skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's gone mad. No one in his right mind would do what he did in this situation. I thought he was an authoritarian but rational person. Not anymore.
That argument would hold more water if there were an additional security mechanism in place preventing `apt install rabbitmq-server` from exposing a system to a remote code execution. It seems to be that the simplest fix for this problem is to make the cookie secure, since doing so is likely effective with minimal effort. Another option would be to have clustering disabled by default.

If you'd like to summarize the upstream issue as "RabbitMQ as well as every distributors of it that we've investigated allows remote execution of arbitrary code on your server through having no effective access control mechanism for the distribution port, which is open by default after installing the software.", that summary is defensible.

That still sounds to me like a critical security issue. One should be very disappointed in a vendor that had not patched years after its public disclosure, especially given the context that we're apparently not first project using RabbitMQ to be affected by these security choices by Erlang and RabbitMQ. See, for example, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1279, back in 2018. We definitely won't be the last, either.

I hope nobody is going to argue that it's reasonable to publish server software with a "documented" RCE vulnerability, especially if you don't make any effort to highlight that detail. https://www.rabbitmq.com/access-control.html, the main page about access control in RabbitMQ, does not even mention this security concern; you have to read their clustering guide, which should be irrelevant to anyone not intending to use RabbitMQ clustering.
I'll have to look into it more, but I'm not sure how networking is possible through WASM. I could see some external hooks in an API of some sort but not sure how you'd compile to access it.
I recall some comment he made about wanting to do a “final site redesign” to make it responsive at some point, but then never got around to it.

Still, it’s a bit of an odd oversight, because this is the most simplest of 1-column-with-a-sidebar layouts, and it’s just a matter of getting that sidebar nav out of the way.
See my other reply. It's true that disconnection is a boost for these systems, but Russia is in for a whole lot of pain regardless; there's no "only" about this step.
He's getting old. This is Putin's last opportunity to cement himself into history.

Putin still enjoys tremendous domestic support. He has no effective opposition. Putin wants to claim Ukraine. Ukraine can't fight Russia alone. Will the West fight harder for Ukraine than Russia/Putin?

What happens if Ukraine's leaders are assassinated?

Stronger sanctions against Russia? Europe still depends on Russian fossil fuel, as do China and others, so leverage is limited. Strangling European energy supply remains a weapon at Putin's disposal. Economic MAD, sure, but who's going to back down first? The autocrat, or the union of democratic states?
I've used Tabula for many years, and it works great. Use it for converting PDF invoices from specific supplier for import into our system. Changed a task that took about a day each month, to about 10 minutes each month.
As a Ukrainian not knowing if Kyiv will be hit by ballistic missles by morning (attack is happening right now, and everyone is hiding in shelters), I really feel your pain.
You could use Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView and virtually eliminate the need for JS development on your part. You could probably to this with the latest version of Ruby on Rails too, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
* I never skip (minor) versions.

* I have automated backups created every 2 days stored via S3, I've done a full restore twice in 5+ years of uptime.

* I run Gitlab at home and at work.

None of the points touch on a maintenance burden ... Just saying. Skipping versions while updating any software is just being a lazy sysadmin and praying it works. Typically skipping to major versions during upgrades always comes with breaking changes so operator beware.
I would be happy if I could just tell the nav not to instruct me to make left turns in San Francisco during rush hour. I think it was Steve Jobs who pointed out that, given how slow computers were to boot up, entire human lifespans were being collectively wasted by crappy programming. No one ever thinks about the consequences of telling large numbers of drivers to do things that impair mobility for everyone.

Then there's my perennial favorite: "You... will... reach... your... destination... in... three... hundred... feet. ... Your... destination... is... ... was... on... the... right.

There is so much low-hanging fruit in the automotive nav business, so much stupidity, so much room for improvement that never seems to occur to anyone to implement. It's just incredible.
> 1 - Zuck really, really is all in on the metaverse thing. I was never sure if it was his idea, or he sees a trend, etc, but now I'm convinced it's all his idea.

It's not just zuck. Microsoft, google, apple, etc are all focused on it. Nadella and others have called it the next internet. So the entire tech industry is betting big on it. Microsoft just spend billions of Activision in preparation for the metaverse.

https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud/satya-nadella-the-meta...

And it's not all his idea. A company the size of facebook doesn't work that way. He has final say, but he has a team working for him. And as I stated, it's an industry-wide thing. Not just a facebook or zuckerburg thing. Whether it amounts to much, we'll just have to wait and see. But my money is on zuckerburg, nadella, cook, etc.

> 1.5 - I think he also overestimates its success. He pretty much sees everyone using it for work, gaming, friend interactions, etc. I just can't see it being so ubiquitous.

People said the same thing about social media and smartphones.

> 2 - I was a little frustrated because he seemed so... unemotional. Being asked about bullying, suicides... most things that would make people stop, think, or even choke up...

No it wouldn't. People are able to talk about things without getting emotional. It's the basis of all rational debate/discourse. Are you right now crying uncontrollably because we are talking about bullying, suicides, etc? Of course not. The only reason he'd do it is if his PR team said fake tears work well on the braindead public. It's why so many in media ( from Rachel Maddow to Stephen Colbert ) were crying on-air. An easy way to manipulated the masses that waste their lives watching them.
Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)
There has been pretty heavy buying, both on the stock and the money markets, to prop things up. The weird thing is that this allows Putin and his buddies to buy up large amounts of stock at a huge discount.
You're both technically incorrect as others have pointed out and engaging in whataboutism, which is in terrible taste.
Kind of related question-- how hard will it be for Germany to reopen its nuclear reactors? Politically, it seems like the environment has changed at least.
Intel had an opportunity to develop Zephyr as a usable RTOS, internally* and externally. If they thought that the technology was compelling, why did they let it go?

*(Intel's Management Engine is still around, running....Minix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffTJ1vPCSo)
That many will start (or continue) buying gas from Argelia instead
They could well unload to China, though I'm not sure if that route is still open.
Yes fraud is possible with credit cards. You correctly left out Bitcoin. As fraudulent payments are not possible with Bitcoin
> If you look at the past hour on Hacker News, there are mostly only new anti-Russia posts. The same is true across all media platforms. To me it looks like the Ukraine(and her allies) has intensified a censorship campaign against Russia.

Do you usually see lots of pro-Russia posts on HN?
Added details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2022_F...
I know a lot of different languages, but I use Elixir exclusively on my web-based hobby projects because it makes me happy. I use Crystal for command line utilities for the same reason.
Sunbelt state. With that said, I have helped install rooftop solar on roofs as far north as Chicago where, when properly insulated, the house can still use a heat pump for heating needs even in the middle of winter (down to -30F) and supports one of the residents commuting 100 miles/day in their Model S. They still have gas backup though.

Keep in mind, the top three states by population are California, Texas, and Florida. Heat pumps can meet the needs of housing in these climates, alongside rooftop solar. Produce where you consume when able.
Yes, there are loopholes by just not using Swift, like other networks or other means of communication. Depends on the processes between the banks that need to transfer assets. But there are also the sanctions. Any non-sanctioned bank still has a clearing process which involves checks for sanctions. So unless some bank wants problems with the EU or US, they might just deny settlements, even when Swift wasn't involved.
Swift is more like a PR stunt or at least a technicality. Everyone just shouted "Swift" for days without having knowledge about it.

The Central Bank sanction is more important here. This will cause the Ruble to go down and a run on the banks. Inflation will go up. And it will be harder to stabilize RU financial markets (like the stock market).
My main concern is frozen pipes, other cold related damage to my home. Gets quite cold up here in Minneapolis.

Lovely design ideas for a cabin though where the infrastructure is inherently more limited.
It's not a fantasy at all, which is of course why you have no greater retort than flinging ad hominem responses.

Russia's poorly organized, poorly funded, poorly trained military will be hyper exposed as they go fully into Ukraine (it already is). We also have the intel on the ground in Ukraine to help us out, we can maul Russia's tanks, artillery and mechanized forces and wipe out their supply lines, trapping their ground forces inside Ukraine with no supplies (aka they're dead). Russia can't project effectively outside of their borders when confronted with vastly superior NATO air power, so they won't be able to provide cover or resupply for their soldiers trapped in Ukraine. Their hardware will be wiped out. We can dismember their air force at the border as needed. And it'll be Ukrainians killing the Russian soldiers inside of Ukraine, not NATO soldiers. What else does Russia have?

They'd have one fall back: I'm gunna nuke you, I'm gunna nuke everyone, I'm gunna nuke the moon. [insert Putin turned Gollum snarl here] Bullshit. It's not sovereign Russian territory and they're not going to kill everyone in Russia for it.
The Russians seem to only have air superiority and some advantages in armor. It's not clear they're going to win this.
If money is power it didn't help Jack Ma. Looking at this situation through a western political lense is not going to offer insights.

Putin has a firm grip on power within Russia, I don't see this move changing that calculus. It only will escalate the situation.
This keeps being thrown out but it doesn't change the fact that we are provoking a massive nuclear threat at the moment.
>checks

Unbelievable that this is how americans regularly use money
> Russia is way richer

I was surprised to learn that the GDP of Russia is barely higher than the combined GDP of Luxembourg, Belgium an the Netherlands, three relatively small EU countries. Russia is a big country, has a large population, a populous army, but is relatively poor. War is expensive.
Good point. Poor wording on my part. Of course it will be painful. Here "only" has another meaning - it reflects that it will be a big blow to the global SWIFT dominance.
I have no idea why this sticks in my head, but way way way back when, I remember Leo Laporte being adamant, on MacBreak Weekly, that he was sure the iPhone wasn’t really running a version of OS X, because it was impossible to do so.

And mind you, as someone who has been using a Mac since System 7, and OS X as a daily driver since 10.2—yeah, at the time, it seemed wild beyond belief that a phone could run what amounts to OS X. Those first versions of OS X were not snappy.
Hopefully, they can also realize if they cut off the invasion these sanctions will be lifted.
In linux-land, sometimes I'll use a 2-3G ramdisk (tmpfs) for `$HOME/.cache` just to reduce wear-and-tear on my SSD. The web browsers put a ton of junk there, and I rarely reboot my machine.
It's devastating because Russia is already quite fragile.
But here the VCs are the criminals and the predators not the victim of the scam. VCs are more sophisticated to avoid being the victim
Storing energy in the summer to be used in the winter probably isn't going to ever be practical with batteries. (Maybe it's practical by using electricity to make synthetic liquid fuels? That wouldn't be very efficient, though.) Batteries are useful for buffering shorter-term variations, like the day/night cycle.

There are some alternatives, though. One is to just build enough spare capacity into the system that one can still run a surplus on cloudy winter days when the winds aren't blowing.

Better I think is to connect power grids to even loads around. Barring megavolcano eruptions or nuclear winter, the sun is always shining somewhere in the world. And the wind is always blowing somewhere.

I think the thing that's needed most right now (aside from just more solar or wind plants everywhere) is high-capacity transcontinental grid connections. The United States should be able to buy solar power from the Sahara when it's night here, and sell surplus solar to Europe and Asia when the sun is shining here. This makes renewable energy much more attractive because there's always a buyer or a seller somewhere, and batteries aren't strictly needed.

Fossil fuel plants can continue to exist as emergency backup power sources in case something happens to the HVDC links. Ideally we'd get to the point where they never need to be used.

Apparently Chile and China are working on a plan whereby Chile supplies China with solar power via a trans-pacific HVDC line [1]. We need more of that: connections between North America and Europe, connections between South America and Africa, and so on.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29230066
OK, thanks.
I see it says 6,465 advisories, so I guess you are only storing CVE records that haven't been fixed since the main CVE list currently contains 170804 records. Is this correct?
Install Qubes OS: https://qubes-os.org. Sometimes my 32 GB is not enough.
>> It would be extremely difficult to argue that surveillance capitalism supports the public good.

The people in charge have come believe that GDP is somehow a measure of public good. Money can be used as a proxy for a lot of things in this world, but as the saying goes "money can not buy happiness". It can be used to avert a lot of pain, but that's not the same thing.
Oof George Lucas effect. Deadly. Resulted in the prequels.

Wondering when a Russian oligarch says “you know what I think we’d be better off without this guy alive.” Putin, not George Lucas.
> Are you right now crying uncontrollably because we are talking about bullying, suicides, etc.

Well, no.

But if I had created a product and learned it was being used to torment children until they killed themselves, then yes, I absolutely would feel gutted and likely cry. Perhaps I'm too empathetic to be a CEO, which is fitting I guess - I'll never be one.
I watched Putin's addresses. He is out of touch with reality. Turns out that Russian propaganda is quite light compared to hard stuff that Putin has been consuming. He is talking about genocide on Donbass. He is talking about "nazi" government. He, likely, thought that Ukrainian people will see his army as liberators(from democratically elected government, lol).
I'm seconding this, if air cover is provided, Ukraine has enough resources to trim off Russia's south, and its access to two seas.

South Russians don't feel pretty much any affinity for Moscow. This can potentially launch a chain reaction of Russia's disintegration.

Russia's Far East will almost certainly secede for its ethnic makeup, and the only ethnic Russian stronghold in the region being uniquely anti-russian (as a state) for so many reason, the latest being harsh draft, and using Far Eastern youth as a cannon fodder for the last 8 years.

Urals, and Siberia are uniquely resource rich, and they will want the money for themselves. There was a precedent: "The Republic of Urals" was a semi-functional regional autonomy for a few months in 1991.

Kalmikia, and Tatarstan can secede as well.

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Militarily wise, Russia is at its weakest since its loss in first Chechnya war.

They just wasted at least 50% of Russia's current standing force on Ukraine, most of which is now stranded in Belarusian woods without supplies, and fuel, or destroyed in Ukraine.

Their bases near Ukraine are now standing empty.

My many contacts in Vladivostok report the same thing: military brass there "is thinking"
Perhaps it serves as a stern warning and demonstrates the willingness to go all the way down that road???
We really should honestly start looking for the nearest nuclear bunkers. There is little chance this could end well with how fast things are escalating. All this for fucking what.
one example from 2014:

https://twitter.com/ZeroPark30/status/1497445963111280647
True, but the amounts involved here will make it show up quite quickly as the number of open routes is reduced.
> I don’t understand how his mind works.

Russia has terminal demographics. Russia’s borders as they are today are impossible to defend let alone with a soon to be rapidly shrinking military. If they don’t take regions they can defend far easier with few troops then they never will. Russia has been invaded enough times across the North European Plain and Hordelands and they have a long memory, and at least the leadership has little conscience. I can’t read Putin’s mind either, but, perhaps he figured Ukraine would roll over and the US and Europe wouldn’t do anything.
US never sent Bin Laden’s body home. It was respectfully cremated and buried at sea with a Muslim service.
> its at least interesting how neither of these organizations cared when the US invaded Iraq

Is it your opinion that the United States' invasion of Iraq significantly decreased the likelihood the US would repay its bonds?
What are they going to drop dishes from in that airspace?
Yeah I mean look at Germany after WW1. Germany's isolation, reparations and despair led to intense nationalism and... WW2.
Double-tapping the text is also a decent solution as it zooms the text out enough to fit the screen.
The Taliban were the response to a Russian invasion, so this hardly surprising.
Unfortunately ability to start in power isn't all that linked to delivering good results to the public. There are examples where a dictator stayed in power for a long time after crashing the economy. Mugabe, for instance.
The police officers arresting and beating peaceful anti-war protestors in russuia deserve this just as much as the oligarchs.

Peoples are responsible for their governments
He doesn't want NATO on his door step any more than we would want Mexico to ally with Russia. Ukraine and Russians share a somewhat similar history and the Russians see relative prosperity in Ukraine as a newly capitalist society. This does not reflect well on Putin. This is one of many reasons, including but not limited to: the money and resources Ukraine would bring and control of the gas lines that lead directly into the heart of the EU.
By interesting I assume you mean a scam since I've never seen anything technically interesting from a token sale
I have insufficient data on Putin to even try in good faith to even try and analyze him, past and present.

But I did just finish catching up to current on the Revolutions podcast which covers 10 political upheavals defined in the podcaster’s terms as Revolutions under a broad label and what’s amazing to me is that any of the Revolutions that tended to center around strongmen also tended to outstay their welcome and any of the Revolutionary Big Cheeses that lived to old age tended to lose touch with their own inner circle. The monarchs or whoever was being overthrown were also not immune to this: if they were popular, it was often because people didn’t actually know them very well and they tended to lose popularity quickly when they made the worse blunders of their lives.

So, just a perspective, and maybe some of this is applicable to Putin, but again, I’m not in good faith going to try to make that call but leave it to those who maybe can.
Got it; Thanks!
This might explain it: https://djrobstep.com/talks/your-migrations-are-bad-and-you-...

It's a (IMHO) better alternative to something like Alembic https://alembic.readthedocs.org/
Insurgency can be easily handled if you don't have to consider the humane aspect. Saddam handled insurgency pretty effectively.
Several US politicians (Marco Rubio for example) have gone on Twitter/major news outlets saying that this isn’t the same semi-rational Putin from 5 years ago. Alluding to possible medical/psychological issues.
Got it, so it’s a classification system, I wasn’t aware of that.

Thanks for the reply, I learned something today. :)
What hasn't changed are the disproportionate consequences should disaster strike, and the emergent tendencies of energy utilities towards corruption, incompetence, and corner cutting.

Eventually somebody running a plant will screw up, and when they do, the harm will be worse than a wind tower falling over.
To sharpen the point a little, if anyone disagrees with Putin, they find themselves dead. So we're witnessing the outcome.

One unsettling thought is that Putin intentionally did this, and realized that this would happen -- and doesn't care.

The other unsettling thought is that China might be able to prop them up through this. Us disconnecting Russia is a massive opportunity for them. China even abstained from voting on the world stage when everyone was condemning Russia's actions.

So it's possible that external forces are giving Putin a picture of, "go through with this, and we'll come out of it strong together."
For Putin having Ukraine part of NATO is as dangerous as it was for the US to have Russian missiles in Cuba. It's something he is not willing to risk.
So almost any price is worth it for him.

I've found the first 25mins of this conference by professor John Mearshimer https://youtu.be/Nbj1AR_aAcE
lol - with such fragrant disregard for international law in attacking the nation and you think they are gunna give two fucks about who the previous regime owed money to?
"Boeing has also expanded a design center in Moscow. At a meeting with a chief 787 engineer in 2008, one staffer complained about sending drawings back to a team in Russia 18 times before they understood that the smoke detectors needed to be connected to the electrical system, said Cynthia Cole, a former Boeing engineer who headed the engineers’ union from 2006 to 2010."
That shouldn't be a problem to implement on an FPGA with a tiny bit of extra logic.
The only real gameplay is raiding and crafting for now. It is possible to build, but you have to be admin and the UX sucks, as it's not intended to be a gameplay mechanic