skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a fair comparison.

Berkshire has more or less concentrated their tech exposure to what they view as the very best of the bunch (Apple). You can also make a very reasoned argument that Apple isn't a (pure) tech company. You can't really make that argument about Alphabet or Facebook in my opinion.

When people say Berkshire diversifies you away from tech, they mean that you are diversifying away from the dozens of tech companies in SPY of varying quality.
I think for many Putin actually invading Ukraine was simply unthinkable.

Sure, some saber rattling and destabilization, but outright war?

US intelligence was not always credible, so when they presented facts that conveniently benefited American interests (shale gas export), people were sceptic.

That allowed Putin to prepare an invasion in plain sight.
It’s just how banks tell one another money is coming to them. Without Swift money would just be showing up and no one would know wtf was going on.
This is about running your air conditioner, charging your Tesla, and molding your kitchen sink, not heating homes. Think Carnot efficiency, power density, supercritical steam, and shutting down gas pipelines.

And the temperature to destroy steel under the immense mechanical stress of a drill string is surprisingly modest. Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams, but softening them is enough.
Heat exchangers running in ocean water are very difficult because they build up algae and other debris that can significantly reduce their efficiency.

None of this is rocket science, it is all well known to anyone who actually wants to do some research. Unfortunately, it seems like the people most vocal about energy are generally the least informed.
sounds similar to the plot of The Core

(it was not great)
It's like a stock market for companies that don't exist.
We need to see action and follow-ups instead of just words.
> have to wonder what the end goal is here

Convince the oligarchs they're richer with Putin dead than alive.
I do not know the answer to your question and I can see why you feel this way.

If I were going to start up a new company I would want a significant team of cynical people and think-tanks to pick apart my ideas and plans. Having said that I would take all the input with a grain of salt being the worst case scenario but I would not waste that information and would have my board members debate each and every point that members of HN brought up. We would risk rank each item and assign a score based on whatever metrics we can get and integrate that into our business plans and SEC paperwork.

Why would I want to subject myself and others to this? I have lived through the dot-bomb era of investors and business leaders wearing rose tinted glasses then making off with money leaving a pile of dust in their wake and putting many people out of work and holding worthless stock certificates. This is still a thing to a lesser degree. I believe this uncomfortable exercise could lend itself to showing an attempt at due diligence of fiduciary responsibility.

All of that said I can see how a product developer could find this exercise disheartening.
This smells like a delay to let the wealthy get their money out of Russia, etc.

However that is not a bad thing if they can drain Russian bank?

Based on that other article, SWIFT cutoff will only cost Russia 5% GNP ( https://archive.today/XqZzK )

The far bigger better news to me is France started seizing physical assets like I hoped all the countries would start doing, if we aren't going to put boots on the ground then the "blood" must be from assets even if Russia counters and seizes foreign assets too.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/26/france-sei...
In Haskell you’d use pattern matching guards for the empty list which works better for recursion & doesn’t require you to handle the Maybe monad in primitive data structures.

Even though Monads were introduced to programming after Haskell had been written (to deal with IO, SPJ and Wadler have a good paper on this) I don’t know if this would have been worth changing. After all, you can always wrap a custom Maybe<List> if you need it!
The powers that be have decided cyber "war" isn't actually war. This stuff happens even in peacetime, and shots are never fired over it.
Please stop.

I was in seventh grade when all this went down. It was around the time that they first started putting TVs in classrooms. The teacher flipped the channel to the news when it was announced that an accident occurred and a plane flew into the WTC. Then they kept coming live on TV. In subsequent days I listened to final phone calls between people and their families. The internet was so congested I could barely use it, and a huge part of that was because of services provided out of the WTC.

It is well documented through declassified documents that were written two decades ago that these were Saudi nationals who had moved to America under the guise of learning to fly. They were aided by Al Qaeda and "happenstance" Saudi officials. Osama Bin Laden was a Saudi national, the leader, and one of the founding members of Al Qaeda.

These are barebone facts. Please do not encourage further mythology around 9/11 - the kind of Loose Change-esque rhetoric that is obviously designed more for entertainment than actual productivity. 9/11 happened, everyone saw it, and a new angle isn't anything groundbreaking, therefore there's zero reason to fake it. It won't change our relationship with the Saudis, it won't bring us back into war, etc
BitConnect is crypto, not Bitcoin.
Could an admin fix the title please (your*)? I can't edit it anymore.
> Remote bricking all iOS devices in Russia would be an offensive escalation because it would directly harm Russian assets.

This would also be helping the Russian government prevent the spread of information outside of their own sources, regarding the conflict.
Reddit is less cynical but the reality is that tech is being abused to a pretty extreme degree.

The world sucks, you can either ignore it or embrace it.
That's all well and good. The only thing I'll say is, I think you vastly overestimate how many people are programmed one way or the other. I think a few people have formed their own opinions, a few people have been politically programmed, and the vast majority have no real opinion on the goodness or badness. For them, Bitcoin is just a curiosity or a fun casino to play in.

I also wouldn't neglect that a lot of people have been programmed by crypto ideology.
> Modernizing a military is extremely expensive and Russia will not be able to afford it. This is crucial, given that Russia is waging aggressive wars within Europe.

IIRC, Russia gets most of its money from selling gas and oil. If Europe won't buy it, China will. I don't think this will really affect what the Russian government can afford.
no, blogpost bad.
And then there are those of us who just prefer plain English. Using Latin in a publication aimed at laypeople sounds pretentious.
The winter here in the Netherlands is also really mild. I'm in a 4th floor apartment with the main room facing the sun with all windows. if I clothed a bit warmer than normal I could go without gas until winder ends.

Of course not everyone lives in a small apartment facing the sun but still.
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Even though they affect me personally, I understand sanctions directed at Russia as a whole more so than sanctions that hurt innocent people who happen to live in territories occupied by Russia/separatists. (Back when Crimea was annexed, everybody with billing address there had their existing banking cards shut off; freelancers with addresses in Crimea, Donbas etc. are long banned from online marketplaces. It did not affect me, but I never understood the intent.) Luckily, I don't have my own family to support.
> My perception, as someone with a fair amount of southern, conservative friends, is that the American progressive left absolutely did this to themselves.

I mean reading the facebook posts of your conservative friends will definitely affirm that fact. Even conservatives in this video admitted "algorithm" influenced their decision making. So many data and evidence in the video talks about how the conservatives were highly skeptical of hypothetical vaccine. This was also due to the kind of media they consume(d). After ignoring all that evidence, you direct all the blame on progressive left. Don't you see the pattern?
Casualties in warfare is typically used to measure the lose of the fighting force. Not only does it include killed and wounded, it typically also includes troops lost to disease and starvation.

It is pretty common for people to misinterpret casualties as deaths. Especially when people who are not familiar with the terms try to repeat the information to others.
Agreed, if an interviewer asked me to look at source code and then opened this up I’d have a good laugh.
There is a good article on The Guardian about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/24/what-is-s...

Essentially the CIPS as already mentioned would be most likely alternative, which is partially why people are afraid to exercise this option as it could lead to weakening of USD and SWIFT in general. Crypto is considered by the author an option but honestly I fail to see how it could work at scale, since you could refuse to interact with known accounts (https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/24/us-to-expand-sanc...)
They should change the word conservative to the phrase "people who look at statistics".

For most age groups dying in a car accident is a bigger risk than COVID.

Trusting ones immune system over a novel substance with unknown long term effect is a reasonable position.

What's really odd is that the FDA is fighting to release the data they used to authorize the vaccine.
there is that expression, morality is how people think the world _should_ be, economics is the reality of how it _really_ is

the problem = lack of investment options, stagnant wages, inflating cost of living, being priced out

solution = gambling on crypto and making some money

speaking as a millenial. honestly crypto is the only way could ever dream of buying a house.

ive been working 15 years and saved 150k. average family home in my town is over 1 million.

and stocks are inflated, the s&p is almost at a 90 degree angle. i bought btc in 2014 and my only regret was not buying more.
> via Armenia, Egypt, and China via netting agreements

Nobody argues alternatives don't exist. Russia will pivot to China.

But for all our gripes with Beijing, they're a more rational regime than Putin's. (See: North Korea.) Russia being their vassal is better than the nonsense they are today. And China's systems are more expensive than SWIFT, which will reduce Russia's proceeds.
> Technically speaking, TAR is indexable -- the index is distributed through the archive, at the head of each file.

Actually, zip works in the same way as tar. So the central dict is locate at the end of file because it can only be decided after all works finished.

And zip actually struct the first part of file with file info before every block in layout similar to tar, so stream decoding is possible. (Although it IS a violation of specification to decode file based on per file info instead of central record in zip standard)

> On the flip side, this means that those archive formats can't archive the contents of a filesystem which contains inconsistently encoded (or flat-out nonsense) filenames.

It is a good thing IMO because you can't contribute to the problem more now (at the price not able to backup already screwed up disks. Well..., at least old format(tar) still works on old disk)
It will substantially affect what the Russian government can afford. There is no doubt about it.
There was a recent story that detailed red areas needing to provide places where people could be vaccinated in private so other people couldn't see them 'breaking' the tribes rules.

Similar to that joke about taking two Baptists fishing, because if you only take one, they'll drink all your beer.

There was also the weird finding that the better educated a Republican was about climate change, the more their opinion diverged from the science. The conclusion was that just as a nerdy religious person might know all the obscure rules better than an average person, scientifically literate Republicans could list all the correct talking points better because they understood them more.
State invades other states and I don't know why it is unthinkable. All major powers already know about the plan at least vaguely beforehand.
If Europe stops buying Russian gas (a big if, and something that might happen later rather than sooner), are there other countries which would buy it? China, for instance?
How the Mophatlane brothers built a $200M tech company
> Why would you let blind trust or distrust in some political talking heads determine whether you, yourself, live or die?

Very good point.

I think that's also part of peoples argument against vaccines.
and lite.cnn.com

May the text versions of these sites never wither away!
And then there is the Chechens.
Distributed terrorism/warfare via Telegram channels
https://ibb.co/vQDWCcM

https://t.me/+VKWSAJJVAtsyZmE6

Locals in Ukraine are recruited to setup beacons / use (it?) emitters for missile targeting(?) by Russian army.

Has this tactic been used in any of the past wars?
Is there a way or a good place to see an overview of the open-source projects in this area if we want to support them?
Space is unbelievably boring. It is so boring that it’s a news story when something in space reminds us of a thing on Earth. Mars is dead, dead, dead; and it’s depressing to even think about how dead and boring it is.
I think bladegash was talking about what Putin's goal was.
Superhero media has been trendy for a while now, and now there's a real life leader and real life fight for liberty against a supervillain.

It's quite uncanny, but among all this senseless massacre I find there is something immensely beautiful and human in people all over the world united towards the same ideal, even if we're safe in our houses and they're dying under the bombs. "The next war will be livestreamed" has been a common meme intended in the negative sense, but to me there might be something positive about it being shown raw, in real time what kind of absolute hell war is, from your next door Tiktoker.

I also expect worldwide catharsis when this fucking war ends, hopefully a small moment of hope and respite for humanity as a whole. We've been needing that.
Or CIPS which will likely undercut this attempt of isolating Russia’s financial system.
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Putting the heat exchanger on a tethered weather balloon and floating it into low earth order addresses all those concerns.

It also doesn't involve rocket science.

QED.
More is different. Reductionism does not actually explain qualitative behavior.
> What I'd class as major would be some third party gaining access to NVIDIA's RTL designs and source code for their drivers

Ransomware operators are not that clever, they go for low hanging fruit. I mean, yeah, by all means, do recon on a system you just pwned and try to do a supply chain attack, but it's outside the range of these operators. They only have a hammer, and everything just looks like a nail.
Despite what people think kicking Russia from swift is not good. This means that lots of companies who sold to Russia will not get paid. Europe will also jave problems to pay for gas: paying with gold is a bad idea. Oligarchs will buy from Chinese resellers.

Abetter option would be go ban companies from doing business in Russia.

Bankrupting European and US comapnies that sold to Russia (and now wait for money) wont help.

Also banning fron swoft means that the big companies will still find ways to trade. Trade with them is not forbidden. I can easly see them asking to send money to some third party bank (China, North Korea) who will act as an intermediary.
Can anyone explain what’s wrong with using the royal “we” in conversations?
Another upvote for Drawabox. Some other commenters here have said things like "Anyone can do decent mark making" and "It's more about seeing than drawing".

Drawabox proved to me that it's a LOT to do with mark making. The difference between a line drawn straight, with confidence, and one that is wobbly and not confident, is huge. It makes a big difference as to the quality of the overall drawing. Just a page of boxes drawn in 3D space, with each line drawn confidently and straight, can look impressive.
I don't suppose the structural equivalence actually makes sence here. In practice, there is simply no need to block russian social media as no one actually cares about russian social media, beside Russians and people from other CIS countries, like Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine (AFAIK, Ukraine actually blocks quite a lot of large ru-net sites, both social media and news outlets).

It would be an honest comparisson if e.g. Telegram gets more popular in the West and there would be actual temptation to pressure it. We actually already see the first signs of it in Germany, where anti-lockdown protestors are using Telegram and the government doesn't like it.

And remember what had happened to TikTok as soon as it became massively popular? It was forced to surrender and get sold without a second thought.
He could have and can still stop the invasion at any time. Don't paint him as having to do something "inevitable."
To be precise, "L'état c'est moi" is an expression attributed to Louis XIV, about 100 years before the French Revolution.

It means that the monarchy is above the parliament.
Recovering from a Broken MikroTik Configuration
Yes, if you want to help poor people, you should give them money. (And also, make sure that the economy runs well.)

See https://web.archive.org/web/20220217044208/https://blog.jaib... for why a minimum wage is probably a bad idea.
Desert Storm took that long when you consider the initial air campaign, and even then the ground invasion still took 4 days in a theater with complete air superiority, decent terrain for a mechanical warfare rush, and local support from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
I agree. His regime will be in a corner. What could happen then worries me to no end. We're in uncharted territory. We've never pushed things this far with a nuclear power.
I imagine with tons of post-processing back on Earth.

Compare and contrast the Eagle Nebula from it's raw form enhanced with "false colors".
Since I'm not confident I'll be able to figure this out myself from the article, I'll ask you: how exactly are they keeping this "cash"? It is predominantly some kind of treasury security or something, presumably?
> all political sides mainly use Twitter to dumb down discourse, virtue signal and blast out propaganda.

That's what most people appear to use it for. Stop using twitter and join a social network or news source or whatever you want that meets your needs. Or form a closed twitter group that doesn't include politicians.

I think twitter in particular has destroyed modern discourse, but we're not going to ban our way out of this.
Why not punishing only the government: cancel all visas to the people working in the gov and especially their family. So no more rich gov kids in Western universities, etc.

I find a little unfair to punish people to push them in the streets and have them arrested, tortured or "administratively" punished (remember what happen after the Turkey coup in 2016? Military were punished but also many people working in the public sector.)
What time in history are you talking about?

The contemporary US spends a lot on welfare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we... says it's about 30% of GDP.
> Or CIPS which will likely undercut this attempt of isolating Russia’s financial system

This is almost expected. The calculation being that Russia is safer as a Chinese vassal than a regional power. Settling via CIPS is also more burdensome and thus expensive than settling via SWIFT.
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Both sides are appealing their population, troops not to film or post anything so that they won't give out vital information. Still plenty floating around telegram accounts, but wars sure are different than protests.
My wild guess is that Putin's goal has always been cleansing the power circles of the oligarchs who got there in the 1990s, and now that he's running out of time as he's getting old, he needs help in that from the West. Now he might be betting that the sanctions will mostly target these oligarchs and make the country _really_ unattractive for them, whereas an average Russian anyway has no assets abroad and doesn't travel much, and therefore won't notice the difference, as energy and food are abundant domestically. If that's his plan, there should be no need to go beyond Ukraine.
I don't see the connection, but I know of a bunch of people who'd be pretty mad about how a corporation can remotely cut off an entire country's digital access.
This is really interesting to me. The "matter of days" matters a lot. Pull the plug NOW.
Putin articulated his ultimatums for Kyiv: Recognize Crimea as Russian - Rejection of NATO accession - No weapons supplies from the West - LNR and DNR gain territory that the regions had pre 2014
Kremlin website down, Russian TV channels hacked to broadcast Ukrainian songs
Putin has been preparing to be cut off from SWIFT since it was first touted in 2014.

That was the time to do something unexpected. Now it’s already been accounted for.
Dear god, if this all turns out in the end to be the fancy of some Rasputinesque numerologist with the Kremlin's ear...
Easy. Criminals, extremists and fraudsters use Signal for E2EE communications and MobileCoin (an untraceable, privacy cryptocurrency) to fund it all. [0]

It is what criminals and terrorists are using to make their activities impossible to trace. Got to thank MobileCoin for enabling that.

[0] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...
The GHC approach you describe is also what people do with Results in Rust, and (analogously) with Java's typed exceptions. The idea is that in a multi-layered program, every layer exposes errors that are semantically appropriate for that layer. So (to pick a silly little example) a database call would expose a DatabaseError, not a raw network error if the connection is interrupted. And so on until you get to the level of application-level errors. I think that can work very well.

In the same spirit, I find the article you linked to a bit silly, at least the examples they picked. Following the logic above, there shouldn't even be a "HeadError" exposed anywhere up the call chain. Inventing a complicated mechanism to propagate the error upwards is the opposite of what you want to do; you want elegant ways to handle the problem locally. Having a special singleton HeadError isn't wrong, but I think "Maybe a" would also be a perfectly fine return value for head (as I mentioned in a sibling post, that's what Rust does): head can only "fail" if the list is empty, so there is no actual information in the "error" value.
Title should be:
Twitter restricted in Russia amid invasion of Ukraine. What's happening is far from 'conflict'.
No the organisation they belonged to, Al Qaeda, was supported trained and sponsored by the Taliban. In reality personnel, resources and information flowed freely between the two groups.
You’re right that this is a form of escalation. You’re right to see danger in such further provocation of a nuclear rival - of an autocrat lost in historical delusion and bloody revanchism.

I believe you’re wrong to think the escalation is inherently a mistake, or never a path out of conflict. It is common wisdom to observe that bullies may only be stopped with escalatory tactics.

So it seems to me that the West must find some way to show a spine and push back, short of open war. The alternative cedes European hegemony, and the fate of those democracies, to Moscow’s cold hands.