skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems they mis-copy-pasted from a page on pandemics:

> For those who can afford it, making essential purchases and slowly building up supplies in advance will allow for longer time periods between shopping trips. This helps to protect those who are unable to procure essentials in advance of the pandemic and must shop more frequently
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There are quite literally people at war here, not elites, hundreds of thousands of them from Russia rolling into another country with tanks, artillery, guns, mines, missiles, bombs, and so on. In that other country there are hundreds of thousands of people fighting back with their own set of the above weapons, and improvised ones like Molotov cocktails. There are hundreds of thousands or millions displaced from their homes. There are millions sleeping in bomb shelters (if they have access), or the next best thing (basements, hallways away from windows, etc) hoping that they won't be killed in the night.

This war was started at the behest of an elite, Putin, but it is carried about by ordinary people, it is resisted by ordinary people, it's impacts are felt by ordinary people, it can be stopped by ordinary people.
I’m glad I can expect Zoom calls to remain a feature of the post-apocalypse landscape.
I see. Well, it looks like I would probably just end up dead then :)
It's becoming increasingly apparent that the only thing that matters at all is power. Sadly, the USA is responsible for establishing this paradigm, although pointing this out is taboo whataboutism. Now, we're returning to a world as it's always been: apes compelling other apes with their sticks.
I think from the western perspective we have this all wrong.

Russia only wants to annex the eastern parts of the country, and do to rest of Ukraine what the US and NATO did to Afghanistan and Iraq. With this perspective they're very much on track with what they want to accomplish.

Russia is going to leave most of western Ukraine in a power vacuum and instability and let the world deal with it.
I expect you're right. I think a number of these sections were copied from a similar page on COVID-19, e.g. in the section about preparing early, it refers to the emergency as a pandemic:

> Remember that not everyone can afford to respond by stocking up on necessities. For those who can afford it, making essential purchases and slowly building up supplies in advance will allow for longer time periods between shopping trips. This helps to protect those who are unable to procure essentials in advance of the pandemic and must shop more frequently.
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/IND/Yea...
Last Updated: 02/25/2022

Absolutely insane. And at the same time:

President Biden on Monday rejected concerns about the potential for nuclear war amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Asked if Americans should be worried about a nuclear war, Mr. Biden said: "No."

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-...
I think they just mixed up a page on pandemics in general:

> This helps to protect those who are unable to procure essentials in advance of the pandemic and must shop more frequently. In addition, consider avoiding WIC-labeled products so that those who rely on these products can access them.
Sri Lanka has had terrorist attacks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings but since it was conducted by ISIS inspired/supported terrorists. It was a one off event though.

US travel advisory lists terrorism as one of the risk factors for Sri Lanka https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/... but it does the same for Germany https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/... In fact Sri Lanka is at Level 3 (Reconsider Travel) and Germany is at Level 4 - Do not travel! The level difference is due to Covid though
We tested a bunch of different platform, discord just seemed easiest.

We will be setting up our GitHub account to allow contributions if thats better.
It's more nuanced than that. One should do business with people who are against the regime. If you stop doing business with them - those people will have to do anything to survive including being more dependent on regime's assistance, developing dependency and loosing even more of their free agency.

This is also why sanctions are targeted - you need a carrot and a stick.
I just checked again and it looks like they have added granular seek buttons for audio-only so it's serviceable now.
Depends who you ask. I'm not worried at all as it doesn't benefit either side.

We were much closer in the 80's, nuclear warfare won't break out over this.

MAD should actually help you sleep at night.
Distillation.

- Salt water is poured into a reservoir that is exposed to the sun.

- The salt water evaporates due to the heat from the sun.

- Leaving the salt behind (and most other impurities), the water vapor rises until it lands on the glass and condenses into water droplets.

- After enough builds up on the glass, gravity pulls the water droplets down the glass until they drop into a separate reservoir - not exposed to the sun. This water is desalinated and drinkable

It's efficient, cheap, slow, space consuming, simple and works well.
It's not nonsense if they get it done. 2035 is only 13 years away. That might be within the governing period of the current chancellor.

Importing gas even with the pollution associated with shipping it in is still better than burning lignite; which actually affects the health of lots of people in Germany and France (depending on winds). That's what they are trying to get rid off in the next eight years or so. Shutting down coal is the number 1 priority as it is by far the most polluting. If they could have done that with Russian gas that would have been better indeed. But that ship has sailed. Shutting down gas becomes the next priority after coal has been removed as a source of energy.

You keep on dragging in Trump. I'm not sure what your argument is other than that he did not do anything productive here other than promoting coal; which I would argue is indeed pure lunacy. Capacities can be scaled up if the price is right.
My dad spent his career processing nuclear waste as chemical engineer. I called him over the weekend to ask about the prospects of surviving a nuclear strike. We had a good long chat about it, but the summary is that if you can avoid direct exposure to the initial gamma ray burst, and then avoid the fallout for at least a few hours (ideally longer if you can), you actually have a sizable chance of survival.

After that it's a matter of cooperating with the people around you for the basic needs. It would be pretty grim, but people could still rebuild civilization.
I wouldn’t be too worried. The best things you can do to prepare are often the same kinds of other disaster prep you should do. Have a couple of weeks of water stored safely in your house. Have a small emergency supply of food. Have a well stocked first aid kit (watch for expirations). Have a battery powered portable radio.

Look at ready.gov for a checklist: https://www.ready.gov/kit

Such a kit will have the high value things you’ll need for a wide array of emergencies (hurricane, extended power outages, other natural disasters, etc).
I understood your reference to the rainbow lights. I just thought it was odd/hostile to describe them in the manner which you did. Perhaps you were attempting humor and it missed.

I suspect the ubiquitous rainbow LEDs are just there to be pretty and are unrelated to LBGTQ+ . I suspect the human eye naturally likes rainbows. I know I find them visually appealing.

But I agree, RAM chips don't need to glow.
"survived a nuclear explosion" and arent blind, deaf, or dying, use a magical telephone that also survived a massive EMP rendering most telco switching equipment useless, and inform the nonexistent person at the other end of the line you would like to experience mass-casualty triage at an already entirely overloaded US hospital, presuming you have insurance.
The RT-11 OS for the DEC PDP used the forward slash for options and didn't have the concept of directories. The filename format for RT-11 was a three character device specifier, 6 character file name and 3 character extension

CP/M borrowed most of its structure from RT-11 and also didn't have directories, just devices. The filename format was 8.3 instead of 6.3.

MS-DOS in 2.0 (which introduced directories) defaulted to using the forward slash as the command options separator, but had an option in CONFIG.SYS for SWITCHAR that if you set to something other than forward slash, allowed you to use the forward slash as a directory separator.
> Except, he already borders 4 (6 if you count Lithuania and Poland due to Kaliningrad) by land, plus Turkey by water), and if he conquered Ukraine the count would rise by 3, so let's call bullshit on that.

It's not bullshit. The entire point is to reduce the direct number on Russia's borders. Just because you have a few already on your border does not mean you allow even more directly line up on your border. What he is doing completely rational from a military/geopolitical perspective.
Tom Lehrer – We Will All Go Together When We Go
What exactly is terrible here
I genuinely think it’s going to be an important teaching tool.

Sort of: this is the computer in its most raw and pure form, not for work but for play!
"In the post-apocalyptic wasteland, breaking in to warehouses to steal and hoard COVID-19 vaccines should be your first priority. Your mind will be at ease knowing these can be stored or long periods by burying them in the glaciers that will rapidly form as the atmosphere will be black with radioactive dust for many years. Social distancing and mask wearing should be your next priority. The global failure of agriculture and radioactive contamination of surface water are the next concerns."
The problem is the "we must never break the web" attitude.

Once any feature, no matter how exotic, becomes part of "the web" it can never be removed from browsers ever, for the rest of time.

Either that policy must change, or we must be ultraconservative about accepting new "web standards". One or the other. Either choice has disadvantages, but we cannot choose neither.
Not in case of long audio files.

I have some purchased audiobooks that are as long as 21 hours mp3. VLC sucks at playing those.

Other than this need, VLC is all I need.
Has this site been hacked as a psyops attack?? Usually ready.gov has cute infographics not photos
React hooks are footguns
Don't freak out. I am not at all worried, you should not be either.

We've lived under this threat for, what, 70 years now? You just have to learn to put it out of your mind. Day to day I worry more about someone crashing into my car when I am driving (a much more likely Bad Thing).
We’re just a group of various web developers, unpaid, unfunded and not backed by any organization. The repo is on GitHub (currently private) but we will be making it public. We’re all in the discord group at the moment if your interested in helping.
But a really great source of fast neutrons
If you're warned of an imminent nuclear attack, be sure to move towards the expected epicenter of the blast. You'll want to be vaporized rather than cooked alive or suffer fatal radiation sickness (over the period of days or weeks). You'll want to be spared the horror of watching others die and society quickly unravel. You'll want to avoid being a burden on the non-existent safety net that won't survive.

Watch "The Day After". It's probably the most realistic depiction of a post-apocalyptic situation to date. (It's not dramatic and cool, or cinematic--long, boring, and flat out horrifying.)
+1 for Document Viewer. I use it to read books, it's the only FOSS reader I've found that comes close to my favorite (proprietary) app, Moon+. It checks the boxes for the features I need.
It was discovered in bacteria but the invention is about how that technique could be used to target a particular section in the genome of your choice.
Thanks to Russia what used to be told as irrational, unimaginable or paranoid thoughts are now a real possibility.

Sometimes it takes a real shock for people to learn what Andrew Grove has told us repeatedly and yet most if not all still ignores it. I guess that has something to do with his experience having escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20.

Only the Paranoid Survive
But they employ 75% of their employees in Ukraine. For all intents and purposes they are Ukrainian in this situation, and the CEO probably has a lot of empathy for what their employees and families are going through.
Geez, I shouldn't have clicked on "Threads".
Either we all die or we don't[1], either way there's nothing you can do. I'm sure there's things you can be worried about that you can actually affect.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
At the tech lab I managed IT for back in college we had our own implementation of the preboot environment hacked together from Python and shell scripts on top of a nearly bare linux initrd filesystem. It would poll the router until it got an assignment, then fetch the appropriate files and boot the proper OS. We had to roll our own stuff because it was actually rsync'ing Windows hard drive images and would refresh the drive to clean state before booting every time the power cycled each morning. But you wouldn't need any of that and could probably hack together a solution that does what you want with iPXE.
You are right, of course. I must have left my whimsy in my other pants. In my defense I imagined that you might, like, over the weekend, produce an 800 byte standard library that that includes trig and a lua interpreter. Blinkenlights looks amazing, and I will check it out.
It's great because Chinese GFW won't block.
At first I thought this was a parody, it's so ridiculous the way they added random COVID preparedness bits into it.
The "Soviet surprise attack" model was always a joke. I can't believe people don't see that. If nukes are used in this war, almost certainly the first ones dropped will be warning shots, detonated underwater or in an uninhabited desert. Just to let the world know that you're serious. There would be plenty of time to try to get away from the major cities and military bases. Of course, those of us who aren't millionaires won't be able to get a plane ticket. But hey, that's capitalism.
The "standards" Apple is currently refusing to implement are already standards in name only: They're Google written specs solely implemented on Google's browser which generally is only also adopted by rebranded clones of Google's browser. Mozilla has also refused most of them, but since Mozilla doesn't also have an operating system, Google happily sidesteps them.
Personally, a government that takes 50%+ of my income producing this kind of garbage-level content scares me more than COVID ever did.

What the fuck am I/are we paying for?
Right, it's in your pocket while you are having private conversations, it's on the bedside table while you're... well, in bed. Surely this gets the point across. You probably don't ever want to be running some malicious actor's software on it.
Do we know that to be a fact?
Lets be real - NATO is effectively the US with a few European "puppet" states. Without the leadership or the military of the US military, NATO is dramatically and significantly weaker.
The financial auditor career predates the creation of the stock exchange, predates ERISA by several decades, and predates the regulatory requirement of mandatory independent audits for public companies.

This would suggest that, if the profession existed before it became a regulatory requirement, then there was a need for the profession.

If many are willing to pay for the job, then by definition, the career cannot be bs. Money speaks louder than words.

Now if the current job has become a frankestein of its former self, that is an issue (or those unnatural parts can be said to be bs), but that does not mean that the practice itself is BS.
Have a battery powered portable radio! I’ve read that the amount of fallout that comes down (and thus the amount of time you’ll want to wait in shelter to avoid the initial fallout) can vary dramatically depending on yield, blast location, wind speed, etc.

A battery powered portable radio will let you access the information you need to know if you should be sheltering for 2 hours, 2 days, or a week.

Also, a battery powered emergency radio will be absolutely useful in a wide variety of other (probably much more likely) disaster scenarios.
No shelters within 200 miles of me. I live next to New York City. Are we screwed?
I don't see any mention of economic sanctions at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio..., care to elaborate?
Are these brittle or can you put them in a rock tumbler and turn them into spheres?
Yes. If there's a nuclear explosion close enough that you need to take shelter, 911 isn't coming whether you tell them you have COVID or not, assuming you can even reach them, which is dubious.
What an arrogant, ignorant comment. Do you seriously think that all those people living different lifestyles to you, who don't live in cities, and believe different things, do so only out of ignorance? If you're an wealthy, urbanite westerner, do you realise that in terms of your belief system, lifestyle, and values, you are such an astonishing minority? What would all those people make of your beliefs? "All he has is his Fox News/CNN propaganda, he doesn't know any better".
Privacy is worse on native, and we shouldn’t copy that.

If others read the section on Bluetooth it outlines how poor native protections are.

Full integration of web app settings into the OS is essential for users to be able to control their privacy.
John Napier seems to have been an absolute gem of a person.

> Another act which Napier is reported to have done, which may have seemed mystical to the locals, was when Napier removed the pigeons from his estate, since they were eating his grain. Napier caught the pigeons by strewing grain laced with alcohol throughout the field, and then capturing the pigeons once they were too drunk to fly away.
The very short version is that by synchronously blocking on the async method your thread may end up holding a resource (thread context info or the calling thread itself) that the async method needs in order to run its continuations. Here are a couple of more detailed explanations:

https://blog.stephencleary.com/2012/07/dont-block-on-async-c...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/await-and-ui-and-dead...
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Fascism isn't politics, it's violence, and gab is a violent platform that supports and encourages as much violence as plausible deniability let's them get away with.
That's really inconsiderate/rude.

I'm a avoid opponent of Putin, but I have the free speech to do it. And I can look things up online to find pretty decent info and different perspectives.

People that have families and live in other regimes don't have the luxury to do what I do here, in Belgium or probably you too.

You should most definitely be aware of that.

People don't pick the situation where they are born into.
So we are getting the glaciers back?? What a win
I'm complaining that this effort constrains the anti-war movement in Russia - something that might actually stop the war - and does not do much to Putin or his enablers. No, a domain registar refusing service will not single-handedly isolate the entire country from independent media. But it is hobbling the people that try to keep their infra outside of Kremlin's reach - the exact kind of people that try to do things that Kremlin disapproves of. And, ridiculously, this can be done right - just ban commercial accounts.

The "technologically sophisticated people running services inside Russia" that are "living in privileged situations" are the ones with the means to provide ordinary people with alternative news sources and ways of communication - the exact things required for the popular anti-war sentiment to grow. This stupid measure is not making this impossible, but it is making it harder.
Did they hire them because salary is much less expansive than in the US?
So build something great that doesn't run on iOS. Lots of software is exclusive to Mac or iOS; why not software that is exclusive to Android or Chrome? If it's compelling enough, Apple will change its tune.
Would hate to see the copay for radiation burns
Not worried at all.

If a nuclear war happens, you probably won't know about it for very long. So why bother stressing?

This is like asking whether you should be worried about the fact that you will die someday. If you sweat that sort of thing, you'll never get anything done.
Serious question: should we all get tarps to cover up the ground around us before fallout comes? We could save significant topsoil this way.
Companies will just say "$1-$1,000,000,000".

It will turn out just like California Proposition 65: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_California_Proposition_...

People who come up with these schemes need to consider the "spam response" and engineer in some kind of countervailing pressure, otherwise you just add noise.
That’s not quite true! If you live, a little prep will go a long way.

Have an emergency kit (see ready.gov for a good checklist). If you survive, such a kit will help significantly in the immediate aftermath.

It’s also a useful kit for a wide array of (more likely) natural disasters.

After you’ve put together your kit, then I agree. You’ve done your prep, nothing else you can control about it, so don’t stress too much about it.
Russia and Swift
Did the Europeans stop buying natural gas from Russia?
https://rpilocator.com

Edit: not sure they track the WH variant though
Congrats on launch of your excellent idea. This feels like a logical extension to the accelerating movement toward app architectures that put serious compute at the edge (Fly.io and CloudFlare Workers come to mind). Exciting times.
There's lots of bits about COVID-19, and what I paraphrased came from the part about what to do after you have survived a nuclear explosion.

I think the more likely explanation is simply that it was written by people in disaster management who have a myopic focus on the COVID-19 crisis and a vested interest in keeping COVID under their purview (i.e., to be seen as an ongoing disaster).
So if you leave your door to your home unlocked and I go ahead and list your address/tell everyone online that the door is ready to be opened, do you blame me or yourself when a dozen people break in that night? Because the way I see it, you’d probably just have come home and realized your mistake with no real consequences if I hadn’t come along.
Yes, it is. The contrary position is motivated by a scurrilous need to justify ignoring the mechanism for 40 years, using semantic obfuscations.
“Also, ensure your most recent tax information is up to date using e-file on IRS.gov”
Thanks, I knew it had been a while, but I guess not as long as I thought!
No, I'm saying that the crimes are different and that to me one is far worse. Drone strikes and civilian casualties are the consequences of America's counter terrorism efforts. Putin having journalists, activists assassinated in his country because they criticize his dictatorship is state terrorism. You can disagree with every aspect of America's foreign policy. Civilian casualties are tragic, and collateral damage is bad. But murdering your own citizens to silence free speech is far more outrageous to me.
> I will never support any business that decides to go political and start deplatforming/censoring,

As it's been frequently lost in this thread, the majority of Namecheap's employees are in Ukraine (>800), so I wouldn't necessarily frame it in the same way. I would first place yourself in their shoes and ask yourself what you would do.
It it is absolutely not- sugar coated bullshit. You need to watch "Threads" - a British production from the 80s. Terrifying:
https://archive.org/details/threads_201712