skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody contemplates attacking a nuclear power such as Russia. I want to Russia to improve its global position be deposing Putin, withdrawing from Ukraine, and compensating Ukraine for the casualties and destruction. Then sanctions against Russia can be lifted and it can be a normal country.
They are not into politics, they are into money. If 90% of the world is against a war you can make more profit catering to them. Nothing personal, kid.
I want to donate to a cause that Justin Trudeau finds "unacceptable."
I want to send money to Ukraine.
I think this week we saw problems with tradfi in the developed and developing world.
And of course in the good ole US of A, I hear stories of civil forfeiture every other month.
I concur, and to be clear I'm only noting that to counter disinformation that only military targets were hit, not as a criticism of your post.

It seems reasonable Russia wants to keep infrastructure intact, not just for minimizing outrage, but also a county reduced to rubble isn't very useful. Not to mention I doubt the average Russian soldier is terribly keen on doing more than necessary damage as well.
I see no scamming in say Link (bringing offchain data on-chain for other projects to use) or SNX (on-chain synthetic assets). There's a ton of examples of projects that have nothing to do with scams and are more akin to normal companies providing blockchain-related services.
No, I was actually looking for a real answer as phillipseamore just gave. Perhaps I should have phrased the question differently in terms of SWIFT alternatives.
> questioned how democratic the supposed cessation from Ukraine was

That’s… the point I was making…
You’re so ignorant. It isn’t gambling, it’s grass-roots investing to disrupt the centralized financial system owned by the government that’s trying to inject you with a microchip under the guise of stopping a scamdemic, just like they did to the frogs (which are all gay now)

If the US constitution was originally minted as an NFT, none of this would be necessary.
So do we.
Maybe give safe harbor to ransomware operators who target Russia in the same way that Russia gives safe harbor to ransomware operators as long as they don't operate domestically https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...
Also, it's almost spring... Although I did wake up to snow on the ground this morning.

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.
> When the talking heads went from "the vaccines are rushed for political reasons" before the election, to "the vaccines are super effective, lets mandate their use"

That never happened. There were worries before the vaccine was released that it would be rushed for political reasons. That went away long before the election.

> Changing the definitions of "vaccination" and "vaccine effectiveness"

That never happened. Some right-wing "news" people said that they did. But they were paraphrasing and (mis)interpreting what people were saying specifically to pretend they were shifting definitions.

(I used never, when I mean "no significant instances". I'm sure some random talking head in a third-tier market or maybe even an isolated case of someone with a national microphone said something dumb.)
Thanks, exactly the answer I was looking for.
Reminder: Russians have nukes.
FWIW, I have ADD and sometimes take (prescribed) Adderall, i.e. amphetamine salts.

They absolutely have an unwelcome impact on my mood and thoughts. I judge the tradeoff to be worthwhile, but it's a close call.
I wonder what the data-rate is like (or rather, I'm too lazy to look it up myself). The image is 1010K which with a 14.4 Kbit/s connection would take ~10 minutes to download from Mars. 1 KBit/s would take ~2.5 hours.
Interesting how fast you lost all compassion and sympathy for the innocent civilians getting killed by Russia in the Ukraine ... assuming you ever had any.
Wonder if one day we find out that thermal energy is cooling down earth too much. Reducing magnetic field around the earth which causes a huge reduction of our ozone layer and eventually even the entire atmosphere.
> other people know how much money that bank should have based on transactions it has made?

Approximately. Everyone keeps a running total of their bilateral transactions. This summing and sharding reduces information. But it also decentralizes accountability in a robust way.

Add occasional audits (which allow trusted persons to evaluate the transaction record), and some of those parties' books (in the aggregate) being public record, thereby permitting every party (including third parties) to compare their books to theirs, and you get a system which tends towards accuracy.
Is there a cryptocurrency token sale that's not designed to defraud the buyers?
There's nowhere left near me at all that sells the New York Times, which was the paper I liked to read in physical form. Used to be a fun weekend ritual to pick up the Sunday edition from the coffee shop down the street and sit around reading things and doing the crossword, but I can't find it anymore. I'm not sure if it was covid that killed off the distribution or just the economics of print.
I agree. While Russia has lots of popular services which win over western counterparts (Yandex>Google, VKontakte>FB ...) they still do use Google/Apple devices. Blocking them would cause more powerful force than any government can currently yield.

We have a way to go though - Google generously offered $2M in Adwords credit as a response to Ukraine war. Let's encourage them to do more!
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30476940)
Time to Step Back
Berkshire continues to sit on cash (144B) with a thesis that productive assets are expensive due to the long period of low interest rates:
'That’s largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive
investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.'
Upcoming interest rate increases may create good opportunities for Berkshire to invest this money and grow.
I thought it looked like coral.
By "linked" I meant OP
They are not this is just a business decision if 90% of your userbase around the world is against a war you cater to them and not to the 10% that do. It's that fucking easy. It's money not politics if people like you would start to understand that it is about profits for them and nothing else you would certainly get a better grasp of the world around you... but better bash on the same brainddead argument like in the last 6 years.
Nah, serious economist don't believe minimum wage legislation causes inflation.

Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Central banks control that.

If you are actually looking for non-strawman arguments against minimum wage:

First, see https://web.archive.org/web/20220217044208/https://blog.jaib... (Basically, don't punish employers for interacting with poor people, nor reward other folks for successfully avoiding interaction with poor people. If you want to help poor people, give them money.)

Second, employers are paid with a whole basket of goods, and money is just one of component. Training, working conditions, flexibility etc are others. A minimum wage makes some of these baskets illegal, even though they might be mutually agreeable to all parties involved.

> [...] than trickle-down policy.

'Trickle-down' was only ever used as a strawman.
Do you have first hand information from inside russia?

As far as I know, Putin is absolutely scared of a big scale protest. Which is why he reacted so harsh against the anti war protests so far.

And the russian system is still based on elections(with observers). Where fraud might happen, but if he loses popular support(which he still has), he will eventually loose the elections.
Quantum computers are good at solving the hidden subgroup problem, which generalizes RSA and Diffie Hellman.

The reason they do well in this area is that you can implement a Fourier transform with exponentially fewer quantum logic gates than classical logic gates.

Post quantum involves implementing a cryptosystem which can not be reduced to a hidden subgroup problem, but I’m still not sure if this is sufficient (QIP might solve other classes of problems easily)
That may be true, but I was looking for positive outcomes from the industry as a whole. Of course there are companies like metamask as well that just provide services within the crypto industry.
So you’re just a troll without any carefully researched knowledge.
There doesn't seem to be any autonomy technology described. This is an article submitted by Mitsubishi about their work with AI-driven driver direction annunciation. Which sounds cool, but it's not "self-driving" at all. Which makes me question how much of this is actually showing off something interesting and how much is just marketing.
It seems to me that government needs more checks and balances so people can recall their candidates if they misrepresented themselves or their intentions.
Ten years ago I was trying to get a job in Google as hard as I could, but these years there are just less and less reasons to even consider applying. I mean, OK, their business model is built around advertisement, but seriously?
If you calculate by market cap, BRK’s AAPL shares are ~$150B/$713B market cap of BRK = 21% AAPL.

Buying BRK still seems like putting more of your eggs in the AAPL basket than buying SPY, which to me, would be orthogonal to diversifying away from tech.

I guess BRK gives you exposure to Buffet and his team’s management skills, but I would be very surprised if they manage to sidestep a downturn in AAPL’s fortunes.
I don't see any reference to this on the internet other than this post.
The link posted -> https://www.androidcentral.com/google-response-ukraine-invas...

says nothing about Adwords credit.

And I am surprised none of the commenters so far have noticed this...?
It's a relatively objective assessment of the topic, and human nature in general.
I suspect a component of it is simply that the sort of investors they want don't actually care, and that they're happy not to deal with people who do care enough to not do business with them.

Sort of the equivalent of this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
I'm inclined to believe that people would opt for condensed versions of history as brief generalities than being aware of the overall context as well as nuances that may have potentially or conveniently ignored for expedience.

I know Rep. Dan Crenshaw is unpopular on HN but he recently interviewed [1] Jon Huntsman Jr, the former ambassador to both China and Russia.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1cPSFxW0Xs
let me get this straight.. it is listening to every key input i make on my mac regardless of the app i am in? then sends this data to its cloud?
im assuming this includes passwords?

if so, how is this app still legally available to the US consumer?
Does the US have legal authority to compel companies to remotely wipe a whole country, especially without a declaration of war?
Ukrainians turned to encrypted messaging app Signal as Russians invaded
I second this. I was a child in Elementary school at the time and had just woken up and walked into the living room with the television on after the first plane attack. The reporter (forgot the network, I’d seen the same footage repeatedly all day that day and never wanted to look again) was still talking about the possibility of it being an accident right up until the second plane attacked. Even in my eyes at the time, one might be an accident but two was an attack.
I just do it in OBS and expose the result as a virtual camera. Zoom/Slack/Meet just use the virtual camera with no additional config
I've been through about seven international moves, and a few more moves without crossing borders.

I've never lived in the suburbs.
The solution doesn't fit the problem though. Sure, in theory bitcoin-style cryptocurrencies can replace centralized financial systems. But, as keeps being demonstrated, including by this very example, in practice what you end up with is different, less-efficient, centralized financial systems dominated by fraud.
> refers to these A, B, C as 'registers'

No, A, B and C are called "instruction field", not "register". The registers are referenced in the text like e.g. "R(A)" meaning "the register signified by instruction field A". E.g. the instruction "MOVE A B" is described as "R(A) := R(B)". Each register carries a Lua value. The registers are not part of the instructions, but part of the activation record, which is allocated when Lua enters a function.
Yes! I love text.nor.org!
Independence is a pipe-dream. You always depend on others and physical resources. If you install a solar panel to "become independent from centralized energy systems", you're moving from a dependence to established energy networks to another type of dependence. You now depend on people making, delivering, maintaining panels for you. As well as the batteries to store the energy.

No-one can make or repair this take themselves. You just moved the dependence from one system to another. The current system is also battle-tested and mutualized. Outage see lots of people on deck to fix things. If your solar installation panel breaks it's your individual problem and it will quickly reveal just how dependent you actually are.

The only way to be independent of other humans would be to live a lifestyle which requires only rudimentary knowledge, and the muscles of your body. Probably only hunter-gatherer. Anything beyond that means you rely on knowledge, skills, and muscles of other, and dependent on them for your life.

Maybe you knew all this, but it may still be useful for other readers to realize since these days we hear a lot of prophets telling us how we should increase our independence by installing solar panels or wind turbines. And people don't think twice about where these come from, and who will maintain them.
At some point the world needs to stop giving their lunch money to the bully and take a stand.
Oof?
I agree about that distinction, but still, won’t that error need to be formatted? Is it safe to rely on logging picking up on the error or does the ”simple script” solution imply that there is monitoring for the script exit code?
> Furthermore, that "something" can keep changing over time

I don't follow. DApps didn't change to nfts, did they? I'm pretty sure they still are used and developed.
What about drugs? Cheaper, less middlemen, higher quality, safer delivery. What’s not to like?
Xmake is one of the most pleasant build systems I have ever used, way easier than CMake or Meson and the author of it is incredibly helpful.
Reminiscent of certain kinds of sea sponges.
Yes. Use NATO air power to tip the scales in Ukraine. They seem to be doing pretty well by themselves, even just a little help may be enough.

Putin is gambling that the west is too cowardly to fight, and so far he's right. Hitler made the same gamble in 1936.
What do nukes have to do with FAANG, a bunch of private companies, cancelling their products and services? I'm sure they can come up with something from the fine print in their T&Cs to justify that.

This is the only way that is not direct military action to hit them hard. So why not?
I am not in the US. These comments are good. I do believe most of the bullshit is regulation-related, coming from the Government.
Update: I was totally wrong!
Metals start to get weaker at relatively low temperatures. https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/metal-temperature-strengt... We want to extract 100’s of MW of heat which presents several issues.

You need a thermal gradient to move heat from the surrounding rock to the water your pumping in. The higher the initial temperature the larger the difference and therefore faster you can extract heat. Aka even if the working fluid is at a constant temperature you can simply pump it faster.

Also, Carnot efficiency limits means you want the hottest steam you can handle. Further, you have various inefficiencies such as losing heat as water moves back up a borehole.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/26/china-sees-strategi...
Indeed. To me the situation is like if USA were to invade Canada. They share a similar culture, language, plenty Russians know or have lived in Ukraine or viceversa.

The morale hit is enormous. Especially when these kids are told they're sent there to liberate it from the Nazi government and they see people that look, talk and shit exactly like them. How long can they follow the orders and trust the chain of command? And how long can the internal propaganda convince the Russians that their war is not a senseless massacre of cousins and friends?
Europe has been looking for alternate suppliers. See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-01-31/u-s-lo... for instance.
I think these steps are escalating the crisis.
Exactly. When I'm feeling stressed and overwhelmed, I like to envision zooming out of myself on Earth to our solar system and beyond to remind myself of how small I am, along with my stressors.
IMHO it’s still 'the Ukraine,' 'Burma' &c. There's no need to change. We say Paris, with an 's,' not 'paree'; the French say 'Londres,' not London, and that's okay too. Languages use their own words for common place names, and that is fine. There's nothing wrong with using a language's words, and no real need to change them.
https://twitter.com/googleeurope/status/1497312501020696578?...
Statistically? Statistically Russia has killed more Slavs than any other nation and is presently running up the score.
I can understand the part about rising costs making affordability an issue.

But could you please explain how 'mass entry of women into the workforce nearly doubles GDP per capita' is a problem?
[4] https://forum.juce.com/t/ddsp-tone-transfer-vst-possibility/...
> Though literally nothing about this war makes a lick of strategic sense for Russia.

see "Natural gas transmission system of Ukraine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_transmission_syste...

the discussion about Norstream2 and to a lesser extent NATO membership: Since Russia is an oligarchy its "sense" is defined by Putin's ego such as "reuniting Russia" again as it was and ruling it as its Tsar.
Manage Podcasts on an iPod Classic on Linux
Italy too, with 46% of gas from Russia, just under Germany's 49%.
By the late senator and Vietnam war veteran John McCain. I didn't quite like him but he was right with the mafia part.
The unquestioning desire to inflict serious harm on 100+ million civilians in this thread (by bricking their communication devices) is disturbing to me.
> Assuming SWIFT access is cut, and then the Natural Gas supplies are turned off is there another escalation back?

Sure. We could sanction their oil and gas industry. Like we've done to Iran. There's also a whole world of plausibly deniable black ops stuff we could do to mess with their infrastructure.
Even before that, there was a similar piece of software called Magix Music Maker, with a separate Techno edition. Good times.
Due to the military presence. Not due to some mind-hack nonense.

Does Russia have a military presence in the US? It does not and it never will.
I think we are in violent agreement. Two things can share a characteristic and yet be completely different, but people focus on the similarity (which is easily understood and explainable) and ignore the differences (which can be more difficult to understand and explain).
Netflix to be forced to broadcast Putin propaganda
I remember it like it was yesterday. I lived in northern Virginia and was working at AOL as a sysadmin. I was young and a little flaky back then. I overslept that morning and when I woke up to take the dog out, it was a beautiful, crisp fall morning. I called a coworker to tell him that I would be late for the team meeting (this being pre-Zoom and before the "standup" became a thing). He said, "no worries, dude. Turn your TV on, the WTC is on fire and we are watching it." I turned my TV on and a minute or two later, the second plane hit.
Instantly, I knew that this was going to be a big deal and since we helped run CNN.com, I quickly dressed and hauled ass to work to help with the inevitable web traffic surge. My buddy called me and said, "don't bother coming in, they are evacuating the buildings". There was a rumor that a hijacked plane was circling DC and AOL was right near IAD. I went back home, only to be called in an hour later. We were taken to the AOL leadership bunker, which I didn't even know existed. A large conference room deep underground below a small data center on the campus. We spent the next two days nursing CNN.
for lunch on
You're probably on to something with that. My tastes are such that I'd love a System 6 version of this project. 7 always felt wrong, like they were forcing something the hardware wasn't ready to do yet.
The US is also really dependent on the flow of dollars going through SWIFT. Kicking countries out means alternatives have to come online. If those get too popular it poses a huge threat to the entire US dollar reserve currency system.
My furnace runs on heating oil and my cars on gasoline, as do the trucks that bring food to my grocery store. Much electricity is still produced from hydrocarbons. People who benefit from hydrocarbons but demonize its producers are inconsistent.
Yep, my point was more from the other side in this case, although it was also a bit generic.

All the best for the resistance.
Huh, this is the lowest priced merch Ive seen (the shirt is $7.50). I'm guessing they are selling them at minimal to no profit.
They obviously hijack the political themes that they think will resonate with the population, but that should not lead to you looking with crossed eyes to any comment that discusses far-right radicalization on social media.
Well, with a crazy person who seemingly doesn't care anymore - I can see the "fuck it, it's my way or the highway" scenario playing out when he feels the gun put to his head.
I'm not sure who you think you're talking about, giraffe_lady. I'm not a "personality responsibility fetishist" whatever that might be. That's the type of language that does well on reddit, but people here don't love those kind of flamebaity remarks.

I'm a liberal centrist Canadian who has the privilege to observe American politics from afar without getting too invested. I just call it as I see it.
Let's start with cutting off their cloud/remote services before doing something with very large friendly fire potential. I think Ukrainians with devices sourced through Russia would prefer they stay working
This may backfire though, since people could simply turn on the Western companies and say "hey Putin was right, they ARE out to get us".

Stoking protests against the Russian government using the very same tools you mentioned above sounds like a more promising route. Maybe there are still factions inside Russia's political apparatus that are powerful enough to decapitate this government. Not that they will hear "the will of the people", but they may sense an opportunity to take Putin down and enrich themselves, while cutting down on the USSR imperialism nostalgia.
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.
In situations like Ukraine, and in crises caused by natural disaster
what is really needed is highly flexible, resilient mesh internet via
Yggdrasil/BATMAN type protocols. One thing we've really failed to do
as hackers is break into mobile devices at the radio-head
level. Obviously the powers that be in our own countries _really_
don't want that, but the way the world is turning these days it's time
to crack that and at least have a ready to deploy overlay internet
that springs to life when the "official system" gets turned off.