skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good tactic would be to point out to Russians that their government is censoring political things for them. They like to think they are free and above the hypocrisy of the west. But the key thing is the West allows it's citizens to criticise itself. The Russians do not have that freedom. It's basically becoming like China in the way of censorship and lack of freedom, to protect it's citizens and the fatherland. To sacrifice for the country.

In the west we can say "my government is bad" and give examples of a number of terrible and true and shameful things. In Russia or China they cannot even admit truth.

One tactic that we see from China and Russia is to criticise the chaotic nature of protests in the West and (again) to emphasise the hypocrisy on how the West deals with protests of the Left vs Right. The thing is that there IS a lot of truth here. But the key thing is that these protests occur nonetheless. In repressive regimes there is no freedom to protest. You cannot have hypocrisy in how you deal with political protests if you do not have political protests!
> real identity verification could be a very good thing for the internet if implemented correctly.

Considering all the edge cases and ill-informed/malicious second-order effects, I don't think it can be implemented correctly. You can never know when a particular group becomes an ostracised target of hate, with every public posting in their history used to smear and attack them, or used as justification to doxx them and have their entire families subjected to a torrent of torment.

> I'd actually prefer some government service that could do that verification on my behalf so I don't have to give my PII to every store I want to make a purchase from.

So something like BankID? Swedes and Danes on HN can probably air their gripes about that system.
>Of course, they probably wouldn't be in this position if they hadn't taken energy strategy advice from Greta Thunberg, but that's neither here nor there.

How does this make sense? If anything getting rid of the dependence on fossil fuels would have helped immensely now.
> In my view, there is no 'going back' with time travel.

There are many distinct models of time travel, some self-consistent and some not. You are describing one you like, but this does not tell us much about how time travel works in the actual universe, if it occurs at all.
Isn't the point of Bitcoin precisely that it naturally becomes more and more valuable? If people want money that doesn't make money they can use stablecoins.
Isn’t it still generating electricity (with the reactors that didn’t melt down) for the region despite everything? I guess as an invader, you’d want to control the power plant.
You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less

by Mark Kistler

This was great.
First author of one of the preprints mentioned in the article here (theory in Paris/Geneva/Zürich/Lausanne, experiment in Oxford) – happy to answer any questions! I obviously speak only for myself, not for any of my colleagues, and as a matter of course, I should also mention that publication in a peer-reviewed journal is still pending for these results.

One point to mention — which I feel quite strongly about, and I think my collaborators do as well – is that sweeping generalisations like "perfect security" are really not the point, and, if anything, have mostly done the field a disservice. Such statements do make for catchy headlines, and while there is a solid technical meaning attached to them (information-theoretic security), to a wider audience they might suggest that QKD replaces the need for careful security engineering, which is definitely not the case: if your processing nodes, say, leak out the generated key material via a classical side channel, no amount of theoretical security guarantees will save you!

Rather, device-independent quantum key distribution allows you to scale back the assumptions on your implementation to a well-motivated, minimal set. To me, this is already intriguing enough without the need for hyperbole!
Thx for sharing the ideas. I'm new to blogging, I don't think the premium subscription will work in my case. Maybe turning the articles to YouTube videos would be good in my case.
They are absolutely not going to have issues selling oil . Note that the US didn't even sanction their oil because a) they need it on the market b) they know they are going to sell it anyway
It's not your fault. They've been peddling this, as well as conquering Constantinople for the same reason, since the time of Peter the Great.

Its straight out of Imperial Russia's propaganda book. Kind of proof that Russia since ~1600 has always been the same country, just with a different coat of paint (the one between 1917 and 1991 happening to be red paint).
Isolated pipes, preferably in door, and your good to go. Isolations also helps to limit heat loss, so generaly a good idea.
seconding this; a few years ago, I took a week-long course based on it, which worked way better than I expected. Before, I was at level of 5-yr old drawing stick figures; on the final day, I drew a portrait which looked like something you can get from a street artist.
There is a cloud component, but in this case it’s syncing text expansions you saved to it making it more like 1Password than Grammarly.
Europe has lost the hands and the knowledge to do that due to neglect over 30+ years. In order to be able to do such a thing, you need to educate a steady pipeline of people to become professionals that can handle the job. As for contractors who could actually be available for hire to handle this, Korea and Japan come to mind, but both are probably booked out well into the foreseeable future.

When you build a reactor, you probably don't want "first-timers" working on the project for you.
The question shouldn't be "will NATO risk war over Latvia," but rather "will NATO risk war over NATO." Because if the mutual defense pact is not upheld, NATO is shown to be utterly worthless.
Thanks for this well detailed feedback.

1) Yes, it's on our roadmap.

2) It was/is a design choice, we aren't so familiar with using redis as a persistence store. The goal was to enabled people switch backends depending on what they're comfortable with.

3) Thanks for bringing this up, there are a ton of things we should document.

4) We're working on improving things from a security perspective.

On application-wide keys, we're considering making this configurable, so you can choose what works best for you, we only started with app-wide keys, next is endpoint-keys. :)

On public/private keypair, this is new to me as well! we haven't found anyone doing this in prod. But yes, I can see how this can be useful in specific environments, definitely something we'd like to support.
A combined amount of about 500 nuclear warheads sounds like enough for mutual assured destruction or even nuclear winter, no?

That's enough to send two warheads to every single city with over 100k population in Russia and then there would be the Russian retaliation...
Slavery is allowed in prison as an exception in the US Constitution. https://www.history.com/news/13th-amendment-slavery-loophole...
Do not support UNICOR or UNICOR products if you are not into slave labor. You can not have a fair working environment when your prison guard is your boss. https://www.unicor.gov/
"We'll invade you if you join NATO" loses its power a bit when you invade people who haven't joined NATO.
As it turns out, moving money from one group to another† is pretty useful in modern society. It's really all that money is good for, after all.

Some of my comments from the last week and a half about what Bitcoin is good for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30469595 when your country's central bank suspends electronic cash transfers, suspends the foreign exchange market, limits cash withdrawals, and prohibits the issuance of foreign currency from retail bank accounts; or when you want to fund a militia in a war zone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30435990 when your bank account gets frozen because your family member supported a political protest in Canada

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30446703 in case the government of the current global hegemon imposes economic sanctions against your company or your country; right now that's the US, but probably ten years from now it will be the People's Republic of China

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408611 as an alternative to a bank when "whistleblowers" send the bank history of 30,000 "legitimate clients who had done nothing wrong" to journalists so they can comb through them looking for something to pin on the accountholders

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375671 when five Canadian banks mysteriously have an hours-long outage at the same time

I also wrote a bit last year about my observations of how Bitcoin gets used in practice today, outside the world of hoity-toity speculative finance the Harpers article is about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448744

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† Or preventing it from being moved without its owner's consent, which is the value proposition both of safe deposit boxes and the Bitcoin guarantee of a limited money supply.
If you live in a city, take an in-person class. Several studios near me offer 3-4 hour introduction to pencil drawing classes. It'll save you a couple months of struggling to have an actual artist there telling you the trick to doing it right.
If there are still more than 300bn in Russia: maybe time to deinvest?

Do it. Let them feel the pain. Either the Russian people start to realise what they support with Putin or they don't deserve any more mercy than Nazi-Germany.
I really liked Drawing By Seeing by John Torreano when I picked it up in college: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Seeing-Abrams-Studio-Torreano...

Thanks for this thread! I’ve been meaning to ask around for recommendations like this for a while now.
I will try to learn about this topic
It's like Russia was expecting to be able to conduct the largest aggressive conventional military operation in Europe since WW2 and not completely flip the apple cart of the global order.
I see where you come from, and in principle agree with you, but it is not how the real world works.

For an extreme example, see South Korea and their ActiveX problem.
Is there a list of Grammarly servers, so it can be blocked, for example, at a corporate firewall?
for who? Is this some kind of environmental argument. If so I think that is very short sighted. Renewables aren't going to magically overcome all of their headwinds because oil get's more expesnive.

All we are going to get is huge inflation and maybe a very marginal increase to the renewables time frame while we get a huge and costly headache in the short term.
I haven’t used it, but the comments on Reddit indicate there are issues. You may easily find them.
> I often wonder how money is stored.

In a computer account. Here's a 22-second clip[0] from a 60-Minutes interview with a former chair of the Federal Reserve talking about how money is lent to banks. Literally just numbers on a computer.

"...We simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have..."

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiCs_YHlKSI
You mean they decided to use advanced spam filters that were already used by small sites before other large sites decided to care about the problem? On some cases, a couple of weeks before.

Gmail has the worst spam filter of any email provider I use today, excluding the one email server I have running on my domain that gets almost no email and has no filter. Or, well, spam filtering is a lesser problem on my server too because it doesn't block nearly all the email that I care about.
Without authentication, any form of communication is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack. You simply don't know who you are communicating with.

This makes using QKD very hard to justify in practice. If you have exchanged a pre-shared key (which is required for authentication anyway), you can just use a symmetric stream cipher like AES for encrypting the communication. This is many orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than QKD and works independently of the communication medium. Also it doesn't look like AES is going to be broken anytime soon.
$1M Grant for Let's Encrypt and ISRG from Ford Foundation
Bitcoin can't function well as money as it's too clogged up. That's why the narrative switched from money + adoption to digital gold + number goes up.
How about non-native English speakers that are using it as an way to take tips and improve their English writing?
> Using pipefail makes it more likely your script will fail unexpectedly and without a known cause. You have to check PIPELINE to see which command in a string of pipes failed and then report on it. This is often pointless, because usually just checking the output of the last pipe will tell you whether you got what you wanted.

Really? In this script's "ps aux | grep -c rsync" for example, if "ps" fails, you'll just get 0 without the grep failing.

(Speaking of that line: chasil's completely right that it's much better to use "flock" than "ps" for locking...)
I haven't seen any profitable cryptocurrency companies which do anything genuinely useful for non-crypto people in the real world - all the profitable ones are inward-looking, i.e. engaged in "building out the ecosystem" (or "extending the pyramid scheme" depending on your perspective), e.g. the cryptocurrency exchanges. That's a big difference between the internet and cryptocurrency - the internet can be said to have started benefitting ordinary people within a few years, but there's no sign of cryptocurrency ever doing anything useful for the proverbial "man on the Clapham omnibus" after 13 years. In that sense cryptocurrency is more like the gold rush - some people find gold, most people make money selling the shovels, but the vast majority of the world are so far removed from it all that it doesn't impact them in any way whatsoever (except perhaps for the negative effect it has on their environment).
Golang: Manual Memory Management Proposal Using Arenas
Hackers in Nvidia’s network, fix all Linux drivers
As I wrote in another thread today, current EU and US leaders are asleep at the wheel. We have a different dynamic. Talking about sanctions looks almost pathetic.

The analogy here is, you live in a community and one of your neighbors just lost it completely and is shooting and shelling another neighbor. Not to raise the hostilities...you scream at him he wont be invited anymore for the Christmas party and you will complain about the noise to the gated community administration /s
How much actual gold has to be in your gold coin before it crosses from "gold" to "fiat"? You had "debased" coinage in Roman times, if not earlier.
I'm sure you're right in principle but have to point out that ten million dollars is peanuts, people have loaned more than that and not given back.
It's starting to look like Putin may have miscalculated here.
While I don’t use it for the sake of privacy, folks saying “learn to write” are missing the point of grammarly. It’s an editing tool. Editing is remarkably difficult to do on your own writing. Ask any published author.
>coming up with a list of addresses to freeze/sanction would be the easy part.

Coming up with a list of suspects is easy, convincing others that they're totally guilty is the hard part. I doubt miners would want a company like Chainalysis to be judge, jury and executioner of the bitcoin network.
Shouldn't fact-checking be decentralized, in a way that we could choose our own fact-checkers and evaluate their long-term reliability on the topics that interest us? I feel like most of the problems of information today is that nobody seems to be able to remember or be responsible for anything that happened 3 days ago, everything just moves too fast and we already onto the next big thing, "the science has changed" stage by that time, with no time to check previous performance.
There was an FT long read recently that covered similar ground that I thought was a bit better. HN thread and archive link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30213690
I'm a Python3 noob so I am not sure what I might be doing wrong, but after following the install instructions and trying to run it, I am getting this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/fetch", line 33, in <module>
sys.exit(load_entry_point('yashsinghcodes==1', 'console_scripts', 'fetch')())
File "/usr/bin/fetch", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 947, in distribution
return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 538, in from_name
raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib_metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for yashsinghcodes
R to repeat would be an amazing vlc plugin. If an audio file was annotated, having a repeat button that jumps back to the last tag, and double tapping goes back to the previous previous tag.
Now is probably the only opportunity they will get. With much of Russia's army tied up in Ukraine they could join in secret overnight and in the morning the rest of NATO could land huge numbers of airborne reinforcements and the whole thing would be a fait accompli. The only response Putin could make would be to trigger WW3.
The Corporatization of Food [video]
> You wouldn't accept SSH access from a key located on a plain VPS, right?

With Borg, I use ssh -A from my laptop to start backups going. I can think of some other schemes like using multiple user accounts on a single Storage Box (Hetzner supports that and I believe offers an API) so that different VPS can't clobber each other's backups, that old backups become read-only, etc. It might be interesting to add some finer access controls on the server side. Borg supports an append-only mode but right now, that's only a config option rather than a security setting, I believe.

I've only recently started using Borg so I'm not really familiar with its intricacies yet. There are some things I would change but it is mostly well thought out, imho.
I don't really care :-)
Perhaps it would be more effective if you wrote it in Russian? ("нет войне", according to Google Translate.)

Writing it in English appears to be addressing it to the US, who are reluctant to escalate to force but are certainly weighing it. Is it your intention that "No to War" means permitting Russia to engage in war while the Americans limit themselves to economic means?
Isn't it plainly obvious that they take all your inputs and feed it to their models?

Isn't that literally the point of Grammarly?
I believe they're referring to the part where they send all your writing to a HugeCo with a voracious appetite for information about its users and a weaselly, mutable privacy policy.

(Anyone remember when FB was caught sending itself unsubmitted data from web forms? Seems almost quaint now.)
It is western in the sense that it is marketed to the west. Chinese people use Douyin instead.
I use a thin high contrast border on my focused window.
Hitler didn't have nukes and super-sonic missiles -- you cant do to Russia what you would want to do to Hitler.. at least not without a very heavy price..
Homosexuality is legal in Hungary and is a sin in Islam.
As a German citizen, you should be aware that your country just veto’s sanctions on Russia so that they could keep the flow of natural gas coming. Your ex-Chancellor decommissioned your nuclear power plants so that you would buy more Russian gas, and he now is on the board of Gazprom and heads the company behind Nordstream 2. Also, petroleum cars are one of your biggest industries. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
>It argues (correctly) that sanctions will hurt Russia's people but are extremely unlikely to change Putin's policies

If I'd linked you an article that said the Russian people wouldn't be hurt but that the sanctions were likely to change Putin's policies, then would you feel the opposite? It seems like you're trying to play both sides of the coin here.

We can only control the financial damage of the Russian people with our sanctions in the hopes that their public opinion will sway the opinion of Putin's cabinet and we've accomplished that here. There is no intervention on Earth that would guarantee the changing of Putin's mind short of a gun to his head. I'd go so far as to say you've erected a straw man.
At this point is there anything substantive any country could do at all that wouldn't irritate Russia? It seems as if the powers that be have become so utterly delicate that even something as innocuous as Sweden joining NATO is deemed to be advancing far beyond the "proper" limits.
The fixed number of bitcoins doesn't help you if people decide they want ether instead. Or if either are fine. Or something else in the future. That risk is very alive and well.

(I'd argue that the spread of multiple cryptocurrencies has had a major inflationary effect overall in the world economy in the last five years. Lot of people with suddenly fat bank accounts out of nothing.)
I particularly like Sinix (https://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign). Although he primarily does digital painting, there's always a drawing which forms the foundation of any painting.

He also has all kinds of recommended other artist channels at the bottom of his Youtube page, and they're all fantastic. Some use traditional media vs digital, some paint vs focus on drawing.
Deep-learning-based image compression is particularly interesting because it turns the problem into a massively parallel one. As GPUs and TPUs become more powerful and more common in commodity hardware, there will be a drive to move many existing algorithms/applications to that hardware.
I think the reality, even despite being fairly openly announced, is so far out of many people’s mental model of the relevant conflicts in the modern world that it gets instinctively rationalized into something that seems more reasonable.
Well then, Congratulations Russia! You have just given the Swedish NATO-movement more support than they could have ever mustered themselves!

I have always been very sceptical of NATO membership, but the last month I changed opinion.
That's not right. You need much more than calories from food. You can take all the calories you need by eating sugar for example, or dietary fat. If you don't eat meat, or cut out any major food groups, you need to be vary careful to supplement your diet with the nutrients that are now missing from it and since we don't really understand nutrition and our needs for nutrients very well, there is a risk of messing up and making yourself unhealthy in the process.
Making triggering WW3 his only remaining choice does not sound like a good idea
In terms of troops and materiel deployed in the first few days, how does this compare to (either) Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam or Korea?