skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call this consensus, as there is no global view and "total ordering" of transactions. Different parties have different views of who owns what, and extremely partial views at that.
They'll be here soon, Ziggy.
I pondered the exact same question. My thought process settled on…

keeping the data network alive makes it easier for the Russian military to communicate and maybe infiltrate. Shutting everything down removes attack vectors.
W.E.B ; Where Everybody Bitches
> And that's one feature Github will probably take a while to copy, if ever.

Eh you can already self host GitHub, longer than GitLab has been around, it’s just not free to do so.
This simple 2d MMORPG called The Mana World, small and cozy community and open source!

https://www.themanaworld.org/
i have no doubt the mustache and essence of long island in the man he talks to is real
That’s a new way to fight against Russian tanks and troops
My experience with Linux (dabbling frequently over the past decade and some change) has been extremely variable. When it’s solid, it’s extremely solid, but more frequently there were weird quirks of some type or another.

The best experiences I’ve had are on Intel machines lacking dedicated graphics (iGPU only) with Intel networking/Bluetooth. Any variance from that increase chances of oddities, especially if your machine has the misfortune of being built with Broadcom hardware — though it’s not too difficult to get most Broadcom wifi/Bluetooth working, it’s likely to stop working after random updates. Nvidia GPUs with multiple screens can act weird (at least under X11), especially if you have more than one GPU. AMD GPUs are better behaved but still not as smooth as under Windows or even macOS.

Laptops come with their own quirks too, like one of mine has volume buttons that might or might not work depending on which DE you’re running or if you’ve got the right daemon running in your minimal WM setup.

And of course the DEs themselves have bits of weirdness. The most functional with fewest oddities I’ve run is XFCE, which might be boring by the standards of some, but it feels like the team behind it has its priorities more in order than those of either GNOME or KDE. Cinnamon is a strong contender but from what I can see lacks resources. Pantheon would be nice but has a few (to me) fatal design flaws.

I could probably replace Windows with Linux if I really wanted to because I can deal with most of the quirks, but it’d be better if I didn’t have to. Even as someone who likes tinkering with computers, it’s nice to not need to tinker.
i can pay for anything in the economy right now with BTC. It's called a crypto debit card... look it up.

Not every organization accepts debit cards. Look it up.
I completely disagree. Conflict in this case is simply a fancier word for war, it doesn't suggest any of what you're saying.

The only case in which it wouldn't be a conflict in my opinion is if Ukraine had absolutely no intentions or resources to fight back. (In which case it couldn't be called a war either.)

See [1]:

Definition of conflict

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : fight, battle, war

//an armed conflict

[...] (other definitions that do not apply here)

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conflict
Sorry, but bricking mobiles is not "the only way ... to hit them hard".

Cutting them off from international trade, refusing shipments of semiconductors and other "dual use" resources, refusing docking rights to load/unload to Russian flagged vessels, refusing travel visas, etc etc are all ways to impose pressure on Russia to cease it's war.
Am I the only one who thinks that while what’s going on is reprehensible and terrible, it does actually make a lot of strategic sense from Putin’s POV and he is not, in fact, an idiot?

Ukraine is a pretty soft target and has great strategic value. After taking Crimea and installing favorable leaders in Belarus Russia was prepared to invade from all sides with no resistance (Which was probably planned years in advance). Europe is helplessly dependent on Russian gas, and won’t risk intervening. China is collaborating with them behind the scenes mitigating the West’s threats of sanctions.

From my perspective I see a highly intelligent, strategic set of decisions made over a long period of time. Unfortunately it seems most people seem to be ignorant to the facts and analyzing the situation emotionally.
I'm more thinking on Berlin today. Would our government give automatic weapons to abou-chaker clan? To right wing groups? The Osmanen or any other biker group? That wouldn't work.
that is exactly what anonymous is
I go to sleep every day hoping the exact opposite. An escalation is the last thing I wish for.
You do realize that this speech was actually part of the Russian plot itself? The tell is him calling out Walter Mondale. As we know now, the real "destabilization" started with Reagan.
It seems like this has been playing out for months, if not longer. I'm not sure what else there might be to wait for.
Is there a course to go from SRE to SERE?
I don't think Serbia ever encouraged their ethnic group to move outward. The opposite. They became the minority in their own territory (Kosovo) because Albanians had a higher birth rate. The problem was that they were mixed with other ethnic groups, but wanted to keep their own in the same country.
Even if they only hold stock positions that you could replicate, you would be buying when Berskshire is already done buying and selling when they are done selling. For example, the recent Bershire's position in Activision was disclosed when Microsoft already made the acquisition offer, so it was too late to replicate it.
This is why abandoning nuclear was a horrendous mistake.
MikroTik CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe Is a 2x SFP28 25GbE Router on a PCIe Card
In Europe, we just have functioning wire transfers. Fails number 1
The West is looking for ways to impose effective sanctions. Investing in increased trade between the US and Europe which also hits Russia seems like a promising approach.

Russia is obviously geographically closer than the US to Europe. Once an investment is made and the infrastructure built, to what extent could American natgas compete with Russian on price if there is a return to normalcy?
Yes they were using the BitPay provider when they were accepting Bitcoin, I assume they were made aware of that it was possible to track the transactions back to fraudulent credit card transactions, which I guess in some way could still make them liable for it.
I think current algorithms do a version of that, but it has to be coupled together with person/outline recognition and such. Taking the background in just once doesn't work because the pixels still change over time (due to lighting and such).

What's really impressive to me is that it looks like web apps like Google Meet and Discord seem to do this in JavaScript on the fly.
that would probably take years.

We underestimate Chinese productivity at our own peril.

While we deal with this Ukraine/Russia thing, it would be unwise to not wargame out some 'humor me' scenarios.

"I know the Chinese could never build that much infrastructure in the short term. But 'humor me', what if they can?"
While I agree with the premise of not leaving crypto in online wallets, at this point it's absurd to think you can interact with crypto without interacting with exchanges. Very, very, very few people are paid in crypto, and still very few (legitimate) merchants actually accepts crypto as the final form of payment for goods, so if you actually want to use crypto as, you know, money, at some point you'll be dealing with an exchange.
CIs + runners + embedded registry is a really nice add-on that I couldn't do without
Are you saying neurotransmitter modulation and glial cells cannot be represented by electrical signals?

Honestly, the root of all this is whether you were trying to claim that the brain is doing super-Turing computation or not. Either

1) it's not, then you can't tell me Turing machines cannot do the same computation (and by extension neural nets can approximate it)

2) it is, then prove it and congratulations you have made a extraordinarily important and fundamental step forward in computer science.

My money is on 1.
There’s always something cool to learn about geological processes, even basic examples like this one.
yes, crypto is inflated, and a pump and dump, but there is opportunity there, and hope. and that is what most retail are buying.

i mean something changed in the stock market after 2008. i'm not really educated enough in finance, but it seems the value of stocks just went vertical. and since the covid pandemic everything has doubled in value. i know its related to decrease in value of usd but since my salary doesnt even increase to match inflation so its the same both ways.

if i invest in stocks, at best i will get 2x after 5 years, at worst i will be buying at the peak of the everything bubble.
> Why did we think it would be a good idea to stick a computer between the brake pedal and the physics equation?

Because human beings have such a terrible track record that even "dumb" computers running code written by shabby programmers can do better. Even with these errors the computers are still doing a better job. The NIH studied Automatic Emergency Braking systems and found that, "With a 100% market penetration rate, fatalities could be reduced by 13.2%, and injuries could be reduced by 9.1%."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037779/
Does it actually provide any damn value at all at a macro level?

It provides macro value to coinbros and wantrapreneurs who think that bragging on social media about fake money is the same thing as owning real money. I guess that's something.
My city is bombed for 3 days in a row. Many of my friends took arms to defend the country. I'm grateful to any help from Anonymous!
Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern Kyiv Saturday morning
It seems to be morale. Here [1] is a click of Ukrainian asking Russian soldiers if they need tow back to Russia.

My point is that Russians and Ukrainians people like each other: the problem is that Ukrainie does not have puppet like Lukashenko as a leader.

[1] https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1497485623225200640?s=2...
Are you saying that a valid TOTP code can be reused within its validity period? What’s the proposed threat model here (how is an adversary using this to inflict harm)?

Given the engineering effort of tracking used tokens and the relatively low exploitability it seems odd to generalize to the entire organization based on this.
Events like a war going on in Europe can change such policies. We have a madman at the door and continuing to finance his war makes us co-responsible. It is the least painful option anyway (the other being letting him to realize his goals of resetting Europe to pre-1997 state as he stated in his recent speech, or direct military conflict with NATO that nobody wants for obvious reasons - and in both cases, climate change would be the least of our worries).
Literally my first thought. Finally, no more graphics driver problems.
https://mil.ru/ is returning a 418 ("I'm a teapot")
I agree that the "AI as assistant" model is AI's sweet spot now and likely for the next few decades.

This model is already common now in systems like Tesla's badly-named "Full-Self Driving" Autopilot, which Tesla itself notes "is a hands-on driver assistance system that is intended to be used only with a fully attentive driver".

Similarly, "AI as creator" mostly leads to uninteresting outcomes. In contrast, "AI as creative assistant" will lead to actually-fascinating advances in the creative arts in the near future. AI will help creators think differently, and in turn, creators will weave good and/or interesting output into coherent, higher-quality pieces.
Not really. Look at how Belarus deals with technologists, and they have far fewer state resources at their disposal than Russia.
In what way have "we" pushed things here. Ukraine voted for independence back in the early 90s by an overwhelming majority in all areas, including those currently "recognized" by Russia.

Ukrainians want all the benefits of EU membership, and they gave up their nuclear weapons on the promise of security from Europe, the US, and Russia.

Putin's "history" is nonsense.
It might not necessarily be that they lost money, it is possible it happened through the way you are suggesting, but opening up for crypto does mean Steam becomes a money laundering platform.

Criminal creates a shit game and then uses the crypto to buy that game (with alt accounts) and since *very* few developers would be happy with getting paid in crypto, Valve has to convert it into fiat(?) currency.
> Needless to say, I lost a lot of trust in them and (perhaps stupidly) sold the van shortly afterwards.

I know this is very off-topic but don't beat yourself up about making quick decisions like this that cut that kind of persistent, simmering rage out of your life.

We have enough of this stuff with people in our lives, often unavoidably, so letting appliances/devices/products cause it is not something we have to tolerate. If a _thing_ makes you feel unsatisfiable anger, get rid of it.
There are a few things that can only be explained by total incompetence on the part of a Russian planner or a belief there’d be no resistance (which I suppose amounts to the same thing).

I don’t have a huge frame of reference since war is not something I normally read about, but it’s striking even to me that the humble Ukrainian Air Force was (still is, one hopes) able to offer the resistance they did. On paper the Russian military is capable of destroying all their airfields and SAM sites the night prior to the invasion, and knowing where those Ukrainian jets were was someone’s job. It seems crazy to say “those fighter pilots will switch sides when they see us coming and there’s no way they would engage our fighters, bombers, or troop transports. Why would we even want to destroy that perfectly good airfield where they are located?” I wonder what the actual conversation was like.

> For sure they underestimated the resistance.

They sure did.
> It's interesting because losing someone's PII that includes information that can lead to financial fraud can bankrupt a company.

Experian seems to be doing quite fine
Webb Telescope reaches major milestone: All its light is in one place
Sorry, I didn't know. That's horrifying.
Other than some internet street cred in a show of solidarity, what's the point? It's not like Putin is going to decide to stop invading and pull back because some governmental website was taken offline.

It's not like they have disrupted in field command and control, communications, etc of the attacking forces. It's not like they've shud down the power to the offices of those in charge, or taken over Putin's personal bank accounts, or anything useful at all.

Do the people of Ukraine benefit at all from this? Does this show NATO leaders that they have no backbone?
They are actually asking hackers everywhere to attack government sites in the name of Anonymous. Source: Their twitter
Honest question: has it ever worked? I know of many countries where it didn't work (e.g. Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, Libya before the Western invasion, and even previous sanctions on Russia) but I can't think of one where it did.
The subject is Mars, not the conversation about Mars.

And GP's comment is interesting. Consider that Earth, even after nuclear war, comet strike, caldera explosion, destroyed habitats, etc is still infinitely more habitable than Mars.
Future of Ruby – AST Tooling (2021)
Well, significant part of Europe was on the eastern side of the iron curtain, getting gas from Russia.

And note that in the past, home heating with coal (which is available locally) was common. We gradually moved from coal to gas for heating and now also for electricity generation, and that is something that cannot be reverted over one year.
I didn't think the banner of Anonymous as-used-by leftist hacktivists was still active after the FBI's crackdown a decade ago. Imagine a world where the FBI treated white supremacist terrorists the same way they treat hacktivists.
It’s because Mars is the best we have to add redundancy to the human condition.
Then there are those of us who think crypto has lots of theoretical but no actual advantages over cash, while also carrying lots of additional risk.
“Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you’ll deplete the worlds fisheries in three generations.”

While that old saw has a bit of truth, the nice thing about mars is that there is no ecology to disturb
My first thought was some sort of crystal formation. Not sure if it's salt but it does look crystalline in nature. I'll get off my exogeologist armchair rest now.
> How did Europe not freeze to death during Cold war

With Soviet gas. There was never a full Western embargo of the USSR, especially after detente. Trade directly between the USA and USSR averaged about $4 billion per year (1980 dollars) in the late 70s. Not large but also not insignificant.

In many ways the USSR was also a petrostate. Some, then and now, have argued this propped up the USSR beyond its natural life expectancy.
Smaller population, too.
Somewhat related, I used to think that residential geothermal heating was basically harvesting the steaming heat from the soil to your house. I figured that would require seating on a volcano.

In fact it's using a heat pump, and liquid circulating in pipes burried a few feet underground to act as a thermal sink, to either heat or cool down a house. This works well because the temperature in the ground doesn't fluctuate much past 3ft. Pretty neat, and does not require to go down miles (though it's moving energy to/from ground rather than harvesting it and you still need an energy source for the pump)
He can talk a big game about ethics, for someone representing an organization that is essentially stealing the labour of publicly funded researcher and putting it behind a paywall.

I'm an hypocrite like all the others though, I was a member for a few years (to reduce my conference fees).
> This moral issue is really easily resolved - what do the people of Ukraine and Taiwan want? It's quite easy to ask them.

What did the southerners want? What did the native hawaiians want. What did the aborigines want. What did the inuits in alaska want? What did the samoans want? What did the maoris want?

The ukrainians wanted russia. They voted for a pro-russian president. In 2014, the US/EU staged a coup and forced out a democratically elected president. Funny how people forget that.

As for taiwan, 1.4 billion chinese vs 20 million chinese. You do the math. And of course nobody is interested in what the aborigines in taiwan want. Taiwan lost the civil. Just like the south lost our civil war. It's only our imperial foolishness that delayed the unification.

> That's why the Ukrainians are fighting for their lives now,

They aren't. Instead of watching propaganda all over traditional and social media, go watch some real footage on the war. It's harder to find now that most social media is propagandized, but it's there. 99.99% of ukrainians are not fighting. And miles of trucks, tanks, etc abandoned by ukrainian soldiers at the first sound of war.

Go look at footage of kiev or any other ukrainian city. Nobody ( civilians or soldiers ) is preparing for the defense of the cities. And russia is doing this not with millions of troops, just thousands.
Easy, Russia stores around 650 billions of dollars abroad. Confiscate it to cover the EU losses. Simple as that, you act like Hitler, you got to be punished.
They should use an app that respects free speech like parlor or gab or whatever the freedom respecting Twitter alternative of the moment happens to be. Twitter is far from “open” and so blocking it is sort of redundant; it’s already tightly restricted. It’s not like they are blocking the free press.
This idea that cryptocurrency is good because it enables “good” crimes (avoiding unjust oppressive governments) is at odds with the hard facts that cryptocurrency is used for “bad” crimes far more often. Many orders of magnitude more often, in fact.

I just can’t buy into these arguments that we should be overlooking these rampant frauds and crimes (like the multi-billion fraud in this article and many more like it) because it might hypothetically enable some oppressed people somewhere in the world to escape some government oppression.

In these hypothetical scenarios, are we supposed to believe that the oppressive governments would just look the other way and let people transfer their wealth into crypto exchanges before fleeing? That would defeat the purpose of the government restrictions, so obviously not. Or are we supposed to believe that they moved all of their wealth into crypto and took it out of exchanges and into private wallets before the oppression? The crypto maximalists would love that because it would drive up crypto prices, but it’s not practical in a world where most people have their weath in assets like houses, cars, and diversified investments.
With Russian hacking and ransomeware attacks running rampart I don’t understand why we are still peering them same goes for North Korea and China. I know, I know VPNs and shit but we still get an insane amount of knocks from Russia and China.
You are correct, evading economic sanctions is another problem crypto solves. :)

(I am not here to make any value judgments)
Here’s a video that demonstrates what they built: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t0izXoT_Aoc
I think you'd have to establish ownership of the information. Maybe you could call this a fiduciary breach because they're an agent of the person giving them the DNA?
Sorry, I went to the article and it wasn't any more specific on what a fraudulent transaction means in this context, and I don't know what that would mean here (for the context of a purchase via Bitcoin on a user's Steam account).

All I can imagine is a case where the user claims they didn't make the purchase, "please refund", but that would be easy to disprove.
For what it's worth https://rosneft.com is down for me, I wanted to fw to a friend a press-release from December 2021 (or that's what the Google SERPs show me as the date) where Rosneft the company was celebrating BP (the British energy company) increasing its shares in Rosneft to more than 20% or such.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/25/webb-mirror-alignment...
' It's not the job of consumers, nor is there any reasonable communication channel, to dictate what is put on shelves. '

In a free market the job of consumers is to use communication channel of purchases to signal what they want to have stocked on the shelves. Safeway stocks junk food because that is what people buy.
You can turn them off at the socket, the newer ones via Bluetooth, and with the bridge itself. The bridge didn’t work because it is on a separate IOT vlan (and routing between wifi and this vlan didn’t work), and I was too lazy to turn them off one by one.

The nice thing about hue is that they work without an internet connection, which is not a given these days.
Walmart (like all large retailers) spends a ton of effort trying to address e.g. laundering efforts with gift cards, actually

For example, you can't buy a gift card in an Apple Store without signing a statement promising that you're not buying the gift card because a stranger online told you to.

Sounds ineffective on the surface, especially to jaded tech-types, but it's enough to give real people in the process of being scammed an opportunity to think about what they're doing.