skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Well-integrated" isn't quite right. Slavic minorities are treated horribly by most Western Europeans (and Americans too). Historically, you'd go West, make money, and come back. Or if your country was bad enough, you'd go West, accept mistreatment, and stay.

That does not ring true at all. I am one of the slavic minority who lived in UK for 2,5 years and I do not remember a single instance of being treated poorly for being slavic. And I have not heard anything like that from any of my friends (and I believe I would know - people talk about these things). Sure, I went West, made some money and returned to my country. But not because I was treated poorly - many people have this plan from the beginning: you go to UK, improve your English, gain a lot of experience, make money and use those to jumpstart your career after you return.
'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments
My bet... Everything just settles via Armenia, Egypt, and China via netting agreements... No impact.
> Seems like Putin didn't want to piss off Xi by starting a war before/during Xi's "look at how great we are" Olympic Games.

And it'd seem that Putin favors dates like 22.02.2022 for some strange reason.

Russia launched their full-scale invasion of Georgia on 08.08.2008, too.
That actually make me chuckle. I do actually have first-hand information from inside Russia.

Election system is completely controlled by the government. Opposition members can't even register as a candidate, they are just rejected. And if that doesn't help, the well oiled machine of election fraud ensures that the 'right' candidate wins.

As for 'big scale protest', Putin has enormous internal army consisting of riot police, RosGuardia, and so-called titushkis, a class of combatants with criminal backgrounds.

And he has tanks, armoured vehicles and firearms, which he wouldn't hesitate to use against protesters. Good luck protesting against all of that.
This assumes brk market value = book value. I'd guess they trade higher than book value.

I guess you can always call the difference between market cap and book value "good will" or something...
Why not crypto?
Thanks. This is advocating total cyberwar. This isn't going to be pretty for anyone.
In case Justin Trudeau's war on truckers prevents you from helping them buy electric cybertrucks. Or you need to do some cap and trade with Russia. You've got to take the internationalist view here.
That's true. I'll admit, I didn't even try to respond to the person I was replying to with regard to the level they should be at, because I couldn't even understand their position.

That said, I believe in a minimum wage. It probably should be higher. Or, what I would prefer, is instead of raising the minimum wage we raise taxes and provide more government services (e.g. free healthcare for all as opposed to raising the minimum wage.)
I worked for a telco advisory for 3 years. You just described in more detail than anyone of us or the telcos themselves could enunciate. Thanks! :)
I am aware github itself is not foss. But the vast majority of FOSS projects hosted on github make github a big FOSS place, and by blocking their access (and asking for them to be blocked) is denying access to a lot of FOSS
I think this is right.

It can also be put in terms of near/far thinking systems [1]. If something isn't serious enough to make you worry about yourself, it fails to trigger your near mode of cognition, which considers evidence in a more contextually sensitive way and allows for the possibility of deviations from your prior expectations. This leaves the entire topic to the far mode, which relies more on broad themes and trends and is more concerned with social image.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construal_level_theory
It seems very unlikely that Twitter would block a whole country, particularly in the middle of a crisis like this.
It exists because banks need a way to know that money is coming to them, it more or less balances books. You are right, a Swiss bank could just call a Russian bank and say “hey we are sending you this money”, but A it would be a pain in the ass, and B, they could risk getting in trouble, but they are Swiss so they can do what they want hahaha.
> There are already videos popping up of Brits, Canadians, and Americans firing on Russian positions around Kiev.

Any links?
I can be wrong but that number sounds so low that it might mean the energy at the literal surface, in the same vein as how much solar heat energy reaches the planet’s surface.

I assume that the number is vastly greater if you measure the heat 1km below sea level for example.
Put 2021 in the title.
In particular: trucks carrying fuel, spare parts, and ammunition. Tanks can't run on patriotic spirit.
I think the implication is that throwaway290 is in Russia
If Apple shows off that they can and will remotely brick iOS devices at US demand, how many Chinese people (their soon to be largest market, and fastest growing market) will buy iPhones in the future?

Do you think the Chinese government would permit iPhones to then be sold in China?

Worse yet, do you think the Chinese government would continue to allow iPhones to be manufactured in China (where the vast majority of all iPhones sold worldwide are made)?

Apple ceases to exist without China.

What you are advocating is corporate suicide, and that doesn't benefit Ukraine, the US, or Apple.

EDIT:

Also, you are advocating for bricking the mobile phones of approximately 100% of all medical doctors and firefighters and EMS in a country of a hundred and fifty million people.

That would kill more people in 24 hours than have died in the entire Ukraine invasion so far.
You can go online to swift and apply. Large corporates can actually be members. We access the SWIFT network through a myriad of different banking and financial institutions we have created partnerships with.

I.e. if you go and create a neobank through a baas provider you will inadvertently get access to SWIFT, it won’t be direct but you have access.

To get true access you have to go through and insane process and have a ton of controls and policies and create trust with the governing body of SWIFT.
> Is Ukraine really that important to the United States?

We confront this now or relearn the lesson from almost exactly a century ago about the compounding cost, in blood and money, of appeasing a despot ruling a country with falling living standards.

> would we have been wiser to have acceded to Russian requests that we abandon the idea of NATO membership and participation for Ukraine several years ago

This happened. NATO membership for Ukraine was all but abandoned after the financial crisis. Years before Putin rolled tanks into Crimea. Had we actually accepted Ukraine in 2008, the last time consultations were seriously held, we'd likely have avoided this mess.
I'm reasonably sure that the point is not to make Russia use Telex instead of SWIFT. The point is to stop Russia from transacting in dollars.
I think there should always be something left on the table. If the west does everything possible to hurt Russia, Russia will have nothing to lose and will be more likely to attack NATO countries. This is something they should reserve in case there is a risk for such event.
This is what I'm talking about. Russia may have energy resources and their aging military hardware, but what they don't have is tech. Developing their own tech will take them forever, in the mean while - send them back to the stone age. I know what some of you will say - what about China? China is at best Russia's frenemy if you know your history and I doubt it's in Putin's plans to become China's bitch.
If you were in India, the last name Jain is enough of a brand if you need someone who can grow the business. The community/ last name is synonymous with successful businesspeople.
Other people's problems are so much more interesting than our own. Since they don't actually impact us we can be as upset as we like without messing up our own real life (we tend to think).

Where I am, it's coming on spring, the daffodils are up, the ice storms were not terribly destructive and were amazingly beautiful, and it's looking to be a bumper crop year for livestock and puppies.

What we see in the world is what we chose to look at. There's joy around you when you need it. Its "safe" stress and angst we go hunting for.
One of my prize bits of camping gear is my cuban fiber hammock tarp. At 12'x8', it comes in around 7-8oz. Compared to my sinylon 11'x8' at 19oz, it is remarkably lighter. Absolutely bomb proof in nasty weather with heavy winds/rain. The main drawbacks were the purchase price (ouch) when that material was first out, it is opaque enough that you wake up with sunrise, and it sounds like a drum in the rain.
True. I had a split-flap clock radio in the 80s made by Panasonic that probably cost about $30.
I only used Haskell for small projects. I admire the language, but I found error handling to be one of the weakest and most inconsistent elements. To the point of being annoying and time consuming.

Several popular libraries I used threw exceptions for expected failures (like a non 2xx HTTP response) and required wrapping.

Even the standard prelude is full of partial functions. (head...).

I saw a wild mix of Either, exceptions and custom monads all over the ecosystem. So if you want to have a coherent strategy you end up doing a lot of error juggling.

Manual errors with Either can make it very hard to figure out where an error came from because they don't capture backtraces. So if you don't have a very specific error for each failure point you are left guessing and debugging.
From the video:

> Communication between humans and machines is hindered by a lack of shared awareness.

Yeah... by the fact that humans aren't aware that AI is just a bunch of 1s and 0s and not actually aware. There's no intelligence here.

> Scene understanding

... it cannot understand. It can only match. It does not understand in the way humans understand.
KServe Joins LF AI and Data as New Incubation Project
Why? Nazi Germany and Putin's Russia are both fascist states. They both invaded neighboring countries. They both suppressed the opposition. They both assassinate political leaders of the opposing countries. If you think that there is a difference that Putin didn't exterminate millions, then give our guy some time, he's just getting started.
It's just your classic, "it's not so simple" problem. SWIFT has endpoints just like any other protocol. Someone's job right now is to compile a list of endpoints (aka banks) that are to be cut off and then it'll be someone else's job to approve that list. Then there will be negotiating and agreements and whatnot.
I've written small stuff in Haskell a decade ago. I have a soft spot for the language -- it has clearly influenced many notable languages that came after it. But I also admire the patience of anyone who actually manages to use it in practice, there are so many little papercuts that don't get resolved, basically for a decade or more. If I'm cynical, I'd say that's because little practical stuff is often not worth publishing papers about.

Error handling was, for me, a big one. For a functional language, Haskell seems very obsessed with exceptions. Even supposedly pure stuff, like "head" (first element of a list) throws an exception if the list is empty. You'd think Haskell would be the first language to have it return a Maybe value, but no. (Rust, BTW, gets functions like this right; they all return an Option.)

This reliance on exceptions clashes hard with the functional paradigm. Exceptions are "magic": They are special additional values that any type can have (so an Int can either be an actual integer or an exception value), but you can't test for them or handle them in any way pure code, you need IO for that. Which the language makes intentionally hard to use, that's Haskell's entire thing.
You don't see how sanctioning an action that in the past used to be reason for war and likely preventing nuclear war in the future is something positive? Geopolitics is not your strength, is it?

Well, to make it simple for you, EU gets a weak Russian military in the future, which is very desirable.

Edit: Oh, I see. I've replied to another 4 day old account. What a coincidence!
> the point is not to make Russia use Telex instead of SWIFT

I believe it is. Nobody is threatening sanctioning Russia's energy sector à la Iran.
What about Finland and Sweden, are those important to the United States? Because those two countries were threatened by Putin today with the same actions he's taking in Ukraine. Your line of argument assumes he'll stop with Ukraine. It's a fair line, but he's recently sent troops into Kazakhstan and Belarus, and remember he played by the same playbook in Georgia - "they are killing ethnic Russians let me recognize those 'republics' and pacify them".
I think this can be healthy. Being wrong is not necessarily a bad thing as long as you don't stop there. Science is an iterative process: questioning your methodology-- especially with unexpected results-- and then going back to tweak things or double-check, I think that's a healthy way to approach a problem. So it takes longer to hone in on an accurate result. That's okay when it means we get a result with more confidence. Speed is nice, but it's not the goal, and a certain amount of skepticism (call it confirmation bias if you want) can serve the real goal if it is used a ls a tool to spur further investigation.
I agree, but now is not the moment for appearing to be an apparatchik.
Winter is almost over, that helps a lot.
Now I want a parking sensor with the cockpit voice that reads out numbers as you land "One hundred. Fifty. Forty. Thirty. Twenty. Retard, retard!"
Ask HN: Autonomous Analytics Monitoring
Hey Hackernews: How do you guys keep track of all your analytical information?

Let's say, you're using various different services, e.g.: Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Salesforce...

Now you'd like to monitor any updates in your date, eg.: number of people using your newsletter has increased / growth rate has dropped, Website-Traffic of has de/increased, Number of transactions/Weekly increase/decrease in growth, etc..

How do you guys monitor this?
I'd like to eliminate the need of manually looking at the data and evaluating changes across different internal/external services.

Ideally I could use a tool that notifies my about any abnormal (positive as well as negative) change. Big Plus: A summary report of everything.
I've been following the development of this war closely on Reddit and Twitter, and even if it's clear there's a ton of Western and Ukrainian propaganda, I wholeheartedly welcome it. The more it seems Ukraine is doing well, the more it'll help the Ukrainian morale and it's going to spread in Russia and possibly lead to the toppling of Putin and his sycophants. Maybe even leading to a democratic Russia.

Because the only chance for Ukraine and possibly NATO is for the Russian regime to crash and destroy itself. Putin won't become any saner than this, and the worse case is a war with NATO, which is unthinkable.

So I welcome the Ghost of Kyiv, the Snake Island 13, the Sunflower Babka and the Zelensky gigachad memes. The videos of Russian kids surrendering, normal people making molotovs and fighting for their liberty. May these memes spare us any more bloodshed. There's not much more us Western civilians can do.
The bigger question is whether we will heat up the surface top much, given that the energy would be produced by a heat engine.

(I suppose you could build a heat engine by using the temperature differentials of different underground layers, although I've never seen that proposed)
I got more "info" and "context" from Putin's speech than I did in the first 5 news articles I read about this "incident".

All the "news" articles were full with unprofessional and for lack of a better word, angry or childish comments on the part of the journalists. It's as if the collective effort of the news media was to do their best to "stop" this thing, rather than report it, and to do so by generating negative sentiment.
What's the hoax? OP has seen the video.
If the US can be an example for anything, it would be precisely why no welfare hurts its population. So, no, decline of the welfare state should never be seen as a good thing.
That is true now, but what about 23 years from now (23 years being how long it was between the defeat of Germany in WWI and the Germany's invasion of Russian lands)?

Putin thinks Russia's military strength will decline relative to the US, which is why he is widening Russia's buffer to invasion now even though it will probably be many years before it is needed.
Internet access and personal computing devices are critical civilian infrastructure. That's like advocating to blow up all the bridges in the whole country.
> Unfortunately I've met people who think RT is more trustworthy than CNN..

Like Abby Martin, a former journalist whom previously worked for RT? It's so easy to allege nowadays that people coming from working with a state media to be labeled a propagandists by them, guilt by association style.
I had a chatty passenger like this in my car once - never again!
Publicly building a micro SaaS “secrets.so”
Grow fast, but sustainable enough that we don't collapse society before we have self-sustaining colonies beyond earth. Then rinse and repeat.
> AI is just a bunch of 1s and 0s and not actually aware. There's no intelligence here.

And the human brain is just a bundle of electrical signals. Why's that any different?
Crypto Network Promises Hack-Proof History of Ukraine Attack
It is quite interesting that two people very close to Putin, Press Secretary Peskov and Abramovich, both have daughters that went on social media decrying the war. The way Sergei speaks to the public here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9A-u8EoWcI in front of Putin is pretty damning too. Already a Duma member has denounced the war. It's looking more and more like Putin has basically gone rogue mad and even his inner circle is showing immense cracks of support for this insanity.

Also in insanely damning excerpt from that conversion with Putin and Sergei:

Sergei: "I support the proposal about entry of Donetsk and Luhansk into Russian Federation."

Putin: "We are not talking about that. We are not discussing that. We're talking about recognizing their independence or not. Yes or no?"

Sergei: "Yes. I support the proposal to recognize their independence."

Also both Donetsk and Luhansk leaders became members of Putin's United Russia political party in 2021. Just in case anyone had any doubts about Russian's intentions for independent states.
Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
There are a couple of "token sales" (they don't call them that) that only allowed accredited investors to invest, and had their "token sales" registered with the SEC before they went live with them. If those were designed to defraud the investors, I'm pretty sure SEC would go after those first.
>> What will EU get for this?

> In the short term, sanctioning an action in a civilized manner that used to be a casus belli. In the long run, not allowing Russia to further modernize their military and likely preventing a nuclear war by not emboldening Putin to attack Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland or Poland at some point in the future because of previous inaction.

The EU nomenklatura gets to pat themselves on the back, and that's about it.

How will sanctions prevent Russia from "further moderniz[ing] their military"? They can probably get whatever tech they need from China now, if they were previously getting it from the West.

How will sanctions prevent "a nuclear war by not emboldening Putin to attack Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland or Poland at some point in the future because of previous inaction"? If Putin attacks another country, there won't be any more sanctions to enact, and these actions have demonstrated a fundamental unwillingness to engage militarily (e.g. Germany wouldn't even send Ukraine even small guns, so instead they promised * 5000 hats*, which they also apparently failed to deliver).
So right to repair right out of the window?
the cookie popup here has no options for opting out of tracking, just a link to install an extension that opts you out of tracking, that's a first for me and seems completely bonkers
Bitcoin is like bit torrent. A technology that has legitimate use cases in theory, even can be really truly useful tech, but is used mostly for shady things.
It's a Japanese rock garden. See the rake lines?
It’s only day 3 and Ukraine is big. I imagine Plan A was to expect the Ukrainian military to surrender rapidly, and they are now gathering and mobilising for Plan B.
Hit me up, colton@routefusion :)
In another thread, commenters were remarking about how ineffectual protests by the Russian people would be on account of Putin not caring about their opinions. Whether or not that’s true, I wonder if the Russian people could shame their soldiers into a degree of ineffectiveness (“throwing the game”).
> right to repair right out of the window?

This...never existed in a military/geopolitical context? Does Ukraine get to sue Russia for materiel it's blowing up?
I'm pretty sure Russia is close to boiling over this. If the tanks roll through Kyiv and start shooting inside the city we might see massive protests in Russia.
I don't think author understands what zero cost abstraction means. He does have a point about c++ standard library still being a hit or a miss regarding performance.
It also might just be a convenient way of respectfully handling bodies.

Edit:

Footage was released by UK MOD. It is part of information warfare.

That’s not bad, in and of itself. I support Ukraine and respect the UK military.

They’re trying to psych out Russian soldiers. That’s fair.

But in the end, the Russians need to dispose of their dead. Conventional burials are probably not an option.
You had me in the first half, I'm not gonna lie.

Considering how immutable many consider the US constitution to be, it really should be an NFT for them!
Medical information at least is protected by HIPAA.
that will result in those devices will be manufactured by the Chinese instead, and them then having a near monopoly
It is all so vague. It took me so long to get a decent understanding. I write about a lot of it here

https://docs.routefusion.com/blog
Not to mention the FDA fighting to releasing the data it used to authorize the vaccine.

If that doesn't trigger a red flag then don't know what will.
> Thanks. Noted and corrected.

Looks like it wasn't a clear political statement, and was instead an honest mistake. Let's not get too carried away with this, there's a very real conflict going on and I don't imagine the people being shelled and shot at are particularly concerned about the word "the" right now.
> People generally don't want to needlessly kill other human beings and a big part of army training and tactics is to work around this basic human instinct e

I wonder if that's the actual source of the purported necessary 3:1 attacker to defender ratio in an insurgency. You have three times as many people willing to kill to defend their home as to invade, so you need more people to get the same number of shooters.
> How will sanctions prevent Russia from "further moderniz[ing] their military"? They can probably get whatever tech they need from China now

Modernizing a military is extremely expensive and Russia will not be able to afford it. This is crucial, given that Russia is waging aggressive wars within Europe.
It seems like this isn't too far off from the truth, given that botting traffic is quite high [1] on all the major streaming providers.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/how-to-fight-spoti...