skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chezhoslovakia 68 scenario - quick takeover of the capital center with the central government - that Putin planned has already failed, in particular Russia failed to take the airfields near Kiev and can't bring the quick assault forces.

Russia officially announced that they intentionally slowed the offense on Kiev now. That naturally a total BS. Ukrainians have won the opening, and Putin has no game forward. With German Stingers Russia's air superiority will be drastically reduced. Even flattening Kiev wouldn't help Putin as it is already obvious that Ukrainians will be shooting even from those piles
of rubble Stalingrad style, and Ukrainian forces will be growing with each day while Russian dwindling.

By moving onto Kiev right now Putin will be going down the Hitler's path of failed Blitzkrieg -> Stalingrad -> to be ultimately beaten back, in this case, to Moscow by the Ukrainian led coalition (there is no need for other countries to officially declare war as there is a well established pattern of well equipped volunteers, and there is no nuke issue as Russia will not strike its own territory, and in general Russians would hardly provide any resistance as the Putin's bottom really isn't worth it for them) with Nuremberg 2, etc.
Locals often know every street, every building, every alley of their neighborhood. That information asymmetry is a huge advantage in the locals' favor.
This.

This is another huge mistake from the Western liberal order that keeps fumbling the ball.

Relying on Russian gas for energy security was the first.

What are the root causes if these disastrous decisions? How did the East get smarter, more Machiavellian than us? They were in the trash can 20 years ago. Perhaps getting fat and rich rather than fighting for every penny.. we are missing street smarts, and end up with Justin Trudeau
Thanks for agreeing with me I guess?

Or do you have any concrete information that the risk to then is actually higher from this than catching a bullet (or a mine) from the Ukrainian army or resistance?

Because there definitely are already a lot more dead Russians from the Ukrainians than from radiation sources they exposed themselves to a part of this invasion.
We have a full-time team of curators on staff, as part of the GitHub Security Lab, and we're committed to scaling that team to meet the demand here. That team is already responsible for reviewing all new entries on the NVD for inclusion in the database, and for reviewing all requests for GitHub to issue CVEs from maintainers.

We have some work to do on the tooling to make it really slick, and a couple of those PRs have taken longer to get reviewed than we'd like, but we're working on it!

On trusted members of language ecosystem - we'd be super interested to explore that. It will require some work on the tooling on our side, so I don't expect progress there overnight, but in the long term is a model I think we could make work really well.
All that is fine and dandy. The thing is, though, that somehow I doubt Russia really feels bound by things like rules conventions.
I didn't see any personal attacks from you, actually. Some frustrating words, but nothing personal ;)

I’m sorry if some of my words were offensive - no personal attack was intended from my side.

P.S.: russians also have that proverb about the mirror :)
I’m stoked for VR to gain more adoption so I can hang with my friends who live across the country.

That’s the killer app for me - a platform that all my friends use so we can have spontaneous casual hang outs!
NZ housing stock is truly atrocious. I knew it was bad but didn't appreciate how bad until living in the UK and going through winters sometimes without even needing to use heating (granted in apartments in that situation). Double glazing being near universal compared to pathetic aluminium frames are a major difference and leaky buildings top it off.
Well... Ukrainian is Ukraines official language, so it makes sense to me to use the spelling derived from the official & most widely spoken language of the country.

Unlike Switzerland which has three official languages.
That's the European single market. Single market means freedom of movement of goods and services, capital and labour. In other words, it's not just capital. And it applies to a small set of countries which all agree to having a number of common rules and regulations. And it's not without intermediaries.
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Elon is richer and more educated than zucker and he still went on the Rogan show. It's the first time I'm hearing about zucker being on another tier of "sophistication" lol
There is no question the Ukranian people would fight a resistance already, the colonel is just trying to get them not be killed early and achieve the desired outcome.
There is no "explicit purpose of conquest". At no point Russia claimed that, they only said they want NATO far away from their borders. That is an assumption you're making, the same way I can claim USA/UK invaded Libya to create ISIS

Obama destroyed Libyan lives, that still live worse today than before the invasion

Russia will destroy Ukrainian lives

They both claimed they did invade it for peace

Which invader is a war criminal is not conditional on how advanced the country is
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand. How does that help "dealing with spam?"
P.S.: musl's sprintf is the one that I noticed pulling in file APIs, via vfprintf. Maybe other libc's implement sprintf without using the file API.
There are some alternative Preludes that attempt to fix this, bringing a safer std lib to the table.
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>"This is going to be a disaster for the Russian people as well."

It is already disaster. Putin has basically threw Russia back to a stone age. I've no idea how long it'll take for him to go one or the other way and for Russia to recover back to anything resembling normal life.
Aleppo?
> tank crews and troops were told that they were doing an exercise and kept completely isolated

Most likely they are lying to look more sympathetic - there is a video of a Ukrainian soldier asking questions to a captured tank crew member. He said "We were told we are doing exercises". Ukrainian solder responded "I've hearing the same shit since 2014"
I wouldn't be surprised if it was beardnecks on 4 Chan or some other group etc. who are starting disinformation just for lolz. Sad world but sadly reality.
We're dealing with a potential WW3 scenario, but our benign censors decided to flag this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30481744

Wtf went wrong with all of this.
As I understand it europe has significant gas storage capabilities. The cold snap creates a demand that can't be average out for things like last mile pipelines, but those aren't the limitation. Storage should allow for averaging gas usage over (I think) the whole winter to decide whether or not there is a problem.
The only problem is that most people think that their driving skills are quite above average. Very few people think they are the "average US driver".
You can mine eth for Ukraine if you have a PC with at least one GPU.

We’re already mining with friends.

https://ethermine.org/miners/0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F93...
Reminded of a discussion where I had to call out that the company culture of "transparency" was really only openness - everyone was willing to offer valuable help and information, but nobody was willing to publish it, even internally. During a rash of clumsily handled (and opaque) M&As that were making people feel redundant and competing for roles they already held, it became useful to act oppositionally against co-workers, especially new ones being hired in the middle of this infighting. The lack of deeply rooted internal transparency made this possible.

Everyone trusted each other _individually_ and could easily ask questions that they knew to ask, when they already knew who to ask. But to understand the shape of the company, or even who the internal stakeholders were in projects, or access to basics like repositories and documents, people faced a lack of trust coming from the organization itself.
Payments are not speech. Find a better argument.
But they have so much restraint. Commendable. If only their humanism had prevented them to invade a sovereign country without even declaring war properly.
The chance that any random civilian you encounter could blow you away drastically changes how an occupying force has to go about occupying
Stinger yes. Patriot last I heard the United Stated did not want because they considered it would upset Putin too much.

"Germany to send Ukraine surface-to-air missiles and anti-tank weapons"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480526

"Why didn't the U.S. and allies provide Ukraine with a better air defense system?"

We didn't want to provoke Putin," said an official.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/didnt-us-...
If you already are an Etherem miner: just set your Ethereum mining rigs to mine to 0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F9358d18A45e14 for a few hours/days or as long as you want. I will do this for at least a week from now.
If you're not an Ethereum miner but you have a computer with any Graphics card above 6GB, you can join as well in just 10 minutes. Leave it mining for Ukraine whenever you don't use the PC. (For AMD cards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SsjD9O-Vc8 and for Nvidia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvmM_A9s43Q).
You can look at CoD and similar games as being very basic introductory material to military ground operations - building a surprising amount of intuition from a young age. It's also useful as a propaganda & recruitment tool.
In this case, it looks like Zelensky may be exactly what Ukraine needs right now. He might just be playing another part, but if so he's doing a really good job of it.

"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
I guess people like listening to him. Who cares where he went to school.
That’s psychotic Russia soldiers having fun.
not surprised.
the amount of censorship on here is absolutely shocking
I suggest you take a look in the historical demographics of Kosovo [0], before making statements that paint Albanians as the minority in the region.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Kosov...
More precisely you say that we would save 23% of our heating expenses. But not all of our heating is from gas, and gas is not exclusively used for heating. So this is only a first step towards answering the original question.
Given the lead up to this, is there any evidence that the Ukranians have taken these kinds of measures?
In 2003 the US military 'embedded' journalists with troops to report or feed propaganda depending on how you see things. One of the reasons was probably that they expected not to face too many problems.

Here we seem to be in a much more traditional configuration in which journalists are kept away from operations.
Was it not Stalin who said "quantity has a quality all its own?"

There are hundreds of thousands of Russian troops, but tens of millions of Ukranians capable of using rifles semi-effectively. And they are literally everywhere in the country.
“Fraud” and “simply” don’t belong in the same sentence. This is coming from someone who’s spent years working with many fraud departments in major companies. Wack-a-mole doesn’t work, they just scale their account creation.
It is sure nice to be a guy with the biggest dick. Might makes right. That's the reality of life.
Rogan practices his comedic speeches all the time before standup and works as a UFC commentator. You really can't beat him at that game, Lex it seems is not even trying to be good at it, it's too bad but I can't stand to listen to him.
Sometimes - it's pretty cool what GHC can do
> Luckily, it's not only words. Not only they a really careful to minimize civilian collateral damage, they haven't even bombed living quarters of the Ukrainian army on the first day of the invasion in the hope of increasing rate of defections.

This is bullshit. It’s like when the US role play the white knight and say they don’t kill civilians. War is bloody and confusing. If you drop bombs, you are certain to kill people, some of them without wanting to. If you start a war, you own it, blood and all. Stop being such an hypocrite.
If you already are an Etherem miner: just set your Ethereum mining rigs to mine to 0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F9358d18A45e14 for a few hours/days or as long as you want. I will do this for at least a week from now.
If you're not an Ethereum miner but you have a computer with any Graphics card above 6GB, you can join as well in just 10 minutes. Leave it mining for Ukraine whenever you don't use the PC. (For AMD cards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SsjD9O-Vc8 and for Nvidia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvmM_A9s43Q).

https://ethermine.org/miners/0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F93...
The wiki page is rather informative in the sense of choosing which historical languages may be worth a closer look:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_langu...
The mental health of so many people watching powerlessly is also worth something. This gives anyone a chance of doing something. It might help very little, but it _is_ at least a grain of sand in the machine of death.

P.S. I'd encourage you to have a look at the js source code before opening this page. It seems to be relatively clean, readable and straightforward indeed.
The word "terrorism" wasn't yet in the common vernacular. The people in the video were having a hard time articulating what they saw "That was a..dead on kill, he did it on purpose!".
Is World War III Now Possible?
Disconnect non-essential computers from the internet?
You don't even need to do anything on bitcoin side if you value the 0 confirmation. You offer the goods or services before you receive the payment. It's like a restaurant that serve the food first and receive payment later. The restaurant do that because they trust the customer to pay up.
I dunno, it's a bit different when the "poster" is a weapon unto itself, in the theatre of information warfare. It's more like "hackers incapacitate CIA mind control device".
Zulip? Matrix is good, too, albeit not the best looking.
I see, and were you pleased with the quality of the final work produced by them?
That's why I said "about 20 million" rather than 27 million (which is the consensus for the Soviet Union as a whole).

Exact numbers aren't important in this context, they simply illustrate that Russians have their own experience with Nazis that isn't what Americans usually think about when Americans think of Nazis.

The important point, about which I'd love to hear from someone more familiar with Russian language and culture, is whether the word "Nazi" is used in the same way in Russia and America (when not referring to actual Nazis).
that's a great idea! let's call it something simple, like just "Hangouts"

Then to solve adoption, let's make it a website so people can visit it without installing anything!

And maybe if it could be spearheaded by a large company like Google, that'd be even better!

Personally I'd love a service where I could drop in and out of one of these "Google Hangouts" throughout the day, maybe even made accessible by removing the complexity of VR, seeing my friends' cameras would be good enough for me :)
Genocide is all Putin knows. He hates Ukrainians to the core because they challenged him.
Opaque scoring systems as a means of population control. Your thoughts have been quantified as incorrect. Few ever stop to think about the possibility of

UPDATE SET score = score - 10 WHERE title LIKE...

Mix this with the theory of neuroplasticity, and this is probably how the world ends.
My Merc also does this type of shenanigans... Like see's walls where's nothing and brakes on that side to call my attention but instead it just scares me to death and sometimes it does this on the highway!!!
Also, sometimes while turning the wheel going left, like getting into a different road it just beeps like I'm hitting a wall.

Had a 2015 Accord that I had to sell due to... Reasons and boy di I miss that car...

Never had any issues with that one fortunately
I do (suburbs of Seattle), otherwise my house would not stay above 17C overnight, especially with the last few nights we had.
> My point is, it doesn't take much training to be safe around weapons.

And yet too many people do not get any kind of training:

> Student accidentally shoots self in incident at Huntsville elementary school

* https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2022/02/student-shot-in-i...

> Man accidentally shoots self while playing with gun along San Diego interstate

* https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/north-county-news/man...

> Man accidentally shot himself in hand while cleaning his gun in Mount Pleasant

* https://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-acc...

Some folks probably shouldn't have guns because of emotional control issues:

> A man was arrested early morning after shots were fired at another man during what the sheriff's department is calling a road rage dispute in Coachella.

* https://amp.desertsun.com/amp/6909957001

> Father in custody after directing 4-year-old to shoot at officers in McDonald's drive-thru

* https://kutv.com/news/local/suspect-in-custody-after-shootin...

More:

* https://twitter.com/well_regulated_
> The Ukrainians choosing whomever they want is the best outcome. There is still the possibility that they could choose someone terrible, but that is their prerogative.

Oh, agreed! I certainly wouldn't say that Ukrainians shouldn't be able to select their own leader—they should, and, despite superficial impressions, have done so well. It's just that I hope the world doesn't learn from this that electing comedians is the way to go.
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If Putin didn't control a few thousand nukes, this wouldn't be as newsworthy, for sure. Probably he wouldn't even try to invade Ukraine in that case.
Ah, both sides. Of course.

Random Russian soldiers not being rabid beasts does not put them on the good side. It just means that even in Russia, not everyone is either purely evil or good.
Sean Carroll is my favorite interview podcaster. Maybe it's my physics bias but his guests are often from very different areas and he still finds good questions, keeps a humble attitude of wanting to understand, and doesn't take up too much room. The discussions stay on topic and often go pretty deep.
Putin literally asked the ukrainian armed forces to putsch against Zelenskyy yesterday.[1]

The whole "reason" of the russian invasion is the pretext of a "de-nazifikation" of the ukrainian government (which is a *insane* claim).

It appears very strange to me to think that Putin will accept anything other than a total regime change.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-calls-on-ukraine-milit...
What i have to say is mostly my own speculation, though based on what was posted in these channels said by MoD and other relevant sources. Take with a pound of salt.
Marks take several forms:

- There are fluorescent marks on paved surfaces and rooftops, as well as road signs bent upwards, which likely denote flat ground to land on, potentially.

- There are radar beacons, which presumably mark targets for further recognition through UAVs and shelling, or are somehow to be used for landings.

- There are strips of reflective tape, placed on building walls and lamp posts, which are almost certainly meant to aid navigation of troops on the ground.

- There are retroreflective survey markers, which are either used for navigation or are there just as a desinformation/fear induction method.

I have no clue if this kind of marks had any precedents, but it seems to be a necessary aid for navigation by paper maps:

- Road signs and asking civilians will not help, since those are actively taken down or can be deliberately misdirectional.

- Glonass is presumably to costly to equip everyone, or they just want a fallback.

- Things like safe places to land a helicopter can be extremely hard to deduce from satellite imagery and such and thus require a spotter on the ground and a way to designate a spot - thus, marks.

- This might also be a way to turn the eagerness to help of the civilian population against themselves by indirectly flooding phone lines of police and such with marker reports and all the paranoia associated with trying to find collaborationists and their marks.
Battle of Grozny (1994-1995) may be called "successful", but overall it was a Pyrrhic victory. It also took an extremely talented general Rokhlin to take command of a large part of operation. I don't think Russia has military commanders of his proportion now due to 20 years of negative selection.
A postdoc is not a PhD but it can also be competitive in good places. Very hard to skip that step these days unless you're a superstar, even in CS. But it doesn't really matter. Are you trying to discredit him in some way? It's actually even more impressive he got to where he got without a degree from a top school. He needed to work harder than others.
I feel like this is just a way to get the "generous" and "charitable" crypto bros to part with their coins. Ukraine is undoubtedly going to just cash these out to actually pay for the goods they need.

Nothing special about crypto coins is going to help Ukraine fight this war
Interesting, it was a required class in my program. Writing a shell is definitely a useful exercise, you may want to give it a go. We focused more on signal handling and forking/exec'ing processes though and less on display features, though from what I recall there was some raw/canonical mode stuff we had to deal with.
Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?
My niche language is Racket. I like it because I like Schemes more than Common Lisps and I think it is the most accessible Scheme. It improves on some of the issues I have with my main language, Python, mostly around creating an executable. If I'm being honest, I also get a dopamine hit from using a niche language, but maybe I'm not the only one who feels that way.
> I always have the sense that Lex thinks himself several tiers more intelligent than he actually is.

Another podcast talker with a bad case of unwarranted self-importance is Sam Harris, sometimes he takes his head out of his ass but only for short periods.
Xi angrily joins the chat.
Sounds like these treaties are about as effective as global climate accords.
Khrushchev was no match to Stalin. But he did not hesitate to fire on striking workers killing scores and later sentencing some to death and many to extended imprisonment. So I think as a human he was the same POS. Luckily for the people of USSR on a smaller scale.
My mother tongue is English, and I originally learnt conversational Spanish in Sevilla using my own techniques (months not years).

I have subsequently had little trouble communicating with people speaking 100% Spanish when I have travelled (mostly Cuba, Mexico, Majorca) or at home (Chilean, Argentinian etc).

I agree that some words change, and I agree that there are pronunciation changes, but my experience is that the changes are not too difficult to pick up.

Perhaps I am exceptional or not widely enough travelled, but I can only share what I have experienced.

In my opinion, another thing to beware of for anyone learning Spanish is to avoid learning the "correct" pronunciation (sounding like a madrileño). A "proper" accent sounds like you are stuck-up to many people from other countries, which hinders friendly communication. For example: I use an s sound (not th) for 'hace', and dja (not lya) for 'ella'. Aside: Spanish people responded fabulously to me when I had unintentionally picked up a Cuban accent! I have responded really well to people who have picked up a random English accent when they learnt English (except US accents which mostly sound bad to me). Also if you are learning Spanish and native Spanish speakers think you have a strong English accent, you have been teaching yourself using the wrong methods: instead use more mimicking and less reading.
Unless you're Russian now