skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see a problem with Finland joining NATO on a reciprocal basis; as long as Russia can set up a military base on Cuba. Of course the United States will start a world war before they allow that to happen, but then we can't reasonably expect any different from Russia?
Yes, this is not coming from a place of desire for consumer freedom or protection. It’s yet another attempt at keeping an antiquated and unnecessary model (dealerships) alive and relevant.

People absolutely should be able to switch off OTA updates, but there’s absolutely no need for a third party (such as dealerships) to be involved. Dealerships also don’t want you to be able to update your car’s software on your own, which is anti-consumer.

So in my mind this legislation shouldn’t be supported. Regulations requiring user control of automotive software should be coming from the angle of right to repair, which benefits buyers instead of dealers.
I’m wondering how supplying weapons is supposed to stay clear of Putin’s warning to other nations not to interfere or face instant consequences.
NSM, undefined in the article, appears to be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguag...

“The natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) is a linguistic theory that reduces lexicons down to a set of semantic primitives“
> Soldiers do not go into action with their phones

Yes they do, all the time. I don't think anyone left the wire without their phone while I was in Afghanistan.
> They literally are calling Ukrainians Nazis

Particularly galling considering the Ukrainian president is Jewish, his grandfather fought the Nazis in the Red Army and lost a great many members of his extended family to the Holocaust:

https://archive.fo/30Zzx

Even more galling, the fact that Vladimir Putin has been funding neo-nazi and assimilated groups like the Rassemlement National or Eric Zemmour in France, or the AfD in Germany.
You, of course, is educated enough to remember that whole Caribbean crisis was in response to US placing nukes in Turkey.
By definition as root you can, irrespective of if they are files or not. You have complete access to the memory, networking, and code execution state of the machine.
How efficient are inverter ACs for heating if it's >0 outside ? Anyone has cost comparison that would ballpark it ?
Is it? I didn't want to blame the whole of Russia when Putin has more authoritative powers over the countries decisions, quite unlike the US. I'll fix it regardless since this is a nuanced difference.
Ask HN: Turing.com and Toptal. Legit?
I always hear very good things about remote work sites such as Turing.com and Toptal.com, and I wonder, are they real? Do people from developing countries really work there for such good salaries?

I know that they are useless for people who live in tech hubs, but for people who live in a place with very few tech jobs are they worthy the time?
It did, and they did. That's probably exactly why they allowed it like that in the first place - if the transaction is fraudulent then simply remove the user's entitlement, but offer instant access for better experience.
> possibly among some of the richest oligarchs

Two of them, Press Secretary Peskov and Abramovich, both have daughters that decried the war on Instagram. (Peskov's daughter's post was taken down fast.)
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were repugnant, but comparing the invasion of countries with brutal authoritarian regimes with the invasion of a functional liberal democracy seems disingenuous.
https://www.reddit.com/r/britishcolumbia/comments/sz8acp/t50...
This line may be crucial:
"The cell model that we used in this study is a carcinoma cell line, with active DNA replication which differs from non-dividing somatic cells."
If one is here for the comments, your suggestion doesn’t help
No, some are still broadsheets, such as the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times.
Stalin already did that, but not with nukes. He did not seem to mind.
They're much more recent than that, dating to about 2017.[0] CNN's main website in 2001 wouldn't have needed a text-only site because it was already so lightweight.[1]

[0] https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2017/text-only-news-sites...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010912003713/http://www.cnn.co...
Weren't, e.g., the Abu Ghraib photos and video from cellphones? I honestly don't have any first-hand knowledge, but I would be surprised if the facts on the ground vs official policy regarding soldiers' phones wouldn't be different. That said, I'd also be surprised if cellular internet was functional in the middle of a war.
The camera creates a hash of the raw image data and signs that with a private key => If the camera firmware is secure, you can't fake this.

Photoshop modifies the image => hash of the new image data is signed by your personal private key + signature includes camera hash => if someone steals your image, you can prove that your created the Jpeg based off your raw

But yes, it doesn't protect against you using your camera to take a photo of your screen showing a deepfaked image. It might just make this more expensive to fake if it includes GPS into the signature.
RF has multiple billions of dollars in budget to make fakes en masse at professional level.

Ukraine is busy fighting for survival.

It looks like they look equal in your eyes, so RF is very weak and Ukraine is very strong.
I don't see how that's ludicrous. There's a lot of dirty money on both sides. One could easily imagine a scheme where items or accounts loaded with games bought with dirty BTC are sold for now cleaner fiat or crypto.
This isn't March Madness. We're not here to do brackets. We all know who and what BO was. Trying to diminish that by hiding behind an oversimplification such as "Well, he's no Vlad" is anti-history.

There's no need for that.
Tech Sanctions: Companies like Disqus should revoke licenses for RT.com
Sites like RussiaToday (RT.com) have become filled with racist, anti-Semitic and misinformation comments - tacitly supporting Russian disinfo interests in the Western media sphere.

When will this change?

https://imgur.com/a/sSOghYC
>Lex Fridman mentioned on multiple podcasts how much he admires Putin

I think that is a distortion of Lex's opinions.
Do you have a good reference on the relationship between quantum computers and Fourier transforms? I’m a DSP researcher by day and this is the first time I’ve heard about this, so my interest is piqued.
The terms of surrender Putin is asking for are:

- Ukraine remains neutral

- No foreign weapons in Ukraine

No regime change, no occupation. I wonder why you’re talking about that. Can you explain why those terms are unacceptable?
It clearly wasn't a MANPAD. 70 kg warhead of Buk M1 can do that much damage.
Deterrence relies on the to-be-deterred believing the deterrence threat. If entrant X is not defensible, it won't be defended, therefore the deterrence value of accepting entrant X is low.

No one -but no one- believes that NATO will fight a war with Russia over Finland, or over Ukraine, or Belarus, or Georgia, or at all. Certainly Putin does not. I assert certainty w/o being a mind reader and not truly knowing what's in going on in his mind, but it's pretty clear to any and all that Germans, French, British, Americans, etc, none of them want a shooting war with Russia even if it could be an easy win because a) it might not be an easy win, b) it might be ruinously costly in blood and treasure even if it were an easy win, c) it might lead to nuclear war where no one wins and everyone loses.

If, however, Finland is easily defended, and can defend itself by itself with little extra help from NATO, then that's a deterrence to invasion of Finland regardless of Finland's membership in NATO. I think the experience with the Winter and Continuation Wars makes it pretty clear that Finland can defend itself, at least for some time, so that alone is deterrence against Russia invading Finland. Inviting Finland into NATO would then seem mostly an empty gesture (since we all know NATO won't actually fight Russia), but also a provocative action (see Ukraine). It's lose-lose.

It's time for sane thinking to prevail at NATO. The status quo ante-Georgia was fine. The current state of play is not. We got here in large part because of overly-optimistic belief in NATO. Instead of deterring Putin, the inverse happened. The reason is simple: NO ONE believes that NATO would actually fight. Even back in the 80s under Reagan, no one believed any countries other than the U.S. and UK would really fight, but at least Western Europe was defensible and worth fighting for, and the U.S. being willing to fight was deterrence enough. Eastern Europe is now defensible and worth fighting for, and I do believe Poland would fight for itself, and so would other Eastern European countries, but I don't think any would fight for Ukraine, not even if Ukraine had been admitted a few months ago.
Why do you say that? He managed to get Elon Musk and other heavy hitters on before hardly anyone was aware of who Lex was. Whose to say what the limits are.
I don't give a shit if it's from space. This isn't a football game. The New York Times is not a medical journal.
An important line in this article: "The cell model that we used in this study is a carcinoma cell line, with active DNA replication which differs from non-dividing somatic cells. It has also been shown that Huh7 cells display significant different gene and protein expression including upregulated proteins involved in RNA metabolism."
This is a huge caveat. The cells in the experiment are not similar to those in the human body, and the differences are very difficult to assess. While integration of RNA into the DNA is not impossible, it's something to be expected with a viral infection. So even if this indeed happens in human cells, the question is how large the risk is comparing to the risks of contracting covid.

Simple explanation: the researches found the RNA from vaccine integrates itself into the genome, hence DNA, and is being transcribed by the cell. This can alter protein structure, as in: make a mess and harm the cells. What they're describing is not unthinkable in viral infections but the research work here is not very good and the headline is amplified without much justification.
Bottom line: don't panic, do vaccinate.

Resource: am a molecular biologist
Have you seen the map of areas around Kyiv? It's woods left and right and a flat land. How's a siege even going to work?
Wasn't there a war between two NATO countries? Turkey and Greece.
not that high 2200m-2600m. But temperature wise it was tough ... woke up to snow on regular basis in August. the surrounding peaks were all +4000m / glaciers. weather could be 4 seasons in a single day.
If most of these people dont't use Slack yet i wouldn't push it. Non-technical people tend to have some resistance towards these new technologies especially in their free time.

I would start with assessing which messaging tools they are already using and see if one of that feeds your needs.

While Slack (or other similar tools like Discord, Teams, Matrix) would be theoretically suitable, it doesn't help when no one uses it.
A set of WhatsApp/Signa/Telegram Groups for different kind of topics might be the better solution.

If you are deciding towards a new Tool that most of the people aren't familiar, I'd suggest to organise a little install party to get everyone ready to use the new tool and to overcome the potential initial scepticism and to gain momentum. Also make sure to define a concrete cut-over date to avoid creating just an additional channel.
NATO is strictly a military alliance. The UN has never been that.
If you are in a group and a sniper hits someone that isn't an instant kill, what do you do? Take cover and let them die, or run in the line of fire and try to help or try to find the sniper?
People often underestimate the effect of propaganda. I know very high profile and highly intelligent people, think doctors and lawyers, who think it still is an act of self-defense against neo-nazis.

I can understand the argument of NATO encircling Russia, but the invasion of a sovereign democracy can't be justified. Russia was on losing track because of Russia, not Ukraine.
I guess but only because there was a very very vocal backlash. It wouldn't have necessarily worked if everyone was just complacent and apologetic for Trudeau. Trudeau had no intention of showing any restraint until the backlash intensified.
100% Putin is the bad guy here. There's no justification for invasion. None.

That being said, we need to look at how we got here, maybe what should've happened instead and what can be done to hopefully defuse and resolve this situation.

First, dangling the carrot of NATO membership, which because with George W Bush's swansong in a NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008 (and hasn't been changed by any subsequent administration) was dangerous and deliberately antagonistic to Russia. This was compounded by successive waves of expansion after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the entity NATO was supposedly created to defend against.

Second, Zelensky seems out of his depth here (geopolitically) and should've realized this. The annexation of Crimea in 2014 should've raised the alarm bells here both that embracing to the West was dangerous and because of the threat of Russia unlikely to ever happen. This means another route needs to be paved.

Third, outright refusing to take NATO membership off the negotiating table by the US (which, as noted, was never going to happen) was downright irresponsible and clueless, particularly when the US would never put troops into Ukraine and directly get into a military conflict with Russia. That alone should prompt a less hardline approach.

This brings me to the substance of the article and a model that should've been pursued by the Ukrainian government. And that is one of neutrality, probably most similar to the Swiss model. This would include:

1. A consitutional amendment against joining any military alliance;

2. A consitutional amendment for military neutrality that might include, for example, not allowing passage by any foreign military without, say, the approval of both Russia and NATO;

3. National service, say 12 months.

4. A policy of building a defensive army. That means fixed military installations, particularly on entry points into Ukraine. It also means tactical rather than strategic weapons;

5. Equipping and training armed services in insurgency. Hardened communications, access to caches of small arms in the vent of invasion and access to weapons that have shown to be devastating against an occupying force (eg portable SAMs).

6. Exercises and planning for defending Ukraine against large outside military forces. The idea here isn't necessarily to win in such a conflict but to make the cost of victory and occupation so high as to deter it from happening.

You would probably need additional steps to protect legitimate Russian economic interests, most specifically pipelines of oil and gas to the EU and deepwater port access to the Black Sea.

As for disputed regions, you may need to adopt a model similar to, say, Nortern Ireland of joint control and semi-autonomy while still being with the borders of Ukraine.
Admiration for Putin is frankly despicable.
Original link is https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/articl...
It's pretty clear that such a revolution isn't coming now. There is probably little grass-roots support for such a thing in Belarus, but more importantly, Putin would absolutely quash such a revolution now.

Therefore all talk of Belarus joining NATO is fantasy.

Fantasy isn't going to stop war in Ukraine.

Fantasy can only cause war.

Time to get real.
Additionally OrioleDB fundamentally changes design of buffer management and improves the vertical scalability a lot.
https://www.slideshare.net/AlexanderKorotkov/solving-postgre...

Also, I have to mention that zheap development is inactive for now. And its undo implementation was never complete. Zheap undo works only if you don't update any indexed column. Otherwise, it works as plain heap with write-amplification and bloat.
Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian use the Cyrillic alphabet and I don't trust a random burner twitter account making that claim.

Rob Lee, who has been independently reporting about Ukraine since 2014, is fairly credible and does not appear to stand to gain anything from accusations that he is pro-Russian
In addition to not posting flamewar comments as I asked you upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30481406), please do not cross into personal attack as you did here. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is the worst way imaginable to cash out dirty bitcoins. You can clean your cryptocurrency without paying Valve outrageous amounts for dirty fiat currency that you’ll just have to launder again.
Seems like a mix of port blocks and criminal penalties, while not killing cryptocurrency, would greatly hinder its overall utility and thus any associated fiscal value.
I wouldn't agree. Of course there's a push for homogenisation because everyone has to speak Russian, which is the official language of the state, but nobody is stopping people in the "national republics" from using their corresponding languages. Chechens speak Chechen at home, Tatars speak their language (if they want to). Modern Russia inherited this from the USSR's policies towards ethnic minorities. National languages are taught in schools.

I'm not a fan of Putin's policies here, but inside Russia it's certainly not oppressive in the linguistic sense. If you agree on the unity of the state (don't want actual political independence), you're free to use your language.
"...In September 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, Russian Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and his platoon seized a four-story apartment building—later dubbed “Pavlov’s House”—overlooking a large square. The building had long lines of sight from three sides. Pavlov’s men place barbed wire and antipersonnel and antitank mines around the building, smashed and cut holes in walls to create interior walkways, and placed machine-gun firing points in the building’s corners. They would move to the cellar as indirect fire struck the top of the building or to higher floors when German Panzers approached so they could fire antitank rifles down onto the tanks’ vulnerable, thin roofs. Pavlov and his men held the building for fifty-eight days against numerous mechanized and combined arms attacks, causing an unknown number of German vehicle and soldier kills in the process..."
It can be, relatively speaking, quite easy to defend a city, the Syrian rebels in East Aleppo became quite good at it pretty fast, the same goes for the rebels in the Damascus neighbourhood of Jobar (for this latter example I recommend this video [1], it gives a general idea of how it well went; bear in mind that it was filmed from the pov of the government forces).

The problem is that the attacking force at some point realises that the defendants are pretty well dug in and the commanders of those attacking forces also realise that one of the few solutions available in order to achieve victory is to, almost quite literally, flatten the city. That's what happened in East Aleppo (with the help of the Russian airforce), that's what happened in Jobar, too. Not sure if the flattening of Kyiv would be the best thing for the Ukranian people going forward.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ZXPhmR7lQ
Be on the lookout for moisture and mold. I tried to isolate my basement from being heated last winter, and my reward was that everything stored there got moldy. You need to maintain a temperature warm enough to reduce relative humidity, or run a dehumidifier.
> It could be seen as provocative.

The invasion of Ukraine has invalidated this line of reasoning. NATO is the only definitive way to prevent a Russian invasion now, and every moment of delay puts Finland in greater danger. If Putin is crazy enough to invade a NATO Finland, then he is definitely crazy enough to invade a non-NATO Finland.
Airdrop it in Poland, Slovakia or Romania, drive it across the border.
University students are living in cheap hotels to “cheat” landlords
NFT Game Pixelmon Stirs Controversy for Under-Delivering on Promises
Oh wow the west helps those poor [non white] places so much! I heard we send aircrafts to Yemen too.
Please do not take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. Also, please do not cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Update from Ukrainian state media:

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3413919-state-border-gu...

The site seems legit despite the .net domain (cross-check with the Wikipedia article, where the URL has not been modified recently). Doubtful it got hacked as the latest articles do not have a pro-Russian angle.
All his degrees are from Drexel University. He goes to lengths to hide, or at least obfuscate, that fact.

Source: went to school with him.
It's kind of incredible that after ~20 years of programming I'd never come across anything illuminating this breakdown:

> The terminal emulator is a graphical application whose role it is to interpret data coming from the shell and display it on screen. This display is often textual but not always.

> The shell provides an interface to the operating system, allowing the user to interact with its file-system, run processes and often have access to basic scripting capabilities.

> These two programs are connected together by the pty (pseudoterminal) which provides a bi-directional asynchronous communication channel between the two.
What do you mean blur?

If you’re watching in a web browser you can always open an inspector and add a css rule to the video player “filter: blur(2px)” but I feel like that’s not what you’re asking :)
pdf is available online. Pretty cool artefact, altough makes me a bit uneasy, when he writes about targetting upper class civilians, because they support the oppresive system
"Private!! DID I not tell you to put your phone in airplane mode?"

"Sir yes sir!"
> Live and learn.. and learn again later when you let yourself slip :)

Definitely. I'm as careful as I am due to past issues, either my own or those of others that I've witnessed. Seeing the look on someone's face when they ask “You know about these things, you can do something to get it back right? Right?!”, and having to let them down…
Nationalistic flamewar is not welcome here. No more of this, please. I'm sure you have good reasons for feeling the way you do, but that doesn't make it ok to post destructively to this forum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Shouldn’t we be paying more attention to the future of space governance?
Putin cannot really do much. West fully joining the war would mean nuclear exchange. But Puting ending the world due to weapons shipments? Very unlikely.
If they aren't to be convinced of the cause then there's no choice right? Then your bedroom will just be colder than theirs, and shared spaces could meet in the middle (sofa can have blankets; at dinner there is hot food; at lunch you might need to heat the eating room a bit more).

And it depends on how extreme you want to go: 13°C is laudable but I'm trying to do the same and 16-17°C is the limit before I need to put on a real winter coat and actually impair comfort/mobility while working on my computer. And that's with headwear and everything (which I take off for customer video calls, to come across a bit more professionally...). If you'd want to go 13°C then I guess shared spaces might be more towards the comfort side of the spectrum.
What is Putin going to do? Bomb a NATO country? That won’t end well for him or anyone else.