skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think GP's point was: Devaluating Ruble could cripple Russian economy only if they imported a lot, which they don't. They are self-sufficient, they have all the natural resources on their territory, and they have manufacturing capabilities to produce everything they need, they do not need any trade with the rest of the world. Also, Russian people are used to being poor, so it's not like they will rebel because of getting even poorer.
Your bank will probably be the first one to ask, lying is a felony. (As is money laundering, of course)

Also Valve will be looking for this too, as required by their bank.

This is an incredibly unrealistic money laundering scheme, entirely fabricated by mr_cyborg.

The truth is that the “fraudulent transactions” here are double-spends, because Steam was accepting 0-conf payments in an unsafe way.
Your account is 5 days old, and has karma 5. It looks to me like you're trying to basically start a conflict with people on the site for no good reason.

The site manages itself and sometimes hides information. Calling that censorship is kind of silly. From your comment on the 9/11 thread, I don't really see people downvoting you to hide your content to be unreasonable.
I agree he had the solid foundation [1] [2], but it is still not that simple.
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Most importantly at this level Buffet would have hundreds of people in his target pool of similar profiles Goldman Sacks, BCG, McKinsey and ofcourse insurance guys with similar Harvard/Stanford/Yale/MIT kind of ivy league education .

Selecting the right person would still be hard.

The pedigree of this kind of education and job helps in filtering out a ton of candidates, and keeping the pool to high quality, however it won't be a selection criteria.

[1] His academic credentials are impressive, but just to keep in mind IIT in 1972 didn't have the same reputation( guys like Jain created that their achievements) as later on especially terms of difficulty getting in - saying this as late 2000s IITb grad

[2] His younger cousin was definitely not factor in 1982 when getting hired , he wasn't Deutsche Bank CEO then
I run a Gitlab instance. It wouldn't be a pain except that user spam is nonstop.

How does gitlab.com deal with this? Or do they just put up with rando users signing up and spamming the snippets/issues/etc.?
There is talk that this may not be true. Who knows what to believe these days.
I’m trying to bring back Emo and “Breaking Rainbow” will be the name of my group
The term "fly by wire" refers to the lack of mechanical linkage between the operator controls and the flight control surfaces. Cars have gone through similar design changes, yes. The car accelerator no longer opens valves/injectors for the gasoline to enter combustion chambers.

In both cases - aircraft and cars - the primary goal was reducing weight.

But this term is not intended to refer to driver-assistance features.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_by_wire
They have provided a "user-friendly ddos tool" here [1] as discussed on reddit [2]. This does exactly what you'd expect it to do – it makes a large number of connections every second. It's completely and utterly dumb (and beware clicking the link!) but I imagine that such attempts sufficiently at scale are large enough to have a significant effect.

Whether or not rt.com going down internationally materially affects Vladimir's plans or place in the world, however, is another question.

[1] https://stop-russian-desinformation.near.page/
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t18qm4/you_can_ddo...
From my perspective, Harris was echoing what was already widespread common sense. Trump had four years of undermining longstanding American institutions (the "deep state"), which had just culminated in his fully committing to nonsensical covid denial [0]. Having an irrational autocrat at the helm destroys public trust, because in addition to the everpresent worry of nonpartisan political motives (eg approve this vaccine so some company can make money), we have to worry about more direct partisan political motives (eg approve this vaccine to make me look good).

[0] Still trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, I personally thought Trump was going to come around to reality by June 2020. Doing so would have made him a shoe-in for a second term.
> “Civil forfeiture” does not and has never meant “fiat forfeiture.” If the government tells you to forfeit your assets (justly or unjustly!), you can be certain that they will not be amused or deterred by attempts to hide those assets via cryptocurrency.

If they don't know it exists, they can't take it. Just like I can cross the border with a hundred thousand in crypto in a wallet. And even if they find the hardware wallet, that is not enough to seize the funds, especially if it's a brain wallet or something similar. The same simply doesn't exist for fiat.
> That line carries their supplies.

Russia doesn't need this line to carry supplies along the border. They can just carry them on the other side of the border (through Russia or, if we're talking further west, through Belarus).
West Virginia Wants to Ban Over-the-Air Updates for Cars
"information wants to be free" goes back even further
Actually yes assume those things happen and move the oppressive government further down the line to see a pro-crypto absurdity:

Are we supposed to believe that crypto is magically cleaned when the oppressive government seizes it and uses it or resells it? for all purposes right now, thats true and no transaction flagging software is advanced enough to consider that yet.

Woah woah that crypto came out of a mixer at some point in time!!! Thats used for “bad” crimes orders of magnitude more than “good crimes”, I think….

Oh nevermind, this passed through one of the seoveriegn washer addresses later, all good!”
That's not what happened in the Soviet Union at all. The people didn't "dethrone the corrupt leader", in fact the people had very little to do with the events of 1991.

Instead, the leader of the Soviet Union (Gorbachev) attempted liberal reforms which provoked a coup attempt led by eight high level Soviet officials who were communist hard-liners. When the coup failed, the leaders of various Soviet Republics declared independence - including Boris Yeltsin, who was the leader of Russia within the Soviet Union before the coup (specifically, the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR).

The whole thing was a power struggle between high ranking politicians.

And in addition, far from being evidence that sanctions can work, the Soviet example is evidence that authoritarian empires can collapse when they attempt to liberalize:

"The process of implementing perestroika created shortages, political, social, and economic tensions within the Soviet Union and is often blamed for the political ascent of nationalism and nationalist political parties in the constituent republics. Perestroika and its associated structural ailments have been cited as major catalysts leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union."[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika
Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine
>whereas PoS is more like a democracy where you get one vote for every $1 you have

Less like this and more of how a company is run in real life. Investor, founder, codebase contributor and early coin buyers have alot of the say in the network... Which actually is exactly how it should be. If you were involved in the creation of the network, you should have a say in it's path forward... So am i missing something or does POS completely invalidate your arguments?

>And again, any such ideas suffer from the same problem all crypto does interfacing with the real world. Like how do you agree on the value of something releasing (or potentially sequestering) carbon (or methane or whatever)? It's up for debate. How do you make sure what someone emits is what they claimed to have?

Same way we do it now... Outside validation. The only thing it would do is make it more resistant to fraud is you can have multiple oracles in an open contract that eveeryone will cry foul over if it. Additionally, some of those oracles can be IOT objects controlling and reporting emissions.

These are all solved problems that you are bringing up, the only thing new here is that smart contracts would allow a number of novel things to be done with carbon credits like swapping them for various assets, more controlled reporting with a fixed standard, greater visibility across the supply chain, etc. etc.

I get he didn't explain himself, but there are smart contracts on !Ink which is POS and eth is trying to transition to POS if they can convince individuals to bet on the concensus change.
Speaking as a german, i'd be happy to wear another pullover and deal with rolling blackouts, when the alternative is war.
> the potential to shake up the class system.

0.01% of bitcoin holders controls 27% of the currency in circulation. [0]

If this is changing the class system in any way, it's for the worse.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoins-one-percent-controls-l...
Remember when the rest of the world imposed punitive sanctions on the US after they invaded Iraq and Afghanistan?

No. Me neither.
Steam marked me as a "fraud" because I used my European Revolut card to try and make a purchase when I lived in Indonesia.

I get that they don't want European people to pay Indonesian prices through a VPN or whatnot, but I was living in Indonesia and living off a local salary; I thought marking me as a "fraud" was rather harsh; with the increased ease of international banking there are loads of cases where this is perfectly legit (Spotify also doesn't allow it, but is far less harsh in how they communicate it – Netflix posed no problems; it's also circumventable by using gift cards, which is how I used Spotify, but I never tried this for Steam).

Anyway, I'd wager a significant chunk of the "fraud" cases is stuff like this: circumvention of regional pricing.
Usually my socks hanging up on the drier behind me.
>Does this constitute war crimes?

As with almost any legal question the answer will depend heavily on specifics not easily determined from a few minutes of video clip.

>Can Putin or whoever is responsible be charged in court for this?

Assuming it does constitute a war crime then theoretically: yes.

In actuality: no, because of course you can't just waltz in and arrest the dictator of a nuclear power.
> Let’s not escalate the situation or a war might break out.

You are being pithy, but is this not the truth? We are on the first rung of a ladder that leads up to the end of the world.

The NATO strategy so far seems to be to isolate and damage Russia economically and politically and provide weapons (and one can assume intel) to Ukraine. I think it makes sense.

One of the major problems with escalation is that Russia is weak - so weak that any direct NATO intervention will almost certainly provoke some kind of nuclear response.
> We don’t have the stats on how many people the active braking has saved from a collision.

In the article, there were several links at the bottom with stats on the impact on Volvo cars in the US: https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/2111.
The stats aren't directly equivalent, but I think it helps to support your argument.
Off topic question: Has anyone managed to hack into any aircraft or tanks yet? I vaguely recall some US tanks were using Microsoft Windows and also vaguely recall that the RU borrowed some US battle tech. Did the RU also borrow some US fighter tech? Not suggesting harming anyone but forcing the landing gear locked deployed and flaps to 100% should be entertaining if feasible? Make tanks dance to a tik-tok video? Tik-tok on every HUD?
They are not more liquid than BTC itself. Why not just sell the BTC directly?
Why would this come as a surprise to anybody paying attention to energy geopolitics?
> cheap, free, open, independent of govt control

Literally neither of those is true about Starlink.
It appears to be an accurate assessment. I was expecting to see blitzkrieg based on initial reports, but it seems less likely now. In a very real sense, I hope that is the case.
Great, just what I want, a back seat driver.
Agreed! However the amount of maintenance that you need to do because of the vulnerabilities is disappointing, especially due to how contrived the upgrade paths are: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/update/#upgrade-paths

Thus, it might be a better idea to look into a less popular stack that's less likely to be targeted as much due to not being such a juicy target.

For example:

Code: Gitea/Gogs/GitBucket
CI: Drone/Jenkins (okay there are probably better options than Jenkins, to be honest)
Registry: Nexus/Artifactory (not just for containers, they support most formats and have better control over cleanup of old data so you don't have to schedule GitLab cleanup yourself)

Of course, at the end of the day all of those still have an attacks surface, so i'm really leaning more and more into the camp of exposing nothing publicly since it's a losing battle.
Hypothetically if you were Putin and that was the actual reason, wouldn't you want to deal with it asap when it's still years or decades away, rather than wait until it's close enough that your invasion might lead to them quickly signing it and then sending in Nato forces? Not to mention the fact that he might not trust reports of how far away it is and think it's happening sneakily behind his back soon?

I've no idea what Putin's motives are, but I don't think the fact that Ukraine joining Nato wasn't weeks away from happening prevents it from being as likely a reason as if it was that imminent.
Because i doubt the roth childs are among those whales.
This argument makes no sense from a logical viewpoint.

NATO is a defensive union. The only reason to fear it is if you’re planning to invade other nations. Putin ostensibly should have no reason to fear NATO expansion unless he has ill intent.

And if the argument is: yes, it is defensive now, but it might turn offensive against Russia at some point. Well, for that you just need an alliance of countries, it does not need to be NATO. A group of countries comprised of NATO and non-NATO members can gang up against Russia any time they want, without any NATO involvement.

I believe Putin only says this because he wants to keep invading other countries on the table as an option, and that is precisely the reason to keep expanding NATO.
GitLab employee here.

We have internal tooling that we're working on incorporating into GitLab itself to help with this: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/08/19/introducing-spamche....
So we should bring in Norwegians to rule it?
There is no such thing as open smartphone. Legally you are not allowed to transmit, unless you got liscence. So baseband will be always locked.
There are some dumb phones that can thou.
I have to echo your point on inconsistency.

Our company uses Haskell and the Haskell team love to define their own solutions which make things even more inconstant. For error handling they end up using an extensible type-level-list containing possible error types, embedded in an extensible effect monad. We also have list, array, vector, and our own collection types in the same place.

It feels like everyone want to make things better by using/making something new, instead of making them consistent.
The first paragraph of your comment is so Dilbert I laugh out loud every time I read it
> maybe NATO can agree to pause its expansion? i do think that would do the trick

Nah. It might do the trick if NATO pulled back and let Russia reassert dominance over the old Warsaw Pact, again.

There aren't easy answers here.
Man Poe's Law strikes hard here
This looks really cool, and I'd hope that every professional writer uses some system like this.

What I'd also really like to see is something like a "unit test" framework for prose. For example, if you are maintaining a website, or a document that has to be regularly updated, it would be nice if you could insert tags which mark assumptions that you think may change with time.

The framework could even detect these assumptions automatically, by looking for phrases like "at the time of writing" and "expected in the third quarter of next year". But rather than flagging these up every time (which is a recipe for alarm fatigue), you could set a policy for how often each statement needs to be reviewed (and record who reviewed it last, and when).

I'm sure this is all possible with some custom programming or a bureaucratic manual process, but if the tooling could reduce the effort required, making this as simple as fixing a spelling error, it would have a greater chance of being widely used.
PREEMPT_RT badly needs mainlining.
> So Russia doesn’t provide the EU with any gas in a world systemically short of gas and that’s going to hurt Russia is it.
> How exactly? They still have the gas and Europe has no fertiliser or heat.

Logistics for one thing. Where/how are they going to sell that gas? Western Canada has plenty of gas too. It cannot be used to supply Europe because of logistics.
Agreed, the (2001) is almost a little ridiculous---we all know 9/11 happened in 2001, and the year in the title is supposed to refer to publication date.
I don't think i've ever run into one here in the US that didn't let me use my crypto card.

I don't even remember the last time i carried cash?
>legislate supernatural beings showing up to make misers better people.

Sometimes this might be the only type of legislation that would have a chance.

Since well before the time of Dickens there have been major organizations controlled by influential elites which have always been dependent on the kind of expolitation that can only be maximized up the chain when there exists at least a certain amount of this type of poverty toward the bottom.

Even when there are more than enough resources to go around.

Even sometimes when there is no maliciousness involved. The tradition is that deeply ingrained.

Employed workers like Cratchit were not suffering as badly from the full prevailing poverty at the time. Their financial disadvantages were great, but not nearly as bad as the vast unemployed had to face in order for their services to be made available to elite ventures when needed at relatively insignificant cost with little notice.

The unwashed masses really are masses and sometimes will need to include white-collar professions more than others. When it becomes possible for enough working-class people to rise financially through mere education and/or merit, then adjustments will be made by those whose control did not arise from merit in order to keep the distance and maintain the status quo.

This seem to be what Dickens was getting at.
Thanks; it's been so long since I used eBay I completely forgot to check it!
Poland is just finishing a pipeline to Norway, we'll stop buying any Russian gas at the beginning of 2023. And we also have ability to import LNG through a shipping terminal at Swinoujscie.
Probably both depends on whom you are asking.
Wow that is bonkers. Do you think Musk is right about the audiovisual-only approach to self-driving automotives? I must say I rarely disagree with his thinking when it comes to physics and computer science, but that was one of the few times I thought he was wrong and I'm still not sure, but your story does make for a compelling piece of evidence.
These days I play a lot of The Long Dark. An unforgiving survival experience in the Canadian North. It can be very stressful and intense, but also very relaxing and calming.

Another great game I played recently is Subnautica. More exploration/crafting than survival, but still great. That's the one game I wish I could erase from my memory to start over.

Some odd ones: Euro/America Truck Simulator. Very relaxing games.

I also have a fairly big library on GoG, my all-time favorites:

* The Tomb Raider series (up to the 5th). The Legend/Anniversary/Underworld trilogy is also not bad, but I really don't like the latest reboot.

* The Broken Sword series

* The Myst series up to Revelation
> At the end of the day, saying "it's just electrical signals" is a crude way of saying "it's using a model of computation that we understand and can replicate".

oh. well, that’s just a naive embrace of the andy grove fallacy.

as of this moment, the brain’s computational model (and if there is one, and if so how many) is neither well understood nor replicable.

it’s almost a category error to describe the process as “reverse engineering”, but even if that’s an appropriate mental model, it turns out that reverse engineering an evolved system that’s taken 4.5 billion years and has had no human design additions at all has very little in common with any similar approach you could take in, say, inspecting the trained weights of a neural network to back out what’s going on.
Think again. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/07/20/rothschild-inves...
>Its hard to believe now, but the idea of a deliberate attack on civilians was really not on most people's radar at all.

Though people were far less concerned about it than now, it's not fair to say it wasn't on their radar at all. The WTC had already been attacked once, and Timothy McVeigh was executed for the Oklahoma City Bombing only a few months before 9/11.

Even on the day, in that twenty minute window between crashes the general narrative was it might be an attack, just no reason to think it is yet.
Well that confirms I can't afford it!

Interestingly, this page isn't linked to from https://github.com/enterprise (except in the footer), where the calls to action are to either "start a free trial" or to "contact sales".
Did steam charge a transaction fee for refunds? If not, there's your answer.
> But I also admire the patience of anyone who actually manages to use it in practice, If I'm cynical, I'd say that's because little practical stuff is often not worth publishing papers about.

I feel my impatience pushes me towards Haskell if anything... local-reasoning for instance rather than "understand this entire call chain" requires less patience and is easier to get right.

> there are so many little papercuts that don't get resolved, basically for a decade or more.

I've been using Haskell a decade in practice, can you tell me what papercuts you had in mind? I'm assuming I and other real world Haskellers might just see them as much less of a priority all things considered, but I'd like to be sure I'm not missing something.
You could make this argument about basically any service and it comes up on HN without fail anytime something like this happen: "Just self host, it isn't hard."

And sure - self hosting might not be terribly complicated but that's one more thing that now you've got to worry about and keep track of. One more thing that you've got manage and keep up to date. There is a lot of value in convenience, ease of access, and simple scalability.
If a government can't force a software backdoor into vehicles, how are they going to stop the next trucker protest from blocking roads or effecting political change?
You want me to hack... the planet?
Subsistence isn’t the actual threat to a Martian colony, and that is what is so maddening about it. We can go and we can figure out the technical hurdles. But even with those magical capabilities we cannot eliminate ourselves from the equation. The danger for a Martian colony will not be from Mars, but from the “Martians” (just as it is on Earth).
The free movement of capital is a long-established right in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Single_Market#Capital
Lots of countries are buying oil or gas from Russia. Including the Ukraine and the USA. The USA imports around 22 million barrels oil per month from Russia.