skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who watched the second plane hit live on CNN, it was... hard.

People who weren't alive or were otherwise busy that morning don't remember the uncertainty after the first plane. Everyone thought it was an accident.

No one could conceive it was a deliberate strike. Everyone knew terrorists hijacked airplanes to fly to third world countries, not to commit suicide into buildings.

That cognitive dissonance all collapsed in a single instant as the second plane hit. And that's a lot to process all at once. I still can't watch video footage without crying.

If I'd been the videographer, you'd better believe I'd have locked this in my attic and forgotten about it.
Back in 2001/2002, I went to a series of seminars hosted by the artist Natalie Jeremijenko. One of the presenting artists had footage of the Pentagon attack, taken from a camera he had set up on the Potomac River. He refused to give anyone else access to it. "I want to think about how to best present this footage." he said. I still have never seen that footage again to this day, and the selfishness makes me angry whenever I think of it.
We can argue about what constitutes a proper Ponzi scheme, but the idea that the promotion of crypto thus far has existed to allow early adopters to cash out at the apparent expense of later adopters, while bringing essentially no other utility to any of its backers or the public at large, is pretty obvious.
> My new boss both has a background that is 'our office open plan area but empty' [...]

During the first lockdown, a friend of mine sourced a photo of the inside of his local (closed-down) pub, and he used that as a background.

"Working from home? Of course I am. Honest..."
> that spread hateful content

This is the key bit, not the far-right bit. Depends rather on what OP considers "hateful content" though.
It's possible to disable toolbars and use a menu-bar/shortcut oriented workflow like in the Classic Mac OS.
They’ll take Ukraine’s weapons with them and promise they’ll be back if Ukraine tries to rearm. Ukraine will be left defenseless, but they have EU on one side and Russia on the other. So even without weapons they’ll be safe. It’s not like Russia will let anyone else invade them. Russia will make lifting sanctions as a condition of leaving. I would expect things to go back to normal very quickly.
I’ve got to admire the Chutzpah of claiming that crypto is the solution to climate change… and seriously, why on earth would this sort of tracking need smart contracts rather than say a database managed by a certification organization? Or even the UN?
NATO has entered the chat. Yugoslavia has already been chatting with some other parts of Yugoslavia.
If you think what we're talking about amounts to having a . or not then you have no idea what we're talking about.

Rust's stdlib assumes not only that there is malloc behind the scenes, but that it is ok to panic. Rust itself, including its stdlib, lacks a stable ABI. It also assumes that lots of little allocations and deallocations with a single owner is a valid memory pattern, and that writing directly to specific memory locations is something you never want to do. These are all wrong assumptions for someone writing baremetal. Look up abi_stable and no_std.
I wish this picture came with a scale. Is this formation a millimeter wide or a meter wide?
I dump the cheapest grounds I can find into a mesh bag and put it into a gallon of water overnight, tastes completely fine
The New Sticker Shock
> public service sector tends to pay shit

Oh this is certainly not that. Plenty of those institutions pay more than any reasonable job in the private sector and yet audit departments usually stand out by being filled with juniors to a much higher degree than others. The ECA might actually be the exception, these days I wouldn't know.

Imagine if the president of any such institution would be outed in the media for knowing about something critical which needed action as highlighted by an audit report but swept it under the rug. Being able to turn the narrative from "maliciousness at highest levels" to "mistake/incompetence at low levels" makes all the difference. Some of these institutions paid juniors (freshmen with a couple of years of audit, or senior employees but with no auditing experience) close to 5 figures in net monthly salary just for the benefit of having this plausible cover of "junior mistake". For anyone not familiar with the European job market that's a lot, especially for a person implicitly tasked with doing a superficial job.
just tell everyone you banned russian ip's, no need to actually to do it.

you'll get the same results.
https://archive.fo/2z00Z
Crucial detail buried in the article:

> Kumbhani is at large
The fact that cryptocurrencies are even Ponzier than any Ponzi scheme, more pyramidal than any pyramid scheme, much getter, richer, and quicker than any get-rich-quick scheme, and more shaggily carpeted and vigorously jerked than any rug-pull scheme, doesn't mean they're not scams.

Edit: when shills gets called on purposefully missing the point by arguing over semantics, they switch to outright denial and making stuff up. Actually, ethereum and bitcoin ARE both scams, in fact the biggest ones of them all. And that IS the point.
Same in Romania, the boarders are jammed with romanian citizens providing aid, shelter and transport. I am actually amazed, there is so much help that charities are overwhelmed. People are taking ukrainians in their homes.

Russia will lose.
The common characteristic is that "early adopters" get disproportionately large returns compared to later adopters. Indeed those later adopters are financing the exit of the participants who "got in first". In this way it's like a Ponzi scheme, but the same could be said for stocks.

You might call the above a simplification; that is fine -- my point is that this is a (inaccurate) linguistic shorthand -- calling something by the name of something else which shares a characteristic, but it is inaccurate (a Ponzi scheme has a central organizer / hub), and bitcoin does not.
We all share responsibility for the actions of our governments.

When a state behaves inappropriately, it is the responsibility of it's citizens to correct it and prevent it from happening again.

This applies equally to the transgressions of the United States as it does to Russia.
Rhodes MK8
Oh, I will clarify that even today, we believe things that we have no way of proving. We are different from the ancients, but perhaps less different than you might think.
What a sad excuse of a company Google has become.
The referenced article about mobile crematoriums is more wild to me: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/23/russia-dep...

Beside the suggested purpose of covering up losses, I would think it also could be used to cover up war crimes.
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> We’ve had slow growth in Western Europe since the 1980s

False comparison. Russia’s real GDP per capita has fallen 30% in the last decade [1]. This is true in no EU member.

> what happens if a democracy cannot provide for sustained economic growth?

It typically fails. Particularly if every one of its neighbors is meanwhile delivering quality of life gains.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/gdp-gross-d...
I have some experience. During college I had an internship with a county planning agency. I was staffing the welcome table where they hand out nametags at a conference the agency was sponsoring.

A smartly dressed woman walked up to me and said nothing. I welcomed her and asked what her name was so I could give her a nametag. She gave me a weird look, then stepped back and conferred with what looked like a retinue. I heard her say, "Who is that there?" (referring to me) "What is going on here?"

My supervisor rushed up and saved the day, handing her the appropriate nametag and explaining that I was an intern. Turns out she was some elected county official. Of course I should have known her name.

This was a county, the little leagues.
Such a Gavin Belson and Hooli move.
Perhaps they didn't rerun the weird takes because as new information came in and everyone started getting a better picture of what happened, they stopped airing info that was apparently wrong. There is always confusion and wrong reports when events are unfolding.

I don't know what Bin Laden flights, Guantanamo, or the following wars have to do with the pentagon on 9/11 or footage of it. Honestly, I don't know what point you're trying to make.
1) What exactly would I be wrong about? A good test for cognitive dissonance is comparing your predictions to reality, and I do not believe that I ever stated that BitCoin is inevitably going to become the most important currency in the world. I think crypto is great conceptually (which will never be not true) and that it may or may not succeed in the marketplace. Bitcoin itself may not succeed long-term even if crypto does. I acknowledge all of those things.

2) If crypto "fails", I'd say that the reason for the failure is important in making an assessment. If it fails because the technology is too slow long-term or not enough people choose not to use it for a very long-time, that's one thing that would be harder to argue against. If crypto fails because it's effectively legislated out of existence, that would be hard to see that as anything but a vindication of the concept.

3) For what it's worth, while I consider myself to be a fairly rational person, nobody is absolutely immune to cognitive dissonance. You should constantly check your premises and examine your past predictions. That's part of why I support the absolute right to free speech and debate ideas and play devil's advocate a lot.

4) I stand firm on one prediction. If some government out there decides to use some crypto for their central bank, they're going to have their media pump out support for it, and many former crypto opponents will be reprogrammed on the fly and take on a pro-crypto viewpoint without skipping a beat if they're told to.
> far-right political groups across the EU

Please provide some examples of what you consider to be "far right". I'm afraid that right-of-centre and Euro-sceptic views are being labelled "far right", which doesn't help us fight actual Fascists, Nazis, racists, social Darwinists, bigots and neo-colonialists. It dilutes the meaning of those terms.

[edit] I didn't see your link because you edited it in.
Computer chip industry begins halting deliveries to Russia
With the hotdog stand theme, no less!

The only crack in the spell is the program launcher. Apparently, it's a left-click on the desktop to get a menu, like in the old Stiletto program for WIN31: http://www.technofileonline.com/texts/tec092098.html
I have a backpack (shout out to the REI trail 25, I've put it through an absolute beating over the last 4-5 years and it still looks and works great) I use for around the town kind of things, day hikes, trail work, etc that has a rain cover. They're alright, but it's a bit of a hassle to get it out and put it on the pack, and vice versa.

It's nice if I'm biking home with the pack on and it starts raining, but I don't bother if it's going to be a short light rain.
I too have a couple of photos I took that beautiful*, awful morning that I never shared online. Nothing that hasn't been seen before, but at the same time they feel very personal. It's not at all surprising to me that people have sat on footage.

* There was nothing beautiful about the attack, obviously, but the day itself was a perfect late summer New York day with a totally cloudless sky. So you'd look in one direction and see smoke and devastation, you'd face the other direction and see nothing but pure crystalline blue skies. It was quite surreal.
So I guess this whole time Facebook could tell which ads were funded by Russian state media and they were happy to take the money. Or, they have no way of knowing so this is an empty threat. Neither is a good look.
There are EUV machines in China. Not sure why people keep perpetuating the myth that there aren't.
This may well be a troll. I really want to believe that it is because the alternative is too depressing. I have a sinking feeling it isn't a troll however. I see so many Crypto Andys who argue for crypto out of unadulterated gross naivete about how anything outside of a very narrow slice of crypto works.

The obvious problem is that crypto is hugely energy inefficient. Bitcoin in particular consumes a ton of energy with PoW (proof-of-work aka proof-of-waste). Defenders will then point to PoS (proof-of-stake) but that creates a different set of problems (eg the computing power for PoW is part of what keeps the network robust whereas PoS is more like a democracy where you get one vote for every $1 you have).

Carbon trading is never going to happen. It's an idea that's been around for at least 30 years. The only people who are interested in it are those who are invested in it. The only thing that will reduce carbon emissions is the alternatives being cheaper. That's it. Absolutely no one is going to even mildly inconvenience themselves otherwise.

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?

It's a bit like the ivory traders of Hong Kong who magically have never run out of ivory even though the trade was banned and they're only meant to sell existing stocks.
I'm sorry but this is nonsense.

Digital data on a Red Book CD is encoded with CIRC error correction, which provides an extra parity byte for every 3 data bytes. In normal operation, the recovery of the digital data is 100%. The DAC receives a stream of 1s and 0s, there is no "clearer eye pattern" for it to "interpret". The data is read or it is not. If it is not, the error is corrected. If it is uncorrectable, for example if there is a particularly large scratch, then - and only then - an attempt will be made to "guess" the signal.

Unless the CD is scratched, a 20$ computer optical drive with digital SPDIF output will be completely indistinguishable to a DAC than a drive costing 100x as much.

The "tracking stability" you mention in the newer model is simply a larger buffer, so that it has time to recover the read.
You can also buy a T-shirt: https://berkshirewear.com/
Wait, do you need eight 250ft wells?
DNA data of sexual assault victims exposed in breach at US laboratory
Elsevier helps fuel oil and gas drilling
Yeah, I do not use Twitter personally so just checked some random twitter links and they worked.
cryptocurrency saving us from climate crisis! no one saw that one coming
Angola was a Portuguese colonial possession, and the question is if this sort of warm welcome was ever extended to those people of Angola who were under distress, who experienced subjugation under Portuguese rule itself.

What is happening in Ukraine, Portugal is not complicit in anyway. But in Angola and other places where Portuguese complicity was involved were such warm gestures and measures so forthcoming is the question.
Totally unrelated to BRK's website, but something that it brings to mind:

I sometimes wonder if launching a new B2C startup that provides utility, but that doesn't look that good or modern, might succeed not just in spite of the lack of attention to design, but because of it.

I'm talking 1996-2002 era tables and gifs. Nothing fancy.

Would consumers trust it?

Would the usability be greater or worse if it was just plain HTML?
Scientists reveal 4.4M galaxies in a new map
This doesn't really shift my priors that the only practical use of crypto is illegal transactions.
Robert Axelrod's "evolution of co-operation" book on Game Theory discusses instances of German and Allied trench forces in WWI firing their artillery at the same time and place each day so it looks and sounds like a war is happening but the poor schmucks on the front line aren't needlessly murdering each other. It supposses they can organize this without any explicit communication as it's fairly obvious when someone is trying to kill you.

There's also a long history of people in wars not even firing their weapons covered in the book "On Killing". People generally don't want to needlessly kill other human beings and a big part of army training and tactics is to work around this basic human instinct e.g. making you fight to keep your small group of friends alive, rather than for the financial benefit of some oligarch hundreds of miles away in safety.
You might think that the "something" "legit" crypto does isn't a good solution even though it IS doing "something". Bitcoin works as a distributed ledger, depending on your view that might be a solution in search if a problem but it's still something.
Given that most of the Russian funded stuff on there is not directly by their state media, this achieves very very little.
Yes, we have reviewed the white purple yellow paper that's 9 inches thick. It was mostly just cat memes.
>I disagree

Disagree with what exactly?

Because, as far as I can tell, your contribution has been to nitpick a hand wavey explanation. Unless you have an objection to my fundamental point that No SWIFT means No Dollar transfers then I don't see what you're contributing here.
A pyrrhic victory if any, even today Kremlin hardly controls Chechnya.
It's not cheap. I gave reasons why the world changed. You reasons (they used to listen, now they don't) don't hold water, because you can't point to anything concrete.
Pull out of russia google otherwise its just virtue signalling.
Well, they spent a year telling us that no vaccine had ever been developed in less than 5 years and that Trump’s promises of a vaccine in less than a year were impossible. Then, within a month of the election, they said it had been developed and was perfectly safe. There’s some call for skepticism here.
What I love about Musescore is the “jazz” font. My father’s a composer (and at some point did fairly elaborate symphonic type work) and used Encore, Sibelius and Finale — and I think I have some kind of musical notation dyslexia that I can finally read at ease in the “jazz” font.
> Given that the public service sector tends to pay shit, I'd tend to agree with you

If you work for the EU institutions, first of all your remuneration used to be(1) good, esp. for not northwestern EU countries. Secondly, your tax exempt on certain things such as buying a house or car. Stuff like that adds up.

(1) until about 10-12 years ago; I think it became less, but still not bad.
I remember looking at a position once that half-matche me; salary was about double my then-current salary (which itself was quite fine).

It might be better in industry, but it's far from bad in the EU institutions.
Ukraine requests Elon Musks help (Starlink stations)
yeah, i dig it. kind of a pain at times tho
So let's be clear about what "donated adwords" means: It means if someone searches for "ukraine refugee help" they're going to get useful results about how to find help as a Ukrainian refugee or give aid to them; rather than a scam, Russian propaganda, or just whoever bid highest.

That should be table stakes of a search engine, not a laudable charitable donation.
Ask HN: If Russia gets banned from SWIFT, how it would reflect on crypto?
Realistically speaking, I mean...
Pro-cryptocurrency comments are usually cons.

And unfortunately nobody's salary depends on preventing other
people from shilling get-rich-quick pyramid schemes. (Except maybe for dang's.)
It depends on labor supply and demand curves. If it did not make sense, there would be an arbitrage opportunity for an employer by employing felons, but I have not heard of that happening on a large scale, at least at a white collar firm.

I find it ironic, though, to want to seek shelter in BRK to avoid a too tech heavy SPY, when BRK itself has maintained relevancy only by investing disproportionately in AAPL. It would seem prudent to cut out the BRK middleman and just directly invest in AAPL if one wants to emulate BRK’s success.
Ukraine is likely to win, the mighty russian army is a carefully crafted propaganda machine made of grunts and boys.
I don't understand what people are so eager to hide in their cameras
Here are some terms that already exists: 'economic bubble', 'pump and dump', 'greater fool theory', ...
From your link:

"In 1989, Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting became separate units"

"The two businesses spent most of the 1990s in a bitter dispute."

"In August 2000, at the conclusion of International Chamber of Commerce arbitration of the dispute, the arbitrators granted Andersen Consulting its independence from Arthur Andersen"

"As a result, Andersen Consulting changed its name to Accenture"
There is helicopter footage that shows an object apparently accelerating outward from the highway. This video regularly gets taken down and is often posted mirrored to defeat automatic screening.

https://imgur.com/gallery/VMe3tqF/

https://youtu.be/Qz9OdOs6La4?t=241
thats a good way to burnout on coding my friend.
We need to replace auditors with trustless blockchain.

And launch a PwCoin ICO.

To the dedicated anti-crypto downvoters out there: will you consider appreciating the sarcasm, please?
Reminds me of the late socialist former president of France François Mitterrand: "The anti-nuclear protesters are in the West, and the missiles in the East".
I have two ISPs in Moscow, loading

https://twitter.com/

times out on one, and gets an RST on another.

https://news.ycombinator.com/

is fine on both.

nitter.net works fine for now.
> 2021 percentage change in per-share market value of Berkshire: +29.7%

Oof.
It's (un)funny to see all those "we're not into politics" services taking action now. Trust noone.
"Good" news, this is unlikely to have any political ramifications.
A couple of websites that were seen as relaying Russian propaganda have been taken down in Moldova, whose president is a darling of the Western regimes. Those websites (in Romanian) were mainly targeting the Romanian audience (from where I’m from), a NATO and EU member.

Plus, at a more general level there’s the whole debacle of blocking RT (I know about the United Kingdom, maybe Germany, also, not sure).
> would cripple the ability to (re-)train Ai systems which might be used in military defense systems

Not sure you're familiar with defense update and release schedules. As long as this gets fixed sometime in the next 5+ years, everything will be fine.
dont look at your phone while youre waiting in lines etc.

meditate instead.

its like a free lunch for building concentration.
of course, typical crypto boys thinking of how would it reflect... :D
Unsightly and messy background.
> scared of an informed populace

So why block twitter?
> Perhaps that is even the right thing to do.

Interesting discussion, I personally don't think so. Truth is important. If one claims some kind of moral high ground, it is important to base one's actions on accurate information whenever possible and encourage others to do the same, otherwise it will only lead to some kind of "are we the baddies" moment down the line.

It has been very disheartening to see some of vocal propaganda critics on my twitter timeline turn into unabashed propaganda machines for the content that they like.
It's grossly untrue to say it's a Ponzi scheme "like stocks" which are part ownership in companies that actually sell things in the real world and are valued by the present value of their future expected cash flows, rather than cryptocurrencies which have no such relationship to the real world, and some would argue are valued entirely on the premise of returns that can only be sustained by finding the next sucker.