skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are wrong about lightning. You can use a third party custodian, but it's possible to control the keys to your bitcoin locked up in lightning channels. At any point you can "withdraw" your bitcoin back to the main chain.

I think you are confusing the lightning network with liquid BTC [0], which is controlled by Blockstream.

[0] https://help.blockstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/900001408623-...
and HN is the epitome of Dunning-Kruger effect
> when bank A transfers to bank B, does bank B check with the Feds that the money from bank A is "real"?

Yes, unless the banks have mutual accounts with each other that they can use to settle instead. So, if bank B is accepting to be owed money by bank A for any transfer from A to B, they don't need to settle – but there's practical limits to that, imposed by both risk and regulatory concerns. Eventually, they'll need to settle up if funds flows A -> B and B -> A don't largely cancel each other out.

> And is a transfer from A to B really a transfer from A's account at the Feds to B's?

For wire transfers and ACH, it is.

> They could simply deny any transfers to and from bank B's account at the Feds, which would make any transactions impossible?

Yes – that's in fact exactly what a freeze of that bank's Fed reserves is!
(Not the OP). In summary I think you mean that animal rights activists anthropomorphize non-human animals and they want us to treat them like we treat humans. They don't anthropomorphize plants so they don't care what happens to plants. Is that right?

If that's your point, I agree and I think that goes a long way to explain why there are very fewer objections to eating insects, or why many vegetarians are fine eating fish, but not cows.
Seems good! Perhaps I'll read them both so I have a better understanding of Rust as a programming language and of systems programming in general.
The Fed’s tampering is the main reason for the inflation and the corner that they have painted the US economy into. Raise rates to proper levels to fight the inflation they created and risk recession; allow inflation and risk eventual revolt.

Which choice will they make? Should they alone have the power to make these decisions is the true question.
The US/EU have military backing. What does pateron have?
Or Russian money swaying the occupants of said farms.
You can tell lies by saying nothing but the truth :) One example that comes to mind is the time of Solidarity revolution in Poland.

It was a time where most Poles only had two TV channels (own by communists) and handful of radio stations (also controlled by communists) to choose from. Now, before the strike in Gdansk docks happened TV or radio did not cover crime rates at all. After the strike started, media started filling the news with reports of every murder, rape, burglary they could find. This created the impression that Solidarity pushed the country into total chaos, paving the way to introducing martial law, while the truth is (you can check that in police statistics from that time) the crime rates actually went DOWN significantly during that period.

Now, did those TV channels lie or not? Every single crime they reported in the news was 100% truth, but the aggregate impression they created was 100% false.
Here's official info from the National Bank of Ukraine with more options:

https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-sp...
Could you use Grammarly keylogs to train AIs? It could have infinitely more content than the web has.
what's wrong with the grammar check in google docs?
> I think of Windows Mixed Reality, for instance, which never got AR headsets

What about Hololens? Hololens 2 is currently the industry leader for enterprise AR and is used for use cases like high-end manufacturing. They're reportedly shipping 70k - 100k units per year.

> There's a perception that AR has failed, that VR has failed

I don't think that this is a widespread perception. Many people, including analysts like Ben Thompson at Stratechery, just see that it's early days for both technologies, especially AR. I also think that the popularity of the Oculus Quest could be seen as a sign of success for VR. For example, it appears that Oculus sold more headsets in 2021 than Microsoft did Xboxs.
Where did shooting down passenger aircraft come into your lie about an invasion? Unfortunately you are clearly another product of the US education system and the extremely effective US propaganda machine.

So you can feel to fuck off and learn some history and vocabulary.
because a totalitarian state without the freedom of speech is unlikely to spread truth.

and I say this as someone who also grew up in a totalitarian country, based on my first hand experience.
Huh, that is a bit suspect. https://redcrossredcrescent.org/ refuses connection, the HTTP version just redirects to the IFRC homepage. The only backlink to that domain I can find is this tweet, and I have no idea if the twitter account is legt: https://twitter.com/RedCrossUkraine/status/14969278216163205...
He was just a century too early.

Most of our modern agricultural processes are about as sustainable as strip mining. They erode the top soil at a staggering rate, and that takes a very long time to regenerate, and that's not even considering the impact of climate change on the amount of arable land.

There is no process for turning energy and water into nutrient rich food. You can make macronutrients (especially carbohydrates) easily enough, but that alone just makes us sick.
This article is very misleading, which is typical of QM material of this era (early 90s).

> Strange as it may sound, interference can only occur when no one is watching.

This is not true. The correct statement is that interference only manifest itself in isolated systems, i.e. systems that are not entangled with anything outside of themselves. Systems that are being "measured" or "watched" are entangled, but they are not the only such systems. Any entanglement outside of the system under consideration is enough to stop interference effects from manifesting themselves.

The reason I say "outside of the system under consideration" is because the ability to observe interference depends on where you draw the line between the system you are measuring and everything else. For example, in an EPR pair you can choose to either consider a single member of the pair, in which case you cannot observe any interference, or you can consider the pair as a whole, in which case you can.
Russia anticipating a major medical event in which doctors have to be drafted
Voters aren’t responsible for war crimes unless war crimes were part of the election program. But blame yourself all you want. Your impotent guilt is not my problem.
>aren't they at severe risk of radiation poisoning

No. Radiation effects are based on time and exposure level, and even with dust kicked up they're not likely to spend enough time there that it makes them sick at all.

Breathing in radioactive material from the dust is a bit more of a problem, but I'd expect they're wearing at least basic masks outdoors.

No radiation suits, though.

They'll carry some dust with them wherever they go, but like dust from anywhere else, it will slowly be dispersed on roads and in rain gutters. It's not "instant death dust" so while it will increase background radiation somewhat where it lands, unless someone eats or breathes a lot of it, they won't be affected.

So, still not a good thing, but not something that's a huge problem compared to flying bullets.

Now, if they punch a hole in the new safe confinement and a lot of water gets in, that will be much more of a problem.
Yes... US "only" financed, coordinated, and offered active military support for the invasion. Then imposed a blockade on Cuba for asking for nuclear help from the USSR.

And in 2014 forces which were definitely just pro-Russian militias as they clearly had no Russian insignia invaded Crimea the moment Ukraine started contemplating a relationship with the West/EU.

This kind of rationalization or nit-picking in order to reach the conclusion you had already settled on has no value, just because there are sides doesn't mean you have to blindly take one. Education and critical thinking help.
Okay but we allow our state sponsored war propaganda on it.

At some point, many free speech maximalists get driven into an ethical corner. This is one of them, and we discover that all of a sudden, many of them only support propaganda that they like. (But they will bend over backwards trying to come up with weak reasons for why bullshit from RT is totally different from bullshit from Qanon.)
> ...theyre effectively meaningless as most capable, observant countries have managed to sidestep...

In this case, though, one wants to apply pressure not on the country, but on the surrounding oligarchs. When a nation is, essentially, a syndicate of organized criminal oligarchs around a strongman, financial pressure on those people is exactly what you need.
If you're using Duolingo, make sure to do all the stories! They are much more conversational than the lessons.
Facebook says it was penalized by Russia after refusing to halt fact-checkers
Nothing about Addons/MarketApps ? should one disable all? can we manage the access they have to the domain/user data?
Are you fucking kidding us? What does totalitarian country (russia) know about liberty? You must be playing an idiot if you believe that military invasion can be called "liberation".
Unfortunately, it just doesn't seem to be the kind of problem that capitalism is able to solve.
Nvidia reportedly being hit by cyberattacks
KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)
Well my point is that if you shut down Russian access to western services, the Russians go to Russian services and only see what the Kremlin wants them to see. This doesn't harm Putin, it effectively helps him undo Glasnost.

If the Russian people can't read CNN, they read Pravda.
European countries could barely sustain bombing runs during the Libya intervention. They struggled to consistently field single digit number of planes at the same time.
Not just a war, also a genocide perpetrated by Pakistan against Bangladesh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide

> General Yahya Khan is reported to have said "Kill three million of them, and the rest will eat out of our hands."
> For instance their map of Ukraine now has the whole of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions excluded (along with Crimea, of course) although the current rebel-held areas that they have recognised are less than half of that.

Russia has recognized the full regions claimed by the breakaway “republics”, not the areas current held by the rebels, and (before announcing the general invasion) announced they were sending military forces to help “defend” that territory.

So, that map doesn't provide any clue to their goals not already in the explicit statements of the Russian government.
Being a hero doesn't obligate you to react to every situation.
I went through a very similar process earlier this month. This is a solid guide.
Does it send the data anywhere?
Well put.

Also, take the following with more than a grain of salt as I'm in no way really knowledgeable about such systems, but I would imagine both the area itself and temporarily disturbing it could be valuable as cover for nuclear weapons. One valuable tool for keeping track of them involves detecting and analyzing escaped isotope traces, and that's going to be harder to pick out and make sense of against that noisy background.

As I understand it, nuclear weaponry still features prominently in Russia's military doctrine and it's worth noting that not only the military but Russia's whole citizenry have been trained and prepared for nuclear fallout, to a much greater extent than most nations seem to prioritize today.

In addition to artillery I imagine for instance certain kinds of anti-air systems might be attractive to put on a site like that.
Any further suggestions?
They could have taken weeks to bring equipment in during the "military exercise" with Lukashenko's troops, so I guess few things are truly off the table.
The nuclear arsenals of France and the UK are a bit meager relative to Russia and the US. That doesn't mean that they can't inflict a good bit of damage but MAD isn't in play with them unless the US is backing them up with its own nuclear arsenal.
If everyone used this extension, the call would never begin as everyone is waiting for everyone else to join before them.

AKA the "Dining philosophers problem" (or "the dwarven berserker problem"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem
I'm getting a bunch of broken image errors behind each div box.
Console: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 () overlay__reflection--center.png
Looks like your dropbox image hosting is throwing a 404 (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45580175/overlay__reflec...)
I am now sitting in my car at the border at Medyka. I have been here all day. I am helping two Ukrainian women evacuate, and I will bring them to safety deeper into Poland. Traffic is at a standstill on the Ukrainian side, so these two women have had to continue on foot for the last 26km over the border. It is cold, and they are hungry, and they are carrying luggage. I have seen small children walking and dragging suitcases behind them.

It’s a real crisis.

There are humanitarian aid workers here, and mainstream media from around the world. You might see me standing in the background on NBC today; not sure. I don’t see much in the way of housing facilities here at the border, but there are buses constantly shuttling people from the border over to the nearest larger town.
People shouldn't use Google Workspace after Google decided to make exisiting legacy users hostage for money. [1] Everyone should use Office 365 or other alternatives.

[1] https://thenextweb.com/news/google-gsuite-free-alternatives-...
I’ve that in use on my personal pc (Ubuntu) for my personal files. Bringing in the pictures via Dropbox. It works flawlessly for about 1.5 yr and 150GB to Backblaze. What put me off initially is that the most important part of backups: testing the restore process was / is less documented. Got it tested by just using common sense and a fresh temporary install. (Any pointers to how to do automatic integrity tests greatly appreciated.)
Google’s G Suite is no longer free – here are the best alternatives
Nobody else is reporting this yet, so the veracity of this information is unclear.
It might look nice to adults, but kids really don’t need to see a machine outdo them. It might frustrate them, and give up.
I understand lies by omission.

But in this case we are being suspicious of alleged Russian teenagers saying they don't hate Ukraine but feel powerless to condition their own government in Russia. I mean, that's almost an anti-Putin statement, how can it be misconstrued as pro-Putin psyops?
That's why I asked who this is for. If you really want to have a good understanding then you need to calculate, a lot. If you just care about concepts then I'm sure this is sufficient.
This is exactly the reason I am migrating away from a Gmail address to my personal domain. I don't think most people realise just how in trouble they are if they lose access to their primary email address.
I like to think learning it is "easy", not getting rusty is the hard part :)

Since I left France the only way to maintain motivation is continue reading French books (OMG there is so much to chose from). But bittersweet having to make a choice as I now want to dive into Italian. And so with every hour I spend on Italian I see my previous skill and speed with which I could form a French sentence wane ...

The best thing about language is the vast ocean of superb material to chose from as you dive in. It's like a honeymoon phase with the country and its people.

Spending a whole year learning and then let yourself get rusty is almost like spending 12 months on crafting a magic key then throwing it away before entering the castle. Not that there is anything wrong with "learning for learning sake" but I know the feeling when you can literally see it slipping from your grasp and still can't stop it.

French Spanish English maybe not so much because it's everywhere so practicing it is easy. But many languages you have to actually be there if you want any chance at all of being good at it. I liked being able to brag about what rare, exotic languages (for a European) I was able to converse fluently in. After leaving these countries, breaking up with girlfriends, change of social circles, etc I felt like a fraud every time somebody introduced me with "and he is fluent in <xyz> can you believe it" ... the conversation had to quickly be corrected by "oh I'm totally rusty" which got the response of "oh don't be modest I am sure bla bla" which made me regret that the whole thing ever came up. Putting much effort into languages is quite a humbling experience.
Finding Missed Optimizations Through the Lens of Dead Code Elimination
Some users reported that their accounts were restored. So it appears that Google is actually capable of reading complaints and checking for wrong removals, when they want to.
What if they add a service charge ;)
>the US sent a carrier group from the Seventh fleet into the Bay of Bengal as a means to deter Indian invasion of what was then East Pakistan The Soviet Union countered this move by sending a nuclear attack submarine into the Bay of Bengal to prevent freedom operation for the carrier group.

This isn't accurate. The carrier group was to deter any invasion of West Pakistan. India had already invaded East Pakistan and that war was already effectively over when the US decided to send the fleet. It's true that the US tried to dissuade India's intervention and armed Pakistan, but they weren't about to bomb India over East Pakistan.

The Soviet ships also did not chase away the carrier group. They stayed a few weeks after the war ended with Pakistan's surrender and India's decision not to invade West Pakistan.
It is way worse than that makes it out. Transfer times are designed to maximize prevention of sleep. You will be placed in very unsafe situations. You will go from small town jail to transfer station to detention center to small town jail via the longest route possible. You will be strip searched, a very invasive event, every time any movement is made. Your movement will happen to be right before/after meals are served, so you will "accidentally" be denied food. You will "accidentally" be placed with the opposite gang, the wrong custody classification, etc. so you will be in constant fear of your safety. You will be put in a single man cell with a big threaning guy, and they will kick him out of his bed and give in to you, and put him in a boat. Good luck not getting your getting you ass beat. You will be given no opportunity to use restrooms during movement. On conair you are shackled, hands in front, even when you use the bathroom. So no hygiene to clean up around back after going. Just a bit of the process.
You're assuming the accounting in the article is correct. Maybe it isn't:

> “Nobody can condone someone being thrown into a hot shower and killed,” Rundle said. “We read the same thing everyone else did, but it wasn't until we really investigated that we learned that is not what happened.”

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/katherine-fernandez-rundl...
Ok I read the book "How to ride a bike" and used it's flashcard. I should be able to ride one on the street now right?
If people are willing to buy shares only at $1/share and there are 100 shares, then the company is valued at $100. It may previously have been valued at $2M!

In the case of pre-public companies, where there is not a robust, liquid market in shares of the company, it can be difficult to figure out what the valuation of the company is. In that case, we often revert to the most recent time when lots of shares were sold, and what they were sold for. In the hypothetical scenario you refer to, this is a bad approximation.

If a company has, for example, liquid assets worth several million dollars, no liabilities that need to be paid off, but someone is willing to sell the company for $100, then that's a dumb valuation, but it's still the valuation.
Informative, but these seem hazy.
What is soil in the cyber world?
Or is it the passport "A" is carrying?
As many have indicated, unlikely anyone in the west will prosecute?
That's the propaganda used to justify sanctions, but historically, no government has been overthrown due to sanctions. The sanctioned country can just use the sanction as an example of hegemony, which isn't exactly inaccurate. What sanctions do accomplish is that they give you an avenue for more aggressive intervention. An example of this is America's sanctions against Imperial Japan before WWII.
> The article suggests that quantum key distribution (QKD) is a replacement for a courier, but that is not true. Distributing an initial small secret key (which allows authenticity of the post-processing of the quantum measurements) is still required.

Is checking authenticity needed if you’re communicating with just one party?

From what I understood from the article the data received can be assumed to be random and private between two parties if a high enough win rate is achieved.

Or is checking authenticity to guard against another party taking the entangled particles but not the key used for authenticating?

FYI I don’t have very strong knowledge in this area.
Direct link to paper: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/ast-d...

The tweet itself is a good lead text with some illustrations from the paper.
Ah yes. "Debunked". There's literally no serious doubts about whether Russia interfered to assist the Trump campaign. The only real question was whether any of it was coordinated.

Who spear-fished Podesta again? As well as the DNC? And 4,000 other Clinton-related email addresses? And why did that same group also attack the World Anti-Doping Agency, MH17 researchers, senior NATO members and Russian political opposition and journalists?[1]

Who was Manafort providing internal polling data to, and why was that worth forgiving $20 million worth of loans? [2]

When even the Republican Senate Intelligence committee has this to say, it's clearly "debunked"[3];

> The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Parts of this effort are outlined in the Committee's earlier volumes on election security, social media, the Obama Administration's response to the threat, and the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.

Here's what Mueller had to say, sure, "debunked"[4]:

> The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016. In June, the Democratic National Committee and its cyber response team publicly announced that Russian hackers had compromised its computer network. Releases of hacked materials—hacks that public reporting soon attributed to the Russian government—began that same month.

[1] - https://www.secureworks.com/research/iron-twilight-supports-...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/08/manafort-rus...

[3] -https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

[4] - https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download
Seems like a sensible project for them since shaving 4% of YouTube's traffic translates to millions of dollars in savings. But I'm more excited about the possibility of using deep learning image models to get incredibly higher compression rates. Some of the work I've seen on de-noising and super-resolution suggests that we are barely scratching the surface on what might be possible in terms of high-def video compression. Of course there is something of a time vs. space tradeoff, since these techniques would require way more compute for both encoding and decoding. But compute is pretty cheap and underutilized on the client side now, and Google probably has a huge amount of excess compute power to handle usage spikes that could be used for background processing.