skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which could be revoked by printing new money with a new design and giving them only to the friendly parties in replacement of the old ones. It's routinely done (Euro is on its second design) and old banknotes and coins are no more valid after some years (the first series of Euros doesn't have an end of life yet.)
Your concerns about Donbas are addressed in the very article you are commenting on.
Anything similar in English?
I think I like this rule in a sense that it will stop intolerant people from creating mess. This is also one reason I left Reddit. However, this also means people wont be vocal and you can't say anything against fascist government.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
> Russian bank could just increase that number to whatever they like.

Money is an IOU from the bank. So that's what all banks do. But they'll need assets on the right side of their balance sheet.
well as long as the contrasts are obvious, generalizing was the intent
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30469237
Most people fail to understand the psychological impact of jobs continually interfacing with some of the worst people in society. I say this not as an apology or excuse, but simply as a statement of fact and a challenge that needs to be overcome. It happens to prison guards, Police, EMTs, and many others.

A portion of the people you work with want to kill you or each other given the chance. Over time this leads you to dehumanize and hate them. Over time, this view gets generalized to most of the people in your care.
I wonder if it could be solvable by an algorithm that was capable of operating at a higher level.

Mayhaps the issue is approaching the problem at the same dimensional level that the problem originated from. After all, humans can come at the problem from a higher cognitive level and, given enough time, resolve that an infinite loop is taking place, so the problem is not fundamentally unsolvable.

Einstein said, "No Problem Can Be Solved From The Same Level Of Consciousness That Created It", so it is feasible to assume that, say, a quantum computer running every possible iteration of an algorithm could easily identify which iterations of the algorithm's parameters would induce infinite loops by simple attrition.
I don't believe this argument for a second. Google almost single-handedly solved the problem of email spam a decade ago. And yet, robot accounts are a problem?

For the company that loves encouraging obnoxious Captcha's to self-fund their AI/ML research and data harvest the web, they surely don't seem to like using it on their own platforms.
> I am only trying to understand

I just hope you would be able to understand feeling of Ukrainian 14-year-old girl, killed by Russian missile yesterday on the street of Uman city, Cherkasy region, Ukraine.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1497242681981882371
I paid around $10 in brazilian Steam.
> police state

The goon squads are already being assembled:

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497174648072531969?s=20...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10551327/Chechen-sp...

https://mena24tv.com/en/2022/02/25/kadyrov-mobilizes-10000-f...
I might be wrong but both of them aren't an equivalent to Swift. Rupay seems to be a card network like Visa and UPI builts on top of IMPS which might be considered an alternative, however IMPS is limited to financial institutions of one country and one currency.

https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/imps/product-overview
Myron Barnstone has a great series on the topic. Some of his stuff is on YouTube.
> Something like the DNT-Header should have been in the law

DNT is another bit of information that can be used to track you. It's ironic. If you enable it in your browser, then you stand out among the masses who by default, have it turned off.
http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/announcing_zephyr-copilot/
In the app itself it's only a small percentage.
> In The Bitcoin Standard, Ammous blamed the Fed for the modern “breakdown of the family,” and for “perhaps most damagingly, the depletion of the soil of its nutrients, leading to ever-lower levels of nutrients in food.” He compared the art of the Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic periods, all financed properly with sound money, to the decadent culture of the twenty-first century, with its “animalistic noises’’ and “immediate sensory pleasures.’’ “It was hard money that financed Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos,” he wrote, “while easy money financed Miley Cyrus’s twerks.” It was, moreover, “no coincidence that the era of central bank-controlled money was inaugurated with the first world war in human history.” Here was a theory of everything, a moral case for Bitcoin that encompassed art and war and even the nutrients in our soil. (Ammous disdains what he calls “fiat food,” claiming his diet consists of “approximately 95% red meat, 5% other meats, and approximately zero plant matter.”)

I un-ironically believe all of this, but when put in this way, it sounds crazy. But I believe it.

Is it not curious that true fiat currency is a relatively recent phenomena, perhaps 100 years old in reality and 50 years officially, yet amazing discoveries, inventions, buildings, factories, art, etc. were all made before fiat currency? Fiat isn't a requirement nor an inevitability - it is a human invention, and one I personally see as a mistake.
> Expecting people to know meta tags is ridiculous for all but very specialized roles.

Devil's advocate - is it? You're right, this stuff rarely gets touched, and (aside from changing the colours in the bit you hate!) it's the kind of stuff I'd normally boilerplate between projects.

But if you're interviewing for a role and you're not giving them a coding test (yet?) but looking to see how curious they are, how disparate their knowledge is, or just (as you say) how good someone is at guessing from context - isn't this a fun experiment?

I'd imagine just seeing how people deal with the answers gives you a good idea as to how they'd approach something when you're working together. Are they guessing? Confidently wrong? Seen it before but don't know what it is? Can roughly talk around it and what it does without exactly knowing? Proficient in it all (and how that relates to what they have or haven't said on their CV - have they under or over sold themselves?!)?

I assume you could apply the same sort of test to any domain - test someone on something closely related you don't necessarily need to know and see how they react.
This is a valid point, thanks for bringing this up. For now, as I said, I have a couple of friends with established brands looking for people they can work with. We are going to try and onboard people from their networks and scale up from there.
Obscure HTML Tags
Google only indexes a fraction of the public internet.
I doubt they much care about neoliberal agenda in first place. It is all about profit. Or being outside that system.
Finding Missed Optimizations Through the Lens of Dead Code Elimination [pdf]
Not in the US. The US prison system is for punishment first. A system that focuses on rehabilitation does not treat people this poorly, in general.
European Data Flow Monitoring
Satellite phones or BGAN.
Why would I pay for something that I can get for free?
I was watching a mainstream news report (I'll try to find it and edit my comment) where the host and the guest were talking about the impact of economic sanctions. They said it's not intended to stop Russia, but to inflict pain on the citizens, so that they citizens will turn against leadership.

In that moment, it really clicked for me how much normal people are pawns to be used in much larger games. And there apparently is no morality when dealing with pawns, unless it is convenient.
I know that technically they have elections (I'm a Russian living abroad), they just count in a 'special way' so they get the result they want.

And yes I agree popular uprisings is a possibility. But in the case of Germany in 1930-1940s that didn't quite work.
Literally my entire kindle library is from there and surprise surprise, I haven't been visited by the police (yet).
The supremacy of the US dollar is partly held up by SWIFT. If most countries move to non-SWIFT payments, the US dollar will weaken.
How much of that remains if you don't review immediately, but when view count exceeds -- for example -- 100 views? I'd expect a dramatic drop from 30 000 hours.
> <html dir="ltr" lang="en">

This one surprised me a bit. Are there browsers that are default Right-to-Left rendering and are going to put English language characters backwards if you don't specify the direction?
The only people that can realistically help Ukraine right now are the Russian people.
I think, if the SWIFT ban really was "on the table", they would be making the case for China's own CIPS/CBCD system, if Russia decided to opt for such service as an alternative.

TIL the NSA [1] has it's tentacles in SWIFT too..

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT#Monitoring_by_the_NSA
I think that's veering deep into conspiracy theory territory. I know it's been normalized in the past few year but Russia isn't actually to blame for everything wrong in every country. Do they take advantage of the anti nuclear sentiment since they sell gas? Yes. But is there some massive russian psyops campaign to push that narrative? No. Russian intelligence services can't be incompetent as what happened in the UK seems to indicate and yet also be super sneaky all powerful, election/narrative/social media controlling masterminds at the same time.
It seems to me that the first-page prevalence of scummy clone sites can only be explained by either extreme ineptness or profit-driven malice from google. It's not like google's search engineers have never heard about this problem.
Maybe this? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20903443
Russia needs China at this point. It is a risky position to be in. While China is happy to partner with Russia it will not be because they support Russia ideologically, but because they see it as economically advantageous to do so. The minute it stops being in China’s best interest is the minute the partnership cedes. China has options. Russia doesn’t.
For me, it was really stumbling onto Feng Zhu's channel that changed things: https://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL/videos
The big change is more at a metacognitive level, which was to understand that you could view 'art' purely as a technical field, not something that involved artistic sense or talent.
So he goes other detail density distribution, color theory, perspective, etc.
The video content also helps getting a morale boost to grind through the exercises.

I would say you would not really benefit from actual dedicated courses for the first 2 years (assuming you practice with hobby-time and not full time); you have so much to learn that y
ou will do big progress just doing standard exercises. Dedicated tutoring is good, but it's probably easier to get decent feedback IRL as opposed to online courses (unless you pay a fortune, it's easier to get advice from good local artists). James Gurney and Nathan Fowkes are great references.

(For reference I post some of my stuff here: https://twitter.com/wooliondraws
I'm not close to any mastery, but given the amount of time I can sink into this hobby since 2015, I'm now fairly happy.).

Although there's no miracle: FZD school claims to bring people from beginner to pro-level in 3 years, but at the price of heart attacks at 30 years old for some of them.
It's not like most people wouldn't shit the bed in his situation.
This is a very under-discussed set of people; I left a job mid-2021 to work in an office (and threw away a promotion), and it's been the best decision ever. I even gave up some freedom to use the tools I enjoy most, because the new position had meaningful problems for me to solve.
Great game ... I was waiting for this one!!
Telegram would do ok at 14.4
They are a little more theoretical at this point but there is also compressed air and mechanical (concrete blocks lifted by a crane) storage as well.
Ah. FizzBuzz the destroyer.
Not just Americans. If all 30 NATO nations threatened to halt trade, China would be in a tough position.
Realized just as the edit window elapsed (Arc ate my revised text!! noo) - [12] should be [12,15] (I got them the wrong way around and I can't renumber them now), and [13,14] was supposed to go after "encoded redundantly into the IBAN [13,14]".

First time using this citation format (keeping track of numbers is fun O.o), I typically insert links inline but I expected my comment would have been unread(able) in that case :)
Democratizing graph-based security analysis – Starbase
I really love maps like this

But how's this related to SWIFT?
I agree. Maybe there's some truth in the whole "brain plasticity" talking point but how long does it take a child to become fully comfortable with speaking and writing a language? 8 years? Longer? Compared to an adult who can accomplish that in about a year. And that is when the child has no choice but to use that language, since they know no other.
The US prison-industrial complex is really disgusting and before anyone brings it up: private prisons aren't why. Those are still the minority of prison populations (but yes they're still bad).

Price gouging (ie commisary, cost of phone calls, charging for video vists in prison, copays to see a doctor, institutionalized rape as a form of punishment and control and yes, solitary confinement).

Prosecturos, legislators and juries seek extended prison sentences as a form of vengeance and being able to appear "tough on crime" yet the outcomes are very racially-based. You can see this in the lengths of sentences for similar circumstances that only vary on race, the likelihood of the death penalty and the fact that cases that are ultimately exonerated (eg by DNA evidence) are heavily slanted towards minorities (meaning they were wrongfully convicted to begin with).

Our current president was one of the key architects of the 1994 crime bill (signed into law by Bill Clinton) that was a massive contributor to mass incarceration for low-level drug possession crimes in particular.

And when people do get out we give them a scarlet letter for life in the form of the "are you a felon?" question that should be illegal. We throw people in prison who were out on probation or parole for merely being charged with a felony (note: CHARGED not CONVICTED).

It's really depressing how comfortable so many Americans are with this level of cruelty.
>> if Russia is kicked off SWIFT, it would be removing any sort of restraint they've displayed so far.

I don't think they care much about that. They have already assumed they would be. There are several other options for them. It most hurts Europe and their investments/payments, as well as our intelligence tracking of high net worth individuals.
Well yeah, if you examine YouTube in isolation and disregard how its algorithm surfaces content, then sure, most people watching YouTube are watching workout videos and game streams. And maybe that's how YouTube is defining itself, and that's fine, but that's not how you create cultural phenomena. Likewise, millions of people drink Coca-Cola every day, but no one really gives a shit about Coca-Cola even though nearly 2 billion servings are drunk every day worldwide. But people still write actual articles about coffee for some reason, and that probably has to do with its relative lack of homogeneity and safety (from a taste standpoint). YouTube wants to sell fizzy sugar water, and that's the sort of relevance they will get.

The only reason I point this out as a bad thing is that YouTube long ago represented something else that I think mattered more than cat videos, no matter how small the audience was or is.
Why the first line of Twitter, why not Facebook.com or Google.com actually I just looked there all very different given meta tags for each company, i.e Facebook does not use twitter meta tags from what i could see neither does the google home page, although i guess there search does.
iunno, more people than I could imagine there think air conditioning makes you sick.

To the point of opening windows on the highway instead of turning on the a/c that’s there.

My sample is limited, but it’s thinking I’ve never encountered in North America.

Having said that, construction usually has excellent shutters on windows, so you can block the sun effectively. Covered outdoor parking is common at malls in the south. Being and staying cool are encouraged, but a/c often isn’t.
Or turn on mute.
"Wow, when you say it out loud it sounds crazy", followed by zero introspection.
With all due respect Russian people are the only ones who can stop Putin.
Presumably they'd have to treat the mycelium in some way but it would be cool if they didn't have to as mycelium can grow together and form a single organism. That would mean after you built your wall out of bricks, it would just turn into a solid wall after all the bricks grew together. Probably wouldn't work in practice but fun in theory.
This is unquestionably the case. Manipulating the flow of information has been part of Warfare 101 for thousands of years. Russia's manipulation of social media is mature and well documented, during times of non-war. The idea that they would make use of those capabilities during wartime is not just plausible, it's just as plainly predictable as "the soldiers guns probably shoot bullets".
Have you looked at the Librem 14?[0]. I don't own one, but would like to own one. They seem state-of-the-art enough for my needs, and have privacy measures you can't find in Mac like hardware kill switches etc

[0] https://puri.sm/
And the reality is, even if nameplate capacity is sufficient - effective capacity is not often enough it would be foolhardy to depend on it during the winter.

Natural Gas has a mind blowing amount of thermal energy, and per unit is essentially free compared to anything else. 42-45MJ/kg.

Near as I can tell, Germany imported 119 billion cubic meters of natural gas in Jan/Feb of last year. A cubic meter of natural gas has approximately 38MJ of energy in it, so that is around 4.5 x 10^18 joules of energy or 1.2 x 10^13 kWh. Something like 12 trillion kWh.

About 40% of that was from Russia (near as I can tell).

Natural gas and Electric heating probably have similar end efficiencies (taking into account electric transmission losses).
I'm intrigued! This seems super promising.

How's your conversational French after having listened to the program?
Shockingly Accurate Prediction of Russia-Ukraine Tensions 7 Years Ago
Humans are hard to sketch because your eyes / brain are really good at seeing humans.

Its one of the reasons why people draw monsters (or furries) as they get started. You can make bad proportions, and if your brain doesn't recognize it as "human", your brain is far more forgiving.

"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" is what worked for me, at least at a basic level. I think the "upside down human" and "upside down face" drawing exercises really worked for me.

After that, its just sitting down and taking the time to draw. As a beginner, you'll have to spend hours to master the strokes of the pencil to make something look kinda-sorta not that good. While a true expert will be able to sketch something quickly in far shorter time.

Just accept the fact that drawing/sketching will take much longer for you (because you're still a beginner), and work at it repeatedly. Over time, things get faster and faster.

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Landscapes are probably better to start off on, if you really want landscapes. Most humans don't see the errors in landscapes, so you can "Bob Ross" it to some extent. (All "mistakes" can be turned to look like something different)
Upwork also currently writes that they stopped working with people in affected areas, even though the Executive Order does not seem to be that wide (it lists particular banks, not all of them, as well as specific organizations and individuals). I suspect that they may be erring on the side of caution and stopping everything first while they do the ultimately correct thing (consulting their lawyers).

These developments affect me personally, but I can understand the intent. In fact, I would understand the potential blocking of Russia more so than restricting people in occupied areas, who may well be victims for the most part. (Luckily, though, I don't have a family to support, unlike some others.)
Which would significantly devalue the currency because you'd hedge your bets against not becoming unfavourable to whichever regime controls its issuance.
It will definitely come to this eventually, even if OP does find some good teaching resources.

Here's what I've heard from artists: there's always a stage where you hate they piece, and you just have to push through (goes for writing too). Just push through, remind yourself no one else ever has to see it, and you'll get better with each one.
On those very same program (vim/neovim) come to my mind there are specific shortcuts to go to the start/end.
So actually reading the post now:

> People even used to use * { margin: 0 } which is totally overkill and not great for performance.

Wait why would that be bad for performance? Zero margins should be just as fast as 8px margins, and if you have this style in the head section it's not like the browser will have to relayout a bunch of stuff.
CDs may be more-or-less obsolete on modern hardware, but if you're like myself, or like this author, running old hardware that does the job just fine is preferable over upgrading. And for someone learning about computers for the first time, having multiple old computers to disassemble, rearrange, and put back together, can be an invaluable learning experience.

If you have one working computer with a CD drive, it's probably useful to have two, so one can be used to rescue the other if need be. Some older hardware (Core 2 Duo era) of mine has presented issues when booting from USB, but doesn't have any problems with CDs.
I really hope all of Europe gets serious about reducing their fossil fuel consumption now that it's a short term existential threat.
So should poster trust his own experience with his own eyes or Russian state television?

If an observation is also repurposed as a propaganda piece, does that negate the validity of said observation?

I can't stand this bit of logical fallacy that's being used to stifle discussion. You asserted X, but so did some objectionable entity. Therefore, X is false, and you are just as bad as said objectionable entity.
Written by a former colleague whom I trust and who knows the space! Very good explanations and easy to follow.