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OT: is the link at the top for donations for the Ukrainian red cross legit?

https://donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/ua/donate/~my-donatio...

because the ifrc website has also campaign for Ukraine

https://donation.ifrc.org/?campaign=e8952a8a-5096-ec11-a2db-...
>There is no other option... If let in the world pop increases, if not the world pop decreases.

Interesting you bring that up. Population in European countries isn't even at replacement levels. They actually need immigrants to keep their economies from collapsing on retirees. Making statements based on the world population as a whole seems irrelevant, China and India play a huge part in the world population increase yet they have no relation to this.

>Perhaps mass death events which we defeated in recent years are precisely what is needed for a "correction" in our global hubris.

And those mass death events, of course, should involve immigrants and not Europeans? Or, you? These conversations about population control always seem to trend in the same direction.. the same people who hate overpopulation of humans never want to start the solution with their own families.
It's tough to agree with that one. Such posts are known to influence politics (i.e. influencing/influencer effect, used by RUS govt operations as well) and SWIFT-related ideas and concerns about Chernobyl have already been raised by mainstream media anyway. Plus Putin has already shown he is willing to raise the stakes, which is de facto exacerbation.
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> You absolutely NEED to spend a lot of time talking with people, particularly advanced or native speakers of your language, in order to make significant progress understanding native speakers and speaking yourself.

Right on the money. Almost everyone I know who speaks lots of languages is very sociable. They have no problem talking to anyone about anything.
South Africa[0]?

"Economic sanctions against South Africa placed a significant pressure on the government that helped to end apartheid."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during...
Thanks! I am trying it now, quite nice, but it does a bit too much. Also the hidden posts are still left as empty lines, so it's not a real "hide" as implemented by HN.
You can write Rust in a C-like style, without generics and without traits. The output assembly will likely match the C output too.
It seems Duolingo goes quite far in terms of French. Not sure if there needs to be anything else to be honest.

Anything else might be a waste of time, including conjugation apps. The exception may be actual grammar references which can sometimes be helpful.
Doxing needs to be /difficult/ though. It can't be super easy to unmask identities online. Law enforcement with probable cause need to subpoena services like Facebook, Reddit, etc to get dirt on people. Otherwise social media will be a sanitized, boring hellscape.
I A) said I was probably paranoid and B) I didn't say they were lying, I said I assume they are. I'm describing an effective heuristic to help me accurately predict the future. I believe using data from Reddit users purporting to be Russian teenagers seems too easy to exploit and therefore unhelpful, predictively.
America has targeted Russia’s technological fabric
Could https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio be more relevant?
Sounded fine to me.
What Russia is doing is a defensive move. Russia wants to ensure the safety of its people, not to expand its land. Sadly the majority of all this disturbance is because of USA manipulations... It's not their first time (Vietnam, Iraq, Korea, ...) and I doubt it's the last time.
Every country in the world has suffered many such slights, but somehow we have to and we do cooperate, to our great mutual benefit. The slights are used by those who want division, in every country (and if they can't think of one, they make them up anyway). Why should India sacrifice it's larger interests to temporary outrage - never a good idea in international or personal relations.

(Also, China didn't attempt to conquer India, attacking Delhi, Mumbai; annexing the south, etc. The comparison is very exaggerated.)
There's more to it than that. Neuroplasticity exists.
A notable anecdote is the Northern Bank robbery of 2004, when (presumably IRA) robbers stole 26 million UK pounds from the biggest Belfast branch of the Northern Bank, which, like other private banks in Northern Ireland and Scotland, issued its own banknotes. They held a manager's family at gunpoint during the action.

This total sum seemed to be far beyond the robbers' actual intentions, and the Northern Bank quickly issued a new banknote design, offering free exchanges for anyone with the old one.

Of course the robbed money had serial numbers, so it's now generally believed the IRA just burned most of the stolen cash.
Maybe once there are more satellites with laser links. Most of the current ones can only route traffic between base stations and nearby clients, not between satellites.
I enjoy Factorio, I think it's a lovely game, and I'd be happy to support the creators for that alone. But what really sets them apart is these regular Friday blog posts - being willing to include the community in what's happening in the business, development, documentation, modding, etc. of the game is so refreshing. I love it.

I'll be buying the expansion on their word alone that it's ready and for sale. If they develop another game I'll buy that too.
Definitely felt like bait, the word Cryptonomicon does not even show up in the (long) article even once. I was waiting for the reveal that his dad was Neal (worried when he said his dad was into Ayn Rand...), or that he himself was Neal.
Education, language, skills are all attributes of "cultural compatibility".
A few hopefully helpful comments from a single white male 38 year old American that's been living in Mexico for the last 8 months. These aren't meant to be all encompassing and are from the perspective of a guy in a supermarket holding up the line while 8 or 10 people behind him want to get on with their day.

Spanish learning material is heavily biased towards the language as spoken in Spain. Don't worry about it. Use what you can and the delighted local will help you with the rest.

Sometimes it's awkward. Smile, laugh, and accept the blessing of the experience and carry on. Don't try to change or fix it. Mexico is this place where your mood is reflected right back at you. This matters when you don't want to deal w/ the language barrier in the moment.

If you're working a day job in English you've got to spend the rest of the day immersed in Spanish.
That means don't date expats. Stick to Spanish music and culture as much as you can. Subtitles and what not. Books with English and Spanish are really helpful. Schedule your day based on your priorities.

Get a qualified teacher, a high school English teacher is a good bet or ask around. I was doing 3 days/week with an instructor + plus daily homework, and that was a lot, but now 2 days/week feels slow.

Learning Spanish can be done while learning Salsa, making Spanish friends that scuba dive or sail, hiking groups, or golfing. Facebook groups is a good place.

Digital nomads have their own agendas. Often they're not really there to have their belief system tested or to learn Spanish, and view world as if they're at a cultural theme park or at a petting zoo. This is not always true of course but I standby it.

People that actively go out and see the world for themselves are a very high grade of human and worth getting to know.

Like Hemingway said about Italy: don't look at the women; share your cigarettes.

Like walking into the wind, you must lean into and accept the resistance of learning in order to move forward. Reframe the process as a blessing and an opportunity.

You'll be shocked how foreign your homeland will become to you.

It's the greatest thing I've ever done.
Yes, it made me wary - design choice with different tradeoffs is portrayed as "better".
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So I just signed up for this site. It has Home Depot who won't hire you if you are on paper (supervised release) and other companies that will bring you on 'temp to hire' when they have need, but will seldom convert a felon to permanent. Shows a lack of understanding or communication with the people they are trying to 'help'. I got better support from the other guys my first 15 minutes in the half way house than this site gives. And that is in general how society is toward felons. A lot of half assed stuff to feel like, no look at all these services, they have a chance. But in reality not so much.
Another tip - enabled Advanced Protection Program. You can't enforce this at the GSuite level but for a small company it's easy to just audit for it.

We have everyone do this as part of onboarding and we audit once a month.
If you are a native English speaker, the #1 trick is to learn the vowel sounds exactly correctly.

Vowel sounds in words extremely variable in English, but are very rigid in Spanish, even in different countries. In Spanish consonants may change their sound in some countries, but the differences are fixed, and it is easily learnable. Get your pronunciation corrected as soon as you begin learning, otherwise you teach yourself bad habits that are hard to break.

English speakers tend to really screw up the vowel sounds in Spanish, which makes words unintelligible to Spanish speakers. The one-to-one correspondence between written vowels and spoken vowel sounds actually makes Spanish quite easy to pick up.

One other trick is to speak English words using Spanish vowel sounds, because Spanish speakers with a little English will often hear the word if you do that. It also helps if you can hear English words spoken with Spanish vowel sounds by Spanish speakers.

If you are in a hick area then the Spanish language can change in other ways which can be difficult to understand (for example eating S’s, ma o meno).

The rumour is that the grammar is hard to learn, but if you only need conversational Spanish then there is one future and one past tense that is easy for English speakers to learn to speak: Voy a = I am going to, He = I have.
Man, are you going to be annoyed to hear that I'm working on a personal knowledge base that I've decided to simply call "notes".
Edit -
Firstly, sorry about how the phrase "please educate yourself" sounded - english is not my first language, although that shouldn't be an excuse to sound like an ass in a public forum. What I meant is that the scale of youtube is often underestimated (Eg. stats like the number of abusive channels and videos that they take down every day etc. are just mind-boggling)

Secondly, for the folks saying why should we allow youtube to scale beyond what it can handle, or why should we accept the 99.99% precision ?

It is because I do not see a futuristic society in which humans are doing work like "manual reviews" - to progress humanity we need to automate such manual labour so I support the fact that companies are testing the limits of automatic content moderation - and working to improve it - I see it as a win overall. Adding human reviewers would be a step in the backward direction IMO.
Years ago, I asked on the forums[0] if they'd have it on GOG since I wanted a DRM Free copy that I could pull updates from. They said, essentially, "not in the near future" so I bought it on a humblebundle ... I got a Steam key though.

A few weeks later it came out on GOG and I contacted about getting a key and they said, just buy it again.

I also haven't seen it on GOG-connect to make it available to Steam key holders.

So my experience definitely conflicts with their "early purchaser" customer-appreciation rationale for this.

[0]: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=189466#p189466
I think what they were referring to was Germany prematurely decommissioning nuclear plants only to start replacing them with coal and (more importantly) Nord Stream 2, which I never understood either.

I can't comment on whether Greta Thunberg had anything to do with that, but I do see in a recent article that she appears to be anti-nuclear: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/21/eu-in-row-over...
> Is humanity supposed to stop reproducing?

Yes. I'm not sure why people come to any other conclusion.
> It helps to view "third-world" as simply arriving in third place at the finish line of modern living; on a long enough timeline

This is reductive, and possibly wrong. Developing countries do not have to follow the paths of developed ones; they can simply skip over the less useful bits. As an example, most developing countries skipped large-scale POTS networks and went directly to wireless (GSM). The same is happening with solar and wind energy; because the sparse electric distribution networks are sparse, energy is generated at its point of use, which favors solar and wind.

Our "legacy" countries are the problem because we cannot wean ourselves off pollution without taking a hit in our lifestyles. The problem is in the here and now, not some future "time bomb", and it's not solved by tweaking at the margins by limiting population growth of those that live the greenest lifestyles. The problem with the climate change "debate" is that nobody wants to make changes - it's always the other who has to make sacrifices.
I didn't get the impression that the author believes that Russia had "a right" to invade Ukraine. You're conflating attempts of understanding a behavior with attempts of justifying it. These are two very different things.
That's a great read.

What's striking, in his description of the conference, is the total lack of any connection to real world activity. None of these people seem to be trying to get enough Bitcoin together to build a steel mill or a wafer fab or a smartphone factory or, indeed, any kind of startup that does something. Bitcoin is expected to somehow generate wealth without actually doing anything that generates revenue. All it can really do is move money from one group to another.

The world changed this week. Things just got real. Russia is taking over a big chunk of eastern Europe by force. That's what real authoritarianism looks like. Not mask mandates. Over the next few months, the tolerance for bullshit, especially in politics, will go way down.
You are 100% right that the domain is the keys to the kingdom.

Definitely only use registrars and DNS providers that have 2FA. Google has a registrar now, as well as DNS in GCP https://cloud.google.com/domains/docs/register-domain and https://cloud.google.com/dns. By using those you can leverage your Google account's security (use separate accounts for admin level access on GCP and enforce hardware 2FA), and control who gets access using IAM. AWS has similar options.
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Then you have inflation, and rise of prices.
> That would be ideal. But you could also have a GUI program that manages mapping tunnels to ports for apps that don't have built-in support.

Right, this sounds basically like what the firewall does in the p2p case.

> which is much easier than buying a new router, switching to an ISP that supports IPv6, etc.

Yes, if you can't just open a port, a tunnel is easier, true.

> If you're routing through a 3rd-party anyway, why not tunnel and gain all the additional benefits?

Well, you wouldn't be routing through a third party. DDoSes are costly and you usually don't need to protect against them if you're a home user.

> I do wish DNS had a way to specify ports in records.

That's what SRV records are for, no?

> but I don't see it happening for many years to come

Hmm, I don't think we need it everywhere, just where people care to use it, but maybe. I'm not as pessimistic, as my home ISP gives me a (fairly static? I've never actually checked) IPv4 where I opened a bunch of ports, but it would certainly be better if each of my home devices could be addressable from the internet.

TakingNames is an interesting idea, though I'd have to think a bit more about it to tell if I'd find it useful :P The current method of just opening a port on my router has worked extremely well for me so far!
We've been meaning to write about this. You can actually do it with just Google Business, but you have to then also buy their Identity service, which I forget the name of. It's packaged into Enterprise edition but also sold separately.

We also reached out to sales and got a deal, explaining we didn't want to pay prices designed for companies with 1000s of employees.
What would be a better approach to grok quantum computing in your opinion? Asking because genuinely interested in learning more about quantum computing.
It's really sad. I lost one channel that I had been uploading content to for years. I supplied some small communities with, in my opinion, what were high quality tutorials and guides. All gone [see note below]. On top of all that, the videos which I tried to flag are still mostly up and I don't want to risk other accounts or my whole google account by flagging them. My only hope is to one day get in contact with someone at YT and ask them to take a look (doubt this will ever happen).

Note: I think I've got the videos backed up somewhere, but losing the channel kind of ruined the appeal of re-uploading. Lost the channel url, subscribers, and most importantly all of the video links across the web are dead.
Driveshaft's "You All Everybody" sort of fits the story, at least the song name.
Facebook, TikTok, Instagram are a literal cesspool of misinformation that often gets its starting energy by being shared, upvoted and commented on by fake accounts. I don’t think “in any way” is fair.
Totally fair, and I don’t use the hide feature so I can’t speak to that. Since HN doesn’t offer a “hide” feature the best you’ll probably get is a way to remove that line have “$total - $hidden” links show on the page (like using the greasemonkey scripts).
>Yes, but now he's silent about what goes on in his new home, regardless how he got there. He could at least acknowledge the irony.

He already almost martyred himself once to bring us the truth. Why are you demanding he does it again to tell us something everybody already knows?
It’s in the international interest to keep them up to spread propaganda and counter Russian propaganda. The withdrawal of media would make the fight very one sided in favor of Russia.
I'll run counter to the crowd here. I think that real identity verification could be a very good thing for the internet if implemented correctly.

It would raise the barrier to entry for misinformation campaigns conducted online and it would presumably make it harder to spam.

I also think that there's a way you could have verification while still maintaining relatively anonymity on these sites (i.e.; I have to verify my identity with Google but I can post under a pseudonym with only Google being able to make the connection back to who I am as a person).

Obviously there would still be situations where you'd want true anonymity but plenty of online forums like Reddit's askScience do their own verification of user credentials. It would be nice if there was a verification process in place with someone like Google where I could sign up for a forum I trust less like Reddit and verify I have a degree without revealing (to random Reddit mods) who I am.

And this already plays out on age restricted sites on the internet. I buy tobacco products online sometimes and I have to verify with my real driver's license who I am. I'd actually prefer some government service that could do that verification on my behalf so I don't have to give my PII to every store I want to make a purchase from.
I have recently starting playing Evolution: Climate, and I really enjoy the way second and third order effects come in. Food levels swing back and forth. Predator-prey levels swing in and out of balance.

It's not "realistic" in a literal sense, but it's really cool to see the way such an oversimplified model makes for such chaotic outcomes.
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I have it on preorder. I'm probably not enough of a gamer to "justify" it, but having a decently powerful PC in that form factor should be interesting, and I appreciate being able to vote in favor of open platforms and against the console/iPhone model.
There's one thing, though: if Putin tried this again, we know that the US is telling the truth about it.
I'm sorry if I look stupid (too many crysis I guess) but I fail to remember what conflict started between the US and another nation in this decade.
When experimenting with ways to interact with augmented reality I thought Rock Paper Scissors offered a way for people to play a simple game whose results could then affect augmented reality objects.

In Rock Paper Checkmate, people play against the computer and choose their weapon (rock, paper, or scissors) by making the corresponding hand gestures for the camera. If the player wins, a "smart" AI makes a chess move for the player and a "dumb" AI makes a chess move for the computer. If the player loses, the opposite happens. So a game of chess can be autoplayed through multiple bouts of rock paper scissors.

Thanks to Steve Barnegren and his SwiftChess library which handles all the underlying chess logic and AI: https://github.com/SteveBarnegren/SwiftChess

I trained a few image classification and hand pose classification models using large public image datasets but did not achieve the results I wanted. I ended up training a hand pose classification model using a few hundred pictures I took myself. Feedback on whether the hand pose classifier often gets your chosen weapon wrong (e.g. Rock Paper Checkmate thinks you're playing Rock when you're actually playing Paper) would be appreciated.
Within the US banking system, all of that is, for the most part, kept in line with the Federal Reserve System and other regulatory apparatuses to keep everybody honest. Outside of the US, you run into so-called "eurodollars" (unrelated to the Euro currency) which is a complete mess of intertwined financial systems from across the planet that a lot of people smarter than me pin on being the cause of the European debt crisis.
I'm not so sure on that. We didn't offer Ukraine entrance to NATO because we were already appeasing Putin, and Putin wants buffer states.

People aren't going to leave NATO... Unless their faith in the mitual defense pact is shaken. Honestly, I don't see this stopping. I see plenty of different scenarios arising out of different levels of commitment to in-theater action.

I have this horrible feeling that it'll be war. A-bloody-gain. And possibly a two-fronter.
That's a bit different though.

Germany is mostly importing finished products (natgas) from Russia. This is like Russia sending bread to Germany and Germany is eating the bread.

Whereas Russia is sending the US unfinished products (crude). The US is then refining the crude and selling it to someone else. This is like Russia sending wheat to the US, the US making bread out of it, and then selling the bread.

It's much easier to stop baking and selling bread than it is to stop eating bread (if that is all you're eating).
This is a conspiracy theory. Please stop.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/10/22/swedens-brut...

"The chances of men between the ages 15 and 29 in Sweden getting shot were ten times higher than their counterparts in Germany, a 2018 study found, according to The Economist."

"Eight in 10 shootings in Sweden were connected to organized crime, a study by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention said. That ratio was “significantly” higher compared to other countries in Europe, the Guardian reported."

"In 2018, Sweden had the highest gun deaths in Europe, surpassing Italy and eastern Europe, due to increased criminal gang activities, the Guardian said."

"Deaths involving guns tripled in that country between 2012 and 2020, Bloomberg said."

"Nearly 260 crimes in Sweden involved explosives in 2019, up 60% from a year earlier, Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention data showed."

Forbes, Guardian, Economist not your usual "right wing nationalist" sources.