro-Putin message. Ponder that.
An implementation can be found there: https://libraryofbabel.info/
>muting your instincts with soma so you can earn more fiats?

I actually love programming, and when I was refering to "programming work" I was specifically refering to my hobby projects.

> So is hunger. So is survival.

Unlike sex-drive, hunger and survival is very much aligned with what I want.
I have to eat so I can keep doing things that I love (programming, creating music, etc)

While sex-drive is a hardwired instinct to procreate and have children - which is very much polar-opposite of my best self interests.

More over I do NOT want to have sex with any of my EXes or bar slobs or hiring prostututes. It just seems "like a good idea" under an altered state of mind. No thank you, very much.

I'm not my body.

And I'm not even my mind half of the time (especially when overloaded with the horny hormones).
What if most Ukrainians are polarized and want to become part of the EU/NATO or part of Russia and very little in between?

Neutral sounds better than civil war.
This is a really common kind of comment to this issue, but I think it's extremely short-sighted. At this point, because we're probably well past the point that anything we can practically do is likely to get us to net zero carbon before catastrophe (it's already here, really), we're at a point where we're probably going to need to go extremely negative even once we do get there. We're (ironically) going to need a lot of non-carbon-sourced energy to do that, it seems to me.

We can't just be thinking about what we'll do to stem the tide, we have to keep working on how we're going to push it back.
He’s the youngest to do so.
Re: containing Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/opinion/putin-ukraine-nat...

It's actually exactly the opposite and the guy who wrote the book on containment called it a tragedy. We don't need to rewrite history.
Indeed; on one occasion I had to help my wife troubleshoot something on a shared folder in her workplace's Google Drive...

I was shocked by my wife's colleagues extensive use of special characters because they wanted their file to appear first.

The proposed solution won't be any better if the average user doesn't know how to name things properly or how to search for them.
If you are referring to Germany 1936, it did not resembled modern western democracies at all. It was not established democracy at all prior. It was forced into democracy it never wanted after loosing war. Prior, it was heavily militarized some-constitutional monarchy. Their democracy was failing mess the whole time.

If you are referring to something else, be concrete.
All conflicts start as "local". What we know today as WW2 was originally reported as the German-Polish war, for example.
It’s a thing, when you do a release update on Windows the old version ends up in windows.old to facilitate rollback and some time later it gets cleaned up.
At the time many buildings were sold, asbestos insulation met every applicable federal standard. The owners are still responsible for mitigating it.
Google photos is pretty amazing. I enter a search for "car" and immediately can see the photos os several of the cars I've owned over the years.

One day I needed to remember when I had travelled to a certain city, searched on my Google photos and it instantly showed the photos I took in the city, including the exact dates.

Yes, I know letting Google know all about my life like that through photos may not be the greatest idea... but wow, does the photo search work nicely?!
Plus, this is how we organise [0] stuff in real life.

Folders/boxes/envelopes in boxes. Boxes in cupboards. Cupboards in rooms.

It's easier to get to hierarchical filesytems from this. Things are found by their group, or their proximity to a more used item.

Filesystems, search, most-recently-accessed lists, an index; they are close to real life things.

In my fantasy world people would e.g. stick to .jpg, .JPG or .jpeg or .JPEG (pick one, damnit) but otherwise I quite like the tools we have.

[0] or try to
Part of the equipment.

Sure an important part. But lets not forget that there is a lot of knowledge in TSMC too. And China is trying to slowly buy their engineers.

Intel and AMD (now Global Foundries) both had access to same Dutch company's product and they didn't or barley managed to keep up.
Sorry I didn't realize that. There are actually a lot of people shouting loudly who never read history.

I thought the salami slicing pattern was obvious for everyone to see now.

Since it is not point is that to me and many others the situation looks very similar to what happened just before WWII.
Be warned that they disable free accounts at random, and support will not respond to you. There's many threads in the subreddit about this, and it also happened to me personally.
US winds up team dedicated to stopping Chinese espionage
ARM has a C++ based OS, so there are customers that care.
Long-time Russian HN user here, under a throwaway account and a VPN.

The majority public sentiment hasn't formed yet. The war started in early morning, and many people are still hung-over due to yesterday holiday (the Russian Army day, BTW).

My prediction is that there won't be a patriotic hysteria. People will be wary of possible consequences, which -- and I think everyone understands that -- may be severe. Medical drug prices will certainly go up, due to the fact that most drugs are imported. A high-tech / chip / electronics exports to Russia may be restricted. An oil & gas embargo may be imposed, which means that we're back to the 90's (though I think that Europe will be difficult to get on board, due to their dependency on Russia's energy).

My personal current sentiment is that we may get completely isolated from the west, and that we'll have to form a closer alliance with China -- which I don't like.

(A small consolation prize is that our corrupt "elites" will finally get what they deserve -- I expect heavy personal sanctions and foreign asset seizures).
And here's another example, with FM Yoav Milikow beating him on stream in 8 moves at either 15 or 16 years old (depending on Yoav's birth month). Speed chess is a different animal. https://youtu.be/mor6qpyT7jA
Understandable does not mean justifiable.
I am really surprised that you are asking about this as if this is something that still needs to be proved. Read the UN materials on this issue. They are very informative.

Basically this is something you have to research yourself because the number of scientific articles are so numerous that I don't even know where to start. When omicron came it became obvious that most people – vaccinated or not – will get it. Vaccines are only protecting people by reducing disease severity and deaths (about 90% protection).

Nevertheless, many politicians haven't updated their knowledge therefore insists on stupid mandates.

For more layman reading this article is good: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/10/delta-variant-...
China wants Russia's support when China does the same to Taiwan...
This post is strictly personal. I feel like when Dmitry Medvedev was leader of Russia (during the "Putin swap period") that tensions were much lower. Privately: I am such a big fan of him. He is such a geek! I sincerely wonder when Medvedev and (Sergey) Lavrov think about the Crimea and Ukraine situation.

When I look long term, I cannot wonder how Russia will ever leave Crimea. Does that mean that Russia is the next Iran with "forever" sanctions? I cannot see another story, unless Putin leaves and the next leader is more centrist, like Medvedev.
Exactly, I keep trying to make people watch a talk from John Mearsheimer [1] from 2015 right after Crimea was invaded and I've been only met with aggressive retorts for a week, like I'm some kind of Russian government shill...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
I doubt that proposal ever gets adopted.
I’m now tempted to read The Glass Bead Game again, it’s been a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
Can't neighbours send help without publicly advertising it?