skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are your suggestions on how to prepare for cyber-attacks?
Western countries agreed to supply Ukraine with new weapons and ban Russia from SWIFT payments. Russia might respond to Western countries with cyberattacks. Many businesses and institutions are probably unprepared and vulnerable. What can be done quickly to protect hardware and data when you are not technically savvy?
Now lets put you in their shoes. All your usual news sources are gone and you get the perspective from foreign news that the entity you represent is the aggressor, would that be convincing to you?
Also simple English, which has a surprisingly complete wikipedia translation (https://simple.wikipedia.org/).
You might just be watching a little too much Lex... I'd get burnt out on just about anything if I watch enough of it.
> joining other Western powers in support of harsher sanctions

They "soften" in their "don't cut Rusia from SWIFT" stance.

In other words, Germany is coming closer to harder sanctions.
If it reaches that point, wouldn't a desperate Putin likely launch nukes as a last resort before being overthrown?
I remember working at an organization that essentially made the results of performance reviews open across the team. The rational was that it would help people make sense out of salary figures (which were also open). It did not improve team function and led to a lot of paranoia, fear, and resentment.

People keep secrets on some level because they need privacy. If a person is struggling, they often react by withdrawing and don't always appreciate their struggles being brought to attention. Especially when their livelihood is on the line. Everyone's different, but increased openness is not always going to help. Everyone should have the right to privacy in both personal and professional settings.

Update: Actually, I think the author of the article must understand all of this because they do call out privacy as necessary and try to distinguish it from what they're calling secrecy. And secrecy seems to basically mean willingly withholding information necessary to properly complete a job. They say this could happen if teams have an antagonistic working relationship. I think it's a useful distinction as I've also seen this happen at a company, more recently than the previous counter example that I gave.
Also, note that it's possible for someone to have highly admirable traits, such as intelligence, and highly despicable traits, such as evil, at the same time. Therefore it's possible to both hate and admire someone, for different reasons. Or rather, to both admire and hate different aspects of a person at the same time.
NASA Reveals How and When It Will Destroy the International Space Station
These are instant payments, not instant settlement.

Your bank abstracts the underlying inter bank settlement complexity and aggregates all the minor transactions and transfers that individuals do to a small number of larger settlement transactions, likely on the SWIFT network.

When you make a payment, that transfer of money isn't instantly settled. The instantaneous feeling is a service that the bank provides you, but it's an illusion. There are similar experiences being built now on top of bitcoin, like http://strike.me, although the lightning network that Strike and CashApp are building upon actually is instant finality, unlike Visa/Paypal.

This is why comparing bitcoin to Visa or PayPal is fundamentally flawed, since those are both layer 2/3 networks on top of SWIFT.

The proper comparison is with other settlement networks that create finality, like SWIFT. Where SWIFT may take days to create final settlement of a transfer, bitcoin takes ~1 hour depending on how much confidence you want. Where SWIFT is secured by nation state monopolies on violence and global banking gatekeeping, bitcoin is secured by the most powerful computer network on the planet that no single nation state has the power to disrupt. Bitcoin is open and permissionless and anyone and everyone can join. SWIFT is tightly permissioned because it relies heavily on exclusive networks of humans who trust each other.
This is ridiculous. I mean the whole "we will respond to the Russian invasion" always in future tense. The Russian army has been in building its invasion force for months now. One would have thought plans for sanctions and military support (in the form of armament) have been put in place, to be acted on immediately if and when the invasion is put in motion. The current response from US and Europe leaders looks pathetic.
Ukraians are sick of being taken advantage of by Kremlin so naturally they opened towards the west. It’s their choice as a sovereign nation. If they consider they get a better deal with the west then what do you expect the west to do, reject them for fear of Putin?
They fooled us once; are you suggesting we let them fool us again? We have very good reason to look at NIST with suspicion from now on.
This is an unpopular and uncomfortable fact that's likely to get buried, and I'm aware it's a whataboutism. However, NATO dropped both cluster bombs, and depleted Uranium, on my densely populated home city in Serbia in 1999. Both of those are (and were at the time) banned by international conventions, to which the US is a signatory.
How do you live without a fridge?

Where do you put all your cheese? :)
From where does this "only" come from?
> For all we know sometimes Anonymous is the FBI.

An entirely deniable front for US cyberwarfare (or way to rally hacktivists to their cause) seems like a valuable thing for a nation state to create.
There no more is any face to save.
> A lot of people

1) Despite crypto being around for just over a decade and real commerce being transacted with it, we're still in the frighteningly early days of its use. I'd say that even super-smart technical people are just barely scratching the surface and it's probably going to be about 3-5 years before an average technical person has a proper understanding of what a blockchain is and how it works, let alone understanding the ramifications of oracles when combined with smart contracts. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but there's no chance that the general public really understands crypto right now, especially when their impression of it comes from a media that doesn't understand it either.

2) Regardless of most peoples' understanding of it, it should go without saying that human rights should not be up to a poll.

> want crypto banned simply because its uses seem to be almost entirely restricted to criminal activity

1) I don't know what percentage of crypto uses are normal commerce and which are criminal actions, but I know firsthand that crypto is used for all kinds of business payments for years.

2) You might as well advocate banning paper cash, most banks, etc if you want to ban something tied to crime.

> and speculation (i.e. gambling).

It should go without saying that even the worst excesses of gambling are legal in a free society.

If you want to ban all financial speculation, you might as well ban all betting and the stock market too.
I see lorem ipsums around?
How can I help the Ukraine defense forces?
Honestly I am trying to follow the instructions for giving funds to the army here https://armysos.com.ua/en/help-the-army But for an American the instructions are not clear. We are not used to giving direct to bank accounts and instead typically rely on credit card. Can someone help me figure out how to do this? Western Union didn't seem to work for me
The problem with the appeasement argument is that we're not talking about 1939 Germany. We're talking about Russia, the country with the largest nuclear arsenal on EArth (yes, even larger than the US nuclear arsenal). The analogy isn't remotely similar or appropriate.

Let me put it another way: what is the alternative? We're clearly not going to put boots on the ground. NATO does not want a member country directly on the Russian border, particularly a large border as Ukraine and Russia have. The US (and the rest of NATO for that matter) simply does not want to get dragged into a conflict on Russia's borders. That's it.

The US would never accept a military alliance between Russia or China with Mexico and Canada that allows Russia or China to build military bases along the US border. So why should we be surprised that the "F** the USSR" military alliance may end up building bases on Russia's borders?
I would love to see the breakdown by age. When it was Toyotas fictitious problem it came down to a bunch of old people. People that shouldn't even have a license
>Nothing you point out gets even close, in my mind, to stuff like null pointers or untyped code. So I wonder what languages you have in mind that require less patience.

You two are talking about two different things:
- The parent is talking about the ecosystem, how menial tasks have tooling in "less interesting" languages
- You are talking about the language itself

I would venture to guess that the parent would agree with you, if talking about the language in a vacuum.

An interesting competition would be to develop a complex product, without external dependencies.

My sad guess is that languages that are filled with escape hatches, like Java, Javascript, or python, would defeat more strict languages.

It's a sad guess, because I actually do prefer the Haskell way.
I’m confident the attack on the whole Ukraine is to prevent Western weapon supplied counter attacks. I doubt they have long term plans for occupation for the entire country.
Capital One froze the cards. I don't think gmail has the ability to freeze someone's cards. Has nothing to do with gmail at all, just the change of email address in Capital One.
> In 2019, almost two thirds of the extra-EU's crude oil imports came from Russia (27 %), Iraq (9 %), Nigeria and Saudi Arabia (both 8 %) and Kazakhstan and Norway (both 7 %). A similar analysis shows that almost three quarters of the EU's imports of natural gas came from Russia (41 %), Norway (16 %), Algeria (8 %) and Qatar (5 %), while over three quarters of solid fuel (mostly coal) imports originated from Russia (47 %), the United States (18 %) and Australia (14 %).

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/infographs/energy/bloc-2...
You say wait 3-6 blocks -- which makes sense for large transactions, but are there cases where 1 blocks have been getting reversed? Is this happening now because some parts of the network are on stale or diverging info?
Microtasking Platform used to locate strategically relevant targets in Ukraine
Yup, the book value is almost certainly understating what the assets are worth. But that isn't always the case. So, it basically means nothing. Folks have to do the analysis, and in this case they have.
Oh the super credible NYT! Please shovel some more drivel down the hatch.
This.

It's widely accepted that ebikes are some of the most energy efficient personal transport possible, because they're moving so little vehicle mass relative to passenger payload. Just 250 watts can give you rapid enough point to point mobility for trips up to 10 miles or so.

In the same way, heating and insulating people is vastly more efficient than heating air and brick walls. 100w of active electric heating together with a couple of layers of clothing is plenty to keep most people pretty comfortable at an ambient temperature of 14-15c.
She could “set up and walk” while in a coma. I didn’t know you could do that.
They seem to congrats around the Pacific Northwest.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/racist-a...

https://www.kuow.org/stories/extremist-groups-popping-up-lef...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/northwest-fr...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne...

https://www.splcenter.org/states/washington
Exactly. But the original argument was "well ackshually, you can self host Github, you just have to pay for it". Technically true, practically not.
Bitcoin only gives you a pseudonym wallet ID. I'd say it's less anonymous than cash, since everyone has the ledger.
Don't move the goalposts. White supremacist terror cells are not being cracked down on the same way OWS activists were. That's being given a pass.
The West is doing a great job at ignoring the fact that the Ukrainians are bullies themselves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine#Ukr...

Non Europeans also have trouble understanding that without Russian gas a lot of people would be without heating and Ukrainians don't care about that(their politician said so), but expect Europeans to care about them.

The US is also quite allergic to armed neighbours, see Cuban Missile Crisis.
Many of the public assets also provide cash.
Information Warfare Is Without Limits and So Are Its Consequences
I don’t think the OP the as saying that the Russian soldiers were lost because RT was taken down. Rather that they were lost, on top of everything else that is happening currently.

It is clear that RT is propaganda for foreign consumption, not domestic.
or in 2014
Honestly, I fear the resistance being too effective.

Russia is on the offensive when viewing this conflict in isolation. Zoom out to geopolitics and it is very much on the defensive.

They are locked in this conflict and if they cannot achieve their goals they will escalate. They also own the most nuclear weapons of any country on earth.

This is what the Art of War says when it says not to put enemies in a corner.

This is also a very realpolitik take on this. It goes without saying that all of this is a humanitarian disaster.
I don't know if that's really true in the U.S. where people have an irrational attraction to AWD. Looking at the pre-owned inventory of my nearest M-B dealer two thirds of it is 4Matic cars, only one third RWD.
... there are some rules by Geneva convention

This civilians with guns are now combatants. And must "carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war"
6 years ago I joined a 20-person startup. What I've learned about succeeding
>It's hard not to see that as an obvious consequence to the Crimea annexation several years earlier.

This is a very short range view of history. Ukraine tried to get into NATO in 2008, but was put on the back burner. Anti-NATO government came to power in 2010, and overthrown in 2014 by Pro-NATO Poroshenko, directly leading to the annexation. Since then Ukraine has steadily drawn closer to joining NATO up until the current situation.
Russia has always had a reason to invade Finland.

Like they want Ukraine back, as it belonged to the Russian Empire, they also want back Finland, as it belonged to the Russian Empire.

In the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, written immediately before WWII, Russia stated once more their wish to incorporate Finland. Nothing has ever changed in their intentions since then until now.

They have waited until the time when they believed they are strong enough to regain control over Ukraine.

They will also wait a time when they will believe that they can successfully attack Finland. They will not give up on this idea until a completely different kind of government will replace Putin and those like him, which does not seem likely, unless he would suffer a shameful defeat in Ukraine.
Why are you presenting an opinion of a far-right marginal politician as an official position of the Russian government? And why do you engage in dehumanizing tactics? No, they are not devils in flesh who can not wait but to perform some war crimes for love of it and do not do it only because of fear for the Western reaction. They try to win over the loyalist parts of the Ukrainian population and to lessen dissent in Russia.
It's also the drilling industry. There are millions of skill people and a worldwide supply chain already setup. As a bonus, these are the same companies and people who would lose their jobs when drilling for oil and gas is overtaken by geothermal.
Is it possible to submit new security advisories? Have an advisory for a repository I don't have permissions for
Is this blind?
Whether you will have one or the other depends also a lot on the determination, preparedness and fire-power of the defenders. In Iraq majority was against Saddam and didn't really want to fight, while people in Ukraine cities seem to be very united and determined to defend every house, and also have been supplied with a lot of personal anti-armor weapons and had months to plan the defenses - so regardless of the Russian doctrine, I really doubt Russian army will be able to move fast this time... unfortunately, as you said, that means a lot more civilian casualties, and a lot more destruction...
I've not researched this - only read reports on the MSM - that installing an electric heat pump in the UK is thousands of pounds.

If that's true then it's completely unrealistic for heat pumps to become mainstream anytime soon.

We need to find alternative sources of natural gas, fast. Fracking may be a good choice at this point in time.
> 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 [..]

Not wishing to be completely silly, but you've obviously not met my wife and daughter. You are correct in one sense, there is no choice: the [whole] house will be warm.

At a slightly less silly level: I'm not sure we win the climate debate by picking fights within our immediate families.
CISA has put some good guidance together here:
https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up
Factorio is great. Too great, I can't play it any more because it sucked up all my free time. If you're stronger than me and like the idea of a factory game where you build progressively more complicated or simple machines (your choice) then you may like this game.
The headline should be youtube complies with sanctions.
You know the sources are linked in the article. You're one click away from reading the actual medical journal.
Yeah, that one might get pushed back a bit...
I hardly used any extra heating at all this winter, neither central heating nor spot heating. I've been having cold showers every morning, and allowing myself to shiver, and I feel great. If it gets uncomfortably cold I just put on more clothes. Sometime I use an electric blanket at night, which uses a fraction of the energy of an electric heater or central heating.
The shivering helps to burn fat, and stimulate the production of healthy brown fat which has been implicated in many beneficial health outcomes such as better insulin response, bone density, and longevity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_adipose_tissue
Ukrainians use Ukrainian alphabet and Ukrainian language. Russians are using Russian alphabet and Russian language. WTF?
This is extremely bad and distracting analogy.
So what is the status of Crystal multi-core now? My understanding was that Crystal enables Go-like concurrency (green threads communicating over channels) except they call "go" "spawn". Except it was still single-core and they were working on multi-core?

From what I've seen I really like Crystal. It has good ideas and they're working on a dang REPL! I'd like if it took over some of Go's share, and I'd like to not have to say "but they're still working on multi-core".
> So free to be used as a chess piece against Russia by Western masters

Regardless of your political opinion, it doesn't negate the fact that people still want the freedom to choose
That's the conventional picture of Putin: he's a calculating, amoral, Machiavellian genius playing the west like a fiddle.

Recent events have... not been kind to that theory. Putin certainly seems off. Nothing about this invasion makes sense strategically, and that was true even back when we thought it would be executed competently!
In 1995 Chechen anti-tank teams drawn from the local civilian population disabled a whole Russian tank battalion while suffering very few loses themselves. You can do a lot with volunteers on home territory.
The Ukrainians are in a struggle for self determination, these people are volunteering and they should be able to if the want to.
Ha! Well, there's a lot.

On major strand is more work like this to make it easy for the community to collaborate. I expect we'll make a lot of iterative improvements to the database over the next few months, aimed at making it easier to contribute to, maintain and use. We need to improve our APIs for this data, for example (currently only available via GraphQL).

Another big one that we're starting to think about is the security vulnerability disclosure process. Our goal there is to support maintainers as much as possible, and there's more we can do. Recent articles on loguru, beg bounties, and the way log4j initially reached public attention all point to problems GitHub can and should help with. In the next 12 months we'd like to give maintainers the option to receive vulnerability disclosures privately on GitHub, and for us to be able to support them through that process. (GitHub already does a bit here - through maintainer security advisories we issued about 30% of the CVEs in the JavaScript ecosystem last year, for example. But we can and will do more.)

Loguru CVE article: https://tomforb.es/cve-2022-0329-and-the-problems-with-autom...

Beg bounties: https://www.troyhunt.com/beg-bounties/

Log4j PR: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/608#issuecomme...
Well the first thing I do is probably google something then so ...
Where did you get this data about their ammo stockpiles? I'd love to believe it.
I got carried away. I apologize to both you and EugeneOZ. However, could you please point out what personal attack you mean, @dang? I am asking genuinely to learn. I see now that I did not argue in a constructive way and I am sorry about it but I honestly did not intend to personally attack EugeneOZ. I was not saying that I hate him or anything like that, he is clearly not responsible for what is going on in Ukraine. I was trying to re-frame what he perceives as hatred and explain it as people being hurt, something they do not necesarily control.

EugeneOZ, to put it absolutely clearly, I know you bear no personal responsibility, you do not deserve hatred, and if you understood it that way, there was misunderstanding caused by me and I sincerely apologize.
GNU changing overnight all the support for Russian language to Finnish just to send a message, would not be an unexpected outcome for example.
There's loads of services that are very anal about it. I also couldn't order a charger for my ThinkPad when I lived in New Zealand because the Lenovo website didn't accept my euro card, even though the shipping address was to New Zealand. I contacted support: nothing they could do. Had to use a friend's Kiwi account.

Stuff like this is why I just started keeping the accounts around as I move about instead of closing them.
You've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. Would you please stop doing that so we don't have to ban you again? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Might that not be too slow in this case? Seems like ideally they'd arrive in the next few hours, no?
.NET GC is pretty configurable though. I don’t know about the Go one.
We aren't talking about a system with an evenly distributed energy. It wouldn't be life on Earth if the global temperature average was between what is now the temperature of the atmosphere, and all the ones below surface. As long as the thermal isolation remains in place it shouldn't be a problem and the biggest foe should be the unbalance between heat in and heat out from sun/space, but what if we do a big scale and sustained thermal transfer between the core and the surface?

I know, I'm oversimplifying a lot, and the orders of what humans can do may be dwarfed by any volcanic eruption, but it should be a safe margin at some point at which the scale and time of heat transfer with underground may start to affect global average temperature.
Which also tells you that Germany doesn't have 50k of those. At least some numbers I can find quickly (accurate? who knows) suggests not even 5k.