skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure he does.

The picture he had portrayed of him doesn't match reality.

Just look at how scared he is of catching COVID. Since 2 years, almost no one is allowed near to him.

The amount of COVID tests his bodyguards and others need to do daily is pretty insane too. Everyone he sees/greets needs to be in isolation for 2 weeks upfront to get near.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/10/02/thanks-to-covid-...

And many other sources for many years. Here's a video from him in a hazmat suite, one of his last public appearances - https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-dons-hazmat-suit-...

Fyi, sitting at a 20 meter table is not a public appearance and Putin has met his big/important friend Xi only virtually as far as I'm aware the last years.

I don't think he's calculated at all. Many things have wrong that he didn't suspect:

- Their 'advanced' malware was finished off by Microsoft within 3 hours

- Their 'advanced hacking culture' has been reversed within days, state tv programs and websites have gone offline within hours.

- Their decade long effort of a propaganda machine has been severely reduced within days ( RT, ...)

- Their portrait of having an 'advanced military' has been decimated. The world now knows that his army is mostly old, rusty, unmotivated and his troops are clueless.

- He miscalculated Ukraine, who he practically trained for 8 years. He also raised serious awareness under Ukrainians what happens with inaction.

- He's giving up his independence, isolating himself from the world and it seems that he's fully aware of that.

- He is constantly ( for years) angering his biggest and most profitable clients ( Europe).

He overstepped his carefully crafted image and failed every step on the way. Not even taken into consideration that he literally had 8 years ( or more) to plan this.

His image of being a world power ( while Russia has the same GDP as 30 years ago and America has grown 14 fold) is just an illusion, but real for him. We have given him too much attention on the world stage.

He has nukes, not brains... Should have been known years ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679110 ).

Europe is prioritizing energy independence now, Russia still had multiple decades to profit from that to improve their situation.

Now, they became 100% China dependent.
I think it means the existing payment market is so massively profitable that you can undercut them and still make a killing.
I fully support the decision.
My perspective about regular people of Russia and if they should be sharing the responsibility for the war in Ukraine here: http://nywkap.com/politics/russian-responsibility.html
I found this op-ed in RT to be reasonable and insightful [1]. It argues that a unitary global power is less sustainable than a harmonious (my word) global system that integrates diverse centers of power. I tend to agree on principle and note that this is not a proposed myth. However, it is unclear what policies would enable this kind of ruling diversity without war. It probably means allowing for some degree of authoritarianism, communism, religious extremism and other unpalatable systems. It may even mean allowing for regional armed conflicts of some kind—but a line must certainly be drawn to avoid wars of aggression between powerful nation states.

https://www.rt.com/russia/550873-ukraine-action-end-era/

[1] not saying I agree with its entirety.
Why Telegram? I see Ukrainians use it a lot in this conflict,but I would really not trust it to be secure against such powerful adversary as Russia. Signal is much better bet under these circumstances.
Between this and Ghislaine there is a whole generation of people that have had their world view completely manipulated but believe they are part of some sort of organic group think.
It's entirely reasonable: whenever you see "think tank", you should think "propaganda sockpuppet", and ask yourself whether they're likely to be on your side or not based on who they're funded by.

Chatham House are on the respectable end of the spectrum.
True, and this operation is close to as simple as it gets.
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And I cannot send donations from Russia to Meduza.io - Lativan based Russian speaking media targeted at Russia mostly. And other Russian people connot do this too.

Since Meduza was declared a "foreign agent" by Russian authorities (there's such a heavily burdening law here), they lost most advertisement and changed their model to donations.

I'm afraid they wouldn't survive this.

And government-owned media will continue to receive their subsidies from a country budget.

I feel like some things done these days are inflicting more collateral damage than supposed effect.
Using template literals to represent html is a security issue. If the state comes from the user, they can add script tags into the html. People try to solve this with tagged templates, but then if you forget the tag, you have a security issue again. Lit checks for this, but the fact that it has to check means it is less secure than not using tagged templates. There are libraries on github for creating sql using tagged templates which have the same security issue. The problem is that if your function works with both tagged templates and plain strings, when you forget to add the tag, you will never know.
As Tanks Rolled into Ukraine, So Did Malware. Then Microsoft Entered the War
UI is too modern. I really like Goodreads UI. It is like old Windows. It is like that old Porsche. Sure, you have everyone driving new fancy futuristic things. But you also want "old" feel. dunno, I really like Goodreads aesthetics.
I disagree with your perspective that regular Russians don't share the responsibility for the war in Ukraine. I don't think it makes sense to copy-paste it here, it's on my blog: http://nywkap.com/politics/russian-responsibility.html
How can come up with the title colored? You are part of the huge problem that is racism in the US. Colored means nothing to me.
Euromaidan Press (Verified) just tweeted[0]:

> We finally updated our mega-popular list from 2014. We wish we didn't have to.

> All the ways people can help Ukraine from abroad. Please share.

> List is work in progress, will be updated

N.B. I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine. Here is my statement for HN:[1]

If You may support me, here is my Patreon: https://patreon.com/app4soft

[0] https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/14986109729316290...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395897
I think this is a misunderstanding.

My post is about Audio.
That's unfortunate. And I for the record, think Russian invasion of Ukraine is a serious threat to the whole globe, the conflict potentially might get out of hands with no limits in sight.

However, businesses should not take political or legal stances on their own. This is a slippery slope as many have pointed out.

Rather let the governments decide on that part. When a government decides something, at that point - it becomes a legal obligation and a justified action.

Otherwise, it is an abrupt all of sudden termination of contract which would make potential and existing customers uncomfortable as well.

What's the guarantee that Namecheap won't pull the plug on European or Chinese customers some day with similar rationale?
Russian oligarchs are sanctioned in EU since today.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
While I mostly agree with your assessment you lack to point out that using less troops saves costs, bombing less cities/civilians will make installing a controllable regime to rule there easier. These are all strategic decisions.

Implying Putin held back for the sake of the ukranian people is misleading.
Yes, he and especially his fans have been working on establishing the image of a strategic mastermind.

But in reality, he's just a short, puffy old man, living in ridiculous kitschy palaces, sitting on ridiculous long tables because he's afraid of even his most loyal underlings.

With attacking Ukraine, he made a huge mistake. He simply counted on the west doing nothing, as usual, but this time he went too far. But because he's just a powerful man, not a great man, he's unable to admit that.
North Korea is also banned from SWIFT.
The OSS https://forwardemail.net can route based on regex
Yeah, it's straight up all of the above.
One atrocity justifies another type of logic?
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In my opinion it’s just a matter of timing and sentiment; when Putin annexed Crimea nobody did anything.
UC was first to file some other claims. In the claims that were at issue in this decision, Harvard was first to file. Actually the opinion does a good job explaining some of that. But Harvard is labeled the senior party in the opinion because they were the first to file this set of claims.
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If it's any consolation, that's what happens to any highly corrupt country. People skirting the rules, from avoiding taxes to outright theft are called smart and others who don't are called wankers.
So async functions are special functions that have the capability to be _paused_ until another asynchronous operation finishes (i.e. the thing we're `await`ing upon).

And in a single-threaded environment, we _want_ this capability so that the loop is able to continue working despite the fact that the thing we're `await`ing for hasn't complete yet.
> neither allows the country to remain a superpower nor has provided it with a decent place within the international system

Russia is not the only country with this kind of insecurity problem.
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> Never forget EU commissars are not elected officials, they are named by an totally informal group called "Eurogroup", to which supposedly only 15 EU presidents participate. However, as it's not formal, it's completely opaque how they get chosen.

EU commissars are not directly elected officials, no, but they are also not "named by a totally informal group". 'EU Commissars' (typically called an European Commissioner) are nominated by their member state, one each. The European Parliament then votes on the whole. So they are still under democratic control: through the various chosen governments of the states, and through the EP.

The Eurogroup -- a discussion body for the 19 states that use the Euro as currency -- had nothing to do with the SWIFT ban. (it does have a bunch of issues from a democratic perspective, although it seems like most of the members are just their country's finance minister... which makes sense for a discussion forum about the Euro?).
NATO as a "defensive" alliance sure did start a lot of wars in far away countries.
What software are you using for networked sound? I’ve got three echo dots serving a whole house audio amp, but they’re a little clunky to use and I’ve piles of old RPis sitting around
So Russia invaded Crimea and Ukraine decided to cut water supplies off?
That happened only in your wild imagination. Despite Trump, the US and Mexico enjoy exceptionally good relations, second only to our neighbor to the north.
There nothing below this, except an imgur meme "managing is caring". The sky and flowers pictures are already in the original blog spa... I mean post.
>Hollywood and affiliates are bigger treat than any US Battaillon into subverting and destroying nation.

For dictators.
I put I don't believe in the mission, but that doesn't entirely capture it, nor does "I'd be a number/cog". It's more that modern big companies (and many startups, especially VC funded ones that are really just an extension of big tech) are not really about doing interesting technical work, in fact are almost the opposite- about playing the right politics, signaling the right things, putting up with all kinds of HR and other bureaucratic nonsense for no reason. Maybe that's what a white collar job is, but overall it's not appealing to me.
This is a really interesting area, would love it if Postgres provided a strong option here. In the meantime, Materialize has very good Postgres integration if it might work for you:

https://materialize.com/
Compared with humans, flies don't have many processing neurons between their effectors (wings) and their eyes. It's why they can take off so quickly when you try to swat them. Their simple but effective processing allows them to be more easily manipulated then humans. Also, the flies aren't going to say "Meh this VR has fallen into the uncanny valley" or similar.
The only reason why this is not happening is that there is more than one such "federation" currently and no one is unquestionably stronger. And at no point in history had a stronger faction submitted to the will of a weaker faction just to avoid hostilities. In a sense war is just a reality check when it is unclear who is really stronger. While studying history, it struck me that many countries (current unit of sovereignty) honor some person who was a "great unifier" - created a cohesive whole and put an end to internal conflicts. As a rule, this person was a war-mongering psychopath.

As you notice, at the end of the 20th century we almost had this kind of "federation" when the US and its allies were the only center of power in the world. The US arrived at that point by winning an economic and cultural war. But its coalition failed to entrench itself, grew weaker and more bloated and now we are facing these dangerous rifts between different factions of humanity.

Note: in the current emotional climate this may sound like war apologism. It is not - war is unspeakably horrible for everyone involved. But this is what an impartial alien looking from an orbit would deduce about the humanity.
Propaganda works on both sides. Don't think the West and Ukraine tell's only the truth and don't think Russia tell's only the lie and vice versa.
Nobody believes Russians these days. For good reason. Have you forgotten all the lies served by Putin in the run-up to the invasion? Those weren't "clever ruses", those were lies as crude as those of a preschooler who has just discovered that you can say counterfactual things. They kill Russians: yes, that's what happens in a war. There has been a war for eight years.

Nothing you wrote is the tiniest evidence that they are nazis, completely besides the point.

Doesn't change the fact though that they certainly are self-identifying Nazi, in a sad perversion of "the enemy of the enemy is my friend"

Perhaps they are falling to the same misperception you seem to fall to, equating nazism with "against Russia". Tell that to a Frenchman, tell that to a Pole. Tell that to a Jew of any nationality. No, actual Nazism was not "against Russians". That wasn't part of their identity at all. Actual Nazis literally didn't give a shit about Russians in specific, they just wanted the land and the people currently on it happened to be Russians. But they would have tried exactly the same on any other ethnicity.
You can use BookWyrm without thinking about the federated aspect, and I think many do. The benefits is that you are not signing up to a walled garden and that people from other communities can follow and interact with you.

We have gotten so accustomed to global, closed off services (like Instagram, Twitter etc) that getting to choose from several communities with different rules and themes confuses us. But this is in fact how most forums and other online communities functioned before the age of Facebook etc, only now the communuties have the ability to talk to each other.

Maybe what the fediverse needs is a clearer story. I have found that most people get Mastodon or other ActivityPub-enabled services much more if I do not lead with the decentralized features, but the fact that it is ad-free and without algorithms deciding what you see (and not) in your feed. The interoperability is something they come around to appreciat later on.
I guess one reason is that initial growth of online service providers (and especially payment processing) is often driven by sex-related use, e.g. sex work or art.

If the provider becomes "mainstream enough", these uses then get banned to satisfy investors, key customers and upstream services, driving the demand to the next startups.

PS: Or rather, were always banned from the start, but enforcement was lax until they were no longer an important part of the customer base.
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A ransomware group paid the price for backing Russia
And if you're still "but, but, butt-ing" about this, I'd like to add one more thing.

It is not Putin driving the tanks. It isn't him shelling hospitals and nurseries. It isn't him giving commands to troops. It isn't him spewing brain-dead propaganda in RU media 24/7 for decades.

I really honestly don't want to hear any "but"s from "the people".

You reap what you sow.

So you're scared? You say "if I don't go kill innocent people, Putin will kill me". And what's the choice you make? You go kill innocent people.

Enough with the buts.

Nothing but humble pie for the people of Russia over the next 100 years. Make Germans feel like they got away with it easy.
First of all, I don't question you right to do what you are decided to do. And I wish all of your staff members and their families & friends to be safe. But I do have a question:

Did you, as some commenters say, decided to terminate services based on nationality rather than place of residency? If so, then it looks like a poorly planned decision. Overwhelming majority of Russians living abroad are against the war and Putin. In fact, many have left Russia because of its president.
I suggest adding "I believe it's immoral to do so" to the list. This is close to "I don't believe their mission (if any)", but IMO there's a difference between believing that their mission isn't all that great, and believing that their mission is actively detrimental.
That is pure speculation.

Even if you're right, Eastern European countries would be stupid to put their trust in Russian dictators staying benevolent. They were smart and joined NATO.
> Until very recently, rhetoric about sanctions was masked in polite fictions like "this is meant to target corrupt leaders"

I think this was always an excuse by economic interests trying to limit the scope of sanctions in hopes of reducing the business impact, at least that's how I've read it.

Sanctions are a flexible tool of warfare that scales from targeting leaders, to damaging the enemy's ability to replenish supplies, to total economic collapse so as to destroy the state's ability to function.
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There is just no way to sanction someone like Putin directly, though. If Putin wants to transfer money or buy foreign currency, an FSB agent in Austria will contact some FSB near lawyer on Malta to set up a fake company in Liechtenstein to arrange a fake sale of goods from Romania - or whatever it takes. Unfortunately, the only way to have any effect is to affect the economy as a whole.

As we speak, the whole Ukrainian economy and infrastructure is destroyed, cities are bombed, hundreds of thousands are fleeing, and people are dying in Ukraine. While you're complaining that you have to transfer your Namecheap domain names. You need to get a sense of perspective.
Definitely. I hope Bulgaria and Romania rise up from just being seen as cheap outsourcing hubs and tax havens.

And I hope our governments become less corrupt and incompetent so that our talent doesn't feel the need to move West, although this seems more difficult to solve than the tech hub part.
I have a graveyard full of such personal projects.

In another hand, if you are still maintaining this project, it can be interesting to refactor it and show your process doing it. It can be a great way to show actual useful skills for a future interview or, at least, train to do so before actually using it in a real production project.

Refactoring to a state of the art state while the project is still under development and shipped can be a valuable skill to train and show.
Are you naive enough in the thinking that US is not doing the same or even worse than Russia (because US reach is much bigger)? Influencing, blackmailing and toppling governments they deem not cooperative enough.
While I can see reason, sometimes is sufficient to have the same job posting with "junior", "intermediate" and "senior" in the title as differentiator.
I think it's important to distinguish Putin and Russia here. I don't think Russia sees Ukraine as their business.
That someone who's on your side is inherently supplying money in the form of taxes to their Gov who is committing war crimes. We don't want sanctions to continue indefinitely, just until they get their troops out of Ukraine.
It's not about marginal utility, it's about the revenue model.

Very easy to monetize a payments platform.
This is what the Fiat system do: war, censorship, cancellation, did, education, more destruction and collateral damage. A great book on the topic is called The Fiat Standard, highly recommended.
Even if your outrageous claim was true, it does not justify discrimination of foreign students fleeing a war zone!
If the state comes from the user, they
can add script tags into the html

How is that different with React?

And how is it a problem? A rendering engine would set the html of some element to the html I think?

This ...

document.body.innerHTML='<script>alert(1)</script>';

...does not execute the script.
This was a slogan used to discriminate against people in the hippy movement, interesting to see that you support it. And yeah, it was a slogan used for deplatforming so the user that you are responded to is correct, monopoly or not does not matter.

But yeah, waiting for you to stop services in the US. Going to move my domains as well (despite not living in Russia) and advocate to everyone who I know to do the same.
Eastern and Western Europe would have been crazy to gamble everything on the hope that admitting Russia to NATO somehow neutralizes Russia, not NATO.
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Does this generalize? Like taking 2^0, 2^1, ..., 2^99 -> lexicographical sort -> putting the decimal point, and then comparing to 10^0.00, 10^0.01, ...?
No, it's about protecting against racist discrimination.

I would prefer to work with companies where different nationalities are represented.

90%+ of employees in one country (be it Ukraine, Russia, USA or China) is a geo-risk for clients.

And mind you, Namecheap doesn't ban clients based on their agreement or disagreement with something.
It bans pro-Ukrainian dissidents in Russia too.

Racism culture thrives in mono-ethnic companies and this Namecheap case is a good example
And millions of Ukrainians will be left without home, their children or their lives.
This honestly feels like a landmark study.

Both in terms of the jaw-dropping technical setup (full VR rig AND real-time brain imaging for untethered flies), and the results (proof of otherwise unknowable cognitive abilities) with interesting philosophical implications about the differentiation we humans perform when categorizing animals (for example, is killing a fly morally different than killing a horse/cow?)
One reason is probably that creating UIs programmatically was historically very cumbersome in JavaScript due to various issues that are no longer relevant. That means everything had to be HTML-based hybrids of some sort.
Are you guys even parents? Because you sure make yourselves sound like experts.

The truth is I know my kids will make absolutely terrible choices if I leave everything up to them. I myself made a lot of bad choices growing up with unsupervised internet access. And on todays web it seems the pitfalls for a curious young person are even deeper and more plentiful. I'm simply trying to spare my kids some of the same problems I suffered by providing some guardrails until they are older and more mature.