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Please refrain from advocating for censorship, political agenda, or any other crap of that kind.

Fighting misinformation is not done by shutting up every one you deem (rightfully or not, this is not the subject) inappropriate.

And HackerNews should not be a place to spread political views. And if it is, I might as well go find another place then.
About time.

Now stop buying Russian oil.

If they are serious. Are they?
Russia has previously stated that they would consider this an act of war [0]. Troubling.

[0]: https://russiabusinesstoday.com/economy/russia-would-conside...
Or just write your own operational semantics and grammar in Racket's Redex :). Lots of ways to Rome.
Healthy young person here: joints are not a problem at 17°C, though I do pack myself in comfortably thick and warm clothing so a lot of that will make it into my (uncovered) hands. For me 17 is the limit, but definitely not yet problematic.

I do notice in the morning if I forget to turn on the heater (we're on the ground floor but sandwiched between neighbors who seem to keep it toastier) and the room is ~15°C. It takes an hour before I get cold after coming out of bed, but then, yup, typing is one of the things I notice after that time.
I had a 2018 Accord for about 7 months. I had it happen a couple of times; I was only 41 at the time.
I second this. Also if you have particularly large databases consider snapshots to improve recovery speed. Also consider air gapped backups, just incase your primary backup appliances are compromised

Edit: also focus on your business continuity plan. Organizations often expect after an attack to have their systems down for a day or two, they won't be. It could be weeks or months before everything is back up and running. You need to know how you're going to run your business in the interim
>that Gabe is lying

Quit putting words in my mouth. I made no such claim.

>and not to be trusted :D

Yes, if by "not to be trusted" you mean "not to be taken at face value".
Kind of strange to feature an interview with a USSR defector in 1984 talking about how the baby boomer generation had been brainwashed into marxist-leninism by soviet propaganda and were about to plunge the US into authoratarian communism, and then be shot by the new soviet rulers.

I'm relatively sure that didn't happen.
putting variable inputs like solar and wind on the grid makes the grid more expensive to manage.
iirc this is what they said would never be possible with any computer, whatever the specs (at real life speed).
War is the mother of innovation
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They expected a lot more support from the local populace, it seems.
I wish you the best of luck!

I'm glad that HN has been able to provide you with some resources. It's really nice to see the more wholesome side of HN, and I'm actually going to have to bookmark some of these to check out later.
Perhaps they have had the full safety suite longer than other models?
Can someone with knowledge explain what this means for European countries that buy gas, oil and other goods from Russia. I am guessing they still want the essentials. Are those purchases not done through swift? That bring up another question, are purchases from one country to another done through the regular banking system?
You've done it for the third time now, I will report your activity.
Would you volunteer to go?
The articles I've seen about this say it's a significant move, but what exactly will it mean for Russia and its economy? Will it also impose costs on western economies? What exactly are those?
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Sorry, what? If we hadn’t any renewables at all, we would be even MORE dependent on Russian gas.
Who doesn't? I keep my house at 23C. The cost is negligible. I don't want to wake up to pee and be shivering in the bathroom.
Nations pledge to remove ‘selected’ Russian banks from SWIFT
Long lasting anonymity of stakers is impossible. Eventually, everyone will be tracked down. There's too much power at stake to remain hidden from establishment power forever.

And anonymity of stakers who have unassailable control of the network consensus is exactly the problem. If you don't know who the king is or where he lives, then the peasants have zero ability to countervail his control authority when he starts abusing his power. No sovereign nation or person will sign up for a system like that without being violently coerced, like the US does to keep the rest of the world on the petrodollar standard.
Why?

One thing has nothing to do with the other.

Germany is pushing for renewable and has not transitioned to it.

It is depending on Russia for 30% or so in gas. It has this problem because the transition is not done and Fukushima pushed the faster end of nuclear power.

Which is understandable when you remember Tschernobyl and how dense populated Germany is.

I drive by isar nuclear power plant by train since I remember. While it looks interesting it's also frightening when you see how little real knowledge or excercise anyone had when Tschernobyl happened and when Fukushima happened.
Maybe you blocked some elements and an update broke that filter?

Check your custom filters.
Sounds interesting. Any citations where I can read more about those effects?
> unethical decisions aren't made at the bottom

But they sure are implemented at the bottom.

This article was published in CACM, whose target audience is CS academics and industry professionals. They are the people actually building and researching these technologies. I have literally heard a researcher in deep fakes say without irony that it's not their role to think about ethics in their research, because it will get done anyway, there the ethics questions should be left to others who are better trained to think about such things. That's sure a position to take, but I would say this article serves to speak in opposition to that kind of view. Moshe Vardi is highly respected and very influential, and he's basically calling out researchers and developers in engaged in this work as unethical:

Surveillance capitalism is perfectly legal, and enormously profitable, but it is unethical, many people believe, including me

Those are heavy words coming from someone of his import. Personally due to the respect I have for him, if Moshe Vardi said that about my work, I'd maybe think twice about how I was spending my time. Because Lord knows the people doing the work of implementing and maintaining surveillance capitalism have very lucrative options. It's not like there isn't interesting work to do outside of this area. It's not like there isn't important work that needs to be done but can't because "surveillance capitalism" is so profitable that it acts as a black hole of young talent.

And so what this piece is really about is saying that if these people are going to be engaged in arguably unethical work, then maybe we shouldn't be elevating then with recognition within this particular (very influential) industry group. Instead we should call out what they're doing and introspect a little bit about our relationship with them (I say we and our as a member of the ACM, and I agree with what Moshe Vardi wrote here).
Nice! My server uses Restic with Rclone as its backend. Thank you!
I'm much the same. Coworkers and roommates tell me to add layers and drink tea, but layers and hot tea make no difference if it's consistently 20ºC or below. My brain just does not work for anything more demanding than deleting junk mail. Thank goodness for space heaters.
Ukraine, even with volunteers from other countries, cannot take Moscow. And why do you believe that an authoritarian regime will hesitate to use nukes on its own soil, if its survival is at stake?
At this point ideally we let Russia flood Ukraine with its mediocre ground forces while very aggressively arming the Ukrainians, then cut the Russian troops off from their supply lines, make it difficult to get back out of Ukraine, and let the Ukrainians slaughter the captive invading force (which will promptly surrender as they realize what has happened).

The Russians are primed for this setup, they've walked into it. It's the last thing Russia expects. NATO should execute it in the guise of a peacekeeping no-fly zone over Ukraine.

It would risk an open war with Russia. That's acceptable if it happens. NATO can cripple half of Russia's army trivially in the field.

Putin will push the nuclear angle as this unfolds. So simultaneously encourage Putin's inner circle to kill him or otherwise depose him before he leads them (and their families) into senseless nuclear destruction, by offering peace to the Russia state if it removes Putin (and no military figures from Russia will be tried for war crimes for what they've done thus far re Ukraine). The Russian state will suffer no other losses post agreement, it'll be a neutral peace.
I did the licensing server for Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) in Crystal.

It’s been a joy to work with it! The standard library for working with strings, JSON, YAML and XML is top notch. Type safe and extremely fast, very important characteristics for a licensing server that is queried hundreds of times a second.

I used the super simple Kemal HTTP server library which I like for APIs where most of the logic happens on the backend.

I have 8 years of experience as a Python developer and 5 as a Swift developer but after all that time I still like the terseness and type inference of Crystal.
On his official government page [1] it's Zelenskyy. And on his passport, apparently.

[1] https://www.president.gov.ua
Yes, if you had no renewables, but closed coal and nuclear plant anyway, you’d be more dependent on Russian gas, sure.
Out of curiosity, what effects are you talking about?
> Solar and wind are cheap, but intermittent. Batteries can help store energy from day to night.

You don't need batteries per se, only energy storage systems.

Pumped storage, pressurized air, flywheels, ultracapacitors, and of course chemical batteries. Pumped storage and compressed air systems store orders of magnitude more energy and power than batteries.
Germany has installed renewables, has shuttered nuclear power and increased gas usage.

If it had only installed renewables and also kept nuclear power, the situation would be a lot better.
> has no legal teeth for recovery … yet so there is no enforcement

In this case, Steam was selling a digital good that they could be fully revoke if the funds never arrived, so the check ability works very well.

It would have been even better on a smart contract platform where the game license would exist on the chain itself and couldn’t be purchased via a double spend, Chain re-orgs would also sort themselves out in a fully on-chain system.
Invading Europe is unlikely to restore SWIFT access.
Which they are entitled to — but effectively their alternative here would be retaliating against half the world. Which in a non-military way is effectively what the world wants, as it will hurt Russia just a bit more than everyone else on their own. And if they wage war on half the world, good luck to them.
people were dying in Texas last year because their houses went down to 3-4C indoors.
Same reason internet bandwidth if more abundant and cheaper than ever, but your Comcast bill seems to actually only go up.

Local rooftop solar, with no reliance on utility monopolies, is the most important thing in the global energy picture, and I'm afraid it isn't even close. And I'm pro nuclear. But it's past time to recognize that it's the distribution monopolists that are the problem. Solar and batteries free you from that.
They've only blocked some Russian banks from SWIFT.

They probably want to still be able to pay for gas and be paid for exports...
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I think it’s just a matter of businesses perceiving the potential revenue increase not worth the overhead, combined with the resulting slow growth and development of ecosystem of service providers.

Running an independent node does take some management above that of a normal bitcoin node and merchant tooling and open source integrations are still coming together (though there are some good and dependable options). A merchant will need to keep an eye on their incoming liquidity, or use a service provider that does.

That being said, once you’re actually using it it’s a great experience, and for the individual enthusiast running a node can be great fun.

One service provider is Bitrefill, where you can buy Steam credits (and much else) over Lightning with a throwaway email faster than it takes for me to dig and type out a credit card out of my wallet or go through the SMS2FA BS of whatever virtual credit card-supporting bank I can find in the country I happen to be living in. Just copy and paste an invoice or scan a QR, depending on your wallet interface.

I do hope we see Lightning support in Coinbase Commerce et al soon. Unfortunately BitPay, one of the oldest and I think the most widely used payment service provider for Bitcoin, has become pretty much unusable as of lately and even if they did add lightning support it wouldn’t be interesting.
That works but a Molotov cocktail on the engine air intake is also pretty good and easy too. The goal is to get the crew out of the tank. Usually you have a LOT of infantry around tanks to provide security
I had never heard of the term wrist warmer! Just image-searched it, that looks great. I've tried fingerless gloves before (some family members have those for sailing) but those make it hard to type and I dropped that attempt. Will be seeing if I can buy some of those, or maybe repurpose some old gloves. Thanks for that :)

> I start the workday at 17°C in winter months. I live in an old building with poor-ish window insulation

That might also be your problem rather than the temperature. If there is any amount of air movement, like even just air being refreshed so to say, that takes away any lingering heat and replaces it with new, cold air. Of course, everyone's internal thermostat also works differently so I'm not saying this must be it but... something to consider.
I have several adblockers. It needs manual calibration. Especially creditcards need to be controlled before its send. I have no email from Google, but uBlock Origin.
SWIFT is simply a technology abstraction that runs on top of nation states and their financial systems.

The idea of banks voting on who they interact with and public transactions of funds flow seems to be fundamentally disconnected from how banking laws and financial regulatory frameworks are written and enforced.

In short, nation states have a monopoly on enforcing how money moves, because of their monopoly on force. The control of value transfer is also power, power which nation states are unlikely to cede.
Yeah but shutting down nuclear power after Fukushima is akin to jumping of a building in Germany, because these was a tsunami in Jagan.
Apple Health facilitates transmitting electronic health records on one's device with covered entities such as clinics. For this reason, they are required by law to maintain HIPAA compliance when entering into a business agreement with these covered entities.
It's not a strange definition of "win". Winning means not getting into unnecessary fights where national interest isn't involved (for the US and many EU neighbors of Ukraine; Ukraine itself too, considering that they can never match Russia militarily).
How much would fossil fuels cost if they weren't supported by all kinds of horrible sacrifices we have to make?

Pollution and wars sure are worth it!
Not in order:

1. Kingdom Reborn: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1307890/Kingdoms_Reborn/
2. Factorio: https://store.steampowered.com/app/427520/Factorio/?l=french
3. Oxygen Not Included: https://store.steampowered.com/app/457140/Oxygen_Not_Included/
4. Civilization 5: https://store.steampowered.com/app/8930/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_V/

Why I like them:

1. I find it satisfying to build a large self-sustaining empire.
2. I love programming, this game is like development but without the annoyances. I prefer the top-down 2D over Satisfactory/Dyson Sphere Program's 3D, you get a nicer overview of what's going on
3. Dealing with heat/gas/fluid dynamics and logistics in this game is so fun.
4. I enjoy conquering the world from time to time.

But my all time favorites are : All of the Zelda games. The lore, the music, the story, the gameplay, just perfect.
>Please take the time to read my entire premise (initial reply) and make an attempt to understand the full logic before commenting on it.

I did, I understood and had a question. You didn't answer my question.

The person involved in medical treatment should have legal capacity to give consent; should be situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion, and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.

Do you disagree with this statement? I would really like to know that before we continue.
Unfortunately you wind up paying for your local system as well as the grid backup.
It is a cross-border banking system, widely used to do international transactions.
I wonder, if Russia wins the war and claims Ukraine is part of Russia…. do they assume responsibility for Ukraine’s debt?
But Russia just lightly bombing its own cradle is to be expected?
Reminds me of GateBoy, which was posted a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28396927, https://github.com/aappleby/MetroBoy

GateBoy runs surprisingly fast for a gate-level simulation.
> to scale the iPod’s embedded Linux OS up to serve as a phone OS

The OS of the iPod was Linux-based?

edit: hm I should have read all of the article before commenting, although the way it is written at the start is quite misleading, I find
Yes, they do. I could build a solution myself but I really hoped for an existing one.
When I saw the apartment building on the news and I saw the fire fighters I immediately asked myself "wait, why are there fire fighters in the middle of a war?"

I started thinking that maybe these buildings were not targeted by the missile, but the missile landed there because it was deflected?

I don't have an idea on how weapons work, but I don't really think that these buildings were the actual targets.
U.S., allies agree to limit Russia's access to SWIFT banking system
But it's directly related to current events that are of intense interest to the rest of the world.

Just because it's not comparing the actions to each and every other country doing similar things does mean it's content or tone is incorrect.
Can someone familiar with the banking system chime in here?

The announcements say that only selected banks are targeted. Won't they just funnel transactions through other Russian banks that are not banned?

I also read that the previously announced sanctions on banks have lots of loopholes. Is that accurate?

It all sounds a bit like punitive token measures rather than an actual hardline action.

The central bank restrictions seem more impactful. I know nothing concrete was published yet, but how could they look like? Will they actually prevent Russia from liquidating their foreign currency reserves? Or can they also circumvent this by going through other countries like China?
Are you saying that Germany's situation, which seems to have confounding factors, completely refutes the objective price of different energy sources?
Let’s stipulate that I don’t know why broadband bills are getting more expensive, if you don’t mind.
Today I have listened on LBC radio a program with an expert on Ukraine from Cambridge university. Stated goal was to educate listeners on Russia&Ukraine history.

I was unpleasantly surprised by amount of facts mending and innacuracies to draw very polarized picture. All important answers were either factually incorrect (like Putin didn't have problem with Baltic's joining NATO in 2004), very flexibly interpreted or missed very important context cherry picking facts.

It wasn't blatant propaganda, but they didn't even try to show complexity of the topic.
We have 4 official languages and English is not one of them.
Seems maybe we're both on the same wavelength about hardware and software being underdeveloped still compared to possible visions for its use. I was personally thinking at least, that we won't get to a point where people will want to live in a virtual world by default no matter how good the technology.

Even if there's enough interest to attract some successful business, I don't think it will fundamentally break out from niche use cases.
> During the cold snap where it was below -15C during the night [...] and i didn't bother using my central heat. I haven't used central heat at all for 2 years. [...] i'm wearing shorts and a short sleeve shirt, indoors

Yeah something doesn't add up here. Unless that lamp has a crazy wattage and you look down at this "mining" laptop on your lap for 8 hours a day (no desk, all heat going to legs, wrists, and hands), I don't really see this being realistic.
I did not notify them, but they can clearly see I’ve been using the cards for the last two months. And I’ve called my card companies in the past to notify them of upcoming travel, and they all told me it was unnecessary with the new chips. If I had changed my email using my laptop & VPN connection to the USA, maybe I wouldn’t have had a problem, but I used the mobile app.

I didn’t mind the cards getting frozen. It could have been fraud for all they knew. What I did not appreciate was the fact that it took two weeks & multiple calls to my credit union to resolve proof of address. I was lucky that I had my social security and with me, and that I had a backup credit card from a different bank, otherwise it’s don’t k is what I would have done.
Its not NASAs title, its OPs
We do a bit here already, and we've got plans to do more.

For repositories using a language the GitHub Dependency Graph supports, we automatically create an inventory of the dependencies the repository uses and create alerts if/when any have a vulnerability (via Dependabot alerts and, as a sibling comment has already mentioned, Dependabot update PRs).

The next improvement we'd like to ship is an API that lets you upload a list of dependencies to us for repositories in which we can't automatically detect them. A good example is repositories using Gradle for dependency management - it's hard for us to understand the dependency tree there without running a build. With the new API you'll be able to upload a list of dependencies (generated using a Gradle command) to GitHub in CI, and GitHub will then be able to send alerts if/when there's a vulnerability in one of those dependencies, just like we do for repos using other package managers.

Your comment specifically mentions containers. That's one area that's a little further off for native GitHub support, but where the open source advisory database should help. Whilst we're currently focussed on scanning source code and surfacing results on repos (not containers), the structured data in the advisory database is just as usable with the results of a container scan. Indeed, I believe all the open source container scanning solutions already use it as a data sources.
You are spreading misinformation, as of yesterday there were 25 dead civilians.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/02/1112732
It's gonna be tough. Germany was opposed to the measure for a long time not just because they wanted to play softball, but because it effectively meant saying good bye to up to 55 billion dollars of credit.
West will pay more for energy, Russia's economy will get rekt.
I use the F# SAFE stack template to practice writing JavaScript-free front ends and back ends, all in F#.

My excuse is to create a rules based expert system for tabletop games to help game masters not have to remember as many rules during battles and such, but it is definitely slow going since I only hobby program when I'm procrastinating revising whatever writing project I'm on.

(Or when I'm procrastinating by typing on HN)