skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Large-scale amphibious assaults were incredibly precarious in the era before AWACS and spy satellites. Now they're probably impossible against a modern adversary.

This is quite a bit naive. Do you not think ships are capable of planning their movements around satellites? Do you know how fast a ship can leave a US port and dock up in an Asian port (ships have an unclassified, and a classified speed)? Are there no other methods of camouflage that can be employed to hide from a satellite when it is over you?

You don’t think it’s possible because how it’s done has layers upon layers of classification walls.
'I want to help beat Ukraine from my computer'
The KEX schemes that seem to have received the most cryptanalysis are SIKE (SIDH that permits key reuse) and NTRU. They seem solid but I’d only use them in the real world in a hybrid scheme where the key is hashed with the result of a conventional ECC exchange. That way you get that security if the PQ algorithm ends up broken.

The signature schemes seem dodgy to me except for Sphincs and it’s variants and those have big keys and signatures. The keys are not impractically big for many uses but would be tough for things like block chains.
> The only thing that will matter is if we advance our technology

This is your objective to meet your end which is survival. I don't agree with it, but I'll respond as if I took it for a given.

> As far as I know, the best way for humanity to advance technology is with growth.

What you mean by growth here matters. More people with a higher standard of living is two types of growth. One is economic the other is population. But there are other dimensions to grow across.

For example, peacefulness has produced just outstanding yields in many valuable areas such as productivity, research, and ecological protection. But peacefulness did not arise out of nothing. It took lives to create our world which is peaceful for most people. Real people working on arms control agreements and diplomacy.

Improving education is similar. You could argue that education requires resources, and that is true to a point, but we are well, well past that point. North Korea is capable of nuclear weapons and rocketry. Most elementary school programs can get by on $100 worth of reusable books a year and some paper and pens.

Now the green model has some fatal flaws, and there is a reason I'm a Canadian Liberal not a Green, but the core thrust of Green thinking is a good thing in my opinion because I've found that, in general, prevention is more efficient than cure because it's easier to align incentives with prevention.

One of the problems with incentive alignment is that the international system is anarchistic and individual choices are unpredictable and given over to passions that are often unethical. This leads to unavoidable arms races (literal and figurative) across multiple aspects of society and politics.

So, for example, China builds new coal power plants because they're in a power competition with the West and to build wind turbines instead would cost a non-trivial portion of their GDP and institutional focus.

Anyway, in summary, yes with what you outlined as your objective economic growth matters, but so do other forms of growth. I would even include spiritual growth (or decline) matter too. People are acting incredibly sanctimonious and paranoid right now and it isn't helping their more charitable instincts.
Hope this new technology will have success. You never know it can be the next Theranos.
Think of SWIFT as a large Websphere MQ installation, distributed across several data-centers.
You get an IP access by installing a router, leasing telecoms connectivity.
You get access to publish/subscribe with an SSL certificate exchange.
You get access to send/receive to a specific node(Bank) with another SSL exchange.
It is important to realize nodes can only send messages to those addresses which have been trusted, i.e. keys exchanged.

So a bank (Bank-A) trusts you to send SWIFT messages, all you can do with these messages is make accounting debits & credits within that bank. e.g. please debit $100 from my account number 12345 to account 67890.
You can also chain the messages, something like, debit my account $100, credit the account of Bank-B, and send my message on to Bank-B.
The message to Bank-B might say (debit Bank-B and) credit John-Doe-account.

(It's the job of the treasury department within the bank to monitor & keep these nostro [other bank] accounts funded)

Perhaps not obvious, but banks don't have hundreds of correspondent accounts. So to send money from a small town bank in Peru, to another small town bank in Palau, there are going to be a lot of these back-to-back transactions. The pathways are determined by hardcoded rules - not by SWIFT - but by each bank in the chain.

So sanctioning SWIFT is one part. The other part is getting every bank on SWIFT to remove all correspondent banking rules going via Russia. (Quite nice work I suppose).

Since the messages themselves are just XML, and not partially large, you could easily put all the days messages which got rejected into a .zip & use email (I suspect this is common operationally anyway).

Any kind of sanction on SWIFT would instantly lead to private MQ (or whatever flavor of messaging) infrastructure springing up everywhere & total chaos for every bank in the world (i.e. quite different to Iran).
This would cause a reduction in the number of correspondent accounts each bank would be willing to maintain. So longer pathways, slower international payments.

I doubt SWIFT could recover from a sanction. It would just close down. The endgame being heterogeneous networks, poorer monitoring, so the USA lose.

The sanctions put on individual Russian banks can be monitored (by SWIFT). In likelihood they are not used as correspondent banks.

>How does the system guarantee that nobody's creating money without notifying everyone?
SWIFT doesn't do this. I suppose a special audit is triggered (see Wirecard ) and the Auditor should catch it.
But how does any of that apply to the supposed "Steam purchases with stolen credit cards by way of Bitcoin" scheme?
And on the North American side, many of us are willing to sacrifice and pressure our governments to make up some of that as well so that you are shouldering it alone.
is the adviser to the President of Ukraine seems to be very pro russian to you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30478794
Not just you, most Ukrainians were surprised too.
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"the well oiled machine of election fraud ensures that the 'right' candidate wins."

That machine only works with popular support (as it relys on individuals to manipulate counts etc.).

Which Putin has, as many russians are crying for the loss of their empire and would like Putin to restore the former glory. If they realize, that the new glory will be more misery, Putin will be gone. That might happen very fast, if the war goes wrong for him.
Why? Double spends are not hard to do from a technical point of view.
COM is everywhere on Windows, OLE is just a specific set of COM interfaces.

After the Windows team successfully sabotaged Longhorn efforts, they went on replicating the .NET designs for Longhorn in COM instead.

So since Vista all major Windows APIs are COM, and WinRT is basically a marketing name for COM 2.0.
The private assets provide the cash to buy the public assets, maybe?
"... or is the project inherently at risk of failure due to the nature of quantum computing?"

You already and automatically know it's not that, because the article was not about breaking the encryption with a quantum computer.

It was broken with trivial hardware and in trivial time.
> an article on the evidently Ukrainian site

This "evidently Ukrainian site" is a Kremlin propaganda outlet:

https://www.stopfake.org/en/strana-ua-or-strana-ru-how-a-san...
Bitconnect isn't even a real crypto.
The bluff has to be called at some point.

The Ukrainian life is less valuable than the Finn life (surely we'd respond to an invasion of Finland)? Where shall we finally call Putin's bluff? Putin is destroying a large country in Europe out of conquest and empire building, like the tsars of old. The Ukrainians deserve better than the modern, weak version of America they have 'helping' them. There were so many ways we could have easily helped them over the prior seven years and yet failed to do so.

If the US is truly a superpower (that has no qualms picking fights with far weaker nations), let it begin acting like it.

If not, then lie down, cower and fade from the pretension of superpower relevancy. It's either or and it's time for the US to demonstrate whether it still has the grit and strength of past generations or not, to demonstrate that it deserves the global position it has possessed post WW2.

We'll bomb the hell out of numerous weaker nations. We'll shock and awe Iraq, bombing them back in time, invade and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan for two decades. We'll help destroy Libya and Syria because it's viewed as a convenient, low risk move on the global chess board. Then when it comes time to deal with a context involving a strong opponent where we'd have moral standing to act in the defense (no-fly zone over Ukraine) of innocent people that are being attacked, what do we do? Wave our hands furiously in the air and throw around impotent sanctions.

Oh what a mighty superpower.
For me it is the oposite. Windows is buggy as hell, plus tracking me all the time. Also installs apps (and updates) without my permission (hello candy crash :D). I can not bare Windows much more (writting from a windows box) and I only use it because my boss needs it for a specific software..., at home only Linux.
I am not an expert but this is my rough take.

It seems that the Russians are having logistical issues. They are running out of gas. Not sure how but it seems like it.

We are hearing today about them sending in more armored divisions. These will re enforce the supply lines. But this is a really risky play. It is a double edge sword. Now that they send more in they need even more gas. And if they run out they suffer a larger loss. What good are 4,000 tanks without fuel? Suddenly your armored division are infantry divisions who are outgunned on foreign soil.

The less risky play would be to withdraw there armor pretty far back. But this means an extend war. Which they should lose do to basically endless international support to the Ukraine and their willingness to fight.

So the play would be to pull back and stick to claiming the small section of the separateness region they have capture so far. This is will happened when the last of the armored units cross the line to cover the retreat. Given Ukraine can last four more days and keep the supply lines broken.
Believe an IR beacon was placed on the building by a local.
He says he got scammed out of money in Bitconnect as well.
One should test against a default Ubuntu (GNOME) installation first, before travailing into the flavored variants.
Here is the original “speech”:

https://youtu.be/lCcwn6bGUtU

Most of the early yelling is done at 1:04. Then you get the guts of his talking points.

Make massive financial gains, the gains are due to faith and belief that by purchasing this currency you will be responsible for changing the world.

This guy’s intro / enthusiasm is a long running joke between a pal and me. Crypto price is up? Bitconnect…! Price is down? Bitconnect…! In a pinch, the screaming and stomping around encapsulates anything crypto.

Really, it is a notable performance of “hype man.”
> was at PARC in 01976, and what inspired him most there was Mesa

Wirth was twice at PARC. In his HOPL3 paper he writes in section 4 "From Modula to Oberon":

"As my sabbatical year at Xerox in 1976/77 had inspired me to
design the personal workstation Lilith in conjunction with
Modula-2, my second stay in 1984/85 provided the necessary
inspiration and motivation for the language and operating system
Oberon [29, 30]. Xerox PARC ’s Cedar system for its extremely
powerful Dorado computer was based on the windows concept
developed also at PARC for Smalltalk. [...] Thus the idea was born of gaining first-hand experience by
designing such a modern operating system on my own, with
Cedar as the primary source of ideas."

> IIRC Griesemer did his dissertation under Wirth at ETH

His supervisor was actually Prof. Mössenböck, the author of Oberon-2 (from which Go inherited its type-bound procedure syntax), see https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....
US lobbying firms rush to cut ties with Russian businesses hit with sanctions
The 3gpp specs that define these components are freely available.
Yes, it seems that Russia needs China way more than China needs Russia.
> Fiat currency here is obviously being used to refer to currencies created by government decree.

It's a bad term and I fight it everywhere I can.

> The idea that money can only exist by government decree is patently absurd.

No one put forth that idea here. I'm just saying that the idea that there is a non-arbitrary currency is equally absurd.
These items were already purchased, so the payment was in the past. OR, they buy the item from the supplier the minute it’s sold, in which case they can just return the items to the supplier.
Well... If he is not trying to invade Ukraine, what is he trying to do?
I can’t imagine why you’re confused by this. The redline is aggression against a NATO member. Hint: it’s why the potential for Ukraine joining NATO was such a contentious issue. (It’s why troops and fighters are, one hopes only symbolically, moving in to reinforce those NATO states with their presence right now)
Right, because the men involved are not vulnerable to harm, while being shot at?

And because a 50 year old man, is alway more able than a 20 year old woman?

Because he was trained 30 years ago? Maybe?

Come on. The context was "women and children" as the vulnerables. And the order is, men must stay, not military trained men.

I bet there are loads of "vulnerable" women who have stayed to fight.
As of now the estimate is they have committed 50% to Ukraine, that is pushing hard at the upper limit of how many can actually be committed before there is no logistical support at all. They could go to 2/3 for a short time, but even more of them would be wandering about begging for food than are now.

They appear to have made the same mistake as Rumsfeld when invading Iraq, a similar sized country with a similar sized invading force - he tried to go light and immediate reinforcements were required. The difference is the country of Ukraine is better prepared, they have better resolve, and some better weapons, while the Russians have far lower equipment quality, morale, and training.

Nonetheless, there is an enormous logistical advantage of attacking a neighbor from three sides and not a country halfway around the world. Ukraine also has much more forgiving terrain for an attacker than Iraq.

Everything is up in the air, but I share your optimism that Ukraine could come out on top.
> I really hope it is true, that internal support is wavering.

Me too, here is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9A-u8EoWcI

> I have a tendency to believe our western media's over expression of news stories that make it look like the Russian forces are having a hard time.

Well, they are certainly not having an easy time, casualties are mounting, some troop transports have crashed, the most reliable estimates about casualties on the Russian side that I've seen are now approaching 1,000, which if true would be extremely high already. But wars aren't typically won or lost in a day and Russia has far more resources than the Ukraine has. But indirectly, whether Putin wants it or not he's already fighting the West.

> I can't place my finger on it (maybe I just am afraid of the worst) that we need to be told things are worse for the "enemy" than they really are to avoid sentiment that causes WW3.

What you and I are told doesn't really matter. What matters is:

(1) what happens in Putins inner circle

(2) what happens in the security council

(3) what happens in the Whitehouse

That's where the decisions are made. Ukraine is going to do what they can but they are only able to hold out for so long.

> The spark has been lit in my eyes.

You probably meant the fuse, but yes, it has been lit.
> Edit: when shills gets called on purposefully missing the point by arguing over semantics, they switch to outright denial and making stuff up. Actually, ethereum and bitcoin ARE both scams, in fact the biggest ones of them all. And that IS the point.

I think I replied in a respectful way to your original comment that was essentially just poisoning the well. I also feel it's a bit dishonest to reply to my comment by editing your post. You are now deliberately trying to discredit what I say by calling me a shill, this is not how we can have a curious discussion.

What is it that I am outright denying and making up?

Just claiming something is a scam doesn't make it so, you have to provide some sort of arguments to support your thesis.
I didn't notice that at first glance. It's beautiful.
The title says "self driving", but the article is about a sat-nav
They're likely used for intelligence purposes. The metadata and surveillance access is probably more valuable for Western intelligence than public disavowal by Apple, so Apple might be stuck with egg on its face in public because of cooperation in private.

Only after a MANGAM company gets banned by Russia can they signal public support for Ukraine, unless the surveillance or propaganda potential isn't useful for this conflict.

Location data is probably being given to Ukrainian leadership via the CIA and state department.

Russia has made many many missteps, and Ukraine has seriously bloodied the bear's nose.
This is so weird dude. The simple ask is that you write a sentence that is distinguishable from the freshman "free-thinker" type, and your response is "absolutely not" lol.
Phase 10 and Five Crowns. Card games. They both have defined lengths, as opposed to set scores for a game to end, which is nice for the pacing of a games night. And they are both engaging enough to be fun, while simple enough to focus on the people you are playing with.
I noticed that too. The second plane almost missed!
All unarmed civilians are vulnerable, women slightly more so, and children especially.
They don’t want to destroy Ukraine. They want to make it a puppet state that they can extract value from economically. Smashing everything is counterproductive if that is your goal.
ironic how just a few stories down is an article about how approx 50% of steam payments with bitcoin (when they accepted it) were fraudulent... everyone wanting a quick buck without doing the work
Could people create fake game items and use Bitcoin to pay themselves as a way of converting it to cash? Is that a thing?

So the game item and the transaction are fake, as in they’re not actually there to play games.
It’d be tricky to define criminal criteria based solely on running a Ponzi scheme so there isn’t a “USC Section #” crime called “Ponzi Scheming”. They just charge the various illegal parts of the scheme separately. His charges:

Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud—Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1349

Maximum penalty: Twenty years in prison, forfeiture, restitution, and $250,000 fine

Wire Fraud—Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1343

Maximum penalty: Twenty years in prison, forfeiture, restitution, and $250,000 fine

Conspiracy—Title 18, U.S.C., Section 371

Maximum penalty: Five years in prison, and $250,000 fine

Operation of Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business—Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1960

Maximum penalty: Five years in prison, forfeiture, and $250,000 fine

Money Laundering Conspiracy—Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1956(h)

Maximum penalty: Twenty years in prison, forfeiture, and $250,000 fine

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/founder-fraudulent-cryp...
Completely incoherent article. What does “fraudulent” even mean? Fraudulent credit card transactions for gift cards are common, because the gift card provides a way to cash out a stolen credit card number. But if a criminal has access to someone else’s Bitcoin, it’s already “cashed out”.
Another way to look at this, since you know since the US literally had nothing to do with why it’s starving, is the US is trying to help a smaller country (and gain an ally) by trading with that country.
I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that NATO has defined a fairly clear red line covering more than half the countries you listed there.
Yikes. I remember when my dad bought the first fly-by-wire car and even back then I was kinda spooked by it but accepted that adults knew what they were doing. The funny thing is that our next door neighbour bought the same car and the computer saved his life when a semi-transport truck merged into him and it took over the wheel.

I'm still on team "put computers into cars" for the long term benefit of ending routine automotive collisions but the medium term is frightening.
Exercise. After Covid I had a long period of time with low focus; I slowly recovered spending on average more than 30 minutes per day cycling (quite intense) for about 6 months. Walking may also help, I think in my case the combination of disconnecting + exercise made a difference. During cycling I was never thinking about work. In the winter I do pushups and lift weights, it is something I can do at home, it is also exercise and time off. It takes less than 30 minutes per day in total, in several rounds over 3-4 hours; my coffee break is now a pushups break.

I also noticed that I can write good code only 3-4 hours a day at most and not every single day. Luckily for me, I am not a developer, but the highest concentration and productivity can be achieved and maintained for relatively short periods of time, not 8x5.

Alcohol does not work well. It helps disconnect, but constant alcohol intake leads to even more alcohol and health problems.
There are just too few users on the LN. Of the whole world population, there is probably fewer than 1 in a million who could just scan a qr code and make a lightning payment.
OK that kind of makes sense: "fraud" = making geographical or time-limited price discrimination less effective
Russian state television channels are hacked to play Ukraine national anthem
You know what's petty? Not being able to come to terms with criticism, and then pretending to not understand it.
> It can definitely work, see for instance Nazi Germany -> Poland.

What are you talking about? The invasion lasted several weeks and had the support of the USSR. They quite literally destroyed the Polish army. In fact, Poland never officially surrendered.
Yes, but I feel like the telegram channel is trolling based on that fact.

Is there any basis for these marks? Is it a common military practice? How was this done before internet existed? I just can’t understand what’s the point? What do you gain my marking trees and 10x10 meter flat lands? Can’t you just figure that out from a topological map and google earth? Russia probably still has all of the maps from the soviet times. Plus they can take pics from the satellite or planes.
I beat that index last year, and the year before that, by simply picking the right tracker.

Could I keep doing this year on year though - no.
that doesn't make any sense. The 'fraud' in your scenario and where the point of contention lies is between the the credit card company and the exchange where it was onramped. There's no way the exchange is then going to go through the effort to track the btc to steam and say 'Hey, that transaction that didn't come from our exchange wallet was fraud i want the BTC back.'

Also - That's just like fraud with extra steps? Why even usee btc?
It has more to do with ship docks being backlogged. Then when a docks storage fills up, they turn the ship away or make it circle.