skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally don't know if there ever was a video of the impact other than that of the security camera [0]. I think of two reasons: the Pentagon is not NY, which is a highly populated area in a developed country, it's natural that so many people were filming. Even more so, the Twin Towers were cultural icons. I don't know if many people were around the Pentagon, but I have read about witnesses of the crash in DC. The other reason would be that they don't want to release it and it's understandable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon#11_September_2001...
It's like binge watching 3rd Reich in 10x. False pretense, flash expansionism, bs political communication, cutting information streams.
My meditation teacher used to run peak performance courses for executives, judges, and others, and the main thing he taught was concentration meditation.

If you sit still for a moment and try to concentrate on something either internal (the sensation of your breath, the tip of your finger) or something external (something in your visual field, a sound) you'll notice you get lost in thoughts almost immediately. There is a strong habit of wandering in your mind. But you can train the opposite habit through meditation.

Most people can't concentrate for more than a few seconds before getting uprooted by their wandering minds. In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition they compare the mind to a stampeding elephant pulling you around wildly in every direction. You can imagine what is possible with being able to concentrate as long as you want on whatever you want.

In concentration meditation, you keep bringing the mind back to the object of concentration whenever you notice your mind wandering. You also focus more deeply on the object, getting more absorbed in its details while avoiding dullness. Doing this even 5 minutes a day for a week should pretty noticeably start changing your experience.
Insolation is on the order of 100 petawatts.

Human energy utilization is on the order of 20 terawatts, 0.02% of the power the sunlight that hits the atmosphere. Our energy utilization doesn't matter a lot.
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It’s not about “letting them in”, it’s about protecting the border without breaking the law. Poland chose to do illegal pushback instead, effectively killing some two dozen random civilians.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/09/poland-be...
If the politician makes a decision in his interest but to the detriment of his people, one could very well make they connection. A simple example is distraction from critical domestic problems the political party/politician is not able,ready or willing to solve by focusing on international politics.
This is a video game view of war though. As if the authoritarian has a video game controller that lets the video game characters do as the authoritarian pleases.

This has nothing to do with the reality of the Russian military on the ground.

Surely, the Iraq invasion was over so fast exactly because so much of the Iraq military did not want to die to defend Saddam Husein.

The will to fight is so asymmetrical in Ukraine. Surely, the Russian military is not oblivious to what the world thinks of this. So one side is willing to die to defend their country and the other side probably just wants to get back home alive and get this over. The Russians also can't just level every city to the ground and call that victory. They have to break the will of the people without destroying everything.

It is a recipe to lose the war even if you win some battles. The Russian path to victory is extremely small and maybe even impossible in this situation.
What precisely is “the west” doing with the Internet in response to this conflict right now?
Some 3 letters agency (FBI?) immediately raided all the nearby places that could have had cams and seized everything. I'm pretty sure that it's documented: IIRC footage from a petrol station nearby was confiscated.

I was there (at the time, in front of my TV I mean) and I clearly remember the first witnesses being interviewed by reporters: as soon as a witness would say something not fitting the official narrative, it would never be aired again. For example regarding the pentagon one eye-witness said he saw something like a big missile on which wings had been strapped. I saw that on TV. I clearly remember it. Now I'm not saying it's not a Boeing that hit the Pentagon: what I'm saying is that it's very weird that all these ramblings from these drunkards mistaking, say, a Boeing with a "missile with wings strapped on it" were basically aired once then erased. I'm pretty sure that guy was both drunk and of course because the plane was going fast, the mistake was made in honest faith (you, too, would certainly mistake a Boeing for a missile with wings strapped on it).

Same thing with people saying they heard explosions in the WTC: as soon as they'd mention that, they'd be cut off by reporters and these people would never be interviewed again and their account never aired again (FWIW I don't believe in a controlled demolition but I do believe in narrative manipulation).

After these oddities of course we all know totally normal things then happened: for example IIRC one the rare flight that was allowed to happen when no plane were flying in the US was a flight evacuating members of the Bin Laden family.

And then the wars that followed. Made perfect sense. No fabricated evidence. Guantanamo and the like: all perfectly cromulent.

When you take all this, honestly that we don't have any footage of that impact just seems on par for the course.
Saying plant vs crystal makes it more click bait.
False equivalence. There's a big difference between blocking state-owned media that are direct propaganda tools (e.g. RT, although I don't think they're actually being blocked anyway) and blocking a general social media platform that has opinions from all sides on it.
I just found the video itself quite high-quality. Even though it affirms lot of what we already know but in a more researched nuanced way.

Also let's see how long it lasts here before getting flagged.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_racism
Also keep in mind that the Ukrainian government isn't all that great.

It's all very corrupt and the economy is far from free.

Of course, they don't deserve being invaded nor conquered by Russia either.
> What purpose could that serve?

Absorb impact of high tech armaments until Ukraine runs out of those after which they could send in more valuable troops. Armies are like pyramids, tons of 'cannon fodder' on the lower branches, what photos I've seen of the actual Russian troops in Ukraine are mostly scared kids aged 18 to 20 or so, hardly any seasoned troops.
Russia is focusing exclusively on military infrastructure. They are actively avoiding civilian damage. So it is not a surprise that internet is up.
Who can seriously believe this when so called leftists in the us o ly go as far left as center right moderate parties everywhere else. Who cares about xhomsky level professors, they're not in, politics they can't ever get elected.
Putin was a member of the Soviet KGB. I am saying the Soviet Union methods are at the root of both, also the PRC.
This doesn't directly answer your question, but yesterday Roskomnadzor[1] has announced that they would "partially block" Facebook in Russia [2, 3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervisio...

[2] https://www.rbc.ru/politics/25/02/2022/6219031a9a7947cb20dce...

[3] I was going to provide a direct link but Roskomnadzor's site appears to be down at the moment... lol
That's why "everyone" cares and why this relatively uneventful situation is getting this amount of news coverage

You must know very little of history, to think coverage is only due to race.

Show me another country with the same nuclear arsenal, or with the military might, invading countries this large, in a location which has started two world wars.

Playing the race card is... weak.
Is this a pro or con comment? Could be both I suppose.
If you live near the Ukrainian borders, then you can help refugees who are seeking shelter, though i hope that the bordering countries is organizing right now.

Military aid as an individual makes no sense and going to Ukraine to fight a superpower will have very little effect.

Then i suppose you can send money to help Ukraine, though i have no links to any good support channels.

My own help at the individual level is raising awareness of what is going on, and trying to influence those who are in charge.

Disinformation is very much a problem in raising awareness, you want to make sure you are promoting a true story and not a made-up one.

Some good examples of this can be found here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/23/documenting-and-d...
I'll ask you the same question I ask everyone who spouts nonsense - when it turns out you're wrong, will you care? Or is possessing this worldview somehow intrinsically satisfying to you, regardless of reality?
The Human Cost of Putin's War
to_string is just a wrapper around sprintf... here's the (de-__uglyfied) code on libstdc++:

inline string
to_string(float val)
{
const int n = gnu_cxx::numeric_traits<float>::max_exponent10 + 20;
return gnu_cxx::to_xstring<string>(&std::vsnprintf, n, "%f", val);
}

it will be worse in pretty much every metric than fmt::format("{}", val);
And there is no Russian 'endgame', they will be under attack forever, whereas for the Ukrainians there is a very clear goal.
> Who is at the top that gains from all of this?

In a ponzi scheme the people higher in the pyramid are anyone who joined in the past and is trying to grow it. You could say Satoshi with his early mining and various other "insiders", whether their identity is known or not, are at the top. I don't necessarily agree that it's a ponzi scheme, although I'm sympathetic with many anti-crypto arguments, but that's the reasoning if expect they'd use.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say... Is Angola under invasion right now?
Decline of the welfare state could be seen as a good thing..
I'll just say this: many here are convinced our AI overlords have landed and we'll soon all be out of jobs and deepfakes are undistinguishable from the real thing.

So I'll say this: if you believe AI is advanced, then in 2022 it's not possible to take this video for granted and you have to take into account that all evidence surfacing from now may be deepfakes. I'm not saying they are: I'm saying you have to keep that in mind.
Out of curiosity, what were you digging with? Unless you were digging with a toy sand shovel or making a very large hole, that seems like a very long time.

As a kid, my cousin, my sister, and myself were able to dig a hole deep enough for me to be completely inside in an hour or two using a post hole digger. (Yes, this is a very stupid idea.)
>This looks like forum sliding to me. Everybody knows what was meant by DQ, the context made it obvious.

I didn't know what "forum sliding" was either.

Apparently, it's this[0]:

"Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list, and the critical posting 'slides' down the front page, and quickly out of public view. Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and unuseful postings. By this means it becomes effective to keep the readers of the forum reading unrelated and non-issue items."

===

I'm not really sure how that applies here.

What, exactly, do you suppose I'm trying to distract others from seeing?

Please do elucidate, especially since it ought to increase the visibility of whatever it is you think I'm trying to obfuscate.

Thanks!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165439
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Im betting google treds lightly on content violations by state sponsored stations for fear of being shut down.

Note also you can watch dw [1](German) and France 24 news [2](oddly both in in English). I think those are “state sponsored” though right now hardly propaganda. Dw was forced to close its Russia office.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCknLrEdhRCp1aegoMqRaCZg

[2]
https://youtube.com/c/FRANCE24English
You're moving the goal posts. It's fine to be against cryptocurrencies, but I think it damages your credibility when you claim bitcoin is a ponzi scheme. Since it shows a lack of understanding of what a ponzi scheme actually is. By you I don't mean you in particular, I mean it in a more general sense.
Stay safe. Download some censorship-free mesh networking communication apps to organize protests.
What this misses is that China had more political reform under a one party system than any democracy on the world.
During the 2015 crisis only 1.3 million people requested asylum. I think many many more people will come this time. This will lead to severe housing shortages, building activity causing stress, shortage of jobs, etc ,etc.
Same. While polish society is hugely racist towards refugees from Middle East, largely because of a government’s massive hate campaign from a few years ago, it seems polish nationalists failed to achieve the same against Ukrainians - probably thanks to the fact that many Ukrainians already live and Poland, so people can see for themselves there is no reason to hate them.
> Russia has lost 3500 troops in the past 2 days.

Russia had some trouble[1] recruiting for this mission. Pay is a joke, and they had to hire a bunch of aging convicts with nowhere else to go:

>> Two Meduza sources referred to the formations taking shape in the “people’s republics” as “Dirlewanger brigades,” because they actively enlist former inmates. “Those [joining up] in Luhansk were in prison,” said an individual personally acquainted with members of the new unit. “And then suddenly they turned up in this detachment. They’re real criminals, and besides that they’re no spring chickens [aged 45 and up].”

it gets worse:

>> Indeed, Meduza’s sources believe that those who accepted the recruiters’ offers likely have a rather low level of training. “All the rest are [on combat trips] in Africa or in the sands [Syria],” explained a Russian security agency veteran familiar with the recruitment campaign. “Nobody’s raring to go to the ‘field of spoil tips’ [the Donbas].”

>> “They just don’t want to go there, because there’s a regular army [the Ukrainian Armed Forces]: it’s difficult to fight against it,” said a former Wagner Group mercenary. “If there’s a regular army, there will be big losses.”

There is another[2] recent article that suggests Russians aren't going to Donbas/Luhansk voluntarily. If so it could explain the losses and shocking morale.

________

[1] A road to nowhere Russian recruiters are mobilizing mercenaries for a ‘trip to the Donbas.’ What they’re expected to do there remains unclear. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/12/23/a-road-to-nowhere

[2] ‘I’m panicking — where is my child?’ Conscript soldiers are being sent to fight against Ukraine, their relatives say. Here’s what their families told Meduza. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/02/26/i-m-panicking-where-...
I like how it is said Putin when there’s 200K (numbers approximate ?) Russian kids who are currently shooting at Ukrainians
The anti-aliasing of the example scores on https://www.soundslice.com/features/ makes horizontal lines look extremely blurry. It's not as bad for vertical ones.
I used to believe the same thing, or I had started to in the last 24-48 hours, i.e. that Putin is “crazy” and such. Until, by chance, I stumbled on the Wikipedia page [1] of his main ideology from the last 10-15 years, Vladislav Surkov, and noticed a few quotes from an interview he gave in February 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning:

> He claimed that "There is no Ukraine", adding that "coercion to fraternal relations by force is the only method that has historically proven its effectiveness in the Ukrainian direction. I do not think that some other will be invented

The “there is no Ukraine” quote is exactly what Putin said in the speech he made at the start of the week, the one where he discussed history and the general situation on those lands. Also, mentioning “brotherly violence” as the only solution to the Ukraine situation, two years before this week’s invasion, is highly revelatory. It made me more at ease, to be honest, I realized that Putin is not “crazy”, he’s just following through a system and a doctrine that had been put in place years before. It might be a bad system, a bad doctrine, but we’re not at the mercy of a single person whose mind was negatively affected by the pandemic (as the Western press is sometimes alluding), the invasion doctrine had already been in there for some time, and is not a creation of only Putin the man himself.

[1] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov
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A 60m borehole is not a source of energy, it is a store of energy. It only makes sense if you can sink enough heat into it in the summer, to use that energy in the winter. Or vice versa in warmer climates.
Wikipedia isn't a credible source though.

The takeaway from the last 2 years is that you can't trust the media. It's all propaganda and lies. Unbiased, objective news died a long time ago if it ever existed.
That's actually an excellent point. I don't concede my overall argument that having access is still superior, even if rarely used (compare to this [0]) but your comment-- simply stated but deeply meaningful-- raises an important question: how much does the distinction between access & active suppression matter when other forces render the outcomes substantially similar? Trying to answer that with any substance is probably beyond the scope of a message board, so I won't try except to give my brief opinion that yes, the distinction still matters.

But thank you for revealing the question to me with such clarity.

[0] from the "live" log on WaPo, so I don't have a direct link to this entry: "MOSCOW — Russia’s tech and communications regulator launched a probe Saturday into 10 independent media outlets that have not parroted the Kremlin’s line on the invasion of Ukraine
There surely are various solutions and it is also a solution to shift side effects to areas where fewer people are affected (and more easily compensated) - but the tone of that statement above was "who cares for rural areas" at least I read it like this, because why else would rural people not care about it?
Ponzi scheme? Perhaps not. So maybe we need a new word? It's a new invention, and thus might require a new lexicon to capture its essence.
Failing in Haskell
Alternatively, con-artists pose as upsetting technologies to convince people to get in on the "ground floor" of the exciting hyped tech (doesn't necessarily apply to crypto).
Ha! I grew up listening to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, my Dad loved it. And yes, it will be a while before any combination of DL models can write something as touching as Gnossienne, or ‘simple’ Bach stuff that I love like Jesu Joy of Man;s Desire.
There has to be so many questions in so many of the Russian boots on the grounds minds about this.

That matters more IMO than what the military brass thinks.
> I think those are “state sponsored” though right now hardly propaganda

All news media is propaganda, the question is it true or not.

That’s why it’s important to try and find source material. Also look up company ownership and authors
Why did they ever allow this?

Oh right, Yuri Milner gave Facebook hundreds of millions of dollars, given to him by Putin.
Ok, so only propaganda from certain regions is tolerated?
It's interesting that he's losing the war, too. In the worst case, Putin will have to choose whether a tactical nuke to win the war is out of the question.

A crazier version of North Korea indeed.
You seem to be addressing a different type of cynicism. Sam's post appears to be talking about the exact same thing as OP, but articulated better.

The problem OP speaks of is probably more accurately stated as "gratituous negativity". Not simply being critical, adversarial, or negative, but indulging in it. When people find satisfaction is seeing others fail, it biases discussions towards false negatives.

HN tried to make gratituous negativity bannable. I don't know how that turned out but it's not in the guidelines anymore.
Those 2 statements are in contradiction to each other.
I honestly have a hard time believing that right now, but I'm open to the possibility. Maybe wars are different than protests, but when there was protesting in the states, there was multiple 24/7 livestreams of people on the ground.

So far, all I've really seen are recycled videos that seem to get reposted everywhere and used in the media, but very little engagement. I have a feeling that either:

- The resistance in Ukraine is actually very little, so the goal is to try to get people from other countries contacting their politicians to provide assistance. I've seen some news about certain groups being banned from leaving and being encouraged to join the army and about how they are providing information on state media about making molotovs.

- Try to make it seem like they are somehow winning by providing high estimates to try to hurt the morale of Russian soldiers.

It does seem like thus far Russia has mostly been focused on strategic targets, with some isolated civilian incidents. This makes the most sense right now considering that multiple superpowers are monitoring the situation and if Russia makes a wrong move by decimating civilians, then this could quickly turn into a world war.
How is this different than Apple?
Or hit from above like with the top attack profile of the Javelin.
Let's just agree to call it a distributed digital Ponzi scheme used for ledgerdemain.
FCC to probe domestic Russian-owned media and telecom companies
https://imgur.com/a/jnu3yUn
So when Russians in USA go back to visit their family they should pay for visas? I don't see how that helps the fight against Russian goverment in any non-symbolic way.

Maybe stop trying to punish ordinary people for their (effectively unelected - see how opposition in Russia can't survive) government?
One of my favorite thing about this massively profitable company is their website [0]. Buffett’s power point presentations are equally slick.

[0] https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
True, but I feel it has more to do with foreign women historically being considered assets while men, liabilities. Vast majority of ME migrants are men.
Internet in Ukraine disrupted as Russian troops advance
Why wouldn’t they store it? That’s a good mine of information in many different ways (product improvement, upselling, ad targeting, etc)
This might depend on his definition of "jerk":

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/12/a-capitalist-is...
Hybrid Public Key Encryption
So if our energy consumption increases by 4% per year (current global average) for ~110 years, we'd need to capture / produce as much energy as the Sun hits us with. Crazy!