skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US has been blowing up afghan villagers (and kids/babies) for last 20 years. You only noticed this now??

Have you been living inside a watermelon.
My brother was on the verge of traveling to Russia from Latvia recently as a tourist. Apparently you can get a bus from Riga to St Petersburg that takes a few hours. I presume you could take one in the other direction to get around the lack of flights etc, but I have no idea about visas etc.
Toyota stops production in Japan after a cyberattack hits one of its suppliers
I grw up reading Strugatsky brothers novels. They too became more and more disilusioned with the world. I haven't read The Doomed City yet.
I can't think the Russian people are pleased to see war again so close to home. If there were free elections there now I reckon Putin would be hammered. As Karl Popper and other people have said, free elections are the best mechanism for preventing governments from making stupid mistakes. The fear of being removed from power makes them much more cautious in their actions. The best illustration of this in action can be seen by comparing what happened to Churchill and Stalin at the end of WW2. Churchill made some stupid statements about the Labour party being like the Gestapo and he got crushed in the 1945 election. When Churchill got back into power a few years later he did not undo the Labour reforms. Stalin, who had killed millions of his own people in the 1930's and dithered like a frightened child at the Nazi invasion in 1941, stayed in power to kill more of his own people until his death in 1953. The Russian people deserve better.
The way I read the GP is "As usual, if you're Jewish, be careful because they're going to deflect blame towards you. Expect lynch mobs."

(feel free to replace Jewish with another minority, it's probably also true)

If my understanding is correct, I agree with GP. My understanding of Russian history suggests that Russian politics 101, throughout the regimes, has been to pick (and murder) scapegoats during crises. If you feel that you're a potential target, now is a very good time to make sure that you have a way to survive this.
There are plenty of land borders, a flight isn't necessary.
I interpreted the parent comment as how to react if the Mastercard network goes down worldwide when Russia retaliates by trying to hack them.

Payments networks inside Russia is another matter altogether, but I assume like most countries they also have a local card network (Edit: found it, it's called Mir[0]). In that case, the issue will arise only when trying to use russian cards outside Russia.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(payment_system)
That’s exactly what people do. Not just Red Square. Everywhere in the world. And if it was that easy to change things by protesting, this animal Putin would be already behind the bars.
Your comments make me think that you haven’t been in a situation where you feel scared for your life when you are just expressing your opinion. And this is exactly the situation most of russian people are. Despite that, a lot of them are still fighting the regime. And those who don’t, you can’t blame them for not wanting to die or spend years in prison.

My question about the west stop buying gas left unanswered. You can’t even put your money for the heating at stake, but you are asking from russians to sacrifice their lives. How is it not hypocritical?
Not every disaster will involve the break down of society. It's entirely possible that a nuclear strike won't end all life on earth.

I personally wouldn't be so quick to give up, but to each their own.
Either you believe in democracy, or you do not. If the Ukrainian people want to join the EU or NATO, and our people want them to join us as well, they have the right to make that choice as free sovereign people, and we should back them up. Any other response is itself subjugation, and capitulation to terror.
If I would have read something like that for the first time, I think I would have felt merely uncomfortable and puzzled, like "they're either kidding or insane". But 90 years ago my country essentially redefined the meaning of the word "atrocity". And when we disseminated those decades in our history lessons, we read some of the speeches given back then. The topics are a bit adapted to Russia, its history and the modern geopolitical environment; but the rhetoric, logic and tone is essentially the same. This is what makes me feel sick.
> legitimate gripe over countries WILLINGLY joining a defensive pact.

I will always support self-determination. Ukraine was obviously justified in wanting to join BUT you cannot expect a country that counts casualties in the millions every time it gets invaded to not get its hackles up about a nuclear armed alliance specifically aimed at containing it expanding up to its doorstep.

I look forward to seeing Putin on trial in the Hague, but if you're not willing to do a hard-headed logical analysis of the situation then you're doomed to watch history repeat itself in an endless cycle.
Russians themselves have done it in 1917.
Not that much compared to the rising totalitarianism in e.g. Canada I'd say. Neither Poland nor Hungary are exactly totalitarian, they just happen to reject the demands of a vocal minority who do not agree with their rejection of globalism in favour of a form of nationalism. Political discourse being what it is these days any such rejection, let alone any support of nationalism is directly seen as proof of totalitarianism and all those -isms and -phobias. Given that both countries seem to be functional democracies with at least as reliable an electoral system as, say, the United States of America [1] and given their recent history of occupation by totalitarian regimes I think they're doing quite well in treading their path through the intricacies of European politics.

Now Trudeau in Canada, he is someone to look out for. He seems to have collected a clique of cronies around him who are al to willing to suspend civil rights when he feels his position is threatened. I all but assume the next election cycle will rinse the country clean of his ilk and restore confidence in the health of the Canadian state.

[1] ...where neither party seems to accept the outcome of the elections, whether those be national (Clinton disputes 2016, Trump disputes 2020) or state (Stacey Abrams still insists on being the true governor of Georgia)
It's not cynical, it's exactly what was happening. It was the police that was cracking down on terrorists, not army. Army only became involved with NATO involment. And before you say that Albanian guerilla organizations were not terrorist, the US state department classified them that way up to less than one year before the bombing happened.

And as for that supposed policy of Albanian expulsion, by how much did the percentage of Albanians diminish during the Serbian rule of Kosovo? And by how much did the number of Serbs diminish during the Albanian rule of Kosovo?
Oh my, I thought until a number of years ago KidPix was a fever dream I imagined because nobody else in my hometown had ever used it or heard of it.
Sorry for the "+1" chain but I want to express my agreement as well.

Especially when I compare it to Svelte and Vue (not solid, solid.js is just... good), if I look at a component, with react it's way easier to say what's going to happen.

Aren't there gotchas? Yes, but sometimes it's just stuff JS lacks, and so does React.

I'm very excited about Records and Tuples in JS to help with the immutability, for example: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple
Geez.. this whole comment section is a terrible take.

By this logic 9/11 was fully justified.
Happy owner of a modern Samsung vacuum cleaner, very unhappy owner of a Samsung smart TV.

Samsung makes perfectly good hardware. They just destroy it with their software.
I read your comment and I found myself having an annoyed feeling in response.

I tried to dig into my own emotions to figure out why, and I realized that I am annoyed by the fact that the second-most comment (at my time of viewing) was completely unrelated to the content, and drew attention towards some details of the presentation that do not really have a lot of value.

I worry that this opinion will not be broadly accepted here at HN, but I am annoyed by the upwelling of opinion that a web experience is only valuable if it is presented in an experience that meets the observers definition of "performant" or "fast" or "JavaScript-free".
> I sincerely hope all this goes away as fast as possible

I'm thinking 10-15 years. Though I may need to adjust my estimate, because Putin doesn't have easy access to the world's best medical services anymore -- which may shorten his life expectancy.
The sky is falling and you think workers should be concerned with a wage that can't even afford bread and a roof?

The sanction squeeze shifts the calculus.
I'm a Russian in Germany. I've fled Russia after Crimea/Donbass events because of Putin's politics. No Russian I know in Germany or any other country abroad supports Putin.
When was the internet safe? Maybe in a sci-fi utopia.
> Source?

first full English transcript I could find: (the English language Kremlin site where it was hosted is nonresponsive, and most major media is just carrying excerpts.)

https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censor...
Most of the pro-invasion citizens are being fed by propaganda exclusively, cutoff wouldn't make any significant impact.
There most certainly is a country of Belarus, just like there's the country of North Korea.

And 60% is not that much to be honest.
> what do you mean they are "explicitly neo-Nazi"?

Just looks at their crimes at Wikipedia:

> On 11 August, Azov battalion, backed by Ukrainian paratroopers, captured Marinka from pro-Russian rebels and entered the suburbs of Donetsk clashing with Donetsk People's Republic fighters.

They're killing Russians.

> In early September 2014, the Azov battalion was engaged in the Second Battle of Mariupol. Regarding the ceasefire agreed on 5 September, Biletskiy stated: "If it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it ... if it's an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it's a betrayal."

They don't believe Russians.

> As of late March 2015, despite a second ceasefire agreement (Minsk II), the Azov Battalion continued to prepare for war, with the group's leader seeing the ceasefire as "appeasement".

They don't believe Russians.

> In March 2015 Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced that the Azov Regiment would be among the first units to be trained by United States Army troops in their Operation Fearless Guardian training mission.

They cooperate with US.

> According to Minsk Ceasefire Agreements, foreign fighters are not allowed to serve in Ukraine's military. Despite the Minsk Ceasefire Agreements, the regiment still has foreign fighters, including an ex-British army serviceman Chris Garrett and a 33-year-old former soldier of the Greek army and French Foreign Legion known by the nom-de-guerre of "The Greek".

They allow British and French to kill Russians.

And so on.
Ukraine hadn't even applied to join NATO.

There's a big difference between Ukraine saying it won't join (that's up to them) and NATO acknowledging Russia "sphere of influence" arguments by preventivly saying they won't be allowed to.
The US never said: "it's just an exercise, we have no plans to invade".

Not lying means that diplomacy has a chance.

Nor does the US act unilaterally. It's always a coalition.
> Claims technical interviews aren’t broken

> selling technical interview prep content

Mhmm no conflict of interest here
“We think we’ve come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, is all ancient history. Then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly, it threatens to start all over again.” - Picard (The Drumhead)

“A matter of internal security: the age-old cry of the oppressor.” - Picard (The Hunter)

“The past is written, but the future is left for us to write. And we have powerful tools, openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy and fear. And fear is the great destroyer.” - Picard (Broken Pieces)
If SWIFT is the messaging system and STEP2 is the clearing house, why is SWIFT-only versus SWIFT-and-STEP2 being sanctioned?
> rising totalitarianism in e.g. Canada

Wow. This is beyond ridiculous. The trucker convoy interrupted international borders and ground a major city to a halt. Emergency powers were used for a limited time to clear it. They have since been rescinded. It is my understanding that such powers specifically to do not contravene Canadian civil rights, and the act used was constructed such that Parliament maintains power and must periodically renew them, not the individual PM.

The idea this counts as some sort of totalitarian escalation is bizarre and heavily partisan. The idea that the democrats contested the election in 2016 in a similar way to Trump's "big steal" narrative and actions is also nakedly fantastic.
We also had ractive.js, we had mithril, intercooler.js (now htmx), we even had (fab).js as far back as 2010 with functional rendering. A 'breath of fresh air' pretty much depends on what you had been breathing.
> Also I get it that SWIFT filled a need in the olden days, but with internet+messaging systems in general now available ww why don't banks use something more modern and less expensive? I am not hinting at blockchain.

Well, I won't be surprised to see blockchains like XRPL, Stellar and Algorand to be part of the ISO 20022 standard [0]

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/iso-20022-cryptos-5-compliant...
Shell is calling it quits in Russia and has announced plans to exit its relationship with Gazprom and related entities.
There's a good reason that we don't teach this in our history books - We don't want our countrymen irrationally romanticising this fact too much. (Though it was a very important gesture of friendship).

It was the height of cold war politics, and initially the Soviets too weren't too warm to India's overture towards it in the 1960's and preferred to court Pakistan instead because it knew the US was using it to open channels to China. (USSR and China at that time didn't share a good relationship). It was only after indian diplomats convinced the Soviets that Pakistan had firmly allied with the west, that they decided a closer friendship with India would be more desirable.

The Indo-Soviet relationship reached the peak just before the Bangladesh Liberation war, when both signed the "Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation". It was the first time India had swung away so far from it's non-aligned policy of not siding with a world power during the cold war. Anticipating that the US (and maybe even China) would take some military action against India when they attacked Pakistan, Mrs. Indira Gandhi reached out to the Soviets who were delighted that the Indians were ready to "abandon" their non-aligned policy by signing the treaty. Article IX of the treaty said:

> ‘In the event of either Party being subjected to an attack or a threat thereof, the High Contracting Parties shall immediately enter into mutual consultations to remove such threat and to take appropriate effective measures to ensure peace and security of their countries’.

USSR cited this treaty to warn US and China that it bound them to come to India's military defence, even as Nixon was encouraging China to attack India and assured them of US support. (It's interesting that even as India was considering how to deal with the refugee crisis from East Pakistan, even the Soviets told them that it wasn't in favour of breaking up Pakistan).

Later, when these treaties were renewed, this clause was removed.

Ironically, today, Sino-Russian treaties include this clause. And that means, if India and China go to war, India may also have to fight the Russians!
We talked, but what concessions did we make?
I can't open it.
One thing I always wondered: is there ever a settlement between Hawala agents? It seems like someone could get so unbalanced that they would need to balance out.
Indeed. Usually people who lazily point out hypocrisy instead of making substantive arguments haven’t spent a modicum of effort to find and consider distinguishing characteristics that would make them think twice before posting. That’s what makes whataboutism so frustrating in what is supposed to be an intellectual forum. And it’s an attractive nuisance, so it leads to long threads such as this one.
But vague accusations of government doing something bad are okay?

Yes I am simply claiming that the current state of affairs is bad because google/mozilla/apple can go rogue and do bad things. I'm not claiming they necessarily are. But history teaches us that great power brings corruption, they aren't so much different from Microsoft some decades ago.
Russia has been running Goebbels-levels of propaganda to counteract whatever benefit came from access to western media. How much progress has been made since 2014?
People migrate for economic reasons, not because they want to replace their own brain with the brain of the destination country people.

The US was was relatively good at integrating migrants into a certain idea of america, but that's not the norm around the world, and I don't think that vision of america exists anymore. Maybe in the upper-middle class, but certainly gone in the lower classes.
Except the explicit words of the dictator of Russia.

There is nothing to contradict the view, that Putin doesn't want to restore the old Tsar or Soviet borders.
I would add that the unspecifity of the threat was what kept Putin going.

Consider what would have happened if "The West" handed Putin a detailed list of the sanctions that are in effect now A WEEK AGO.

Lower costs and lower risks. That's why far-sighted politics are so important.
No, it is most definitely not up to you. That's the problem.
BtoBet security breach affecting betting customers in Afrika and South America
I hope everyone leaves your service. Since the US did the same last year would you remove all US based domains? yeah. i thought so.
>and order gas from other countries that have the ability to greatly increase their output.

Which is why the west fucked up in Syria and Russia got a great deal.
Now Syria blocks gas pipeline options from Qatar at Russia's behest.
> expanding up to its doorstep

NATO started out bordering Russia, it hasn't “expanded up to it's doorstep”. Get a map and a list of the original NATO countries.
Why US was in Afghanistan in the first place? Uh, they blow up American city...
AFAIK Windows only treats it like a TPM (*), so you could just talk to it using TSS to access whatever keys it has just like Windows itself would. "Access" != "export", of course, because it's an HSM.

(*) A TPM that is special for being baked into the CPU, and for being a known quantity that can thus be updated via Windows Update and used for Secure Boot attestation, but a TPM all the same.
Gabe Newell Hand Delivers Steam Decks
This take is unconvincing. What benefit is the invasion to the bureaucracy and oligarchs? This is the result of a megalomaniac puffing his chest.
Perl. Originally a single person creation. All credits to all the hard work people have put in over the years to maintain it.
javascript ecosystem is truly a shithole. I say this independently of the article.
In this particular case talking to Putin makes no sense, he only understands force. Talking makes sense much earlier but even then actions are more important.

Take for example the Middle East: there is no way you could solve the problem by talking, especially now. Palestinians believe this is their soil, the Israeli think otherwise, the former send rockets, the latter shoot these rockets and send their pilots, the pilots see the attackers tied to children on the roofs... This has gone too far over the years.
I do believe in democracy. It doesnt change anything about what I just said.
I'm sure China will be very happy to absorb as many of Russia's natural resources as needed and to provide and alternative to SWIFT.
As an anectode, I spoke with a Turk who found Turks living in Germny much more conservative than people in Turkey.

Not to mention Brits who moved to Spain because there were "too many bloody immigrants" at home.
Nah, I meant more like avoiding them at dinner parties or diplomatic receptions.
The English language version of RT is not broadcast into Russia, and it's programming is significantly different from local Russian news.
I've been reading up on the history of the Bosnian genocide, I should probably also read up on Czechnya.

I really hope that Ukraine won't go down like Czechnya but I fear in the end, Putin only knows one trick.
I think people miss that the world is largely zero-sum and a subdued Russia is good for the status quo
yes. my point exactly for these cards working domestically. you imagine if russia or china or india does not have their own cards what would happen "within" that country? their entire infrastructure would collapse if visa/MC decides to quit or are forced to. that is what these locals cards offer. a hedge against american rugpull.
The article mentions problems due to impurities a couple of times. If you grow an unsatisfactory crystal due to impurities, it will still be purer than the starting material, so you could re-dissolve it to make a more pure solution for another attempt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recrystallization_(chemistry)
It's a nice thought but I don't think that this would work in any country.

Generally, the sanctions are designed to try and convince Putin that Russia cannot afford a war against Europe/NATO. They do this:

- by targeting the money of Putin and anybody in Russia with enough money to conceivably have influence over Putin (presumably, these sanctions don't hurt common people);

- by targeting directly or indirectly the financial reserves of Russia to make it hard for Russia to bankroll the army (these most certainly do hurt the common people, too).

I'm sure that there are also propaganda/counter-propaganda operations, but these are very likely to be illegal/covert, so no country is going to publicize them.
I thought this was of interest because:

It illustrates the difficulties/risks faced by the insiders who are actually 'doing the dirty work', know what is going on, and want to stop it and/or blow the whistle.
When the state is also part of the scam, being a whistleblower is very tough.

I am still amazed that the libor rate - something that was so 'easy' to manipulate - was the basis for many billions of dollars worth of derivatives. The 'foundations' of so many systems that our society runs on turn out to be shaky and easy to rig - not just IT systems.
Hope you and your loved ones stay safe, and that this russian epoch is a brief as possible.
Indeed, though from a conversation with the author, it's only implemented for a subset of what was described in the post, specifically only for data construction. (Conversation: https://twitter.com/let_def/status/1485313834764095488)
I am living in southern Europe and it's extremely hard to listen a Number Station except for the most famous (The buzzer, the Pip, etc.). I rarely had the opportunity to listen some non Russian NS.

You need a decent radio with SSB support and a good antenna. Most of the cheap RTL devices are not covering HF band.
For whom that want to start, my suggestion is to buy a Belka-DX: it's cheap (less than 150€), very portable (comparable to a cigarette box), it covers from 1.5Mhz to 30Mhz and has SDR capabilities (although with a very narrow bandwidth).
Really no need to sanction STEP2 or other payment networks at this point as central banks/intermediary or recipient banks themselves have also been instructed as well (either formally or informally) not to engage with Russian institutions. They're not processing payments with the vast majority of the global financial infrastructure at this point.
Probably true, hehe...

But there was a coalition of naive countries going along with the US.

And it wasn't a surprise attack without serious diplomatic attempts. And even then, the US did actually worry about the legality of the invasion.

It was a mistake, but it's not the same.