skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except they were happy to send gas above the "contractual obligations" previous to the ramp up to invading Ukraine. This was clearly planned as a way to exert more pressure on NATO allies.

It's like falling out with IT support. Suddenly your ticket to fix a printer takes 2 days, rather than 5 minutes because that is the "SLA".
Actix is amazing!

I'm using actix-web for https://fakeyou.com and their websocket support for upcoming features.

It's incredibly productive and resilient. I've built proxies and other stuff with it too, and it performs swimmingly.
You haven't heard about Sweden being neutral for 200 years?
Also relations with NATO. Even if not in NATO directly, the stronger relations are the more likely it is various NATO countries are to come to their aid.
I have been learning (via books, podcasts, coursera, etc.) about what money is and how it’s created, both domestically and internationally, both in commercial banks and central banks; and let me just say this is a superb summary of all of that. Bravo!
SS: This is an intersting reminder to think about how digital currency, digital-ID, digital vaccine passports, in conjuntion are a system of total social credit score control.

There was an interesting article regarding digital currency in the UK being able to be programed to be only to spend upon items deemed "appropriate" for the currency/user...

That was written by the UK government, where their finance minister wants to convert the entire G7 nations to digital currency central banking...
But we aren't doing nothing.

USA is 100% employing the old "Arsenal of Democracy" strategy. We're shipping huge amounts of weapons over to Ukraine. Just last January, we sent something like $200-million in weapons (largely Javelin missiles, which are clearly blowing up Russian tanks in pretty good numbers). That's January alone.

There's different steps and different grades to the aid we can give to other countries. We shouldn't reach for the most extreme action immediately, we need to choose the right level of "Grayness", the right level of aid for each situation.

Ukraine is in luck: Poland is an immediate neighbor to the west and Poland is a NATO ally. That means we actually have a physical ability to bring in those weapon supplies, and a logical basis to base our operations out of.

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> This is Hitler in Czechoslovakia.

If we put this on WW2 terms: USA only started sending military equipment to UK after France fell. For us to already be openly arming a nominally neutral party like Ukraine is already a steep escalation in terms of historical terms.

USA originally did nothing as Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Austra, Poland, and even France.

The "Arsenal of Democracy" speech by Roosevelt wasn't until December 1940, months AFTER the fall of France.
I see this as similar to the "what happens when you visit google.com?" question - it's a starting point for conversation, not gotcha trivia.

I certainly wouldn't expect anyone to know every answer off the top of their head, but talking through a candidate's educated guesses can be informative.
Very interesting! Is there a preprint or demo that you forgot to link to? Will you be releasing source or data?

I'm wondering what the hardware requirements would be for real-time synthesis. I work on a musical instrument project as a hobby and would like a good accordion sound.
Don't know if this true, but George Boole taught himself to swim just by reading a book, i.e. he successfully swam the very first time he got into water.
Which leads to Russia's next demand: to reduce NATO military deployments in NATO member states who joined after 1997.

Poland joined in 1999, and generally speaking all of the eastern European nations that joined were after 1997.
Taiwan is also not currently a security threat to China, so there is a huge difference.

Now, if Taiwan were to apply for NATO membership, I would expect the Chinese response to be much more swift than Russia's.
They talk about compression but leave the most important metric out. What's your Weissman score ?
You may be right about the US, but you are probably wrong about the EU.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

"Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money."

So on the asset is a loan made by the bank.
And it's not true of this war until it is.
How much time did you spend on Duolingo per day at the beginning?
Turkey's inflation seen jumping to 53% in February
I guess I don't understand the "buffer zone" logic. I've read/seen that in a number of places of late. And it just seems like a dodge to me.

A while back, our company hired a difficult to cope with person. There was some social awkwardness. And some performance issues. It's a good sized disciplinary group, but his assigned tasks were most similar to mine. Guess who became the "buffer zone"? Me. It was the worst. When things finally spilled over, there was a larger meeting where issues were finally recognized. I expressed my bitter sweet gladness thusly: "I can't tell you guys how wonderful it feels to no longer have this be my burden and my burden alone. It is such a relief. On the flip side though, why the F** didn't this meeting happen 2 years ago?!?!? I could have laid this all out for you then, but I guess it wasn't bothering you yet, was it?"

I've seen this behavior in church youth groups I've worked with over the years. There's an odd-hard-to-cope with person. The group pushes back against maladaptive behavior. The troubled youth connects with one of the normal kids. And then that kid gets asked to be the problem child's "buddy". And the rest of the group abandons the buddy to suffer it alone.

I volunteered at our state penitentiary for a couple of years. It was interesting experience. On the outside, I would hear "tough on crime" and "three strikes and you're out" and "those people". On the inside... it was complicated, and a different story. A couple of truly evil people, mostly surrounded by people who grew up in crappy situations, were in the wrong place at the right time, and a whole lot of iffy mental health. Same thing. As long as it was somebody else's problem, the "rest of society" could have a happy existence.

Maybe I'm seeing too many similarities where I shouldn't, but I find the whole notion of a "buffer zone" a poli-sci euphemism for "somebody else should have a shitty life so we don't have to".
I think this is the right call. Russian forces are spread too thin to react in time. And then it will be too late for them to do anything about it.

Then someone might respond: but Putin is clearly insane and could start a nuclear war over such an act. Well, in that case what move can you even make? I mean if the opponent is clinically insane then every move you make could trigger a nuclear war.
I type using my old Sun keyboard still. The escape key is where the tilde key is on normal US PC keyboards. So the pinky stretch is quite easy.

(Also the control key is where the caps lock is. Also another fine position.) :)
Some infos about the current solar cycle:

https://www.almanac.com/solar-cycle-25-sun-heating

https://news.ucar.edu/132771/new-sunspot-cycle-could-be-one-...

https://www.space.com/sunspot-ar2936-solar-flare-cme-arrival...

Enjoy! Maybe.
One hundred percent agreed. Not sure why Google doesn't allow enforcement of this for Workspace accounts.

This is a great guide, I just wish Google made it easier to be "secure by default". It's very difficult to know all the various toggles you need to have switched on to be secure.
No country that has experienced decades of Russian occupation wants to go back there.
The best art instruction I ever found was when I took a portraiture class and an anatomy class through the local art shop, though I don't think anything can replace just doing it all the time. Much like fishing and software development, there's a million schools of thought on how to do it the right way. If you can find one of them that jives with you, it can be great, but you can spend a decade searching for a perfect method and never find it.

One of my favorite artists, Stanislav Krawczyk (instagram.com/standarkart), has cerebral palsy and creates fantastic portraits. It's not because he can make a perfect line, but he knows where to put the lines he can make.
A hierarchy is actually a tag, so really what you're saying is you firmly believe in only having a single tag for each file and a specific adhoc schema for those tags. I think once you've used a filesystem that behaves in more complex ways you start to realize that's not necessary. For example with a snapshotting filesystem you add dates and times to the path in order to access older versions of files. I don't really use MacOS but I have noticed the tagging in my limited experience with it, which seemed reminiscent of what the old MacOS used to do where you could set icon colors. So whatever they're doing for tags isn't really the only story. MacOS is a good example though because that is a filesystem that maintains separate metadata in addition to the file contents (they used to be called resource forks, but I'm not up on modern MacOS). Many linux filesystems also can support that sort of thing. But those are just flavoring the files and not really adding different ways to index into the filesystem. A hierarchical index such as nested folders is probably a minimally viable solution and is very useful. But that doesn't mean it's not limiting and that there are not different larger solutions that achieve more useful results. Once you start thinking about snapshots and transparent de-duplication and other ideas like don't-repeat-yourself things wind up becoming far less clear.
>If the oversight you provide as part of your service is unreasonably expensive then you probably shouldn't be in business - if you can't sanely moderate your platform then you also shouldn't be in business.

So you'd rather have the status quo of a few decades ago (ie. large media organizations acting as gatekeepers), rather than the democratized ecosystem we have now?
Two suggestions to add to the many excellent ones already here:

Arthur Wesley Dow’s Composition: A Series of Exercises Selected From a New System of Art Education [0] is a wonderful, wonderful book in the public domain – recently submitted here but didn't get much attention. It is well worth spending a lot of time studying its exercises and examples.

[0] https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dow-composition/

My second suggestion is more general but it worked wonders for me. I had a teacher years ago whose take-home assignments consisted of extremely rudimentary drawing exercises, starting with drawing a series of straight lines in parallel across a page, then moving on to squares, circles etc but always basic geometric shapes. His point was that drawing is, at its most basic level, a physical skill like many others which require physical and neurological adaptations that can only be improved with practice. In addition to the creating these lines and shapes, one was obliged to pay strict attention to their relation to other marks on the page – your circles could not overlap, for example, and your straight lines must run parallel and start and end at the same page border. The lines had to start and end very definitely at the correct point. He was also keen to examine and correct each student's physical stance in relation to the easel, the light, and the subject, and insisted we draw from the shoulder, not the elbow or wrist, as much as possible. The goal was to train one's whole body to gain full control over where the instrument marks the page.

For some students this practically remedial approach seemed almost insulting and a few would balk at it, but it was just incredible how much even very mediocre drafting skills improved when these exercises were applied diligently, including my own. I'm sorry that I don't know a name for this pedagogical system or a book that explains it.
Which is not just a number on a computer, right?
I'm confused; where did I say I believed literally zero people from Russia who also disapprove of Putin use Reddit?
I said I assume that to be the case, which is foundationally different; I don't know of a way to tell which is which, so in order to predict outcomes most accurately, I default to the position that I don't accept Reddit as a source for this.
That's fair and there's hardly any evidence to claim US's desire to bomb India. However, it was still noted as an bullying attempt in India. US was also acting in cohort with Pakistan at UN, which was countered by Russian votes.
Just to make sure we are speaking the same language: If I have $1 in a checking account in a US bank, do I have one dollar, or do I have a dollar-denominated asset of $1 face value, backed by a dollar-denominated liability of the bank?
I mean, there's no need to invoke the specter of conspiracy... we have Russian and Ukrainian posters here. I'm sure they're quite legitimately passionate about their particular points of view, and they have every right to try to influence the community as long as they follow the rules.
Solitary confinement is far beyond physical separation of violent people.

Being able to see sunlight and other people isn't a risk of violence.
Considering that they're mostly just passing by, and that the levels are not really high, it won't be that bad.

I didn't do the math, but the radiation levels for driving past there, or staying there for a day or two, would probably be very low, and comparable to a lot of other stuff we do without thinking (plane rides, xrays etc.)
I will have to take a look at Worlds. The Forever War is one of my favorites but I have never really cared for any other Haldeman--but haven't tried that.
If it expands beyond Ukraine any further westward it will be immediately NATO’s and the EU’s problem.
There's the Any trait [0]. Not sure if this is exactly like void* in C, but this doesn't look particularly ergonomic to use.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/any/index.html
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> I always read perfect secrecy as a term of art with some technical meaning.

That's indeed the case, but I fear the subtle technical definition here is usually one of the first things to go in the cycle of press releases and news articles, entirely too quickly giving rise to headlines that speak of “unhackable cryptography" or things like that. I've slightly edited my above post to clarify this, thanks.

> Do you think there will be entanglement based replacements for these [other protocols]?

One thing to note is that QKD is fundamentally a primitive to create shared, private randomness, not a communication channel – of course, the output can be used as the key for one-time pad encryption, but you might as well use it some different way.

For applications beyond that, I am really not an expert, but from what I know, people are looking into a variety of protocols, such as for leader election. There was a review article a few years back by Wehner et al., "Quantum internet: A vision for the road ahead" (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aam9288), which highlights some proposals.

As for applications like signing, one aspect to consider is that quantum entanglement will, at least for another decade or two, always be much shorter-lived than classical data at rest. Thus, most practical quantum protocols will boil down to creating and making use of entanglement in a short amount of time, e.g. to initially establish some sort of shared secret, make a coordinated decision, etc.
Absolutely. Co-defense is now one of the pillars of the union, just Denmark and Malta that aren't in there:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/defence-security...
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Bitcoin's Lightning Network scales just fine, but based on your comment it doesn't look like you are interested in how Bitcoin works, instead wanting to jump on a bandwagon.
Should really be extended to much further. To soldiers, to financial supporters of those and their parties, to voters. All complicit and hands covered in blood.
More countries should follow suit, I'm tired of seeing media censored by Facebook, not to mention Youtube and Twitter in Northern Europe too. Platforms should be just that, platforms, not outlets. Now I understand many of you will want to point out that "Russia is worse" and that it is somehow different. I don't care who is worse or if Russia does it for bad reasons, it is bad enough over here that it is also the correct choice for my nation and your nations.
Scammy Instagram ‘war pages’ are capitalizing on Ukraine conflict
Yeah, I find it astonishing to find C programmers that see no problem, even though I think it would be reasonable to say that they see no reason to change. It's mind boggling.

Have they not worked on large projects with other developers? Have they not seen the myriad of ways things can silently go wrong for seemingly no technical benefit? (although I know there's often less obvious reasons, for eg. UB, performance, platform specificity, etc.)

All that, said I do think the following might be reasonable:
> "nah, C is fine, you just avoid this and that, use these tools, etc."

I guess you mean they write off the risks entirely? You should never be this "handwavy", and should always take the risk seriously, especially with a language like C. However, I think it's fair to say, that C is a good choice, many of the risks can be mitigated, and it's not THAT big a deal. In which case, the above doesn't seem that absurd.

Following basic common sense and making an effort to identify and eliminate some of the sketchier situations, backed by some really good integration testing, can really help. I feel reasonably safe under those circumstances (I mean not really, but other languages can be "unsafe" too). A huge chunk of the really evil things I've seen have been the result of taking absurd risks, and/or disregarding the rules entirely. If you were paying attention and "trying" to write good C code, they would never happen; these aren't just individual developer things, but project wide. Eg. I had a compiler that didn't even warn for implicit functions... jerk move by TI, but that should be flagged and dealt with. Instead, the team just thought "great no compilation errors".

I will say there's a lot of developers that are just uninterested in any of this and will deliver some really, really sketchy C code. In their mind they're smart programmers and their code will just be right, and they don't seem to understand any of these issues. Just plow ahead and patch around the bugs, then move on to the next gig.
Trusting that they’re real, and not another fable. Wouldn’t be surprised.
All very fair. Much for me to think about. I'd rather shift my thinking than try to maintain the indefensible.
How the free world gave Putin the green light
Spot on, Ukraine wouldn't have joined NATO until their border disputes was resolved. So probably not anytime the next 20-30 years.

Demands by Russia were disingenuous, because they would never have been honored. And I doubt honoring them wouldn't have stopped anything.
It takes decades to get professional good at precision physical skills.

That's not to say you won't be twice as good of a drawer as you are now, in 2 years of serious practice.

But if you're measuring yourself against people who have spent their entire lives working on a thing... it's going to take some time to get to that level.
Those threats are for internal Russian consumptions. Those around Putin, as good servants, try to predict what their master wants to please him or at least avoid humiliation. And if they do not do that, then others will report.
Ask HN: What do I need to learn to be useful as a hacker to defend my country?
The Ukrainians have called on the "hacker underground" to defend against Russia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30462219

Everyone of us here has above average computer skills, but most of us don't have offensive or defensive cyber
warfare skills.

We have all seen how quickly war can break out.

What does one need to know to be of value to one's military, should the need ever arise?

What skills would they be looking for?

How can I acquire those skills?
> Your amazon account is likely already attached to your identity [..]

One Amazon account?

I'm sure I must have had at least a couple of dozen. One free Prime trial on each one... <cough>

I hope we're not assuming that each real-life identity only has access to one email address...
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Just in case: Neither is Switzerland.

https://www.mappr.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/image-1.jpeg
> I never understood the idea of using notecards in subjects that are math heavy.

I would suggest that people should use notecards for subjects that are math heavy. Even if you don't fully learn by using notecards. Even then.

When you use notecards, and stick to a spaced repeatation algorithm, if nothing else happens, you at least get to familiarise your brain to notations, jargon, graphs, diagrams and so on. This especially helps if you are learning alone. When none of your classmates or colleagues or mentees is learning what you are learning, i.e. you are not in a classroom or training program.
Yes, otherwise how would you know you are indeed communicating with that party?

Otherwise the standard Person-in-the-Middle attack would apply: Eve (claiming to be Bob) first runs a full protocol session (quantum + classical communication) with Alice, resulting in a shared key X. Then she does the same to Bob, resulting in a key Y. When Alice wants to encrypt a message to Bob, she encrypts with X. Eve can decrypt (and optionally re-encrypt with Y and forward the message to Bob).
This also presumes that the target's rsync implementation and filesystem supports the same metadata.
Cuba/NK are much smaller countries. For Venezuela, it insured the country cannot function properly. Russia is huge. Russia becoming the next Venezuela will trigger a sequence of events that will lead to its de-fragmentation into smaller states. (ie: Chechnya will probably go rogue)
> Ukraine added that they will join NATO to their constitution, and in the past months NATO started to ramp up the amount of NATO weaponry in or near Ukraine.

Ukraine has been bulking up their army with help from various, especially NATO, countries since Russian invaded, conquered, and purportedly annexed a big part of their country in 2014 (and assisted with the occupation by anti-government forces of other parts) and they didn't have the capacity for meaningful, much less successful, resistance.

The Ukrainian military buildup was a situation of Russia’s own making.
Yes, clarity and grammar matter. For example, with your lack of capitalization, I wouldn't know if you were trying to help your Uncle Jack off a horse or your uncle jack off a horse.
The parallels with ww2 are far too easy to draw - the annexation, the failed appeasement attempt, the invasion.

The German invasion of Poland tends to be counted as the "start" of ww2, but the militarisation of the Rhineland, annexation of Austria, and invasion of Czechoslovakia all came first on that front. The global reach was due to European colonies abroad (especially in Africa).

The Japanese invasion of China also predated the start of war in Europe, but the Pacific war doesn't count as starting until the attacks on Hawaii, Philipeenes, Malaya/Singapore, Hong Kong etc in 1941.

Perhaps the next move is Sweden+Finland joining Nato (because clearly not being part of Nato is risky). Either way, perhaps then Russia invades the Baltics (or maybe "Belarus" does for deniability?), triggering wars all along the border. Throw in China using the opportunity to attack Taiwan while America is busy elsewhere, North Korea rolling into South Korea, and various local civil wars (probably instigated by China) in South America to distract the US further, then throw a wildcard like Syria taking a pop at Israel, and it rapidly escalates into a World War.

Historians (if any survive) may lump Crimea, Ukraine, and even places like Georgia, as the "pre-war" battles, it's arguable when local wars get enough to be deemed to be a "World War".