skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The consensus in this thread is that Putin has gone crazy.

I mean... Does anyone else remember the time (2004/5?) Putin stole a $25k Superbowl ring from a Patriot just because he knew he could get away with it (notably, while also observing "I could kill someone wearing this")? This is pretty much the same exact thing on a broader scale.

https://www.boston.com/sports/new-england-patriots/2020/09/1...

The global community should no longer stand open belligerence like this and I'm glad we're cutting them off from the world. Let's see how long they last in financial isolation.

It's too bad that the story that @Pornhub blocked Russia was fakenews, as that would have been hilarious.
What I am super intrigued to know ; What is the state of Cyber Warfare (True State) that is occurring?

Will there be any major infra attacks? On who, by whom?

The anon thing is cool and all - but many suspect that is intelligence agencies masquerading, but who knows about that..

I just hope this thing cools down and fast...
I grew up, and spent most of my life in Canada. I moved to Australia in my 30's. I have to say, I have never had a more uncomfortable winter than my first year here. I was cold all the time. Down to my bones cold. I hated it.

I eventually found a house that had decent insulation, and since then I've never let it get cold in my place. I've got solar, and I keep the heat cranked.
Transnistrian ruble plummets
I rinse the ones that I see stuff on, but otherwise don’t worry about it.

But I still refrigerate them immediately after getting them home even if I think I’m going to use them quickly, because some habits are impossible to break.
If they buy more time they’re getting thousands of anti armor and anti air weapons very soon.
> Maybe it's practical by using electricity to make synthetic liquid fuels?

Hydrogen, which can be stored underground like natural gas.

https://power.mhi.com/regions/amer/news/20210511.html

"The project’s salt caverns will be capable of holding more than 5,500 metric tonnes of hydrogen. From an energy storage perspective, one cavern holds the equivalent of 150 gigawatt hours (GWh) of carbon-free dispatchable energy and/or decarbonized fuel that can be used in other industries. By comparison, a U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2020 report estimates the current installed base of battery energy storage across the U.S. at 1.2 GWh."

(The formation there has room for 100 such caverns.)

(Also: "metric tonnes"?!)

https://www.powermag.com/large-scale-green-hydrogen-infrastr...
No. This is wrong. They got their own money back as part of the agreement. Hard to believe this is posted in good faith.
With only an eight minute window, wouldn’t that make the effective bandwidth be 10kbps?
Russia halts Soyuz rocket launches from South America over European sanctions
There are bad engineers in the US as well as India. If you are paying $9 per hour, you are not getting the good Indian engineers. It is like going to a local McDonalds and hiring programmers. You deserve what you get.
NATO membership is a red herring. But I agree that "we" made a lot of bad moves in the past decade: if you keep poking the bear, at some point he's going to react somehow.
I do it all day long in 16gb with zero issues, of course it’s a Mac so…
A normal desktop machine for a 3D visual effects artist doing complex shots and/or (offline) rendering of those commonly has (at least) 64GB of RAM nowadays.

Get Houdini Apprentice and if you like it, upgrade to Houdini Indie and get a free 3Delight license for rendering and try to max that combo out.

Clarisse is another option.
For those unfamiliar with LLVM internals, could someone provide background/context on this? Also, this was in 2020?
How, that's a huge temperature gradient.

I live in Fortaleza, Brazil. Temperatures here are very stable along the whole year (78F - 90F, it rarely falls out of this interval).

I'm not advocating this no-AC model as a general solution though. I'm aware we're a bit lucky here. I used to live in Sao Paulo and temperatures vary more wildly there, sometimes within a single day.
Assuming a decent OS, all that RAM is already full of filesystem caches, so you are already benefitting from it.

Just use your computer as you planned. There is nothing "cool" about large memory applications anyway. But maybe next time, don't waste money on RAM you don't really need.
Much of this comment is wrong. Cutting off some Russian banks from SWIFT will have significant consequences on the Russian economy. The fact that Russia prints its own currency doesn't change anything.

> are not dependent upon imports.

Russia imports hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods each year. Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/imports

> The fantasy of the dollar hegemony is a western myth.

The hegemony of the dollar is actually very real. The dollar is the de facto global currency for cross border transactions and settlements. And it will remain so as long as the United States remains the world's dominant superpower, which is forever. https://palladiummag.com/2020/12/05/why-the-us-dollar-could-...

> However Russia could demand roubles in payments for its gas.

And buyers could put their foot down and demand to pay in dollar. If Russia refuses, said buyers will simply look to other producers.

> and then ban foreigners from holding them.

No one outside of Russia wants to hold roubles. Everyone wants euros, dollars, or pound sterlings. The rouble is not a significant currency in the global economy.

> Which would mean the EU couldn't settle its gas bill.

The EU can import gas from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East. US exports of natural gas to Europe are already rapidly increasing: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europe-remains-top-d.... Gas isn't the leverage you think Russia has.

The rest of the world needs Russia less than Russia needs the rest of the world. For gas, or anything else.
Same. Also for when compiling packages from source and whatnot.
There will be no restarting - they are even closer to having nuclear arms than before because we abandoned the deal. It wasn't a perfect deal, but it was real progress and would have significantly slowed nuclear development (experts say ~15 years instead of 2 years).

It's hard to have any deal when repubs have pledged to abandon it (regardless of what it is) when they have control again.
And nato was created to control and prevent the influence/expansion of USSR. Russia is not that threat anymore, so no major reason for nato to exist at all, let alone expand in Ukraine.
There were a lot of people in tech and the media who made all
sorts of claims that we appreciate as nonsense. One that stuck out to me was a “tech guru” stating that the screen must be using heat to detect touch, and that this means the screen will wear out with use over time.

Even back then it felt utterly comical to see that on TV.
Isn't the point of this sanction to keep people from doing things like that?
“Yep, just fungible code monkeys.” -every company, even FAANG
Beam – A simple message board for your organization or project
And yet I didn't receive my order now email yet. So stupid.
I was talking about his party's popularity, which had plummeted to the level that party members obscure their membership in it in their official materials or go as 'independent' candidates.

Putin personally seems to enjoy a slightly higher rating, currenlty at about 50%, but distributed very unevenly. His popularity among educated urban youth is at about 10-20% - and you have to take into account vast 'electoral sultanates' in the form of national republics like Chechnya, Dagestan or Tatarstan who all give him almost 100% of support thanks to tight control over both voting and polling.

Anyway, by all accounts, this war and inevitable harsh sanctions is going to cost him support instead of boosting it.
last position and chi pablum
That’s what just a whatsboutism
At least we can expect Spacex starship schedule to accelerate as the billionaires skip out
Even Jar Jar?
I wondered, too, and there isn't a lot of reliable information about it online
Ventilation and air conditioning are two very different things. Unless it’s a central unit, the AC will be reusing the same air. In order to not die of lack of oxygen you need ventilation as well.
Good, escalation is the only option. The people of Kyiv are dying.
Suprised that the article doesn't mention Forth, which is probably one of the easiest languages to implement, and one of the easiest to extend.
Problem: Modern laptops like the macbook run cold. Maybe future node versions can address this.
As an American, I think that arguments about outsourcing that boil down to ability being all over the map don't feel right. Plenty of American engineers are all over the map.

The biggest difference is distance, the time zone split, and cultural differences.

I say this as someone that thinks limiting insourcing raises wages in the short term.
Paying more for energy means your economy gets rekt too. It's hilarious people think only the seller's will be hurt, the buyer's will be hurt too. It's a two way street.

Not to mention the political upheaval you'll see. High energy prices, especially gas prices, are highly correlated with election results - especially here in the US. It's why Trump and everyone before him was so desperate to keep gas prices low.
Perhaps the contributing editor is angling for a copy writing positionwith Salesforce? Otherwise vacuous platitudes.
1/ If you're into ML, hosting vector search databases can be expensive.

At a super high level, an ML algorithm converts content (text, images, or audio) into vectors (aka embeddings). Similar content should generate similar embeddings, so a large RAM lets you keep more embeddings in memory allowing more search. Large ram also makes training models easier.

2/ Data leaks can be fun to explore, but are often gigabytes of data. More ram makes them faster to query.
Maybe I missed it but was the original TED demo of the multitouch prototype part of this? I thought that had a heavy influence on the design of how the iphone software would work?
Looking at that repo I would say it would take several gigs just to load the README...
Totally - in some ways, it is more enjoyable. Easy to stay warm, and the suit give you some extra floatation, so we can play games in the deep water more easily. It also protects us more from sunburn, which is a nice added bonus.
It's frustrating to have to doubt the ukrainian side here but there is absolutely 0 proof of any of those downed russian planes. There are tons of pictures of crashed planes in this war, whether it's those crashing on russian or ukrainian territory... except for those claimed by the ukrainian government. The official ukrainian sources are pumping out tons of disinfo, and I understand why! But it makes it hard to believe anything they say
That seems like a bad decision from a security perspective too.

I can imagine cyberattacks meticulously crashing airplanes during a time of war.
This is what happens when Boeing is run by accountants and MBAs instead of engineers (as it once was). Short term financial "wins" like outsourcing eventually make Boeing unrecognizable from the industrial behemoth that cranked out 747s in Everett.

What these finance and business people fail to understand (or simply don't care about) is that every point of outsourcing becomes a point of friction. You now need to negotiate specs, deliverables, timetables and payments. There are often perverse incentives that reward change orders. You often get cost blowouts from "cost plus" pricing.
Yea I wonder that as well, I just try keep in mind that every video / story might not be exactly what it seems and to use my own judgement. But at the same time I bet a good amount of it is real. It's kind of the first major military operation of a nation outside of the middle east in the time of social media and smartphones. I would expect a lot of footage to get out.
It seems that Europe should make it a top priority to cut the supply of gas from Russia.
I definitely am not an authority here, but I can’t imagine a top 10 GDPPPP country is particularly comparable to Zimbabwe.
Don’t all mobile browser support double tapping to zoom into logical segments? Or is that just mobile Safari?
Because that’s all I do for it.
Been there, done that...
The doctrine to use nuclear weapons in response to an overwhelming conventional attack isn't really anything that new. It originates from the early part of the Cold War when NATO had inferior conventional forces to the Red Army and were afraid they would be overrun quickly if the Soviets attacked [1].

Everything old is new again I suppose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulda_Gap

"In response to the quantitative superiority of the Soviet forces, the U.S. deployed Atomic Demolition Mines for many years in the Fulda Gap. In the early '60s, the Fulda Gap was also protected by V Corps Artillery units equipped with the medium-range MGM-5 Corporal guided missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads."
The only way cryptocurrency goes mainstream is with these middlemen you speak of. Do you really think the average person has the knowledge and time to manage this themselves? It is far from decentralized, but the entire idea of a decentralized financial system is nothing more than a pipe dream.
Yep, same. After this last G Suite fiasco, I finally moved my domain off Google onto another host that I pay for. It's nice to know I'm supporting a platform that cares more about privacy than Google.

Plus, it lit a fire under me to rely on Google services less and less. I had a second Google One account that I stopped paying for as well, cause f them.
This was always mentioned as last ditch option with Russia. If Putin is defiant after this and turns rogue there are no more restrictions to put. The world will have no option but outright war given they have nukes
Ukraine could get the US military within 300 miles of Moscow.
>even FAANG

Why are they paying american programmers 6 figure salaries then?
Are you anywhere near Kyiv? Do you know if they've been cut off from internet, power, etc?
The force that was specifically created to deal with public dissent and protests in Russia is the National Guard (Rosgvardia). It's about 80% volunteer, but the remaining 20% are conscripts.
They haven’t even had unchallenged air superiority.

Many Russian planes have been shot down (including two troop transports flying into contested airspace ?!), and Russian conveys have been successfully targeted and destroyed by Ukrainian air strikes.

I think it’s fair to say that the Russians have air superiority, but most analysts expected them to have unchallenged air power by this point, and they definitely don’t have that
France is heavily using them heavily too. Some people even pay their groceries with cheques.
This is truly great news, and progress after CodeQL past week as well: https://github.blog/2022-02-17-code-scanning-finds-vulnerabi...
There will be no massive nuclear attack of any kind. War is just an extension to politics, it has its goals. Everyone around Putin knows about MAD and have their own families, no one will sacrifice them to altar of Putin, he will be removed before anything like that happens. Your fear is exactly what he wants, this is his goal, to paralyze the west in fear so he can take country by country in upcoming years. The only language he understands is force and strength, he will take how much you will give him until you say no more.
How do you know Google are at fault?

I don't know either, but I do know we never get the full story on these.
> making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India.

I have always wondered about the consequences of vast numbers of devs working in fields they barely understand (myself included) and the relatively rapid churn of those devs.

That being said, in most places I have worked, developers don't get a lot of influence in big picture decisions. If Boeing is like that, it would not have mattered.
Well, Russia wasn't a threat. Putin unilaterally invading a neighboring country has just justified NATO's existence for another generation.
A film is art by definition, even when it stinks to high heaven. And gosh, did those movies foul the place up... I don't think I've seen worse acting before or since, it's incredible how he managed to ruin even Ewan McGregor's craft.
This is not about distribution. When sun is not shining, there is no solar energy to distribute. You can build as much solar as you want, but you won’t get any electricity from it during the night. Peak demand, however, is right after sunset, and only slowly peters out until midnight. Where are you going to get energy during that time? If you build enough wind all across the country, so that it is by itself enough to cover the peak demand even during low wind conditions, then it could work — but it’s cost prohibitive, and you wouldn’t then build any solar anyway (if wind was enough to cover peak demand in the evening, it would also be enough to cover demand during the day, no solar necessary).

In practice, until cheap storage is invented, and as long as nuclear energy is eschewed, renewables will be paired up with fossil, and prices will stay up.
There's good/bad engineers everywhere. I have worked with students that earned less than $9/h and produced better quality work results than highly payed senior engineers. Nationality is also not a reason for high quality/sloppy work.

However, I can accept that expecting to get the same quality work for a fraction of the cost should be viewed skeptically.
my take is, he is testing the nato.
it was originally there to oppose the warsaw pact, which broke with the soviet union.
so what is natos purpose?
we have seen time and again that nato bases are set up to opose the russian federation.
then whats it gonna do if i poke it in a country that is formally not yet a member?

everybody is trying to get putin "back" to the table, they dont realize he already memorized what is on it and is not interested in anything that is being offered there...

there is a russian playbook from 1997 that putin might be playing by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Con...
it's outlining a possible version of russians geopolitical long game
Bitcoin. People may complain about the volatility, but you only have to hold it long enough to send it, and they only have to hold it long enough to sell, if that's what they care to do.
True. But I am the kind of person who prefers to hear the truth than be fed false hope. False hope is the easiest way to demoralise someone when they face reality.
Assuming a generic and unfamiliar terminal, I think 99 out of 100 people here would first write "help".
So, apart from all the examples you are dismissing your point stands!

What an innovative way to argue! There’s no examples of people caring apart from all those examples that were posted!
"ours aren't"
An op-ed is a type of article. The relevant paragraph was describing Obama's time in office. Do I have to qualify there is plenty of bad things said about Trump [and other x-presidents] in the article too?
>All that for Ukraine? What is so valuable there to him, I really still don’t get it.

I think Russia agreed with China to pull this wild experiment off with invading Ukraine in order to see how far US and its allies are willing to go to sanction Russia and to see if two of them(Russia and China) can survive and prevail together. This mentality "me against the world" is extremely irrational from diplomatic and economic point of view but it can work out because Russian and Chinese economy can complement, synergize and eventually survive and live together. Russia has 6,400 nuclear warheads—the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world so no way anybody can compete with them militarily. Also they have $600bn+ in national reserves in USD, gold and other assets so this vast amount of sanctions won't hurt them at least not in the short term. Btw Taiwan could be next.
I think you are right. The Hague conventions precludes the use of your enemy’s flag or uniform. The distinction between some war crimes and some ruses de guerre is somewhat blurry (for example, doing the same thing with a warship would not be a crime as long as you identify yourself properly before attacking).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruse_de_guerre
Germany is much better connected to the gas pipelines of neighbouring European countries than it used to be, and Europe has extensive strategic reserves. The US does too and might be willing to share some of them. We’re also coming out of winter.

This is going to be hard, the cost will be heavy, but much, much heavier on Russia. But we’re at war, whether we like it or not, and we have to do this.
Hi! Sadly I do not, it was a bit too rough on my body. But still work out, and a lot of what I learned at Crossfit is still useful today. But I'll never go back, ha.
except that sometimes they reduce to speech. especially in cases where there are incidental human rights violations suppressing those payments. the examples why this cannot be left up to arbitrary governments are abundant. so there's nothing wrong with my argument. if you disagree then please show proof.

by the way just a heads up I suggest you learn the value of basic human kindness in your manner.
> MetalNES is by the author of NESticle

Thanks Shitman!
Sweet water?
> without China willing to spend the vast resources necessary to prop them up

Why wouldn't China be willing to do this? They already said they're going to increase their wheat purchases to make up for what the West isn't buying anymore.
From what I can tell, Turing.com scrapes emails from open source contributions.

Turing.com has been sending automated emails to the address I use for contributing to Open Source, but uses the name of the maintainer of the repo I contributed to.

I would stay away from them for that reason alone.
Mainer checking in.
Wednesday afternoon it was 70F.
The next morning it was 5F
Friday a snowstorm.
Today -2F in AM.

We all just dress in endless layers.
> Additionally, there's some very unusual resistance to Russian troops.

One or the reasons the Blitzkrieg worked so well for Nazi Germany was because many of their soldiers were experienced combat veterans from the international brigades during the Civil war in Spain.

Ukrainian soldiers have been in active combat since 2014, and they are fighting to defend their own country.

That being said, I don’t think any of us really have much of a clue as to what is going on, I just hope the best for Ukraine.
I mean, sanctions are a massive risk for prospective investors... Just realistic.
Here's the first Google result for [10 largest economies in 2050]: https://www.theceomagazine.com/business/competition/pwc-worl...

We have (1) China;
(2) India;
(3) US;
(4) Indonesia;
(5) Brazil;
(6) Russia;
(7) Mexico;
(8) Japan;
(9) Germany;
(10) UK.

Leaving aside how likely it is that Russia will be #6 at this rate (not particularly likely), the US, Germany, and the UK are all undeniably part of the West. Brazil and Japan are allies of the US [1]. The US has friendly relations with India, Indonesia, and Mexico. So this claim seems untrue.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_non-NATO_ally
We are valuable commodities. Something being expensive doesn't mean that it is valued on an individual basis. An ounce of gold is expensive, but extremely fungible.
BTC value could be sanctioned too. It’s price is very much like a leveraged stock market fund already. If they kill let’s say 5 of the biggest exchanges in the world then BTC will be worth $1 again
Run firefox
Not all execs care about "sustainable". They often have quarterly targets. To get some wins an exec could outsource, complete a bunch of tasks, then move to another company on a higher paid job, leaving former company to mop up.

See this a lot with sales also. Transactional client relationships promising the world to get the deal and hit commission multipliers. They then move to another company with "success stories" leaving implementation teams to reset client expectations.