skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it really make a difference? I have no problem with the idea, but I never saw an improvement in focus.
“did someone try to send something other then bitcoin to a ₿ address?”

Like what? Cottage cheese?

Transaction failures and and fees are not fraud. The quote is specific.

Regarding lightning: https://twitter.com/nikzh/status/1356335970300416001?s=20&t=...
> That would explain a lot of things, but what the Russians are doing is even more inexplicable, with a mix of good and bad tactics and cheap assets and valuable assets.

Another explanation is that it could be simply a probe to see what the readiness of the Ukrainian forces is. They should know that by now, so you can expect an imminent change in tactics.

> It’s amateur night in some places, but at least one reporter accidentally discovered that the airport they were reporting on had been taken by Russian paratroopers. (“How far are the Russians?” “We’re the Russians!”)

Yes, lots of confusion, but that is to be expected, similar stuff happened during the (former) Yugoslavian war.

> There’s more nonsensical stuff, but I have the feeling some - but not all - important people on the Russian side really, seriously believed the crazy idea that Ukrainians would all immediately surrender, and acted accordingly.

This is a distinct but remote possibility. For sure they underestimated the resistance.
It's 50 more years of standoff if a Russian doesn't give Putin the coup de grace, because of the geographic location. But that is what Putin wanted - to consolidate fiefdoms and polarize the divisions.
China is also happy to steam roll large portions of its population, e.g., Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kong; and has no regard for privacy or free speach or democracy. I'm not sure a genocidal regime can really be said to treat its people better than Russia.
I'll be the one to say it: because a large majority of programmers are liberals, democrats, and anti-capitalist. And they feel everyone else should be too.
Welcome to the Age of Peak Tech TV
Running a snowflake https://snowflake.torproject.org/ certainly gets connections from Russian IPs, so the obfuscation must be succeeding to some extent.
I don’t find much activity in that sub. The discussion that does happen is really well educated though.
I’m the only one that saw Loom having access to the webcam in the article?

Loom can open your webcam and record you audio if they want…

So grammarly is offering this service thanks to the cloud and thanks to the data transmitted over internet. We cannot do nothing else that trust this companies. We should maybe ask to our government to check and validate how our data are treated by companies and if the privacy is respected.
It's interesting because losing someone's PII that includes information that can lead to financial fraud can bankrupt a company. Losing someone's DNA data (or sharing it without permission a la 23andme) doesn't have the potential for financial losses. It will be interesting to see how this company is penalized (HiPPA fines are pretty tame comparatively.)

As an aside, in the relatively recent past I worked on a system that contained data covered under HiPPA. We isolated the systems (and networks) so that the health data itself had no identifying information - just a unique key. When the user was authenticated, their PII and the medical information was merged on their browser screen. These two systems were properly secured but I don't ever believe a system is invulnerable (unless it has no network connection). Still, you'd have to breach both systems to combine the data en masse.
Again, the source that your other comment cites is a Kremlin propaganda outlet. There's little reason to trust it to accurately represent Ukraine government's position on anything related to this war.

https://www.stopfake.org/en/strana-ua-or-strana-ru-how-a-san...
It would have been nice to see a small version of the map in the article
A Moment of Clarity
The masses, yes. Metaphorically cut the cables heading east and null route Russian IP allocations. It would kill the vast majority of their traffic.

The government and security organizations? I'm sure they've contemplated this scenario and have multiple redundant links with some bandwidth via third-party nations. Will India, China, Pakistan, etc. all cut them off too? I'm reminded of how even the North Korean leadership has Internet access via China.
it was dumb of her to say that
Based on the antitank Twitter thread going around, the IED is optional.

It sounds like a good ol pitfall trap is all you need, which apparently can be made by just removing road signs, so that the tank might drive into a poorly supported road, collapsing into the sewer under the street.
How much if that value was destroyed from inflation though.
Honest question, what law would enable them to forcibly do that? Or was it a little extralegal?
> We strongly recommend that all GitLab installations be upgraded to one of these versions immediately.

Sounds like an RCE vulnerability. interesting recent fate of a Ukrainian company.
Stolen credit cards are a problem for the merchant because the charges could be reversed by the bank and merchant will incur the loss.

I don't see how that is even remotely possible with Crypto. How did Steam lose money ? My guess is they might be accepting it through some payment provider (so not a true crypto) who has in their T&C to be able to reverse transactions (which must be happening in Cash on the Steam facing side).
Russia Is Now Blocking Twitter
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/offsetof
Yes, this is colloquially known as "money laundering". It's one of Bitcoin's most promising use-cases!
There is a large amount of people that believe that Russia can't keep the war mobilization for a long time, for economical and political reasons. If that is the case, Ukraine is on the road to prevail.

Personally I don't know the region to get to form my own opinion. Does Russia has any powerful separatist movement? Can public opinion impact the government? Can the west actually harm the Puttin supporting elite enough to divide them? Those are all relevant and I don't know the anwser to any of them.
> And the human brain is just a bundle of electrical signals.

the more we look the more we find that this is not the case. and i don’t have to invoke any philosophy here, just remind you that neurotransmitter modulation and glial cells exist.
Wasn’t the incident in Belarus an attempt by Lukashenko to mess with the EU?

I mean he basically flew refugees from the Middle East to Belarus for the purpose of putting them in Poland border and embarrassing Poland.

When a foreign power is trying to violate a neighbors borders, it’s fair to talk about protecting your borders.

Is anyone actually OK with Poland taking any refugee Lukashenko leaves at your border?
Heh, the nice thing about XP was that I didn't feel obligated to force my Linux desktop into cross-toolkit consistency anymore. I seem to recall Outlook pulling from the XP widgets for the Inbox scrollbar and the 9x widgets for the Preview scrollbar. At first, disgust; followed by relief.
> why do some NATO members intent on continued eastward expansion

If Russia rolling tanks into Ukraine doesn’t show why expanding mutual protection makes sense, I don’t know what would. As a direct result of these moves Putin has all but guaranteed NATO forces in Sweden, possibly even Finland.
Mussolini’s party slogan was “Believe, obey, fight.” I don’t know if that’s negative but it doesn’t feel positive.
Why would Russia run out of supplies? They have an unlimited and uninterrupted supply line back to Belarus and Russia in multiple directions. I find it more likely the folks in Kiev run out of food in a few days.I support the Ukrainians but the writing is clearly on the wall and it makes more sense the Russians would wait them out and use their air superiority to keep supplies out of Kiev, for example.
> see for instance Nazi Germany -> Poland

I don't know what your understanding is of the invasion of Poland, but you should probably read up on it if you think it ended in an almost immediate surrender.
Do I have to remove myself entirely from society before I am entitled to criticize it in any way?
Jesus the amount of remote-exploitable bugs in Gitlab the last months is astonishing. At this point it's madness to even consider running a publicly-reachable Gitlab instance...

And that's actually pretty sad, because Gitlab is the only open-source alternative that can keep up with Github feature-wise.
When you say "just salt" ... what kind of conditions produce that sort of salt formation? Does it tell us anything about the conditions when it was formed? Was there some brine pool or something? How did it get exposed where it is now?

Maybe describing it as "plant-like" was not really called for, can we still learn something interesting from this?
Ukraine government accepting cryptocurrency donations
New model may improve Bay Area seismic hazard maps
Why MSN Messenger, Google Wave, and Vesper Should Return in 2022
I used to use maestro on the phone, but it gets cumbersome. Once you get the system, lilypond is nice - you're typing, get validation. The system is incredibly complete, but a bit complex, and sometimes it feels a bit far from the sheet. I miss being able to get something out of my head, so I hum it into the mic, but it ain't the same. The midi rendition is nice to validate you got the timing right, but it's the entire piece everytime, hard to judge just a bit. Frescobaldi on top is great. Overall, I salute the work, does the job well, don't think I'll move soon.

Sibelius attracts you with a "starting at $19.99" which sounds reasonable for software, until you realize that it is a monthly fee, justified by cloud storage (who cares about that at this stage, give me dropbox/onedrive connector and I'll be happy rather than disseminating my stuff across everyone's greedy cloud storages) and updates. You can't buy a perpetual license. This is a disease, by principle I will never buy that shit.

Finale seems to be perpetual license with an upgrade system, which I salute. It took a lot of digging to find the price, and... $600 it is. So it's a professional software and they don't have a personal use tier.

So, lilypond it is.
First time seeing a DDOS-Guard interstitial when visiting RT.com

I thought these were defacements, but it's just your common DDOS playbook.
It would be wise to wait a beat before determining who your targets are. There is still yet much to be revealed.
I heat just the water in a mug in the microwave then pour in the cold brew coffee and stir.
Direct link to view the PDF file:
https://docmadeeasy.com/v/192887667
Not very smart move.
Go is known to be quite usable a server programming language (Caddy is a well-known HTTP server written in Go), so I think the language choice is quite fit. You wouldn't say a HTTP server drops requests because it has GC / uses Go, so why would it drop calls?
The US ousted Allende in 1973, almost 50 years ago. During a Cold War with an enemy that large groups of people - including their allies! - truly considered a pox upon humanity.

The US withdrew from Afghanistan and Iraq, ending mistakes made almost 20 years ago.

Russia attacked Ukraine 2 days ago.

So we should follow the model of the current day aggressor, not of the country that's at least trying to change its ways?
Can anoyone currently in the Russian IP space confirm the effects of this?
I think you've nailed the best possible UX
Convince the oligarchs they're richer with Ukraine out of NATO than in it, because gas?
> Yes, unfortunately there are no easy solutions to all this.

How is Putin ceasing to throw Russia's unwilling and unwitting armed forces onto Ukraine not easy?
eBay. They appear sometimes. Eg: https://www.ebay.com/itm/283340935671
> The simple fact is that the developed world could shut down what little utility cryptocurrencies (and NFTs) have tomorrow if they chose to. China banned mining and mining was gone immediately (largely moving to Kyrgystan it seems). Defenders will say you can't shut down the network and that might be true but it's irrelevant.

How is it irrelevant? The ban in China did not affect the operation of the network.

With regard to the "move", this is plagued by the same flaw the energy consumption statistics are: you don't know where the miners are. Not acknowledging this limitation is somewhere between disingenuous and stating a falsehood.

This does not demonstrate that developed nations "could shut it down tomorrow".
This is why we need Starlink. An internet that is cheap, free, open, independent of govt control is a geopolitical game changer.
There are stocks which are fraudulent, e.g Theranos, Enron, or ZZZZ Best. The fact that a company might have expected cash flows does not make them impervious to defrauding investors. Similarly, something issued without any claims of future cash flows does not imply that it must be a fraud.
Tsihanouskaya Declares Herself National Leader of Belarus
Compared to my main desktop running Windows 3.11 [1], I have to say, this 95 thing is quite the looker - extremely visually appealing.

3.11 is starting to feel a bit dated, now that my wife is showing off her TRS80.[2] Her machine is actually a portable that can be placed on a desk anywhere and plugged into any outlet! This 95 seems a fine upgrade path to newer hardware!

[1] https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-3/311

[2] http://www.trs-80.org/model-1/
I'm failing to understand why is this considered fraudulent. Buy low sell high, this is how all trade works. People buying multiple keys for resale is just an unintended consequence of underpricing the product.
I think there is some connection between the Serbian and Russian academic strategists because the Milosevic regime used a similar playbook during the Yugoslav wars in the 90s. Step 1: spend decades encouraging your ethnic group to migrate outward, Step 2: once there is a decently sized minority (or even majority) announce it now belongs to the main country and use your group to stand up a resistance.

The sinister thing is that Step 1. is done very slowly over a long period of time, and can be sold as various pleasant sounding ideas such as "brotherhood and unity," becoming a modern melting pot nation like the USA where everyone is equal, etc.
Proportionate to the low interest rate. In Denmark money appreciates due to negative interests.
Why hasn't anyone built a plugin that says "sit still, now move left, now move right" and then just remove all the pixels that didn't move? Seems like it would be easy and work as long as the camera doesn't move.

Is this a harder problem than I think it is?
The discussion is mainly in the Live Chat. Tell me if you can find a better source of Berkshire-related information.
I'm not sure I understand, how does "money show up"? Do you mean that bank A doesn't have an account at bank Z, so they must take another route A -> B -> Z, and thus at some point bank B might credit bank Z account and bank A needs to tell that to bank Z?
This would be dumb if true. Locals could place beacons near Russian troops and create friendly fire incidents or near soft civilian targets to cause war crimes to occur for propaganda purposes.
It's not just dollars that are flowing via SWIFT. SWIFT is what blockchain wants to be, it's a way for banks to send and receive funds of many currencies.

SWIFT is a messaging system.

The actual transfer of funds is performed with correspondent banks, but they won't perform the transfer if the government says that they cannot have accounts opened by banks from other nations, then that's up to that government, not SWIFT.

SWIFT is being used as "shorthand" to mean that Russian banks will be cut off from the world financial environment. They will have to evade those sanctions via, for example, trading with multiple hops through China, if China allows them to.
Russia Today News Channel on YouTube
The Russia Today channel on YouTube has not yet been moderated. Is that because it’s avoided being too biased?
Not much of a gamer but I absolutely loved playing Inside a few years ago. It's a platformer that takes place in an apocalyptic setting and you should solve interesting puzzles in the form of clearing obstacles to move forward. I thought the sound design really captured the mood well.

If you like that, try Limbo, built by the same indie studio. Similar concept but I liked Inside better.
Apparently, yes to those who repeatedly pay 2-3x what they should just for Apple purity.

I'm not one of them.
Honestly, I'm surprised the Ukraine didn't respond to Russia's threats by moving demolition crews to the natural gas pipeline between Europe and Russia.

That would have drug NATO into the war, and probably acted as a deterrent.
Show HN: ssh wordle.bdw.to
Github is fully available in Iran after securing a license to operate there from the US government. GitHub is about developer freedom. [0]

Why would they be against developer freedom in Russia?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648585
> It was around the time that they first started putting TVs in classrooms.

FYI, I attended an elementary school that had TVs in all the classrooms back in 1970.
While in general I agree with you about those who abuse copyright, of all organizations that I am aware of, ACM is the one who abuses copyright the least.

Unlike many other organizations, which might ask you for $30 for each research paper of a few pages whom you happen to want to read, for about $200 (membership fee + library fee) you can have access for a year to the entire ACM digital library, where there are at least a few hundreds of thousands of research papers, or maybe millions, including the vast majority of all which were important in the first few decades of computing technology, and which, in my opinion, are still more relevant today than many people who read only the latest papers believe (because many of the latest papers frequently rediscover already known old techniques).
If not for many years of pingpong I probably would have smashed into a bridge support. Crap car. The situation is a bridge with two steel supports rising up with a 2 ton weight on top to lift the bridge, apparently the radar return of the posts is such that the radar interprets it as an imminent frontal collision if you pass between the two posts. And then immediately hits the brakes, hard.

Second time was in a bend, with a big sign on the far side of the bend (me on the inner lane). Same stuff. If there had been oncoming traffic I would have certainly hit it because the car became uncontrollable instantly.
Russia appears to deploy digital defenses after DDoS attacks
But don't you think in a protracted conflict some power is bound to get involved, triggering an escalation? With each day, week and month the chances of this increase.

It's one thing for Putin to get it done in a week or so. Even then, how does he plan to hold his puppet government in Kiev?
Just because you can make air on another planet doesn’t mean you can live to breathe it.

If we can’t get life right here, our technical ability won’t mean much on another planet once human nature takes over.
I echo this sentiment, and I am from Poland, with much colder winters. We could stop using it for heating, spend the year preparing for winter, spend a lot on insulation and then electricity, and dress warmer -- but we'd reduce the dependence on Russia. Totally worth the trouble and hardships, and long overdue.
Vale: A syntax-aware linter for prose
> But it’s also just really weird to hear people talking so clearly the moment after it happens. It’s preserved a slightly surreal moment of shock quite well.

Yeah, it feels similar to reading the first Usenet threads about Chernobyl, AIDS, etc.: http://www.eightyeightynine.com/culture/80susenet.html
Keep in mind that "financial crimes" can mean very different things to very different regimes. In Nazi Germany, it was a "financial crime" for Jews to take any wealth with them when they emigrated.
https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1497484483494354946

LAPSU$ extortion group, a group operating out of South America, claim to have breached NVIDIA and exfiltrated over 1TB of proprietary data.

LAPSU$ claims NVIDIA performed a hack back and states NVIDIA has successfully* ransomed their machines.
I'm not very familiar with who Anonymous is and what they did in the past. But can't any hacker group just do this and claim they're Anonymous?
Let's hope Putin ends the same way that Milosevic did.
>Ajit Jain is an older cousin of Anshu Jain, who was the former Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank.

Connections

>He did his schooling at Stewart School, Cuttack. In 1972, Jain graduated from the IIT Kharagpur in India with a BTech degree in Mechanical Engineering.[4][5]

Tough degree

> where he earned an MBA from Harvard University and joined McKinsey & Co

A second tough degree at Harvard, plus connections from Harvard and McKinsey

>Jain was invited by his former boss, Michael Goldberg, who had left McKinsey & Co. to join Berkshire Hathaway in 1982

Referral by a former boss

I'd say insurance experience played a very small part in why he got the job
Exactly right! And apartheid. All of humanity suffers when we sell our souls to people Like Putin.
How would steam know what was used to pay for bitcoin they received?
Sorry, I'm a noob in HN interface and didn't find how to answer your original comments -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30478874

> This "evidently Ukrainian site" is a Kremlin propaganda outlet

I'm not going reasoning here about how propagandistic is stopfake itself, because, as I already said, if you only wanted, you could easily find some information about this s*ithole for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t05R_cPVjtU

but I ask you:

did you find any confirmation or refutation of my words?

is the current advisor of the president of Ukraine any pro russian?
This is the core of the materialism vs dualism debate.
While this myth is repeated often, I don’t find it true or obvious at all, I’m not sure where it comes from and I don’t see any actual evidence for it. You need to compare the hours spent learning, not years, in order to compare effort.

What seems “obvious” to me is that the opposite is true - language learning accelerates for people who learn multiple languages; learning a second language takes less time than the first, if you measure the number of hours spent on it. A third one often goes even faster, especially for related languages. The main problem people have is they don’t put in the hours, and that may indeed get harder to find the motivation to do as we age.

Accent is not a metric for proficiency, understanding and communication is. 5 year old native speakers have good accents but have been immersed 100% and often don’t have the vocabulary for adult conversations. The article is someone reaching B2 level from scratch in 1 year, without full immersion. (B2 is the requirement for a foreigner to start a university degree, for example.) It doesn’t take 20 years of intense studying to learn a language, older adults learn them to proficiency in a year or two all the time.

Think of the hours again, a 5 year old has spent 8-16 hours a day (56-112 hours/week) immersed for 5 years, while the author here did like maybe 10-15 hours a week (which is indeed pretty intense and aggressive). Read his notes - ~100 hours of conversation to reach B2, where a 5 year old will have definitely had more than 1,000 hours of conversation and likely closer to ~5,000 hours of conversation. That’s more than 10x, plausibly much more, so it seems clear that in this case the author’s learning is far more efficient than childhood language learning.