skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are completely ignorant of the current status and history of Europe. An attempted invasion of Finland and Sweden would be an unambiguous declaration of war on the European Union, there is no other interpretation. China would, no doubt, take such an opportunity to move on its military goals (eg Taiwan). It would mark the beginning of a third world war.

If you don't even believe that the EU would defend its own territory, well, you are just simply insane.
If we do this in large enough scale, will the earth eventually cool down?
Time to shorten the RekayInterval or soemthing.
The original auditing company is no more, only the consulting branch, which was mostly separate by that time, lives in Accenture.
I assume you mean “2 guys and some heavy equipment”? As a kid it took me a whole summer of on-and-off digging to make a 1 meter deep hole for fun.
Where/how do you actually buy these Chroma displays?
It's hard to believe, but new media of the September 11 attacks (and the towers before) comes out all the time. This includes rare pictures and videos. There are YouTube channels [0] specifically dedicated to finding music played on the plaza (muzak), partly inspired by Jack Taliercio's video [1], where you can hear songs being played while the attacks went down. Other channels have more mainstream videos (FOIA, NIST) but all of them were digitally enhanced [2], [3]. Other channels have pictures found online [4], but mainly the pictures can be found in recent subreddits [5], [6] where they also collect pictures of the inside of the towers, the other buildings of the complex and even the bridges between them. There is also a Flight 11 impact video with some recordings that were never quite known [7], although the first everyone has already seen.

Caveat: some of the channel's owners seem to be conspiratorial, but the majority of the videos are unedited. You'll be surprised how specific some of the footage is.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFlhobtX9IHvXM0h1LcqaA/fea...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdfqEYITTm8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/c/WTCFOIAVideos

[3] https://www.youtube.com/c/MrKoenig1985/videos

[4] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEpgWCL0UfhN1gwxAWpAo5A/vid...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/TwinTowersInPhotos/

[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldTradeCenter/

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtWcQRCPkKk
Because countries living in an isolated internet has worked out so well historical. Look at North Korea. It's a utopia. The population oh so loves living there. They definitely do not want to leave.

If it's unclear, that's a ball of sarcasm.

> I'm just speculating here, but what if say Microsoft sent a Russia-wide update that wipes all data and kills Windows?

Besides this being quite unethical because that, again, would affect the common folk, many of whom are against this war, it's a temporary measure. That is, assuming their systems aren't mostly Linux/BSD based.
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy". The whole invasion seems way too optimistic.
It appears that Putin is a psychopath. He said that Ukraine is run by narcomans and fashists (obviously a total nonsense) and that he fears NATO presence in nearby countries and he doesn't "feel" safe. He said that disintegration of the Soviet Union was biggest mistake in history and he would like it back. He violated earlier agreements and attacked Ukraine while giving fictional propaganda reasons. It started on the east, where higher concentration of pro-russion rebels lived. But despite not having real reasons he attacked Ukraine as a whole. After he lied that it was just an exercise and they won't start the attack. He is a mad terrorist and his brain processes can't easily be explained. Maybe he feared that Ukraine would join NATO and EU and that Russian people would see that ukrainians can live a better life and prosper more and didn't want this to happen. Or maybe he was mad about economic stagnation of Russia and their incompetence so he wanted to show the world that he still has power. Maybe this idiot wants to provoke world war III... Only he knows.
"Russian government has been building internet wall for a while now, let's help them and cut them out immediately and for free, that will show them!" - Somebody smart /s
I wouldn't call people illegal like that. If Russian undocumented immigrants take up residence there and grow large in number then it's their right to decide how they are governed if they preferred to be part of Russia.

It's one thing to condemn Putin's actions but quite another to demonize immigrants.
Ask HN: How to Get Better Results from Your Google Ads
I was reading the following article. They are suggesting few steps to improve the results of google ads. Do you think google ads is google for small business?

https://sharptag.blogspot.com/2022/02/tips-to-get-better-results-from-your-google-ads.html
How would Microsoft restrict it to Russia?

Assuming it’s possible, why would any country trust Microsoft afterwards?
I wish we would stop using the "what's there to hide" argument. Let's just give people a right for default privacy without questioning what they want to use it for.
The two other videos that got posted alongside this one makes me think it was a "forgotten tape that just got digitized" type of deal.

However, I can also see there being an element of trauma and just not wanting to revisit the footage on purpose. I know I have some pictures I never want to look at again, although nothing on this scale.
The same way Dual_EC_DRBG became a NIST standard, the NSA pulls the strings.

You can't expect a government department to provide robust security to the masses when the rest of the government is trying the prevent that exact situation.

At this point anything, cryptography related, coming from NIST should be considered compromised.
After all these incidents we've gone through in the last decade, I'm not sure this is irony or just the reality.

It can be either, quite frankly.
My first job paid enough to cover food and transport, not even housing or health insurance. I seriously considered quitting and working as an assistant manager at KFC, just because it would pay the bills.

That kind of median salary was a fantasy. 10 years later, I make over double the median salary I fantasized about.

Most of my former classmates never get there; they're lucky to get jobs putting in fiber optic cables. Most end up doing boring jobs like selling insurance or working HR. But the salary is a local maxima. I had to go through years of terribly paid jobs to get enough experience to get a decent one.
Yeah I see this sentiment a lot from people in the IT industry. Not everyone has the profession where you can be a digital nomad.
Apple/Google could easily add a persistent notification to devices in Russia saying something along the lines of "The world condemns the invasion of Ukraine".
If you've ever driven on a road approaching a hillside photovoltaics installation from the east at just the right time in the afternoon when it projects the sun right into traffic, you wouldn't be so sure to assume that 100% of incoming photons go either to electricity or to heat... but yeah, high albedo photovoltaic might be an interesting research topic. We have semi-translucent panels that seem to only sacrifice so much efficiency, some room for high albedo should exist (probably not much). Market would of course be people showing off that they can afford different looks, like those musk-shingles. But efficiency also dereases with temperature, so perhaps this might be another angle ? Invoking the impact on total earth albedo certainly won't drive any buying decisions, tragedy of the commons and all that...
I enjoyed this open and honest article by Frank Liu, but couldn't help
seeing odd contradictions just below the surface. China is a nation of
"naturally industrious people", yet "forced labour is everywhere".
Western reports of a social control dystopia are overblown, but the
"whole society revolves around two apps" - as a non-user of
smartphones that's pretty much my definition of an absolute dystopia.

Lived experience stories that dispel prejudices are so
important. There's much Sinophobia around, and obviously the
Rusophobia is high at present, so it's welcome to hear accounts that
draw a distinction between good ordinary people and what their insane
governments project to the world.

The last paragraph on the things China and USA share was a great
summing up. All of us, everywhere on Earth, face the same issues of
broken 20th century government machinery, predatory corporations and
personal laziness, apathy and lack of morals around how technology is
used.

Look forward to the next part.
> Why should we hold true to some past ideals of technologists 20 or 30 years ago?

Those aren't (just) their ideals any longer. I adopted them as my own, because I'd like the world to look a little like that.

Besides, what's 20 or 30 years? Since when do we think that the ideals of ancient philosophers, thinkers, religious figures, the FSF[0], heck even the "UNIX philosophy" have nothing to offer just because they're "old"?

Ideas aren't like milk, they don't spoil if you leave them out of the fridge for a few days.

[0] Yes, I know they are controversial, but their ideas were certainly influential.
Bags definitely acquire character. I remember realizing a few years ago that I get frequent comments on my old college messenger bag now that I never did when it was new.
This is how their propaganda explains it. But in reality why on Earth would West want to attack Moscow?! What would West gain from that?! And just because of "his personal fears" he decided to invade an independent country. That's an is indefensible act of terrorism.
The “Requirement Machine”, a new generics implementation based on term rewriting
Interesting how fast people lose all compassion and sympathy, and really humanity, towards a whole population which itself might be against what it's leaders are doing ...

Also: I have yet to see such suggestions directed at the US or Israeli population for the many, well-known war crimes their leaders have committed and still are.
Looks more like a coral.
Ukraine invasion plays out online as web sleuths document the conflict
Embargoed – Gem to block all requests from Russia to any Rails app
Why is different than Gmail auto complete?
That assumes you have the space to put something behind you like a green screen.
Well, it has potential for a singularly unpleasant watering hole attack, few states have a blindingly obvious track record of it, and exactly one of those is in the acute phase of open acts of aggression warfare...
Seems pretty clear what's the highest priority working hypothesis until the evidence is in.

Number two could well be entertaining ideas about shaving a couple of items off their conquest list while the action is keeping the World busy though, and if so both trojanizing a particularly poorly defended part of billions of computing devices worldwide and securing fuller access to software and plans for "AI accelerators" would seem desirable.
It takes a quick google search to learn about poverty in the 1950s. The poverty rate was 22% - about 40 million folks in the US at the time. I'm pretty sure poverty makes you worry about not supporting a family, and I'm pretty sure that over a fifth of the population being in poverty is more than just a few folks. "The richest society in the world" can still contain a lot of poverty. None of the things you said mean poverty wasn't an issue. They are just numbers without context nor comparison.

Links:
https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/poverty-united-s....
https://study.com/academy/lesson/urban-poverty-in-the-us-in-...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-01/econom...
An overview of the current ELBRUS-processors:

http://mcst.ru/files/616fe7/68dece/61ba37/da85eb/mcst_proces...
what is the two minute papers connection here?
No one wants any harm to the Russian people, but they too must do something to stop their madman. I know it is much more dangerous for them than for us keyboard pundits, but it is their responsibility. Think how much more dangerous it is for Ukrainians.
Even if they get the RTL I'm not sure how useful those would be. While Russia does have semiconductor fabs, apparently their smallest node is around 65nm, completely useless for the large designs current NVidia GPUs use. At best they could have them made at a fab in mainland China, but even there the smallest node is only 14nm.
I had no idea about details/summary!

I've been using what now seems like a horrible hack, p class="help" to make help boxes that expand on mouseover all this time.
Was looking forward to this. I was trying to figure out the Scott encoding for data since the original untyped calculus post, so it's nice to see it treated here.
Assuming that you have a home office setup. Me, I have been working for 2 years from my dining table.
Further isolation, physical or technological is not the way forward. If the west wants to lead we have to bring countries like Russian and China with us and show their people there is a better way(If indeed it is better).
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Complete drivel to compare the invasion of Ukraine to brexit
[Plug] Translation of this in JS at my bootcamp (https://github.com/ravish0007/geekskool/blob/main/assignment...) while doing this, I became fan of SICP :)
This would be very similar to limiting email to and from Russia. A bad idea. Put a permanent Ukrainian colour theme on GitHub and a page explaining that GitHub condemns the act instead.

They might block it anyways because it can be used to share information, so that is not a concern.
It's commonly used as a platform for various wario-ware style minigames, often with hubs where players can save up points to buy cosmetics in the aforementioned minigames.
Maybe he fears that Ukraine would join EU, NATO and people there would live happier life than people in Russia. And maybe their russian state propaganda is not working as well as they would like in today's interconnected global world. Maybe he is sad that he is getting old. Only he really knows. But IMO he will lose more than gain from this invasion.
But does this not impact ALL russians including those protesting against putin? Also, does this not go against the entire FOSS philosophy- free as in libre and free as in gratis?
Accenture was Andresen Consulting, not Arthur Andersen. They'd been operating independently (to the point they where often competing against each other for the same projects, and where pretty bitter rivals) for over a decade before AA collapsed. In fact the name change was the result of a lawsuit between Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting over royalty payments resulting in AA refusing to let AC continue to use the Andersen name
TLBs do need to be explicitly managed by software, I don't know any CPU architecture where this is not the case.

It would probably be quite feasible to do actually with an architecture that has a simple page table like a single physically contiguous hash table, but x86 style arbitrary radix page tables seem like they would be prohibitive to snoop.
The theoretical purpose of auditors is to allow companies to prove things to the public, without proving them publicly.

That might be a company proving to its shareholders that their accounts are in order, without publicly releasing every last deal and detail. If the accounts say Google's got a billion dollars in the bank, investors having someone check they have a bank account with a billion dollars in is basic common sense!

The practical purpose of auditors is a lot less clear, because companies get to choose their own auditors, and nobody hires auditors with a reputation for being difficult...
I can do that. Thats a nice idea too.
I find it funny that you use AWS as the better example, because I find native cloud product ranges notoriously hard to understand. Everybody tries to find some weird name for things we had for a while. EC2, S3, Route 53... Why not simply call it Virtual Machines, File Storage and DNS. It would make it so much easier to start. Even the somewhat better icons don't help, if you have to learn what the fancy names stands for first.
Russia is a huge totalitarian prison and nobody can do much without being arrested or murdered.
Have a go at mimicking a daft punk setlist, they make it look easy - it's not. The techniques are often simple but art is not about technique
Most young educated russians (the ones that use github) are against this war already, the problem is that no one can really do anything as literally holding a blank piece of paper in front of any government building will get you arrested.

Those are not the people you want to target, target the elites close to Putin, those are the ones that could probably force some change.
I like telebit, found via "Look Ma, No Cloud" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Q2MWGCADo)
Just like Ukranians are being murdered.
Well history has not been able to show that your strategy works either - or simply said: We have a very grave situation in Europe _right now_ so we need immediate action _right now_ as well.
3D Printed Weather API Contraption; find out the weather without going outside
Ha, this is true, a slow connection is more of a hassle than no connection.
> Then those people need to overthrow their leaders

Its easy to say that when you don't have a gun to your head.
Perhaps tags would help. If each post had one or two tags, we could filter what we see by the presence or absence of certain tags.

Even so, as others have noted, simply ignoring the comment section on most posts will keep the mood less negative. Then when you see a post about something you’re really interested in, dive into the comments after reading the main content.
> US GDP per capita is four times higher than in 1950.

Ok, now factor in that the mass entry of women into the workforce nearly doubles GDP per capita, plus the rising costs of education, health care, and housing. I think you'll start to see where the affordability issues come into play.
Stop this stupid separatism. If you’re an engineer, rather ask for the root causes hidden behind the scenes. Bonus hint: main stream media with their war propaganda won’t tell you the root causes. They infect you with further separatism ideas.
The really interesting question might sound even more absurd: did that earthquake release stress that would have been released sooner or (worse:) later anyways? Should people affected by the earthquake thank the family for releasing stress before more accumulate?
In the scale of damage, this is harming random Russians less then economic response or military response. This is same level of boycott as soccer, skiing or eurovision boycotts of Russia.

Unfortunately, there is no way how to harm Putin and his friends only. Wars are like that.
The most common approach is reverse osmosis. This yields a waste brine that is up to 2x as concentrated as seawater. That's not negligible: it would reduce the cost of Li extraction that is proportional to mass flow by a factor of 2.
Twitter accounts sharing video from Ukraine are being suspended when needed most
That still doesn't explain why we are free from santions in the US. Why aren't we expected to overthrow our warmongering leaders? WMD turned out to be just as credible as Putin's Nazis.
Other countries would immediately start adopting Linux if MS decides to wipe data because they don't like that govt.
Worse than that, it would target mostly the people that are already against him, possibly forcing a lot of them to immigrate and leaving even fewer active opposition inside the country.
Debating defence budgets: Why military purchasing power parity matters
American Whataboutism.

Regardless, Github is American so the point doesn't stand here. Russian services are free to restrict US users if they wish
Wait I don't think this creates the logical connections to validate what he's asking
I agree, I often forget that corals are not plants(but they look like plants, which probably means that the Mars rock that look like a coral also looks like a plant).
As it has already been noted in the issue’s comments - this move won’t affect Putin’s supporters (yes, they exist in Russia and they aren’t just a few freaks), it won’t even affect the majority of those living in Russia. The most affected group will be young-middle aged educated people who are interacting with the rest of the world (ad opposed to the rest who can be fed any BS by state TV) and who are mostly in opposition to Putin’s actions. So it does more harm than good. Roskomnadzor has started ”restricting”/throttling traffic to FB and probably other big international websites/social networks, so the options to get more independent info about the reality are getting scarce in Russia.
Influence of pay transparency on inequity, inequality and the performance pay
Ukranians literally have guns to their heads. But lets not ban Russians from using a website because it might hurt their feelings.
Stupid idea. Move on.
Sounds good. While they're at it, also:

- cut off Israel from GitHub for the occupation of Palestine

- cut off Saudi Arabia from GitHub for the invasion of Yemen

- cut off the US from GitHub for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq

- etc.

No double standards for the same imperialisms, please.
I imagine if the whole world was using a Russian VCS site, and silicon valley was a region of moscow these same discussions would take place in reverse.

Cutting off the US for their invasion of Iraq would have seemed pretty reasonable.

But maybe not so much, since that country was provably ruled by a dictator, so people wouldn’t feel the same about the attack as about one made on a liberal democracy.
Yeah, and see how you want to help them to fight against Putin - you block their access to GitHub to make them lose their jobs. Without the money - do you think they will go fight on the streets? No, they will look for other ways to feed their families. If they are isolated, they will have no other choice than start working on government.

By action like this, you are just turning into enemies those who want to be on your side.
And the people who started those wars aren’t in charge any more.
For their opinion?
Pay transparency is great for business owners and other large employers. It makes it much easier to compress pay.

> Recent decades have witnessed a growing focus on two distinct income patterns: persistent pay inequity, particularly a gender pay gap, and growing pay inequality. Pay transparency is widely advanced as a remedy for both. Yet we know little about the systemic influence of this policy on the evolution of pay practices within organizations. To address this void, we assemble a dataset combining detailed performance, demographic and salary data for approximately 100,000 US academics between 1997 and 2017. We then exploit staggered shocks to wage transparency to explore how this change reshapes pay practices. We find evidence that pay transparency causes significant increases in both the equity and equality of pay, and significant and sizeable reductions in the link between pay and individually measured performance.
Google announces support for Ukraine by giving $2M in Adwords credit
Ask your friends at Google to explain this joke donation of Adwords credit:
https://www.androidcentral.com/google-response-ukraine-invasion

Ukraine needs real support not using this crisis to push your product!

If you want to make a statement switch off Google services in Russia. That is how revolutions are started!

Google makes less than %0.3 of their total revenue in Russia. Surely that is worth a sacrifice to end this unfair war and tell Russia they cannot invade their neighbors!
Some other interesting related articles:

[0] International Comparisons of Military Purchasing Power: A Global Database - the paper discussing the concept

[1] The military gap between Russia and Ukraine is vast from TheEconomist

[0]
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Robertson-4/publi...

[1]
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/02/25/the-mili...